Ellesmere.

Are we having fun yet?

We had a couple of anomalies yesterday morning in that D's toothpaste froze solid  overnight but mine didn't, the frost was all over the inside of the portholes although the temperature was eighteen degrees in the boat and the coal bag froze into one solid lump.

I hope no one saw me jumping on and apparently kicking a bag of coal to death in the morning, there are no men in white coats around at the moment, so I'll guess that no one did. 

It might be a little bit ironic that because of a lack of maintenance at this stand pipe everyone has got a supply of running water at the moment. The washer has all but given up the ghost leaving the water to trickle out of the tap.

This movement keeps the water from freezing solid as it has on the other three, better looked after taps. 

Needing water ourselves, I threw a line across the canal and D pulled the hose over to the tap.

Keeping a good lookout for any marauding, ice breaking "heroes" for twenty minutes seemed to make time stand still. It all worked out though and we now have a full tank again.

Now, if BW don't come and "fix" that tap we should - in theory at least - be able to source water all the way through this so called big freeze.

Fingers crossed!

Until next time..........................

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