Yes we are still here.

Yes we are still on dry land.

But we now have a date to go through everything with Tom regarding Oleanna’s repaint.

This morning I’ve had a chat with him, the boat ahead of us just needs the finishing touches doing, it will be out of the paint shed by the end of the week.

Oleanna now needs to wait for a suitably dry day to be grit blasted. Sods law is that the forecast for the last few weeks has been, as we all know, pretty dry and hot, but this week it is likely to rain most days. The grit blasting needs to be done on a dry day to avoid any moisture getting on the bare steel. The chap doing the work will start at 8am, have a short break for some food, then crack on with the job, hoping to be finished by around 3pm so that she can then be moved into the paint shed where the environment is controlled.

We have a hire car booked, an appointment has been moved, mosaic won’t be attended that day. We now need to remind ourselves of the extra jobs we were wanting to get done before we meet Tom later this week.

All our fingers and toes are crossed for the weather to be fine so that work can start ASAP.

If anyone else fancies crossing theirs that would be great.