spring on the boat is full of surprises the weather changes drastically and
every day if not every few hours we get Sunshine rain strong wind or even hail
wow this is crazy snowing
oh my gosh this is the worst tale of sand and yes
what the hell is happening with the weather this is just absolute insanity
this field is gonna look white in a minute
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yeah he's a Carpenter and he's got uh loads of off cuttings he kind of takes all the sawdust
compresses them down into little briquettes but apparently they're a substitute for coal not tried
them yet just picked them up very cheap three bags 15 kg each I think 25 quid so was that 45 kg
for 25 quid and he said yeah but they can burn for hours oh sorry the first burn uh will burn through
a bit quicker but once you've got the Ash and the heat built up the second load in Eternal vents
down it's the last four hours apparently so we're gonna give them a try so uh you don't have to
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life is slow in an Arabic ring is wet and cold this year and there isn't much to do outside
we continue making fires to keep warm and waiting for better weather
after months spending doors We're Dreaming of lunches outside having friends over when
we can take Alba for a pleasant cruise and perhaps open the barbecue season
guys I never do this but I have just sat down to edit uh this Vlog and I realized there is a big
problem for the second half of the episode about a month ago I've decided to fix a weird noise that
was coming from the microphone which should not be happening it's a mic it should be silent there was
some dangling sound so I sent it out for repairs it took a while and finally they sent it back and
I was so happy to receive it that I immediately put it back on the camera and I just didn't check
the settings the audio in the second part of the Vlog is going to be blown out I don't know what
I'm gonna do I'm going to try and fix it as much as I can but it's just not going to be perfect
if you can't take it just switch it off I totally understand but I have filmed quite
a bit so I decided to leave it out there if it's too bad that's fine I thought I'll explain myself
our boat neighbor Brian got stuck next to us while the river was on high so this time
we're placing a bigger order of briquettes together definitely this sort of time of
year in Autumn they're just great to Chuck on and they Chuck out a lot more heat than cold
yeah and it you can sort of get it going quite quickly oh yeah a lot easier yeah
um
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I did it in a hurry
okay here are some of you outside
so how's it going well we haven't checked the diesel
um at least a month we haven't been looking at it at all because we haven't been cruising
and we haven't been able to get fuel we've kind of been ignoring it but
yeah we haven't checked in ages so we're going to see how much diesel we've got
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we don't know what shape our tank is but we know the tops at this point yeah we have no idea what
shape the tank is it could be just a v so we could I think we're good we have to get to we can we can
now drive to the water Point yeah so tonight we're gonna go and visit our friends Zoe and yellow
um some of you've been asking how they are and so today we're going to visit them we haven't
seen them for a while and while we're there we're also gonna have a look how our Christmas trees yep
seed the Christmas tree yeah hopefully is like another three foot taller and hopefully no one's
got any tree buyers and has cut a Christmas tree out of a beautiful Park it's not you're
not gonna be able to see it soon just give it a bit more space for light every opportunity
gardening hey
hey what's going on you guys hungry
I'm going for a run this morning it's been really challenging to be honest to run through the
winter my goal was to continue running I kind of restarted running in April last year and I wanted
to make sure that I stayed consistent even if I had a week off or something like that it didn't
affect my overall Fitness um I didn't have that from scratch or anything like that I did it I did
manage to have to run for an entire year for 12 months and it was very challenging in Winter one
of the reasons is well there's a couple of reasons first is because I prefer to run in the mornings
and the mornings are the coldest time in the boat obviously we wake up and then we make the fire
so it takes a while for the boat to warm up so going out from a coldish road into into a cold is
mentally very challenging and also since we moved from Henley to Pangborn
there is no pavement so there's been a lot of mud so also running through wet grass and mud
is also another challenge it's not been easy but I did it and I'm really glad because now I can
when it's sort of getting lighter and warmer and brighter and drier I can continue running
rather than starting from scratch so I feel good about that and yeah I'm going out today
thank you
it's not the miles it's not before I start work I'm gonna need to tidy up
um it's been a couple of days since the last idea up and because obviously
narrowboat is a very small space things get a bit messy even if we try really hard
I'm on my last Apple so I'm gonna need to go to the shop after this
thank you
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let's try this
it's not bad run out of almost everything so I do need to go to
the shop and I don't know if you can hear the sound of a fan on the stove
the stove is going really hot so the fan is working well however we have dropped it
a few times we have tried to bend it bend the blades in the way that it would stop
making the noise but we've we've not been successful so basically we need
a new fan but it's almost the end of the winter so we're not gonna get one for now
so we've been using these little briquettes um for the past few weeks and yeah they're very
hot they get very hot quickly um you don't need kindling at all which is quite a bit of saving
because kindling now is like eight pounds but a tiny tiny bag we've been using them and they're
great it's not that cold at the moment so we only need the fire for about two to three hours in the
morning and probably a couple of hours in the evening and we don't have it overnight so for
this kind of season I think they're perfect the best way to use them we found is to have
a little bit of coal like a few cold bits with it because they do burn within about an hour
so there is a continuous uh upkeep for the fire and if you miss 10-15 minutes it might cool down
a bit and you're gonna have to start it from scratch just quite time consuming assuming so
having a little bit of hot coals in the stove really kind of saves the day I'm not sure how
this would work in Winter it is quite a bit of work but they're very hot and they make
um the boat quite hot quickly so for now we really love it and especially as we don't use
any cool or use like a very tiny Mount plus the produced literally in the next Village
how it will be in the winter is a different question but for now they work really well
I've just started doing laundry and I've run out of water I know that because of the water
pump sets to make this odd noise that I know the water's gone so I am gonna go and get some using
the barrel but because the barrel is 100 liters container I can't will it by myself
because of the weight and the way kind of the whole container sits on top and there's a bit
of a micro heel so I'm only going to fill up um halfway and go get washed by myself I
haven't done that before but I reckon halfway 50 liters 50 kilos I should be able to manage
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and that's how we get water at the moment this setup has been a lifesaver over winter
but we're counting days until we stop moving again and get back to our regular fill ups
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