Busy Friday, quiet Saturday

4th & 5th December

We’ve had a busy day yesterday and a quieter day today. On Friday morning we tried a new order of events. Last week I’d planned to go and get the newspaper after we’d done our visit to inspect progress on Sanity Again, but we spent so long doing that that it was lunch time by the time we’d finished, and too late to get a paper. Sheila’s neat idea this week was that I should go and get the paper first and then she met me at the yard with my camera.

This worked well, as I was only ten minutes early at the rendezvous, which gave me ten minutes to stand on the towpath bridge and gloat over the prospect of the new boat.

I’ve given an account of that visit on the other blog and posted some more pictures on Flickr.

We didn’t take quite so long this time, so had time to get on with some housekeeping jobs before lunch. This boat work continued after lunch and with pauses for IT stuff and the like took up the rest of the afternoon. It included leaving the mooring to get water, diesel and a pump out, the latter two of which we seem to need about every fortnight at the moment.

Today we made a leisurely start on a rather better day, weather wise, than we’ve seen for a bit, although we’ve still been plagued by sudden showers. We had quite a lazy morning, frankly, but did go out for a walk in Lyme Park after lunch.

The forecast for tomorrow is pretty good as well, but less so for Monday when I have my next physio appointment in Marple. We may well boat part of the distance tomorrow, and overnight at Deer Farm Bend. Depending on the weather we may then go on to Bugsworth for Tuesday night. This could make for difficulties getting an internet connection on Monday, so don’t be surprised if my next post is a day late.