And back to painting.........

.....and then all stop.

So today saw me keen to get on with side two, well not keen but it has to be done. I started at 9am with the battery drill and wire brush attachments de-rusting, by 9:45 I was ready with the palm sander to finish prepping the first metre section, and disaster struck again, my generator would not start, after trying everything I could think of and failing it was a phonecall to Kipor, Richard explained how to check/purge and reprime the fuel line, no good, "ok give me a collection address and I'll sort it" mmmm..... "somewhere on the Oxford canal", after much discussion and with me deciding I would have to run the boat engine as a parting shot Richard suggest trying a new spark plug, more 'googling' and phone calls and I finally locate one in Banbury, so bike out, tyres pumped up, and off on a 20 minute each way ride, on the plus side I also picked up some milk! Little things can be a problem for the 'boater', anyway plug fitted it fired up first pull of the cord, by now almost 2pm, I managed to get 3 metres prepped before calling it a day.

Day 1's limited progress.

Thunderstorms due this evening, what will tomorrow bring I wonder, hopefully a passing painter will say "here, let me do that for you, go have a beer", but maybe not ;-)