But we've not been able to do a fraction of the work we'd wanted to do. I'd like to do another cleaning of the cratch cover; green algae is a pain. I'd like to pack the channel through which our stove chimney passes through the roof. Pack it with rock-wool, that is. And the paintwork would be better-off with a washing, waxing and polishing. It'd be better-off if we could finish the touching-up we started ages ago.
Spending as much time on the UK's inland waterways as all the other stuff of life will allow us!
Monday, October 26, 2020
Just keeping up
But we've not been able to do a fraction of the work we'd wanted to do. I'd like to do another cleaning of the cratch cover; green algae is a pain. I'd like to pack the channel through which our stove chimney passes through the roof. Pack it with rock-wool, that is. And the paintwork would be better-off with a washing, waxing and polishing. It'd be better-off if we could finish the touching-up we started ages ago.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Awesome Autumn
We were very much in need of time away from the boat - I'd never expected to say that. Last week, we consulted the weather forecast for this week, debated the accuracy of the forecast, which has been pretty poor lately, decided we'd take the chance, and booked to visit Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire. Yesterday was the day.
We didn't go in the house. It wasn't open, but we've been in before anyway. This day, we just wanted the space, the fresh air and the autumnal beauty. And we got that in profusion.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Living in a ditch
Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Parallel universes
The theory of Parallel Universes (or alternative universes - the American Alternate Universes actually means "every other universe") is a theory to which I do not hold, great physicist as I am not. On the day the theory is proven, I shall eat my left foot, sock and shoe included. I shall, however, only do that in one of the other universes, not in this one.
But, scepticism aside, I've been thinking recently on this... In a parallel universe where the only difference from ours is that there is no coronavirus pandemic, what have we done, Grace and I? How much boating have we done? Where have we been? How badly sunburned did we get? (remember the heatwave, way back?) Did we get caught in flooding? How long did we spend moored up in unremitting wind and rain? (I'm sure you remember them.)
In this universe, we're already way past the amount of time we'd previously spent on a moored boat in one stretch. Our plans to go out regularly to touch up paintwork have come to nought because of the several Storms with Names, and today's forecast doesn't suggest that's going to change in the foreseeable ten days - though I have my doubts that any meteorologists can actually see that far ahead, computers or no computers.
Had it not been for the virus, we would have been out on the cut for several extended cruises by now. So we would have experienced all of that weather as proper boaters, not the berthed versions we are now. But, as I've said before, although there are many out there happily cruising, we've not been inclined to take the risk of contracting Covid whilst parked out in the wild and windy moorings of the Peak Forest Canal, say.
But I know; one man's wisdom is another man's wussiness. I'm not ashamed, 😀
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