Rather sad story in the Mail  about a 100ft houseboat rennovated by two social workers and featured on the TV show Grand Designs in 2007, which was left uninhabited on the Thames Estuary, broke free of its moorings and washed up on a beech in Westcliff-on-sea.

The boat, designed to be environmentally friendly, was made of reclaimed timber and corrugated metal and looks a bit like something out of Mad Max.

The rejuvenation project ran into cash problems and the couple were forced to abandon plans to live on it and it has since suffered vandalism making it an unviable proposition, the Mail reports.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/mental-health/2011/02/social-workers-80000-houseboat.html