Thursday 12 April 2012
This is why we love narrowboating!
6.30 this morning - what better sight to start the day, sitting on the stern drinking an early cup of tea and watching the mist roll over the Cut
She's arrived!
She’s arrived! A bonny bouncing 18 ton baby has arrived in the Ruddle household!
We went up to Debdale Wharf to pick her up last Saturday. The weather was miserable of course. We arrived a little early to find that she was not quite ready so went off to the local pub and had a drink to wet the baby’s head and then back to the yard to pick her up. We had decided not to try Foxton staircase straight away but to go to Market Harbourer to stock up with provisions and buy the necessary coat hooks and other bits we would need to add some finishing touches. The journey over went well considering I did it single handed as Sarah had the car to get to the marina.
We arose Sunday to find the weather not improved but eager to get our bits and pieces to start personalising the boat. To our great dismay nowhere was open. Easter Sunday seems to be the only day of the year now that supermarkets and DIY stores don’t open. So we had a day trying to familiarise ourselves with the boat, After some hours I eventually realised that the reason we didn’t have power to the 13 amp sockets which had nearly caused us to throw away a radio was that I hadn’t switched the inverter on. Ah! that also explained why the batteries were no longer fully charged!
Anyway on Monday we bought all our bits and I managed to fit some of them and then after an incredibly stormy night Tuesday dawned bright and clear and we made an early start to get back to Foxton where we have just had lunch at the Black House in Foxton village - highly recommended unlike the Waterside at Market Harbourer which was a terrible disappointment. When we had visited 2 years ago we had a super meal there but its apparently changed hands and we can definitely say give it a miss!
I’ve no internet connection at the time of writing this but it will go online as soon as I have together with the first photos of the newly painted Hodmadod. One thing that does happen with photographs some times is that the colour rendering is not accurate and you will see Hoddy in various shades of red none of which are entirely accurate. I’m reliably informed she is painted in a “stewed plumbs” colour
We went up to Debdale Wharf to pick her up last Saturday. The weather was miserable of course. We arrived a little early to find that she was not quite ready so went off to the local pub and had a drink to wet the baby’s head and then back to the yard to pick her up. We had decided not to try Foxton staircase straight away but to go to Market Harbourer to stock up with provisions and buy the necessary coat hooks and other bits we would need to add some finishing touches. The journey over went well considering I did it single handed as Sarah had the car to get to the marina.
We arose Sunday to find the weather not improved but eager to get our bits and pieces to start personalising the boat. To our great dismay nowhere was open. Easter Sunday seems to be the only day of the year now that supermarkets and DIY stores don’t open. So we had a day trying to familiarise ourselves with the boat, After some hours I eventually realised that the reason we didn’t have power to the 13 amp sockets which had nearly caused us to throw away a radio was that I hadn’t switched the inverter on. Ah! that also explained why the batteries were no longer fully charged!
Anyway on Monday we bought all our bits and I managed to fit some of them and then after an incredibly stormy night Tuesday dawned bright and clear and we made an early start to get back to Foxton where we have just had lunch at the Black House in Foxton village - highly recommended unlike the Waterside at Market Harbourer which was a terrible disappointment. When we had visited 2 years ago we had a super meal there but its apparently changed hands and we can definitely say give it a miss!
I’ve no internet connection at the time of writing this but it will go online as soon as I have together with the first photos of the newly painted Hodmadod. One thing that does happen with photographs some times is that the colour rendering is not accurate and you will see Hoddy in various shades of red none of which are entirely accurate. I’m reliably informed she is painted in a “stewed plumbs” colour
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