So as most of you will have already heard – we are on our way home :-( Earlier than expected and without having attempted what we came to Folkestone to do, but we live to fight another day.

To say we were gutted when we spoke to the pilot yesterday is the understatement of the century but when he said none of the CSA pilots are even contemplating going out before next Thurs we knew there was no point hanging around any longer. We had only been in Folkestone for 2 days at that point and it felt like a week!!!!!! And that is not an exaggeration. The pilot said we were better off going home than hanging around driving ourselves mad waiting for a change in the weather that simply isn't going to come.

He is more confident of getting us across the next time. The tides are much smaller and he has a bigger window to work with. He says he has a 5-day window to get Team Trosc across. Once they make it over and a window opens up in the weather he is going to give us a call with 12 hours notice and we will hop on the next plane and make our way to Folkestone.

So it means back to training on Monday morning which will probably be the hardest thing seeing as we thought we would be all done when we got back to Ireland. I'm a bit worried about getting into the Irish Sea again – the Channel was positively balmy in comparison!!!!

Mr B. is refusing to blog – no surprises there but he has offered a few comments......

“I am looking forward to a dip in Skerries this evening and a nice home cooked meal.”

Mr B assures us all he will be bringing us vital piece of kit back to Folkestone in two weeks- his trusty Superquinn plastic bag. Who needs a kit bag when you have one of those :-)

No doubt there will be lots of questions over the next few days due to early arrival home but all we can say is that the circumstances conspired against us. We have to take positives from our trip and we feel like we will be ready to hit the ground running when we get the call next time!!!!

So I will have to ask you to keep your fingers crossed for another two weeks.

Thanks for all the support so far

A x

Friday night and unfortunately we wont be going anywhere tonight :-(

We met with pilot and the boat owner and the weather is not doing us any favours – gusts of force 5 to 7 mean tomorrow morning is definitely a no go. They have said they dont want to take us out if they think we arent going to make it so we are really hoping the weather will break and give us some chance. No boats are leaving from Dover either and seemingly there is a big back log waiting to go from there. But we will just have to wait and see. Next update with pilot is tomorrow lunch time but from our expert anlaysis of all the weather websites- its not looking hopeful. We will keep you updated.

We were all psyched up and ready to go today – went for a swim, had lunch, went for an afternoon nap, restocked the supplies and even had the big spag bol ready to go! Needless to say the spag bol didnt go to waste with this lot!!!!

We are currently playing a game of “sticky head” - dont ask but it is more than midly amusing especially when Ian is Maggie Thatcher ;-) Still havent figured out who I am though!

Plan for tomorrow is to swim in the morning and then wait and see what the pilot says – keep everything crossed.

Mr B is saving his blog until his has something juicy to write about!!!

Talk soon

A x

So Friday morning and Alan has his grumpy trousers on ........ again!!!! Only kidding all his trousers are grumpy trousers :-) The lifts woke him at 6 this morning and he wasnt a happy camper.

Dave had a conversation with the pilot and tomorrow morning 1.30am is looking like a possibility but we wont know for sure until this evening. Again keep everything crossed for us.

Breaking news – Mr B is going to write his first blog- will defo be worth a read!

Its bizarre when you look at the window it looks so calm and seemingly its Force 4 or 5. Sun is out too – might work on my tan ;-)

We are off to Dover now – chat later

Ax