Sunday catch up

A very hot, still and airless night, Rowan was out of bed by 5am looking for a breeze upstairs! Just thankful we don’t have mosquitoes. Good day for reading the Sunday paper although pretty miserable reading.

The seabirds loving our old bread

The wind picked up during the day which keeps us swinging about on our anchor, changing our view constantly, so we can keep tabs on the boats around us….. a great way to pass time. A Canadian boat next to us have a youngish couple on board with their little dog. Through the binocs it looks like a little celeb style dog, they have a bright yellow life jacket for it and a long matching floating lead (essential as the dog would disappear in the current in seconds!). It just loves going in the sea, all very colour coordinated as the owner wears a yellow bikini! When she tries to take it out, it yaps like crazy so she puts it back in the water. Poor thing must be such a relief for it to cool down in the sea. The vast majority of boats seem to be Canadian and American with a few Brits, Australians, Germans, French and South Africans scattered about. But no chance of socialising as the coast guard keeps up its patrols.

Had a great catch up with my nephew Lovat in the BVI. It is the busiest month for him doing year end accounts, so he is working really hard. Fascinating listening to his stories sitting out hurricane Irma when it hit and the devastation afterwards, they were luckily unscathed in a big old house up the mountain, but they did get evacuated 3 days later. The BVI are slowly easing lockdown, but still one of the biggest tragedies of this trip that I have not been able to see him and his future wife.

We had our Sunday evening Norfolk quiz, and thanks to some sympathy from one of the teams, who chose sailing as their topic, we won this week! Always good fun, and a good catch up.

Unusually, hardly a cloud in the sky.