Funny thing waking during the night thinking your feet are damp and then finding in the morning that the bed actually is a bit wet! Slight panic that the leak on the floor is now exacerbated by water coming in from the ceiling. Then to discover that as a result of using two hot water bottles to air the bed for the first time last night, one of them is now empty!! So relief that we know the cause of the wet but a challenge to work out how to dry out the mattress sufficiently!
A wet day so such a lot of mud on the towpaths. We have slightly moved the boat to the end of a cul-de-sac so that we don’t have to use the towpath unnecessarily. Having collected a bag of laundry from a service laundrette around the corner we then headed into town with the wet sheet and more laundry to the coin operated laundrette. As is normal (for us!) R has in his backpack a saw so he puts this to good use as we are waiting for the laundry to wash and dry. Then we move on to the Waitrose carpark where he finds more wood to chop. Not wanting to miss an opportunity, I turn my back on the shoppers (not wanting to see the expression on their faces!) and do a 10 min Joe Wicks workout whilst R busily saws. Laden with too much wood and laundry to allow us to shop we return to the boat. Then later in the afternoon we go and do a Waitrose shop, choosing there for the free newspaper that we can subsequently use to soak up more floor water! At least R is getting his fair share of walking. Having been told he needs to walk alot, it is like saying how long is a piece of string. The poor man is being walked at least twice a day, like a dog! If we were at home we would naturally walk quite a bit just around the house but there is only so much walking you can do on a narrowboat!
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Do you have an open fire? Which I guess is why you need the wood?
There’s a wood/coal burning stove and diesel central heating.
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