The water was still frozen
over on Monday morning so I decided to stay put at Flecknoe.
Over the weekend Karen made a wreath and wove
solar powered LED lights into it.
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Testing the wreath before hanging it outside
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I had had the lights
charging on the roof for about a week as the instructions had said that they
must be fully charged for at least 16 hours before using in order to have
maximum battery life. The wreath is now
hanging on the front of the boat outside our bedroom but we’ve yet to get a picture
of it. It does shine brightly at night and
it brings a smile to Karen’s face when we go to bed as she feels decorations
are homely and it shines into the bedroom as we have no curtains at the front.
Our current neighbour has
a really friendly cat; whenever it hears a car pull up at the bridge and park
it goes bounding down there to see if it’s its owner coming home from
work. It does mean I have to be very careful
leaving the boat with Buddy in case the cat is outside as he will probably try
and chase it. He doesn’t forget because
as soon as he is out his ears prick up and he stares down the towpath to the
neighbour’s boat hoping to see the cat.
Not sure if I’ve mentioned
it before but the new boat is so warm and snug compared to the old one. We did go up to the full 12tog duvet for a
couple of nights a few weeks ago but have gone back to the medium 9tog one
again, even in this colder spell. We sometimes
wake up with ice on the inside of the bedroom windows but we do shut the door
to keep the heat out and often have a window open.
The new boat is really
well insulated with spray foam whereas the old one had the odd bit of
polystyrene in the ceiling. We also have
the stove positioned centrally whereas before it was at the far end of the
boat. The other big impact is being 13
feet shorter – not so much area to keep warm.
I saw no one all day Monday
despite going for two long walks so suspect I talked aloud to myself and Buddy
rather a lot. I used to talk aloud to
myself at work and people just got used to it and ignore me – in fact, they
tended to ignore me when I spoke to them as they could use the excuse that they
thought I was talking to myself!
As it was Monday we went
off to our weekly bridge lesson at Stratford bridge club in the evening. Karen had been in Manchester so had done a
lot of driving so when she picked me up I took over driving. These sort of car journeys are quite funny if
you heard them from the outside as Karen is still in work mode and I am in ‘talk
inane stuff about my day’ mode. We end
up having two conversations for the first ten minutes or so before realising that
we are on totally different wavelengths.
We hadn’t realised that it
was the last lesson of the term so were pleasantly surprised when we walked into
the club to see the tables laid out with wine and nibbly bits.
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