Simple pleasures

1. The sea. An easily underrated thing and, living on an island, an assumed commodity. Having travelled over Spain, now being back at the sea is a fantastic thing. A place where nature seems to become incredibly animated and dynamic. It has given us a fascinating and pleasing set of hours watching, listening, feeling and enjoying it. Awesome! And I mean that in the truest sense of the word.

2. The dry. You may question this as we have had super weather for the best part of 50 days. However, it (the dry) must be appreciated fully. Living in a small space is fine. It is home and has become the 'norm'. Life in this space is easy when it is dry. In fact it is quite pleasing when it is wet as we have a general feeling of "Well, at least we are not in a tent!" But, the overriding wetness causes additional problems such as, where do you dry your own towels, tea towels (here he goes again), wet shoes and the bigger problem of trying to keep air circulating and avoid misting up when all the windows need shutting. So if you are dry, remember that that's a good thing.

3. Solving problems. At home life becomes very easy. To make this point, I would like to use our most recent failure as a point in case. Sitting have lunch one day, I happened to notice an urgent failure in the van. The library wing of the vehicle, a shelf, had started to sag in the middle. We quickly took off all the reading material, diaries, games etc. We now need a drill, drill bits, wood glue, screws of assorted lengths, clamps and nice weather in which to complete the job. I'm just off to nip out to the shed to get the bits............note to self, we don't have a shed! We have the know how, but not the tools. Grrrrrr!

Ed