Batten Down the Hatches

07 Aug 2014 - 6 comments | Translate title into English

Well it’s Thursday, it’s hot and sunny, and we have a severe weather warning for Sunday with high waves and heavy rain, with the occasional torrential downpour. How lovely. It looks like we’ll have to batten down the hatches, and if it’s not too bad, I’ll have to get out the boat and get some provisions in. There’s barely any meat here, and the cabin boy (my son) doesn’t eat much in the way of vegetables. I love vegetables, and there’s very few that I don’t eat, so I do find it strange that veg is an anathema as far as the cabin boy is concerned. Even the ship’s dog eats more veg than him! I hope to pull some of the weeds from the plant pots on the decking before the rain, and I’ll group the pots a little to protect them from the predicted wind too. Good job we have a strong anchor!

In our street is a disabled berth. The person who requested and used it has moved away. We have a new neighbour, in a different house, who needs a disabled berth. Now, wouldn’t common sense dictate that the new neighbour could use the disabled berth already there? No, don’t be silly. The council are going to remove the disabled berth (paint over the lines to you land lubbers) and the new neighbour will have to request one themselves. Oh, and by the way, they’ve been advised this could take 4 years. It beggars belief! Instead, the new neighbour is going to trash their garden, and berth their boat (car) on their property. Way to go. Our council really is run by morons and job’s worth’s.

There’s just over two weeks until I’m off, and the ‘big event’ and they still haven’t advised if we’ll be allowed into work. I do despair! If they do allow us on site, then the police will need to be advised of our details so they can ensure that we’re ‘good’ people and not liable to cause any affray. I can see this being left so late, that we’ll be ‘forced’ to use up our leave or go against local police advice and travel. If it comes to that, I may just log on from home and ‘work from home’ unless something urgent crops up. I’m hoping someone will get off their butt and make a bloody decision!

Despite my blog, I'm actually feeling quite calm and relaxed today. I had a pretty good sleep, swinging in my hammock, and strangely don't feel hungry today. It's peaceful in work, and I had a nice lunch break at home playing with the dog. Oh well, back to work ;)

Hope you all have fair winds and calm seas, and that the predicted storms miss the country.

6 comments - The latest ones

Mickey fez

We could have the same heavy seas heading our way Fran but only a yellow flag at the moment,if it turns red we a dry dock is the safest place.
There are a lot of youngsters like yours who think veg are alien to us,weird really

10 years ago.

Bee Orchid

Thanks guys. Yellow alert here too Mick.
On the positive side, my son is slim, and according to his BMI (which I don't think is a good indication anyway) he is underweight so I don't worry too much, and he does devour fruit, more so than me. His Dad was a 'food bully' and so was my Father, so I won't force him. At some point I'm sure he'll discover that he's missing a world of wonderful tastes.
Let's hope for rain Bernie before you pick off the noisy kids one by one lol.
I repel all pirates with deadly force ;)

10 years ago.

Jenny McIntyre ^club

If it's any consolation - my cabin crew hated vegetables when they were young, now they prefer them to meat. So don't despair it could all change later. The debacle surrounding the ''event'' sounds so irritating. As for that parking space - how stupid can the council be? All they have to do is to come along, paint over the existing one and then make another one for the other person. How can they justify a 4 year wait - words fail me

10 years ago.

Bee Orchid

Thanks Jenny. This business with the disabled parking spots is just ridiculous isn't it. They could do nothing, and just allow the new neighbour to park there but that's just too easy lol.

10 years ago.

Stormlizard ^club

As a cabin boy the Captain (Mum) made and upheld the policy "If it's on your plate you eat it" failure to obey simply resulted in the leftovers being all one would get at the next sitting. There were a couple of sub paragraphs that helped, cabin crew were permitted to say "No thank you" to items they did not want while meals were being served, special considerations were in place, I had been diagnosed as Lactose intolerant very early in life just as the Doctor found that eating any form of animal fat caused me to Vomit, nor can I deal with Tannic acid. Yippee, I could drink Black coffee, refuse to eat creamy porridge or other breakfast cereals but I did enjoy most vegetables except spinach.

My son was never put under pressure to eat anything he did not fancy, no big deal really as the only thing he refused to even try was Cheese, he said he hated it, I wonder how he knew that without even trying it?

No storm warnings in my local waters, could do with a few summer showers though as the Lawn is brown, still don't have to get it mowed.

Local Councils were never famed for doing anything easily, quickly or even properly. Council work sites usually needed at least six men, One to look at the Job, one to lean on the shovel, one to drive the wheelbarrow, two to pick up heavy things, one of these may also be in charge of making the tea, one to hold the drawings and the guy with a bowler hat to give orders. If they could get away with it the job would of course be put off to later using normal Council rules, never do anything until it can no longer be delayed.

Stay safe.

10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.

Bee Orchid

Thanks John. We had similar rules in our house, dictated by my Father. As a small child, I hated him. My ex used to try and force our son to eat certain foods too. He hates his Father. Is it worth it just to eat certain foods? I don't think so.

10 years ago.

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