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The delivery driver forgets our chips! Day 135

C.L. Peache

Monday 4th December Day 135

This morning consists of boat jobs as we wait for our food delivery to arrive and the snow has turned mostly to sludge with the pretty much constant rain. But the toilet required emptying, the bin taking out and coal needs to be bought. We are getting through quite a bit as we have the stove on 24/7 in these temperatures as still in the minus overnight.

Our delivery arrives and we move the shopping from the trays into the bags with the rain pouring down so we are not really paying attention and when we get back to the boat. We realise they haven’t left the frozen stuff! Trying to get in touch with Tesco is hard work, on the email where it says ‘do you have a problem with your order’ the number is incorrect so I tried the Whatsapp service instead. I did try and ring the driver but he was on his was to the next drop off.

Shopping unloaded we decide to brave a walk even though it is chucking it down with rain because it’s nice just to get out and have a walk. We walk past the boat services, over the bridge and to Shugborough estate. It’s a fab walk and as we are walking back the driver rings back and he meets us at the marina to drop off our very important freezer items ((Peachy means chips))

We thaw out and dry out in the afternoon as I treat myself to a bit of jigsawing at the dinette whilst uploading videos to create some more vlogs.

Day done. x

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Published by C.L. Peache

After living in various parts of the UK, including Wakefield, York, Derby, and the Yorkshire Dales, I now live on a Narrowboat cruising the canal network. I enjoy reading, writing, travelling, walking, kayaking, watching all forms of motorbike racing and socialising (networking). At the beginning of my writing journey, I started my blog which tracks the ups and downs of writing. ((I need to mention that my blog posts are usually visited by ‘Brackets’!)) To the books… My fantasy series, Festival of Time was completed with the publication of Book Three: Battle in November 2022 and now joins, Book Two: Rescue, and Book One: Escape. Click ‘books’ on my website to find out more and follow me on social media for updates – I love chatting with readers and authors. In 2021 I joined Saga Fiction and now have three stories published on their app; A Christmas Wish, Decisions, Decisions, and A night lost to the past. Power of Nature a thriller/mystery novel is available on eBook. Finding Love, is my latest romance/rom-com novel and is available as an eBook and paperback on Amazon. I’m part of a wonderful writing group based in Newark; The Fosseway Writers and have stories in various anthologies including; The Brinwade Chronicles, which is a collection of 28 Gothic stories by 13 writers. Burning Old School Ties, Blood, Sweat and Typewriters and our latest book, Writings on the Walls, Available on Amazon. In February 2019 I was lucky enough to travel to New Zealand. During my time exploring this wonderful part of the world I kept a journal and this became 187 Kilometres, turn left – which is a guide to our 43-day bucket list adventure. Available on Amazon. In December 2018; Game of Souls I published my first horror novella. Available on Amazon. Current projects: SagaFiction: Mystery/thriller novel based in Jersey I’m very excited to start rewriting my psychological series, which will hopefully be published in 2024!

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