Life in General:
Well, this is it folks........... the BA Cattletruck landed at some ungodly hour in London on Thursday morning last week, and yours truely tumbled off the plane in the usual dishevelled state of one who has been squashed up with at least 350 other people, one in particular called Brian..... a dear person who talked to me for the whole journey!!! I had the headsets on in the end watching various films, but bless him, he still needed to get whatever it was off his chest and chat for old times sake!

Then there was Lesley on the window seat who took off at regular intervals for a walk (she had obviously read the helpful leaflet about exercising in flight to avoid the dreaded DVT's) leaving Brian and myself to sort of "hang" about in the aisle awaiting her return, so that we could all get back into our various pocket seats and resume a cosy journey..... Oh the joys of travel..... However, the angels were kind, and we got to our destination with no nasty surprises.

Skip was there to met me and we drove down the M3 to Chandlers Ford to drop in on my skin-n-bliss before heading off to the boat. 'Freedom's various mods and additions done over the winter months certainly looked really good. We can now boast a luxury mattress..... makes a difference I can say! (the previous one was designed by one of those guru type people who recommend sleeping on boards, or cold concrete floors). We also have a new carpet down, and best of all, we have a tent... yes it's up... (who said boating was a bit like caravaning?! It is already a very worthy addition to the boat, enabling us to use the cockpit much more when the weather is a little chilly, breezy, just plain wet and damp, or otherwise grim. Mind you I think we would have a problem with it up in a gale, it could end up giving us that spinnaker experience that Skip has been considering!!.....