Same here! Then she mentions needing glasses and I just wonder how much heavier her bag would be each time she left if she had even better vision! 😄💜💜💜 You have amazing talent, both for picking through the mud of the Thames and for creating beautiful artwork from your finds, be they trash or treasure!!! 💜💜💜
Something I didn't realize is that the Glass onion bottles were hand-blown glass bottles frequently used aboard sailing ships to hold wine or brandy. For increased stability on rough seas, the bottles were fashioned with a wide-bottom shape to prevent toppling, thus making the bottles look somewhat onion-shaped. Beautiful find, Nic!! Simon is so genuinely kind and generous! He truly likes to see you happy. What a lovely friend, as I'm sure you are to him, Nic. Blessings!
Dear Nicola White...i just discovered your Mudlarking Website. I love it! My whole family is from Enfield Middlesex. I was the 1st Canadian born in 1952. I have a deep romantic connection with the history of England and watch everything I can thru Docs. But your site has given me a birds eye view of the past whilst listening to your down to earth, here and now, eloquent adventures along the Banks of the River Thames. I feel i am with you and share every small yet exciting find. Thank you.
Well, Nicola, I think you've outdone yourself on this one! Bravo! I bet the joy of putting together that complete onion bottle was as exciting as finding it. You should delve into using electrolysis to restore your metal items. It is safe and very easy to do. I have restored some iron artifacts using electrolysis and they came out great. Be sure to protect the cleaned up items with wax as the museums do. This will protect them from further corrosion, especially iron objects. A few tips: 1) Polarity of the power supply matters, always connect the object to the negative terminal. 2) Look into using washing soda ( sodium carbonate) or baking soda ( sodium bi-carbonate) instead of table salt ( sodium chloride) . Superior and safer in my opinion. (Chlorine gas is liberated when using table salt.) 3) Always evaluate before you use electrolysis if the objects value will be diminished after cleaning it because all natural patina will be removed.
Absolutely Beautiful little onion bottle Nicola !!! You are magnificent putting that bottle together as good as you did !!! The ring came out very nicely & Simon really knows his stuff !!! So smart 🤓. Wonderful video Nicola !!! ❤️🙂
Nic, so glad you've begun posting weekly. So envious of every mudlarker but going on the tourney with you just puts the cherry on the sundae. Thank you for doing what you do.
The shape and size of that beautiful onion bottle was so lovely to see. Especially how well it all fitted back together. Well done on finding that treasure and saving it. I even liked the effect left on the outside of it. What a lovely thing to have on display. I also loved that you shared a good brew with Si. Served from the old tea pot, which poured perfectly. We all know a good cup of tea, deserves a good brew in a tea pot. Not forgetting a scone. 😋 👌
You may or may not read this two years later...but, I live vicariously through you in the most beautiful state in our country- South Carolina! Hugs from New Mexico!
I have to say that you find the cutest things! Congratulations with the onion bottle, you were so lucky to find all the pieces. That little ambulance looks like it could have been a character from the movie "Cars". Love the missing teeth in the front.
I can’t believe you found all the pieces to that bottle! I’m thrilled for you. I think those bottles are so beautiful. I’ve learned so much about history from your videos.
@nicolawhitemudlark Hi Nicola. From Maryland: Do you think it would be worth using your trowel to dig out your old pipes to see if there are broken stem pieces that you leave when you pull them of the mud?
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again." But Nicola White sure put that onion pot together again! Great job! Loved that you put that old teapot back to work, too. Always love it when you and Simon get together. Great video, Nic!
My ears pricked up when you said, “Monday, 20th of May” cos that’s my birthday. I would absolutely love to mudlark on any day, let alone on a birthday. I’d get delighted with anything that had had a use back in the day. You are lucky to have so much history just lying in the mud, for anyone to discover. So much fun. I’ll bet you don’t miss the corporate life!
Nicola Be a bit careful of the 'crust' on the bottle: it is, of course, an incredibly thin layer of glass shaling off of the main bottle: be careful not to breathe flakes of it in. We found quite a few of these in a large excavation in Bristol, and measured their capacity by filling them with rice (when dry, obviously), and pouring it into a measuring cylinder. We found that the Bristol glassmakers were fibbing a bit, and their bottles were about 5-10% smaller than what they were selling them as. There was a wonderful letter (especially for me as a cider drinker) we found in the Record Office. It was from Dorset in the early 18th century, ordering '30 dozen bottles.. for my Redstreak cyder' (a known variety to this day). That's a lovely find you made, one to be proud of. Glad you are so pleased.
An episode brimming with enthusiasm and charm. Thank you, Nic and Simon, for sharing your muddy hours, restoration and brave cups of tea with the watching world.
As I tell my husband when he wants to throw away something old and a bit worn, “We’re certainly getting old and worn, yet I don’t feel ready for the recycling bin. There’s a lot of life left in this ____.”
Nicola, I can understand why you were thrilled finding the diminutive onion bottle...it’s just gorgeous! I was amazed that you were able to put it back together. I’m sure it will find a special place in your studio, perhaps under the glass dome. Well done!
Impressive finds. I truly didn't think the onion bottle would be whole when you was done. Felt there had to be missing pieces. Great job. Thats why i keep watching your videos. The historical context and the thrill of the hunt. I wish American history went back as far as British history does. You are blessed with a treasure chest in your own back yard. Thats how i see it. I get excited to find something from the 1800s in America. Couldnt phantom the idea of finding 12th or 13th , 14th ,15th century items. Wow. Amazing!!!!!
The onion bottle is stunning and the ring is very lovely too. I hope you can update us on the date of the ring. What a nice puzzle to put together! The teapot is in such mint condition too!
All of the wonderful bits and pieces of history you walk past to find these amazing pieces! I'm afraid I'd make a terrible mudlark! I'd end up carrying half the beach home with me! I love your videos! Thank you for giving us amazing adventures to share!
Congrats on finding that onion bottle Nicola, with all the bits you had to put back together maybe you could call it 'Frankenbottle' lol! still it's a beautiful find, i'm so envious that you can find all this stuff from the Thames foreshore, my local river is the river Douglas, which is great if your after supermarket shopping trolly's but not much else. That Royal Artillery button is a super find too. Regards Chris
NICE onion bottle Nicola! I love the Elizabethan coin too. The ring is so enchanting, you know it was a ring given by someone to someone they loved ..so many memories washing ashore and being uncovered ...love to watch you uncover them all. :-)
Omg...video of the year so far!! Love love love that stunning little onion bottle!! A great finds Nicola...well done and well deserved. Love seeing Si too. You make a good cuppa and a good team. Much love.
Wow.....What a great restoration of the onion bottle Nicola. That is breathtaking. And I absolutely adore how you repurposed the little teapot, cracks, chips and all. That is another stunning beauty and I bet the tea tastes fantastic when poured from such a wonderful piece of history. :) Love your channel and eagerly wait for new videos. Cheers from Ontario, Canada
I think you'll soon find your intact onion bottle after showing your kindness to this one! The teapot turned out quite stellar! Simon is a good friend to have!
Brava! Nicola-"And going into the dazzling sun to feel with sad wonder how is all life and its travail in this following a wall that has shards of bottle in the top." - (Eugenio Montale)
Hi there . Great finds. I think it is brilliant what you have done with the old bottle by piecing back together & bringing it back into the world for people to see. Awesome piece of history.
OMG I would adore finding that poor little Dr Damage you found - the ambulance character. He's one of my faves from the movie and him being all beat up like that fits him xD.
Fabulous gifts from the River today, Its about time your intention to find and craving for, a Onion Bottle was heard by the universe and expect for a chip on the rim, its all there!!! YOU lucky woman!!
Congratulations on your wonderful find of the onion bottle:) Best of luck finding the witch bottle :) Just think who may have used that tea pot and how it came to be in the sand .
Wow, wow, wow Nicola! Congratulations on finding and piecing together your onion/mallet bottle, -good things indeed always come to those who wait -stunning!
Hi it's hard to believe that after all the years that bottle had laid out on the banks of the river Thames! That you could find and put together all the pieces and get an onion bottle! I am always amazed at the treasures waiting for you on your adventures! And you know I'm very jealous overseas in Tennessee and now I'm jealous of tea time! Haha, bye!
I honestly thought the "ring" was going to turn out to be a cable ident. There was a time when these were very important to me: my colleagues and I were tasked with making eight wiring looms for eight sensor turrets to go on eight "Forward Observation Vehicles" ordered by an Arabic customer. Another colleague had designed this wiring loom, and there were, he said, several thousand connections in each one. The plan was for each of us, initially, to build one each, and each of us to then inspect and test someone else's work. I got started, my colleagues went outside to smoke a roll-up each. My recollection is that they reappeared a couple of months later, by which time I had built all eight wiring looms and they, presumably, had smoked enough roll-ups to hasten their deaths. We had numerous toolkits full of multi-sized, multi-coloured cable idents, which can be plastic, sort of rubbery, or metal. I'd be quite glad to not see another one. Basically, they tell you which wire is which, but when there are thousands of them they don't reduce the confusion very much. All the looms worked.
@@johnmorris7209 It would be interesting to know which came first, the cable ident or the bird-ring! Once upon a time, someone decided to research the breeding success of zebra finches by colour coding the males in aviaries with colour-coded leg-rings. Some birds were notably more successful at attracting females than others and researchers examined the successful males in each aviary to see what the distinguishing characteristics were, that made those males more successful than the others. The eventual answer was: they were the ones in each aviary who had been fitted with a RED leg ring.
A wonderful find and marvelous reconstruction of the bottle. It is lovely. Your other finds were great but that bottle is the FIND of the year. Good luck with your witch bottle. Would have enjoyed a cup of Earl Grey with you.
3 snails , uck uck uck , no, sorry, easy mistake to make I guess , but couldn't help but chuckle. Which merely proves what great entertainment you provide for us. But most of all I was SO happy for you finding your dream Onion Bottle which , though broken , you repaired with aplomb and skill. Well done !
Right after you said "I'm going to make a cup of tea in it!" an ad cut in: " The world says you have to grow up - you don't have to". It was like the voice of God saying you don't have to listen to adults who tell you not to drink out of teapots you dug out of the mud.
Just a word of warning - if youre using a mains powered device like a phone charger to power an electrolysis setup like that, please make sure its a good quality one, like what would be supplied with a quality brand of phone or an after-market charger from a reputable source. There are huge numbers of low cost and low quality USB power supplies/phone charges on the market which don't have proper isolation between the mains side and low voltage side of the circuit. Its one thing to use them to charge a phone but quite another to bare the wires and start dipping them into salty water with your hands. You could be trusting your life to the factory having used the right grade of capacitor across the transformer, or to have put enough tape between primary and secondary, when many of them just don't unfortunately. Even if it appears to be working fine and putting out 5V DC, if that isolation from the mains side fails it could be at mains voltage relative to ground.
alternatively, and probably wisest, you would get exactly the same results by powering the setup from a USB power bank. just a rechargeable battery inside, no mains connection, zero risk of zapping yourself :)
I have become totally captivated by you and your fellow Mudlarkers videos. I have learned so much! I love history anyway but this is such a fantastic way to learn. Thank you!
FROM MY FAIR LADY, "JUST A LITTLE BIT, JUST A LITTLE BIT WILL MAKE YOU A WHOLE ONION BOTTLE". KEEP SEARCHING THERE IS A WHOLE ONE OUT THERE WAITING FOR YOU. PS. GOOD JOB RESTORING THE BROKEN ONE.
Awesome Video Nicola! You are such a charming mudlarker and this Onion bottle is the coolest find ever. I really enjoyed this video, you made some amazing discoveries! Thanks for sharing your adventure!
Hi Nicola nice vid...but when you say MUD I'm not convinced.To me it's more like 100's of years of human excrement.you should be wearing gloves.take care.
The sharpness of your vision and ability to pick items out of all of the debris, never ceases to amaze me!
Gobsmacked!
Same here! Then she mentions needing glasses and I just wonder how much heavier her bag would be each time she left if she had even better vision! 😄💜💜💜
You have amazing talent, both for picking through the mud of the Thames and for creating beautiful artwork from your finds, be they trash or treasure!!! 💜💜💜
I’ve always beachcomber for seashells and you’d be surprise how you zoom in on a shell in a pile of coral...👍🏼
Nicola your just a funniest & cleverest mudlarker. Thanks for inviting me along. I thoroughly enjoyed the tea party, history & electrolysis lessons
Something I didn't realize is that the Glass onion bottles were hand-blown glass bottles frequently used aboard sailing ships to hold wine or brandy. For increased stability on rough seas, the bottles were fashioned with a wide-bottom shape to prevent toppling, thus making the bottles look somewhat onion-shaped. Beautiful find, Nic!! Simon is so genuinely kind and generous! He truly likes to see you happy. What a lovely friend, as I'm sure you are to him, Nic. Blessings!
Dear Nicola White...i just discovered your Mudlarking Website. I love it! My whole family is from Enfield Middlesex. I was the 1st Canadian born in 1952. I have a deep romantic connection with the history of England and watch everything I can thru Docs. But your site has given me a birds eye view of the past whilst listening to your down to earth, here and now, eloquent adventures along the Banks of the River Thames. I feel i am with you and share every small yet exciting find. Thank you.
The relative simplicity of digging in the mud and finding so many fragments of history. Each tiny piece suggests a story in time. Fascinating.
Your restored onion bottle almost made me shed a tear. Talk about making a dream come true.
Thank you! I know, isnt it funny how things happen like that when you least expect them too!
@@nicolawhitemudlark will "wabi sabi" gold work with glass? b/c that would be so cool.
Well, Nicola, I think you've outdone yourself on this one! Bravo! I bet the joy of putting together that complete onion bottle was as exciting as finding it. You should delve into using electrolysis to restore your metal items. It is safe and very easy to do. I have restored some iron artifacts using electrolysis and they came out great. Be sure to protect the cleaned up items with wax as the museums do. This will protect them from further corrosion, especially iron objects. A few tips: 1) Polarity of the power supply matters, always connect the object to the negative terminal. 2) Look into using washing soda ( sodium carbonate) or baking soda ( sodium bi-carbonate) instead of table salt ( sodium chloride) . Superior and safer in my opinion. (Chlorine gas is liberated when using table salt.) 3) Always evaluate before you use electrolysis if the objects value will be diminished after cleaning it because all natural patina will be removed.
Thank you!
Absolutely Beautiful little onion bottle Nicola !!! You are magnificent putting that bottle together as good as you did !!! The ring came out very nicely & Simon really knows his stuff !!! So smart 🤓. Wonderful video Nicola !!! ❤️🙂
Nic, so glad you've begun posting weekly. So envious of every mudlarker but going on the tourney with you just puts the cherry on the sundae. Thank you for doing what you do.
Thank you for watching! X
The shape and size of that beautiful onion bottle was so lovely to see. Especially how well it all fitted back together. Well done on finding that treasure and saving it. I even liked the effect left on the outside of it. What a lovely thing to have on display. I also loved that you shared a good brew with Si. Served from the old tea pot, which poured perfectly. We all know a good cup of tea, deserves a good brew in a tea pot. Not forgetting a scone. 😋 👌
I live , vicariously, in London near the mighty Thames, through your vids. Thank you so much from South Carolina, USA.
You may or may not read this two years later...but, I live vicariously through you in the most beautiful state in our country- South Carolina! Hugs from New Mexico!
Going back to watch more of your wonderful treasure hunts and adventures! ♥️
Enjoy Janet! ❤️
I have to say that you find the cutest things! Congratulations with the onion bottle, you were so lucky to find all the pieces. That little ambulance looks like it could have been a character from the movie "Cars". Love the missing teeth in the front.
yes, you're right re ambulance. I think it is from cars!
WOW! what a stunning onion bottle! And just knowing in your heart that you could save it, is such a gift!
How wonderful your bottle is! The 300 years in the water etched the energy of the river in its lovely surface.👏💕
I continue to marvel at your finds and restoration!
You & Si sipping tea was very cute, made me smile. Love the onion bottle. Good job!
Thank you
So fortunate to have found all of the bottle pieces! Great restoration job! A rare find indeed. Thanks for another fun video
Looks to me like the River itself gave a ring to a friend. It was a gift to you. Wear it somehow
Your bottle is beautiful! Such a lovely treasure.
Thank you for sharing with us.
It reminds me of the Japanese art of Kintsugi.
The onion bottle is a kind gift from your friend.... the River Thames :)
I just LOVED and laughed at Si and Nic's tea party. Classy and hilarious at the same time!! Thanx for the grins!
I can’t believe you found all the pieces to that bottle! I’m thrilled for you. I think those bottles are so beautiful. I’ve learned so much about history from your videos.
Thank you Janice
That bottle had not been disturbed in many many years, great find, great reconstruction.
Finding a broken onion bottle buried in the mud and being able to glue it all back together for a whole bottle. That's got to be a first.
It was so exciting Carol!
@nicolawhitemudlark
Hi Nicola. From Maryland:
Do you think it would be worth using your trowel to dig out your old pipes to see if there are broken stem pieces that you leave when you pull them of the mud?
Another superb video Nicola with some awesome finds
Fore shore 🙂🥂👍
Thank you
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again." But Nicola White sure put that onion pot together again! Great job! Loved that you put that old teapot back to work, too. Always love it when you and Simon get together. Great video, Nic!
Thank you Steve
Humpty Dumpty was a canon. Nicola will be finding that next.
Loved the onion bottle - you did a really good job piecing it back together! 👋👋👋👋
Thats real dedication Nicola, well done on the onion bottle only you would see the potential in finding it all. Loved this vid
Thank you Sam
oh goodness, I love your enthusiasm! That ONION BOTTLE!!
I have such a crush on your friendship. It’s the best thing on RUclips.
Thank you! yes, it's great to have good mates like Si!
What a lovely find ! Love's both of you !💖💖💖💖
That is a wonderful bottle that you have wanted as long as I have been watching you. So happy for you.hugs 🌴🙋Florida
Thank you
I laughed out loud when Si took a sip and picked his teeth.
Great find in your bottle fragments. bravo 👏
Beautifully put together as always.. thanks for sharing
Two of my favorite mudlarkers! The onion bottle turned out perfect! 👍🏻
So I'm here in the state of Georgia in the former colonies and find this fascinating and very cool to watch. Thank you for sharing.
My ears pricked up when you said, “Monday, 20th of May” cos that’s my birthday. I would absolutely love to mudlark on any day, let alone on a birthday. I’d get delighted with anything that had had a use back in the day. You are lucky to have so much history just lying in the mud, for anyone to discover. So much fun. I’ll bet you don’t miss the corporate life!
What a lovely teapot I'm so pleased you were able to make a cup of tea in something that may have been lost forever
Nicola Be a bit careful of the 'crust' on the bottle: it is, of course, an incredibly thin layer of glass shaling off of the main bottle: be careful not to breathe flakes of it in. We found quite a few of these in a large excavation in Bristol, and measured their capacity by filling them with rice (when dry, obviously), and pouring it into a measuring cylinder. We found that the Bristol glassmakers were fibbing a bit, and their bottles were about 5-10% smaller than what they were selling them as. There was a wonderful letter (especially for me as a cider drinker) we found in the Record Office. It was from Dorset in the early 18th century, ordering '30 dozen bottles.. for my Redstreak cyder' (a known variety to this day). That's a lovely find you made, one to be proud of. Glad you are so pleased.
Glad you found a dream find, nothing quite like it
I dug up a complete Bellarmine jug in the 1990s can't beat that feeling.
An episode brimming with enthusiasm and charm. Thank you, Nic and Simon, for sharing your muddy hours, restoration and brave cups of tea with the watching world.
Thank you for watching Erica!
That was amazing! Such a beautiful bottle.. it was meant to be
What an incredible gift from the Thames!
i appreciate the repaired onion bottle more than finding one whole. its beautiful.
thanks for sharing your world with me.
Thank you Jeff
As I tell my husband when he wants to throw away something old and a bit worn, “We’re certainly getting old and worn, yet I don’t feel ready for the recycling bin. There’s a lot of life left in this ____.”
I love your videos can't stop watching them.
I literally found myself applauding when you found the bottom of the onion bottle.🥰
Hooray! Thank you Erin!
@erinj1360
I was also excited when she took time and found the bottom and the other pieces. Great job Nicola.
Oh WoW. The bottle is excellent. I love ❤️ it so much.
What a beautiful quote from "The Anthem" so true from the genius Leonard Cohen. Love him so much!
Nicola, I can understand why you were thrilled finding the diminutive onion bottle...it’s just gorgeous! I was amazed that you were able to put it back together. I’m sure it will find a special place in your studio, perhaps under the glass dome. Well done!
Yes Doug, I shall have to find a special and safe spot for it!
Have you shared in a previous video those objects which are on your “all-time wish list” of most special finds?
Glass from almost 300 years ago! Amazing!!
What a treasure that beautiful bottle is! I am so glad you found it! Enjoy!
CONGRATULATIONS on your special bottle find and the friendship ring! Well done!🤗
Impressive finds. I truly didn't think the onion bottle would be whole when you was done. Felt there had to be missing pieces. Great job. Thats why i keep watching your videos. The historical context and the thrill of the hunt. I wish American history went back as far as British history does. You are blessed with a treasure chest in your own back yard. Thats how i see it. I get excited to find something from the 1800s in America. Couldnt phantom the idea of finding 12th or 13th , 14th ,15th century items. Wow. Amazing!!!!!
Thank you Bill! You have some fascinating history there too. x
The onion bottle is stunning and the ring is very lovely too. I hope you can update us on the date of the ring. What a nice puzzle to put together! The teapot is in such mint condition too!
All of the wonderful bits and pieces of history you walk past to find these amazing pieces! I'm afraid I'd make a terrible mudlark! I'd end up carrying half the beach home with me! I love your videos! Thank you for giving us amazing adventures to share!
Thank you Michael! yes, it can be difficult to know what to pick up and what to not pick up!
Congrats on finding that onion bottle Nicola, with all the bits you had to put back together maybe you could call it 'Frankenbottle' lol!
still it's a beautiful find, i'm so envious that you can find all this stuff from the Thames foreshore, my local river is the river Douglas, which is great if your after supermarket shopping trolly's
but not much else.
That Royal Artillery button is a super find too.
Regards Chris
Seriously stunning bottle! Nicola you must be over the moon!? Sweet ring too. Thank you for sharing.
That bottle is beautiful, you did an amazing job putting it back together. I have started talking back to you on the videos, there is no hope for me.
I am watching this for the first time today. love your amazing find
NICE onion bottle Nicola! I love the Elizabethan coin too. The ring is so enchanting, you know it was a ring given by someone to someone they loved ..so many memories washing ashore and being uncovered ...love to watch you uncover them all. :-)
Omg...video of the year so far!! Love love love that stunning little onion bottle!! A great finds Nicola...well done and well deserved. Love seeing Si too. You make a good cuppa and a good team. Much love.
Thank you Debs!
Nice to get great vids from both you and Si today.
I love the little onion bottle so much!! Watching the transformation was very exciting! Well done!
Nicole, I’m over the moon for you on your find of the smaller version of the” onion bottle ”. Yeah! The rest is an added bonus. 😍👀😉🍾
Fantastic work assembling the bottle it looks adorable, not a piece missing. That T pot is fabulous. Looks brand new. Nice finds.
Teapot is - ace beautiful and classy -
And it pours better than mine 😉
Love the snail button😂 and the bottle is excellent 😍😍😍oh and the ring 😉
Wow.....What a great restoration of the onion bottle Nicola. That is breathtaking. And I absolutely adore how you repurposed the little teapot, cracks, chips and all. That is another stunning beauty and I bet the tea tastes fantastic when poured from such a wonderful piece of history. :) Love your channel and eagerly wait for new videos. Cheers from Ontario, Canada
Thank you Simone!
I think you'll soon find your intact onion bottle after showing your kindness to this one! The teapot turned out quite stellar! Simon is a good friend to have!
Thank you. Yes I know!
@@nicolawhitemudlark Is the lid the original?
Beautiful little bottle indeed! ...and a beautiful job putting it back together!
Brava! Nicola-"And going into the dazzling sun to feel with sad wonder how is all life and its travail in this following a wall that has shards of bottle in the top." - (Eugenio Montale)
Hi there . Great finds. I think it is brilliant what you have done with the old bottle by piecing back together & bringing it back into the world for people to see. Awesome piece of history.
OMG I would adore finding that poor little Dr Damage you found - the ambulance character. He's one of my faves from the movie and him being all beat up like that fits him xD.
Congratulations on your beautiful onion bottle!! Excellent restoration, fantastic idea to put it back together. Love that it is small!!!
Thank you. Yes, it's pocket sized!
Fabulous gifts from the River today, Its about time your intention to find and craving for, a Onion Bottle was heard by the universe and expect for a chip on the rim, its all there!!! YOU lucky woman!!
Congratulations, Nicola! what a great find...so glad you dug down and actually found all of it! Brilliant!
Thank you Jo Anne
Congratulations on your wonderful find of the onion bottle:) Best of luck finding the witch bottle :) Just think who may have used that tea pot and how it came to be in the sand .
Wonderful find! Thank you for taking us along in your discoveries!
Love this , I wish I could be there
Wow, wow, wow Nicola! Congratulations on finding and piecing together your onion/mallet bottle, -good things indeed always come to those who wait -stunning!
Thank you!
Hi it's hard to believe that after all the years that bottle had laid out on the banks of the river Thames! That you could find and put together all the pieces and get an onion bottle!
I am always amazed at the treasures waiting for you on your adventures! And you know I'm very jealous overseas in Tennessee and now I'm jealous of tea time! Haha, bye!
I know Greg, it really is amazing. I guess it was its time to be found! And there's nothing quite like a nice cup of tea! X
The most wholesome channel on the whole of RUclips! Love it! I look forward to it every week Nicola...thanks so much for doing it.
Thank you! What a lovely thing to say x
I honestly thought the "ring" was going to turn out to be a cable ident. There was a time when these were very important to me: my colleagues and I were tasked with making eight wiring looms for eight sensor turrets to go on eight "Forward Observation Vehicles" ordered by an Arabic customer. Another colleague had designed this wiring loom, and there were, he said, several thousand connections in each one. The plan was for each of us, initially, to build one each, and each of us to then inspect and test someone else's work. I got started, my colleagues went outside to smoke a roll-up each. My recollection is that they reappeared a couple of months later, by which time I had built all eight wiring looms and they, presumably, had smoked enough roll-ups to hasten their deaths. We had numerous toolkits full of multi-sized, multi-coloured cable idents, which can be plastic, sort of rubbery, or metal. I'd be quite glad to not see another one. Basically, they tell you which wire is which, but when there are thousands of them they don't reduce the confusion very much. All the looms worked.
Matthew Spencer Until the inscription was revealed, I was sure the ring was an identity tag for a swan or goose.
@@johnmorris7209 It would be interesting to know which came first, the cable ident or the bird-ring! Once upon a time, someone decided to research the breeding success of zebra finches by colour coding the males in aviaries with colour-coded leg-rings. Some birds were notably more successful at attracting females than others and researchers examined the successful males in each aviary to see what the distinguishing characteristics were, that made those males more successful than the others. The eventual answer was: they were the ones in each aviary who had been fitted with a RED leg ring.
@@matthewspencer972 Thank you. Very informative.
A wonderful find and marvelous reconstruction of the bottle. It is lovely. Your other finds were great but that bottle is the FIND of the year. Good luck with your witch bottle. Would have enjoyed a cup of Earl Grey with you.
Thank you Coni!
I have this dream of doing a mud lark with you and chill bill and Sufi !! What a dream hunt that would be if I could make it from USA TO GREAT BRITAIN
hold on to that dream Crystal! if you can dream it, you can do it!
I have that same wish from Australia.
Very happy for you and the baby onion bottle! You did such an excellent job restoring it! Congrats!
3 snails , uck uck uck , no, sorry, easy mistake to make I guess , but couldn't help but chuckle.
Which merely proves what great entertainment you provide for us.
But most of all I was SO happy for you finding your dream Onion Bottle which , though
broken , you repaired with aplomb and skill. Well done !
Thank you!
Looks like 3 snails on a popes Miter( hat)
Love the bottle, what a great find and restoration. Nice :)
Right after you said "I'm going to make a cup of tea in it!" an ad cut in: " The world says you have to grow up - you don't have to". It was like the voice of God saying you don't have to listen to adults who tell you not to drink out of teapots you dug out of the mud.
Yes! I love that thought :)
Oh it's beautiful. Love your mudlarking.
Thank you ❤️
Just a word of warning - if youre using a mains powered device like a phone charger to power an electrolysis setup like that, please make sure its a good quality one, like what would be supplied with a quality brand of phone or an after-market charger from a reputable source. There are huge numbers of low cost and low quality USB power supplies/phone charges on the market which don't have proper isolation between the mains side and low voltage side of the circuit. Its one thing to use them to charge a phone but quite another to bare the wires and start dipping them into salty water with your hands. You could be trusting your life to the factory having used the right grade of capacitor across the transformer, or to have put enough tape between primary and secondary, when many of them just don't unfortunately. Even if it appears to be working fine and putting out 5V DC, if that isolation from the mains side fails it could be at mains voltage relative to ground.
Thank you! sage advice
alternatively, and probably wisest, you would get exactly the same results by powering the setup from a USB power bank. just a rechargeable battery inside, no mains connection, zero risk of zapping yourself :)
I have become totally captivated by you and your fellow Mudlarkers videos. I have learned so much! I love history anyway but this is such a fantastic way to learn. Thank you!
that's great! glad you enjoy x
FROM MY FAIR LADY, "JUST A LITTLE BIT, JUST A LITTLE BIT WILL MAKE YOU A WHOLE ONION BOTTLE". KEEP SEARCHING THERE IS A WHOLE ONE OUT THERE WAITING FOR YOU. PS. GOOD JOB RESTORING THE BROKEN ONE.
Thank you Harold! x
Hi Nicola, thank you for your time and effort and videos, awesome and amazing. Diane from Southampton UK
Your ambulance is from Pixar’s animation “cars toon” as rescue squad ambulance.
Thank you Stephen!
Awesome Video Nicola! You are such a charming mudlarker and this Onion bottle is the coolest find ever. I really enjoyed this video, you made some amazing discoveries! Thanks for sharing your adventure!
Thank you! x
A DIY onion bottle!
yes, an onion bottle kit! everyone should have one
Nicola: "Oh look! An intact onion bottle!" Bystander:"Great, let's smash it and make a DIY kit!" Nicola: "Nooooooooooooooooooooo!"
All the bottle pieces there. How fantastic is that? Congratulations. It's beautiful. xx
Hi Nicola nice vid...but when you say MUD I'm not convinced.To me it's more like 100's of years of human excrement.you should be wearing gloves.take care.