One of my cats passed away long ago one fall. We buried her in the yard. Come spring, I went up to check on her and her skull was exposed. I buried her again and the next day she was up again. So, I decided she didn't want to be outside and she's been on my bookshelf ever since. Her name was Ebony.
The two ferries from MSF sold to Turkey you mentioned were a fascinating story to follow, Thank-you. Turns out one was still in service in 1996, shown to be 124 years old at that time. 😮
There are many ways of revealing a caring personality, adding a head to a beheaded figurine and collecting cats' skulls is one of the most uncommon and lovely one I've seen.
I was just thinking how extraordinary and important to our collective mental health (or at least our quest to achieve it) your channel is. In an era where there is such a devisive undercurrent, where nearly everything we watch is imbued with political significance, you offer such a sharp departure from that. You provide positivity, history, and, as a result, hope. We're all in this together. (Bear in mind, this is coming from a black hearted, cynical, pissed off former US Army Infantryman - you've definitely done me a good turn, Nic!)
Baby geese eating algae that is so cute. Such great finds. I got a kick out of the soldier. I’m happy that the headless soldier got a head. Good job! Congratulations to the book winner.
Yes, bucket man lives! Nic, I have to tell you (albit again) we love your music, scenes and all the wildlife outside your window. You are a very lucky woman to have them come and visit. ❤ Well, and of course the mudlarking goes without saying....😊
My West Texas Ghost Story. I live in a house that is almost 100 years old, and it creaks and squeaks. I can hear the squirrels and cats when they run across the roof. One summer, I started hearing a loud pounding. My studio is at the back of the house, and I asked myself, "Is that someone at the front door?' I rush to the front door, and.... no one there. This kept happening throughout the summer. Pound Pound Pound Pound Pound! No one at the door. I happened to be in the front of the house, when I heard it again: Pound, Pound, Pound, Pound! It wasn't on the door; it was on the side of the house! I lound pounding! I carefully looked behind the blinds.... to see a ladder back wood pecker pounding at the mortar of my brick house. If we had siding or even wood on the exterior, I'm sure I would have recognized a 'tap tap tapping at the side of my house.' However the brick and mortar made the sound muffeled, not a sharp taping, but the muddy sound of a fist pounding on the door. And it amplifed the sound. So ends my ghost hunting days. 40:05 Center Top, that bucket looks like Frankenstien's head. Is a horse or cow jaw bone?
I actually paused Nicola's video to read the end of your mystery. Great telling of a great story! Thanks for sharing it with us. 😊 Now, back to the video!
Hello from the great state of Arkansas in the USA. I love the pleasure you have and share with us in finding these tiny treasures. At 24:30 I spotted a ball peen hammer head just laying there wishing it could find someone to show it some love and clean it up and put a new handle on it. But that’s my favorite thing to do in my 73rd year in this life. Thanks for sharing.
Hello! This is the first video of yours I have watched. I saw you on an episode of "Well, I Never", and I came to look you up. Watching your video was exciting and entertaining! I am from the U.S. and I find the Thames interesting, and holding so much immeasurable history! That alone would have made me come back for more, but once you were back inside the "findings" room, you gave a somewhat regular talk hoping everyone is doing well. But then you added the extra bit saying, you hope if we are not, that we will be soon, and feel free to drop a comment and someone may come along to respond, that is part of what this community is all about. And that felt so sincere and it really struck home with me, because I am not doing the best right right now. My wife and I are in the very early stages of divorce. We have been together for 15 years. It has only been 2 weeks to the day that we split. I certainly have my faults and share of the blame in this, she and I both do, but we are unable to see eye to eye about a major situation in our lives. There is no room for reconciliation on her end. I do not want us to be done. She did not make me, but I had to go, I just could not stay, that was hurting me even more. I moved out of our home only 5 days ago. My heart is breaking. I miss my wife so very much. I know things will get better, but knowing that and waiting for that to happen are two very different things and they are universes apart at the moment. I am not much for signs, but I am glad I found your channel. Thank you for the sincere, warm welcome.
Hi Jenny, I'm so sorry you're going through such a difficult and painful time. Endings are so hard. Sometimes it feels as if that pain won't ever go. The only way is through. Take extra good care of yourself and give yourself loads of love. Journal about it as that can help if youre not doing that already. Sending you lots of love. Thinking of you. Nicola xxx ❤️
Prefer the skull to the spider eeeeek!! lol. Some great finds as always Nicola. Love that you found a body for the soldiers head, a perfect fit I'd say! I think word is spreading that your place is the best restaurant in town :-D Oh and I spotted Mr Bucket hehe.
Just in time for the last week of school, I caught the crud that's going around. Nothing like a good mudlark with a cup of ginger tea to cheer me up! thanks, Nicola!
Seeing the spider brought back a happy moment, my husband a retired clergyman, right after Seminary we were assigned a Church in suburban Washington, DC. A friend and I shared a cleaning lady, and we got into a mess. She was partially sighted and older, and thus jobs would be half done. My husband complained that his pulpit shirts were ironed on one side and not the other, one cuff ironed, one not. But the classic was at Halloween my friends had put some plastic spiders around as decoration. These plastic spiders were beat with something with body parts here and there, all over the house. She told my husband that my friends had a serious spider problem, but she had “killed the ring leaders”. We had her for years, neither of us could muster the courage to let her go. Eventually, she became park of our extended family until she passed away.
I love this story and can relate. My mother had a home help who complained that the vacuum wouldn't suck up a clump of fluff (a dead mouse the cat had brought in).😊
So glad to see a current program, have been set aside with illness and watching “hours of your videos” with great relaxation. Yesterday, we were returning from the Dr, I stopped abruptly and said, “what is that?” Some little girl lost her hair trim. My husband picked it up and put it on a ledge, turned to me and remarked, “are you taking up mudlarking on the streets now?” Maybe.
Time flies when you are doing something that you really love... for me especially when sitting and watching my guinea pigs doing guinea pig stuff. ;-) also when being creative, drawing or gardening. And of course when talking with my husband for hours and hours.
Sick most of Saturday night with a stomach bug but feeling much better now as Sunday evening approaches. Missed morning worship but was able to watch from home.
The ship looks like a River Boat the ones you see on the Mississippi River....I just love those Boats they just intrigue me ..such beautiful Boats ...loving you gave the soldier a new head ..he can now function again ..😊..fab finds! ❤
Just love your podcast, your so positive and fun. Full of history, I love everything. Watch all of your different podcast, when you go in groups with your metal finder, your amazing thankyou, I am from Washington State, xo
You were my first mudlarker I ever watched and are still my favorite. I like your solo trips but it is always fun when you get together with your fellow larkers. But...Your skulls really do make me cringe. 😄 You give us history lessons and share you adventures. Thank you. Greetings from Texas, USA.
Your MSF number 481 token was probably used by the workers in the ship yard. Even today large projects use tokens, primarily made from brass, to keep track of the workers. This started in the mines, where the miners were give a token with a number at the start of their shift and at the end of their shift they would drop the token (known as dropping brass) in a container to show them safe or out of the mine. More common practice was to keep track of workers on large projects. Hopefully, they are not still looking for worker 481 ; )
I really appreciate your videos, the animal life you is spectacular. Another one of my favorite parts is the history lesson. SIFinds is marvelous at putting things back to rights. Thank you always for sharing your passion with us. Kathy from Iowa, USA
Welcome Woody woodpecker!! I loved every find, every bit of history, every animal - in fact, everything about this episode. You make my heart smile and sing. Thank you so much Nicola! Lots of love xx Teresa 🇦🇺
It was Father's Day here in the US last Sunday, and I was in northern Minnesota at my niece and nephew's cottage (we call them 'cabins' here) in the woods, with my grown son and nephew. So for the first time since I started watching your videos years ago, I missed one on the day it was released. Then, I had three gigs at libraries here in Wisconsin with my portable planetarium, at three different locations all around the state. AND I've been sick with a pretty intense sinus infection, which led to even more intense medicine to kill it. All of which goes to explain why this is by far the longest it's taken me to watch you. You asked what makes the time fly for us. For me, it's either looking up at the night sky -- with just my eyes, binoculars, or one of my telescopes; or, when making something, often a telescope or some accessory for one, but lots of other things, too, from furniture to clocks to bird feeders and other things that strike me.
You really found some cool things! I don't have a skull shelf but I do have a perfectly dried out frog and a turtle shell my grandpa gave me as a child. I don't think you are weird lol. You are unique and beautiful!❤
*Nicole, wow the egg & claw clay pipe is so beautiful and awesome 🙂 It was great to see the soldiers head found it's way back to it's own body in the 'Nicole White Military household' 🙂nz*
What a great outing! So many nice finds! After a month in hospital, I am home and recovering from my fall. I wish I had my big gray guy to help me convalesce. I miss Runt so much!
I am retired and I walk most days. I pick up alum cans and small pieces of iron and steel for recycle. When I watch these videos, I see a lot of the nuts and bolts and bits of iron. It drives me bonkers cause I would be picking them up in my world. I know you don't, but I make my play money that way. Love your channel. Cheers
I was just watching and thinking the same. A giant magnet would clear away a lot. Do you watch the crazy Bondi magnet YT guy who fishes out safes and bicycles in the Netherlands? He would satisfy your recycling habit!
@@Sujowi I watch Bondi and Peaky Dippers and Northern Mudlarks. I enjoy these vids and I also follow metal detectorist like Terragermania and West country clegg. I like to watch people with personality do things I cannot get out and do. Cheers
I thought I saw a face and it turned out to be THE Bucket Man! How funny! I'm new here and found out about this elusive character in the comments. Love it!! Friends and I pick up various interesting stuff which includes bones, feathers, snake skins, animal skulls, bits of junk, dried insects, etc. There is so much to marvel at in this world!! I love, love, love your videos, Nicola, and now have a case of mudlarking envy. Thanks for sharing your passion!! Happy trails everyone 💙😺🌎☮️
I have missed you! This brought back so many memories of watching you years ago while I was rehabilitating from hip surgery! I'm up and at 'em now and don't get the chance to watch you often. Seems like a binge weekend is ahead of me! 😊😊😊😉😉
Everyone will have varying opinions regarding skulls. I feel like you give them a last chance at a warm home forever. Who knows what they may have suffered through to end up in the muck. Your positive aura can only bring light to their stories. Thank you for always being so uplifting and kind. The world needs more people like you. Sending kindness from the states to you!
Hi, was just watching Daniel Boone and one of the Red coats had one of those pipes. Really, really long. Thanks to you that's the first thing I noticed. Then I find your first find was one of them. How cool was that. Thanks for the knowledge.
Hi there Nicola, I live in Scotland quite near St Andrews and I just love watching you mudlark so much so that I’d love to have a go myself. I did used to collect glass off the beach and always got excited when I’d find little blue bits as they’re quite rare, and I’ve got a few brandy bottles full of little pieces of beach glass and they’re rather beautiful. It’s amazing what you can find on a beach washed up. But you give me so much joy watching you look for your treasure so thank you and look forward to many more finds, I’d welcome any tips you have to get me started, take care much love from Scotland ❤. Kind regards Paula Mann xx
This was a really interesting mudlarking adventure. Some truly wonderful treasures, the clay pipes, the buttons, the MSF medallion, and the lead soldier and head. I did something to do with history this week. My family and I went 28 miles to the town of Raymond. We went to the Northwest Carriage Museum. They have restored and original horse drawn carriages and other things there. Some of the carriages were in well-known movies, Gone with the Wind and The Little Princess with Shirley Temple are the two I remember the best. The carriages were beautiful. They also have quite a collection of vintage clothes from the era. It was interesting and fun. I bought a train whistle and a pair of earrings for my mother. It was a good outing. We took a little ride around Raymond and saw some beautiful homes. We had lunch after and then headed home. The Pacific Northwest is a beautiful area, I'm so glad we decided to move here.
Hello Nicola, I like skulls, I have a young Foxes skull found 2 years ago in our garden hedgerow and a Blackbird skull found about 10 years ago in one of our previous gardens, the Fox skull keeps moving about we find it all over in our garden, we suspect the resident squirrel or the rooks and jackdaws we get, we've even found it up on the bird table. Your Woodpecker looks like a female, the male has a red patch on the back of its head, and young ones have red on the tops of their heads. Best wishes from Yorkshire 😊
I am writing from Kansas City, Kansas right in the middle of the United States! Kansas does have beautiful rivers but not the large boats and ships that you show in your videos. Kansas is know for its prairies and for wheat fields and cattle. I do love my home, but love your wonderful videos so much! You have perked my interest in history and you have increased my knowlege! Thank you, Nicola! I hope the you and "Si-Finds" keep up the good work. I love you both!😁
Because of your influence, I bought home a skull to put on a shelf. We think it’s a bird, and I’m hoping it’s ancient moa but it’s probably just a large seagull.
Very lovely, as usual. I find your videos very soothing. And love the history. I must admit to being a bit of an Anglophile. Thank you for them all. Much love from Tina in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Such fun going mudlarking with you. It is all so facinating I would be addicted to mudlarking if I had anywhere to go over here in Germany. The ducklings were too cute and Woody Woodpecker. The bucket head at the end reminds me of Pirates of the Caribbean. 😂 I do love beachcombing and photography. I was on a beach in South Africa which is where I was born and found large whale teeth first then found the decomposing whale. It was sad to see such a magestic creature beached which is rare. I did keep the tooth and a bone. Sunbleached clean bones do have an artistic quality about them. I am not macabre though. 😅 Congrats to the winner of the book. Thanks for another great video Nicola. Hope you have a great week too. Ciao 👋👋💜
Hi Nicola, I love collecting skulls and my favourite pastime, or one of them anyway, is mudlarking anywhere I can, or field walking is great as well. It helps me relax. Thank you for your lovely videos as always. Love from the Netherlands.
My budgie loves your Thames videos. He can hear the birds and he chirrups his little chest out. Sometimes flies around thinking he’s out there with them and you! X 😂
After you cleaned up that little ship-looking object, I recognized that it might be an old steam-driven warship. T he right end appears to be the bow and the left end would be the stern. The square portals along the side could be gun ports for brass cannon. I spent three decades in the US Navy and have always been fascinated with how ships were built. That looks like some that were in use around the end of the 19th century. Just a guess, but I love your outings and your close-in look at what you find. My ancestors are from London in the mid-1700s. Thanks for your special program. I eagerly await the next adventure.
I collect skulls, hence my moniker. I also think they are beautiful and lovely. I treat them with reverence and care. Thank you Nicola for this fantastic video. Cheers.
In the place where you found a button, I thought I saw a glass stopper that you didn't interact with. Yay for the soldier's got an head back! Love your channel, thank you so much for all your work and everything you share!
I enjoy watching you find your treasure. The skulls are fine. My brother collects skulls he finds in the woods behind his house. We live in northern Minnesota, USA
LOL the skulls and other bones you pick up! I don’t like them myself and always tell you it’s yucky, Nicola, leave it there 😅 But I actually like it about you, that you find them so cool. It’s an extension I guess of how much you love and appreciate both nature and history. And part of what makes you an interesting person.
I see the spider goddess has blessed you again with a spider! Love spiders. The skull is pretty cool... Looks like a fun outing ... Hope you are having a grand day. Really love the clay pipe claw ... those are awesome! On the skull front... I most certainly would collect them if I found them.
Those were some nice little finds! I have a woodpecker that visits most every day in spring and early summer at early dawn. He wakes me by banging on the metal downspout by the bedroom corner announcing his territory. I named him Mr Marconi.😅
Well done spotting that tiny head from a soldier, perhaps WWl? I must say I prefer my cats alive and purring, but you do you. I always enjoy watching, regardless.
Hi.. always enjoy the birds, music and your great finds . Recommend vinyl disposable gloves, or nitril gloves when popping skulls out if the mud .Do not want bacteria, mud to get into a small cut, scrape....can balloon into a big sore overnight. Then its antibiotics, dressing the sore for a couple of weeks. Work on vintage cars, radios, had rhis happen with rusty dirty work . Bacteria are everywhere!
so many nuts and bolts, chain, ribar, and other metal there .... the City should clean that up with a large magnet crane on a barge. Stay amazing, wish you the best !
Almost fell out of my chair while you were climbing the steps. So funny, i got so dizzy, cause it looked as if the steps were going away. Sorta like an excaltor.
“I’ve probably got a headless body I could put it on… I will examine all my little bodies when I get home…”
ha ha yes, I know! I thought that too :) coming soon to you on netflix
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It’s not weird, your skull collecting. What is weird is that crazy dog sculpture! Has my favorite! Lovely visit, 🙏🏼🌎💖🇺🇸. 😎🌞
Yes that isn't something you hear every day outside a Boris Karlof movie !
One of my cats passed away long ago one fall. We buried her in the yard. Come spring, I went up to check on her and her skull was exposed. I buried her again and the next day she was up again. So, I decided she didn't want to be outside and she's been on my bookshelf ever since. Her name was Ebony.
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You didn't bury her deep enough
Is anyone else singing “The Cat Came Back”?
it could be a rat
Church? 🐈 👀
Yes, I saw the bucket face with chain curly hair and a row of teeth. But then I am one of those people who sees faces in all sorts of things.
I saw the face too. I always wonder if I’m the only one to see them, glad to know I’m not 😊
I saw that too! 😂
YEP.
I saw it too
The knack for seeing faces in other things is called “pareidolia”. Yes, it’s a thing. A fun thing!
The two ferries from MSF sold to Turkey you mentioned were a fascinating story to follow, Thank-you. Turns out one was still in service in 1996, shown to be 124 years old at that time. 😮
Interesting, thank you!
Wow!
There are many ways of revealing a caring personality, adding a head to a beheaded figurine and collecting cats' skulls is one of the most uncommon and lovely one I've seen.
Ah thank you Andy. xoxox
I was just thinking how extraordinary and important to our collective mental health (or at least our quest to achieve it) your channel is. In an era where there is such a devisive undercurrent, where nearly everything we watch is imbued with political significance, you offer such a sharp departure from that. You provide positivity, history, and, as a result, hope. We're all in this together. (Bear in mind, this is coming from a black hearted, cynical, pissed off former US Army Infantryman - you've definitely done me a good turn, Nic!)
Baby geese eating algae that is so cute. Such great finds. I got a kick out of the soldier. I’m happy that the headless soldier got a head. Good job! Congratulations to the book winner.
The ducklings and goslings are ADOR-able!
Yes, bucket man lives! Nic, I have to tell you (albit again) we love your music, scenes and all the wildlife outside your window. You are a very lucky woman to have them come and visit. ❤ Well, and of course the mudlarking goes without saying....😊
My West Texas Ghost Story. I live in a house that is almost 100 years old, and it creaks and squeaks. I can hear the squirrels and cats when they run across the roof. One summer, I started hearing a loud pounding. My studio is at the back of the house, and I asked myself, "Is that someone at the front door?' I rush to the front door, and.... no one there. This kept happening throughout the summer. Pound Pound Pound Pound Pound! No one at the door.
I happened to be in the front of the house, when I heard it again: Pound, Pound, Pound, Pound! It wasn't on the door; it was on the side of the house! I lound pounding! I carefully looked behind the blinds.... to see a ladder back wood pecker pounding at the mortar of my brick house. If we had siding or even wood on the exterior, I'm sure I would have recognized a 'tap tap tapping at the side of my house.' However the brick and mortar made the sound muffeled, not a sharp taping, but the muddy sound of a fist pounding on the door. And it amplifed the sound. So ends my ghost hunting days.
40:05 Center Top, that bucket looks like Frankenstien's head. Is a horse or cow jaw bone?
oh ha ha what a great story. thank you for sharing xxx
i saw the same bucket. lol
I actually paused Nicola's video to read the end of your mystery. Great telling of a great story! Thanks for sharing it with us. 😊 Now, back to the video!
That MSF could have been the cover for a lubrication point on a bit of machinery.
Black rats could traditionally be every bit as big as a cat or small dog.
Spending my Father's Day watching my favorite 'Larker.
Happy Fathers Day!
@@nicolawhitemudlark Thank you!
Hello from the great state of Arkansas in the USA. I love the pleasure you have and share with us in finding these tiny treasures. At 24:30 I spotted a ball peen hammer head just laying there wishing it could find someone to show it some love and clean it up and put a new handle on it. But that’s my favorite thing to do in my 73rd year in this life. Thanks for sharing.
Hello! This is the first video of yours I have watched. I saw you on an episode of "Well, I Never", and I came to look you up.
Watching your video was exciting and entertaining! I am from the U.S. and I find the Thames interesting, and holding so much immeasurable history! That alone would have made me come back for more, but once you were back inside the "findings" room, you gave a somewhat regular talk hoping everyone is doing well. But then you added the extra bit saying, you hope if we are not, that we will be soon, and feel free to drop a comment and someone may come along to respond, that is part of what this community is all about. And that felt so sincere and it really struck home with me, because I am not doing the best right right now.
My wife and I are in the very early stages of divorce. We have been together for 15 years. It has only been 2 weeks to the day that we split. I certainly have my faults and share of the blame in this, she and I both do, but we are unable to see eye to eye about a major situation in our lives. There is no room for reconciliation on her end. I do not want us to be done. She did not make me, but I had to go, I just could not stay, that was hurting me even more. I moved out of our home only 5 days ago. My heart is breaking. I miss my wife so very much. I know things will get better, but knowing that and waiting for that to happen are two very different things and they are universes apart at the moment.
I am not much for signs, but I am glad I found your channel. Thank you for the sincere, warm welcome.
Hi Jenny, I'm so sorry you're going through such a difficult and painful time. Endings are so hard. Sometimes it feels as if that pain won't ever go. The only way is through. Take extra good care of yourself and give yourself loads of love. Journal about it as that can help if youre not doing that already. Sending you lots of love. Thinking of you. Nicola xxx ❤️
I think that you are the first of the mud larkers that I watch that have found an intact toy soldier. 😊 Well done, plus an extra head. hehe
Yes, one has to keep ahead of things.. 😅
Prefer the skull to the spider eeeeek!! lol. Some great finds as always Nicola. Love that you found a body for the soldiers head, a perfect fit I'd say! I think word is spreading that your place is the best restaurant in town :-D Oh and I spotted Mr Bucket hehe.
Nicola '2 ferries ⛴️ ' - me for a split second '2 fairies!! 🧚♂️🧚♀️'
Haha brilliant
Well done Nicola, great day out for amazing finds. The ducklings/gosling’s are so cute. Take care and thank you for bringing us along 👏🙏❤️🌻
Just in time for the last week of school, I caught the crud that's going around. Nothing like a good mudlark with a cup of ginger tea to cheer me up! thanks, Nicola!
Get better soon xx
Braver than me lol! No way I would’ve touched the spider to see if it was plastic 😮
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Very realistic!
Seeing the spider brought back a happy moment, my husband a retired clergyman, right after Seminary we were assigned a Church in suburban Washington, DC. A friend and I shared a cleaning lady, and we got into a mess. She was partially sighted and older, and thus jobs would be half done. My husband complained that his pulpit shirts were ironed on one side and not the other, one cuff ironed, one not. But the classic was at Halloween my friends had put some plastic spiders around as decoration. These plastic spiders were beat with something with body parts here and there, all over the house. She told my husband that my friends had a serious spider problem, but she had “killed the ring leaders”. We had her for years, neither of us could muster the courage to let her go. Eventually, she became park of our extended family until she passed away.
I love this story and can relate. My mother had a home help who complained that the vacuum wouldn't suck up a clump of fluff (a dead mouse the cat had brought in).😊
So glad to see a current program, have been set aside with illness and watching “hours of your videos” with great relaxation. Yesterday, we were returning from the Dr, I stopped abruptly and said, “what is that?” Some little girl lost her hair trim. My husband picked it up and put it on a ledge, turned to me and remarked, “are you taking up mudlarking on the streets now?” Maybe.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana!
Time flies when you are doing something that you really love... for me especially when sitting and watching my guinea pigs doing guinea pig stuff. ;-) also when being creative, drawing or gardening. And of course when talking with my husband for hours and hours.
Sick most of Saturday night with a stomach bug but feeling much better now as Sunday evening approaches. Missed morning worship but was able to watch from home.
And hope you are feeling better now.
Get better soon xx
Ohhhhkaaay @ 25:43 am I the only person who seen a face with that chain, bucket & bolts?
Saw it immediately!
I wondered if someone had positioned it that way in purpose.
Well done you saw it!
@@nicolawhitemudlark I was just coming in to say the same thing! A few days behind on youtube, nice surprise to see a video from you Nicola!
Saw it wasn't just me
The ship looks like a River Boat the ones you see on the Mississippi River....I just love those Boats they just intrigue me ..such beautiful Boats ...loving you gave the soldier a new head ..he can now function again ..😊..fab finds! ❤
I hope where ever you are, you are having a wonderful day. Thank you for the fabulous video!
Thank you. I hope you had a wonderful weekend x
Thank you..Nicola..!!!👏👍 Thank you Rivers Thames..!!☺️☺️🩵 Hugs from France''🐺
Just love your podcast, your so positive and fun. Full of history, I love everything. Watch all of your different podcast, when you go in groups with your metal finder, your amazing thankyou, I am from Washington State, xo
Thank you Elise! You're amazing too xx
You were my first mudlarker I ever watched and are still my favorite. I like your solo trips but it is always fun when you get together with your fellow larkers. But...Your skulls really do make me cringe. 😄 You give us history lessons and share you adventures. Thank you. Greetings from Texas, USA.
Thank you Janette. xxx
Your MSF number 481 token was probably used by the workers in the ship yard. Even today large projects use tokens, primarily made from brass, to keep track of the workers. This started in the mines, where the miners were give a token with a number at the start of their shift and at the end of their shift they would drop the token (known as dropping brass) in a container to show them safe or out of the mine. More common practice was to keep track of workers on large projects. Hopefully, they are not still looking for worker 481 ; )
Thank you!
The kneeling lead solder seems to have a cloth wrapped around his pith helmet. The Black Watch wore a cloth around their helmets during the Boer war.
Thank you!
I really appreciate your videos, the animal life you is spectacular. Another one of my favorite parts is the history lesson. SIFinds is marvelous at putting things back to rights.
Thank you always for sharing your passion with us. Kathy from Iowa, USA
Welcome Woody woodpecker!! I loved every find, every bit of history, every animal - in fact, everything about this episode. You make my heart smile and sing. Thank you so much Nicola! Lots of love xx Teresa 🇦🇺
Thank you Teresa ❤️
Well done for saving the minuscule pieces from the past lives of ordinary folk, so often overlooked and disregarded in history
And so often the most interesting!
It was Father's Day here in the US last Sunday, and I was in northern Minnesota at my niece and nephew's cottage (we call them 'cabins' here) in the woods, with my grown son and nephew. So for the first time since I started watching your videos years ago, I missed one on the day it was released. Then, I had three gigs at libraries here in Wisconsin with my portable planetarium, at three different locations all around the state. AND I've been sick with a pretty intense sinus infection, which led to even more intense medicine to kill it. All of which goes to explain why this is by far the longest it's taken me to watch you.
You asked what makes the time fly for us. For me, it's either looking up at the night sky -- with just my eyes, binoculars, or one of my telescopes; or, when making something, often a telescope or some accessory for one, but lots of other things, too, from furniture to clocks to bird feeders and other things that strike me.
You really found some cool things! I don't have a skull shelf but I do have a perfectly dried out frog and a turtle shell my grandpa gave me as a child. I don't think you are weird lol. You are unique and beautiful!❤
oh wonderful! A dried out frog and a turtle shell are wonderful treasures! Thank you :) xoxox
*Nicole, wow the egg & claw clay pipe is so beautiful and awesome 🙂 It was great to see the soldiers head found it's way back to it's own body in the 'Nicole White Military household' 🙂nz*
I was lucky enough to discover a Great White Shark’s tooth on a beach a couple of years ago.
What a great outing! So many nice finds! After a month in hospital, I am home and recovering from my fall. I wish I had my big gray guy to help me convalesce. I miss Runt so much!
Thinking of you Dave lots of love xxx
I have skulls and so do my children. We appreciate them and the animals they came from.
I am retired and I walk most days. I pick up alum cans and small pieces of iron and steel for recycle. When I watch these videos, I see a lot of the nuts and bolts and bits of iron. It drives me bonkers cause I would be picking them up in my world. I know you don't, but I make my play money that way. Love your channel. Cheers
Thank you :) xx
I was just watching and thinking the same. A giant magnet would clear away a lot. Do you watch the crazy Bondi magnet YT guy who fishes out safes and bicycles in the Netherlands? He would satisfy your recycling habit!
@@Sujowi I watch Bondi and Peaky Dippers and Northern Mudlarks. I enjoy these vids and I also follow metal detectorist like Terragermania and West country clegg. I like to watch people with personality do things I cannot get out and do. Cheers
I thought I saw a face and it turned out to be THE Bucket Man! How funny! I'm new here and found out about this elusive character in the comments. Love it!!
Friends and I pick up various interesting stuff which includes bones, feathers, snake skins, animal skulls, bits of junk, dried insects, etc. There is so much to marvel at in this world!!
I love, love, love your videos, Nicola, and now have a case of mudlarking envy. Thanks for sharing your passion!!
Happy trails everyone 💙😺🌎☮️
I have missed you! This brought back so many memories of watching you years ago while I was rehabilitating from hip surgery! I'm up and at 'em now and don't get the chance to watch you often. Seems like a binge weekend is ahead of me! 😊😊😊😉😉
Everyone will have varying opinions regarding skulls. I feel like you give them a last chance at a warm home forever. Who knows what they may have suffered through to end up in the muck. Your positive aura can only bring light to their stories. Thank you for always being so uplifting and kind. The world needs more people like you. Sending kindness from the states to you!
Thank you Stephanie ❤️
You make Sundays so enjoyable. Pensacola Florida USA
Hi Nicola! Oh on a clay pipe search, yes I'm hooked on those pipes
Me too.
That book looks fabulous.
Would be educational for children.
Hi, was just watching Daniel Boone and one of the Red coats had one of those pipes. Really, really long. Thanks to you that's the first thing I noticed. Then I find your first find was one of them. How cool was that. Thanks for the knowledge.
Quite the hommage to D-day with the lead soldier and military button. Great finds.
Great finds and history especially the brass MSF. Painting makes time fly for me. I can paint and repaint a canvas for days and weeks.
Hi there Nicola, I live in Scotland quite near St Andrews and I just love watching you mudlark so much so that I’d love to have a go myself. I did used to collect glass off the beach and always got excited when I’d find little blue bits as they’re quite rare, and I’ve got a few brandy bottles full of little pieces of beach glass and they’re rather beautiful. It’s amazing what you can find on a beach washed up.
But you give me so much joy watching you look for your treasure so thank you and look forward to many more finds, I’d welcome any tips you have to get me started, take care much love from Scotland ❤.
Kind regards
Paula Mann xx
Thank you Paula! Xx
This was a really interesting mudlarking adventure. Some truly wonderful treasures, the clay pipes, the buttons, the MSF medallion, and the lead soldier and head. I did something to do with history this week. My family and I went 28 miles to the town of Raymond. We went to the Northwest Carriage Museum. They have restored and original horse drawn carriages and other things there. Some of the carriages were in well-known movies, Gone with the Wind and The Little Princess with Shirley Temple are the two I remember the best. The carriages were beautiful. They also have quite a collection of vintage clothes from the era. It was interesting and fun. I bought a train whistle and a pair of earrings for my mother. It was a good outing. We took a little ride around Raymond and saw some beautiful homes. We had lunch after and then headed home. The Pacific Northwest is a beautiful area, I'm so glad we decided to move here.
Hi Beth. That outing and the visits to the museum sound wonderful. How amazing to see those carriages. xxxx
Ha, I never thought of it, but, my wife collects skulls. They get to "live" on the hearth and fireplace mantle. I try to never anger her.....
Hello Nicola, I like skulls, I have a young Foxes skull found 2 years ago in our garden hedgerow and a Blackbird skull found about 10 years ago in one of our previous gardens, the Fox skull keeps moving about we find it all over in our garden, we suspect the resident squirrel or the rooks and jackdaws we get, we've even found it up on the bird table.
Your Woodpecker looks like a female, the male has a red patch on the back of its head, and young ones have red on the tops of their heads.
Best wishes from Yorkshire 😊
Thank you!
I am writing from Kansas City, Kansas right in the middle of the United States! Kansas does have beautiful rivers but not the large boats and ships that you show in your videos. Kansas is know for its prairies and for wheat fields and cattle. I do love my home, but love your wonderful videos so much! You have perked my interest in history and you have increased my knowlege! Thank you, Nicola! I hope the you and "Si-Finds" keep up the good work. I love you both!😁
Iowa here and same
I like the little soldier and the last button the best. I don't collect skulls, but to each their own collection!
Smashing finds Nicola and may I say, you looked very lovely today.❤🍁👏x
Thank you Marion ❤️ xxx
Because of your influence, I bought home a skull to put on a shelf. We think it’s a bird, and I’m hoping it’s ancient moa but it’s probably just a large seagull.
Oh lovely! Send me a photo nicola.white@tidelineart.com
I collect skulls.... People have brought me cool ones too. Ever since I was a little kid
I love your skull shelf! I have collected tiny bird skulls and leg bones on my hikes. They reside in a small cardboard box in my office.
Very lovely, as usual. I find your videos very soothing. And love the history. I must admit to being a bit of an Anglophile. Thank you for them all. Much love from Tina in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Great mudlark today!! Thanks, Nicola!!💕💕💕💕💫
Haha Nichola you’re making me giggle.😆
Such fun going mudlarking with you. It is all so facinating I would be addicted to mudlarking if I had anywhere to go over here in Germany.
The ducklings were too cute and Woody Woodpecker.
The bucket head at the end reminds me of Pirates of the Caribbean. 😂
I do love beachcombing and photography.
I was on a beach in South Africa which is where I was born and found large whale teeth first then found the decomposing whale. It was sad to see such a magestic creature beached which is rare.
I did keep the tooth and a bone. Sunbleached clean bones do have an artistic quality about them. I am not macabre though. 😅
Congrats to the winner of the book.
Thanks for another great video Nicola. Hope you have a great week too. Ciao 👋👋💜
I have an elk skull and two bear skulls, both found in the woods near my home. I love my skull shelves!
Great video - thank you Nicola!
Thx Lee xx
I am 70. Time flies like a rocket.
Hi Nicola, I love collecting skulls and my favourite pastime, or one of them anyway, is mudlarking anywhere I can, or field walking is great as well. It helps me relax. Thank you for your lovely videos as always. Love from the Netherlands.
What a delightful surprise to see the paddle wheel ship on the Thames!
My budgie loves your Thames videos. He can hear the birds and he chirrups his little chest out. Sometimes flies around thinking he’s out there with them and you! X 😂
Oh how cute! Send me a film and I'll feature him at the end of a video. Nicola.white@tidelineart.com
I posted a video of my budgie Flash on Instagram and linked you in. X
After you cleaned up that little ship-looking object, I recognized that it might be an old steam-driven warship. T he right end appears to be the bow and the left end would be the stern. The square portals along the side could be gun ports for brass cannon. I spent three decades in the US Navy and have always been fascinated with how ships were built. That looks like some that were in use around the end of the 19th century. Just a guess, but I love your outings and your close-in look at what you find. My ancestors are from London in the mid-1700s. Thanks for your special program. I eagerly await the next adventure.
Thank you David ❤
I collect skulls, hence my moniker. I also think they are beautiful and lovely. I treat them with reverence and care. Thank you Nicola for this fantastic video. Cheers.
Thank you!! Im so glad you agree. xxx And yes of course, I did wonder what your moniker related to. xox
Thanks Nichola, great lark on the Thames.
I think a skull shelf is kind of yuck but fascinating , as a child I liked finding bird skulls !!
In the place where you found a button, I thought I saw a glass stopper that you didn't interact with. Yay for the soldier's got an head back! Love your channel, thank you so much for all your work and everything you share!
Thank you :) xoxox
Great finds this weekend ! That claw pipe is amazing ! Hope you are having a wonderful day and be safe 🙏
Nice to see you on the Thames again, great lark, thanks Nicola ❤
I enjoy watching you find your treasure. The skulls are fine. My brother collects skulls he finds in the woods behind his house. We live in northern Minnesota, USA
I love that you collect skulls, it’s very scientific and I learn a lot, so please continue!
Buen video Nicola interesante y entretenido ,gracias por eso bendiciones un abrazo desde Viña del Mar Chile ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you! ❤️
Love watching your awesome finds in the
Rivers. Ive started to collect sea glass ect from Tasmania. Like your round ups too.
The last button possibly belongs to Parry & Sons, tailors, 214 Trafalgar road, Greenwich SE
LOL the skulls and other bones you pick up! I don’t like them myself and always tell you it’s yucky, Nicola, leave it there 😅 But I actually like it about you, that you find them so cool. It’s an extension I guess of how much you love and appreciate both nature and history. And part of what makes you an interesting person.
Really enjoyed watching the beautiful video with lots of lovely information on the finds.
With love from SAM
Guwahati, Assam, India 🇮🇳 ❤
Thanks Sam xx❤
I see the spider goddess has blessed you again with a spider! Love spiders. The skull is pretty cool... Looks like a fun outing ... Hope you are having a grand day. Really love the clay pipe claw ... those are awesome!
On the skull front... I most certainly would collect them if I found them.
Thank you!! xx
Those were some nice little finds! I have a woodpecker that visits most every day in spring and early summer at early dawn. He wakes me by banging on the metal downspout by the bedroom corner announcing his territory. I named him Mr Marconi.😅
oh wonderful! They are such exotic visitors. xx
That looked like a magnet fisherman's dream,lol
Let’s goooooo Nicola 💥💥 soooo Brilliant Brilliant ✌️✌️ just love your Larking no matter where but the Thames is extra Grand 👍👍🤩🤩🇬🇧🇺🇸
I love the fact you have a skull shelf. I don't have one myself, but I do have a couple leg bones from a deer that I found while beachcombing.
I collect skulls ♥️ everything from birds to human ❤
Woodpeckers, so often heard, but so rarely seen, especially so close up. I am filled with envy! ❤🥰
I want to move to England and mudlark the Thames. I would be there all day ❤❤❤
Well done spotting that tiny head from a soldier, perhaps WWl? I must say I prefer my cats alive and purring, but you do you. I always enjoy watching, regardless.
Pipes, my favorite find!
Skull collecting was taught and encouraged in scouting and other naturalist clubs, fifty or a hundred years ago.
Hi.. always enjoy the birds, music and your great finds . Recommend vinyl disposable gloves, or nitril gloves when popping skulls out if the mud .Do not want bacteria, mud to get into a small cut, scrape....can balloon into a big sore overnight. Then its antibiotics, dressing the sore for a couple of weeks. Work on vintage cars, radios, had rhis happen with rusty dirty work . Bacteria are everywhere!
The Lead Soldier Looks Like It's From The Boar War !!
Brilliant Video
Well Done Buttercup ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you Roger!xxx
so many nuts and bolts, chain, ribar, and other metal there .... the City should clean that up with a large magnet crane on a barge. Stay amazing, wish you the best !
Love the woodpecker!
Thank you for a great adventure !!!❤🦘
Almost fell out of my chair while you were climbing the steps. So funny, i got so dizzy, cause it looked as if the steps were going away. Sorta like an excaltor.