Two Weeks In

It has been another busy week at my end and at Debbie's end. Little William seems to be getting worse with his sleeping habits so poor Debbie is getting little sleep. I got a little upset when I was home as everyone said 'It's all right for you, you can have a break when you go back to work'. In some ways this is true, as at least I get a full nights sleep and can escape occasionally. Whereas Debbie gets broken sleep and has no escape. I really hope little William starts to sleep better soon so that Debbie can get some sleep.

Well work is as stressful as ever but I am getting good at having a duel personality due to the gapped billets. I tend to do Ops in the morning from 6 to 12 and Navs in the afternoon from 1 - 6/7. The main thing is that things are really busy so time is going by quite quickly. Before we know it, it will be October and Little William will have his Christening on board. I really hope it goes as well as the one we had for Beth.

After a stressful week it was nice to see my Mum earlier, we met up at the Royal Oak which was a good ride from the ship, nice and flat so I managed to do 10 miles in about 40 minutes. Needless to say I had good suction for my first pint of cider. Anyway we had a good chinwag and a nice lunch, the Royal Oak in Havant / Hayling Island is well recommended.

Well just trying to work out what to do tomorrow, I know I will have to spend some time with the dreaded WECDIS, I am slowly getting used to it but it can be so frustrating at times. I tried to get some PI information from it during the week for my note book and managed to crash the system a number of times. Whats even more frustrating was I put in a route to check a distance and it threw a wobbly, for some reason the first leg, which was a mile long registered on the machine as 320 miles long. At times it can be good but part of me still misses paper charts. Gone are the days from a couple of years ago that you could pull out a chart that had the name of the chap that had drawn it in the 1800s.

I do miss home, Debbie and the little ones. At least when we are alongside I get to skype home so I get to see them all. Little Elizabeth always gives me a big smile and a wave when she sees me. She is getting good at playing peek a boo as well which is cute. Little William is usually crawling around the floor when I call. I am looking forward to getting home again, I know it won't be for a while but I can't wait all the same.