Off to Blighty in the early hours of Sunday morning for two and a half weeks. I’m already quite excited though I suspect it will be rather colder than Bahrain. Just started thinking about packing and found I only brought a couple of thin cardies and a lightweight fleece with me to the island. Everything else is still in transit so I’m hoping I left some warmer clothes on Temptress! However we won’t be heading for Portsmouth until the Bank Hols when Kevin arrives in the UK so the last week in May better be a warm one.

Plans for my trip so far include retrieving son Will’s stuff out from storage now he’s back in the UK, a potential cross Channel sail on Temptress over the Bank holiday weekend in company with other boats and a Solent sailing weekend with friends on board. Thats in addition to visiting parents and in-laws (the latter are kindly lending us a car) and catching up with any other friends we can around Kevins work schedule. Oh and I must pay in the roadfund tax refund cheque the DVLC sent me last March.

Before then though there is Friday racing at BYC on our newly cleaned and fixed Shawa’al…