NB Caveat Emptor Blog - Kate

Come on, Paul!

nospam@example.com (Kate) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:27:45 +0000

How long has it been?

After handing this blog back to Paul so I could concentrate on not updating the CreamCheese blog very often, he has done...well, nothing! Caveat Emptor (was Bouncing Ben, but name now painted over with dodgy emulsion) is still floating
and doing everything you'd expect from a 30 year old GRP topped narrowboat. Yep, leaking! Usually on my head, wherever I decide to sit or lie down. Ah well, saves on the showers.

The aga-y-thing is still just a lovely ornament, but I have a new cooking gadget and I think I may be in love. My dad got us a Remoska for Christmas and so far it has been fab. I may well blog about how great it is, with pictures of our Christmas dinner, or I may follow Paul's lead and keep it all a secret

Tick tock, tick tock

nospam@example.com (Kate) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:50:33 +0100

It's been over a month again. Oops. Now I know why we have no readers. Ah well.

Boating outings are still few due to work for Paul, and job hunting for me. I could post more often, but would anybody even want to know about my daily routines? Nope, thought not.

Exciting news ahead though, so all those who aren't reading, watch this space

A whole month of nothingness

nospam@example.com (Paul) — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:59:43 +0100

I thought it was about time we provided another update as it's been a whole month. Boat work has been somewhat lacking during this time as Paul is no longer an unemployed bum and has to actually go to work five days a week. Ridiculous. I'm getting very close to finishing my degree so do nothing excpet for sit in front of the computer reading ~~other people's blogs~~ interesting journal articles about a range of fascinating psychological topics.

Aside from the usual exciting trips to the water point, usually in the rain, we've only managed to get out on the boat once and that wasn't very far. We popped up to Knowle for the weekend so that we were in walking distance of a different range of pubs to the usual Lapworth ones. Well, I say walking distance. Paul has lived in Knowle most of his life and I trusted him to know how far it was from where we were moored to the pub. "A couple of minutes", said Paul. Not quite, was the reality. Ah well. Paul's parents came to visit and kindly brought a crate of beer so it saved us having to carry any around. A very plesant interlude before returning to the realities of work.

I'm sure there are pictures from the last few weeks around somewhere, but not sure where at the moment so will return to edit this later.

I did finally meet some real, live people from the Canal World Discussion Forums which was very exciting! I was just about to pop out with the hound when I noticed a post asking where the nearest pump-out was to Kingswood. It seemed easier to go and tell them than to reply, so off I pottered to approach complete strangers and talk about pooh-stuff. As was pointed out to me, perfectly normal behaviour for boaters!

Oh, and this is Kate posting not Paul as it says. I'm sure he gave me my very own login to the blog software, but I'm buggered if I know what it is.