071 - The Blisworth Tunnel and Stoke Bruerne. A wonderful, long and exhausting Narrowboat day
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Wonderful bit about the crewing of the Canals during the war. Your life events are just hilarious.
Some great experiences there and that’s how you make memories.👍😉
I went on that trip boat a few years ago. Thanks for another great update.
Thanks for watching! M
love the out takes
Lots of laughs today. I love the interplay between you when you tell your tales.Thanks for the entertainment.
Thanks for watching the interplay! M
You guys are always a dose of cheery tonic on an otherwise drab day. Thx for the fun.
Thanks for watching! M
Another great vlog guys, its a brighter day when you up load your vids, great stuff guys.
Glad you liked it! M
Working my way through your vids in order (so it’s still two years ago here in the space-time continuum) and enjoying them muchly!
Thank you, its so nice to hear you are enjoying the back catalogue.
Joe and Mikchael I have watch a lot of your episode's today the new commode install and your honest evaluation of the product you were compleatly and totally honest.
We try to be! Thanks for watching! M
Always great to watch a bit of Jo & Michael. Hopefully won’t be long before we’re on the cut with you. xx
Here's hoping! M
Top notch as usual. Your both mad as hatters, but I love you for it. Just great listening to your "edited", "unedited" warblings, can't help but smile and laugh.......may this never end.
Thanks! M
Enjoyed the chat and the trip through the tunnel!
Thanks! M
I like that you really like people
looked a long tiring day but had least you could laugh at the end when you moored up great episode
We usually laugh. Sometimes out of delirium. M
I lived in Northampton until the age of 15 and used to cycle to Blisworth and on to Stoke Bruerne on weekends. Loved the two villages as our family has a great deal of history attached to both.
It's a beautiful region, can imagine it was a nice place to grow up. M
'elo 'elo - pretty sure I saw you guys cruise past me up near Grafton.. so hello again! haha
‘Elo! If I knew where Grafton was I could confirm. We are a bit behind on uploads, we are currently down near Rickmansworth! Jo
Brilliant, my dears 😊 👍 👍 😙 😙 😙 ✌ ✌ ✌
Thank you! M
Slow catching up and a long way to go but you are now into familiar territory as we started at Stoke Bruerne in July 2019 on our way to Kingston Upon Thames. I borrowed a windlass and helped a couple of ladies down through 14 and 15 before our friends got to 14 to pick us up.
Your trip through the tunnels was interesting in that in 2013 when our friends who run the Wessex Rose launched as novices from Daventry to move the boat to Devizes on the K & A their base. 69.5 ft x 12.5 fit and those two tunnels in the first days. My bet is some paint in on the walls.
Oh that would be a tight fit ... I dare say yes, there's some paint still there! M
We can relate to all your stories - good and bad. It's entertaining stuff
Thanks! We try and limit the bad and emphasize the good, though, just to stay entertaining. M
Minimal List but the bad is realistic, we met a couple of grumpy people but thats all. I fell over twice but that is how I am haha
Yeah, we want to keep the realism, just don't want to complain about what end up being just minor annoyances, got to keep things in perspective. M
Here I am after another great vid of looking at you two being the couple. The old woman in bed and me wide awake.Thank you so much you’re helping me make it through this long nite .
Hope you got to sleep eventually! M
I remember paddling through Blisworth tunnel in a canoe in the early 1970s, it took ages, good job we never got caught , our old history teacher David Blagrove used to have a narrowboat at Stoke.
I’d think it would be great fun on a canoe. Kind of wish they’d let you do that now! M
‘Disaster solved’ 😂 dog lead retrieved from canal!
Jo looks so tired, I'm half wondering if she's not just going to nod off and end up in the canal.
Also, I read your book the other day, I loved it, and you've got me interested in crossing from Asia to Europe when I get the chance (fingers crossed).
it would be great to see that 'slick' lock maneuver you described on video!
Hah, it doesn't look like much really. Basically just pull the boat till it's got some momentum, then walk as casually as possible down the steps before you run out of rope and step on. Mo
on my last trip up the grand union through Stoke Bruerne, myself and the crazy crew with me decided after doing the 7 locks up to Bruerne and the tunnel that they wanted to go to Northampton...17 more locks later they decided that Northampton wasn't very nice so back up the 17 locks to gayton.. best nights sleep ever! lol on the return journey we moored up with pins outside that pub and whilst eating in the garden discovered our boat was gone, after a quick dash we discovered someone had cracked the paddles full up and the current ripped the pins out the ground lol fun trip all round :-)
Oh good lord! That doesn't sound so much fun as masochistic! M
Morning, coffee, Michael, Jo, George, boats on canal, summer.
All is good.
Motorcycle ride later, even gooder.
Sounds like it! M
21:43 The best part of the video . Usually off page by this time. Although I did come back for the family of birds.Perogies is the safe word they use on me :)
Good safe word! ;-) M
Hi, great vlog as usual! I walked past your boat this evening on the way to the station chippy and there you were sitting outside; didn't say hi because you were with Michael's family and having dinner. See you around somewhere else some time I dare say. By the way Jo, we stopped and chatted by the wet dock at Braunston Historic Boats, the boat purchase seriously failed its survey so am still looking. Keeping the faith though, not long now 🤞
You should have said Hi, we wouldn't have minded and it would have sent my brother home with the impression we're famous! Decent chippy, that one, as well! Sorry to hear about the survey, but so much better safe than sorry. The right one will come along soon! M
Minimal List OK, if you're still in this town over the weekend and I see you I'll say hi. Oi lives in these ere parts y'see - until I'm afloat that is. I work in this town too, and the GU is next to where I work so I might even see you cruising by if you come back this way.
Unfortunately we won't be there this weekend, showing my family around some tourist sights. But hopefully we'll see you around soon! M
Brilliant again .. empty dreams 😂😂
Just as long as I exist in my own! M
Oh everytime I see the bags on the roof of your boat I think about the sun bleaching the paint and the difference it will make by the end of the summer.
We moved those recently, no noticeable difference though... no doubt the UV is doing it's damage, but maybe not that quickly. M
Does'nt that always happen!! babies one way mummy the other!! Stoke Bruerne looks very quaint. Lots of history. You both look very well.Not alot of George today. xxxx
Sadly it's hard for Jo to film George when he's towing her over a tunnel! M
When you were talking about loosing Georges lead over the side it brought back a memory to me. When I was in my teens (18) meny meny meny years ago, I was part of a crew on a 36ft ex- navy cutter fishing for crab, lobster, mackerel etc. I used to keep my car keys in the top pocket of my shirt (Daft place to keep them). I was leaning over the stern of the boat to grab a line when PLOP my keys came out of the pockets and I could see them glinting as they sank trough the water, I watched them disappear into the some 100ft of the briny sea. When I got back ashore I had to break into my own car. That's another story. A woman saw me and talked me about it. I very nearly got arrested for breaking into my own car. Duuu!!!
Breaking into your own car while very likely smelling of lobster, mackerel, etc!
Somehow I can totally picture the plop and the sight of them falling away! M
I wonder if Molly and I appear in Jo’s dreams...
Go Michael Go!
Is there some were in that dream then That I get a spare boat?
Now that would be disturbing lol
Jono, I just started your VLOG. I like it.
Just wait till he starts showing up in your dreams! M
Yes the canals are the real centre of town, unless they also have a Roman Road which did come first.
I think it was Clemens that said heaven for the weather and hell for the company. Don't worry about the depths M you have friends in high places there.
It's a joke ok? Great job as usual. Thank You
I've been to see the boatman a lot of times in a lot of places... I ain't worried. M
Dobre Utro. Well it is morning here now.
Which means it’s midday around now! M
To thinks you are just starting your journey together, my wife and I began in 1967 and we are still together and she will even eat my cooking. Our arrange meant is I work and she take the credit. insert laugh here. ha ha
If you are heading to London, the section of the grand Union ahead of you featured in the only canal centred feature film "the Bargee" with Harry H Corbet. May be interesting to try and spot locations in the film and how they look today.
I'll have to see if I can find the film, sounds interesting. We are headed that way. M
Painted Boats (Ealing Studios, 1945), a fictionalised documentary featuring working boatlife, was another Canal centred film which was filmed between Stoke Bruerne and Braunston.
e.t.a. The boat stern that you show @9:23 "Sunny Valley" is the same name as the one in the film. goo.gl/images/hb3rJ2
Agreed .... but I can't really remember any famous people that featured in it. The Bargee would be the one to watch out of the two.
The tunnel was closed for a couple of years in about 1980 for extensive repairs that may account for the different section
Yep, that's when they bored it out and put in the new rings. The ground had sufficiently raised (not deposition, but tectonic uplift) to require it. M
Minimal List The uk is fairly inactive from a seismic prospective, what rotten luck that the bisworth tunnel ran straight though the uk's only tectonic plate joint.
Hah. You don't need a tectonic plate intersection to get tectonic uplift, and the UK is pretty far from seismically inactive, it's just relatively quiet. Tectonic uplift doesn't require earthquakes, you can have crystal thickening, thermal changes in the mantle, all sorts of things. Where you've got a hill you've either got something that's been exposed by erosion around it, or you've got something that's being lifted up. From what was described in Blisworth, you've got lifting up of the man-hewn floor into the canal (you have to imagine that on a geological timescale any tunnel is going to be closed from either above or below and probably both) that got bad enough they needed to install something longer lasting.
But you just wait for it long enough and you'll feel an earthquake in the UK. M
Have you noticed your thumb's up & downs are messed up, life seems a lot of work to live on a long boat, but fun times too I guess. Just an US Oklahoma girl here !!! Love your Vid's !!!
There's a fair bit of work, but mainly it's fun interspersed with brief moments of terror. Here's hoping for no tornadoes! M
Minimal List That sounds like a patrol on an old P and O sub. But now I'm here in Oklahoma the only scary thing is listening to the weather man . Apparently I slept through a mag 4 earth quake and a cat 3 tornado . Awoke to find the dogs under the bed and all my CDs on the floor in the main room. And the only thing I remember was a weird dream about being in a depth charge attack. but. gust like the real one they were to far away to damage
An Oklahoman can sleep through a tornado just like a California can ignore an earthquake that sends everyone else under the tables. Does sound a strange dream! M
Minimal List . Well I must be fitting in well as I am English or was??? Dose being here 26years count. ??? The dream was more a flash back I believe. Supprised what brings it on.
With Oklahoma it's not so much the years as the weathering they bring on. M
A question if I may? I see what looks like a hatch on the bow of your boat, what resides in there?
That's the gas locker. Common feature on the bow of many boats; in our case two large LPG canisters and the various bits and bobs of plumbing for them, and not much else but spiders. Big spiders. M
Ah! I was thinking rope or such, makes sense to keep the gas there, and big spiders!!! As far from the helm as you can get them, much safer than next to the engine which is where I would probably have put the gas cylinders.
Thanks.
Having passed a (fiberglass) boat that had been blown to pieces from having an LPG canister inboard, I'm rather glad they're in their own purpose-built locker. Rope we generally store in the lockers in the back (it needs to be accessed more often). The bow gas locker seems to be a pretty standard design, but I have seen some (generally much smaller) boats that have the canisters simply sitting on the cruiser deck at the stern. I don't think they're allowed to be stored in the engine bay or near sources of ignition. M
Minimal List thanks for the insight.
Do you ever get problems in tunnels from other boaters lights dazzling you ?
Yes. Very definitely. The ideal boat light is basically a fog lamp, NOT a spotlight... a lot of people seem to think the opposite is true. Also it's much more important to light the wall nearest you rather than the other boat or far wall, and there's also confusion on this point. Headlamps and hand torches are the worst, though, as humans have a tendency to want to look at faces, which means they blind you every single time.
I do not enjoy passing boats in tunnels. M
25 degrees, I dream of 25 degrees, summer here and weeks of 35 to 42 degree days, come on guys 25 is not that bad, when hot crack open a stubby:)
We’re just not designed for it up here! M
@@MinimalList It was said with a modicum of humor but in reality our part of the world is staying in drought longer with longer periods of excessive heat, I know you are both animal lovers, my country is burning with 1.25 billion animal deaths caused by these fires, yes billion, Koalas Wallabies Billbies Platapus etc, plenty of dramatic CZcams footage around, it breaks my heart, we all need to look after our planet better than our current effort, some of our native species are now on the brink of extinction from a time frame of only a couple of months.
Whatever happened to Fish n Chips
I'm afraid I don't actually remember in that particular case. We often get chips (and sometimes fish for Jo) in our heads, and either can't find one near enough, or they're closed, or they use beef drippings and I can't eat them. They're often more of a dream than we'd hope. M
If that was me, I I would lean on the train horn.
If only we had anything that sounded like a train horn, instead of an asthmatic sheep with a peptic ulcer. M
tyre water bottle to the dog lead
The way that dog drinks, I think he wouldn't be able to tow it! M
Have you considered Micheal that whilst traversing through the depths of Charon you yourself are the boatman? Start claiming coin from others. :)
Hmm, interesting point... might make a few quid! M
you may as well buy a motorhome , Jo spends more time on land than on the boat
You're not counting all the time she spends on the boat editing the heck out of these videos!! M
looks to me she is afraid of the rivers and tunnels and ok on the canals where the water is calm
Nah, she just wants to comfort poor George! ;-) M
Disturbing dreams Hmmm! seal the knife draw quick, pleasant dreams Michael Ha Ha He He HAHAHA!
... and here I am awake in the dead of night, can't sleep! M
Lol sorry
Ha Ha Ha
Since when was curry a national dish. I thought that was reserved for mushy peas.
The whole concept of Tikka Masala -- never mind Lager and Vindaloo -- is a wholesale invention of the British, as English as Mushy Peas and Stargazey Pie. M