Week 30 Ever-changing Plans
Week 30
Week 30
As usual, very lucky to be on the boat again as I reflect on the happenings of the last week...and a very rare event of sleeping for 8 hours straight last night!
My favourite thought at the moment...
Cheryl coming soon (9 days, but who's counting?)...and Grandson Alexander as well for 3 days - last here in 2010. He is going on to do a hiking trip in Corsica...
(also 3 grand daughters in Europe ATM - two of them with birthdays) They're a travelling lot, apparently - like Ben - but they didn't get it from me! Snail's Pace is just fine).
Room for Alexander on the boat, if he's interested. Janny will probably have to bring him to wherever we are...I'd better start some proper planning of my own instead of making it up as I go along :-)
I'm stuck at Day 1 - to Blokzijl...
(maybe Drenthe or half of the Elfstedentocht Route)
and last day(s) to Dokkum...(so we can leave the boat there for the Admiralty Days Festival).
Meanwhile, it is a wet and very windy weekend Bft 6, so we stayed put in the haven.
We moved the entrance platform to the right position for stern-first mooring. It may well be that it is too windy as we return sometimes, but this will be the preferred position...
Boeke has already become very protective of "his" patch...
And in anticipation of Cheryl coming for a 2 week boat trip, I had to get a few things organised, including emptying and reloading all the cupboards - amazing how much "stuff" accumulates over the years...(my favorite "discovery" would have to be the Ikea hand mixer!) I did use it to make scrambled eggs, so it may stay on board, after all...
About 7 years ago, I took out all bar one of the cigarette lighter plugs and put in USB sockets.
Another change in that time is that we now almost exclusively use electronic navigation - but the USB charging doesn't keep up with the battery drain over the course of a day - up to say 6 hours.
So, I've been pondering this and decided to put back a cigarette lighter socket so that I can use my rarely called upon inverter to keep the tablet charged - the 230V with a fast charging block seems to be much faster - but I still have to put it to the test.
And lastly - a few years ago I "found" a power point under the floor - not sure why it had been placed there - but I relocated it to the wheelhouse where it will get much more use...mainly just charging phones and tablets when we have shore power.
The boat in it's present form will be 50 years old next year. The hull is well over 100 years old. After meeting people from the village where it was built, I did a Google search of the company and/or any history but came up with...nothing. (Haha, the AI machine still managed to write about 5 pages of NOTHING - it reminded me that I had heard of AI being called The BS Machine).
There is another boat from the same builder in our haven at the moment...with a Canadian flag...I'll wander up and say hello later...bit early yet.
From Dutch News.nl
The Christian Democrats, under the leadership of Henri Bontenbal, have moved into joint second place in the latest poll of voter intentions ahead of the October general election.
(I'm not really into who's who in the zoo, but the CDA were the prime movers when we had refugees - which was pretty cool - so I still have a soft spot for them)
The Ipsos-I&O poll puts the far-right PVV on 27 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament, down 10 from its 2023 total, with the CDA and the PvdA-GroenLinks alliance both on 24.The CDA, previously a key party in every post WWII coalition, won just five seats in 2023.
The right-wing VVD, which published its manifesto earlier this month, is in third place with 20 seats. D66 has risen in the new poll from nine to 12 seats, three more than it won in the 2023 general election.
Around the Farm
We caught a mole from last week. It always seems as though there are dozens of them, but usually only one...doing so much damage.
...and that led to yet another clean up job...my version of "pottering" from one job to the next...
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