After waiting and waiting for our internet connection to be restored (finally experiencing the English red tape we heard so much about) I have decided to make a quick entry from work to let you all know we are alive and well.We've been working pretty solidly on the boat for the last few weeks. We've learnt so much about boats! We're working at the moment on draining the water from the hull, scraping out the rust, cleaning it and repainting it with a primer. So far we've completed 4 of 20 bays, so we have a bit to go. Once we've done that we'll put fresh pavers in the hull and then cover them up with our new floor. It's been a very tiring job and as we're doing all the boring bits at the moment we have been feeling as if we'll never get there, but this weekend we seemed to get alot done so we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. looking back at the photos on our website makes me realise we've done more than we thought.A beautiful friend from Hillsong, we have got to know here has organised a working bee for us on the next long weekend (early in May). Quite blown away by it as she has 6 people from the music team at church who we haven't even met, who have volunteered to help us. It will definitely be the encouragement we need! We're hoping we'll be ready to put the new floor down that weekend.The weather has been very strange here, we had a very cold snap again last week and had a small amount of snow. It's a beautiful spring day here today though.
Apart from our work we have managed to get out a bit and enjoy London. We met Vicki and Andrew and some of their friends who we got to know while we were staying with them, for coffee in Covent Garden yesterday afternoon before hearing Christine Caine at the 6pm. We also joined a neighbour who took their boat out over Easter to Lime House. Lots of fun and a glimpse of what is to come for us when we've finished our boat.
