Folk reading this in the UK won't need telling, but we've had an early fall of snow; apparently the earliest it's been for a couple of decades. We'd anticipated it by making sure we had a further supply of grit and salt on the bow, so whilst I went to the Post Office to despatch some porthole doilies to one of Sheila's customers, and then on to the shop for a paper and bread, Sheila stayed home, sweeping the pontoon after which the guy from Lyra spread some grit.
Since then, we've largely stayed indoors, doing routine stuff on the net and the like. The forecast is for seven to ten days of this; we shall have to watch out for a break in the ice to nip over to the service pontoon for a pump out, perhaps when Odyssey comes back next Thursday.
If it's still all white tomorrow, I'll try and get some photos of it; meantime, big bowls of soup tonight!
3 comments:
Bruce,
For sure we need photos - need the fix somehow !
Nev
Ummm, not so sure about having supplies of grit and salt *on* the bow. That stuff is terribly corrosive even if you think it is safely contained within bags. I would hate to think of your paintwork looking rusty in the Spring.
Roger
Fair comment; that's why it's in a bag sitting on top of the coal box, but we will need to keep washing it off the deck when we come on board after walking in it.
All the best
Bruce
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