A Fish Takes A Wanda

Well it's certainly been a busy half-term week for me, fish fans. Wriggling free of my base, I flapped up to the Waveney Inn to try my fin at the 'Gary-oke' and felt that my rendition of 'Like A Sturgeon' went down pretty well; sadly I was less successful at the quiz night, as there were very few questions for those of an aquatic bent, and the pool cues defeated me completely as my fishy parts all seem to be the wrong shape. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves though and I was sorry to leave, as I had to be up early to go to the 'Boat, Caravan and Outdoor Show' in Birmingham.

This was my first time away from Waveney River Centre and my journey was quite literally 'off the map', as mine only stretches as far as Geldeston. Although I had to sleep in the back of the truck, as the hotel apparently didn't allow pikies, I managed to spend a couple of days as an apprentice salesfish on a stand selling holiday lodges and I learned quite a lot. I've often wondered about those rather smart looking wooden lodge things which seem so popular with the customers and apparently, if you buy one, those nice girls in the office can hire it out for you when you don't want to use it yourself! According to a leaflet which I've memorised (thank goodness I'm a pike and not a goldfish), you can get a return of over 5.5% and still have plenty of time to use it yourself.

Anyway after just 2 days away (did you miss me?) I'm back on my slab now keeping an eye on things. I can see Ritch tiling away in the camp wash up area (why do they call it 'camp'? It looks straight enough to me...) and I believe that one or two of the lodges are about to experience the joy of Gary's paint brush. Meanwhile the other big steel thing has been getting some serious attention with the Awlgrip fairing system - can't wait to see it when they take the tent down - and apparently the office is so flat out with holiday bookings that I'm having my own phone extension down here to take messages. Fintastic!