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Second home purchase should be made illegal - also in the southern english coastal towns. It prices local people on low-medium incomes out of buying a home. It is a national disgrace.

As a 'Murcan I wasn't considering Wales because, what happened to the trees....

Lovely seeing someone move into a ready made family and take them all on as if they're his own. Fully understand they are the priority! I love the friendly way you chat with viewers. I'm here, alone in my kitchen, cooking tea, with HubNut / HubNotes playing, it's like having a mate round, chatting about cars and family. It's a real lift for me. Thank you! (am I the only one who talks back to you?)

It's all relevant. I moved to Wales from Sweden. The Welsh weather at it's worst is mild compared to a Nordic winter I can tell you. In Sweden during the cold months (October to March) it can take ten minutes to get dressed well enough just to go outside. If you've got small kids it can be a major project getting them wrapped up in boots, overalls, hats, scarfs and gloves.... With temperatures that can get as cold as -25c, you can't not be prepared. All Swedes change their car tyres twice a year. Winter and Summer tyres. Oh, and the dark... at the mid winter it gets light at about 10 am and dark again by 3 pm. You need to be a real Viking to cope well with that. I love the fact that in Wales, daffodils shoot up already in February. You'll be lucky to see daffodils in Sweden before May. Brrrr!

I moved to Wales exactly ten years ago. People in Wales are lovely. I can't speak Welsh but I wish I could. My kids have all learned it in school.

Very honest video. Same with Cornwall, there is always such a fake persona particularly on TH-cam that moving to rural Wales or specifically Cornwall is this utopia where you will be picking wildflowers everyday and making bread in workers cottage. The reality is these places are the poorest places in not just England but Europe , Cornwall is one the poorest and impoverished places in EUROPE! twinned with i think Lithuania and received emergency funds through the EU to stay afloat, this of course is now gone as they all voted brexit.. you couldn't make it up. Wages are usually 1/3rd of what you would get anywhere else and be prepared for hostile locals and overpriced housing. That being said these places have natural beauty and there is that sense of freedom and peace of mind living rural is something not many have these days, but for all you Sussex types selling up in London and moving to Cornwall or west Wales , best of luck but don't waste your time you'll be moving back in a year!

Butane is used to power the soldering iron.Used one a lot when I was at work

you've developed a very nice Welsh accent. As a consequence every sound you make is poetry and music. I grew there in the 60's long time gone but I visit occasionally. Feeling nostalgic and here you are.. Excellent stuff my friend.

Ian, family life should always come first, no matter what. No need to say sorry for lack of content.

£1600 for 1.1m views is a terrible return

another great video has always Ian and Carly miss/mrs hubnut and hublets and hubmutt 👍

Thanks for the catch-up. If you're anything like me, life simply gets in the way of projects. I live in an old house that needs constant attention, there are certain rooms I enter and immediately regret.....

I was just wondering how your relationships with the Hublets was and is looking pretty good and a a couple you do complient each other and Miss Hubnut will give anything a go when it comes to mechanical stuff

Why does a car have to be "iconic" Ian? 1:20

Great video. Any miss hub nut content soon?

Don't apologise family comes first. Wishing the hublets the best with their exams very stressful time.

Bungalows sought after for the retirees

be aware also of collisions down the narrow roads as many locals drive too fast, it rains forever also, service is sloooooooooooooow too much chat in supermarkets, hospitals particularly Bronglais in Aberystwyth are very good, housing is cheaper but has gone up a lot in the last few years , hard to find anyone to do any work at all ie gardener, cleaner etc you may as well go self employed as it seems they all want £15hour minimum and thats the bare minimum. My Mum is very close to Hub Nut

I've never seen Roadkill or any of the others you mentioned. But I have been watching a YT channel which seems a little similar on a smaller scale called JunkyardDigs for years. Finding and fixing up old motors and driving them home. Sometimes throwing in a challenge.

Family comes first plus this time of the year it's best to be safe with the roads

I thought you were paid the same as a premiership footballer [£150,000 a month] Seems I was optomistic.

Felt disparaged when I offered to help with homework for my daughter who was around 12 at the time and was flatly told 'No, you won't understand it.'😢

Like the old ad 'i couldn't bake better bread myself than mother's pride' . Sad all gone now.

Glad to hear you're taking a bit of time out. I hope knowing that the unit is full of paused projects isn't causing undue stress. As much as they're all worthy causes, a less stressed Ian should take priority over simple project count, as exciting all the projects can be. At least you acknowledge the ups and downs of full-time TH-cam, and seem to do a fantastic job managing that and reminding us viewers of the necessity of a healthy work-life balance.

Good luck with your first trip away but I would recommend getting a electric lead that's used for tenting and put through the front passenger window or driver's fit some of those wind deflectors so you won't get any rain coming in then you can have a low wattage fan heater kettle and any other appliances you need otherwise it will be freezing

I discovered your channel just after you got back to Wales from here (Australia). I've become addicted to your videos. Thanks to you I'm now a Citroen Xantia owner. About a month ago I bought a spare one with 450,000kms on it for spares and I drove it 1000kms home from Queensland. It drove so well, I now want to restore it. I nearly bought another one two weeks ago but I thought having three would be ridiculous so I bought an excellent 1990 V6 Alfa 75 instead. Life is great in cars with character!

Ahhh exams, that takes me back. IMO one of the worst ways in which to grade Intelligence. Still, that’s my history. May the Hubletts strive in whatever they turn their hands to.

Seems changeable weather is worldwide. Here in Dandenong Australia it just went down from 37C to 22C in less than an hour - winds from the Antarctic is cold!

I can vouch for the hail , was on my way back from Welsh pool , progress was interesting to say the least .

Oh dear, as layers of management and educational theory aim to make assessment fairer, the burden on the learners gets heavier and heavier. When I were a lad, we didn't even do mock GCEs and A levels, and that kind of sudden death is a bit extreme. But the alternative seems to be a world where assessment is the focus practically all the time. Little time for the joy of learning (for those for whom it is a joy), let alone being young and maybe foolish.

Family first...get it done Hublets! Embarrass your Mom and Ian, get better scores than they did!

Thanks for sharing!! I found this to be a very helpful and informative video as someone who is studying the history of Wales, while also attempting to learn Welsh!

A portable gas stove, kettle, hot water bottles, and if you've got access to water at a campsite, you can soon generate lots of 'sleeping warmth'. Layers of bedding and sleeping in sweat shirts and joggers, you can be toast. I've slept in the back of a Transit Van in winter conditions. Mind you, expect some condensation in the morning

Good luck Hublets, we are all following you guys😅

Nothing to apologise for.Ian. Family comes first. Hope the first camping in Bella goes smoothly

Get a diesel heater properly fitted into the micro camper .

Good bit of waffle there.😁 Good luck to the hublets 👍

Best wishes to the Hublets. I believe GCSE and A levels are tougher than when I did them in the 70s.

I was searching for a low milieage 2018ish Berlingo petrol but they seem to be very few and far apart in SE England.

They'll be fine. We'll be fine. The tinkering on the Corsa was good this week. How about producing a video of a blank screen about 5 minutes long. You tube won't care and we can watch it in the background and you can get money for it with minimal effort.

THANKS FOR A' GOOD ViDEO!! 😉👍😏

There was very testing wintry wet weather in North Wales around Mpld / Chester last night, I was very glad to have new Goodyear Vector 4 Seasons tyres on the front of my Brava.....

Priorities.

Welcome to the real world, get on with it

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All the pants weather is my fault. 10 days ago i put my Bridgestone all-seasons under my Berlingo. Soz!

What is it with the UK these days, an inch or two of snow and everything comes to a grinding halt, I can remember the winter of 62-63 trudging through 2 feet of snow to school a few mile away, the few teachers that were late or missing travelled by train, the morning ones often delayed whilst the tracks and third rail de-iced or cleared of overnight snow. Buses running as normal, often delayed though, but fitted with chains on drive wheels. The Milkman as regular as ever but was a shortage of milk bottles as many buried under snow on peoples door steps not seen and collected by the milky. Come on people, get prepared for real winter weather the start of November, set of chains and a folding shovel, entrenching tool - for the use of in stores issue parlance, in the boot along with some strips of old carpet to place under spinning wheels, attached to rear by rope so one doesn't have to stop until on a firm surface with some grip.

Hi Ian Carly and the hublets thanks for the update. Family must come first, everything else can be replaced. I hope like myself most people appreciate how much work you put in to keep us entertained. 👍👍

The Hublets come first, especially at this crucial age for their futures!

Things certainly have changed with exams even since I finished school in 2001, much like yourself we had everything all lumped in at the end in Year 11, doing the mocks in 2000 and then the actual GCSEs in 2001, though in my case my results were absolutely rubbish (I blame dysgraphia which makes my handwriting very difficult to read, so the xaminers probably just binned my papers!)... :P