We were supposed to meet our
friend, Michel, from Cornwall, in Diksmuide but he came here instead, arriving
yesterday late in the afternoon after a bike ride from the Black Forest region. It is great to see him again.
Before Michel arrived, Ian, never one to sit idle for long, thought he would fill his time by routing
a new breather tube for the water tank.
He had unblocked it a few weeks back but it had gradually blocked again. Well, what a mission that turned out to
be! But it's done now, and done properly
and now the water flow from the tank is much better.
Today, the weather wasn't too
bad in the morning so he painted the top of the coachroof.
Then he changed the oil in the engine (and
discovered that the new filter we bought in Rotterdam is the wrong size -
grrrrr), fitted a new engine room light, went through the 9 cans/plastic
containers of "stuff" stored in the engine room - and threw away 6 of
them.
I did some basic boat
"house"cleaning and cleaned the barbecue, and read a lot.
All day the wind had been
picking up and the it looked very ominous but it held off until Ian
was away throwing out the
rubbish: then first rain squall came through.
Vicious!
That is surface water being
blown off the lake.
Now it's cider time and, seeing we have good free wi-fi here, we might just watch a movie after
dinner. And no, we are not having a
barbecue tonight!
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