Living Aboard a Narrow Boat – Our one year anniversary

So now we have been with boat for an entire year, whilst the time has flown it’s also quite difficult to remember the time pre-Fantine, isn’t it strange the way that happens! Looking back at the post where we first announced that we were narrow home owners it’s hard to believe she is even our […]

Are narrow boats cold? – The night the fire didn’t work

Any regular readers of this blog will of likely noted I have two favourite topics. The weather. The fire. I cover the weather a lot, and you could argue I’ve already used my 4 months (The time the average Brit spends talking about it in their lifetime) in January and February this year. Only you […]

I Think it’s Time to Move – Barge-Inn-Booze

Now I tend to not be too loud about where I’m from, not that I’m particularly embarrassed by it, just not loud and proud of it either. I’m from a small market town on the outskirts of Stoke-On-Trent. But this is all about to change, as a matter of fact I’m heading home tonight to […]

I see Clutter – Living in a small space

It’s time to admit it, I’m a bit of a fraud. This time last year I was posting blog after blog of how to de-clutter your life and get boat ready inspiration. It would seem, that despite my best efforts and promises I have now fallen back into a clutter loving life. Admittedly I am […]

Snap back to reality

Firstly an apology, I feel like I’ve been rather quiet on the blog this last month or so. Honestly I’ve been struggling with what to put up here for you all, yes there have been mini adventures out on the waterways, but no near broken elbows or wet toes to report. So I haven’t really […]

Hello is there anybody there? – Winter Holidays

Sorry for the radio silence this last week, but we’ve been away. You may remember this time last year we took a break from the grey of January and followed the sunshine to Morocco, in a similar step this year we took a week in Edinburgh. Ok so maybe a little different, but a couple […]

So you have your own Google Maps thing? – How to navigate canals

Disclaimer here for all you proper boaty folk, we’re not experts on this, so please chip in to correct our errors. A question recently came up on how we navigate the canal network, not so much physically, but more so from a planning perspective. I recently wrote about our planned summer family staycation weekend, and […]

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