Lurking on board for a day

We'd originally planned to go on to Bollington today, but seeing the forecast yesterday made us change our minds (oh, the joy of it) and stay put here at Lyme Green. It was a good not-move; the wind and rain came down for much of the night, and it's been on and off all day.

The prospects for tomorrow are much better. Meantime, we've taken advantage of the break to do stuff like book a one-way hire from Enterprise. We'll have the car from Saturday lunchtime to Monday afternoon. Enterprise will collect us from Higher Poynton and take us to their base in Hazel Grove to do the paperwork.

When we get to Crick, we can unload there, then take the car to the Enterprise base in Rugby to turn it in. Again, they'll then give us a lift back to Crick. We haven't yet decided whether to travel on Sunday or Monday; I'm waiting to hear from Ian Boulton of Bunnies Warren which would suit him better in terms of handing over the boat.

It'll only be a couple of hours or so from the one base to the other, then 11 days boating to get back.

Two other bits; I've been using the 3 Galaxy Europa here. The Voda signal is very weak, but the 3 one is fine. I've left the Voda Nokia propped up in the side hatch window, so that we can see texts and stuff coming in.

The other thing is that BW haven't taken our licence money by direct debit this year, though they should have done so on the 1st of the month. They have, however sent us the licence disks. I rang BW Customer Services, had a most courteous conversation with Katie, and she's just this minute called back. They do actually have our direct debit mandate (which we sent them in early February), but it hasn't been entered onto the system yet. It's being done now, so the money will be taken on the 1st April.

So that's a month's interest on £850 a cash strapped organisation has forgone, because of incompetence with the most basic of all accountancy tasks. How many times a year do they do that?

/floor