He looks all cute and innocent
but he's got this like stare
and he knows when we're about to move the boat
and he gets really impatient.
It's like this bossy stare,
if we got back on the boat he'll sit at the top of the steps of the galley
and just stare at us through the boat
like shouting in his head.
Hurry up!
What ya doing?
[Laughs]
He's doing it now.
So don't be fooled by that cute face.
He knows what he's doing.
We're still in Long Itchington, well Long Itchington is about
three quarters,
stop laughing every time I say it,
about three quarters of a mile that way.
Went up yesterday on the bike for my bit of exercise for the day and to see if they had any milk at the Co-op,
but everybody was like, they weren't doing the 2 meter thing and it was just wrong.
People coughing and I was just like Pffft no thanks.
Not going in there.
So we're not gonna risk that. Opposite there is a 13th century Church
called Holy Trinity Church.
Nice old churches like that have a nice spire, but this one didn't
and I did a bit of research, you know what I'm like with my books,
the whole boat's filling up with books.
It used to have a spire, but in 1672 while the vicar was doing his preachy sermon thing to his flock,
there was a big storm outside
and the spire fell off,
or blew off, or got hit by lightning depending which are the wikipedia pages you believe.
Something happened.
Do you know what they replaced this lovely big spire with?
A flag?
Nope.
A stump.
[Laughs]
If ever I, do you know what I mean. If owt happens to me replace me with a stump.
[Laughing]
You stood there and like a stump.
[Laughing]
Today we've got to go get fuel,
Yeah.
We are allowed to move for essential journeys only,
the next point for diesel and coal
is about 3 or 4 miles in front of us at Calcutt Marina, so that's where we're heading today.
It's gonna be like a dash, we want to get in there,
get the fuel and get back out to another point like this
where we can isolate and keep away from everybody and everybody keeps away from us.
Stay away!
So we're already
Dillon's itching to go.
Yes, he always is.
Itching, Itchington
[Laughing]
Come on, Dillon. Back on the boat.
[Music playing]
[Engine starting]
[Muisc playing]
Bye-bye Long Itchington.
[Laughs]
What's that bird that goes like, De de der De de der
De de, that sounds like something off Mary Poppins doesn't? No, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
[Lauighs]
There's a bird and it's like De de der De de der.
Tell me what it is. [Shaun whispers] I've no idea.
Not that one that goes derrr derrr derrr, sounds like it's talking backwards.
It's just like a De de der
It's stuck in my head.
[Laughs]
[Music playing]
That was bridge 26A.
Do you know why it's called 'A' ?
Albert.
Albert? [Laughs]
It was, I know why.
Go on.
Because it was built after the canals.
YAYYYY!
YAY! I'm clever.
He doesn't button up at the back like everybody says.
I do.
Yeah, all the bridges that have got an 'A'
means they were constructed after the canal was built.
You'll find that a lot of the railway bridges have got 'A' or 'B' after them
because the railways were built after the canals in most cases.
So that one, 26A. That was the old London Northwestern, Leamington to Weedon branch line.
It actually follows the canal, we'll see it again in a little while after the locks
and that one, it opens up onto a viaduct and the difference between that one and the one at Radford
is you can walk over that one,
which is good.
There listen
De de der De de der.
🎶 De de d der. De de de de de de de de de de derrr 🎶
Whats that tune?
Chim chimmeny, that's what it is.
Chim chimmeny?
It's a Chim Chimmeny bird
🎶 Chim chiminey, chim chiminey 🎶
[Bird song]
Isn't it?
🎶 Chim chiminey, chim chiminey 🎶
[Music playing]
[Music fading]
We've stopped for some water
on our way down to Calcutt... Calcutta,
It sounds like,
It's blooming long way isn't it, to Calcutta for a bit of coal,
I don't think they need coal in Calcutta do they?
[Laughs]
We stopped and we just before the flight of 8 Stockton locks
and around here back in the day
this whole area
there's like loads of what they call Blue Lias Limestone,
it's like the oldest Jurassic age limestone that you can get.
Thames Embankment is built out of it.
Ooooh WOW!
and back in the day when this canal was built
the whole area was just like buzzing with tile and cement and brick works all using this
Blue Lias Limestone and just behind us, behind these nice pretty trees
is Kays Arm
Not her foot?
No, a little finger. Kays little finger.
It's one of the only surviving arms and it goes up to Kay's Old Lime Quarry and Cement Works.
If you follow it the line of the arm with the drone you can still see the quarry. It's not owned by Kay anymore.
Who's owned by, Dierdre?
No, she got it together with F & C
[Laughing] She sells chicken now.
Errrr [Laughs]
What?
So back in the day, Blue Lias Limestone was a big deal and because it's really old,
it's like Jurassic oldest one of the oldest you can get.
They were finding fossilised reptiles and dinosaurs in it.
WOW!
What dinosaur would you be if you was a... You'd be a gay one.
You'd be the camp one with the little hands
like that,
picking flowers.
I'd be a pterodactyl.
Is that the one that flies?
You'd a nightmare.
I would be a nightmare wouldn't I?
[Laughing]
and because it was so important back in the day
there's still signs of it all over.
Where we are is Blue Lias Moorings,
there's a pub opposite us called the Blue Lias,
there's a bridge in front of us called Blue Lias Bridge.
Are you getting a theme here.
[Laughing]
[Music playing]
[Music fading]
[Sound of water]
Stockton Locks,
not that bad actually
and there's only three more walks to go
until we make a decision at Napton Junction.
We're not going to Braunston.
[Laughs]
And it's weird because we've hardly seen a soul.
The restrictions and the social distancing and isolation
and everything, so we've not really seen anybody it's like,
it's likely acopalypse.
Acopalypse?
Yeah
apocalypse.
We'd do really well I think in an apop, acop apop,, an acopalyptic world would we? [Laughing]
[Laughing]
What would you do in the Acopalypse?
Yeah.
I'd just walk around shouting and waving my chopper.
[Music playing]
Remember I was talking about all the cement and brick and lime works along this stretch of the canal.
Well that is Nelson's Wharf, it used to be Charles Nelson Cement Works up at the end of it.
Just another arm off the canal and it was abandoned years ago,
if you go up there it's just like fishing lagoons and spoil heaps now, not much up there.
But Willow Wren, who do narrowboat training and things like that,
they're based here and they regenerated, they redeveloped and opened of the arm again.
There's moats boored up there now
[Sound of a needle scratching a record]
Did I just say 'there's moats boored up there now'
There's moats boored up there now
[Music playing]
Remember right at the beginning when we went under that bridge, that viaduct?
Yeah.
The Leamington Weed on Viaduct
[Laughs] Yes
Viaduct.
and I said we'd see it again.
Yeah
Well
that's where it crosses over again
Oh right where it used to cross over.
Where it used to do, yeah.
The railway was built, this is the weird thing, the railway was completed in 1895
and it took all the traffic away from the canals.
Poor canals.
Who's up in the last laugh though?
[Laughs]
[Music playing]
It's roasting,
with the sun out it's lovely.
I'm absolutely boiling, but I'm not taking my jacket off.
Why?
Because she ruins continuity.
You're so camp.
I don't care it ruins continuity and spoils the enjoyment of the video
and people always know when you've changed clothes.
[Laughing]
[Music playing]
[Music fading]
I'm knackered.
[Laughing]
All that coal.
Mission accomplished.
So in two short trips we've managed to get water,
we've managed to get rid of all our rubbish,
we've managed to fill the tank with diesel
and the jerry cans.
So we've got basically a tank and a half of fuel.
Now a tank would normally last us about,
on an, I mean it's difficult to say isn't it?
Cos it depends on what you cruise, how much you use the heating and things like that.
If you took it as overall year average,
a tank would last as anything between 5
and 7 weeks on average.
So a tank and a half
if we're not cruising, if we're just
isolating and just moving just for water and food,
it should last is a fair while, a couple of months or maybe even more.
Hopefully.
We've got more coal than we need,
[Laughs]
it's like the back end of April,
middle back end of April
and it should be getting warm, but last year we were still using coal
after we launched for a good two or three weeks.
Yeah we were, right into May were't we.
Yeah, into May and June.
So we've got enough just in case,
we've got like 12 bags of coal.
So we're either going to be carrying it with us all the way through to next winter
[Laughing]
or we've got enough.
The thing is, is just to overstock so we don't have to make any more journeys.
So now what we're going to do
is we've got ourselves into this tight little spot,
[Laughs]
we're going to try and get ourselves out of it.
We've got one more lock, which is lock number 1
Ufff!
and find somewhere to moor.
of 13 that we've done today
and then we're going to find somewhere to moor.
[Music playing]
It's been a weird old day.
Yeah it has, it's been quiet and eerie.
It's been, yeah very apocalyptic.
Apocalyptic.
See I can say it right, I just choose not to.
[Laughing]
Yeah it's been really deathly quiet, not very good
and it's sad to see all the hire boats kind of still
in their stables.
In the stables?
In their stables.
But yeah, it's a bit sad.
Especially in weather like this.
Yeah.
But we're sorted, we've got food and fuel and water and coal
and gas. We've got everything we need now
Thanks to Calcutt.
We can stop moving again, we can find somewhere and just hunker down
and sit this thing out
the best we can anyway.
Until we need water.
Which we'll move again.
But we're gonna leave you with a bit of a cliffhanger,
about 100 yards in front of us
It was 300 two takes ago.
It was [laughs]
and then it was 200 on the last take.
100 yards in front of us
the canal splits off we, can either go left towards Braunston.
Carry on down the GrandUnion towards London or head north to the Ashby,
up towards the Trent and Mersey.
Ooooh again?
Or we could go right and head south towards Oxford, Reading,
London, Kennet and Avon.
Ooooh now there's a thought.
You'll find out next time.
You will.
[Laughs]
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[Music playing]
[Laughing]
Dillon's having a mooch,
there you go.
I'm growing a moustache, I'm hitting puberty.
[Laughing]
Come on I'm gonna be a man.
Oh that'll never happen.
Errrrr!
[Laughing]
[Laughing] He's gonna kill you when he watches this.
Hang on, have I got fluff on my lip? No I haven't.
It felt like I had fluff on my lip then.
No... [Sighs]
The bridge, bridge? The church was built in 1672
in the 13th century.
Now you've confused me.
[Laughing]
I'm sorry.
Again?
I felt like I had fluff in the last take didn't I?
Yeah.
[Laughing]
🎶 I'm going slightly mad 🎶
Just a touch.
Kay's arm
which is just back there, sounds like
her arm, her leg, her foot.
[Laughing]
her little finger.
[Laughing]
Repeat to the viewer what you just said to me about the roof.
[Laughs]
You just let me snot.
[Laughing]
Ohh dear.
Bogey check.
Nah you're fine.
Arghh!
Oh you shouldn't do that.
Why? [Laughs]
Cos you shouldn't.
[Laughs]
My ear.
[Laughing]
[Music plays to the end]
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