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Best of all worlds and best for choice?

It is interesting to see your own way of life portrayed on television, particularly if it is a little different. We are familiar with Robbie Cumming’s Canal Boat Diaries and always thought them the most honest representation of how we found narrowboat life. Then there was Narrow Escapes which, while entertaining, bore little familiarity toContinue reading “Best of all worlds and best for choice?”

Frustrated, stuck and keen to be part of a solution – but how?

There is only one way to go right now for us, and that’s retracing our steps – literally. We are currently moored some yards from the junction of the Macclesfield Canal with the Peak Forest Canal having come up the Macc this week. Our aim was to head down the Peak Forest Canal via theContinue reading “Frustrated, stuck and keen to be part of a solution – but how?”