My evening was set to be relaxing. I found some cheap strawberries in a local shop to compliment my sausage roll and cheese (I wasn’t in a cooking mood). I planned on redesigning this site, just a quick job, but I wanted to spruce her up a bit to celebrate the 50,000 view way point.

I got back to the boatyard and was asked by two young lads if I had a land rover. “I wish” was my reply. It wasn’t long before I found out why they had asked this seemingly strange question…

That was well and truly stuck, and the clock was ticking aginst the fast approaching turn in the tide. I half thought, tough luck mate, but then quickly changed my mind. The lad was only young, and he car was about to be written off by salt water. I felt sorry for him, so I resigned to losing my peaceful evening, and got stuck in. I grabbed some wood from the boatyard and directed the guys to shove the planks under the wheels. It didn’t work, the road tires just span.

A long, muddy time later, it came to the last resort. A friendly mate of theirs got his Mrs’ 4×4 and risked it on the mud too.  6 lads pushing and a Pajero pulling finally got it off, and up the nearby slipway.

I’ve just had a wash under the yard hose pipe.

Oh well, web work time.