{"id":4405,"date":"2010-12-11T12:21:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T12:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2017-07-22T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T13:33:30","slug":"day-146-are-we-nearly-there-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/expedition-updates\/day-146-are-we-nearly-there-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 146 : Are we nearly there yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

High point: somewhere over a rainbow<\/p>\n

Low point: rough seas<\/p>\n

Ping pong point: being beaten by the Super yet again, but not as badly as Steve, is a massive achievement I feel<\/p>\n

Last night we hit a 10 metre swell.\u00a0 Not being accustomed sailors, to us the Le Mans Express sounded like she was going to come apart at the seams.\u00a0 As she moaned and groaned the creaking noise was deafening.\u00a0 And on top of that our cabin had become part of some freaky rollercoaster ride.\u00a0 People pay good money to experience that \u2018scream if you want to go faster\u2019 feeling, so why wasn\u2019t I enjoying the cabin being tilted all angles and nearly failing out of bed every 2 minutes?\u00a0 Was this really how it was all going to end\u2026 in a tin can still only somewhere off the coast of Australia?\u00a0 Please no!<\/p>\n

It was light when the sea finally calmed down and we could get some zeds.\u00a0 As they say, worst things happen at sea.<\/p>\n

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Life on board the ship has become similar to the way Hugh Grant lives his life in the film \u2018About a Boy\u2019.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve not seen it, Hugh Grant\u2019s character doesn\u2019t have a job and so breaks his day up into units of time, 1 unit = making a cup of coffee, 5 units = going for a paper, and so on.\u00a0 If 1 unit = 2 minutes, we have about 450 units to get through in a day:<\/p>\n

– going to get a glass of water from the galley = 1 unit<\/p>\n

– breakfast, lunch and dinner = 25 units<\/p>\n

– walking around the ship = 2.5 units<\/p>\n

– general pointless chat and banter with the crew = 15 units<\/p>\n

– running laps of the ship = 15 units<\/p>\n

– reading = 60 units give or take<\/p>\n

– fire engine admin = 60 units<\/p>\n

– blogging, videos and photos = 30 units<\/p>\n

– I spy = 2 units<\/p>\n

You get the point.<\/p>\n

Amy<\/p>\n

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