Monday 15 th June 2020 So far, this year has been bad for pollen and my hayfever, which has been barely under control despite the normal medication, has been exceptionally bad. Last night I had a really bad sneezing fit followed by a bout of coughing which had left me, this morning, with pulled muscles on both sides of the rib cage. It was all I could do to move and even hurt to breath. My job list at Tracey’s is on hold. In the afternoon I managed a walk to Kings Lock Chandlery to ask about our roof flue collar. Steve reckons that an integral collar will not fit our flue pipe and that we have to remove one of the clamps on the pipe to allow for expansion. Makes sense, but it doesn’t seem as though the stove will be lit again until autumn to prove it stops popping the seal on the roof. I also called on Paul and Dawn at the Middlewich Narrowboat site to arrange for Paul to measure up for some jobs we want done. An extension to the TV unit, edging to the dinette table an...