[Music] in the last episode we set off from a river Mooring in Pangborn and traveled Upstream
to Wallingford even though the journey only took us about four hours we managed to sink
the dinghy sinking lose the oars and wood pump nothing has gone according to plan today
and had another very new engine emergency and then I found basically that the fuel filter
had come loose if the fuel wasn't running through the engine
thank you
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so we're on the second leg of my journey heading to Oxford today it's meant to rain so we've
left as early as we could um time is it eight [Music] see if we can have an eventful day
we've Regional go out and the dingy don't sing
I need to go faster to straighten out miles
thank you
first look of the day
it's quite cold so I'm actually going to start the fire mostly for the dogs but especially
if it's going to rain today it's not going to warm up much
so it just helped a boat to get through the lock there was stuck in a lock and they didn't
know how to get out they made the same mistake we made a few times so luckily I knew what
to do with these electric locks on the charms it's important to when you press the button
to wait for the cycle to finish so if it's flashing it's still working and then once
the light goes solid it's finished you can move on to the next step but if you keep pressing
the same button over and over again while it's in the Pro in progress well Aid's not
going to go any faster than B that you will confuse the machine and the only way to get
out of it is to kind of start the cycle again so you're not actually doing yourself any
favors so they didn't know and I've helped them to reset the cycle so that was okay but
we've done it as well so no absolutely no shame made you a fire so you're warm and toasty
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George [Music]
so in my head I'm breaking up the journey to Abington and we're probably gonna have
lunch while filling out with water and now from I've been doing to Oxford it's not that
far probably a couple of hours into three marks right now Virginia my hand makes it
easier
so they've just switched over to Yellow boards only just though because obviously it's raining
today the flow's not too bad but I suspect over the next 24 hours it's going to get faster
so it just gives us more incentive to get to Oxford quickly renamed Zender by the way
to May Hector um just because it's exposing absolutely floating though it's fine it's
not something today so progress we've got some baby geese ahead haven't seen them yet
we've seen some but at a distance yesterday but I think we might be able to see them up
close whilst is on breakfast UT it's really nice and tasty and safe so we keep smoking
Hopefully the rain will stop at some point yeah it's not pleasant it's still not very
warm [Music]
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yeah let's get a couple of plants
I got so cold driving so I came in put on extra socks different buttons underlayer hair
and a hat so I'm having hot tea and then I'm gonna go out because while we've got an engine
running and it makes sense to do laundry so Mouse is on laundry Duty indoors so I'm gonna
need to go outside
the rain has stopped finally
so I'm hoping it's going to get a bit warmer how are we doing guys how are we doing gorgeous
baby George you can come in yeah oh look at you get in your bed foreign
[Music] we are approaching Abingdon just past Abington lock is the wood point where we're
gonna stop for a bit break fill up the water tank have showers all that good stuff and
then from the upington lock it's only about two to three hours to Oxford it stopped raining
now so that's good I think we've only got like two hours left hopefully the warm spring
seemed to be a whole month late this year last may we were making this journey in t-shirts
and the river level was much lower
we made it to Abington lock at lunchtime the lock keeper was off so we operated it ourselves
lock keepers have special keys that empty and fill locks at speed which could be twice
faster in some locks this and stronger current means that we are moving a bit slower than
usual [Music] foreign
in the last couple of years they've undergone some changes and we had struggled with them
to be honest finally it looks like they've got a decent system in place
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this is Sanford lock in Oxford the sky is looking so gray it might rain anytime soon
[Music] thank you [Music] there is a very low bridge in town that we need to be aware
of so we are taking the chimney off the roof not sure if it's needed but it's better to
be safe than sorry [Music] Susie and George are staying inside while we're moving miles
was doing laundry for a while so they had some company
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we've just made it to Oxford we're on the outskirts and yeah all we need to do is cross
the town add two more locks and we should get support Meadow there is a very low bridge
I would call it a stimulo bridge on the way so we've just taken the chimney off the roof
and some other stuff that we had in boxes we just need to take down the antenna that
our Wi-Fi antenna and we should be good to drive [Music] foreign
look and controls are on the opposite side that we used to the weather hasn't been too
bad today we thought it's going to rain for a long time but it only rained for about an
hour and it's been dry for the most the day it's only just started drizzling again but
we only have less than an hour until our destination and that means also we've not really seen
much many boats on the river moving everyone probably thought that it's going to be not
a very good day for cruising
enjoy it all right sweetie [Music]
you both look at me you're so cute you're so cute cute
yeah do it again George do it again
let's do it again George George does the most adorable move um I'm gonna try and catch him
do it on camera I'm not sure if it's gonna work but what he does is he's old he's 13
years old so when he shakes or like shake his head or something all his four legs Just
Go in different directions so he looks like he's like oh nice so it's so cute but um he
does it a lot but I've not been able to catch it does he make him do it make him do it too
we've just gone through the last lock for today which is amazing we are basically here
ahead is that very low bridge fingers crossed the truck is going to be okay with having
a trolley here before last year but it is lower than the bench so hopefully it should
be fine I don't remember exactly if we used to turn event around but we didn't this time
so um I think it's grossed
yeah I think it's fine yeah we're gonna make it
let's go slow though
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there's a lot of scrape marks under that bridge
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Port Meadow is one of our favorite Moorings we're about to find out if anyone is crazy
enough to Moor here and if we can find a spot [Music]
is that
okay
from it [Music]
okay can you walk on this solid [Music] um right I'll find them
feels like a product I'm so glad we in really happy we just arrived it's very wet out there
but because of that we're actually quite close to the bank closer than we've ever been we
only used well we can use one plank but we put two down next to each other normally we
need three one plank to another Plank and then one across so it's much better for the
dogs and I have taken them out for a very short wet walk um so yeah you guys are gonna
need to get some grooming done today we're gonna need to brush you and brush your teeth
and see how you do I hope you don't hate us what's for dinner
Vietnamese pho
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I can't think of anything better today than to finish a cold and wet day with a bit of
hot and spicy noodle soup
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