wabi sabi and introversion

22nd. I listen to BBC R4 on a cheap and cheerful little radio powered from the boat's DC.  It is quite reliable and unusual for it to fail.  But it can happen that reception dries up preceded by audio distortion.  Long ago I discovered that moving the boat by its own length can restore reception and allow me to listen to Farming Today and Inside Science.  This evening was such a time. I wanted to record the science and the signal was unreadable.  Since I was on Armco pulled the boat up a length and pinned it down.  Sure enough the signal was loud and clear so I started to record and sods law kicked in. 

Not only had I heard the programme before but I had even recorded it already. 
I am all for recycling in the rght place and the right time etc etc etc

Observations from the cut would indicate that solo sailors tend towards introversion, shyness in the extreme, with difficulty at small talk and eye contact and tend to shun company.

I now discover I am an introverted extrovert! 
I hope to tease this one out as it does not make sense to me. 
I do prefer silence to noise. I do like my own company.
I am very comfortable communing with nature. 
At my last stop by Ansty there was another boat where the soloist seemed to be suffering from loneliness and/or depression, showing classic signs of introversion.  I was going to and from the boat for some days and he seemed to spend his day just staring out the side door at the water.  I was thinking about this extrovert introvert thing and also about manic depression which switches from black dog to unicorn and back to total sanity in an apparently mindless manner.   

Then I met Gary on "Get Knotted" and realized not all soloists play the same tune or even the same instrument.  Gary and I are both soloists and we do not seem to fit the described pattern.

I recalled Dave on "Whiskey Galore" and Peter on "Emily".  That was when I googled "Introversion". Gary on "Get Knotted" bound for Ashby de la Zouch.  We met at Sutton Stop on Saturday morning having both over-nighted in the basin.  Being early risers we had a short banter about early rising and things across the water. An excellent banter before I fired up cast off and swung north-east onto the Coventry canal.   Later we met again as I had already tied up at Bridge 14 for my encore coffee while Gary motored through for Marston Junction. 

I had established that a bus crosses my bridge for Nuneaton Bus Station every day of the week so maybe this is a good place to lie over.

Talking with Gary set me to googling and "Get Knotted" came up immediately. 

I decided to try strings like "Pentargon Springer" and "Pentargon" and "60906" separately as well as "Pentargon60906" just to see what would come up and all of them were hits.

If I can get people to actually read the blog and comment and subscribe it could get wings

The picture shows the rear-end masked up and Albany Sky slapped on at Ansty.  The job will be left that way while I slip to Homenene with a bit of washing as the paint cures.  It is a water based viynl, dries very slowly and that is its strength.  Brushes are immediately washable and come clean.  The paint is remarkably resilient when cured and sticks readily to any surface.  Today is perfect for this type of activity. 

wabi sabi at the back end
follows random brick concepts
detailed at Curly Wurly Concepts