WE'RE GOING TO BE ON TV! (Possibly. Maybe. Perhaps) Exciting Times On Our NARROWBOAT Ep 73
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2024
- Will we make it onto TV? Or will we end up on the cutting room floor? We'll have to wait and see, but it was certainly fun having a film crew follow our epic narrowboat journey to the Crick Boat Show with Paul and Anthony from UA-cam channel @NarrowboatLifeUnlocked on Narrowboat Morning Star for the Channel 4 programme Narrow Escapes. In this episode we leave Shardlow with the film crew and head east on the Trent & Mersey Canal through the automated locks at Sawley, and on to the River Soar.
Hello! If you are new here we are Caroline and Pete, and 2021, after 10 years living in Texas, we sold up and moved back home to the UK to live full time aboard a 60ft narrowboat, One Day More, with our West Highland Terriers! Join us in our day to day life as we continuously cruise the canals and rivers of the UK. All of the ups, and the downs and everything in between!
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I'm in Los Angeles so I'll never know what became of your TV opportunity but I hope the film folks told you what a professional job you do of your own vlogs.
Your framing and pace are spot on. You use stills, black & whites and visuals for clarity and interesting texture. Your music cues are super. Your narrations and the ambient conversation are interesting and intimate and you really know the value of letting the scenery carry the show. Your vlogs have style and are a real opportunity for those of us who will never see the UK canals to appreciate their beauty and your skills. So very glad you share it all. Thanks so much!
PS: Poppy and Hamish are stars in their own right!
What an absolutely beautiful comment, you know how to put a smile on our faces! It's so reassuring to hear, as this has been a very steep learning curve, but now I feel I've got into a flow and have tweaked the videos in response to the lovely comments from our viewers. we are glad we can bring the beauty of the British canals to everyone thanks to the power of UA-cam 😊
Well deserved! Congratulations!!
Thank you so much 😊
Great vlog, as ever you capture everything with a keen eye for composition, nostalgia included with the B&W! How Poppy stays balanced with her little paws on the edge like a real boating crew dog! ❤❤❤
Thanks so much Eric! That's so lovely to hear. Poppy is definitely a little balancing artist keeping a look out all the time, with the odd nap here and there! 😂❤️
Love this - beautiful area, the gorgeous coloured boats in the sunshine….and fab memories from last year. 😊
Thanks so much, you're right they are fabulous memories! We got do many lovely comments about the colours of our boats as we travelled together, both a little unusual 😊
Super video nice scene enjoyed last year by the looks of things
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes this was last year, but I am almost caught up with editing that footage now and will soon be putting out more current videos! Thanks for sticking with us 😊
You have a beautiful life
We really do, most days! Although on those odd days when I think why are we doing this I only have to wake up to another beautiful view and all is good again! Thanks for watching 😊
We never tire of your of your vlogs, we love your photography, the wee pups Hamish and Poppy (we miss Jasper so much). Do you always cruise with Paul & Anthony? We love Dexter😘🐶💕
Will your videos be catching up to the present, some time soon? We hope so.
Take care of yourselves and the pup-dogs ~ Lacy, Mike & Hamish🤗💝🐾
It's so lovely to hear that you enjoy them! We are so happy we have these videos to look back at Jasper enjoying his boat dog life! We cruised with Paul & Anthony for abut 7 months total, when the original plan was 'a few weeks', but we enjoyed each other's company so much we couldn't say goodbye! Now we are not travelling with each other we still drive to meet up quite often as our boats are nowhere near each other now! I am just finishing up editing the last of the footage up until my Dad was sick and sadly passed, and then I took a break from filming. The last of these videos will be out by the ned of April and then our content will be current (well about 2-3 weeks behind as it takes a while to edit!). Thanks for sticking with us! 😊
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We're very sorry to hear of your Dads passing. Sending heartfelt prayers and hugs.
Thanks for another great video Caroline & Pete. Beautiful surroundings. The narrowboats look a bit vulnerable out on the big river, although it was calm. We watch UK television channels via a VPN. We'll keep an eye out for the Channel 4 programme.
You're so welcome Neil! We are glad we are able to bring you along with us on our journeys by the power of UA-cam! The programme hasn't aired yet, and the latest we had heard was Easter 2024, but that's been and gone now. We have seen it advertised on the season trailers for Channel 4 though so I think it could be any time soon. We will let all of our viewers know if we hear anything. I wish we had sorted out the VPN thing when we were living in the USA! 😊
The brick buildings are so cool! Going into the river area was so pretty with the leaves on the trees and the blossoms. Poppy and Hamish are cute as always.
Weren't they beautiful buildings Joyce! So much history in Shardlow and I love that they have protected the buildings by giving them Grade II status so they can't be changed too much from their original look. River cruising is beautiful, but just a little lacking in places to get the dogs off easily if they need a comfort break! Thanks for watching as always 😊
Your already on TV .......my 60in 4K .......you dont look too bad all things considered 😀😀
Thanks Ken! The biggest we see ourselves in 32in on the boat. Not sure if I want a 60in version 😂. I see you are a Clarke with an E too! That's our name, and my maiden name was Clark without an E, which I always maintain is the 'correct' way! Very confusing for people when I fill in forms and they think I have made a mistake! 😊
😮 wow really nice and calming video, thank you for the birthday wishes that you sent me, love 💕💕 💕 you guys.
Big kisses to your two dogs ❤ X X X
You're so welcome, and glad you enjoyed the video it Susan.Claming is always the feeling I am going for, with the odd bit of humour (mostly form the dogs) thrown in! It's always brings a smile to our faces to get your lovely comments 😊
You are so very welcome 🤗🤗
That was a beautiful trip. I’ve always said I wouldn’t do rivers but that did look very calm and pretty.
The tv programme better not put you on the cutting room floor….don’t they know who you are!! 😜.
Nice seeing Pete doing cassette emptying as usual (even though he never actually did). Love the new music too. Perfect for this vlog. See you soon xx
Its was such a beautiful trip, and when the boards are on green, river cruising is beautiful! Ask Tom and Sharyn about their River Soar experience though, on their very first cruise! I am sure Poppy will not be happy if she ends up on the cutting room floor! And you know how much Pete loves his cassette emptying job, and argues if I try to take over 😂
hello friends...I'm glad for your success...beautiful nature...wonderful comments...music...sweet dogs and great friends are what we need in our lives❤❤❤❤
That's so lovely! Thanks so much ❤️
Lovely memories and so hope to see you on TV. We want autographs 😀❤️❤️
Very lovely memories, yes! Poppy can give you her paw print at Crick 😂
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Seated at my kitchen island at 5:30 a.m. out here on the east end of Long Island I would not have thought that I could feel like I’m floating. As usual, a wonderfully calming journey.
What a lovely comment to wake up to! We are glad we can bring you along on our journeys 😊
Xx
Thanks for watching Edward 😊
Thank you for the video - always nice to see you floating down the canals / rivers. hope the puppies / friends / family and you are doing well. Take care - God Bless. Spinner
Hey Spinner, glad you enjoyed it ! Hope you and 'the boss' are doing well! I am on a very quick trip to see Sophie in WI this week, and thankfully landed 24 hours before the crazy snow storm swept through, otherwise I think I would have been stuck in Chicago! Take care and thank you once again for your support. We appreciate you so much!
@@onedaymoreaboard Wasn't that much snow. Then we are use to it - if it had been a foot or more of it. Might have taken us twice as long to get somewhere in it. One holiday years back. Drove from in by Elgin to her parents house. Took us twice as long but we made it. Would I do it today? nope but was in our early 20's and thought nothing of it. Hope you had a good trip up 'north' in the land of cheese and good beer.
I've never gone past Shardlow, that was a lovely trip
You need to do it David! The River Soar is beautiful (as long as it's not in flood 😳) 👍
Wonderful video. How do you move your car around? Seems like it would be so challenging.
Danke! And Happy Easter! Here's to hoping that the Soar footage (my home river) doesn't end up on the bottom of the cut this time. 🥺🥺🥺
Thank you SO much! We have just bought some high quality lapel microphones thanks to the generosity of our viewers, so the sound quality will improve significantly, well that's what we are hoping anyway! You can be assured that the footage from the Soar didn't end up at the bottom of the River Trent on this journey like last time! I have almost finished editing the next 2 videos and it's all there, phew! I still mourn the loss of that phone at Beeston, although it did enable me to upgrade my iPhone for better quality video footage, so that was a plus! 😊
We'll see you at the lunch !....😊
Sounds good! Thanks for watching 😊
Is it just me or was that last lock before you got on the River Saw more complicated than most? I'm in awe that you guys learned everything you have to know to cruise the canals. Unrelated, but exciting I think: I will be heading up to the ranch just outside of Waco to observe Monday's solar eclipse in totality for 4 1/2 minutes! :) Leigh
Hi Leigh! It seemed complicated, but we have learnt now to just follow the instructions and it's actually much easier than the manual locks, as all the work is done for you! Yes, it's been a very steep learning curve, and a mostly enjoyable one, but we are honestly learning new things every time we cruise, or easier ways to do things! All of my Friendswood friends have been discussing about whether to brave the traffic and drive out to get the best view of the full eclipse! I think the last time was in 2017 wasn't it (perhaps that was just a partial eclipse though), and I remember all of the stores selling out of the glasses! Good luck, and let us know how it is! 😊
I’ve been to Trent lock and walked around a bit. Lovely area and nice pub and tearoom. Didn’t realise how close I was to Shardelow 😢 I would have gone and explored had I known. Hope you make it onto the series 👍 do you know when it starts?
Shardlow is definitely worth a visit, with so much canal history and the heritage centre too. We were so lucky to get the best mooring spots too! The programme hasn't aired yet. The latest we had heard was Easter 2024, but that's been and gone now. We have seen it advertised on the season trailers for Channel 4 though so I think it could be any time soon. We will let all of our viewers know if we hear anything 😊
Lovely vlog…has the programme been aired yet? Hopefully you made the edit! 😊
Thanks so much Anna! The programme hasn't aired yet. The latest we had heard was Easter 2024, but that's been and gone now. We have seen it advertised on the season trailers for Channel 4 though so I think it could be any time soon. We will let all of our viewers know if we hear anything 😊
Will look forward to seeing it!
I never get to see the articles written or the videos filmed all the way over here. Did you make it into the film? Or do you know yet?
It always makes me nervous to see narrowboats on the Ship Canal, the Wash, the Ribble Link and the tidal Thames. It doesn't seem like the boats are made for that! ❤
It still hasn't aired yet Dorothy. The last we heard was Easter 2024, but that's been and gone now, so we will just wait. We've see a trailer of the upcoming season on Channel 4 though and Narrow Escapes was included in that, so maybe it's soon! We have only done the tidal Trent so far, and that was far less scary than we had been led to believe, but when we had the chance to go across the Wash, when we went all the way down to `boat on the River Witham, we said no way!! Hope you are keeping well 😊
Hopefully you'll find out soon... I'm doing good. It's Eclipse Day. This area is going to be crazy. People are traveling here from all over to see totality. It's worse because it's on a Monday. For some places it's been a three day party. I'm too old for all that! ♥️
@@dorothydotson7154Oh I’ve been seeing some of that eclipse craziness. I’ve been visiting out daughter in WI this week, leaving today, and it will be 83% here. But lots of friends in Texas are driving out of town to witness the full eclipse! 😮
@@onedaymoreaboard The process was pretty boring since it takes a while but totality was awesome! Almost to full dark and all the automatic lights came on and the temperature dropped. It was very cool to see.
We dined at The New Inn as we spent the night moored at Shardlow. Shardlow was a very busy place. We were lucky to find a mooring./ This was seven years ago. We had hired out of Sawley.
We were lucky that it wasn’t too busy when we were there as it was early May, but I can imagine it would be far busier in the height of the summer season as it’s such a lovely place with so much canal history 😊
We were in September./@@onedaymoreaboard
😊😊Hi Pete n Caroline
Great team effort always !!!!
I watched David ( "Cruising the Cut ") recently about the 250 yr Celebration of The Steepest Lock Flight ..great History and you are carrying it on.👋👏
In the comments was written ......
""""Gongoozler"""" from Wikipedia pages for the lock under Tourism ...
"""" a person who enjoys watching activity on the canals of the UK""""
❤......🚐 Elizabeth (Gg🤭)
Hi Elizabeth, thanks so much for your lovely comment! We used to refer to ourselves as virtual gongoozlers when we were binge watching narrowboat vlogs, as we researched our new life aboard, once we had learnt what that word meant! David's videos were the first we watched that gave Pete the idea of this different life, and then I surprised him by saying a whole hearted yes, without hesitation, when he raised the subject of us selling up and living on a boat too! You may have seen on other vlogs showing the floating cafe in Braunston called the 'Gongoozler's Rest'. Our first winter aboard we spent in Braunston Marina and it was on our doorstep which was not good for our waistlines as they do the best breakfast sandwiches and cakes! 😊
Thank you for sharing how your narrowboat venture began , as is very similar to my beginning with my vw transporter...it's only 5.2 metres though 🤭
I'm amazed at the precision you and Peter manoeuvre your lovely boat through the locks and canals 🤗❤❤ and video your travels with your lovely little tailwaggers 🐾🐾🐾🐾 enjoy ( in joy )