wow albert in the snow
help help give me a fire
every seat here what have we done
welcome to cruising alba i'm marina and this is miles two years ago we bought a 62-foot
narrowboat alba and moved on board we traveled the grand union canal cruised in london for a year
left after the first lockdown completed the narrow oxford canal
spent the last summer on the thames and now we are exploring the canada and even canal
we've had some hairy moments leaving the thames spent the second lockdown in the
most spectacular spot renovated our bathroom witnessed the frozen canal for the first time
the chimney got cleaned out and we moved to bradford unhaven after filling up our water tank
yes yes
thank you
we've just been for a walk along the canal to have a look what's ahead
and to see where the water point is which is not very far and then we're now i'm about to
go into town we need good post office and also i found that the zero waste shop is open today
so i'm putting together my tupperware collection and taking it with me
bradford on avon lies partly on the avon valley and partly on the hill
eight miles southeast of bath the history of the town can be traced back to romans
many buildings in bradford and avon are constructed from the jurassic
limestone which is known as bathstone the river winds through the heart of the town center
we sell in here because we can sell it for really cheap we've got what we
needed
we bought some uh moisture traps yeah we've got some moisture traps because in the winter
it gets a bit damp it below this level it's always cold yeah we just get damp near the floor
but these ones we got we had some last year but they were
single use so although they did their job we just didn't want to buy them again
whereas these you top it up with the magic crystals are not single use
i think i put it all in did you read the instructions no
at one end of the bed definitely at least one end of the bed maybe one behind the bed
is that where the second one went yeah well it's ten o'clock um i'm going to go check on
the ropes we've got storm christopher and what are you doing outside uh checking the ropes
just checking the water level before we go to bed okay understanding the right why not
if the water levels come up to the grass there's a ledge here really
we wake up to snow finally we've been waiting for it all winter
i've just made a fire so we're gonna go out and have a look
this is so cool
it looks like winter finally
check out the ducks trying to get through the slushies yeah it's a bit of a poor slash
we must be freezing wow albert in the snow she's got a healthy layer of snow on the roof
which is always a good sign that means we've got good insulation
we knew that but it's good to see as well ah it looks like home to me white winter
morning morning what do you think feels like christmas in february it's not february it's march
next night's march january i've never seen alba in the snow it's a lot warmer than it was last
night when we went for a walk i was gearing up to snow and settle wasn't it last night
zoe's anti-freeze is frozen let's see how it's doing
don't laugh too hard we're using the same brand
this is breeze
it's definitely frozen oh gosh she might not have her mix right in fact she don't have
a mix right i think we should build a snowman right right here and put his arms out like that
so he comes back to a boat and there's a snowman on it
trying to cruise miles i think this weather is calling for another walk
ah see what i have to put up with oh no what have we done i've been i didn't see here
and i'd leave those bits
you found the rug
it was interesting because it was really warm overnight and obviously bedroom is
the coldest place but we were both really warm yeah alberts are great
are your gloves waterproof yeah that's handy
people are going to slide in
there must be a hill nearby that they know they can sledge from
do you want to go sledding we haven't got a sledge we can dingy you can use plastic bags
can you see anything there's a snowman in there is he crying you can help help give me a fire
you can tell the warmth level on the boat by my new sourdough starter so some days it's
looking a bit flat but today it looks really bubbly which means it's super warm on board
look how gorgeous it is
yes
what's for lunch today we're having brunch it's one o'clock scrambled eggs sausages halloumi
some thai potatoes some falafels that you forgot in the oven did i yes don't want little songs
how did i manage that i don't know
cool
i'll put the link in the description for these hanging macaroni things
also today is the day for the biggest monthly job can you guess what it is
nothing to see here
does it clean very well yeah it does exfoliates and cleans i mean all of
this i gave a good scrub earlier it's like it's like it's like like you know
what
she did this with gloves last time works better with gloves
it turned out to be quite a productive day today even though it snowed i've got one last job to do
and i need to hurry up because there's only about an hour
and a half of daylight left i'm gonna be changing our lights in the bedroom
i'm gonna change those lights to these really nice ones they're much thinner they're not rusty and
they also have a dimmer included i might not be able to install the demo but we will see with this
are you expecting a red and black cord in here yeah cool there is a red and black
the moment of truth look at them right
with the light yeah switch the sucker on look that would help
that's on oh yay there's some dimming yeah
i apologize for the mess we are running out of daylight
so we just want to get this down as soon as possible
i'm not sure
we screwed the light on on the incorrect plank we are one off and now we can't unscrew it back in
what have we done it's not my problem odd prince charming's here
so
so we're off to explore bradford and even and i'm wearing jeans today
the first time i've put gins on since we said it worked from home in march so that's over
nine months ago yeah i guess i'm not a jeans person after all
i have a small dilemma i want to bring tea on walk but also
i'm going to bring the camera so that's leaving me with no hands no i'll bring both
uh when was the last time you had an actual haircut so when i've given money to
yes um i think it was february last year in camden we went to the cinema
until 1914 was the last movie we saw before lockdown and we had uh some vegan fried chicken
aren't we yeah where did we go temple temple of camden there you go camden yeah that was amazing
such a food so nearly a year since i've had this top bit cut at all so it needs to go
in the 17th century bradford on avon used to boom with textile industry around 30 meals were
built along the river where they used water and steam for power in the 19th century the
woolen industry shifted its center of power to yorkshire the last local mill closed in 1905
hey what'd you get pano chocolate
you know i'd like to support like racism i'm sure
this place has suffered i don't think alcohol business has suffered this year
as we don't drink alcohol we're literally just admiring
plants in a window i think they're really pretty so i got some organic wine um
and i've got some local beers there saturated in galaxy so obviously i had to get two of those
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