Happy Christmas

A happy Christmas to all my readers! It's lovely to have people interested enough to read my ramblings and even get in touch with me about them. This icy picture was actually taken last year when I was trying to escape from Crick, but it could just as easily have been taken today as we are all iced in here. I'm hoping to move my boat on the 28th to my 'sort of' new mooring, so I'm rather hoping for a thaw!

Talking of mooring matters, the saga drags on. The initial person I have been talking to in British Waterways has gone off for Christmas now and so has passed me on to the 'senior moorings manager'. This is apparently the man who published the details of the mooring in the first place and is where the buck stops. Sandie told me that he was inspecting the site last Friday morning to see if my complaint has any merit. Naively, I thought he might actually be in touch with me to explain what's going on, but no. All I have received so far are 'I'm out of the office' messages. I suspect I will hear nothing now through the Christmas period. This is not helping my temper! I have bent over backwards to be reasonable, but there is nothing more annoying than being ignored! I have sent another email saying that I will wait it out until 4th January when the world goes back to work, but if I haven't heard anything by then, I shall be contacting Trading Standards and / or a solicitor. Happy days!

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and if, I like me, you are travelling anywhere, you arrive safely. Bonny and I are going to the New Forest to spend Christmas with family. I only have 3 days off, so we have to travel down on Christmas Eve and back on Boxing Day - Oh Joy!