Still in limbo

Nothing is ever easy is it? I'm beginning to miss the 'simplicity' of travelling. You pick your destination, check the tides, check the weather, hope you've got it all right and away you go! (How quickly we forget eh?!). We have been in Brighton for over a week now. When we made the initial enquiry about staying we had to wait two days to speak to the Berthing Manager and the Duty Manager so we waited and spent two days in limbo still trying to decided if it was what we really wanted. When the day of reckoning came Martyn went to the office to see what the decision would be. We were really nervous about this, so much so that I chickened out and let Martyn speak to them. It turned out to be a sot of mini interview, which he passed and rightly so! They gave us the day to make our final decision and we returned the following day to sort out the payment details. Easy as..... Living on a boat is never very straightforward though and when it came to sorting out the finer details we hit a problem - we don't exist in any one place.... This is still to be sorted and we currently live in hope that it can be sorted out and that we don't have to move on! The weather has been lousy ever since we arrived so it is doubtful that we would have been able to make much progress North anyway.
In effect we are still in limbo. It's hard to make concrete plans when there is still a chance albeit a small one that we won't be able to stay. That being said we have made arrangements to head back to Hull next week and collect our cars. That should be journey worthy of a Top Gear series! A 1962 triumph Herald and a 10 year old Citroen Saxo from Hull to Brighton umm, best take an overnight bag!
When we have our cars we can start properly looking for work. it seems most of the jobs are out of town so transport is going to be essential. In the meantime we thought we would get Elephant Daze lifted out of the water so we could replace the anodes and paint the hull. We thought we were onto a winner with this one as the marina are offering a discount for lift out in August.... Until the travel lift broke.... They have, however promised to honour the price even though we won't be able to get lifted out until September! Everything just gets further and further away.
So settling in is taking some time and we are starting to go a little stir crazy. We can't even get out for a sail as it's just too windy. We like our new mooring though. We are tucked away at the Eastern side of the marina quite close to the sea wall. We have a lovely little fishing boat moored behind us, not quite as big as the one our friend has in Hull but we like the idea of being near it as it reminds us of him. We have an amazing view of the marina and the cliffs of Brighton so we can't really complain. I do still miss the travelling though. I'm really not sure about fitting 'normality' back into my life just yet. If what I've heard is true though living in Brighton should be anything but 'normal'! I live in hope!