hi everyone my name is Marina and this is Miles who've been living on a narrowboat
for almost four years and been making videos about our travels for the last three
we are in the midst of a flood on the River Thames where we are moored for the winter
in the last week's episode we shared with you what happens when the river floods
I feel like Noah in his ark it's exciting to see the real flood but also very real
it's very real yeah this is the adventure that we'll sign up for this today is really the day
that we've been planning for this is a spot where I can't actually see where the edges
where the river begins the actual drop so I'm walking closer to the bins and at the benches
thank you
nope everything stopped Rising
hopefully The Frozen Ground will slow it all down anyway wow it's so funny
the river flows really fast we are in Water by ankle and it just still looks very peaceful and
Serene what an amazing combination of a Frost and a flood visually
What happened to the like I fell off where was it it was fine it was here yeah
judging by the bench we're about an inch higher than we were yesterday
so the water is coming up to stop I think um came up really really slowly so obviously we
checked last time and 12 hours ago or so so hopefully now it's gonna start coming down
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when we woke up and the water is at its highest when the river bursts its bang
the temperatures plummeted and we are witnessing a very interesting phenomena
the river turned these Meadows into a lake and the cold is transforming it yet again
there is never a dull moment if we pay attention to Nature
I've been inspired to create lately so I'm taking out my calligraphy pen foreign
special cards for patrons who support our Channel and send
them out with the Illustrated stickers of our narrowboat Alba
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good night I've just came back from the round I've not even
changed and mouse is taking me to see something cool so I hope it's worth it
you ready
how does this happen miles how's this happened this was the flood and it's
been minus for the last few days so although the water's gone the ice has like remained so
it's uh yeah I've been watching loads of people like walking on air running on it
like being on Antarctic Tundra
why can't they
do welcome to the episode
some of the ice is so thick it doesn't even break I think it there's something
instinctive about when you hear ice like break or fracture even though I know I'm
not on a lake when you hear it crack and go you feel like you're going to fall through um
but you're not on the cracky bit yet at night as
well because when you can't see the grass underneath it you're like yeah
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glacier
what is it
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in the next few days the water came down to its regular levels and our neighbor got his lawn back
a dangerous bit is now over
you coming hey uh just got finished the game okay
I don't know our claim like this hello everyone today's Saturday we woke up and we have a long
list of boat jobs to do I've been for a run and Miles haven't been for a run and we're gonna go
and fill up our movable uh water tank that I will show you in a minute that you've probably seen if
you've been watching our videos that's how we are currently getting water um so yeah the first job
is to get some water uh on the trolley and move it into our water tank and then we can have breakfast
you went in not yet
so why are we filling out the washes forward way um because they changed the Taps and it's not a
usual tap hose I bought an adapter kit doesn't fit pretty annoying and we don't want to move the
boat because the river's still on red so this is how I've been doing it for the last month
how big is this tank 100 liters and how many Junior we need in order to fill up six
we haven't got 600 liters we just missed probably about 10 or 20.
you have a system yeah it kind of holds itself there then I rock it and then unlock it
I've got a bit of a sore throat today which is already feeling better than yesterday so
um but I've been using essential oils and a diffusing some essential oils to help um
and also gargling some which helps really really well my number one tip for sore throats but yeah
otherwise feeling good I even went for a run this morning so I don't think I um ill in any other way
just takes ages to walk it back that's the worst bit about it walking it here and
filling it up takes quite easy it doesn't even take that long but walking it back
that is full and heavy
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it's quite cold because we get cold wet hands but it doesn't feel heavy when two people are doing it
my hand is so cold
Manpower
it's going down nicely
unless we spilled it on the way here it's still a little bit that's good to try
I'm ready for lunch are you let's go eat brunch
I guess so I've um I've been for a run so I haven't eaten yet
so our average water consumption of the boat is about 30 liters per day for two
people uh the first a lot which is about let's say 90 liters because
um some is wasted on the bottom that means they're gonna last it's going to last us
three days so we've just popped into Henley which we never do which was it was really
nice to go for a little walk and went into Planet Organic and picked up some biodegradable sponges
um coconut dish scrubber um they were selling amazing brownies with a made with sweet potato
I tried it and I had to buy one and also oh yeah and I am gonna try these CBD drinks
um I suppose I've tried one of them a different flavor they were really nice so I bought some of
these and now we're going to do the fun bit we are gonna go to a marina to get some coal and
as you know I am practicing to drive learning to drive so I will be driving there and back
oh for the legend
yeah yeah
I'll put it right in the middle I don't know if it's supposed
to be in the middle or where it's supposed to be
I'm gonna use the tape oh no it works yeah that's fine
it's very clear it's very clear as long as it doesn't fall off
it's never easy this
is always
driving here wasn't too bad there was only one roundabout or a couple
so I wasn't too bad but we might go to an LED shop in reading that which would require going
through quite a few roundabouts which are not my strongest point at the moment so so far so good
do you guys remember the ice rink that was here just a few days ago so melted we're back to normal
so um just over there one two three four five six five or six big trees were chopped in the
Autumn and um there's some leftover wood that kind of ended up drifting with the flood all
the way here so we're just gonna pick some up um it works well as kindling and just
a small top up during the day for the course to make it all hotter they're not proper logs
pick up the ones you can be bothered with the other biggest ones
big enough
it's big enough thank you all so much for watching if you enjoyed this video
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