So, here I am at home. The bloody boiler is broken so there's no hot water or heating :(
The repairman isn't coming til tomorrow.....
And its pouring down with rain.
At least the cats are pleased to see me!

Mike is all ready to depart but unfortunately the wind in the Canaries has gone south at 20 knots today so he decided to delay his departure til the morning.

He has his satphone with him for the trip so he can update me daily (at great expense) but did you know that you can also send SMS messages to satphones via email - free of charge! Yep you can.
So, anyone who wants to offer words of encouragement to Mike along the way please go to www.iridium.com and click on the 'send satellite message' tab (top right). This opens a form in which you can enter up to 160 characters of text and send it off to his phone - at no charge!! (and no limit to the number of messages you can send)
The satphone number is 8816 31589462 (you need to put this in to send the text message)