Recovering

Despite us all feeling part worn, we had a good meal with Elanor last night, casseroled shin of beef with mashed potato, sweetcorn and broccoli. We managed a half decent night's sleep, despite the efforts of the smoke alarm, which went off briefly at half five. It didn't keep sounding, though of course I checked through the boat for any source of fire anyway. The Squirrel was well burnt down, and all was well in the engine room.

So I took the alarm off its mount for the rest of the night, and we managed to doze a bit more. Later on, once we were dressed, I gave it a good blasting from the compressed air can, and sure enough, some bits of spider's web blew out. The only consolation is that our arachnid friend must have got quite a headache after being up against the alarm klaxon when it went off.

After all that, we made a lazy start this morning, and worked gently but steadily for a couple of hours, Sheila dealing with the post the Elanor had brought, and I producing some more book and sorting the on-line billing for the new 3 phone. It doesn't have Angry Birds on it, but having tried the game on line, I can see the addictive qualities…

Talking of games, we also found a website full of canal related games, jigsaws, hangman and the like. It's at Canal Life, and seems a good source of such things, though I suspect it uses quite a bit of bandwidth when you download a jigsaw.

We managed a totter round the marina by way of exercise, but otherwise haven't stirred out very much. We're hoping that things continue to pick up, and that normal service might be restored tomorrow, or the day after, when we'll be pooch pandering again.