It is 40 degrees in the shade during a November heat wave and I am dressed in ill-fitting leather buckled shoes, long woolen stockings, canvas breeches, a linen shirt, a rather too tight red woolen soldier's 'coatee' (jacket), a neck 'stock' and a felted wool 'shako' (hat). I am carrying a wooden canteen and a backpack with all my food, blankets, tent and equipment for a few days in the bush. And of course, as a Redcoat soldier from 1804, I am lumbered with a flintlock musket and bayonet. I feel hot, tired and sore as my uncomfortable (and strangely named) 'softpack' pack digs deep into my shoulders.

Yet despite all this discomfort bordering on exhaustion, I feel excited and nervous. I am ...

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