Another week gone, and still as busy as ever. I did manage to have a short break yesterday afternoon as Debbie drove all the way from Devon to come and see me which was wonderful. The little angel and the little man came with her to. We had a very pleasant lunch before wondering into town. Beth was as chirpy as ever, even though she had a rotten cold. When she first saw me she smiled and reached out for a cuddle.
During lunch the little man decided to have a snooze (lucky for some) but he must have been having nice dreams as he kept smiling. He certainly seems a lot happier than when I was home, hopefully he will be as cheerful as Beth.
It felt strange going ashore as it is the first time I had been ashore for a few weeks and I realised that things had been so busy onboard I hadn?t been outside for about two weeks (bar the Harbour fire exercise on Friday). It was good to get some proper fresh air though. I really miss the older ships where you were able to open your porthole to let the sea air in or the old open bridge wings. Saying that when it is blowing a whooly and tipping down with rain, the enclosed bridge wings are very pleasant.
It will be interesting to see what this week brings as FOST have put in hidden serials for the other ship?s, however they failed to warn us. So when signals started coming in for multiple replenishments tomorrow night we were somewhat surprised. I had a chat with the duty bods and they have agreed that it would be useful to keep the station tanker in the loop. Hopefully we should get a better heads up next time.
I am hoping that things should start to get easier from now on as we have an extra third mate onboard so the second mate will go daywork and be able to give me a hand. You never know I may even find time to sit down for fifteen minutes at lunchtime and read my book for a bit.
Well not a lot else to write about tonight and anyway we have got an early start tomorrow to get us out and back into areas for another week of FOSTing.
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