I love when Nicola let's us 'play along' with her slow pan and clues:) like a favourite aunt taking your little pail and shovel inviting you on an outing. I'm grabbing my boots:)
I remember Si-Finds discussing in a video that he spoke with some friends in the Indian community about the offerings and how the magic happens when the offering is tossed into the Thames so it is perfectly fine to handle and remove them. From a witchy poo standpoint I feel that once you release something and walk away, it's out of your hands and the offering will end up wherever it was meant to go. Your friend Emma is so cute and sweet. What a great pal!
I would not feel comfortable taking it if it was still bundled. But if were separated and found it, I would feel blessed, and that it were a gift from the Universe to lighten my spirits. And I would really like to see an episode dedicated to these offerings.
@@nicolawhitemudlark Great idea....... the one offering I was concerned about was the rattle you found think I would definitely have left it on the Thames foreshore ................. Though hopefully the Thames had done it's magic and transformed whatever was locked within?
As I understand this- Once it leaves the supplicants hand, the prayer is done and it can be removed from the water. I would take them as resin and plastic are not environmentally friendly. Thanks so much for the wonderful experience you share with us each time you post! Bright blessings always
Thank you so much for sharing that. It really bother's me that things are thrown in, particularly plastic and such and just left to become litter. Grateful to Nicola for cleaning up and being respectful at the same time.
Wow, Nic! As the number of subscribers to your channel explodes--and the comments increase exponentially--I must say that of all your wonderful finds in this video, the best of all is your friend, Emma! To say you have a friendship that has endured for 40+ years is such a rare treasure, indeed! Value and cherish it, Nic, for it means more than all the gold and clay pipes. Thank you for sharing with us.....
Ah thank you Steve! That is so true. And thank you for being so supportive. I really notice that and appreciate it. Happy Christmas and New Year to you xx
I adore your friend Emma, what a sweetheart , lovely friend. I am so grateful to you for this wonderful chance to hear so much history and see so many amazing finds. Hello from Western Canada.
Just wonderful...thank you Nicola! I agree with all the comments on the offerings that they should be removed if they and the contents of the package are not environmentally friendly. They really shouldn't have been thrown in to the water to begin with...so, I hope, with everyone being made more aware of the environment, people will be more mindful...take care, really love your videos!
Hi Nicola another very interesting lark, I wonder if my eyes were deceiving me as I think I saw 2 other pipe bowls when you were showing the pipes you found.... the tiny one is extraordinary and that Thames jewellery is stunning! Thanks for another wonderful mud lark 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Stephanie -- great one! I had to laugh out loud -- that's a disturbing vision though -- Gollum skulking around behind the pilings, watching everything that Nicola picks up. "Ahhh, she has it my Precious, our ring! Nasty, horrible mudlarkers!" :-)
Looked like a pipe bowl just to the right of the little pipe you found. Seems like the makers of religious offerings who produce them in plastic need to find an environmentally sound alternative. Fun trip.
Nic, please take the non-compostable findings. In a recant study micro plastics (broken down tiny bits of degraded plastic) outnumbered larval fish 7:1, and those larval fish all had micro plastics in the digestive tracts and gills. That, my dear, is a preventable tragedy, please remove the plastics and make more great art like the cormorant.
Very nice to meet up and keep in touch with childhood friends, true treasures. On the religious offerings, keep them if they are of interest to you. I would hope that they were meant to be found someday. Very nice discoveries today, the bottle stopper and that great pipe. Enjoyed watching and learning as always. Best of luck with your next hunt for treasure and relics.
Greetings Nicola! Thanks for the delightful video, I really like seeing your friends, the boats on the Thames (I was a boat captain on the Mississippi for almost 40 years, your stripey tops, pink wellies, rosy cheeks and glowing hair...and of course the soft crunch as your trowel extricate a new treasure!
Nicola , you make every video interesting , educational , fun and just a delight to watch . Thank you . You are fast becoming part of the history of the forshore too !
I am also reminded of this: "She sat by the banks of the dirty gray river/ to try for a fish with a worm on a pin/ there was nothin' but fever and ghosts in the water/ oh How Will I Ever Be Simple Again?...." a song by Richard Thompson about the loss of innocence, one of the saddest and loveliest things I've ever heard.
👍 Awesome did you have a friend for a long time not many people do is very special and your fines are very good in I enjoy your show no you stay blessed and I'll see you on your next one
Beautiful finds today! I love the bottle stopper. I would love to see an end of year special with a gathering of all your favourite finds of the year! I love your videos so much and really look forward to seeing them. They are so inspiring to me as they make me want to go out and see the world, because I have bad anxiety it was difficult for a long time to get out but the videos you make honestly inspire me 😊💚
Had my parents not left England for Canada in 1964, I would certainly try this. However, I will experience these amazing adventures vicariously through you. Be well. Happy New Year from Ontario Canada. 🇨🇦
On the religious offerings, I understand the wishes behind it but to me it is littering the River especially if it is not biodegradable. Maybe the company who makes these can do ones that will be environmentally safe.
Lovely outing! Thanks so much! Awesome finds as well. The little spoon once cleaned up looked as if there were some words on it, on the bowl part. Can’t wait for more fish in your store, thanks again Nicola!
Nicola, I really appreciate how you endorse all the other artists who create their art from the River Thames finds! I enjoy seeing all their art as well as yours, keep up the great work! Love watching your mudlarking adventures, good luck for future finds! 👍🏻
I love the fact u don't over edit anything it keeps it real and gives us a sense of being there with you i also love your pipe collection surprise you still got room for the new finds best wishes and muddy boots✌️❤️
My last comment of this video. You bring us amazingly lovely content about the bits and bobs (British term) from the river. I will always be grateful and amazed by what you find. Your research of your little finds kind of thrill me. I worked for years and years at a thrift store. It was a lot of fun to research the stuff that sometimes came through. Your river finds are so much more exciting. Thank you! ❤️
Awesome video! That metal stopper is interesting, I've never seen one here. Reminds me a bit of the Lightning Stopper. You see those on Grolsch bottles still.
What a fun video and great to meet Emma! For a bit there I thought the Pipe Queen of the Thames was going to have a pipe less lark but WOW, what great pipes. Before the pipes you found the piece of pottery that had a person cooking something. Just above the cooking pot there is a hand coming down and if it isn't a utensil for eating it looks like a pipe. So perhaps you found three pipes? Great music, great video and beautiful art. An iron gold plated ring. Perhaps not hard to toss it in the Thames as opposed to gold. It may be hard to beat that gold and diamond ring you found but you never know. So Kind Thanks Nicola and now my Sunday is complete. I think my week would go wacky if I didn't have a larking video to complete the first day of the week. Now I'm off to a good start and stronger listing on me bucket list, to go mud larking on the Thames one day! Might find an ancestors item, one never knows, which is the fun in the mystery of it all. Thanks to all in your video and Thanks Emma for treating our mud larking Pipe Queen! DaveyJO in Pa.
On RU-vid everyone finds their own eclectic mix of channels. This mudlarking channel I find interesting on many levels. Thank you for uploading it. May you always have interesting finds.
Oh wow, Nic! You’re wearing gloves! Bet they help with it being so cold out, right? Lovely meal on the Thames and a sweet friend. Always lovely to accompany YU on your markings, dear friend. Let me know when the guys need another food order. I’m always willing to help in their journey to redemption as I KNOW YU are! Merry Christmas, Nic! Lovingly, Deb
Thanks Deb. Im so happy to hear from you as I was actually worried that I lost you somehow. Thank you! Im coming to the USA in Jan. I will let you know and that is so kind of you. Yes, the gloves were good that day. It was so cold and also I cut my hand so that is the real reason I wore them! I thought the sensible thing to do. I hope you are well and I wish you a blessed Christmas xx
Thanks again Nicola. Your channel has grown so much since starting and you really bring a glow onto the screen once we click. You really have something special to be able to brighten people’s day or 330am for me. As for the religious offerings I think once they’ve been offered so to speak I think the people have pledged their gift. If it’s coins or say a gold ring I shore wouldn’t be leaving it. But the flowers and everything you left then shows respect but in a couple of days the cloth and Ganesh will be more waste in the river. Also if you look at the Ganges it’s in a very sad state of affairs. Cheers 🍻 John from the Gong Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks very much John. yes, I never imagined it would grow like that to be honest. Yes, I agree on the offering front. It's a sensitive topic. I think as long as they are treated with respect that is the key.
I can picture some guy going over the bridge, pissed, and firing the ring out the car window. Myself, I’d feel better taking it to a jeweler and getting some cash!
Part of me says leave the religious items and walk on. The other side of me says collect them and place them in the dust bin. Plastics and resin have no place in any of our waterways
Its a spiritual offering which can be removed. So it can be removed after its been there for a few days. Also i don't know why people don't go to a temple to do that instead of leaving them at river. How about leaving something that's organic and can brake down faster, like statue made of wood or paper picture.
Is it allowed to throw those (plastic?) offerings and (forreighn?) seads? Do you let it be, or do you take it with you. In my eyes it's litterering..? LOVE your painting!
Hello Nicola ..what a lovely productive hunt !.love the miniature early pipe' the coins and the stopper ...the ring was exciting to see ! ...as always a great lot of finds ..have a wonderful Christmas ..best wishes A & S.
With all the millions (?) of pieces that have been larked from the Thames, at one time the shores must have been covered with 'finds' You could probably fill a satchel within ten feet of walking.
Thank you, Nicola. I really enjoyed this video and seeing Wendy, Simon as well as your long time and lovely friend, Emma. I appreciate your research, very interesting. Love the tiny pipe.
At 7:59 to 8:47 when you pick up the bottle with the metal stopper, right next to it is a stone with a white circle within it. The white circle is quartz crystal. These stones with rings of quartz in them are called "Wishing Stones". There are some certain people who would pay a pretty penny for such stones, especially if it's tidied up and smoothed into a nice shape. Edit: And there's another at 12:23
The point of most religious offerings is the act of offering in the first place. Since that deed is done as soon as it leaves the person's hands, I would say that it would be a benefit to the environment to remove them as you come across them.
As for Everett, I can find the following so far: Richard Everett, Boot maker, 2 Palace rd, Bromley Miss Elizabeth Everett, Dress maker, 152 Trafalgar rd, Greenwich Mrs Eliza Everett, Wardrobe dealer, 1 Cross st, Woolwich
@@nicolawhitemudlark Also (don't know if it will help), the old Cornwall RD (pre-1912) was changed to Rowan RD and is in Hammersmith. www.maps.thehunthouse.com/Streets/Old_to_New_Abolished_London_Street_Names.htm#C
Thank you Erin! yes she is. And yes, that tiny pipe although it didn't look much is so old! I would just love to know who smoked it all those years ago!
@@nicolawhitemudlark perhaps that ring harkens back to " the day that Billy Joe McAllister threw something off the [London] bridge....."? From a famous song over here on this side of the pond, that you might not know, Ode to Billy Joe
Loved your mini pipe, it is amazing! My opinion is, regardless of religious offering,It is fine to take the item out of the mud. Thank you once again for your fantastic video!
