Oh the Welsh thing is true. My Sister went to Uni over the border in Wales. She said that if they went to Chester on a Friday for a night out. The late bus back over the border would regularly get thing thrown at it by the locals lol. Great vlog guys. Xx
I love history so I always love when you guys visit an historic site or museum. If I ever get over to the UK before I die, I would probably like visiting the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port so thanks for sharing these kind of locations. Last summer I took my family (joined by some friends of ours) to Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. We got lucky and discovered that they had the Mayflower II (which had sailed down from Plymouth, MA) in dry dock for repairs. They also have the Charles W. Morgan (built in 1841), the last of an American whaling fleet that once numbered more than 2700 ships.
Nice! One place you really want to go to in England is the Plymouth Docks where you’ve got Admiral Nelson’s HMS Victory. Launched in 1765, I believe, the flagship at Trafalgar, and still to this day an active service vessel. Quite a sight! M
@@MinimalList Absolutely! The HMS Victory is on my bucket list and would be a nice addition to my previous visit to the USS Constitution "Old Ironsides" in Boston, which is owned and still operated/commissioned by the US Navy. Two of the most famous ships in the world and they're still afloat!
Thanks for your interesting vlog of the museum. The Ellesmere Port museum is a brilliant facility, and it's just a pity it does not have more funding to restore some of its exhibits more quickly. We visited a few years ago and were hosted by Norman and Judy Stainthorp with whom we were staying. Norman's guided tour was fascinating. I particularly loved the old canal boat motors, some of which we were able to see running. A downer on the day was the discovery of the burglary and senseless vandalism to the historic cottages across the basin from the main museum building. And we also saw the predecessor of the current Beluga XL landing at Hawarden Airport during our visit. An impressive sight. Keep up the good work and thanks for posting your vlogs.
Enjoyable and informative as always. Oh, for your train travel are you aware of split ticketing. If not check it out. For example 08:55 Chester - London one way tomorrow (Monday) with 1 change. Std cost £145 split ticketing £54:43
Excellent vlog! So glad you got to film the Beluga and from so close up. You have captured your white whale on film Ahab. Thanks for the peek at the museum.
@@slugfoot1 I live beside Glasgow Airport and watch the Emirates A380 coming in and out from my veranda. There's something so exciting about big ' planes.
Well got to see the Beluga a few videos later as promised. We live near a RAAF base, I wouldn't call myself a plane enthusiast, but I do love watching the various airforce planes n helicopters fly over my head. It makes putting clothes on the line just that bit more exciting.
Really enjoyed this one. I’m still catching up as you can tell. Can you point me to a vlog where you capture a really hard rain shower? So far, the ones you describe the rain as really coming down are light showers in comparison to Texas thunderstorms (or tropical storms or hurricanes). For example, we can regularly get 6-8 inches of rain in a two hours rainstorm. 52 inches in 48 hours during Hurricane Harvey.
Thanks for an extra interesting chapter of your story of travelling cruising the canals. I tried to see where it was that Tim and Pru came to Ellesmere Port with the steam-tug and it must have been on the ship canal. I also look on the dates of your visit there and compare it to the last but one program of theirs and find it must have been at the same period approximately they were there.
Yeah, it was near about the same time. And yes, the Daniel Adamson travels from Liverpool across the Mersey estuary, then on to the Ship Canal for access to either Ellesmere Port or the River Weaver. Looks like Tim really enjoyed his time at the wheel! M
@@MinimalList At all the last series of Great Canal Journeys had so much of feelings in it, it was so much love between them and so much happiness so some episodes I had to have a napkin available for my eyes.
Very cool plane, I looked it up and saw the big smile. It opens in front, crazy! Your enthusiasm is understandable. I hate flying too. On our flight back to Cali from Jersey I had my fair share of champagne hoping to calm my nerves. 😔 I’m sorta new to the channel, really enjoying your journeys and commentary. Thanks for sharing! George tho 💙
What a pleasant surprise that Jo read us through the museum. Very interesting place. Good job finally capturing the elusive Beluga. It is truly like sticking wings on a whale. That is why I could never figure out why they called the Boeing iterations "Guppy" and "Super Guppy". Guppies aren't big and they don't eat that much. Good job backing that beasty up, through a lock no less! Thought Jo was going to push you off, didn't consider she would dunk herself. And yes, it is possible to catch a case of the giggles through the internet. Where is my grant money for that study? It's like seeing a headline "studies show excessive alcohol causes stupid". Who paid for these "studies" and how do I get in on that action? Take care and God Bless, Paul (I know your names, so it is only fair) from Florida.
Thanks! Luckily she hasn’t thrown either of us off, at least not yet. As for the Guppy series, well that gets a bit strange. They were actually made by Aero Spacelines by converting a Boeing airframe, and the first model wasn’t actually called the Guppy, it was the Pregnant Guppy and most people just dropped the first word... apparently when shown the drawings a NASA official mentioned it looked like a pregnant guppy... which it does, if she’s dead and floating on her back. M
Jumping into the canal? They used to have a bad reputation for being very polluted years back, especially near factories, but these days I'd guess they are probably fairly clean in most places, although there is a danger with leptospirosis (rat urine virus) in open water in Britain. I remember cycling up the Grand Union near Uxbridge, many moons ago, and noted that a dredger had recently dumped piles of freshwater oysters on the bank. Those things are pretty fussy about the cleanliness of their water, I 'd have thought. I wondered about searching inside the large broken shells (up to 6 inches long) for the small pearls, as they are used in jewellery I think, but the soft parts were rotting and rather smelly.
Those pearls are also pretty rare, unless they’re intentionally seeded, so I doubt it would have been worth the stink that wouldn’t have worn off for years! M
I always thought your boat was named in honor of this film: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_(film) (The perseverance from sitting through it) The museum footage was excellent, as always. Glad you caught your beluga, bet you'd fly on that if you had the chance. 😎
Ellesmere Port is really good when it has events on, we went to a sea shanty event a few years back. And they have model boat meet ups, it's much better to see it full of people. I first went for school trips 30 years ago
Yeah the intermittent weather seemed to dampen attendance, and probably also the steam pumps being out of commission for servicing. Lovely place to meander around though, if murder on the feet! M
Hey, there's a title for something, 'Beluga, the absurd bird' :) Airplane geekouts, train geekouts, boat geekouts, rocket geekouts, I understand. :D My early years were in San Diego and that region where the Super Guppy aircraft were seen.
Lucky! Only seen Pregnant and Super Guppy on the ground. Got to see the AN-225 takeoff and land once, that was something. And I’ve seen the Dreamlifter over Seattle. M
I got all excited then thought you were going to take a short trip on the River Dee, if you look on Google Maps street view you will see down near the airport/aircraft factory there is an Airbus dock, and Google has managed to catch an Airbus Barge which has an aircraft wing on it! I'm not sure if the River Dee is navigable much more beyond that point
Full marks for descending into the Dee Branch .. the lower pound is in water and surrounded by housing .. tobacco was a prime import through Chester in the early canal era. For the new BelugaX fans, they can be seen arriving and departing Hawarden airport from an eatery called 'Chocks Away' within the airport estate and at the northern end of the runway; if you time it right,of course.
Yeah we walked all the way down, just couldn’t go any further by boat, thanks to the reeds. I’ll have to see if I can get out to Hawarden one day to see that, cause it sounds like fun! M
Great vlog ,lots of laughs and interesting info . Loved the museum as had worked state rail many moons ago and then newspapers so large machinery is always interesting to see . All the best and cheers from OZ .
Though I'm not really in favor of air cargo transport, the beluga xl is a beautiful piece of engineering. I'm heading north with my bow & arrows immediately, no, wait, I'm part Welsh. perhaps I should give this some more thought. I'm told we haven't properly repealed 'droit de signeur' either (leave you to look that one up) The joys of surviving legal anachronisms, we all were that ridiculous once, British simply preserve this stuff better than others. cheers
Ahhh, the old right of prima noctae... bit of a weird on that. Still a bit of debate as to whether or not it was ever actually a real thing, or if it’s one of the (many) horrors added onto the past after the fact as a sort of communal slagging off the ancestors of the ruling class without actually slagging off the ruling class kind of thing. ;-) M
You mention again in this video that going up a lock is harder than going down one (and you aren't the only boat tubers to have done so either). What makes one direction harder than the other?
It’s really just the dynamics of filling water vs draining... when filling there’s much more churn and bubbling and waves inside the lock, when draining its usually quite smooth. M
Heh... the reality is that apparently even the Cheshire law is likely an urban myth, there being no actual recorded evidence of the byelaw ever having been enacted. And to anyone getting too curious, Her Majesty’s Current Government is quite willing to arrest anyone so much as haranguing a Welshman after dark, much less shooting him. M
an equally fictitious myth regarding the reason why the town hall tower only has clocks on 3 faces... It was not because Henry 5th said "I have no time for the Welsh".... it's because the Welsh are never on time anyway! :-) :-)
I hope to, but a lot of stars have to align, and it’s not a very affordable endeavor! Back is doing okay, as long as I keep using my funny wobble cushion! M
@@MinimalList I have decided a new mattress is needed for me. Keep going to the chiropractor, get told back not bad but needs adjustment. then overnight gets worse again, (mattress is tired and a new one has been ordered).
I heard a similar story in York. Apparently, it is still legal to shoot a Scotsman with a Bow & Arrow inside the city walls, but not or only on a Sunday (can't remember which).
There are many mutations of this particular almost-certainly-urban-myth... I can’t find any mention of any law that supports the idea this was ever legal, just a lot of people saying they heard it was a law. Surprisingly the number of laws people have heard exist outnumbers by an incredible margin the number of laws that actually exist! M
Depends a lot on the canal, there were different profile designs. Also of course depends on rain and silt deposits. For the majority of narrow canals I’d say a meter, maybe a bit less, to the muck, a little closer to a meter and a half to the actual bottom. M
Since you guys have such difficulty communicating directions of travel, might I suggest you invest in a set of inexpensive walkie-talkies? Avoids confusion about what the hand directions are.
Huh - what do you mean there is no child lock on the airplane engine off switch !!! I'm with you mike , what the heck is holding this thing up and who is in charge if it ?? oh my ! same with skiing -- it must have started as a joke -- yea just convince him to put on 2 slick pieces of wood and push him down the hill ,never mind that there are no brakes it will be so funny ! -- the train for me - yes sir - standin on the outside platform on the end of last car wind in my hair watching the world go by - just the best
Heh, yeah pretty much my thinking. I know exactly what keeps them up, and that it ISN’T the pilot... I just don’t trust people that much. I’d fly one, don’t think that’d bother me so much, but letting someone else do it who I haven’t personally vetted just seems nuts, every time! M
but if you ran enough alcohol through it would the aquaduct get pissed, or just be taken the piss. When I was in England over thirty years ago the train system was very inexpensive and you never saw a ball cap except on an american. some change is not for the best. Hope your travel went well.
I’m not sure there’s enough alcohol in the world to get the aqueduct pissed, but I’m happy to do a video about the attempt if there’s a brewery that wants to try. M
I almost skipped the video because of the title. I expected some negative comments but in fact it was interesting, and a few chuckles in there. Now, if you will excuse me, I need to go read up on the Beluga. How is it that I have never heard of it before? I really dislike it when I hear that so sorry.
No negative comments as yet! The Beluga is a bit of an oddity, being a pretty specialized plane. Same with the DreamLifter, which also gets little press. M
Doesn't it seem somewhat daft (well it wouldn't to "our cousins in the US ofA" - where everything flies) - to make a large part of a 'plane and move it by air to those nasty folk on 't continent to finish it In my youth I remember BAC making parts of the VC10 and moving that down the road to -whatever it was called - because the runway at Brooklands was too short.... We must be daft....
Dunno if it’s all that daft... if it weren’t for Airbus, you wouldn’t even be building the parts of the planes, these days. Too much consolidation in the industry over the years, and if it weren’t for Airbus there’d be no competitor at all left for Boeing. M
Hey, I was even more excited (many years ago) when I saw NASA's "Super Guppy" fly over my neighborhood... Maybe it's a guy thing, I dunno. :-) One bit of bad news, though: I clicked on the link for Jo's book and, after having to sign into Amazon (which I was already signed into) was told that folks here on the west side of The Pond cannot use the Amazon.UK link for the book... :-(
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I’m impressed by your sighting and photo shot of the Airbus Beluga in such close proximity 😮
Michael should take all the credit for that.
I last visited about 10 years ago when it was struggling - glad it's still there.
We stayed at the boat Museum on our boat when i was a kid. We loved it.
Museum perhaps? Either way, sounds like an adventuresome childhood! M
@@MinimalList hahaha. Museum
Oh the Welsh thing is true. My Sister went to Uni over the border in Wales. She said that if they went to Chester on a Friday for a night out. The late bus back over the border would regularly get thing thrown at it by the locals lol. Great vlog guys. Xx
If they weren’t arrows from a long bow, they weren’t legally throwing them! ;-) M
@@MinimalList Sis said at times damage was done to the Bus. So I'd say that might count as a modern day hit.
Michael you can see how strange the Beluga looks from your picture, good catch!
Thanks! M
I love history so I always love when you guys visit an historic site or museum. If I ever get over to the UK before I die, I would probably like visiting the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port so thanks for sharing these kind of locations. Last summer I took my family (joined by some friends of ours) to Mystic Seaport in Connecticut. We got lucky and discovered that they had the Mayflower II (which had sailed down from Plymouth, MA) in dry dock for repairs. They also have the Charles W. Morgan (built in 1841), the last of an American whaling fleet that once numbered more than 2700 ships.
Nice! One place you really want to go to in England is the Plymouth Docks where you’ve got Admiral Nelson’s HMS Victory. Launched in 1765, I believe, the flagship at Trafalgar, and still to this day an active service vessel. Quite a sight! M
@@MinimalList Absolutely! The HMS Victory is on my bucket list and would be a nice addition to my previous visit to the USS Constitution "Old Ironsides" in Boston, which is owned and still operated/commissioned by the US Navy. Two of the most famous ships in the world and they're still afloat!
Thanks for your interesting vlog of the museum. The Ellesmere Port museum is a brilliant facility, and it's just a pity it does not have more funding to restore some of its exhibits more quickly. We visited a few years ago and were hosted by Norman and Judy Stainthorp with whom we were staying. Norman's guided tour was fascinating. I particularly loved the old canal boat motors, some of which we were able to see running. A downer on the day was the discovery of the burglary and senseless vandalism to the historic cottages across the basin from the main museum building.
And we also saw the predecessor of the current Beluga XL landing at Hawarden Airport during our visit. An impressive sight.
Keep up the good work and thanks for posting your vlogs.
We will do! The museum is very nice, a guided tour would be even better! M
Enjoyable and informative as always. Oh, for your train travel are you aware of split ticketing. If not check it out. For example 08:55 Chester - London one way tomorrow (Monday) with 1 change. Std cost £145 split ticketing £54:43
We’ve just heard of it, and I’ll use it to check pricing from now on! Cheers! M
Bloopers are very very worth it today! Beluga! Wait, what was I saying?
Heh. M
Think I need to visit the museum looks interesting.
It’s well worth a visit, though do try for a steaming or event day, and hope for nice weather! M
Excellent vlog! So glad you got to film the Beluga and from so close up. You have captured your white whale on film Ahab. Thanks for the peek at the museum.
Wait, didn’t Ahab die tied to that whale?!?!? M
Capturing on film lead to much better results for you. ;)
The Beluga looks amazing. I share your excitement. 😀
Good, makes up for Jo! M
I used to live in a tower block that over-looked the Aerospace factory where that thing lands. It seemed like it was flying past the balcony. :)
@@slugfoot1 I live beside Glasgow Airport and watch the Emirates A380 coming in and out from my veranda. There's something so exciting about big ' planes.
Well got to see the Beluga a few videos later as promised. We live near a RAAF base, I wouldn't call myself a plane enthusiast, but I do love watching the various airforce planes n helicopters fly over my head. It makes putting clothes on the line just that bit more exciting.
Beluga! At least you saw it again! ! Loving the outtakes x
Thanks! M
Really enjoyed this one. I’m still catching up as you can tell. Can you point me to a vlog where you capture a really hard rain shower? So far, the ones you describe the rain as really coming down are light showers in comparison to Texas thunderstorms (or tropical storms or hurricanes). For example, we can regularly get 6-8 inches of rain in a two hours rainstorm. 52 inches in 48 hours during Hurricane Harvey.
Thanks for an extra interesting chapter of your story of travelling cruising the canals. I tried to see where it was that Tim and Pru came to Ellesmere Port with the steam-tug and it must have been on the ship canal. I also look on the dates of your visit there and compare it to the last but one program of theirs and find it must have been at the same period approximately they were there.
Yeah, it was near about the same time. And yes, the Daniel Adamson travels from Liverpool across the Mersey estuary, then on to the Ship Canal for access to either Ellesmere Port or the River Weaver. Looks like Tim really enjoyed his time at the wheel! M
@@MinimalList At all the last series of Great Canal Journeys had so much of feelings in it, it was so much love between them and so much happiness so some episodes I had to have a napkin available for my eyes.
They are a lovely couple... never met them, personally, but their banter on the early first season was part of what got us here! M
I love the Waterwasy Museum, it is about 40 minutes from our house. The Beluga passes over us quite regularly, am amazing sight. Great video.
It’ll be more amazing when it’s the Beluga XL, apparently! M
@@MinimalList Oh yes that will be great to see.
The museum looks fascinating!
It is! M
Thanks for history lesson and great aircraft footage..thanks for sharing
Thanks for listening and watching! M
Good video for a Sunday morning !
Thanks! M
Very cool plane, I looked it up and saw the big smile. It opens in front, crazy! Your enthusiasm is understandable. I hate flying too. On our flight back to Cali from Jersey I had my fair share of champagne hoping to calm my nerves. 😔 I’m sorta new to the channel, really enjoying your journeys and commentary. Thanks for sharing! George tho 💙
Thanks for watching, and commenting! Yeah the Beluga’s a real oddity, glad they had the sense to pains it like that! M
Love your little side trips. Thanks for your lovely videos and all the work you put into them.
Thank you! M
What a pleasant surprise that Jo read us through the museum. Very interesting place. Good job finally capturing the elusive Beluga. It is truly like sticking wings on a whale. That is why I could never figure out why they called the Boeing iterations "Guppy" and "Super Guppy". Guppies aren't big and they don't eat that much. Good job backing that beasty up, through a lock no less! Thought Jo was going to push you off, didn't consider she would dunk herself. And yes, it is possible to catch a case of the giggles through the internet. Where is my grant money for that study? It's like seeing a headline "studies show excessive alcohol causes stupid". Who paid for these "studies" and how do I get in on that action? Take care and God Bless, Paul (I know your names, so it is only fair) from Florida.
Thanks! Luckily she hasn’t thrown either of us off, at least not yet. As for the Guppy series, well that gets a bit strange. They were actually made by Aero Spacelines by converting a Boeing airframe, and the first model wasn’t actually called the Guppy, it was the Pregnant Guppy and most people just dropped the first word... apparently when shown the drawings a NASA official mentioned it looked like a pregnant guppy... which it does, if she’s dead and floating on her back. M
@@MinimalList That makes rather morbid sense as a person who has had aquariums all his life.
wow first time ive seen the airbus as well well shot Michael n great vlog guys
Thanks! Just wish I’d had a better camera, the wide angle on the iPhone doesn’t do justice to how bloody close to the ground it was! M
Jumping into the canal? They used to have a bad reputation for being very polluted years back, especially near factories, but these days I'd guess they are probably fairly clean in most places, although there is a danger with leptospirosis (rat urine virus) in open water in Britain. I remember cycling up the Grand Union near Uxbridge, many moons ago, and noted that a dredger had recently dumped piles of freshwater oysters on the bank. Those things are pretty fussy about the cleanliness of their water, I 'd have thought. I wondered about searching inside the large broken shells (up to 6 inches long) for the small pearls, as they are used in jewellery I think, but the soft parts were rotting and rather smelly.
Those pearls are also pretty rare, unless they’re intentionally seeded, so I doubt it would have been worth the stink that wouldn’t have worn off for years! M
Video of Perseverance at 4:05 here - ua-cam.com/video/i4GYAxaeT4k/v-deo.html
Thanks for the link! M
I always thought your boat was named in honor of this film: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_(film) (The perseverance from sitting through it)
The museum footage was excellent, as always. Glad you caught your beluga, bet you'd fly on that if you had the chance. 😎
Ellesmere Port is really good when it has events on, we went to a sea shanty event a few years back. And they have model boat meet ups, it's much better to see it full of people. I first went for school trips 30 years ago
Yeah the intermittent weather seemed to dampen attendance, and probably also the steam pumps being out of commission for servicing. Lovely place to meander around though, if murder on the feet! M
Hey, there's a title for something, 'Beluga, the absurd bird' :) Airplane geekouts, train geekouts, boat geekouts, rocket geekouts, I understand. :D My early years were in San Diego and that region where the Super Guppy aircraft were seen.
Lucky! Only seen Pregnant and Super Guppy on the ground. Got to see the AN-225 takeoff and land once, that was something. And I’ve seen the Dreamlifter over Seattle. M
Great Video National Museum Need to go and have a look.
It’s worth the trip! M
I got all excited then thought you were going to take a short trip on the River Dee, if you look on Google Maps street view you will see down near the airport/aircraft factory there is an Airbus dock, and Google has managed to catch an Airbus Barge which has an aircraft wing on it! I'm not sure if the River Dee is navigable much more beyond that point
We wanted to buy it was not to be!
@@MinimalList I've just found out the very large barge trip was last February! but there is a video here ua-cam.com/video/FykkV7RIUOU/v-deo.html
Oh wow! Thanks for this!
Full marks for descending into the Dee Branch .. the lower pound is in water and surrounded by housing .. tobacco was a prime import through Chester in the early canal era. For the new BelugaX fans, they can be seen arriving and departing Hawarden airport from an eatery called 'Chocks Away' within the airport estate and at the northern end of the runway; if you time it right,of course.
Yeah we walked all the way down, just couldn’t go any further by boat, thanks to the reeds. I’ll have to see if I can get out to Hawarden one day to see that, cause it sounds like fun! M
Jo totally underwhelmed by the Beluga 🐳 😂
Love your videos guys, can't remember a bad one.
Thnx.
Heh, yeah planes aren’t her thing. At all. She likes Star Trek more because at least she can sleep through that! ;-) M
@@MinimalList A quick Klingon mind-meld will show her the error of her ways :) 🖖
Great vlog ,lots of laughs and interesting info . Loved the museum as had worked state rail many moons ago and then newspapers so large machinery is always interesting to see . All the best and cheers from OZ .
Spend a little time around a big newspaper press when I was a kid, so I know what you mean! M
Though I'm not really in favor of air cargo transport, the beluga xl is a beautiful piece of engineering. I'm heading north with my bow & arrows immediately, no, wait, I'm part Welsh. perhaps I should give this some more thought. I'm told we haven't properly repealed 'droit de signeur' either (leave you to look that one up) The joys of surviving legal anachronisms, we all were that ridiculous once, British simply preserve this stuff better than others. cheers
Ahhh, the old right of prima noctae... bit of a weird on that. Still a bit of debate as to whether or not it was ever actually a real thing, or if it’s one of the (many) horrors added onto the past after the fact as a sort of communal slagging off the ancestors of the ruling class without actually slagging off the ruling class kind of thing. ;-) M
Thumbs up, of cousre!! Thank you for sharing! I''m a bit behind on watching your videos. Good as always though!!
Glad you liked it! M
You two are bonkers. 😂
Yep! M
Haha! I almost p***ed at the aqueduct comment.
Heh... M
Will there be some Silver Propeller bean counter
checking how many yards short of the end of navigation you reached?
Doubt it, the letter of the law is as far as you can proceed, and that’s as far as you can proceed! M
You mention again in this video that going up a lock is harder than going down one (and you aren't the only boat tubers to have done so either). What makes one direction harder than the other?
It’s really just the dynamics of filling water vs draining... when filling there’s much more churn and bubbling and waves inside the lock, when draining its usually quite smooth. M
Great video did you see any large ships moving on the Manchester ship canal 👍🏻
Heh, no. Nothing moving whatsoever on there but a swan. Apparently the MSC is used only quite rarely these days. M
It was in a documentary somewhere about that plane, there was a giant Russian one as well I think,brilliant how they make them really
There are some truly enormous transport planes out there... I saw the only extant AN-225 once, at an airshow... that was truly enormous! M
I think there's a similar law (still extant) in Shrewsbury. You can shoot a Welshman on the bridges across the Severn with a crossbow, I think...
Heh... the reality is that apparently even the Cheshire law is likely an urban myth, there being no actual recorded evidence of the byelaw ever having been enacted. And to anyone getting too curious, Her Majesty’s Current Government is quite willing to arrest anyone so much as haranguing a Welshman after dark, much less shooting him. M
Minimal List yes, we’re no longer under the rule of nervous Norman’s.
an equally fictitious myth regarding the reason why the town hall tower only has clocks on 3 faces... It was not because Henry 5th said "I have no time for the Welsh".... it's because the Welsh are never on time anyway! :-) :-)
So are you going to "Ferry across the Mersey"? How's the back?
I hope to, but a lot of stars have to align, and it’s not a very affordable endeavor! Back is doing okay, as long as I keep using my funny wobble cushion! M
@@MinimalList I have decided a new mattress is needed for me. Keep going to the chiropractor, get told back not bad but needs adjustment. then overnight gets worse again, (mattress is tired and a new one has been ordered).
Maybe you should see if you could get Kath from NB Experience to help you out with your Welsh experiment ?????
Whoa, not my experiment! I’m not qualified to be either party, and I’m rubbish with a long bow anyway! M
Wow. You used a lot of material there. Swearing, pi**ing, and chinchillas all in one outtake. Funny and fun as usual.
Sometimes they hit al the bases! M
I heard a similar story in York. Apparently, it is still legal to shoot a Scotsman with a Bow & Arrow inside the city walls, but not or only on a Sunday (can't remember which).
There are many mutations of this particular almost-certainly-urban-myth... I can’t find any mention of any law that supports the idea this was ever legal, just a lot of people saying they heard it was a law. Surprisingly the number of laws people have heard exist outnumbers by an incredible margin the number of laws that actually exist! M
So, why all the sunken boats?
Probably for a variety of reasons
what's the average canal depth? about 1 meter?
Depends a lot on the canal, there were different profile designs. Also of course depends on rain and silt deposits. For the majority of narrow canals I’d say a meter, maybe a bit less, to the muck, a little closer to a meter and a half to the actual bottom. M
Since you guys have such difficulty communicating directions of travel, might I suggest you invest in a set of inexpensive walkie-talkies? Avoids confusion about what the hand directions are.
Ahh, but we’re much funnier without them! We’ve considered the idea, but Jo’s pretty against listening to me call her “Smokey”. M
Huh - what do you mean there is no child lock on the airplane engine off switch !!! I'm with you mike , what the heck is holding this thing up and who is in charge if it ?? oh my ! same with skiing -- it must have started as a joke -- yea just convince him to put on 2 slick pieces of wood and push him down the hill ,never mind that there are no brakes it will be so funny ! -- the train for me - yes sir - standin on the outside platform on the end of last car wind in my hair watching the world go by - just the best
Heh, yeah pretty much my thinking. I know exactly what keeps them up, and that it ISN’T the pilot... I just don’t trust people that much. I’d fly one, don’t think that’d bother me so much, but letting someone else do it who I haven’t personally vetted just seems nuts, every time! M
but if you ran enough alcohol through it would the aquaduct get pissed, or just be taken the piss. When I was in England over thirty years ago the train system was very inexpensive and you never saw a ball cap except on an american. some change is not for the best. Hope your travel went well.
I’m not sure there’s enough alcohol in the world to get the aqueduct pissed, but I’m happy to do a video about the attempt if there’s a brewery that wants to try. M
I almost skipped the video because of the title. I expected some negative comments but in fact it was interesting, and a few chuckles in there. Now, if you will excuse me, I need to go read up on the Beluga. How is it that I have never heard of it before? I really dislike it when I hear that so sorry.
No negative comments as yet! The Beluga is a bit of an oddity, being a pretty specialized plane. Same with the DreamLifter, which also gets little press. M
Can a Welch shoot back
I believe they can only sing powerfully in your general direction as a retaliation.
I think the English are given the advantage because the Welsh are sturdier and better looking. At least this is what I was told by a Welshman. M
Doesn't it seem somewhat daft (well it wouldn't to "our cousins in the US ofA" - where everything flies) - to make a large part of a 'plane and move it by air to those nasty folk on 't continent to finish it
In my youth I remember BAC making parts of the VC10 and moving that down the road to -whatever it was called - because the runway at Brooklands was too short....
We must be daft....
Dunno if it’s all that daft... if it weren’t for Airbus, you wouldn’t even be building the parts of the planes, these days. Too much consolidation in the industry over the years, and if it weren’t for Airbus there’d be no competitor at all left for Boeing. M
Hey, I was even more excited (many years ago) when I saw NASA's "Super Guppy" fly over my neighborhood... Maybe it's a guy thing, I dunno. :-) One bit of bad news, though: I clicked on the link for Jo's book and, after having to sign into Amazon (which I was already signed into) was told that folks here on the west side of The Pond cannot use the Amazon.UK link for the book... :-(
Ahh, I’ll mention that to her and see if we can get the Amazon US link. M
Right, try this one: www.amazon.com/s?k=away+from+the+gray&ref=is_s
Michael you're obviously rubbing off on Jo, she used to be able to sign off, without forgeting the plot.
Well she’s seen me screw it up so much she feels the pressure too! M
She is so not impressed with the Beluga. lol
Hah, no, she really isn’t. M
: )
the white whale!