barge life is basically camping - issues that are insignificant at 'real home' suddenly loom large;
what goes in:
the quantity of stuff you carry to camp - you must keep this quantity in your head because if you could barely carry the stuff you arrived with and then you acquire more stuff - something has to 'disappear'.
what goes out:
I carried quite a lot of food and tea to the boat - putting it into my body is simply hiding it from view - the way things work on the boat means that I have to plan my café visits strategically.
Luckily, there is a municipal swimming pool close by - combining bathing and bathroom addresses my major camping issues in one fell swoop.
fuel:
The boat has solar panels - if I manage things well (and if the sun shines sometimes) I have power for lights and batteries - so far I'm handy with that.
For heating and cooking I've been using the woodburning stove - I've been trawling the park daily to pick up kindling and any other useful wood but to be effective logs are needed, there was a small supply when I arrived and I've used those up.
This morning I bought a sack of the logs at the nearby garage and now I know that London wood is, by weight, more costly than diamonds and that my lovely stove suppers are costing more than I imagined.
A Boundary Is Not a Field.
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I watched Alexander Dovzhenko’s famous 1930 movie Земля (Earth), which is
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"combining bathing and bathroom deals"
ReplyDeleteYikes, no head*!?!? Is that typical or was this originally a cargo barge that has been re-purposed???
* nautical talk for bathroom
Not sure I was quite speaking English - there is a 'head' but one wouldn't want to use it - PLUS the emptying of the 'head' is not exactly streamlined
ReplyDeleteYou could have called this post 'Notes on logs'.
ReplyDeleteSoz.
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Yes, dealing with the toilet necessities gives a whole new meaning to "carrying the can."
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