On the canal forums - well the Facebook 'friendly narrowboat forum' there is some horrible discord with all sorts of insults and criticisms of the perceived different types of boaters doing or being allowed to do different things. In reality it's not anyones 'fault' on how they are dealing with the restrictions, the government's focus on not allowing people to visit second homes ( C&RT are most probably on balance correct regarding leisure boaters boats as second homes) so they have been telling us leisure boaters to keep away from their (my) boats.
Today was the first day us leisure boaters could visit our boats but not to stay over.
I'm not joking when I woke up this morning it felt like Christmas and birthday all in one. I was at the boat for just before 11. First job was to check the inside of the boat and as I had hoped Percy had behaved. Just a few cobwebs.
It occurred to me I had not tried my new wiring out since I installed the new starter battery - remember this ....
I recon its been three months since Percy's donk was started so with some trepidation I gave the key a turn and the new battery spun the 3 litre donk up super quick and the engine did its suck squeeze bang blow all as it should - perfect.
The solar had been doing its thing and within 10 minutes the Victron was showing the alternator was putting in just over an amp meaning the batteries were well charged.
It was a naffing jungle when I arrived so I set to with the strimmer and mower to get some semblance of order. After an alfresco lunch the drone went up, first flight at the mooring.
Then it all went wrong as when stepping off the boat I went over on my ankle with a horrible scrunching noise !!
So it was a grab and go to drive home then off to the walk (or hobble) in centre where it was very quickly assessed and X-ray'd. Pleasingly just soft tissue damage meaning a couple of days rest then hopefully back to normal... ish.
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Oh dear Nev ... on such a long awaited visit too! Glad Percy was all tickity-boo though.
Those were my feelings also. Never mind, it'll soon repair and as someone once said " I'll be back"
Oh Nev, such a shame the day ended as it did. It was lovely to see you back on the mooring and to hear Percy's reassuring chug! I hope you are up and about soon. Lovely drone view by the way.
Thanks Mandy, hopefully we should be back for some gardening (Rachel) and fishing (me) over the next few days. Might even take a trip up the winding hole to get some of the green stuff off Percy's hull !
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