Thread: Christmas 2009 - happy 2010

Originally Posted by StephenR

He, he! My first NYRes the same as yours. I`m currently sitting at the beach house watching the rain chucking it down - wettest New year here for ages - 36 hours of non-stop rain and the whole of Brazil seems to be washing away. Some really nasty landslides with people ( and not just the poor shanty dwellers) losing their lives. This house is at the top of a steep hill so I am nervously checking that the drainage is OK.... Last week was gorgeous though, and there was a great big classic wooden (topsail I think) schooner out in the channel making the most of the wind. Determined to find out name & designer as wooden craft of that size a rare sight round here.
Dying to get back to my sanding, epoxying, (the grit your teeth and get on with it stuff) and the much more fun part of measuring, cutting and planing to size - which sometimes actually goes to plan - and make some solid progress so I can get the GIS on the water this year.

A Happy and hopefully drier New Year to GIS builders everywhere.

Steve

Hi Steve

The plight of the Brazilians made our news this evening and we saw horrible footage of the landslides.

According to our most notable long range weather forecaster, we too are in for a very wet time for the remainder of summer. Quite a contrast to the dry weather we had until Christmas. My lawn (? hahahaha) that I thought was dead, has sprung to life and I swear I can hear it growing.