Ellesmere.


Staying put for the dreaded...Christmas Shopping!




We have had to do this in shifts to keep what we have bought each other a surprise.

I think D will be very happy with a pair of Marigolds and a new ironing board....don't you?

Since we were last here I commented on the mess the winter permit situation was in. Well, this seems to have been sorted out now and the six boats moored on the arm are all displaying nice new permits and are all squashed in quite nicely down one end.

We, on the other hand, are moored just outside the arm in peace and tranquility. Both pictures were taken from the bridge over the entrance.

This bothers me slightly as those boats are all genuine continuous cruisers and live aboard their boats but - and this is a big but - they have been there since the start of November and are now paid up and entitled to stay there until the end of March.
Bringing out the fingers that is five months, five months is nearly half a year!  that to us would be an absolute nightmare cooped up in there for all that time, yet, that is what they seem to want to do and BW are only too happy to take the money and let them get on with it.

Could this be the portent of the bad weather on the way?  The calm before the storm?





Until next time..............





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