Living on board

Sunday and Monday was mainly spent moving more stuff on board, it all seems to find a home but there still seems as many boxes at Five Farthings as there was when we started! Teaching the children how to use the heads, to wash all the plates first at the sea water tap and generally to be sparing with the water has been easier then I thought it would be. They have adapted well to all the new ‘boat living’ rules. They have all been tired because of excitement and their new sleeping arrangements, but they have managed to fill their days themselves so I can get on with the things I need to do. They now put on their lifejackets before climbing off Octopus onto the pontoon and then they go fishing for crabs and other beasties. Yesterday Uncle Mike and Jasper turned up on their kayaks and all the children had a go in them, paddling around the harbour and under the boat.

Octopus is attracting lots of attention, lots of holiday makers like to point at her and it is a bit like being in a goldfish bowl. Everyone can walk right around the harbour and we are right in the middle. We never new this harbour was so busy, this is the first day no new yachts have come in to moor next to us. We have met lots of very friendly folk passing through on their boats. Yesterday a couple knocked on the side and said they were looking at buying a boat about the same size as ours to sail away to the Med and through the Red Sea with their twelve year old daughter. It turns out they only live a few doors away from Margaret, at Walditch. We are now off to use the Five Farthings laundry, telephone and internet service so I can post this!!!