Friday, 22 November 2013

A pleasant potter


Another rather broken night (that turkey’s got a lot to answer for) and another relaxed/slow/downright lazy start. The weather has taken a turn for the much much better, sunny and chilly with not much wind. With no need to go into the village, we took an extra walk round the marina after breakfast, calling in at the shop on the way back. Sheila’s run a washload and delivered some crochet to a neighbouring boat.

After lunch, I checked the pressure in the accumulator that’s just downstream of the water pump. As I suspected from the way the flow slowed right down through the water filter in the galley just before the pump cut in, it needed a bit more. It would be a simple task with the mini bike pump were it not for the need to lie on your side stuck under the well deck so as to be able to use both hands on the pump.

Once done, the flow was indeed much improved, so a result as Sally would say.

Having done that, we took a second walk round the marina; it’s getting colder if anything and it looks like we’ll have the same weather tomorrow. Son Graham is running in the 10 kilometre MoRun at Wollaton Park in the morning, so he’ll be glad of the coolth, I guess, especially with the wind drag of that moustache slowing him down.

:))

We’ve also given the interior of the boat a bit of a clean so’s she’s looking smart for the invasion tomorrow.

I promised a photo of the work going on on the peninsula; they’ve started pouring concrete in the base of the foundations for the piles that will support the boardwalk:


3 comments:

Adam said...

I thought for a moment that you were passing judgement on Grayson Perry.

Bruce in Sanity said...

Nice one! I know the limits of my competence, I hope, and modern art is well outside them (I just know what I like…)

Mind you, I find Perry's work more meaningful than many of the other YBAs'.

Cheers

Bruce

Anonymous said...

I know nothing about Grayson Perry's art but I thought he was a very good Reith Lecturer....

Sue, nb Indigo Dream