4th & 5th April
After a peaceful night at Poynton, we were awoken early by the racket of courting Canada geese. Moving Sanity Again to the water point, we refilled her tank and took the chance to pick up some bits and pieces from Sanity. Sheila had elected to steer, and had, I fear, a rather miserable time of it assailed by icy rain.
Nonetheless, it was great to be boating in the splendour of a new Braidbar, and we plodded steadily on to Gurnett Aqueduct. We got there in time for a latish lunch, having sustained ourselves with mugs of soup en route.
For once, we had no reason to trek into the town, and spent the afternoon playing with the boat, compiling the snagging list and marking with strips of masking tape the locations for things like a ring for the handtowel and the loo roll holder in the bathroom.
The new cooker continues to impress; it is genuinely like cooking on a domestic appliance; it's amazing the difference 5cm of width makes to the hob, and the oven is cavernous by boat standards.
Today we made a leisurely start, and set off at around half nine, on the familiar routine of going down to the winding hole at Lyme Green, then back tracking as far as Adlington, so from Lyme Green to Lyme View. Winding 70 foot at Lyme Green is not as easy as 60, but with the aid of the long shaft we got round. Fortunately the wind has not been as fierce as forecast.
We had originally planned to go on to Poynton this afternoon, but there's a lot of traffic about, and it's very pleasant here.
We've spent the afternoon pottering again, and will make an early start in the morning. It'll be a busy day tomorrow, briefing Peter on the work that needs doing to put the finishing touches to the boat, collecting the hire car from Enterprise, and driving across to Lincoln.
2 comments:
I am getting confused now,reading Sanity's blog about Sanity Again.
When you move in permanatly which one are you going to use?
Ah, right... Living in Sanity Again is about our life afloat, as it's always been, just we're now in a new boat; we are moved in, bar some stuff that I didn't want to move until after snagging, as it would have got in the way of the final work that will be done this next week.
Building Sanity Again is specifically about the process of designing, ordering and building a narrowboat, and will continue for just a little while longer whilst we do the snagging, and then will stop, though I'll leave it up as an archive.
Hope this clears up any confusion!
Cheers
Bruce
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