Slog

Pretty much more of the same I'm afraid. We did have a slightly different start to the weekend, as we detoured via Norfolk to see my mum and dad. This had nothing to do with me wanting to borrow dad and his estate car to go and pickup a brand new Isotherm 12v fridge/freezer that I'd won off ebay for a bargain price.  Anyway, here it is at Misterton's Norfolk storage facility,

Mum was worried about it getting damaged, so we covered it up with a quilt.....

...and of course it immediately became a cat platform.

We then went up to Goole on Saturday morning to carry on with the tidying up etc. Mary had discovered that the old Stanley range would get hot enough to cook on. Last week we had veggie burgers, this week she had greater plans and had borrowed an old baking tray from mum to make veggie kebabs.

Here are the end results, served on a bed of stacked plywood, lightly dusted with rust particles.

As well as cleaning up, I also continued with the work started by the boat builders and lowered the living area floor, it looks like I'm cutting through the bottom, but I was keen to avoid this.

The end result will be much more space, floor joists will be laid on top of the frames, so there will still be a reasonable gap for air to circulate in the bilges underneath.

During the weekend, we removed the workshop floor, which was made of rotting chipboard and also got rid of a few other remaining bits, so that's the last of the previous owners 'handiwork' I hope. I used a new sheet of plywood flooring to make a temporary island to store stuff. We do seem to spend a bit of time shifting the same stuff around from one place to another, but there is no where else to store it.

That's it. Tune in next time for more of the same (will it ever end?)