Its grim in Grimsby

Yay, here we are still in Grimsby, and we will probably be here until the end of the weekend at least. Out all new ship rides the waves like a beached whale and badly currupts the dats; meaning we can't work in anything other than an almost flat calm. Oh well.

At least the ship is comfortable enough, and the crew really good. Sadly, the food has been awful, and it took a week of badgering for there to be a choice at mealtimes, and then fruit and other snacks outside those times. Honestly, it felt like being on hard tack at times. I even went to tescos to get some oranges and bran flakes to keep the hunger pangs at bay, as no food was left out for the night shift, and we had to wait seven hours until breakfast to have anything.

Unless you count a Pot Noodle, which isn't really food is it?

There is another one of our ships in port, and on Sunday night we met up at a rock bar for a few late night cold beers. What they didn't tell us was that it was run by the local biker gang, The Warlocks, and was rough as anything. But, they seemed happy enough with us being there, and the beer was cheap enough. Music was by a Jimi Hendrix soundalike band; didn't catch the name, but they were quite good. The rockin' Baby Boomers seemed to like it.

Grimsby has fallen on hard times; the fishing industry has all but closed, and so the fish dock area of town are in a terrible state. Many warehouses have preservation orders on them, but there is little money to do them up, so time is slowly breaking them down as they become derilict. It is sad to see what was once, quite clearly, a vibrant and properous town fall on such hard times, and once streets full of shops and merchants now appealing to the lowest common denominators; cheap beer and prositution; and then theres the drugs.

So, I have found the library in which to run to in the afternoons, before finding some of the crew for a sociable drink before heading back to the ship. What amazes me is that although we're in port, technically we're at sea, and getting paid as such. Musn't grumble.