Saturday, June 26, 2010

Back On Board the ER II - Cruising and Cheese Selling

After probably what will go down in the W Family History as the Month of MAYhem (Daughter Jenn's wedding to the dashing Ross), David and Helen are back ' on the Cut' aboard the ERII selling cheese once more.

Due to weak signals and continual frustration trying to get a decent internet connection: posts from them have been sporadic, but here is what I have, so you can now play catchup.

2010 - 06 - 16 AUDLEM
Hi guys,
Sorry it didn't work out with Skype.
It is quite hit and miss out here
on the cut.
Hope this is some consolation, I took some shots while the
BBQ was warming up this evening. So you can at least get a picture where we are right now.
Believe it or not just drifting across canal (a whole
twenty feet) makes a big difference.
Talk to you Thursday or Friday.

ERII - BBQ
Lovely Evening isn't it? don't you wish you were there?


2010 - 06 - 26 CHESTER

Wow! finally got a chance to sit in front of the computer when there has been a signal of some sort.
I'm sure we motor through great signals everyday and on the odd occasion we have actually had a great signal where we moored up.
But as luck
would have it I'm just too beat to move.
This new business venture is a
lot harder than the B&B.
We are constantly on the move.
We haven't over
extended ourselves as far as scheduling goes, it's just so much slower out on the canals with miles and miles of moored boats for example severely affecting our enroute time.
We are naturally traveling a lot
further than the B&B business required us to go.
We are making adjustments to our schedule as much as possible but we
have commitments we have to fulfill.
Next year will be better as we will
have this year's experience to learn from.
We went past Beeston Castle today.
Great looking walk over to it, so the
plan is when we leave here on Monday is take a couple hours to check it out.
Want to check out Chester, hope we have a chance.
Busy weekend
ahead cheese selling meeting with the "big cheese" from Snowdonia tomorrow for lunch, get a delivery of cheese that was supposed to be with us two days ago but the other cheese company fd up and did not send it so now we are scrambling!
***
Well now its Friday and have moored up for the fifteen time. (You will
see by the picture).

It is hotter than hades !!!!
Tricky trying to keep
the cheese cool.
We have a dinner to go tonight in some old hall that
wont be air conditioned, bloody hell!!!
On a good note cheese came no problem.
Met with Michael from Snowdonia
Cheese Company, nice chap.
ime to jump in the shower and try to cool down.
What is with this
country?
Feels like Palm Springs in July!!!!!

Love to you both,

PS: In the picture you can't see us, but we are there. Can you see the
TV antenna to the right of the white tent on the right? There is green tree canopy, the antenna is right there.
(Note from blogkeeper: I put a blue arrow on the photo so you can find it)

Blessings of BBQ's on the back deck to everyone out there
Shanti

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