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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Sean Martin

My houseboat hell – why living on the canal isn’t for everyone

Sean with his cat and his houseboat - (Sean Martin)

Nicola Sturgeon may be enjoying basing herself on a luxury £150,000 narrowboat, but let me tell you about the realities of that life.

Did you know that rats scream in the night? Because this was something that I was completely unaware of before I lived on a houseboat in central London.

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