Still here.....

......but hopefully moving soon.

An update from Karl tells me he is not far away now but when he will actually arrive depends on the weather and how he feels about moving on; meanwhile I am keeping fairly busy, well as busy as I want to be given the weather.

Yesterday I was going to get the bike out and pop into Braunston for a few supplies but it was such a beautiful morning that I decided to walk it instead, it’s about an hour’s walk to the shops and it was very pleasant in the sunshine, arriving back at the boat about 12:45 I had some lunch and read the paper before deciding that now might be a good time to give the stove the spring clean that I had promised it after getting the necessary bits when I was at Middlewich in February.

So the first job was to clean out the ash and sweep the chimney, not the nicest of jobs but it needed doing. I then re-roped the door seal and rubbed down all the external surfaces reading for painting, by the time I had finished that it was 5pm so that workday was over, time to relax.

This morning I masked the area and the bits not wanting paint, as it was spray paint.

Then with doors and windows open, I set to spraying it all, I have never been very good at spraying having not done much, but it went quite well, and I am pleased with the result.

The new paint gives off smoke and fumes during the curing process so a couple of shorts burns is recommended before a final longer burn to finish it off, I will try that later if it’s not raining as you need doors and windows open for ventilation again.

The weather is still very unsettled, I’ve just had another little hailstone shower but I think the temperature is slowly climbing, I hope so!