Hello!
Good morning! It's lovely and sunny.
That sun is getting so low it's tickling me where it makes me laugh.
[Laughs]
It literally comes up, we've got a hill in front of our house
and it literally comes up like to the hill, a little bit over
to say hello and then it goes back down again doesn't it?
Give it another couple of weeks and we'll barely see the thing.
It's been a funny week up here in the Highlands,
because we've had a bit of fun haven't we?
Funny ha ha?
Not like that fun like you get in lay-bys and stuff like that, not that sort of fun.
We've had to do some work with the hens haven't we?
[Shaun] Uff!
You may or may not know that Avian Flu has been spreading across the country,
it's actually been a problem for a while hasn't it?
Especially in England.
Now the rules in England and Scotland are a little bit different,
so if we say anything and it's not what's happening in England,
it's not because we're doing it wrong,
because we know there's a lot of armchair experts out there that will tell us that.
It's just that the restrictions are slightly different.
So up here in Scotland we have to keep them fenced in in an enclosure,
in England you actually have to keep them indoors,
Yes.
like in your spare bedroom.
[Laughing]
Our guests wouldn't like that.
Now our current enclosure is what, eight metres long and two or three metres wide?
Three metres wide.
Three metres wide, but then we've got the chicken coop on the end of it,
so all together it's about 10 metres long and three metres wide.
Yeah.
which is 30 square metres.
Yeah.
So that's what they've got at the moment,
then there's uh ten hens in there isn't there?
We have yes.
because we lost one.
Yes.
Poor old Henrietta.
[Shaun] Got out!
[Colin] She got out and got run over, bless her.
So what we've decided to do,
because it looks like the restrictions are going to go on for a while.
Is we're extending it, so we've got some fencing
and we're extending it from 30 square metres
to just over 250 square metres.
WOW! I didn't realise it was that much.
So that means each hen gets 25 square metres to their self.
No wonder it's taking me a long time.
[Laughs]
You've been a busy little bee haven't you?
We both have!
We both have.
While he was doing his fencing, I was mowing the grass.
I don't mean like, like errrr trimming the bush,
I mean like mowing the grass, actually mowing the grass.
Now where I was mowing the grass,
one of our walls, our dry stone walls
is quite old, I mean it's about 140 years old isn't it?
It's a dry stone wall.
And it supports a grass banking behind it
and over the years the banking kind of moved forward in a couple of places.
So we've got like two pretty decent sized bulges.
[Laughs]
What? [Laughs]
[Laughs]
So errr,
you've got a filthy mind you have, haven't you?
Now one of them, I was mowing the grass
and I accidentally knocked the mower into one of the bulges and saw it moved.
So what did I do? I stopped the mower and I went,
Oi Shaun come on look at this
And kicked it!
and tapped, no I tapped the wall.
Kicked it.
No, I tapped it like Lionel Blair would tap.
I tapped it with my boot quite hard.
And the lot fell down.
And the whole bulge just came like tumbling down.
Now it's a good job
there wasn't any tiny horses or guinea pigs running around under there,
Guinea pigs???
well there would have been squished wouldn't they?
Where would the guinea pigs come from?
We could have had guinea pigs.
Oh god!
Well they won't be alive now would they, because they'd be squished under the rocks.
So,
we don't have a lot of money,
because, well people think we earn this fortune off YouTube,
but by the time we've paid the electric bill and Shaun's cheese habit,
we kind of skin at the end of the week aren't we?
Mmmmmmmm Cheese!
He literally eats half a block a day.
No I don't!
You do, you sit in that toilet nibbling away.
[Laughing]
Don't you? See he's trying to hide it.
In the toilet???
I've see you.
[Laughing]
If you don't do it in the toilet, why are there empty packets of cheese in the bathroom bin?
I thought well, I'll have a go myself
because the worst that happens is that I don't do a very good job of it
and then we have to get somebody in to do it.
Yeah.
so it was worth the go.
Yeah.
First thing I had to do was get all the stones that had fallen down
and sort them into little groups.
In little piles,
In little piles, we like little piles don't we?
kind of where they were before they fell,
so I knew what I was gonna put where, if that makes sense.
Yes.
Then the next thing I had to do was clean and shovel out
all the soil that had fallen through the banking that had made the wall bulge.
Yes.
So I've got over a barrow full of soil out of what was in the wall,
which was causing it to move forward.
That's all cleared out and I'm ready to hopefully start rebuilding it now,
let's see how it goes.
Once it was all nice and clean and ready to start again,
I used the biggest heaviest stones at the bottom,
roughly where they were before because that gives it a stronger stable base.
[Shaun] It does.
When I was putting the stones in
I did notice quite a few of them had these fossils,
there was quite a lot of them as well.
Now I had to look on Google, but,
[Shaun] They looked like shellfish.
They do, so if you know what sort of fossils they are,
drop a comment in the comments
and let us know.
[Music playing]
What do you reckon so far then?
I'm quite happy with it, it's really solid
and the stones that I'm packing back inside,
I'm really taking myself it's like a jigsaw puzzle without any rules,
if you know what I mean.
so you can put the stones back,
but I'm just packing them in and making sure they all fit so that it's really solid.
It's probably more solid than the rest of the wall now.
It is really good and if you're an overthinker like me,
things like this can do you good,
because when are you worrying about things sometimes the problem
isn't really the problem, the problem is overthinking the problem.
So if you take away the overthinking
the problem doesn't seem as bad or might even go away,
does that make sense?
[Music playing]
Does it make sense to you?
What?
The thing with the big thing and the wet end.
[Laughing loudly]
No! Overthinking.
[Laughing]
Blimey!
I actually did really enjoy it, it was really therapeutic,
kind of mentally therapeutic.
Physically, Ufff!
Because you're not thinking about anything else.
Yeah it did me in physically,
my back is still hurting and it's about three or four days isn't it?
and ohhhh! it's, although it was nice to put my bigman hands to good use wasn't it for a change.
Instead of your office hands?
Yeah I'm always getting into trouble because of my man hands.
[Laughs]
What?
Now dry stone walls come in all shapes and sizes,
[Shaun] They do.
but this one was particularly thick, it's about two foot thick
and that's because, I think it's because it's holding that big grass banking back isn't it?
I think so yeah.
And this one has got like an a middle layer,
which is full of rocks and Pebbles.
I noticed that the way even they were arranged were kind of supporting the stones on each side,
it wasn't kind of just thrown in there.
So another one of the challenges is I'm building up each side,
was kind of getting these rocks back in,
in the middle,
in the right way.
[Music playing]
All done!
What do you reckon?
I fancy myself a new career, building dry stone walls.
I actually reckon I did a good job.
I thought it was excellent.
It's a lot more solid now than it was then.
Oh yes.
I think I'm gonna have a go with that other bulge the next time we get a nice day,
because we've got another one that looks in a similar condition.
It needs kicking down and rebuilding.
So I think I'm gonna have a go again,
because it looks better now than it did and it's a lot stronger now than it was.
Yes.
So I've done, well it's better than it was anyway, not worse.
Anyway that's it
Is that it?
We're done for this week, I feel like part-timers lately.
WOW!
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loads more rubbish!
Calm down, calm down, remember what happened last time you had to go and have a sit down.
Loads of rubbish!
I'm gonna take him in for a cup of tea.
Yes!
We'll see you next time bye-bye.
Ta-ra!
[Music playing]
We'll show you now!
He's forgotten already,
but he's forgot if he forgets you can't ye yeah ya eh [Blows raspberry]
Once I had a nice clean hole...
[Laughing]
Once I had a nice clean hole to deal with...
[Laughing]
Once I had a nice clean hole to work with...
[Laughing]
You've got to stop saying that.
Once everything was,
I was I wasn't even gonna say it that time. [Laughing]
[Laughing]
Calm down Shaun.
[Laughing]
Ohhhhh dear! [Laughing]
[Laughing]
Stop it! [Laughing]
[Laughing]
Oh God, the way we're going, the outtakes get longer than the video.
Three,
two,
one.
[Laughing]
Stop it!
It's you!
[Laughing]
You keep saying, stop it, you can't say things like that.
Six takes and he's still laughing.
I get out of breath doing vlogs now.
[Laughing]
I get out of breath putting my coat on.
There was a Waller [Warler] on X-Factor once or Pop Idol
Waller [Warler] ?
Rick Warler.
Waller not Warler!
I reminded myself for that Muppet then.
[Music playing]