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Good morning everybody welcome back to our narrow boat thanks for joining us for another week we are currently just outside of Watford in cocle yeah cley Croley uh this week we are going to be moving the boat but first we’re going to go for a nice walk we’re not going to

Move the boat today we’ve got water there’s only so far we can get because of the stoppages so we’re not really in a rush we’re just taking our time I’ve seen some lovely young Nettles over there cuz I just walked outside without any socks on and I’ve just stung both my feet so

I’m going to eat some of them as payback um and yeah tomorrow we’ve got a very special guest as well yeah we have got a very VIP coming to stay for a few hours for a few hours um so yeah you said you’re going to take me on a nice

Walk yeah there um is it Croxley more something more looks really like a nice open space I’m going to take my foraging basket I don’t know I don’t think there’ll be anything there I would like I’ve seen when we went back to Somerset last week I did see some wild garlic it

Was very young and yeah with everything I didn’t actually pick any so I haven’t had any wild garlic this spring yet so I’m hoping to find some if we go on the walk and yeah see what else we can find all right ready yeah should we take a

Flask of tea oh that’ be lovely it can we have a herbal tea no I’ve made some oat milk so it’s March soon we’re going to try and do a no spend March as and we do two Food Shops we’re not allowed to go in for anything else because every

Time we go in for like one more it just always has gone really bright now so every time we go to the supermarket I’m sure lots of you can relate we end up spending like 20 £30 if we went in for one item so we are just

Going to try and stick to one shop every 2 weeks um going to empty the freezer tonight maybe have the rest of the party food just so we can get some like frozen peas and stuff cuz that’s always good to have you can make like pesto and

Rotos um I don’t know where I was going with that oh about oat milk I tried to make some oat milk earlier cuz I do spend quite a bit on oatly um I would say it’s bad they not great it’s obviously just all I’ve put

In here is oat water a little bit of salt and a put bit of maple syrup um it’s my first time making it though I don’t think it’s terrible yeah if anyone’s got a better recipe I’m sure you have um let me know because yeah we can only buy so much

Milk we’re going to do this whole two we thing What one am I having it in this one you place it in there cinematically for me all right Yeah wrong way This stream up here completely clear there’s a we there where the canal comes down and then that’s when the algae starts growing I would never get in the canals actively like on purpose people like you see people swiming I just I just know what people put in the canals it’s not

Nice always soft it wet and moist some drone lessons bit windy I used to be able to do it you’re the one that time up Recording just keep ey look at the surround forgot to clear the memory card before I bought it out D manag like 5 Seconds of footage it’s not even of anything oh well that was fun on it didn’t crash tea still too hot to drink so much FL CU are just too

Efficient they’re more for like drink it in half time go for stroll yeah it’s a funny angle here we have a Gau plant and uh you can eat the yellow flowers they actually really smell of pineapple no coconut oh coconut it’s cuz you just said Pineapple they really smell of um

Coconut nice in ice cubes or cakes hello Bongo hello hello how’s it going yeah not too bad hey oh hey nice to finally meet you how are you doing good say bye see you later see you later on Hyo this is fun this is a treat isn’t it isn’t this

Good mom and dad gone on you got with us now they’ll be back in a bit does make me want a dog everyone said we should get a dog should we get a dog should we get a dog so Joe has made some pulled pork uh we’re going over our friends for dinner

Later and it’s our turn to cook so Joe’s just made some lovely po pork and po ponga is acting starved his parents did say to us if he acts like a hungry boy he is lying but he’s pretty convincing how can you say no to are you hungry boy are you

Hungry a puppy what’s the plan for the rest of the day I really don’t know I just feel a bit stuck at a minute it’s stoppages so we can’t go that far um the weather’s been like on and off so it’s sort of a bit stuck so I don’t if

We’re getting cabin fever Fe fever fever or what but I feel like I need a new hobby which probably going to be Brewing we’re just discussing where on Earth my brewing equipment is going to live I’m going to make um a pineapple salsa in a minute you got the things to

Make the um Tacos yeah make some fresh teers yeah got press and everything hongo walk tier which is quite far from his little boat so little boat well big boat bigger than USS so we don’t want to take him on like a long walk he has just been out for a

We we’re just having a chill one aren’t we you’re such a good boy don’t bark nothing we’re just uh finishing off this week’s video together very helpful AR you boy always phones at the funniest of times did you ring or did I ring you you rang

Me by mistak I looked I could hear something on the phone thought did you or not no worries all right yeah just having a slow start to the day just out a coffee just going to say good morning to our friends over on YouTube in a minute yeah watched you

One last night oh good you enjoy it yeah I put a comment can you tell everyone to subscribe do I can you tell everyone to subscribe here now can everyone subscribe please thank you very much that do bye have a nice day and you bye love you bye cheers Dad

Thanks Dad good morning morning we’re having a slow start as we said to my dad we’ been doing Monday about a bit of a slow weekend I’m in the process of applying for new jobs and stuff so we’re trying to figure out that we had pong go

Over as you may have seen we had babongo he is such a good dog honestly such I know people that get dogs because they like have met a certain breed and then they’re like oh he’ll be like that and I feel like if we ever got a poodle he’s

Never going to be like Pongo so I don’t live that to the hype we had a chill day yesterday we went to a tap room with Ben and re who are pongo’s mom and dad’s parents and also it was really quite Sunny yesterday it was been a rain um

And it didn’t so I picked some Nettles um which I have made a soup for which I’ll show you guys later for lunch that’s for lunch and I also made my first sour Doo which cuz Joe’s normally the baker but I used your souro starter and then were fine you yeah bit guidance

Yeah made a bit of a mess mhm it was like souro start all over the floor yeah it goes everywhere we just been having a bit of a slow start I was reading waterways World actually there’s a there’s an article in there just for us I feel like it’s written just for us

And maybe Ben and re as well yeah more Ben and re a minute hang on breakdown woes it’s in March’s waterways world if anyone reads waterways World um is it every like is it loads of people’s different stories yeah so Robbie C in the one that does he’s on naughty last

Robbie Cummings on there he broke down I’m surprised he didn’t reach out to us actually because we’ve got many a story but we access that on Reedley who have very kindly sponsored this week’s video we’ve been using Reedley for like two years I say almost since H in the

Boat yeah it’s one of the first apps I redownloaded when I lost my phone in the canal um and yeah it was just nice obviously I didn’t have a phone for a little bit and then it had all of the new issues that I haven’t already looked

At I’ve been looking at wust um Magazine and there one in February to March was the 2024 hot list so it includes like where they think’s going to be like up and coming and then like different articles about different cities and stuff which is really interesting just

Like inspiring to see you know where where to go or what’s what’s trending but anyone that doesn’t know Reedley is a sort of subscript Magazine subscription app um I think I read it’s like 7,000 different magazines and newspapers I was going to say they’ got newspap and podcast we’re listening to a

Podcast yesterday um a cycling one about a lady who was the first person to cycle to the South Pole which is just incredible you can’t imagine it’s interesting though just yeah having all of these different things in one app so yeah m music podcast sorry uh newspapers

And magazines I haven’t really looked at newspapers that’s not really for me but it’s very inspiring looking at all the different magazines that there are to offer on there please excuse me neighbors like the chaina last couple of days I’m bit jealous I’m not allowed one

You can’t have one you’re too a to PR oh shut the window I don’t think that’s going to make any difference single pain window makes no difference so if you’d like to try it for yourselves we have a Linc our description which will give you two months for free and you can cancel

At any time so yeah let us know what you think and have a look look we absolutely love it yeah what’s the plan today we need water we need water someone commented our last video like why everyone always seems to be chasing water on the canals but no matter how

Much you have I don’t think unless you’ve had a van or like lived off grid like you’re never going to have enough fire use just never no you have to fill it up once a week R and Ben have actually got 900 lers on this but

Jealous it took him an hour to fill it up at the last Point there’s like four boats waiting for him we’ve got 400 liters and we we sort of bicker a bit between how long it lasts we put so we’ll fill it up today it depends when

I’m away though doesn’t it I definitely use more but I’ve got longer ha so there’s an additional stoppage um which actually opens up in about a week’s time we get past that which means we can get past Watford and then we’re stuck at wink well swing bridge for a bit right

Until mid March right then it’s all clear forever go go go yeah until next stoppages beautiful cool right didn’t get stuck on stoppages chainsaw man stopped everyone’s going to go and let me show you my bread let me show my bread amazing yeah let me show them the bread

Yeah nice it’s my first loaf it’s a little bit dense here i’ I I’m on I don’t know if I’m on it but I keep getting like suggestions of sourdough like groups on Facebook and some people’s their first go bless them I mean I’ve watched you do it a lot so but

Some of them are just like I think you’ve done a couple like that like literally just like d and massive oh I don’t know what they do but yeah I’m really chuffed I’m really pleased I just feel like it’s a nice life skill to have to be able to make bread it’s like

Especially satday yeah it’s just simple isn’t it well not simple but it is simple um oh let me show you my nettle soup oh je this is my nle soup it’s got uh onion garlic potato stock and nettles that’s about it just checked all the fluids we’re good to go

Coolants popped up engine oil is fine um just got this parcel from Amazon very important before we go cruising especially for this one waterproof floating surface iPhone cases I got to wear it you got to wear it same as the one that Ben’s got I think how’d you do

It is about 10 each so1 excess though isn’t it is going in like this what you can touch it should we drop it in the water got Ben’s already tested this it does float I believe him I don’t think we need to test it not you your accident

Prise he you didn’t take any snaps has anyone come down the look no it’s four have to going empty it there you go put your lanyard on no it doesn’t leave like that does it because that’s when you bent over the first time when he lost your phone it came straight out

The pocket yeah but it floats now so I just went and picked some parcels up and one of them i w a giveaway to win a beautiful mug from Yamin Studios and this is what it looks like look how beautiful it is it’s mushrooms and I’m going to have all my

Teas in it but this is an inside mug only it’s strictly not going outside Bru in that look how cute it is thank you so much right off we go I kind of want to test it yeah go on Brave it’s still a bit in the water it’s floating though isn’t it

Yeah christened it the only christening that’s having is that right right come on in [Applause] So can’t open the gates cuz the level behind there is higher than this and then it’s just running straight off the back one of those but literally can’t go anywhere because it’s overflowing in here there we Go well done Me Oh that’s for Skippers through the summer season anyone come on my day trip boat if I was Skipper one of those London water bus want to be a skipper no Skipper yeah you haven’t got time to be anyone else’s Skipper yeah all these stoppages I want to get moving

Lovely little lck keeper Cottage here almost looks abandoned it’s like loads of bits nice project isn’t it lovely perfect bro anyone knows the owner by Casio brid lock 78 on the Grand Union and if anyone wants to fund it for us for so now we’re going to fill up the water

I’ve just put a wash on I’m going to have a wash and wash up not much there and I think that’s it it’s always good to use as much water as we can with it okay yeah just whil we’re putting a wash on I’m going to Chuck the generator on don’t

Think I show have we showed every on the generator yet I don’t think we have so back when we were in desperation with the engine playing up and the batteries were dead we did buy a generator just for ease of picking up we actually bought one from Screwfix and one of

Their impacts I had a smaller one before but I’ve got this is 1900 Watts or continous 1700 WS I think um so for it to work with our inverter charger I had to take the amps down to a maximum of nine otherwise it sort of cuts out but

Yeah truck that on a minute 55% Che on a bit let’s go go I’m going to die oh Go a charity shop F This is 40 my 40p bowl with my um nettle soup in with a dash of olive oil for good measure then try more up soon soon as after this did you reverse down I don’t want to take that her spot but this is a good

Spot she can double more not can’t she she do say anything no evidence of items I don’t know where she’s going to go though you can’t pass up a good spot can you just go just go there she didn’t say hey that’s my spot don’t steal it it’s

Prob way you get the car there’s no one where to turn around now until we get to that stoppage we can’t turn around you can f up your water back here yeah well the bounce gun I not I captain take a break I just checked my phone to see

When we arrived at that water point to see how long that took um I thought oh maybe we’re were there about an hour I’ve just checked and from the time I plugged it in at 5 3 I unplugged the T at 10 5 so over 2 hours we were there we

Did have a bit of a wash but not there was no one waiting and then lady turned up like just as we were waiting for it to sort of top up at the end that was so slow that was as slow as the one in bath

I reckon that one by in bath that one’s really slow oh yeah yeah oh that is a slow one I think this one’s slower 2 hours for 400 l oh you could do the how to be honest when we first put it on I thought it was well obviously wasn’t

Frozen over but it it felt like it wasn’t even going to come how many liters per minute that’s 120 Minutes no my dad will know 120 minutes cuz it’s 2 hours 400 divided by 400 divided by 120 no it’s not 3 l way around it 120 Minutes divid 400 3 l a

Minute probably it was slow the flow rate between 10 and 15 L per minute is considered acceptable but can be improved and that’s doing three that is painful if when R and Ben have to fill up their 900 L like they been there for 4 hours but CT say only

Allowed there an hour if someone’s waiting but if the flows crap the flows crap um for dinner have we said no we did this before we did make so we’re having perogi this these are M these are shot bought but we did make perogi um a while ago they were nice

These ones are meat ones we’ve also got some sausages what are they called Gibson sausages GI Watford sausages they were like apparently famous well this is what the it’s it’s on the butcher shop um similar to new breis sausages when I researched like what you should eat in

The area anyway they’re really quite reasonable I think we paid like7 for six sausages in newb we paid quite a lot over a pound each these ones were 170 for four yeah and they’re quite big so we got that I made some sauerkraut a while ago we’re just having this it’s a

Lot nicer than then can you even see me it’s a lot nicer than um shop Bol obviously but it’s still crunchy but it it tastes like Sauer was quite nice um I would like whole girkins but we’re using up what we got so we’ve got sliced ones yeah Peri sausages so sausages perogi

Sauerkraut maybe a bit of mustard as well I feel like that video was all over the place this week so thank you for bearing with us if you made it this far before I wrap the video up though back by popular demand beer of the week a few

Of you actually message to see what I was going to choose Danny actually chose this one um just so you could get it in advance this is Budweiser budvar it is from the national Brewery bre not even had a point yet the national Brewery of the Czech Republic or czechia um we

Actually did a tour of this Brewery when we drove over for New Year Eve we did this one pills and Earth Quil and strapper fresh out the fridge as Well need a bigger head really for a check P but not left enough room now we Czech beer English por this used to be what I would say was my favorite ler after we did the tour of check that I say pills ners pills earthqu slightly better um this one

Though is famous for being in dispute with American Budweiser this is actually from the town of Bud wise which where Budweiser potentially gets his name from bit hard to explain I’ll leave a link to like the legal battle um down in the description thank you so much for

Watching now thank you for our patrons we’ll see you next week but yeah thank you for bearing with us hopefully once these stoppages open back up we should be a bit more back to Normal H