NEW BLOG DEIRE FOMHAIR

The blog has been updated every week as per a New Year resolution and this is the first blog of Autumn. Tá failte romhaibh go Deire Fomhair 'the end of the harvest' in our language and the symbolic winding down of agriculture and nature til we are summoned by Newgrange on the morning of the Winter Solstice. 

On the good ship Pentargon the heater has been tested, fuel bags checked, porridge oats counted, batteries and solar panels tested.  Comms are upgraded and bulletproof.  The four-year Safety Check is to be done and the boat is being readied for it.  An umbilical cord linking Wavy to Pentargon is being checked.  Winter bedclothes have been taken out, washed, aired, dried and fitted on the bunk.  Boots and heavy socks have been checked or bought. Summer is gone and so to Autumn and no let up in the rain ...

  In spite of massive rain over the past month it can be reported today Sunday, 5th October that the bilges are totally dry and cleaned of debris and old rotten leaves and the day that is in it is a drying day so by nightfall I should see DRY steel in the floor of the engine room. Every time I got near this situation all year it just rained again ...

Monday morning I baled out of the boat which was well baled before I left and came back to the flat to get ready for a visit to London on Tuesday.  Wednesday I was at the flat for a budget meeting and on Thursday I went to Meldreth and stayed overnight to see Ruben and Diane and we enjoyed a spectacular aurora display. Friday Diane organised return tickets Stanstead Dulin for 8Dec10 before I caught a train at 1040 to Cambridge missed the connection to P.Boro and travelled by Ely but still got to the flat about 1.30 to rest and relax and even enjoy a siesta.