Day 11

Sadie
Thu 11 Jul 2013 09:43
35:47.5n 15:21.5w
 
Good Morning All !!
 
Well what a 24 hours we have had!
 
No fish, No sea-life, Not a single ship for the last four days in fact, NOTHING! (At this point, please don't be tempted to not read on, as it will grip you all the same I'm sure)
 
We have been sailing since 7am yesterday which is great, not our fastest 24 hours but certainly more peaceful than the last.
 
We are now under 200nm from Madeira yet another milestone reached on our trip,
 
As per usual for the last week, we incurred the night time silly talk from foreign vhf users, the French, Spanish, Portuguese and Moroccan's have all annoyed us but begun to entertain us with their night time farmyard animal noises and taste of music blaring over the radio to the point at which last night we were all just LOLing (laughing out loud) at how ridculous it is and that no one stops them!
 
For the first time last night we used the curtains in the cabin to try and help those that get their heads down at 10pm to get some sleep (this is big news).
 
Onto to Food, Lunch yesterday was a simple yet tasty cheese sandwich and a cold beer. Cheese sandwiches something which I personally used to hate so much my parents would give it to me as a punishment for being naughty, after playing up in a carpet store with my brother Tom once, when we got home we had cheese sandwiches and water for lunch and had to get into our pyjamas for the rest of the day. Now with a spread of mayonaise is fairly pleasant! (yes, you did just read a paragraph about a cheese sandwich).
 
Bread making continued as I made my best bloomer to date yesterday and I hand the batten back over to Tim today! I am looking forward to testing my new skills at uni!
 
For dinner we were invited, once again, to experience one of Tim's excellent cullinary masterpieces, tuna in a tomato sauce with pasta, the secret ingredient being pesto! This morning we have had boiled egg on some thick slices of previous days loaf, where I discovered you can't really just drop the eggs into the pan as they will crack but have to use a spoon, nevermind there were no complaints.
 
As the fridge has gradually emptied so we have been able to stock it up with beers from the bildges, making our life that little bit more pleasant, there are still 1 to 2 portions of chicken in the fridge which are holding the pizza making at bay, lets hope we dont eat all the cheese in those delicious sandwiches hey!
 
Over night the choice of snack was anonymously changed from swiss roll to bourbons, a change that is not discussed but simply approved and appreciated when you wake up to do one of your night shifts!
 
And that my fellow bloggers is how you fill a blog after a rather quiet 24 hours where nothing other than actual living happened.
 
~Sadie~
 
Quote of the Day:
 
"The best noise in all the world is the rattle of the anchor chain when one comes into harbour at last and lets it go over the bows"  Hilaire Belloc
 
Shout Outs:
 
From Tim: To all the guys at Chandlers and my customers many of whom I know are following!
 
From Woody (thats me Wills) - To the lads at home in Essex and Suffolk, Greg, Tay, Mike, Owen in Oz, Laura in Malaysia and Gemma who doesn't live in either of them counties!