Monday, back at work again. Got here at 10.15 which was a bit late, trains seemed particularly slow.......

The weekend was good, think we might have found our boat.. a 70ft x 14ft dutch barge that is moored in north London, very very rusty with broken windows and not too pretty at the moment but it could be just what we are looking for... the size is good and it supposedly has a good hull.. could be my next home! The plan is to live there straight away albeit in a very basic way and get it weatherproof by the winter. Hopefully we'll get a mooring in Greenland Dock...I have a very idealised image of this lifestyle, hopefully reality will not be too different........ really looking forward to doing it up to live in, working with Pete should be good. We seem to have very similar ideas about the design of it and materials we want ........

An observation....... there are always seagulls living inland... see a few flying past my bedroom window in Cambridge on a regular basis...... but realise that one thing that signifies being 'at the seaside' is the raucous cry of gulls.......the smell of the sea and the call of the seagulls somehow are inextricably linked..... now I suddenly realised that inland gulls do not make the same easily identifiable noise?????? Is it that I just don't hear it, blanking it out with all the other urban sounds perhaps? or do gulls only make a noise when at the seaside?