Boating with the Husband on the Thames

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[@knight2255]

Interesting watching 2 different takes of the same journey, I'm ready for round 2!

[@Kiwionwing]

yes very yeng yang vlogs in positive way David is controlled launa is free

[@brianrydzeski6108]

Regarding the uppity lockies: Everyone brings joy to a room. Some when entering; others while leaving. I am 66 -- I do not understand the negative people in this world. And a lot of my peers seem to be that way, although they come in all ages. I like when you and the husband travel. You both give such interesting perspectives. AND, that call box door - Priceless. Made this American Smile.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

It's fun to see both of your reactions to this cruise.👍 Thank you for sharing. 😊

[@pepperpot542]

She always seems more happier and positive when david is with her

[@chrispnw2547]

As is David... I have enjoyed every episode when they traveled together by boat or campervan. Their overnight campervan trip to Northamptonshire in 2023 was fun and they seem to be kindred spirits. Always a pleasure.

[@34136TS]

Chemistry; sometimes you find it when and where you least expect it!

[@SamSitar]

i completely agree with you.

[@sandbridgekid4121]

All jokes aside, they seem very close. One can have a best chum without being "engaged" etc.

[@34136TS]

Maybe best to disconnect keyboard when thinking to self? 🤐 @@sandbridgekid4121 Having to been gracious enough to share their private experiences the least you can do is respect their remaining privacy? Tut.

[@SheplerStudios]

Two of my favorite boating and van people!

[@pageant1fd]

You two together are superb. Great fun and informative too. Thanks

[@pattimann1541]

I'm glad you mentioned "mooring anxiety" - I've been getting it just watching your and David's Thames-adventure videos. I was wondering if it was just me! To add to that, though...your videos give me so much peace, despite the encounters with moody people and lack of mooring.

[@edsageseamaster3440]

Great video Lorna. Love the comment at the beginning about the neutral button!! Also the boat is 12ft wide. So nice to see it from a different perspective. And totally agree about certain lockies!!!! Can’t wait for the next one

[@lornajaneadventures]

Thanks again for having us. I think I’m converted to this inside boating thing!

[@edsageseamaster3440]

You’re most welcome and always are. I’m glad we finally got it sorted! The strange thing is that the previous lockie at Culham, I knew for for many years and was so nice. Folk are definitely getting less friendly on the river. Tends to be the narrowboaters, slightly older generation and barge owners who are most friendly. Take care and speak soon.

[@t1n4444]

"Fortunately" (?) not all locks are equipped with a lock keeper 24/7. As you will know some lock keepers have two or three locks under their care. Much preferred the unattended service where you could suit yourself with just the centre line. Wasn't too keen on holding both end lines when the lock keeper opened the paddles wide open. Also, didn't care too much for the watering up thing either. Was once politely reminded by a lock keeper about not having hose across the towpath ... and the lock keeper came back about five minutes later to check! There again the "buttons" make the locking operation as easy as.

[@pollenhead]

Lovely being introduced to you. Enjoying the tour of the Thames, can't wait to view more of your videos.

[@ireneshortt984]

Thank you for sharing your adventures, you two always seem to have fun when you get together. really loving this adventure.

[@marvindebot3264]

Ed is a brave soul, isn't he? 😝😁 Pipe Dream is a nice river boat, something almost as rare in OZ as a narrowboat. I could live on that even with the two doggos. A lock keeper really told you it is called "helming"? Helm is not a verb, it is a noun only so he's wrong. You can have a helm wheel, you can have a helm station you can take the helm but you cannot helm not can you have a helming station. That is a pet peeve of mine. The Thames is a beautiful river, so unlike Aussie rivers and it's on the bucket list along with the Peak Forrest Canal and a few others. I love the way English rivers and streams have the grass right up to the water with no shoreline to speak of, apart from Tasmania you never see that here, there's almost always a mud or sand "beach" in between rather than grass that drops directly off into the water. 05:45 You never were a morning person, were you? 😄 Me either, I work US hours managing web forums so I'm much more of a night owl. It's great to see you happy and smiling, I do worry about you even from the other end of the earth. I hope you realise there are a lot of people who care about your well-being, you can always unload on us without having to worry about then running into us down the pub. See you on Patreon (I think I'm #6). PS: I love the waterside mailbox! How incredibly cool is that?! PPS: 15k views in under 20 hours; well done!.

[@LoisDavidsonArt]

Always love seeing the two of you on your adventures, and what a fab boat! Makes a change from NBs !

[@dirkjordy9point714]

Ive lived in this area all my 48yrs. Growing up in the Pangbourne area and still love the river and countryside. I'm gonna get accused of sounding bitter, jealous, even stereotypical, but the last 20yrs have seen an influx(from London?) of a lot of wealth to the area. They buy a big old house, modernise it with lots of glass and timber. The put bloody great fencing/gates around it and either shit themselves or look at you with distain if you dare say morning to them😂🙄. I actually find it funny because i don't know what the expected would happen moving out here. Anyway nice work!

[@gabrieletewinkel584]

The first time Someone called me "Love " I was 19, an Au-pair working in London. I had to pick up something from the dry cleaners, The Lady giving me change said "Thank you love",made my day, in fact, I couldn ´t stop laughing.

[@Electrowave]

I found that quite weird when I first came to UK. Also being called "darling" by complete strangers. Now I'm in Wales I get called "chick". As a man I don't feel it a very manly sounding nickname. I've also been called "petal" up in north east of England.

[@jamesboyleii6332]

American, here - is being called "love" a good thing or bad? Does it get said often? It doesn't seem to be a term someone would say to a stranger.

[@dallassukerkin6878]

@@jamesboyleii6332 It's perfectly fine ... if you are a girl :D Such name place-holders have many variations around the country, as Electro hinted at above. Some areas there are gender divided terms such as 'love' or 'pet' for women and 'mate' or 'pal' for men - where I'm from, man or woman, you'll get referred to as 'duck' :D.

[@m4rkph1ll1p5]

Whilst in Cornwall a little while back my family and I stopped for a Sunday Roast at a lovely pub by the harbour at Porthleven. I went to the bar to collect cutlery and asked a fairly elderly lady at the bar if I could reach across her to get them. "Of course you can my lover" she said... "Goodness" I replied!

[@tracyfun6918]

@@Electrowave hello flower, lancashire area x

[@rebeccam9008]

Great video. I am enjoying your journey so far. Looking forward to the next installment. (Enjoying David's videos as well.)

[@castingshadows282]

One good thing about being aboard small boats. David doesn't have to run to far to catch you. 🏃‍♀ 🏃‍♂ Live it like you do. Great to see you enjoying life Lorna.

[@leswallace2426]

Great to see you with David again!

[@paulmark63]

Hi Lorna wonderful video sorry you had grumpy lock keepers but I can see you take it in your stride keep up the great work. Paul in Kent

[@trevorsbarkingmadchannel4501]

Great cruise with a awesome couple. Love these broads cruisers. Roll on part two. 😊

[@amywalker209]

Lovely to see you both! Did the upper Thames a few years ago and loved it but tricky to moor for sure. Sorry for the lock keeper experience. Hopefully the good memories vastly outnumber it, though fully appreciate that's not how the mind works. Will wave if your paths ever cross ours for sure.

[@peterchambers3592]

Interesting to see your take on the Thames. We were doing it at the same time (we were in Thames-Kennett marina warm and dry when you were getting soaked at Tesco). I saw the same lock-keepers (and the ones up to Lechlade) and they are a varied bunch working for a really dysfunctional agency. What they are provided with is old hardware and little backup. Management has no discretionary budget and no ability to weld them into a team. They are left to make it all up, with the result that it is all incoherent. When you are dependant on them for electric it is even more fraught - add range anxiety. Everyone has to suffer the small, hard to read signs just to learn that there is no mooring there. I did appreciate the few places with clear signs offering paid mooring, using URLs or QR codes. Post signs - make money!

[@Lego6980]

12:55 I this got into the news on the bbc. There’s a Banksy equivalent guy who’s putting these letterboxes on impossible places on rivers. I think the last thing was a lavatory in the middle of a bridge somewhere - And think it was supposed to have been a protest against water utility companies polluting rivers up and down the UK.

[@layalabi1667]

Just watched David's lovely vlog, and now your lovely vlog...rain and all!! Thank you!!

[@msinclair8261]

We did the Thames twice from Oxford to Reading on our narrowboat. The lock keepers were miserable then as well. If they don't enjoy their work then move on. It would be a great job for someone else. The lock you went through and said the lock keepers were nicer was exactly the same for us. They make a big deal about tying on while the lock descends and i have to say they are the tamest locks I ever encountered. The boaters in their plastic boats literally look down their noses at the narrowboaters. There is no community feeling at all on the Thames. The mooring on the Thames is dire. As you get closer to London you will find people coming out and charging you mooring fees. It makes you appreciate the canals more.

[@QALibrary]

very interesting - having only been on the Norfolk Broads - the Thames seems to be a mixture of different river systems but a lot of the area looks like the Broads

[@t1n4444]

You might consider a canal holiday ... outside the school holiday season that is. That said far, far too many twits buy into this "such and such" ring nonsense and boast how quickly they can get around "a" ring. These twits cruise all day and into the evening. They don't understand the notion of a relaxing holiday at all. They are at best a nuisance and at worst a menace as they race by moored boats and, possibly, have your pins out. Bastards.

[@CherylSteele-rt8dj]

This was fab! It was great being on the Thames with you two lovely people.

[@charlesxix]

Its nice to see you enjoying yourself Lorna.

[@bill45colt]

great video for sure,,,,110pm here,,,i just saw Davids video a few minutes ago,,,,looks like lots of beautiful sights along your way!! on the issue of windows or not,,,,,id say,,,a great part of the reason for your travels are what you can see along the way. Both in the scenery and the passing traffic. Id personally want an enclosed cabin with the slide back roof as on this one and very large windows....if at any point you want privacy, pull your curtains. That way you can be open or private at your choosing. In a boat with only small port holes, you cant see very well unless you are directly in front of the port hole, where with a big window, you can be most anywhere and still be a part of your surroundings,,,,,my opinion,,,your choice,,,,,best wishes,,,,,bill in north alabama sunday afternoon aug 20 2023

[@Lego6980]

Just popped over from Cruising the Cut. Lovely vlog. Thanks Lorna!

[@stevelang3171]

you sure do look a lot happier now! congrats. i liked the narrowboat with the canvas canopy of thre driver's station 13 minutes or so in.

[@SamSitar]

fun watching them traveling together.

[@MichaelSebastianTodd]

i really enjoyed watching this the River Thames is amazing and its a lovely canel to walk & ive walked some of the Thames in the Reading area before & its a shame to hear that theres some miserable people out on the Thames theres me thinking that everyone along the canels are normally friendly but anyway brilliant vlog

[@philroberts7238]

I suspect the difference might be down to the fact that the Thames is home to all those floating 'gin palaces', which are not to be found on the canals and so there's a lot more of a (nouveau?) monied vibe to the river. As well as the fact that most of the river bank is privately owned and jealously guarded. (Some stunning scenery, though!)

[@LisaMarli]

Loved David's view of the journey. Nice to see yours.

[@rebeccamackey4878]

you guys have such a great time together thanks for bringing us along..weed california u.s.a.

[@richardjensen6753]

Hello, from Kansas! I'm glad to see you guys out again! Driving that boat would be different for sure! It is a very odd boat! I'd hate to have to do any maintenance on that engine! Thanks!

[@adrianheywood]

Loved watching this Lorna; Benson is my hometown. Thanks for sharing. :)

[@corriedeacon7842]

Great video Lorna I know what to say when hubby ask what is for diner😅

[@mindless-confusion]

Love your videos together and have watched David's as well

[@flybywire5866]

The boat is quite nice. Being able to open the roof is amazing. But if it rains, you stay dry. I always thought, when watching Davids videos, him standing outside in the rain, thats no fun. But, when the roof is open ist like an outdoor kitchen/living room.

[@marthaanderson2656]

I have done several long distance paths in England and they are immensely enjoyable. I have looked at The Thames Path in the last year as a prospective holiday. Most of the national paths you can get Sherpa service to take you bag to the next night lodging, but I have not seen this on TP, so you would have to carry waterproofs and a very stripped down kit. Still on the list, perhaps 2025

[@lornajaneadventures]

I would wear the same clothes for the two weeks straight 😂

[@SamSitar]

similarly New England has rail trails. i am slowly filming them.

[@corriedeacon7842]

@@lornajaneadventures So will I

[@34136TS]

On a narrowboat the seating height is different - the only boats that you can look out of from a comfy chair are the holiday boats where the gunwale steps down for the lounge window.

[@CheckFred]

It'll be interesting to find out if you both made it OUT! Of Reading safely 😎 ...... And I HOPE You've captured some nice footage of #Wargrave and #Shiplake .... I thought I SAW that boat moored at #Henley a few days ago 🤨🤔

[@geoffreyhui830]

Going through the locks on the Thames, we were followed by a boat with a curious name, Shellfish Beach. Strange because that's not where you look for shellfish, usually. It didn't make sense until we said the name out loud.

[@annh.8290]

Great "road trip", thank you. I see you are having the same lovely summer weather as we are here in the Netherlands, dark, wet, and very unpleasant, unless you are a duck!

[@maxiemills6982]

Two of my favorite vloggers together.

[@hamshackleton]

I had to follow David's link to your vid, as KZbin didn't bother showing it! As I put on David's - you are looking a lot happier than last time you showed yourself, in your flat.

[@cerysfrost3215]

My lunchtime walk is along the Thames at Reading from Kennetmouth to the Watersport Centre -it's nice when it's sunny!

[@rickkearn7100]

Did not know about your channel, Lorna Jane, until I saw David's (CTC) vid of this same trip. Nicely done on your end! I subscribed. :) Cheers.

[@urbanrider429]

Husband,just watched David on his channel,great entertainment by the way,Chris

[@sandbridgekid4121]

So chuffed to see you both! Not enough Lorna and CTC. If only I could see Anna Marie and Kath....

[@janeabbotts]

I haven't seen a boat like that one before, looks very comfortable. Enjoyed the cruise, thank you. Cheers.

[@t1n4444]

Nice enough in summer but they are uninsulated in the main and very, very cold/damp and uncomfortable in the winter months, especially on the Broads with the usual breeze from Siberia.

[@janeabbotts]

@@t1n4444 Ah..summer only boating then...:)

[@t1n4444]

@@janeabbotts Hmm ... if that boat was someone's home then no matter where one is then the winters will be dreadful. Those plastic boats don't lend themselves very easily to retrofitting insulation. And, if a modern boat is spray foamed, say, then if the contractor gets it wrong with the volatiles mix then your boat will become full of the volatiles off gassing, for years and years. Plenty of tales of woe to be found via Google or YT. Certainly there's a lot to be said for polystyrene batts with a moisture membrane. However, there's always an "however", there are issues with polystyrene batts in direct contact with PVC twin and earth. Google continues to be your friend btw.

[@JeghedderThomas]

These cruisers are so cozy.

[@MarkSilcock]

Great video. Thanks for the effort

[@considerlizards]

4:32 You daft buggers! I suspect you two were the happiest folk on that stretch.

[@Boating_David]

I've hired an identical boat on the Broads love the social aspect of driving next to the sofa ! And a roof lol

[@Jonathan_55018]

WOW looks fantastic

[@altacat9702]

: ) Thanks for the Fun !!

[@TregMediaHD]

21 seconds and wishing the T shirt from hubby love from an Impressed 66 t1 and love to the hapy couke from the netherlands also Hashtag Abingdon , Fun Times

[@grendel1960a]

you should try the norfolk broads, no locks and friendly people who wave- ok not so many moorings as the canals but you can find wild moorings most places, or just drop a mudweight on a broad for the night.

[@tonyp011]

Hi Lorna the boat looks like it was bought from Richardson’s in Stalham on the broads which is the largest hire boat company on the Norfolk Broads and they are in the northern broads, and there is a private chalet park across the road from them should you wish to start your holiday early like we did one year as it saved us rushing with the traveling on the day we started our hire boat holiday so come the day we was nice and relaxed rating to go on the Saturday afternoon

[@tracyfun6918]

love you two, hands off david hes mine lol.nice too see you both having a nice time together,hows your new boat coming along xxxx

[@sandbridgekid4121]

Try porthole covers, and sunblocking curtains, and then your much too small narrowboat can have ANY size windows. Since they're built into the boats superstructure, you're stuck with whatever size you choose.

[@tamar5261]

Great stuff

[@katoi-]

Great video luv! ;)

[@hymek7017]

Your experience on the Thames exactly mirrors my own. I tried playing a game of count the "No mooring, Get lost or Moor here and be shot" signs but quickly had to give up. The Gin palaces with people who didn't merely act like they owned the river, they probably actually did, were a definite issue for me especially around locks. Not doing your own locks is a bit dull too. PS Don't tell David but, I watched your video first, he'll have to wait.

[@marvindebot3264]

LOL, no one in the UK is going to shoot you unless they fancy life at His Majesty's Pleasure so that's quite a flex.

[@robertlalor8090]

Lovely. Thanks for sharing.

[@cliveshakespeare9184]

Any more of the weather and you could convert to a "Cruiser" persons! Love the boat, very live-aboard.

[@Kiwionwing]

curious why don't narrow boats become optional front stearing too

[@sandbridgekid4121]

Have watched this video a second time, they sound like old marrieds. Or catty brother and sisters.

[@andy81e12]

Always found lock keepers have their up’s n downs…..

[@TomboiTravels]

Rude individuals usually are in need of 'a boo and a poo.' 'Nuff said 💚💚💚

[@brucenichols9153]

Narrowboat owners are always friendly in general, the gin palace owners certainly were not. I enjoyed my time on the Thames but was glad to get back on canals at Oxford.

[@01jvb]

It's a bit late to reconsider the windows on your boat Lorna !

[@mottmott5156]

Was this the past trip on that boat from some months ago or is this a new trip?

[@nate8551]

Love is a friendly term used by southerners

[@lornajaneadventures]

Totally depends on the context

[@Sim0nTrains]

Weird place for a postbox but enjoyed the video, shame about some of the grumpy people you encountered

[@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204]

good vid thanks lee

[@seanjamescameron]

The Laurel and Hardy of boating.

[@user-xw6wj2qh5n]

Being called 'love' is just a generic term really. You can tell where you are in the country by what a market stall holder calls you. Love, chuck, duck, dear. dearie and more. At times even gender doesn't apply. I'm in the Far East these days. I kind of miss the terms used in UK, though it may have changed a lot in the 36 years I've been working outside UK. Interesting what you were saying about boat design. I've been playing around with a few design ideas for a few years. (The idea being to retire at some point and move back to UK onto a boat.) For me the idea of living on a boat has a great deal to do with being in ever changing views, so I'd want windows as big as possible. I've even been looking at how to extend windows down lower than normal for the salon on a narrow boat so that when sat on an easy chair or sofa we'd be able to see landscape and more rather than just sky. (We meaning me + wife - she is only 5' 1" tall, so while headroom would be great for her compared to me at 6' 1", views out the windows while sat down are another thing.) I figure blinds and curtains can be closed whenever the outside needs shutting out, but I worry that a narrow boat interior could feel very small and dark very quickly without plenty of windows. Now, forward control looks good. How to incorporate that into a narrow boat? As you have experience on narrow boats I'd love to know more about the design features you've been considering - the things you want and just as importantly the things you really don't want in a boat. Looking forward to part 2 of the trip.

[@lornajaneadventures]

We definitely weren’t in a “love” part of the country and it definitely wasn’t said in an endearing way

[@pierQRzt180]

Can people swim in the canals/rivers? Is it not super dangerous?

[@lornajaneadventures]

If they want to. It’s very trendy at the moment

[@TrevsTravelsByNarrowboat]

Do you know if that is the same boat that Richard Vobes and Julia went to at Goring? Same named boat Pipedream.

[@lornajaneadventures]

I don’t know

[@MrSheckstr]

What did one early bird day to the other while trying to find worms? There is no try, there is only DEW

[@susansurles3776]

That lockkeeper must have been pretty bad if neither one will talk about it.

[@blutey]

You make a nice couple. The chemistry was just palpable. I think you should get married.

[@user-wv5pw8tj6c]

👍👍👍❤️

[@dallassukerkin6878]

On the 'woolly' steering front, isn't that dial in the centre of the wheel a repeat indicator for the position of the rudder? If it's not it should be! :chuckles:

[@lornajaneadventures]

It should have been!

[@thomasfrench2012]

Was a coin flip required to determine who got which bedroom?

[@lornajaneadventures]

Mine got really hot because of the engine being connected to it. I like a hot room and David doesn’t so it worked out well

[@pierQRzt180]

The shirt you have is about the celtic games? (I saw some on youtube, mostly done in Dublin, like gaelic football. Nice!)

[@lornajaneadventures]

It was in Derry. The GAA World Games. I was playing for Britain

[@pierQRzt180]

you on your own? cool! @@lornajaneadventures

[@lornajaneadventures]

With a team 😂

[@MrSheckstr]

That wave doesnt count….. he was on a traditional narrowboat

[@normg2242]

Look at it this way - the rude lock keeper was out of your lives within 15 minutes, but he has to live with himself for all his life. I think you've gotten the better deal...lol

[@4sstg]

People swim in the Thames? No air con on boat?

[@Kiwionwing]

yes very yeng yang vlogs in positive way David is controlled lorna is free

[@SamSitar]

what is a wetroom?

[@lornajaneadventures]

Waterproof walls and floor so the room itself acts as a shower cubicle

[@kenneyg100]

Sounds as bad as when I'm in my campervan looking for a parkup🤣

[@lornajaneadventures]

The struggle is real 😂

[@kenneyg100]

@@lornajaneadventures yes! People say Wales is difficult to find park ups, but you just have to take the time and explore. Who'd have thought it was so easy in Barry🤣But I'm not leaving till I've met Gavin and Stacey!!

[@olivertl9658]

Do you pass Jane Southern?

[@MeriMorMick]

My first time on your site. Fun to see your version of your trip with David. Sorry, not a fan of background music.

[@bernardhilton3527]

The pair of you look good together. When are you going to name the day?😃😃😃

[@franadams6389]

'The husband' ....? Is this a wind up or is there something you're not telling us.....?

[@kenneyg100]

I'm also confused😂

[@captainhookrecovery5580]

Thought he was her Dad!

[@franadams6389]

@@kenneyg100 🤣 that must be the idea!!

[@judydean2922]

I think they are just very good friends.

[@trx4ever]

It's a joke they've been using for years

[@icooper5236]

I was told you have to turn the engine off in the locks?

[@lornajaneadventures]

Yes, they’re very strict about it and you need to secure front and rear lines. No centre lines on these boats so it would be very tricky on your own

[@ScholarGypsyOx]

@@lornajaneadventures Thanks for this video - not sure I would describe my boat as very famous, but we're getting there. My technique for single handed boating on the Thames is to tie one line off to a bollard (normally the stern) and adjust the other one as the boat rises or falls. If descending then I'd use a 25 foot line or so on the former, to avoid hanging up. There are a couple of locks (Sandford is one) where I use a second bow line when ascending, as the way the lock fills can push the boat quite strongly out from the wall.

[@MrSheckstr]

Need to find out if we can get ahold of whoever is building her boat and add a giant fake red button to the control panel that says “Do Not Press” PS…. Sorry if it seems like i am Spamming Ms LJ

[@EeeDee1]

AKA Life with Loverboy