It’s 19.28pm now and I’ve just realised I’ve missed writing up my blog for the last 4 days so now I’m going back to try to remember what happened. ((Oh dear, oh dear… I bet the last few blogs have been even worst drivel than usual! I thought you spent all these hours doing this stuff! And actually Peachy only ended up writing this one as it’s now 10.43am on Monday 7th August)) mind blown. ((and she’d been flattening the dinette since 8.30am trying to catch up!)) In my defence it does take time to write these you know!
This morning we had a relaxed morning after a couple of drinks last night and I returned to bed with a coffee to finish reading my friend’s book The Tomato Runner – brilliant. Then we decided to top up the shopping and cycled off into Long Eaton again to see what we could plunder and pillage from Aldi – or should I say, pay for. It was a really lovely cycle ride through a farm – probably why there are so many bloody flies around here! Man alive the boat is filled with them. Although I’ve had to retract my belief that spiders don’t catch flies. It seems they do catch some of them but we would need Shelob and her family to take the ones on here! The joys of being near the river but they are better than the mozi’s!
Cycling through the farm brought back memories of back in the day when I used to be a nursery nurse/nanny/babysitter and I used to look after some children who lived on a proper working farm. The sounds and smells from the farm brought it all back. Does anyone else feel like something in their past was lived by someone else because it seems so long ago and now you feel like a totally different person? I suppose it’s a getting older thing. When you start taking about your past as decades ago you realise how old you’re getting!
Anyway, shopping returned to the boat we chill and watch some bike racing as people mooch past the boat on pushbikes and walking. ((I wonder if they realise an author is listening from the boat they are commenting on as they pass. Don’t be sharing your secrets on the canal path people it could end up in a book!))
We decide to visit the boating services and meet Arthur on the towpath and stand around chatting for a while. He’s made himself a new bed to fit on his boat and we try and pass on some of the limited knowledge we have learnt over the last year or so. It’s nice to try and help another boater.
Time for tea, catching up on the other Narrowboat YouTubers vlogs and then onto the dinette to update this. Tomorrow we are planning on catching the train back to Newark as we have a few things to sort out including selling the car which is the last object to go which will also help fund our trip. Let me know if you know anyone who is interested!
Until tomorrow… x
(just in case you need the link to my Narrowboat YouTube Channel… https://youtu.be/LZ3mrmDO6uA)
C.L. Peache 