Time to find a launderette…

Friday 10th November – Day 117

We faff around in the morning and I crack on with my novel as we wait for the car hire company to arrive. Can you believe it’s cheaper to hire a car than to go by train! Firstly, because it’s so expensive and secondly because you cannot rely on public transport here and they say they want us to help the environment… erm, me thinks that is not really a serious item on our governments agenda! But that’s by the by… ((Okay, I agree but less ranting please Peachy!))

We collect the car and then go back to the boat, parking in a nearby farmshop carpark which is near the junction at Great Haywood where we have moored the boat. We then grab all our washing, ((or laundry)) as we have towels, bedding and clothes to wash and our twin tub isn’t really up to towels and bedding. We find this amazing launderette not too far away with wonderful staff.

The chap who runs it tells me he used to live in Kenya and ran a business which hired out tractors to farmers and how he’d been now running this launderette in Stafford for 30 years! That’s one of the things I love about this life, you just meet so many interesting people you would just never normally meet living in one area for a long time.

I’m lucky as I kept some change from selling my books back in July as the machines only take coins. Something to remember when using some laundrettes. Once done we nip to the shops and make the most of having a car to ferry things back to the boat. Just as it’s about to go dark we trudge over the bridge and back down the towpath to deposit everything back at the boat.

It’s so satisfying to get all these jobs done. I manage to sneak in a bit more writing in the evening and finally passed the 40k mark on the jersey novel so very happy with that.

Wordcount 1,527 total 14,763