Friday 1 May, CY day 48: Oooph, where did April go to? Surely time should be slower on a lock down. Doesn’t seem that way. Certainly the weather has changed since we arrived. Fresh and cool in March is now becoming hot and steamy in May. And this morning the sky is thick with dark thundery clouds. The hot sauna season is definitely on the way.
One piece of good news, April turns out to be our lowest spend month since Cloudy’s Financial Manager began records (May’16). In fact, it’s half of our previous lowest! And that’s with an expensive supermarket to shop at! We also managed to get lots and lots of jobs done. You know how you constantly wish: “if only the world could stand still for a month or two, so I can catch up on pending things”. Well, it’s here. Now is the time.
On a similar theme, we were joking yesterday that post-lockdown, parents of young children will likely be in one of two camps: either desperate to get back to work/school or no longer wanting to return to work because of this special time they had with their children. When I was 29 I took a year off to sail the Mediterranean with our 1yr old daughter, Ellie. I always reflected it was such a special time with her. Once back to intense work for the following 25 years, I never seemed to have the same quality time ever again. This current situation may certainly have some people reflecting what are the important things in life.
At 5am I made the mistake of closing the hatch blind as dawn came. After our late night, the darkness meant we slept through the alarm and woke up at 9:30! And our laziness continued till almost midday with a leisurely breakfast, reading the news and writing blogs.
Then the work day start at midday. Back to cutting out all the items I had drawn on the sailcloth yesterday. It takes me ALL afternoon and well into the evening. By which time my fingers are aching from pressing down on the metal ruler with one hand and knife with the other. But the results are good. The 48 pieces look very neat shapes. Let’s hope they still look good after my amateur sewing skills are applied to them.
Then in the evening it’s inside the saloon marking out the large pieces of sunbrella using my plastic sheet templates. Not easy in the space restrictions of the saloon floor.
Again it’s midnight before we finish. Tomorrow will be cutout-and-try day. If there are no more blogs after this one, it’s because I walked-the-plank out of frustration!
