Not so many pigs at the pig place, no more than a handful of small porkers and a skeleton staff to run the day-t0-day business nowadays.
The owners no longer live there, as they used to on ‘narrowboat Acres’, and run the farm and campsite. It’s up to the moorers, who no doubt do it as part of their rental arrangement to stay there.
The weather be hot
The weather has turned somewhat HOT. There’s a few things you can do to mitigate the heat on the boat:
- Open the windows on shaded side
- Draw the curtains on the sunny side, open on the shaded side
- Moor under trees
- Open the front and rear doors
- Turn the fans on
- Take your clothes off
This is usually enough to be cool enough that you don’t take all your clothes off, and warm enough that it’s able to eat breakfast on the stern with hardly any clothes on.
The breeze has a much greater impact as it blows across the cool surface of the water than it might do blowing in through the windows of a house say.
By the time the sun has set, and it’s become dark, things get cooler still.
I don’t think I’ve had one heat affected night of sleep in any of the days of heatwave this year or any other year.
Pictured is where I spent the ‘RED’ heatwave alert. The sun doesn’t get round from the tree until 11am, so that’s a few hours mitigated.
Below is where I am at the moment. It’s only shaded until mid morning, but it’s enough not to be uncomfortable during the hottest parts of the day.
Tofte Manor – Sasha and Digweed
Old School stalwarts Sasha and Digweed do what is now an annual summertime bash about 40 miles away in Bedfordshire.
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