We’re in a heatwave. A time when living and working in a metal box doesn’t always seem the best idea. It is also a time when social media and crowd intelligence/experience comes into its own. People are quick to share what’s worked for them, from draping cold wet towels over windows to setting up pumpsContinue reading “Surviving a heatwave in a tin can”
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If we had £1 for every time someone says “Is it cold on there? Or “ don’t live on your boat in winter do you?” – we’d be rich! No one ever seems to ask “Is it boiling in there at this time of the year ?” though and the answer is a resounding YES! Continue reading “Hot stuff”
Losing my cool and blame me!
Staying chilled in a metal box isn’t easy, and that’s basically what our steel narrowboat is. Here in Leicestershire, where we’re bobbing about on the River Soar, temperatures are exceeding those currently in Mexico and the Canary Islands – according to my irrefutable source, the Leicester Mercury. Normally on a river in conditions like these,Continue reading “Losing my cool and blame me!”
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