Wash day at Cowley Peachy!

25th Feb and today – Moored Cowley Peachy, Grand Union Canal

Well it works!  It’s all plumbed in! Washday on No Problem was no problem in the end. .  A Candy cold fill washing machine squeezed into the bathroom cupboard.  You can’t buy a hot and cold fill one these days, they have stopped making them, gawd knows why though.  But I had a plan!.   Hot and Cold pipes tee’d off the one fill with variable water-flow taps, so I could have hot, warm or cold as I wish.  Today it did its job for the first time, and my main worry of the inverter and sterling management system was unfounded, it all behaved perfectly!  I am over the moon.

It’s a nice mooring here, quiet as you can see.  To the left is the entrance from the Slough Arm to the BW Packet Boat Marina, but there haven’t been many boats out of there so far this weekend… tis a bit on the cold side I suppose.  But no snow as you see!

The walks around here are really nice… not far is ‘Little Britain’ an area of Lakes and Rivers.  Plenty of wild life too.  Not only did I see a couple more of those paraqueets here, but also a Pochard, a colourful winter visiting duck in one of the lakes.  Lucy enjoyed the River Colne yesterday, but today enjoyed disturbing a few hares across open heathland on the opposite side of the canal to Little Britain.  I got totally lost wandering around the heath this afternoon…. never nice in the pouring rain!

So now the washing machine is finally in place and working, we are finishing the kitchen today.  The doors have been cut and Vic has just finished putting the trim round them now, time for a cuppa me thinks… ah not only a washing machine today, but cupboard doors too!