The Rest of Sunday

Sunday 25th October - continued

By now we had taken the decision to stay put for the rest of the day - the day ends an hour earlier now. So we decided on more shopping! To our surprise, it was not as far to the sheds as we had previously thought and we called first at Homebase where Christine found the extra blanket bag (the sort that allow the air to be sucked out with a vacuum cleaner) that she was looking for. Wer also saw some coloured trunking that may be of use with the spot lights.

On then to B&Q - next but one but quite a hike when on foot: these estates are clearly only designed to be visited by car! Here Mike picked up a corner shelf as well as the chain shackles needed to adjust the front fender.

On the way back we found an even quicker route signposted for cycles. The canoists were just loading their boats back onto their cars - the car park had a notice ablout being closed for the Canoe Day - shame nobody thought to warn the boaters!

Back at the boat, Mike adjusted the fender and then fitted the shelf for the Freesat box, which until now had been balanced precariously on top of the tv itself!

By now it was dark and so time to settle down and think about roast lamb for dinner! Also time to add some photos to the earlier blog about this morning.

Christine says that there are people who want to see a picture of the inside of Take Five, so here are three photos which she took.

The first one is of the main cabin with the bunk beds just visible behind. The two chairs are the very comfortable ones that we bought in Kinver.

This next picture was taken looking aft towards the door out to the steering position. between the table in the middle ground and the door is the galley - sink to the right and cooker to the left.

Finally, a further picture of the main cabin with the little stove on the right. This does not take a lot of fuel and we have to cut logs quite short to fit in, but it really keeps the cabin snug and cosy. Right at the front is the top of the laptop which is our main means of communication with the rest of the world!