339 - We Get Some Good News
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- This video was filmed on 8th September when we were out of lockdown.
In today's vlog we travel from Milnsbridge on the Huddersfield Narrow canal to Slaithwaite.
Just 2 miles but 12 locks.
We start the day with some good news and half way along Michael recuses some snails.
It was a great day! I miss days like this.
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Q• Why do you speed up some of the footage in your videos?
A• We don't, we film it as time-lapse footage. We do not have the battery capacity or data storage to film in real time as our cruises can last up to 7 or 8 hours. We use to the time-lapse footage to help tell the story of movement rather than showcase the scenery. We limit the amount of time-lapse shots we use in each vlog.
Q• Why are the videos so behind?
A• This summer we decided we really wanted to just enjoy travelling on the boat. If we felt like cruising we would. It turened out we cruised a lot which meant we filmed more and had less time to edit. This meant the edits got really far behind. It was not intentional its just a consequence of us looking after our own mental health. Don't worry we are not rushing, we are just trying to enjoy the adventure.
This was absolutely beautiful guys! It's a very cold and snowy morning here in the US and your videos are soothing and almost serene. Can't wait to come over and get Fish n Chips, Meat Pies, and Jaffa cakes! Anyway, we are so glad we found your channel! The two of you make us smile.
Glad you found us! Though do be aware that Jaffa Cakes can be a it of an acquired taste... I’d honestly rather have Marmite, and that’s FAMOUSLY an acquired taste! M
Another well put together vlog.......stay safe.......thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! M
PS
Always put your wellies on!😊😀
Great vlog Michael and Jo. Once again keep safe..
You too! M
Oh joy, my Christmas present from my daughter just arrived -- Perseverance mug and T-shirt.
Well that’s a bit late! But Merry Belated Christmas! M
@@MinimalList worth the wait. Long story, but no locks or swing bridges involved (only a travel ban between Canada and US, so no face to face family Christmas)
Here’s hoping that eases up this year! M
Your videos are soothing indeed.
Fish and chips cooked with dripping. The best there are. Yummy
Don’t be sorry for us, be sorry for the cows!
Never heard of chips cooked in dripping. I am use to chips in vegetable cooking oil like canola. New to me, had you never mentioned it I never would have thought to ask. I am from Aus tho. Best chips are really naughty 3 times cooked in veg oil. Super crispy on outside and soft n oh so yummy on the inside. No soggy chips for me.
Ahh, triple cooked chips! I’ve had those in New Zealand! M
Quiz, Final Question, Value 10 Points:
Boats are NOT prone to do which of the following?
a. Leaking
b. Leaving
c. Leaping
d. All of the above.
Great update! Cheers. 😆
Haha! Brilliant!
If you want to see a device that substitutes for a whole lot of locks, perhaps you should have a look at the Falkirk Wheel on the Union Canal in Scotland?
We hope to see it for ourselves someday! M
That is a lot of locks. But the views are worth it. Good luck with the tunnel. Many thanks from Chris
That poem was destined for the man who just rescued snails!!
Hah, well, that’s a good point! M
Hallo my dears!
I moved flat, and have just got Internet and landline again! 😊
So good to finally be able to catch up with you again!
All love, and best wishes, Claire, Sally the older Goldie, and Lucy the cat , Berlin 😘 😘 😘 ✌ 👍
Enjoy the new flat, and welcome back! M
Thanks for keeping us entertained through yet another lockdown. It's been lovely watching your summer vlogs during these winter months. We just booked a narrowboat holiday. We're going to Gayton at the end of August. We think we might go from there to Warwick. Can't wait!!
Enjoy! Hopefully by then lockdowns will have dialed back a bit! M
i just came across your videos this one was great as in winter i can see the cannel from my bedroom window when the tress have shed there leaves i have walked to Slath-wait i can not pronounce the name either only been living around here for 2 years never walked further so great to see what's over the other side of that village might walk that way in the summer hope to watch the rest of your videos as they are very interesting, looks like hard work all those locks but fun
What a lovely place to live! Enjoy exploring more when you get the chance!
Brilliant vlog as per. Poor little boy with no wellies. Michael you now have the Saving the snails 🐌 medal 🎖 wow you have a great collection of medals 🏅
Thank you! Yes the boy with no wellies was really sad! Thanks for the medal too! Haha
Lovely to see the verdant trees etc, longing for the longer days and spring. Thank you for a lovely cruise, take care.
Longing for them as well! M
Good to see Micheal multi-tasking, and saving lives ... he's quite the keeper you know.
She knows! M
cant beat fish n chips done in dripping they the best
For the non-vegetarians amongst us I’m sure they are! M
Lovely vlog, what a wonderful find in the canal, hope someone makes contact for writing the poem :) Lovely to travel back to September when we were free...
Indeed, I so enjoyed cruising last summer and autumn after the first lock down.
Lovely video, and poem, glad you read it Micheal. Sometimes when people write sad poems they release them out to the universe and maybe the person who wrote it lost someone and it was their way of releasing. Just saying, being a writer. It’s actually quite beautiful. Take care both of you 💗💙🙋♀️🙋♀️
It was quite a nice little piece, was glad to get to read it! M
Found it interesting that lock 9E was named ISIS. That was the ancient name for the River Thames. The poem was very good. My grandkids dont care if they have rubber boots on or not, they go for it.
Back in the day i remember hating rubber boots, primarily because they’d always end up just holding the water and snow in... I was never good at staying in the only ankle deep sections, though. M
Thanks for saving the snails Michael, not many people would bother. By the way, I got my dog a Julius K9 harness after seeing George modelling his, he should get commission. 😊👍🏻
Hah, glad you’ve joined the Julius K9 family! That thing’s literally saved George’s life a couple times! As for the snails, yeah I suppose most wouldn’t, but I like to think they would. M
Also glad you was able to book the tunnel sooner. The way my luck luck goes it would be the next day. :-)
We were a little worried about that ourselves! M
0:50, I know that feeling! That was my reaction when I finally managed order a PlayStation 5 for my lad last December, after struggling to get hold of one for weeks 🤣
Hah! It’s a scary noise to hear someone make out of context though! M
Milnsbridge is a great place to mooch about and explore for a morning. Varied, quirky. I like it.
I wish we had explored more now!
Bert& Ernie on your t=shirt !makes !e think of Ant & Dec her that poem is sad. Thanks for another great video guys.
I skipped over the poem because I didn't want to be sad, but you just kept talking about it, so I had to go back and listen to it.
It’s sad, but good at the same time! M
As usual another very entertaining vlog. Hope you guys are surviving the current floods. Cheers, Nigel
Luckily we’re on high(ish) ground! M
Excellent poetry reading.
Thank you!
@@MinimalList Your welcome.
Lovely journeys in the last 2 vlogs. Good to get a booking for the tunnel, and the poem was a nice find.
Glad you’re liking them! M
How wonderful to save the snails
And u were so gentle!
I hope the snails thought so too! 🐌 🐌
trouble is the local thrushes may have thought you were kindly leaving them a snack?
Here’s hoping the thrushes were already full. M
Enjoyed this episode very much. Great views and editing. Id like to mention that I enjoy the instrumental music you use very much! It always is so appropriate for the view we are getting. Best wishes from South Florida!
Thanks for that! Jo works hard to find good music and be creative with it, it’s nice to know when it’s appreciated! M
OMG this is such a beautiful canal
Almost full circle, we started watching your videos after looking for anything on You Tube about the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
We first spotted you at Diggle in No.254, liked you style of reporting interesting places and fast forwarding the bits that would probably be a bit boring and we’ve watched every video since.
Nos. 338 and 339 at Milnsbridge have brought back memories of my childhood growing up there.
The Colne Valley hills and canal were our playground in the days when children were allowed to roam and enjoy freedom.
The area around where you moored in 338 & 339 were central to where we sailed boats and fished for crayfish with a piece of grass.
Fountains lock brought back fond memories although I didn’t know that was its name, it was a rite of passage for lads to jump across it, stupid now but we were invincible in our early teens.
To the left of the lock was an area of waste land where the local children congregated, a dirt track called Fountain Grove led up to Manchester Road and across the road was a group of three houses which was once a pub called The Fountain, this closed in December 1934 and was converted into the three houses, I lived in the middle one until we moved to Kirkheaton (Yetton) on the opposite side of Huddersfield in 1965 aged 18.
As an aside my dad was from Slaithwaite (Slowit) and lived in Linthwaite (Linfit), great grandad was from Golcar (Gowker) and if you told someone you were off to Milnsbridge you were “off to t’Brig.”, Local Dialect lesson over.
The canal has certainly changed from when we drove to Milnsbridge, parked up and pushed our six month old First Born’s pram along the canal in 1976, it was a terrible sight, green weed from bank to bank so thick you felt as if you could walk on it and all the locks capped with concrete.
Sorry for the long memory post but although we’ve never met you we’ve followed you so long you seem like family.
Michael (Mike) Swift
Well glad you felt like writing! Does seem an interesting area to have grown up! Thanks for the local language lesson! M
That was a lovely cruise for me, not for you I expect what with all those locks. The poem was just so sad..
Thanks for the lockdown diversion, I really needed that.
Glad we could divert! M
good vid on cut
Thank you so much Michael and Jo for helping me through January 2021 Lockdown. Following your explorations of the inland Waterways has kept me sane. I look forward to more joy as I am still on the Lancaster canal. Best wishes Jo
Glad you got some good news. Hope you have found somewhere nice for lockdown
We’ve found a sensible spot! M
Why are locks left closed? From my limited experience, that is not the case on the Grand Canal in Ireland (but here they are always left empty, because the lower gates, being taller, cannot always take the strain).
On some canals it’s usual to leave the gates open in the direction you’re leaving, but the usual guidance with CRT is all gates closed, all puddles shut. I’m not sure what the actual motivation is, though. Probably it’s water loss, as two closed gates will do more than one to keep water from flowing downhill, but it’s just a guess. M
Beautiful Greenery !! : )
It was very green and lush!
@@MinimalList thank you for the Sunday morning ride along on your boat ...just magical...
Pity you'll have left there by now... there's a cafe called Ohm is where the heart is. Fab food, great service and they do yoga classes in the back room.
Hah, sad we missed it! M
As for the the lift / currented canal, it’s Splash Mountain at Disney world. 😉
It’s sad about the pigeon but it’s a good poem nonetheless. Thanks for the vlog. Enjoy your chips. 🍺
Thanks for watching! M
Hi Jo Michael,how many feet did you go up in all them locks ,a very interesting video,so pleased you got a time slot to go through the tunnel bet you are happy,till next time take care keep safe,John 🥂❤️💐🌹✅
Hi John, from the river colne to the summit is a rise of 438 feet. There are a total of 42 locks on the east side of the Standedge tunnel. I hope that helps.
@@MinimalList thank you so much for the information was just so interested after seeing all them locks
Hear you guys got a terrible snow storm until Wednesday so keep warm and dry you two looking forward too you next vlog your friend Lance
It's been snowing all afternoon. About 5 inches so far. Just posted a little video on facebook and twitter if you follow us there.
@@MinimalList I'm so old I remember when the BBC said it would never again snow in England. heh.
@@TheShootist They also said lack of rain would crack all the clay London is built upon, and the city would fall to the ground.
@@borderlands6606 The humanity!
What good news, but 32 locks... seasoned narrowboaters
We got a slot for the tunnel and don’t have to wait three weeks!
In early March 1979, my cousin Tom and his wife Barbara , and I (along with a crew of 4 for the 2nd boat) got the job of moving 2 brand new hire boats from their build base in Market Harborough (Leicestershire line of Grand Union) to their hire base at Wrenbury on the Llangollen, Shropshire. We reckoned it up afterwards- 139 canal miles and 161 locks in 8 days. We were young and daft but we did enjoy the challenge - very hard work and certainly not a holiday. I don't recommend anyone trying this at home! We thought we were quite fit but our first challenge was Foxton's 2x 5-rise. There followed variously Hatton flight (21 broad-gauge), across Birmingham, (Farmer's Bridge (13)) Wolverhampton 21.... Audlem (15) and the climb up the Llangollen from Hurleston jcn. Watching Jo and Michael's gentle journey is very relaxing.
Yeah a run like that isn’t for the faint of heart! M
So enjoyable. I'll be interested to know how many locks and engine hours you have travelled by the end of your quest. I expect engine hours will be easy and I don't believe you haven't kept a logbook.
Our logbook really is the videos, I’m afraid. Pretty sure the lock count is into the four digits... sadly the readout gauge on my engine has been acting up, but it’s also at least a 2000 hours. M
Another entertaining vlog. Onward and UPWARD.
Thank you! Onwards indeed!
Hoping not to offend you I really enjoy fish and chips cooked in lard/ dripping. I was actually eating dripping toast watching this. For those of use old enough dripping was a low cost sandwich filling. The doctor does say my cholesterol levels are OK. Pleased your posts are behind as lockdown and snow is not much fun.
Don’t worry, not offended... though I would keep seeing that doctor, just in case those toasts add up! M
Letters after locknumber: E for East and W for West? For easier identification in case of problems ?
It’s definitely east and west of the summit, it’s just somewhat unusual compared to other canals which just count up from one end to the other. M
Slaithwaite, pronounced locally as Slath-wait, is called Slawit as a nickname much like the not too distant Linthwaite is called Linfit (don’t ask me why). The L in Colne is not pronounced, so sounds like Cone, Golcar sounds more like Go-ker. the first D in Standedge isn’t pronounced either, so sounds like Stan-idj. Hope that makes sense ;)
We are planning to buy a narrowboat and retire on the canals. Micheal and Jo kindly gave us a bit of knowledge that we can only come for 6 mos. at a time. One thing we wonder about is how long will it take us to catch up on the pronunciation of certain words and phrases. I'm positive that we will be corrected time and time again. Even spelling of words is different, such as favorite which you spell favourite. I might be wrong with that too! Haha! Still, can't wait to get there! We are from the US by the way.
Ahh, the English and their incredibly random approach to vowels, consonants, and indeed entire phonemes!! I’ll never make sense of it all! M
@Tim Miller I can assure you you’ll almost never be corrected to your face... except, for some reason, on “aluminum” vs “aluminium” and any attempt to describe “chips” as “fries”! M
@@MinimalList There’s a good Tom Scott podcast about the pronunciation of place names in the UK. It’s basically down to invaders over the centuries plus everything being spoken until the masses eventually were taught how to write the language.
It occurs to me that this is the only outlet where I could find a value comparison between floating artificial breasts and poetry in plastic bags. Not to mention a "Save the Snails" PSA.
I’ll admit that we’re pretty good at non sequiters! M
A boat leaping … with maximal velocity? :D
At 8:50 Lady Louise! Manx Flag!!! Where I live !!!
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Still have time to buy yourselves raincoats to wear going through the tunnel. I’d not be excited I’d be scared, it so long but you sure were lucky.
I was more scared driving through the other way... due to Covid this way through they’ll be doing the driving for me. M
@@MinimalList. That’s great, they’ll be so experienced they won’t be hitting the sides. I just hate enclosed spaces for any great length of time. As long as you enjoyed it that’s the main thing.
I’ve never had a problem in caves, so I definitely enjoyed it... though in truth they hit the sides more than I did! M
@@MinimalList well so much for my theory of experience. I so envy you. And yeah a dog washing machine like you suggested would be amazing, let’s work on that one. LOL
Would the E and W after the lock number be for East and West? Or am I being stupid 😬🤪
Yep, East and West side of the summit! M
Why so few boats a week allowed through the tunnel, is it because they need CRT guys to escort you through?
Yes, under the Covid rules in place at the time (the current lockdown may have changed things further) the boat must be piloted through by staff, plus there needs to be a safety driver who moves along with it in the railway tunnel. So the extra staffing issues complicate scheduling! M
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Nice vlog ! Background music a bit loud, but, whattayagonnado , right ? 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
We try and keep it at the same relative level from video to video, but sometimes it’s louder than that nice little waveform in the editor implies! M
No luck finding Andrew’s Wood Pigeon on the web. Now what are the chances that the author hears about your find?
Wouldn't that be fantastic?!
Just an off the wall comment / question. Just how much food can you carry on board? Do you do one big shop for a certain number of days or do you shop as required?
We’ve got a small fridge, round the size of an oven, so not a lot of storage for anything that requires cooling. Plenty of shelves and pantry space for anything that doesn’t. The real limitation on shopping is simply how much can we (or I, during lockdown) carry on our backs for the distance required to reach the shops. If we’re close I can get in about a week’s food in a trip, if not I can carry enough for 2-3 days. M
@@MinimalList thanks something that puzzled me. My wife and I have done several 4 night hols on a narrow boat over the years but pub food played a large part of the trips, I was wondering how lockdown fed into the equation.
Thanks again keep safe.
Maybe the person andrew found a bird and took it home and it died, so that was his memorial to the bird
Quite possibly. Was a sweet, if sad, little poem. M
OMG.. andrews wood pigeon.. did you stick it to the bench?... I believe there were from the blue boat which is on the other side near the pump out very nice man with a cowboy hat on.... He had more on is nb windows... you just missed the hippie boat as well which did roaring trade I was actually surprised how many people wear hippie style clothing.. I just watched the rest of the video and you did stick it to the bench lol......
We didn’t notice a boat with the poems but did say hello to the hippie boat. Yep we left the poem in the bench!
Good news. I have looked it up; snails lack any auditory sense organs, and hence you did not deafen them.
As for the poem, Google doesn't know it, so an original it might be.
Phew, what a relief!
That snail looks like a zebra mussel
Aren’t zebra mussels bivalves? M
@@MinimalList there mollusks just snails, and yes they are also bivalves as well
Is the engine okay. I see the occasional smoke. Curious if it could possibly be an injector issue?
It’s doing okay, but did start smoking more recently. The videos are well behind us, but a month or so after this we took her in and got the injectors and manifold off and sent for inspection... they didn’t do much but wipe off the grease and check the calibration, but she’s been smoking a lot less since, so hopefully that was the issue and not something more serious. M
@@MinimalList well there is a product in the states called “engine restore”. It is added to the oil. If it is ring related it will help. The concern with injectors is a crack tip could cause that one cylinder to be very hot and damage the engine.
Hi, noticing bluish smoke from the diesel and wondering if it’s a problem?
I think it might be the camera making it look blue. We talk about this in a video soon. These vlogs are over 4 months behind at the moment. I’m trying to catch up.
Do you Put the poem back in the cannel, or do you write a new one to put in?
No, we left it taped to the bench for others to read
@@MinimalList Great.
Andrew's Wood Pigeon (a poem found in the canal)
How sturdy must a twig be for a wood pigeon to roost,
and would a piece of scaffolding provide a safety boost?
This wood pigeon is fortified and fit on nature's fare
to danger he's oblivious and sits digesting there.
The twig is overburdened and he plummets to the ground
He's rendered dazed and helpless so he's hoping to be found.
I pick him up and take him home to tend him hard I try
But far too soon he leaves me for the roost up in the sky.
Good on you. Was considering doing the same in the hope it would be internet searchable/findable here. Just one suggestion might be to edit your post with poem title and location found.
@@WeAreZilla - I was just about to do that, as I realised I hadn't saved it on my drive.
@@danensis Well done. Cheers!
Thanks for transcribing that one! That’s a great idea! M
Is your engine smoking a bit? I have noticed in several videos recently a little puff of blue smoke in the lock as you reverse or move off.
It’s not blue, I guess the camera may make it look blue. We talk about it in a video soon. Remember this vlog was filmed four months ago. Still trying to catch up!
@@MinimalList Engine maintenance coming up? Not too serious I hope.
Since you'all have such a difficult time with names of locations, perhaps you should watch a couple of videos, ua-cam.com/video/uYNzqgU7na4/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/9q7VjLVU8Ec/v-deo.html
@the minimal list jo and michael still so devastated at david abusing me n then cheated on me before we split on dec 23rd 2019
Sorry to hear that. M
@@MinimalList thank you,now i know that he is a narcissist and abuser i hope to successfully get through a court case against him
Realt sorry for a less than totally positive comment. I continue following you due to content- it is very good and George is fantastic....I do believe something is afoot with your sound setup for human comment. Both enroute and the voice-overs. Your channel alone amongs other boattubers etc. has your voices wearing woolen mittens. I can hear and understand you quite well, but your sound setup seems to disguise anything distinctive of your voices, and I believe this is letting you two down...sorry I can’t describe it any better, seems as if your hard- or software is clipping all highs and lows of your speaking modulation.......like your voices are wearing woolen mittens...
Hmm, really not sure what that could be, except where we’ve gotten the levels wrong on the voice recorder and I hit the clipping limit. Jo does add some normalization, but it’s all based on what UA-cam recommends, so shouldn’t be doing anything egregious. I’m afraid my hearing’s never been up to the task of judging, but I’ll take a look and see if there’s anything obvious. M