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Friday 3 February 2012 - I had a call about 4am telling me to get ready the chopper leaves in 30 minutes, and if you're not there you're swimming. So me being the terrible swimmer I am I got there in 25. The flight was pretty hairy but nothing I hadn't experienced before, a couple of the greenies decided to see what they had for dinner one more time though. The rig was pretty beat up when we arrived but within a couple of hours it was back to normal and ready for drilling.

Wednesday 1 February 2012 - I was meant to be back on the rigs by now but the weather was too bad for the choppers, we've had to take shelter in a hotel. But its not all bad, we've been using the companies credit cards to live lavishly while playing poker and watching re-runs of old bottom episodes, quite frankly I hope the chopper never returns, well maybe not never as I found I'm not very good at poker, yet I am very good at finding more money to play poker with.!

Monday 30 January 2012 - Have just been rostered off for a few days and are soaking up every minute of it, on the flight back we flew over the north sea, I couldn't believe it, there are more rigs through there than I have seen in my life, they looked like giant pimples on mother earths face - but what can you expect from a stretch of water that produces nearly 6 million barrels a day, oops gotta go been on my back for too long, I don't want an uneven tan.