What a beautiful area and the locks are unique..Michael carries a different type of charisma there..😆..Great if you attract something big enough for fishing..lol. Great vlog thank you..😊 Such beautiful wild flower patch...I do love England for this...the desert i live in is pretty barren except for wild sage...🙁
@@MinimalList Well...I watched that episode on the phone, so it 'twas a little hard to discern. But you're getting mad props for creative placement of deadcats.
You need to plumb your radiators to the canal! 😁 Well, it probably wouldn't work too well because they're no-doubt positioned to work best when air rises from them, not falls. I got my map, it's lovely, thank you! I always liked Underground maps; thought they were really cool when I was a kid, and now I've fallen in love with canals, so a canal map in Underground style makes me very happy. 😄
Ah beautiful, reminds me of our honeymoon in 1958 where we spent it exploring all the Norfolk Broads in a two berth cruiser , I love being on the water , looks like a lovely river there , the broads are a very different place now to what they were years ago , I’ve never been on the River Ouse and I don’t think I ever will now sadly…Thanks for showing us around .
What a beautiful area you travelled through today. Fabulous photography too. Confirms my view that being on a narrowboat allows you to see the world from a wonderful perspective with scenery you'd never see otherwise. George is definitely loving his life! He's such a cute boy. Xx
George is very cute, we tell him every day too. I have to agree with your comments about seeing the world different perspective, it’s especially evident when arriving in a town or city, so much nicer than arriving by road.
@@MinimalList surely you don't count the approach to Birmingham as being better by canal? I absolutely hated it and felt claustrophobic just watching your videos of the time. At least in a road going vehicle, you can escape quickly from places such as Brum.
The vlog had it all, a George roll/back rub on the grass, and being way too cute, a Michael stream of consciousness, a lovely cruise, interspersed with pertinent information, and memories of summer - a good reminder to have on a day of thundery and very windy downpours, thankyou. Take care you three
Great vid, pity the Godmnchester mooring bank was washed out by the floods last spring; people just moor further down or up if there's room. Can't grumble, they have had to dredge below the lock, and are rebulding the sluice and fish ladder at the far end of the backwater. (Ps be aware of the trees in the wind they are called Split Willow for a reason)
An old stamping ground of mine - I knew Hemingford Grey and Houghton Mill quite well. The house was inherited by a friend in the 70s, but needed some work before it could be sold, so a bunch of us camped out in it for a week once. Houghton Mill used to be a YHA Youth Hostel, owned by the National Trust - a beautiful youth hostel it was too, with a large lounge overlooking the river. Eventually, the National Trust decided to close the Youth Hostel part because the whole building was made of wood and they were worried about the fire risk from cooking (and smoking) hostellers. Still, as a National Trust property, it's well worth a visit to see how a large wooden watermill worked.
lovely to see that area again, i havent had a boat in over 20 years now and it brings back many memories. We used to call that part of the lock (the d) the dog leg.
The perfect combination: Jo's great eye for editing and fabulous taste in music, Michael's lavender shorts, lock-side wild flower meadows and a very contented George
Hey Louis, fancy meeting you here. I didn’t know that you are following Minimal List too. Loving the steady (read slow) pace of canal life. We shall be joining the throng early next year as we have now bought a narrowboat and will be returning to the UK soon.
Loving the videos! I grew up in St.Ives and it's lovely to see you passing through all the places I used to go to when I was younger. The Ferryboat is said to be one of England's oldest inns - historical documents record that alcohol was sold there from 560 AD! I live just down the road in Cambridge now but still visit St.Ives occasionally. Hope you manage to stop by St.Ives on your return trip.
Seems like you haven't been on for a while? Missed you guys. Pretty dress. Wasn't sure if that was you or not. Tell Michael my family had a pontoon boat on a local reservoir and I remember those long, hot summer days and nights. Always looking for shady spots and trying to avoid the bugs too. Flowers on the video were beautiful. Wished my flower garden at home looked that nice. My "green thumb" is obviously brown. Travel safe you two and hope to see you again soon.
Beautiful Cruise, nice to see that entire stretch of the River. Only seen the River at the various access points, when fishing many years ago. St Ives is a wonderful little town and definitely worth exploring.
I just have to tell you, Jo, how much I love your skirt! Every time I see you wearing it I am reminded of just how nice you look in it. It's amazing how a long skirt can keep you cooler than shorts; your legs are literally in shade all day. Love to see George enjoying himself too!
Just lovely scenery along the Great Ouse which looks very popular for boaters, swimmers and picnickers'. Jo, your commentary on the history of the places you pass is really informative and interesting. All the best guys. Stephen 👍🦼
Great journey, love your narration Jo. Micheal if the flies are to pesky you need a net over your head 😁😁 I did think the heat would make the boat hotter being metal. Do you have stand alone fans. Mind now it’s colder but for next summer. Take care 💜💜🙋♀️🙋♀️
We do have a good strong fan, the problem being it can draw more in the worst heat then the solar panels put in, and hit nights can leave us with alarms going off before dawn! M
Hi how you doing . Well I’ve still not got my boat yet so if your stuck for mooring I’ve got a private Maureen Abbots Marina right outside the cast of swimming bath. You’re more than welcome to Moore there for a few days. Just let me know ok x
It must be very exciting to cross the meridian. This is sorta like when y'all encountered George Boole's hometown earlier this year? Or a museum focused on Boole? These great foundations, and people, and artifacts of our scientific heritage are a testimony to what humans have achieved, and stand to achieve in the future.
"Lepidoptera". Had to look that one up. Thanks for the new (Latin?) word! The two of you (and George, poor soul) are living in my past - there were no home air conditioners when I was a child. We had to go to the cinema, advertised to be "20 degrees cooler inside!" to chill out. I think you have it a bit worse though, living in a largely metal box. Hope the weather cools down soon and you can relax.
There was an old man with a beard, Who said ,"It's just as I feared, Three larks and a hen, Two owls and a wren, Have all made their nests in my beard." I may be misquoting, but that first bit…
I think I've heard a different version of the rhyme, but I suspect this one's nicer and it works very well. :) Incidentally, I keep my beard short these days. Just thought I'd mention that.
The foot traffic over that bridge in time lapse was impressive. I was wondering why those people were sitting on that little boat and not helping Jo. I guess boat rentals don't always come with etiquette tip cards. Oh well, glad you found a mooring, and I hope that nap worked out.
Looks lovely, but as you say very busy with the weekend sailors. Seems to be a lot of people wanting to bur narrowboats these day too? How much more of the canal system do you have to scratch off your list? I put yellow highlighter on all the hiking trails I have completed.
Many years ago, Houghton Mill was a Youth Hostel. I have old photos and postcards of it and my mother said the wooden building creaked in the night. In the mid 1980's, she wanted to reminisce and so we went there for a day but it was no longer a youth hostel or anything else for that matter. You, Jo pronounced Houghton (Hor-ton) as I do whereas my mother called it How-ton. When I first moved to the Lincs Fens, my tv aerial picked up Cambs news and I remember an article on the water mill and the news presenters called it Hoo-ton mill and so I have never honestly known it's true pronunciation. Did you speak to anyone local to there? If so, how did they say it?
Comedically it’s rather like every other place name in England… we’ve had different folk all claiming to be local and all assuring us of slightly different pronunciations! M
I'd be interested to know the name of that Black Prince hire boat, with which you shared that lock? I'm just curious to know if Black Prince, from whom we have had two boats and are due another in a couple of weeks (yippee!) have different names for all their fleet, or the same outfit of names from each base? We are starting from Stoke Prior, just south of Bromsgrove and intend to crash Birmingham as much as we can - via the place everyone knows, but doesn't know the name of; Spaghetti Junction, aka Gravely Hills Interchange or Salford Bridge Junction in canalspeak. Much as they are iconic for that part of the world, I just do not like guillotine lock gates!
I’d say your life on the boat is somewhat idyllic but having lived on ships for extended periods of time it can get confining. I say this as I sit here in my big comfy chair that wouldn’t quite fit on the Perseverance. On the other hand I must get outside and finish up my winter preps for another Alaskan winter. Take care and keep the videos coming. Thanks for another voyage …
I am assuming this is NOT CRT managed locks, possibly the CRT, when building completely new locks needs to take a lesson in how to build locks from the folks who constructed these.
The thing I don't understand about the guillotine gates on the Great Ouse is why they're at the upstream end of the lock. It means there's an enormous surge of water into the chamber when first opened, without any chance to control it. The guillotine gates on the Nene (also run by the EA) are at the downstream end, which makes much more sense.
@@danensis Lock gates need to be replaced every so many years. I can't find how long, but the CRT has 2 workshops making traditional lock gates pretty-much continuously. As for the other parts, I'm sure there's water wear on the stonework. The bywash channels for my local locks need constant looking after because they get clogged up with everything from water weeds to small tree branches. In a winter video, Jo filmed a bywash channel with no grate; I was envious! :D If you mean the facility rather than the parts, guillotine locks have also existed for at least 300 years. They're probably much older because they were a common type of flashlock or staunch: a single gate across a river. These were once very common, but they've all either been converted to pound locks or they've been abandoned along with the navigation, the latter notably in Sussex. I'm looking at a picture in an old book where the operator has climbed ladders to stand on top of a tall guillotine-type staunch where he has to turn a wheel approximately 12 feet in diameter. It looks really scary! XD Huh! A description of "hanging gates" in locks was made in 11th-century China; they were civilised enough that the whole lock was roofed. That surprised me. Well, that's probably far too long for a reply to a 1-liner, but I do get carried away at times. I hope it was interesting.
@@davidcurrie7929 The gates are locked wide open when the river floods. If the mitre gates were at the up-river end, it is hard to open them aginst he current especially if they are overtopped. Much easier to empty the lock to open them, when they are on the lower end. OK, they should be open long before they overtop... but still.
I kept being annoyed that you kept pronouncing Hoeton lock as Haughton. Some people also say howton, but they are not local. Not white ton, whiton Wyton, Godmanchester is how it is pronounced these days.
What a beautiful area and the locks are unique..Michael carries a different type of charisma there..😆..Great if you attract something big enough for fishing..lol.
Great vlog thank you..😊
Such beautiful wild flower patch...I do love England for this...the desert i live in is pretty barren except for wild sage...🙁
One of the advantages of living in a place as consistently damp as the UK is lots of beautiful greenery about! Glad you enjoyed the vlog! M
Bearded T-Rex! Michael for the fashion win!
Technically that's Godzilla, but he definitely might have some T-Rex ancestry! M
@@MinimalList Well...I watched that episode on the phone, so it 'twas a little hard to discern. But you're getting mad props for creative placement of deadcats.
Godmanchester is one of my favorite English town names,
It's certainly one of the more bewildering ones! M
No local says gumster anymore. We might say Gomanchester with a silent d.
Closer and closer you get to where I live! Great seeing local places from the river.
The videos are a wee bit behind us, so we may have already gotten to you, but glad you like seeing your local spots! M
We're finally getting rain here in drought wane Oregon. Ahh Micheal even the critters love him..... Habitat Wookie.....
Enjoy the rain!
You need to plumb your radiators to the canal! 😁 Well, it probably wouldn't work too well because they're no-doubt positioned to work best when air rises from them, not falls.
I got my map, it's lovely, thank you! I always liked Underground maps; thought they were really cool when I was a kid, and now I've fallen in love with canals, so a canal map in Underground style makes me very happy. 😄
So glad you’ve received the map and are enjoying it! Thanks so much for getting one! M
good vid on the cut keep it cranked with frends stay safe lee
Ah beautiful, reminds me of our honeymoon in 1958 where we spent it exploring all the Norfolk Broads in a two berth cruiser , I love being on the water , looks like a lovely river there , the broads are a very different place now to what they were years ago , I’ve never been on the River Ouse and I don’t think I ever will now sadly…Thanks for showing us around .
Glad we could show you a bit of the Ouse! We haven’t been to the Broads, as they’re quite disconnected, but hopefully we get to some day! M
Can you remember Horton Mill Lock from last year and watching boats from the bridge.
I vaguely remember Houghton Mill Lock… afraid there’s been a lot of happenstance in between! M
@@MinimalList Hi M should have said i can remember Horton Mill lock lol got me thinking though do you have a favourite lock?
What a beautiful area you travelled through today. Fabulous photography too. Confirms my view that being on a narrowboat allows you to see the world from a wonderful perspective with scenery you'd never see otherwise. George is definitely loving his life! He's such a cute boy. Xx
George is very cute, we tell him every day too. I have to agree with your comments about seeing the world different perspective, it’s especially evident when arriving in a town or city, so much nicer than arriving by road.
@@MinimalList surely you don't count the approach to Birmingham as being better by canal? I absolutely hated it and felt claustrophobic just watching your videos of the time. At least in a road going vehicle, you can escape quickly from places such as Brum.
The vlog had it all, a George roll/back rub on the grass, and being way too cute, a Michael stream of consciousness, a lovely cruise, interspersed with pertinent information, and memories of summer - a good reminder to have on a day of thundery and very windy downpours, thankyou. Take care you three
The Minimal isn’t vlog formula! Thanks for watching
Great vid, pity the Godmnchester mooring bank was washed out by the floods last spring; people just moor further down or up if there's room. Can't grumble, they have had to dredge below the lock, and are rebulding the sluice and fish ladder at the far end of the backwater. (Ps be aware of the trees in the wind they are called Split Willow for a reason)
Luckily we got out from under those things before any big winds came! M
An old stamping ground of mine - I knew Hemingford Grey and Houghton Mill quite well. The house was inherited by a friend in the 70s, but needed some work before it could be sold, so a bunch of us camped out in it for a week once. Houghton Mill used to be a YHA Youth Hostel, owned by the National Trust - a beautiful youth hostel it was too, with a large lounge overlooking the river. Eventually, the National Trust decided to close the Youth Hostel part because the whole building was made of wood and they were worried about the fire risk from cooking (and smoking) hostellers. Still, as a National Trust property, it's well worth a visit to see how a large wooden watermill worked.
What lovely memories! Thanks for the info!
lovely to see that area again, i havent had a boat in over 20 years now and it brings back many memories. We used to call that part of the lock (the d) the dog leg.
Glad to have brought back some good memories. I like the dog leg name!
Your vlogs are better than any sunday night TV. Much love to all three of you. xxx
Thank you. That’s so kind of you to say!
Welcome to Godmanchester. The wind comes across what we call “the largest meadow” which can make morning a little tricky sometimes.
We loved it there and the meadow!
Yes, George is loving life ... so refreshing... grass back rubs are the best.
They really are! Except for the green stain! M
The words "menacing" and "George" in the same sentence are hilarious.
You've never seen him from super up close when he's got a fix on the cheese held between your lips! M
The perfect combination: Jo's great eye for editing and fabulous taste in music, Michael's lavender shorts, lock-side wild flower meadows and a very contented George
Thanks! M
Hey Louis, fancy meeting you here. I didn’t know that you are following Minimal List too. Loving the steady (read slow) pace of canal life. We shall be joining the throng early next year as we have now bought a narrowboat and will be returning to the UK soon.
The scenery was beautiful ..felt like we were on board with you .enjoyed your Vlog .Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! M
beautiful flowers
They looked wonderful
What a lovely area.
It really is!
What a fun time on this trip as it was so busy.
It was fun, if a little busy!
I love these videos!
Glad to hear it! M
Live just near there..looks like the ferryboat at Holywell...lovely part of the world
It looked lovely!
Beautiful views. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
As always, thanks.
You’re most welcome!
Beautiful, u have inspired me on my journey in Australia, safe boating 😊
Thank you! You too!
Houghton mill is worth a visit. I stayed in it when it was a Youth Hostel
You are the second person to say that! Thank bet it was wonderful!
You have certainly explored that area welll...
We are tying
Long time, no see. Big changes since I saw you two last.
Brilliant video as ever, thanks for posting. :-)
Thanks for watching! M
Loving the videos! I grew up in St.Ives and it's lovely to see you passing through all the places I used to go to when I was younger. The Ferryboat is said to be one of England's oldest inns - historical documents record that alcohol was sold there from 560 AD! I live just down the road in Cambridge now but still visit St.Ives occasionally. Hope you manage to stop by St.Ives on your return trip.
We did have a stop in St. Ives on the return trip, lovely little town! M
Seems like you haven't been on for a while? Missed you guys. Pretty dress. Wasn't sure if that was you or not. Tell Michael my family had a pontoon boat on a local reservoir and I remember those long, hot summer days and nights. Always looking for shady spots and trying to avoid the bugs too. Flowers on the video were beautiful. Wished my flower garden at home looked that nice. My "green thumb" is obviously brown. Travel safe you two and hope to see you again soon.
We are down to one video a week at the moment. We’re planning to do an update video soon to explain why.
Beautiful Cruise, nice to see that entire stretch of the River.
Only seen the River at the various access points, when fishing many years ago.
St Ives is a wonderful little town and definitely worth exploring.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it!
I just have to tell you, Jo, how much I love your skirt! Every time I see you wearing it I am reminded of just how nice you look in it. It's amazing how a long skirt can keep you cooler than shorts; your legs are literally in shade all day. Love to see George enjoying himself too!
Thank you! I love that skirt too. I got it on our trip to India in 2017 and it always comes out on the hottest days!
when new vlogs coming out love watching you both especially george xx
Just lovely scenery along the Great Ouse which looks very popular for boaters, swimmers and picnickers'. Jo, your commentary on the history of the places you pass is really informative and interesting. All the best guys. Stephen 👍🦼
Thank so much. Glad you enjoyed it!
“I don’t even know where we are?!” 😂 tired much?
Very much, that day! M
Great journey, love your narration Jo. Micheal if the flies are to pesky you need a net over your head 😁😁 I did think the heat would make the boat hotter being metal. Do you have stand alone fans. Mind now it’s colder but for next summer. Take care 💜💜🙋♀️🙋♀️
We do have a good strong fan, the problem being it can draw more in the worst heat then the solar panels put in, and hit nights can leave us with alarms going off before dawn! M
@@MinimalList that’s a blow ☹️
Hi how you doing . Well I’ve still not got my boat yet so if your stuck for mooring I’ve got a private Maureen Abbots Marina right outside the cast of swimming bath. You’re more than welcome to Moore there for a few days. Just let me know ok x
Thanks for the kind offer
It must be very exciting to cross the meridian. This is sorta like when y'all encountered George Boole's hometown earlier this year? Or a museum focused on Boole? These great foundations, and people, and artifacts of our scientific heritage are a testimony to what humans have achieved, and stand to achieve in the future.
"Lepidoptera". Had to look that one up. Thanks for the new (Latin?) word! The two of you (and George, poor soul) are living in my past - there were no home air conditioners when I was a child. We had to go to the cinema, advertised to be "20 degrees cooler inside!" to chill out. I think you have it a bit worse though, living in a largely metal box. Hope the weather cools down soon and you can relax.
It’s never usually unbearably hot for long.
Excellent vlog. where in England are you? Please show maps.
Sorry, I forgot to add the map to this video. We are planning an update video in a couple of weeks so will include one then
There was an old man with a beard,
Who said ,"It's just as I feared,
Three larks and a hen,
Two owls and a wren,
Have all made their nests in my beard."
I may be misquoting, but that first bit…
Haha! 👍🏻
I think I've heard a different version of the rhyme, but I suspect this one's nicer and it works very well. :)
Incidentally, I keep my beard short these days. Just thought I'd mention that.
The foot traffic over that bridge in time lapse was impressive. I was wondering why those people were sitting on that little boat and not helping Jo. I guess boat rentals don't always come with etiquette tip cards. Oh well, glad you found a mooring, and I hope that nap worked out.
Yeah, it was a bit annoying but I guess they didn’t know any better.
The videos that is. Wasn't sure I made myself clear.
Are there any canals you guys haven't done
Nope! Not anyone. We’ll be doing an update video on that in a couple of weeks
I'm sitting here trying to shout back in time to tell you that the GOBA moorings at Brampton Mill are much nicer, and a shorter walk to the station.
We ended up doing station walks from both moorings and there is not much in it distance wise! Plus it was a very nice walk across the meadow!
Looks lovely, but as you say very busy with the weekend sailors.
Seems to be a lot of people wanting to bur narrowboats these day too?
How much more of the canal system do you have to scratch off your list?
I put yellow highlighter on all the hiking trails I have completed.
We’ll do an update video in a couple of weeks showing what waterways we’ve still left to do and show our map that we have been drawing on
@@MinimalList I look forward to that, Cheers!
Many years ago, Houghton Mill was a Youth Hostel. I have old photos and postcards of it and my mother said the wooden building creaked in the night. In the mid 1980's, she wanted to reminisce and so we went there for a day but it was no longer a youth hostel or anything else for that matter.
You, Jo pronounced Houghton (Hor-ton) as I do whereas my mother called it How-ton. When I first moved to the Lincs Fens, my tv aerial picked up Cambs news and I remember an article on the water mill and the news presenters called it Hoo-ton mill and so I have never honestly known it's true pronunciation. Did you speak to anyone local to there? If so, how did they say it?
Comedically it’s rather like every other place name in England… we’ve had different folk all claiming to be local and all assuring us of slightly different pronunciations! M
It’s hoeton, or howton but never haughton
I'd be interested to know the name of that Black Prince hire boat, with which you shared that lock? I'm just curious to know if Black Prince, from whom we have had two boats and are due another in a couple of weeks (yippee!) have different names for all their fleet, or the same outfit of names from each base?
We are starting from Stoke Prior, just south of Bromsgrove and intend to crash Birmingham as much as we can - via the place everyone knows, but doesn't know the name of; Spaghetti Junction, aka Gravely Hills Interchange or Salford Bridge Junction in canalspeak. Much as they are iconic for that part of the world, I just do not like guillotine lock gates!
Oh wonderful! You will have a great time.
The engineer in me loves guillotine lock gates; they're such an elegant design. The human me who might one day be sailing under them... not so much!
saw the boat that said, "Patrol", is that like canal cops? at about 11:20, seems like George is barking orders. is Michael "working from home"?
I’m not actually sure what the patrol boat does. It’s the first time we’ve seen it
I’d say your life on the boat is somewhat idyllic but having lived on ships for extended periods of time it can get confining. I say this as I sit here in my big comfy chair that wouldn’t quite fit on the Perseverance. On the other hand I must get outside and finish up my winter preps for another Alaskan winter. Take care and keep the videos coming. Thanks for another voyage …
Keep warm!
Seems the water is high?
I don’t think it was especially high that day.
It was the normal summer level. When the river floods then a lot of water meadows get wet - that is what they are there for.
As always loved your video. Michael, your microphone is out of sync with Jos' mic. Give George a hug for me and "keep'm commin"!
We both use the same voice recorded so the mics are in the same track. Where was it out if sync, I didn’t notice any issues when editing.
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Who on earth would put a chapel on a bridge?
Monks who wanted to collect tolls, form travellers who wanted to be granted a safe journey.
@@MrThingummy so it was a toll booth with opportunist disguised with religion. Some things don't change.
I am assuming this is NOT CRT managed locks, possibly the CRT, when building completely new locks needs to take a lesson in how to build locks from the folks who constructed these.
The EA look after the Great Ouse.
The thing I don't understand about the guillotine gates on the Great Ouse is why they're at the upstream end of the lock. It means there's an enormous surge of water into the chamber when first opened, without any chance to control it. The guillotine gates on the Nene (also run by the EA) are at the downstream end, which makes much more sense.
I'd like to see those guillotine locks still working after 300 years, as the traditional locks are.
@@danensis Lock gates need to be replaced every so many years. I can't find how long, but the CRT has 2 workshops making traditional lock gates pretty-much continuously. As for the other parts, I'm sure there's water wear on the stonework. The bywash channels for my local locks need constant looking after because they get clogged up with everything from water weeds to small tree branches. In a winter video, Jo filmed a bywash channel with no grate; I was envious! :D
If you mean the facility rather than the parts, guillotine locks have also existed for at least 300 years. They're probably much older because they were a common type of flashlock or staunch: a single gate across a river. These were once very common, but they've all either been converted to pound locks or they've been abandoned along with the navigation, the latter notably in Sussex. I'm looking at a picture in an old book where the operator has climbed ladders to stand on top of a tall guillotine-type staunch where he has to turn a wheel approximately 12 feet in diameter. It looks really scary! XD
Huh! A description of "hanging gates" in locks was made in 11th-century China; they were civilised enough that the whole lock was roofed. That surprised me.
Well, that's probably far too long for a reply to a 1-liner, but I do get carried away at times. I hope it was interesting.
@@davidcurrie7929 The gates are locked wide open when the river floods. If the mitre gates were at the up-river end, it is hard to open them aginst he current especially if they are overtopped. Much easier to empty the lock to open them, when they are on the lower end. OK, they should be open long before they overtop... but still.
Michael, Your package is on the way. Check your Facebook account.
Hi Richard, thanks for that! M
I kept being annoyed that you kept pronouncing Hoeton lock as Haughton. Some people also say howton, but they are not local. Not white ton, whiton Wyton, Godmanchester is how it is pronounced these days.