OK put your glass down - you'll spill it laughing

I must begin this evenign with the absolutely hillarious latest update with BT. As you know, I now have a hotline to the Chairman's office for complaints. I have daily been hounding 'Lyndsey' with the problem in order to keep it on the boil. This morning, I got a text through at 4.00am from BT automated confirmation system confirming that an appointment has been made for 27th February - AM to activate my phone line. Of course, I won't be around in the morning on 27th but I thought I would let them turn up anyway just to waste a bit of their money and make a point! At around 4.15pm I got a phone call from Lyndsey saying that she was pleased to confirm my appointment is on the system for the afternon of 29th February?? I questioned the text message and she had no idea where that came from as there was no record of that date on the computer but she guaranteed it for the afternoon of 29th. On my way home I spoke tomy father who informed me that somehow she had managed to get his phone number and had rung him this morning and started telling him the details until he realised the call was meant for me. It gets worse......

This evening I got back to the boat only to discover that a BT engineer had turned up today with instructions to install and activate 49 phone lines!!!!!! Needless to say, noone knew anything about it and he was sent away with a flea in his ear - apparently very unhappy!!

So the latest confirmed and guaranteed appointment is that BT may or may not turn up at some point between 27th and 29th February, either in the morning or the afternoon to activate any number of phone lines between 1 and 49 - good, that's that sorted then!!

I have posted a few more pictures of the ongoing build of NB Clarence. I have to say she is begining to look like a splendid ship.

On the personal front - I'm ill! I have struggled over the last few days to get through each day sniffling, shivering and sneezing. I can hear the 'man flue' jokes already. I have to say though, it is bad enough now for me to have put a supply teacher on standby for tomorrow!