Sass emailed me and said that she, Weiller, Lami and Chandra are going on a canoe trip, and I felt rather homesick. Since going up to the Lake District, I've been aching to get a canoe and since the Flatmate and I want to find a place with a garden, I thought "hmmmm...now I'll have storage space for one" so I went on ebay to investigate. The ones that weren't inflatable or actually kayaks (why can't British people get that right?) were rather quite expensive, but then I saw this...a diy canoe kit for only £10! A project for when daddy comes to visit this Autumn (you didn't really want to leave my backyard - did you Dad? My wonderful daddy has build a couple beautiful cedar strip canoes from scratch, and has wonderfully restored and repainted an old canvas war canoe, if I may be so bold as to brag about my dad's wonderful talents!)
Well, I'll give it a think. As for now, I'm expecting my mail-order teach yourself Swedish course to arrive any day now...
It's funny how you can be homesick for a place that's not your home. I want to go canoeing w the girls toooooooooooo!
ReplyDeleteFraggle, you'll appreciate this: our church is doing DVBS next week and I'm the 'Storyteller'. One story calls for a boat with instructions how to make one out of cardboard - like I have time! So, not knowing anyone with a Israel-y fishing boat or even a dory, I'm bringing in a canoe. Our little Canadian younglings will from now on envision the disciple Peter stepping out in faith from a Voyager. :)
I've stepped out in faith from a voyager many times, but I've always sunk! I've also gunnel-bobbed from voyagers many times! I've sunk from doing that as well, but it's so fun!
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