On a weekend break in Suffolk, while wandering along a woodland path that runs next to the Orwell Estuary, I stumble across an empty houseboat for sale, asking price £85,000. Excited, I march down the rickety gangplank on to the deck. “This would be a fantastic buy-to-let,” I shout to my more sensible other half, who is pretending not to notice my diversion from the footpath.
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Victoria Whitlock pipes herself aboard a business prospect on the Orwell Estuary, despite Captain Sensible's protests
The accidental landlordVictoria Whitlock pipes herself aboard a business prospect on the Orwell Estuary, despite Captain Sensible's protests