....... (continuing the theme of past events and catching up)......

friday found me watching some of the comic relief stuff in the offices of the Flying Squad!! This provided as much interesting conversation as was on the TV! In fact it was a bit like being in The Bill or some such similar cop programme, with burly blokes wandering around in t-shirts and bullet proof vests, ordering pizza's and discussing the rights and wrongs of shooting villians! Ended up there simply because Pete had been putting some cheques into his bank account when the bank was robbed. He got out and the area was cordoned off as the bank robbers were stuck inside the building. Trouble was his motorbike was left outside the bank not locked to anything..... so he imagined that as soon as the area was 'uncordoned' (? now is that a real word?) the bike would be stolen. So we went back in the evening to see if we could rescue it. As soon as the police discovered he was an actual witness they decided they needed a statement from him, even though he really hadn't seen anything, hence my hanging around watching tv ......anyway we got the bike back, the robbers were arrested and comic relief was its usual somewhat antclimatic self..........

More importantly!!!!!!!!!!!! finally got to see inside the boat 'Island Hope'... and Pete is buying it at this very moment in time (I hope) so my new home will be a 70 ft by 14 ft Humber barge!!! Needs lots of work too! mmmmmm will have to develop new skills... like welding!!!!!!!!!!!!!