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A day of utter hilarity as we celebrated Claire’s birthday; starting with a traditional Massey family birthday “Walk in”, a swim, endless silly games and a jolly good sing song. Pity no-one knows all the words of literally a single song, but we are good shouters, emboldened by a lack of inhibition born of living in such close proximity for the last few weeks. Morale could not be higher, despite a good dose of motoring as the winds seem to be ignoring centuries of tradition in this area by blowing from the West. We carry 290 litres of fuel for the engine and generator, plus an emergency 20 litres, enough for about 300nm of motoring, so it has to be conserved. Young Will is clocking up the fines now, recently breaking the “no peeing over the side” rule twice in 24 hours. Once at 6.30am this morning when he literally had to run up on deck having found the heads occupied. Doesn’t bode well for when he is the age of the rest of us. There is much excitement over seeing our loved ones with Emma, Clare, Rosie, Holly, Hannah flying out to meet us very soon. Jobs are being handed out to spruce the boat up and look proper Bristol fashion for their arrival. Finally, we were privileged to witness captivating dolphin action, such a thrill.

Jonnie

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