I hate October

Its official, I hate October. The weather turns, the mornings are dark, the evenings are dark, the heating gets turned on signifying the start of the expensive gas bills and Naughty-Cal does her level best to bankrupt us bleeding our bank balance dry.

With our mooring fees, British Waterways licence fees, insurance premiums and this year our boat safety scheme test all falling within the same month it is to put it politely a crap month. On top of that little lot this year October has five weekends before pay day. Does it get any worse?

It is not as if we can even get much cruising in during October. The weather is hit and miss, the wind is often wild and the colder weather often puts off our cruising companions from joining us. All in all October is rubbish and this wet, miserable, damp, rainy weather we are currently experiencing is doing nothing to raise the spirits at all. Our superb sunny summer holidays seem a million miles away from right here, right now in miserable cold South Yorkshire.

I hate October!