The Real Life of a Narrowboat Wife

Saturday 7th August After experiencing a couple of lengthy train delays at Roydon station, I decided it might be almost as quick to walk t...

Friday 6th August Sometimes I feel depressed, lonely, isolated, and anxious. Mothering books and internet chat forums reassure me that thi...

Boat Wife is on page 61 of issue 61

Thursday 5th August This is my first whole day away from the children in nine months. It’s supposed to be for writing but I have such a ba...

2nd August Two of the plastic people have gone overboard. I was on the back deck shaking crumbs off the play mat – I didn’t realise that I...

31st July It is raining in heaven today. Diamante beads glisten on the tangled pink flowers bravely wavering in the breeze outside the bat...

3rd August I went to visit Single Boat Mum for the evening. Her boating neighbours made us dinner and we all sat out on deck chairs on th...