Hi, I’m Emma Culshaw Bell
Welcome to my boat life website!
I thought it best to split my life into two completely separate websites. It’s hard for clients to trust you with their historical homes and bespoke kitchens when you’re also running around in bare feet crash mooring your boat.
If you’re looking for the professional interior designer and decorative artist Emma Culshaw Bell, please click here to visit my Culshaw Bell Interiors website.
Visit Culshaw Bell InteriorsIf, however, you’re looking for the boat crashing, book writing, Narrow Escaper version of Emma Culshaw Bell, welcome!
In this site, you’ll find a collection of stories about my boat life and the full backstory about the restoration of my narrowboat – ‘The Dawn Piper’ – the subsequent work with Channel 4 on Narrow Escapes, the new book – ‘Barely Afloat, Mostly Adrift, Always Laughing’, the Boat Girls calendar, and my everyday adventures.
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Bricking it about the Crick
The book is growing big legs it seems. After emailing my manuscript to the publishing [...]
Feel Like I’ve Been Run Over
Well that worked a bit too well. 5 of us including delighted boat hostage had [...]
Hostage Taken
I’m still waiting for the boat to be fixed. It’s utter torture. The weather has [...]