It’s now been another month since I last wrote!\u00a0 Well!\u00a0 Time flies!\u00a0 And it’s been SO much fun.\u00a0 The boat has gone from building site to, well,\u00a0 building site, only of larger proportions.\u00a0 I have been close to having a breakdown, and have instead had a ‘meltdown’.\u00a0 Which is milder.\u00a0 Mainly, the bedroom has continued to go from strength to strength, white walls, plug sockets, light fittings.\u00a0 It is a beautiful piece of interior design and Tom, who has worked on it, is nothing short of an artist in his approach to making it.\u00a0 Every detail has been carefully considered.\u00a0 The curves and lines of the room are amazing, it is really quite special. The bath is in position, so is the little stove.\u00a0 All things are poised, ready to spring into action when we get round to actually connecting them to other things that they need to be connected to in order to actually work.\u00a0 However, the reality is there is still no bed- there is a bed frame, but not with slats. The port holes look great- but they still need glass in them.\u00a0 I know the glass half empty thing is resonating here, and I appreciate how long these things take (they take long), but it’s just that I REALLY want to live in MY boat.<\/p>\n
Rather then continuing in this ever so slightly sarcastic tone I shall revert to my usual, happy-go-lucky tone.\u00a0 On the UP side, the boat now has floorboards throughout.\u00a0 The scaffolding plank thing worked really well, and now we need to sand them down and fill in the gaps between them with black stuff that stops crumbs going between them (this is thrilling stuff right?).\u00a0 We no longer have a big hole in the ceiling because Stuart the welder came back and sealed it up.\u00a0 He stayed on the boat while doing this (he’s ‘NFA’ you see) and got very familiar with the over priced pizza company up the road.\u00a0 So that’s good!\u00a0 Also, we found another 14 buckets worth of slop under the wheelhouse- in the proper bilges of the boat!\u00a0 And Pat got them all out, bless his cotton socks (which are not white anymore).\u00a0 So that’s also good as it was making the wheelhouse smell freaky.<\/p>\n
So all of this good progress, and here am I a little bit twitchy and irritated in my tone. Well.\u00a0 The truth is, we have done the classic novice building thing of spending too much time and money on the first stage of the project.\u00a0 We’ve been careful overall and we’re not in bad shape.\u00a0 But we will need to build the kitchen ourselves.\u00a0 Out of chipboard.\u00a0 Pat’s working on some designs for a home-made washing machine using an old whisk, some rubber bands and an oil drum.\u00a0 And we’ve also decided we don’t really need a fridge- we’re just going to cut a hole in the side of the boat and put our food through it.\u00a0 That way the local wildlife benefit too.\u00a0 The great thing is, that we’ll have this amazing bedroom that we can spend all our time in- it’s about half the size of our old boat, which suited us fine!<\/p>\n
I stayed sarcastic didn’t I?\u00a0 Oops.\u00a0 It’s more fun writing sarcastic then not.\u00a0 I’m going to go over to the\u00a0\u00a0 b\u00a0 o\u00a0 a\u00a0 t <\/em> later and measure the kitchen up.\u00a0 Because we are actually going to build it ourselves (with the help of some nice unit makers in Nottingham).\u00a0\u00a0 Then, I’ll put some photos up and you can all see what I mean….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s now been another month since I last wrote!\u00a0 Well!\u00a0 Time flies!\u00a0 And it’s been SO much fun.\u00a0 The boat has gone from building site to, well,\u00a0 building site, only of larger proportions.\u00a0 I have been close to having a breakdown, and have instead had…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interiors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onaboat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onaboat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onaboat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onaboat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onaboat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.onaboat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/www.onaboat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onaboat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onaboat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onaboat.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}