Its always a good sign when the dog checks the engine's, and Lottie was eager to check them over this weekend. We had a nice but late start on Saturday up to Pollington. After two weeks back home after our holidays, and some long hours at work for Peter, we were looking forward to a short break and a lazy weekend aboard Moonshine.
The new kettle is fantastic. We opted for a 1000w Kampa kettle from wowcamping.co.uk as this looked more aesthetically pleasing compared to other low wattage kettles, plus we needed more gas for the Weber bbq and this was the cheapest place to purchase it from even with postage costs. It is a touch power hungry on the generator, however we have only bought it for use when hooked up to shore power.
The heatwave has finally gone, which makes it a bit more comfortable especially for the dogs. The sun eventually made way for rain on Saturday evening, and we noticed the recently cleaned and re proofed canopy was leaking in various places. After further investigation, we discovered this could be due to shrinkage after the very hot dry weather as water was only permeating through the stitching. We will re proof these areas next weekend, but don't envisaged this to be a major problem.
Next weekend will be taken up with work commitments again, but it is that that pays for the boat and our plans to have the saloon seating reupholstered this winter. I think I will have to wait until next year for a new front door at home......, then we can look forward to yet another predictable trip to Hull over the forthcoming August bank holiday weekend. Roll on some more settled good weather!
