Just a bit more......

........painting.

Not a lot happening at the moment I left the painting I had done for a few days to harden and yesterday I did the other horizontal shelf.

Before

Another bit done

The hot water tank has to come out to complete this section but until I know a bit more about the plumbing on the boat and I am somewhere where I can refill easily it’s staying as it is.
When the weather warms up a bit and the bilge can be dried out I will finish the vertical sections and bilge floor, I can’t wait.

So I have been here at Bulls Bridge now for about 12 nights and I think it’s time to move on, I was struggling with making a decision about whether to go down the Paddington Arm or not but because of the winter moorings taking up so many of the visitor moorings I have decided to give that a miss, I will be back no doubt at sometime in the future to have a look, I think I will have a pootle along the Slough Arm and see what it’s like along there, it’s only about an hour’s cruise to reach it and the arm itself is only about five miles long so if it’s no good for an overnight I can easily come back out onto the main line again.

I have read good and bad about this Arm, most of the bad seems to relate to a few years ago, my “Pearson’s” canal companion refers to it as “One of the Great Little Canal Journeys of the World” Really? I think that’s reason enough to have a look.

So depending on the weather in the morning I will fill my water tank and set off, it’ll be good to get moving again and take some pictures that are not of paint.