Living on a Narrowboat Diary Lisa Warner

We wake up in Northampton and go to Delapre Abbey for breakfast. We are early so we talk a stroll around the beautiful gardens. We spend a leisurely morning with our friends before heading to Curries to buy a printer. The one we want is not in stock so order one from Milton Keynes for collection later. We head to the office to do some work, pop in to see my mum and then pick Mia up from school. We spend a lovely couple of hours playing games and enjoying a Pizza birthday feast.

It has always been our plan to head out on our boat for our 6-week cruise but our plans change suddenly. I promise to update you tomorrow when our plans are finalised.

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It is a significant day in the next stage of opening up the country after lockdown, pubs and restaurants are now open and you can now go inside peoples houses. You can even give people a hug!

We head to Northampton, first stop at the office and then onto a Travelodge. We are celebrating our friends birthday at the pub. We stop off at Chloe’s to drop off the awning pole that Glenn fixed yesterday, it was so good to be able to pop in and have a cup of tea. We stroll to the Collingtree and meet up with our friends, it was sooo good to see them.

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The weather forecast predicted rain all day so we decided to stay on the boat. Glenn tried out some soldering bars that he had brought from eBay and I busied myself cooking a lamb biriyani.

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Glenn takes a trip to Watford to deliver a couple of boxes, he then does some jobs that have been bothering him - including replacing some rotten wood around the galley window. Mum and I walk take a stroll into Burnham on Sea and have a mooch around the shops, we stop for a coffee and a toasted teacake and get back to the caravan before the rain starts.

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I am still in Somerset with my mum spend the morning visiting graveyards in my ancestry search. We head to Norton Fitzwarren and then to Staplegrove. I am surprised we find my mums aunt and uncle, plus several other potential members of my family. I am really loving Ancestry!

Glenn finishes packing his fulfilment job and gets the last of the packages despatched.

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Mums and I head to Burnham on Sea for a little holiday while Glenn has a fulfilment job to do at the office.

Once we have checked in to our caravan on the haven site, we go to the town to watch the RNLI boats launch. My nephew James is a crew member so my mum proudly has her photo taken with him. My brother is a head launcher but he isn’t training today so he tells us what is going on.

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