265 - Narrowboating Through A Building

[@trevornelmes9331]

Thanks to your channel, we took the plunge and hired a boat last weekend. Our first time. Great, great fun. And then they closed the system to hire boats, just after we handed her back. It IS quite tiring though, but satisfying.

[@MinimalList]

Glad you enjoyed it, though yeah we can’t really convey just how tiring it can be! Also glad you got it in before the canals snapped shut! Stay safe! M

[@SeanMcPhersonSenior]

I know I've seen it before, but George is onboard so seldom that I always find it fun when M has his leash and the tiller; it looks like George is driving on this trip again! Go George! Sorry to hear you weren't feeling great for this leg of the trip. Thanks for another video at an especially appreciated time. Hope you're both well and well supplied!

[@MinimalList]

Well stocked, well supplied, and but for George’s boredom doing well enough. Stay safe! M

[@andyb1237]

I bet you’re glad to have three months of footage in the can as nobody is going anywhere for a while. I was due to retire next week and head off on a six month trip on my boat so I guess I’ll just have to travel vicariously with you. Stay safe.

[@MinimalList]

Man, sorry that trip is delayed. Hopefully we’ll have some more vicarious life for you soon. We didn’t move that much the last few months due to the floods and storms and some uncooperative tides, but hopefully the footage lasts through the bulk of this. M

[@garym518]

Yes happy new year indeed how little did we know what was coming hope you are both well.

[@MinimalList]

Goes to show that you REALLY never can tell what’s around the corner. M

[@eugenefleming1614]

Your post are calming in this time, thank you for this relief stay safe🐕💛

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! You too! M

[@AuntieSullivan]

Congratulations on yet another Silver Propeller Location. Good health to you both !

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! And to you! M

[@pilpelet100]

Thanks for posting. Congratulations on another silver propeller. Keep safe and well.

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! You too! M

[@julierathbone9382]

Oh bless ya - you sounded really poorly. Hope you’re ok now xxx

[@MinimalList]

We are all well now! Thanks for asking 😊

[@christinehammell6365]

Laughing at the outtakes. You are so good at explaining the virus and immunology and yet you can't end a vlog …...haha x

[@MinimalList]

It’s all different skill sets! M

[@christinehammell6365]

@@MinimalList Yes indeed Michael . You were definitely on your subject there

[@christinegibbins6105]

Thank you both, well done on the silver propeller location, take care

[@MinimalList]

Thank you! You too! M

[@woodyjag4084]

Wow, I’m actually up to date as I’ve binge watched all 265 videos one after the other, massive thank you for teaching me so much between you and also David from cruising the cut as I’ve watched all his too, I’m hoping this year to move on to a narrow boat and if I do you will have played a huge part in getting me to make the move .... thank you

[@MinimalList]

You’re welcome! You’ll love it, though do give yourself at least three months to adjust! M

[@chazzyb8660]

Thanks for your voice of sanity in this world gone mad. Be safe, be kind.

[@MinimalList]

We always are. Be safe as well! M

[@derbuckeyetribe9789]

Like number #671 and a comment. Hope all is well with you guys. Getting more crazy here in Ohio. Still OK and plodding along here. Pretty well stocked up on everything I thought we would need for 60 days. I even broke a few personal items out of the vault and made sure they were operational. I also stocked up on supplies for those items. Ironically I was going to do that anyways. With Spring coming soon, a bit of target practice and skeet shooting sounded fun. Now, who knows? Glad I stocked up on everything. P.S. Sadie says she has plenty of food, supplements, and treats to last her into mid summer! We also have plenty of fuel to supply the equipment here for a few months. Sadie won't be going without her Gator runs across the farm.

[@MinimalList]

Stay safe you guys. I doubt you’ll need those particular supplies - sadly, can’t shoot a virus not of the zombie variety - but at least you’ll have some food if need be. M

[@derbuckeyetribe9789]

@@MinimalList Those supplies will most likely get used for skeet practice, but it's good to have them just in case. 👍 My mom was an RN. Growing up she and her boss taught me all about germs (B&V both). So I'm not too worried about that per se. She also taught me about the safe use of firearms. Stay safe and healthy, we're looking forward to more great content. If I had the cameras, I'd start shooting Sadie's adventure here on the farm

[@colinstewart173]

Thanks for the video and welcome to 2020. I warn you now it’s not going to be great 🥺🥺

[@MinimalList]

It’s a bit of a doozy, isn’t it? M

[@willsgetoff1157]

Short but sweet, Lived just across the border in Chesterfield for 18 years and never realised the canal ran right into the centre of Sheffield. When we're finally allowed out I'll have to have a trip down there. Stay safe, looking forward to seeing where your heading off to next.

[@MinimalList]

When you’re allowed do take the trip! It’s quite a nice little terminal basin, but doesn’t get nearly the foot traffic it deserves, and businesses there could definitely use the boost! M

[@andyliverpool24]

I realise you closed the comments on it for a reason but Michael your video on geno and immunology is easier to understand than most of what is being said out there as such I sent it to my mum who has mental health issues as a way I hoped she would understand more about the current virus and also about the testing and why she can't just rock up and a hospital and get a test. And by God it worked and she has finally come round to the thinking that she doesn't yet require 1 so I just wanted and it has helped her mental health no end . And I just wanted to say a huge thank you for that.

[@MinimalList]

I’m glad it could help her (and you) in any way at all. Thank you for watching. M

[@TheBoatingAdventure]

Thanks guys happy new year, if only we knew, but hey we have to make the most of it. Watched Michael's other vlog. Looks like the second test is coming as soon as they know it works. I just wonder how many people will have had this thing without knowing. Hope you are all ok, I'm really sorry but I pinched two screen shots from your Sheffield navigation for a vlog that I made for parents home schooling their own children, I needed an example of a navigation, I sent you a message to ask but I don't think it got through to you, I credited them to you at the end and made them look different I hope that was ok, I'm trying to make myself useful to people whilst locked down. I have to be careful as I have had pneumonia before and leptospirosis last year which was really bad. I always have to have a flu jab each year so I am keeping right out the way. Take very great care you three. Thanks for the vlogs. Alan x

[@MinimalList]

Don’t worry at all about using the screen shots, thanks for the credit, and for letting us know. And yeah, the antibody tests are starting to come online, though there’s still a lot of work to do to verify them against the real population... once they do it should give us a much better picture, though the confirmed case count will skyrocket. As long as it rises out of proportion to the death rate, however, that’s effectively a good thing. Please do your best to stay safe! M

[@markattardo]

Cool little basin! Good thing there wasn't a line to get into the silver prop spot😂

[@MinimalList]

Yep, got lucky there! M

[@malcolmelliott1876]

Happy new year... seems so long ago! You look well rested and ready for the decent. Keep safe and well.

[@MinimalList]

Ready for many descents... though not really the one we ended up on! M

[@ilox11]

Hi guys, hope it is all going well for the 3 of you. That was interesting seeing all of that infrastructure still there even after the industry had faded away by then. I do hope that signage gets clarified and updated. You were quite right to feel that normal "Winter" conditions applied. How did you find out that something was awry with your plans?

[@MinimalList]

We’ve had various plans go awry recently, and found out by a wide variety of means... I’m kind of losing track of which means matches which awry. M

[@ilox11]

@@MinimalList sorry for not being clear. That signage that said 48 hours. How did you find out that the normal "Winter" mooring conditions didn't apply? Did the Marina speak to you? You ask at the Marina? Another narrowboater let you know?

[@pappakilo3965]

More Silver Propeller points, I hope CRT introduces another level for you and other intrepid narrowboaters. I guess a 'Toilet Tissue' propeller might be one option, that material currently being more valuable than silver

[@MinimalList]

The IWA run through Silver Propeller Challange, but yes we need another target. Currently aiming to hit them all.

[@pappakilo3965]

@@MinimalList At least by saying 'silver' they've left room above for more

[@TheSkskitey]

Good to see someone posting vlogs in at this time , Covid-19 , even though months old i'm still liking them , stay safe :-)

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! More to come, till we catch up to our confined current selves! M

[@dotsguard6246]

Congratulations on another 'ticked box' and for the 'real time' stuff as well. Happy New Year+85 ...

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! Glad you liked it! M

[@rogerbond7811]

Hope you both stay well.

[@MinimalList]

You too! M

[@JCDiamond]

I've never seen a swing bridge that is opened by winding. Pretty cool! Happy New Year. :P

[@MinimalList]

Happy (belated) New Year... it’s gonna be a doozy! M

[@buss8009]

Hi. I love the bloopers at the end... Please stay safe in this Corona times. But if anyone knows how, you do.

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! We’re doing our best! Hope you’re safe too! M

[@geoffreykail9129]

Sorry you're feeling poorly Jo. Hope it was a short discomfort.

[@MinimalList]

Thankfully it was! M

[@SadlyKaren]

How you are doing well....keep safe and healthy!

[@MinimalList]

Thanks! You too! M

[@thryduulf]

Happy new year!

[@NarrowboatFirefly]

Feeling a little rough on New Years Day, that's normal. Seems like a different world from all that time ago

[@MinimalList]

Oh man, does it ever! M

[@rogerwhittle2078]

I love that building over the canal! Maybe living in the lowest floor would be a bit cold, but the upper floors would be great. Not as good as a nice narrowboat though. Happy New Year, by the way.

[@MinimalList]

Who says you can’t have both?! M

[@rogerwhittle2078]

@@MinimalList Would that be asking too much?

[@hw476]

Sorry but that was really weird. You saying Happy New Year. Little did we know. Keep safe. 🤗

[@MinimalList]

Turned out it was a bit of a doozy! Oh well, hindsight is 2020. M

[@antsquirly7654]

Yup, viewed 29/6/20

[@donaldmackay6749]

Happy New Year folks. It seems that your last few videos have had you in a hurry to get from some place to another due to closures, weather or something or other. Is this a function of it being seasonal. If so when does boating get back to normal? Seems quite a bit more stressful this time of year despite there being less traffic.

[@MinimalList]

It’s mainly a function of the seasons, yeah... it s why most people (even CCs like us) move into marinas for the winter. Stoppages can be really hard to work around, movement can be harder, and there’s things like flooding to worry about. Things start to lighten up again every year beginning in March. Though for some blasted fool reason they scheduled a pandemic this year! M

[@Chuck59ish]

Hope Jo is okay and hasn't come down with the Coronovirus like Rich on Floating Our Boat has.

[@MinimalList]

No worries there, nothing but some spring sniffles for either of us! M

[@KissedSomeFrogs]

Happy (Belated) New Year to you! Running your fingers through your hair did no good. Trust me I know! Be safe ya'all!

[@MinimalList]

It never does! Thanks, and you as well! M

[@loft306]

Hmmm, nope it’s not June 😞 I was going to continue on with something snarky but yeah nice cruise thanks, from Google earth it does look like there was a widebeam under that warehouse but couldn’t really tell for sure now I can.

[@MinimalList]

We got it in before I predicted, thanks in part to a pandemic giving Jo more time to edit! Silver linings! M

[@loft306]

Yep your catching up, less than 3mo post production , stay safe 😘

[@angelakm6753]

Not June - just March!

[@MinimalList]

Heh... of course you can blame the pandemic for giving us a chance to catch up! M

[@stretch9952]

Following a meeting of the international board of governors, it is announced that 2020 has been officially cancelled after wheezing, sputtering and ultimately failing to start correctly. Accordingly, the board has declared that 2021 will begin on April 1. You will receive full credit for your accomplishments in these first few, faltering months. We look forward to a bright new year, free of the anxieties and distasteful personalities that encumbered the launch of 2020.

[@MinimalList]

I’d like to thank the board for their efforts in bringing 2020 to a rapid close. M

[@morrislouiseeagle7161]

👏❤️😁Xxx

[@trevornelmes9331]

Stupid I know. First this time?