Up and Down we go again!

it's a funny thing, but i bet if you live in a house, you don't much wonder where your doorstep is gonna be today.
it has rained and rained, proper big lumps, for 2 days now. last night when i went to work i had to step *up* onto the river bank - when i got home a little while ago, i had to step *up* onto the boat......the river has risen at least a foot overnight!
the ropes are ok though, when the water levels fluctuate you have to keep an eye on them or they can become too tight and start to pull you over a bit. the pain in the ass of rain is that what goes up must come down, and once the levels start to go down again you get caught on the bank and the boat gets proper pissed, so you have to loosen the ropes off and push away from the side till you are fully afloat again. andy doesn't seem to mind but for some reason i find it incredibly irritating when the boat is on the wonk!!! and sometimes the dog falls over :) which makes me laugh lots.....

but you just can't beat the sound of the rain drumming on the roof, i think it is so comforting, reassuring, it makes me feel all warm and safe and toasty, and thunderstorms - well that's for another day.

i do wish it would stop though, i wanna clear the shed out and make some 'larder' space. i have discovered the joy that is Costco, a wholesalers, and i want to do a bulk shop of non-perishables but i can't fit that much in the little kitchen. ho hum, what an exciting life i lead lol!

and i want to get the Boat Saftety Certificate this month or next cos it's nearly licence time again......


sometimes i think if we won the lottey i'd like to buy or build a really big open plan house (it would be an eco house set in a hillside, but big), and then i think, we'd probably rattle around in it after being on the boat so long. i do not miss living in a house made of bricks and mortar, there are no comforts i crave, but occasionally, i wonder how i would cope going back to that again. there's no doubt that money is to be made from bricks and mortar though.........i wonder whether we should sell this boat while it's only 2 and a half years old, before it starts to depreciate in value...........and get another or do something different? i'd love a pair of old working boats really, but they are more expensive than our measly pot will allow.
i think it's one of those situations where we would have to see - it may be that living a 'nomadic' lifestyle is firmly engrained in us now, it was there years before we actually went ahead and did it, and would i miss the river when i wasn't on it? or would i quickly revert back to keeping up with the jones'?
answers on a postcard please................

i will report back soon, possibly fom the middle of the field if this bleddy rain keeps up!!!!