We didn’t get a great deal more done on Monday – it was simply a struggle to stay awake. We didn’t do too bad. We tried bottle of wine I’d picked up at the supermarket. I must have been jet lagged as it was low alcohol and terrible.
We both had a pretty decent sleep but I woke before 4am. The good side of waking early is it allowed me to get on with the paperwork I’d been putting off. A bunch of letters and loads of forms later I was done. Yay.
The rest of the day was spent unpacking our stuff and planning the boat work ahead of us. I’ve put together a list of things to do which grew throughout the day as we thought of new things and/or ran into parts we’d bought before which needed a project line to get them done. We also spent some time visualizing and planning the nav station rearrangement. This is not complete but we are building up some ideas. We also arranged for a hire car to be picked up Wednesday. Being in the yard for a couple of weeks with no transport is a daunting prospect.
In the afternoon we took a walk into town principally to mail the paperwork generated in the morning but also for Helen to go price comparing and to do a little extra shopping. In the end we were out and about for about 3 hours and feeling a little tired for the effort. The really nice thing was that it is tee-shirt weather. Good to be back in the warmth.
The French techs have yet to show to start work on the sex change (diesel conversion). Although work was very officially supposed to start on Monday it turns out the techs didn’t leave France until Monday. Perhaps we’ll see them today (Wednesday). I’m feeling a little robbed as we gave up the last two days being with the family to be here in time for the planned start of work. But then. the kids probably enjoyed a bit of time away from their parents in London. The yard were a bit late finishing the bottom painting for the boat so at least we had time to get this done before the rest of the work starts.
This morning it’s 3am and we’re both up. And that’s after successfully staying awake until nearly 9pm last night. So a bit of a backwards step there.
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