The hut includes its very own Edmonds cookbook, a well thumbed tome with some wonderful comments scrawled in different coloured inks. After one recipe, which shall remain nameless, it says “Don’t go there!” “Not even if you’re desperate” and “Waste of good ingredients!” To be fair, the Edmonds’ Oaty apple loaf I made yesterday has almost gone already and we’re planning on adding some congratulatory comments along the lines of “Yes, cook this one,” and “Great for second breakfasts.” We’re eating well here but after a 5am start for Annika and I today, I really needed that second breakfast.
There is a height chart on the door into the store room with the tallest person being someone called Dave and the shortest real person being Jane Haxton. I’m ignoring Ben Dover and Neil Downe, for obvious reasons! In between there is a role of all of those who have worked on the Island including some well known names in NZ conservation.
There are maps and pictures all over the walls and a slightly alarming “Danger” sign on the knife block that has nothing at all to do with using sharp knives.
My favourite bit of hut ephemera however is the log book. I hope that there is an older one in the archives somewhere as our current one only starts in 2002. Some teams write in it daily, often recording in the 3rd person what has been happening each day so you’re not sure who the author is. Others just put in a summary of their work at the end of the season. It’s fun just to read through to see the huge range of projects that have been carried out on this very special Island.
Under January 14th 2009 is the following entry
“Thrilled to bits to have encountered a black robin” Stephen Fry, BBC, London.
I, in turn, am also thrilled to bits that THAT Stephen Fry was indeed here!
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