BarkLife #3: Check out the view from this friendly Bristol park

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  • Welcome to my channel: / stanshappyhour
    And welcome to the third instalment of BarkLife - our meander around parks while we wait for lockdown to end and our next narrowboat holiday.
    This time we visit Bristol's Victoria Park on the sunniest day of the year so far. Not bad for February.
    I used to be an 80s music popstar, now I'm a waterways enthusiast, with a thing for canal boats, canal boat holidays, canal walks, river walks and discovering the gorgeous English countryside.
    Thirty years ago, I was in the band The Housemartins, with my talented friends Paul Heaton, Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) and Hugh Whittaker. We had chart success with songs like Happy Hour, Caravan of Love, Build and Me And The Farmer.
    But that was then. These days, my happy hours consist of family time - and making films about the UK's amazing waterways. Either on foot or at the tiller of a narrowboat. I love canals, canal boats and canal boat holidays, making films about my time on or near the water. I also love to take English countryside walks alongside rivers and canals.
    Usually with my mini schnauzer Mabel and new havanese puppy Rufus. I talk sometimes, Mabel and Rufus don't. But we always have fun and we'd love you to join us - just hit the SUBSCRIBE button (please!)
    #BarkLife #Dogs #Dog Walks

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  • @ruthgoebel723
    @ruthgoebel723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A bright spot on a rainy day in the States. Thanks!

    • @StansHappyHour
      @StansHappyHour  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Our pleasure! (that would be me, Mike and the dogs)

  • @michelapasquali34
    @michelapasquali34 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's so relaxing seeing all those long stretches of lush green grass. The view from the top of the hill is lovely! Thanks for pointing out all the highlights of Bristol. I've never been so it's great to get a sense of the size of the city, and where some of the sights and green spaces are. And that everyone is so nice and friendly.

  • @lornaeaketts-rogers2812
    @lornaeaketts-rogers2812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fabulous! Top notch music very uplifting thank you 🌱😄

  • @chrishope9896
    @chrishope9896 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loved this. The photography and music were so relaxing. So true, the sense of spring giving a sense of a new start after 2020 - poetry. Agree, the rich b******s stay rich for a reason - not so much poetry. 😉

    • @StansHappyHour
      @StansHappyHour  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad you enjoyed it! (and so true)

  • @denisemardell3588
    @denisemardell3588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lovely film and a pretty good view of Bristol. I want a film of Refus’s ears in slow motion !

    • @StansHappyHour
      @StansHappyHour  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      would definitely watch that myself... (and thanks!)

  • @dawnbrowning4270
    @dawnbrowning4270 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The water maze is lovely when working. But the pipe that brings the water is broken!

    • @beccygolding2713
      @beccygolding2713 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree! We spent hours playing in that maze when my kids were little.

    • @StansHappyHour
      @StansHappyHour  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am sure you're right. Truth is, it all looked a bit sorry for itself when we were there. Expect it's a different story when it's watered up and there are kids playing in it.

  • @tomtorrison1895
    @tomtorrison1895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Smashing film and love the music.

  • @barryhogan3795
    @barryhogan3795 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i really needed this, i watch these when I just want to forget about being locked in the house waiting for my covid jab and hoping life will get back to normal. so I imagine I am out walking with you mabel and rufus and it makes my day. Thank you for doing these

    • @StansHappyHour
      @StansHappyHour  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad you enjoyed it, Barry. All the best, hope life gets better soon

  • @andymedcalf696
    @andymedcalf696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lovely stuff.

  • @MickDickinson
    @MickDickinson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    haha, great video, thanks. I've just realised you are Stan Cullimore, bit slow off the mark here, sorry. A band I was in called Sheep supported The Housemartins at the Adelphi in errr maybe 1985(?) and we'd been for a pint in another pub before the gig. When we came back to the Venue at our allotted time Paul the owner didn't believe we were in the band and we had to pay to get into our own gig #fact.

    • @StansHappyHour
      @StansHappyHour  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cheers. Glad you like the vid. Also ... brilliant trivia fact. Mind, Paul Jackson is / was always a one off. BTW - great name too. Obviously, don't remember the gig - it's all one big happy blur to me!

  • @celestewilliams5904
    @celestewilliams5904 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The only good thing about the maze, is all of the information points, surrounding it, as you go around.
    I had a go on the play area, last week. My arms the next day, reminded me, that I am 43, not under 10...😄

    • @StansHappyHour
      @StansHappyHour  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      haha - 43! A mere babe in arms... I'm so old I count my age in prime ministers...

    • @celestewilliams5904
      @celestewilliams5904 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not prime numbers, then..??
      Not that I could name the Prime numbers. Ministers would be more doable! 😄

  • @daverobertswales
    @daverobertswales 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Looks nice, great views! A place I knew of but never visited.

    • @StansHappyHour
      @StansHappyHour  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is a lovely little spot, as you can see!

  • @SteveBaumgartnergojackets
    @SteveBaumgartnergojackets 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice timing with Train going by when you were going up the hill the second time. Another great video. I can also answer that they would never be disappointed with vegan because I have never met a pup that would turn down any food.

    • @StansHappyHour
      @StansHappyHour  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Now, that bit about the pups is normally true ... but... Rufus is strangely fussy. Bless his cotton socks!

  • @TimVirnig
    @TimVirnig 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I came here for small elephant and Rufus slow-mo. Stan, do you know the poem from Frederic Ogden Nash, Ode to Spring? "Spring has sprung. The grass has riz. I wonder where the birdies is?"

    • @StansHappyHour
      @StansHappyHour  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Didn't know it. Do now. Like it.

  • @poissonpuerile8897
    @poissonpuerile8897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So Stan, you're now one of the... people who grinned themselves to death? :-p

  • @patrickwirbeleit4501
    @patrickwirbeleit4501 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What is the moral here? Do crap and put a plate with your name on it? Lovely video as always. And lovely music indeed. Cheers. Made me feel a bit melancholic, though.

    • @StansHappyHour
      @StansHappyHour  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep, think that is one moral. Glad you liked it - hope you enjoyed the melancholia ... it's good for the soul, apparently

    • @patrickwirbeleit4501
      @patrickwirbeleit4501 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@StansHappyHour is it? Then my soul must be in very good shape by lifelong training. 😁

    • @StansHappyHour
      @StansHappyHour  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@patrickwirbeleit4501 same here!