It’s been a while since I’ve updated you guys! Sorry!
Life has been a bit hectic with the new book, writing on Medium and starting on the next book!
Last time I blogged, we had found that our normal water point was unavailable. They were going to fix the pontoon by the tap, which meant that we couldn’t use the water point for a while. We managed to fill up with water anyway and things all ended well.
We still have easy access to water – but not in the way I had anticipated!
The community centre who owns the water tap (run by the town council) organised a safety person to come and view the mooring. He deemed the mooring to be unsafe. So we are not allowed to use it at all until it’s fixed.
That’s fine, it’s only a week or two.
Nope.
First Storm Gareth hit. We had very high winds, which meant they couldn’t start work on the pontoon. Then storm Freya hit. We were fine; high winds mean you can’t move the boat (she doesn’t go the right way in the wind!) and it can be very noisy, but other than that it’s fine. But we were running out of water. And we knew that we couldn’t get any more for a couple of weeks.
The three of us talked about the situation. What should we do? We came up with a variety of options.
- We have a caravan water carrier. We could ask friends if we could fill it up at their houses every day. It is a pain getting it across the field and a pain trying to pour it into the water filler on the boat. But better than running out of water!
- We just try not to use the water. Not a practical option, though!
- We go on holiday! We have an emergency fund so we can stay away for a little while if we have a disaster. We could use that and stay somewhere else…then Mr BBB came up with another idea –
- We could go to a marina. The one that’s 3 hours away. And moor there until the work is nearly done.
We had one afternoon during storm Gareth where it was calm enough to travel. So Mr BBB took the afternoon off work, phoned the marina to check they had space, and off we went! It was a lovely journey! Quite literally the lull before the storm! We arrived at about 5.30 pm. During the evening the wind started to creep up and by midnight it was a gale! Perfect timing! Now we had water…err…on tap!
We planned to stay at the marina until the storms had passed but we are still there!
Only a tiny bit of the pontoon is done. The storms delayed the work, and apparently – so I’m told, someone ordered the wrong size of wood! So it is going to be quite a while, yet!
It is a pain – the marina is expensive. But on the other hand, it is a nice break. We don’t have to worry about water and we have unlimited mains electricity again! I can use the washing machine as much as I like – even on hot settings! We can have the TV on – even if we’re not watching it, and my laptop is never flat! And it is a lot cheaper than going away would’ve been!
Sometimes life doesn’t roll the way you hope. Often, if you roll with it things end up okay in the end!
Amazing people xxx