More stylish smoking with a chicken than standard vaping perhaps? There is a Japanese story which may help with the I-broke-my- own- stuff-accidently Blues: There was once a Zen priest who took great pride with a special tea bowl that he showed to a young acolyte. Unfortunately in a moment of distraction while showing it he dropped it and broke it! He immediately became very upset. The acolyte watching this said: 'No need to get upset. It was time for the bowl to die'. I have found this idea very helpful emotionally for those who are obsessed with keeping stuff undamaged on their watch, like myself. Things, like people, eventually die and the time for that is simply not in our hands (literally). I am not always sure this story works but I try it anyway! You are a wonderful film maker.
Thank you Nicola for your sharing your cabinets.. and let’s us remember those who fought and sacrifices they made for our FREEDOMS today … it literally made me cry to think of all those wonderful men and then the Ladies of York to give them tea and a warm good meal. I love your videos and your caring nature. Many thanks . Love from 🇨🇦
You were the very first mudlark I had ever watched and I totally got hooked. I enjoy your videos so very very much keep up your good work lots of love from upstate New York
Diane, I can echo your comment. I saw her thumbnail in my play list and was curious (it was from Nov 2021- today is 9 March 2022!). It's not just entertaining, right? It's so incredible to see such historical finds!
Hi, Nicola. Susan here from Shelburne. We DON'T have snow drops and daffodils blooming here! Rather, we have had storms for the last 4 days (no school for Thursday or Friday), with whiteout conditions today. Still, it was lovely to watch your video, and I was especially thrilled to see the pipe bowl. As you know, I love a challenge, and I did find a Frederick Parnell in the 1911 census, listed as a tobacco clay pipe manufacturer. Aged 29, he had a wife Anne (30), and two children -Alexander was 3, and Maggie was 2. they also had a 17 year old servant. They were living on Victoria Street, East Ham. Frederick was listed as an employer, so it wasn't a one-man business. When I brought up his records for 1901, Frederick was living with his parents in Essex, West Ham, Plaistow (that's how it's listed as a region) where he was a grocer's assistant. His dad was a coachman. Sadly, the next info I could find was the 1939 register, where Annie was living with her children, but was a widow, living on her own means. Annie outlived Alexander, and neither he nor Maggie ever married. Someone was financially astute, however, as Maggie died with a net worth of almost 124000 pounds.
I grew up in Texas, where Lipton tea was the only brand of tea we knew and iced tea was the only kind of tea we drank. I had one of my first cultural awakenings in college when the first English person I ever met repeatedly referred to it as ‘Crapton Tea.’
I worked at a hospital as a porter, it had been a naval hospital during WWII, in the old theatre suite was loads of unused poison bottles still in the boxes. We were told to get rid of them all. Poison bottles were also ribbed so that you could tell they contained poison just by feel in the dark. 29 could be the The 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
I can just hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth that occurred when that bunny was dropped into the river! Pity the mum and dad who had to sort that one out!
Always such great music to go with Great Tideline Adventures! Great finds as well. So much history in a broken piece of pottery that gives it very special value. Bits and pieces used by our ancestors that contain many vibrations of times gone by. So Amazing the Thames and all those interesting places you adventure in! Kind Thanks to You Nicole and David as well! A wonderful video I’ve watched on this sunny February day here in Pennsylvania. Snow drops are in bud here and the daffodils will soon follow. Seems this warm season is one many are looking forward to. I’ve already seen flocks of Robins. Much Love, Light, Peace and Joy of Being! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Fab vid as ever nicola. Thankyou. Dad and I have just watched it together. You always make our Sundays easier. Our family, those here now and mam gone, is always appreciative of your vids and 100% supportive of you. You should make some tideline art merch because i would defo buy it xx love from ash
I'm way up in the Yukon, Canada... just want to say a HUGE thank you for the hours & hours of history and lovely mudlarking entertainment you bring to my (very quiet) northern life. 🙏 an absolute joy. Cheers Nicola 👋😊 from Pat.
Excellent drone footage -- and it's neat to see the islands/shoals/marshes around the two forts -- probably very different now compared to back when they were in use. It says a lot for how well and strong they were built that they are still so much intact, having been decommissioned after World War I -- and not really being kept up since then. They look like they should last, uncared for, for many more years....
Nicola, I really enjoyed having the drone flying over the fort. It was beautiful; I had no idea that those forts were as beautiful in layout as they are. They are marvelous. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the birds in your film really special. I get Buzzards and the occasional Red Kite but you do have such a lovely variety of waders. Praise the lord.
Love the bunny! and the pipe of course! As well, I love you show the birds feeding, I am a bird watcher and nice to what is out and about in your Country.
Gorgeous drone footage of the island and Fort. Juicy finds galore, especially the Cockrell pipe. Be well from Washington state USA ❤ was glad to hear recently that your friend Si is on the mend.
Hello Nicola! For some reason I’m only just watching this video, (usually they’re consumed voraciously as soon as you release them!) and am absolutely fascinated by these incredible sites! How very kind of Geoff to let you have access to his drone footage. Hopefully he will attract more connections from your endorsement. Your work is always a delight, and I completely empathise with your feelings about these special places. Sometimes you just feel as if you’ve really ‘come home’.
Bless your soul! What a super unique and interesting hobby! I grew up in Chicago suburbs and spent my days kicking around the desplaines River and tributaries, up to the Chicago river back down to the Mississippi fishing, catch and release, and taking in the beauty the forest preserves offer. Helping any creatures critters or people in need. Mud Mudlarking, I love it! I've never been across the pond but I'm adding this to my bucket list should ever be in Europe!
Hello 👋 from New York USA you found some amazing finds my favorite definitely was the Blue Poison Bottle and the Rooster 🐓 Clay Pipe those were an Amazing finds Thank You for bringing me along with you on you're Adventure I can't wait to see what you find next 😀 😊
That was a great one! History & remnants of would make it one of my favorite places to go! The chicken pipe reminded me of a recent trip to Maui where chickens roam along everywhere! 🐓🐔🐓 😆. Loved drone views!
That's one crazy pipe! Beautiful day. Thanks for sharing. Beautiful video. Love the birds, especially the herons. Take care stay well. Keep doing what makes you happy.
The cormorant in the end credits did a great impression of me devouring a pastry. Love your video and what a great collection of finds (treasures) you have.
Amazing footage of Hoo, it’s wildlife and of course the history on the shoreline. I can now understand why this area is so special to you🙂. Love the little squirrel, he’s become a bit of a⭐️😀
I was pondering if squirrel would be alright in that storm, so was happy seeing it wind surfing the bird feeder at the end.😊 Always enjoyable to see your adventures out on the River Medway. Along the lines of food for the imagination, to think of the conversations that took place over tea/coffee from those wonderful cups. As always, all the very best to you.
I loved this video . The cockerel pipe was my favourite but then seeing all the emblem pottery I quite liked them too .shame about breaking the bottle I have done that myself lol . The squirrel still taking the hump with you then I see lol it will come back on the window I’m sure . Enjoyed the drone footage too , just all put together nicely thanks x
Wonderful video Nicola !!! Love the beautiful music in the beginning & that beautiful song the man was singing at the end !!! He sounds like the man that sings "You have a friend in me" from the movie "Toy Story" (Randy Newman ?). I absolutely love the gorgeous Colbalt Blue 💙 Bottle you found at the forts & the green 💚 one too !!! Beautiful rooster 🐓 clay pipe & pottery !!! My daughter & I love going to forts & those forts in your country are beautiful & the island 🏝️ is gorgeous !!! I'm the same way Nicola that I could go live somewhere like that island & be happy 😊 & content !!! I also have a friend named David Nolan & we graduated from high school together !!! Wonderful video !!! Squirrel was just swinging away in that strong wind in that bird feeder 😀 !!! ♥️🙂🐿️
Love the doll's leg! 💗 - the clay pipe bowl is gorgeous, as are the blue poison bottles! Such a lovely video, the drone footage is amazing, quite the atmospheric place.. hello from Denmark 🌸❄
Thank you again, Nicola! I am so captivated watching your searches (and finds) on the Thames. The aerial of Hoo Fort was impressive, giving a total perspective of the area. The cockerel pipe is so fascinating. Always glad to see a new video, and your introduction of other mudlarkers, photographers, etc. that help to bring history to life--it takes a village!! 😊👍💖
Another great adventure on the foreshore. Really a shame that your bottle was broken. A beautiful bottle and I was thinking that, with his amazing talent, perhaps Si could cut the top and you could have a real nice vase. Forever enjoying your larks along the Thames.
Oh wow! Great treasures!! The rooster pipe bowl, blue poison bottle and the little blue bottle are my favorite. I love the cobalt blue no matter what was in it. Beautiful drone footage. Gorgeous island. Love the history.
What a Fantastic video, cram-packed with treasures. Nic, you started this vid off with something I adore and that would have to include the person that sported it between his lips (giggle). Aww I Love your precious, tideline art toy. I have a miniature of the clear triangle shaped, with the rounded off edges, that is a poison bottle. Perhaps your left-behind, large bottle contained something not to be taken, made by the same company as my mini replica of yours? Hmm .... I'm wondering if you wanted to preserve the color that a clay pipe is when pulled out of the mud, if you could? Some of them are such terrific colors. A Cool way to display your unique, assorted pottery pieces of the some-what smaller size, is to apply a fairly strong magnet to the backside of it, with (hot melt glue because it's not necessarily permanent). Then arrange them onto a framed (to protect you from sharp edges) sheet of stainless steel and hang on the wall of your art studio. The pieces can also be re-arranged as others are added. ( : Big ((Hugs))
With all the "unlovely" happenings lately, this is a refuge. from Edmonton, Alberta. I love to hear the water, the crunch of feet on gravel, and appreciation for a lost and soggy bunny !
Such an enjoyable video Nicola. The cockerel pipe bowl was a beauty - maybe you could use your excellent skills and attach a suitable pipe stem from your collection, something stylish. All those pottery pieces with the logos and text exude so much history. Loved the drone work, gives a great perspective of the site and surrounds. Hope the squirrel was safe during the storm. Stay safe. Sue and Ian, Australia
Loved this adventure… many finds of intrigue and joy. My throat is suddenly sore seeing the cormorant gulp that (relatively) great fish! Thank you for being such a wonderful outlet. Much appreciation for the time.
Great video as usual the drone footage was amazing ,to me it made the fort look like a big beautiful flower at the end of the island ,please keep doing what you’re doing it brings a few minutes of wonder and joy to my day to sit with my coffee and watch you explore☺️Thankyou
Thanks Lisa. That means a lot to read your comment. Im so glad you enjoyed it and I agree with you about the fort aerial footage looking like a flower! xx
Love the pottery shards with logo's and / writing. A soak overnight in 50 / 50 household bleach and water will bring them up like new and the colour will stand out clearly.
You guys recently had a big storm so maybe there wiill be lots of treasures returning home. Thanks for what you do. Watching your videos is a highlight of my week.
Oh, the Doctor Grace bottle is great! My niece Grace has autism and just wanted a doctor's head mirror.... so, sent for it,just came in mail and she started wearing it! So we're calling her Doctor Grace! Lol
Hi Nicola nice vlog again today. Personal observation: For over 50 years I have heard and known the colour ‘cobalt’ as “co + ball + t”. The adoption idea is really good 😊. Too-bad about Dr. Grace’s, life happens 😳😉. The pottery all together is astounding and as you say ‘who and how many’ . Thank you
How nice for you to learn you are stronger than the tides of the Thames. As for your pottery piece the duty to return it is now yours. LOL What a day of finds.
The Thames toy adoption plan makes you just like King Moonracer, (from the Rankin/Bass Christmas production of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). King Moonracer was in charge of collecting up and giving sanctuary to all the unwanted toys on his Island of Misfit Toys. But, of course, you are Pipe Queen Nicola Moonracer. Anyway, the King did ask Santa for his help in distributing all the unwanted toys to any boy or girl who would love and care for them. So, good luck to you! I will definitely volunteer to house a critter.
Hiya Nicola, Great video, thank you. My dad was RAF so I grew up on many airbases. If memory serves, NAAFI stood for Navy, Army, Airforce, Families Institute. The much less polite version was, No Ambition, And F***all Interest! Could WO have been Warrant Officers? Stay safe, Steve...
Oh my fur and feathers! I've just stumbled across a Cockerell pipe. Only the head depicted though. It's detailing is phenomenal. It's broken on one side but perfect on the other, no stem. Lovely video as always ❤
Another brilliant video, with really great footage of the local birds, plus wonderful music, and all the finds of the day made for a great virtual trip to the River Medway. Thanks!
Gotta like the sandpiper/plover mudlarking! He is definitely looking for tiny treasures! Lol! Fantastic drone footage..the forts are so artistic from that angle. Another satisfying adventure shared with us...thanks so much from Newfoundland!
I enjoyed seeing your display cases. I dont think I have seen them before. If I found pottery shards with logos and lettering on them, I would use a tile saw to trim them down. They are already broken and when they are trimmed, they will be easier to display and handle. But thats just me.
SPECTACULAR VIDEO!!! It was an amazing day for you, everywhere you looked there was something specifically for you. It seems like that day was set up for you. The rooster pipe was made for someone with confidence or someone who was a jokester. I collect poison bottles and your poison bottle is breathtaking and valuable. I have a naval poison bottle too. I loved your music selection, it was so lovely to hear. Thank you for taking us along to enjoy your experience. Take care and be safe. ✌
Wow Nicola you found some fantastic things . I just love the blue poison bottles you found what does the broad arrow stand for Nicola? And the Cockrell piped bowl is a great find to. Thanks for sharing your lovely day larking 🥰👍
Thank You. A Wonderful escape if only for a few minutes. What a Beautiful place. I'm in P.A USA. I'VE been going to flee markets etc. looking for a Cobalt Blue bottle. It will happen someday. Glad you found some. No bottle dumps around here. When it warms up I'll go to the rivers edge.
I have a fun book recommendation. The Raven Spell by Luanne Smith is about a pair of sisters who happen to be witches. They spend the early morning hours mudlarking for precious objects to sell in their second-hand shop. Some nifty magic is involved.
I have been reading about the River Thames and it’s incredible history. King Henry the II and all of that. I can’t believe I can be so lucky as to be able to watch you and all of your mates discovering and picking up it’s history. Thank you so much. Stay safe.
Artist, historian, naturalist, cinematographer. . . you are a Renaissance woman, Miss Nicola!
Oh you're too kind 😍
More stylish smoking with a chicken than standard vaping perhaps? There is a Japanese story which may help with the I-broke-my- own- stuff-accidently Blues: There was once a Zen priest who took great pride with a special tea bowl that he showed to a young acolyte. Unfortunately in a moment of distraction while showing it he dropped it and broke it! He immediately became very upset. The acolyte watching this said: 'No need to get upset. It was time for the bowl to die'. I have found this idea very helpful emotionally for those who are obsessed with keeping stuff undamaged on their watch, like myself. Things, like people, eventually die and the time for that is simply not in our hands (literally). I am not always sure this story works but I try it anyway! You are a wonderful film maker.
A bunny rescued , bottles saved and wildlife appreciated...it must be a Nicola video. Thank you , as always excellent content !
Hey Nic. That cormorant trying to get his big catch to settle properly was great. Your wildlife footage always adds to the finds.
Thanks Alan.
Thank you for saving the toys! x
Thank you Nicola for your sharing your cabinets.. and let’s us remember those who fought and sacrifices they made for our FREEDOMS today … it literally made me cry to think of all those wonderful men and then the Ladies of York to give them tea and a warm good meal. I love your videos and your caring nature. Many thanks . Love from 🇨🇦
Thank you Fiorenza xox
Fiorenza Attansio please dont include me in your disgusting ideology. from Ottawa
You were the very first mudlark I had ever watched and I totally got hooked. I enjoy your videos so very very much keep up your good work lots of love from upstate New York
And from Arizona too. Love your bird additions Ms. White.
And me from Gurt Brizzol 😃
Diane, I can echo your comment. I saw her thumbnail in my play list and was curious (it was from Nov 2021- today is 9 March 2022!). It's not just entertaining, right? It's so incredible to see such historical finds!
(Oh, I am from mid-state Connecticut)
And from Antwerp, Belgium
Hi, Nicola. Susan here from Shelburne. We DON'T have snow drops and daffodils blooming here! Rather, we have had storms for the last 4 days (no school for Thursday or Friday), with whiteout conditions today. Still, it was lovely to watch your video, and I was especially thrilled to see the pipe bowl. As you know, I love a challenge, and I did find a Frederick Parnell in the 1911 census, listed as a tobacco clay pipe manufacturer. Aged 29, he had a wife Anne (30), and two children -Alexander was 3, and Maggie was 2. they also had a 17 year old servant. They were living on Victoria Street, East Ham. Frederick was listed as an employer, so it wasn't a one-man business. When I brought up his records for 1901, Frederick was living with his parents in Essex, West Ham, Plaistow (that's how it's listed as a region) where he was a grocer's assistant. His dad was a coachman. Sadly, the next info I could find was the 1939 register, where Annie was living with her children, but was a widow, living on her own means. Annie outlived Alexander, and neither he nor Maggie ever married. Someone was financially astute, however, as Maggie died with a net worth of almost 124000 pounds.
Thank you very much! I did search myself but hadn't bfound him so this is brilliant. I'll look him up later
I grew up in Texas, where Lipton tea was the only brand of tea we knew and iced tea was the only kind of tea we drank. I had one of my first cultural awakenings in college when the first English person I ever met repeatedly referred to it as ‘Crapton Tea.’
I've always used Lipton until last year. It started to taste like burnt cardboard!
Twinnings or Dilmah is where it's at
5:30 That was quite a big gulp that cormorant took!
can you even imagine having a live fish in your throat?
I worked at a hospital as a porter, it had been a naval hospital during WWII, in the old theatre suite was loads of unused poison bottles still in the boxes. We were told to get rid of them all. Poison bottles were also ribbed so that you could tell they contained poison just by feel in the dark. 29 could be the The 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot
I can just hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth that occurred when that bunny was dropped into the river! Pity the mum and dad who had to sort that one out!
Always such great music to go with Great Tideline Adventures! Great finds as well. So much history in a broken piece of pottery that gives it very special value. Bits and pieces used by our ancestors that contain many vibrations of times gone by. So Amazing the Thames and all those interesting places you adventure in! Kind Thanks to You Nicole and David as well! A wonderful video I’ve watched on this sunny February day here in Pennsylvania. Snow drops are in bud here and the daffodils will soon follow. Seems this warm season is one many are looking forward to. I’ve already seen flocks of Robins. Much Love, Light, Peace and Joy of Being! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Thank you Davey Jo. Daffodils are my absolute favourite and I have some here today xx
Fab vid as ever nicola. Thankyou. Dad and I have just watched it together. You always make our Sundays easier. Our family, those here now and mam gone, is always appreciative of your vids and 100% supportive of you. You should make some tideline art merch because i would defo buy it xx love from ash
Thank you dear Ash. I so appreciate your comment. Lots of love from me. I must work on some merch!! xx
I'm way up in the Yukon, Canada... just want to say a HUGE thank you for the hours & hours of history and lovely mudlarking entertainment you bring to my (very quiet) northern life. 🙏 an absolute joy. Cheers Nicola 👋😊 from Pat.
Oh Nicola, what an awesome day you had mudlarking and what a joy it is to look at your treasures!
Thank you Lynne. So glad you enjoyed. It was a brilliant outing! xox
Geoff’s drone footage sure is amazing. The cobalt bottles you found were beautiful.
Thanks Carol. x
Excellent drone footage -- and it's neat to see the islands/shoals/marshes around the two forts -- probably very different now compared to back when they were in use. It says a lot for how well and strong they were built that they are still so much intact, having been decommissioned after World War I -- and not really being kept up since then. They look like they should last, uncared for, for many more years....
Nicola, I really enjoyed having the drone flying over the fort. It was beautiful; I had no idea that those forts were as beautiful in layout as they are. They are marvelous. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the birds in your film really special. I get Buzzards and the occasional Red Kite but you do have such a lovely variety of waders. Praise the lord.
Thanks Andrew. I could swap you a few waders for some red kite footage!! xx
Love the bunny! and the pipe of course! As well, I love you show the birds feeding, I am a bird watcher and nice to what is out and about in your Country.
Thank you, Nicola for sharing your treasures with us, and for the stunning drone footage. Happy Sunday from very snowy Ontario.
Thanks Leslye x
I've never seen a sea bird eating a flounder before, that was a lucky video capture.
Enjoyed? No I am amazed, so loved it. Even saw a mud larking bird. Wonderful drone footage with music and the chicken pipe, oh my I am blown away.
Sorry you broke the bottle Nic. Good job the poison is okay. Lovely cockerel pipe. Good job.😀
Soooo many beautiful finds in this video...interesting things never seen before! And, what a lovely sunny day!
One of your best finds. I was so excited for you. Cobalt blue is always a wonderful find. I just couldn’t believe it was not broken. Lucky day.
Gorgeous drone footage of the island and Fort. Juicy finds galore, especially the Cockrell pipe. Be well from Washington state USA ❤ was glad to hear recently that your friend Si is on the mend.
Thanks Adrianne x
What happened with Si?
@@nitahuncke5541 got a small case of CoVid.
@@adriannenash9852 Thank you for that information.
Hello Nicola! For some reason I’m only just watching this video, (usually they’re consumed voraciously as soon as you release them!) and am absolutely fascinated by these incredible sites! How very kind of Geoff to let you have access to his drone footage. Hopefully he will attract more connections from your endorsement. Your work is always a delight, and I completely empathise with your feelings about these special places. Sometimes you just feel as if you’ve really ‘come home’.
Bless your soul! What a super unique and interesting hobby! I grew up in Chicago suburbs and spent my days kicking around the desplaines River and tributaries, up to the Chicago river back down to the Mississippi fishing, catch and release, and taking in the beauty the forest preserves offer. Helping any creatures critters or people in need. Mud Mudlarking, I love it! I've never been across the pond but I'm adding this to my bucket list should ever be in Europe!
Hello 👋 from New York USA you found some amazing finds my favorite definitely was the Blue Poison Bottle and the Rooster 🐓 Clay Pipe those were an Amazing finds Thank You for bringing me along with you on you're Adventure I can't wait to see what you find next 😀 😊
That was a great one! History & remnants of would make it one of my favorite places to go! The chicken pipe reminded me of a recent trip to Maui where chickens roam along everywhere! 🐓🐔🐓 😆. Loved drone views!
That's one crazy pipe! Beautiful day. Thanks for sharing. Beautiful video. Love the birds, especially the herons. Take care stay well. Keep doing what makes you happy.
What an epic pipe bowl!!
If ever one deserved to be restored, that's it!!
All those awesome pottery finds. Would make a beautiful collage with all the insignia designs. What a lucky day.
The cormorant in the end credits did a great impression of me devouring a pastry. Love your video and what a great collection of finds (treasures) you have.
That was certainly a different type of pipe you found but very interesting
Amazing footage of Hoo, it’s wildlife and of course the history on the shoreline. I can now understand why this area is so special to you🙂. Love the little squirrel, he’s become a bit of a⭐️😀
I was pondering if squirrel would be alright in that storm, so was happy seeing it wind surfing the bird feeder at the end.😊 Always enjoyable to see your adventures out on the River Medway. Along the lines of food for the imagination, to think of the conversations that took place over tea/coffee from those wonderful cups. As always, all the very best to you.
Thank you! ❤️
That's a noyce plump squizzy 😋
I loved this video . The cockerel pipe was my favourite but then seeing all the emblem pottery I quite liked them too .shame about breaking the bottle I have done that myself lol . The squirrel still taking the hump with you then I see lol it will come back on the window I’m sure . Enjoyed the drone footage too , just all put together nicely thanks x
Thank you lovely Sarah xox
Wonderful video Nicola !!! Love the beautiful music in the beginning & that beautiful song the man was singing at the end !!! He sounds like the man that sings "You have a friend in me" from the movie "Toy Story" (Randy Newman ?). I absolutely love the gorgeous Colbalt Blue 💙 Bottle you found at the forts & the green 💚 one too !!! Beautiful rooster 🐓 clay pipe & pottery !!! My daughter & I love going to forts & those forts in your country are beautiful & the island 🏝️ is gorgeous !!! I'm the same way Nicola that I could go live somewhere like that island & be happy 😊 & content !!! I also have a friend named David Nolan & we graduated from high school together !!! Wonderful video !!! Squirrel was just swinging away in that strong wind in that bird feeder 😀 !!! ♥️🙂🐿️
I just love that the Admiralty Crown is made up of the sails of old style ships/sailing vessels. Just brilliant ❤
Love the doll's leg! 💗
- the clay pipe bowl is gorgeous,
as are the blue poison bottles!
Such a lovely video, the drone footage is amazing, quite the atmospheric place..
hello from Denmark 🌸❄
hello back to you xx
The huge cobalt poison bottle is a stunner , fabulous find .
Thank you again, Nicola! I am so captivated watching your searches (and finds) on the Thames. The aerial of Hoo Fort was impressive, giving a total perspective of the area. The cockerel pipe is so fascinating. Always glad to see a new video, and your introduction of other mudlarkers, photographers, etc. that help to bring history to life--it takes a village!! 😊👍💖
Another great adventure on the foreshore. Really a shame that your bottle was broken. A beautiful bottle and I was thinking that, with his amazing talent, perhaps Si could cut the top and you could have a real nice vase. Forever enjoying your larks along the Thames.
Co bolt....( like a lightning bolt)!! Love the bottle!
Oh wow! Great treasures!! The rooster pipe bowl, blue poison bottle and the little blue bottle are my favorite. I love the cobalt blue no matter what was in it. Beautiful drone footage. Gorgeous island. Love the history.
Wow great aerial view. Love it. AMAZING finds. Thanks
Such interesting finds take care in the storm too. Super aerial video of Hoo. Loved this lark.
What a Fantastic video, cram-packed with treasures. Nic, you started this vid off with something I adore and that would have to include the person that sported it between his lips (giggle). Aww I Love your precious, tideline art toy. I have a miniature of the clear triangle shaped, with the rounded off edges, that is a poison bottle. Perhaps your left-behind, large bottle contained something not to be taken, made by the same company as my mini replica of yours? Hmm .... I'm wondering if you wanted to preserve the color that a clay pipe is when pulled out of the mud, if you could? Some of them are such terrific colors.
A Cool way to display your unique, assorted pottery pieces of the some-what smaller size, is to apply a fairly strong magnet to the backside of it, with (hot melt glue because it's not necessarily permanent). Then arrange them onto a framed (to protect you from sharp edges) sheet of stainless steel and hang on the wall of your art studio. The pieces can also be re-arranged as others are added. ( : Big ((Hugs))
Poor bunny, please save him 😢❤️
he is ok for now but hopefully someone will adopt him soon xx
Beautiful aerial views. Thank you.
All the fabulous finds on the surface (pretty much). Makes one wonder what is 2-4-6 feet under the mud! 🤔💕
With all the "unlovely" happenings lately, this is a refuge. from Edmonton, Alberta. I love to hear the water, the crunch of feet on gravel, and appreciation for a lost and soggy bunny !
Such an enjoyable video Nicola. The cockerel pipe bowl was a beauty - maybe you could use your excellent skills and attach a suitable pipe stem from your collection, something stylish. All those pottery pieces with the logos and text exude so much history. Loved the drone work, gives a great perspective of the site and surrounds. Hope the squirrel was safe during the storm. Stay safe. Sue and Ian, Australia
We prefer Twining Tea to Lipton's. Loved seeing around your digs! Thanks. Suzy AZ USA
Loved this adventure… many finds of intrigue and joy. My throat is suddenly sore seeing the cormorant gulp that (relatively) great fish! Thank you for being such a wonderful outlet. Much appreciation for the time.
I'd lovingly adopt that bunny.... I ould treasure him always!
Great video as usual the drone footage was amazing ,to me it made the fort look like a big beautiful flower at the end of the island ,please keep doing what you’re doing it brings a few minutes of wonder and joy to my day to sit with my coffee and watch you explore☺️Thankyou
Thanks Lisa. That means a lot to read your comment. Im so glad you enjoyed it and I agree with you about the fort aerial footage looking like a flower! xx
The rabbit looks drowned in the stones.
Didn't know Cormorants eat flatfish.
Another addition to your collection.
Absolutely amazing pipe bowl Nicola. Such a shame he or she has lost their head. And the colour in the poison bottle is so beautiful. Great episode 😊
Love the pottery shards with logo's and / writing. A soak overnight in 50 / 50 household bleach and water will bring them up like new and the colour will stand out clearly.
1:40 reminds me of my boss at work, a headless chicken 😆
Wow. What a beauty. I have seen a poison with an arrow or with the word poison imprinted across multiple panels. Gorgeous color too. Wow ✌️💚
Pottery galore! Connect here had arrows on it, poison had an arrow. Arrow on!
Sarah will be jealous of that poison...
You guys recently had a big storm so maybe there wiill be lots of treasures returning home. Thanks for what you do. Watching your videos is a highlight of my week.
Thanks Sandy! Im so glad you enjoy them. I love making them and Im so very lucky to be able to do that. Sending you love from here in London xx
Oh, the Doctor Grace bottle is great! My niece Grace has autism and just wanted a doctor's head mirror.... so, sent for it,just came in mail and she started wearing it! So we're calling her Doctor Grace! Lol
Hi Nicola nice vlog again today. Personal observation: For over 50 years I have heard and known the colour ‘cobalt’ as “co + ball + t”. The adoption idea is really good 😊. Too-bad about Dr. Grace’s, life happens 😳😉. The pottery all together is astounding and as you say ‘who and how many’ . Thank you
Thank you Lois xx
How nice for you to learn you are stronger than the tides of the Thames. As for your pottery piece the duty to return it is now yours. LOL What a day of finds.
I do love that rooster clay pipe! Such imagination. It must have cost a pretty penny to buy.
The Thames toy adoption plan makes you just like King Moonracer, (from the Rankin/Bass Christmas production of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). King Moonracer was in charge of collecting up and giving sanctuary to all the unwanted toys on his Island of Misfit Toys. But, of course, you are Pipe Queen Nicola Moonracer. Anyway, the King did ask Santa for his help in distributing all the unwanted toys to any boy or girl who would love and care for them. So, good luck to you! I will definitely volunteer to house a critter.
Thank you! I didn't know that. I am excited about this scheme xx
Hiya Nicola,
Great video, thank you. My dad was RAF so I grew up on many airbases. If memory serves, NAAFI stood for Navy, Army, Airforce, Families Institute. The much less polite version was, No Ambition, And F***all Interest!
Could WO have been Warrant Officers?
Stay safe, Steve...
Brilliant thanks Steve x
Awesome video once again, that cockerel pipe was amazing. Thank you for sharing and see you on the next one 👍👍👏👏💖💖
brilliant video great finds. big reefer time.
Lovely video of Hoo Fort. I thought I spotted a turnstone in your film today. :^)
yes you did! aren't they lovely.
Oh my fur and feathers! I've just stumbled across a Cockerell pipe. Only the head depicted though. It's detailing is phenomenal. It's broken on one side but perfect on the other, no stem. Lovely video as always ❤
Thank you for sharing with us your amazing collection of poison bottles!
Another brilliant video, with really great footage of the local birds, plus wonderful music, and all the finds of the day made for a great virtual trip to the River Medway. Thanks!
Gotta like the sandpiper/plover mudlarking! He is definitely looking for tiny treasures! Lol! Fantastic drone footage..the forts are so artistic from that angle. Another satisfying adventure shared with us...thanks so much from Newfoundland!
Excellent finds - thank you for sharing
I enjoyed seeing your display cases. I dont think I have seen them before. If I found pottery shards with logos and lettering on them, I would use a tile saw to trim them down. They are already broken and when they are trimmed, they will be easier to display and handle. But thats just me.
So enjoy your peaceful Thames moments, birds and the history seeking!
SPECTACULAR VIDEO!!! It was an amazing day for you, everywhere you looked there was something specifically for you. It seems like that day was set up for you. The rooster pipe was made for someone with confidence or someone who was a jokester. I collect poison bottles and your poison bottle is breathtaking and valuable. I have a naval poison bottle too. I loved your music selection, it was so lovely to hear. Thank you for taking us along to enjoy your experience. Take care and be safe. ✌
Wow Nicola you found some fantastic things . I just love the blue poison bottles you found what does the broad arrow stand for Nicola? And the Cockrell piped bowl is a great find to. Thanks for sharing your lovely day larking 🥰👍
Thank You. A Wonderful escape if only for a few minutes. What a Beautiful place. I'm in P.A USA. I'VE been going to flee markets etc. looking for a Cobalt Blue bottle. It will happen someday. Glad you found some. No bottle dumps around here. When it warms up I'll go to the rivers edge.
Particularly interesting collection of finds this time. Thank you for sharing.
And it is a Jellycat bunny as well. Nice to see the 18ct gold ring, I was hoping you would take it with you. Shame that the diamond has been removed.
Another great day for you Nicola🍀 for me too to watch you picking up those great finds. Love the cockerel pipe bowl 💐
Thanks Anna, me too! x
I have a fun book recommendation. The Raven Spell by Luanne Smith is about a pair of sisters who happen to be witches. They spend the early morning hours mudlarking for precious objects to sell in their second-hand shop. Some nifty magic is involved.
Oh my goodness!! That pipe bowl is magnificent 😲👀 the poisons rich coloured blue is so beautiful! Thanks for another muddy adventure!
Thanks Adam!
Absolutely loved loved the music playing while you were picking up pottery. This was a fun mudlark. Congrats on the blue finds! Lovely poison!
How fortunate to have all that history at your feet
Good finds, good nature captures and good music!
I have been reading about the River Thames and it’s incredible history. King Henry the II and all of that. I can’t believe I can be so lucky as to be able to watch you and all of your mates discovering and picking up it’s history. Thank you so much. Stay safe.
ACC IS the Army Catering Corps. Loving the idea of the Thames Orphans’ Scheme. A great show and tell. Very enjoyable! 👍👍
Just seeing this in 2024, but loved it!! OMG…. The rooster pipe & blue poison were so awesome!!beautiful footage
That pipebowl is spectacular!
I had a lovely medicine bottle like that. I found it in a bottle dump. Mine said Ballard Snow Liniment Co., St. Louis, MO. Sadly, I broke mine, too!
Another delightful video...thank you so much!! Hope you made it through Franklin!