Monday 20 December 2010

Cropredy tickets...

...have arrived. Hurrah! Rather interestingly, they smell of white spirit!

We are now waiting for a response to our offer for WW. Tenterhooks are being waited upon! We need her so that we can sail to Cropredy!

Final Furlong?

So tomorrow later today we'll be confirming our offer on WW, subject to a few minor points raised by the survey. Of course, now we are in holiday season, it is likely that completion of the deal will take some time yet.

Thursday 16 December 2010

Survey...

So the survey was done today. The general overview is positive, with a few minor things that need taking care of. Basically, what we were hoping for. So relieved that we havnae waited for nearly 2 months for the survey just to be told that she's as rusty as a Lancia car!  Things can get back into full swing now so hopefully we'll no longer be boatless early in the new year.

Sunday 12 December 2010

Fat fingers strike again

Hello readers,

Kicking our heels waiting for the survey. Hope the weather doesn't turn for the worse down on the K&A. Today I moved my stuff out of my flat, some of it to SWMBO's gaff. Totally cream crackered now.
Speaking of SWMBO, it appears that her attempt to purchase the Cropredy 2011 tickets last week were in vain, due to a case of fat finger syndrome.*
Yesterday I played in the Christmas concert of The Roding Players Orchestra.

Here's a snap of my Taylor Custom Trumpet:

Taylor Custom

Only 4 days to go until the survey. This time next week we should know if the boat is as good as we are hoping!

(* in which the wromg kee/bluton is prezd at an inopportoon momont)

Sunday 5 December 2010

Waiting is over rated

Hello,
Since we're still waiting on the survey,there isn't much to report on the boat front. This week has been a bit weird, with the snowy conditions meaning where I work has been closed to non-staff from Tuesday to Thursday. Tuesday I managed to motorcycle to work in the fresh snow, but come Wednesday I thought better of it and got the tube for the rest of the week.
On Wednesday we purchased our tickets to  Cropredy 2011. The plan is to sail up there on Water Witch, and make it an extended summer cruise.
Today I tortured entertained the patrons of Loughton Farmers' Market playing Christmas carols on my trumpet with the wind section of the orchestra in which I play.
Playing and practising the trumpet is something I will have to arrange around living on board, since it is not the most sociable of instruments to play in a marina. Guess I'll have to keep the noise making to the facilities at work. Of course, when we're off cruising I can be a bit more relaxed about it! Here's me taking a break from practise somewhere on the Middlewich branch back in May, which was the last time we were afloat.

Me on a boat

11 days to go until the survey.