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Updated February 2021So why did we take to the water?
My wife can't swim, the dog hates it and I prefer beer.
Financially we were afloat and we lived in a perfectly decent house until my wife came up with the zany idea of living on a boat.
I'd just got home from work, via the pub, when Jan asked me to watch a video while she prepared our frugal meal.
I watched a pair of old fogies trundling along a canal in the rain on a narrowboat.
You can imagine my reply when she asked if I fancied emulating the sodden wrinklies and taking to the water.
She's a lady of vision and determination (she married me after all) but this was elevating madness to a whole new level.
Jan's oncologist had her a few years previously that she probably wouldn't see the new millennium, so she had a different perspective about the future than many people.
Despite lots of huffing and head-shaking, twelve months later we had sold a perfectly respectable house, given up a job that kept us in cornflakes and moved onto a metal hole less than a tenth the size of our house - excluding garden.
It was the 4th July 2003 - independence day.We knew nothing about narrowboats - their workings, waterways lore and how we would cope being cooped up together - particularly when it's minus five and the nearest shop is miles away.
We had a mountain to climb - which you can only do by using locks, and we'd never done a lock.
A more accurate analogy is shooting the rapids because our venture took on a life of it's own and we were washed down stream on a tide of enthusiasm and ignorance.
We had to make it work or the people who had laughed and scoffed would be proved right - we really were mad.
Well, make it work we did, and we're still boating twelve years on.
It's marvelous and it possibly saved Jan's life.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:214 pages
- Publisher:Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:18/06/2015
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- ISBN:9781514604489
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:214 pages
- Publisher:Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:18/06/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781514604489
