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thank you
welcome to another spectacular early morning on the river but the beauty can be deceiving
as we are closely watching the water levels the Thames is about to flood
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for the last two weeks um and he used to have to step down onto the boat and uh now I have
to step up onto it so the water levels are rising um and we're getting some poles tomorrow
so it's just about breaking the bank on the other side been watching very closely but
yeah we've probably got about half a foot a foot left before we break the bank so it
just fingers crossed it doesn't rain for the next couple of days the islands are going
under as well there the bank is not hasn't broken yet the river's still probably about
an inch off but this next Island from this one is under water [Music] this is quite a
low point I see why now they take all the smaller Boats off the river for the winter
[Music] we're watching The River very closely because it is flooding on the other bank um
it's not yet flooding here thank god um there is about foot maybe of the bank still left
we are fine for today and the next few days but we are planning to put the poles in to
make sure that if it does flood extensively the boat doesn't end up on their pavement
so we are gonna do that today but we're watching really closely the other side because it has
broken the bank and the water is going in the gardens yeah it is the highest it has
been it is the highest I've seen it it's still raining and it is predicted to rain for the
next week so yeah we've never been in this situation it's our first winter on the river
so we are very alert to what's happening [Music]
Alba sits in the water quite high now in comparison to a few weeks ago we were scraping the floor
our neighbor Eddie got us two poles so we are going to install them later on tonight
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cool so it's been raining for I don't know about two and a half weeks so we're gonna
put some posts in the river levels have risen I don't know probably about a foot and a half
would you say so our friend Eddie picked us up some poles um some eight foot by I don't
know four sounds right doesn't it um I don't know I think anyway eight foot they're not
by four foot wide I have just eight foot poles that we're gonna bash into the ground now
we haven't got a pole Basher yet so we're gonna use the Mallet first but we're gonna
use the multi-tool to sharpen the ends off turn them into Spears and then bash them in
and then hope for the best I hope we hope we don't need them at all in the first place
but we've got about just over half a foot left till of of the bank and we've got pretty
secure Mooring on rings and things like that so I'm not worried about that it's just actually
Beach banking or whatever um be really embarrassing and handling having to get the crane in and
[Music] can't do DIY without a bit it's not safe
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[Music] do I give up let's just I think let's just wing it let's just hang our home up with
a stick we're about here you don't want it right at the end are you going to hold it
with our Bash no I'm filming autonomous way of filming this is real life survival [ __ ]
Marina okay sorry do you want to film me actually you filming yes I am this is for you guys
that'll do is that is that safe
the half safe
position about a year but actually no that's not true I thought six months yeah no two
months I did it here because there's no windows
oh is it playing a part it has a lot of work okay maybe you don't do it that yeah that's
probably why you need a post Basher no it's fine it's
it's not going to hold the weight of the boat it's just got a
put it in quite a way we'll see how far okay so it's wedged that much in
I can't do it to the the other one though that looks so sad that looks sad just gonna
hold our home place but all of our belongings and everything will learn that it'll be fine
right let's do this one
with the ground's not it's more like sand here yeah maybe further a foot further out
it's a bit too close to this if you do it like a foot further so we just make it a bit
further away from the bank no I don't want this to be used all the time no this is going
to be used in that very short yeah period if it did Flood yeah so ideally you kind of
want it using I guess the strength of the bank as well right um rather than it be I'm
not trying to build a dock I'm trying to build a an insurance
how you do it folks [Laughter]
hit on that one I just lent on it it just went in for the first bit because I sawed
it uh
I think it's great I feel safe already no it's starting to fall apart now I'd rather
it be cracked at the top here but actually in yeah that's true well we'll test tomorrow
morning and see how it goes I think that calls for a celebrate your butcher I hope it holds
would you trust us
[Music] so we've put away all the Christmas decorations now but they're not fully away
they're still on the bedroom floor so today we're gonna go under the mattress where the
storage is and put everything away
getting under the bed is a two-person job our mattress is very heavy and we use the
space next to it as storage so there's a lot of things to lift and to move we then discovered
that the insulation layer that we used under the bed was a mistake I've given the bed frame
a wash and the insulation went where it should have gone from the beginning on the floor
which means that everything needed to be taken out sorted through dusted off and put back
it took a half a day we have most traps under the bed and I've taken two of them out so
they were full of water so they're doing the job quite good but we are readjusting some
stuff under the bed we realize that having the insulation layer just under the Matrix
doesn't work so we're now going to put it all the way down onto the floor as it should
be we're a bit lazy to be honest um and I'm going to top up the moisture traps to catch
more moisture
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Seasons I love making soups and I enjoy making a big pot that we can have for a few days
today I'm making a very simple wild mushroom soup with sweet potato
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