On a raw frosty morning both Mum and Dad have the day off. Dad takes us a nice walk round the boat yard and we stop and watch while Alan Staley and his boat builders play a game of pendulums with a 7 and a half ton boat on a crane. Mum and Dad disappear off Christmas shopping in Canterbury and return with these rather nice beds for the two of us.
They head on to Lower Halstow where SB Edith May has seamlessly changed, with the coming of winter, from intrepid sailing barge, to Tea Rooms. She is warm and cosy, log fired after a morning in the frost, and Mum and Dad get one of the best baked potatoes ever, down in the restaurant in her one-time hold while listening to0 two old sea-faring types discussing sailing, gas-jetties, tugs and "muddie" barges.
Meanwhile Project Erroll acquires a new stark definition, as Dad's boss announces that the redundancy is on, maybe sooner, maybe after 6 months of deferral. Mum and Dad are pitched into 'project management' mode. The lists come out and the post-it notes come to the fore. We will keep you posted when we know definite dates. We hate to say it, but the horrible situation in Ireland might just play to our advantage just now. More on this soon. It is all currently 'sub-judice' while we sort out who's able to say what and who's in a position to do what to whom
These humans do live complicated lives sometimes, don't they.
Deefs
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But it does make life more interesting...... as the saying goes.... May you live in interesting times....
I so do hope the rather amazingly quite horrific economic situation in Ireland does play into your hands. As they always say best time to start something new is when everything else is suffering economically.
Just back from a weekend there and what a weekend it was both politically and weather wise! And I've come back to 5 inches of snow here too! But 3 inches of snow on Killiney Beach in South Co Dublin, all weekend - unheard of! I've never seen anything like it!
Rona
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