It’s moving day today as we have used up our time on the pontoon and we are ready for a little cruise, even if it is just back to where we were on the two week moorings. We cruise out and moor up at the water point, fill up the tank on the boat and the water containers which we have started using for washing clothes.
I don’t know if I’ve explained before but here goes. We get hot water on the boat a couple of ways. When we are cruising as in using the engine for possibly an hour this will give us a full hot water tank or we can put the heating on which warms the tank up. Obviously on non-cruising days and hot days when we don’t want the heating on we don’t have hot water as we cannot choose to just have hot water or heating, it has to be both. We could run the engine but we don’t want to do that, not only does it use diesel but it also adds more hours to the engine. So, back in the day when Covid was in full force our boiler in the house broke so we were left without hot water or heating for 3 months. This is just indicative of the treatment received by companies nowadays that it took so long to fix! So we had Christmas and New Year and both had covid during this time! ((I hope there is a point to this)) Yes, so we had no hot water so Chris found a shower pump which is used for camping. This worked brilliantly and we now have it on the boat! So, to get hot water we just heat it up on the gas cooker and then transfer into a bucket which in is the shower and a lovely hot shower can be had! It’s one of the compromises of living on a boat, you have to come up with different ways of being as comfortable on land and this shower pump option really does make a difference. I’ve perfected a 40 second shower now! Eco-warrior here i come! lol
It’s on and off with showers of another kind today as the standard unstable summer weather looks set to stay, but we managed a few little walks and also pop out in the car for some shopping. It’s handy having the car but makes us much lazier as we would have had to go on the pushbikes. I will be glad when it’s sold and we don’t need to use it.
Day done, we enjoy a homemade pizza. Until tomorrow… x
C.L. Peache 