HeyJaredSaved by Grace
How selling everything to live on a narrow boat to continuously cruise the canals & rivers of the UK totally changed my life
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‘Don’t fence me in’... (opens the original)
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Back in the day, I was a self employed fitness/Pilates/yoga instructor, teaching classes in my local community; I was always able to identify if anyone wasn’t in class (other than them not being able to cross them off the register) just by visually scanning the room as EVERYONE always stood or placed their mat in exactly the same place in the room every week. When the first member of a group of friends arrived, they’d begin picking up mats and equipment for their entire group and begin the proce
A glass half full... (opens the original)
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The last few weeks have felt strangely unsettling, despite having lovely things to celebrate. It was recently our 40th wedding anniversary (on my 69th birthday) and it felt as if we’d been talking about the fact we’d been married for SO LONG for months. I felt a kind of pressure to do something ‘special’ to mark the occasion, which made me want it to be over, so I could settle down again and just get on with my normal life. I was determined to celebrate both my birthday and our anniversary in wa
Regrets, I’ve had a few... (opens the original)
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I’ve spent the morning cleaning…I know, just call me Cinderella…and whilst doing so, thought to myself ‘how did we end up living on a narrow boat?’ You might think the choice to sell our house and have a narrow boat built came as a result of years of canal boat holidays or a dream we always had to live on a boat, but the truth is much more prosaic.Like most homeowners, we had a fair amount of money tied up in the house and we thought by selling it and buying a narrow boat, we could release some
Are we (nearly) there yet? (opens the original)
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Chatting with our eldest grandson the other day reminded me of the phrase ‘are we nearly there yet’, something we used to say to our parents on what seemed like interminably long car journeys when we were children. Said grandson has just become a father for the first time and it’s interesting how feelings about parenthood and family life have changed in my my lifetime.When I was a child in the 1960s, contraception was very different to what it is now and women were often terrified of becoming pr
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