Some people may have read that I've been struggling with what Winston Churchill called The Black Dog recently. Nevertheless, I've been getting things done, though, perhaps, at less speed than usual. Last Saturday Aaron helped me to load scrap metal out of "Lilith" into our trailer for delivery on Monday to Mullaney's scrapyard up by Hartshead Pike. The metal has been in "Lilith" for a long time as we did our last recycling trip in February 2020. Prices have now recovered and we got £115 for this load.
After we'd loaded the trailer Aaron winded the 3 boats to put "Hazel on the inside to make things easier for Ryalwyn Garner, our gasman, to gain access for "Hazel"s annual gas safety check.
It's getting hard to find a Gas Safe registered engineer who is certified for LPG on boats with cookers and water heaters. A lot say that it's not worth all the extra training and fees for the amount of work available. Ryalwyn's main work nowadays is trading in parts for Messerschmitt bubble cars, which is far more lucrative. When he first told me he had a Messerschmitt I asked him if it could fly! He says he likes to keep his hand in with boat gas work as trading online he doesn't get to meet people.