Peter: No more office politics: 55th birthday retirement on 31 July just as the office was being reorganised. Since then, the majority of nights have been away from home: and more time for Kokuru and ...
Canalling: 101 nights afloat on about 17 different trips - despite "Hello, Falkirk here: the hire boat you were expecting to have tomorrow has just sunk" - and an email "Not good news: there was a fire on Odyssey today, nobody hurt - need a complete re-fit from engine room to stern, new wiring, a repaint, new engine" - and just after Tower Bridge on the day after the election "we are boarding you for inspection under the powers of ..."
The Scotland trip was rescheduled for six weeks later the Falkirk Wheel is spectacular. Twenty weeks plus lots of the insurers’ money have Odyssey habitable again. The floating policeman was friendly, as was the tidal Thames that day.
