78. Narrowboat Living - Lessons learnt as the canals get busier.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- Did anyone ask for Paul's opinion of the Staffs & Worcester Canal? No, well he gives it anyway! We have a few locks to do in this weeks narrowboat vlog as we head towards Gailey to fill up with water. We learn a lesson or two as the canals get busier. Paul gets the mallet out to bash our front nose in an attempt to reshape it and a nice fishing afternoon is enjoyed.
Don't, what ever you do ask Paul where we stayed in Otherton!!! ha ha ha how many times!!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:42 Opinion of the Staff or Worcester
03:27 Lock Operation
06:09 Under the M6
07:56 Tea Break
08:50 Nature is Cruel
10:46 Onward
12:51 Mooring at Otherton Boat Haven
15:16 Lessons Learnt
17:02 Daunting Bridge
18:14 Are they in our Favor?
20:00 Gailey
22:16 Give it a Bash
25:55 Fishing & Outro
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You are really a breath of fresh air, it is always a pleasure to watch your adventures with ernie.
Thank you so much Colin amd we are so glad that you are enjoying our videos 😊
Greetings from New Zealand, love your vlogs! We were in the UK last year and hired a narrowboat and did the Ashby canal in the first week of October, we had a fabulous time and overall the weather gods were very kind to us. I totally get the attraction of your water gypsy lifestyle and am very envious. I also enjoy your Cockney humour and the banter between you both that only you Brits can do. Hope your summer is a good one, fair winds and smooth seas!
Thank you for watching John and we glad you enjoy the vlogs. If I remember rightly we had a fairly mild October last year. Glad to hear you had a fabulous time, I really liked the Ashby Canal. Have you been on any other canals in UK?😊
@@uponreflection No we haven't, it was our first time on a narrowboat and spent the first few days trying not to hit anyone or anything🤣. I chose the Ashby canal because of no locks. We picked the boat up from Stoke Golding, there was one day where it was really windy and raining so we moored up and hunkered down. There were quite a few fishermen on the canal, what type of fish do you catch and are they edible? We're coming back to the UK next year and going to try our luck at house/pet sitting. Cheers to you both and Ernie
@@johndawson4921 Paul mainly catches Roach and Bream but there are also Perch, Pike and Carp plus a few other ones. No not edible, I certainly wouldn't eat anything from the canals. Its actually illegal to take fish out of canal. 😊
I had a good laugh at your pronounciation of shackles. Keep up the good work i love your vids.
🤣🤣 we both sitting here laughing now about that 🤣
Excellent episode this week, loved it, also a wee secret, there's an absolutely beautiful mooring spot twenty yards on your left after bridge 50 on the Shropshire, shh 🤫 don't tell anyone, it's a secret.
Thanks for the upload, looking forward to next week 👍🪚🔨📐😀
Ooooohh thanks for the secret mooring. We shall check it out. Glad you wrote it now as you know we are a few weeks ahead and are on the shropshire now, loving it so far, had a couple of issues mooring but the spots we have chosen so far have been amazing. My favourite so far 😊
Paul ur getting better at the bread mate and I love to see you fishing.... More fishing please 👍😁
He's catching more fish now the weather is warmer so more clips of fishing to come. Thanks for watching 😊
I heard years ago a boater was clocked by a warden in Gailey lock, went on his travels and happened to be in the same lock when the warden passed again, he got an email from crt telling him off for being in the same place for 3 weeks!! 😂😂💕🦆
🤣🤣 thats so funny. I've actually heard of similar in other places too. 🤣
Thanks enjoyed ,great video
Thank you so much and we are glad you enjoyed it 😊
Astounding Paul your bread making has come on leaps and bounds,from the concrete hardened crust to an Artizan loaf in just a few episodes 👍Also fitting that fender is known as “paling”again a superb job😊
Thank you, didn't realise it had a name. Paling..thanks, now I know what to refer to it as and as for the bread, yes hes finally mastered it 😀
I never ceases to be captivated by the French villages.
The rapid movements of that tail.
Another successful match between table cloth and plates.
I agree with the concerns of sweating in the containers. We use a small dehumidifier in our motorhome when its not in use.
Hi Hugh, was this comment for us?😊 trying to think of the content of the vlog and your comments 😉☺️
@@uponreflection hi I don't know why it copied to you. Sorry. We enjoy your channel so much.
🤣 no worries. Thank you 😊
Good night I love watching your videos of you and your adventures in your narrow boat
Thank you we love having you join us on our adventures every week 😊
Great video guys and ol yeah, Nice jumper liz well worth £2.50.
🤣 my fabulous Penkridge Market haul 😄 thanks for watching Gary 😊
Liked the video,bread making is coming along nicely... yummy!!
Thanks Susan, bread making a bit too nice, I need to cut back on my carbs now , I've eaten so much bread 🤣😊
Hi Liz , Paul & Ernie , love your vlogs , low fuel price at Wheaton Aston after bridge 21 , hopes that useful , enjoy the shroppie .
Hi Roger, yes we stopped there a few days ago, it was 93.9 per litre, fab price. You'll see that in about 3 vlogs time. 😉😊
Also, we are loving the shropshire so far. Such a beautiful canal and we've had a couple of unbeaten moorings. Total bliss 😊
At least you managed to spell worcester right this week liz😂 love watching your videos you 2 are brilliant keep it up
🤣 yeah I remembered to correct that 🤣 I've now just realised as I've been editing another vlog that I've been spelling aqueduct wrong in most vlogs too 🤭🤣
Enjoying your travels
Thanks Dawn and thanks for joining us on our journeys 😊
*Morena Liz, Paul & Ernie 🙂 Paul it is called a 'shackle'. Good to see the sledgie (Sledgehammer) getting used to sort out the 'nose'. 🙂 Gosh so many 'locks' to travel thru, Liz you were getting a workout doing them all. Time to get Paul to do a few me thinks lol 🙂 You all enjoy the summer temps. Yesterday I woke up to 5 degrees Celsius and this morn it was 8 Celsius brrrrrrr but it is sunny... but dang it is freezing! Not used to these low temps in my city, so she be snowing somewhere further down the line.🙂NZ*
Hi Andrea, we've been sitting here chuckling as we have been told it's shackle! He even went and dug the package out to double check, we feel a little silly now 🤣 Our temperatures are slowly going up, we were blessed with 21 today. My skin is a little on the pink side 🤭 😊
@@uponreflection *Liz, do not get too sunburnt in your summer heat.🙂🙂Reno update: Shower ordered & deposit paid. Brought a heater for the hotwater cupboard cos the new cylinders don't throw out heat!. Lekkie coming tomorrow to do a quote. Must find builders to do a quote. But I shall get there...🙂.*
Busy, busy busy..I guess the new cylinders not throwing out heat is a good thing though as they obviously are keeping the heat in the cylinder itself better. 😊
@@uponreflection *yep true... well I hope so 🙂.*
Shackle or shackles a shackler is S&M or so I am told. Love the vids
🤣😉 oh god, that explains some of the private messages we've received since this released 🤣🤣😉
Lovely vlog. ❤
Thank you Lorna, glad you enjoyed. 😊
Just started watching you guys this week I subscribed👍 thank you for just being yourselves really enjoy the episodes, Ernie looks so relaxed on the roof lol
Thank you so much for watching amd subscribing. Glad to have you along with us. Ernie, loves the roof he won't sit anywhere other than there, he just whines until I lift him up to the roof. Not sure if he does it deliberately to block out view or if he generally regards himself as captain 🤣😊
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Pleasant movie as usual guys.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 😊
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Thanks for watching 😊
Good night Ernie and liz and Paul say hello to Ernie liz and Paul liz you make me happy and smile Paul you are funny tonight Ernie is quite liz is looking fit
Thank you David, catch you next week 😊
hi. I am with you Liz on nature being cruel, i hate to see young animals etc split up from their parents.
Beautiful to be in a position to be so close to nature but you really do get to see some horrid things about nature too. Thanks for watching and commenting 😀
The male ducks are especially randy at this time of year and bother the females constantly 😮
@@pamcullen537 yes you quite often see 3 males chasing after a solitary female.
Nice to chat over the noise of. Couple of amorous peacocks earlier today ... Sue and I have subscribed to the channel (don't bother with ours yours is much better) ... Properly Edited and everything! .. ours is just a record of our trip taken on a camera 🤳 ... We love the canals and have been doing them for a number of years now , we'll look out for you on our travels in electric boat Oki... Happy wandering
Hi there, I'm glad you wrote a comment as I couldn't find your channel after Paul told me about it. He says it was lovely meeting you and hopefully one day I'll get to net you guys too. 😊
I'm going to pop off and subscribe to you now and have a watch. Happy cruising 😉😊
Xx
Thanks for watching Edward 😊
Hi Liz, Paul and Captain Ernie.
Here is a question for Captain Ernie. "Captain Ernie how do you manage to get into your bed on the roof of the boat"?
Safe cursing and many more days of fine weather.
Mark
Alberta, Canada(currently in Colchester)
Hi Mark, my mum lifts me into the bed and then back out again. When I'm in there I tend to either sit up, bark, sniff the air, or sometimes lay day and maybe even close my eyes. I let my mum know I want to get up on the roof by putting my front paws up onto the gas locker..which tells her to lift me 😉😊🐾🐾 love Ernie
Captain Ernie,
Thanks for getting back. I see you have your crew well trained. Maybe we should refer to your bed as the quarter deck as that is where the captain usually stands to command his ship lol.
Mark
Alberta, Canada (Colchester till Sunday)@@uponreflection
The drakes can kill the chicks, think they get jealous of mum paying attention to them
We have a duck on our canal with 3 chicks, which got seperated from their mum because of the drake. They are back with her now, she does look very young and doesn't know what to do when the drake comes back to attack the chicks
I heard about that afterwards Jan, to be honest I think sadly that could have happened as I walked back there a few days later and there was unfortunately only 1 chicken with mum rather than the 3 I initially saw. 😥
Bloody hell I actually waved at you Liz,Paul haha! (I'm loosing the plot). Must admit Paul that bread looked half decent! You need to get sponsored by oe of those Lekky bike companies. How beautiful is this time of the year, everything springing to life you can tell it's getting warmer I got sunburnt on my napper lol. You should give the boat some welly every now and again to clear the carbon out of the engine. You did a good job on that button Paul looks well better. An exellent vlog as always from you two :) Are you going to Crick this year?
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It's been beautiful today, although like your napper, I'm also a tad on the pink side.I think you could probably cook an egg on my arms 🤭
We do try and give it a bit of a 'boot it' every bow again as we had heard that's its good for the engine, it's a tad busy on the canals at the moment so we do it when we have a clear run 🤣 yes hoping to get to Crick (by car, not boat) on the Saturday. You going?😊
@@uponreflection Supposed to be going on the Saturday with two other boat friends but they are uming and aring about going now so dunno yet. If we do I'll find you and buy ya dinner :)
Definitely find us if you do, it should be us buying for you as a thank you for watching us week in week out. 😊
Hey guys, I'd bet it depends on where you are on the cut but, how much busier does it get in the summer? Do you have a long queue at most locks and water points, hard to find a good mooring... for example? Thanks!
Hi Roger. It depends on where you like to moor. If you don't mind mooring on pins rather than finding armco then you won't really have any issues. If you like to be near a shop, village, pub then yes they get very busy and you can spot those types of places by the amount of boats moored up. Touch wood, we've never really had a problem with it being busy and not being able to moor but then we don't decide where to moor in advance if that makes sense. We see a nice spot and then moor so never really an issue unless of course we can't moor because of it being too shallow or something. 😊
When you explained how you do the gate did you close the panels in the gates after you had gone through ?
Hi, I close the gate paddles after I've opened the gate and before the boat leaves the lock and then close the lock gates behind me with the paddles already down 😊
Hi there! It's water Vick! Again l😅 are you going to be at Crick this year? Eric would live to meet Ernie! X
Hi Vicky, yes, get the water ready 🤣 We hoping to get to Crick on the Saturday by car, not boat. So hopefully we will see you. 😊
@@uponreflection I'll definitely try! Not working there this year but I hope to bump into you, water ready l😆
Let's hope it's similar weather. Hopefully see you there 😊
Shackles not shacklers
Hi, yes we were laughing about that we realised in the end what they were 😂