There’s a “right place” for everyone here. We just didn’t get it “right for us” first time. Imagine walking down worn out steps towards the water with no lighting, (where I fell on my bum). Then, walking down to the end of 2 straight piers almost towards the middle of the marina. Whilst also having to deal with gale force winds & being surrounded by open water on both sides (nightmare). That might suit some folks, but not us. Hence yesterday’s second relocation, after the first relocation, since we left the previous location…
Also the numbers on that mooring were 12 & 13, that’s THIRTEEN, hmm…
So we sat outside in the lux con this morning surveying our new kingdom, when all of a sudden Dave says “Hang on a minute, that’s Steve’s boat over there isn’t it?” Naw says me, “he’s over th,,, hang on, that IS his boat.” After getting things in perspective we realised it was actually his pier & our eyes weren’t deceiving us after all. Thing is, we still can’t get our heads round what’s where (takes a while on here). We must’ve driven right past his boat (in ours) yesterday without us even realising. I wouldn’t care, but we’ve been round there before – in the car of course, so that’s my excuse for loss of bearings, or anything else for that matter…
Anyway, I don’t think Steve knows yet, (else he would’ve fired off onto our recent ex mooring by now). I’ve worked out that “as the crow flies” their bow is about 75 yards away from our back end. However going round there by car is a good quarter mile, which in effect means it would be quicker to go by boat, how often (or not) can you say that…?
Not to worry, I’ve come up with the answer that doesn’t involve walking on water or learning sign language at all. We’ll just build a nice foot bridge across from here to there & we’re sorted…
PS: I finally got my Christmas cards done last night, yes the Christmas spirit has arrived. The lights have been up on the roof for ages, (well a few days). But the spirit arrived a bit late due to too much farting about with important stuff that gives you brain-ache. And that’s just the cards…
PPS: Which reminds me, have you noticed what a mind numbingly frazzling experience writing Christmas cards is these days? If people split up, (which they do) it may require up to 2 cards to be dispatched to different addresses, as opposed to just the one. Which also means another address to take note of, & that’s provided they haven’t got bored & moved somewhere else in the meantime. Then there’s the “special cards,” it all started so well, till it came to grandchildren, I still haven’t found any “grandchild” cards, why? There’s lots of them about, that’s grandchildren not cards…
Tesco – you listening?
2 comments:
We have a similar situation with out friends house and our boat at Burton Waters. We can see their house from our mooring its not very far across the lake, but to walk or take the car means going all the way around the private residential part of the complex. Its about a mile!! Needless to say we either take the boat across and raft up to their boat or take the dinghy across.
Same with the chinese restaraunt. Its about 30ft away from our bow but its a bloody long walk down the pontoon across the car park and back down the parade of shops!!
Naughty-Cal
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