Boy, have we been BUSY...

Wow, we have been in Port St Louis du Rhone for seven months, and the blog has been quiet; what can we say, it has been a busy, busy time!

We had visitors in November, who brought their own beautiful artwork for our walls:

The fabulously talented Cadi's birthday prezzy for our *ahem* 40ths (J's is early, obviously!!)

ALH - 1975

JCH - 1975

Drama in December - thank goodness the guy who's electrical intervention on his own boat, which was at the heart of this inferno, wasn't sleeping on board!

The hot water system has been reworked, after J complaining that there wasn't enough, and after thorough investigation of the many solutions we opted to up the temperature on the existing boiler and add a number of regulating thermostats in line to the various hot water taps around the boat. Such a happy J :)

The door used to look like this:

 Now it looks like THIS (and has a new runner that slides beautifully, and it no longer leaks!):

A replacement lock found on ebay means we can actually use it!!

Innovation & redecoration in January:

The old black tank - removed to make space in second man-cave!

The batteries have been moved onto new shelves at the sides of the engine room to make space for the new black tank:

Hidden in the central bilge...

Under renovated floorboards

And all valves for the black water system have been rebuilt ready to go!

Formica layer removed in fwd head, now the wood needs filling, faring & painting... 

Travel to the snow in February:

Testing the tender & outboard in March:

Looking for a new mooring in the Lot et Garonne in April - watch this space, we still haven't got an answer on the 'perfect' one, so everything should remain crossed until further notice please!!

And visiting the Camargue with our second set of guests:

And removing the last of the teak to fix those final pesky leaks:

A also spent A LOT of time in the engine room and the engines are re-wired and running like a dream, so Bring On The Summer!