It's morning in the big brother boat

09:20UTC 09/08/07 43'43.3N 11.15.2W

and the shipmates are just stirring. Guy is on deck, watching for ships, of which there have been none all night. However, Guy is a 'ship magnet' and soon enough a small container ship appears on the horizon heading right for us. She alters course 6 miles out and saves us the trouble, passing half a mile away. Ahoy the Santa Maria Catana.

Owen is snoozing for a change. Nick is, also unusually, buried in some fixing, checking or other technical looking business to avoid having to do any of the real work on board like watch keeping, cooking or cleaning.

Amanda is today's music and drinks ferret, an easy task allocated a crew member the day after they have had the joy of being cleaning ferret for a day, doing all the washing up, sweeping through and argggh - cleaning the toilets. Amanda threw her mug of tea all over Owen at breakfast but was able to blame it on a roll of the boat. We suspect a mild domestic. There certainly was one after that event.

Ian comments that today we can mostly see sea. And he is preparing himself for a hard day's work, as his responsibility today is lunch.

Basil is drinking and swinging. What a life.

Strange things are happening on board the big brother boat. Ian is showing symptoms of mild hay fever. 150 miles from anything resembling a flower, and certainly not near anything that smells like one - the atmosphere on board is more intriguing than flowery. Owen appears to have been bitten by a mosquito. Whilst he does have an ability to attract the only mossy for miles around, this sounds a little extreme. Amanda has been seen to eat fruit at breakfast time for two days running. Commenting that in the Ward household, the kids have to have fruit before they are allowed breakfast, Owen suggest that as a good idea for Amanda, to be sharply reminded that he would have to get out of bed in time to oversee Amanda's breakfast....

tonight the shipmates get to nominate one of their fellow crew for eviction. Swimming practice is underway.

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