It’s Friday afternoon, around five o’clock. We have been busy, today, getting rid of some more red paint, supervising Bill sealing two of our windows, and rebuilding the switch board (the new one with the name of the boat spelled right). I just started happy hour by opening a bottle of beer for me and … Read More →
Not only did I spent days in the engine room with Simon, I also spent over a week in there on my own, scraping of the red and off-white paint that Lawrance hates so much. I think the former owner wanted to turn the engine room into a traditional boatman’s cabin, hence the red paint. … Read More →
Who the f**k is Simon? He’s my saviour! I tucked him away near the bottom of the list, in my previous post. But he is very important to me. Remember my posts about the boat electrics (Secret worries of a novice boater)? Well, for the first time, since we have WRT, we can go cruising … Read More →
Yes, we’re still alive. But I have a small problem with time. As WRT revealed in her post, we’ve moved the house. And suddenly we find ourselves in the middle of the marina, so to speak. Literally, because we are in the middle of the entrance pond, and figuratively, because it’s here where it all … Read More →
Well, if I don’t write, THEY certainly won’t. They’re way too busy, Lawrance with army things, Facebook and doctor’s appointments, and Magda… Hm, Magda, yes, what shall I say? She’s doing fine (I think), and she certainly is DOING. “Doing what?”, you will ask. CROCHETING* (of all things)! It all started pretty innocent. She made … Read More →
No, I’m NOT on the green stuff, or drunk (yet), and there are no yellow submarines in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, as far as I know. And if there are, I sincerely hope they don’t have a small drill to drill holes in the bottom plate of narrowboats… Some time last week Lawrance said: Do … Read More →
Oh, I’m so happy! Can you imagine, I finally met my little sister! Altough little… she is 10 ft longer than I am. And she must have a different father, because she doesn’t look like me at all. I consider myself as (kind of) posh, she is more a working class girl. But we got … Read More →
No, not your lover, your chimney. And no, we didn’t lose our chimney, but Bill did. It was one of the many highlights of our stay in Salthouse Dock in Liverpool. Others were (in random order): the morris dance performance (with it’s huge audience), The Pump House, speaking Dutch, buying a clock and barometer, the … Read More →
It’s going to be a beautiful day. Although, at 8 o’clock in the morning it is still cold. Outside the boat and inside, because we let the fire go out. We’re waiting for the things to come. In this case, CRT-people, and more boats.The latter all arrive around half an hour later. One unknown boat, … Read More →
There is something that worries me. We have a starter battery that is in good condition. And our four domestic batteries are new. We’ve been on landline all the time, and all five batteries were fully charged when we left the marina (starter battery was 12.6V, the domestic batteries were 13.0V). They should get charged while cruising, but when … Read More →