Last week for us was yet another crammed with memorable moments. It makes me realise that it’s not possessions or work but people and events that make most of our important memories. What memories will you keep from last week? We came to London to run a marathon and that’s just what Steve did. WeContinue reading “A memorable week – was yours?”
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Our slowlife 5-day week – how does yours compare?
This is a week designed to get Steve to the start line of the London Marathon for Sunday morning. Unlike others taking trains or cars, we’re going by narrowboat and starting this leg of the journey from Leighton Buzzard. Monday – Set off from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire in steady rain accompanied by a strongContinue reading “Our slowlife 5-day week – how does yours compare?”
It’s not a sprint – it’s a marathon
Sunday October 3 sees the return of the London Marathon to the English capital after a pandemic hiatus. For us, having made it down there and moored our narrowboat in the city for the first time, it will be a momentous, nail-biting day. Steve will leave the boat on that Sunday morning to run 26.2Continue reading “It’s not a sprint – it’s a marathon”
Man overboard, a marathon and fear
Our first night of permanent living on the boat felt much like another holiday on board, albeit more crowded with ‘stuff’ and surrounded by familiar things from home. Our first morning brought high drama. 6.08am in September without streetlights is dark. Our black spaniel returned to the boat from his morning constitutional and gleefully jumpedContinue reading “Man overboard, a marathon and fear”
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