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
Hello! Happy Sunday :) The sheets for this trapezoidal mattress arrived this week, and my mum's neighbour Bev did a stellar job adjusting them to shape. I was waiting for those before unpacking the bedding, and oh my god, it's everything you love about the sweet scent
Hello! And oh buoy, I'm writing this slightly hungover (oops), and spent a lot of this week either away, working or recovering. Still, the new window arrived on Monday, and on Wednesday I did the final deed: No more plastic, taped-up sheets! And it was nice to have
Hello, and happy July :) I remember boldly proclaiming that I probably wouldn't hit 100 posts, but here we are at 96 and the kitchen lead time is at least 4 weeks. Onwards! Monday was possibly the year's peak for solar energy (so far), and I got
Fuckin' hell, Dave, a giant Wotsit's just floated in! — my neighbour Brian, to Dave. Hello! Happy Sunday :) It took me a few days to recover, to not feel tired from non-stop sanding and painting, so besides a bit of wiring I happily enjoyed programming for most of
Hello! Happy Sunday :) Today I spent 7 hours helping some friends get their boat to Evesham, and I feel weathered, and raw. But it was a lovely day, and I only fell in the river once. Back to Monday — I did coat #3 of the orange after 4 hours of
Hello! Happy Sunday :) This week was re-painting Katona week, and on Wednesday I spent 6 hours trawling to the dry dock again. 4 of those I was thinking "Why the fuck did I get a boat?!", but it was beautiful — the Avon at its best — so instead I
Hello! Happy Sunday :) It's been a programming-and-get-ready-for-the-dry-dock kinda week, so on Tuesday I ordered gallons of orange paint. I can't wait. 😈 And in another instance of "Uhh have you considered doing it yourself?", I was looking at the deck thought yes, I should absolutely
I'm renaming Katona; see the end. Hello! Happy Sunday, happy June ☀️ Monday feels live forever ago, and I started by cutting, routing and sanding the final gunwale boards for the starboard side, followed by welding a big ol' bolt to the hull for the earth faults: One
Hello! On Monday I turned 30 and after a chaotic weekend, spent a few disorienting days catching up on sleep and wondering what to do next. I'd reached one North Star, and luckily the next was obvious: I'm leaving the marina on June 11th for a
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