{"id":12274,"date":"2017-09-24T20:35:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T19:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12274"},"modified":"2017-10-15T08:10:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T07:10:33","slug":"bobbing-about-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12274","title":{"rendered":"Bobbing about a bit"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a change to our typical weekends (although I’m still not terribly sure what a typical weekend is), the four of us have spent the weekend cruising\/living on a narrowboat.<\/p>\n

There’s a reason behind this waterbourne adventure, but more on that another time.<\/p>\n

We spent Friday night, all of Saturday (inc night) and a good stretch of Sunday\u00a0aboard ‘Carlton’<\/a>, a 56′ narrowboat belonging to Ashby Boats<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The weather held fantastic all weekend.<\/p>\n

During our two days afloat we cruised from Stoke Golding in Warwickshire to Shackerstone in Leicestershire.<\/p>\n

Overnight we stopped at a remote stretch of canalside\/countryside, a few miles north of Market Bosworth.<\/p>\n

The peace and quiet Saturday night was awesome.<\/p>\n

Total.<\/p>\n

And there was absolutely zero light pollution.<\/p>\n

It has been a very relaxing weekend.<\/p>\n

But our lookouts were rubbish.<\/p>\n

\"Lookouts\"
Lookouts not looking out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had a going-upstream and coming-downstream conversation with a woman who has lived on her narrowboat for 13 years.<\/p>\n

She said that selling up and becoming a liveaboard was the best thing she’s ever done.<\/p>\n

When I asked her what the worst thing about being a liveaboard was, she thought about it before saying ‘muddy towpaths in the winter’.<\/p>\n

She was a very jolly lady who, when we came back downstream, was about to start wielding an angle-grinder onto the outside of her boat (Nimrod).<\/p>\n

It’s been a fun weekend, and one very different from any we’ve had.<\/p>\n

This is the view when we woke up on Saturday morning:<\/p>\n

\"Narrowboat:
Narrowboat: the view outside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although we live in a quiet country village, the change in the view, and the shift in the pace of life were very welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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