We're on! We've been on board for a few days and it's beginning to feel like home. Still looks a bit of a bomb site, but finally had time to organise some of the kitchen, create a makeshift seating area and clean the sawdust off every surface. It's pretty cold as we haven't had our stove installed yet - the finrads are doing their best but when it's below freezing outside it's not enough. For some reason the first question people ask when you mention living on a boat is, "is it cold in winter?" I'm not sure why everyone has this idea in their mind, but we're not helping to correct the misconception...
This week I'm attempting to assume the universe which is currently conspiring against us having a major heat source will change its inclinations. I'm unable to answer a fairly vast array of questions, such as... how am I going to get a 140kg stove onto the boat on my own? Why don't stove delivery specialists have any idea what the solution might be? How are we going to get the stove flue through a hole it doesn't fit through? How am I going to take delivery of huge slabs of slate while I'm supposed to be at my second week in a new job? I'm definitely getting better at dealing with uncertainty, that's one thing this whole project has really helped with. It's pretty difficult being essentially solely responsible for such a huge thing, since Dave works about 70 hours a week. But it's also a lifelong dream, being able to design and create my own small space, and I do like a challenge.
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