Never Enough Time

Well it's been a busy few days but I have done very few of the jobs on the boat that I am here to do! It seems that the timing of our cratch build was spot on as I have spent the last couple of days using at as office for my graphic design, having said that I also got distracted by spending time making my new website www.canalboater.co.uk so hopefully that will be up and running in full soon!
Today's jobs are to paint the two seat boxes on the cruiser deck, one houses the electrical hook-up and the other acts as an extra engine vent as we are an air cooled affair aboard Hannah. I also promised myself I would polish the brass fire utensils and the porthole mirror as they are all looking a bit dull. I also wanted to spend some time writing some music but that has not happened as of yet.
Well I must go as the cheeky moorhens want their breakfast!

My floating office!!

Well, I am aboard Hannah for another week and am enjoying my new cratch space that has already become my office - and what a splendid office it is! It's a great place for us artistic folk to work, in fact there are many artists, musicians and creative people to be found along the canal as it's quite an inspiring place to be when all said and done.

Painting Daisies

After stripping off the rotten layer of wood from our boat hatch I decided to add a bit of decoration on the repaint and as my wife loves daisies I decided to paint some!

We bought a blank Buckby Can at the Blisworth Canal Festival 2014 so it needed decorating. Here is my attempt at painting canal art!

A little song I wrote about cruising on the canal aboard Hannah the Narrowboat

Making a cratch for Hannah the Narrowboat with no previous experience - this is how I did it!

Spring is here!

I had decided that I wanted to spend a bit of time aboard Hannah, partly to clear my head and partly just to get on with some stuff I have been meaning to do for ages - like this blog! I also wanted to take some photographs restricting myself to my iPhone or Lumix rather than my pro Canon camera. I do this sometimes to make myself concentrate more on composition and post processing than worrying too much about camera settings.

On top of that I wanted to write some music away from my studio meaning I had to rely on my iPad, laptop and tiny 25 key midi keyboard which restricts me from overdoing things with my studio toys.

Lee came up with me for the weekend, going home on the Monday to look after Luke Junior, our sons little boy but I was staying until the following Tuesday so had a few days to do whatever I wanted!

For the first couple of days I found myself getting involved in videoing a boat refit for a couple of the guys on the marina which was fun and a bit of a giggle but after that I did have some 'me' time. I gave one side of the boat a good clean, fitted some new lights for the bow seating area and a couple of other little jobs like going around with a screwdriver to make sure everything stays put!

I was very lucky with the weather and spend a lot of the week in a t-shirt and jeans rather than huddled up in layers of woolen clothing! Lee returned on the Saturday evening and we spend a lovely day in the sun on Sunday before getting a text on Monday morning stating that Luke had wrecked his foot by dropping a transformer on it. We packed up in record time and got back to Luton so that Lee could go to the hospital with Luke.

A grungy looking Hannah the Narrowboat taken with my iPhone

Hannah the Narrow Boat at Sunset

Arty farty shot!

Another arty farty shot

A beautiful day at the Marina