Graham woke Kate up this morning with shocking news: the Galapagos government has announced that all foreign yachts are to leave the islands, within the next 24 hours.

Ha de ha. Spot the date. There will be revenge, though.

Well, the last blog post dealt with the big picture of our major planning issues but our lives are really dominated, in practice, with much smaller decisions and micro routines. So what does a day in the life of Barracuda look like?

It doesn’t start early. Generally there’s a bit of lazing around – checking emails, analysing the plague data, doing a gentle sudoku - before we gradually meet up on deck for breakfast. As I write, it’s 10.30 and we’ve just finished. Yesterday the garbage boat came by and took away our trash and recycling – great relief. Then Dave and Graham, in gloves and masks, went into town to collect our canasta – the veg box – and managed to get to the market as well. While they were gone Kate did laundry (it’s Lesley’s turn today), in buckets on the sugarscoop, while catching up on Archers podcasts. The fruit and veg had to be processed (washing it in Milton, drying and storing) and then guess what – it’s lunch time. Home made hummus (no tahini – peanut butter), Dave’s sourdough bread and salad.

After lunch, a wee bit of cleaning and a little Duolingo (Spanish for Kate, Irish for Lesley). We’ve discovered that you can get addicted, BTW. Deciding what to have for supper takes time (the last of the tuna, with peanut sauce, fried plantains and veg box salad). G set the watermaker going. Some office admin. A bit of chat. Tea. Exercise time. Then we played a couple of rounds of Exploding Kittens (thanks to Angus and Sarah for this new game). Then more Duolingo. Showers on the back of the boat. Running the engine for a couple of hours to recharge the boat batteries. Checking the various Pacific and Caribbean cruiser Facebook sites and WhatsApp groups for news – though some are just down to rumour, speculation and backbiting now.

To celebrate 14 days of isolation another of the boats in the anchorage suggested a round of Countdown, so at 6pm we settled down with pen and paper, fortified by Cubanos (rum, tonic and fresh mint from the veg box). (Annoyingly, we won, so have to arrange the next event, due on Friday.) At 8pm it’s time to take our temperatures and enter the results in the log. Then supper on deck. Check virus data again. Play a couple of rounds of rummy. A bit more Duolingo. Bed… The challenge is to make sure you get to the end of the day knowing that you’ve DONE something, even if it’s just laundry or a bit of hull cleaning.

Highlights of the day: a) the three tiny fish swimming around inside the water intake filter were released back to the wild, b) a fabulous sunset and bright crescent moon (lying on its back down here), c) the veg box, full of lovely green leaves, herbs, lemon grass, aubergines (yay!), coffee, kombucha (!), beetroot, potatoes, yucca, bananas – too many lovely things to mention.