Well up to muster guys, nice little vlog. Malcolm Olding, missing the point entirely, this is Minimal List channel....chit chat,slow and speedy scenery, George with pixelated poop shots, Michael reversing like a stealth fighter and Jo correcting,managing,coping and of course loving Michael. There is no room for 'instead'. As you are guys,as you are.........
Great video, really like the music, sounds music box like! It's nice to hear the bells, even though it's just the clock chimes, especially during the current lockdown.
Yes the Large track ball. I have used a few, very large track ball devices, the larger ones have an entirely different feel, there are some designed especially for drafting/CAD work and they are a class all of their own. What I like about the better ones, is they turn a gross motor movement into a a delicate and controllable movement. The better ones can be almost down right addictive. Ha Ha
That’s why I prefer them, along with reduced RSI… but trackballs do make certain kinds of interaction harder. Ideally of course you’ve got all of the peripherals and you can just swap between them! M
Keep up the chit chats I love them, my husband and I are just the same. We did a test run last year before hopefully becoming continuous cruisers this year and we would stop somewhere for a couple of days and ending up staying longer. To me that is the idea seeing places we have not been to before. Carry on cruising.
Severn Valley Railway runs over the bridge between Locks 4 & 5. If we manage to get on a hire boat next year, we'll be certain to spend a day on the rails as well. Excellent as always. I'm slowly catching up from Vlog No. 1 and forward, with occasional jumps into newer material.
Speaking as a non-boater, but a regular frequenter of canals and waterways, my view of Britain's watery environment is this: 10% is genuinely attractive or beautiful, 30% is rural but unremarkable, 50% is rural-urban hinterland, 10% is dodgy. Boaters who can afford to stick to the top 10%, most stay in the top 40% and rarely if ever venture further. To continuously cruise you have to appreciate the lumpen 50%, with a few as happy to dwell among the dodgy as the beautiful. CCing requires a high degree of pragmatism or a thick skin.
We are learning that. There are few places that we don’t like at all and only one mooring that left us feeling unsafe. Not bad since we have been on the water for nearly two years.
Just as nice second time around..nice stretch of canal....yes Kidderminster was big in carpets it was a big selling point for quality carpets when I was a lot younger but I suspect long gone now. So now we have to look out for Sainsbury's cookies as well as Lidl croissants.....but which one does George prefer ...but I expect both are one gulp and it's gone.
so have you tried a track pad instead of a Track Ball. I used to like the Track Ball, big easy to move, then I discovered the Track Pad. It does depend on you own physical dexterity. my two pence
I've tried both, but I've developed some weird habits over the years ... I work best with either a large trackball or a Wacom-style tablet with stylus, though the latter is too specialized for a lot of tasks. M
Hi Guys. Im watching your vlog from Australia. I grew up in Kidderminster and spent my youth fishing the canals you travelled through. Im surprised it has a bad reputation among canal folk.Kidderminster was the centre for quality carpets, and employed thousands of people. Sadly like most industry in Britain it has all but disappeared.Keep up the great work. Michael.
We have told not to stop in a number of places that have turned out to be fine. We tend not to listen anymore. Kidderminster was great! Thanks for watching all the way from Australia!
Its a fine sunny spring morning/day here in London, 15c and lovely sunshine, hope you're the getting the same there too, ( I know these vids are about a month old ).
Another great video, Staffs and Worcester is one of my favourite canals. Have you tried using the "TrolleyWise" app for reporting shopping trolleys in the canal ? I've used it a couple of times, seems to work well.
There is no bell for notifications on this video. Does that mean I already hit the bell? I will look at another of you videos and hit the bell there. Thanks for the video! Very nice.
They seem to have decided to move the bell recently, but they haven’t removed it entirely. Where it is depends a bit on how you’re watching; on my iPhone app it’s now to the right of the “subscribe” text near the channel logo, a little bit under the video itself. M
They seem to have decided to move the bell recently, but they haven’t removed it entirely. Where it is depends a bit on how you’re watching; on my iPhone app it’s now to the right of the “subscribe” text near the channel logo, a little bit under the video itself. M
I haven't, though I have done my own ravioli and once tried to make what turned out was very much not a gyoza. Would love to have some proper homemade pierogi... got introduced to them long ago from the Ukrainian side of my mom's family, but it's been decades since anyone's remembered how to make them properly. M
My mum was raised in what was then the far south east part of Poland and is now part of the Ukraine. We share the same genetic taste buds. I will dig out my mums revered recipe and send it to you.
I would love to see u both take turn to drive, doing lock gate and the take turn to walk with the dog.. i feel bad for her.. wish u both stay happy and stronger ahead.. love u guys
We do see Michael do lock gates... occasionally. I'd guess we don't see Jo because she's the one holding the camera... that doesn't explain why she's never drivign in the rear view timelapse though...
@@MinimalList thank u for replying back to me.. 😘😘😘.. I'm sorry if my comment was bad, i mean, im not a hater.. im sorry.. i finally understand.. thank u and i am so sorry..
You stopped for some treats and I started wondering about the differences between the food you have experienced around the canals, as well as items that you have had with the same name but are different, that you have had around the world.
Asian street food is my favourite! Indian and Indonesian, especially Javan are my absolute favourites. It’s so easy to be vegetarian in those two countries. As for snacks on the canals we don’t eat out that often so it’s either fish and chips or Indian food it we treat ourselves!
Always get a laugh when you do the speed of Joy and George walking past the boat on the path . Maybe doggy cam could be a thought , on second thoughts as George likes doggy nuggets probably not a good idea . Take and have fun ,all the best from OZ .
We actually had a very generous viewer help us get a dog cam harness for George. We are waiting for warmer weather to give it a real try though as it's quite hard to fit and has no handles for pulling him out of winter canals! M
@@MinimalList Does Jo know that you have another woman (Joy ) on the go? Only joking, great video as usual. And as for the church bells... If the bells strike quarter hours then you should get one sequence at quarter past, two sequences at half past, three sequences at quarter to, and all four sequences on the hour. And then as many bongs as the number of the hour concerned. I think this dates back to times before everyday folk could afford watches, but I may have been misinformed.
I see Michael is still having issues with the outro... I was going to suggest he just hold up a card with the info and point to each option, but then chances are he would hold the sign upside down and we would all be back to square one.... No worries, it makes for great drama each time we start to watch a new vlog ; will Michael nail the outro this time, if so will he be struck by lightning, will it be another fail or will Jo push him out to the shot and take over....... stay tuned for the next episode of Michael's Great Outro Adventures or Just Too Many Dam Likes, Bells and Subscribes for Me. Fair locks and clear skies folks
Well, we're planning on staying aboard till we've seen all the canals on the system, at least. How much longer after that will depend a lot on finances and life events rather beyond our control... it could be a very nice longer term option, but we may have other adventures to take as well. M
Enjoyed the video as always. I always wondered, how do you have access to a car when on the cut? Do you have to move the car along side to where you currently are moored? Do you centrally locate the car? Do you have to arrange for parking? Just curious, because I think I would need a car to get around. I see that sometimes you take the train. Thanks for any info but don't give away any secrets.
We don’t have a car. We rely on public transport and will occasionally borrow a car from family if we are doing work on the boat. Some people who do continuously cruise do have one with them and it must come in handy but they always have to walk back or get a train to go and pick it up and drive it to where the boat is!
No big deal, but why were your stereo pan opposite in the beginning of the video and right in the end of the video. As you use a clear defined pan on your voices, it would be nice if you also saw to that the person to the right on the screen were heard in the right speaker and vice versa. Not an issue, but then again :-)
Other than every urban area being seen as suspicious by some people, I'm surprised you'd heard bad reports about Kidderminster. With the Seven Valley Railway on one side and West Midlands Safari Park on the other, it's practically a tourist mecca! I did wonder why you didn't stop there on the way down.
We have learnt not to listen when people tell us to avoid a place. One reason we didn’t stop on the way down is because we knew we were coming back up!
Love your vids exactly as they are - chats, speeded up bits, etc! When I lived in Kidderminster in the 1970s, it was rather more grim than now. The carpet industry was in full swing and the town would smell of damp carpets. And it would smell of sugar beat in September when the beat harvest was being rendered for sugar.
Well done. Your videos have gotten progressively better and better. Thanks so much for the lovely distraction from our life in the states at the moment. Gloves are one thing but please tell me you don't use the Bane voice there. Again, great video as usual.
Well up to muster guys, nice little vlog. Malcolm Olding, missing the point entirely, this is Minimal List channel....chit chat,slow and speedy scenery, George with pixelated poop shots, Michael reversing like a stealth fighter and Jo correcting,managing,coping and of course loving Michael. There is no room for 'instead'. As you are guys,as you are.........
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I am just amazed how well Perseverance glides through the water. It seems to "float", as it were.
Liverpool new how to design a hull! M
Great video, really like the music, sounds music box like! It's nice to hear the bells, even though it's just the clock chimes, especially during the current lockdown.
Thank you for the lovely feedback! I know what you mean about the chimes.
I Love Kidderminster it is a place with all you need ,and to explore from, really enjoyed your video very good editing and audio.
Thank you! M
@@MinimalList dominic baylis you tube have some films you might like, enjoy exploring good stuff
Yes the Large track ball. I have used a few, very large track ball devices, the larger ones have an entirely different feel, there are some designed especially for drafting/CAD work and they are a class all of their own.
What I like about the better ones, is they turn a gross motor movement into a a delicate and controllable movement. The better ones can be almost down right addictive. Ha Ha
That’s why I prefer them, along with reduced RSI… but trackballs do make certain kinds of interaction harder. Ideally of course you’ve got all of the peripherals and you can just swap between them! M
Keep up the chit chats I love them, my husband and I are just the same. We did a test run last year before hopefully becoming continuous cruisers this year and we would stop somewhere for a couple of days and ending up staying longer. To me that is the idea seeing places we have not been to before. Carry on cruising.
Thank you! We don’t plan on changing! Good luck with the plan to get continuous cruising!
Severn Valley Railway runs over the bridge between Locks 4 & 5. If we manage to get on a hire boat next year, we'll be certain to spend a day on the rails as well. Excellent as always. I'm slowly catching up from Vlog No. 1 and forward, with occasional jumps into newer material.
Wow, well enjoy the catching up, it’s a lot of videos! M
Ahhhh the church bells! Loved that! Beautiful cruise today...thanks for including me! Safe cruising.
The bells are lovely... for the first few hours! M
Speaking as a non-boater, but a regular frequenter of canals and waterways, my view of Britain's watery environment is this: 10% is genuinely attractive or beautiful, 30% is rural but unremarkable, 50% is rural-urban hinterland, 10% is dodgy. Boaters who can afford to stick to the top 10%, most stay in the top 40% and rarely if ever venture further. To continuously cruise you have to appreciate the lumpen 50%, with a few as happy to dwell among the dodgy as the beautiful. CCing requires a high degree of pragmatism or a thick skin.
We are learning that. There are few places that we don’t like at all and only one mooring that left us feeling unsafe. Not bad since we have been on the water for nearly two years.
Shame there are people who criticise, from our point of view down in New Zealand, we love your vlogs just the way they are, keep up the good work 😊
Thanks! Good point of view from down there, everywhere you turn! M
Love it to see you in a happy mood. Makes me smile too.
Happily we're usually pretty happy! M
It really feels like you are having a chat with us. Very entertaining and honest. Lovely vlog.
Thank you! That is so lovely to hear! 😊
I have those same gloves. I love them. Continued safe travels.
Toasty warm hands are important for winter cruising!
#150 Woot!
Thank you keeping on . :thumb
Just as nice second time around..nice stretch of canal....yes Kidderminster was big in carpets it was a big selling point for quality carpets when I was a lot younger but I suspect long gone now. So now we have to look out for Sainsbury's cookies as well as Lidl croissants.....but which one does George prefer ...but I expect both are one gulp and it's gone.
George prefers the cookies, mainly because he's more likely to actually get some! M
Even drab winter grey and brown are lovely on the canals.
I agree! Always something lovely to see!
so have you tried a track pad instead of a Track Ball. I used to like the Track Ball, big easy to move, then I discovered the Track Pad. It does depend on you own physical dexterity. my two pence
I've tried both, but I've developed some weird habits over the years ... I work best with either a large trackball or a Wacom-style tablet with stylus, though the latter is too specialized for a lot of tasks. M
Great vlog.. Thanks Michael and Jo...
Thank you! J
Hi Guys. Im watching your vlog from Australia. I grew up in Kidderminster and spent my youth fishing the canals you travelled through. Im surprised it has a bad reputation among canal folk.Kidderminster was the centre for quality carpets, and employed thousands of people. Sadly like most industry in Britain it has all but disappeared.Keep up the great work. Michael.
We have told not to stop in a number of places that have turned out to be fine. We tend not to listen anymore. Kidderminster was great! Thanks for watching all the way from Australia!
Its a fine sunny spring morning/day here in London, 15c and lovely sunshine, hope you're the getting the same there too, ( I know these vids are about a month old ).
It's been gorgeous the last couple days, hasn't it? M
Another great video, Staffs and Worcester is one of my favourite canals. Have you tried using the "TrolleyWise" app for reporting shopping trolleys in the canal ? I've used it a couple of times, seems to work well.
No, we'll have to download it!
Though, that said, as we're no in Walsall, I don't think even an app can be fast enough. M
**waves** Awesome as always guys.
Thank you! 😊
Great vlog as every. Xx
Thank you 😊
Hope you two lovebirds had a happy valentines day :D
We did! A cruise followed by a trip to the chippy! Thank you!
my usual smile for the day guys keep it up
Will try! Thank you! 😊
There is no bell for notifications on this video. Does that mean I already hit the bell? I will look at another of you videos and hit the bell there. Thanks for the video! Very nice.
They seem to have decided to move the bell recently, but they haven’t removed it entirely. Where it is depends a bit on how you’re watching; on my iPhone app it’s now to the right of the “subscribe” text near the channel logo, a little bit under the video itself. M
They seem to have decided to move the bell recently, but they haven’t removed it entirely. Where it is depends a bit on how you’re watching; on my iPhone app it’s now to the right of the “subscribe” text near the channel logo, a little bit under the video itself. M
Thank you for another great vlog. Kidderminster town lock is one of the deepest narrow locks on the system. I am a mine of useless information.
It certainly felt like it when sat at the bottom! We love useless information!
Pierogi, music to my ears. Hope you find some soon. 🇵🇱👌
Took a while, but did eventually! M
My mum made the best pierogi. Have you ever tried making your own. A great way to spend a day. 👍😀
I haven't, though I have done my own ravioli and once tried to make what turned out was very much not a gyoza. Would love to have some proper homemade pierogi... got introduced to them long ago from the Ukrainian side of my mom's family, but it's been decades since anyone's remembered how to make them properly. M
My mum was raised in what was then the far south east part of Poland and is now part of the Ukraine. We share the same genetic taste buds. I will dig out my mums revered recipe and send it to you.
Thank you!
I would love to see u both take turn to drive, doing lock gate and the take turn to walk with the dog.. i feel bad for her.. wish u both stay happy and stronger ahead.. love u guys
We do see Michael do lock gates... occasionally. I'd guess we don't see Jo because she's the one holding the camera... that doesn't explain why she's never drivign in the rear view timelapse though...
We do swap occasionally! More so in summer, I am a fair weather boater. Don’t feel bad for me I prefer to walk with George!
I do most of the filming it’s true! I should drive more but I prefer walking!
@@MinimalList thank u for replying back to me.. 😘😘😘.. I'm sorry if my comment was bad, i mean, im not a hater.. im sorry.. i finally understand.. thank u and i am so sorry..
No need to apologise! Happy to answer any questions!
You stopped for some treats and I started wondering about the differences between the food you have experienced around the canals, as well as items that you have had with the same name but are different, that you have had around the world.
Asian street food is my favourite! Indian and Indonesian, especially Javan are my absolute favourites. It’s so easy to be vegetarian in those two countries. As for snacks on the canals we don’t eat out that often so it’s either fish and chips or Indian food it we treat ourselves!
Always get a laugh when you do the speed of Joy and George walking past the boat on the path . Maybe doggy cam could be a thought , on second thoughts as George likes doggy nuggets probably not a good idea . Take and have fun ,all the best from OZ .
We actually had a very generous viewer help us get a dog cam harness for George. We are waiting for warmer weather to give it a real try though as it's quite hard to fit and has no handles for pulling him out of winter canals! M
@@MinimalList Does Jo know that you have another woman (Joy ) on the go?
Only joking, great video as usual.
And as for the church bells...
If the bells strike quarter hours then you should get one sequence at quarter past, two sequences at half past, three sequences at quarter to, and all four sequences on the hour.
And then as many bongs as the number of the hour concerned.
I think this dates back to times before everyday folk could afford watches, but I may have been misinformed.
Joy? Who is Joy? Thanks for the info on the chimes and bongs!
I see Michael is still having issues with the outro... I was going to suggest he just hold up a card with the info and point to each option, but then chances are he would hold the sign upside down and we would all be back to square one.... No worries, it makes for great drama each time we start to watch a new vlog ; will Michael nail the outro this time, if so will he be struck by lightning, will it be another fail or will Jo push him out to the shot and take over....... stay tuned for the next episode of Michael's Great Outro Adventures or Just Too Many Dam Likes, Bells and Subscribes for Me. Fair locks and clear skies folks
Heh! Now I can't get it right for fear of lightning! M
Have you been to the Black Country museum on your travels boat friendly & facilities it’s at Dudley .
Yep! We visited in December! See vlog 137! th-cam.com/video/D7M3928uWAo/w-d-xo.html
Hope you enjoyed & the tunnels met you both & had a little chat back in January on the S&W Pangur Ban with Sidney dog Happy cruising
Hi ,love you video's have been watching from the start of your adventure. Can l just ask are you planning to stay on you boat long term xx
Well, we're planning on staying aboard till we've seen all the canals on the system, at least. How much longer after that will depend a lot on finances and life events rather beyond our control... it could be a very nice longer term option, but we may have other adventures to take as well. M
Enjoyed the video as always. I always wondered, how do you have access to a car when on the cut? Do you have to move the car along side to where you currently are moored? Do you centrally locate the car? Do you have to arrange for parking? Just curious, because I think I would need a car to get around. I see that sometimes you take the train. Thanks for any info but don't give away any secrets.
We don’t have a car. We rely on public transport and will occasionally borrow a car from family if we are doing work on the boat. Some people who do continuously cruise do have one with them and it must come in handy but they always have to walk back or get a train to go and pick it up and drive it to where the boat is!
@@MinimalList Thanks for the info.
I live in Kidderminster
We really liked it there! What a lovely place to live!
No big deal, but why were your stereo pan opposite in the beginning of the video and right in the end of the video. As you use a clear defined pan on your voices, it would be nice if you also saw to that the person to the right on the screen were heard in the right speaker and vice versa.
Not an issue, but then again :-)
We keep mixing them up! This should be the last video where it is wrong! 🤞
Is that near the beehive / glass blowing works?
Hmmm, not sure!
Other than every urban area being seen as suspicious by some people, I'm surprised you'd heard bad reports about Kidderminster. With the Seven Valley Railway on one side and West Midlands Safari Park on the other, it's practically a tourist mecca! I did wonder why you didn't stop there on the way down.
We have learnt not to listen when people tell us to avoid a place. One reason we didn’t stop on the way down is because we knew we were coming back up!
Severn
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Will the bloopers ever exceed the actual Vlog?
Sometime when I start a new edit I worry that the will!
Hi guys, do you what the music is called on this video and was it in the youtube audio files???
It's called Exhale by Jeremy Blake. It is in the TH-cam Audio Library.
@@MinimalList Many thanks
Got your audio channels mixed up again! 😄
Last time I promise! 😬
No pirogi ! 😢😢 fried or boiled ?
Fried, for preference! M
Have you ever tried a dollop of sour cream ? "Smacznego"
Yep, delicious! M
Nice editing on this. thank you !
Thank you, that is lovely to hear!
Love your vids exactly as they are - chats, speeded up bits, etc! When I lived in Kidderminster in the 1970s, it was rather more grim than now. The carpet industry was in full swing and the town would smell of damp carpets. And it would smell of sugar beat in September when the beat harvest was being rendered for sugar.
Wet carpets and boiling h sugar beet... can't say that sounds pleasant at all, but still an eclectic history to the place. M
Great video 👍🏻
Thanks! M
Well done. Your videos have gotten progressively better and better. Thanks so much for the lovely distraction from our life in the states at the moment.
Gloves are one thing but please tell me you don't use the Bane voice there. Again, great video as usual.
Haha! No Bane in the bedroom!