Craig M'Nure: Part 6

By SHOO RAYNER

Soon, an even bigger helicopter arrived with the hut hanging underneath it in several parts. This was no garden shed. When it was put together, it was massive!

When all the work was finished and the cable had been laid, the men went home. The hut was left behind with the booster station in it. They said I could use the rest of the hut if I looked after the booster station for them.

The booster station was just a box that stood in the corner of one room. It didn't do much except flash lights on and off. But (and here's the best bit) it was connected to a computer with the fastest internet connection in the whole world, and I could use it for free!

I've never been afraid of hi-tech stuff, and I love playing with big boys' toys. So, it didn't take me long to get to grips with the internet.

Everything you need is there. If you don't know how to do something, there's either a website to explain it to you or someone you can email. People on the internet are very helpful.

The winters are terribly cold and bleak on the island. Sometimes the wind blows so hard you can't stand up. The winter nights are long and dark. I was snowed up in my house for most of January. Poor Angus couldn't even get out for a pee! So I had plenty of time to build my Craig M'nure Website.

The day my website went live on the internet was a bit of a let-down. I thought something would happen right away, but nothing did. I had hoped the whole world would want to have a look at it. They didn't.

But the next day, I had my first email - it was from a Scotsman who lives in South America. He said my website made him feel like he was back home.

Then I had an email from a friend of his. Then I got emails from friends of his friends. Before long, I was getting more emails than I could answer, from people all around the world.

There is one website that tells you who has the most visited website on the internet. Mine was soon among the most popular, and newspapers began to write about me.

It wasn't long before I got an email from a TV station in London. They wanted to make a programme about me. They said there had been lots of programmes about people who had been left on islands to see how they survived.

Now they wanted to make a film about me, a real-life island survivor! All I had to do was carry on doing what I normally did every day and they would film me. They seemed to be really interested in my work.

Like I said before, I'm really proud of my work and I thought that a TV programme would be a chance to share my passion for poo with a wider world. Also, it sounded like a bit of fun, and they were paying me good money too!

Publisher: Barrington Stoke

Price: $17.95

Age group: 8-13 years


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