Busy Sunday

After Sally's marathon effort yesterday, just a short blog today, as we've been very busy and are both pretty tired.

We started the day by pumping more black water out of the toilet tank; we did two runs with the two 5 gallon drums, so that gives us 20 gallons/ 90 litres of space, which should keep us going for a week at least.

Then we visited the farm shop to buy bread and milk, and retreated to the boat for lunch.

Afterwards, I designed and printed off the family Christmas cards, and printed out the calendars. The poor old printer was beginning to wheeze and complain by the end, but it was all finally done. The calendars need binding, but that can wait for another day.

I've also started work on the masthead for next year's IWA National Festival daily newsletter, filling in time whilst the printer was chugging its way through 6 x 13 A4 sheets of calendar. We've chosen a name (no, not telling – you'll have to wait for the event!) and I'll spend a while mocking up alternate designs so that Sheila can choose one.

Meantime, Sheila finished the research on the Canal Boat Christmas quiz, and ran a washload. We'd already solved most of the quiz in a joint effort, I've just checked it over one last time, and Sheila's emailed it to Nick Wall. I think this is the earliest we've submitted it, and we have a slight impression it's a touch easier this year.

If the weather holds, we're planning to do some walking in Cannock Chase tomorrow, after all this boat bound stuff today.