Karen Bent talks about how her life has changed since moving onto a boat. Its not just a different lifestyle - you have to change your whole attitude to life.
To maintain a more relaxed approach to life, we headed for the Llangollen Canal; we'd been here last year in May, & we hoped for a different Autumn perspective.
Our travels this year so far have been anything but straightforward with the amount of different issues we've had with every canal we've been on.
Back in the Peak District, Karen and Rob Bent set out to climb Mam Tor, only to find that they have come down the wrong way and will have to climb to the top again...
Back in the day, when I was an Further Education College Lecturer, my yearly party piece was greeting my entire new student cohort (between 25-30 students) by their first names when they came back from their first coffee break.