It’s arrived and it’s got enormous feet! Bigger than my own feet! Yesterday at 3pm I hot-trotted over to the vessel to find a delivery van and a perplexed Tom staring into the back of it. To the rescue I came, ready to haul the damned thing off the back of the van. I wasn’t much use, but my intention was good. The man who drove the van didn’t have many brain cells and was unwilling to help us get it off the back- he watched as Tom and Stuart slowly wiggled it on to the tail-lift and then on to the ground. There are some curtain twitching neighbours who seem to be on everyone in the marine’s case and find any excuse to grumble at us. They, and the unhelpful truck driver should all be together and make a community. Anyway, the van man was no help at all. Luckily Stuart and Tom were very handy with the sack barrel and ropes and managed to make a sort of rolling platform for it. I think Tom and Stuart like building things to move other things on. Every time I pop over Stuart’s invented another contraption that he’s put on to the side of the boat. Actually it’s quite good because they are safe and it’s better to be safe then in the river.
So back to the bath! It is double-ended, very luxurious and every night will be like the flake advert in our boat. And it comes with taps and a shower and a shower curtain rail- which is very pretty. I like the taps but I fear they are modern and therefore a bit tacksy. Tom assures me that the bath is definitely NOT Victorian, which is a bit annoying. I think the feet are though- they’re clunky and not at all ornate. Which is how I like them. But overall the bath is large and my worry now is that it will look silly in the bedroom. In fact, the stove is also large so we are returning it and getting a smaller one called Wendy. So far we have bought some very over-sized things which may become problematic. But it is nice though.
The other thing that concerns me is that everywhere I look there’s some ‘flea-market style’ or ‘boho chic’ nonsense book about interior decorating. What I don’t like is that they try too hard and I don’t want to end up with a trying too hard boat interior. So I need to watch that. Especially because the things I like will end up falling into some ‘recycling antique rustic colourful materials half ebay half random furniture ‘ sort of style. But then I guess that’s not really much of a snappy category… so maybe we’ll be alright.
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