Saturday 30^th May 2020

 

Another hot day. We have been having back to back sunshine and heat for weeks now. The heat became too much for me in the afternoon and I came on the boat, sat in the chair and promptly fell asleep.

We called in on Susan and picked up the bedroom reading light and chimney roof flue plate she had

ordered for us. On the way back we called on Alan on ‘Second Chance’. Alan is a single-hander who had bought his boat in Venetian Marina just before lock-down, came out of the marina, moored on the Venetian Straight, and has been there ever since. He had very little boating experience and had asked me to give him a steering lesson and how to use his bow thruster.

I fitted the new light in the bedroom and, apart from that little else was done, it was too hot.

We had a steak dinner, our first in ages, and then sat with Danny and Jemima in their cratch and later at the fireside.

We were hoping to see the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket following the space station, but when the event happened, it was too light. We see the space station, and many other satellites, passing across the sky at night, but it would have been good to have seen the rocket and station together.