21-23/11/18
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 23 Nov 2018 23:57
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21st – 23rd of November
2018  Wednesday 21st. My day
began with much head scratching over the design of the removable cockpit seat cover saga. Covering the arms are the next
step. Bear cleverly shut himself in the office to download sea maps for our
onward passages. Hey, I know when to keep very scarce
and very silent. Growling. Seeing you with a
mouthful of pins is pretty scary. Disappear Bear, disappear or I
will kiss you. I’m gone, poof,
gone.   Razali came this
afternoon and YAY, we have a fully functioning conservatory – at last. We went out to deal with the now
very scruffy tarpaulin, cutting it down to provide a wigwam from the pram hood
forward to cover amidships.
 Two layers and a good
rope at the front fold, excess trimmed, edges tied to the hand rail and the result was really quite smart.
I went back to fighting the cockpit chair,
no, I can find something else, oooo yes, by late afternoon I had finished my
stock take and put a huge order in to Lazada (Malaysia’s Amazon). Gravy powder,
milk powder, Easiyo Yoghurt Mix, cheese powder to give taste to twenty bags of
200 Gm instant mash (highly regarded as the same cheese used in KFC
dips........), ten boxes of Bear’s Muesli - so pleased it will come in dribs and
drabs so it can be stowed bit by bit, spreadsheets be
still their beating and ready hearts, steady.
Thursday 22nd. Our fridge part is in
Penang, ready for Customs. Back to the chair covering job....... Bear pottered
about the estate, Bob also needs to get his life raft serviced so we will take
them both to Penang on Monday and he will pick them up – teamwork. Bear went to
the Marina Office to collect our laundry and then we settled to lunch. OOooo, the best bit of news, the grotty yachties aka piddler has
gone. That is so good to know, now just for
Flashman.   Friday 23rd. I did my best to think of jobs
to enable me to dodge the cockpit chair saga. I spent ages researching Visas for
Chagos, Sri Lanka and India, too soon by three weeks. Mmm, great, it’s lunch
time. A terrible loss at both Backgammon and Sequence, Bear was dodging a few
jobs too. We both feel like we are running on fumes just now. Bear set to
painting the jerry can support board black and I settled to my sewing. Many
stabs from pins, several bad words and the final
pinning was done. At six thirty I handed Bear his chair. Too tired to ask
him to sit in it for a test drive, Beds stood in for
the skipper. ALL IN ALL NOT A BAD WEEK.........
SO
FAR
PROGRESS, BUT
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