I Love My Taylor

Filed January 24, 2006 at 2:59 am under Boating by Administrator

This week was cooker fixing week. For those of you who havent ever experienced the joy of fixing a paraffin burning cooker with a blocked lower nipple, I’ll spare you the details. It does include quite a lot of screaming “turn it off, for Gods sake, turn it off! and jets of paraffin hitting the ceiling. Then comes the ” but where is it leaking FROM? ” stage, followed by the tired old comments about it being the spanners fault. But in the end, there is the magical moment when after heating the burner for the umpteenth time and gingerly turning on the fuel flow, a strong, steady blue flame appears, and its all worth it. I really do love our cooker, and feel much safer with it than with gas, but the complex relationship you develop with a cooker like this is rather demanding at times.
The other big event of the week was finding my old mobile phone, which had been lost, amazingly, in a cupboard since last June. Of course, three days before I found it we had finally disconnected it. Thats what comes of being too organised, I say.

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Winter!

Filed January 18, 2006 at 3:16 am under Boating by Administrator

Well, winter is truly here, with hail and thunderstorms for the last week. Living on the boat isnt bad, actually, just VERY noisy when it hails. Last night was probably the hardest rain yet, I was cozy and warm in bed but Sheva didnt like it much, and as her bed is under the sprayhood, a little leak dripped down on her, poor thing. At 3 o’clock in the morning I had to dry her with a towel.
One thing..This is the warmest house in winter I’ve ever lived in, and it often even gets too warm, even though the rear cabin isnt heated. I guess it was worth ripping it apart last year to put more insulation in!

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