Miranda Whall

3.00pm

The last crawl, 10 layers of foam in my knee pads, I winced at every knee step. For the last crawl we went up to the badger sett, I could feel them, the atmosphere was…inhuman, oppressive, disgruntled, did they disapprove? had I trespassed, insulted or ridiculed them?, actually in that moment I didn’t care, all I cared about was that I could stand up again, I could take off the cameras, glasses, gloves, knee pads and Doris, I was hot, I was tired, I had done it, and I was so glad to be human again.