Most of the time, houseboat life feels quite ordinary, but sometimes it is still not quite "ordinary". We woke up at 04:20 yesterday morning by the alarm in the boiler room. What was it now? Well, a power cut ... We went back to sleep and hoped for the best, but when we woke up we were still without electricity. We also woke up to a day of real April weather.
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We quickly checked the Facebook group of the boaters and yes, everyone in the marina was without electricity. And how dependent you are on electricity! Without electricity, you don't even get water in the taps ... Despite a slightly moody morning, life felt great. The sun was shining! Just before we were to leave, the electricity came back.
Visiting ducks
Peter walks with me to work every morning, and yesterday morning we got stuck outside the boat for a while because we started talking to the neighbours. And then there were more people who wanted to join in! The ducks jumped up in front of us, and Peter realised that we had some stale bread that we wanted to get rid of ...
Snowy rain
When I walked home from work, it was not at all equally cosy weather. Snowy rain across the board is about the worst April weather ... Fortunately, it is always cosy to get into the houseboat. Yesterday it was extra cosy because Peter lit a fire in the stove.
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Steve says:
Power cuts and intermittent snowy rain - it's a real test. It's nice to be able to remedy this with a fire in the stove.
25 April 2017 - 6:25
Helena says:
The fire helps with most things 🙂 Even if it's almost TOO hot ... 😉.
25 April 2017 - 8:58
Kors och Tvärs says:
Now we have all four seasons in one and the same day..... So nice to be able to light a fire then 🙂 .
25 April 2017 - 7:28
Helena says:
Yes, it really does feel like all four seasons at once!!!
25 April 2017 - 8:59
Lisa i byn says:
Not a pleasant awakening.
So cosy with your stove, it's so soothing. I also use the fire in the fireplace, but it takes more time.
Today the sun is shining in my house. 😀
25 April 2017 - 8:30
Helena says:
A fireplace also sounds cosy, but I understand that you have to look after it. Lovely with the sun! We have rushing weather today ...
25 April 2017 - 9:02
Frank Olsen says:
Yes April can be capricious 🙂
Here in Sandnes in southwest Norway we woke up to 4-5 cm of snow and minus 2 degrees this morning 🙁 .
We've had almost no snow this winter, and then this happens on 25 April!
From our local newspaper: http://www.aftenbladet.no/trafikk/Advarer-om-glatte-veier-542589b.html
Have a good day everyone 🙂
25 April 2017 - 8:43
Helena says:
Wow! In winter I like to have real snow ... but now at the end of April I would like to avoid it!!!!
25 April 2017 - 9:00
Dessan says:
Don't we always have strange weather? Good thing you have such a lovely fireplace to warm yourself by?
25 April 2017 - 8:53
Helena says:
The fire is cosy and it is important to take care of it. Soon it will be too hot for it!!!
25 April 2017 - 9:00
znogge says:
It really is April weather now, but around Valborg it is usually quite unstable. Lovely with a fire!
25 April 2017 - 9:08
Helena says:
Agreed! Always cold at Valborg...!
25 April 2017 - 15:57
Jennifer Queen says:
Such lovely pictures 😀.
25 April 2017 - 9:30
Helena says:
Glad you like the pictures from our home! 🙂
25 April 2017 - 15:57
Ama de casa says:
Weather change in that direction is not what you want right away. But if it is April, it is, the month wants to live up to its weather rumour... 😉.
Cosy with the ducks 🙂
Have a great day!
25 April 2017 - 9:38
Helena says:
Yes, that's right, the month wants to live up to its reputation ... 😉 .
25 April 2017 - 15:58
Lena & Jan says:
Electricity dependence is total, you could say, our municipalities should secure that function BEFORE all new loads are added, I think! The power cuts are soon experienced as a habit, not good!
25 April 2017 - 9:41
Helena says:
Do you have frequent power cuts? Not good! It's happened once or twice here in the marina, but only for us, not for the rest of the municipality ...
25 April 2017 - 16:00
Ditte says:
Nice weather compensates a lot. Know that when we had a boat we had solar panels that helped a lot when we had no electricity.
The April weather is tricky, but it will soon stabilise. It's nice to have a fireplace.
25 April 2017 - 10:49
Helena says:
In the motorhome, we also have different solutions, from batteries to solar panels and LPG. But here in the houseboat we are very dependent on electricity ...
25 April 2017 - 16:53
Lennart says:
If we had anticipated this weather we would have stayed in the south!
25 April 2017 - 10:51
Helena says:
I understand that!!!
25 April 2017 - 16:53
Nils-Åke Hansson says:
You are completely dependent on electricity. I wouldn't feed the ducks if I lived like you. They shit themselves, that's how I am.
25 April 2017 - 11:52
Helena says:
We tried not to feed them before, but they have charmed us 😉 I don't think they shit much either. But the seagulls do ...!
25 April 2017 - 18:46
Johanna Utterberg says:
You really are so dependent on electricity! What nice pictures! 🙂
25 April 2017 - 12:33
Helena says:
Glad you like the pictures from our home!
25 April 2017 - 18:46
Matts Torebring says:
How nice to be able to go back to sleep anyway, it's not always easy. In our motorhome, we have invested in an electric fan heater, which is on standby. But what good is that if there is no electricity. In the motorhome, the LPG boiler could go on strike and then the fan is good to have, if there is electricity. Then we have a flat ten-litre canister with a tap, which unfolds when filled with water. This is also good to have.
25 April 2017 - 19:26
Helena says:
Good to have some reserves! The motorhome is probably better equipped than the boat actually. In the boat, everything is powered by electricity ... except the grill on the deck 😉 We can also get heat by making a fire in the stove, but the hardest part is not getting water in the taps ...
25 April 2017 - 20:44
Days by Johanna says:
Yes, when electricity disappears you realise how dependent you are on it.
Such nice houseboats!
25 April 2017 - 20:23
Helena says:
Yes indeed! Glad you like the boats 🙂
25 April 2017 - 20:44
BP says:
It is fortunate that you are so positive - I mean power cuts, no water and snowy rain across the board, that mixture would probably break most people, so to speak.
By the way, the first car is absolutely wonderful, especially when I sit in front of the computer and don't feel the cold;-)
25 April 2017 - 21:59
Helena says:
Glad you like the picture! And maybe it's good that you can't see how cold it is!
26 April 2017 - 13:18
Lena - gott för själen says:
Yes, my God, what crazy weather it has been for a few days now! I want sun and warmth!!!
Hug Lena
26 April 2017 - 7:26
Helena says:
Well, at least some spring and sunshine would be nice 🙂 ðŸ™'
26 April 2017 - 13:19
KajsaLisa says:
Nice place you visited, it's a bit out of the way. I used to rent a sea kayak down there a few years ago and paddle around Kungsholmen.
26 April 2017 - 9:53
Helena says:
Yes it's nice here 🙂 And a long visit it is, since we live here 😉.
26 April 2017 - 13:20
Shamrock says:
Well, thank you, April weather is the nicest thing you can say about this week's weather... And power cuts are no fun, you're very vulnerable without them.
26 April 2017 - 20:27
Helena says:
I agree that it's the "nicest" thing you can say about the weather actually, haha 😉.
27 April 2017 - 6:13
Linda says:
But god, it's crazy, you actually live on a houseboat! Cool! A little different! What a lovely page you have and fun that you found me;)
Answer: Yes haha probably they have discovered that it is so. Yes hihi it was a funny feeling *S*.
27 April 2017 - 19:43
ullie says:
but so oh so cosy you have it and wonderful view I saw me
hi hi you do not have such a mass meter long boat so you could have a bubble pole or something there hihih no kidding but oh you seem to have it so cosy
29 April 2017 - 0:39