Its been a while…

So, lock down really took it’s toll on our sailing ambitions and we have been nowhere much to speak off in a long while. Just like everyone else, we’ve been stuck indoors doing the same old stuff. Mind you, our “indoors” has changed a bit – we now have a house in Stoke-on-Trent which is about 20 minutes drive from the mooring in Stone. We decided to put the cruise on hold and for me to get back to work to top up the coffers. Originally the plan was to work over winter and sail during the summer, but contract work proved hard to find so we changed our minds again! We seem to be doing a lot of that lately. Anyway, I found an awesome job with a great company in London as a developer – I could not be happier. We will sail, but it will have to fit into my work schedule now.

Damara is coming to visit us soon and we will be off again for a couple of weeks – and I will be able to get the blog going again. I will try and post more regularly as we do plan to do more sailing. In fact, the guys I work with are really into the idea of coming along for a cruise – so that would be fantastic – they will have to hire some boats as we won’t have room for everyone.

We did do some day trips around Christmas – mainly to turn the boat around. On one occasion the canal was frozen over and Arty go to be an Ice Breaker for the day! That was really good fun, listening to the ice cracking as we pushed our way through.