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 are living everyday life right now. In the mornings we walk together to my job. I spend the whole day at the office, and Peter works at home - right now preparing for the birth. boat show which opens on Saturday. When I get home, dinner is on the table, and then it's time for blogging or maybe an occasional film. Exciting, isn't it?
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Wet snow across the board one day and glorious sunshine the next. Today we have sun again, and this is when we enjoy how fantastic we think it is to live in a marina. Living in a houseboat is a slightly different kind of accommodation. It's not just about the houseboat itself, but perhaps primarily about what's around it: the water, the boats, the ducks and all the other houseboats.
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Living in a houseboat is not quite like living in an apartment or a villa ... We live in an ice-free marina, but sometimes ice floes from Lake Ulvsunda slip in and hit the boat hull. The other night, when we were going to sleep, there was a completely different sound that disturbed our sleep. The water was rippling, loud and intense. We had never heard that before.
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When I woke up yesterday morning, I had a waiting text message on my mobile phone: "Believe it or not. We are in Stockholm. Are you free and want to meet?" No, I am not free - on the contrary, I am working quite a lot right now - but we wanted to meet! We simply asked if our friends wanted to come for dinner in the houseboat in the evening after work. And they did!
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We have had a quiet weekend in the houseboat. We have run our training programme on the lower deck, watched TV and had a coffee with some friends. But mostly we have been sitting at the computers and working on different projects around the blog. It feels a bit like this is the calm before the storm. Already on Thursday it is time for new trips ...
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Yesterday I showed pictures of our houseboat with a light covering of snow and wrote about how it is living in a houseboat in winter. Then came the real winter and struck, with snow chaos in Stockholm. We woke up with the houseboat lying at an angle in the water and it was actually quite nice to have something else to think about than, well you know ... that election.
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Now it has suddenly become winter. One morning you woke up to snow and sub-zero temperatures. (You should get used to it, but you are always surprised, haha.) We often get questions about what it is like to live in a houseboat in the winter. Is it cold? Is it slippery? Does the water freeze? Is it lonely? We'll try to answer ...
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Writing about the weather is pretty boring, but this weather is so extremely unpleasant that you need to write about it. Snowy rain thundering in at high speed from the side. Could it get much worse? Of course, it's cold and dark too. We amuse ourselves by working ... and waiting for news of a broken motorhome.
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Firstly, we would like to say a big thank you for all the nice and thoughtful comments we received yesterday after the the post about Peter's back pain! It's not much better today, but we find different ways to get around. Since I get to do all the errands (Peter doesn't get out of the boat), I also get a lot of walking ...
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