Hello all,
Somehow, we've not been able to blog in the last few months. Some odd thing on the settings has meant that after filling in the Title, we've not been able to fill in text. However, it must be said that except to say that we're still here, we wouldn't have said much anyway! A few notes:
1 We've been using computers for so long (sorry *yawn*), that to turn on a computer always feels like work. We blogged frequently in the first few months and then a little more slowly, as no matter how like work it felt, we were all - you readers and us travellers - excited about this venture. But now, turning on a desk top or laptop feels like Monday to Friday tasks, certainly not an evening or weekend (!). We write this from a Friday afternoon whilst work is done, but it is still not pumpkin time, as a friend calls our close of work.
2 We're three years in now and Bella is home. Our home may float and still be unusual to many, but for us, it's just home. So we don't feel the same need to tell so much about it (we get coal, we empty elsan cassettes, we unfreeze the water pipe in the big freeze, etc). We just get on with it. So it feels a little silly to keep repeating the living aboard stuff.
3 Three years in, we also realise that we don't have to travel all the time to prove why we made this choice. It's made now and it's perfect for us, and so perfect that we feel a little silly explaining how close to heaven it is for us even more than it ever was. So this winter, in light of being frozen in both previous winters, we decided to stay put at our home mooring in Hillmorton and not travel. We live on a boat and don't have to keep travelling to have that make sense. We made the right move this year in light of the shockingly abnormal cold weather and we rather enjoyed watching all the snow without worrying where our basic supplies would come from.
4 We will be travelling, have no fear!! And when we do, we'll let you know. We're planning to travel with a friend around Easter and then make other moves. But the lovely thing is that all we have to do is untie and go. Plans aren't as important as we thought they were.
5 Rounding off where we began, we've both got smart phones now. So the blogging will get easier and more enjoyable when we don't have to turn on the computers and plug in the dongles. Technology has changed hugely in the last three years and we are certainly the winners for it. We used to be on such 'slow band' in Hillmorton that we had to store up certain kinds of work and to go to a coffee shop's wifi. Now we're on 'fat band' here and most places and our phones have replaced much of what we ever used to do on larger computers.
So that's us for now! Happy New Year!
