I have to go to check on our boat again today, just in case the engineer (who said that he would take a look at the electrical fault this morning) didn’t make it – it’s pouring with rain here, which isn’t exactly going to inspire anyone who has to work outside.
I get the usual essentials out of the way (including a dog walk in the rain), and then drive over to Wayford Bridge, where our boat is moored. The bilges are swimming with river water (and a little rainwater, I guess – the engineer hasn’t been) so I rig up the portable bilge pump that I borrowed from Bank Boats yesterday, and pump them out into the river.
I know (from experience) that there’s no point in chasing up the engineer (we are in Norfolk, after all, so I shouldn’t be surprised that everything, and everybody, runs on Norfolk time), so I guess I’ll be pumping out the bilges on a daily basis until he’s been and sorted it out for me.
I return to Southrepps, take the dog for her afternoon walk, and drop by the allotment to harvest spinach, kale and raspberries.