Taking it up the Shroppie | Narrowboat fun & games cruising the Shropshire Union Canal [Ep 70]
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- čas přidán 14. 09. 2022
- In this weeks video I continue my solo narrowboat journey up the Middlewich branch of the Shropshire Union Canal and moor just before Venetian Marina for the weekend. I head to the Lake District to DJ Unity Festival and on my return I continue to cruise onto the Shroppie where I find moorings alongside my friends Paul & Anthony from the youtube channel Narrowboat life Unlocked.
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I am 70 years old and starting this chapter of my life on a canal boat single handed... You have given me the courage to take the plunge. I hope we meet along my journey.
Aww I hope you love it Jon 😄🏴☠️
Ay up me duck. As someone who has recently had a prostrate examination at my Doctors surgery, I can fully sympathise with ‘taking it up the Shroppie’.
😂😂 oh Michael 😂😂
Another fantastic episode Looking Beautiful Heidi Keep sailing 🚢😘
Thank you 😄🏴☠️
They're all hiding cos they heard you coming ! :)
That is a beautiful engine note you have there Heidi !
Absolutely superb Lister glides her along effortlessly.
I lost myself on that stretch for ages and later when I got to Wrenbury
a little shop with fuel bowsers I remembered from 1989 was GONE !!
(2007) so I got my head down and woke up with a fuel need dilemma
only to be given a lift by a copper in a police car to Nantwich and back
without being nicked for anything (perhaps vagrancy) he was so kind !
And off I went I lost track of time for days along there
I remember a woman selling punnets of strawberries on a lock
a cottage type house right on the lock I thought it was magic
and I bought a few off her and some home baked bread.
it's a lovely countryside stretch and if you go onto the
Llangollen isn't it great how all the locks go to miniature ?
Great to see you Heidi you're well and truly out there
it's true you meet some fantastic chilled out people
Take care Rum Lass ! x
Awww it’s such a beautiful stretch ❤️🏴☠️
I really enjoyed Taking it up the Shroppie. Thanks for that Heidi 🫢
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That looked like fun times at that festival 💃🕺🎉
Thank you 🏴☠️
Great vid Cap’n H!
You really do showcase England’s broad sunlit uplands. Thank you for all the time and creativity you put into your videos, lovely camerawork, cracking commentary, always quietly teaching and passing on your experience.
Awww thanks John for your lovely comment - very kind thank you 😄🏴☠️
Heidi in full innuendo mode ,love it ,another brilliant video young lady, 😁❤👍
Thanks Phillip 😄🏴☠️😂
I've got the Jackery Explorer 1000 too, I live in a country that can no longer deliver mains electricity 24x7 so I could not do without the Jackery, it is a very capable device. I always look forward to your videos, thank you so much.
Aww thanks Rhoda, yes I don’t think I could cope without mine now …. I love it 😃🏴☠️
England really is beautiful. I started watching these canal videos because they reminded me of swimming in the river when I was a kid.
I grew up just over the main road from The Bloody Steps (the area in which Christina Collins body was found).
My mother and I used to walk along the canal and over the fields to go visit my aunty in Colton (a tiny village between Rugeley and Great Haywood).
I've not been back there properly for donkey's years, but I have gone through on the train when I've taken my pooch up to stay with his breeder in Blackpool.
So many lush green open spaces and rolling hills.
As I told you before, my great great grand parents were narrow boat dwellers. According to the census, there were 6 girls, two parents and a lodger living in the space you have as your boatman's cabin!!!
Can you imagine?!? wow.
I am in awe of your lifestyle, it looks great. I very much enjoy your videos.
Oh wow that’s the same size of my boatman’s cabin which is just enough for me and little Bonny 😦
Your vlogs are like watching a Carry On film with all the double entendre, just as funny too !!!!
Thanks Adrian 😂😂 it just slips out …
He hey, wouldn't be a proper boating channel without the old jackanory showing up. Lovely rainbow. And you came up trumpton at the festival. ☺
I love mine Gary, It means I can play on my laptop until 2 in the morning every night without running the boat batteries low 😂 I love it ❤️
Massive cracks and huge hoses; pure filth! 😊
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That Jackery - made you power mad, it has! Great vid, thanks 😊
Oh I love them 😂
I like that you can actually see the countryside from the cut, unlike the cycle paths near me using the old railway routes. It's like cycling though a green tunnel.
Oh yes there are some gorgeous views ❤️🏴☠️
gushing out the flaps make me feel like going to the toilet 😜big crack now I have got the wind 😜
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That farmer out with that slurry spreader is a sign of the times. Time was when slurry was waste to get rid of; now with fertiliser prices going through the roof due to the gas prices, slurry is valuable stuff. What will change is how it is spread; spraying it around like that releases a lot of ammonia and farmers are under pressure to reduce ammonia emissions on two fronts. Firstly the stuff is a nasty atmospheric pollutant, and secondly it is fixed nitrogen and valuable fertiliser. Ideally turning it into a nitrate would be best, but that's quite difficult in anaerobic tank storage. So the compromise is to spread it through dribble bar spreaders, which reduces the smell and ammonia released.
Wow thanks for sharing 😄🏴☠️
Another entertaining vlog. I always refer to leaking locks as incontinent but this may be an age thing. I do remember gushing flaps but last one I saw had a small bush in front of them, i blame poor maintenance. .
😂😂 I’m going to use that next time I do a leaky lock 😂🏴☠️
Your channel can only keep growing, with you as a pirate with a free spirit.
Your carefully chosen graphic language keeps feeding the crowd of subscribers with a rich imagination!
I had to check all meanings of bacon bap, and I was shocked finding out that some people are paying a tenner or more!
😂😂 thanks for watching 😄🏴☠️
the fornicating dolls at the end lol!
Oooh no has Jim fell over again ?? 😂😂
Yeah! I am on the halfway mark of 140 vlogs! Getting myself a bottle of The Kraken to try and I don’t even drink. What a laugh 😂
😂😂 cheers
Hi Heidi, what a lovely run along the canal you had. I had a winless in my house and whenever I walked along our canal in Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire I would happily do the locks for boaters as it was fun and exercise for me, and it was lovely to be able to help the single boaters like yourself.😉
That’s so lovely of you Janis - it really does help 😄❤️🏴☠️
Thanks Lovely Heidi for taking us along on this beautiful sunny cruise and it's great to see that you're doing well. Take care and all the best. Stevie
Thanks for joining me Stevie 😄🏴☠️
Another great vlog, double entendre overload this week😃
I hope the powers that be fix that bridge.... Thanks for your vlogs, they keep me sane.... ish until I'm on the cut again 😎🏴☠️👍
Aww thanks so much for watching Peter 😄🏴☠️❤️
You are action packed Heidi fun to watch do keep going thanks
Aww thanks Kath 😄🏴☠️
Lovely to see you beetling about, when we first went on a canal holiday (1989) Venetian marine was a toddy little place, mainly little cruisers! Glad to see it’s still going strong. The removal of water points and rubbish disposal points is a real pain, I agree Barbridge was really useful, if we only knew what the CRT are trying to achieve… thanks for sharing your journeys, my canal dreams ended when I lost my husband, so I love to watch others living their best life. Cheers!
Aww thanks so much for watching Steph and joining me on my travels 😄🏴☠️
Exactly my question re Water point's Rubbish disposal Steph, I can guarantee the yearly cost for owner's doesn't get reduced.
It doesn’t matter what you wear(that hat) you make it look good. Be safe.
Aww bless you 😄🏴☠️
Interesting, a moist chamber. O for a memory. Stay safe.🥰
I forgot to say I enjoy your programs very much, teaches us not to take so much seriously, well done young lady. 😊
Thank you Derek 😄🏴☠️
I like all your cheeky comments, one of my favourite sayings is:- " She asked me for an inuendo, so i gave her one". You always have such a cheery disposition and a laugh and pretty too.
Awww thank you 😃🏴☠️
You look like Kathrine Hepburn in African Queen in that hat 🤪☺️
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What a great life you have 😁
I am happily rewatching all of your videos to make sure I hit the like button 😊. Hopefully CZcams will reward you accordingly!!
Aww how kind, thank you 😄❤️🏴☠️
Ah Venetian, my parents moored their canal boat there for years. I remember our dogs stealing the Christmas turkey that mum had left to defrost on the bow steps on Christmas day 😅 she was 🤬🤬
Oh eck 😂😂
I’m surprised you entered that with a crack that massive 🤪😉🥰
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I ove your humor.🙂
Thank you 😃🏴☠️
Arrr 19th of September is international talk like a pirate day me heartys.
Yes but it’s the queens funeral today so we can’t do it - but I talk like a pirate every day anyway 😂🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate I'm not sure Her Royal Highness's funeral would have been quite right had it been conducted in pirate speak.
I'm sure after 5pm it would be acceptable for something a little more piraty
@@tysondundas1947 Arrrr Aye Pea, me hearty!!!
Rosie and Jim misbehaving again Heidi!! Glad you had a great weekend at the festival.
Oh dear… they keep falling over 😂😂
You’ve got a bit of 80s Boy George going on around your head there at 8.19 mins in lol. 😊
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Hey Heidi well I'm a bit late watching a video this week but look up and then I see 10 K congratulations 💥 onward and upward from here see you in the next video
Awww thanks for watching and yes I’m made up I’ve hit 10k whoop 🏴☠️
Where you were first moored was the British countryside at it's most idyllic and the rest of the journey was to die for too. As usual your a great host more please.
Thanks Robert - videos every Thursday at 6pm GMT 😄🏴☠️
Beautiful sun!😊
Nice to see Jim enjoying himself again, with the help of Rosie of course 🤣🤣🙄👍🏼
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youve got a warped sense of humour like me lol xx
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You didn't bleep that very well Heidi with your hat hahaha legend.
😂😂 I tick the box saying it contains swearing when I upload so I don’t really need to bleep but I do it anyway 😂😂😂😂
i was raised on Captain Morgan Dark still drink it. it's the best.. cheers
I prefer a black spiced rum 😄🏴☠️ cheers
As you can imagine, we LOVED this week's video. :D
Haha I bet you did … last weeks video was the Middlewich locks which you also went through 😂😂 oh the joys! It looks like I had much better weather than you guys, but it was a few weeks ago 😂🏴☠️ I hope you are making good progress on your own adventure
@@TheNarrowboatPirate The Middlewich locks were ok. We went up in the rain but down in fair weather. They were mostly manned by the CRT (love the volunteer lockies!) and we actually went down Big Lock with another boat so we saved some water.
Wow well done Heidi 10 k subscribers.🎉❤ x
Thank you 😃🏴☠️❤️ I’m made up 🏴☠️
Hi Heidi, my name is John, and my partner Linda, just seen a few your videos and really impressed , have subscribed and will be watching a lot more, I have my boat moored at Venetian marina , lots Lovely Scenery andreally enjoyed watching, possibly meet up one day, looking Forward to watching more your videos, John S.
Ahoy welcome aboard John! New videos every Thursday at 6pm 😄🏴☠️ thanks for watching 😄
Quite perky those bridges aren't they 😊 lovely video's ❤all my love to you both Charles
Thanks for the shout out Heidi, I was wondering why our subscribers had shot up. You have a little cameo in our next one x
I’ve just watched your speeding boat 😂 I hope your paintwork is ok ❤️🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate not been able to check yet. That happened just before we saw you yesterday.
Thanks!
Thanks very much Janis 😄🏴☠️
Again!!!!!! This should be rated '18' with those two!
It is 😂😂 over 18s only and contains swearing … I always tick them boxes when uploading my vids … I showed it in a previous video 🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate I am talking about your residents again, Rosie and Jim!!
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Didn't come across your channel 'til yesterday, Heidi, am enjoying it so much that I am binge watching your back catalogue to try and get up to date. Love your style, general outlook on life and sense of humour, it's right up my canal. 😃xx
Aww thanks for the lovely comment Stan, I hope you enjoy 😃🏴☠️
Wow Heidi another amazing production 🤩 you are very talented and you make me laugh 🤣🤣🤣😘
Aww thanks Richard 😃🏴☠️ we got to have a laugh haven’t we 😂😂
@ 2:27.......YES, I CAN PLAINLY SEE IT HAS 2 POINTS IN ITS FAVOR !! I'LL HAVE TO STAY ABREAST OF ANY CHANGES !!
Brilliant video once again! Fantastic views and a wicked sense of humour :)
Thank you 😃🏴☠️
They've all gone to London to see the Queen.
My videos are a couple of weeks behind as it takes so long to edit them 😄🏴☠️
Thanks
Thanks again Jim 😃🏴☠️
Size 48DD. Perfect.
It's international talk like a pirate day on Monday
Yes but it’s also the Queens funeral so I reckon it’s cancelled this year 😩🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate I'm hoping the Arch Bishop of Canterbury will do his Long John Silver impression during the service. It'll lighten the mood a little
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@TheNarrowboatPirate "Arrrrhhh I P, meee'hearty!"
hi heidi i met up with tom and john when I put my mates boat in the next mooring to them and they are a great pair and I hope to meet them and the monster dog again on my next trip up..ok enjoy your trip
Aww they are lovely aren’t they … Ethel sure is a monster but absolutely gorgeous 😄🏴☠️❤️
I've had to wipe my laptop so many times (oo-er) I think I'm going to start drinking coffee AFTER watching your vlog. Entertaining and outrageous as ever 🙂
PS: Just followed you on Twitter 😉
😂😂 see thanks Richard, I’m rubbish with twitter - no idea what I’m doing but I’ll try harder 😂😂😂
@@TheNarrowboatPirate harder is always better 😉
Gotta love the Middlewich Branch! Loving the vlogs, just catching up on the others on binge watch, you've just been through Lock 69 and given your bows a good bashing (!) on Heartbreak Hill.
Have fun and keep well x
Aww thanks for watching Ste 😄🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate Keep em coming, though I'm now totally hammered as I've taken a sip every time you do a knob gag 😂
Great video again, Queen of double’ entendre 😂 thank you
Thanks for watching 😄🏴☠️
Pegging with Rosie and Jim, and a lovely young man who knows how to weald his hose to your satisfaction. (horn sfx!) xx
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Thanks for sharing Heidi enjoyed the content. Deb
Thanks Deb 😃🏴☠️❤️
Thanks for yet another great vlog!
Best sounding diesel on the canal.
Very high Finbar quotient this week 👍😁.
My wife Sonya is one of your Patreons, but as I, her husband, am Paul, who the fuzzy duck is Pete? 😂😅🤣
😂😂 I’ll change it lmao 🤣
Thanks Heidi. She can do what she wants at other times but watching your vlog is an 'us' thing 😁👍😉
Enjoyed the look at the countryside. Seems so peaceful. Thanks for sharing. Be well and stay safe.
Thanks Mark 😃🏴☠️
Innuendo central 😃🤣👌👍
😂 I don’t plan what I’m going to say but there were so many things on that cruise that they just slipped out 😂😂🏴☠️
Fantastic cruise and sone lovely country side as we travelled. The weather was good for most of the trip. Glad you had fun at the fest and for home safe and well. Keith.
Aww thanks Keith 😄🏴☠️
A lovely float. Just what I needed when coming back from Physical Therapy. Each stretch she had me do didn’t seem very hard to do but I feel exhausted. I think floating on a Narrowboat would be great therapy. Just watching is great therapy. Thank you for a lovely ride. PS. Wednesday night session was just Kayt and I. She live streamed the session. My fingers got me through all the songs and tunes.
Awww fabulous, I’m so glad your getting back to normal with therapy …. Is your session on CZcams ?
@@TheNarrowboatPirate Kayt live streams on Facebook. I don’t do Facebook so I can’t view. I sent a link to my friend in the Netherlands. She enjoyed it. I can send lik if you wish.
Thanks for the early heads up, I can't tell you how much I enjoy your Vlogs. All the best my dear. Stephen ❤
Aww thanks so much for watching Stephen and for all your support 😃❤️🏴☠️
Hidi wots rosey doing to Jim on ya lol x
Great blogs love em burty bassett x
Oh dear it looks like Jim has fallen over again 😂😂
The festival looked fantastic. Thank you for the great video. Cheers.
Thank you for watching 😄🏴☠️
Thank you for your videos they are always so entertaining 📷
Thanks Paul 😃🏴☠️
Brilliant as usual love. I can’t wait for Thursdays to watch your video. Please stay safe and take care sweetheart xxxx
Aww thanks so much Mick, I hope you are well ? X x
Lots of fun innuendo today. Bahaha loved it!
Aww thanks … I don’t plan what I’m going to say but there were just lots of funny things happen on that cruise 😂😂
Hi Heidi love your vlogs im getting ontop of your vlogs i was 18 vlogs behind but catching up as well as many other boating vloggers.
reguarding your hat how do you look! think you look like little bo peep without the staff and the blue dress!
keep safe Heidi
😂😂 thanks John haha
Love it.
Thanks Mike 😃🏴☠️
Love watching your adventures!
Aww thanks for watching and keeping me company 😄🏴☠️
I was supporting was at a Triathlon yesterday and then went for a walk around the canals afterwards, was chuffed to bits to have walked past and recognise your boat! 😊
Aww sorry I missed you 😃🏴☠️
Haha🤣 made my day!
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Great video love how people help at the locks 😀😀😀
Yes it’s fabulous, but not many people around in the winter so its different then 😂😂🏴☠️
Beautiful sunset!
Aww it was gorgeous … I sat on my boat roof watching that ❤️😄🏴☠️ I adore this life x
If, and when, you travel through St Martins, Shropshire (Bridge 13) , give me a shout = homemade meal and rum 😉☠️🤘
Is that on the Llangollen canal ?
@@TheNarrowboatPirate Yes, Captain 😁
Brilliant vlog the countryside looks so beautiful x
Aww thanks Michele 😃🏴☠️
good vid on cut keep up the good vids thanks lee
Thanks Lee 😃🏴☠️
Congratulations 10k subscribers, well done.
I’ve not hit it yet … just need a few more but thank you 😄❤️🏴☠️
@@TheNarrowboatPirate From my end You Tube says 10k.
@@tynamarkey6131 ooooh whooooo hoooo 😄❤️🏴☠️
Hahaha!You are so hilarious,brighten my day with your humour.I would say are you smuggling peanuts.Do you Ever fall foul of CZcams?
I tick all the boxes such as ‘over 18s only’ and ‘contains swearing’ …. So I’m ok, it just affects ad revenue and money I would make …but mid ads are a pain anyway 😂😂
Another great vlog, hope you and your parents are keeping ok. Great views of the countryside again, hope the weather stays nice for you.
Awww my parents are fabulous thank you 😃🏴☠️❤️
Great ❤ video. You deserve a million subscribers. 😄
Awww thanks Sheila 😄🏴☠️
Hello Heidi - greetings from Poland
How lucky am I, being able to watch your videos twice!
Beautiful countryside, stunning views across the fields and muck spreading! Fantastic cruise to Venetian Marina and on to The canal junction with the Shroppie. Left turn and bump into Paul and Anthony flying underwear in the wind!
So glad you had a great time at Unity Festival and congratulations on reaching very nearly 10,000 subscribers.
A stunning video. Really enjoyed it. Stay safe please
Thanks for watching twice Michael 😂🏴☠️ and sticking with me 😄❤️
I went to our local boat festival last weekend here in the black country, i was hoping you would be there so i could give you a big hug and thanks, i am buying myself a narrowboat next year and going solo like yourself, your vids have inspired me to go for it, i will be keeping an eye out for you on the cut with a bottle of rum on board.
Aww I usually do that one but my plans all went out of the window this year with the shutting of the T&M meaning I would have had to go the long way round and I just didn’t have the time 😄🏴☠️ A very exciting new chapter awaits, I hope you love it as much as I do 😄🏴☠️❤️
I bought two Jackery 1000 amp batteries and I love them. I've had them two years and they are stupendous, hold a charge over winter months of non-use, and are efficient about charging the things I need charged, without discharging too soon during my summer months of caravaning/RVing here in the Pacific Northwest of the USA with all of the trees here so my solar isn't always the most efficient. Jackery batteries are super. I've owned two other brands ... tossed them in the dumpster.
Wow, great music event ... love the dancing people who attended it. 🙂 Wish I could be there this July.
What is your website where we can buy badges and such from you? You are probably already posting that in the heading, but I don't see it.
You've talked about the concerns about owning a deep draft boat ... but those gals (boats are female after all) are the best. Steady, dependable, ok maybe a little bit touchy on occasion, but they are the best. Deep draft!
Pottering On The Canal ... got that. What a concept to simply love and support each other, no matter.
I love your vlogs, the country, the canals, the people, the towns, your work on your boat, your music, all the history of the canals. I just love it.
Here's to Fishless Clive with hopes it gets a fish!
Rum time!
Aww thanks for the lovely comment 😄🏴☠️ my website is thepirateboat.co.uk
Lovely vlog 👍 I’ve never been to a festival, but it’s on my bucket list 🤣
Oh Angela I love them 😄🏴☠️ a fabulous atmosphere 🏴☠️
Hi Heidi,
Great vlog as usual, and interesting journey with lovely scenery. Looks like you had a good time at the festival.
Have a good weekend. x
Thanks Bill, yes a lot of fun thank you 😃🏴☠️
Good vlog Heid - hope you are well ♥️
Thanks Derek, all good here I hope you are ok too 😃🏴☠️
All good thanks Heidi ..
you can also see those bridge ties on older houses to stop them bulging out....
Fabulous 😄🏴☠️
Hey Heidi, on our way on our little trip we passed your boat moored up by Venetian and then on our way back we passed as you had just moored up by the Barbridge so this vlog brought back memories of our trip 😊👍
Aww sorry I wasn’t around 😄🏴☠️
Hidie is the cup big enough haha
😂😂 I like a big un!