After a decent night's kip, we woke to a thoroughly unpleasant morning, weatherwise – cold, windy and wet. After breakfast, I nipped round to the Trading Post and got some kindling to light the Squirrel. I also extracted the EcoFan from its summer resting place, and we soon had the fire burning up.
The work on Cala is nearly finished, but it's inadvisable to light a stove inside the paint dock, to say the least, so we invited Peter and Gill in for a coffee and a warm.
Work then started on the jobs we've asked to be done; by the end of today, the thermostatic mixer valve was fitted under the bathroom washbasin, and the cracked fire cement raked out from the joints between the flue and the stove (which had been allowed to go out again) and replaced with black heat resistant silicone.
We've also had a discussion about an area of condensation that tends to form at one place under the dinette bench, mainly as a result of packing things too tightly into the space. A spacer bar will keep our bags and boxes off the wall, and we've promised to stop storing a spare pair of magnesium anodes under there (don't ask).
Apart from that, we've been pottering really, doing odd jobs on the internet and the like. The most important of these was making the donation from the charity auction to Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research – in the end, we raised £610, a very pleasing amount.
Tomorrow should see these jobs finished off, and we'll probably leave the dock on Friday, hopefully after an Ocado delivery has arrived.
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