A week sailing

I did something a little bit brave, and signed myself up for a week-long sailing course - 5 nights on a sailing boat, staying in a different marina every night. Now this would be ideal in the middle of the British Summer but it was end November/beginning of December, and we actually had gale-force winds for the first three days! Plus it was very cold, and there's no heating on a wooden boat, so you're relying on plug-in heaters, which of course aren't on when you first wake up in the morning! Brrr.

From what I've been through, this week was good for two reasons: one, my days were spent thinking about how to survive the next wave/avoid being washed overboard/not getting whacked on the head by the boom, instead of torturing myself about dead babies and about others having seemly perfect pregnancies with perfectly healthy babies at the end (mainly the SIL). And second, I was so exhausted by the end of the day that i went to sleep as soon as my head hit the pillow, even though I was in a minute, cramped space in the bow of the boat. These days I find it very hard to sleep as my head is swimming with unpleasant thoughts, or once I'm asleep, I wake between 3am-5am, again with these poisonous thoughts swimming around, and as a result I'm always very tired.

Anyway, here are some of my favourite photos from that week: