Getting into trouble in Ely and our diesel is stolen

I just want to leave here, I am getting upset what with one thing and another.

The gearbox is back and it was fitted in today, and while it was being tested the engine went fut fut futtttttt.. and it died.. oil was now leaking from the engine and there was a smell of overheating.. this was getting unbelievable.. what now has gone wrong with No Problem's engine..

It was quite sometime before it was realised that no diesel was coming from our diesel tank, and Vic dipped the tank to find not one drop in there.. empty, dry, nothing.. just a tank of air...

In my head I quickly calculated that there should be at the very least over 100 litres in that tank.. and grabbing the log books it looks like something between 125 and 140 litres of diesel is missing from our tank... that is a lot of money, and vey upsetting. I have been monitoring our engine usage for quite a few weeks now and just running the engine the least amount of hours needed to charge our batteries.. so you can see why I am plain fed up.

It hasn't necessarily gone from Ely, it could have been taken at any time since our last fill up at Oundle.. we don't have a fuel gauge like a car does.. us narrowboaters always seem to know how many litres an hour our boats need.. when filling up, I am usually within 10 litres of knowing how much we need for a full fill.

There is still some oil leaking from the gearbox this evening, so we will have a good look at that in the morning before filling with yet more diesel.. we did put some kind of security on our fuel tank cap about 3 weeks ago, but now we are going to do more to try to deter these thiefs.

I have been told off tonight by email for bragging about overstaying in Ely for 23 days and seemingly encouraging others to do the same!. A bit of a shocking email for me and on top of everything else I have found the email very upsetting.. as what I have been accused of is just totally untrue, unjust and unfair. Plus I have been given warnings about my future behaviour when mooring.

I don't want to be here in Ely.