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okay come come here
this is so scary I'm gonna give it a bigger piece okay no no it's fine I'm not oh
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it wasn't too bad it was just really scary it doesn't have teeth it's just like very
strong jaw
I mean try again
it's so scary it's been a couple of weeks since I filmed a video and I think it's best
if I sit down with you guys and explain what's been happening a couple of weeks ago in our
last episode um miles and I moved from our winter location where we were for about four
months or so in Henley we moved to another Village in Pangborn which is up the stream
on the Thames and we did that move while the river was on yellow yellow boards which means
the stream was decreasing but it was still not back to completely normal levels and we
were according to the lock Keepers we've seen and we've seen three the first boat of the
year that they've seen and we did that we did the move from Henley to Pangborn in about
nine hours um and we did that with two poodles toy poodles on the same weekend we were dog
sitting and so we kind of had a double Adventure we were dog parents for a day for two days
and also did the first cruise of the year which was really exciting if you've seen it
you know and if you haven't seen it maybe you should go back and watch it but during
that cruise we had two very tricky moments we were navigating through some tricky Waters
and when we were reading and we were filming with the Drone something malfunctioned and
unfortunately unfortunately it sank to the bottom of the river and we couldn't Rescue
It retrieve it there is nothing we could do so in the last couple of weeks I didn't feel
like filming and this weekend um was the first time that I felt like picking up the camera
I don't really know what to do about the Drone of course I really enjoy using I love the
footage of the Drone and I'm sure you guys too I often get comments about our videos
how much you love the the drones some people want to see more of it it's always in the
comments I think it does add to our videos um however it's not a main camera it's quite
an expensive piece of equipment yeah I don't know whether to avoid replacing it to replace
it with exactly the same one we had which is already like three or four years old or
is this the opportunity to upgrade because if I'm already paying for another drone do
I want to feel at least there is some kind of upgrade in the video quality or some kind
of other features like obstacle avoidance so hopefully we won't crash it again or crush
it less I don't know so there is a lot to think about so I haven't made up my mind it's
really sad that it's malfunctioned like that it was over two years old so uh the warranty
of DJI doesn't cover it and so we're kind of a bit stuck I don't really like to talk
about behind the scenes on this channel but this is kind of a big one and I'm sure you
guys understand um I want to make really nice beautiful videos and it's not something that
is used as regularly as other cameras but it still is very useful I want to give a quick
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I went to boat live show in Birmingham I've never been there before and I don't think
I've been to proper Inland show like Boat Show before and I really really enjoyed it
I think it's a wonderful place it's a wonderful show um it was happening over four days from
Thursday to Sunday it wasn't just about the inland waterways and Canal boats there were
other sections about riverboats fishing they had a giant pool there where people could
do some activities like kayaking or paddle boarding so yeah I really enjoyed it hi everyone
today I'm at the boat life show in Birmingham and I'm gonna take you around and try and
show you some of the boats that I'm going to see and the exhibitors and hopefully get
to meet some of our friends and we've got Darren here so friend and Patron unfortunately
miles couldn't make it today because of work but I'm here and I'm going to show you around
the majority of the time I ended up looking at the showboats I'm sure you guys would want
to want to see some and I've managed to film as much as I could but to be honest I didn't
even I was there all day there were quite a few boats some narrowboats and some wide
beams and I think I've seen all but one or two so the majority I've seen the majority
today I think I'm gonna go on to a few narrowboats which is very rare I don't often get to see
the inside of boats so this one let's go walk through bathroom really nice standing shower
I love new sinks I'd love to get a new sink on Alba [Music] I always looks massive in
comparison love love this kitchen three burner stove I think three is enough beautiful love
the white [Music]
oh wow this is absolutely gorgeous nice sage green cupboards I love the sink I mean I think
I'm just attracted to sinks
yeah loads of space and of course a roof light oh my goodness I think it's a mast on white
boats one of the most exciting parts of the show for me was meeting the subscribers and
our patrons um there was a meet and greet at around two o'clock at the pub so at two
o'clock we had a me tab so some of our subscribers and patrons came over which was really really
nice some of the patrons I've never seen in real life we regularly have zoom meetups with
our patrons so I have met some of these people but not in real life and I got to meet fellow
boaters and fellow creatives who are making videos or creating content on Instagram or
any other platforms that I also know of or known for up to four years since we've been
on Alba but never really met in the real in real world so it was really really nice to
to meet them I met Gabby and Cole learn from tukur and Cockapoo um Shane and David from
the narrowboat project Amy and Wes from vote time UK and many more of you so it was so
much fun I cannot wait to see you guys again hopefully our paths will cross again hopefully
on the Thames in the summer so um it's been brilliant absolutely brilliant I create videos
for you guys but um I don't really know many people who do the same it was amazing to see
people who do something similar in real life and there's going to be I hope this can be
more opportunities to catch up and chat [Music] thank you [Music] it was wonderful to meet
the community not enough time to be honest so I think if there's the next time I will
go for more than one day if it's possible um and see how it goes to get to know people
better so the first time seeing I don't know seven maybe more boats uh brand new boats
in one day [Music]
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wow I have not even noticed the Skylight this is massive where are the solar panels if they've
got skylights this big honestly check out this too oh my gosh and also for the first
time I saw two electric narrowboats yeah I obviously heard of them I was really intrigued
and very excitingly the way they presented them I don't know if this is the feature they
will actually keep for um once you buy the boat but they kind of had the glass panel
the glass floor over the electric engines there were LED lights there so you can see
the glory of this new technology and I really hope there's something that can take off if
the technology develops maybe there'll be more charging points on the canal it would
be absolutely amazing to experience being on an electric narrow road and cruise with
like minimal or no engine sound I would love to experience that I think it's going to be
such a game changer that many many narrowboats narrowboat owners would choose that yes I
don't know exactly Logistics I don't know if it's viable for liver boards not liver
boards but continuous cruises I don't know how continuous cruises can keep that up would
be very interesting to do the math so if anyone who's got an electric narrowboat to see how
long they can go off the hookup and stuff like that so this is an exciting New Era I
love seeing stuff like that and I love seeing this industry and this you know develop not
staying stagnant and yeah I felt very proud I felt very proud for the community and for
people to be bold and so many boats there that well for sure we're already sold so those
electric Birds I don't even know how much they are to be honest yeah it's it's really
exciting to say and I'm really exciting to see that these boats are built and sold immediately
kind of thing so I thought that was absolutely wonderful and I really hope that one day everyone
can be on an electric boats that work in the way that the these works now that we don't
really have many problems with the range or anything like that and I'm sure we're gonna
get there I hopefully won't take 100 years to get there [Music] it's almost the end of
the day and I came to see one of the last boats here that I haven't seen yet it is a
beautiful white bean
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wow this boat blew me away I've got to say it looks just stunning absolutely stunning
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yesterday we also had an exciting day with myos we went to London to Kew Gardens um it
was an outing for for his birthday but also connected to the Orchid Festival that was
at Q at the time hello everyone today we're going to Kew Gardens see the orchids I'm just
waiting for our friends I've been to Kew Gardens a few times this is my fourth time and have
you been I've never been sorry first time really excited let's see what's in there I've
heard a lot about the Orchid Festival um quite a few years prior and luckily we went yesterday
and it was just magical
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yeah it just needs to be about 20 degrees warmer [Music]
that's right away [Music] foreign
give me
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so we're going into a installation that is called the Hive and it's supposed to represent
the sound for our human ears in the way that the way the bees hear their own vibrations
that they produce [Music]
[Music] what do you think Maya cool very cool
[Music] so yeah that's about it from me uh we to be honest I've been too busy to film
our usual episode this week but I think a nice chat is also quite good thank you so
much for watching I hope you enjoyed this video let me know what you think and let me
know if you had a favorite canal boat from the ones that I showed you thank you so much
for continuing to watch our videos sending you all our love see in the next one
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