No visits but we have been getting bits and pieces

Owing to family and work comittments - my nephew's wedding last weekend and a system upgrade to support this coming weekend, poor old Sarah G must be feeling a bit neglected though we have been getting useful little bits and pieces.

Crucially, I found some out of date charts at bargain prices on Ebay. They will obviously have to be used with some caution as they are around six years old but I don't think that continental drift is going to make them too wildly out of date for planning and offshore purposes. I had thought that they were being sold off by someone who had done cruising Iberia but it turns out it was for a chart agent who sells all sorts of charts in four different categories. First are the cancelled ones at less than £4 each, then the out of date ones uncorrected, next are corrected ones and finally there are new ones at the usual list price of £21.50 for an admiralty chart. With judicious use of new ones where detail is essential and older ones where that is less important we should be able to save a useful sum of money. The ones we got from Ebay are: Cabo Finisterre to the Spanish border and The Straits of Gibraltar.

The wedding was a very enjoyable experience and it all went well. We both of course wish Francis and Mumtaz all the best and that sort of thing and the photos will be available asap I hope.