Handrails finished

With the weather scheduled to deteriorate, we had a bit of boat shuffling to do this morning, so at seven o'clock we were out there moving Islay, the hire boat. By eight, Johnny was hard at work on our handrails, which are now bright and shiny again.

The Ocado delivery turned up at half eleven, by which time Sheila's hair had been extensively restyled by Bill from New Dawn (he used to be a professional hairdresser, and clearly has lost none of his old skills). Things were generally booming around the site; Dolce Far Niente is very, very nearly ready for her handover; it's great to see the excitement building as another Braidbar (number 131) is getting ready to leave.

I gather from a comment on yesterday's blog that Steve Haywood has made some reference to the IWA Festival business in his latest Canal Boat column; I'm not sure whether to be pleased or sorry about that, I was just about getting to the point of letting it go and forgetting about it. Hey ho, there are issues to be addressed, it's just distressing that people get so upset about the need to talk about them.

Meanwhile, we will be leaving the paint dock and moving out onto the Deeps for a few days; hopefully this bad weather will have blown through by the time we need to put the marquee up for the Open Day.