What was that strange light in the sky?
Oh yes, I remember. It’s the sun!
The joke used to be “what do you get after two days of rain in Sydney?” Answer – Monday! Today, Saturday, as I started this post the situation was reversed and after what seemd like three weeks of rain the sun finally burnt a hole in the cloud cover and patches of blue showed up. Big patches, some of them. This can’t be true, I thought; someone has booked a tinny for the morning, it is not raining, and it is not low tide! This last point reflects the apparent habit of the general public to wait until the lowest possible tide before venturing out in one of our tinnies. Whilst this is not an insurmountable problem, it does usually mean I have to get my feet wet to drag the boat over the last half metre of river sand and mud between the slip and the deeper water. It also means there is less water between the propellor and that abrasive stuff on the riverbed. Regular readers will remember that I have commented on the effects of this elsewhere on this site.
As is usually the case, I didn’t finish the blog in one sitting (fortunately, some customers interrupted me 
) and by the time I got back to it the sun had lost its battle with the lower atmosphere. Yes, it was raining again. At least we have plenty of boats on hand in case it continues, and I’m taking booking applications from all creatures great and small (in twos, please).