CHARITY SHOP & BOOT SALE BARGAINS, HOME UPDATES & LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE! MR CARRINGTON 

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I always start my Sunday with Mr Carrington, then all is right in the world ❤

Hinoki wood is my all time favourite candle scent. I've bought so many of those tins over the years! Hinoki is a tree by the way, it's a japanese cypress.

Love that you are learning to speak German. My husbands father was in the Air Force and he received orders to go to Spang Dahlem Germany. In those days the whole family moved there too. They lived on an Air Force base and attended a school with American children and German children. All of the American students were required to learn German and all of the German students were required to learn English. They lived there for three years so, my husband can speak fluent German. We have our cell phones but we also have our house phone to so, when we get robo calls I just don’t answer them but, my husband will answer in German and it’s hilarious because we usually get Robo calls from places halfway across the world and he will answer the phone in German. It’s so funny because they go ballistic trying to figure out what he is saying and they hang up a few seconds later. We have been getting less and less Robo calls for years now which is really nice. It’s a very rough sounding language compared to French. Anything you say in French I think sounds beautiful. My niece speaks fluent French and I was kidding with her one day and said how do you say I have to use the restroom in French and even that sounded pretty. L O L. I hope you have a great day. Hugs from the southeast coast of Florida.😎🦩🌞🦩😎

Morning Mr C - Happy Sunday. I also took French at school and then ended up living in Germany for 6 years - I knew absolutely no German when I first arrived and by the time I left I was quite fluent. I haven't used it for nearly 20 years, but occasionally the German word for something pops into my head. One of my friends was also amazed as we were in a pub a few years back and a German couple were stood next to us, they were trying to think of the English word for something. I answered them in German and told them the word they were looking for. They said "Vielen Dank, Sie waren sehr hilfreich."

The terrace is looking very summery & green! Another tip for potting up hydrangeas and other larger plants is mix some sandy loam in with your potting mix. Also putting a couple of used teabags in the pot too. That tree you were sitting underneath at the end is one of the worst for people with and without allergies. It’s called an Oriental Plain tree. The seed pods are horrendous!

Great haul. Be very careful with scents and oils in burners or reed difusers with the kitties. Some can be toxic.

Sunday morning Mr C 👍☺️ roof garden is looking very green and lush. Mirror looks really nice . Think lots of different photos and pictures going down the stairs would look nice. Home is looking lovely.

Use the aluminum lid as a tray underneath the container to catch the water.😊

I remember flying saucers but my favourite childhood sweets were Dolly mixtures which I still love!

I suffer from seasonal allergies and it’s not fun. We’ve recently purchased an air purifier for our condo, which has helped a lot. When the wind is blowing, as much as I’d like to have the windows open for the breeze, I know that it will bring in the dust and pollen, so during the spring and fall, I keep the windows closed and my air purifier going 24/7. Edited to add that when my eyes are really bad, I will take a Reactine, which also helps. I live in Canada and we’ve been suffering from the smoke from wildfires, which can exasperate the allergies, so keeping the windows closed, the air purifier and a Reactine has helped me live much more comfortably. This might be something you could try if it gets worse.

Agree with looking in both mens and womens when charity shop hunting. I've picked up a number of pink sweaters in the mens department that were brand new, assuming probably gifts to a man that wouldn't be caught dead wearing pink! Love the little slate heart, that would be cute for the rooftop garden, you could write a different message on it regularly to see who noticed.

Locally (to your specific area) produced honey can really help with seasonal allergies to pollen 🐝 🐝 🐝

I love your precious kittens. Wonderful video, thank you.

To help retain moisture in pots, try adding 1/2 - 1" bark clippings above soil! Liz

My favourite sweets were Black Jack and Fruit Salad 😋

My best guess is that the galvanized container was used as an outdoor patio table or storage stool. Holes in the bottom ensures water drainage. Perfect as a planter. ❤

We just painted our top of banisters black, and looking very smart. One of our two kitties likes to balance on it too, she's fifteen months, and just discovered her voice, and makes her presence well known. I will be getting some of those sprays and creams to help with allergies, as the Poundland antihistamines work well when i get sensitive to the two cats we have. Amazing bargain with the shirt you found, and i love the gilet , it fits perfectly. Our Poundland wildflowers are growing really well too by the way 👕😽😽

Thank you Mr Carrington, I always watch and enjoy all your videos, they make my day as does watching your kittens they’re adorable.

This week I really enjoyed your walk through the plant store. I like seeing little parts of your area. I live in Pennsylvania so seeing bits of another country is very nice.❤

Enjoyed the video very much , the home is looking great you have a good eye for things, the garden is flourishing lovely. You must be feeling proud of your efforts,keep it up love Christine xx

Good morning from The USA, specifically Chattanooga TN, it's only a couple of hours from Nashville which I know you visited to do a shoe a year or so ago. My husband and I love drinking our coffee and watching your channel on Sunday mornings.

I taught myself Dutch. Just got a course book, but now you have Google Translate, which is a game changer, as you can check your pronounceeation. I can get by with Dutch, which is all I needed xxx p.s. love the lemon shirt with leaves on it!

love the mirror set up in the lounge, with new mantelpiece accessories!!! those gold metal tear drop tealight holders, nxt to the reed diffuser, are lush!! xx

You can use the lid underneath the Tim as a drip tray if you like or it would be lovely to do a DIY project like a punched tin picture or a little tray maybe.

Great video sweetheart so full of interest xx. Love that yellow shirt and what a bargain it was 💕xx. The cat shelf looks so nice against that dark wall. What a great find that metal container was !! can’t wait to see what you put in there …. You have been busy at home sweetheart looking so nice .. those self style tiles will look amazing in your bathroom 😍. Haha I remember that mirror a great diy 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻x hope you have a great week xx🌸💕

Hang on mr C let me just get my coffee and get comfy because this is how my Sundays start and I love it!

love seeing your roof top garden its look very healthy , nothing better than being outdoor with nature, thanks for sharing your videos

Morning from Bristol your roof garden looks lovely I love the fact it looks full. Pumpkin and Mittens are so cute ❤ Wonderful video. Have a fabulous Sunday x

Your roof garden is looking lovely and mature! Love the look of all different pots and containers grouped together! X

MUJI is brilliant for candles I love their water mint one, also their slippers made of material like tatami mats, they stay lovely and cool even in the summer.Saying that, I hit IKEA last Friday first time in ages and they got a new candle selection; the mint and cedar type is great, but the truffle is surely the one smelling like freshly cut grass!

Hi, take care with the Muji candles. Don’t burn them too close to a wall, they burn really sooty and can leave an awful black mark on the wall. I’ve learned this the hard way!

Wow bargain summery shirt Your roof garden looks lovely. We have lots of peonies in our garden but the wind always gets them, now I always cut them and put in vases really pretty flowers to enjoy indoors

Absolutely loved flying saucers, it was probably so sweet 😅 but my favourite sweets were cola bottles or sweet tobacco used to come in a pouch don’t do them now not so pc anymore😅

Morning Mr C - l'm LOVING my iced coffee atm - perfect on a warm summer day! That dogtooth gillet was fabulous! I recently bought a gorgeous beige sweatshirt style dress with a hood for £1 from CHSS charity shop in Glasgow, & l wear it a lot! The kitties are so grown up, & super playful! Have a lovely Sunday! 👌

A man after my own heart! NEVER pass up a bag of ribbon! Fabric ribbon looks SO much nicer on a gift than the fake stuff. Late spring, early summer is the height of garage/yard sales here in Ontario, Canada - the equivalent of your "car boot sales" Love your bargains!!

Hi my fave sweetie used to be chocolate tools and logs lol great vlog love the kittens xx

I just like you to know how important you videos are to me. I look forward to watching all the people I follow on RU-vid. They are a lovely break from my stressful life. ❤

Bargain of the year - the beautiful monitaly shirt! Like you I studied French in school, but not German, and as Germany is my holiday destination of choice I am keen to improve my German, so Rosetta Stone sounds ideal. Also like you I love co-op prawn sandwiches, but not that Prime drink which sounded awful. The kittens are so cute, I love watching them play.

Thank you Mr.C. a very nice chilled vlog just right for Sunday morning .xxx

Hi Mr C you showed a book of pubs and clubs in London did you know that The Cheshire Cheese was a men only pub for reporters back in the day

Can’t believe Rosetta Stone is still going it’s been going for years .❤

I really hope you’re enjoying because I enjoy you and all that you share. Thanks Mr. C!🌷☮️☀️

Thank you for the updates Iwan! Always love seeing those kittens of yours.

Home updates wow x flying saucers 🤣😂oh I remember them x I used to like torpedos, little oblong liquorice sweets 🤣😂xxx Love to the kittens x

Love that galvanised container! It’s overcast here in Porthmouth today so I am happy I did my back garden and we had a BBQ yesterday also. Let it rain so I don’t not have to water later. Win,Win! 😀👍👍👍👍

I got a bottle of blue raspberry Prime from Sainsburys last week. They had a security guard stood alongside the display! Peonies look like dead sticks in the winter so don’t mistake it for being dead.

Loved the blog Mr C,the roof garden is looking geat,don't forget to keep watering iñ this hot weather as they are nearer the sun.have a lovely sunday with the kittens. ❤🐱❤🐱❤❤

I buy flying saucers sweets for one of my grandsons. Enjoyed the vlog,lovely to see the kittens.

Please an update of your roof garden 🪴 I love it you have very good taste and skills in gardening Cheers

Lovely varied video. Not just as child but even now my favourite sweets are the foam shrimps, and I'm 70! X

The roof garden is looking very full and green. This is the best time of the year.

Your cats do make me smile. Thank you for being informative and interesting. Good luck with German I gave up. Best wishes Sharon and Rosie(cat).x

Always so exciting to see what you’ve picked up dumpster diving or at the charity shop and car boot sales. Love how you put your finds to such lovely use!

Use the planter lid underneath like a saucer.

Tree pollen been particularly bad especially in east south east of uk it was the cold wet start so sitting or walking under trees not good idea. There is no age limit to hay fever young or old it can just happen. I was affected as a teen then it eased off to come back with a vengeance & in autumn of life a nightmare allergy asthma 😤😤 I loved your shirt fabric you pick up GREAT shirts A tip for your hydrangea being high up on roof garden is a slow drip feed water bottle poke couple small holes in a bottled water bottle cap & fill it up daily especially during hot sunny days

Hi love your car boot sale hauls ,and your house transformation love it you have done well a d well done for learning German take care xx

My Favourite today was your shirt colours suit you.What a fab find.❤

Always enjoyable Mr. C, I especially liked the home updates... Me, Melbourne Australia... autumn! Up the mountains this week buying bulbs and potting them!

I love the Houndtooth Design Vest made famous by Coco Channel and later by Christian Dior it could be either for men or women. That was an awesome purchase.

My husband is a German teacher of 40 years he can teach anyone he’s good fun too so he will give you a free lesson see how you feel x

The cat shelves was perfect on the paint colour. good job

Great vlog. You always make me smile. Love your garden and kitties adorable. Thanks so much.

Morning a nice tree would look nice in your metal pot! Your hydrangeas looking good mines looking abit sad. Loved the lobster plate in the shop and the kittens soooo cute playing with there toysXxxxx

I keep all my bits of ribbon, twine etc for wrapping

My Grandaughter is married to German man and they live in Cologne. I have been there many times and love it. Also their 2 daughters aged 6 and 3 are both fluent in in German and English. Amazing isn't it. Enjoy your day ❤

I was busy with my granddaughter this past weekend so missed out on your post but finally getting caught up. Love your finds and cannot pic one fave. But have to say your shirt is very nice for summer. The cats babies are adorable and your roof garden is looking better this year than ever before. Suggestion on you watering… many times watering from the top dies not always reach the roots of our pot plants so I would invest it pot saucers so that water is able to water from the bottom up to the soul. I just recently heard this from a gardener. Watering from the top is good but unless we allow initial watering to soak then go back and add more so more water does deeper into the plants/soil the plants are not getting enough water. Iwan I hope this makes sense. I for one have checked my post and was surprised at how dry my soil was deeper into my pots after I thought I had added enough water. It’s made a big difference. Your roof garden gets much sun so you possibly need to water more in these hotter days. I remove the water saucers during late autumn so pots are not in sitting water when the rains come. Hope this helps. Love from Northern California ❤❤❤

We had candy in a paper straw when I was a kid, flavored and colored sugar, 0 nutrition. They were called pixie stix in the US

Hi 🙋‍♀️ Love the candles, I also recommend a lemon and lavender Yankee candle the scent is beautiful 😊 Loved the Emma Bridgewater tray also the hay fever remedies too thank you for sharing that. A few of the sweets I remember from my childhood are - sherbet fountains, not quite the same now! And cola cubes use to cut your tongue and roof of your mouth with the sharp corners once you’d sucked them 😂

Mr C, how about using the lid of that huge metal container as a pot stand/dish ( whatever you call it 🤔)? I always struggle with water escaping through the holes and the soil remaining bone dry... Once I put a decent dish~stand under the plant pot the water is trapped and steadily suck up back into the soil 👍 Wish you lots of 🌞 😺

Use the lid of the tin as a “saucer” for the pot x

Please never use elastic for the cats... it can wrap round them. My friend had it caught round her cats neck.... she saved her furbaby. Ordinary shoe laces/ thick string/ribbon is safer. But still need to be supervised. x

If you go to Germany, check out the island of Fohr in the North Sea. You get there by ferry and will be transported to the most beautiful little town on the beach!!! Def worth it!! ❤

So, I watched this video last week and loved the part about the book of 111 pubs…since we are in London this week (came from Toronto) we decided to visit Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese for a drink and was not disappointed. I hope one day you get a chance to visit, too.

Yes a fever is terrible I’ve had it then you have a cold and working in the hotel it’s terrible. Yes I’ve tried that one putting up the nose but I don’t know if it works because I still get the hayfever and are used to have was the nasal spray that was quite good thank you for sharing that enjoyed watching next week. I’m off work so I’ll pop down to the car boot Sunday brilliant 🤩 😊👍

I love to collect usual containers for my garden l also like the occasional garden gnome ! The flower shop looked lovely it’s always important to have a stroll and a sit always good for mindfulness in a busy day and to take time to notice things I am trying to learn Spanish and find its best just before l go to sleep seems to go into my old brain better! Hoping to be able to order a cocktail and paella…. well it’s a start ! Always enjoy your videos 😊😊x

The free galvanised container I think was from Ikea and had wheels fitted to the corners .

The Costa deal good as £ 3 .25 for small latte ,in Costa ,check out flowers in garden as some of them have pollen

Your roof garden looks fabulous!

My favorite sent is pumpkin it reminds of folkart stores

Flying saucers, now there's a blast from the past!

Yes I remember flying saucers. My favourite sweets were strawberry bonbons that you got in a little paper bag from the big jars behind the counter. Two ounces on most occasions or a ‘quarter’ if I’d acquired some extra cash from a visiting grandparent.

In the US as a kid a Flying Saucer was a round ice cream sandwich.

Its possibly the cats that are giving you hay fever Ewan! I was prescribed Ferofexidine Hydrochloride from the Doc!

Good Monday Mr C Hope you well it was sunny and warm

I used primer on pine knots on my doors but the brown marks still came through after a while..had to rub down again and use Rustins clear knotting solution. Hope this tip is not too late 😂

Lovely stroll in the sun you’re very lucky to have outside space in London aren’t you… I nice sit in the sunshine with something chilled to sip on

When you said you were delirious in the Co-op 😂 you are funny sometimes xx I remember having those pretend cigarettes sweets, don’t think they would allow them now 😂 xx

I remember flying saucers! You can still get them. My favourite was “Arrow Bar” toffee stick. But I am going back to the late 50s here!

Great vlog Iwan 💜love the waistcoat have a great week x

can you use the lid of the new tin planter as a base ?

I’m off to the co op. Byeeeeee x

I definitely remember flying saucers and also sherbet lemons . I worked in a paper shop on weekends when I was about 17, not yesterday or even the day before. We still had the old bottles of sweets that you could come in and buy a couple of ounces from

Wasn't expecting promotion for Muji! Out & out great shop

Love the shirt! Just back from Bologna with a charity haul! 8 weeks until the UK!

Loved Black Jack's and banana sweet

Your roof garden looks so healthy! If the pot is unglazed inside, it will soak up the water, so you'll need to water it more often. I like the galvanized box. It would be good for storing garden tools and other things you use on the roof. I'm so gad I found you, a few months ago. I find your videos so calming. I've probably commented that before.😂 Enjoy your day!😊

I love a good charity shop trip I brought a really nice Nike hoodie from my local village charity shop the other day for a £1 xx

Use the lid under your tin planter so water won’t get on your boards and rot them.

I use the balm it's good when I don't use it my nose is very itchy