Lived in Canada for a few years a while back. My folks in Scotland sent me a 'food parcel' of things they thought I might not be able to buy in Canada. They shipped the parcel by sea, so it took a few weeks to arrive. Meanwhile, they had airmailed me a list of its contents so I would know what to expect. One item in particular I was looking forward to receiving - but when the parcel arrived that item was missing. I complained to the local Mail Office, who explained the missing bottle of whisky had likely been 'confiscated' by Canadian Custom Officials and disposed of (drunk) by the buggers 🤬
@@scott4600 I used to eat them until I cracked a couple of teeth on a particularly hard one years ago. My nhs dentist was not happy. Thought they should be banned 😂
@@duncanliath Anything "interesting" is automatically "suspicious" and needs "further investigation" which may involve "destructive methods" Customs officials are the same the world over 😂
Yeh, judging by the rest of the contents I would say so. How they think a bag of scratchings would infect their pig population with foreign diseases I don't know Did they think Steve and Lindsay were going to go throwing pork scratchings at the local pigs 😂
Indeed, though JT and Anna live in Kentucky, (not Indiana), but they received a parcel with "Fragile" and "Do Not Shake" written in *LARGE* letters all around it, yet JT said that the post (mail) 'lady' behind the desk at the mail office literally picked it up, _shook it_ - and it rattled - and gave it to JT saying, as she did so, "oh it says 'do not shake it'!!" and JT said, "yes, so _why did you_?!" And on opening it at home, found a set of mugs in the parcel, all broken. 😠😠😠😠😠 So what _is_ it with American (Kentucky and Indiana Postal workers at least? Can they not read, or do they just not care?😮😢)
@@martintroy910 Most of my work years were in logistics. Worst was 1 day at Parcel Farce ( Force ) the load from my 7.5 t truck hurled across the loading bay. I was a very temporary driver for the Christmas period.
It's a shame that the shot glasses didn't make it especially after i tried to ensure that there packaging was double thick. Oh well. I'll try and get some more and send them when I can organise another (better) box.
Guys here in UK we have The Royal Mail, The Post Office made a guarantee that every parcel gets delivered and on time. To tamper or abuse a package in the UK is illegal
Royal Mail and the Post Office are two separate companies. There are products within Royal Mail that have a guarantee such as special delivery with compensation should it not be delivered on time. To that not everything is guaranteed as but in general over 90% of items get delivered on time whether first or second class. Funny that when explaining mail integrity to Royal Mail casual staff they actually also get told that it is illegal to steal/take home mail items (as if they wouldn't of known that). 😂
I send Regularly with Parcelforce Worldwide to California, u have read and understand strict rules on US Customs what they allow as import goods once u comply with rules, parcels left alone. PFW take u to UK customs page where codes can be applied to goods, however if u break rules PFW are legally obliged to remove and destroy items banned from USA if they Don't US Customs will Fine PFW failing to adhere to their standard
Return Flights is a British term. It includes both sides of the trip - out and return. When we ask for a return ticket, the outgoing side is taken for granted. We specifically say "one way trip from x to y" if we're only travelling in one direction. It applies to everything, the Airlines, the trains, and the buses. You always just ask for a return ticket, and they charge you both ways.
Terry Pratchett was a prolific author and arguably the Charles Dickens of the twentieth century. His disc world series is social commentary woven into fiction with more than a sprinkle of humour. His first two books are not as strong as his later work but all are difficult to put down.
Lol. A Magpie is indeed a bird. It has a reputation of being cutely naughty, very noisy, and VERY clever. Magpies have shown the ability to make and use tools, imitate human speech, grieve, play, and work together to achieve something.
Allotments are areas of land within towns, or on the edge of towns, dedicated to growing vegetables & produce etc. They are not attached to houses, but are in groups, where people rent individual plots, all next to each other, usually from the town council. These became popular because many houses in Victorian streets do not have gardens, but only small, hard paved back yards, which are the origin of the American 'Yards'. An area around a house large enough for lawns, flowers etc is a Garden. Flowers are grown in 'flower beds', vegetables in 'vegetable plots', which may be parts of a garden. A Yard is an area surrounded by buildings, often of a working nature, so rarely has any green or growing stuff. They are courtyards, stable yards, farmyards etc. A garden is any outside space devoted to growing things, greenery & relaxation, belonging to a house. They can be any size from a small lawn or patio, to extensive estates covering hundreds of acres, as found around large country houses. It is a bit weird to us Brits to hear Americans call such things 'yards', while calling a single vegetable plot or flower bed a 'garden'. I live in a typical street of attached houses, about 100 years old. We have a small yard behind the house along with all the others in the street, but having planted it with a pair of small trees & added a few tubs of flowering plants, we flatter ourselves by calling it a garden, but it's really still only a tiny backyard, I guess you might call it a patio. Fortunately there are 2 public parks nearby, & farmland a few streets away, so there are places locally where I can take my small dogs to walk & play.
@andypandy9013 I decided that DPD stands for Dirty Pit Dude, as for some reason, our DPD driver ALWAYS smelled like something had crawled into his armpits and died 😳 🤢💀
There's definitely something you can tell Sophia, that the 9x table always adds up to 9. Three times nine is 27, so seven plus two equals nine. At either end is two times nine- 18, and nine times nine - 81. I love that.
As a cheat, for the first 10 most people can use their fingers and thumbs. If you put your hands out flat in front of you then fold down a thumb/finger counting from the left of what number you want to multiply by. Now count the numbers to the left of finger you folded, to give first digit and fingers to right to give 2nd digit, so 1x9 = 09, 2x9=18...9x9=81, 10x9=90
Wimpy was the first burger restaurant to open in the UK, but like most burger franchises, Wimpy originated from the USA and was followed some years later by McDonald's. In the UK, before burgers, it was mainly fish and chips.
Little Chef was actually British - Founded in 1958 the Roadside Diner Chain folded in 2018. But mainly we're much less inclined over here to go for chain restaurants as there's cafes, tearooms, fish and chip shops, kebab shops, chinese takeaways etc. in every town and village in the country. Greggs are everywhere but you'll still see independent bakeries competing with them, though usually at significantly higher prices. For Pizzas we have Dominos and Pizza Hut but also plenty of independent pizza places.
We used to have star burger in some places down south, not sure how prolific they were. Similar to wimpy, one used to be in Deptford high st, near Greenwich, London.
An allotment is usually for people without gardens. You pay a small annual fee and you can grow whatever you want, as long as it is legal! Some people wait years for a vacancy and they are very popular in cities. Once you get a plot, it is yours until you die or until you fail to pay. Sometimes they come with a little shed but you can put your own up. Usually there is great
We have a back garden with a lawn, pond, patio, shrubs, pots with flowers and pots with Courgettes (Zuccini). At the end of the lawn are two greenhouses, fruit cage, strawberry bed and a shed. One greenhouse grows tomatoes, the other greenhouse grows cucumbers. I pay £94 a year for my allotment plot. Its about 2 miles from home. There i grow what is expsensive to buy and for fun. All food. For next year i have taken cuttings off my bluberry plants to grow more. Prices vary extremly all over thd country.
The one childhood song that every American gets wrong is ring o ring of roses. For some reason you say Rosie. It is about the black plague. Many of our nursery rhymes have a very dark meaning.
That's a myth. The claimed association with the plague did not arise until the 1950s...it is entirely fabricated and without any evidence whatsoever. Just one of many things on the internet that are complete nonsense.
Nope, it's not about the Black Death -- that's a Victorian false etymology (the Victorians loved their false etymologies). It really is a rhyme about gathering flowers.
My friend loves Newcastle Brown, I really don't like it, but I'm not really a beer person. It's lovely that people take the time with these packages, especially with the postage costs, I'm in a group reading and discussions, we are really good friends now I'm the only one over the pond, I bought them candles for Xmas last year the postage was eyewatering. One of the group made me a beautiful quilt with stonehenge in yellows oranges and reds.
Hi Keith & Enid here - the items that have been removed were crisps - some sort of beef flavour - not too sure why they would remove them as only flavouring?? Seems odd!!
Thanks for another opening video, you two! Just to clarify the allotment garden thing - there are spaces spread all around through cities, towns, and villages, usually owned by the local council. They are a concept from a time where a family was considered to require a given allotment of land to grow necessary vegetables, and can be applied for by anyone - though preference is given to people who are a) going to use it for food growing and b) have no/limited garden space (I think some priority is also given to lower income/housing benefits folks for whom access to home grown veg would make a big difference, but someone can correct me on that if I'm wrong!). For example, my family home has quite a large garden, but it backs on to an allotment space which is itself adjacent to a block of flats, and the space has generally been used over the years by residents of those flats for growing veggies! Essentially, the key distinction is that they are on land owned by the local council and are not inherently part of a property which is privately owned, and they are then allotted out to people who are in need of the space!
It's weird to say, but Fairy washing up liquid is probably the best gift I've seen on these videos... it's hard to give up! I'm in Australia now and have been forced to buy cheaper stuff (seriously)... and I sure do miss it. Knoppers are f^(&ing amazing,,, I grew up on them as a kid in Germany, and when I found they were stocked at ALDI.... well... 'nuff said
Allotments are like a field split into patches that you can rent to grow produce on. Not part of your home garden. You can just grow flowers it you want to.
In 2010/11 when I caught Swine Flu, I'd have a mug of Bovril every other day. A slice of toast every third day. It was that that kept me alive. I was ill from December 20th and not well enough to eat the food I had ordered and Tesco had delivered for Christmas, that had to go in the freezer. We ate our Christmas lunch on Valentine's Day. I always keep Bovril and Oxo in the house.
@@rayaqueen9657 Thanks. My gran told me to keep certain things in your store cupboard. You never knew when you'll need them. I maybe have a warm drink half a dozen times a year but I fancied Bovril when I was ill and it helped.
The whole of our land that comes with a house is called a garden, if referring to specific areas I would say the flower bed or veg patch. Allotments are really for people who don't have a garden say if they live in a flat/apartment or in a city.
I have watched several of my favourite American youtubers doing these PO box unboxing videos and they have all said the same thing about how the postal services don't care about fragile packages, they just throw them around and crush them.
Depends who u sent with piece of advice reinforce box u are sending dont just send off box flat pack. Make box as strong as possible double wrap it in paper more chance box arrive intact
I remember an old article from the 90s about Clint Eastwood having Newcastle Brown Ale shipped to America after he got a taste for it in the UK, in fact this from 2007 "Hollywood filmmaker Clint Eastwood is set to have his face on bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale to celebrate the drink's upcoming 80th birthday. Dirty Harry legend Eastwood is a longtime fan of the British booze and brewery bosses want his tough guy features to adorn limited addition anniversary bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale. Brewery spokesman DOUG COOK says, "Clint is a massive fan of the drink. Having his face on the bottle would be a real eye-catcher.""
18:23 - If you want to see how they built Medieval castles, have a look at Guedelon castle in France. Guedelon castle has been built over the last 30 years since 1997, using only Medieval tools, techniques and materials. There was a BBC TV series called 'Secrets of the Castle', which you might like to take a look at.
The origins of the nusury rhym Ring O Ring of roses. Refers to the Puss filled blisters of the people who contacted the the plague. A few days later they would die with flue like syptoms, coughing and sneezing hense the Atishoo reference then all fall down . They died. Eyam (pronounced 'eem'), in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England which became famous after the Black Death of 1665 and 1666. An outbreak of the plague was contained when the villagers decided to isolate themselves from the surrounding communities. Surrounding villages left food and supplies on the outskirts untill a harsh winter put a stop to the infection. Fleas carried by black rates were responsible for carrying the disease but it was highly infectious.
My Granddad had an allotment. He also had a large garden at his house. There was a small garden at the front - which was a small grass lawn surrounded with flowers. But the back garden was laid out in vegetable gardens. He needed space to grow the food that his family needed, especially during the second world war. Though one son (my uncle) was already in the Royal Navy, he still had 2 younger children to provide for and food was limited. What he grew in his allotment was half his and half for distribution to families in need, mainly those whose men were away fighting. This was a voluntary concept set up by local people who saw a need. (Granddad was a baker, so that was a reserved occupation and he was needed in that role more than training to be a soldier.) He kept the allotment until he retired and the distance he had to walk to tend it was too far for it to be economical. Also, with where it was, new council housing was springing up and kids who moved there had no respect for the old ways of the town, and destroyed the gardens and sheds. The allotments were then developed and vanished from the town. You are complicating the idea of allotments by trying to put them into a particular niche. Allotments were a space, rented from the local authority or a private landowner, to increase your growing space. Very few houses in the UK, back when allotments were first used, had no garden at all. For people in blocks of flats they were essential. Not only was it somewhere to grow food, they provided a place where whoever had the green fingers (we don't say green thumbs) could go and be at one with nature. It wasn't uncommon for each allotment to have a shed or lean-to, with seats, the ability to boil a kettle and a place to sit to read the paper or eat a packed lunch. Sometimes my Granddad would spend the whole day, working and then just meditating in the peace of his little patch of earth. Some still exist and are fully fenced to prevent vandalism such as I mentioned before. There is nothing more heartbreaking than spending time tending plants that will provide food, only to go to harvest them and find either someone else has taken the crop unlawfully, or someone has come and ripped the plants out and left them to rot.
@@lizg5574 In some areas people have erected their pigeon lofts on their allotments and during WW2 some allotment holders would keep chickens or a pig on their allotment for home slaughter to supplement their rations, but to get permission to do this they had to give some of their ration tokens back to the authorities and in return they would qualify for a quantity of feed for their livestock. In some areas a group of neighbours would band together and set up a pig club and raise several pigs in company with each other, to help keep them active and healthy. In this way when they wanted to finish a pig they could just take one and the meat would be shared out to the club members and then they didn’t waste any of the pig, with no refrigeration to speak of. Then they could finish another pig once the first had been consumed. Each person who had contributed to the club would have the first choice of the parts of the pig in turn so that nobody would get the best bits every time a pig was finished and likewise nobody would get the least desirable parts every time. Fair shares for all.
@@andrewcoates6641 Granddad kept goats at home in his back garden and used the allotment to grow the crops they'd decimate if they managed to get to them! Goat milk was an essential for my Father, who had dreadful eczema from birth. Another thing they could barter with for other foods. Rabbits were also kept as a meat source. SO many reasons that an allotment was needed and used - and not just to take a transistor radio to listen to the racing or football results in peace!
@@lizg5574 Interesting but I hadn’t thought about goat farming, because they are not so very common here in the UK. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn about people keeping bees on allotments especially during the rationing period as an alternative to sugar and of course they would have the advantage of pollenating the entire allotment and the surrounding area too.
@@andrewcoates6641 It is a huge topic and sadly a lot of the information has gone as the memories fade and generations who lived it are no longer around to remember. I was born in 1962 so not that long after WW2 really - and not that long after rationing ended. The habits learnt during that time carried over in my family life, (in East Devon) with Dad needing to be self-sufficient and doing all he could to grow our food. With allotments slowing phasing out, he used to rent small fields from farmers he knew and we would plough them up and grow whatever we could, tending them one evening a week and every Saturday. Our land at home (and we did have substantial land around our house, despite being in the middle of a town) was almost all vegetable gardens, with fruit bushes and trees - flowers were merely there for the bees to feed on and do their job with the pollen for flowering crops (they lived over a river from us, in a neighbours garden)! Thank you for replying and having a conversation with me! I appreciate it a great deal! Take care xx
All my 3 kids were always car sick until they used the bands. Also try to get her to look out the front window rather the side window. Lovely reaction x🏴🏴🏴
I've never understood why people get car sickness? Never had it, completely fine on long journeys. Although when I was younger I did always need to stop for a pee because of weak bladder.
Knoppers is German, I love it. We think the Royal Mail is terrible at delivering parcels, but looking at the state of some that reach you I think I'll change my mind on that, your postal service doesn't seem to care about the state packages arrive in, even if the word fragile is included!
Jam, conserves and preserves are basically all made with fruit (except citrus fruits) and sugar. Jam contains the most sugar to fruit content. Preserves and conserves each contain less sugar to fruit and are less "thick" than jam.
Terry Pratchett ( RIP ) is in my opinion one of the greatest Authors to ever bless us with his writings. I strongly strongly suggest you get your daughter his three books especially for children , Truckers , Diggers & Wings. Introduce yourselves and her to this authors books set in the Disc World and you will be blown away or even better listen to them on Audio book format together and be transported to a place which will make you smile , laugh , cry and laugh some more.
I think Germany has the most castles in its country and you've probably seen one of their most famous ones on TV or online before too its Neuschwanstein Castle. It is basically a fairy tale type gothic and fantasy looking castle like you might see in a Disney princess cartoon
On another similar TH-cam channel I’ve seen Scratchings get through USDA/ Customs no problem so I suspect it would be some other form of blood or meat product - the US agencies would not allow Haggis to be imported to the States because it contains Offal, even though it has been boiled to death for hours when cooked properly they claim it will cause spread of diseases - even tinned haggis cannot be sent to the States but you can send it to Canada! When I was Captain on big containerships we had to have a special lockable cage in the meat freezer where certain frozen meats and meat dishes had to be locked and customs sealed for our entire stay on the US coast. Australia was the same with certain uncooked meats. If you really want to upset the US Customs sniffer dogs at the airport baggage carousels (and get severely reprimanded!) try taking in a ham sandwich through US Customs.
Funny thing is Pork Scratchings are not a prohibited item and so there is no legal reason for them to have been taken, for quite some time Pork products from the UK have been allowed in to the US so long as they are cooked / dried / cured and are shelf stable and sealed in a tin / foil or plastic packaging. So my guess is ether the person checking the parcel in has no clue how to do their job or more likely they where hungry seen them and then went for a break
Very extensive US Customs Rules on imported goods if u don't comply with rules, will be removed. Same applies if someone sent you a box from abroad if contents do not approve UK customs items would be removed. So no nanny state this applies in Customs around the world
an allotment in the uk is different from a garden . there are plots of land divieded off that are rented out by local councils . away from your house . usualy used for growing fruit and veg etc . usualy quite cheap to rent but as of now waiting lists involved . An allotment is a piece of ground that you pay rent for, usually a fairly small annual charge, in order to grow your own produce. They are run by local councils and parish councils, as well as community groups, and sometimes even offered on private land.
A magpie came up to me a while back and dropped a £20 note at my feet, a single magpie is meant to be a bad omen...not on that day. They are a type of crow, really beautiful birds.
I get a group of magpies that come in my garden and have a noisy disputes over the bird foods I put out every day,they like the seeds but not too fond of the dried meal worms but the robins,sparrows,wood pigeons and doves love them.
@@AngelaVara-i4l i would like to get a bird table, unfortunately I live near the sea, so you could only imagine the amount of seagulls we would get swooping on it.
If you can get some crumpets , toast them until they are a bit crisp and put on loads of butter and then some of that strawberry conserve . Honestly a lovely treat
There’s a bit of dirt on the hat Stephen sent!😂😂😂. I’m a Leeds United supporter and we will say that about different clubs badges. Just banter between rival supporters x
An allotment is a piece of land not attached to your home, that you rent from the local council for a small amount of rent, and people grow fruit and vegetables there, there are lots of allotment spaces next to each other, and other allotment users help each other
An allotment is a patch of land that you rent from your local council. Most people use them for growing fruit and/or veg. Loads of people put up sheds on the land and it becomes a very social place where you meet a lot of people who become friends for life. Most sheds are kitted out with kettles and of course you can all meet for a cuppa. You must know how much Brits love tea!!! Some local councils have allotment waiting lists of up to 20 years or beyond!! Hope this helps explain allotments.
A lot of houses did not have their own garden, the front door faced onto the street and the rear was small and often paved with high walls. Many developments began to include a large open area (which might itself be walled), with divisions allotted to each house for the purpose of growing vegetables, flowers and small fruit trees, rather than include garden areas attached to the houses. It is similar to a community garden, but each allotment is a private leasehold rather than communal land.
There is a documentary called Secrets of the Castle on the construction of Guedelon Castle, a project which is building a castle from scratch with only traditional methods, tools and materials. It started in 1997 and very significant progress has been made, but no completion date as yet. A similar project was attempted in US as the Ozark Medieval Fortress, but that attempt was abandoned after 3 years due to a lack of money.
My dad had an allotment ( the back garden was lawn, flowers, pond, trees & patio) Dad grew almost all our veggies. Thursday evenings the village pub had a veggie swap night so you'd take any extra veggies & swap them for something you probably didn't grow or needed more of!
Hello 😊 Great video.. I love how you are so very relaxed together and Lyndsey has come out of her shell completely now. It’s a lovely thing. Magpies love hopping around on my front lawn and sometimes onto my railing outside my window, I have to be careful though as apparently they like to collect shiny things! Note to self don’t leave door keys etc where they can snatch them up. I haven’t tried the Marmite crisps yet.. Next on my shopping list when I pop out. Thanks for the great video 😃
Traditional allotments are local Council owned land that is split up and rented out to local residents to grow fruit and vegetables. These are usually 300 square yards (half plots) and 250 square meters (full plots). During WW2 most available unused land was turned into allotments.
£20 a year for mine. I get lots of free weeds, slugs, snails, bugs in general, badgers, deer, rabbits, foxes and various birds too..all playing a part in keeping me fit 😊
An allotment started in the industrial revolution, houses were built for the factory workers close to the factories but they never had gardens. They could rent a small plot of land where they could grow vegetables for their families to eat. It was cheaper to grow own food as wages were very small
Gregg's is the closest I can think of to a major, "can't walk without tripping over one" nation wide branded food establishment in the U.K. When I land back home it's literally the first place I go, any typically my next 2-3 meals... and once before I leave again.
You can’t beat a cheap and tasty Greggs sausage roll! Unfortunately there are no fast food chains in my town, no even a Greggs, just a few independent takeaways, but thankfully you can buy Greggs sausage rolls and slices that are ready to bake from Iceland supermarkets, so I can get a sneaky sausage roll occasionally and there even nicer because they’re freshly baked! The worst part is waiting for them to cool down enough!😂
All over Europe are cheap destinations and hotels, but this will make you more envious: Most of Turkey is in Asia and North Africa destinations are also cheap and easy to get to!
No kidding! I can fly from Ireland to London and back again for €19.99 each way. That’s cheaper than the cab to the airport from my home and back again(distance of 9.9km was €28 one way)🤯
Seperately: Ironbridge Gorge is basically a historic site - it's an old victorian mill town run as a museum. I went there with an ex girlfriend once. Still have a squashed penny somewhere.
with the Holiday/vacation flights, a "Return Ticket" means flights to the destination and your flight back home. a one way flight ticket is known as a "Single Ticket". we use to have "single" and "return" tickets on our buses, but now it is just "singles" or a "day ticket". which allows you to ride as many buses as you like in 24hrs. these are great for people who may take 2 buses to work or school and are a great way to get around as a tourist too. Allotments are a rented plot of ground typically used for growing veg and sometimes fruit. they was promoted heavily in WWII, with the slogan "Dig For Victory". I am sure you will find News Reels from the time here on YT, that you could react too.
Hi, Allotment is a small pice of land you rent to grow stuff on. Away from your house. Its like they take a field and divide it up into plots of land big enough to grow stuff on. Then rent each plot out for somebody who wants fresh vegetables and fruit for there homes.
Some of these days I will have to mail you an Italian care package, just for a variation. For travel sickness, having to make a longish journey on a bus up the mountains I recently tried ginger tablets, and they worked great.
An allotment is when you rent a small plot of land from the local council, to grow things you want. Maybe just vegetables or some flowers as well. Your plot will be next to other people's plots. There may be a fence between but not always. You may not know the person you are near but it is important to stick to the rules you've been given or the "neighbours" could have you removed, via the council. The waiting lists for allotments are always very long. Usually you can have a shed to keep your tools in. When I was a child it was a running joke that the men would go and hide in the sheds away from their wives. Now, of course, ladies can have their own allotments to hide in.
The travel sickness bands are brilliant.. i had them as a child, and now we get them for my daughter as she gets travel sick. Any transport over an hour and shes throwing up otherwise. Lots of great packages again ❤
Yards, Gardens and Allotments. Where I live in northern England is an ex-mining town. Many of the houses are terraced houses or what you might call row houses. They have front doors that open straight on to the footpath (sidewalk) and the road. No land whatsoever at the front. At the rear they have a back yard. A yard in this context is a small (probably no more than 16 feet square) enclosed area with a gate on to a very narrow lane. The yard is where you might keep a rabbit hutch, hang your washing or park your bicycle. If you want to grow some plants, you might rent an allotment. Local councils (usually) will set aside a plot of land that is divided in to smaller sections that can be rented out to individuals and families. Some people may grow flowers, but most allotments ore used for growing food for the table or sometimes competition - The allotment I used to rent had a man who grew ENORMOUSLY long, prize carrots. They tasted awful, but won him many trophies. You might call an allotment a community garden in the USA, I'm not sure. Some, indeed many UK houses come with a front and a back garden. Usually, the front garden (facing a road) is for "show". We plant stuff and build stuff that is nice to look at for passers by, but we don't tend to spend much time sitting in it. The back garden - away from prying eyes and nosey neighbours - is often enclosed by a wall, hedge or fence and will probably have a lawn, herbaceous, flowery borders, maybe some shrubbery or tree(s), there may be a shed for our tools and this is where we sit if the sun ever comes out and this is where we perform our sad little excuse for a barbecue on summer evenings. It is where the kids play at weekends and after school and where the dog makes yellow patches on the lawn. It is, essentially, the same as a US back yard, but invariably smaller and with more planting than just grass. I hope this helps.
Lots of old houses especially in working class areas didnt have gardens. so land was made avaliable for a small rent to grow food. Avarage size is about 50x30foot.
Allotments are community gardens to grow veg and flowers but you don't have to own one to grow things, I grew veg and flowers in my garden, flowers at the front and veg at the back garden lol.
I had 2 allotments and a victorian garden so the garden was a with a lawn patio and flower beds with veggies in pots on the patio. my allotments were one for veggies and one with fruit bushes on with flowers are around both to encourage the bees plus I had a small greenhouse on fruit one and a small tool shed on the veggie plot allotment. I grew all sorts of veggies and red currants, blackcurrants, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, strawberries even had an apple and a pear tree.
Not everyone has a garden - if you live in a flat for example, or the kids need the little patch of garden to play in. Then you can go to the local council and rent an 'allotment', a plot of land in a fenced area of maybe a hundred or so plots. You are expected to actually use it to grow mostly fruit and vegetables and keep it in good order, as there is usually a long waiting list for plots. Its a very popular arrangement for many people - it can be a little area to 'escape' to. You can have a little shed on it and arrange it as you wish.
Lindsay is correct that a Magpie is a bird- with distinctive black and white plumage. It's also the nickname of Newcastle Untied FC as they play in a black and white striped kit. What a pity the schooners got smashed. Well remembered on the subject of an 'Allotment' Lindsay! Allotments are not at (or often very near) your house. There are probably allotments within half a mile to a mile from everyone's home. Basically these are large plots of land, usually owned by the Local Authority (Council), which are divided up into much smaller plots and rented out to individual local residents. Typically there are long waiting lists to get an allotment, particularly in areas where homes have either very small gardens or no garden at all. Most people use them for growing food, although some also grow flowers. The most amazing holiday deals will have very little availability.....when you contact them, the best deals will probably have been filled up- but there will still be something cheap to be found. Short haul flights to Europe can be very cheap - although you often end up paying all sorts of 'little extras' like hold luggage, seat reservation fees, printing your boarding card etc etc...And the cheapest flights will land you a long way from the main destination listed.
If you think nursery rhyme are werid, there’s a French song about plucking a chicken & my entire year group sang it as a goodbye assembly. In year 6 in 2006/07 school year.
@@chantellelandon85 I never knew what it meant until I learned some French at high school. It's actually serial-killer level disturbing 😆 Mind you, most of our own nursery rhymes have dark meaning or undertones if you look into them. They hide it behind upbeat, jaunty music as a distraction 🤣🤷🏽♀️
marmite grows on you, especially for the US palette that is often very sweet biased., eat those crsips regularly then before you know you will be loving marmite on your toast.
In terms of fast food in the UK, Greggs (started in Newcastle funnily enough) is possibly what you could consider our biggest homegrown chain of fast food like items. It's a bakery and quite famous for it's sausage rolls in particular. It's fast, cheap and has a decent quality, especially for the price.
Hello lovely family I wondered if you seen the film London remembers ( the exhibition of ceramic poppies in the moat of the Tower of London) it is breathtaking love from your 89 yr old 🇬🇧fan
Latte is the Italian word for milk (hence the confusion by some when they ask for a Latte in Italy and get a glass of milk rather than a coffee - you need to ask for a Caffè Latte!). Chai means tea in a number of languages, the spelling may vary. A Chai Latte is delicious, warming, and slightly spicy, and is one of my favourite hot drinks!
@@andybaker2456 Chai is actually a n Indian word, I believe from the Hindustani language and its root meaning is the number 4. During the period of the Raj, the British occupation of India it became common practice for the British people to take afternoon tea at the same time most days and their native staff began to call the time for the tea to be prepared for as chai time. It later changed to become the local word for the beverage that was enjoyed around that time of day and then later it became celebrated in the comic song written and performed by Mr Noel Cowered (?) called Everything Stops for Tea! Over the years the word chai has slowly changed it’s spelling to the British word Char which has been acquired official status in the Oxford English Dictionary as a slang term used to describe the beverage tea although this is slowly changing to the word Brew as in get a brew going.
@andrewcoates6641 I mentioned that chai is used in several languages as I know that in Turkish, tea is "Çay", with the cedilla on the c turning it into a "ch" sound. Also, in Thai, it's "Cha". There are probably others too, although interestingly, in Nepalese it's Chia, so very slightly different! The things you pick up along the way. 😁
Yes chai means tea in Persian and other languages such as Hindi but the word probably is from the Chinese. It annoys me that it has come to mean spiced or flavoured teas when it just means 'tea'. Probably because hipsters think it's cool to, incorrectly, use a foreign word.
@andrewcoates6641 I'm pretty sure the word 'chai' predates the British Raj. The word may have reached northern India from the Mogul invasion or earlier. Maybe along with the word 'chahar' for four. I don't know if Hindi had a similar word for the number. It might well be that Persian and Hindi both had the word for 4 from way back. The habit of 'tea at four' might just be a coincidence and nothing to do with the Indian/Persian word for 4. Maybe the British and Indians had a little laugh at the similarity of the words.
@@andrewcoates6641just looked it up and Hindi does have a similar word, 'chaar' for 4 although the word for 6, chhar is closer to the Persian word for 4. My guess the commonality goes back many thousands of years ago.
13:11 my guess is Pork Scratchings were removed and the customs staff "destroyed" them by eating them.
Lived in Canada for a few years a while back. My folks in Scotland sent me a 'food parcel' of things they thought I might not be able to buy in Canada. They shipped the parcel by sea, so it took a few weeks to arrive. Meanwhile, they had airmailed me a list of its contents so I would know what to expect. One item in particular I was looking forward to receiving - but when the parcel arrived that item was missing. I complained to the local Mail Office, who explained the missing bottle of whisky had likely been 'confiscated' by Canadian Custom Officials and disposed of (drunk) by the buggers 🤬
@@scott4600 I used to eat them until I cracked a couple of teeth on a particularly hard one years ago. My nhs dentist was not happy. Thought they should be banned 😂
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Anything "interesting" is automatically "suspicious" and needs "further investigation" which may involve "destructive methods"
Customs officials are the same the world over 😂
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Me too, they were too fatty and covered in pig whiskers!! 😕
Yeh, judging by the rest of the contents I would say so.
How they think a bag of scratchings would infect their pig population with foreign diseases I don't know
Did they think Steve and Lindsay were going to go throwing pork scratchings at the local pigs 😂
It seems like your mail carriers see the word "Fragile" as some sort of challenge. Like "How far can you punt this package?"
Indeed, though JT and Anna live in Kentucky, (not Indiana), but they received a parcel with "Fragile" and
"Do Not Shake" written in *LARGE* letters all around it, yet JT said that the post (mail) 'lady' behind the desk at the mail office literally picked it up, _shook it_ - and it rattled - and gave it to JT saying, as she did so, "oh it says 'do not shake it'!!" and JT said, "yes, so _why did you_?!" And on opening it at home, found a set of mugs in the parcel, all broken. 😠😠😠😠😠 So what _is_ it with American (Kentucky and Indiana Postal workers at least? Can they not read, or do they just not care?😮😢)
Can confirm. from a friend who worked briefly in a mail sorting office.
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Sad yet true? Awww... 😕
@@martintroy910 Most of my work years were in logistics. Worst was 1 day at Parcel Farce ( Force ) the load from my 7.5 t truck hurled across the loading bay. I was a very temporary driver for the Christmas period.
That is why you never put fragile on packages going to certain US states , as the delivery driver with not be careful with it.
It's a shame that the shot glasses didn't make it especially after i tried to ensure that there packaging was double thick. Oh well. I'll try and get some more and send them when I can organise another (better) box.
Guys here in UK we have The Royal Mail, The Post Office made a guarantee that every parcel gets delivered and on time. To tamper or abuse a package in the UK is illegal
Royal Mail and the Post Office are two separate companies. There are products within Royal Mail that have a guarantee such as special delivery with compensation should it not be delivered on time. To that not everything is guaranteed as but in general over 90% of items get delivered on time whether first or second class. Funny that when explaining mail integrity to Royal Mail casual staff they actually also get told that it is illegal to steal/take home mail items (as if they wouldn't of known that). 😂
@@icekitty400 They, RM, just lost me a £95 parcel now officially classed as missing.
That might have been true at one time, now you're lucky to get two deliveries a week.😁
I send Regularly with Parcelforce Worldwide to California, u have read and understand strict rules on US Customs what they allow as import goods once u comply with rules, parcels left alone. PFW take u to UK customs page where codes can be applied to goods, however if u break rules PFW are legally obliged to remove and destroy items banned from USA if they Don't US Customs will Fine PFW failing to adhere to their standard
They no longer guarantee the delivery time
We only call it a yard if it's paved with concrete. Return flights are there and back.
Return Flights is a British term. It includes both sides of the trip - out and return. When we ask for a return ticket, the outgoing side is taken for granted. We specifically say "one way trip from x to y" if we're only travelling in one direction. It applies to everything, the Airlines, the trains, and the buses. You always just ask for a return ticket, and they charge you both ways.
What?! 🤯 Well that's even more mind-blowing of a number then.
Terry Pratchett was a prolific author and arguably the Charles Dickens of the twentieth century. His disc world series is social commentary woven into fiction with more than a sprinkle of humour. His first two books are not as strong as his later work but all are difficult to put down.
Sir Terry Pratchett is incredible!
I have every book in the cannon including " Wheres my cow ?" and all the Tiffany Aching books.
In London seeing a man about a dog is a polite way of saying you are going for a pee
Up here it just means, I to go and do summat, not specific to a task.
Lol. A Magpie is indeed a bird. It has a reputation of being cutely naughty, very noisy, and VERY clever. Magpies have shown the ability to make and use tools, imitate human speech, grieve, play, and work together to achieve something.
They're also highly destructive to small bird species, they destroy eggs, nests and out compete smaller bird species for habitat.
One of them imitated a police siren in police station car park.
Newcastle United football team embalmed is a " Magpie " on their football kit etc
@TriTr-gk8bowe have a massive family of parakeet in my area (Manchester uk) and the magpies have started imitating their sounds 😂
The US has two types of magpies but they're on the western side of the country, so not seen where they live (or where Steve comes from).
Fish and chip shops are the British fast food.
Allotments are areas of land within towns, or on the edge of towns, dedicated to growing vegetables & produce etc. They are not attached to houses, but are in groups, where people rent individual plots, all next to each other, usually from the town council. These became popular because many houses in Victorian streets do not have gardens, but only small, hard paved back yards, which are the origin of the American 'Yards'. An area around a house large enough for lawns, flowers etc is a Garden. Flowers are grown in 'flower beds', vegetables in 'vegetable plots', which may be parts of a garden. A Yard is an area surrounded by buildings, often of a working nature, so rarely has any green or growing stuff. They are courtyards, stable yards, farmyards etc.
A garden is any outside space devoted to growing things, greenery & relaxation, belonging to a house. They can be any size from a small lawn or patio, to extensive estates covering hundreds of acres, as found around large country houses. It is a bit weird to us Brits to hear Americans call such things 'yards', while calling a single vegetable plot or flower bed a 'garden'. I live in a typical street of attached houses, about 100 years old. We have a small yard behind the house along with all the others in the street, but having planted it with a pair of small trees & added a few tubs of flowering plants, we flatter ourselves by calling it a garden, but it's really still only a tiny backyard, I guess you might call it a patio. Fortunately there are 2 public parks nearby, & farmland a few streets away, so there are places locally where I can take my small dogs to walk & play.
Do you know what we call DHL here in the UK?
"Drop it, Hide it, Lose it". 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@andypandy9013 I decided that DPD stands for Dirty Pit Dude, as for some reason, our DPD driver ALWAYS smelled like something had crawled into his armpits and died 😳 🤢💀
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That's amazing! 😂
@@openorwap5412 aw, sorry to hear that. Our DPD guy is awesome 😊
The worst lot are Parcel Farce
There's definitely something you can tell Sophia, that the 9x table always adds up to 9. Three times nine is 27, so seven plus two equals nine. At either end is two times nine- 18, and nine times nine - 81. I love that.
As a cheat, for the first 10 most people can use their fingers and thumbs. If you put your hands out flat in front of you then fold down a thumb/finger counting from the left of what number you want to multiply by. Now count the numbers to the left of finger you folded, to give first digit and fingers to right to give 2nd digit, so 1x9 = 09, 2x9=18...9x9=81, 10x9=90
Magpies is the Nickname for the Newcastle United Football Team. It is a black and white bird, the colours of their strip.
Notts. County also has a Magpie as their mascot too.
Commonly known as The Mags in our part of the world too !! ( North West / North East)
@@caroledwards3465The original magpies.
Wimpy was the first burger restaurant to open in the UK, but like most burger franchises, Wimpy originated from the USA and was followed some years later by McDonald's. In the UK, before burgers, it was mainly fish and chips.
And in wimpy's you could get both beefburgers and hamburgers
Little Chef was actually British - Founded in 1958 the Roadside Diner Chain folded in 2018.
But mainly we're much less inclined over here to go for chain restaurants as there's cafes, tearooms, fish and chip shops, kebab shops, chinese takeaways etc. in every town and village in the country.
Greggs are everywhere but you'll still see independent bakeries competing with them, though usually at significantly higher prices.
For Pizzas we have Dominos and Pizza Hut but also plenty of independent pizza places.
We used to have star burger in some places down south, not sure how prolific they were. Similar to wimpy, one used to be in Deptford high st, near Greenwich, London.
An allotment is usually for people without gardens. You pay a small annual fee and you can grow whatever you want, as long as it is legal! Some people wait years for a vacancy and they are very popular in cities. Once you get a plot, it is yours until you die or until you fail to pay. Sometimes they come with a little shed but you can put your own up. Usually there is great
Our shirts definitely looked better with the star emblem of the broon ale on the front 💯. Welcome to the toon army Steve 🤣👌🏻👊🏻
We have a back garden with a lawn, pond, patio, shrubs, pots with flowers and pots with Courgettes (Zuccini). At the end of the lawn are two greenhouses, fruit cage, strawberry bed and a shed. One greenhouse grows tomatoes, the other greenhouse grows cucumbers. I pay £94 a year for my allotment plot. Its about 2 miles from home. There i grow what is expsensive to buy and for fun. All food. For next year i have taken cuttings off my bluberry plants to grow more. Prices vary extremly all over thd country.
marmite crisps are my favourite, since, the bovril crisps have vanished, i love them late night in a crisp sandwhich,
😊😊that sounds great.Try adding Branston picalilli...gorgeous.
We were surprised how much we enjoyed them, honestly!
Ironbridge is where Abraham Darby built the first iron bridge in 1779, formerly named Coalbrookdale.
The one childhood song that every American gets wrong is ring o ring of roses. For some reason you say Rosie. It is about the black plague. Many of our nursery rhymes have a very dark meaning.
It isn't about the black plague but they do get it wrong.
That's a myth. The claimed association with the plague did not arise until the 1950s...it is entirely fabricated and without any evidence whatsoever. Just one of many things on the internet that are complete nonsense.
Nope, it's not about the Black Death -- that's a Victorian false etymology (the Victorians loved their false etymologies). It really is a rhyme about gathering flowers.
In the US, the name of the song is ring around the rosie
@@marydavis5234 Why?
That's not the song and means nothing.
The sting was written for a real event.
Why be so disrespectful you change it?
We used travel bands when our kids were little, they are in their late 30s now, they worked for them. Great video
Thanks! Great to hear they do indeed work :)
Whenever we'd ask my dad where he was going, he was always "going to see a man about a dog". Basically mind your own business 🤣
Great vid as ever! I never put 'Fragile' on a parcel, you may as well write "Please kick the c*** out of this box'.
My friend loves Newcastle Brown, I really don't like it, but I'm not really a beer person. It's lovely that people take the time with these packages, especially with the postage costs, I'm in a group reading and discussions, we are really good friends now I'm the only one over the pond, I bought them candles for Xmas last year the postage was eyewatering. One of the group made me a beautiful quilt with stonehenge in yellows oranges and reds.
Hi Keith & Enid here - the items that have been removed were crisps - some sort of beef flavour - not too sure why they would remove them as only flavouring?? Seems odd!!
Crisps? What the heck. That just seems a little overboard. Thanks for clearing that up, guys! We appreciate all the things you send. ❤️
Someone in customs is eating well 😡😡😡
Thanks for another opening video, you two! Just to clarify the allotment garden thing - there are spaces spread all around through cities, towns, and villages, usually owned by the local council. They are a concept from a time where a family was considered to require a given allotment of land to grow necessary vegetables, and can be applied for by anyone - though preference is given to people who are a) going to use it for food growing and b) have no/limited garden space (I think some priority is also given to lower income/housing benefits folks for whom access to home grown veg would make a big difference, but someone can correct me on that if I'm wrong!). For example, my family home has quite a large garden, but it backs on to an allotment space which is itself adjacent to a block of flats, and the space has generally been used over the years by residents of those flats for growing veggies! Essentially, the key distinction is that they are on land owned by the local council and are not inherently part of a property which is privately owned, and they are then allotted out to people who are in need of the space!
It's weird to say, but Fairy washing up liquid is probably the best gift I've seen on these videos... it's hard to give up! I'm in Australia now and have been forced to buy cheaper stuff (seriously)... and I sure do miss it.
Knoppers are f^(&ing amazing,,, I grew up on them as a kid in Germany, and when I found they were stocked at ALDI.... well... 'nuff said
I find aldi's original (green) liquid better than fairy but it must be the thick one (sometimes it's thin and watery)
Allotments are like a field split into patches that you can rent to grow produce on. Not part of your home garden. You can just grow flowers it you want to.
Here in UK our children start school so much earlier, my granddaughter turned 4 in August and started School last week!
A mug of hot bovril is an amazing drink. I usually only use half of a cube.
In 2010/11 when I caught Swine Flu, I'd have a mug of Bovril every other day. A slice of toast every third day. It was that that kept me alive.
I was ill from December 20th and not well enough to eat the food I had ordered and Tesco had delivered for Christmas, that had to go in the freezer. We ate our Christmas lunch on Valentine's Day.
I always keep Bovril and Oxo in the house.
@@hellsbells8689I've had Marmite rescue me from illness in a similar way. Not as bad as you though, glad you're better now x
@@rayaqueen9657 Thanks. My gran told me to keep certain things in your store cupboard. You never knew when you'll need them. I maybe have a warm drink half a dozen times a year but I fancied Bovril when I was ill and it helped.
Required taste 😂
Newcastle United is my team as I live 8 miles from Newcastle. A proud Geordie here! Love a bottle of dog aswell 😊
Mackems rule. O.K. ?
@@Michael-kt6gi Bwahahaha SMB!
@@Michael-kt6gi not likely
8 miles from Newcastle 🤣 so you ain't a Geordie then F.T.M
@@Deaky79 I said I live 8 miles from Newcastle, didn’t say I was born 8 miles from Newcastle…do you understand? Smartarse
The whole of our land that comes with a house is called a garden, if referring to specific areas I would say the flower bed or veg patch. Allotments are really for people who don't have a garden say if they live in a flat/apartment or in a city.
An allotment is a bit of land rented from the local council mostly used for growing fruit and veg.
Most fast food chains are McDonalds etc, however mosttowns, villages have family run traditional fish & chip shops
Don’t use too much of the Fairy Liquid when washing up, you will be overrun with bubbles!
Dad keeps buying cheap stuff and putting more in but goes back to Fairy as it’s vastly superior.
Thanks for the tip! 😅 I'm (Steve) guilty of putting in a lot of soap so that would have been fun. haha
@@reactingtomyroots You’re very welcome Steve!
Also DONT PUT IT IN A DISHWASHER Unless you want a Foam Party
Conserve has a higher fruit amount to jam and is considered premium.
Even better then! :)
I have watched several of my favourite American youtubers doing these PO box unboxing videos and they have all said the same thing about how the postal services don't care about fragile packages, they just throw them around and crush them.
Unfortunately 😔
Can often take forever to receive a package, once in the US.
Takes time to pilfer I suppose.
Depends who u sent with piece of advice reinforce box u are sending dont just send off box flat pack. Make box as strong as possible double wrap it in paper more chance box arrive intact
I remember an old article from the 90s about Clint Eastwood having Newcastle Brown Ale shipped to America after he got a taste for it in the UK, in fact this from 2007
"Hollywood filmmaker Clint Eastwood is set to have his face on bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale to celebrate the drink's upcoming 80th birthday. Dirty Harry legend Eastwood is a longtime fan of the British booze and brewery bosses want his tough guy features to adorn limited addition anniversary bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale. Brewery spokesman DOUG COOK says, "Clint is a massive fan of the drink. Having his face on the bottle would be a real eye-catcher.""
18:23 - If you want to see how they built Medieval castles, have a look at Guedelon castle in France. Guedelon castle has been built over the last 30 years since 1997, using only Medieval tools, techniques and materials. There was a BBC TV series called 'Secrets of the Castle', which you might like to take a look at.
The origins of the nusury rhym Ring O Ring of roses.
Refers to the Puss filled blisters of the people who contacted the the plague. A few days later they would die with flue like syptoms, coughing and sneezing hense the Atishoo reference then all fall down . They died. Eyam (pronounced 'eem'), in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England which became famous after the Black Death of 1665 and 1666. An outbreak of the plague was contained when the villagers decided to isolate themselves from the surrounding communities.
Surrounding villages left food and supplies on the outskirts untill a harsh winter put a stop to the infection. Fleas carried by black rates were responsible for carrying the disease but it was highly infectious.
My Granddad had an allotment. He also had a large garden at his house. There was a small garden at the front - which was a small grass lawn surrounded with flowers. But the back garden was laid out in vegetable gardens. He needed space to grow the food that his family needed, especially during the second world war. Though one son (my uncle) was already in the Royal Navy, he still had 2 younger children to provide for and food was limited. What he grew in his allotment was half his and half for distribution to families in need, mainly those whose men were away fighting. This was a voluntary concept set up by local people who saw a need. (Granddad was a baker, so that was a reserved occupation and he was needed in that role more than training to be a soldier.) He kept the allotment until he retired and the distance he had to walk to tend it was too far for it to be economical. Also, with where it was, new council housing was springing up and kids who moved there had no respect for the old ways of the town, and destroyed the gardens and sheds. The allotments were then developed and vanished from the town.
You are complicating the idea of allotments by trying to put them into a particular niche. Allotments were a space, rented from the local authority or a private landowner, to increase your growing space. Very few houses in the UK, back when allotments were first used, had no garden at all. For people in blocks of flats they were essential. Not only was it somewhere to grow food, they provided a place where whoever had the green fingers (we don't say green thumbs) could go and be at one with nature. It wasn't uncommon for each allotment to have a shed or lean-to, with seats, the ability to boil a kettle and a place to sit to read the paper or eat a packed lunch. Sometimes my Granddad would spend the whole day, working and then just meditating in the peace of his little patch of earth. Some still exist and are fully fenced to prevent vandalism such as I mentioned before. There is nothing more heartbreaking than spending time tending plants that will provide food, only to go to harvest them and find either someone else has taken the crop unlawfully, or someone has come and ripped the plants out and left them to rot.
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@@lizg5574 In some areas people have erected their pigeon lofts on their allotments and during WW2 some allotment holders would keep chickens or a pig on their allotment for home slaughter to supplement their rations, but to get permission to do this they had to give some of their ration tokens back to the authorities and in return they would qualify for a quantity of feed for their livestock. In some areas a group of neighbours would band together and set up a pig club and raise several pigs in company with each other, to help keep them active and healthy. In this way when they wanted to finish a pig they could just take one and the meat would be shared out to the club members and then they didn’t waste any of the pig, with no refrigeration to speak of. Then they could finish another pig once the first had been consumed. Each person who had contributed to the club would have the first choice of the parts of the pig in turn so that nobody would get the best bits every time a pig was finished and likewise nobody would get the least desirable parts every time. Fair shares for all.
@@andrewcoates6641 Granddad kept goats at home in his back garden and used the allotment to grow the crops they'd decimate if they managed to get to them! Goat milk was an essential for my Father, who had dreadful eczema from birth. Another thing they could barter with for other foods. Rabbits were also kept as a meat source. SO many reasons that an allotment was needed and used - and not just to take a transistor radio to listen to the racing or football results in peace!
@@lizg5574 Interesting but I hadn’t thought about goat farming, because they are not so very common here in the UK. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn about people keeping bees on allotments especially during the rationing period as an alternative to sugar and of course they would have the advantage of pollenating the entire allotment and the surrounding area too.
@@andrewcoates6641 It is a huge topic and sadly a lot of the information has gone as the memories fade and generations who lived it are no longer around to remember. I was born in 1962 so not that long after WW2 really - and not that long after rationing ended. The habits learnt during that time carried over in my family life, (in East Devon) with Dad needing to be self-sufficient and doing all he could to grow our food. With allotments slowing phasing out, he used to rent small fields from farmers he knew and we would plough them up and grow whatever we could, tending them one evening a week and every Saturday. Our land at home (and we did have substantial land around our house, despite being in the middle of a town) was almost all vegetable gardens, with fruit bushes and trees - flowers were merely there for the bees to feed on and do their job with the pollen for flowering crops (they lived over a river from us, in a neighbours garden)! Thank you for replying and having a conversation with me! I appreciate it a great deal! Take care xx
All my 3 kids were always car sick until they used the bands. Also try to get her to look out the front window rather the side window. Lovely reaction x🏴🏴🏴
Thank you, Kay! ❤️
They come in adult and child sizes so check if they are a bit loose on your kiddo.
I've never understood why people get car sickness? Never had it, completely fine on long journeys. Although when I was younger I did always need to stop for a pee because of weak bladder.
George Porgie pudding and pie
Kissed the girls and made them cry,
When the boys came out to play
George Porgy ran away.
Knoppers is German, I love it.
We think the Royal Mail is terrible at delivering parcels, but looking at the state of some that reach you I think I'll change my mind on that, your postal service doesn't seem to care about the state packages arrive in, even if the word fragile is included!
Jam, conserves and preserves are basically all made with fruit (except citrus fruits) and sugar. Jam contains the most sugar to fruit content. Preserves and conserves each contain less sugar to fruit and are less "thick" than jam.
Terry Pratchett ( RIP ) is in my opinion one of the greatest Authors to ever bless us with his writings.
I strongly strongly suggest you get your daughter his three books especially for children , Truckers , Diggers & Wings.
Introduce yourselves and her to this authors books set in the Disc World and you will be blown away or even better listen to them on Audio book format together and be transported to a place which will make you smile , laugh , cry and laugh some more.
I think Germany has the most castles in its country and you've probably seen one of their most famous ones on TV or online before too its Neuschwanstein Castle. It is basically a fairy tale type gothic and fantasy looking castle like you might see in a Disney princess cartoon
I get very bad sea sickness and went on a Caribbean cruise last year,could not believe those bands work but they do amazing things
The bands didn’t work for me when I took a cruise
@@darrenuk that’s a shame I was as sick as a dog on a canal boat wish had them then lol
😱😱WHAT!!
The Customs have been through your bag and stole your scratchings.
Holy Shit!! I wasn't expecting such a Nanny State.
On another similar TH-cam channel I’ve seen Scratchings get through USDA/ Customs no problem so I suspect it would be some other form of blood or meat product - the US agencies would not allow Haggis to be imported to the States because it contains Offal, even though it has been boiled to death for hours when cooked properly they claim it will cause spread of diseases - even tinned haggis cannot be sent to the States but you can send it to Canada! When I was Captain on big containerships we had to have a special lockable cage in the meat freezer where certain frozen meats and meat dishes had to be locked and customs sealed for our entire stay on the US coast. Australia was the same with certain uncooked meats. If you really want to upset the US Customs sniffer dogs at the airport baggage carousels (and get severely reprimanded!) try taking in a ham sandwich through US Customs.
Funny thing is Pork Scratchings are not a prohibited item and so there is no legal reason for them to have been taken, for quite some time Pork products from the UK have been allowed in to the US so long as they are cooked / dried / cured and are shelf stable and sealed in a tin / foil or plastic packaging. So my guess is ether the person checking the parcel in has no clue how to do their job or more likely they where hungry seen them and then went for a break
Swine Flu might be the reason?
Very extensive US Customs Rules on imported goods if u don't comply with rules, will be removed. Same applies if someone sent you a box from abroad if contents do not approve UK customs items would be removed.
So no nanny state this applies in Customs around the world
Magpie - Bird, member of the Crow family.
Suspect your cap from Newcastle United fan (nicknamed "The Magpies"
Corvid.
an allotment in the uk is different from a garden . there are plots of land divieded off that are rented out by local councils . away from your house . usualy used for growing fruit and veg etc . usualy quite cheap to rent but as of now waiting lists involved . An allotment is a piece of ground that you pay rent for, usually a fairly small annual charge, in order to grow your own produce. They are run by local councils and parish councils, as well as community groups, and sometimes even offered on private land.
A magpie came up to me a while back and dropped a £20 note at my feet, a single magpie is meant to be a bad omen...not on that day. They are a type of crow, really beautiful birds.
I get a group of magpies that come in my garden and have a noisy disputes over the bird foods I put out every day,they like the seeds but not too fond of the dried meal worms but the robins,sparrows,wood pigeons and doves love them.
@@AngelaVara-i4l i would like to get a bird table, unfortunately I live near the sea, so you could only imagine the amount of seagulls we would get swooping on it.
Really enjoyable guys. Thank u so much. ❤
Marmite on toast..
Toast bread
Spread butter
Lightly spear marmite not thick
Then lightly greater cheese on top..
Enjoy, lightly for beginners 😊
If you can get some crumpets , toast them until they are a bit crisp and put on loads of butter and then some of that strawberry conserve . Honestly a lovely treat
I’ve just had this for my breakfast 😂😂🤣🇬🇧
I thought about that but there’s no way the shelf life will survive to the US and until their next opening.
@@Millennial_Mancyes that’s true, I have seen people in the US manage to find crumpets in their stores but I don’t imagine they are that easy to find
They got sent some in a previous video but theyve not tried them yet. Maybe they went off
My brother has jam on crumpets. I think it is wierd 😂
There’s a bit of dirt on the hat Stephen sent!😂😂😂. I’m a Leeds United supporter and we will say that about different clubs badges. Just banter between rival supporters x
An allotment is a piece of land not attached to your home, that you rent from the local council for a small amount of rent, and people grow fruit and vegetables there, there are lots of allotment spaces next to each other, and other allotment users help each other
Hi from Scotland ,love your vids keep up the good work ❤
Newcastle United are called magpies as their colours are black and white like the bird.
An allotment is a patch of land that you rent from your local council. Most people use them for growing fruit and/or veg. Loads of people put up sheds on the land and it becomes a very social place where you meet a lot of people who become friends for life. Most sheds are kitted out with kettles and of course you can all meet for a cuppa. You must know how much Brits love tea!!! Some local councils have allotment waiting lists of up to 20 years or beyond!! Hope this helps explain allotments.
A lot of houses did not have their own garden, the front door faced onto the street and the rear was small and often paved with high walls. Many developments began to include a large open area (which might itself be walled), with divisions allotted to each house for the purpose of growing vegetables, flowers and small fruit trees, rather than include garden areas attached to the houses. It is similar to a community garden, but each allotment is a private leasehold rather than communal land.
There is a documentary called Secrets of the Castle on the construction of Guedelon Castle, a project which is building a castle from scratch with only traditional methods, tools and materials. It started in 1997 and very significant progress has been made, but no completion date as yet. A similar project was attempted in US as the Ozark Medieval Fortress, but that attempt was abandoned after 3 years due to a lack of money.
It is really good, unfortunately it is a BBC show, so near impossible to react to
@@LilMonkeyFella87 True, but some things can just be for education purposes, not everything has to be monetised ;)
Lemon and lime marmalade is devine ..might send you some when i can 😊.
My dad had an allotment ( the back garden was lawn, flowers, pond, trees & patio) Dad grew almost all our veggies. Thursday evenings the village pub had a veggie swap night so you'd take any extra veggies & swap them for something you probably didn't grow or needed more of!
Hello 😊
Great video.. I love how you are so very relaxed together and Lyndsey has come out of her shell completely now. It’s a lovely thing.
Magpies love hopping around on my front lawn and sometimes onto my railing outside my window, I have to be careful though as apparently they like to collect shiny things! Note to self don’t leave door keys etc where they can snatch them up.
I haven’t tried the Marmite crisps yet.. Next on my shopping list when I pop out.
Thanks for the great video 😃
Traditional allotments are local Council owned land that is split up and rented out to local residents to grow fruit and vegetables. These are usually 300 square yards (half plots) and 250 square meters (full plots). During WW2 most available unused land was turned into allotments.
£20 a year for mine. I get lots of free weeds, slugs, snails, bugs in general, badgers, deer, rabbits, foxes and various birds too..all playing a part in keeping me fit 😊
An allotment started in the industrial revolution, houses were built for the factory workers close to the factories but they never had gardens. They could rent a small plot of land where they could grow vegetables for their families to eat. It was cheaper to grow own food as wages were very small
Gregg's is the closest I can think of to a major, "can't walk without tripping over one" nation wide branded food establishment in the U.K. When I land back home it's literally the first place I go, any typically my next 2-3 meals... and once before I leave again.
You can’t beat a cheap and tasty Greggs sausage roll! Unfortunately there are no fast food chains in my town, no even a Greggs, just a few independent takeaways, but thankfully you can buy Greggs sausage rolls and slices that are ready to bake from Iceland supermarkets, so I can get a sneaky sausage roll occasionally and there even nicer because they’re freshly baked! The worst part is waiting for them to cool down enough!😂
Good Morning our American Family 🇬🇧
Hi Sarah! ❤️ Hope you're doing well.
Besides Marmite Crisps there are now Puffs, Ridge crisps and Tortelli's.
Chai Latte, in other words - milky tea 😂 .
All over Europe are cheap destinations and hotels, but this will make you more envious: Most of Turkey is in Asia and North Africa destinations are also cheap and easy to get to!
No kidding! I can fly from Ireland to London and back again for €19.99 each way. That’s cheaper than the cab to the airport from my home and back again(distance of 9.9km was €28 one way)🤯
The problem with Marmite is people spread it on too thick not realising how potent it is. It would help if you spread it on according to your taste.
Terry’s have introduced a milk chocolate version of their famous chocolate orange… apparently there’s a mint version, too …
Seperately: Ironbridge Gorge is basically a historic site - it's an old victorian mill town run as a museum. I went there with an ex girlfriend once. Still have a squashed penny somewhere.
Am I right when I say that Telford built the first iron bridge and the town of Telford is named after him and Ironbridge Gorge relates to his bridge.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironbridge All you can eat on Ironbridge
with the Holiday/vacation flights, a "Return Ticket" means flights to the destination and your flight back home. a one way flight ticket is known as a "Single Ticket".
we use to have "single" and "return" tickets on our buses, but now it is just "singles" or a "day ticket". which allows you to ride as many buses as you like in 24hrs. these are great for people who may take 2 buses to work or school and are a great way to get around as a tourist too.
Allotments are a rented plot of ground typically used for growing veg and sometimes fruit. they was promoted heavily in WWII, with the slogan "Dig For Victory". I am sure you will find News Reels from the time here on YT, that you could react too.
Hi, Allotment is a small pice of land you rent to grow stuff on. Away from your house. Its like they take a field and divide it up into plots of land big enough to grow stuff on. Then rent each plot out for somebody who wants fresh vegetables and fruit for there homes.
Ironbridge is fantastic to visit
Some of these days I will have to mail you an Italian care package, just for a variation.
For travel sickness, having to make a longish journey on a bus up the mountains I recently tried ginger tablets, and they worked great.
Love seeing the Newcastle stuff. UP THE MAGS 🖤🤍🖤🤍
Damn straight. Up the Toon 😁
Howay the lads!
Used to give my daughter a plain or ginger biscuit not long after setting off and it settled her tummy
An allotment is when you rent a small plot of land from the local council, to grow things you want. Maybe just vegetables or some flowers as well.
Your plot will be next to other people's plots. There may be a fence between but not always. You may not know the person you are near but it is important to stick to the rules you've been given or the "neighbours" could have you removed, via the council. The waiting lists for allotments are always very long.
Usually you can have a shed to keep your tools in. When I was a child it was a running joke that the men would go and hide in the sheds away from their wives. Now, of course, ladies can have their own allotments to hide in.
You really,really, really need to come over here for a holiday
Or the Caribbean?
Which would you chose?
@@MrBollocks10wouldn't thank you for it Scotland will dome just fine
Bovril cubes are really excellent beef stock I use them all the time for stews gravy etc.
The travel sickness bands are brilliant.. i had them as a child, and now we get them for my daughter as she gets travel sick. Any transport over an hour and shes throwing up otherwise. Lots of great packages again ❤
Steve the turkey holiday will include flights 🇬🇧xx
Yards, Gardens and Allotments.
Where I live in northern England is an ex-mining town. Many of the houses are terraced houses or what you might call row houses. They have front doors that open straight on to the footpath (sidewalk) and the road. No land whatsoever at the front. At the rear they have a back yard. A yard in this context is a small (probably no more than 16 feet square) enclosed area with a gate on to a very narrow lane. The yard is where you might keep a rabbit hutch, hang your washing or park your bicycle. If you want to grow some plants, you might rent an allotment. Local councils (usually) will set aside a plot of land that is divided in to smaller sections that can be rented out to individuals and families. Some people may grow flowers, but most allotments ore used for growing food for the table or sometimes competition - The allotment I used to rent had a man who grew ENORMOUSLY long, prize carrots. They tasted awful, but won him many trophies. You might call an allotment a community garden in the USA, I'm not sure.
Some, indeed many UK houses come with a front and a back garden. Usually, the front garden (facing a road) is for "show". We plant stuff and build stuff that is nice to look at for passers by, but we don't tend to spend much time sitting in it. The back garden - away from prying eyes and nosey neighbours - is often enclosed by a wall, hedge or fence and will probably have a lawn, herbaceous, flowery borders, maybe some shrubbery or tree(s), there may be a shed for our tools and this is where we sit if the sun ever comes out and this is where we perform our sad little excuse for a barbecue on summer evenings. It is where the kids play at weekends and after school and where the dog makes yellow patches on the lawn. It is, essentially, the same as a US back yard, but invariably smaller and with more planting than just grass.
I hope this helps.
Lots of old houses especially in working class areas didnt have gardens. so land was made avaliable for a small rent to grow food. Avarage size is about 50x30foot.
try reading the book Steve
Allotments are community gardens to grow veg and flowers but you don't have to own one to grow things, I grew veg and flowers in my garden, flowers at the front and veg at the back garden lol.
I had 2 allotments and a victorian garden so the garden was a with a lawn patio and flower beds with veggies in pots on the patio. my allotments were one for veggies and one with fruit bushes on with flowers are around both to encourage the bees plus I had a small greenhouse on fruit one and a small tool shed on the veggie plot allotment. I grew all sorts of veggies and red currants, blackcurrants, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, strawberries even had an apple and a pear tree.
Not everyone has a garden - if you live in a flat for example, or the kids need the little patch of garden to play in. Then you can go to the local council and rent an 'allotment', a plot of land in a fenced area of maybe a hundred or so plots. You are expected to actually use it to grow mostly fruit and vegetables and keep it in good order, as there is usually a long waiting list for plots. Its a very popular arrangement for many people - it can be a little area to 'escape' to. You can have a little shed on it and arrange it as you wish.
My father and grandfather had allotments. We were never short of fresh vegetables in the late 40s and 50s.
Lindsay is correct that a Magpie is a bird- with distinctive black and white plumage. It's also the nickname of Newcastle Untied FC as they play in a black and white striped kit. What a pity the schooners got smashed.
Well remembered on the subject of an 'Allotment' Lindsay! Allotments are not at (or often very near) your house. There are probably allotments within half a mile to a mile from everyone's home.
Basically these are large plots of land, usually owned by the Local Authority (Council), which are divided up into much smaller plots and rented out to individual local residents. Typically there are long waiting lists to get an allotment, particularly in areas where homes have either very small gardens or no garden at all. Most people use them for growing food, although some also grow flowers.
The most amazing holiday deals will have very little availability.....when you contact them, the best deals will probably have been filled up- but there will still be something cheap to be found. Short haul flights to Europe can be very cheap - although you often end up paying all sorts of 'little extras' like hold luggage, seat reservation fees, printing your boarding card etc etc...And the cheapest flights will land you a long way from the main destination listed.
that was fun, lol enjoyed it. hope the travel bangles work.
If you think nursery rhyme are werid, there’s a French song about plucking a chicken & my entire year group sang it as a goodbye assembly. In year 6 in 2006/07 school year.
oh yeah, I remember singing that too, but forget what it's called. i was in school in the 90's so forever ago
🎶 Alouette, gentile Alouette
Allouette, je te plumerai 🎶 😂
Poor thing...
@@openorwap5412 oh yes. I thought it was something like alouette. It's been so long since I heard it or sang it.
@@chantellelandon85 I never knew what it meant until I learned some French at high school. It's actually serial-killer level disturbing 😆 Mind you, most of our own nursery rhymes have dark meaning or undertones if you look into them. They hide it behind upbeat, jaunty music as a distraction 🤣🤷🏽♀️
I'm pretty sure "allouette" is. French for "lark" rather than chicken. A lot of European cultures eat small song birds as delicacies.
marmite grows on you, especially for the US palette that is often very sweet biased., eat those crsips regularly then before you know you will be loving marmite on your toast.
In terms of fast food in the UK, Greggs (started in Newcastle funnily enough) is possibly what you could consider our biggest homegrown chain of fast food like items. It's a bakery and quite famous for it's sausage rolls in particular. It's fast, cheap and has a decent quality, especially for the price.
The boss, the founders son got 13 years for child molestation last year.
Oh yes! Well done . I could only think of fish and chip shops being uk fast food. But closest to a British chain - definitely Greggs
Wimpey was the 1st British burger place. They never quite got it right though. Burgers without buns and cutlery.
@@n8nate A burger without a bun?😱
Really? Lol
Madness. 😀
Loved the 'spicy bean-burger'. Not a veggie but that was good. ❤
Hello lovely family I wondered if you seen the film London remembers ( the exhibition of ceramic poppies in the moat of the Tower of London) it is breathtaking love from your 89 yr old 🇬🇧fan
An allotment is a piece of land you can rent (annually) to garden most often for vegetables.
Latte is the Italian word for milk (hence the confusion by some when they ask for a Latte in Italy and get a glass of milk rather than a coffee - you need to ask for a Caffè Latte!). Chai means tea in a number of languages, the spelling may vary. A Chai Latte is delicious, warming, and slightly spicy, and is one of my favourite hot drinks!
@@andybaker2456 Chai is actually a n Indian word, I believe from the Hindustani language and its root meaning is the number 4. During the period of the Raj, the British occupation of India it became common practice for the British people to take afternoon tea at the same time most days and their native staff began to call the time for the tea to be prepared for as chai time. It later changed to become the local word for the beverage that was enjoyed around that time of day and then later it became celebrated in the comic song written and performed by Mr Noel Cowered (?) called Everything Stops for Tea! Over the years the word chai has slowly changed it’s spelling to the British word Char which has been acquired official status in the Oxford English Dictionary as a slang term used to describe the beverage tea although this is slowly changing to the word Brew as in get a brew going.
@andrewcoates6641 I mentioned that chai is used in several languages as I know that in Turkish, tea is "Çay", with the cedilla on the c turning it into a "ch" sound. Also, in Thai, it's "Cha". There are probably others too, although interestingly, in Nepalese it's Chia, so very slightly different! The things you pick up along the way. 😁
Yes chai means tea in Persian and other languages such as Hindi but the word probably is from the Chinese. It annoys me that it has come to mean spiced or flavoured teas when it just means 'tea'. Probably because hipsters think it's cool to, incorrectly, use a foreign word.
@andrewcoates6641 I'm pretty sure the word 'chai' predates the British Raj. The word may have reached northern India from the Mogul invasion or earlier. Maybe along with the word 'chahar' for four. I don't know if Hindi had a similar word for the number. It might well be that Persian and Hindi both had the word for 4 from way back. The habit of 'tea at four' might just be a coincidence and nothing to do with the Indian/Persian word for 4. Maybe the British and Indians had a little laugh at the similarity of the words.
@@andrewcoates6641just looked it up and Hindi does have a similar word, 'chaar' for 4 although the word for 6, chhar is closer to the Persian word for 4. My guess the commonality goes back many thousands of years ago.