Comments by "Rikki Harcourt" (@rikkiharcourt3868) on "The Mindful Narrowboat" channel.

  1. You don’t waste a moment of opportunity to build on your travels to increase interest and enjoyment. We love that. Just delightful today. Thank you a thousand times.
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  2. It is a lovely gift from The Fates to have a friend from your childhood. So very special. I have a few from my student days and here we are now with grey hair, we have lost three or four and they are missed, but at least we had each other in our golden years. Lovely vlog this week. Thank you.
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  3. This is an extra special edition of your adventures and I have added my tick to many appreciate comments because you have packed in so much interest. I am such a devoted Zeph fan, the cleverest dog companion ever. It’s all a total delight. Thank you.
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  4. Do you ever say to yourself “0h no, not another bloody lock”! I think I would. They must really interrupt your flow. My central heating had to be updated this week and I am just thawing out. 5 days of penetrating cold has wiped me out and it takes three weeks for my 17” thick solid walls to recover. I don’t envy you if you become surrounded by ice. You are very brave, I envy your fortitude too!
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  5. What a stunning robin. He had plenty to say about your predicament. I do hope you get sorted without too much trouble and expense. I tip my hat to you, still making a vlog with such difficulties. A true professional.
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  6. OMG you are made of strong stuff. Congrats to have got through it all intact. Respect. Cheers
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  7. I went out today without a coat and it felt like spring. Lovely fresh cool air in bright sunshine. We are on our way, the best time of the year with the summer before us and possible adventures to enjoy. I love your travels, go with you every week. I can’t get out much these days and you go where I would like to go and travel the way I would love. Thank you so SO much for brightening my life along with showing me the creatures on the way that is just the best way of enjoying where one is!
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  8. Totally enjoyable, gentle and full of delightful detail. Zephyr earned her ball. Whoever said animals don’t have any reasoning capacity. They should watch zephyr!
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  9. Happy Christmas Vanessa…….it has been a great year getting to know you and following your adventurous travels. I am pretty sure very few boaters know as much about the birds, animals and plants as you do. You are a diamond canal traveller.
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  10. You are tough. All that drama and you filmed your way through. Got guts Girl!!! You deserve a gold medal.
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  11. It is a dream come true to live near to nature but the episodes when nature is red in tooth, claw and force 9 are hard to endure. Thanks for the reminder, we sitting on our cushioned sofas are, and the dream reminds us, so safe and cosseted by and large. Thank you for another fascinating real life adventure.
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  12. Everything you would want from a country walk and explore, utterly lovely especially the owl. Thank you for letting me tag along. PS. You do have the best behaved dog ever.
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  13. You really are an admirable goer Vanessa. You pack more into a day than I could have managed and still have time for your journal. Respect!!!!!
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  14. What a lovely place to be on your birthday…..puts a new meaning on flashing………..back to the old ways.
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  15. I have lived in my house between two villages for a long long time. When we first moved here the wildlife was abundant. Gradually the few house’s occupants changed from elderly married couples to families. Only 11 houses in all but the big house became a commercial property with lots of modernisation. Over the years we have lost upward of 28 types of birds, animals and pond life. Just due to more active people and traffic around. We tried to be responsible but wildlife doesn’t like activity from noisy people. I really miss the swallows and the owls and the glow worms.
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  16. Envious. How very special to have your cosy happy home with you as you gather adventures. Absolutely the best of both worlds
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  17. So you are being priced out of the market. What a terrible shame when you have contributed so much to the life you and many others have chosen. It is such a tragedy because I am sure I am not the only person who has learnt and experienced so much about our beautiful kingdom. It is a great pity that the CRT have big problems……..you show us things nobody else does and big the canals up in consequence. They should pay you for the publicity and may well lose as much as they gain. I wish I were a millionaire. I am glad you have decided to carry on.
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  18. Well it didn’t take long for my weakness to dictate its power over me. When I first came across your vlogs I said to myself I could watch one a day, but they are so good and enjoyable on every level that I pounce of any that come up in me at once. I hope I am not through them all too soon, even if I am I will be watching for a second time. Gold cups, stars, medals and ribbons for a wonderful array of talents and communications that provide so much interest and joy.
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  19. I was thinking that you would make a stupendous addition to Winterwatch on the BBC. You are so professional…….i hope they make you an offer, Soring, Summer and Autumn too.
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  20. Lovely glimpse of Mr and Mrs Peregrines three scruffy little kids. They will be magnificent when grown. That was very special. Thank you.
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  21. Sensational. So much high quality stuff in one vlog. Your eye is something special…….as well as your drawing hand. Thank you yet again.
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  22. Watching this vid made me remember from my childhood when people lived in cottages by level crossings, canal locks, and various other spots that needed reliable care. Those people were not paid much (could get the living now though in exchange with low rent where they could take other work) but they took pride in their surroundings, knew the area and kept everything shipshape. I saw so many of those places I would have liked to live. Todays vid brought it all back.
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  23. That was amazing. You must have felt like you were exploring up the Amazon. So lovely to have a big slice of land all to yourself with no human disturbance. Very special indeed. You now know more than most inhabitants of our land. That heron was a star!
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  24. It is wonderful how our restored canals are providing a hugely valuable site for wildlife. People nice contained on narrow boats are not such a threat as those tramping the undergrowth down and wandering all over the place. You have got the best of both worlds and I greatly appreciate that you are kind enough to share it with us. A big thanks.
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  25. Everyday a delight Vanessa, maybe not all day but at least part or parts of it. That’s happiness. Not everyone can find it but those that do are blessed and their outlook pleases all they encounter. I have found that to be true in a harsh world. Golden moments to treasure and this video is very treasurable. Thank you.
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  26. Do hope you didn’t get turned inside out with the wind. Really enjoyable……I love lime trees and the bees go crazy for their flowers.
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  27. Kinder is quite magical. I never heard of it and yet it is SO old. Thanks for the look round it. If only it had central heating!
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  28. I just love your gentle canal adventures, they suit my pace. I never did like rushing around. Oh what we miss, when we get greedy for input. I love to move as though I have all the time in the world, I don’t get so much done but I do enjoy the world so much more.
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  29. A very thinking video. I am not having a binge watch but YouTube’s bot has twigged my interest and I am bombarded now by past items. My treat is one a day ( more or less). YT has your interests at heart…….I should be happy for the next month or so.
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  30. I don’t know how people can carelessly let go of their plastic to go travelling. My upbringing does not allow me to even throw away a sweet wrapper! I would gets the guilts big time. But you left your mooring as you would have wished to find it which is a whole line of gold stars. What a role model.
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  31. How lovely to visit The Tailor of Gloucester shop. My husband’s uncle worked and was friends with Leslie Linder when they were both at The National Physics Laboratory in the days of the Comet investigation and who wrote the preface to Leslie’s biography of BP. Such a special treat and just as it ought to be.
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  32. Good to see a muntjac again. They used to come into my garden every evening at dusk to eat ivy. They had beautiful manners and left my roses alone, wasn’t as delicious as ivy. The laboratory that took over the Manor House put a a deer proof fence up and I never got deer in my garden again. I miss them. That was a lovely episode of your life, I loved the flints, the walls of my house are flint. It is very special…..the flint I mean.
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  33. Poppies need ironing, but even a few creases cannot take away from their glamour. My big ones came out this week but, sadly, they don’t last long. This episode is a beauty. Thanks.
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  34. That was just lovely. It had everything from cheeky cute humour to serious appreciation of the importance of fungi to the world as we know it. Who ever knew that crusts of our sandwiches can give birds wingdrop. I feel very guilty because I have in my time found an appeal from a feathered beauty irresistible . Never again.
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  35. I love it when you take us exploring. It’s a real pleasure to any of us who are housebound, although most of us will never get to see all the places we would like to. You are a very interesting tour guide…and so is zeph. Loved every minute.
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  36. Watched this tucked up in a warm bed so so admire you way you tackle ice and winter head on. Got rewarded for your trouble by that lovely man and his family of birds. Must have made your stay in Leamington Spar. Beautiful town.
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  37. 2. No great heroes now. Shame really.
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  38. A sapphire and aquamarine little gem of a kingfisher then the naughty horse nibbling away at the fence post. Another set of adventures to admire and appreciate. Loved it.
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  39. Lovely action pics of birds in the snow. And wonderful zeph. We put the turkey carcass out for the birds and for the first time the birds are not gobbling it up. Other people must be doing the same thing and our birds are as sick of it as we are. Christmas is barbaric. Happy January.
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  40. Simply idyllic!
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  41. I love the way that there is not a moment wasted on your journeying. Some people might zoom by and not notice a thing but nothing gets overlooked by you. The stable we bought had been neglected for years and years so the wildlife was abundant, not so now. Other people have moved nearby and have other ideas so we had lost a lot, screech owls, toads as big as our fists, numerous birds and butterflies. But I can catch up with my nature fix through you and it is a great comfort. Thank you.
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  42. I love when you combine the denseness of the city, cinemas, sins of earthly delight and noise then into rural pleasures of tiny creatures and natures fashionable clothing of insects in and on both hedgerow and meadow. You have the best of both worlds. I do know it takes a lot of effort and planning and am grateful you share it all with us. Thank you.
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  43. PS. I only follow three or four Canal travellers and you are the only one that demonstrates a 100% appreciation of the whole in the round experience of canal life. Naturally that is the one I would have aspired to and I understand what a lot of work goes into making your vlogs look easy. From lockdown onwards I popped in and out canal wanderings to get a breath of fresh air. I am so glad I came across you. Thank you for a truly enjoyable experience. I still have some more to catch up on. Lucky me!!!
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  44. Just the job to watch today surrounded as I am by a thick, hoary white frost, so thick it looks like snow. I have hoinked out my sheepskin slippers as I need every bit of warmth I can get. It is very cold, a warm cosy narrowboat looks just the job.
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  45. Best birdsong ever. Lovely indeed.
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  46. I really hate the cold so rather you than me but it is lovely to see the icy winter wonders. Do you know what that round jelly thing is……I have never seen one before. Quite exotic. I am sure you will stay cosy and popping out now and again and have a 10 minute pop your head out for a quick peep at the countryside beauty. Thank you…….said she from lying on my warm bed ready to watch Kirstie and her craftspeople.
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  47. Every day a new adventure………keeps you young though! Loved it.
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  48. Egrets shaking their feet like ballet dancers to the music was delightful. Of course that it what they are doing, why didn’t see it myself. Then a chorus line of seagulls, what an entertainment. Thank you for being a vegan, saving the world so I don’t have to. Body problems means I can’t eat leaves and fibrous vegetables so I have to have to existing problem food, luckily I eat very little. The planet is safe for a little while longer. Hope you Christmas was everything you hoped.
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  49. Lovely drawing especially the raven. I also loved the yellow wagtail, a favourite bird. I liked to see them on the grey tiles of my roof…..before they moved elsewhere I am afraid.
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  50. That heron was something really special, along with the glass factory. I love those elegant bulbous cones, they are really a sculpture I think. Thanks for the ride.
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