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100 days in the boatyard, and finally we have a plan

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Looking east from Whangarei Heads Norsand Boatyard, Whangarei, New Zealand It's been a very long time since my last update.  Who knew that being in lockdown a boatyard with nothing to do and nowhere to go could make me so incredibly idle?  When I have a deadline I am fine, but without one, I am not one of life's completer-finishers.  Each day has been pretty similar to the one before around here.  Anything we don't manage today, we can have fairly safely leave until tomorrow.  And that is what I have done.  Until now.  This is it.  Enough.  It's time to share some news.  We are approaching 100 days in the boatyard, and we finally have a plan, and both of those are good reasons to force myself to sit down and write this until it is finished. Eloise and Angus on a weekend walk We came out of the water in early March for what we thought would be two weeks.  When we met our new neighbours, we couldn't work them out at all; on both sides of us were couples who had been l