'Move To The Country'

[NB Alnwick]

Jane has just come back from the shops with the February 2007 edition of 'Move To The Country' - a monthly colour magazine about village life and country living. On pages 26 to 29 there is an article about selling your home and most of your possessions to live on a narrowboat. The article is called 'Lock Stock & Barrel' and was written by Clarissa Phillippa Greenwood.

 

Having scanned the article it looks like a good read but it is heavily romanticised - IMHO. The estimate of costs shoots well under target - for example: the cost of buuying and fitting out a 58ft boat is quoted as £36,402 - doing most of the work themselves. They also quote £15 for a bottle of gas that lasts three months and £45 for a tank of diesel that will last 120 hours.

[Alec Gatherer]

I have a tank of diesel that has lasted 4 years.

Mind you, I'm hoping to have the boat useable this year....

[Supermalc]

http://www.movetothecountry.net/

 

It's a crap website.....doesn't even let you read the mag online

[doomed1]

I have a tank of diesel that has lasted 4 years.

 

 

 

 

Same as 95% of this forums members isnt it?

[carlt]

I have a tank of diesel that has lasted 4 years.

 

 

Same as 95% of this forums members isnt it?

3 months for a bottle sounds about right for me?

And up until this summer they were £15.

Edited January 27, 2007 by carlt

[magnetman]

3 months for a bottle sounds about right for me?

 

Oh, a bottle of GAS. that's alright. £36,402 seems an odd figure, may as well round it down to the £36k. The £2 might of course be for the bottle afterwards but £2 ain't going to get you drunk.

 

"Advice on keeping chickens, bees and ducks" I suppose this is so you can say to your partner "Fancy some roast chicken with duck honey?"