Tuesday 12th January 2019



Brenda has been stacking her zzz’s in after weeks of broken and sleepless nights so, although we had a late start, the day was profitable and much was achieved. We had a Kiwi breakfast from left-over steak last night, steak and eggs.

We went into the town to upgrade our phones and sort out a better internet deal. We had thought this would take visits to all the phone shops but it turned out we got a good deal at the O2 place, the first one visited so we left it at that. Now all we have to do is connect it all up on the boat. Then went on to Argos to get Brenda’s late, very late Christmas present, a new Fit-Bit. Then returned to the boat for a coffee and to drop the dog off, then out again.

We visited IKEA. How unusual to find one actually in a city centre? IKEA of course, have some really good space saving ideas and we wanted to explore these. Amongst other things we bought a glass shelf for the bathroom and a matching towel rail to act as a safety rail for the shelf, stop things falling off when we do a Timothy West and ram things.

Then it was off to B&Qs again to investigate a shelf of the world. In just about all our houses we have had a narrow shelf running around, normally the dining room, where we display our knick-knacks from around the world and different holidays. We have brought these with us but haven’t, so far, had anywhere to display them. B&Qs didn’t have anything suitable, such a long wasted walk. On the way back we called into a Wickes and found some oak veneered ply that should do the job and some brackets that should do but will need modifying as the cabin side bulkheads slope inwards.

We were both glad to get back to the boat, Fit-Bit reckoned we had done 6¼ miles walking today. Brenda made soup while I put the shelf up in the bathroom, looks good and is another individual touch on the boat.








Weather: a foggy start to what became a nice spring day.






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