In the beginning
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We have only a vague recollection of how this started. Like most things in our lives, a combination of events has led Nicki and myself to the point where we are embarking on ‘a bit of an adventure’.
We think the idea appeared about two years ago, following one of those “what are we going to do when we retire” conversations – the children had either left home or were in the process of doing so, and the house was going to be far too big for just the two of us; we didn’t necessarily want to stay in Crowthorne, but had no firm ideas of a future, other than I didn’t want to be tied down to one fixed location. So what to do?
At that point one of us (and neither of us is accepting the blame) said, what about living on a barge? After all, we’d had a week’s holiday with the girls about 12 years ago on a narrow boat and enjoyed that. What a great idea we agreed. Little did we realise what we were letting ourselves in for, and how quickly it would gather speed.
