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stopped raining it feels like it's rained for a week non-stop it rains
then has an hour break then rains again so the water level has risen and we are
watching the river we are in Henley and we are planning to stay here for some time our
winter plans keep changing and to be honest we've been thinking about our winter plants
since June if not since May as soon as we got to the river and realized how much we've missed it
we were looking for a way of wintering here and so we decided we decided to stay on the river
as it is November the fire is now on continuously
for a few weeks before we were able just to have it on in the morning while I was away it got
colder so now the fire is on all the time which means it's gonna be on um non-stop until at least
April the approach we have is always to run it for 24 hours a day as much as possible obviously
unless it goes out and we are using coal to make that happen so it doesn't go out and so we can
continue working from home and not feeding the fire every hour something you would have to do
if you just use wood so what we've been doing is normally in the morning I would put a log on and
call to get the cause really hot and once they're hot throughout the day we're just feeling more
and more coal and if it's a particularly cold day which we've had a couple then we just add
a log if we need to from time to time a few trees have been chopped in the park where we are moored
and we've been able to take a few pieces that we have already burned they burn very hot which
is wonderful but they only last about an hour so yeah we've gone through them within about a week
we've gone for a new look with our carpet inspired by
festivals that we're going to have to carpet on the roof in front of the bath from now on
it's quite funny in the middle of the night going to the toilet though
we needed to wash our carpet that normally lives on the floor that we've taken off the
floor when we were redoing and putting the new liner on and we really like it without
the carpet but I think in winter when it's cold it will be so beneficial to keep it warmer and
also I guess just the soft Furnishings um make the boat feel a bit Cozier so Miles washed it
in the laundry yesterday but he brought it back slightly damp and obviously because it's going
to live on the floor we don't want it to go moldy it's probably not going to dry on the
floor there is 100 chance it's not going to dry on the floor so we are drying it in the bathroom
we have two stove fans both directed into the bathroom so actually within about 24 hours it's
almost dry I'm hoping that today we're gonna lay it in our new even more comfortable living space
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at the end of summer a miles found an abundant or forgotten pepper plant next to where we were
more than the bushes so it looked really dry and I think there's only been it looked like a
couple of sticks were coming out of the pot so we ended up bringing it back in and nurturing it and
now we have an abundance of Chili Peppers I hope they're chilies anyway so today I'm
going to harvest some green ones to dry up and hang up and also miles has already
had one Harvest while I was away he didn't want to put them up on the string so he used
clothes pegs to attach them so today I'm going to put them all up on the string fresh
ones and the dry ones to make them look nice and to dry them up properly foreign
thank you
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looking good looking good looking good how are your fingers you've got something in your eye
um that's good we rescued a plan face looks so adorable
we've rescued a plant I rescued a plant that I found um in the bushes that had one leaf pretty
much on it and we've managed to get 50 nearly 50 chillies off of it root and tooting good
oh it's for lunch um pumpkin soup made for by my little pumpkin but I'm gonna
have Stilton cream cheese on top of my bread
all good on we are ready
a couple of days ago Mars and I went to we went out and we walked into an antique shop
um here in Henley and we picked up two Plum pots for Alba I don't think they are antique
but they look really good so we've got two new additions this blend is called a friendship
blend and it was given to us by the Wares um and it knitted a pot look how pretty it is it also
has a little what's called a baby plant growing actually two so we could give them away to our
friends and share share the love of the plants and that's where the plant pot that we've got
I've decided to do some wood color painting and I feel like it would
be good to do something in the colors of autumn um so I'm gonna go outside
and find a few leaves that I like that I would like to paint and see how I do
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they're all kind of a maple not sure if it's exactly a maple so I've got a few to choose from
I love how different in color they are some bread and some green and orange
I'm happy with my treasure hunt I've selected Four Leaves
but I'm probably only gonna do one or two that's one of them quite a nice color palette
and that's the other one so quite pretty obviously this is just for my inspiration the final result
is not going to be anywhere identical but it's good to have something to aim for
first I'm mixing the colors that I'm going to use a couple of oranges Browns and reds
thank you
then I'm drawing an outline of a leaf in pale green
I'm also weting the surface of the leaf as I'm using watercolor paints
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a few months ago I started a very ambitious crochet project
which is way above my skills and abilities however I persevered with it so I'm making
a top making a top and I almost finished because of how complicated it is and because I learned a
new technique and because I really don't enjoy counting so I end up skipping the counting and
making loads of mistakes I have started and restarted and finished and taken it apart at
least three times so I feel like now I'm right at the end I've counted every row which I was meant
to do originally and I've just got like a small vest strap to do and it's going to be finished
making this project made me realize that I should crochet a winter
um garment in summer and summer garments in Winter because of how long it takes me
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