Mullets are GO GO!!

Well, here we go again. New look boat and a website to match thanks to Gavin from Magler. Bee spent a few minutes up his mast sorting out a halyard and we get a great way to keep friends informed of our whereabouts and what we currently look like (Chris Waddle & Peter Beardsley are the current favourites thanks to our mutual haircutting (dis) abilities)

 

When we got back from Denmark we knew we needed to sort a number of things out and then get going as soon as possible. We tried. But Able Seaman Toots, who in a previous life must have been either Mark Spitz or Kate Winslett aka the Titanic bow scene was conscripted, needed a passport etc and Bee decided to have a career at Asda under the guise of paying our way but really to get the bargains at the back door, hence at one time we had 200 packs of biccys and are now loaded up with cut price bargains. Who needs sell by dates! I felt she had taken the hunt too far when a pack of Horlicks appeared, “I don’t like it” I said, “Nor do I” she said “but it was only 10p…….”
 So for the last eight months we’ve pottered around, making out we were fully paid up members of the producing classes and answering the numerous “when are you going” which began to turn into “WHEN ARE you going”… with a “Soon….” Well we’ve taken a few friends out, given them a taste of horny hands, slow tacking and a different perspective on sailing and set a date. The weather of course turned, toothache came along and the date got pushed back. And back. Finally, Nancy, recognising that as young cuckoos need a parental shove from the nest to get them going, organised a leaving do. Was it a hint? A desperate measure?  Whatever, we were very grateful and touched, had a great time and it was a great way to say “Adios” for a year or three. We’re also thankful we weren’t due to leave the following morning as half of Hannah’s crew was hungover.
Thanks are due to lots of people who have helped us in many ways since we got back, the old geezer & granny for SO many things and who, since upgrading cars, have revealed their German blood (Michael & Ralf), Alistair who loaned us tools and humour, “aye up Mutley, is that a bradawl or are you just glad to see us go”? Tim & Nancy, who combine IT with culinary skills to die for and a mean vacuum cleaner.  Nilay for making us glad we had a mobile(?), Dennis for dodgy rigging and wine recommendation, Bob for pink shorts to match pink sails, Tooty’s blanket, bedtime reading and Adele, Matt & Karen for cleaning us when we were getting smelly and then feeding, p.s. we’ve still got that tin of Roses. All those whose boats have been visited by Toots in her hours of exploration and all those unfortunates who were in the wrong place at the right time for the return of a “dangerous brothers” sail and dragged into a “coming alongside” drama. And finally, Paul, who has made, for us, the difference between a mooring and a home. Thanks for everything.