Hail to the Hive!

When you immerse yourself in certain things such as work or sports or even a time consuming hobby, it’s very easy to lose yourself, lose your direction,lose your perspective. I believe this is what happened to me when I was managing the ‘A Team’ as I called them at the dive shop.

It grew busier and busier and consumed not just my time but the majority of my conscious attention and focus. I simply allowed it to ‘be’ more important to me than I should have but did not recognise this as I was so immersed in it.

Then this whole pandemic we find ourselves in slammed the breaks on everything. It all came to a shuddering halt. The forced sabbatical of lockdown suddenly removed 98% of all my workload and grounded me in my home with the one person I’d moved heaven and earth to be with and yet somehow found myself never with as I was always working. This proved to be a very positive thing on so many levels.

We found ourselves together again 24/7. She tried to show me yoga, we ate drank and relaxed together. It was great. My focus was shifting again. Well not shifting exactly more like I could see the larger vista.

I realised that this was an opportunity to change things drastically and better to act with a plan now than have to react later and try and formulate a plan.

I remembered that myself and @millycf1976 had once looked into living on a narrowboat and thought maybe this is the time to grab hold of that dream. Why not? Why not get back to living for us again?

I suggested this new plan ( well not new as it was an old plan) and Camille readily agreed.

So now 6 months after leaving the Philippines we find ourselves living 24/7 together in a very tiny narrowboat traveling, overcoming many obstacles but fundamentally we are properly together again.