La Cigale - Day 13 - 1 Dec - Lucky for some!

Thanks Johnny for sending the rugby scores on for Harley, he was chuffed, if not surprised, with the All Blacks triumph over Wales! And thank you Sarah for flagging to me that Day13 is missing from the log! I am religiously posting every day, so if a day skips there is something missing! Hope the following posts made sense as they refer back to this one. Did the photo of the kids with the Advent calendar go missing in action too?! Well, I obviously jinxed Day 13 by calling it Lucky For Some! Here you go, second time lucky...

Catherine writes:
I woke Mummy up and we went upstairs to the cockpit, and I saw the Advent calendar. I was really excited because it has lots of pockets filled with sweets, but I had to wait for Francis and Isabelle to wake up. They took ages, so I helped them! At breakfast I had Country Crisp and then Mummy read us a story about an Advent calendar, a lamb that runs away and a little girl who follows*. Finally we could have our red sweet with white sugar on it. It was fizzy and yummy. Can I go now Mum...?!

*Jostein Gaarder's "The Christmas Mystery"

Lucy writes:
First day of Advent, and we're in a boat in the middle of the Atlantic, surrounded by blue skies and even bluer seas. I put on Michael Bublé at lunch... Harley's homemade humus was a much bigger hit!

Careful what you wish for. I mentioned missing circus yesterday and ending up spending the afternoon with a load tightwire. This one is actually a nylon fishing line that we are using to try and sew back together our second gennaker, to use it at night.

Taking it in turns, we are making painfully slow progress on 15 metres of fabric. "If only we could know for sure this would work" it was remarked, to which came the reply "Ah, but we'll carry on because there is nothing to say it won't work!" I read in Tom Cunliffe's Day Skippers manual recently that the sea bed is littered with optimists. Still, I think it says something for the human spirit that hope springs eternal!