okay first of all
diesel tick water
Toilet - sad face sad face next to that. I don't mind
Hi there, i'm just going to show you some of the things that we do when we're getting
ready to go cruising because we are going on holiday in a couple weeks so we just
need to get everything ready
one of the things we always have to do before we go out anyway is to fill up
with water and so that's what i'm doing. Anna has gone off to clean the toilet
because well thats her job! So let's get started
Hey honey
You okay? Did it go okay?
You grumpy?
So I just got soaked when i took this off
we're just so happy about the progress of these two cats aren't we? Yes
because how far have they come?
Nearly out onto the stern! I meant emotionally but yes, also literally!
And we've had two boats go past and they haven't even
flinched! Munchy has even gone up a step!
After the boat left, Munchy even decided to come out a little bit
we will keep you updated
maybe today could be the first time Munchy went into the canal
alice is like I've already done that is overrated
nobody fishes you out
kittens being so brave we just what we don't want them to do is we
don't want them to jump on the roof. see the look on that cats face like
the only place I want to be is on that roof
hello and welcome to the Kath Show! on today's show I'm going to talk to you
about nothing
I don't know what we're doing
Hi, we have taken refuge inside because it is pouring with rain
of and on - and and so what we're going to do is we're going to plan our trip
yeah, if only we had some paper. ok so we have 50 walks in Warwickshire and the
West Midlands we inherited that with the boat didn't we?
yeah. We are nowhere near Warwickshire though
how far away from Warwickshire are we? Its where we bought the boat
so we have 16 days of cruising and we want to plan something that leaves from
the Aylesbury Arm
yeah unless we go the other way. The other we're going to London aren't we?
Why would we want to go that way?
So we're not gonna need that book. Apparently it is out of print and worth a lot of money!
Two. Central
These Nicholson books do certain sections of the country
this doesn't say which one it does
central section of the country. Oh. Are we not in a central part of the country?
These two books that we purchased (one pound each) at the
charity auction don't actually cover the area of the waterways that we're on
We were done!
I'd like to go on the River Nene
Hi Nene!
So we have these then. And this one.
Those are the ones we use all the time
Pages we use all the time are wet and crumpled and stuck in with tape
at the front of the book they have your route planner
the other thing we use to plan our voyages is a website called canalplan.org
Its really helpful. You put in your starting point and you say
if you want to do a round trip or end to end trip. You put in
how many hours cruising you want to do. Two hours cruising
Look, Welsh waters!
south midlands and this is two copies for when you fight
no it says on page 83 your wrong
We used this one when we went on holiday
Oh the Kennet and Avon! We bought that because
we were going to moor on the K&A... then we got scared by the river!
We have used this one as well
No, the previous owners used that one (haha)
So we are going to go for this one
we got two choices we go down to London or we can go up to Norton Junction
We can't do a ring? No
We can go from where we are up to Norton Junction and back
We could take a detour down the Northampton Arm of the Grand Union
We could go onto the Oxford Canal
but its supposed to be busy during the summer
My idea of a canal holiday is you get up really early
you turn your engine on and you sail
you sail all day, you sail to dark and when it starts to get dusky you moor up, you panic
because there are no morning spots and you left it too late and you miss the
pub and you end up having an emergency tinned pie in the middle of nowhere
that's how she's been brought up!
In my house, we don't do that. We get up and have a leisurely cup of coffee
paint a picture talk about starting the engine, maybe make some lunch
She can't even last the whole of my explanation!
When we picked the boat up, the original plan was to just move it from one marina to another
easy peasy right 10 days to to move the boat and I allowed 10 days even though
it shouldn't have taken us 10 days because I knew that our
pattern would-be a couple of hours causing, moor up and sit relax have a nice trip
enjoy the journey. If you have seen some of our previous videos
with know that that's not quite how it went because we had a small fire and
ended up having to take extra days off after the boat was fixed to sale it - then
we were doing traditional canal holiday days
you wanna do that again? no I don't want to do that. I prefer our Aylesbury Arm
holiday and even that was only a long weekend
it was you know you get up when you want and you have a cup of coffee and then
you have another coffee
you get the idea! so I think that when we are on holidays we will probably just go as far as
In 8 days will be make it to Braunston?
I'd quite like to go to Braunston to buy new fridge and a tiller bar
and some other new stuff. Are you doing a school holiday sale
midland chandlers? Probably not :(
and then what was happening this morning? You were having a nap
I was having a nap. I was in dreamland Fast asleep snoring away
I was only nine o'clock in the morning I've had breakfast and I was working
hard on some work. You were doing nothing!
I was playing a game on my iPad
yeah so that I heard that put put of an old-style engine and I
looked out the window and it low and behold it was it was a tug
well it was a fuel boat I ran and left up
you ran like the wind actually yelled at the fuel boat the fuel boat! and ran to the
the back of the boat so I left out the bow
we both shouted diesel diesel and they pulled over and
they were lovely it's almost like they used to people leaping off their boats and
yelling we'd like some diesel please and then they gave us permission to film
a fuel
yes so hopefully you enjoyed that - it was excellent!
we took about 85 metres into Ewart and she wasn't completely empty
I checked yesterday she was about two thirds empty
We aren't sure how big the tank is but we do have a stick that we put in
there whenever I get neurotic which is often
all the time
we rang Jules fuels because we wanted to get
some fuel and she comes recommended
You missed out on all the drama
yeah sorry
I've waiting for the refuelling for months :( i missed it with my shyness
Oh well
humans always need diesel ... until they go electric
so what we're going to do is we're going to write our to do list that right honey
yeah "we" ... apparently how it goes is well i'm writing the to do list because Anna
does nothing
well on that note
thanks for watching ( you are going to cut that bit right?) yeah I'm going to cut that
bit i have ultimate power and hopefully next time you tune in we will be on our
summer holiday and getting some more cruising videos
getting some more cruising videos for you to enjoy
Thanks for watching!