Housed in bricks and mortar for a life-time, I decided once my children left home that I wanted to know what it would be like to live the life unlived. In the midst of the Covid pandemic, I realised the time had come to sell up and fulfil a lifelong dream of living on the water. In 2021 I bought my first narrowboat and moved onto a mooring on the River Nene.

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When I am not working, my Cross Collie Labrador, Lily and I share surroundings with a multitude of wildlife; herons, kingfishers, swans, coots and cormorants. As I sit here now to write, I am looking up at swooping Canada Geese, and down, through the light reflections on the water, at an array of bobbing fish. 

When the river is not in flood, life afloat is mostly peaceful and serene!