Thanks to Mellor Auto Electrical in Ossett, West Yorkshire, the Mikuni Diesel heater’s been working reliably for several months
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Thaw and freeze
A week before Christmas the ice had thawed just enough to move the boat from where we’d been frozen in for two weeks. British Waterways phoned to say we might be able to travel back to Leeds in a couple of days, and they booked us in to travel through the staircase locks. Things were looking up: we might be back on our winter mooring soon.