A fellow boater created this rather sweet video of what the birds are up to.
I’ve been trying to capture pictures of the swallows and swifts, who disappeared for a day or two, but seem to be back now that the maybugs are dancing. You can see why people believe in fairies!
Apparently the whole “ne’er cast a clout til May be out” thing refers to these little critters, not the month. You learn something every day!
Anyway, back to the video….
From BBC South Today clip
We loved what BBC South Today did with the filming on board our little boat. You can see the programme on BBC South Today’s iplayer – son one is in the cutouts (“Hi, my name’s Rhys. Find out why we sold our house and came to live on this boat”) and the clip is at 23 minutes. It will only be available for a few days – I hope we can get a digitised copy from the producer, Simon, who seemed genuinely taken with the boat as well.
Contact my agent!
Last Saturday’s sail took us up to Caversham to meet up with Sally Taylor and crew from the BBC to film for a feature called Living the Dream. Which is, of course, what we’re doing. Or trying to!
A whole morning’s filming will be shrunk down into three minutes, so what they’ll include and what they’ll take out, who knows, but what’s not to love about living on a boat. The kids absolutely loved telling the crew about their rooms and the chance to get our attention.
Son 2 and I were making some biscuits but didn’t really get cracking until the crew had long since gone. And they certainly didn’t look like the picture in the book!.
I had been out until fairly late the night before, so getting up for an early sail was tough, but we’d agreed to sail to Caversham Bridge by nine. I was there with the car, but the family were stuck at the lock where the lock keeper had spotted that it was dangerous for the boat to go in. The amount of debris meant that had he not been so eagle eyed, we’d have been at very least scraped or had our prop shaft hampered, possibly worse.
