American Couple Reacts: Ways British & American Springtime is VERY Different! Some BIG shocks here!!
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- American Couple Reacts: Ways British & American Springtime is VERY Different! Some BIG shocks here!!
Happy Spring! It's finally getting warmer and we thought this was the perfect video to do! We really didn't expect to learn much from this but WOW were we surprised! We won't lie, we are a little upset United Kingdom, at a couple shocks here!! We wonder if you will be too. Let us know if you learned something also. We wish everyone warmer days ahead and sunshine in your lives! Drop us a LIKE if you enjoy our channel and consider subscribing if you haven't already. Thanks everyone!!
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This was a VERY fun episode!! We may never get over the one BIG shock in the middle! We hope this video finds you all in good health & happy times! Please drop a Like for us. Thanks everyone ❤️❤️
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As always sending lots of love from the UK 🇬🇧 ❤
we took the Grey Squirrels to our heart , lovely wee creatures .
The red squirrel. The UK's native one is much much cuter than the grey though
@@weej840 yeah your right , but its not the Greys fault they were imported , the red have areas all to themselves hardy wee things .
So about the whole eating dandelions thing - in the UK we drink them. :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandelion_and_burdock
As the poet Robert Browning wrote
"Oh, to be in England now that April's here" says it all really. Great video again .
Spring is usually glorious in the U.K. We’ve had near-summer temperatures this year and lots of sunshine.
The grey squirrel also invaded the feeding grounds of Britains red squirrel almost making it an endangered species thogh after efforts to separate the two the red squirrel has made a comeback in areas that are protected.
Fun fact: the number 1 factor in determining whether or not red squirrels hang on in an area is the presence of the pine marten. Re-introduce pine martens to an area, the grey squirrels die out and the red ones can re-establish themselves.
More insidious than just competing with native red squirrels, grey squirrels spread a pox which is harmless to them but will kill red squirrels slowly by making them unable to eat - not pleasant at all Natasha.
@David Crisp: hurray for the Pine Martins! Get to it chaps!
Indigenous red squirrel will become extinct in the UK , the more aggressive grey and black squirrels kill them...can you see any parallels there ?
Where I live in Hertfordshire we have black squirrels.
The only problem with the grey squirrel populating the UK is that they have practically wiped out our native red squirrels. Great video as always
Except on the Isle of Wight, where the greys where never introduced. Still a red population there.
@@jasonyoung7705 indeed! And I believe they still have a small amount in parts of Scotland.
That's why it's law here to kill them! They are classed as an invasive species and are not protected!
I've never seen a red squirrel in 59 years
@@jasonyoung7705 Red squirrels are also protected on Brownsea Island in the bay in Poole, Dorset
In Britain most of our animals are actually quite cute. Love seeing hedgehogs ( so cute). It’s what makes spring so exciting. Summer in Britain is stunning! The flowers, animals, architecture and ambience is great! The birds start singing at 2am ( very loudly) which is maybe my one issue!
I hate the way the pigeons nesting on the roof and the trees in the back yards in London start making a racket at 4am, even before Heathrow starts letting the planes start landing at 5am. The robin (beautiful song) can sing all night when they are perched on street lights - noisy buggers.
@@terryloveuk love robins😍. It’s the magpies that bother me. I swear they do it on purposes, I can hear them laughing 😂
@@terryloveuk One of my neighbours has donkeys. One gave birth last year at like 3AM and it sounded like a murder, lol
@@billmayor8567 Ahhh yes, all the crow family have voices like mine... annoying and very limited in range and usually off key. Robins sing great (some people say 2nd only to the Skylark) but at 2am as I'm just crawling into bed, not a lullaby
@@sheepsky Ahhh, donkeys, yes that would be annoying. Actually foxes during the mating season also sound like someone committing torture and murder, luckily I'm far enough away from embankments where I am in London, but I have have had a staring match through the window with a fox trotting down the street - cheeky beggar.
If you guys ever have a chance, I'd highly recommend trying a drink called Dandilion and Burdock, it's a delicious fizzy pop we have that's severely underrated!
Came here to make the same comment. Then realised I haven't had any for years ! Will be looking out for it to buy - LOL !
EDIT: Went out and got some... Just about to have a glass. 👍😃
Nectar of the gods.
Oh I frigging love Dandelion and Burdock, it's amazing 😃😃😃
I was just about to post about Dandelion and Burdock but you beat me to it :)
Dandelion and Burdock is amazing. For Americans, the aroma is similar to Root Beer, but the taste is quite different (I can’t stand Root Beer). D&Bs can taste very different. A lot of supermarket D&Bs lack a strong taste. I also find Ben Shaws to be lacking. Fentimen’s D&B is excellent but is a bit posh and expensive. The best normal is Barr’s ‘DnB’. It has a lovely strong hit to it.
Hedgehogs are protected in the UK - my daughter and my mum have a hedgehog home in their garden. It's very sweet to see them running around at night.
The big problem with hedgehogs is they are a breeding ground for fleas, if you have cats or dogs be sure to keep on top of that if you have hedgehogs that visit your gardens.
Many end up squashed on our roads, that ruins my day.
Hedgehog fleas are a different species to cat or dog fleas. They don't live on cats or dogs. So no problem.
As Al Murray said, the wildlife in Britain is not particularly wild; squirrels aren't going to hunt you down in packs.
Brit would turn that into a horror movie.
@@stevetheduck1425 No an American would, Americans always make non logical movies
At this very moment, 7.00pm in the UK, I'm sat in my house, I've got sunshine, clear blue skies and my cherry blossom tree is in full bloom. In spring we have rabbits, badgers, lambs, calves, hedgehogs, ducks, swans, squirrels, basically spring is full of cute baby animals. In the UK you know when it's spring when the daffodils come out. I used to live close to some woods and in spring certain parts of the ground would be blue due to the amount of bluebells, which by the way it is illegal to pick wild bluebells in the uk
The scariest creature we have in the UK is probably something like a wasp when you're eating ice cream or the house spiders who just decide to move in without paying any rent. We also have daddy long legs' that live on our windows (outside) in the autumn. The only thing that's scary about spiders and daddy long legs' is that they are horrifying to look at; they almost never bite and if they do bite it's not very harmful. In North Wales and North West Scotland there are Highland midges, which are tiny flies that like going around in huge groups. If you ever see a black cloud in the Highlands, there probably isn't a storm coming, it's probably thousands of tiny insects.
Highland midges are to be feared and avoided because they can torment you to madness!
For me, it's horseflies! Those are nasty things!
@@lewi8932 Yes they are not nice. I suffered from them a couple of times and knew nothing until I saw the blood. I have experienced worse things in other countries, for instance, cane beetles in Sri Lanka.
Nooooo, the scariest animal is when youve been to the pub in dundee or inverness, then the dragon from game of thrones takes on the shape of a seagull and swoops in and rips the entire bag of chips out of your hand. and your hand. then craps on you.
@@chrisn2135 lol
A lot of our councils now allow the wild flowers to grow in the hedgerows and sides of the roads rather than mowing them down to encourage bees. The wild flowers are beautiful. Some areas lay wild flower seeds on roundabouts. They look so natural and beautiful.
some country graveyards are given over to wildflowers and cut down once a year
Dandelions were once called 'Pissabed' - the leaves are diurectic.
Haven't heard that for years.
I went to The University of York. (Friendly rival to Laurence’s Lancaster.) Our three terms were among the shortest in the UK at nine weeks. So you basically got nearly half the year as holiday. Summer was three months!
It doesn't rain here nearly as often as people think. Even among those who live here in the UK rain fall is exagerated to a certain extent. I have wild flowers in my garden and always look forward to the spring blooms.
Here in the east of England, there has been no rain for weeks ! Desperately
needed ! I dont understand why some think it is always raining in the UK!
Melbourne Australia has more rain than the UK, Brussels has more rain than
London, as do many other places. Also, the UK differs, there is more rain
in the West, than in the East. Love these ladies, I detect a strong British
connection in both of them.
I have recently learned to accept a few dandelions in my garden as they are an essential food source for some insects, plus, if you look at them properly they are actually really pretty. I have some growing in my borders amongst some forget-me-nots and the contrast between the blue and the bright yellow is beautiful.
That sounds lovely. I love the forget-me-nots and butterflies like the dandelions. A lawn with daisies too, so pretty.
We've had beautiful weather over Easter,here in London. Blue skies,warm sunshine,flowers in bloom,birds singing.butterflies are out.Even fed a passing Red Kite from my garden! Hope you lovely ladies had a good Easter
I think most of England had beautiful weather over Easter, and today another beautiful day in Hampshire 19c (66f)
Regarding animals that we have in Britain during summer:
Foxes. Typically very shy unless they're urban foxes. Not vicious, but sometimes have the habit of screaming in the middle of the night like a woman being murdered.
Badgers and hedgehogs already mentioned.
Also squirrels.
Other small mammals not easily seen are various wild mice, shrews and voles.
Mention for rabbits as well.
In country areas, the hillsides are dotted with the white of sheep and lambs.
Ducks and swans start coming out more because the plants and insects they eat are also more available and they will start courting displays. Same goes for wading/water birds such as herons.
Bumblebees come out in force.
Songbirds! Lots of small songbirds, some very brightly coloured.
Blackbirds start pairing up and hunting for worms in the lawn.
A mention for woodpigeons as well. During spring they eat the buds off your fruit trees and shag each other on top of the garden fence. They have a reasonably pretty song in the morning though. *Hoohoo hoo* like an owl, but if the owl was gargling gravel and mouthwash.
Exellent. Well put.
Foxes scream when they're mating, it's the male fox your hearing, sometimes his P gets stuck inside the female and causes pain which is ofcourse why they scream. 😁
He didn't mention Daffodils. They are everywhere!
We have moles and voles :) I saw a hedgehog yesterday in the garden, he's a regular spring visitor...
Great show as always ladies. No we don’t have any coyotes, spring is blooming all around us and it’s beautiful 😍 my dog is forever grateful that you gave us the grey squirrel as she loves to chase them around the garden lol. I personally don’t use anything artificial in my garden and just let it grow. Xxx
Oooh! I'm all excited. I've met a badger! It was in the wee small hours on Salisbury Plain. I couldn't get over how big it was. It was like a huge dog sized body on short legs. That is all.
I get badgers in my garden I saw two one night one male and a female she is smaller than the male.
It's been lovely weather over our Easter in the East Midlands, 🌞 and warm.
I recall being in a Beech wood in late May. The tall, graceful beeches formed a high canopy of green. The late afternoon sun formed shafts of light on the bluebells which moved with the breeze, the subtle colour shifts mimicking waves. It was 30 years ago and I still see it with my minds eye. It was perfect and it was beautiful beyond measure.
Dandelions are great for bees. Bees are endangered right now, but as long as they have dandelions, they'll have something to feed off!
I'm with you about allowing wildflowers to flourish. In fact, you can buy packs of wildflowers to sow in your garden. We don't 'fertilise' per se, but we do mow our lawns, hoe the edges and dig over. As long as you gaven't paved over your front garden in order to park your car, of course! I love my garden. I would never fo that.
Happy Spring!
Hi guys,really enjoyed this video about Spring today. My favorite time of year. I live in the south East and we tend to have dry warmer springs at least sometimes we do.
Dandelion heads can be soaked in batter and fried (the yellow heads not the frothy clocks that blow about) and the leaves can be eaten with salad, the roots can be grated, baked in the oven and become coffee substitute!
It's Spring here in the UK and it is reasonably dry and the weather is warm although the wind is cold.
I have read you can make coffee from dandelion roots. Apparently you have dry them out in the oven and then crush them. I can't imagine what dandelion root coffee would taste like.
I was working in the middle of London and one morning I.saw a fox running through my.clients back yard.There are foxes that live in the cities. Some silly people catch the foxes and release them in the country. City foxes have no idea how to survive in the country and cause a lot of problems for the farmers.
Spring in the UK is lovely, we get April showers, sometimes heavy but May and June can be lovely and warm. As for the Badgers, ours are to be avoided as well, they are not people friendly.
Hmm... British Spring time. As Flanders and Swann put it succinctly, "April brings the sweet Spring showers... on and on for hours and hours!"
Could we persuade our good friends, Tash'n'Debs, to comment on the Great Micheal Flanders and Donald Swann?
@@OnASeasideMission yes please!!
@@Happyheretic2308 Love to chat but:
T'was on a Wednesday morning that the electrician came.
He called me Mr Sanderson which isn't quite the name.
He couldn't reach the fuse box without standing on the bin
And his foot went through the window.
So I called the glazier in
Oh, it all makes work for the working man to do.
🙄
Love it!
This old man, he played One
He played Knick-knack at Verdun
Cognac, Armagnac, Burgundy and Beaune
This old man came rolling home
This old man, World War Two
He told Churchill what to do
Free French general, Crosses of Lorraine
He came rolling home again ….
It’s Nice To See A Squirrel , Going About, They’re So Agile , Scooting Up A Tree! And The Humming Of Bees, Can Be Delightful, Going From Flower To Flower ! That’s When You Know Spring Is Here! And The Fresh Air As Well!
"Oh, the flowers that bloom in the Spring, tra-la..." etc. Thanks for reminding us that now after all the stark gloom of winter, life is finally re-asserting itself.
There's nothing quite like the sight of the first bluebells in a British wood, they look like a blue mist. BTW, we will, quite happily, take back all the dandelions
if you agree to take back all the McDonalds! Warmest best wishes to you both............................................the ancient Englishman.
When I was a kid, we had a way of turning dandelions, milk thistles, bindweed and cow parsley into tasty food. You just need some rabbits.
We have otters, stoats, weasels, polecats and pine martins in the UK.
I live in a small village in Norfolk Uk. I have hedgehogs in the garden, deer, rabbits and stoats in the field opposite and badgers in the wood up the road. That wood is full of wood anemones at present and soon the English bluebells will turn the wood from the white of the anemones to an intense blue haze. The dawn chorus is beautiful every morning here at this time of year then later I hear sky larks soaring above the fields up the roads. However I also have the roars of military jets both RAF and USAF to contend with and traffic noise from a main road 100 yards away so it’s not all idyllic
Bill Oddie & Kate Humble are my favourite springtime creatures.
I love dandelion tea, a slice of lemon and no milk, it's delicious, also I love the grey squirrels, my garden opens onto woodland and I get red deer and grey squirrels in my garden, they are intelligent and so trusting, I for one am glad they are here, our red squirrels are very flighty and steer clear of the food we put out. Especially in the winter.
University holidays were so sweet. A month each for Christmas and Easter and 3 months for summer. Did not prepare me for working life at all.
Here in Norfolk, apart from ice cream boats, we have Red, Roe, and Monkjack deer, stoats, weasels, foxes, voles, water voles, moles, badgers and hodgepigs sorry I mean hedgehogs but nothing that will see you as a potential dinner. In certain parts of Britain they are reintroducing beavers to bring back some of the wet lands need for native speices both animal and plant to survive
The temperature reached 23º C/73º Fahrenheit in London on Good Friday and stayed warm throughout the weekend. It's a bit colder now, especially when out of the sunshine, though I remember going to cricket practice during the Easter holidays back in the early 1970s on the south coast and it would be snowing and cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. And there are still plenty of hedgehogs - I recently found one rummaging through my bin bags! Hope you had a great Easter. Cheers from the UK!
Yes, and in typical Brit style, the first bearable sunny days bring out the pasty white limbs as people don shorts, miniskirts, halter tops and sandals to top up on vitamin D and sunburn for the summer we hope we may have.
earth had warming early 1900's till the very early 50's, then 30 years of cooling, then from about the early 80's till 2016 warming, since 2016 we back in the cooling cycle. controlled by the sun
The guinea pigs.. Peaches, Tinkerbell and Hope, have just asked me if they can come your house and eat all of your dandelions? I’m guessing the answer is yes 🤣🤣🐹🐹🐹
Dandelions are awesome flowers and so undervalued and overlooked.
The park 100 yards from our house has red squirrels, and highland Scotland has pine martens and ptarmigans.
The strange thing is that many Americans introduced British native species because they wanted what was known as Shakespeare Gardens!!! Basically, these were gardens featuring every plant mentioned by Shakespeare!!!
One key difference is that in the US I've noticed dandelions are treated much more like weeds than they are here, it's quite common to let them grow on grass verges and whatnot, I don't mind them at all
And Dandelions are a prime ingredient for Dandelion & Burdock, kinda like a UK Root Beer, an acquired taste I will admit.
@@terryloveuk I mentioned that in my other comment too
@@vaudevillian7 I think D&B is a regional thing, it's more common in some places than others, I found it easy as a kid when visiting my grandparents in Hartlepool, much harder to find down south in Southampton.
Dandelions are a good source of food for early Bumblebees.
People don't like dandelions?
"Oh no, why is my garden filled with all these bright sun coloured flowers! How dare you cruel world!" hah!
Seeing dandelions just reminds me of spring and summer.
Mail your Dandelions to Save The Bees! lol
I just cut my grass around the Dandelions this weekend.
Easter Bank Holiday weekend in the UK this year saw people swarming to the beach or barbecuing in the garden surrounded by bird song and spring flowers. Spring weather is usually mild - although we can, and do, have snow, rain and sunshine all on the same dsy! Don't forget that modern America was founded and built by immigrating Europeans . . . led by the English of course! We also gave you Halloween and the language you speak; plus your Constitution and Laws were based on those handed down from us Brits. 🤣👏👏 Love you all really and am so glad that we are allies. ♥️ We have foxes, swans and ducks, millions of birds!, baby lambs - none of which are dangerous (although the foxes will kill the chickens if they are not securely housed). Garden Centres are full in the Spring with people buying both perennial and annual plants etc but organic suppression of weeds is becoming more favoured as against pesticides etc.
I love to see the squirrels running about the Glen there fun to see
Ďandilians are the first food for bees in spring.
As has been suggested you should try the drink dandelion and burdock, it's kind of our equivalent of root beer - which is not something that exists here other than as an import from the US (I love it though)
Root beer very much exists in the UK. Not even as a US import. It's not as common as some others bit you can buy it from the regular drinks aisle in Tesco and Asda. Even my local petrol station stocks Root Beer.
originally made from roots but I highly doubt it is now, probably some hideous chemical cocktail
Great video I didn't know most of those (sorry about the Dandelions we hate the too). ❤❤❤
Bluebell woods are one of the best things about spring
Dandelion and burdock is a beverage consumed in the British Isles since the Middle Ages. It was originally a type of light mead, but over the years has evolved into the carbonated soft drink commercially available today. Traditionally it was made from fermented dandelion and burdock roots, hence the name.
I think our gardens tend to be less 'pristine' than American yards, which can be very austere and mowed within an inch of their life - whereas we tend to like more of a curated natural look with more flowers and even wildflowers rather than the football field look. It's hard to describe but you'll see the difference when you look
That's because we don't have crazy HOAs that will fine you thousands if you have 1 blade of grass over a certain length
Most Americans like us, don't either...
I remember every spring time in (a CofE) primary school we’d go to church and give tins of food sometimes fresh veg/fruit to donate to food shelters etc. Harvest Fesival. Not really a festival though, when it consists of church hymns lol
Idk why, but that’s always what I think of when spring in Britain is talked about. That, and daffodils.
"I guess they can have a dry season", I neary fell off my chair :D
You can't really compare dandilions and grey squirrels. The grey squirrel has all but wiped out the native british red squirrel. There are now only a few enclaves on Anglsey, The Lake District and The English and Scottish border region where you can find reds. The UK used to have wolves and bears but they were hunted to extinction centuries ago.
None of the British Red Squirrel exist anymore, the red squirrels we have now we're imported from I think Germany over a century ago. Plus dandilions are not weeds, a very misunderstood fact.
Red Squirrels still on the Isle of Wight, Brownsea Island & in Formby Lancashire.
Dandelion wine is light, crisp and wonderful. Also an important food source for bees.
We don't have Racoons either.
When it comes to wildlife, in most of the UK it's Squirrels (Greys introduced from America and a few small surviving populations of Reds), Rabbits and Hares, Beavers, several species of Voles, several species of Rats and Mice, Dormice, Moles, Hedgehogs, a few species of Shrews, multiple varieties of Bats, Red Foxes, Otters, Weasels, Stoats, Pine Martins, Polecats, Badgers, Mink, Wildcats, Seals, Wild Boar, various species of Deer, several species of Newts, several species of Toad, several species of Frogs, and huge numbers of varied birds, including multiple "Game Birds" such as Grouse, Pheasant, Partridge, and Quail.
We used to have Brown Bears, and Grey Wolves, but they were wiped out many years ago.
Hey guys, be very happy that you have lots of dandelions because they are the main food source for bees in the early spring. Most people in England don't use pesticides in their gardens, and slug pellets have just been outright banned by the British government. Have a great spring.
Slug pellets are still available, but I believe slightly different ingredients
We have Dandelion Wine, I haven't tried it. You sent us beavers, they are great. I love the squirrels both types. We have moles, voles, stoats, ferrets, weazels, foxes, deer, hares, rabbits( brought by the Normans) badgers, field mice, door mice, otters, seals. Scotland has a wild cat ( I don't mean Nicola Sturgeon). Lots of these we don't see because they are nocturnal. The chiff chaff is a bird. Loads of butterflies, house flies, bees and wasps, plus ladybirds ( you call them ladybugs). Flying ants are a nuisance.
Beavers and wolves were native in Britain, coincidentally being hunted to extinction as Europeans settled in the Americas ( 15/16 century). Bears became extinct in the medieval period 7/8 century.
spring time is the best everything looks like its coming back to life best time off year for me
dandelion is promoted as a “tonic,” as a diuretic, and for a variety of conditions, including infections and digestive symptoms. As a food, dandelion is used as a salad green and in soups, wine, and teas. The roasted root is used as a coffee substitute. - This is probably why settlers brought them over
Ahh but ladies don't forget that Dandelions are a very important source of food for Bees and other polinators coming out of hybernation in early spring xox
We have moles, voles, and badgers, but we don't have ground hogs, chipmonks, or racoons. We have buzzards (nothing like vultures, more-like hawks), kestrels, owls, red foxes, deer, and red squirrels. Scotland used to have wolves, but we're talking centuries ago. We never had bears though.
Another amazing video from you both. Really cheered me uo as I'm full if a cold and feeling under the weathrt youve brightened my day s little😊
We have two week for Easter Holiday, and we have half-term holidays to break up the school year; which is usually one week in February, and one week in late May. That's probably the four weeks.
I read that in the 19th century a Shakespeare fan in the US wanted the US to have all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare, and so imported starlings to the US.
Great video as always - thank you! Send the dandelions to Kew Gardens! If you haven't done a video on Kew please do. I'm sure you will both love it
There is a badger that regularly visits my garden, to dig up the lawn looking for worms. A pair of foxes come around pretty much every day. I wouldn’t mind, except they mark their territory with their pee.
I have a bird feeder, that my cats like to watch. Two collared doves and two wood pigeons visit the feeder multiple times every day. A little group of blackbirds, and a couple of crows. Sparrows, robins, the occasional blue tit, and a jay. This is in the outer edge of London
Dandelions are the Bees first source of food in spring, they are vital, I always leave my first grass cutting late for this reason, I'm a nature freak 🙂🇬🇧
Springtime 😃
Mrs P and I just renewed our memberships for the Royal Park near Windsor and we visit a few times a week, usually in the early evening (potential visitors take note).
Missed the crocus carpets, but the rhododendrons are out and the Valley Gardens are beautiful.
Spring is when we stop complaining about the cold.
Autumn (fall) is when we stop complaining about the heat.
Take your pick.
We have foxes,I used to hand feed one a couple of years ago by hand and it played with my small dog( chorkey) it also used to come into my house as well.
You can always throw our dandelions into Boston Harbour like you did our tea :D
At British schools, the usual length of the Easter holiday ranges from 14 to 21 days. Generally, other than at cathedral choir schools, the Lent term (winter semester) will end on the Friday before Palm Sunday, and schools will return either on the Monday, eight days after Easter, or up to a week later than that. School holidays in the UK generally are 2-3 weeks over Christmas and Easter, and 6 or 7 weeks at summer. Half-term or exeat 3 or 4 day breaks occur around the 1st of Nov, in mid February, and at Pentecost (Whitsunday).
St George's day (23rd April) - England's patron saint - is the traditional day for picking Dandelions in order to make Dandelion Wine. Only the petals are used and it is also necessary to include something to give "body" to the wine like orange juice. This home-made wine can be extremely nice if made correctly. Also, Dandelions are a diuretic so stories about "bed-wetting" can be very true!
try this one,if you wash and clean dandilion roots roast then dry grind them add hot water you have a drink that tastes like coffee.my dad taught me that as a small kid and it realy does work.
I'm glad to say we've discovered that you Grey Squirrels are quite tasty. Making them into a pie is a good way to protect our native Red Squirrel
We might not have big problem with mosquitoes in the UK, but we do have them, and what I've found keeps them away from us is a lemongrass spray. I make a half litre spray bottle with water and 15 drops of lemongrass essential oil. Shake well each time before use and simply spray your body with it. It smells really nice and fresh and insects do not like so we don't get bitten
I think the 4 weeks they're talking about might be:
1 week February half term
2 weeks for Easter
1 week spring bank holiday at the end of May
We have shorter summer holidays (6 weeks)
1 week in October (half term)
2 weeks for Christmas
(these are all school holidays)
So 13 weeks in total
He was talking about uk University holidays which are 4/5weeks or more for Easter holiday
@@briantarran6004 ah okay I didn't go to university so didn't realize that they had different holidays - I know private schools vary a bit too
Lovely reaction as usual by two lovely ladies. I live in Stroud, Gloucestershire - where they do the Cheese rolling ! - It's a small rural town, but we have Roe deer, Badgers , foxes all living within 100 yds of my home, plus also the usual birds and Pheasants.
Best wishes from the UK.
Rhod.
Schools/colleges and universities here in the UK also close for 6 weeks for the summer holidays from july-sept they used to be 8 weeks long, Also you can eat dandelions leafs in salads you find them in rocket salads
Good show ladies. Best thing about Spring in the UK is the flowers: Magnolia, Wisteria and Daffodils amongst a few.
13:30 There is a soft drink that is consumed here in the UK, called "Dandelion & Burdock".
Unfortunately I keep missing the Iive feed. Enjoying your wonderful content and reactions.
We haven't done a Live feed in a while
Undoubtedly that is why I keep missing them 🤓. After I had my house built the backyard was a wasteland of clay. I called it my “nouvelle” garden as it was completely bare except for ONE perfect weed slightly off centre. Guess which weed that was?🌼🤣
For the last 10 days or so the weather has been mostly warm and dry and i live in the North of England. I read that down South someplace had the warmest on record. It is possible that May could bring cooler weather and rain but and i have known it snow in April ,but all of this cold or wet weather is not the norm though never the steady warm weather say California gets . Remember on D-Day the 6th of June 1944 there was a storm in the channel the previous day when the landings were planned for. So no guarantees.
LOL when you came back with the dandelions 😃
Spring is generally quite lovely here in England, but it certainly can rain. It used to be April showers here, but I've noticed it being a lot wetter and stormier in May, since global warming.
I’m catching up with your episodes, that was very funny with the dandelions and squirrels 🐿, not sure who got the better deal. My mum gets hedgehogs in her garden, they run like the clappers and normally only come out at night 🦔
I cannot hear the word spring without thinking of America’s greatest export. Tom Lehrer. Listen to poisoning pigeons in the park. Sums up spring perfectly.
Enjoyed the show. Very entertaining.
I recently watched Lawrence’s video (I’ve been subscribed for a few years) but I watched it again with you for your reactions. The Easter holiday is a month at university, high school tends to be two weeks but it can be different depending on the educational authority area.
Our weather is quite mild because Britain is an island.
We are also further north than most Americans realise. I live in Central Scotland and that is
56 degrees North. That line runs through the Southern islands of Alaska.
The Northern Islands of Scotland are nearer Norway than London. This makes the summer nights very long but the winter days short and dark.
The joy is that we often have snowdrops blooming in January and lots of flowers from them on until the days shorten again by late September.
Dandylions look great in hanging baskets, if cram in loads you get like a big yellow ball.
Also if you breed grey and red squirrels they have black squirrel baby's.
We still have *Dandelion & Burdock* soda's over here. It's super tasty.
Now then ladies. I was always told there’s no wild flowers, just a flower in the wrong place. My mum used too love seeing them at the side of the road, with there bright colour. If you do want too get rid of them, pour boiling water on them and it’ll cook the roots. Also Natasha, you were confused when he said Chifchaf!!!! It’s a small bird that comes back too the UK in spring. I can never wait too hear my first one. ❤❤❤
It's nice you don't poison your garden. We encourage wild flowers in our garden. We have hedgehogs visit, and lots of butterflies as we leave the dandelions until they turn to seed. There is a big re-wilding vibe going on over here. I planted three more trees this year and am now full, I think. My willows and fuchsias attract hawkmoth caterpillars which are huge and handsome. We can help wildlife a lot by the plants we grow in our gardens. We also get little voles, and they are so cute. Our garden is full of wildlife, especially birds.
This part of the UK we get Black Squirrels which spread out from Letchworth Garden City over years. They are still Grey Sqirrels but because there are no natural predators they have developed to where their grey camoflage isn't so important any more. Dandilions, daisies etc I let them grow in my garden as just see them as natural flowers, and do like seeing Daffodils. I've never understood the word weeds. My front and back gardens are both absolutely 100% chemical free and the Wildlife loves it. Also do like Dandilion and Burdock drinks.
The middle of the US is very rainy , snowy due to the presence of the Great Lakes, fresh water evaporates more quickly than sea water = lots of clouds= lots of precipitation.
cornwall in the springtime to me. fields of daffodils everywhere, grown for bulbs and cut flowers.all through the hedges and verges too . fresh lime green wooded valleys showing patchey sunlight onto carpets of almost violet shaded bluebells. with the birds waking up, new lambs in the fields, and the atlantic ocean bringing some of the freshest air you will ever breath, i must say i rather like it.
We have a variety of deer, fox, badger, as you know from the video the usual wildlife.. They are only weeds if you don't want them in your garden