Introducing Fran at "Bonnie of Clyde"
This week for Wednesday Friends Day I would like to introduce Fran and her blog called Bonnie of Clyde.
Fran, an English teacher, and her husband Pete, a builder, live in the United Kingdom. 
They have purchased a 58-foot ex-ammunitions barge that they have named Bonnie, hence Bonnie of Clyde. They are in the process of renovating her into their dream retirement home. Much of Fran's blog chronicles what they have done so far. Here's a list of her posts so you can take a look at the progress so far.
Introduction - Bonnie's beginningFran and I both speak English, but I'm always finding a few words that I've never encountered before. I always love learning new things. Here are a few examples:
Work done so far...
Busy Two Weeks
Getting Ready to Launch
New Hatch
Home At Last
Busy Busy Busy
Work Resumes...
Two hatches
All black and shiny!
And now a floor
Pantry and Utility
Lower floor plan
And then there was lightSunday, a day of rest
Things that won't go bump in the night
Bigger Holes -
Bedroom Roof
Getting Ready
Going....Going....
Gone!!
Window Frames
Roof/Floor
More Floor/Roof
strimmed - same as using a weed eaterThanks Fran for teaching me something new in every post. So head on over to check out Fran's blog. And tell her a friend sent you. -- Margy
chuffed - delighted with yourself
allotment - land parcels assigned for individual gardening
damsons - a type of plum
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4 comments:
Making a 58-foot river barge into a dream home? Wonderful. I'm now following Bonnie's blog. Lots of memories come to mind.
In the very early 70s, I found a wonderful little tugboat for sale, the Ocean Belle, and wanted to convert her to a live-aboard. I talked to my bank manager about it, and he said he could lend me the price of the tug if I planned to work it, but not if I wanted to take out the engine room and make it into a den.
Sigh.
And I was never able to buy a caboose, either. And never had the opportunity to camperize a cube van. So sad, and now I'm too old.
Sigh.
But I'm going to love reading Fran's blog.
Re the Englishisms, I knew all of them except strimmed. For example, I'm dead chuffed to know more about English words than you do. And, aow, yas, we grow damsons on our allotment, don'tcha know?
Cute, the Brits. (Over there, cute means intelligent, or at least it used to.)
What fun, Margy.
-- K
What a lovely surprise, thank you so much for featuring my blog. And welcome to Kay too. I am dead chuffed and tickled pink about it!
I too have been learning some Canadisms like 'repurpose', I had never heard that expression before we use 'recycle' or 'reuse'. Thank you again xxxx
Kay - Our family lost pretty much all our English traditions over the years. My father's family was from England and came to the States via Canada. Same for my Mother's father's family. Maybe I was destined to become Canadian with a family history like that. I guess the last link to my English ancestry to go was Christmas plum pudding, but even that was years ago.
Fran - Thanks for becoming a blogger friend. I had fun sharing you and Bonnie with my other friends this week.
Margy
I was on Fran's blog and saw the picture first and thought "hey this has to be British Columbia"... since I am a Vancouver Island girl.. .and then I read the post... Loved it!
Cheers
Tracy
www.goodgirlgoneaverage.blogspot.com
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