A visit to view

31st January & 1st February

We’ve had a very domestic couple of days, so there’s not a lot to tell. Yesterday we started by taking all the recycling down to the tip, and then gave the boat a thorough clean.

It couldn’t be quite as thorough as we liked; we had planned to wash the side of the boat, but we are frozen in again and didn’t want to waste the water. Apart from that, I have carried on with my newsletter design and Sheila with her crochet.

In the evening, I roasted a turkey crown; the cunning plan had been to use this as an excuse to cook the Christmas pudding we didn’t have at Christmas. The only thing is, the reason we didn’t have it then was because we were conserving water and it would have taken too much to steam it, and we are right back in that situation now.

Ho hum, we’ll just have to buy another turkey. We’ve got until April to eat the pudding, so at this rate, we could get through a lot of turkey.

Today, we started off by putting the final touches to making the boat look beautiful. Our visitors turned up in good time, which was nice, and we had a very pleasant visit. They have got some other boats to look at, but seemed very impressed with Sanity. In addition, they have a boat of their own to sell, so it may be a while before they can make us a serious offer, even if they decide to do so.

As may be imagined, we’ve had a quiet time for the rest of the day and are looking forward to an early night tonight.

Tomorrow, we’ve got an Ocado delivery arriving at lunchtime; by the look of things we’ll have to carry it back to the boat unless the ice disappears more quickly than we expect.