Hello, good morning. Morning!
We said that in unison.
We did.
Oh bless, it's like sisters
Errr and welcome to the vlog. Oooh no we can't say that can we?
[Laughs]
It's, can you believe it,
it's a year ago this week that we were planning
our trip to Scotland to do the Scottish canals, the Caledonia, Forth & Clyde and the Union.
A year ago.
WOW!
so much has happened in that year hasn't it?
Millions of things.
Shaun got his first grey pubic hair.
[Laughs]
That'll be a Facebook memory we'll never forget won't it,
it'll come up every year to get us will that, won't it?
Ohhh!
But so much has happened,
Yeah.
I mean, you know the story,
unless you you're one of these people that watches like once every year
and then just writes in the comments, oh what's happened?
I got one yesterday.
Or if you're one of those people that mistakes us
for that other narrowboat channel,
you know a little bit like us with that really tall bloke with the wooden leg and the whippet.
[Laughs] You know who I mean?
No?
Well he hasn't got a wooden leg in a whippet,
but we have to say that, because we can't really say who they are can we.
But anyway here we are in Scotland
a year later and we're living here,
it's amazeballs isn't it?
Amazeballs?
It's amazeballs.
What's the other one? Shamazing, I like that one too.
But we were talking about people kind of not watching very often and just asking questions
and we do get a lot of stupid questions,
Yes.
but we get a lot of really good ones as well don't we?
Do we? [Laughs]
So we thought in this vlog we're gonna answer some of the most common questions
and some of the stupid ones as well,
but we're gonna do the jump to locations aren't we,
because we ain't got the Star Trek transponder yet.
Have we not got it yet.
So Shaun's on his cod liver oil for his knees
because he's gonna need it after today aren't you?
Need it? I'm gonna need new knees.
[Laughs]
And we're gonna answer loads of common questions,
things like, do we miss the boat and when's the new boat coming.
Arrgghhh!
PEOPLE!
We need to jump to a new location because all the locations,
do you remember Treasure Hunt with Annika Rice and Winsey Willis?
I do.
Well all the questions are waiting for us in different locations,
Oh are they?
so we need to do the jump, are you ready?
Question one then, three, two, one,
jump!
Fraggle Rock!
Fraggle Rock?
We haven't moved very far then have we?
About four yards.
[Laughs]
Question one then is,
how have you been keeping Otis cool during the heat wave?
Well, we haven't had one.
Yeah, we haven't had a heat wave up here,
apparently it's been one of the coolest summers up here,
where we are for, I don't know,
millennia.
Millennia?
Yeah, since this was last frozen up.
The warmest it's got when it was like 40 odd degrees down south,
the warmest it got up here was about 22,
It was lovely.
which was actually quite nice,
but it doesn't stop us from having some fun with Otis
and if it was 40 degrees, we would have done the same thing.
Yes.
So this is Loch Brora,
this is a loch near where we live actually, it's not far from where we live
and we bring Otis here quite a lot
and he enjoys paddling and fetching his ball
and swimming in the loch.
He does.
He's not too confident, we don't like him swimming out too deep,
so we stay around the edges where I can walk out with him.
He also likes to chill out in the kayak so when i go out in the kayak,
put the little towel on at the front just to stop his nails from bursting it.
[Shaun] He just sits there.
[Colin] and he just sits there like Lord Muck,
surveying his kingdom
He does.
as we're cruising round the loch,
so it's still afloat in that sense aren't we?
We are.
but at home he's not too bad either, because the walls of our house are like a metre thick,
so it's nice and cool in there anyway,
so even when it's 20 odd degrees outside it's still like minus 6 in it in living room.
[Laughs] minus 6?
Sat there, Shaun's sat there in his shawl shivering watching his stories.
With a blanket over my knee.
A bit of Angela Lansbury, with your slippers on.
Ohhh!
Right, next question then.
I think it's going to take us somewhere completely different.
I hope so.
I've got a feeling in my bone.
I don't want to be jumping up in the air and moving four yards.
Are you ready then?
Yes.
Right, so, three, two, one,
Well we're not at Fraggle Rock anymore.
Fraggle Rock!
Errr,
JEEEEEEEP!
[Laughs]
Sorry.
That must be the next question then.
Is it?
Yeah, the next question
and we had this from about, I don't know, about a couple of dozen people
and I thought it was quite rude
because it was I think it was, like picking on us because we don't have a lot of money
but anyway the question was,
why did you buy a Jeep instead of a Land Rover like a Discovery or something.
Because we're not you!
Well we're not, yeah that's true.
We don't have land rover money,
No.
to be fair i had to sell well, the last bit of my own dignity
just to pay for this.
It's all right you huffing and puffing, you sell yours.
[Laughs]
Anyway the biggest reason we can't have a Land Rover
and I mean it's easy when you think about it.
Yeah it is.
How stupid would we look
if we were sat in a Land Rover shouting,
JEEEEEEEP!
See!
[Colin sighs]
[Laughing]
Are we all right leaving Jeep here for a bit?
Yeah I think so.
Right, come on, three, two, one, go!
Oooh I'm sorry, I caught you then didn't I?
I hit my head on the tree on the way in.
I wondered what it was.
Ooooh this is different this one isn't it.
When is Otis starting his own channel?
Ohhh!
[Sighs]
You won't believe how often we get this one.
Errr.
It takes us so long to create this crap.
[Laughs]
What?
And the radio station and the housework and making jam and stuff,
that we we just don't have time
to help Otis set up his own YouTube channel,
never mind create the content and edit it and publish it.
So the answer to the question, when is Otis setting up his own channel is,
when Otis learns how to operate a video camera, do research,
present, record, edit, publish, do captions
answer comments, as soon as he learns to do all that for himself.
That's when he gets a new channel.
that's when he gets his own channel, I think that's a fair deal don't you?
I think so.
[Laughs]
I'm liking this, because it's like, it's like being in a an open-air TARDIS isn't it?
There's creepy crawlies everywhere.
All you do is jump and you end up in a different place, I think we're gonna end up
somewhere near Barnsley next.
Lundwood, we're gonna end up in Lundwood.
No we're not
Are you ready?
I'm never going there.
Right here we go, three, two, one.
Oh my god!
Water!
Got my feet wet!
Arrrgghhh!
This must be because of the question about the boat.
Yes.
So one of the most commonly asked questions we get is,
do you miss selling the boat and
when is narrowboat Silver Fox 2 ready?
When are you're getting your new boat?
[Grunts]
I think we need a new boat to be honest.
Well right, so question one, do we miss narrowboat Silver Fox?
Errr.
No, but we don't mean that in a bad way.
No we don't.
We really enjoyed the time we had on Silver Fox
and we saw lots of places and made loads of new friends
and had a really brilliant time.
Will we be getting another boat? Never say never.
We are interested in a boat, it might be on the Caledonian Canal, because we love Loch Ness.
We might get something to go out there with.
A sea going boat!
There's a little orange bouy out there.
Yeah, is that orange by suntan?
[Laughs]
the tide's coming in
and
it's already lapping around my toes.
Ooooh there's a big wave coming!
Right we need to get inland, are you ready?
Three, two, one.
Where are we?
I have no idea.
That looks like Glen Loth, we're in Glen Loth again.
we're in the nice bit of Glen Loth, look.
Ohhh ain't that grand!
With a bad knee now.
Yeah, Shaun's bad knee.
Next question then is,
has moving to Scotland improved your mental health?
Has improved your mental health?
It has mine.
Has it?
Yeah.
It's weird, because
some people who don't understand mental health think that
a change of scenery can improve your mental health
and I think it all depends on what type of mental health issues you've got.
Yes!
Because for me mine are kind of,
not inbread what am I thinking of? [Laughs]
[Laughs]
ingrained is it? [Laughs]
Inbread?
Not inbread.
They're kind of stuck in there from an early age
and a lot of them are caused by the ASD and ADHD
and I don't know PHD, RAC, whatever it is
[Laughs]
and and they can't really be shifted by where you are,
if you move, you kind of take the baggage with you.
Yes.
It's like when you have a relationship problem,
you might move somewhere nice,
but all the problems in the relationship are still there.
Our relationship's fine by the way,
Yes.
before you start doing your Dear Deirdre on us.
[Laughs]
So has moving to Scotland helped the mental health? Well,
it's changed the scenery and there's less triggers,
so I don't get triggered melting down,
things like generators and and ignorant people and things like that, but
there's still things that get me down sometimes,
but because there's less triggers, we are getting bitten.
Because there's less triggers,
overall I'm kind of melting down less and I'm coping with things a bit more,
Yeah.
But I think
you get to a certain age and you kind of realise that there's not much you can do,
this is how you are
and I think a lot of people are like this
and you tend to think there's a magic pill,
some sort of silver bullet that's going to cure
whatever's going on in your head,
it's going to erase the demons
and I'm starting to learn that it doesn't really work like that,
that sometimes you are as you are
and if you just try and accept that and and live with that and do things to
just kind of accept that things are going to be like they are sometimes
and i think talking's a big thing isn't it?
And not necessarily about problems, just talking.
Yeah.
Because I could be sat in the office all day working away and not talking and
you kind of start ruminating and getting anxious and just talking to somebody
can help.
I've actually become an ambassador for a charity called, MANUP?
which is about blokes talking to each other, it's as simple as that.
I'll put some details in the video description if you want to learn more about that.
What about your mental health?
Oh I've always been mental.
Mental!
Mental Elf!
Mental Elf, isn't is?
Right,
there's a lot of bugs.
There's a lot of bugs here, you can probably see them flying all around.
So I think we should move to somewhere a little bit,
Arrrgghhh!
Less buggy.
Less buggy, right come on, three, two, one go!
Oh my god!
That hit me on the leg.
[Laughing]
You can't say that.
I think all my clothes are back at Loth.
I think they are.
Oh no, that's the question.
Oh yes.
It says there.
Colin why do you insist on appearing naked in vlogs?
I don't!
He never does.
I never ever do, you always see that that big censored bar.
Give me your finger.
No!
[Laughs] No!
We need to go back to Loth and get me clothes back.
You ready? Three, two, one,
Chickens!
Hens!
We're at home.
Ohhh cool.
so next question, oh midges,
it's been raining and it's a bit warm so midges are out.
Everywhere!
Right, so yeah, next question is, are we getting any more chickens>
And what do we do with the eggs and honey?
Well chickens don't make honey.
No, not yet.
but we'll come on to, oh my god there's midges everywhere.
Are we getting any more chickens?
Yes,
we've got them.
We've got three new chickens, which we're going to show you, they are. . .
well what brand are they?
White ones, [Laughs] I can't remember.
Sussex Lights is it?
That's it.
Well because they're called Sussex, I thought because there's three of them,
I thought how about,
Peggy, Sparkle, Duchess.
Peggy and Sparkle because of Meghan Markle,
she's the Duchess of Sussex isn't she.
So we could call them Duchess, Peggy and Sparkle,
then it's similar but we're not infringing any copyrights,
because you know what they're like we caught cases.
Can we hurry this up.
All you need to do is look at them wrong way,
we are getting bitten to death.
What do we do with the eggs, well
we sell them to friends and neighbours
and we take a lot to the local food bank,
oh my god there's bridges everywhere.
But we take them to the local food bank as well don't we?
Yes.
Right we need to get out of here because we are getting bitten.
Let's go somewhere else, say hello to the chickens.
Three, two, one,
This isn't doing my knees any good.
Well there's less midges, slightly less midges up here.
Yeah there is.
Beehives,
because one of the questions,
was are you going to be naming your bees.
Seriously, that's how, that's how, just, I can't even think of the of the word.
Moronic!
Some of these people, are you gonna name the bees.
well there's about 15 to 20,000 bees in each hive at the moment
So go ahead!
and they live between four and, about four to six weeks,
so by the time we've got around to naming them they'll be dead,
they'll be dead and gone.
Yeah.
Well the queen lives for a couple of years, so we can name queen can't we?
Yeah, you could name her.
We could name queenie if you want to leave in the comments,
I'm getting bitten again.
if you want a name her.
They seem to be following us these midges.
There is a lot of things I'd like to do in regards to filming the bees
and I'm thinking about setting up either another channel
or doing some YouTube shorts,
I think another channel.
but I don't know whether to put them in the main channel as supplementary videos or or what.
I don't know, you let me know,
I'll ask you again later.
Alright let's get out of these midges
Ooooh we're back at Jeep!
JEEEEEEEP!
That's handy isn't it, because we've got to go home now.
We were already at home.
I know but. . .
[Laughs]
That doesn't make for good entertainment does it?
[Laughs]
We really like reading your comments
Yes.
and answering your questions
Yes
and even though some of them are just absolutely stupid and moronic
it is still fun
Moronic?
and we we do read every single question don't we and every comment?
Yeah.
Errr, Shaun deletes a lot of them,
but we do read every single and we used to like replying to them all,
but we just don't get time anymore witheverything that we've got going on
There's just so many we can't do it.
So keep leaving your comments because it is very entertaining,
especially after a couple of bayley's truffles.
[Laughs]
I'm laughing like a right one.
I was talking about whether to do a different channel for the bees,
or whether to do them as as youtube shorts
and whether to include them in this channel, or
a new channel let me know in the comments
what you'd prefer, if you don't know what shorts are,
YouTube shorts are like, they're in portrait mode,
they're like tiktoks or reels on instagram
Yeah they are.
and they're like 60 seconds or less
and I don't know whether to do them and put them on this channel
to supplement the content, or do them on a new channel.
Nothing's going to change with these Friday vlogs,
so don't start saying oh well. . .
Na nn nn nn!
Nothing's going to change, it's just additional content, because a lot happens with the bees
and I don't just want to do videos about bees every single week,
so it's just where we put that supplementary content.
Yes.
So let us know where you'd like to see it,
no opinions on what's right or wrong,
just what you would like to see and where you'd like to see it.
Let's keep it all positive.
Yes,
don't let me block you.
You're gonna need some Brufen for your knees.
Some Brufen?
Oh my Lordy!
and a gin.
They'll be saying, oh you're supposed to be drinking whiskey in Scotland.
[Laughs]
it's flavoured meths.
We hope you've enjoyed your little skit with us,
said scat in the last take and Shaun said I can't say that.
No you can't say that.
I can't say scat
and we hope you've enjoyed it.
What?
If you have and if you're not already, don't forget to subscribe to the channel.
Yeah please.
It means a lot to us it gives me a little tingle,
right up there.
Hit the thumbs up button and if you hit the notifications bell,
thank you, you do it because my wrists knackered after last time
YouTube will let you know every time we release a new video,
no? Okay I'll do it.
[Laughs]
if you want to help support the channel and keep the chickens in food and the bees in,
I don't know.
a house,
then help support the channel, there's details in that link up above Shaun's head
if you're watching on a smartphone
or in the video description if you're watching on the telly,
just go to a computer first.
Is the video description on the telly?
That's why I said go to a computer first.
Oh right.
It's getting a bit breezy.
It's getting chilly as well.
My muff don't know what to do with all this.
[Laughs]
I'll sort it out later.
Take care of yourself see you later, bye.
Ta-ra.
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