5 strange things about homes in Glasgow
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- Moving from The Bahamas to Scotland meant some obvious adjustments to things like the weather and the accent, but there are lots of smaller things I've had to get used to as well! Here are 5 things I confront on a daily basis just living life in my flat.
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"Humidity near 100per cent"; phooey!
A little poetic license! Current humidity 66, average over the year is 83, it's a humid country alright. 100 cannot occur naturally.
Turn your heating on and your clothes will dry. I stay in a similar Victorian tenement and my clothes dry overnight. Try putting them near a radiator and not in the bay window where it's always cooler.
Also, a "skeleton key" is more accurately used to describe a master or pass key, which can open any lock in a certain building. The keys you have are just plain old mortice lock keys. Modern mortice locks are pretty safe.
Hey Jack, thanks for watching and for your tips! Also - I loved learning about skeleton keys vs mortice lock keys. Very cool! I feel safer now too knowing that there's such a thing as a 'modern' mortice lock, and they're more secure than the ones in previous generations. Thank you! ^_^
@@gabriellegweneth Glad you're enjoying the Glasgow life!
Your Glasgow flat has definitely been modernised, a typical feature of a real tenement kitchen was the kitchen pulley for hanging the washing.
Ahh ok! Are there many tenement kitchens still like that today?
@@gabriellegweneth We always had one and it was still in use until 2016. When my mother died we sold the flat and the new owners gutted it, so that was the end of the pulley. I expect some of the other flats in the same building have one, even though they're in the West End! Have you visited the Tenement House in Buccleuch St? There is certainly a pulley in the kitchen.
@@mirandolina46 Ohh! That's really interesting. I've just looked up the Tenement House thanks to you - I must visit!
If its dry hang your washing on the line out the back.
Hope too see you around Govan sometime..
Good to see you're settling in and I hope you're being made to feel very welcome, because you are, we need more smiley people. Had to laugh at the hanging the clothes indoors, yes I do too it's rare to see a tumble drier in anyone's house these days, just due to lack of space. But you might find a cheap top loader somewhere and they can be quite small and might fit in a cupboard. I expect you're quite surprised at how early it gets dark now in the winter and how late it gets light in the mornings, it can be annoying but try not to let it get you down, maybe get a SAD lamp a lot of people find those useful. Anyway please stay safe and take care. P.
Hi Paul, thanks for watching and it's so good to hear from you! The days *are* really short. It's the most troublesome for me in the evenings because I feel like I should be getting ready for dinner (do you call it tea like my flatmate?) at 3.30pm! haha. I love that I'm guaranteed to see beautiful sunrises whenever they happen though :)
@@gabriellegweneth Hmm nah I just call it dinner haha. Yes the days are short and there is little time to get things done before it gets dark, but I have the christmas tree up now and use some other LED lights in the flat to make it nice and cosy, and some smelly candles help too. We are blessed with the sunrises in Glasgow :)
@@PaulEcosse Your flat sounds really lovely and Christmasy! Enjoy the holidays :)
I love the way you narrated. You sound like a writer.
Aw, thank you! I am in fact a writer and I love that that's come through. ☺🤗
You must have a drying green in the "back door", have you neve noticed neighbours hanging clothes out? On a sunny warm day things are dry really quickly, on a cooler windy day things still really dry quickly. There is a term "a good drying day" and trust me, your older neighbours know when it's a good drying day. Just copy them!
Thanks for watching and commenting Azulinho! We do have a back garden but nobody hangs anything up out there. :) It's not in use at all actually! I think the door's been locked for a while; bit of a shame really.
Hah, I never would have thought those would be the type of things that a newcomer to Scotland would find strange - interesting to see this perspective!
Haha yes! Thanks for watching and commenting. ^_^
Not all windows in Glasgow homes have windows like that. The majority of people do use driers and have fitted wardrobes i.e. they lay flush against the wall with sliding doors. Also many new homes or larger homes have a seperate room for the washing machine and drier. When viewing houses i also saw people who had there washing machines in the bathroom. I stayed in rented flats in Canada and the US and none of them had a washing machine anywhere. You had to use shared facilities in the basement or use a laundrette. I also found it strange that kitchen sinks had no draining board and you had to use a plastic tray with a lip that hung over the sink when washing dishes.
Top tip - always hang your undies on the bottom of that dryer rack - there is always a chance a trouser fumbler lives across the road and could be looking at your undies through binoculars
Oh dear, that never occurred to me!
Good video, thank you. How did you get on with two separate taps? Or did you have a mixer tap in there?
We've got a mixer tap for the bathroom sink, thankfully. I find them challenging to use when I find them in other places! Thanks for watching and commenting on this video and my other one Stewart :)
Buy an electric clothes airer from Lakeland. They fold up and put up easily. When you plug them in they provide background warmth while they dry your clothes. Also, a lot of tenements have a shared drying space at the back where you can put up a washing line.
Hey Fiona, electric clothes airers sound magic! I'll have to look them up. No shared drying space at the back of my building, though I have seen them walking past others. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I lived in Mavisbank garden, near River Clyde, my daughter studied in school beside Festival park. Beautiful memories
Oh! I've just made some friends who live there and it's a lovely area. What a treat! Thanks for watching and commenting. ^_^
We live on an island so less land. When drying you can turn the heating up or buy a tumble dryer and stack it on the washing machine in a utility cupboard. Isn't it interesting to see how some people live in different locations. The more money one has the bigger the property and the more utility rooms and en suites we have. You live right next to Glasgow's psychic centre in Clifford lane. Have you checked it out?
Oh turning the heating up is a good idea! I do stick my clothes on the radiators as well, which is helpful. I think I've seen the psychic centre but wasn't sure it was actually open. Nothing on Clifford Lane really seems open, except this grey building of.. idk what haha. Psychic stuff isn't my thing though. It's good to hear from you! :)
@@gabriellegweneth give it a try it's always open! Life is about learning new things. x
Do you actually have to physically enter a psycic center? Surely during lockdown you can astrally project into the building without all the hassle of stairs and skeleton keys.
@@gabriellegweneth Quite right hen - i never went back to that psychic centre after the wumin told me what colour of underpants i was wearing i was too worried what else she would know - best leave that stuff alone i recon
Buy a dryer.....
Or you can buy a heated clothes horse, (especially the kind that fold down flat if not in use) and cover it with a sheet to keep the heat in. They cost very little to run so don’t increase your electric bill by much, unlike a tumble dryer.
Have you been in a typical inner city Glasgow tenement? 🤔
your lucky to have doors and windows, when i was growing up in Glasgow in the sixties we never had doors or windows. We never had wardrobes either, but then we never had clothes to put in them , just an old sack if you were the favorite child. Try and tell that to kids nowadays and they just won`t believe you 😉😉
😂😂 Thanks for watching and commenting William!
Buy a dryer m8....wtf
3 problems with that:
1 - where is it going to go? Have you seen the limited space in a typical tenement flat? Most of them were originally built without bathrooms or toilets. Therefore to modernise them, they've been chopped into odd shapes. Plus she is sharing with someone else.
2 - they aren't cheap either to buy or operate.
3 - it's not advisable to fit new white goods in a rented property, when you know you are unlikely to stay there for very long.
buy a washer/dryer
Gabrielle your video 📸 is so beautiful 👌
Thank you very much!
@@gabriellegweneth welcome dear friend ❤️
Interesting video i liked seeing inside your wardrope but was disappointed we didnt get to see in your drawers - maybe next time doll
lol i was thinkin the same thing.