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In this episode, I chat with andy, who has lived in his van for the last 21/2 years. He talks about travelling and living in the van, plus walking and his love of narrowboats. Andy has said that if you want to ask any questions with regards to buying boats to contact him at Andrew Richards info@grandunionboatservices.com

He is exceptionally passionate and wants to ensure that customers get the right boat for themselves.

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Welcome back to season 2 of the Alternative Living Chats podcast. Please get in touch with me at info@nevertwolateourjourney if you would like to join me for a chat.

This episode i chat to Mark wood who along with his wife poacked up their belongings into a rucksack and are travelling around the UK camping and house sitting. Its a fascinating chat.

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This week's chat is with author Andy Griffee. He discusses how it all started and how he ensures authenticity in his books. You can follow him on social media and sign up for his newsletters via his website, www.andygriffee.co.uk.
In order of publication, the books are Canal Pushers, River Rats, and Oxford Blues. They are all available on kindle or can be ordered directly from https://www.orphanspublishing.co.uk. They are also available to order hardbacks or paperbacks via Amazon and all good bookshops.

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A lifetime ago, almost to the day, it turned cooler after an uncustomary warm and dry couple of weeks. Synoptic charts show high pressure moving up the country dragging with it frontal systems. No doubt, on that day, some looked at the clouds and grumbled. And life carried on as it had the days before. Engines shunted in sidings. People waited at bus stops. Shop tills rang out. Dogs barked. And, in the cabin of a small boat moored on the bank of the Grand Union, I took my first breath of air; sweet with cow pasture, and nettles, and paraffin. 

Journal entry:

“27th April, Tuesday.

This morning dawned with frost and golden washes of light. 
 I discovered a new patch of cowslips and hawthorns budding, and the first mallow and bugle clusters shouldering their way into the sunshine. 
 It should have been perfect. 
 The birds sang with a brilliant clarity managing to subsume the aural gash of traffic.
 But it wasn’t. 

Everything felt a little off kilter. 
 My shoulders and legs ached. 
 - Not so much in pain – just an awareness of them being there, 
 So that walking was not an automatic act, 
 But a conscious and deliberative one. 
 Consequently, it felt awkward, clumsy – not natural.

The morning chill lost that exhilarating feel and sank into my bones. 
 A racing mind that gravitates to the dark edges
 Where formless unease lurks. 

It was not that I was untouched by the world in which I walked, 
 Those spots of beauty – touches of joy, 
 But sometimes perfection and beauty lie in the small details
 Not the whole. 

Even Eden had its serpent.
 Et in Arcadia ego
‘Even in Arcadia , there I am.’”    

Episode Information

In this episode I talk about my mother’s memoirs that she wrote about her time living on the canal. You can hear more about her in Episode 2 The Erica behind the Erica and hear me reading an excerpt from her writing in which she described the harsh winter of 1963 in Episode 9 The Winter of 1962/63. 

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.

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