British Virgin Islands

I was feeling particularly lazy this morning, not to add, blessed as Bazza had a town day planned and I was able to stay at Salt Island. I meandered, I thought about going back to to sleep, I brought my book out...but I kept on hearing water running. I looked a couple times, but did not see anything, and finally decided to look into the laundry bin!
This is not a good sight to see inside your boat!

This was shortly after Bazza went to town, so I phoned him in a panic (I use to have pathetic maintenance skills, since I have had Bazza in my life they are just non existent) He calmly asked me if it was salt or fresh and told me to turn off the water pump. DDDUUHHH. Then he told me the front bilge pump would pump it out, but the fuse went on that, and my non existent skills could not even tell you what a boat fuse looks like, never mind where it was, so it was back to the old "pump and dump" method!
This took several hours by the time I did this, cleaned up and sorted out all the soaking wet sheets and stuff in the bin.
So much for laziness! So, I went for a snorkel and a SCUBA dive instead! That took a couple hours, but no pictures yet, as they are still on the camera. When I got back and looked at the news I watched the economy going even more into meltdown and decided that it was time for an early night (after providing running commentary to my husband while they were dissecting the financial crisis on the evening news!)
This is our sunset tonight at Salt Island!

And for those who have been waiting for news on the latest court hearing on Beef Island that the VIEC brought a suit against the developers and government on, here is a bit from someone who was in the court room. I don't understand it all, but I assume some of you might!
The court reserved judgment which means it will be a few weeks or months before we get the ruling.
The defendants (AG and Developer) asserted that our case is statute barred because the Public Authorities Protection Act says 2.(a) the action, prosecution or proceeding shall not lie or be instituted unless it commenced within six months next after the act ... complained of.
In their view the word "action" should be interpreted to mean only when the action encompasses the two parties and that the plaintiff (our) approach to the courts to get permission to bring a claim for judicial review did not fall in the definition of action because although it involved a judicial decision and engaged the judicial system, the defendant had no notice of its commencement. The consequence being that our application did not stop the clock and our claim form filed a month later was irretrievably out of time.
The defendants went around in this circle a few times but that's the gist of it.
When Farara (for the Developer) started his presentation, the President interrupted and said that they had had time to read ALL the skeleton arguments and materials and they did not need an extended presentation, only highlight those points he wanted to make sure their attention was drawn to. The Judges then circulated an excerpt from the interpretation section of the Supreme Court Act which defined the words being challenged and asked some him pointed questions. Farara conceeded that the application for permission fell within the meaning of the word "proceeding" but refused to accept that "proceeding" could be subsumed in the meaning of action within s.2(a) of the Public Authorities Act.
The judges noted with some humour that Farara's assertion that applications for judicial review should be given a new file number from the Registry when they were approved to go forward was not the practice in any Caribbean jurisdiction in which they served.
The AG's office sent a new senior crown counsel. It was her first time before the court of appeal.
Our legal teams remains optimistic that the ruling will be in our favour. Mr. Hockman in his presentation agreed that our case would fall within the definitions circulated by the bench.

So, I really cannot put that in plain words, except maybe to say that no decision yet, and there is still many miles and trials to go!