#93 The 8 Things I Brought To My Tiny Home! | Simplifying My Life
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- In this Narrowboat Vlog, I explain how I simplified my possessions to fit into my tiny home by selecting 8 things that were special to me. What would your special things be? Sit back, relax and enjoy this narrowboat vlog. Take care x
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As you know, I live the same life as you Vanessa. But I still marvel at the wildlife and nature that you manage to capture and share with us! And your journal will be a treasure passed down through your family for generations to come!
Hi Vince, what a lovely comment, thank you! I just walk incredibly slowly and stick my nose into everything which makes me the biggest bore to walk along with but that's how I find the nature really and also a bit of luck too! I hope you've been enjoying the sunshine on the water. Have a wonderful week and safe cruising. 🌻🦋
I can’t help but delightfully giggle at the views you are getting with your camera.
Delightfully giggling is brilliant, Nanci and I’m chuffed that my vlogs make you smile. Thank you so much!😊 Have a wonderful weekend 🦋🌻
The gifts you have in front of the camera, and those you have for envisioning and editing, combined with your gentle speaking voice, your poetic verse, and your drawing talent, are such a unique combination. Truly God is in every detail for all this to work out in this way.❤️
What a truly beautiful comment, Lisa!😊🤗 Thank you so much for your kindness and I am so chuffed that you are enjoying the vlogs. Have a wonderful rest of the week. Take care 🌻🦋
@@themindfulnarrowboat I have a neighbor who is like you in so many ways (she is very good at carving out time for herself and her artistic pursuits, and quite talented). Like you, she also used to be a teacher, a full-time art teacher. She, too, was burned out. I sent her a link to your channel and she is now traveling with you, too! She loves the beauty you surround yourself with. You are truly an inspiration to many, in a multitude of ways. 🥰
Your vlogs have become a go to for getting away from this mad world thank you 😊
Paul, it is so lovely to hear that, as making the vlogs is my escape! Have a wonderful weekend and week ahead.🦋🌻
@@themindfulnarrowboat Yes it really is.
How interesting and also sad to see this derelict building.
Beautiful poetry. So lifts my mood when full of a cold.
This is 100% better than the vacuous crap on tv ❤️❤️❤️
😂🤗 Thank you so much; your comment did make me chuckle too! Take care, Neil🦋🌻🤭
Mmmmm 1.. Mr M, 2...Zephyr, 3...Journals, coloured pencils, inks, 4...welly boots & wet weather gear, 5...books, 6...craft supplies, 7...beanie & scarf, 8....camera/drone, 9...cooking utensils, pots & pans...its hard dwindling down, when we sold up in Tassie and returned to WA we didnt think we could afford to buy another house as prices had gone up so we sold or gave away nearly everything we owned, thinking we would live in our caravan...came back, bought another house (what???) and regreted the clean out...oh well. I wonder what others do? Lovely video Vanessa..that statue on the spoil heap was magnificent..beautifully made. Its also amazing what plants we find clinging to life in isolated places - that spikey bog moss looked like a miniature forest, look how strong those daffs and iris were holding their heads high in the wind, strong in their raw element, not limp and weak like our domestic ones can be..who needs humans - nature gets along just fine without us!!! Thanks for a great video Vanessa...btw there is so much rubbish on CZcams these days and much of it computer generated rubbish or made up lies (its a pity we cant report a lot of it) but your vlogs are one of the few genuinely interesting, true, factual and very interesting and beautiful items out there. Well done for just being you and giving us something special to watch and remember...🥰🙏🤗 you're tops in my book!! Cheers from Oz 🦘🦘🦘🦘
It’s hard to know when to get rid of things isn’t it? It’s always the way that as soon as you’ve sold something then you suddenly need it again! Thank you so much for your lovely words.
Take care🌻🦋
@@themindfulnarrowboat hi V hope you are feeling a bit better..why arent you resting? I dont expect replies to my comments..look after yourself 🙏🥰🤗
Zephyr, on the green list. ✅✅
Definitely! 🐾🐾🤩 Thank you for your lovely comment. Take care 🦋🌻
I love When you put your hand up? Zepher raise hers!🐶💝
I love it when she does that too! 🐾🐾🤗Thank you so much for your lovely comment. Have a super week, take care🦋🌻
8/11/23 Missed you this Friday but I am slowly catching up with the vids in your book. It's nice to go back and see some things I missed" a simple life is best "I agree with you and Zeph. Thanks again for sending me your book. Hope you are having a fun time see you next Friday I hope ........ Steve
Hi Steve, I am sorry there wasn't a vlog this week, but I went to see family and friends. All back and running as usual for next week though. I am so, so pleased that you are enjoying following the vlogs with the book; it really makes me smile to know that.🤗 Have a lovely weekend and week ahead, Take care🌻🦋
Another lovely video and Zephyr is gorgeous
Thank you so much, Clive and Zephyr really likes your comment too!🐾🐾 Take care🌻🦋
Beautiful Vanessa and a thoughtful poem which really touched me. I’m watching some of your earlier vlogs and enjoying them greatly. 🦆🦮🦢❤
Thank you so much. It means such a lot to me to hear that my poem touched you. Have wonderful week, take care🦋🌻
Hi Vanessa, regarding "the seat belt feeling". I've had the same sort of thing when I've got on my bike. I've wanted to put the [car] indicators on when about to turn! Loving the vlogs, they are a treasured part of my day. There's always something to learn from them too.
I think indicators are a great idea for a bike as I always wobble when I have to put my hand out to turn😂! I am so pleased that you are enjoying the vlogs, Jenny. Thank you so much for watching them! Take care🌻🦋
Sorry Lesley, I think I typed ‘Jenny’ in the last comment! I didn’t have my glasses on!🤓
I want to try to say thank you well enough. I'm I'll with flu and your videos have been such a comfort and company. Thank you so much
Oh Rosie, I hope you feel better very soon. Flu is absolutely awful to have and you must feel so down. Take lots of vitamin C and rest up. Thank you so much for your lovely comment. Get well soon x❤️🩹🦋🌻
Only just discovered your channel love your style sooo layed back, I'm hooked
Welcome to the channel, Roger and thank you for such a lovely comment! I’m chuffed that you’re hooked😀 Have a wonderful week!🦋🌻
I'll second that. I'm hooked too.
Welcome to the channel, Russell! Thank you for your lovely comment. Take care🦋🌻
What an absolute delight, especcially" one hundred years ago" you are an inspiration. Guy
Hi Guy! Thank you so much for your lovely comment😊 Enjoy the sunshine 🌞 and have a wonderful weekend.🌻🦋
So Calming, Soooo Wonderful!!!!!
Zephyr is such a Sweetheart!!!!
I have my companion, Ginger Dog ...... She is a plump , Happy, Lovable Soul !!
Ginger sounds like a wonderful companion. What breed is she? Thank you for your lovely comment, take care🐾🐾🌻🦋
@@themindfulnarrowboat - Ginger Dog is mainly an Australian Shepherd mix - but has a bit of a "Corgi Look" ! She was a rescue , that my friend "Set me up on a Blind Date" -sort of at the shelter...... long story short - Ginger Dog actually "Adopted" me .....and that was 7 years ago !!!! .....of course she's a " Reddish Ginger" Color - and Always Smiles 😁!!!!
Take Care and again Many Thanks 🥰!
@@thomasmackenzie7811 What a beautiful story!🐾🐾💚
Just love some of the place names you come across on your travels, like 'Apple Pie Lane Bridge', it sounds just like a Beatles song to me.
It does doesn't it! The place names are great aren't they? Thank you for watching, take care🦋🌻
I certinly agree 100 per cent with you paul take care
Thank you so much, many years ago, I loaned the very book from our library, happy memories 🙏✝️🇨🇦🙏
Hi James, it is a wonderful book and I am so pleased to have had a chance to read through it. I am not surprised that it brings back happy memories for you as it is a book to get lost in for a while isn't it? Thank you for your lovely comment. Sending you a gentle breeze and some cool shade.🌬🦋🌻
I love watching your beautiful vlogs it's better than watching the TV so yeah keep up the amazing work thak you from Chris
That is such a lovely thing to comment, Chris. Thank you so much for your kindness. Have a wonderful rest of the week.🌻🦋
Always made so well. Good steady camera. Multiple angles. Well narrated. Mine can be pretty raw and rushed. It's nice having help filming. Great stuff Mrs mindful. Have yourself a great weekend.
Mr Narrowboat Will, your vlog is brilliant and funny, so don't go putting it down. I could never steer the boat and film as good as you; I tried and crashed into the lock! Thank you for your lovely comment and enjoy some sunshine cruising. Take care🌻🦋
@@themindfulnarrowboat ha ha ha cheers.
Where do we find you NarrowboatWill...I've looked but cant find you..Vanessa often makes mention of you?
What a lovely peaceful video in these troubled times.I love your amazing nature shots ,I must look for that fungus you showed us,it looked wonderful. I must moor up by Pooley country park this September as I plan to go to Statfold Narrow Gauge museum (another of my railway trips!)as it's not that far from Alvecote . It's only on certain dates and was wondering where the best place to moor.Zephyr sure does like getting messy especially with that dirty tongue, digging again I presume.Was the mooring spot somewhere between bridges 56 and 59?.Stay safe and enjoy this current spell of sunshine.
Hi Chris, it sounds like you have some exciting plans ahead of you. The mooring spot was the bridge before Alvecote Marina which was on the left hand side. There are some gorgeous, old working boats in that marina as well. Thank you so much for your lovely comment and have a wonderful weekend.🦋🌻
Hello Vanessa - greetings from Poland.
"Lets keep this poem clutter free, And put the speed to slow. For I have seen what eyes did see, One hundred years ago"
Fabulous! Your best poem ever. Thank you for the most wonderful video. Your editing skills are now at expert level. Not even a glimpse of Michael, ever! Not even when you were at the helm and he was working the locks!
11 locks in two miles - the first locks for 3 months. Perhaps you should have put a seatbelt on!!
I learnt something new too. Gadwall duck and all the names of all those different mosses. Thank you so much - that was superb
I'm so chuffed that you liked the poem in this vlog and that you quoted the first line, thank you so much for your kind words about it. My editing skills are slowly improving and it has been a thoroughly enjoyable process learning how to do it; I recommend it! Enjoy your evening.🌻🦋
What a video you use your camera to such good use capturing nature as it is loved that chaffinch and those lovley flowers you desereved such praised cant wait for friday dont foreget to hug zefer take care
Zeff Zeff loves her Friday hug from you! 🐾 Thank you so much for your lovely comments too. Have a wonderful weekend, Pancrazio aquilina🌻🦋
Thank you for another very interesting vlog. Zephyr is just such a star especially with Bet. We can’t get enough of the scenery, birdlife and your journal. Thanks Bet and Ken.
Hi Ken and Bet, Zephyr is delighted that she is a hit with Bet! 🐾🐾 I hope you are both keeping well. Thank you so much for your kindness and have a wonderful weekend 🦋🌻
I love the Edwardian Lady book. I have had my copy for many years
Isn’t it a joy to sit and lose yourself in! Edith was a talented lady and I bet a fascinating person to listen to. Thank you so much for your comment. Have a wonderful weekend and week ahead.🦋🌻
Hi Vanessa
Your channel really is like a soothing balm, in this cluttered world.
I Despair at the way the old Historical buildings are being just knocked down, and not repurposed. I fear in time, like in the 1960's we will come to regret this.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful adventures on the Canal's. And your beautiful journaling, which is like the Diary of an Edwardian Lady, for the modern age🎨🌱🍁🐶🐾
Thank you so much for such a lovely comparison, Julie. I rather like the idea of the channel being a soothing balm! I agree with you about the old buildings; when I see those that have been preserved, it makes me feel so connected to the past. I am so glad that you are enjoying the adventures on the canals. Take care.🦋🌻
enjoyed the illustration of that 100 year old book. we also liked all the flora and fauna .
The book is just beautiful to sit and read, Ratrod Diesels, and it is so lovely to find the things that Edith Holden found all those years ago. Thank you for your comment. Take care🦋🌻
I so glad that I’ve found your narrow boat vlog, the most beautiful on CZcams in my opinion. I’m going to work my way through all of your videos. Your dog is absolutely adorable too. Take care, lots of love. xxxxx
Welcome to the channel, Shirley and thank you for such a lovely comment! It’s so good to know that you found the vlog relaxing. Have a wonderful week!🦋🌻
A beautiful, peaceful vlog. Edwardian lady reborn into Mindful lady!
Thank you so much, Indi for your lovely comment!😊 Oh to have Edith Holden's drawing ability though; her illustrations are stunning! 😍Have a wonderful weekend.🌻🦋
I wonder if they will be reading Vanessas book in another 100 years time?????1🥰
Well done Van, it is reassuring to find the Edwardian fauna and flora is still with us, especially bordering the canals, and inspite of climate change. Beautiful!
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Hi Di, thank you so much for lending me the book! I love it!😍 I find it so reassuring too; especially, like you say, when everything arounds us seems strange and different, here we have a piece of beautiful writing and artwork that keeps us grounded. Have a wonderful weekend and hope to see you soon.🦋🌻
Your vlog is so relaxing. I love to watch while I hand sew. Would you ever consider creating playlists so I can binge-watch a whole set of videos of one of your trips? Thanks for sharing your journeys
Hi Cathy, it’s lovely to know that you are hand sewing whilst watching the vlogs; creative tasks like sewing are so good for relaxing aren’t they? I will try and put a Playlist together this week🤞. Thank you for your lovely comment and have a wonderful weekend🌻🦋
Hi Vanessa thank you for lovely vlog. Fell asleep watching it this early morning. So just had to watch it again wonderful. So relaxing. Have great week. 👍
My aim is to make relaxing vlogs, so if you fell asleep then that is a good sign, I hope?!😄 Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Sandy! Have a wonderful weekend 🦋🌻
New subscriber here. I don't know how I hadn't found you sooner. I've been contemplating liveaboard narrowboat life for over a year now. I love the mindful aspect as well to your channel, as well as the creative and poetic aspect (I write, too, as well as play Celtic harp). I'm already pretty much a minimalist, so I shouldn't have too much of a struggle when I finally make the leap to narrowboat life. I look forward to catching up with your older videos and watching your new ones, too! PS - lovely poem at the end of the video!
Welcome to the channel, Andee! How lovely that you write and play the Celtic harp; they make such a beautiful sound, well not if I played one, but I'm sure you play it beautifully! As for narrowboat life, go for it! It sounds like you are made to be a boater. Thank you so much for your lovely comment. Take care🦋🌻🎶🎶
Another peaceful and calming video. It’s nice to get away and watch you.
Thank you, Helen that's a lovely thing to say! Hope you're enjoying the sunshine on the water. Have a wonderful weekend!🌻🦋
Thank you ! So beautiful like your soul!
That is so kind of you- thank you so much! Take care🦋🌻
Thank you for another fabulous video keeping us all sane in these weird times. Zephyr is such a lovely dog in her happy place with you.
Thank you, Christine and Zephyr loves your comment too!🐾🐾 Have a wonderful weekend and week ahead.🦋🌻
Another great video, I always listen to nighttime on still waters it is great, also love to poems and pictures at the end of your vlogs 😊😊👍🏼
Thank you so much NB Precious Jet! So you treat your ears to NOSW too, very wise. I'm chuffed that you like my poems and pictures! Enjoy the sunshine on the water; it's glorious out there today! Take care.🌻🦋
Hello Vanessa, my husband Keith and I have just discovered your vlog and we thoroughly enjoyed what we saw. Our first reaction was surprise when we saw the name of your boat because those are the names of our mothers. We now have some catching up to do while we wait for your next vlog. Thank you.
Helen and Keith, welcome to the channel! How lovely that my boat carries the names of your mothers. I bought my boat secondhand so she already had her name, but I love it, both names go so well together. Thank you so much for commenting and for your lovely comment. Take care🌻🦋
Thank you for another beautiful vlog. I remember seeing a tv serie about Edith Holden many years ago on norwegian telly. I became very fascinated by her life and with her art. Got myself a birthday book with her little poems,drawings and flora and fauna descriptions, so lovelly.
Hi Elina, I'll try and look that tv series up; I'd love to find out more about Edith Holden. I have spent hours looking at the book of hers that I have. It is something beautiful to get lost in for a while. Thank you so much for your lovely comment and have a wonderful weekend.🦋🌻
Evening Vanessa and naughty Zephyr lol if any ones naughty it's my dog Earl, running around the bed like he's possessed and disturbing me while watching ur vlog 😅. Another 3 moss's well done 😄👍 , great content and lovely wild life shots with a beautiful poem to end with . I bet u found it hard for u both to part with ur belongings to start a new life, and still had to part company with some more once u had moved onto Alice Grace? Have a great weekend and enjoy the forecast of lovely weather till next week take care 🙂🦋🐕🦆
Earl sounds like such a character! Zephyr likes to chuck all of the pillows off the bed after I have made it! I remade the bed 3 times the other day!😂 In terms of possessions, what we found challenging was buying things that would fit like side tables and footstools. It’s good to know we have a spell of nice weather; enjoy walking naughty Earl in the sunshine! Have a wonderful weekend and week ahead🌻🦋🐾🌞
So delightful to go walking with you. Thank you and Zepher
Well then, I look forward to walking with you next week! Take care👣👣🐾🐾🌻🦋
Always inspirational, thank you
What a lovely comment, thank you so much 🤗 Have a great week, take care🌻🦋
Lovely, thank you
You are very welcome, Paul. Take care🌻🦋
I’ve lived on a 44 foot sailboat for 30 years. I could never live between 3 walls and a window again. I’ve been in México for 9 years and don’t miss the rain from my Vancouver home.
Yes, de cluttering isn’t easy but I’m sure you feel liberated after the stuff is gone.
I’ve done some canals in France on a Workaway. 8 weeks. It was great but your narrow boat looks like fun too. Have a great life
You are so right- you do feel liberated when you declutter. Thank you so much for your lovely comment. Have a super rest of the week, take care🌻🦋
Love your Vlogs thank you x
You are so welcome, Frances! Thank you so much for your lovely comment too.😊Take care🌻🦋
Oh, good lord! What a delight to have discovered you today! I've been watching narrowboat vlogs for a year or so and just discovered you. Watching you makes me feel so good!
At first, I thought it might perhaps be because you are female and you're adding a bit of a female touch. I thought this because I've been watching a couple of great male narrowboaters. Perhaps it's so, but really, I think it's more because of your soft, slow approach, insightful, and sensitive outlook on life and the environment you're in. You truly seem to appreciate the place you are in and the place you are in, in life. Not so much that you are female, but that you are who you are. A comfortable soft soul, and I really appreciate you sharing your experiences with us.
I particularly love the imagery you show, the variety and beauty, and how you intertwine the music you choose into it. It's my kind of music.
I'll keep watching to figure it all out and understand you, and I'm quite looking forward to the quiet moments with a warm cup of brew and you, my new friend, and indulgence on CZcams.
Welcome to the channel, Randy and what a pleasure to have you aboard!
Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a lovely comment. It really means a lot to get feedback like that. I do really appreciate this opportunity that I have and sharing what I discover, on my journey along the water, with likeminded souls, is such a privilege.
Take care, Randy🦋🌻
Lovely, just beautiful, I loved the birch forest walk.
Thank you so much, John! 😊 I've got so much time for trees and to walk through the birch was so uplifting; also where there is birch, there is also a whole load of moss, mushrooms and lichens growing nearby.😍🍄 A wonderful weekend to you both!🦋🌻
That was really beautiful,Loved the poem. I’m new to your channel but if there are more vlogs like this one I will soon be all caught up. Have a wonderful weekend 😁
Welcome to the channel, Paul and thank you so much for your lovely comment. I hope you enjoy the other videos 🤞 Enjoy a sunny Sunday 🌞and have a wonderful week!🦋🌻
Are you caught up yet?
So very refreshing, full of kindness and gentleness x
Thank you 😊 Have a great rest of the week, take care🦋🌻
Hi.Vanessa and zephyr your amazing companion.
At the moment I’m going through your brilliant vlogs.One by one.I totally enjoyed watching this weeks vlog.it was superbly enlightening throughout.certainly very entertaining.so interesting.learning about the different species of splendid wildlife.all around us.I particularly like your stunning narrow boat container garden.it’s truly amazing in all seasons.in my opinion.you have a certain uniqueness about your ultra cool art work.this surety defines you as truly magnificent artist.with the astonishing capability of drawing such awesome wildlife.in all its natural splendour .to amazing perfection. Just love your poem reciting .your just so phenomenally talented .tony
It’s great to know that you are watching all of the vlogs! Forgive me for the dodgy editing in the earlier ones as I didn’t know what I was doing!😂 Thank you, Anthony for your kindness and the time you take to write your comments. Have a wonderful weekend and week ahead!🌻🦋
Don't worry about we all say it 😁💙❤💯
Thank you so much, Chris! Take care🦋🌻
Thankyou for sharing, you have a lovely way of explaining life and nature through your poetry. Do you have any of your poetry books in shops as I definitely would buy one. ❤
That is so kind of you to ask, Sheila. I am starting to put together a poetry/ nature journal of my travels but it is only at the beginning stages. I’m so glad you enjoy the poetry. Thank you 🦋🌻
Your poem this week was extra special, really superb. There's a beautiful and delicate depth to it. Do you mind if I finish this week's podcast with it? ( Thanks so much for the mention!)
Wow! I would be honoured for you to read my poem, Richard. Thank you so much for mentioning Edith Holden's Diary in your podcast as I did not know about her before. I have lost myself in her artwork and recordings since her book has arrived on my boat. It is so reassuring to still be observing what she observed all that time ago, in our modern world that seems completely topsy turvy at the moment. Have a wonderful rest of the weekend!🦋🌻
@@themindfulnarrowboat Wonderful! Thank you. Yes, it's such a beautiful book. I understand completely that feeling of reassurance.
Nice! 💖🌹
Thank you so much, Richard😊 Have a sunny Sunday and wonderful week ahead.🌻🦋
@@themindfulnarrowboat and to you. I watched as I had my breakfast this morning and you took me away from the news to a much gentler world! I was amazed that Zephyr got home dry, all the labs I know would go straight into the lake? We fostered one and the first thing it did when we got it home was flop into the garden pond which is only 3ft long! Glorious sun out West today. 😊
Oh how funny that your lab flopped into the pond!😂 Zephyr jumps in when I throw something in for her and she does love the water, but she won't take herself in unless she's really hot. It's lovely that you foster dogs. 🐾🐾💦
@@themindfulnarrowboat we have 3 of our own now so the fostering is on hold.
Thanks for the tip on "Nighttime on still Waters" podcast. I'm always interested in learning about new podcast that my wife and I and listen to together. Very interesting and relaxing.
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I read The Edwardian Lady book years ago in my younger days. It’s a real classic and was total romance to a young girl brought up in London. I had the Thames and Kew Gardens so hankered for green fields everywhere. I have got them now but the swap was actually quite painfull. Perhaps it always is?
I can understand that swap being painful. It is beautiful and vibrant around Kew and the Thames. Edith Holden spent her last years around there. Thank you so much for your lovely comment, take care🦋🌻
I didn't know them boats were lowered like thart. Corr. Romans.
How do you manage the locks on your own
Hi William, welcome to the channel! Luckily, I don’t need to do the locks on my own, but there are plenty of boaters that have good systems for being single handed through the locks. It is so much easier if there is more than one of you though. Thank you for watching and commenting. Take care 🦋🌻
Wonderful poetry.
Thank you so much, Ed!😊 Have a wonderful rest of the week🌻🦋