Short Narrowboat

Short Narrowboat, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

...or a narrow shortboat. This charming little boat turned up at the marina on Saturday night. I can't recall seeing her on the canal before but I was so taken with her that I almost missed the final of 'Britain's Got Talent' trying to photograph her. Which is a bit like saying that I almost missed the opportunity to set fire to my ears by taking her photograph.
(Who am I trying to kid? I thought Signature were robbed and the blonde with the electric violin looked so nice I didn't care whether she could play the thing or not.)
Anyway, regarding the boat. As the owner of the smallest boat in the marina, I am fast becoming an enthusiast of miniaturisation. The Government are doing everything they can (but not quite enough) to get me to drive a Nissan Micra, my new phone has a video camera, the Internet, my email account and the weather forecast on it and it fits in my shirt pocket, and while I used to be hauled around the streets of SW15 by a Labrador the size of Basingstoke, I now go all unnecessary over my Mum's Border Terrier.
So if I had the resources (which I don't) to buy a steel narrowboat to drift my way to retirement on, this is exactly the sort of boat I should be buying.
I'm tempted to say that 'size isn't everything', but increasingly, it seems that it is.