This has been an extremely busy week! Roger was away on Mon and Tues seeing the family,then on Wednesday we took the boat into the covered dock at the historic Taylors Boat Yard, ready to start the paint job. After endless more sessions of sanding, scraping and priming, we actually began putting paint to metal on Thursday. The roof has had two layers of undercoat and two more layers of gloss, which had to be applied on hands and knees crawling backwards down the boat. Jean's knees may never recover, while Roger vibrates in his sleep from so many hours of using the electric sander...
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| A labour of love |
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A labour,
but not so sure about the love! |
It was Jean's turn to play hookey on Thurs/Fri, taking a quick trip to York to celebrate David's birthday, but rushing back to continue the hard work.
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| Yvette and Peter delivering our gas and diesel |
We have been given an enormous amount of help, advice and
encouragement by Yvette and Peter
who own the Grade 11 listed boatyard and dock which dates back to 1845. More can be discovered about them at:
www.taylorsboatyard.co.uk
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| Unexpected entertainment! |
We were pleasantly surprised on Friday by a free show of acrobatics from two amazing young women, instructors from Apsara Dance Studio which is situated by the canal basin. They were practising for a competition, and came outside to enjoy the glorious sunshine. You can find more about them at
www.apsaradance.co.uk
Was lovely to see you last week for my Birthday - thanks for coming up :)
ReplyDeleteThe painting certainly looks like hard work - it's a shame that you've managed to pick the week with the best weather so far this year to tackle such a chore!
Dave x