so
a trophy
they'll give this back tomorrow oneness um after two weeks on the boat we went to uh cavalcade the
uh narrowboat festival in little venice in london so we've been on the boat two weeks
we thought it would be a great idea to go to the cavalcade to ask loads of stupid questions because
we had no idea how the boat worked basically so we went and entered the boat competition
boat handling competition and i won this um back in 2019 so anyway it's on uh
this weekend um so i've got to give it back tomorrow the rogers squires trophy
um you can have your name next to mine and cruising albert
marina hated it when i got this she was like oh we just didn't hate it was just doing do we have
to live with it because we're in a small space and we've got this trophy um but yeah we ended
up using it as a plant pot for three years in the bedroom so we've had this trophy in the bedroom it
was meant to be one year it was meant to be one year but it ended up being three i was tempted
actually to have 2019 to 2021 on here as if i was like a reigning champion but i thought that was
cheek so yeah just 2019 cruising out on this riverbend we have as neighbours a pair of
mandarin ducks they're pretty rare on the water so i'm very excited to be seeing them every day
this duck was introduced from the far east the male is amazingly colorful and the female is gray
with some equally beautiful patterns they're very shy and do not come close mandarin ducks
are made for life and because of this they have become a symbol of love and fidelity in the east
come back it's warm in there maybe you can make a nest
have babies in xander you have to stay here until they laid their eggs if they made a nesting xander
but you can live with they're just beautiful and they make the cutest quack
it doesn't sound like that perfect
sounds like my alarm
we're off to the cavalcade today it was three years ago since we were last there
but yeah we're heading down there today and maybe tomorrow but yeah looking forward
to it unfortunately i think chugging along might be there big fans big fans
you'll only see this many more boats in little venice at canal cavalcade this festival
brings the place to life as usually it's a very quiet area
okay cool yeah we're on a cruising album video
yeah yeah so we finally met miles and maria which is so nice yeah we're really happy he came in
to see us so yeah we're at a stall today and uh yeah we're selling our canal board game rj bargy
so yeah basically the idea with the game is the board is a map and you've got to sort of connect
the country with canals almost like the system we have today so each player yeah you'll start off by
getting your own route so for example this person here has birmingham to bristol they've got to go
from birmingham to bristol and the way to do that is uh by doing it by each tile so that's
a tile there that's with four locks on it so that will slow you down and you've got to do
that over a hill you're gonna have to get one sounds like a game of logic which we both lack
can you crash into bridges on this no you can't or sync yeah and the locks can't empty out
absolutely yeah of course guys what do you think oh it's good i've got this game finally
yeah i was hinting at it for christmas but you didn't
yeah no it's good it's busier than the last time we were here three years ago much busier
do you miss london no why not because we like being in the middle of nowhere
and run our engine after eight
uh
so
we have the wheels coming over today for the barbecue
weird i know um so we're very excited this is our first bbq of the year it's freezing
it's absolutely freezing but they're on their way to the thames um on their boat not today but um
over the next few weeks so we're just giving them a bit of a teaser on what they're missing out on
on the menu i've made a yummy salad we've got burgers sausages and board games and book games
it's all about the prep isn't it like hummus sun-dried tomatoes yeah
we got here then so we've got burgers sausages kebabs halloumi and sweet corn
there's two different types of cabarrus that you guys have brought i'm going to try both
oh [ __ ] oh no that's
so who's going to be the first winner of archie bargy
i guess on here you don't get pulled back and then thrown forward when someone goes by no so
oh yeah it always seems to be something on it when you take it back right so if you go
are you going to go as far as running me oh yeah actually at the bottom of heaven
king john come on but anyway the point was you're going to run mead bag of cardboard
but more up on the ea moorings and there is the best pizza restaurant neapolitan pizzas
you know they're all stone baked cooked dinner in a wood-fired oven amazing they're so good you know
you know you get the quality pizza where they put things like rocket on yes you know you've got to
have right nuts yeah got to have a rocket on it full stop no don't mess in or it's not equality
cuddle yeah i went to the car i got some cadburys chocolate fingers
and went to the car and picked up more refreshments well then
oh nice tell you what don't give mark a compliment often but
i know that he does good handy way they're very nicely crafted and you should see is normal
handwriting nice you've done well mark thank you so while miles been out
going to the shops i i've decided to start do a class calligraphy class to our guests
and because i couldn't find two calligraphy pens i don't know where they are um i've got one
felt-tip pen and one calligraphy pen so halfway through mark and julie are gonna have to swap
you guys are doing really well really really well
so we had our first person fall in last weekend yeah so we had some people over
last weekend and we went and dropped them off um back at the park and um we moored up
and um and we saw this like rain inflatable rainbow in the water so i gave them like the
litter pickers to go grab it it wanted to try and grab it and ashley jumped in
zender and as he got in he like let go of the bank but obviously
was just leaning a bit further forward and it all happened in slow motion he was like
fell in fell into fell into the water luckily he was all right and he took
it well and we've managed to clothe him and it wasn't deep it wasn't deep and
he got the rainbow which was great and now they've got it up in their kitchen
first person has fallen in the boat over three years is it easy
i don't know who's going to be the first winner of arjubaji i got it out the other day and i
couldn't fold it back together it was really funny that wasn't really funny a bit awkward
in front of our friend number one is this supposed to be the canal
no that's that's the city looks like southampton and this is the uk so you've got norfolk over here
on the canals then we are we're going to build we're going to build
so we all get a little counter each that i think sits in the start
and then you can only have up to two destination cards plus 50 is oh
when you complete your card see that was a very considerate move that was
just now anyone trying to get to norwich can i can let them
yeah you could have ruined that and faced it the other way around but you didn't
not that kind of personality but i could also go that way if i wanted to and i get an extra point
you could like unlike me i'm now blocking markup from the shortest possible route to bristol
but i'm helping all of us uh can i just say that i didn't intentionally block everybody
i'm gonna play
not that you noticed the only one from your
cunning partner who noticed it i came last you haven't yet no you haven't are you still stuck yes
he's got 20 points does anyone know what this means
we can't figure that out yeah what does plus 50 mean
you've been good have you you've been good yeah yeah oh we're going
all right it's okay
have a nice day yeah it was nice wasn't it the weir's over it flew the time just went
it did actually what was it like one till seven we thought it was fine it was about five o'clock
and realized it was about seven o'clock but yeah it was good fun and it's challenging to see what
time it is if it's always great and you can't really see the light changing at all cheers
cheers there's barbecue the season first barbecue of the season what do you normally do for dessert
oh you can't do barbecue banana yeah they're one ice
there's no one here
there is no one here it's our garden
is it yes oh no oh sorry
we've now been posting videos for over two years gosh time flies there's been a lot of
change during this time years of cruising from place to place working on the boat to keep her
afloat maintaining jobs studying and various side projects yet we've managed to create videos on
a weekly schedule for the most of it thank you dear patreons for your love and support without
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