Good Evening Josh and Sarah, I'm a 50 something middle aged balding bloke, both a serial petrolhead and meat eater (possibly not your target audience), and I'm just writing to let you know that I find your channel thoroughly absorbing and enjoyable. Your style of production and presentation is superb. I may not share your passion for cycling and a non-meat diet, but I do share your passion for the Lake District. Your portrayal of your surroundings is very engaging and I find myself reliving the emotions of awe, tranquility and calm that this landscape has generated during my family's many holidays whilst watching your videos. It has been a pleasure and privilege to follow your adventures. Good luck and kind regards
We absolutely loved reading this message. Even my dad mentioned this was a great comment! So glad we could connect with a love for the Lakes. Thanks for saying hey Andrew, means a lot 😊
Dear Sarah and Josh, keep doing what your doing, it’s wonderful. You two are fantastic film makers, taking us with you on your adventures. I’m a 53 year old armchair adventurer with an arthritic body and probably won’t ever get to do the things you are experiencing( definitely not to cycle to every national park in a month, driving there would be the only way I could do it, which would defeat the object of your mission). I praise you for biking everywhere and taking trains to travel. We are too car obsessed in “ the west/consumer/ over developed world”. In my opinion you deserve recognition for undertaking the challenge without any support ! If you’d had proper support Sarah would’ve been able to do 100% of the challenge as well. I’m looking forward to all you future adventures and wish you well in them ! If you are over in Swaledale I would love to put you up, I have a wood with a little camping hut you could stop in. All the best Caroline
I just want to say thank you for making such a beautiful video. Wow the colour of the autumnal leaves was breathtaking. Hope you get many more subscribers because you deserve it.
Questions for your Q&A - I’m wondering what jobs you both do so you can live so remote? What did you name the kittens? How did you meet ? Will you learn to drive ?
Josh and Sarah So pleased your channel is doing so well. You both deserve it as your videos are so full of character and charm showing the best of The Lake District. It’s great to see more on the background of community life and how locals celebrate each season. I hope your channel continues to grow and more people experience your current life in one of the best locations in the world. Best of luck! Xx
What an amazing celebration. I love the history and community involvement. Thank you so much for sharing. I don’t know how your channel was recommended, but I am so happy it was.
Hi josh and Sarah, thankyou for taking me along on your adventures, I love your positivity and love for the outdoors, I also share your passion for cycling and camping although ive not combined the two yet. You are a real inspiration that i need to get out more, that being i spend too much time at work but love to take my son on walks as nothing beats some 🥪 and a flask when out walking, although my son might say chocolate ice cream does. Thanks again Nick x
Although I agree with you, your son isn't wrong either 🍫 highly recommended getting out on the bike and camping. A great way to explore and make the most of the outdoors. Really glad you're enjoying the videos!
Another beautiful film - thank you. Your success with your channel growth is well deserved. It occurred to me, you were emulating in this film, what many before you will have done. Living simply and wonderfully remotely, and making a journey to your local market town for a special gathering of the wider community. Something really timeless and lovely about it all, especially the appreciation for the novelty of being immersed in happy busyness. I really hope you find your tribe around you as you grow your roots in Cumbria. Warmest wishes.
Good for you people, embracing life and enjoying your community. I love England we have travelled over the pond a few times now. Wish I was there for this celebration what a wonderful weekend! Keep on pedalling
Yes this is very true! We do like the hustle and bustle of towns and cities but it's nice to be able to retreat to the simplicity of the hills. There are pros and cons to each type of living. Really glad you liked the video 😁 we weren't sure as it is a little bit different to our other ones. All the best
Hi guys Me and my wife love nature, so it makes us feel peaceful and zen when we watch your videos 🙏 I dont think we could move 8 miles from anywhere, though 😂 fair play to you both for that.and thank you for sharing your adventures with us all❤
Wonderful dream coming true…..keep up the videos. They’re great for us and someday they’ll be precious family heirlooms, video-style…. Or “How Gralndpa and Granny became farmers!”
Love your content. I cycle a lot here in New Zealand (I enjoyed your rugby cameo) Two questions for your Q&A; What do you both do for day jobs? What camera do you use for still shots? Do you put a sepia filter over?
Thanks for your uplifting and encouraging videos. Have you ever considered a bike trailer? Perhaps you are so practiced with your paniers ect. that you don't feel the need. Can you get packages delivered to your cottage? Thanks again, and best of luck!
The YT algorithm recently sent me one of your videos which I enjoyed enormously. I'd like to know more about your early backgrounds such as where you both born & grew up, what did you read at university, what are your professional backgrounds & your hopes for the future. I grew up in Low Furness & left to go to university, eventually becoming an academic. I hope you make a go of making a life in the Lakes. It truly in the most beautiful part of the UK.
We answer this a bit in our upcoming q&a. We both grew up in the south, in East anglia and studied subject completely different to where life has taken us now
Firstly I think it’s a big THANK YOU to you guys who take the time to travel around places to show us whilst filming and editing all these wonderful videos that are absolutely brilliant and relaxing to watch. Secondly I genuinely as a gardener believe this and spring are the two seasons with the best interest on offer from the new growth in spring and excitement of how well things will perform to the wonderful colours of all the different trees and shrubs on offer along with wildlife picking off berries and entertaining me all day, to see those two otters really is a blessing guys 👌🏻 for me the questions I have are what’s the plan for you guys over the next 12 months? Have you fallen for the lakes enough to possibly say one day it will be your home? And are the kittens doing well??? Again thank you so much for these wonderful videos I’m so glad i found this channel!!!
Autumn is my (sarah's) favourite month for the colours it brings. As a fellow gardener I of course do also enjoy spring and that rush of planting out as much as possible. Will add these questions into thr q&a. Thanks 🙂
Loved this.. I have visited Penrith many times.. Lovely town.. and there is a sacred Stone Circle in Penrith, in Little Salkeld.. Long Meg and her daughter's.. I love Cumbria and should visit more..I'm in Northumberland.. which is beautiful also. ❤❤
We've not visited the Stone circle yet, will have to make sure we do. Yes Northumberland is beautiful. We're planning a trip there in the not too distant future 🙂
Hello Sarah and Josh... I've just found your channel because your cottage caught my eye. I've watched this video and the year update one with the seasons. I love your video editing! (I have a channel too but my editing skills are non-existent... But that'll change) the wood you photographed was breathtakingly beautiful! I'm glad you both saw it and then found the castle. Exhaustion is worth it sometimes! What a gem your cottage is. Lovely lovely lovely. I look forward to catching up with the rest of your videos from both an avid RU-vid watcher of homesteading/planting type and from a learning to edit point of view! Thank you
Thank you so much 🙂 really glad you like the footage and the editing. It takes a long time and as we're self-taught, there are a lot of doubts that creep in. Comments like this fill us with inspiration. I just advise to keep working at the videos and try to get 1% better each time, it's constantly a learning curve. The woods were a real treat and I agree that sometimes the exhaustion is worth it!
You guys have a great channel. You have good chemistry and lovely personalities which help to make for a successful viewership. I love watching you and your adventures. So, my burning question is why don't you have a truck? Is it money? Because RU-vid is showing that you have 15K subscribers. If every subscriber donated just 1 $1 or whatever, you would have more than enough to buy a pick up. You could set up something on Patreon - everyone else does. Please think about it. I hate watching you bike around in the cold. I got cold just watching you today. Winter is coming on. You could title it something like "Help Josh and Sarah get a used pick up for Christmas!" Who wouldn't donate to that? 😉😊
That comment had us giggling! Thank you! The car situation is a mix of things I guess. Hopefully can get onto it in the Q&A. Sorry to be making you cold! We have been thinking about a Patreon as we both dream of just working on the videos together and this would help. Not sure how people would take to it though. It's definitely a possibility :)
Just wanted to say hello as RU-vid showed me your video. I'm another Cumbrian resident and I'm usually at the Droving because my husband is in the band BAAB who were there this year. If you saw then you would know, they are a bunch of trolls who play fiddles, guitars and drums with a musk-ox sound system! They were in the parade and also performed round Penrith during the day. Anyway, it's lovely to see some Cumbria-based RU-vidrs doing the rural living thing. My question is, are you managing OK with your off grid water supply and septic tank? My and my husband moved from a South Cumbrian town out to a house in a rural part of the county 3 years ago (not as isolated as yours, but still very definitely semi-off grid) with a private water supply and septic tank and it's been a steep learning experience, especially as our spring nearly ran out of water this June because of the hot dry weather, very scary to be put in that position. Did you have any issues like that?
Hey Kate, thanks for saying hey and for the questions! We did see the BAAB band who were absolutely brilliant. So much energy! Really glad to be sharing our little slice of Cumbria :)
Gorgeous video! 👌 right up our street that event. Wow only ever seen otters in the zoo lol, so nice to see them guys, thriving! Me & my partner get proper blues after our mini cycling tours ha, like we could ride forever. Love Sarah's clothes, she blends into the scenery. Glad you've enjoyed the events! 💃 go gal lol
Such a beautiful event, and the woodland. We were very suprised to get such a good view of the otters and we DEFINITELY get you about post-bike trip blues. Solution... more bike trips!
I love watching your adventures, and I love how you present the videos , so relaxing to watch. I’m 75 now but have always loved the outdoors I’ve been fortunate to live in the countryside for most of my life now not as isolated but still beautiful to look out upon fields and rolling hills of the Cornish countryside. But when I was much younger I always harboured a desire to do what you’re doing now and through you I’m loving the experience. Thank you for sharing this wonderful adventure.
Thank you so much! We are really passionate about the creativity and storytelling of the videos. It's really inspiring and encouraging to read that you enjoy watching them, so thank you! The Cornish countryside is very beautiful. Really glad you found us 🙂
Just stumbled across your videos…very enjoyable and gives me the same sense of peace and comfort as when watching The Detectorists or Gone Fishing…just lovely
Only just found your videos and can't believe I haven't stumbled across them sooner! I'd love to get to know you both a bit better. I'm curious as to when/how you met, and what work you do that supports your remote lifestyle? Thank you for all the videos! I'm slowly working my way back and loving each one.
Hi guys, new to the channel and enjoying the content, just a side note that the Life, Updates + Films playlist isn't in chronological order, a little confusing to anyone like me who just presses play, then wonders why you're asking me to guess where you've bought a house, when I've just seen the moving to a cottage the Lakes video 🤣
Massive well done guys ..good things happen to good people. Channel really taking off look at these views less than 24 hours in 👍🏻 deffo gonna pop down to drove next year. All. The best and have a great weekend ..cheers Coops 👍🏻👍🏻🚴🚴❤️
Hi guys. I've just managed to catch up on your adventures and have really enjoyed them. It is a long time since I've been tho three Lakes but may have to plan a trip now. Have you been to Wastewater yet it's like nowhere else! I'd be interested to know what your day jobs are and how you make it work.
Wastwater has been somewhere we've been wanting to explore for some time. Watch this space! We cover this question in our q&a that we'll be posting this week
What a glorious video and what a bonkers lot at the festival. What a pleasure to watch. I don’t feel like many towns do things like this anymore. I used to live in Austria and they always had events like this. ❤
Sorry if you have already said this in a video, but how long do you plan on staying in your cottage for? Do you want to stay in Cumbria for the forseeable future? Also, what line of work are you in?
Dear Sarah and Josh! You are really cuties♥️ I like your videos so much, you are talented filmers and photographers!! Also you Brits are so quirky and amazing! How are your cats doing? So stay safe until soon! Lots of love from Iris from southwest Germany 🙋♀️👋🫶🌟
Are you taming the kittens up because they would make good pets if you do that - Aldo when they get to six months of age they will need spaying or neutering
Yes we are domesticating them and they've taken well to the comfiest seat in the house. Yes shabba has been neutered but natty wasn't reafy just yet so waiting a little bit more for him.
I am enjoying your videos so much! You have such a wonderful energy! But now I have to stop, the sun is shining in this part of Germany and after watching your videos, all I want to do is go out into nature. 🤎🌲 I am certainly coming back to your videos in the evening!
As of 2023 'The Winter Droving Festival' is all of 12 years old. It is the creation of something called 'Eden Arts'. It's all very entertaining - but hardly ancient and certainly not a tradition.
@@joshandsarahride But it does seem to owe rather more to the Carnival of Venice and its glittering masquerade than the fells of Penrith and grubby sheep drovers. However, it does bring the town together (and some outside income) so should be applauded.
Hello, have been loving the videos, so heartwarming and beautifully filmed! I am considering a life like this because I love nature and the outdoors but I was wondering how much you missed aspects of city/town/village life where there's live music, theatre, board games cafes, arts festivals, climbing gyms etc? :)
Watching your videos as a Northerner living in central London. Your videos are rejuvenating, relaxing, and reminding me of the important things in life. Thank you 😊
We have recently discovered your channel and so glad we have! Your filming, stills and narration are some of the best we've seen, and we do watch a lot of You tube 😀. We both commented on how relaxing your films are to watch. Is media part of your professional life? Either way you are definitely talented talented. We too live in Cumbria but not as remote as you 😁, maybe spot you one day to say hi! 😻😻
@@joshandsarahride wow, we are even more impressed. Sure you would get a job at the BBC! Keep up the excellent work and we have total respect for your Honister bike ride! 🚵🚵♂️
This was such a lovely video. I love it. I might be late to the party for the q&a, but on the topic of community, I wonder how you approach it within the youtube channel, and how do you think the growth of the channel will impact how you make videos or even interact with people here. I find that most people doing RU-vid that have grown their channels have lost a lot of the sense of community from their beginnings, and as community is so important to you I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.
This is a good question! We feel we've got a great little community here at the moment which we really really love. We really hope to keep that as we grow. We want to avoid things likes ads and sponsors to try keep it and continue to meet and engage with people. Curious to know how you think others lose that as they get bigger?
It’s probably interactions like this that are lost on bigger channels. I guess it’s not practical when comments reach a certain volume. I guess other people do meet-ups and stuff like that to mitigate it, which I think can be a great way to connect with your audience. I also don’t think sponsorships or ads take away from videos as long as they align with your values and it makes sense for you (of course if you feel strongly against advertising at all it makes sense not to have them 😅).
@setlam2 yes replying to every comment is how we've usually done things but as they increase we are wondering how to manage it. As it's not possible to reply to all. But we will continue to try for now 😅 Yes I agree ads don't always take away if they align with the vibe of the videos etc but I guess it's finding that balance as you say. Something we're learning to navigate as time goes on. We really love the storytelling and creative aspect of the videos so hope to just continue to make that the focus of what we do🚵♂️🌲
Love the videos, a question from me was how did you find the beautiful cottage? Was it on rightmove, or did you speak to local agents with what you wanted etc?
What great video! The celebration you went to looks so interesting! Otters! I love Otters! They are my favorite! Thank you for making the extra effort to make video and share your time with us!
Hi guys, I caught your move to the lakes video only a few days ago, then your 1 year and now your Penrith trip, will have to get up for that next year. All excellent! my wife and I and our 2 dogs live in a converted barn in Forton, (M6.j33), with gorgeous views over open farmland to the west and our lovely sunsets, but the scenery is nothing like as dramatic as you have, but equally we don’t get as much rain. “If you can see the hills in the lakes it’s going to rain, if you can’t it’s raining!”. I’ve just subscribed and look forward to your Q&A session, and would be interested what you both do for a living as you clearly don’t pop in the office one or two days a week. When we moved out her3 23 years we were on dial up, always time to make a brew! Anyway good luck with your Adventures, take care.❤️
Yes we do get a lot of rain here, makes for atmospheric landscapes though. Sounds like you live in a beautiful part of the world. Yes I would say we don't lead a conventional lifestyle so will answer this a little more in the q&a
Fab video as usual. Lowther is fantastic. I have a few questions for your q&a: How did you get into cycling/bike packing? Do you ever go biking without luggage?? What made you choose to move to the Northern Fells? Did you know the area, or elsewhere in the Lakes, at all?
An excellent video...I never knew about that festival and as a photographer it would be great to visit...watching your video just fills me with joy...thanking you both very much, best wishes
Aw you guys are so sweet. I'm one of the new followers who had your cottage video recommended to me and just wanted to say hi and show some love and appreciation. Your videos are so full of love, warmth, adventure, nature, beauty, and fun. All the best things. I follow a decent amount of cycling and hiking channels and you quickly became one of my favorites. I'm also happy you guys are growing some roots. That's something I'm noticing a desire for in myself as I get older. I wish you guys the best in your future adventures and look forward to following along with them!
Hi guys I'm a serial watcher of anything outdoors ,be it wild camping, mountaineering, walking and would just like to say the content of your videos is brilliant. So informative and chilled ,keep up the great work and i look forward to seeing more .
What a wonderful 48 hours!! Thanks so much for taking me along, I really enjoyed that! I think I know what you mean by community and belonging. I'm a homebody who sometimes likes to travel. I get a rush of fulfillment when I feel connected to wherever I'm passing thru, even if for a few hours. Reaching out, planting roots (even if temporary) and making connections has rewards that last a lifetime. My question for you both is...do you make long and short term plans (where will I be in 5 years time, what shall I do next week?) or do you take things day by day? ATB Josh & Sarah. 15K subs is just around the corner.
Community really is so important. I think it's the kind of thing you realise more when you don't have it actually. We really missed it. Always nice experiencing new things but grateful to plant roots too :)
This was a lovely video! Such a treat to join you on the journey. 20 miles is so ambitious in the dead of night! 🌙 😮 How heavy do you reckon your packs were with all the camera gear? Also, Josh, your narration reminds me of Louis Theroux!
Another fantastic video. Well done! If you are doing a Q&A video, I am curious to know how the two of you met. You come across as a lovely couple. Have a wonderful rest of your week. 🙂
Thank you for another’s wonderful and entertaining video. You are both such a wonderful and inspiring couple. I love your get up and go attitude - no regrets 👏👍
So so so happy to have discovered your channel! I just adore seeing your true appreciation for all the beauty and wonder that surrounds you on all your adventures, so heartwarming and joyful. Also, it really looks like you've moved into such a wonderfully quirky and unique little community - looked like so much fun!
Really happy that comes across in our videos. Nothing makes us happier than exploring natural places and love that we can share that. Thanks for watching!
I’ve fallen in love with your channel! Question wise, your films are so beautifully crafted, I would really like to learn a little more about your process from filming to equipment used and editing software ❤
I have just found your channel and love it, thankyou for sharing 😊 you live in such a beautiful place, I can imagine the wonderful Autumn colours that you are surrounded in, your message at the end of your video is so true x
What a fantastic video i was mesmerised all the way through you always leave me with my spirit lifted it's like tuning in to catch up with old friends thanks guys
I just discovered you both in your last released video. So happy i subscribed immediately after watching it! As i watch this newly released video, i wonder if you will in the future, put together a book of your beautiful photos? The imagery was magical. So special. A couple of the fall shots reminded me of our western province, British Columbia, Canada. Thank you for a totally enjoyable, and magical video.
