Hargreaves Bridge.

Interloper alert!!






We have a little food muncher coming aboard at night, it's raiding our stock of bread and veg that we keep in the front locker.
There is a small drainage hole in the locker side which I blocked with some wood yesterday.
This morning the wood had been shifted out of the way and our bread had been munched again.
Today I am trying a fender wedged tight in the hole with a heavy windlass on top.
Let battle commence!

We dipped the water tank today and were pleased to find it over two thirds full. Coal might be our main problem in the future though, we are down to our last two bags. We will just have to eke that out until either a coal boat gets through or we can get on the move again.

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

Hargreaves Bridge.

Any ice with that?

This is a chunk we pulled out of the canal near the rudder. You can make out the layers as it has been building up to this thickness.






Six cm at the moment, about two and a half inches in old money.

We are going nowhere!!

I'm sure that Fox was laughing at me as he shot across the ice again this morning.



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

Hargreaves Bridge.

Would you like your humans rare or well done?

Last night, now, last night was a tiny bit unbelievable.

Although, looking at this picture D took in the evening, I should have known better. Red sky at night and all that.

Long story cut short.

The fire was stoked as normal before bed ready for the coming nights sub zero conditions, but there was no freezing overnight.. This ended up with us having the engine room door open in the early hours, laying on a quilt less bed trying to breath some cool air. We were cooking in here!!

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