I'm covered in algae...

[lemonbella]

I have just spent the entire weekend up to my neck in stale canal water. It was only supposed to come up to our knees but due to the heavy rain in the past few weeks it was neck height. If you've never tried swimming in thigh length waders, I don't recommend it.

Anyway I had a fantastic time ridding a stretch of Nottinghamshire canal of reeds, soaking two sets of clothing with hydrogen sulphate, discovering that my calf muscles are so large they don't even fit into waders properly (freak, I'm really a freak) making regular jokes about rubber fetishes, overseeing the slowest barbeque in the world and eating a pudding which actually put up resistence when we tried to serve it.

I always forget how much I enjoy conservation weekends. I'm all ache-y and covered in orange algae, but I enjoyed myself nonetheless.