I’ve never understood those people who don’t want to move out of their parental home as adults. As lovely (and beautifully decorated) as mine was, the thing I was most excited about in life was to get my hands on a space to make my own. Having rented several accommodations during my student years, my first property bought outright (unusually, at the age of 22), was a 35-foot narrowboat with my now-husband Hessy. We met whilst at art college, and quickly made it our mission to live on the water. We bought The Long-Haired Eel as an empty shell, moored on the river Thames, and lovingly did her up, selling her a few years later to buy Lady Rose of Regents: a 70-foot wide-beam barge with windows all around.
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