Industrious Monday

After all the excitements of yesterday, Sally wasn't the only one to feel extremely weary. We went to bed at half eight would you believe, and didn't really surface until half seven this morning, having both had a decent night's sleep for once.

As a result, we've managed to put in a good day's work all round. Much of the morning was spent at the IT interface. I've done a bit more on my book, and got my head round the way in which iWork Pages can convert a document into ePub format. In that mode, it can be uploaded to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, where it will be converted again into Kindle format and made available for sale. It also means we'll be able to offer it for direct sale, probably via eBay, in ePub format, so that people with other kinds of e-reader can buy it.

Not that we're expecting a massive sale mind, but it will be nice to let folk who want to read the whole thing off line do so. Meanwhile, Sheila is working on another book, which she's calling a Boater’s Commonplace Book, a compendium of answers to all the questions we tend to get asked about the liveaboard lifestyle. She also ran a washload, and I refilled the water tank.

Some of this work carried on after lunch (I've barely read half the paper today), then we went for a walk round the marina to stretch our legs. In fact, we went twice round, collected the washload that had been tumble drying whilst we did so, then went to the Willow Tree for a restorative cuppa.

Whilst there, we were accosted by Stephen and Jayne, aka the Coffee Bar Kids, who didn't for once stop for a drink, having walked to Stenson Lock and had one in the café there.

Back at the boat, we settled down to relax for a bit, then I turned to and got on with this, as well as dealing with some email correspondence. All in all, a productive day.