We've got locks to the left of us, locks to the right of us. we in the middle of a lock...
On with the charge of the Battle of the Light Brigade sort of thing... the
heavy dragoons are gonna go that way. We walked up that way yesterday a bit with
the dog, and it's just lock after lock, after lock.
I'm not in the mood for locks. I'm in the mood for just sitting and reclining, in the sunshine.
Well we'll be in the sunshine, I.. it's pleasant enough here, I mean basically
we're in the pound between two locks, it's a fairly short distance between
them. There's a cornfield over on that side there's a wheat field behind us.
And there is lots of boats moored in this pound, which they're not moored in others so I don't know what that is all about.
So we thought this was maybe the nice one to stop in. So we stopped here. So we joined them. Yeah. And, err, no, its been
quite pleasant, short walk that way yesterday, we had to save a bunch of
ducks. There was a duck going mental outside
the lock, and it wasn't really obvious why she was going so mental. Yeah, no.
But the lock was drained halfway, and I sort of noticed the mental thing, looked
over the side, and here's these little tiny babies. The tiny ones. Little tiny, tiny little guys.
And there's three of them, and they're freaking out on the inside, and mom is
freaking out on the outside. The lock was however sort of half way through. So,
couldn't just open the doors. So Jo went back to get the windlass, but while I was
standing there, just sort of supervising I guess. Supervising the ducks. Umm, she, the mother, sort of flew
down in to join them, and then freaked out. Like she was really, really, really,
really freaking out. Umm. she was trying to get to the sides and stuff and she just
couldn't get through. Then she flew up and went to the other side, the babies
started freaking out. So I was like, okay, let's see what I can do here. Everyone stay calm.
Everyone stay calm supervisor in action. So, so basically I found out that umm, with
sufficiently willingness to damage hands, you can raise a lock paddle with your
bare hands. It's not easy but it's not impossible. So
basically I got some calluses, and I and I got the door open for the duckies, and
they were very happy, and they went off, and they were just like, we completely
ignore you now thank you very much. Right, so, off we go to do the locks.
We're on our way? Yep. Okay, stopping recording .
So. we have just gone through Red House Lock, which is lock number 13. And it says to
leave the lock full, so, Michael has gone out and on, I'm just waiting for the lock to fill up, so
that so I can put the paddles down. Because it doesn't say to leave the
paddles open.
It's been a nice day, it's been lovely, and we found a mooring in the shade. Woohoo.
We have a mooring in the shade, and here's the hilarious part, our solar
panels are in the sun. But just the solar panels. It's great, it's perfect, it's ideal.
Oh my god I itch. That's why I'm complaining so much. You're uncomfortable. Go and have a nice
shower. That's a good idea. We're doing this. well after this go and have a nice shower. Oh,
okay after this. Because I'm not doing this in the shower. It's been a nice day,
it's been a pleasant day, the Aylesbury so far, has turned out to be, really
quite beautiful countryside. Quite a large number of locks. We only
saw one boat moving and that was the day boat, did you hear what the guys... oh no
you were bit further back. The woman was like 'watch out, there's a boat
coming. move over' and he was like 'it's okay we're pirates'
Lots of beautiful dragonflies, huge dragonflies.
Yeah, the one that came on the boat yesterday, it was like massive. And I've
seen a whole bunch more of them. All down here there was like loads like tall, like
you couldn't see the towpath, and from the towpath you can't see the canal,
there's all these tall wildflowers and like lily pads, lily pads. Everywhere. Little yellow flowers. Reams of reeds along the
side. You know very narrow path, very narrow bridges, very narrow locks.
But basically just gorgeous. Like, you know, really nice countryside, could use it
being a few degrees cooler but.. As always. Its been pretty easy going. There was that one
lock, that when I drove into. That... it was a little bit overgrown on this side. So
you couldn't line up, so you basically had to turn as you were going into it. Swing
into like with it. Which was a bit weird. But it was alright. Yeah, they really should trim that tree.
Yeah. Because it was really just a big overhanging tree, that that made that
difficult, but... and coming up is gonna be hard as well.
Yeah, cos you wont be able to... Maybe I'll do that one. What? I'll so that one. Well I did it fine.
Well you can do that one on the way out then. We'll forget which one it was.
Yeah. then you'll just hit a tree with your face, which I just did a few minutes
ago , so that's part of the other reason I'm complaining about things. Part of the
reason why you've got like bugs and foliage all round your face. Yeah, I'm
sure. You coming on the boat George? And then I found George a ball that was
floating in the canal. So now George has got a squeaky ball. Yes which he's not
normally allowed. Give me the ball.
He's got a... squeaky ball. Which he's not allowed.
So we've found this mooring in the shade and think we might stay here till Sunday morning.
Oh I see. Oh, we've just had a text from Michael's brother who's in Scotland.
And where is he? I'm not actually sure where. But he's... because
don't really know where the Kelpies are, but he found the Kelpies, the horses.
The large sculptures of horses, cos not, like, Scottish people made out of seaweed.
Which is what might assume if you don't know what a kelpie is. Anyway, its these big
sculptures of horses. It's quite beautiful.
I read his message before I saw the image, and he said he's found a lock and
I thought he was being funny and I thought it was gonna be like, you know, a
Scottish lock. Ahh, right, right, right. But it was actually a canal lock. It was actually a canal lock, yeah.
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Or the squeaky toy.
engines to the left of me, engines to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you.
Well done George, well done.
Diesels to the left of them, diesels to the right of them, diesels in front of them.
Charge of the poo brigade.
Oh good, we got that on camera, excellent.
On the good side George has done his
business. Jo has done her business. Michael have done his business. I've done
my business. Why are we recording stuff that's not going to go in the video?
It's blooper material isn't it. We're not talking about poo's even in the bloopers.
Who said I was talking about poo's? Oh My God!
You think I was talking about poo's? You were talking about poo's. Right. Nah.
I'm glad that everybody, you know,
enjoys us. And I'm glad that... You can keep that off if you want. I don't care about contingency. Oh Man how bad is my hair.
Okay. wait contingency? Continuity! Get the language right. Fine okay, I got my hat
back. I said you could keep it off. No, cos, you don't care about contingency.
Care about... Whats the... what do I not care about? So uncomfortable. Oh, so much better.
Oh yeah, and there was this one... can you pay attention? I am paying attention.
Seven times in a row he waggled off right on me. So waggle off? you mean he
shakes himself dry?
Bit of mustache or something. oh. Eyelash.
Yeah, waggle, what else would waggle off mean?
It means, yes of course it means that he would get out and he
would do is like, you know, I'm gonna dry off my entire body thing, which dogs do which
I'm incredibly envious of, the entire ability to do that. So you want to be
waggle off? [sigh] Okay now it sounds bad.
I would like the ability to have the
sort of spinal column you need, to just be able to go like that and shake all
the water off. Like that would be cool. I love the way it's starts... when he waggles
off, when he shakes the water off, it starts in his nose, and then it goes down,
and then the last thing to do is with tail. yeah. yeah so it's like in slow
motion it's really funny, because it's like, nostril, whole head, ears, okay
back alright, butt and then just the tail. And then you know he's done.
so yeah we found this. Breif thought of... sploosh. Which would make a heck of a shot. Yeah, just throw it straight backwards and just
see George. Leaping up. Sailing through the air. Splash. there was a moments fear that was what was going to happen and I;m
watching the camera, right, so it's like, here goes the ball, and I just had this
image of like. oahhh.
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