We suffered two days without hot water in the kitchen. Turn the hot water tap - nothing. Water coming out the cold tap, but that's still half a drought (you do the math) we've endured.

I didn't see an episode of Ray Bears where he showed you how to wash up in the Tundra. Or I may have missed it. Fingers numb from rinsing dishes before washing them up in a bowl of boiled kettle water mixed with water from the cold water tap. This is what it must have been like for Scott of the Arctic when he washed up except he probably didn't have a kettle.

These are the sort of entries Scott would write in his diary:

'Washed up today. Couldn't feel fingers afterwards. Dogs are restless.'

'Morale higher than it has been for a long time now. Dried up today.'