The Tuck-Woods have expanded! Blog World welcome Beans the Miniature Shetland. Yes he is beyond gorgeous and has an attitude to match, but if you are like anyone else I have told so far, you’ll be sat there shouting at your reading device … But where will you keep him?! My response … Have you […]
Read more "Family Expansion – Welcome Beans"It truly is a wonderful World we get to live in (When you forget all the bad things and focus on the good things at least!), but let’s stay positive here folks! I wrote previously on how I worried about the way I portray the lifestyle we have chosen on social media and the impact […]
Read more "Life on the canals – Scenery to make your heart skip"A lot of people wonder about how home comforts work on a Narrow Boat home. Well utilities aren’t on tap, so it’s the one area that really differs from people’s original concept of a home. Utilities are very much dependent on you bringing them on board. Electric is either provided by batteries or on shore […]
Read more "Narrow Boat Home Comforts – The Night the gas ran out"An amazing almost social experiment video seems to be doing the rounds at the minute on you guessed it … social media. It looks to challenge what we see through our phone screens and the true reality of what went into each shot, along with the impact this has on those around us. If you’re […]
Read more "Instagram vs Reality – Should we worry about what we show online?"Tranquility, peace, idyllic, quiet, all words which spring to mind when people consider a life aboard a narrowboat. Ideas which are 90% founded on truth. However, following my experience last night, it’s time to consider that other 10%. Boats are blumin noisy, and a lot of the time noisy with unidentified, terrifying, are we sinking noises. […]
Read more "Living on a Narrowboat – What goes glug in the night!"In the words of Queen Bey herself This one goes out to all the women. At dinner last week we were being asked the standard questions about boat life, how long do you see yourself staying, how do you cook, do you have a toilet etc etc etc. When the girls of the table got down […]
Read more "Where do all of your clothes go on a narrowboat?"People, well none boat people (After over three months we are starting to class ourselves a boatyish folk), have a lot of notions about Narrowboats and life on the canals. One of those wonderfully misguided notions is ‘Oh it must be so romantic’ Granted I can see where the idea comes from, it’s a small […]
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