A thaw on the way

13th & 14th January

Yesterday was a dozy sort of day; we had neither of us slept particularly well the night before and the weather, although a shade less cold, was windy with snow blowing on the wind. We therefore spent the whole day indoors in a rather gloomy mood.

We need to do a thorough clean of the boat by next Tuesday, when Paul Smith from ABNB is coming to take photographs of her, so we made a start in the bedroom. We swept and washed and dusted until it was looking very bright and shiny. The challenge is to do all this without using huge amounts of water, of course, although we will be refilling the tank over the weekend.

In the afternoon, we cheered ourselves up by watching the DVD of The Colour of Magic, which was as entertaining as we had hoped it would be.

I also followed up Snowyowl’s suggestion that Magic Radio might provide a substitute for Wogan in the morning by finding the right channel on the DAB radio. We did indeed listen to it this morning, but it was a bit bright and bouncy for our taste, though nowhere near as bad as the dreadful Evans. It is actually the North West version so not the same as the one referred to by Snowyowl.

This did encourage me to hunt about for other options, and we’re going to try Smooth Radio tomorrow.

Today we had a very lazy start, and it was nine o’ clock before we were up and about. The slow thaw is continuing, and scheduled to speed up over the weekend. It means some wet and windy weather, but at least we will be able to boat about again.

It was the bathroom’s turn for cleaning today; the cunning plan is to do a room a day so that each gets a decent level of attention.

We tried watching the second disk which came with The Colour of Magic, but there is a problem with it and it will have to go back to the supplier.

A trip over to the other side of the canal to dump some rubbish showed that the road up to the boatyard is now quite passable. We’ve placed an Ocado order for delivery on Monday morning, by which time there should be no trouble at all over access.

Tomorrow will be our regular review of progress on Sanity Again, and we’ll go shopping in Poynton on Saturday morning, hopefully in the rain.