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:
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
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
Hello, happy Sunday! I almost forgot about the boat today, I find myself in New Jersey seeing family this weekend, but I did make some progress on the kitchen! Firstly was to finish the end panels, cutting them to size and screwing them in. I started with the washing machine,
Hello! Happy Sunday :) I'm currently regretting not writing this as I went this week, it's time for bed. But! On Monday I went to help dad tape up part of his boat for insulating, and before leaving I finally re-filled the greaser for the stern tube:
Hello, and happy September! T'is getting cold... about that wood burner, but first I have a kitchen to fit. And thank god it didn't arrive on Monday, although something about work expanding to fit the time available for its completion — it arrived today, and I only
Hello! Happy Sunday :) It's Sunday. For a hot minute I forgot there's a boat to finish, I'm trying to remember what actually happened this week... I did reseal one of the kitchen windows, fixing the most egregious leak, but the rest of it I
Hello! I got back from Denmark late on Wednesday, after a lot of driving. En route we stopped by Ribe and the viking centre (turns out I need archery practice), and then Münster in Germany for a night. Seeing the cages on the church where the leaders of the Anabaptist
Hello! Happy Sunday :) I've been away from the boat all week, starting early on Monday with a 2-day trip to Denmark for their first international balloon fiesta. It's been glorious, and we were up and away on Wednesday evening for the first flight: On Thursday it
Hello! Happy Sunday :) After laying that smidge of underfloor heating last week, I needed to suss out the hearth area. I was looking for 20mm-thick slate hexagon tiles to put on top, and went to ChatGPT for a second opinion (it's fantastic for DIY). When I mentioned this,
Hello! Happy August, and happy post #100 :) On Monday I finished the trim in the port-side living area, then fitted the lighting coves and prepped for varnishing, which I started on Tuesday: That I finished on Wednesday, after which I could wire the sockets and fit the rest of the
Hello! Happy Sunday :) This week I varnished the starboard half of the lounge, and as hoped it changed the sound of the walls. Being quite thin pine, giving it a knock made its tongues rattle in the grooves of the next. It was tinny, and yeurgh. But with varnish, it
