So good morning and welcome to the narrowboat experience.
The plan for today is to move the boat. We're at a place with a name I can't
pronounce. Alrewas. And we are heading along the
Trent and Mersey we're going to go through Fradley Junction today and then look for
somewhere to moor up. We want to get water you want to get a supermarket
and bins bins definitely bins and this is summer welcome to summer in
England. According to the news that I read this morning we've had a month's
worth of rain in a weekend it has been quite torrential at times the
cats have got stir-crazy we've got a bit stir-crazy but we'll go out in the rain
they won't. So join us as we cruise today through Fradley junction.
On the Trent and mersey.
Even though it's rainy today I would absolutely rather cruise in the rain
than the wind.
It was quite windy and raining yesterday so
to wait till today to
and even if it was sunny and windy I'd always choose stay but do you not enjoy
the winds in a metal rectangle and she's quite a
light boat as well this one is yeah because I can pull her
in quite easily She kinda feels as light as Ewart did-
or I've got stronger.
We're officially traveling faster than pigeons
got to celebrate the small achievement.
So this is Fradley junction a quick succession of locks and a water point and
some services and in this haze a few boaters waving nondescript signals at us
about whether or not we're pulling in or they're pulling in but the water's on
our side so I think he's opening the gate for us.
So we don't let the cats out when we get water even when it's really safe like it
is here at Fradley Junction. Look at their faces (laughs).
Oh sorry kittens.
Hilarious.
I was just telling them the plans. This has the the slowest water yeah when CC did it he
did it wrong yeah and tried to blame me for it yeah which
is the premise of his whole channel. What trying to blame me or doing it wrong?
Comment below.
We've had the best run of luck at Fradley Junction we got a water
we got the bins and then there's three locks here and there will be manned by
volunteers or person'd and that's been awesome and it doesn't even feel like
we've done a heap of locks. Our aim is to make it to Tesco by lunch but I think
the new aim might be to make it through these locks and then someone go inside
and make a cheese and tomato sandwich.
I miscounted the locks there's another lock coming up.
Oh no the 'two cat rule'.
Someone's gonna have to go in.
Might as well have some cups of tea while we wait
we absolutely do not wait mind waiting doing Oh No
I would prefer it I love that CRT are maintaining the canals and I've
voyeuristically love to watch.
And I don't want anything stuck in the prop.
We haven't been down into this prop yet I would check in yeah
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I've got lots of toilet jokes for me get to Armitage
toilet museum boaters love talking toilets they'd have to have a toilet
museum.
I'd be interested to go.Really?
Okay comment below if you'd be interested in the toilet museum I don't
even know that there is
we could go to the toilet through the hedge
joke number one no that's an extra let's need an extra I
was gonna say cuz I was reading that Edward Johns was
the guy one of the guys that was from one of the toilet companies
and that's why sometimes people go so they're saying I'm going to the toilet
they say I'm going to the John
it's not a joke what I was gonna say is in Australia we
say we're going to the 'Tut' the dummy we're gonna the dunny I grew
up saying 'dunny' what did you grow up saying toilet toilet bathroom restroom
conveniences comment below what did you grow up saying
'loo', I'd like to go to the 'loo'.
See if we can get the most amount of votes for funny.
This is our first boat...for...
since the locks I think.
Plumb pudding is an awesome name and it's in the book from 12 years ago.
Well it's still here we've decided to press on to Morrison's
Kath's had a little bit of a rest and we are a bit tired and it is wet and it is
cold but I feel like it's best to get some shopping done.
Now this unsuspecting unexpected tunnel situation and the same says send a crew
member on ahead to stop uncoming boats to let them know that you're coming and
I guess I'm the crew member and it's only one boat width wide so I'm just
gonna go ahead and stop traffic.
That boat has its fire lit and you can completely be excused for thinking it is
winter and we recorded this in winter because boats have fires on captain's
have waterproof's on.
It is a little bit dreary
we've just seen it two-for-one so excited
I think they've got moorings.
They might have moorings.
There must be a pub near here I don't know why I'm thinking that
So we have moored up at Rugeley, as we hoped to and there's a Tesco just there.
We're going immediately to get some food this food in the cupboards but we want
some different food and then we're gonna have a nice relaxing evening doing work.
Oh thank you so much for watching as always and for liking and for sharing
and for commenting.Thanks guys. See you next time.