Aah! That was so moving, Ron! Thanks for that!

Love the garden shots. Lovely And the canal & boats too…

Amazing how neatly they park all those boats, Ron, great big things that are difficult to steer. I can't do that as neatly in my car!

Hello Ron - greetings from Poland. I decided to stay up and watch the UK general election results. I went to bed at 2am but was up again at 6am to see the end on Sky TVs presentaion. An unbeleivable result for Labour. Enough politics. Your garden looked fabulous - I'm very jealous. Our postage stamp at the back of house has lovingly been looked after by Mags. This summer is packed with colour, lovely smells and loads of raspberries. Update on the kittens - now 8 weeks old, growing like you wouldn't believe and are into and up to everything. I'm positive Mags has decided to keep them, which will mean 1 dog, 5 indoor cats, 3 kittens and 4 outside cats she feeds when they decide to use our terrace as a restaurant.

A fitting waterborne tribute. Thank you - looking forward to Bewdley next week.

I only could wish that I would be worthy of that level of respect that they had for Mr. Selfe whence I trundle off into that good night.

Good morning Ron. The garden is looking grand. Its been a tricky year for growing and the slugs were real nightmare, guess it was all a wet weather. I can report Syd is getting out for his walks again as the calf has repaired. Mind you Im going to avoid starting the bikes for a while. Looking forward to the next SVR station . Stay safe Pete and Syd

Your garden looks beautiful Ron. What a lot of work someone is putting in to keep it so fresh and colourful. I keep telling my daughter how nice and perfumed those Nemesias are. Falling on deaf ears so far. The older sister hasn’t been far this week. Mostly chasing up appointments in the NHS and that’s quite challenging. The older sister also says don’t ever feel the pressure of having to reply to comments. We don’t want you to stop enjoying doing what you do because of the pressure. My finger tips are numb so I use a tipped stylus pen in my right hand but that’s mostly on the iPad. The film was very moving. A gathering of family and friends on boats like that to say goodbye is not something you see normally so thankyou very much for bringing this to us.

Mr Ron, to get such a tribute he must have been a wonderful character, of course these narrow boats the plodding and relentless freight carriers of their day, only overtaken by the railways yet still they have repurposed and survived. Hope for us yet then old chap. You are still reaching out to us with your film clips.

Good afternoon Ron! I am a bit blearly eyed staying up listening to the election results (I have done this since I was about 8 years old!!) on the radio (I am more of a radio than TV sort of person), so sorry for being late! Another lovely vlog, and thank you for the couple of mentions. Hmm - that's a dilemma over authenticity and being clean and shiny on heritage railways. I do remember when I filmed a train on one of the heritage lines that I often feature on my channel, and the coaches outside were dirty and authentic! The comments below the video weren't too kind!! I think most heritage visitors would prefer them to be clean and shiny, but as I like authenticity, I prefer it to look like they would have looked - maybe they should have an 'authentic' weekend once or twice a year, like they do with 1940s weekend (tomorrow on the SVR!) and Thomas The Tank Engine and the like. There's a thought for their marketing teams... Your cinema club on the Gloucester & Sharpness and Gloucester Docks was incredibly moving and quite beautiful. I think I had seen it before, but I think this included new footage, with different and very suitable and apt music to accompany it. Thank you! Great work Ron, Hope you have a good weekend and week, Take care, Paul

Good evening Ron. Late on parade this time after a lightning strike fried the electrics. In reality, just two programmes truly missed, The Archers and Parkinson’s Walks.

Thanks for this one Ron. Just showing it to dad (Philip) who is in hospital at present. He always looks forward to watch you. Mandatory viewing when I visit him. He liked seeing the flower show at the start 😊. During this vlog he kept his eyes open for most of the vlog (longest he’s done this for a week) Your parlance is obviously more entertaining than mine 😂

Hi Ron, Late to the party! Yesterday we had some business to attend to and were up early and got home just in time to watch the end of the Spain Vs Germany game. I really don't know if I want to watch England this evening, I never seem to enjoy it, but just occasionally something memorable happens, I always think of Archie Gemmels goal against the Dutch (ok not England but I always support the British national teams) which was not quite enough but it did them proud and that's all I really want. I wonder what Trev's going to say about today's intrusion, I don't know anyone with a gun and my only experience of weapons is making torpedoes. Perhaps if we point the torpedo tube upwards it might give him a surprise? Your garden is looking wonderful a real tribute to the head gardener (and no doubt to the efforts of the under gardener) well done to you both!! A wonderful tribute to Ben Selfe, amazing to see so many narrow boats on the move at the same time, it must have been quite chaotic at the docks. I fully understand your wariness with animals. I give them a wide berth. The goats that I mentioned were on the most impossible cliff side, but it never worries them. As for me I was halfway up a reservoir dam and some distance from them. To try and allay your fears this was a really safe, wide path which presented no danger and fully open for use but it doesn't really lead anywhere ...... although there is an interesting abandoned canal at the end not a navigable one I might add, dry as a bone anyway. I think the walking season is now at an end, yesterday the car indicated 37° mind you, on the way back, I did spot some chimneys on the horizon and made a detour to take them in!! Actually I have a chimney dilemma. We have a log burner and there is this sound coming from it as if a bird has fallen down it and can't get back up. Its not an easy job to get to it .... "Though I spends me time in the ashes and smoke In this 'ole wide world there's no 'appier bloke" I wish I could help it, that would make me a happier bloke. Have a great weekend!!

Good Morning, Ron. Playing catch up again, but for a very good reason. My good lady has been diagnosed with an early stage cancer, so I am back on the multiple trips to Cheltenham again. I shall therefore be in short supply for a while, I’ll pop in when I can and still post to my You tube channel. Just got to get her through the important first stage of treatment, until October, then it get’s a lot less stressful for the last stage (10 months). Another very enjoyable ‘matters arising’ and the canal boat memorial was very moving. Catch up with you all intermittently until October. Keep the videos coming, Ron. 🙂👍

You had me worried Ron, I was afraid that you weren't venturing outside...what a relief you made it. Thanks for the nice visit, it's just what OVM needed, she's been upset because I don't take her swimming enough, apparently. Anyway, you took her mind off it, that is until the video started with all that water, thanks so much for the "trigger warning". It seems like only last year I was saying that I was giving the AC its annual test. Well today was the day for this year, it's on now and things are cooling down after a rather muggy day. I'll have to set a reminder to turn it off soon before the dog gets used to it and gets even more demanding. Have a good week Ron, sorry about the late submission, every day is starting to blend a bit...

Ron, you are going to have to learn foreign words. Toronto is pronounced Tronno. You see, over there they can't speak english properly!