River travellers

I have a follower. I'm flattered someone out there has bothered to flag little ol' me. So I thought I'd better do an update.

1. I haven't taken Jane Morris out of the water. I felt we hadn't really had much time on the water this summer and if we were to get a nice, cold sunny day then we could play about on the river for a couple of hours.

That's the theory at the moment. The boat has no heating so we'll see how often we actually venture out.

2. The holding tank is ready to be installed. Everything has been delivered and the space for it is now clean. I still need to work out how to fix it down. I'll probably need to glass in a supporting brace or something. I'll sort it out next week.

3. I've been asked my opinion on river travellers and their nuisance value. I think there's two sorts and without wishing to categorise and stereotype there's: 1) the pain that has a large cruiser and takes up lots of space at popular moorings for the weekend and 2) the alternative lifestyle couple with an old narrowboat that's seems welded to some desolate bit of riverbank that no-one wants to moor at. So for me 1) is more of a problem than 2). In fact, I admire 2) and secretly wish I could do the same. More later when I read up about the issue.