Stunning, calming, peaceful. Loved the boat trip and the updates are very interesting. Maybe they will name a lock Paul.

Thanks for this update Paul. Interesting to hear all the news and to see the locations. I love walking along this canal. I visited the new centre at the water park. It is a lovely lakeside location with friendly volunteers.

Thanks so much for the update and news on the canals renovation. Won't it be wonderful when the canals are reattached to the UK canal system.

The canal trip was beautiful. Loved the coverage of the running event. It is wonderful that there are such great plans for the canal system.

Brilliant Paul! So much must have gone into filming this update from various places and linking it all up. The boat trip was just so beautiful. It’s been too long since I was last on a canal boat floating along through lush countryside and scenic sights. Really good to see all the restoration and work and everything that has happened on the canals since your last update. Oh gosh, I remember those hopping bouncy balls!, used to love mine! Hours of fun bouncing around on it! Excellent and informative video Paul and so well produced.

Great to see so much of the canal in water again and navigable. What a marvellous boat trip. I would never have imagined this when I first saw the state of the canal in the Stroud area in the early '80's. Great to see the progress being made at Whitminster with contributions from the Wey & Arun Trust and WRG. Navigation from Saul Junction to Brimscombe Port is now clearly in sight: a major milestone to the challenges beyond.

I loved the sunny canal scenes, the lush vegetation and the peaceful boat ride. I wonder how they will move the water voles. Thank you Paul 🙂🌳🌳🌿🌿🌿☀️

Hi Paul. Once again, you’ve excelled yourself. An excellent video with excellent editing and some very soothing and appropriate background music. With your skills, I don’t understand why you haven’t been approached by a TV company to produce a documentary. Clearly, someone is missing out. I lived in Tetbury for a year (2005-2006) and, while there, visited Saul and the canal. Some of the barge owners allowed you to inspect the insides of their barges without charging a fee. A nice gesture indeed. My brother lived in Kings Stanley and I believe, if my memory isn’t failing me, the stretch of water that you cross as you enter Stanley was the canal that passed through Stonehouse. I digress. Take care my friend, Paul. 👍❤️

Great video thanks for sharing my friend

Ah, that’s wonderful.. great update video. So good to see people out enjoying a run between locks and lovely to see the canal open up to Stroud brewery.. it’s getting closer inch by inch and the work by the volunteers is remarkable.. has the path to bonds mill been smoothed out too? Thanks for this update Paul 👍🏻👍🏻

It’s so nice to see canals being brought back into the system! Very encouraging! I particularly liked the boat trip especially the way you interposed the actual boat trip with the view from the canal side- very effective. But Oils Bridge worried me a bit as something had really given it a tremendous knock and the dislodged bricks had been rammed in again. ( Hope nothing heavy travels over it). Thank you for updating us on the restoration going on there! Ps Thanks for showing the plaque to the swan.

Great video, so much information. Thank you

hi Paul nice update 👌👌

Very interesting, Paul. You do a great job of film journalism, very informative. Good to see the runners. I wasn’t aware of that challenge in May but running is one of the things I do. Maybe I’ll keep an eye out for it next year but I’ll probably run the towpath on my own one day - the restored connected bits from around Brimscombe to - I don’t know where - ocean, maybe?

Hi Paul, that was a very thorough update thanks very much. Lots of interesting details to dwell on like the sign dedicated to Beatrix the swan and all those really healthy looking ducks!! I too wonder how the voles will be enticed to move. With all the trees lining the bank it did remind me of The Wind in the Willows or tales of the river bank!! I noted that snow bridge buttresses would have one time been built for an arched bridge and now they support a more common or garden reinforced concrete one, at least it doesn’t need to be rebuilt. That was a more calm boat ride on the canal than the last one you filmed, no 90° corners there. Those books that Graham Hobbs wrote with the local school children must be a joy to read. There looked to be a chimney at Ebley Mill as well that was tantalizingly just out of shot, in fact it’s very similar to some of the chimneys that dot the landscape down here. I too remember having a space hopper but what I remember most was enticing my gran to have a go on it which we have recorded in our old family cine films, amazing that it was the cause of the blockage on the bearing factory weir outflow. Let’s hope whatever the difficulties that there are in that final stretch that they can be overcome. Really well edited and filmed over a period of time, really well done. Have a great week

Thanks for that update, Paul, theres a lot going on in the canal world now! Its a pity nothing seems to be happening to the thames and medway canal, unless I've missed something!

Apparently there doesn’t seem to be much chance of the canal reaching the roundabout on the A38 because it’s being blocked by Dale Vince sponsor of Just Stop Oil and ecotricity owner. I think he owns the land.