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Narrowboat liveaboard, HE consultant, writer. Interests: family, canals (nb Preaux), crafts, dogs and ducks. Views personal. Website www.pickingupducks.co.uk
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Best of all worlds?

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#boatlife #choice #mindful #nature #option #sleep #television #wellbeing #wild
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…
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February 7, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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Lore, life and looking forward

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#candlemas #traditions #weather #lore #boatlife #candles #pancake #history
Signs, symbols and significance
Next Monday is Candlemas Day, a day traditionally of long range weather prediction, pancakes and of course, candles. Weather lore is more than folklore, but based on sensory observations over many …
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January 31, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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New beginnings amid big changes

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#boatlife #community #baby #newarrivals #support #flood
Inspiring new beginnings amid the winds of change
How rapidly things change for us, and not just river levels! Last week we were awaiting the arrival of a grandchild. He finally arrived in the early hours of a Tuesday morning, a big lad whose arri…
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January 24, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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Visit of the Prime Minister of Denmark 22nd Jawary 2026 We'll get by with a little help from our friends
January 23, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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Aaargh! We are out of control

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#saga #boatlife #waiting #beauty #calm #gratitude
Out of control
This has been a week of waiting. Waiting with anticipation and a little anxiety for a baby to arrive; waiting for the threatened rain and more flooding after things had begun to subside; waiting fo…
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January 17, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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Distraction needed - flooding accepted!

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#storm #boatlife #flooding #danger #risk #distraction
Displacement activity including another named storm
This Storm Goretti, aka Storm Spaghetti as a certain 8-year old dubbed it this week has kept us guessing. We had a warning of “significant snowfall” so someone was expecting a snow day of making sn…
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January 10, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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Fact not fantasy - the reality of living your dream

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#dream #journey #boatlife #goals #fantasy #canals #rivers #reflection #travel
Live your dream
Many of us start a new year with a reflective look back at the old, but for us circumstances have resulted in a rather further look back than usual. A new day, a new dawn With a new grandchild very…
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January 3, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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December 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Coping when you have no idea what's going to happen next

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#flood #breach #storm #boatlife #blog #travel #journey #year #narrowboat
What to do when the only certainty is uncertainty
2025 has been been a dramatic year living afloat on the inland waterways. It started on New Year’s Day with a large breach of the Bridgewater canal at Little Bollington in Cheshire, a breach …
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December 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Celebrating the return of the light ☀️
December 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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We wish you a very happy Christmas

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#Christmas #journey #travel #boatlife #Christmaswishes #canals #rivers #narrowboat #boatdog
Wishing you a very Happy Christmas from all of us aboard nb Preaux
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December 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Good morning! ❤️

#sunrise
December 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Changes of scene and an open invitation

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#christmas #boatlife #river #flood #journey #travel #boatdog #dog #housesitting
Coming, going and an invitation for you
It’s been looking a lot like Christmas this week. The on/off flood situation continues and water remains an issue both around and in the boat.  And Christmas is edging nearer. Last weekend saw…
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December 13, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Bridging the years from 8-94 ❤️

#greatgranny
#generations
#family
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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It's Panto not Pants living on a river in winter - oh yes it is!

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#boatlife #weather #canal #river #pantomime #panto #markets #Christmas #hope #crafting
Panto not pants living and working afloat in winter (Oh yes it is!)
Oh yes it has, oh no it hasn’t, been one of those weeks! Seems appropriate as Christmas and panto season is arriving with alarming alacrity.Having cancelled our floating trading licence after the w…
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December 6, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Soar with us through river life and history amd guess what ? It's raining hard again!

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#river #flood #flooding #industry #danger #life #boatlife #history #awareness #travel #journey #riskmanagement
Soar-ing deep, high and demanding
In one of his 43 poems – yes, 43 – about the life of a river, Ted Hughes observes: The winter floods have ruined her. She squats between draggled banks, fingering her rags  &n…
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November 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Unexpected celebrity, travel, and drama

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#canal #boatlife #journey #travel #celebrity #life #winter #family #sunset #nature
Unexpected celebrity status plus unscheduled drama
For the first time the passage of our 50ft floating home (plus office,studio, and workshop) along inland waterways in sub zero temperatures made a man dash out onto his balcony in just his dressing…
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November 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Icy metal this morning - my gloves just got stuck to the lock ❄️
#boatlife
#travel
#journey
#winter
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Not an umbrella or a mushroom but a heron taking off 🤣

#boatlife
#journey
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Leicester Line looking spectacular tonight #sunset #boatlife #travel #journey ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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H2 - Oh too much and too little!

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#rain #tide #water #boatife
#holiday #boat #mindfulness
#offgrid #awareness #travel
H2 Oh!
Water – essential, but not the same for everyone or everywhere.For everyone water is vital to keep us alive, to keep our bodies going, to make us and the plants and animals we depend on, grow…
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November 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Boatdog is Beachdog this week!
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Past present and perfect

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#history #locks #art #print #boats #canals #women #museum #unmissable #boatlife #past
Past present and perfect
History isn’t something in the past if you live on the waterways. It is part of the present, entwined in daily life, in constant reminders, as we walk on and in the very footsteps of the past worn …
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November 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Such a good day volunteering back on the Soar for CRT forgot to take any pictures!

#volunteering
#canals
#rivers
#boatlife
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM