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Good news – the Christmas tree still has some of it's needles on and so far the fairy lights haven't stopped working. Christmas day was a frenzy of , excited children, food, more excited children and even more food. To work off the excess Boxing Day was elected to be a walking day. My brother
The mince pies are in the oven, there's tinsel all over the house, the children have reached fever pitch and I've picked up the largest turkey I've ever seen. It spent last night in the car because it was too big for the fridge and we're hoping we can just about squeeze it into the
It's been a quiet few days on site. Most of the guys finished for Christmas last Friday with a select few staying on to put right some of the damage to the access road caused by the heavy lorries. It soon became apparent that in this frost any kind of spade work was impossible, so all that could
Only a quick post today – largely on account of the fact it was the site Christmas party last night and after rather too much of the Christmas spirit I'm feeling just the tiniest bit of a hangover. I can at least console myself however with the fact that there were quite a few members of the team
It's been a few days since my last post – partly because we sneaked away for a weekend with the children before things get really busy. We had a lovely time even if it was something of a busman's holiday – we ended up looking round another marina and then took the children to meet Santa on a
Just had to make an entry about today and not really about the marina – more about mud really and my poor mother. Mother has been desparate to see the marina with the water in and she and Isabelle accompanied me down to site this afternoon. She was thrilled to see it but, naturally, after the novelty
We have a full marina – full of ice cold water that is, and it looks even more fantastic than when it was half full (or should that be half empty??) We are now undertaking our "stilling test" which has always been something of an enigma to me. The nice man from BW comes along with his paddling
I finally got to site just after lunch today. There was a biting cold wind and even Mick the site manager was commenting on how nippy it was. That said I was so excited about the water going in I couldn't wait to go and have a look. And it looks amazing! After all these months of planning and
THE WATER IS GOING IN!!!!!!! There is no quieter way of saying that – it's very, very exciting to see the basin starting to slowly fill up. There is even a depth gauge nailed to the end jetty on Gentian. The children are hopping up and down with excitement and are starting to make helpful suggestions
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