Still in Edinburgh but it’s been a great week here and we’ve had a tremendous couple of days with our new crew. It was good coming back to Scarlet on Tuesday, see how she enjoyed her weekend of rest and relaxation. A couple of days of tidying and maintenance and Scarlet was ready to meet her new crew for Leg 7. Chris, Jake, Jonathan, Larvell, Olly and Maria arrived yesterday afternoon and were soon making themselves at home. Chilled out evening before a long but tremendous day at the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh - many thanks to Fiona Darwin and her team for organising tickets. What a cool day it was at the show. Weather was great, the Queen even came for the day, the only difficult bit of the day was actually deciding what to see!! So we went for some show jumping before lunch, then it had to be the Quack Commandoes - border collies herding ducks - how cool!!! Pretty impressive and something I’d never seen before although the ducks did look as if they’d maybe done this once or twice before. Managed to nip off and find out about honey bees and bee keeping. Possibly not the ideal pasttime for a voyage round Britain in a boat but would be so cool to have some bees making honey for me - magic!! Guess I might actually need to be in the country to tend to said bees as my husband, as lovely as he is, doesn’t particularly like bees and really don’t think he’d be up for doning the bee net and suit to collect the honey. And now to this evening’s activities - knots. Yes we have Jake with his two hands tied together attempting to get a knot out of the line and the funniest is Chris and Larvell tied together attempting to get apart - this has been the source of huge amusement for all spectators - and they’re determined not to be defeated - so they may well be here in the morning still attached!! Time will tell, until then Karen out.
jake here....
Todays bin full of first times... First time in edinburgh center, First time watchin an amphibious off road vehicle plowing through a duck pond whilst bein bombarded by blood thirsty scottish kiddies :-D First time in the presence of the old dear, and in this instance its the queen and not my nan hehe. And most imbaressing as it may be, first time defeated by a knot.. dont ask!!!!! We all enjoyed some lovely spag bol this evening, courtesy of ollie and larvell, followed by a mean mint Aero....... I must say though, i didnt realise how much id miss people back in stoke.... really really miss my gorgeous girlfriend, Letitia ;-(..... really miss my mum and the rest of the family.... and miss my dogs, Tilly and Alfie.....
Any ways, Bring on tomorrows sailing.....
HI-HO SILVER.............AWAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
cpt Jones out.
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