Better outside than in

After the merry weekend, I wanted a chill out day today, and that's what we've had, though not entirely in a good way. The weather, having been glorious yesterday, is grotty today, November at its worst. It's cold, drizzly, raw stuff that makes you glad to be indoors with the fire burning brightly.

We've spent the morning doing stuff either on the computers or the usual crochet and newspaper reading. I'm doing a pub guide for the Braidbar Owners' Group, combining entries submitted by the owners into one large document, turning it into a pdf and making it available on the group's Yahoo site, whilst Sheila is working away on a porthole doily order.

After lunch, we took a walk around the marina, just to stretch our legs. There was a brief power cut, but we'd not been long back on the boat when it came back on. We also went into the marina office to check out how much a full year's mooring would be. The answer was a bit less than three times a four month mooring, so a shade under £3,000. It's a tempting thought, as we'd have the convenience of always having somewhere to come back to, and we're told the local surgery is boater friendly. It's something to mull over for a while.

We also got another plip to work the access gates, to give to Elanor so she doesn't need to haul us out every time she comes to see us. I've had a chat with Peter Mason at Braidbar about the problem of topping up the batteries; he's going to reinvestigate automatic topping up systems and get back to me.

We're dog sitting tomorrow, then on Wednesday, we'll go back into Burton; we collected Sheila's other specs on Saturday, and mine are now ready. The IWA trophy should also be ready for collection.