…No it’s not the BW crew coming back to finish lock 7, which they appear to have abandoned again in favour of Facebook. This is about a “joint effort” between both TT crew captains to fit an extra radiator on our boat, well it’s easy isn’t it? Ahem, that’s what they both said anyway…
This is where the radiator was to be fitted…
Brackets on…
Radiator on but not connected up…
Look at the concentration involved, he he, simple when you know what you’re doing right…?
Wrong,,, everything was running TOO smoothly & that’s always a bad sign, then I heard those familiar words “Oh bugger,” (and other phrases of a similar nature) which translated means “OH NO, WHAT NOW?” I mean it was inevitable really, just a matter of time before something went belly up.
Turns out Dave had cut thru the wrong pipe, under normal circumstances it would be correct to say it was his fault…
…But we know better don’t we? It’s the TT curse at work again… Both boats are called “Toil & Trouble” err, I mean Takey Tezey & both boats are as badly behaved as each other when it comes to sabotage. So off the workmen went to the hardware shop - in Diane’s pink car, (it’s complicated) see Diane had gone out in Steve’s car, Dave said “it’s alright we’ll go in mine” but no. So imagine the scene, 2 strapping blokes in a pink car going to the hardware shop… Afterwards I asked Dave if he felt like a bit of a pratt at the time, Answer: “Well you can’t see what colour it is when you’re sat inside…” (I decided not to pursue it further).
After the day trip out, a T piece is fitted & the right pipes are connected up at last with no leaks…! It was amazing, we switched the central heating on & all of us stood there waiting for it to blow a gasket or something…
It didn’t but that was enough for one day, the wood panelling underneath will have to wait till tomorrow, & so say all of us…
