Edie is a 55ft Cruiser Stern Narrowboat. She used be owned by a holiday company and is painted in traditional green and red, with a gorgeous red heart on her hatch.
I moved aboard 3 days ago, after almost 2 months of waiting, excitement building up to fever pitch by the last few days.
So far all I've been doing is unpacking my seemingly never-ending pile of bags and boxes - far too many you'd think to fit on to a tiny narrowboat, but surprisingly almost everything has found a place.
In amongst the unpacking I've been taking time out to drink lots of tea and stand on deck listening to my local robin singing its heart out and trying (woefully) to identify the numerous water birds paddling by. I can never remember which are moorhens and which are coots! I think my first job of the weekend will be to get myself a pocket waterbirds book.
There's a pair of swans, lots of ducks, coots (or moorhens), herons and maybe a grebe or cormorant (I told you my knowledge was woeful...). I have gone and looked up both grebes and cormorants on google and it's a cormorant. Actually it's a pair of cormorants - how nice!
The black and white cat who lives on the boat next to me and I spent a good 20 minutes today watching the wildlife. I hope she's friendly and won't mind sharing when my ginger mogs move in.
Here's some pictures I took as I was moving stuff on. So clean and pristine!
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