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Mum
and Auntie Dorothy |
Mum
in Bridlington |
Peridot,
our new boat! |
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Humber
Bridge from the south |
Our
boat and crew in Turkey |
Layout
of Peridot |
Towards the end of term I had an interview for a job at Jenny’s school – and will be there next term. I think we’re both looking forward to it… The end of term was great for me at Abbey Hill – lovely people and great to have been “part of the family” for a while.
I really can’t remember much of what we did for the first part of the holiday, apart from a few days in Wales (for me, not Jen or Mum) but then we travelled to Turkey for a fortnight’s sailing with Cy, Wendy and Rosie. The photos I took can be seen here, and I’ll put Rosie’s diary up soon. I failed to keep one after the first few days, but we did have a wonderful time. Highlights include late night swimming, getting to know a few great people better, morning thoughts (we took turns to give a “thought for the day”) and some excellent sailing. It was windy most of the time, and our normal situation was to have two reefs in the main sail.
At home, Keith was around much of the time with Mum, although he’s gone off for a couple of weeks now. When we returned Mum and I travelled to East Yorkshire for a few days. Impressions of Bridlington and Beverley were very good, Hornsea and Withernsea failed to impress, and the countryside is pretty dull! We’d booked a B & B near North Cave, ten miles or so from Beverley, and two nights was plenty!
However, while on the edge of the Humber we took a trip over the river and saw a boat at South Ferriby. Jenny and I had a trip down today and have bought it, so in a couple of weeks should be sailing again. It is a little different, certainly not a typical modern pointy front, square back wide and shallow skimming dish, but neither is it an old deep and long keeled wooden sea plough. Fancy a sail? Well, there’s a bit of a queue, but we’ll fit you in…
I’ll add a few
photos to this and call it a day. Brief, and totally devoid of thoughts
and personality, but as an update it should work.
Steve Bunning
23rd August 2003
