This evening I went down to the harbour in the hope of filming the geese against the sunset - it was a doublle no show but by means a zero sum game.
I started ,looking at the local wooden mobos - they are fine beamy boats - shaped to shrug off that north sea chop. There is one here in great nick, one that is all but dead and a third one that has been converted into a nice little cuddy day booat with enough space for an old bloke to have a lovely afternoon kip and put together a good breakfast - now being left to die
what a brillliant place this is
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…..fantastic, back to normal, can’t wait for this winters films.
I’ve developed a real appreciation for geese living next to the canal. Regularly feed them now (Wild Things Floating Duck and Swan Food of Amazon). They’ll eat out of your hand. They’re clever, social, chatty, grumpy, brilliant things.
You won’t end up down on the Mackie thing, even if he ends up with the cash, I’m sure the MOBs will help balance it out.
I love the aluminium MOBO coach roof transplanted onto the plastic sailing boat in picture one – classy
I was going to make a joke saying you ought to be careful about invading someone’s private space by taking photos of the interior of their boat – but perhaps you wouldn’t find that very funny right now.
On the other hand, this could be a re-make of an old TV show: “Through The Porthole”. Now who would live in a boat like this?
Woodworm.
You are thrice-blessed to have found such a wonderful place to spend the year. I feared you’d be stuck inland in some dreary holiday caravan estate.
Feeling moved-in yet? …Or living surrounded by the packing-boxes and feeling hesitant to un-pack them yet already dreading the next move? Years ago when I was working-corporate I used to move every two-years — 5 apartments in 9-years – after a while there’s the temptation to just live out of the cartons.
How can anyone live with books?? Hopefully there’s a good library available. And there is Kindle…
Hopefully the books are packed in the loft and you didn’t sell or dustbin the lot. {;-))
Whoops! “…Live without books?…”
Hi
The “Seal” (black one) is my Grandparents old trawler. He designed it and had it build in about 1975. Love that boat. Such a shame to see it in its current condition. My Grandfather is Donald Beale, past away a few years ago now, my Granny is still with us. Do you know if there are any plans for the boat?