Two wet days

21st & 22nd November

A moist and misty morning arrived at the end of a broken night. I blame the cooking; of late, I’ve been stretching the dinosaur soup with extra veg, stock and chopped tomatoes, but the protein content must have dropped away rather. At any rate, in the early hours of the morning, Sheila and I were drinking glasses of milk in bed, and fairly promptly fell asleep afterwards. Memo to self – serve more meat.

Nocturne’s owners are due to take over the boat for her shake down cruise today (Thursday) so yesterday the yard was very busy giving her the final touches. Meantime, on Sanity, Sheila was progressing my new Guernsey to the point of finishing the second sleeve.

I spent the afternoon working on a document about sustainable funding for British Waterways. There’s to be yet another round of Defra cuts, as I commented in my last post, and the IWA are asking for input about better ways of achieving BW’s funding stream. I’ve sent it to IWA, and to Will Chapman of the Save Our Waterways campaign. I’ve put it up on the Sanity website for those who are interested.

Today was wet again. The Ecofan has been showing signs of age after three winters’ sterling service, so we’ve posted it off to Calfire to be refurbished.

Sheila finished sewing the sleeves on my Guernsey – it’s very smart indeed.

Both the restored TravelPower and our new DC pump out pump arrived this afternoon. The TravelPower will be reinstalled by me, but will have to wait till next week now – we’re off in the morning to spend the weekend with Graeme, Cathy and Daniel, celebrating Graeme’s 30th birthday.

The end of the afternoon saw us pulling Sanity out of the yard and back in again, to allow two of the other boats to be juggled round. Cala has gone into the paint dock, and Olivers Place came out.

There won’t be a blog post over the weekend – I’ll probably do a catch up on Tuesday.