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DeenaI
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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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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
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Feather-brained queuing on the cut?

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#journey #boatlife #travel #narrowboat #queues #moving #birds #ducks #heron #swans
Feather-brained queuing
Farewell October 2025, month of queues!The drought and hot weather of the past two years has led to an historic shortage of water in Britain’s canals and the reservoirs that feed them. It was the d…
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November 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Foxton Locks looks stunning tonight ❤️
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Made it up Watford Locks on their first day open again 👏

#boatlife
#travel
#journey
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Au revoir, farewell

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#autumn #winter #journey #travel #boatlife #canals #water #drought #changes #climatechange
Au revoir
Finally we bid farewell to the Grand Union main line and turn back on the Leicester Line. How far we shall get with water shortages remains to be seen, but we are about 14th in the queue for Watfor…
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October 25, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Now there's an idea ... not sure it will get through many bridges!
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Enjoying a final flourish

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#autumn #season #winter #leaves #traditions #canals #water #hope #nature #journeys #travel
Enjoying a final flourish
It’s here, and it feels wonderful to embrace autumn, particularly this year after the long dry spring and summer, that turned everything to dust. Living and working on a boat brings nature and the …
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October 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Says it all!🤣
October 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Belonging as boat people and walking with royalty

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#boatpeople #boatlife #communities #community #communication #care #travel #journey #life #history #belonging #contribute
Belonging as boat people and walking with royalty
How long does it take to put down roots, to feel a sense of belonging, to feel part of a community? Being a nomad, I reckon a couple of days often does it for me, but I am aware it’s different for …
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October 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Living afloat gives more little things (even in a storm!)

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#small #wellbeing #moments #travel #boatlife #journey #joy #nature #goodlife #kindness #mincepies
Small matters
Living and working afloat is rich in small moments. Small things that make days special. Small moments of pause. Small moments of reflection. Small moments of calm or small moments of excitement an…
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October 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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😊
September 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Blushing skies 💓
September 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Steeling ourselves for the future

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#welding #planning #journey #travel #future #academics #awayday #dog #boatlife #water #autumn #river
Steeling ourselves for the future
Trust is vital when you let someone cut out a chunk of your floating home with an angle grinder while you’re on the water… Trust we had but I still feel glad the dramatic work is over, and we are s…
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September 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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❤️
September 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Until today I had never driven a day boat. Now I'm hooked! So much more responsive than our narrowboat!!!

Great fun
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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5 years afloat in our living better experiment - and how many thousand locks?

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#life #alternativeliving #boatlife #challenges #journeys #travel #moving #doit #justdoit #boat #dogs #anniversary
Results from an experiment in living differently
Our “Let’s give it 2 years and see what happens” experiment in living and working afloat has just passed 5 years!In that time with our 50ft floating home/office/workshop we have travelled 3,530 mil…
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September 20, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Making the most of freebies on offer

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#foraging #boatife #freefood #giving #sloes #fruit #elderberries #blackberries #rosehips #satisfaction #wellbeing #making #jelly #jam #gin #history
Free food and well-being
There is little as rewarding for mind and body as a foraging stroll, ideally for me with a dog, along towpath hedgerows. Crab apples This year despite the drought, many fruits are early and so plen…
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September 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Give - to anyone who needs it, anyone whatever their background.

This is my 64th donation and Im glad to give for as long as I can

#giveblood
#givetoothers
#humanity
September 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Reflections in the stillness

#canal
#boatlife
#reflections
September 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Narrowboating to America for guidance. Bizarre but true.

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#boatlife #care #betterplace #action #Kennedy #MagnaCarta #America #thought #journey #travel #art
By narrowboat to America for world guidance
Travelling to the United States of America by narrowboat is not something I ever thought we would be able to do, but this summer, we did just that. We travelled down the River Thames to the Berkshi…
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September 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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The pound below Stoke Bruerne locked locks being filled from the River Tove - fuller than it was thanks to recent rain

#boatlife
#excitingstuff
#water
September 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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❤️
September 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Did we make it? Plus comfort from history

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#saga #journey #travel #drama #closure #drought #boatlife #history #howsyourweekbeen
Historical perspectives and Operation Sanctuary result
We did it. The fable of the tortoise and the hare proved valid for (certain) narrowboats and their crews in 2025. Slow, dogged determination won the day against The Drought and The Closure of Locks…
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August 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM