This seemed fun at the time
Hello! Happy Sunday... :p It's been one of those "why the fuck am I on a boat" weeks (yes I'm excited to live on land), so honestly I haven't done much, besides work and hang out and ring church bells. Speaking of
Frozen showers
Hello! Happy Sunday :) So I ordered a bunch of gas fittings, and one of them the bulkhead fitting... I deliberated awhile on how best to pass a gas line through a bulkhead, as I found various opinions — join the pipe on either side with a compression fitting, run the pipe
Gas, copper and cold
Hello! And happy 2026 :D Last month I hinted that I'd move down to monthly updates, which I'll do at the end of this month instead. Until then, there's plumbing to do. I finally got my shit together and ordered copper pipe, as trying
Famous last words
Hello! Happy Sunday, and end of 2025. So I'm not getting a wind turbine, it wouldn't do shit; wind speeds around here are consistently meh. I'd need a mahoosive one, far bigger than I could put up — power scales with the area it sweeps
Sun-starting in winter
Hello, and happy shortest day of the year! The switch towards longer, warmer, lighter days is so very welcome. While away last week I ignored the "low balance" emails for marina shore power, and on Tuesday it eventually hit £0.00, but I didn't find out
Hopefully floating
Hello! Happy Sunday :) I'm writing this from a cosy sofa in a centrally-heated home, and I was in Denmark for most of the week, so I hope the boat's afloat but on Monday I did re-seal the chimney for the 3rd time. This time I did
Trains, tarps, and lights
Hello! Happy 2nd Sunday of Advent. And we're in for a mild December..? I got back home on Monday evening after a long day. Sleeping on a train was excellent except for maybe the thing which mattered most: sleeping. It was old and rickety, and unlike the rolling
From Germany with love
Hallo! Happy Sunday, and happy end of November. I am currently in Berlin, and boat? No, but on Tuesday I went to Evesham marina to move my neighbours boat from the river to the service dock for craning out. It's a wide beam, and after completely screwing up
Smoke signals
Hello! Happy Sunday :) The chimney had been leaking, a smoky gunge running down inside, from the silicone seal up above. I put it off because that meant letting it cure for a day, i.e. no heating. But I spent Wednesday away so I could reseal it, and since then
The wintery urge to hunker down
Hello! Happy Sunday :) It's been one of those weeks (the boat looks identical). On Monday I did empty the engine drip tray, which left me with a load of oily water to dispose of. It still needs a clean and wipe down, then I'll do an
Spin, rinse, repeat
Hello! Happy Sunday :) The stove, while working, moved. The old door with a new front isn't snug, and it requires a little shove. So on Monday I cleaned 3 brackets for bolting it down, picked up the lower door and painted the lot, including another coat on the
FIRE
Hello! And happy November :) The flue arrived on Monday, advertised at 125m overall diameter (OD) which I knew would be tight, but should fit. Anyways it arrived 125mm internal diameter (ID) with a 1.5mm wall. It in fact did not fit, but I tried. Alas. So I ordered the