It’s been a wonderful day. I’ve properly enjoyed it. ((Have you finally been talked into having HRT or have you started on the rose wine??)) Nope, just a natural high. I was aching soooooooooo much last night and slept so well after it being non-stop but woke up feeling ready to get stuck into more boat jobs.
We ordered all the bits and bobs we need for the fire so there isn’t much else we can do with that at the moment so we turned our attention to painting the stern. Obviously, we had to contend with the odd shower right after we’d painted but if you waited for the perfect day it wouldn’t get done. A bit of sanding and primer and then the paint went on. Chris has spent so long looking for the perfect colour match for the Oxford Blue and finally he found that the right one from Wilko’s, so we bloomin hope they get a buyer for the company not only for the staff but it’s so typical when you find something which is perfect and then it goes out of stock or something happens! ((Me too, I mean none of us have got over good old Woolworths going!)) exactly Brackets!
Since the fire has been removed we have been going back and forth with whether we should change the tiles and in the end we decide to clean them up and keep them as they are but the wood on the ceiling is very very dry so we decide to sand and varnish that as well as painting the area where the brass ring fits at the top of the chimney. To do it properly it means taking the curtains down and moving everything but its worth it so the whole boat isn’t a mess! ((Well it certainly looked a mess!)) Yes, but at least everything wasn’t covered in dust and soot!
In between coats of paint and sanding I manage to get the vlog sorted and schedule some blog posts. We decide to have a little walk in the afternoon and get chatting to a guy who has an amazing boat – like a boat tank. What a thoroughly nice bloke, he’s been around the water all his life working on boats such as the QE2 and I think he said he’d been in merchant navy. He was so positive about the canal life and so happy for us and our new adventure.
I also take a break from the boat jobs when we spot a kingfisher eating a fish! The fish was massive and I think it deffo had eyes bigger than its belly. I managed to get a little bit on video but they are so fast and got some amazing picture which are over on my Instagram account and i added a short to YouTube if you want to have a look.
That was about it for the day. It was another full on day of jobs but so much has been achieved.
Until tomorrow… x
C.L. Peache 