Narrow minds

the long version

Having saved her family from financial ruin by moving onto a houseboat in search of a less stressful, cheaper way of life, Marie Browne, her tea-fuelled husband Geoff and their children find themselves sucked back into normality. With a new job, a new rented house and a mountain of bills, they are pretty much back where they started, and the children are threatening mutiny. Facing perky postmen, ice-skating cows, psychotic villagers and outraged rodents, they're running out of time, their financial situation is getting desperate, and there's every chance life has conspired against them to make sure they never get back afloat. Until they find that the answer to their dreams lies with MINERVA, a narrow boat even more run-down than their first ...