Friday: Busy doing nothing....

...Capt Cook has made another decision, we will stay in Bembridge for the weekend then head back to Southampton on Monday, clean down the boat then head directly to Dartmoor, in the car, for a couple of days stay at a dog friendly hotel...

It is now 8:30 on Saturday morning, Bustaaar and Andy are having a post walk snooze, awwww!

Not much to report for Friday I'm afraid, we went into the village by harbour taxi to buy provisions for the picnic on the beach, it was very hot and sunny 😎

The beach has moved it is twice as far away as it was on Thursday and took foreverrrrrr to get there, however we arrived eventually and set up camp in the shade and Bustaaar and me stripped to our swimwear and got into the sea....

I had intended to go for a little swim but the ground was very stoney and the water murky so I stayed at knee height, we played with Bustaaar's new ball until he got bored and walked off, then we had our picnic.  I tried unsuccessfully to sit on the 'deck' chair and was left stranded like a sheep on my back with my limbs flaying, after Andy had stopped laughing he came to my rescue, unfortunately this episode has not been filmed but you can imagine!

We didn't stay long on the beach, it doesn't feel quite right without children..

Nothing much else to report, Andy has taken up reading a book so my lectures seem to have been put on hold...we heard but didn't see the fireworks at Cowes...despite the harbour crew saying there will be a lot of boats and people arriving, it wasn't that bad but amusing to listen to the mayhem of docking as bystanders.

Not planning to do much today either, although Andy has said he wants to get his anchor out and will take the opportunity to do a lecture on the subject, oh joy!...