SEPTEMBER FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Monday 1st September
Off-grid Living on England's Canals without Mains and Without a Shower and Survival At All Costs Or No Cost At All continuously tests the ingenuity and that is the idea.  I can pull a dinner together from just about anything but I will always try to have ingredients for a wholesome meal in the galley at as little cost as possible.  I'll not compromise on quality though and when I stand at the reduced shelf in Tesco's I have a mental shopping list which I do not deviate from.  My diet is as varied as you could imagine with carbs. protein and fibre trace elements, nutrients and as much variation as I can muster. 

Saturday 6th September
During the earlier part of the day I had had a few slices of sourdough bread bought and paid for at Warwick Saturday market.   This evening I am dining compliments of Tesco on a bag of stir-fry vegetables down from £1.80 to 126p with a two-pack of lardons (255p down from £4.25).  I actually divided both packs in half and made up an earlier dinner costing £2 and it was so scrumptious I decided to add an onion and HP sauce to the second half and had a later dinner which was weighed in at about £2.25 including the gas

Now at 7pm I am replete, at my computer and forming the social comment which you all expect from reading my wordpress blog on another Channel. 

Monday 8th September
I tend to hit Tesco, if that is how to put it, at 3oc.  At 3oc the yummy mummies are lined up at the school collecting their sprogs but have yet to descend on the store. 3oc is a time when I frequently notice 'single' men staring into the cheap shelves, in confuse mode, trying to choose food within their budget.  Invariably they stock up on UPF and stuff with a very small price tag no matter what it is.  I suspect they are unemployed and maybe un-housed. I don't judge. 

Wed.10th September 
The month is advancing. The canals are still short of water. The gates at the bottom of Hatton and the bottom of Stockton are chained.  I have learned how to make a podcast and indeed have over a dozen submitted to YouTube and they are out there.  But only bots are looking at them. It's ok though that is what has to be done to have the bots let go of the strings and unchain my gates.  So far I have used content from my WordPress musings for read pieces. But I am trying to develop a line in Tall Tales From Towers which entirely aviation related 

Sunday 21st September
The switch from light to dark. The year's pivot. All is well and the last ten days was usefully spent first by visiting the flat, sorting out the next step in my marathon with Willow Tree.
Boat maintenance is just beginning. I need leads for my multimeter and a way of getting oil out of the sump and it is WIP.  I have almost totally sorted my WordPress persona and how to manipulate media.  YouTube is WIP I have had my first snot-run of the season in fact today is its 6th day and it is very mild. 

Saturday27th September 
Almost another week logged and I am up river nearer Morrisons just to get a different view of things. The weather has been getting slowly but progressively colder during the past week but a high sitting over England is conveniently keeping the wind calm and the cloud light. Radiation heat loss is a thing but the loss is minimal and means that the gauges are staying above the critical threshold where I will have to introduce the Hampshire. I am sleeping extremely well under the duvet with supplementary towels and waking after dawn.  Today I had my service wash in at 8.30 and out at 12.30 fitting a run to the market and further searching for unrefined cane sugar into the intervening space. 

Monday 29th September
The month ended with my taking a couple of marathon bus/train journeys to find a factory outlet in Droitwich Spa. On 30th I chose to go northabout Coventry Solihull and kinda lost it as I could not find a way to get west to pick up bus lines to Droitwich eventually finding my way to Bromwich via rugely . If I had to do the trip again I thing Coventry BIRMINGHAM would be more sensible. 

Tuesday 30th September
The previous day I had tried it by Stratford Evesham Worcester Droitwich and met Chris Lawlor at a bus stop who not only gave me a guided tour of the town on a 20 bus landing me at the station to get a train home VIA BIRMINGHAM but I found Chris had a terrific sense of humour and owns her own hotel in the town I was born in and it is not the protestant one either 

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