Fireplaces and Sailing boats

 

I am sitting in front of a warm fire thinking how I'd much prefer to be cuddled up with a real volume of the Lady of the Lake than writing this. Mama is busy texting away, she texts more than me now which is almost never--such a waste of time-- I keep telling her to use her thumb but she insists of holding the cellphone in one hand and typing with a finger of the other! Last night she spent a whole hour on one text! Well...

  The fire is dying down, 'Nathaniel put more wood on the fire!' That's my little brother (14). Yesterday he went for a sail on a real Americas cup boat and got to skipper it! He sails an optimist competitively and over Easter came fifth in the national camps. That's very well done out of 200 boats!

 That's the boat he sailed on. They are American boats don't know why he didn't go on a New Zealand one.

This is Nathaniel in his Optimist.

We are all very proud of him, he is in the worlds team now.