nathanlee
Well-Known Member
I needed to top my batteries up with shore power, so stoppped at Waveney River Centre for the night.
"Are you stern to?"
"Erm, no, I can't really I've got a tiny boat and wouldn't be able to get off it stern to"
"That's £11 then please, it would be £9 if you were stern to"
"oh, come on, I'm tiny, I'm probably less length than a broads cruiser is wide"
"£11 unless you're stern to because you take up more room"
Fine.
So I'm now bow to with the kedge over the back. Bloody grr. I wouldn't have minded if the marina had boats in it, but it's absolutely empty.
Had a major cock up last night too. A friend popped to see me and we got smashed on the broads. One drink lead to another and the next thing I knew we'd emptied the bottle of Jura I was saving for a celebration. I managed to spill half a glass of whiskey on to the chart table, which finished off my long suffering phone, and took the macbook out with it too. It just won't turn on anymore.
Being without a camera is one thing (although that should be solved tomorrow with the arival of a new battery) but being without a laptop is not possible. I can't blog, I can't get help and social relief from you lot, and perhaps most importantly, I can't email or check the weather. Quite simply, unless I want to disapear of the face of the earth I need a computer.
So here I am, £350 lighter, writing this on a Dell I got from Tesco in Beccles. It'll do the job, but has well and truly painted my bank balance red. On the bright side, I prefer it to black, it's a brighter, more vibrant colour /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
I'd better get a move on though, so it's lucky I've got 10knot SW's all weekend!
Wells, here I come!
"Are you stern to?"
"Erm, no, I can't really I've got a tiny boat and wouldn't be able to get off it stern to"
"That's £11 then please, it would be £9 if you were stern to"
"oh, come on, I'm tiny, I'm probably less length than a broads cruiser is wide"
"£11 unless you're stern to because you take up more room"
Fine.
So I'm now bow to with the kedge over the back. Bloody grr. I wouldn't have minded if the marina had boats in it, but it's absolutely empty.
Had a major cock up last night too. A friend popped to see me and we got smashed on the broads. One drink lead to another and the next thing I knew we'd emptied the bottle of Jura I was saving for a celebration. I managed to spill half a glass of whiskey on to the chart table, which finished off my long suffering phone, and took the macbook out with it too. It just won't turn on anymore.
Being without a camera is one thing (although that should be solved tomorrow with the arival of a new battery) but being without a laptop is not possible. I can't blog, I can't get help and social relief from you lot, and perhaps most importantly, I can't email or check the weather. Quite simply, unless I want to disapear of the face of the earth I need a computer.
So here I am, £350 lighter, writing this on a Dell I got from Tesco in Beccles. It'll do the job, but has well and truly painted my bank balance red. On the bright side, I prefer it to black, it's a brighter, more vibrant colour /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
I'd better get a move on though, so it's lucky I've got 10knot SW's all weekend!
Wells, here I come!
