Wow, what a day!
It started with an incident in the shower.
I hang my towel on a hook on the bow of the boat, so it doesn’t build up condensation in the boat (and because there isn’t that much room). 
The bedroom is next to the bow, so it is easy to pop out and get in the morning before I shower. Well, this morning I showered and wrapped myself up in my nice fluffy towel. And my tummy hurt, it sort of prickled. It felt like there was a thistle leaf in my towel. So I took the towel off to check. No thistle, all looked fine. It must be my imagination. I put the towel back on and my tummy prickled again. I decided it must just be my mind playing tricks on me. But the prickling got worse. I checked again, and again. Still nothing there. Really odd! In exasperation, I looked again before I gave up and went to got dressed, and found a tiny red ant sitting on my tummy, surrounded by red bumps! I think it kept getting squashed when I wrapped my towel around me, so kept biting me! Thankfully I had some antihistamine cream in the cupboard!
After my shower the water was low, and since we were moored next to a water tap I decided to fill up the water tanks. I have already blogged about the many issues I have with filling up with water, but this was a completely different problem!
We have 2 hose pipes, one cheap plastic hose pipe that lives along the roof and I generally use at marinas. And a magic hose that extends as you use it, so it can’t get kinks in. The plastic hose goes very deeply into the water filler hole, so it can be left. The magic hose doesn’t, but it can usually be wedged into the hole as long as someone stays nearby in case it becomes unwedged. Today, though, the magic hose wouldn’t wedge into the hole. It needed holding there. So I got my book and sat with my book in one hand and the hose in the other, thinking that I was being quite clever getting a sneaky read in the middle of the morning! The waterhole is on the floor. I was sitting on the bench, bending down to hold the hose in the hole. My back (and the ant bites) could only manage that angle for a few minutes. So I moved to crouch on the floor. But my feet and ankles could only manage that for a little while before I had to go back to sitting and bending forwards! It takes about 40 minutes to fill, that is a long time to be holding uncomfortable yoga poses! By the time it was full, I couldn’t stand up! Everything hurt!
When I could walk, I thought I’d pop the kettle on, after all, I deserved a cuppa! I went to get the milk out of the fridge and noticed a puddle underneath the fridge door. I opened the fridge to see what was leaking and saw something was trickling out of the cupboard next to the fridge. Further investigation revealed that it was a fairly large puddle of oil. The bottle of oil in the cupboard had fallen over, the lid had opened and it had poured itself all over the cupboard and floor. The cupboard is a magic cupboard, with a mechanism that allows you to get to the wasted space at the back of the cupboard and the oil was right underneath the mechanism. The gap under the mechanism is tiny and cleaning it involved contorting myself into a small uncomfortable space. Again! So I spent about 45 minutes hunched on the floor (again) cleaning up oil!
Roll on tomorrow!