Sunday 25th February Day 218
We decided we don’t like the tiles we bought for the shower room and the baking trays didn’t fit! You would believe how hard it is to find the baking trays to fit our boat oven. Anyway, we take the tiles back and it’s funny when they ask what my address is for the return and I say I don’t have one and then that leads to explaining I live on a boat. We manage to find some better ones and they are on sale for the bargain price of £3 and seeing into the future and they are now fitted they look great!
Having purchased everything we need and with the car going back tomorrow we decide to have a little tour to Iron Bridge and Bridgnorth. It’s a bit frustrating as the satnav keeps trying to send us on the motorway and we fancied a countryside cruise but we soon realise this is probably due to the floods everywhere and we have to turn about a couple of times. Certainly not attempting to cross a flood in a hire car!
Anyway, we manage to make it and stop to have our pre-prepared egg butties and crisps before heading back home as we have so many jobs to do we really need to crack on so we decide to get stuck into the sanding. ((Also bike racing has started again so they are watching that!)) Alright we might have watched it in between jobs!
Yet another week done and as I’ve said we were intending to leave next Friday but we have decided to stay a few extra days to get the boat finished as much as we can. We are so ready to cruise now but it’s a funny feeling being cast adrift again. I’ve mentioned before about how strange it is for the focus to return to ‘where do we empty the toilet/where can we get water/where can we get rid of the rubbish/where can we get shopping/do we have enough battery power to run the coffee machine. All these routines are back into the conversation of the day but the beauty and privilege of cruising the cut once again make these challenges and satisfied jobs to achieve.
I hope you’ve all had a lovely week. Until next week. x
C.L. Peache 