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
My Theseun Stove
Hello! Happy Sunday, it's feckin' cold. On Monday I started tiling the hearth, mixed the adhesive and realised you can't score and snap slate... I broke one tile, then picked up a wet tile cutter (thanks mum!) and acquired a new diamond blade. On Tuesday
Sink & certify
Hello! Happy Sunday :) I got back to the boat late on Monday, and the next day was sink plumbing, connecting the tap and an inline water filter. It's a bit of a rube, and the u-bend is strictly unnecessary and the wrong way around, but I need it
Deadline tourism
Hello! Happy Sunday :) I am and have been in Budapest this weekend, which was a great mini deadline to get shit done. Monday I dropped off the stove for sand-blasting and bolted the worktops together, then on Tuesday sanded them down for oiling with a helping hand from the broski:
Sink mount salvation
Hello! Happy Sunday :) "I'll make sure it has the illusion of a straight cut" I said, about the sink cutout. That was a lie, and I spent a long ol' while sanding the edges to make it nice, which I could not. It was a
The illusion of straightness
Hello! It's reached that point of the year where I'm having cold showers to warm up; the difference between days with and without sunlight is huge. On the plus side they're excellent practice in surrendering to the present. The cold present... Anyway, you know