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    Mermaid’s Meanderings

    in Holiday Tales & Blogs

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    6 hours ago, YnysMon said:

    When will you be around next? We are on MS the first two weeks of June, but with plans to go south for at least a week.

    Will let you know Helen.  It would be great to finally meet in person rather than just the mad wave 😂 Definitely not planning on going south 

    Mermaid’s Meanderings

    in Holiday Tales & Blogs

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    Thursday 2nd May

    Graham and I both left work around midday and set off to Norfolk. Beautiful day and it was my birthday. 
     
    We loaded our bags on board and didnt hang about and were on the river by 2.30 with the roof slid back for the first time since we brought her back from Horning.   Absolutely perfect boating weather and we decided on 
    Luna’s Nook. It was lovely to see Hathor back.   I took Desmond for a longish walk before buying a birthday icecream from Toad Cottage. Yum

    A nice chilled out rest of the day and evening watching the snooker and our usual first night on board pasta dinner. 
    IMG_5020.thumb.jpeg.a7e66919cd2f8224cc9c8b366b2bee5f.jpegIMG_5022.thumb.jpeg.9589f36bcc775df56e63d44b1cab9649.jpegIMG_5025.thumb.jpeg.59e7f02f0e551fa97c98d81b4344887b.jpegIMG_5026.thumb.jpeg.b36ec33a8a014424fc99917544e9a47c.jpegIMG_5027.thumb.jpeg.a658d903d03e5e7e819c42937c88144e.jpeg3rd May

    What a night. Im going to probably upset some birdwatchers but we had virtually no sleep. Started off fine for a couple of hours but then a combination of a bittern booming close by all night every few minutes. (It got to the point we were anticipating the next boom), then Desmond wasnt well and I had to take him out about three times. At 4.30am i was outside, Desmond trying to be sick, the bittern booming and then the cuckoo started!   I eventually got back to bed and slept for a couple of hours before being worken up by torrential rain and thunder. Shattered, I said I would look up when the bittern mating season is over before we go back to How Hill again 😂

    Knowing the weather was going to be pretty dire for the rest of the day, we decided for the safe option of keeping cosy with the electric and knowing we usually sleep well at Acle, we set off before the rain really set in.   Huge difference from the day before when we had a fan on to keep cool, we now had the heating on for most of the cruise. It was a lovely cruise, despite the drizzle. We dont have windscreen wipers but the Rainex we spray on is absolutely brilliant.    We had a quiet day at Acle, boat watching and Desmond tucked up in his pjs. I may have got a cake from Dunes cafe….  We had a visitor who knocked on the window, bless him. The afternoon/evening got very busy with hire boats arriving really quite late in the day, one virtually in the dark.
     

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    Wonderful night’s sleep. Fully recharged we set off back to the marina in absolutely glorious weather.  Graham wanted to fit the shower bar before our week’s holiday coming up and a few other jobs on the list.  The cruise was a delight. We passed our neighbours boat at How Hill so I got all brave and decided I would reverse Mermaid into our berth for the first time knowing I had two berths to play with if all went wrong. I admit I got in a muddle when she did her usual crabbing thing but after gathering myself together, I got her in safely.  We so miss a bow thruster! After Graham fitted the shower bar, we set off for home. Graham unfortunately had to work some of the Bank holiday but it wont be long before we can go back again. 
     

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    in New Members Say Hi !

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    Warm welcome to the forum. We used to have two greyhounds (who werent overly keen on boating. We now have a nutty ginger whippet who prefers the boat to home.  :)

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    Mermaid’s Meanderings

    in Holiday Tales & Blogs

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    Renovation episode

    Last weekend we went up for the day to sort out the rotten drawer situation in the bedroom.  Desmond and I stayed out of the way in the saloon. Lots of noise and splitting wood, then an ominous silence followed by ‘Sam, you’d better have a look at this’ . Worse than we thought.  I could have cried. Graham just said it would set him back for the other jobs planned and would concentrate on that side of the boat.IMG_4732.thumb.jpeg.1735923d73656676517af87aad113911.jpegIMG_4733.thumb.jpeg.128510aeacd2518655843d658e3942f6.jpegIMG_4653.thumb.jpeg.c3a5e40330dccf50c37cd808705d2661.jpegA couple of hours later…..rebuilt and primer on

    IMG_4749.thumb.jpeg.e29c86dcace21838af0a898d8870ddfe.jpegIMG_4756.thumb.jpeg.3b72796dc585d2a73396101daeb76d73.jpegWe did manage to put up our bargain buy of another grey cupboard which boosted our spirits. We now have all the galley space we need.

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    This weekend Graham finished the ‘holdall cupboard’ which is now a fantastic space for our bags so out of the horror that we found, it’s actually done us a huge favour for space and storage.   We have now decided to add a shelf above the bags as we think we can put the microwave in there and handily there are already some sockets above unlike in the galley where we have to run an extension lead each time. The damp meter showed 19% so considering it had all been saturated the week before we and it has rained since, we were very pleased.

    Next job was to see if there was any more horrors on the other side. There had been a small leak which Graham had fixed previously but now it was about seeing if there was any hidden rot.   The vinyl under the gunnel? (Think that’s what its called) was all brittle, split and falling off but the wood was completely dry now so got covered in some vinyl flooring. No one can see it but we know its there and smart!  
    IMG_4832.thumb.jpeg.2129468ccfdaae11283b92857d39b806.jpegIMG_4826.thumb.jpeg.16e8dab54aa4180b5c6418b107f566f7.jpegNext job was fitting the shower bar and new sink taps. Unfortunately after dismantling the old fittings, we didnt have all the parts so they are now on order. Not a problem as the plumbing jobs Graham can do while we are out and about.   We hope that is it, at least for a while or anything else will just be what we call ‘pottering jobs’ and we can enjoy the season, fingers crossed.  Beautiful sunset last night to finish off a very successful day.

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