Lady of Leisure :0)

I have been taking it nice and easy today.  It has been a double edged sword really.  Am feeling a lot better and starting to look around me thinking this needs doing, that needs doing.  But still cant really DO anything apart from shuffle about up and down the boat. 
Ed is chief lock wheeler for the next few days.  he has picked himself up a bunny suit to wear whilst performing his duties.  Keeping warm is paramount in this weather and what weather we have had today!!
Bright sunshine, rain, snow hail all in a 3 mile stretch of canal!! Not that I have had to encounter any of it stuck indoors looking at the walls lol :0)
I'm not used to being inside Rae when she is travelling, it's a weird sensation.  You have the familiar thud, thud, thud of the engine but added to that you have a multitude of vibratory noises.  I spent quite a time standing in the kitchen listening intently, moving  a saucepan to stop one rattle, a hanging spatula to remove another.  The poker in the living room was another all gradually reducing the noise but never quite finding every one. 

The other thing I noticed was the swaying, which is more noticeable when we are just coming out of a lock.  When the prop is turning on tick over it causes Rae to rock from side to side.  We have noticed it before from the outside but experiencing it from the inside is another matter.  I had to open the front doors to stop me from feeling sea sick! 
Fisheries Lock was our final destination today.  Ed is a keen metal detector and he had spotted a place he wanted to have a quick look at.  He has just come back through the door actually with a story that had had to interrupt this part of the blog.  He is quite excited as he had found a silver coin, round with no bevelling but as it was so dark outside he couldn't make out what it was.  He eagerly took it out of his bunny suit pocket, looked at it in the light, and said 'Bugger, its a bloody dogs name tag!!'  He also found a small white ceramic jar, which is currently covered in mud so you will have to wait to find out what that was.

We made a pit stop at Apsley Sainsbury's to stock up on provisions and to fill and empty the relevant tanks, as you do when you live on a boat.  We then hit Sainsbury's, all three of us!!
I used the trolley to lean on whilst giving directions to the items required.  Bottom shelf, orange wrapper. Top shelf green bag etc etc  We must have been quite a spectacle, but between us we got the job done.  I do now have a Wok full of goodies though all hand picked by the men :0)