- Pete goes to the Elsan point 2 - 3 times a week to empty cassettes from the loo. Don't worry, this is as decorous as it can be and a lovely green fluid makes sure it's all as far as possable from what we think this could be like! We are closer to some parts of nature than we have previously been, but anyone who has ever been in a caravan will understand.
- Pete (usually) fills us up with water every other day. Elizabeth enjoys running the washing machine while this is happening ("Is that tank not full yet?!").
- Pete (we told you he was chief ship's management!) fills up the scuttle with coal every day and goes to Rugby fuels about once every two weeks. Unless, of course, fuel comes to us, as you saw in a December blog post.
- Pete (again!) makes sure the central heating runs...
A usual morning is:
Pete gets up, stops at the plumbing, turns on the central heating, gets the ash out of the stove and puts on more coal.
Elizabeth gets up, stops at the plumbing, begins to open curtains each window until she gets to the lounge, takes the kettle from the stove and puts it on the cooker for boiling for tea, continues to open curtains until she gets to the back door, puts Josie's snuggle (soft muzzle) in place then lets Josie do her version of visiting the plumbing.
Pete continues to get the fire back to roaring and then logs on to flickr to see how his photo world is going.
Elizabeth prepares breakfast (yogurt, fruit, walnuts, home-made bread for toast, tea...), while also wiping condensation off window frames.
Pete gets the vitamin boxes full for the day.
Both eat breakfast while reading novels (Pete is on a Jan Grissen book and Elizabeth is now on to Alexander McCall Smith, having finished Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eyes.)
So, all quite boring really. But its lovely.
