South Africa, Take Two

Saturday, 13 November 2021

Three Months

I got my first 3-monthly set of blood test results yesterday and I'm 'normal'. Bear in mind that the blood test only measures things like cell counts, liver function, etc and nobody but you and I really knows just how insane I am. For example, I am back on Anjea, currently 'on the hard', which is yachty-speak for being out of the water and propped up in a filthy, toxic boatyard with no plumbing, no cooling and a precarious access ladder that has to be negotiated umpteen times a day, usually with one had full of tools. The real mark of my abnormality is that I choose to live here like this when I could be staying at Rod and Michele's place over the river, sleeping in a real bed, with an endless supply of bath-tub gin to help me to sleep every night.