Waiting

A bit of a frustrating day today.  We had decided not to leave today, but the early morning till midday was lovely.  So here we stayed at the marina feeling increasingly frustrated at our decision.  But about lunch time the wind picked up, the rain set in and the temperature plummeted. 

We spent the morning

a) learning to use our new Robship Hook and Moor device, needs a bit of getting used to but what a wonderful invention,

b) cleaning out a few more lockers (Ian),

c) (me) just general cleaning of places I have not been able to access till now,

d) fighting with Ian's new smart phone to install the Lebara SIM card.  This has gone on for a few days but eventually today I phoned a help line and finally got it sorted.  It was not Lebara's problem - it was finger trouble on an unfamiliar device!

We have discovered that we have some lockers on this boat that are big enough to hide a family of refugee stowaways.  And they contained a myriad of bits and pieces, some useful, others not so much!  For instance, 4 boat hooks, 4 hammers, 8 paint scrapers, a beach umbrella, 12 funnels of various sizes, and way too much more to go into details.  Another load of stuff for the skip! (We're keeping the umbrella, might be useful in summer).

Meanwhile we both had problems with our laptops.  Ian has a GPS dongle which he has used before but when he connected it today it sent his computer haywire, the curser was racing all over the desktop, opening and closing pages and rearranging the icons.  Seems to be a virus so the dongle has been binned and the computer reset.  Still not quite right though and a bit of a worry

My laptop has broken a hinge between the keyboard and monitor.  Not good either, and I spent the afternoon transferring all my data to Ian's laptop in case the wires between the two break completely  I think I might have to revert to pen and paper to keep track of important stuff!

We hope to leave tomorrow, even though the weather forecast is not that good.