in this episode miles helps to deflate a hot air balloon
we finished the engine service that was started in the last week's vlog
find an injured duck or the duck finds us to be more accurate and Alba Stern gets a touch up
so it's coming down this quickly
one day we woke up with a view of a hot air balloon crossing the river
we joked about it landing and it actually did land right next to our boat
it looked like they tried taking off again by adding some hot air but they
were too close to the trees and probably other factors were at play I'm sure so they didn't
landed on your roof you're going straight down
so they've got closer and closer to Alba which was just unreal the
pilot shouted we need more hands or something like that and in the
end the crew and Miles had to run out and help to deflate the balloon
oh what thank you
and so now if I ever tell a story about feeling deflated I will have the footage to go with it
I'm so sorry I'm not sure what's wrong with you we've had a visit from an injured duck that we
called Lackey I started feeding her oats twice a day and over the course of a week we could really
see that the feathers are coming back they grew out about an inch last year we reported an injured
Goose to rspca and they put him down so this time we are being very careful we're really weighing
up our choices and the duck seems fine she keeps coming back every day so we decided that she will
probably get better on her own you're looking much better the wings are almost half halfway there
so we've been going camping a lot lately and I realized that the tent that we
have because it's kind of like it's about tent it's all open plan and
there is no way of hanging anything from anywhere because of its shape so I've
decided that I need more organization on camping weekend and I'm going to sew a pocket organizer
now I haven't fully decided where it's gonna go but I will find a place and even if it has to
learn the ground I reckon it's going to be more useful than not having it at all so I found a
free pattern on the internet and I'm going to make I'm going to sew a pocket organizer today
foreign
this is the final product
it should be quite good for storing Little Things
so we've run out of water did we run out this morning yeah I think it was this morning so
we've been to fill up every single water bottle that we've got we have to go through our recycling
as well pull out a couple of two liter bottles because we didn't have anything to go get water
with obviously working today so I can't move the boat and yeah the walk points are both about two
hours away there is a mooring that we're going to Maple Durham lock where we think they might
have water if you pay um for The Mooring for the evening so that's what we're going to try and do
um we've got a really lovely smoking Penguins I don't really want to miss it plus there's lot
closures as well so we can't actually get to a water Point hence while I've been going to
and the local tap to all of the Box up lock closures because um it's not rained for like
a month um so there's no water but they've got to manage the water levels so the lock
keepers are in managing the water level so you can only go between I think nine and six
there's no more compassion no
raise me I need something fast I need something to last and give satisfaction though
getting water was a total Adventure we thought there was a mooring with water facilities by
the lock and we weren't sure where the tap was so while we were awkwardly and not very safely
lingering by the way trying to spot the tap we got asked by the crew of the Africa Queen boat
what we're looking for and they kindly offered us to use their water hose we just couldn't
we couldn't believe it thank you to lovely manager who saved us from not having any water
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scrambled egg on toast
we should take you mushroom
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Mickey has been trying to let this mean it's a little bit salty
oh sorry um it's nice though
we got that you could most of the driving pretty much yeah it's easy well it is to
a certain point but then the shadows of like the trees on the water kind of make it all a
bit Narrows it's quite hard to determine particularly when you've got your fairy
lights on but we made it our space was still here it's like we never left more
full of water full of water now we're here for another two weeks
welcome back to part two of the engine service you left us last time when we replaced the
oil and the oil filter and then we realized we didn't have an air filter and a fuel filter but
we have those now so here we are let's finish finish the service the air filter first this
is what I knew air filter looks like last time I did this a year ago you're in a few months ago
all right there we go a bit of a difference
foreign
so this one is easy just Clips in yeah
wow that was the biggest dragonfly oh it's still around
oh God I'm gonna do the fuel so now oh I need some oil foreign
thank you
pumping that bleeding the fuel line so I'm just waiting for this to stop with the bubbles
good it's three quarters full I'm going to put a little bit more in
because we've got more and why not
foreign
one day I went for a run and I made a friend her name is Gala and she loved cados
so much so that she didn't want to let me go I kept running away from her and she
kept running behind me for more love you just want to be cuddled don't you cuddles
okay yes I'm going now okay it's going and running
I'm running I'm running back for me
you're running for me hello hello lovely mocha does more cuddles okay
hello happy Sunday just thought I would film a little bit and hopefully this actually is
filming so I have already sanded one this morning guess which one and then I'm gonna
sand this one these two are connected um and this is the underbelly um of the third
plank that we have that's removable and you can see I guess the difference from how it looked
originally to where it looks today I'm going to sand this down sand that down varnish them both
um and then if I've got enough varnish might have a look at this because
this is not in the second coat so these two have had the first coat and this is the underbelly as
we said before from last time I think they're not a bad match actually I'm not sure if I've
got enough varnish to do this one because of the age the grains really showing really nicely now
it used to be a bit like this now it's really rich so just gonna wait three hours and I'll
put the second coat on jobs are getting is this the final coat that I spontaneously decided to
revarnish today and they looked so bad in comparison but this is the last one
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