Wednesday 31 January 2007

Bustling about on Wednesday

After a gloomy day yesterday, visiting Sheila's Mum after she'd been given the bad news, a rather more active day today. Trogged down into the village to buy a paper, bread and screenwash for the Bryceland mobile this morning (actually, the bread and paper are for us, but never mind). Came back and helped with the routine tasks of checking email, chasing orders and browsing the web for trivia (it's just like work as I remember it ;-}) .

Funny how one thing leads to another. I'm a big fan of Iain M Banks the Scots sci fi author, and I'd found a few interesting bits and bobs on the web the other day. This lead me on to look for stuff about Blake's 7, the 70's sci fi TV series, and there was *lots* about that, including some short video clips of the title music, and a massive Wikipedia article. All very interesting, especially the bit that points out the influence Blake's 7 had on writers such as Iain Banks.

Today's achievement was to succumb to the temptation (= persuade Sheila) that a set of the first season DVDs of Blake's 7 for GBP15 was too good an offer to miss - thank you Amazon Marketplace. So now it's that jolly bit of waiting for the postman to come!

This afternoon we went over to a chandlers half an hour away (Midland Chandlers at Preston Brook, in fact) to get some stuff needed in a hurry and not available from the regular supplier, especially a length of single finrad. Took the opportunity to stock up on the Comastic blacking we'll need for blacking the boat at the beginning of May. See this link if you want to know what that's about. When we got there, the guy says "They rang from the yard while you were on the way, and there's this stuff to collect as well" Situation normal, then.

Back at the yard, not much to do, so catching up with this blog. Tomorrow, we have a visit from the Siviters, customers for Just Siviting which will be the next boat finished.

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