I hope that you are keeping well and that your week has been a happy one?
I'm just letting you know that there isn't a vlog this week, but all will resume for the following week and I hope you will join me then where I will share what has been happening alongside some welcome discoveries that I have made.
In the meantime, if you have any spare moments, I have three Podcast recommendations that I have found such wonderful listening recently and I thought you might like them too.
1. Nighttime on Still Waters - This is set on Narrowboat Erica and Richard, a friend of mine, imparts words like ripples of water that ebb and flow through the mind and soul; I honestly feel my brain expanding as I listen to him. It is beautiful!
2. Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast- This is like going back to school again, but being in a classroom with the most inspiring and entertaining teacher you can imagine. He unpicks a poem like a detective so you feel like Watson to his Holmes and it is a brilliant listen even if you don't like poetry!
3. Gyles Brandreth's Rosebud- I have binge-listened to this over the last week as I am fascinated by people's childhoods and the how it has shaped and influenced them. I would recommend listening to his interview with Pam Ayres, if you want to start somewhere, as her early life and the way that she tells it is gripping. She is also a heroine of mine and inspired me to write poetry as an eight year old girl because she was the first poet that I had ever seen and heard on the television.
I hope you have a super weekend.
Take care
Vanessa 🦋🌻
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Hi everyone,
I'm just making you aware that someone is responding to some comments with my picture and part of my handle asking viewers to WhatsApp them. This is a scam. They have added numbers to the end of my handle; my handle is @themindfulnarrowboat only without any numbers on the end. Please know that I would never ask you to WhatsApp me or give me any personal information. Also, I am NOT on TikTok, but a channel has set up with my channel name and has taken my content; I am dealing with this but it is taking some time. I wouldn't want any of you to be affected by this or mislead in any way. I hope you are having a wonderful week? Take care 🦋🌻
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Dear All, I hope that you are well?
There will not be a vlog this week as I have been spending time with family. My Mum turned eighty on the 13th July, so we took her to the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall to soak ourselves in the sounds of the BBC Scottish Symphony as they played Mozart and Bruckner. There was also an incredible pianist called Mariam Batsashvili who played the piano so beautifully that my Mum and I had tears rolling down our cheeks into our bag of sweets- we still ate them!
Zephyr has spent a lot of time swimming in the sea in Suffolk which she has really enjoyed too.
I look forward to seeing you all next Friday!
Take care
Vanessa 🦋🌻
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Hi everyone, I hope you are all well? Sorry that there isn't a vlog this week, but I am back next Friday 30th May at 4:30pm as usual. We have been visiting family which was lovely and we are now returned and onboard Alice Grace once again, preparing for Trent Falls and some narrowboat repairs. I wish you all a beautiful weekend and peaceful week ahead. Take care 🦋🌻
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There isn't a vlog this week as I have spent the last two weeks away from the boat. Very suddenly and unexpectedly, a wonderful friend of mine who I have grown up with for forty years, passed away. The shock has overwhelmed me and I have not been able to work during that time. I am returning back to Alice Grace tomorrow and I will have a vlog out next Friday at 4:30pm- all being well.
Losing two friends now in a space of a few months, both who were still so young, has been very hard, and it has reminded me that every day is a gift. I am so privileged to be able to live onboard a narrowboat and to earn a living making these videos and sharing stories with you, my loyal viewers. Thank you so much for all of your support to date and I look forward to being back with you very soon.
The picture is the mushrooms that grew following my last vlog; within 7 days, they did this! They were so beautiful to look at that I didn't have the heart to eat them. Instead, I appreciated their beauty until they wilted and then I planted the substrate in the garden where I am staying.
I wish you all a wonderful weekend. Take care and see you next week. x🌻🦋🪽
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Dear Viewers,
I am sorry that there isn't a vlog this week. I really hope you are all well?
Sadly, I have lost a close friend and it has hit me hard.
I hope to be back next week, but in the meantime, I would like to wish you all a wonderful weekend. This picture is the sunset over Stoke-on-Trent which was just beautiful when I cruised there. The birds are in full voice along the canal and the blossom confettis the towpath.
Take care
Vanessa🦋🌻
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Happy New Year to you all! I hope you have all had a wonderful start to 2024? Tomorrow, I have a special vlog coming out about my narrowboat life in the Wilderness of the UK's Canals over 2023. I hope you will join me? x
I am really looking forward to discovering even more of our beautiful waterway system with you this year as I travel up North.
May your new year be full of good health, happiness and peace.
Take care
Vanessa🦋🌻
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Hi everyone,
I hope Monday is treating you well? Just to let you know- as some of you have asked- I have restocked my book in my shop as of today. There are 99 copies to sell.
Have a wonderful week,
take care
Vanessa🦋🌻
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It's time to count the butterflies,
That flutter by your very eyes,
Scour the flowers,
Spy the skies
And add up all those butterflies.
Enjoy the rest of your week, everyone!🦋🦋🦋🌻
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I once made a whistle of thistle,
Not one of my very best tips,
For a whistle of thistle has prickles
And prickles get lodged in your lips!
Enjoy the rest of your week- stay cool and hydrated🌬🌻🦋
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I live on a narrowboat and travel the UK waterways.These vlogs show the highs and lows of life onboard and document the nature and history that I find along the way. At the end of each vlog, I record some of what I have found in my nature journal using sketches and poetry.
If you would like to support my channel, then I have a shop where I sell copies of my nature journals for each year and these correspond with YouTube Playlists that are named after each journal. My Etsy shop is: themindfulnarrowboat.etsy.com
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Thank you so much; it really means a lot to me! 🦋🌻
Contact:
You can catch me on:
Bluesky at: themindfulnb.bsky.social‬
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Or email: themindfulnarrowboat@gmail.com
It's always lovely to hear from you and I will get back to you!
Take care x
5 February 2020