Thursday to Sunday 26 October Smelly diesel

this is one I filtered earlier

David spent all his waking time immersed in nasty, smelly diesel.  Somewhere recently (possibly Wakatobi) we picked up contaminated fuel which has blocked the fuel filters and caused the engine to stop running.  Alas the solution is to empty the fuel out of the tank and polish it by straining first through thick fabric and then regular filters, cleaning debris from the bottom of the tank by sluicing and emptying, sluicing and emptying.  Once the tank was deemed cleaned the freshly polished diesel could be returned.
He's been working without complaint on this problem for two weeks. Two weeks of sweating in the engine room and he's lost weight. It's like working in a sauna.
What have I been doing while our chief engineer works so hard?  Housekeeping duties, spring cleaning, working the vacuum cleaner to within a inch of it's last suck in,  multiple  laundry loads and delving to the bottom of every cupboard.  It's interesting what you discover.  For example we have two large bags of sushi rice (might have been on special offer), out of date cans, treats I'd forgotten about and, best of all, I found a favourite bra (thought to have been lost in a laundry long ago) lurking under the wet weather gear.  How did it get there?  Possibly when I was bringing laundry in it got dropped.
Amongst all this industry there has been time for breaks. On Friday many more boats from Sail Indonesia rally arrived and in the evening there was an Oktoberfest promotion at the Marina restaurant / bar complex where we had a reunion with old chums and enjoyed complimentary German beers, bar games and the less expected vision of Malayan girls and boys in traditional Tyrolean costume.
Saturday night we went out for dinner with Gary and Jackie (Inspirational Ladies) in JB and enjoyed some late night shopping mall wandering.
At close to 8 o'clock David has the engine room back together, cockpit tidied and is scrubbing with detergent to clear the malodour.   Being the good wifey I have G and T and dinner ready.