the day started promising i'm getting ready to go to yoga class in the
real yoga studio so i'm very very excited about that i haven't been for probably three
months so it's a one and a half hour class so excited i found there is um a small independent
yoga studio in wedding called yogina so i'm gonna have a look it's gonna be so good i'm so excited
so so i've just come from yoga class i feel amazing they make lovely smoothies
there as well i had a kale and pineapple smoothie so i feel like a new person so good
one thing about living on a boat is for certain there is always a big element of unpredictability
basically anything can happen so that evening we set off on the journey from reading hoping to
spend our last week on the river in pangborn but unfortunately our travel was cut short
is it too too deep
do you call rescue we wait for a boat
but we have nothing
so miles puddled us closer to the shore
it's nice to know that narrowboat can actually be puddled two places
this is not the first time it happened actually it's been happening for a while and the last time
it did the engine went up in smoke in the middle of the river
really late at night we thought we fixed it that day because it didn't
bother us again for another three months of the longest stint yet
don't hold on
what your thoughts
wait someone goes past or wait till the engine cools down
oh we just topped it up before leaving we chopped up the whole coolant should i just attach a do
a rope rather than holding it because i'm feeling the pool now of the of the river
just holding on to the tree
in the yoga class this morning we did worry too for 20 breaths so we stayed in a pose with
our arms lifted this way for yeah 20 breaths slow breaths and my arms and shoulders were killing um
i found it really challenging so yet now i've got to stand here for 45 minutes doing the same thing
on the same day about 40 minutes later we heard a very helpful noise someone is coming
on adventure
um
are they both the same length i'm not sure it should be but they might not they are in
a much lighter boat so the chances are quite slim but they wanted to try it nevertheless
we had a mild success with this approach but we kept ending up in the bushes as
now both of the boats didn't have any steering
i had enough of it and went back to the stone to try and start the engine once again
got it alright i'm doing it
yeah we've got it
thank you thank you so much
sorry tree
yeah we need more water immediately
and off we went at a snail pace all we want now is to find an opening a
field without trace so we can moor up as soon as possible have you got a pin
22 meg broadband it's the only good thing that's gone well today we found internet
we got internet our engine's not working again stopped in the middle of the river we were holding
onto a tree for an hour luckily uh someone tried to help us but that boat was way too
small and light but nevertheless they persevered and tried to help us and
yeah then you decided to start the engine and we've
limped here which actually is a really nice morning just outside pangborn like in a field
great view our own personal tree and watching everywhere forever at the moment so we don't flood
at least we know what to do this time we are going to bleed the skin tanks both of them
there wasn't a lot of air in there to be fair so there's a flake of rust covering one of the
so this melted on top of the engine again this time when it overheated and this
connects up here which connects to i guess uh the head water head where you top the water up
and relieves any steam obviously so pressure doesn't build up and explode but this had actually
melted on top of the engine that's how hot it was um it's the second time but we're running
out of it now it's getting shorter and shorter used to go all the way down to the floor now to
do the other side the other skin tank is a little bit more complicated um you've probably seen it
already but you haven't we will need to remove one or two batteries um so take all our electrics off
in order to do so and from the last time we made this mistake and we're not going to make it again
we are going to fill up with water fill up a tub first and then disconnect the electrics because
when we haven't got electricity the pump's not working and we can't have water running as well
okay i need to take this battery out this is just one forgotten already yeah it's just one
how is that looking oh it was fine oh
off faded so that's the water pump patch to the right
so now this should drain maybe we should hear that water
oh we need to fill it up then
so
you have spent too long with those i don't turn into spider-man i'm getting rid of it
this one is hard to get
it's such a gorgeous day today but it's our last day of the river it's going to rain for
a whole week and it is the end of september so we're not gonna take the risk we um made this
mistake once last year so we want to get off the thames and get on the canadian haven canal
before it floods so it's been dry for days it's sunday so we can move and yeah we decided to move
faces merge and change but your face remain the same
the trees
we'll always remember how
the last stop on the thames for us is is a fuel stop we are looking to get
a large kind of stuff gas before we go and then turn onto the cane even
too far
so
how much do you reckon we've used in the last couple of days four days four liters
okay
six what is it 9.2
so here we are at the end of our thames trip and as per last year we've got to get onto kenneth
and avon we were going to stay on the thames another week but the weather looked like rain
um over the next week so we didn't so we're doing it now today's sunday and
we need to get up three more locks until we're in a area where we can sort of settle
but last year we had floods this year we've got a really dodgy engine it's fine fine find
out you're just a bit anxious with it let's hope it's uneventful i'm a bit sad i love the thames
it's always sad to leave yeah it is but it's better to leave now than in the rain
absolutely yeah
one of my favorite things about going through reading is the canal traffic
light it's supposed to ensure that only one boat goes through the city center at a time
do
so
to canal life can i alive it's not too bad it's quiet yeah it is very quiet i got no wi-fi
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