We’re spent the past couple of days in Aqueduct Marina on the Middlewich Branch. It’s a pleasant modern facility, with everything you need to live aboard except a grocery store. There’s shore power, water, elsan facilities, garbage, diesel, propane, chandlery, laundry, toilets, shower, repair facilities, and slipway.

There’s also a cafe, and an old barn building which hosts a large colony of barn swallows.

Unused tillers make a handy perch.

I love watching their aerobatics as the gobble up flying insects.

Once again we have shore power and ample water so Paula went into a laundry frenzy, and I scrubbed the roof of the boat. Today I started on the annual paint touch up of the rust spots, and Paula constructed a bookcase by the front door.

This was tricky because the sides of the boat taper both as you go up, and as you go towards the bow, but Paula and her power tools were up to the job.