Just a quickie....

Pottering around Seend

It’s all Annie’s fault… having been chatting this evening, she has just left to go back to Moore2Life, leaving me no time to blog!!

I have to show you this pic.. here is what CAN happen when you wake in the morning..

In the distance, a narrowboat losing it’s front mooring rope and pin overnight and finding itself across the canal.. I wondered if the occupants knew of the dilemma!!

Evidentially not, because we later pulled this one in as we went a-pottering for a couple of miles and needed to pass it… nobody aboard, but there was an overstay notice on it… .. mind, there are lots of those on this canal.

Paul Balmer came over today to kindly give us a lift to Devizes Marina to finalise the top colours for NP2.. and here she is in the paint shop, and I only just have time this evening to put this series of pics on the blog.. I know the family want to see these.  So here we go, one after the other…

Ooops one of those pics might have given away ONE of the colours!

We are over the moon with the quality of paint job so far… from the beginning it has been sand blasted back to metal, then two coats of primer followed by 3 coats of undercoat.. and as you can see it has come up extremely smooth.  I can see that it is a quality boat now.. hire boat or no, it sure is well built, something we didn't see underneath the old paint and rust.. we are chuffed to bits with it..