Day 43 (1st August 2022)

 Wow, it is the first of August already. I left home on the 20th of June. It seems a very long time ago now. 

As pleasing as it is being on the Scilly Isles, today I have had this mounting feeling of dread that I won't be able to achieve Germinal CCXXIV completion (OK the Rockall cheat obviously doesn't count). I thought spending five days here would be more than enough, especially after our visit here in 2016.

Today we took a trip out to St.Martins Island as there was no boat heading out to the Western Isles. The last two days, the weather was to blame. Today, the sea was almost dew-pond still, so I felt particularly hard done by. However, St.Martins is one of the loveliest of the inhabited Scillies, has fantastic beaches and a pub that provides an alternative to fish and chips (regardless of how fresh the fish is). I had a soft-shelled crab burger, much to the horror of a child sitting on the next table.

The table on the other side had a miserable parent. I had fed some of the sparrows some bits of bread and almonds. The birds have a bravery seldom seen in our neck of the woods and soon loads of them were chirping away at the end of our table. 

When the child of miserable parent fed them some of his crumbs, he got a telling off; "Don't feed the birds, it will only encourage them!". It's not like sparrows are rats. This only encouraged me to give them even more, and soon they were eating nuts off the palm of my hand.

Plants here look like aliens 

I'm waffling. Fingers crossed for tomorrow, but I made the mistake of looking at the weather forecast and it isn't favourable. Guy keeps telling me not to get too despondent but I can't help myself! So close and yet so far...

Allons-y 

Douglas Germinal CCXXIV Brain over and out