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Groundhog boat DIY day… Day 221

C.L. Peache

Wednesday 28th February Day 221

Today we finish fitting the carpet trim in the lounge and it looks wonderful. We are really pleased with it and The Plot is looking very homely after all this work. ((Oh no. Not another tour of the boat coming to YouTube! Please no!)) Not much more of the new flooring left to fit and then horrible wooden flooring I don’t like will be completely covered! We always wanted the boat to look fresh and modern inside. After viewing many different boats when we were looking to buy this, some of them were so dark and boaty ((Erm!)) lol, I know it’s a boat but we wanted ours to be homely. Obviously, it still looks like a boat inside – we have port holes after all, but mostly we forget we are living on a boat when sitting inside and it’s decorated to our taste.

More painting is done in the shower room today. So hopefully only a couple more coats to cover this and then all the wood we want to paint will be finished as well. It really is such a massive transformation and a real big tick for the jobs we wanted to get done. You know when you sit chatting and say ‘imagine when this job is done or that’s all finished. Well we are nearly at that point.

Right, DIY waits for no-one… Day done. Until tomorrow. 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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