Beez to 14/10/18
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 14 Oct 2018 22:57
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Beez Progress This Week to the 14th of October
2018
 Monday 8th. Bear was first to work
remodelling and touching up his painted shelves to
fit in the lazarette.
   I wrote a blog, went back to cleaning the
stainless and spent the next two hours shining the tripods that stand over the
dorades (vent thingys that look like stubby bent necks that I loathe and detest,
but they do a good job, if you say so. I
would much rather have thrown the old ones and filled in the deck holes above
the office and sea berth, oooo no). So
because I was not allowed to get rid of them I demanded new
ones, what a difference to the
old ones. The girl is to look as top
drawer as we can make her – I can see why you wanted new
ones, I’ll change my job order and help. Why thank you kind
sir.
 Bear began to prep for the new dorade
fitting over the sea berth and sanded the grab rail
while he was there. At four o’clock we were both flagging and I was so grateful
Bear was doing a cosmetic job for me..... Let’s do something wild and for the
first time in months and months go for an ice-cream-leg-stretch. OK, I’ll get changed. We bimbled toward the mini-mart
by the ferry-dock to find it closed. Really disappointed as we were both
secretly tasting the treat. Back for a cup of tea and .........let’s be bad and watch an episode or two of Quantico.
There we stayed for supper and an early night. Why ?? First break since we got
back to Beez thirteen days ago.
We finished
Quantico season one and decided to give the first episode of season two a go.
Like season one we were soon fed up with the constant back story, present time,
back story, that we skipped to No Offence, a new one on us. Fresh, fun, serious
with great characters – we watched two episodes before
sleep.
   Tuesday 9th. I got Bear his breakfast in
bed and we watched another episode of No Offence before cracking on. That is,
not before we compared bruises, my left shin and
right knee from falling last Sunday and Bear’s poorly toe from dropping a wrench on it. With our
collective injuries slowing us up a little we set to work a bit later at half
nine – Bear did some deck cleaning, I masked around the handrails and spent the
rest of the day cleaning the very filthy steel.
Wednesday 10th. We
carried on as yesterday until we went shopping at two, a stop at Jimmy’s on the
way for Bear to get more sealant and Pepe to order clear varnish for indoors.
Shopping put away, supper eaten, we settled to a game of Mexican Train Dominoes
and Bear was marmalised. Huh.
   Thursday 11th. Yesterday and today the
boys came and prepped Beez for her anti-fouling, lots
of sanding and the poor chaps looked like CSI’s all suited and booted with
breathing masks. They finished each day covered in black dust but did a great
job and tidied up beautifully after themselves.
Friday 12th. Bear did a final sand on the
handrails, I put the first coat of varnish on Bear’s prep work and then went
indoors to begin the daunting task of sanding the doorway, angled wall, left
kitchen wall and as far round to the sea toilet door frame. After shower, supper
and a game, we finished watching the brilliant series Unforgotten and moved onto
Paranoid, nice to watch some English police dramas, no explosions and constant
gunfire but good acting and a steady plot.
The Chartplotter Chip Saga began.
Can you remember where we put the chip that goes in the
chartplotter. No, I packed all the boxes and cleaned the flat, you
brought all the stuff back to Beez and stowed. Oh, I remember putting it somewhere we would need to look for
it. But so secret.........you plankton. I rummaged about for a while
but no knowing where himself – unsupervised – would have hidden it. We must find it as to replace would be unthinkable and very
expensive, I don’t want to think about that but let’s call it
fifteen hundred pounds as we are talking about the whole sodding world.
Sorry, I’ll give you sorry, I had just
settled for the night now my feathers are sticking up every which way. A
disturbed night........
  Saturday 13th. The day began by a hard-boiled-egg-cook-up for a couple of salads for me and a
couple of sandwiches for the captain. No true egg events but the half naked one
gave his shell to the one on the right who wears it well...... Bear anti-fouled
propeller and stern drive with four coats of paint, reassembling the propeller
with new anodes, looks like Beez is wearing her
boots...... He re-sealed six small hull windows and polished them. Fitted
the first of five new hatch covers, beginning with the anchor locker as a test
run, finished quite well and polished the surrounding area. Bear also lightly sanded the handrails, docking hook,
hook housing and main sail car trolley for the varnish queen to do a second
coat.
  After the quick job of varnishing and a
look at the outside world it was time for me to re-enter being Mrs Mole as I
continued sanding down the north face of Mount Everest, well, around the main door. Notes to self on
sanding:
1. Only the rough side works.
2. Don’t sit sander on knee until it has
fully stopped.
3. Don’t drop active sander on floor and
watch it go mad.
In bed that night. Continuation of The
Chartplotter Chip Saga. Is it in your sewing
bag. No. We are talking about a box the size of a mobile phone
holding a memory chip, why would he think it has gone in with my bits of
Sunbrella, dressmakers scissors and the like. To appease, out came my sewing bag
from the en suite – current parking place – and away I rummaged. Yet again this
has come up at bedtime and once again my feathers are well and truly mussed
up.......
   Sunday 14th. Great
news, I dreamt about the Navionics chip. Cracking my eyes open to
this level of enthusiasm so early on a Sunday morning was quite difficult to say
the very least, but I managed to prop my head up, smile and ask where. Don’t know, I can’t remember. That’s it, I lean over to the shelf, redeem the TV controller and
WHACK to the side of the head of The Idiot Beside Me. Feathers back to being
up-stood........I lay back down and covered my face with my hands. I so hope I
don’t have to turn the Beez upside-down.......
Breakfast in bed and a couple of episodes
of Paranoid – well it is Sunday and the day should have started with a peaceful,
easy feeling. Not so with the ongoing Saga...... Bear pottered in the tool shed,
I prepared for tonight's BBQ – gosh, this has come round quickly. Then I set to
the task of necessary admin, paid off the credit card etc and tidied about the
house. In he wanders, I groan as he has ‘that’ silly smile on his face.
Guess what. Oh, do I have to answer.
Da-Dah, he produces the Navionics chip from
behind his back. Where was it ??? Behind the small books
in the office where I had hidden it. I need a drink, a strong drink,
where shall I hide it now, exactly where you
got it from and at least I now know where it is so there is a strong chance we
individually remember because I tell you where it is, you’re saying that sharply, like I never remember
anything, make that a very strong drink.
We went to the BBQ at half six. Wow, so many people, we must all live like moles as we only see the same half dozen. I overhear some men saying “I’ve been here since 2013”, “I got here in 2015”. I feel the impending need to escape. There was a good flame and Bear cooked our steaks to perfection. My very strong drink went down well and we tried to join in with the singing. Pleased to be in bed after what has felt like, in part, a very long week. Night, Night.  ALL IN ALL SUCH A FAST WEEK SAVE
FOR THE SAGA......
GOOD PROGRESS TOWARD THE
WATER
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