January Sunshine.

Henry in the sunshine on a January afternoon., originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

'To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring'
W.J.Vogel.
A bright afternoon in the middle of last January gave me the opportunity to take this picture of Henry basking in the sun. If I had taken my camera out of the car yesterday when I was at the marina, I could have either taken a photograph of the rain, or a puddle or possibly the rain falling on a puddle.
Which made the day less than perfect for the job I had to do yesterday. Which was...
Taking all of my personal gear off Henry.
Because I am selling her.
We have been offered a rather splendid seasonal pitch for our caravan at the marina, so rather than have a boat with four beds that we never sleep in, and a caravan that gives me backache, we are going to have a dayboat and the biggest and most comfortable caravan we can find.
Henry will be sold by the brokerage at http://www.bridgehousemarina.co.uk/ and the new owner will be able to take over both the mooring in the marina and this blog if they wish.
I did consider calling my new boat (which is an Orkney Longliner) 'Norman', so I could legitimately continue writing a blog called 'norman23', but in the end I decided against that, and I have called the Longliner 'Shrimp' after Henry Blogg's successor as coxswain of the Cromer lifeboat, Henry 'Shrimp' Davies.
I will shortly be launching a new blog at ' www.boatviews.co.uk '. But not until Henry is sold.
There is such a thing as a 'decent interval'.
And no, I haven't got a clue who W.J.Vogel is. I found him in quotepedia.