Too narrow to swing a cat

Another one of my illicit library reads that didn't come out of the bag. I started Steve Haywood's Too narrow to swing a cat while on the narrowboat, and finished it when I got home.

Although not written with the same verve and wit as Terry Darlington's books, it is nevertheless an entertaining and humourous read. My enjoyment was heightened as I had been through some of the very places he was writing about, and in some of the same pubs!

He really conveyed the personality of his cat Kit, and although I am not a cat person, like Steve's wife Em, I ended up toying with the idea of owning a Maine Coon cat. I even googled the breed website!

Read this book if you want to understand the history and the nature of life on the canals, and especially if you are one of those hire-boaters like me that plague the life out of the regulars on the cut!