it's another early start today leaving just after seven and we are moored in abington
and the destination for today is fanborn so shouldn't be too long hopefully we can get there
within five or six hours um but the additional challenge is that mars needs to go back to oxford
pick up the car bring it to penny bond because he's got some repairs booked in for monday
hey a veggie just now but i've got no more food
a little family
the green boy is coming out so i'm going to go on the right hand side of it yes aye aye
captain that is correct i think the viewers like to know what's that blue sign say over there
that's an entrance to wilkes and burke's canal i mentioned in every video when we
pass it so if you don't know yet then you haven't seen all of our videos
but now you don't have to because she's just giving you the ending there you go
so
so we are sucking a lot again
i don't know why the doors are not open
finally the lock is open we can go
we got stuck in the lock again i think it just had to go through a cycle when we were being a bit
impatient well it took a very long time i don't think it was just us being impatient something
was wrong yeah you didn't have to call anyone no no don't need no crt but we do need some ea
this bridge has an interesting origin story this part of the river in the 1800s was quite shallow
so usually the cattle could cross it there was also a ferry that at the time of the bridge design
belonged to exeter college in oxford this bridge came about because in 1826 the lord mayor of
london made a ceremonial progress down the thames from oxford to london the badge he was on grounded
in the shallows at clifton ferry and was stuck for several hours whilst the weirs further upstream
were open to raise the water level this episode led to the building of clifton lock and wares in
1835 which helped with better water management the deeper channel was great for river traffic
but the cattle could no longer cross so there was demand for a bridge clifton hampton bridge was
built in 1864 and was designed by sir george gilbert scott it's like a painting isn't it
i feel like i've just jumped in the painting of mary poppins
yeah i think so we've got another one behind you though okay great
you need to go right down past the steps thank you
the next town is wallingford um but we which we really like but we're not stopping unfortunately
this time because we're on a mission and after willingford it should be very quick i reckon we
should get there should be there within definitely four hours
have you broken down yeah do you want to tow us for a bit yeah if you've got a front line
search and rescue yeah got passengers three boats and a job
nice
right i'm gonna undo these guys or get ready to undo these
all right cool good deed done for the day
have a little job to do tylenol
just seeing i think they're red kites yeah we're just seeing some they're not quite seagulls but
seagull like birds literally attacking um this kite flying really low hovering around like trees
so just reckon it's like snooping and a nest or something but yeah it was like action thriller
top gun style wouldn't it yeah but in the natural world yeah
a little bit yeah especially if i wear my chin it's a great job
uh
we just stopped for a quick chat with our friend darren and all of a sudden out of nowhere lots of
flies flies came came above us it was a hive beavs beefers can we talk today i just came
no bees yeah well first of all crazy i had to shut up i think it shut up i had to shut up and then
shut up the boat and we had to leave um so we're doing around and coming back what an excuse yeah
no it's scary i've never experienced anything like this i think it's when they're looking for a new
um home home they all like we're looking for a new home where are we gonna moor there's nowhere to be
we'll double more on the wings they won't work try not to we'll see you in a minute when we're
actually more up somewhere so i think that's a spot look it's even a step off over there
we're gonna we're up right next to the wheels if we can squeeze in and if it's not too shallow
you guys know we have an electric scooter on board right it's absolutely brilliant for boat life
we used to charge it only when we used to run our engine which is normally an hour here and
there but it wasn't a very efficient way because it takes something like five hours to charge
the scooter so we would end up taking three or four days to get it charged which wasn't ideal
when we needed it every day but now we're using jackery power station to charge it so no diesel
completely solar-powered and we can even leave it charging overnight or leave it on charge when
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the next few days were totalness england got hit with a heat wave and we had a
couple of days of a real summer no rain no wind and no clouds i was in heaven
all right what did you bring my ass
it looks amazing so yeah that's that's the crayfish it's a little one
i'm sure it's not live it's definitely not alive yeah anymore
um so you can't tell me obviously but sometimes you can eat the claw me this one you might be able
to eat i'd say they're quite small claws though yeah drop me to he's quite honest fascinating
i like the white me not the brown me i can't i can't bring myself to eat the brown me
no it's in there in the brain oh no no i wouldn't do that to you all right
that is gorgeous they're lovely they're really nice aren't they they're fabulous
yeah yeah they're like a gourmet prawn but a bit lobstery obviously because i'm eating that's like
a revelation oh thank you well that's just in the river yeah yeah i'll try and get some claw me as
well because that's what that's white they're really bad they're really really oh i know they
are they're evil bad yeah you're supposed to get rid of them aren't you haven't you
yeah they eat everything they're killing everything you think that's free gourmet
food i mean if you caught five or six of them you'd have a slap up thing maybe you'd think so i
think five or six would make five would make like an or a good porn cocktail five or six hotel if
you're having a main meal you probably want about ten because they are a bite for lunley they are
so
as we are more next to mark and julie we've been hanging out with them and i was very inspired by
their new bunting and julie said that she made it herself and she kind of offered her leftover
fabric to me and i was inspired and encouraged to give it a go i do have a sewing machine that i
bought after making the curtains for album um but it's basically never been used so i took it out
from the under the sofa and having a go i'm not at the point yet where i'm going to buy my own
fabric i just thought i'm going to do this small project see how i go how comfortable i am with
sewing again after three years um and yeah i want to make my own little string of bunting
i really like the scrap fabric and i love the look um it's all multicolored bits and bobs
so it really suits us and i think it's going to be a really fun project
hey dog
oh i've got a whole family here hello all know how to use the paddleboard i suppose comfortable
are you teenagers already
feel at home
and go a bit of yoga
mama's happy over there
yeah nice nice welcome family
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