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Take me to the river

ALTHOUGH SHE had achieved a successful career in engineering, Becci Pamely-Bast knew she needed something different, so eight years ago she bought a narrowboat to live on.

“I was working in the corporate world, and there is this kind of track that people expect your life to go down - you get a good job, you save up to get a deposit on a house and you maybe get married and have kids, and I just didn’t want to do that,” Becci explains. “I wanted to live a bit more of a simple life.”

Becci felt she wanted to be living a life that she enjoyed all of the time - “without a lot of the

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