2 months

Or 8 weeks 5 days
or 61 days (42 at work)
or 1456 hours (depending when boarding takes place)
or 87360 minutes
or 5241600, 5241599, 5241598... seconds

not that I'm counting of course.

Buyer Collects

Well, according to my booking confirmation my Ship leaves on the 13th December. Friday 13th December. As it is now the 12th October I makes that 2 months 1 day and I'll be floating on the water.

Although I'm hearing stories that of the 2 engines the RMS has, one is not working, and briefly on the recent trip from Cape Town, neither was the other. Friday 13th doesn't sound too promising as a departure date.

However, my stuff has to be packed and in crates to leave on the 29th November, so packing now has a deadline, as does selling stuff as I need to know what I'm shipping by mid-Nov. On that score I've already sold a few things with interest in a few other bits, and I haven't even advertised properly yet. Worryingly of the near 1500 people who've looked at the blog page, over 1000 of them are in America. Perhaps I need to make it absolutely clear:

BUYER COLLECTS

Smiley Moon

Just been diving and there's a Smiley Moon out.

There's something nice about being warm and dry, especially having been cold and wet. There are 2 ways between the 2 states, either cold and dry or warm and wet. I definitely prefer Warm and Wet.

Rejection

Less than 36 hours after the closing date of 11pm on Sunday I've had my first response from a Job Application. Unsurprisingly, hearing that quickly, it was rejected. I can't say I'm surprised I didn't get the job - I wouldn't have taken my application any further as I can't get to a face to face interview. But it is a little disappointing as it did seem right up my street.

Hey ho.

So I'm Selling Stuff

Take a look at:
http://daves-stuff-4-sale.blogspot.com/

Buyer Collects!!!

Packing

Well, I've started thinking about packing. The way it's done here is that everything is packed into big wooden crates 4ft x 4ft x either 4,6 or 8ft.

Looking at how I brought my stuff out here, because I brought a car I had a container. Not taking a car back means I won't have a whole container, hence the wooden crates, I think. But half my stuff was packed into

with heavy stuff spread out, so that each crate weighed 15-25kg. Now I reckon I can get 8 of these plastic crates into a 4ft x 4ft x 4ft wooden crate. At 20kg each that maks 160kg, plus say 20kg for wooden crate =0.18Tonnes. I reckon I've got about 500kg in total (0.5T) which will probably go into 2-3 crates...

Assuming that they do as they say and deliver it to the door in the UK, how am I expected to move it? It's too big to go through the door. It's too heavy to lift.

I'm sure it makes sense for the shipping, it must do, it doesn't make sense any other way.

Get Rich Quick. Urm...

Ok, so the choice of car is taking a backseat while I work out other stuff. Also because I've sort of said I'll buy Robs Grey Mondeo.

When I decided I didn't want to stay on St Helena I had grand ideas about being self employed and living in a Caravan. Now it's becoming a reality I'm applying for jobs and looking at Flats... Doh.

The problem with being self employed is that you have to be good at something that other people will pay you for. Somewhere along the line the need for money has to take over.

• I thought about buying and selling stuff using Ebay or similar, but it seems far too easy to lose money.
• I thought about making stuff to sell. But every idea I have falls foul of mass produced stuff at much lower prices. And I can't sell the idea of Hand Made Craftsmanship, cause I no good at that type of thing.
• I looked into making money online doing various things. But it looks like you actually have to work very hard, or be very good, or be very lucky, or be able to programme.
• I've thought about trying to set up a touristy business with a cafe and campsite and shop and stuff. But it looks like hard work and I tooo lazy.

So the Get Rich Quick plan is out the window and I'm back to Get Rich Slow, which works, but invovles having a Job.