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The Rainbow's end

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Sad News

Not a blog entry I ever wanted to make and I've no doubt been long forgotten since I've not been on here for a long time. I apologise for that. I've been so busy and I miss boating and to be honest keeping away from it has helped me not yearn for it more so I have not ignored this place on purpose, more for my own reasons.   Anyway, I am sorry to report my father died last week. I'm so deeply sad and upset. He suffered for long enough but even so the shock of losing him was so sudden. We didn'
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I got him home!!!!

Well folks after 3 long months, my father is dinally home. I can't believe it!   He's come through some life saving surgery, several bowel perforations, CDiff, chest infections, going into shock from his own body poisoning him, you name it, he's survived it. It's amazing! The cancer is there obviously, but things are looking more positive than they have in a long time. They really are looking better for him.   He is totally reliant on the tube feed into his stomach. This actually (and if yo
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The rain is back.

Seems someone doesn't want us to paint. Not sure why or what wicked thing I did to encourage this rainfall, but I was not impressed!   We got one day this weekend to paint, so we managed to get 2 undercoats on, and the other make shift one we did the other day so it was time to sand down. This was not my job. I did offer but then his knibbs offered instead.   I think the choice between shall I sand or shall I shop came to mind and he decided onthe sanding. Probably the better of the two dea
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Warwickshire Ring Blog (Pictures to follow)

Boat log NB Sploosh - Warwickshire Ring   Friday 14th March - Pre-Trip ----------------------------------------   I was working today, but we had to move the boat from 22 up to the marina so we could fill up with water, pump out, and then get the car close to the boat so we could stock up on provisions before our trip.   We started out quite early, but someone still beat us to the water point, so we had to moor up on the linear to wair. That's when I fell in. I was tying up the front, my
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She's gone.......

Well folks, our lovely bright red sploosh boat has been sold. I am a mixture of sadness and happiness really. It was the marina open day this weekend, and we were worried it would be a wash out. The weather was very wet on Saturday morning and everyone looked a bit down. The marina had asked all the boat owners to come down and basically show off their boats to encourage some boat sales as well as putting on stalls, a little fun fair, food etc. I kept thinking the whole thing would be a bit of a
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Dry Land and Cancer

Firstly an update on my father.   Having come throgh numerous complicatons including phuemonia, a stomach infection, CDiff, two bowel perforations and having had a trachea tube fitted, he managed to all but come off his oxygen and tolerate complete tube feeding. this meant he was able to come off the intensive list and get moved back to his old spot on the normal ward he was on before all this went so horribly wrong. He has a more independant tube fitted in his throat so he can use one of thos
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Sploosh is on the books

Wow, can't believe it has come to this. I was talkng to hubs about the boat going up for sale. We have put so much into making her our home, and now we are going to have to say good bye. Mick said he has come to terms with it so the emotional attachement is not there as it is with me. I feel very numb at the moment, the thought of having to give her up to someone.   I feel a deep attachement at the moment, so it willbe something I have to come to terms with and start detaching myself a little.
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Long time no speak

Hi all,   Well, an update from me. Our old boat has been spotted around, so looks like she is being well used and loved. I miss her every day. Still not quite got my head around not having a boat, but have adjusted to land life in a 'have to do this so get on with it' kind of way because otherwise I would get depressed with not being on a boat.   Definitely go back to it though. I can only imagine how hot it is aboard the boats at the moment. I would love it. I did drive down the canal the
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Moving and Fathers

Well, first an update on dad. After a few days in hospital on a peg feed he perked p. When I saw him he was sitting up, talking with a hoarse voice and a little bit more cheerful than he had been.   However a couple of days later he suddenly went down hill and his heart, kidneys and lungs started shutting down. His body went into shock and they had to ventilate him, and he also got pneumonia to add to his ills. They found his bowel was completely blocked so all the food was just sitting there
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Christmas Cancer

3 years ago my father was diagnosed with cancer of the gullet. It started with him having trouble eating and swalloing, so because he had years of stomach ulcer battles, we thought it was something to do with that. They can rupture, it hurts, it causes issues.   So being the helpful nagging women that we are, my mum, sister and I all nagged dad to go get it checked out. We expected them to tell him off for eating too much spicy food or to cut back on snacks etc.   What they told us he had a
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Stoney is off to dry land

Hello all,   Well, first things first. My father's test results came back and so far only one lymph node has been affected. this is good news, and hopefully the chemo and radiotherapy will kill it off and be done. We can be more hopeful as they caught it so early without it spreading.   The other news is we are moving back to dry land. I know, it is a hell of shock to me too, all of us actually, but we have a mission to get our son into the school we want. We ar enot snobs neither are we bei
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A Wash Out

Well, what a wash out this weekend was! Well, the whole week, but I had to feel sorry for the organisers of the Shackerstone festival because it was just the most awful weather. We had seen loads of boats making there way down there over the week, but they all came back in one long convoy over the weekend. I felt for them as it is all based near the canal and surrounding fields which would have been completely water logged and muddy.   My weekend was not much better really. Not much motivation
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Always the way.......

Always the way.......   .......When you are waiting for a bus, and none come for ages, then two come at once.   In this case however, it was boats. I decided to take Monday off as holiday as we needed to get some water and as the nearest watering hole is about 1.5 hours away, we decided I'd take the girl to school, then take nipper with me, set his knibbs off then meet him at the water ole after the school drop off and various trips here and then to fill the time.   So off he went, and off
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Oh Sh*t

Well, after my report of good news, now I get the bad.   Dad is getting worse. Last news was it was hopeful, not he has lost too much weight and hasn't eaten since Christmas. He got taken in yesterday because they feared another day with no food and water would mean they would have found him dead.   So in he went. The idea was that if he got to bad and was not able to eat well, he could go and have a stent fitted which meant he could eat better, but what should have taken an hour in the op t
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Blurb

Howdy,   Well not much has happened really in stoney's world. I tend to just make a dash for water and then hide again this time of year. Not because I hate boats, it just gets so busy so I let the other folks put in the miles and I watch em go past.   Yeah, of course there are some muppets, some have been going way fast. Sorry folks, but the Asbhy is narrow and shallow and the banks in some parts are badly corroding to the point where there is very little towpath to go along. Won't be long
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Man Overboard (Well woman and dog)

Bit of a wash out weekend by all accounts, given that Friday out of nowhere we all got struck with the lurgi. I have no idea how we got it and why so fast either.   Normally we inherit most of our colds from school, as children are just so caring and sharing, but the eldest didn't show a peep of anything, so we are at a loss as to who kindly donated their germs as not even any folks at work have shown signs.   I put it down to having completely over indulged on Wednesday as it was our annive
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Cob (I'm in one)

I'm not having a good day today. Well, actually it wasn't going too bad until today.   We had a pretty good weekened. We decided as Saturday was so bloomin blowy we would leave the water run until Sunday and hope it died down a bit. So e did some shopping Saturday instead and mainly pottered about doing not much else. It wasn't dry enough to do any painting which was annoying, and I have not got the enthusiasm to start the curtain maing yet, so I pottered instead.   Sunday was slightly bette
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Now the boat is being eaten alive!

God what a weekend. Well, a three dayer for me as I took Friday off. Rather nice it was too. Managed to get the back panel painted where you could just make out the old name, so sorry 'The Pearl' but you are gone forever now.   The day whizzed by and I as usual got covered in paint. I never learn. However one of two (take that as million) flies decided to try out my new paintwork. Bloody things! They really do have no purpose in life other than to be annoying!   Anyway, that done we had a ve
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Gorgeous!!!!

The weather I mean. Wasn't it it fantastic this weekend. A fair few boats can't be wrong! It was like watching wildlife come out of hibernation. Suddenly from nowhere all these boats we haven't seen in ages were tootling around.   We of course move regularly, and we see others who do the same, be it for water, pump out, or just for the fun of it. But it was like something had just sprang open and there were loads of boats out. It really was wonderful, and I felt quite alive with all the sunsh
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It's begun.....

Man, I knew it was bad last time, but I really thought the old bod may have been a bit kinder to me this time, especially since I have a better and more positive mental attitude than before.   I am now on day four of not smoking and I think death would have felt better than I did yesterday. Friday was my quit day and it was tough, real tough, but I was on quite a high because I still had nicotine in my system and was able to nibble my way through the day without having a smoke at all.   Satu
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Owl Spotting

Well, I'm sorry this isn't going to be a very exciting entry as I haven't really done any boating this weekend. We are still full of germs and the idea of going out was just a bit much.   That and the fact that it was also too windy for painting, meant we had an excuse to go out instead somewhere else, which we did. I needed to upgrade my wireless broadband, so we swapped from the next to no signal walk n web to the much better 3 dongle which I am hoping will be a vast improvement as I am get
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Ice Ice baby

Well howdy all.   How are we liking this ice heh? I must admit, I do like the sound the ice makes when the boats move like metal cables snapping. It is very weird, but kind of comforting. Wouldn't like to be falling in this time of year though. I remember how cold it was in March when I had my fall, and that was bad enough.   It had been quiet as anything the last week or so. I think I've seen about 3 boats in all that time. So the poor ducks are not best pleased as they can't swim apart fr
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Texas Chainsaw Masacre

So picture the scene if you will.   Right cabin side lovingly sanded down, undercoated and sanded again, moe undercoat, more sanding, another undercoat and one more sand. We are ready for the first top coat. We lovingly prepare the metal work all clean and spotless. The day is right, the wind is only slight, the paint is nicely wamred the rollers and brushes preened and ready for action.   We uncap the paint and pour some into the paint tray. Everything is masked with tape we don't want pain
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Gear Box has lift off!!

WEll, we seem to have fixed the gear box issue which is about bloomin time. I've never seen a drive plate before. ihad no idea how big they were. The teeth on ours were really worn and the smaller cog had completely separated from the bigger plate so it was no great surprise we lost all drive.   Fortunately the BW man for our area Andy was really good about us being stuck and overstaying our welcome for nearly a week longer than we should have, but all was well this weekend when we shifted....
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The Pit of Doom

Well, the weekend was (this time) sucessful in that we manged to sand down, prepare and put one coat of undercoat onto the other cabin side. This is good, but we are a long way from done.   We need two more undercoats, and two top coats at least on this side, and then we want to add another topcoat to the other cabin side (the paint spill side!), before we can be happy and then move onto the main dsign phase, but this probably won't be this year judging by how the year seems to be whizzing pas
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