We thought you might like a few pics of life aboard. We often get asked how we manage what we have been used to in a land-home, so here's a bit of the water home. Pete's brother Dave says that Pete is always in a jacket... here's proof down near the bottom of this post! Another pic - Josie's having a nap (ish) in the stern corner. Then there's a pic of Elizabeth preparing a laundry day brunch in the kitchen. We never tire of the wide view of the canal world as we do ordinary things.
So - to laundry day. Here is the process. Levi comes out from under wraps where he usually lives in between the Gas lockers on the back of the stern. If you look at the pic with the parasol, Levi is the blue box sitting on the deck - he's the generator we need to create enough electricity to run the washing machine. Then, as it was a rainy day, the other brollies go up outside the hatches, allowing air to flow through Bella to dry clothes. You can see the sheets hung on the airer in the clothes/laundry room. The odd view of two brolly handles is the real one to the left of the pic and the reflection in the hallway mirror just beyond the clothes/laundry room. You can see the airer next to the ceiling on the right, as you look to the stern on the left of the pic. One shot is of the billowing sheets at the top, the bulging laundry bags on their hooks on the wall (sad - we sort as we throw - the colours are the laundry loads) and the washing machine tucked into the corner of the room next to a large chest of drawers, the top of which becomes a surface for folding. And one shot is of the washing machine itself (ah - no name!!), topped by wooden boxes with fabric, settling neatly beneath the open shelf with laundry and washing materials. Elizabeth thinks it is the prettiest laundry room she has ever used.
