Boat life newspaper article. This has to be a wind up?

[nbfiresprite]

25 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

I doesn't look very fat in this picture ;

 

 

It does in this one, quite clearly at least a ten foot beam.

 

 

Edited January 15, 2021 by nbfiresprite

[peterboat]

1 minute ago, nbfiresprite said:

It does in this one quite clearly

 

 

I noticed that as well thought she did ok for 40k

[Alan de Enfield]

3 minutes ago, nbfiresprite said:

It does in this one quite clearly

 

 

 

Totally different boat - maybe she has two ?

 

It looks a bit anorexic here :

 

Edited January 15, 2021 by Alan de Enfield

[Athy]

33 minutes ago, David Schweizer said:

 They had a tradition of always going for a swim on Christmas Day morning, which often involved breaking the ice first. I don't know if they still do that.

Organ Morgan, the music master at the school at which I taught in Regent's Park, was a member, and apparently did the Christmas Day dip. He used to mention "mortification of the flesh". He seemed quite sane apart from that.

[LadyG]

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[Jen-in-Wellies]

13 minutes ago, Lysander said:

The maths is defeating me. She was earning £90k a year but only managed to save £2000 a month. At the end of 2 years she only had £20k (she seems to have lost £28k on the way). Then with that and £10k from an inheritance and £10k from her family she has bought a boat with a broken bog...

You are expecting a Sun article to make sense and be true? That is just setting yourself up for a world of frustration! ?

Not worth the expenditure in brain cells trying.

[nbfiresprite]

51 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

 

There are a number of clues that prove that this is a wide beam in your picture. Note the pallet laid length ways across the roof.

The standard pallet length is 120cm (48 1/2 inches), The average width of a liverpool narrowboat roof is 146cm (57 1/2 inches)

from handrail to handrail. The gap between the pallet edge and the hand rail is far wider on either side than 26cm (10 1/4 inches)

that would be available on a narrowboat roof in total.  Prepack BBQ's  also come in standard sizes, as do vending machine cups,

butter packs, drink cans, They can also be used to guage the width.    

[Alan de Enfield]

4 minutes ago, nbfiresprite said:

 

There are a number of clues that prove that this is a wide beam in your picture. Note the pallet laid length ways across the roof.

The standard pallet length is 120cm (48 1/2 inches), The average width of a liverpool narrowboat roof is 146cm (57 1/2 inches)

from handrail to handrail. The gap between the pallet edge and the hand rail is far wider on either side than 26cm (10 1/4 inches)

that would be available on a narrowboat roof in total.  Prepack BBQ's  also come in standard sizes, as do vending machine cups,

butter packs, drink cans, They can also be used to guage the width.    

I was working on 'laying her on her back' and thinking that she'd just about touch both rails.

 

It certainly looks like a NB at the backend 

 

[MartinW]

I'm just glad that she feels healthier. In photos from her previous life she has a painful neck condition that causes her to constantly look up into an inexplicable middle distance. 

 

[Mike Todd]

2 hours ago, nbfiresprite said:

But it is a wide beam, so you don't get much for £40K, 

 

As for swiming in lakes, Quite a few people have been nicked for swiming in the lake in Victoria Park, There is also the London Fields Lido.

And there are the lakes and reservoirs along the river lee upto Ware from Hackney Marshes.

Most of the reservoirs seemed to me to be well fenced off.

[ditchcrawler]

2 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:

Just out of interest, how do you break a composting loo?

Dr Bob will tell us next month after he has tried empting his

[enigmatic]

3 hours ago, doratheexplorer said:

The main thing I can't get my head around, is why did she need to quit her job when she bought a boat?  If she was earning £90k a year, she could have bought the boat, gone part time to half her hours and had the best of both worlds.  None of it makes a shred of sense. 

I think London law firms are sceptical enough if you want to go part time, even before you add that you're never going to shower again, start smelling of woodsmoke and diesel and try to align your work schedule with bowel movements!

[ditchcrawler]

3 minutes ago, enigmatic said:

I think London law firms are sceptical enough if you want to go part time, even before you add that you're never going to shower again, start smelling of woodsmoke and diesel and try to align your work schedule with bowel movements!

My daughter worked with a Law firm for a few months, she is a specialist in Data protection but not a Lawyer hence working with a law company. She was very pleased to part company with them even if it did cost her money.   

[dor]

The pictures all appear to be taken in spring/summer.

 I wonder if she is still living the dream?

[Tom Morgan]

All the photos in the Sun article are credited to the young lady herself, so it doesn't look as if a reporter and a photographer turned up for an interview. 

(And an article of hers elsewhere on the net informs that her boat Scallywag is a 57' x 10' boat.)

 

Edited January 15, 2021 by Tom Morgan
correct a typo.

[David Mack]

2 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

I was working on 'laying her on her back' and thinking ...

 

Oh I think we all know what you were thinking about ...

[matty40s]

2 hours ago, Mike Todd said:

Most of the reservoirs seemed to me to be well fenced off.

As Londons water supply, I am sure they will love to have a smelly poppet splashing her bits clean in the aqua.

[Ronaldo47]

Probably minuscule compared with the contributions from ducks,  seagulls, and other birds. I recall some years ago reading that nitrate pollution in one of the Norfolk Broads meres that had been blamed on agricultural fertiliser run-off, turned out to have originated from the bird population. 

[Puffling]

I don't want to talk up this piece of Sun clickbait more than it has been already, but I personally don't see anything wrong with washing once a week if you are not in a manual occupation. But this part doesn't ring quite true:

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I pop the wee on my flowers. 

Do that for long enough without the urine being broken down, and your "flowers" will be drowning in ammonia. Not to mention your nostrils when you try and enjoy a rooftop picnic surrounded by your 'flowers' on a baking hot day. I wonder if that cactus in the picnic shot is still alive?
You can add urine to raw compost (vegetable matter and animal excreta), but pouring urine directly onto soil and expect it to magically be filtered and have no odour is a loser. I've tried it!

[Athy]

The more I read, the more I think that she'd twigged that Anna knew Sweet Football Association about boats and canals, and decided to tell he a load of cockalorum. Oh, how she must have laughed when she saw the article. 

[peterboat]

1 hour ago, Puffling said:

I don't want to talk up this piece of Sun clickbait more than it has been already, but I personally don't see anything wrong with washing once a week if you are not in a manual occupation. But this part doesn't ring quite true:

Do that for long enough without the urine being broken down, and your "flowers" will be drowning in ammonia. Not to mention your nostrils when you try and enjoy a rooftop picnic surrounded by your 'flowers' on a baking hot day. I wonder if that cactus in the picnic shot is still alive?
You can add urine to raw compost (vegetable matter and animal excreta), but pouring urine directly onto soil and expect it to magically be filtered and have no odour is a loser. I've tried it!

I massively water it down for the allotment,  I do pour it onto the compost raw though 

[Athy]

1 hour ago, Puffling said:

pouring urine directly onto soil and expect it to magically be filtered and have no odour is a loser. I've tried it!

It doesn't work in telephone boxes either. I've been in ones where other people have tried it.

[Puffling]

32 minutes ago, Athy said:

It doesn't work in telephone boxes either. I've been in ones where other people have tried it.

Ah, telephone boxes! The sweet memories of going in to phone after job interviews, balancing a sheet of paper on the tiny horizontal shelf. That fragrance of charred telephone directories and recently-urinated concrete floors. You'll have me crying in a moment ?

[Hudds Lad]

38 minutes ago, Athy said:

It doesn't work in telephone boxes either. I've been in ones where other people have tried it.

similar results in pedestrian subways too.

[Mike Todd]

2 hours ago, Puffling said:

Ah, telephone boxes! The sweet memories of going in to phone after job interviews, balancing a sheet of paper on the tiny horizontal shelf. That fragrance of charred telephone directories and recently-urinated concrete floors. You'll have me crying in a moment ?

'Twas never like that back in the days of Push Button A . . .