Just to let you know, we are still here. It is the 8th of January and boat dwellers behind us had to give up and go home to Scotland. They were using their boat share, but found that once the sewage filled up and needed pumped out, they could not wait out the weather any more. One more reason to be pleased we have our cassette toilet which we can empty just by using the bicycle, the trolley or the car to take our full cassettes to a sewage point for emptying. A little smug, but we had this conversation with Barry at Blue Haven when we popped up there yesterday for our post. He told us of the frustration of so many frozen in boat owners, stuck with needing to be pumped out...
The one picture is dear Bella, snow on both sides. Most unusual! Today, the towpath has thawed only just in the last hour, and the canal is showing signs of breaking up a little. We won't move until other boats do though; we have done our new blacking little good by the ice breaking we have done so far!
The other picture is Josie on a sitting and viewing spot she has discovered. We suspect she uses this new seat (the top step out to the stern deck) when we are not here, but as we have been aboard quite a bit we have seen things she does far more often. So here she is, caught by Cassie the camera (of course the camera has a name!).
