24 Days to Go

Time is certainly ticking by at the moment, we are already half way through July and my flight home is almost booked. It looks like I will finally escape around the 10^th August. Although I have been out here for six months I don’t really have much of a tan, the pleasures of locking myself in an Ops Room for the majority of the time. It is going to feel strange going home after all this time but it will be nice.

 

The sands of time really do seem to disappear more quickly year by year. Elizabeth had her first report this week from the nursery she goes to once a week.  It made really good reading and she seems to have settled in really well.  It does seem strange getting her first report and I really can’t believe she will be three in September. I am so pleased that I will be home for her Birthday.

 

Well it is starting to feel like the end of term this end. We finished our tasking on the big exercise today and have been now left to our own devices as we head a separate way to the rest of the ship’s.  It was nice being part of the task group and getting back to our core role. We were kept busy with lots of replenishments but in many ways I am pleased it is over I am one step closer to home.

 

I know the end is near as I have just finished writing my report. I must say I don’t really like these new performance report as it is never easy writing about ones self. I also doubt as to whether they are ever read as I know mine is eight pages long at present and that is before the Choff and Old Man put their comments on it. At least my bit is done so I can concentrate on my handover notes and getting things squared away for the hand over.

 

It will be good to get home and have some control over meals, the food is steadily going down hill as the food budget has been cut and the ship is in debt. There is even talk that we may loose the coffee boats in the future. I know times change and the government has to make savings but at the moment it all just seems take, take, take. Anyway once I am home I will relish being able to make fresh bread and pasta. I think I will have another go at making Ravioli, the pasta is the easy bit, I just need to make the inside bit less bland.

 

Well 24 days to go, not that I’m counting.