Had a cultured evening seeing MacBeth performed in the open air at Boughton Monchelsea Place with school friends. Very strange to think that it was 12 years ago that I did my GCSE English and I had to study it. Several of the speeches still stick out in my mind
Off to see The Importance Of Being Earnest this Friday for some more culture. Strange to think I studied it when I was bout twelve but I’ve never seen it performed.
Managed to get my first sail in of the year. Yes I know it’s July and I meant to do it two months ago.
It wasn’t that an auspicous start to the day as I thought I’d managed to dent the back of my car reversing. Fortunately I hadn’t done any damage at the low speed I was moving so that was a relief.
I spent a very sunny Sunday morning out on Southampton morning out of the SWAC sailing a RS Laser. Took a while to rig the boat together as I wasn’t sure that I was doing things right. Sorted that out or so I thought. Managed to tip it over trying to get the rudder in setting off. After having tried out for a bit I spotted that I’d managed to not put the battons in the sail. Managed with out.
A bit of patchy breeze but I was sailing. Had a couple of power boats tearing up and down Southampton Water at the edge of sailing area just to make it more interesting. The sky was a little more interesting as I noticed black smoke emitting from three of the Fawley flares.
At the end of it I had the satisfaction of getting back ashore in one piece without too much faffing.