Hello! A week for my ages, it's been just delightful — helping hands on the boat, 30th birthday party on Saturday, the S&P is up, and the sun's been out. It started on Monday, like all correctly-indexed weeks do, with more panelling and my jet-lagged
Hello, and happy Summer! ☀️ (also happy duckling season.) With the mattress out of the way, job #1 on Monday was cleaning that mess. The room was covered with sanded foam particles that stick to you for their life, but no match for a vacuum. I could then add skirting boards,
Hello, and happy May 4th! Another work-heavy week, but PROGRESS. In 7 days I move back onboard, and today dropped off the mattress foam for covering. I am actually excited to sleep on there, not camping, for the first time in 3 years. Sure there won't be a
Hello! Happy Sunday :) This week I've had a lot of work work, the boat-funding kind, but I still broke ground on the saloon ("lounge", "living room"), starting with the ceiling battens: Followed by panelling, while ignoring my own advice about doing one thing at
Hello, and happy Easter! This week I finished the doors, and they're delightful: Wood for the rest of the boat also arrived, and kitchen design is underway! Then I got to fix the shower fittings... luckily the access was easy; I could take out a few bedroom panels
Hallo, happy Sunday! So the boat's been a mess for a while, but on Tuesday I had a big cleaning sesh with a helpful hand from mum — thank you! — and it is looking so much better. I forgot to take photos, but there is so much room for
— Beyoncé Hello, and happy April! Sometimes I think about what I’d do for work if everything went to shit with a demon cursing all computers and their programmers. Electrician is up there, and carpenter maybe. But tiler? Fuck no. Anyway the final wall tiles arrived on Saturday, and I
Hello! Happy Sunday :) This week I did start on the grouting, and dark grey on light tiles is a mess: I’ve since become more efficient, and it looks pretty! I imagined having the bathroom done this week — a bit more tiling, and the grouting, and some lights — but damn,
Hello! Happy Sunday. The expectations were indeed grout, but I did more tiling this week. Continuing the bathroom walls, and then on Thursday the concrete floor tiles arrived, all 170kg of them. Before starting on those, I stuck down a waterproof membrane and ordered some pizza. Also I fit the
Hello! So tiling is was great; the little section I did last Sunday was a first-time mess (I also didn't have a decent second trowel), but since then the monotony set in, and I'm looking forward to the end. But mostly done, and I love how
Hello! And happy Sunday. Those bathroom drains... eurgh, they were bugging me, and they leaked. They were also horribly inaccessible, and my brother's obsession with maintainability was ringing in my ears. These were anything but: completely sealed, and fragile. And I read Antifragile this week, so it'
Hello! And happy March :D First thing on the list this week, heating pipes: I found a better way to lay them this time, but they're still a pain. And then installing the drains: With some tests they do drain, mostly, but given the small tolerances I'
