I like Hammocks.

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Obviously, we struggled to come to terms with the several life threatening incidents along our way....

We recovered with french sticks stuffed with primula cheese, chedder, ham, wine gums and jaffa cakes, all washed down with lemonade..

 

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Tomorrow...

 

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The wind started picking up.

My little one had had enough and was crying at the thought of getting on and trying to sail home.

So.....

There we were sitting there thinking Bugger!

Now what are we going to do?

Each moment we sat over here made the trip home look worse as the tide was due to change.

I decided to give little one a walkie talkie and send him along the beach exploring.

He took his camera with him.

This is the kid that built his own boat from scratch.

Im not as smart as him.

I cant see what he is trying to show me through the walkie talkie.

[video=youtube;XSNxzucxQBY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSNxzucxQBY[/video]

Looking at the vid when he got back didnt really help much either.

Astonishing how there is no wind here when its blowing so hard further out.

There were a few interesting bits though.....

Trees!

 

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Missed one where he turned in towards the island with his rigging broken

[video=youtube;X4ygJXmsa6Y]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ygJXmsa6Y[/video]

 

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Luckily, I had got some waterproof bags with our land kit, so although we were nearly our of jaffa cakes, we could explore...

Well, so I thought until he yelled

Snake!

 

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ooooh!

I moved!

 

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He said the snake was massive!

It was at least this long!

His hands were nearly a foot apart.

He decided we should get off the ground before it got us.

Sounds good to me.

 

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I suppose a foot long snake wont be able to climb up a tree that thick. lol.

Biggest is looking for the most awkward place to hang his.

He just had to pull the string for mine.

He said he saw me laughing when he heaped his boat

Hes happy hes one up

....er....

You wrap it round,

then you unwrap it

then you scratch your head

then you pull the hammock and the rope falls off the tree

 

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then you tie a knot in the rope and look at the tree

then you throw it on the ground and screach and stamp on it

Then in a fit of temper, you pull it as tight as you can

Then you sit on it to see if it will fall down

then you slip because you have hung it over a bank and make a sort of strangled screach

then you get out and kick it for hurting you and slide down the bank

then you climb back up again and yell at it a bit more

then you get in carefully - remembering that you tied the knots.....

...not that you would admit that if they were to fail

"See. Ive got mine up !"

Big grin

Lies back carefully.....

 

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All set up properly with feet raised well above height of head.

Little one just about manages to stop giggling....

....as biggests knots come undone

he hits the gravel on his head, which cant actually damage a teenager

then gacefully slides down the bank on his back in one long set of screaching curses.

"Noisy round here innit dad"

Dont you just love teenagers?

 

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Time to go find the sleeping bags and tarps and Step, then set up properly for the night.

 

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The tides should be better for the return trip in the morning

 

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(Slept under a hammock in the middle of the lounge last night as Ive got bits of hardboard patterns for a boat all over my bedroom.

Got up showered, just getting ready to yell at the kids when I coughed....

....Just been released from hospital.

Seems I ripped a muscle thats fixed on the back of one of my ribs.

Im irritated now.

If Ive got to get injured, how come I cant have it doing something exciting, interesting, heroic, or just plain dangerous.

Mutter, mutter.....)

 

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Anyhow.....

Got woken up early.

Seems that we were supposed to read the no landing sign and not anchor our boats to it.

It was a bit overcast, but a nice day.

I was worried about towing Little Ideas boat with the big one - especially as I needed to go upwind.

We left his mast up, rolled up his sails and put them in the big boat, he stayed on his boat to steer it, and off we went.

I let my gruntager tie the rope on.

The knots stayed done, but he used half a mile of rope.

Pigging kid

 

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Soo glad we had the hammocks and stuff with us.

Trying to get back against the wind and tide towing a second boat would have been even more dangerous than doing it in the light.

Decided we need better hammocks though, and some sort of cooker in case we end up marrooned again

 

[Robbi]

brill !! No Idea and fire = more great threads !!

 

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Ive got a different photo!

When I ended up in hospital because I coughed...

Apparently, it shows exactly where I hurt myself.

I think is shows Ive swallowed an alien or a bike saddle.Must have drunk more than I thought.

Im worried now - as well as terrified of coughing.

12 weeks before they think I will be better.

Im already bored.

 

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Hi Robbi

Hope you havent had enough of me yet..

I still have a couple more pictures I can share...

...or so....

 

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Er...

You know I keep complaining about my cold back....

Decided to have a go at fixing it.

I was wandering around in this fabric shop looking for something to fix another hole in one of the sails and found some wadding.

Hadnt seen any of this stuff before.

Its the white stuff out of our coats.

It was on a roll, 5ft ish wide and was about an inch thick. it said 200gsm on the lable - and £3 per linear metre.

Wasnt quite what I had in mind for the boat, but I had it and shoved it behind the settee out of the way.

 

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I had a look on Ebay and found an offcut of waterproof strong camoflage cloth.

It was £18, which slowed me down for a couple of days, but it looked sort of shiny somehow.....

Gotta have it if its shiny.