One Week In

Well back at sea, well alongside and it seems a while since I last did my blog. It has been a hard first week as I really have missed Debbie and the little ones.

I did have a good leave though, a month longer than I thought, but it still went to quickly. Little ones are really hard work and it surprising how quickly you become immune to being covered in baby puke from dawn to dusk. At least whilst I was home I got to see William start crawling. He is getting quite fast now.

During my last couple of weeks at home me and William even had a blokes night out down the pub, which was nice. However I couldn't persuade him to give me a game of pool as he was more interested in sitting on the bar pulling at the beer mats and oogling my pint of Rattlers. Mind you I am crap at pool so he would have probably beaten me anyway.

Little Elizabeth was her usual cheery self and she now has a craving for hats and Teddies. Wherever we went we had to make sure all three went with us.

The only thing is she has two teddies that are the same size as her and she tends to drop them so they get run over by the push chair.

The only shame about my leave was that Debbie didn't really get much of a break if any as little William woke us up virtually every night, so we were both knackered most of the time. Ontop of which every time we got ready to go out he would throw up on us and then giggle.

Anyway the day finally came and I had to come back to work and as always I joined a ship where there was two people doing the Navigators and Ops jobs and then they both paid off so as always I am doing both. It's not to bad though as we are alongside for a bit so I have time to get my feet under the table and get my head around everything before we sail. Once again stuck on the coast so no foreign port visits, well unless you class Scotland as a foreign country, after all it is North of the North. I do however have something to look forward to part way through as we are going to get William christened onboard (all being well). It will be nice to do it on here as this is the ship where I first met Debbie (although we didn't start going out until after we had left the ship.)

I always hate the first couple of weeks onboard as I get really home sick and spend it worrying about staying on top of the job and worrying how Debbie is and how she is coping with two little ones. At least being on the coast I can Skype home and get to see all three of them.

Thankfully Debbie persuaded me to bring my bike back with me so I do have an escape from the ship and after all the exercise bike in the gym can get a bit dull. Last weekend I did quite well as I cycled to Chichester and back, a total of 42miles and then the next day I did a further 20. My next challenge is to do over 50miles in one day, which down here should not be that hard as there are no real hills.

Well I suppose I have wittered on enough for one day, so until next time bye, bye.