Living the dream on a 47" Narrowboat:

boredofbeingathome

bast wrote: »

The wind is definately getting up boredofbeingathome and I think tomorrow is going to be a bad day. The boat tends to rock a lot in the wind, and when it gets a bit choppy the water slaps against the boat and sounds like you are in a steel drum...A little freaky !!!..

I can well imagine, i used to work on the party barges in my yoof-and i remember a few stormy nights on there when trying to serve beer and walk a narrow space past partying drunks- not easy. Not the same as living on one though.

bast

Hi bob was your run in over a pension then??? He is NASUWT... Have to be honest and say union has really now just got involved, but they have now become excellent since husband was signposted to the regional team... obviously cant go into details on a public forum, but god when atos become involved you know life is never going to be easy.... atos are the new medical team for teachers pension, they also do esa, incap medicals and civil servants medicals...

bast

hee hee to the waiting on as a yoof ... We manage to party on the boat:) However the constant bumping into one another can get annoying:) It is rather like being on a train with the carriages... do you remember them in the 70`s.. I think that is why I love the boat so much it does remind me of being on a train. It has not been to bad tonight, but we went for a walk around Rossendale valley this evening and it was blowing a gale.... it was WONDERFUL... Todays spends have been good... 5 pounds for a passport photo, and 1.50 for bread and soup....

I remember the blackadder series so well... loved it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IquAh2Tgi10&feature=related

boredofbeingathome

bast wrote: »

hee hee to the waiting on as a yoof ... We manage to party on the boat:) However the constant bumping into one another can get annoying:) It is rather like being on a train with the carriages... do you remember them in the 70`s.. I think that is why I love the boat so much it does remind me of being on a train. It has not been to bad tonight, but we went for a walk around Rossendale valley this evening and it was blowing a gale.... it was WONDERFUL... Todays spends have been good... 5 pounds for a passport photo, and 1.50 for bread and soup....

I remember the blackadder series so well... loved it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IquAh2Tgi10&feature=related

Had to re read that one:p:rotfl: I remember the old carriages they were certainly an adventure:eek:

Glad last evening was ok and looks like the wind is dying down now- which will be a blessing.

I love Blackadder as well..not that you would ever have guessed:D

bast

Was going to write a post about how great I have been at money saving, and how life sucks.... But tonight my thoughts are with the welsh miners and their families... Truly dignified working class heroes whom I totally respect... Tonight I will contemplate how lucky I am, and my thoughts are just with them and those who have lost them.... xx

Triciaxx

bast wrote: »

Was going to write a post about how great I have been at money saving, and how life sucks.... But tonight my thoughts are with the welsh miners and their families... Truly dignified working class heroes whom I totally respect... Tonight I will contemplate how lucky I am, and my thoughts are just with them and those who have lost them.... xx

Amen to that.

bast

I am still here still working on the debt... as of today it stands at £32.500 so really pleased with that. That includes a holiday financed by ebay and no credit... Could of paid extra on the debt but we have not had a holiday for 5 years so really needed the break. It was also good to see my daughter, and Koln is beautiful..

grannyx2

Hello, my lovely friend, just popped over to yours to read your story and it stopped last year. Please come back and regale us all with more stories of cats in canals, scary pigs and horses and majestic herons.

Love Gx2 x

bast

Hello Granny thank you.. I will try but I am enjoying reading everyone`s diary I seldom have time for mine now lol...:)

I am feeling a little blue today.. Long story but my dd is a teacher in Germany. For a long time now she has been ill and there has not been a huge deal of support from her colleagues... She was very ill when she came home to England but was accused of making it all up.
Roll on 13 weeks and one operation later for appendicitis .. No she is not making it up. So I find myself with my lovely husband in Koln for a month. Today she has been to the doctors and now has to go for a complete body scan as she is still incredibly poorly. I now await the results. Husband has gone to the hospital with her. I have 12 days left before I have to go back to England.. and I just want her better

grannyx2

bast wrote: »

Hello Granny thank you.. I will try but I am enjoying reading everyone`s diary I seldom have time for mine now lol...:)

I am feeling a little blue today.. Long story but my dd is a teacher in Germany for a long time now she has been ill and there has not been a huge deal of support from her colleagues... She was very ill when she came home to England but was accused of making it all up.
Roll on 13 weeks and one operation later for appendicitis .. No she is not making it up. So I find myself with my lovely husband in Koln for a month. Today she has been to the doctors and now has to go for a complete body scan as she is still incredibly poorly. I now await the results. Husband has gone to the hospital with her. I have 12 days left before I have to go back to England.. and I just want her better

oh the poor thing, hope she gets better soon. It is so difficult when they are so far away isn't it. My DD was quite poorly out in Oz few years back and it was awful because I couldn't get to her. For a while we didn't know what was wrong with her, which was so worrying. She had to have brain scans and everything but luckily had a fantastic support network around her, who rallied around and helped her in her hours of need.

She came home for 3 weeks shortly after and it was so lovely to see for myself that she was ok. It's at times like that I could kick myself for my shopaholic ways in the past, as because of that I couldn't go to her.

She left home at 17, mainly because she didn't get on with my OH and went to live in Tenerife for a year. Since then she has not really been back, lived locally for a bit, lived up north near Manchester for a long time and then in 2006 went to Oz for 3 months and has stayed. When she was trying to decide what to do she said she'd stay if it wasn't for me and I told her not to factor me into it as I'd always be her mum where-ever she was. She loves it out there and if there is one thing I've got right in my life, it is in helping her to live her dream.

Anyway, this post wasn't supposed to be about me. I love your obvious devotion to your DC and totally understand where you are coming from. After all, isn't that what being a mum/Granny is all about? I'm guessing your DD bad health is the reason for your absence from work at the moment.

Love to you and your daughter. I hope she makes a speedy recovery.

BFN Gx2 x

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