Hiho, hiho

It's off to work we go. 

Tuesday was a much needed work day inside the boat. 

In the bedroom there's some tongue and groove cladding that's come adrift. Also, we decided to paint the wall behind the bed head. 

Now, to attend to all this means taking down shelves, removing the bed head and various edging strips first. That all took a while cos it's all a fiddle. Then the tongue and groove didn't want to cooperate, not enough room to swing a cat and getting hotter and hotter in a confined space. 

Anyway, enough of that, in the end out came the nails and a heavy hammer and the tongue and groove was beaten into submission. 

Round 1 to me. 

Getting a bit late in the day to start painting, that's tomorrow's challenge. But, for now, just put the shelves and head board back and make the bedroom feel like a bedroom again. 

Then we had a fantastic thunderstorm. 

We could see blue sky ahead and behind the bank of storm clouds as they rolled across. It was the full works, thunder, lightning, rain, hail - you name it, we had it. All calm now, looks like being a peaceful evening. 

A day out

On Monday we decided that a bit of retail therapy would be the order of the day. 

So, after breakfast, we set off for Market Harborough. 

There are a fair selection of shops around here and I particularly wanted to get a new pair of walking shoes from Mountain Warehouse. Well we did that OK but we also came out with a fair bit of kit for the captain as well. 

We had a good old mooch around and ended up in Louisa's for lunch. 

We always pop in here when we can but it's not that often and our loyalty card is taking some time to fill up. 

After that, into the supermarket for supplies and then back to the boat for a quiet evening aboard.