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It's basically English culture Scotland, Wales and Cornwall have their own very deep, unique cultures which aren't appreciated sadly by the London controlled establishment
Come on sweetie you told us you were going away for good, NOT starting a new series. As you are still a US citizen, you can be sued for any ridiculous reason that probably would not fly in UK courts. This sounds like a " breach of promise" tort case to me. So it seems that Tyler Rumpole Stillskin is not the only one who's disinclined to show you any respect, and it's your own fault.
As a kid I was brought up near the Bridgewater canal in Manchester. Kids used to hang around the 'cut' (a Northern slang word for canal) and wait for the working boats coming up the canal carrying coal. The boatmen would give us a gallon enamel jug and and the money and we would run ahead of them to one of the pubs lining the canal and get the jug filled with beer. We would hand the jug to the boatmen, so they didn't have to stop the boat to get a pint, and get a penny for our trouble.
Got some bad news about the movie "Trainspotting" - it's about a very different pastime, one which has been pretty popular in the US for quite some time.
In the '50's I used go trainspotting. We still in those times lots of steam engines of different types and each had a number and a name,I remember one called the 'Union of South Africa'.
On the subject of Canals in the Uk, you maybe surprised to hear that a very influential person in the Inland Waterways scene for many years was an American, Frederic Doerflinger, a US Army Airforce Veteran who served in Britain during WW2, stayed in Britain and joined the Inland Waterways Association in 1947. An enthusiastic canal traveler he became Vice Chairman and then Chairman of the Inland Shipping group of the IWA. In the 1970's he wrote two delightful books about travelling, with his family, the canals of the UK. "Slow Boat Through England" and "Slow Boat Through Pennine Waters" both have become classics always prominent on enthusiasts bookshelves.
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial he was part of Stock Aitken and Waterman, they created over 100 hit records in the 80s, including Never gonna give you up, better the devil you know and loads of others…..some of these hits they wrote and recorded within 24 hours There’s a fantastic documentary about them You’ve managed to meet up within an absolute music legend.
Narrowboating is a lifestyle for many and thousands of people (like me) live on their narrowboats. I have come across a few Americans who live on narrowboats for part of the year. Harrison Ford is a narrowboat enthusiast, having had at least a couple of narrowboat holidays.
I remember that you could try to run round the 'bases' twice and score twice. I believe this was called a rooster because the entire batting side would start chanting 'Roost-a!' when you were doing it. I have no idea if this was an official rule, some local rule or just a fevre dream from my youth.
@@GirlGoneLondonofficialRounders is similar to Baseball, the only difference is the batting, rounders bats are shorter at 18 inches, and is usually swung using one hand, misses and strikes are not called, the batter gets just one ball thrown to them and must run whether they hit or not, basically rounders and baseball has similar historical links, the rules just changed..
I remember Mrs Bucket going away on a narrow boat holiday and she made her husband wear a blue blazer and captains hat and then they listened to the Shipping Forecast before they cast off!
I was going to snooker halls in Thailand 40 years ago. Yes, the bars had pool tables, but there were snooker halls with many many full size tables. Players such as Steve Davis featured in TV ads and I even went to see Willie Thorne and co. playing against Thai players in Chiang Mai.
I live in Brum which, as Brummies are proud to declare, has more canals than Venice. One of the great benefits of the canals is that the old towpaths - used by horses to pull the narrowboats - can be used for cycling. I can cycle the 7 miles into Birmingham city centre spending only about 200 m on roads, and I can cycle to Stratford on Avon for an RSC performance.
Whoah! The concept of freetime - putting down your tools and resting from your labours - goes back to the Jewish sabbath and also the sabbatical year. Such a thing was unheard of previously. Yes, you might say, but isn’t it really just a religious thing. No, not anymore so than the fact that religion pervaded all areas of ancient life. There was time for prayer every day of the week - but the sabbath was to reflect that god rested from his labours on the seventh day and we should rest too
@@WILFREDRUSSELL-h8n The concept of free time dates back tens of thousands of years, long before any established monotheistic religions existed, or before modern humans even left Africa. To find the root of it, you have to go back to the Neanderthals, one of whom (who's name is lost to time), tiring of his hunting and gathering one day decided to sit down for a bit, and thus invented "The Break"... The Break was a revolutionary idea, that spread throughout Neanderthal culture. Soon, Neanderthals everywhere where choosing to sit down for a bit whenever they felt a bit tired while hunting and gathering. Sadly, they overindulged their new found propensity for sitting down for a bit, and started sitting down for a bit longer each time. Thus, the "Break" rapidly evolved (some scholars say within just two weeks) into "Sacking Off Work" and then the "Day Off". Before long, "The Weekend" was invented. It was at this point that Neanderthal civilisation fully embraced new, hedonistic concepts such as the "Holiday", which reached it's ultimate expression with the concept of the "Work Life Balance". With so few people hunting and gathering non-stop, the Neanderthal population began to terminally decline. And that is how the Neanderthals went extinct, and how the concept of free time came into being. Modern humans did indeed learn these concepts from the Neanderthals, but unlike them found it agreeable to marry the concepts of The Break and the Day Off with the physical act of mating, which the Neanderthals had seen as being too much like hard work to be bothered with on their days off, thus the human population actually grew due to having more free time.
@@WILFREDRUSSELL-h8nThey mean organised sports; football, rugby, golf, hockey, tennis, cricket, snooker, mountaineering, motor sports, much of it either originated in the UK or were popular here before many other countries. It was all to do with Britain being the birth place of the industrial revolution, and middle class with Victorians have too much free time.
A wonderful thing about punting is the moment when you realise the punt pole is stuck and you are just about to go under a bridge. You have a choice - let go of the pole, with subsequent loss of motive power and steering, or hang on to it. If you hang on, it gets stuck between water and bridge. You try to stop the punt, and fail. Then you fall in. This is even better if someone else is punting.
I'm so glad you have found some interests and its so nice to see the enthusiasm you have for it. I will have to give you're new channel a go and see you trying all these new activities
Hi kalyn, thank you for another great video. Hearing you say various in your own accent is so lovely again it's very much a part of who you are. Hope you don't lose your accent. I look forward to your next video xx
That was me too. I always felt inadequate until I discovered on a work related training course that I was left handed but right eye dominant - which meant it was physically impossible for me to successfully track the ball as it approached my bat! Boy did it make me feel better about myself!
@@lottie2525 quick test: image me you are holding an imaginary telescope in your dominant hand - hold it up to one eye. Whichever eye you naturally hold it up to is your dominant eye. If it is on the same side of your body as the dominant hand, you will find co-ordinating hand and eye ( for example to successfully hit a small ball with a thin bat) relatively easy. If you have crossed the body's midline you will find this co-ordination tricky. The body will track the incoming ball with your dominant eye 👁️. If your bat is Iin the hand on your other side, there will be a split second where the ball goes out of sight behind your nose.The body will automatically switch eyes - but not quickly enough for you to make a successful shot at it with your narrow bat! Try it!
Good effort, but not exactly true. Lawn bowls is played in lanes on a lawn or green that is absolutely level right to the edges, while Crown Green bowls is played in any direction on a green that has edges which slope gently into a gully that surrounds it, while the "Crown" - the playing area above the slopes - usually is slightly uneven, the undulations in the green playing a part in the game as the "home team" will know them and attempt to use them to their advantage. Both usually have some kind of clubhouse attached where you can buy a beer ! 😊
@@bobblebardsley Read what I wrote. Lawn bowls is played in lanes, NOT in any direction, and it's played on a FLAT green. Furthermore, because you can bowl in any direction in Crown Green bowls, the distance the jack can be sent can vary every time. My local green (for example) is almost 200 feet, diagonally. That's a long way to send a bowl whose path is curving as it moves, and to get it close to the jack.
@@bobblebardsley In effect, yes. They're superficially similar but they're different games with different rules. I suggest you look them up on Wikipedia, which should give you a better description than I can.
Bar billiards was popular, in public Houses, when I was younger. As was skittle, or, 9 pin. Shove Hapenny (half penny) was also a common game in pubs. As kids, car registration number collecting was also a thing and matchbox collecting.
I've done a lot of narrowboating, going back to the 80s. Really enjoy it. It's just the right mix of activity and relaxation for me. I like the boats themselves and the canals, especially areas that still have their industrial heritage.
Trainspotting is one thing, but I've also got some old books/annuals where the characters were carspotters - jotting down the numberplates of every car they saw in a little notebook. I guess that was fine back when there were fewer cars on the roads, but these days you'd run out of notebook space pretty quickly!
When I was I child in the 1960s (I'm from the UK) there was a large series of books called "I Spy" which contained pictures on a particular theme (such as different species of wildflowers or birds) which kids could tick off when they saw them. One of them covered various models of motor cars.
There is a 1960 film, The League of Gentlemen' (No, not the 1990s comedy) staring Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey and Richard Attenborough, where carspotting is the downfall of the gang. It's a cracking good film.
I remember in the late 1950s and early 1960s my parents would keep me and my sister quiet(-ish) on long car journeys with a version of car-spotting. You had to spot every registration number from 1 to 999 _in order._ With the lower number of cars on the roads back then, a complete round of the game could take months. And it was competitive -- if you missed a particular number that your sibling saw, they could race off ahead of you while you were stuck trying to find that number. It never occurred to us to cheat. But then it was the 1950s or 60s, and we had the attitude that a victory obtained through cheating didn't count as a victory at all.
I uploaded a video about the importance of hobbies to my own channel, and my subs went crazy. I’ve since touched on the subject a couple of times, and realise how important hobbies are to people all over the world. I’m looking forward following ‘For the Love.’
A popular misconception is that bowls is only played more elderly people. Many clubs have players from early teens all the way through to 90+ years old here in Edinburgh where there is a competitive League. Players in their 20s and 30s are common, especially in the more successful clubs.
You really should take a deep dive into stoolball, another ancient bat and ball type game played in the south-east of England, mainly by girls and women. It traces its origin back to the recreation of milk maids.
This is one of those weird localised sports. You can grow up with it and see it as just another field game but mention in outside of the south-east and people look at you strangely
You should also have a look at Mudlarking , kit and caboodle have a good channel on this and so does Sifinds. Metal detectorist are also interesting. There's also a great British comedy called The Detectirists. A real gem, much loved.
Darts is an old game, it replaced archery practice, which was a compulsory activity laid down in legislation. Practice for archery was on Butt's or Buttlands, some still exist and are medieval.
Did you mention, Billiards and Bar Billiards. I have not played either in decades. But when I used to own a snooker table, myself and my two brothers would also play Billiards. And Bar Billiards I used to play when I, went to a local youth club. It uses a table with holes on the surface, rather than pockets around the table.
There used to be a version of “bar billiards” that was played on a much larger, slate-bed, table with scoring holes along one end plus 4 high scoring holes in a wide diamond on the surface, each “defended” by a mushroom shaped wooden pin. I haven’t seen one in literally 60 years - my friend’s mother was the “matron” of a rather posh retirement home where they had a flat and there was one in the “gentlemen’s lounge” that we could use if there were no “gentlemen” in the room.
Fun fact baseball came from rounders, rounders are referenced in 1744 in the children's book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called Base-Ball. English colonists took this game to North America
Lawn bowls is in the commonwealth games. Definitely worth a watch. I grew up next to a canal, so lucky to have it. Its great for cycling and fishing and walking, plus lots of nice pubs too. Nice to have a piece of our industrial past near me too as i grew up in a town that's hugely touristy nowadays.
Good video as always. If you're in Crieff in the winter months I could introduce you to curling as a sport at Perth ice rink. I'm a level 2 coach employed there
Lawn bowls is excellent. Been a long time player. Great game, can have a G+T at each end of the green on a lovely sunny afternoon and great friendship too.
Lawn bowls as the name suggests is played outdoors on a grass strip. There can also be indoor rinks, played on a felt mat. Netball was played by girls when I was in school during the 1950s. Locally there are netball leagues during the light summer evenings.
@@Brian3989 Considerably more difficult to drink booze during netball though 😆 I play indoor bowls as well, completely different game on a 6 rink indoor baize carpet. Outdoor bowls when it's raining and windy and has its own charm, but indoors is like playing giant 3D snooker chess - almost totally different sports
@@Wee_Langside indeed, and within flat green atleast two derivations - Federation and what's the more common version south of the Norfolk flats which is the version in the commonwealth games.
bowls. A rudimentary form of bowls can be traced back to the 13th century in England. The world's oldest surviving bowling green is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, first used in 1299. The game faced bans from both the king and parliament due to fears that it could distract from archery, which was critical in battle. but it goes back further than that. The earliest known evidence of bowls is from 3200 BC, when wall drawings in a royal tomb depict the game. Archaeologists have also found miniature pins and balls in an Egyptian child's grave from around the same time' miniture railways are another quirky thing to take a look at. they are not model railways, but ones that you n kids can sit on.
There was bowls clubs almost every suburb in Australia - to play and they're licensed clubs, I've never bowled but been to a club for lunch etc. More of them had closed down as they can't make enough money or in my suburb mines subsidence.
The late 1940s was a good time for trainspotting, low outlay to get a notepad and a small book listing loco numbers and which railway they belong to. Summer and Christmas train excursions from industrial cities (when the factories closed briefly) to the coast gave a chance to see locomotives from distant places.
There are two types of bowls in the UK. Lawn bowls in southern England and crown green bowls in the North. I've seen lawn bowls being played in California and Figi. Ian Dee. (Again!)
I used to play netball at school in the late 50s: we started it around the age of 8, at primary school, then continued after moving to secondary school at 11. I liked netball, it was probably the only sport I was ever good at. However the most popular park and beach game of my childhood was French cricket (no doubt getting its name from the English habit of naming anything a bit weird as French). It was basically a game for spectators as well as players as we played it, and if you hadn't got a cricket bat you could use a tennis racket. It was a long time ago and I can't remember how it worked, except that any number of people could just join in.
When we played French cricket as kids in the 60s and 70s it was just a box used as the wicket with only one wicket with everyone else stand around the wicket in a circle. There could a large number of people around you. One person would bowl and if you were at bat you could hit in any direction and try not to get caught or have the wicket hit. This would continue until you were out and then it was another persons turn and you would become bowler.
Perhaps you might consider taking a look at the things we 'Brits' like to volunteer at (as a pastime/hobby). May I suggest including those who volunteer at preserving and demonstrating Crofton Beam Engines dating from 1812, there is even a train station close by at Great Bedwin if you don't want to drive !
Mr Waterman does, or used to, have a very large collection of owls (as in breeding them in aviaries..............................). Rod Stewart also likes model trains, and plenty more famous people.
So appreciate that you research all these unfamiliar things! I played netball in school - as well as lacrosse and field hockey, and rounders (from which baseball was evolved!!) which I don't think are as familiar in the US. I've always thought of lawn bowling as an older persons game, but seems I'm wrong about that. Skittles, darts, Morris dancing - all such British things. Good luck with your new channel!
Perhaps you could look at the groups who restore things. I volunteer with a group who are restoring an old cutlery factory, another group who restore barges, and I support a group who restore tramcars.
I was on the same route as the first train shown in the 'Trainspotting' section, on Saturday 19th October, roundabout when this was published! It was a First Great Western train that was about to stop at Dawlish station in Devon.
There have been several world class Canadian snooker players, so it is know north of the border. Bowls is scored similar to Curling. Curling is like Bowls on ice.
We played a game called Rounders in Primary School (Australia), it was quite different from the UK version from what little I remember. We used Bat Tennis bats rather than billy clubs and hula hoops for bases, and like baseball you had to reach home to score, but there was no limit to how many could be on a base, so you could have 10 kids waiting for the one big hit when it was safe to run home. If I remember right anyway, it's been 30 years. I think we also played a version where you ran back and forth to one base like cricket.
You might be interested in Aunt Sally. It's a "throwing" game typically played in pub gardens. It's mainly played in Oxfordshire where it's very popular and teams compete in leagues. It was invented by Royalist soldiers during the Siege of Oxford during the English Civil War (1640s)
You should try crown green bowls; it is played on a grass surface which has an all round slope to the edge the green which is much more difficult to play on than a flat green. Crown green bowling is mainly played "up North" and flat green down "South". Kind regards
Canal boats were the haulage transport before trucks and trains. It was a way of transporting goods, especially coal and a system of waterways was needed for this. Bowls can be played indoors, called Indoor Bowls and is usually played by the same players as Lawn Bowls. The indoor version is more popular for TV coverage, except during the Commonwealth Games.
As a Canadian you know about Crikinole, a Canadian board game invented in Tavistock, Ontario, not far from Stratford. Every year they have the World Championships in Tavistock.
You mention that narrow boats don’t go out into open water, but you might find it interesting to look at videos of them going across the Wash. It’s not open sea but definitely outside their usual comfort zone.
I have recently been looking at an exercise in the UK called "Spotty Dogs". This involves swapping from one foot to the other and back and moving an arm up and down in time with each leg. Most videos of it get this wrong because to do true Spotty Dogs you keep your elbows and knees straight. But that is probably because most people are too young to remember the original Spotty Dog whose limbs had no knees or elbows.
Traditionally bowls has been seen as an older person’s sport, but it’s becoming increasingly popular with younger people. Club colours and kit are more colourful and fun. The bowls themselves used to be available in black or brown but are now multicoloured. Give it a try!
I have a Turkish friend who could hardly believe her ears when she found out that British people have bird watching as a hobby. I don't think I ever saw her laugh so much- well except when she saw a packet of rice labelled as "Suitable for Vegetarians "! She bought that as a souvenir.
Reminds me of the time a group of middle aged men were arrested in Greece because they were behaving suspiciously. Apparently train spotting isn't a thing in Greece and the police took some persuading that it's entirely innocent.
Bowls: Like rounders, there are two versions of bowls - in the south of England and Scotland they tend to play (flat green) bowls, but in the north they play Crown Green bowls. The difference is kind of obvious from the name. The southern game is played on a flat green and the bowls have a "bias" that allows them to swerve for skilful players. With Crown Green the green in now flat but raised in the centre so is more the ground that makes the bowls swerve than the bowls themselves. Flat green is much more popular internationally, not least because there can be several games on the same green at the same time, whereas you can only really have one match at a time on a Crown Green.
10/10 on the pronunciation of Snooker. Literally the first North American that's ever said it properly in the history of the world. I dated a Canadian for five years and she couldn't get it. American RU-vid channels that talk about snooker can't get it. Respect.
I had a camping punt on the Thames back in the late 50s, it had the hoops etc so you could camp in it. You can travel all round the country on the canals and rivers.
In the winter I’m a member of one of the many local skittles teams. We play in pubs, require “sticker ups” who are mostly young lads earning a bit of pocket money, and winning the cup is taken very seriously, between pints.
Just a note, Pete Waterman isn't just a model railway enthusiast he owns actual railway companies! As well as being a trustee of various heritage railways!
I now and again watch the live feed, sound included, of the train station at Blue Anchor. It’s coming to a dead time of year (November) and apart from Christmas excursions winter isn’t worth looking at but in the spring and summer especially, there are plenty of steam trains among the diesel. The station platform looks almost exactly like it did when it was built, and the uniforms haven’t changed, so it’s like taking an occasional glimpse back in time.
Netball used to be known as basketball until a name change in the late 1960s or early 1970s. The rules used to be very similar too. Rounders supposedly led to the development of baseball, but is actually closer to cricket. I played softball at school and occasionally the teachers tried to introduce us to rounders - it fell flat as nearly all of us had the same reactions as you; the exception being the terminal bores who played cricket. Bowls is played in a lot of countries across the British Commonwealth. It's a good way for older people to remain active. There's even an indoor version.
Pleased to hear you are going to have a new channel Kaylyn, looking forward to seeing you trying some hobbies , especially the Unicycle,good luck with the new channel ,hope it goes well for you , ❤❤.
Rounders: There are two sets of rules, which is why it is confusing - one "English", one "Irish". The latter rules are quite popular in England and some schools seem to (perhaps unknowingly) merge the two, possibly because one difference is that Irish rounders allow you to have three goes at hitting the ball, rather than just one in English (so it gives uncoordinated primary school children more of a chance). Irish rounders also uses a larger bat. Also the Irish rules are older (in terms of publication) than the English rules. Confusion can arise when adults try to play as some will have been to schools that use English rules, some will have played to Irish rules, and some to an amalgam of the two.
In Netball there are set positions and you can’t run with the ball. You can only take one step and pass the ball. The position you play determines the area you play in such as in goal. Goal attack and goal shooter are the only ones allowed to shoot the ball through the net or hoop. There would also be the goal defence and goal keeper from the other team also to stop the shot.
Regional sports have large followings. Hurling from Ireland and Shinty from Scotland have arranged an annual international series of matches. A set of hybrid rules are used as the games are very different.
There are multiple types of bowls in the UK - the example you showed was lawn bowls - up north they play crown green bowls which has different rules (and bowls) - there is also carpet/indoor bowls which again requires different equipment (the latter is the variety most often seen on television.)
I used to play rounders as a child. I, once, had an opportunity to play a very basic baseball with some American children, thanks to my father. I discovered the ball travels faster than rounders and I missed every time. Trainspotting? Yes, It led me on to work for British Railways.
Oooh, interesting! Yes, a baseball is much heavier too I believe....many Americans play "teeball" as children so it doesn't get thrown at you, but is set up on a tee and you hit it that way, which is very cute to watch and much easier!
I have never understood trainspotting and admit and am embarrassed to say so as a teenager I did make some rather crass remarks to some one. I regret that and now as an adult love the fact that people have a passion for all manor of things. Never be ashamed of your hobby, if it brings you joy its all good.
I worked in public transport some years ago. There is an even more niche variation on Trainspotting ... Busspotting, although they like to call themselves "transport enthusiats".
Punting has inspired much poetry. For example: There was a young lady from Bude Who went for a swim in the river A man in a punt Stuck his pole in the water And said you can't swim here, it's private
A couple of things you might want to look into. Stoolball, with can be traced back to the 15th century and is regarded by many as the 'father of cricket'. Still played in Sussex and the fringes of Kent and Surrey. Also Marbles, the world championship of which is, I believe, also held in Sussex. Good luck with the new channel.
They play snooker in Oklahoma, a few years ago whist in the state I played someone in a bar who was amazed that someone foreign knew how to play the game, as he thought only people in Oklahoma played it. Vince a Londoner
Uniquely British pastimes, passions, sports and hobbies include shove-halfpenny (pronounced shove-hape-nee), twitching (no, not a nervous tic), cheese rolling, conkers, the pub crawl (no, seriously - it’s not the same as going from bar to bar - it’s all about savouring different beers in different pubs - and it’s very popular), mudlarking, darts (I know it’s catching on in the US - but it’s an essential part of British working class culture), croquet (definitely not part of working class culture), and badminton (so British, it was invented by them in India)
As to why snooker is so popular, this goes back to the wildlife broadcaster, David Attenborough. Many decades ago, he was a young TV producer and there was a new invention in town: colour television. He was looking for a sport to broadcast that would show off the colours that just wouldn't work in black & white. He hit upon snooker and it's been televised in the UK for years now.
The programme “Pot Black” was the catalyst for the popularity of snooker booming. Following on from the famous commentary. For those watching in black and white. The brown is behind the yellow. Or something like that I think the commentator was Ted Lowe
Yes seen an American couple on a narrow boat on RU-vid going through Standedge tunnel, they seemed to love it, not sure I could handle being stick in a narrow tunnel for 2 and a half hours under the Pennines
