Spent my afternoon, searching for a giant freezer. The biggest in the UK. The first stage in team FireAndIce’s elaborate plan to prepare ourselves for the extreme conditions we would face. Option 2 was simply to leave the building and go for a jog in the pouring rain and gale that is London in mid-winter. After a few phonecalls I found one possibility: “our freezer is 11 metres by 4 metres” a person at icebox told me. “Too small I told her, we’ll get back to you”. The search continues…. and of course, the bigger challenge: How to prepare ourselves for the heat of the Sahara??