Ooh hello September, it’s time to break out the fancy blanket as I was a bit chilly in bed last night. I also lit the fire for an hour. #Narrowboat #NarrowboatDog #BoatLife #Canals
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That is the fanciest of fancy blankets! Your friend is very... focused!
sep 1, 2025, 5:09 pm • 2 0 • view
She’s very talented
sep 1, 2025, 9:06 pm • 2 0 • view
It's the commitment and focus that impress me. I'm technically quite proficient and I would start that with HUGE enthusiasm and ambition and then get fed up of working on the same project and falter to a halt. It would then languish in the naughty corner for several years (ask me how I know)
sep 1, 2025, 9:16 pm • 2 0 • view
See also the blanket on my profile page that I’ve been failing to finish for 2 years now
sep 2, 2025, 6:43 am • 2 0 • view
Both gorgeous xxx
sep 2, 2025, 9:59 am • 3 0 • view
Thank you x
sep 2, 2025, 10:38 am • 0 0 • view
And this is mine. Its my own design, inspired by a Mexican mirror in tue living room of the friend it's destined for. It took a different ideas and iterations before I landed on that and the enthusiasm was good at the beginning. Last worked on it in Feb 23
sep 2, 2025, 7:04 am • 3 0 • view
That’s fab, I love the combination of textures. Now you just need to finish it…
sep 2, 2025, 7:09 am • 1 0 • view
Yes. I do! I always wing the colour sequences and it's always worked in the past. But I've backed myself into a corner with this and haven't had the light bulb moment of how to get out. I've also had lots of small projects to do to sell as fundraising items, so it's been at the back of the queue
sep 2, 2025, 7:22 am • 2 0 • view
Thinking of lighting the fire here too, that'll give the pigeons on the tv ariel a surprise.
sep 1, 2025, 8:15 am • 2 0 • view
It’s the time of the year when it’s chilly enough to light it but half an hour later it’s roasting. I just burned a bit of wood to take the chill off
sep 1, 2025, 8:18 am • 2 0 • view
It doesn't help that we're half way through swapping out the old double glazing so the house has cooled more than it would normally. A couple of hours should do the trick, plus, it's comforting on a dull day.
sep 1, 2025, 8:20 am • 2 0 • view
It will be toasty this winter for you with new double glazing. I had mine done a year ago and it made such a difference.
sep 1, 2025, 8:22 am • 3 0 • view
Weirdly, it's possibly not going to make much difference - we're having the old double glazing replaced because it was poorly installed and we have damp round some frames, and there were no vents so we had condensation problems. We're getting more noise and hopefully better air circulation.
sep 1, 2025, 7:26 pm • 1 0 • view
I didn’t get trickle vents in mine as they are sliding sash, I have 5 open fireplaces so I thought that would do the job
sep 1, 2025, 9:05 pm • 1 0 • view
We had ours done last autumn and it really does make such a difference. I don’t think we needed the winter duvet!
sep 1, 2025, 6:18 pm • 2 0 • view
We went the whole hog in the early days here and had the floors dug out and insulated plus insulation on all the external walls. It was worth all the hassle, and last year we installed central heating which is bliss. We sadly had to lose the again, but still have the multi fuel burner.
sep 1, 2025, 7:32 pm • 2 0 • view
*lose the AGA feckin autocarrot
sep 1, 2025, 7:39 pm • 3 0 • view
I gave my AGA to the scrap man and got a La Nordica put in, I love it so much.
sep 1, 2025, 9:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Stove envy.
sep 1, 2025, 9:03 pm • 2 0 • view
It was a fraction of the price of any other cook stove and yet the quality is superb
sep 1, 2025, 9:10 pm • 2 0 • view
That stove is gorgeous!
sep 1, 2025, 9:05 pm • 1 0 • view
The Italians are the best when it comes to wood burning stoves
sep 1, 2025, 9:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Well done. We have a wood fired Rayburn which powers our central heating but it’s a lot of work. Lovely for cooking though.
sep 1, 2025, 8:19 pm • 2 0 • view
I used to have a solid fuel Rayburn, I loved it. My boat stove also does the radiators
sep 1, 2025, 8:58 pm • 2 0 • view
I have a friend who had one of those, she had an old poem about when she should use certain types of wood to get particular effects. I miss the AGA for cooking but it had outlived it's place.
sep 1, 2025, 9:01 pm • 2 0 • view
sep 2, 2025, 10:01 am • 2 0 • view
That's the one.
sep 2, 2025, 10:52 am • 1 0 • view