3rd & 4th October
There's not a whole lot to tell about this weekend; we've stayed on the mooring, doing this and that and generally settling in. I don't want this blog to turn into a rather boring "got up, ate breakfast, went and bought a paper" sort of thing, so we'll just take all that stuff for granted.
We spent some time yesterday morning getting the roof tidied up, and we've finished that process today. This involved lifting down the pallet which we fished out of the cut the other day. Sheila sawed it up whilst I started the engine and ran it alternately in forward and reverse gears, thereby blasting away a good chunk of the silt from between the boat and the concrete edge.
This was successful in so far as it's now possible to get the stern almost right up to the edge, but the bow is still a couple of feet out. I'd only just finished doing this, and had been poking around with the long shaft establishing that it is all just silt, when Iain Bryceland turned up. Despite his broken collar bone, he plans to dredge out the mooring sometime in the next week or so, so I probably needn't have bothered, but it was fun anyway.
Today, Sheila finished sawing up the pallet, and we got the big tarpaulin out and used it to make a large roof parcel of the bags of fuel which we bought from Stuart Hooper the other day. We didn't try to do this yesterday as the strong winds would probably have taken us and the tarpaulin off the roof, over the newly trimmed hedge and into the field beyond.
It has indeed been a much better day today although still plagued by short heavy showers and we've seen good intervals of sun from time to time. We've taken it in turns to get walks in, so we're reasonably well exercised as well as quite relaxed.
The rest of the time has been spent catching up with this and that on the computer, answering e-mails and generally tidying things up. I cooked chicken risotto last night, and beef curry tonight.
There'll be more of the same tomorrow; I'm going to try and get the main web site sorted in anticipation of having pictures to post once the shell has arrived, but that will be stuff to talk about on the other blog I guess.
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I am glad you are settling in well. I have learnt (or not) how easy it is to get in to a tight berth in a marina.
I also had lots of "firsts" this weekend:
First time I had steered a boat on a canal (until now it has all been on rivers).
First time I had steered a narrowboat (widebeams only previously).
First time I had to rescue a sheep from the water! I think it was Purple Fairy's first time at that as well.
There was lots of kindling available from the hedge (re)laying we were working at Foxton on the approach to the inclined plain.
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