what a nightmare week this has been, waiting for tide and weather.....

When you make a plan you expect things to "go to" and when you have planned to go sailing and you drawer back the curtains to a thick wall of fog the Ohh Noo expression might depict the end of the world or worse the prospect of not expediting your plans...

We watered the entire garden yesterday using the most fabulous Bowzer pulled along by the tractor and it will prove to be a very useful tool. Sarah and Peter came over for a cup of tea and Sarah was predicting a long and dry summer, so our winter plans to have water available and at hand for our investments in plants and design will have been well instigated.

Our Hens have a new visitor , a small silver hen arrives every morning and leaves every night to enjoy the company and food available within the containment of the Heneriera. I suspect she has made herself a nest in the hedgerow and is popping back to lay an egg every day so the interest of our hefty Cock-a-doodle-do may deliver a set of chicks at the beginning of summer, but in the mean time little hen is treating this place like a holidaycamp day visitor and we are pleased to see her each day.

I am doing this blog at the crack of dawn as we need to be on the boat by 10:00 but with the fog it will all be delayed departure and we may just have to do this trip in two halves and stop off at St Vaast. in any case we will get our sail and Beema will end up in Cherbourg ...what a nightmare week this has been, waiting for tide and weather.....