First Post

Well, this is the first ever post to the Brumpoolie blog, welcome.

Before we actually owned Brumpoolie, Lynne and myself thought it might be tempting fate to post to the blog about a boat we did not actually own. Well, now we do own Brumpoolie, so here goes! If you are interested in our journey on how we got here (some journey believe me) then I will be adding this little tale beside my profile sometime over the next few days.

I arrived yesterday to bring what is, hopefully most of our stuff (great word stuff, works for all kinds of things) Seeing the boat as I arrived was lovely. We are really proud of her. It was a relief to see the boat was actually still here and was in one piece!! What I mean is, I have never left a narrowboat before and after leaving her last week on completing the sale, I kept thinking have I checked everything, will the boat be ok, well it was ok!

It took me most of yesterday afternoon to get things from the car to the boat and start unpacking everything. I am sure Lynne thinks we have bought a Tardis and not a narrowboat with all these things! But hey ho, we'll somehow find a home for everything.

Last night after I stopped work I went to get a Chinese takeaway from the Dragon Boat here in Milton Keynes. It was really nice, Lemon chicken - yummy. As the boat is moored at the beautiful Campbell Park in Milton Keynes until the end of March, we are spoilt for choice for shops of any kind. Campbell park is lovely, Lynne and the three doggies will love it here.

The plan at the moment is,I will travel back to the North East this afternoon, bring more things down next week. And then the week after I will be bringing the whole crew of Brumpoolie down to start our new life. We are all so excited.