Friday, 5th October. Well, here we are again, back home in Bradwell-on-Sea and getting stuck into opening the post, reminding ourselves of birthdays, retirements and anniversaries with cards that have been waiting on the mat for us. Looking through letters and e-mails, pottering in the garden and repairing our wood burner so that we can get it up and running before winter really sets in.

Before leaving the boat, on Wednesday I delved around on the internet and found a company that can collect the fridge on Thursday, palletise it and take it back to West Sussex for repair. Whew! Now we wait to see what the problem is and if it can be sorted out. When it is sorted out I can then spend another day on the boat putting it back into place and testing it out.

Wednesday evening we had a lovely meal with Harvey & Helen at The Griffin, a favourite of theirs (and now ours). Thursday morning saw us packing up the boat, last minute bits of painting and cleaning, loading the fridge on to the lorry and then setting off on the 3 hour drive home.

Thank you all for following this 'retirement' blog. We hope that you have shared some of our enjoyment of what has been the longest time away from home for us both. The blog will continue but probably not on a daily basis. Cheers me dears!