First ever “post” whatever that means….can’t find the stamp

I have been bamboozled into setting up a Blog, whatever that is. I have never seen or read a blog but have heard people talk about it. I feel I can say what I like, as I am confident no one will find this or read this ever.(automatic spell checker drives me insane)

Setting up the blog was not a good experience, the programmers clearly cannot be classified as updated apes. It has ended up nothing like I intended and despite shelling out loads of money it seems you are still very limited in what you can do. As I write this I am confronted with a screen with more undecipherable instructions screaming at me than a banshee in full flight (Tip: just ignore them as, like a banshee, they are fictional). Still, I have got to try, to be fair the most difficult thing I experienced doing an MSc in 2 years from scratch, was mastering simple computer skills, and this is just an extension of my abject failure to understand my fellow updated apes.

This summer I plan to journey to South West Spain to take part in an ongoing archaeological exploration of  caves once inhabited by our Neanderthal brethren some 400,000 years ago. They have conveniently left behind some of their remarkable stone tools and their bones. From this evidence we hope to understand something of how they managed to survive for half a million years in an hostile ice age environment and why, with the appearance of a far less brainy, weaker Homo sapiens, dissappeared. We are going to need this knowledge to ensure we don’t end up disappearing as well.

I plan to document this journey (the first of many journeys of discovery I hope to undertake) as a way of recording my experiences in a way similar to an old fashion diary. Diaries of past explorers have proved to be immensely valuable in allowing us to recreate their incredible discoveries and insights into this remarkable world. I am comforted by the fact that unlike pen and paper this medium for recording information is highly unlikely to be readable in 20-50 years time so no one will be obliged to read this drivel.