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@Jacqui
Dec 5.
Witches Ware and Lights.
I was starting to get very unsure about the boating world when i was sick last week and this week. It's hard to feel positive when you feel in over your head and useless to boot.
But right now, I am feeling pretty positive.
Paddy sorted half of my lights today. (eh, in geek that means tripple the amount of visability for 1/2 of the watts used from just one of my old lights - pretty cool, right?)
It's 7.30pm and I am sitting in a much brighter, cosy boat. I'm airing my foam mattress. It has recovered signifigantly from the first time. having learned my lesson all the cushions are now on daily rotation and heating rota. So long as I remain vigilant I'm fairly confident that I won't have this issue again.
I do blame most of it on the three weeks of sleeping here without any heating.
I have a few days wood in the store and although I know I need more, I have a plan.
Mostly, tonight I am watching my new Canadian made Eco Fan as it humms along quietly pushing warm air into the rest of Miracle. Surprisingly this is filling me with a YAY CANADA feeling each time I look at it.
The irony of owning this little fan tickles me. It is from 90 mins away from my home but has come half way around the world via Ware (?) to become mine. It was made in Wireton, which up until the invention of the Eco Fan, only claim to fame was Wireton Willy, a ground hog who each year forcasts whether we'll have early spring or suffer longer; sound familliar? The movie GROUNDHOG DAY was based on Wireton.
In short, its brilliant.
Thing finally seem to be coming to a close here.
*I am so relieved. *
Wedneday, my new and beautifully painted top hatch will be installed. I anticipate my Calor arriving Thursday by which time, my flue and "witches hat" (thats the conical lid thingy that keeps rain out of the flue) and new steel toed boots should have also arrived.
The last thing I need is the wood; but like I said, I have a plan.