100 - Lovely Lechlade and as far as we an go on the River Thames

[@darrenblois8495]

Congratulations on 100 videos. I am enjoying catching up on them day by day and week by week.

[@nirgunapa56]

What a lovely trip up the Thames. Thank you for making these vlogs, I'm sure its a lot of work putting them together and wanted you to know its apprecaited. Now on to the next 100!

[@petercampbell6894]

sitting in my arm chair in 43 degree heat, I giggled at your distain for the cold weather. I am glad I've done this trip with you and I cannot wait to continue. and, boy am I glad I don't have to get out to help. Your humour is wonderful and of course I enjoy George'e adventures. Pete, bendigo australia.

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! And as we’ve had snow and frozen water pipes the last few days, be even more glad you’re in that warm chair! M

[@sylviapage8572]

I did enjoy it and it’s definitely better than Limehouse. I think! It’s lovely to see the sunny weather. Thanks for sharing your journey.

[@MinimalList]

Thanks for watching it! M

[@courierdog1941]

With the time lapse it is much easier to see on your journeys how the Canals and Rivers change so dramatically at times. I am Sure to experience like you do must be both exhausting and exciting all at the same time.

[@MinimalList]

Thankfully it’s only exhausting on the really long hot days and the really really rainy days! M

[@mariahoulihan9483]

I was brought up in Lechlade and still have family there. I went to school there too. The town is old with many of the buildings going up in the Georgian era. The history goes back further than that of course.. way way back in history. Queen Katherine of Arogan, Henry VIII's first wife, whom he divorced held the manor of Lechlade at one point and her emblem, the pomegranite of Aragan, i believe, is in St. Lawrence's church. A Saxon burial ground was discovered on the outskirts of the town in the 1970s. and other archeological sites have gleaned much about the past. Lechlade had and has many pubs, some have shut down since I was a child. this was because its a market town and was a coaching staging post where horses would be changed on commercial coaches, and accomodation and meals available for travellers. Two of the Inns as far as I mnow were coaching inns. In addition, the wharf held cheese warehouses from the days of the canals moving goods and the pubs came in handy for that trade as well. I used to know a very old lady when I was a child who was a bargees daughter. Her face was as brown as old leather and she told me many old stories of being a child on a working canal boat.

[@mariahoulihan9483]

our historic buildings can only be added to or made to look modern.. its the planning laws. this is so it clearlly shows what is old and what is new. Some listed buildings have to be repaired in classic fashion with the right methods and materials used historically. Non listed buildings do not need to do this but its not possible, as far as I understand it, to build say a back on a building which is 'pretending' to look old.. that is why there are modern buildings at the back.. its not weird. I once saw a tv programme about someone renovating an italian castle.. and they made it look old. there was no way of knowing what was old and what was a year old.. so that is the reason. The town has expanded down the years and that is why there are modern buildings and estates, I was brouhgt up in a house built in the 1930s and much modern housing happened from the 70s, the 80s 90s and for all I know more recently. It houses a lot of people who work further afield. It was a wonderful place to grow up in the sixties and seventies and not as busy as today. People who live there at any point always keep a fondness for the old place. We don't thin k there is anything WEIRD or FUNNY about any of it - it just shows how history has evolved.

[@MinimalList]

I seem to remember the only thing I described as "weird" about Lechlade was the notion of a year-round Christmas shop -- which certainly still strikes me as an unusual idea -- but it's interesting to hear that the planning laws require the differentiation between old and new work ... certainly explains the combination of a seemingly ancient stone wall with a modern structure. Reminded me of the movie set towns I've been to over the years. M

[@luanncrownover4]

More gorgeous scenery and a few milestones...end of the Thames and 100th episode! Well done on both!

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! M

[@mrpatrickwilson1]

100 not out. Going for a double century? Brilliant stuff.

[@rdmsh]

George and the gate got a chuckle

[@MinimalList]

Was like the third time he got himself wedged in there! Glad we caught it on camera once. M

[@autumnnite1803]

Gorgeous video! Loved everything about it, the relaxing music, the views, the cows, the bloopers and George trying to get through the gate at the end!

[@MinimalList]

Aww, Thank you! 😊 Jo

[@randallfield4036]

It must have been very moooving waking up to that sight. I totally agree that part of the Thames is very beautiful. Congratulations on the 100 episodes I hope to enjoy the next 100. Jo and Micheal thank you for sharing your journey I always love getting those Minimal List notifications.

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! M

[@morgidvmw0mdv]

You mentioned the Themes and Severn disused canal and the fact that it runs through Stroud. Our son lives in Stroud and they are rennervating the canal there, so maybe, one day the whole length will be navigable.

[@MinimalList]

Would love that... apparently there's some problem with re-opening the tunnel, which might not be practical ... but we can hope. M

[@stevenmiller5400]

Thanks so much for sharing the River Thames with us!

[@MinimalList]

Thanks for watching! M

[@Chuck59ish]

Wow! Episode 100, congrats!

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! M

[@thewebtutorguy]

I’m a bit behind in viewing your vlogs but still enjoying them. Thanks guys. 👍

[@MinimalList]

Take your time! Got to pace yourself! M

[@sallyu1]

Congratulations on your 100th - we've watched them all. Sally and Stephen in Fuerteventura.

[@MinimalList]

Thanks for putting up with so much of us! M

[@wsatnutter9674]

indeed it does look lovely very enjoyable thank you

[@MinimalList]

Thank you!

[@leedavies3629]

That’s mad canal switchbacks looks good there peaceful George is one cool dog .nice one

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! M

[@gen1rev22]

That field full of cows reminds me of my youth and first experience of magic mushrooms . We , myself and friends , sat in a field full of cows picking and eating magic mushrooms all day ..... Yes , it was an amazing trip . We did get out of the field eventually .

[@MinimalList]

Hmm. Now me I wouldn't eat mushrooms I found in a field full of cow pats... but to each their own! M

[@richardclark148]

Another great vlog..M becoming a cattle whisperer and your flowers are doing well Jo. George trying to bypass a gate was a magic moment.

[@MinimalList]

It was the third time he got wedged in there... thankfully we caught it on camera once! And I've always been an animal whisperer... everywhere I went in India the cows befriended me! M

[@JISJ1964]

I think it is there that they in the TV-series Amazing Designs built a floating house of concrete positioned in what could be described as a constantly filled "dry dock" on the bank of the river having four huge poles fixating the house for sideways moves and all connections "water, electricitity, gas and so on made of rubberhose to be able to move with tha house after the waterlevels in the river.

[@fritters56]

Word of advice: Cow tipping is generally done at night, course so is falling into cow pies.. electric fence break dancing is considered optional and best done while holding onto a partner.. Had fun, invite me to tea some time, well some time later as it seems our new puppy found my shoes, it is one of those tea cup thingies thinking of naming it Cujo....

[@MinimalList]

Don't do it, you'll end up with a demon dog on your hands, glowing eyes and baleful teeth and all! M

[@fritters56]

Wife named it Paco, which I guess will be okay as it is my wife's dog, problem is my hunting dog hides under the bed from it, I am tempted to join it, dang toe biting mexican jumping bean...The dang thing is fearless, it practices sky diving off the furniture.. have your own kind of fun now, will pick fun with you later...

[@MinimalList]

Heh. Sounds like the first Dachshund I ever met... three hundred pounds of ravenous dire wolf stuffed into a decent size pepperoni. M

[@christopherpeterson1400]

You both seem so happy this video

[@MinimalList]

We tend to be happier than not, thankfully. M

[@Buzzardgirl13]

I live just down the road from Lechlade so really enjoyed watching this. We used to moor our boat at Radcot so know this stretch of river well. I hope you managed to find the lovely old church at Inglesham on your walk

[@MinimalList]

Saw it in the distance, but didn't go in. Seeing some pictures online I now rather regret that. M

[@stevericketts4383]

Said Hi to you last week at Hatton Locks. Me and my daughter had a drink at the cafe with Bella and she turned her nose up at the lettuce on offer from Michael. George is lovely and has an impressive bark. All the best for the winter cruising you have planned. Let's hope for. Mild one. Steve and Victoria.

[@MinimalList]

All I had was lettuce! Nice meeting you! Cheers! M

[@ianmason8713]

That does look nice around there. I had never heard of Lechlade before.

[@MinimalList]

It's a lovely area, totally worth the visit! M

[@vvmmuu]

ALL the best.

[@MinimalList]

Thanks' m

[@robjelliott]

I've been catching up on on all your past vlogs having caught the narrow boat pipe dream. Last year I walked the Thames path and this brought back memories. Won't it be wonderful when the Seven to Thames canal is restored it will open up so many possibilities

[@MinimalList]

Yeah, it'll be great if it's fully connected again; would be so nice to take that route through to Stroud and on to Sharpness. M

[@trevornelmes9331]

@@MinimalList Funding IS arriving in fits and spurts. Some of the canal, some of the bridges and locks are now done. Give it ten years maybe. The Sapperton Tunnel and the Ewen Viaduct (demolished) will be the hard part, plus persuading some landowners to hand back the land, but I have a feeling that a couple of marinas will be built, plus housing, to 'compensate'.

[@jamesjetty625]

Jo for your cows. Take a old van put some coins or some other metal like nuts or bolts. Basically a metallic rattler. It will get them to more and not spook

[@MinimalList]

Hmmm, good to know. Though I think they'd still have her spooked. M

[@normanboyes4983]

Looks like you are getting a great deal weather wise at the end of the season.😀

[@MinimalList]

Yes we've gotten MUCH luckier than expected! It's been lovely! M

[@simonuden8450]

Oh, you young 'uns. Those that were born in the fifties (and earlier, obviously), well remember the halfpennys, and the farthings too. It's pronounced 'haypunny', with the emphasis mildly on the 'hay' syllable...or at least it was where I was dragged up in the south. Beautiful scenery, by the way. I'm even more jealous now.

[@MinimalList]

All I want to know is how did they build that bridge so cheap! ;-) M

[@simonuden8450]

Probably the same contractor that built the tuppeny (two-penny) tube, as the Central line was colloquially known when it opened as the Central London Railway in 1900. Tuppence it cost, to travel from anywhere to anywhere else on the line. Now there's a coincidence :o))

[@MinimalList]

Adjusted for inflation, that's about £2.39 today. Amazing. M

[@douglaskerins6030]

garden looks lovely, autumney (?) some marigolds would be perfect!

[@stevecooney1361]

Lovely vlog. Rearly close to my home town stonehouse. Near Stroud. There are working on the stroudwater canal. Some parts are open. It will connect to the glos and sharpness canal. This is we're I am moored. Just put my first two coats of undercoat on the boat ready for the winter months.

[@MinimalList]

Can't wait for it to connect! Will be such a nice area! M

[@stevecooney1361]

@@MinimalList will make it easier to get to Oxford our favourite place.

[@narrowboatclips4116]

Yes, Lechlade is a lovely spot but we didn’t appreciate the attention of a very inquisitive cow that stepped on our deck for a closer look when we moored there this summer!!

[@MinimalList]

Hah! We only had a near duck hatch encounter and one slightly chewed rope. Curious, them cows!

[@paulroberts5677]

Enjoyed that, thank you. The Thames and Severn Canal is very unlikely to get to Stroud due to a tunnel, that needs to be refurbished, being run through Fuller's earth. However, the other side of the tunnel has got £26 million pounds of lotterymoney to take the canal from there to the Gloucester and Sharpness canal. There was going to be a deal with the water companies to refurbish the canal so that water could be transferred from the Severn to London, but these have fallen by the wayside. It is ever such a pity because London and Stroud would have been a great route to travel. Anyway, the Stroudwater and the Gloucester and Sharpness canal WILL be connected. It will please me no end as my flat is in Stroud and Mrs Mouse lives in Saul, where the Stroudwater joins the G&S. There are so many wonderful restorations in this area waiting to be done. The North Wiltshire and the Wiltshire and Berkshire for instance.

[@MinimalList]

Can't wait till they get done so we can come back and visit them! M

[@marianillingworth4403]

Glad you enjoyed Lechlade, we love it here although we are looking forward to next year when we will be ‘of no fixed abode ‘. We left here at the end of June and arrived back a couple of weeks before you got here. There are some lovely circular walks, they are all George-friendly. The History Board was produced by the Lechlade History Society and there are a few around, you should have seen one by the Roundhouse. Great video as always. Do you travel all year or moor up for the winter?

[@MinimalList]

We did see the Roundhouse one as well, very well done and quite fun to read. We move year round, though obviously a little less so once the canal freezes in. Not ready to moor up, not yet! M

[@peteon4wheels627]

They weren't cow's, they where burgers in disguised lol, another great vlog.

[@MinimalList]

Well, milkshakes in disguise... it's a dairy farm apparently. M

[@kencattell]

Sorry to say you failed. I moor a 22 and a 28 two miles upstream from the roundhouse. Had visitors with 35 foot birch woods and 55 wide beam barges in the summer plus 2 nb (1× 50 1x 65) overwinter 200 yards up from where I moor! Come back sometime, is I'm there the kettles on.

[@MinimalList]

Dammit! They’re adamant that’s the safe limit! And it certainly looked too bloody shallow! Well, we might have to swing back by! M

[@320ifq]

Lechlade is nice Llangollen is the ultimate canal location.

[@MinimalList]

That's where we're heading, just with a lot of canals and curves and rings to go before we get there! M

[@ASCIITerminal]

Despite the challenges, it will be fantastic if the Thames and Severn canal could be reopened one day.

[@MinimalList]

It would be absolutely amazing! M

[@ChrisBrown-jh2mo]

@@MinimalList There seems to be some progress: www.cotswoldcanals.org.uk/about-us/

[@rbagrizzly]

Michael: "George you want to try the gate again?" George: Quit stalling fat boy and open the gate!!" LOL Good shot of the house and round house at the end, looks better than google earth. Would be great to live there!

[@MinimalList]

It is quite an interesting house. M

[@viviennebrooks3055]

When we parked up the cows ate our mooring pin covers!

[@MinimalList]

Silly cows! The worst we got was one attempted rubber bumper theft and a momentary "maybe I want to stick my snout in the duck hatch" that was aborted when George jumped up. M

[@morrisminor56]

Right got to 100, only 270 + to go lol.

[@MinimalList]

Good Luck!

[@rwbimbie5854]

Pokécanal - Gotta cruise them all

[@MinimalList]

Exactly! M

[@ladygardener100]

Hi, just wondering if you have a Gold Licence or buy licences as you go along ty nice one guys

[@MinimalList]

We do not have a Gold License. We considered one this year, but as we weren't going to head further east and hadn't planned on returning to London we didn't think it would be worth it... in the end for a standard width narrowboat the price of a Gold is more than the price of a regular license plus 1x31 day short term EA license... if we'd been doing more than 1 month on EA waters the Gold would be the better option. M

[@janstickles3035]

100 episodes, congratulations and thank you.

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! M

[@josecorreia8280]

hi did you boat came with rubble dingo

[@MinimalList]

There was a rubber dinghy that sold with it, but it was too large and unwieldy to be of much use, so we sold it on eBay. M

[@derekmills5394]

Sorry Michael, but those were NOT cows! - Oh & congrats 100 Vlogs! That's some commitment.

[@MinimalList]

Pretty sure a lot of them were. Apparently it's a dairy farm. Though there were several bulls as well. And wait till we hit 200! M

[@courierdog1941]

Careful Michael, you are almost beginning to pronounce the word " Cows" like an Englishman. It is so funny as I never here it here in Alberta except when I run across fellow Maritimers who pronounce "Cows" almost like it is spelt "Caews" or some sort.

[@MinimalList]

The English are infecting me! Argh!! M

[@moosabones]

🐄 Holstein-friesians.