By: Blonde Two
If I had to write a list of the things that we Blondes have organised over the years, it would stretch a long way across Dartmoor and, of course, the writing of it would be a very organised thing to do. I am not sure whether or not women are better organisers than men but being good at the organisation game takes a bit of practice if you don’t want to instead end up being good at the emergency game. In the 10 years we have been friends we Blondes have organised:
- Expeditions in the UK
- Expeditions around the world
- Expeditions to our back gardens
- Expeditions that have involved posh hotels
- Expeditions that have involved sleeping in bags on beaches
- Expeditions that have gone really well
- Expeditions that have required some mid-expedition reorganisation
- Expeditions with adults (challenging creatures adults!)
- Expeditions with an unknown but large number of young people
- Expeditions with multi purposes and therefore multi-packing requirements
In short we are convinced that we women can organise just about anything… except maybe the weather. A recent winter Dartmoor wild camping course however demonstrated that we couldn’t organise snow, ice, blizzards or even a frosty morning. We did, however, organise some supremely atmospheric mist… it was so good that none of us could see anything, we could have been anywhere… but we still had fun!
The trouble with organising the weather is that the chap down the road is organising the opposite kind of weather! His well-watered spuds are your lake in the middle of the tent. (And by the way, Microsoft, organiser, organised, organising, organisational, organisability can ALL be spelt with either an “s” or a “z.”)
Your Microsoft organiser is American where all kinds of spellings count… we don’t mind either way as long as you keep talking to us!! Definitely better well-watered spuds than no spuds at all!