A delivery in good time and more wet weather

So there we were after a lazy start, eating porridge and reading our email when the phone rang at half nine. It was James, our Ocado driver for today; he was only a minute away after his last drop and could he turn up early?

Since the forecast was dry at first, extremely wet later, this was more popular than not, even if it meant guzzling the porridge a bit. Like almost all Ocado drivers, James was helpful, cheerful and friendly (I don’t know where they find them, most drivers in my experience tend to be gloomy and only interested in getting shot of the load as quickly as possible) and we soon had groceries all over the boat.

It was mostly checked off and put away by a quarter past ten, all except for the stuff destined for the under-gunwale can cupboard. Owing to one or two restocking miscalculations on my part – at one stage we had six tins of chopped tomatoes and eight of sweetcorn in there – this cupboard had become just a touch chaotic. Things had been crammed in wherever they would fit, so that preparation time for a meal was beginning to get extended by the need to stop and search for the ingredients.

Unless they were sweetcorn or tomatoes, of course.

We postponed the obvious task, turning out the entire cupboard and refilling it on a logical basis, in order to take a walk around the marina whilst it was still dry and to visit the lodge.

There we installed a new bedside alarm clock radio and changed some stuff in the information binders. Having stopped off at the shop to get a paper and to order some solid fuel for delivery tomorrow, we got back to Sanity Again in nice time to sort aforesaid cupboard and then have lunch.

As we were doing that, the rain arrived and it’s been howling round the boat ever since. Hopefully it will have blown through by the morning.

Meantime matters are progressing on the board walk; with the aid of one of Steve Foster’s tallest cranes and two cherry pickers, they’ve started to erect the steel frame of the building itself:

First horizontal almost in position

Bolting it in place