Thursday 21st
April 2016
Last night it rained!
Proper heavy rain, for at least twenty minutes! We were nearly ecstatic. But not quite because the boat is
strategically swathed in newspaper and masking tape…this took many many hours
of painstaking work by our dedicated young men and we did NOT want it all to
wash away. It didn’t, but it is all a
bit more like papier maché than it
needed to be…
Today it is all hot and sunny and HOT again. I desperately miss my daily swim along the
reef, but I can’t quite do it. Yet! I am sure all will be well in another day or
two.
This morning I ventured out, down our ladder and
steps, and tottered along to the bathroom area under the clubrooms. I never like being seen, or spoken to, at
6am, ESPECIALLY not when I am carrying a bucket full of wee…Everyone on the hard
stand has a bucket full of wee in the morning; it really is not fun to clamber
out of bed, onto the deck, down the rickety ladders and steps, in the middle of
the night. What I expect in the morning is
to be INVISIBLE.
But not today… Our opposite neighbour when we are in
the water is Bruno, Austrian, who lives along aboard his monohull,
Freiheit. He is very friendly and misses
us…and he wanted to CHAT while I gently tried to hide my bucket from view…
Bruno has had an interesting life and he is full of stories,
and conspiracies, which he loves to share.
He is also a gun chess player… He was bemoaning the fact recently that
he doesn’t have anyone to play with on the island who is of his calibre. And Pete said, “Marguerite can play with you.”
!!!! NO thank you! Bruno has, in his day, played against Bobby
Fisher!! No of course he didn’t win but…my
darling 10 year old Leo in Hobart, who as only just learned to play, can very nearly
and fairly beat me at chess…Bobby Fisher was a Grand Master!!
Anyway…we chatted, and he ignored my bucket, and eventually
I was able to creep into the bathroom and get everything sorted out.
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