You just might get it… take caution.
I decided I wanted to remove all distractions this week and focus on finishing my book. I had not planned for being disconnected from wifi…
Going into lock down was the plan. The chosen venue for lock down was our boat “Phoenix 7” a 34 ft Duncanson sail-boat.
The reno work on Phoenix is more or less finished. Martin and I spent all day Sunday cleaning her so I could spend the week writing… Starting Monday…
Best endeavours.
Queue music… Van Morrison singing, “Days like this.”
For this type of trip, I like to pack everything the day before especially when I want to write for 5 days.
Note: to other budding writers. Do everything the day before including your writing plan so you can start writing very first thing in the morning.
Well, packing did not just include clothes and food for a week. It included linen, soft furnishing’s and dining table cushions, shower curtain etc, etc, etc as we had taken just about everything off the boat.
After packing and shopping I decided to get the dogs washed professionally as I was running out of time and it would make it easier to unload the car and load the boat without my adorable munchkins at my feet, or more precisely trying to sniff out whether I’d actually remembered to pack anything resembling food for them.
I had the lovely Mitch (who’s brilliant work on our boat was covered in another post) and Virginia coming by to drop the second key off and I said I would give them lunch and Mitch wanted to check something.
Here I must issue a warning to any Celebrity Chefs or even just plain Chefs out there who are about to read this; I swear that I am normally a highly organised gal who seldom lapses into the sort of stupidity that you are about to read off. What went wrong yesterday, I fail to fully comprehend!”
The lunch plan was roast chook from our local butcher (very yummy) and my signature salad.
Ingredients:
~ Celery finely sliced
~ Pears finely sliced
~ Slivered almonds toasted
~ Feta cheese and a drizzle of the oil the feta is marinated in…
Well, I picked up the chook on the way. Tick.
I had forgotten to pack the:
~ almonds from home
~ pear and the feta from the corner store (which is right next door to the butcher)
I have started cutting up the celery before I realised this. And, I was using a normal knife as I had forgotten to pack the chef knifes… Fortunately I did not get too far before I realised that I did not have most of the ingredients.
Fade music (Van Morrison)
Queue music, Bobby McFerrin singing “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.”
Lunch became, roast chook… and hummus with celery and biscuits… Lol
After a late lunch we went to buy anchoring lights for the boat. We now have the required lights we need to anchor over-night on our trip next weekend.
Just before going to the Chandler I also learnt from a client an automation was not working as expected… and this was a problem. Mitch left and I went to pick up the dogs.
Back on the boat and I went to plug in my phone to hotspot it to fix the automation and my phone was down to 7%… And the phone charger was not working… Sorry Mitch the cigarette charger point gave up… No way of charging my phone…
A quick note to my client while I still had some charge and hotspot… Followed by a quick call to my husband saying phone about to die 2%…
By now its dinner time…
The comedy of errors continue…
I went to cook green prawns stir fried with ginger, coriander, beans, capsicum and nuts…
I pulled out the green prawns (which I had had in the freezer at home) and opened the bag, only to discover they were prawn shells that had not made it to bin… LOL
I had a lovely vegie stir fry… Followed by a shower and went to bed by 8pm.
Lights out – I woke 12 hours later.
This morning I believe I have rectified my comedy of errors I have now got knives and a few other essential things and a power source for my phone.
Take Two… Productive work occurring…
Queue music, Pharrell Williams singing “Happy.”
