Looking forward

Do you feel sometimes your always looking forward to dates in the future that you have planned and you seem to spend your time wishing your days away?

Maybe its the expectaion of doing something different from the usual hum drum of work,sleep and eat.

Anyroad,
We have the Slough Canal Festival coming up this weekend. Ive spent the last few days doing some autumn cleaning inside the boat. I wouldve liked to do some of the outside work but the weather has put all that on hold.
has any other boater noticed how boats seem to attract dust and fluff more than a house, or is it because in a steel tube we are much closer to the grime to notice it wheras in a house it has more room to spread out/

Kath, our neighbour on Herbie has made us some bunting for the festival so we can dress LE fore and aft and hopefully make a good show to add some colour to the festivities. I know it starts on Saturday but im not sure if we need to pitch our spot on friday so we are up and ready for the grand opening on Sat. Ill email Neil in a min and see what their plans are.

I fired up the old stove last night for the first time since I replaced the stove pipe. There was a chill in the air due to the wind and rain but sure enough, within half an hour I had windows and doors open and that was with a very small amount of coal on the go.
While trying to sleep in the heat, I suddenly had a brain wave in finding a use for the old stove pipe. Why not cut it to size and use it as a lining for the chimney, so that we dont get the gunge running down the side of the boat. There should be enough space in the roof coller to fit it from above and then fit the chimney over it.
I always get my best eureka moments when trying to sleep.

The next dates to look forward to will hopefully see Dan and Rachael and granddaughter Brooke visiting us for Lauras Birthday 'day out' being a "zoo keeper for a day" at Whipsnade zoo.
This full day experience will see Laura doing the duties of a zoo keeper at whipsnade while the rest of us wander around the zoo trying to keep track of her. She is dead excited.

My plan of doing the river Lee as a final cruise this year has hit a brick wall as it turns out we dont have enough leave left to give us 2 weeks. I suppose if we were brave enough, we could, if we put our minds to it, cruise to point A.....go to work for 4 days commuting from point A then continuing our journey on the days off till point B and so on till we got home but i not sure if laura would be happy leaving our home at the mercy of the towpath and to be honest, nor would I.
15 hours away from the boat is a long time for it to be left alone on the towpath.
We would alos have to make sure we have suitable transport links to be able to get us to Lambeth for 7am to start work.
I wonder if there are any marina visitor moorings that would alow us 4 nights stop over......something for me to muse over while trying to sleep.

Actually, I think ill post a thread on the The Forum to see if any one has any usefull ideas on the subject.

of course, if the weather continues in its current trend there is no point at all in trying to cruise a river navigation for obvious reasons.