Random Stuff (Mostly Garden), Maiden Castle, Seatown, Pickling, Comment Positivity, Disco Flowers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- The somewhat regular collection of random bits and pieces, mostly gardening again...
Info about the various versions of the book (known to me as) 'A Country Harvest' by Pamela Michael (Illustrated by Christabel King):
A Country Harvest - Peerage Books - 1980 - ISBN 978-0671087517
All Good Things Around us - Henry Holt & Co - 1981 - ISBN 9780030572968
Edible Wild Plants & Herbs - 2007 - Grub Street Publishing - ISBN 9781904943730
Edible Wild Plants & Herbs - 2008 - Grub Street Publishing - ISBN 9781910690628
Edible Wild Plants & Herbs - 2022 - Grub Street Publishing - ISBN 9781911667346
(As far as I can tell, these are all substantially the same book inside)
Electronic Lending Library copies of some of these editions are available to borrow from archive.org help.archive.org/help/borrowi...
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Timestamps:
0:00:00 Garden stuff
0:09:53 Seatown
0:35:26 Fossil Haul
0:38:24 Okahijiki seeds
0:42:23 Maiden Castle
0:51:03 More seeds
0:54:25 More gardening
0:58:20 More seeds
1:01:11 More gardening
1:01:53 Not Blue Sunflowers
1:11:53 Pickling time
1:22:57 More gardening
1:25:14 Homemade bonemeal
1:39:32 More gardening
1:46:27 Comment Positivity
1:55:32 Disco flowers - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Mike, I always find your content a the perfect way to transition from work to the weekend but I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that 8 sunflowers out of 12 is 66% germination not 75%. Also,as the grandson of a greengrocer, I have to agree that spotty bananas are the way to go.
Oops! Oh yeah. I'll pin this or else there will be loads of folks eager to point that out.
@@AtomicShrimp always happy to help! Have a great weekend and make the most of this fantastic weather.
I caught that math error too, but I figured this video was going to be spammed with comments about it so I didnt say anything🤪
@@AtomicShrimpHow dare you mismath! 😉😄
To be fair I didn’t know the difference
The peach coverings made me chuckle 🤣🍑. I come here for the chill gardening tips and I stay for the quintessential shrimp humour haha.
I am saving to watch this video later when home from work. A 2 hour video from Mr Shrimp. Buzzing is an understatement 🤩
I’m off work today 😈
@@keptleroymg6877 Rub it in 😭😂 I finish at 7 🙃
@@keptleroymg6877 I'm a full-time student and part-time Uber driver who's car has a bum leg, so I'm off at least until Monday when my guy can look at my brakes and tell me how big of a headache this will be.
Completely agree. I'm toying with waiting for tomorrow morning which is my traditional Shrimp watching day, just in case this extra long loveliness is all we're getting this weekend!
I hadn't even noticed! 2 hours!
Eva and her mad obsession with rocks will never fail to amuse me. What a cutie!!!
"Rocks rock!" - Eva
I’ve had a really rough time with my ME this week and struggled to get through work today. This is just what I needed to relax in bed before heading to sleep. It’s so dang wholesome. Thanking you!
I hope your ME settles down a little soon
Hope you have a better time coming up soon ♥️
Oh, me too for the last couple of weeks. I hope the warm weather helps a little, and that your flare sods off tout suite! 💜
This is so cerebral yet calming. I am so relaxed by this OMG KEEP making these. We neurodivergent, stange, smart people, NEED these channels. 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤💖💖💖💖💖💖
I don't remember how I found you, but, I am so happy that I did.
I came for the scam baiting... stayed for the variety pack of interests 😁
This channel is like a pair of warm slippers.
I've been struggling with a very deep and dark depression fir sime years now, but these videos are a light in the gloom. Thanks for your work Mr. Shrimp.
I'm glad that you gave the extra three sunflowers a chance after all. 🌻🌻🌻
When he did that I said, 'Awww,' out loud, and my boyfriend asked me if I was watching animal rescue videos and crying again 😂
@@kathydodge8028 hey friend! I uh, might have some bad news for you. Theres a huge online culture of fake animal rescues... as in, they put the animal in the situation they are "rescuing" them from. Please, please, please check the channels youre watching, and please please please dont let this discourage you from watching legit videos 🙏
Whoever suggested the silly flower video - that was a good call! Made me giggle anyway.
I watched the first half of this video before going in for what turned out to be a really hard, frustrating day of work, and thinking back on it and your general patience while I was still at work was the only thing that kept me from snapping at someone. Then I finally got home and got to finish the video, and when the beat kicked in during the disco flowers section I laughed out of pure joy, and I can't remember the last time I did that. So thank you for that and for everything 💛
Disco Flowers, Awesome! I used to bury ripe bananas in the garden, had a neighbor laughingly tell me I couldn't grow bananas here as it was too cold, I just smiled; my rose bush had to be trimmed from the roof of the house. I hope you get monster courgettes from your cheap pate. Yay Jenny, that fossil is beautiful. Thanks for the video, have a wonderful weekend..
Your videos are always such a relief, the Internet can be such an ugly place, I love seeing your garden and whatever crafts or other interesting things you get into.
My wife cuts lemonade bottles in half and puts them over every chard seedling, oh buoy, very funny! Love the way Eva tries to find the stone you throw her on a beech full of stones. Xx
Eva often does find the exact stone I threw - she's operating by smell - just handling the stone for a couple of seconds is enough to leave a trace she can detect.
Not just cute but clever! Should have guessed that. loving the extra long video. Hope you have a fantastic and productive summer 🌞 Blessings from Mid Wales
Interesting idea. Keeps the nibblers off them and you got your very own little greenhouse for every little plant.
I remember my grandma doing the same and putting hay or straw in glass jars and putting green strawberries in them while they were still attached to the plants. Like their own little ripening room.
Im a 23 year old who does no gardening what so ever but these really remind me of visiting my grandparents as a kid and playing in the garden while my Nan handled the alotment, Thank you for making these! They are always the best way for my brain to enter weekend mode on a friday night as i relax!
In my pyjamas, a nice cuppa, lying on sofa, and 2 hours of Atomic Shrimp-bliss!!!
You hit upon my special interest by talking about viking ships and drop spindles. Truth is, most of us take for granted how little labour cloth takes to make these days. The sail would have been the most labour-intensive part of it, taking almost two years even for a small boat, and ergo probably the most expensive as well. Pretty much every spare moment of a woman's life would have been dedicated to spinning fibres to make cloth and it's one of those aspects of life that unfortunately many people under-appreciate because it was a woman's art. The Norse also linked spindles to a sort of magic called seidr (pronounced see-ther), mainly done by women, but both Odin and Loki are known to be seidrmadurs (see-ther-ma-thurs) in Nordic mythology. Though, for men, it was considered quite taboo and usually linked with queerness. It's a fascinating topic and I've only scratched the surface here - I could probably write a whole book on spinning in Nordic culture.
I would absolutely read that book, especially the parts about Odin and Loki spinning, that's fascinating 😮
@@kathydodge8028 thank you! Yeah it is fascinating. Especially given the taboo of the magic and the effeminacy usually brought upon the men who did it in contrast with the Allfather and his blood brother being practitioners of the craft. Loki is perhaps less surprising given he's very queer in the mythology in other ways (giving birth to at least one child and possibly two after living on earth as a milkmaid for a bit - gender is extremely fluid for him). But Odin is the top dog of the pantheon, widely respected by all. And yet he is in many ways just as queer as his brother, dabbles in the same magic and is even accused of sleeping with men in pursuit of it (sidenote there that Norse homophobia is more akin to Roman homophobia in that the position the man takes is the part that's taboo: Odin is accused of taking the passive role specifically). The more you plunge into studying this stuff the more you uncover and I live for it 😊
The norse sails were so cool! Woven from strips, if I recall correctly, as their looms were narrow. Spinning on a drop spindle is such a hypnotic task. My mother is an avid spinner (and grower of cotton), and I weave occasionally, and as you mentioned, it really opened my eyes to the labour that goes into cloth.
@@4nn4h yeah that's right, hence the fact they're often in coloured alternating stripes. If you've got to sew them together anyway might as well make it pretty! My fiancé spins, and though I haven't got the patience for it, they find it quite soothing, hypnotic even. That's how it's linked to magic, because it can induce a trance like state. Regardless, it is a lot of work, and sadly undervalued work at that
@@danielrhymes4593 I never made that connection to the magic!! Gosh, that makes sense.
They're getting longer, and I'm SO here for it. Couple hours of unwinding
Great content Mike.
Please keep reminding people to think about the tide times. 🌊
Thank you for your efforts cleaning up trash.
Your “peachy” patch made me laugh. I was reminded of a drawing I made as a child. My friend referring to the peach asked, “Is that a bum?”
Loads and loads of cuttlebone. Luxury! I'm buying them for Dollars 8 Canadian Dollars dollars ($8 CAD dollars) for a pack of two at my local pet shop.
that's a lot of Dollars Canadian Dollars dollars (CAD dollars)
You're a fan of Manuel Tourner as well😂😂
@@terranceparsons5185 Who'd have thought thirty year ago we could stroll here picking free Cuttlebone, eh?
@@likebot. aye back then we ad nothing, we ad tea wi'out milk or sugar, or tea! The best we could do was to suck on a damp cloth. 😁😁😁
When you said oh boy and got a spurt on, I was looking for a stegosaurus skull sticking out of the cliff face, got me 😂😂
Lol same. However it then put me in mind of our family tradition of shouting "hey!" if, on road trips, we see trailers of hay being transported. ☺
Honestly, I thought he spotted something interesting and so was looking closely, only to be horrified as I saw what looked to be a ginormous egg appearing among the rocks.
I´m just here to listen to my TH-cam-grandpa going on and on (and on) about gardening, taking me on walks and doing some cooking. Then I often try out some of the ideas like pickling for myself. Thank you for being here.
A whole 2 hours of mr shrimp, truly a great day!
Thanks so much for being the best replacement for spending time with my grandads, who've both passed on, a thoroughly enjoyable couple of hours, you are so appreciated
Your videos are so uniquely relaxing, interesting, wholesome, and engaging all at once. They really put me in the perfect mood when winding down after a stressful/exhausting day without putting on something else that would just shut my brain right off.
Oh the flowers and music at the end had us bopping around the living room 🤣 Wonderful to have 2 hours of relaxing Mike Jenny and Eva, thanks as always
The flowers changing colors made me laugh quite a lot!
Disco flowers bring me so much joy thank you
Yep. Genuinely made me chuckle!
Funky flowers with funky music.. what's not to love?! 😂
I really love how happy the golden sunrise tomato sprouts appeared to be at being so much taller than their non-multi-embryonic counterparts.
Audibly giggled when I seen this video had been posted. I’m 22 and we have just bought our first home so just starting to learn how to garden. Me and my partner have watched you for A LONG time (since I was 17 I think). Thank you shrimp for everything you do, I know you’re just going about your day but it truly cheers me up to pop on one of your videos when I’m feeling down, you always manage to make me chuckle. I hope you have a lovely bountiful harvest! And we’ll see how well I do this year (I’m nervous)😂😊
Yes, I did find that interesting, thank you, you’ve brightened an otherwise, dreary wet day stuck mostly in the house.
All the best Jules 💕
I really love Eva.
Thanks for a brilliant video. I used to have a garden and greenhouse but age and circumstances took it away, your video embodied my perfect time, podging about with plants lol. Now im a windowsill gardener hut follow you with delight.
Didnt know I needed disco flowers in my life, but clearly I did!
Thank you for making these video and keeping me company while I work
I had such a long week (busy season at work along with a few extra overlapping projects) and I can not tell you how excited I am to watch you point at things in the garden for 2 hours.
i love your content, mr. shrimp and i really love your voice and accent. could listen to you for hours. thanks for your videos.
greetings from germany! 😊
I must say that I always love these long videos of random stuff! Since first discovering your channel during the pandemic, I feel that I've definitely come to enjoy taking a slower view on life when I can, trying to go out more often and get into nature... even if it's a bit hard living in a major city in Asia. Thank you for giving this 20-something a new outlook on daily life!
The disco flowers have energized me more than I could imagine. Those flowers are living their best life, and so should I
So nice. I got a migraine this morning and am facing a day of bed rest. Two hours of Shrimp pointing at things in the garden is a Godsend. Thank you.
I hope rest and plenty of water helps you recover from your migraine.
@@Wimpleman Thank you! They are.
I'm prone to migraines, too. I find that simultaneously applying cold on my eyes, forehead, and temples, and heat on the back of my neck offers some relief. When it gets really bad, coffee and ibuprofen usually help me as well.
I hope you feel better very soon!
@@ForbiddenChocolate I'm going to try that combination of heat and cold. I like that. And, yes, caffeine and ibuprofin help me too!
After a long, hard week at work I very much look forward to watching your Random Things videos. They give me a goal for spending my upcoming retirement years pursuing my interests and spending my time productivity and in pursuit of learning new things. Cheers Shrimp!
2 hours of pure loveliness. And your choice of music for the end segment reminded me of the waiting/clock caption shown before educational programmes circa 1972 - disco'd up a bit. Thank you Mike, Jenny and Eva.
Finding a copy of the Lusiads on the beach seems kind of poetic, like something out of a book itself!
Decided to have this video on as background noise while working onna project, all the cats in the house were staring at my phone the entire time you were talking! Completely hypnotic to them!
This video is gold. The .. peach animation(and movement), the color flower change song, all the gardening, FISH, BLOOD AND BONE. Thank you!
That beautiful beach has now been awarded the prestigious "Want To Go" flag on my Google Maps. When I get back to England someday, it's at the top of my list. Looks like Eva had a great time, too. Thank you for that wonderful stroll. 😊
I can’t wait to get back to England :) thank you for sharing your corner of our green and pleasant land ❤
That video was over before I knew it. It didn't seem like it was (nearly) 2 hour long. I'm thinking that Doogo/Eva didn't pick up on your facetious comment about her comfort while lounging around in/On your garden.😅 Thx for sharing. 🤗 Have a good day!! 😊
The disco flowers gave me an unexpected amount of joy.
Eva enjoying the sunny cover of the plant bed - just the kind of calm positivity my blood pressure needed and a welcome way to start a relaxed weekend.
I have been following since you started blowing up with the scam baiting emails (I can’t remember exactly when but a while ago), and I subscribed even though I wasn’t sure about the rest of your content. Coming back a few years later and I’m binging all your videos while I crochet, your insightfulness into everything that you do is so admirable, the amount of information stored in your brain is amazing, and it’s gotten me excited to learn about the world around me. To top it all off, you’ve cultivated one of the loveliest communities on TH-cam I’ve ever seen!! Love your work shrimp, and if anyone else is reading this I’m glad you’re here contributing to this fantastic little corner of the world
I have a theory about those step lynchets on the side of the steep sloped terraces at Maiden Castle. I think they were purposefully dug into the slope to manage the vegetation. The defensive slopes would have had to be kept clear for security so the narrow terraced paths would enable the sheep to graze the slopes a lot easier, also it would impede and slow the flow of the rainfall and possibly allow it to sink into the chalk instead of eroding the slopes. Baring in mind that the temperature was about 3 degrees warmer during the Iron Age and there was a lot more rainfall.
The title of this video alone was more than enough to get me excited for watching this video.
That ending was *everything*! 🥰
I love your longer form videos, Thank you so much. Its always a joy to watch whatever you put out!
Hey Mr Shrimp, I Believe the ammonite inside the rock is called Dactylioceras. Regarding the belemnite , if you look at a complete belemnite guard, there is a circular hole at one end. This is the entrance to a conical hole called the alveolus which is what you found.
Had a tough week; my dog was diagnosed with Stage IV mammary cancer. I watched this video with her on the couch. Lovely way to spend a couple of hours with my old girl. (PSA: get your dogs spayed early)
A 2 hour video is a real treat, thanks Mike. Regarding your dinky greenhouse watering can. I have a 'watering can' for the greenhouse made out of a 2 litre pop bottle with holes in the cap (made with a hot skewer) to give a nice delicate water sprinkle for tiny newborn seedlings.
I imagine Mr Shrimp would be a great filibuster! Could talk for hours and hours about the things he does!
If anyone is having trouble growing a cutting in water, a "hack" I've found to be really useful is using a dark brown bottle (Marmite jars are ideal). It really speeds up root development. Can't remember the science behind it, but it must be something to do with which wavelengths reach the plant.
I live in a condo. I am limited to growing things in pots. My only plants are 3 orchids, a very successful pineapple plant, and I'm starting a coconut plant. Happy planting!
At the end of the video with the changing flowers set to music, the rows of lavender look very familiar to me, like I've seen those fields nearby.
Eva: *digs a hole, then barks at the hole*
look at her go. What a majestic creature.
Please never stop "Pointing & Wittering" Love all your content. Thank you.
That thumbnail is so good it brings tears to my eyes
The colour changing flowers and the music have a 80s kids' science show vibe about them! "Try this on your friends" Curiosity Show!
Our seedlings were mostly mowed down by the voracious slugs infesting our garden.... We just bought some plants and also tried our luck with another round of tomatoes, cucumbers and pumpkins. Good luck with your garden (also to all of you viewers!)
Just a couple of comments on yet another wonderful video:
1) Do you know anyone that keeps rabbits as pets? If you do, ask the owner if you could get their poop. It makes wonderful compost either added directly into your garden (you dont have to let it break down like other animal manures or plant matter), or by making a 'tea' out of it by putting some of the poop in a large clear jug/bottle, add some water to fill the container, and let it sit in a sunny spot for a few weeks. Of course, you could also add it to your compost pile to augment it
2) There is a Puerto Rican (may also be Cuban and/or Dominican as well) dish that uses green bananas called pasteles. They're similar to tamales, except they're wrapped in banana leaves instead of corn husks. If you dont have a sizeable Latin-Caribbean population in the UK, though, it may be very difficult to find the banana leaves and really really dark green bananas.
Guinea pig manure also works a treat 👌 There is a big Indian population in the UK, and there are a bunch of green banana dishes in Indian cuisine! So I think sourcing them should be possible to make all kinds of dishes.
Honestly Mike the gardening focused episodes are fantastic, feel free to make as many as you want!
Your garden reninds me of my Fathers garden. It was in the first house I lived in. It produce wonderful array of vegetables. He worked really hard in that garden. He worked at a Ford factory. It was stressful and demanding. His garden was his salvation! Tthanks for the memories!!!!11
The colour-changing-flowers-video, in the end, was just chefs kiss! :D
The peach over the ass crack was hilarious 😂 bravo sir
Hi Mr Shrimp, just wanted to let you know that most hot-super hot chillies (habanero, ghost pepper etc) are of the species Capsicum chinense. Second most common, next to annuum. Great video all the same! Just what I needed for my friday evening dinner!
Oh my word, the flowers changing colour at the end. I can tell you had fun with that, And I did too, watching it.
After a long hard day of work I watch this video whilst soaking in my tub. I recall an old add campaign “Calgon take me away”
Only this time is” Atomic Shrimp take me away”
I also like Green Bananas, it's also great that so few like them so I get to easily pick them up.
Fantastic in a curry
The colour changing flowers at the end were beautiful, would love to see it as a short.
Almost 2 hours of interesting viewing, well done Oh Mighty Shrimpidge..👍🐚
I'm glad to see your peppers are doing the same as mine this year. I planted in late March, weather turned cold and the 'greenhouse' blew over and now they are all unorganised- they have only just started to sprout.
It's always been a bucket list thing for me to go somewhere on the vast coastline of the UK and search for large nodes/concretions to crack open looking for fossils and geodes.
Can't wait to watch this during a long travel tomorrow❤
the disco flowers genuinely made me smile
A great video as always, sir. We were at Maiden Castle last week and were mesmerised by the skylarks in the fields leading up to the car park. They are definitely worth looking out for!
(side-note: the ridgeway would definitely make a great video, we live just south of the ridge in Upwey and it's amazing how many different barrows and tumuli are on the ridge (Bincombe Bumps is a particular highlight!). The views of Weymouth bay are also breath-taking!)
[committing the cardinal sin of double-parentheses!]
A most excellently executed sin, it must be said, Sir.
I'm delighted to have 3 videos to watch at once 😄
I like the word EEP so Eype appeals to me. You can record any mermaid purse findings at the Shark Trust (Great Eggcase Hunt)
Been watching for the last few hours while doing things in between. I was JUST thinking about kimchi. I have the idea, the cabbage, the jar, everything but the enthusiasm...I hope this gives me the prod that I need 😊
The flowers changing colour with silly music had me tickled pink... Then blue... Then pink again 😁
The flowers at the end were brilliant, and well worth the render time!! :)
Well done, I wasn't having a bad day but this made me happy just the same.
The methods of deep watering were cool to see, especially the tomato halo things. I’ve started cutting up and adding holes to the old air hoses from my CPAP machine to make deep watering irrigation systems in some of my planters. Hoping it works and makes it a good use of waste materials.
Sorry for multiple comments, but that book you found is actually considered one of the best Portuguese epic poems ever written. It's about Vasco da Gama.
I tried to read it but found it really hard going. I will keep it and try again sometime.
I don't know what's growing I hope you do
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Grooving HARD to those disco flowers 😂
We visited Poundbury when we were in the vicinity, and I spent the entire time calling it Poundland, because as you say it's much more like a theme park than a place to actually live.
you can get cultured yoghurt (the stuff that isn't pasteurized) and use it to kickstart your lactofermentation if you really want to sanitize your leaves I guess. I lactofermented watermelon rinds once by doing that (the lactobacilli in the watermelon left with the hard skin when that was peeled off)
A Mr Shrimp Friday is something to look forward too
Thank you Mike so enjoyable as always ,x
Mr. Shrimp, when you have 2 seedlings together, you can use a long tweezer to gently go deep down alongside one, pull it up, root, and stem. Then you immediately put it into a skinny hole in the soil and release the tweezer. You should have a perfectly transplanted seedling no need to put it in water. I have way too many tomatoes from doing this. haha
"Life of Brian" reference was appreciated. By far my favorite comedy/parody.
absolutly loved the disco flowers bit hahaha!!
1:56:30 I never thought I'd ever see blue sunflowers headbanging to silly music, love it!
I love watching all the gardening clips, it helps me with my own gardening bits you are so full of knowledge its insane haha. I look forward to watching how your garden comes along this year :)
I have learnt more stuff from atomic shrimp then I did when I was in school
I was at Seatown a few weeks ago, husband decided we should walk the section of beach you were on to Eype, it was an interesting walk / climb over the rocks ( not to be repeated) ! and as you point out only walk long section of the beach on out going tides. Ty for a great Video.