I'm going to be bundled in a sack and shot at

I shan’t be around for the next couple of days. I’m going off to be kidnapped, bundled up in a sack, immersed in thick mud, and shot at. I’ll also be updating my first aid skills.

Once every three years in this business you have to go off and be “refreshed” on the hostile environment course. The insurance companies won’t insure you in Iraq and places if you haven’t been on it.

Methinks it’s a pleasurable break from the newsroom. But then the newsroom itself could be seen by some as a hostile environment – as we arm ourselves to go after the guys that wrecked the world’s banking system etc.

I’ll try to blog about it. But you wont’ be getting Snowmail from me until Thursday.