Sledge/possible departure

Here is a pic of my sledge all packed up and ready to go! Its sitting at the hangar waiting to be loaded on the plane. Its called johnny b good, the sledge that is not the plane. it is alarmingly heavy but hopefully will slide along nicely. chubbah thanks for your message, in fact thanks everyone for messages. but chubbah, no polar bears and no father christmas yet but i certainly wouldn't mind a lift in his deluxe sledge!
we are due to leave this afternoon at about 3 or 4 but yesterdays flight didn't go and was delayed to this morning and it still hasn't gone this morning so we will wait and see what happens. if you stop hearing from me you know i have gone and then katie is in charge of updating the blog. but our timing is looking ever more precarious we have been here for nearly a week and our contingency days have gone so we really have to get up there, but impatience is useless, there is nothing i can do about the weather and the logistical nightmare of actually getting to barneo.