Strangest British stuff you'll find in my UK home 🇬🇧

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I wouldn't DREAM of having these British things in my home back in North America! Let's go on a scavenger hunt around my UK flat to find my strangest British items..!
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@shardlake Год назад

Nothing too weird in the living room, all of us staring at the inflatable palm tree 😂

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

😂 🌴

@ronfehr7899 Год назад

I wonder if you've ever seen the animated movie The Lorax (based on a Dr. Seuss book), but your comment reminded me the place where much of the movie is set. Everyone's shrubbery was inflatable because real plants could no longer grow there.

@ThePeteW Год назад

I was thinking the same about the inflatable palm tree. There does also appear to be a dead body rolled up in a blanket too. But fair enough, nothing too weird.

@MagentaOtterTravels Год назад

LOL exactly!

@Trillock-hy1cf Год назад

I am with you there, and rather fancy one myself......😀

@leslewis73 Год назад

Couple of things, washer dryers are pants, if you get a stand alone dryer you will find it to be just as good as your mum's back in Canadia. For your front door you need a door curtain because that overlaps your door cut out and reaches the floor, it makes the world of difference.

@GoldenKaos Год назад

I'll be honest, for the vast majority of summers I've had in the UK (I turn 33 this year), an AC unit was never something that was needed. The last few summers however have been a different story. Historically we never needed ACs because our summers were mild to fine, and if it was a heatwave, being inside and having a cool drink was pretty much all you needed to do. That has changed in recent years.

@WG1807 Год назад

Ha ha, millennials. Just imagine you were time-transported back to the 1970's. OMG, how would you cope? On two occasions in the early to mid 1970's I was at Blackpool for the day and the mercury touched 100 degrees F. Blackpool as you know is in the dreary and damp North West. Not Kent or Cornwall but Lancashire. 100 degrees. But you need to have lived in England in 1976 for the full summer experience. What a summer that was, never been repeated. We even had a plague of ladybirds that eventually became deemed so serious they were even debated in Parliament. In September though, about a week before the weather broke and the rain eventually arrived and all the ladybirds died. Ha ha, typical bumbling government.

@chrisspere4836 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, and everybody's getting hot in summer now, so more people go and buy an AC unit and plug it in to make the Earth 🔥HOTTER🔥

@jgharston 10 месяцев назад

Also, until the last few decades, British houses were built so you just opened windows on each side of the building and got a through draft for cooling. Modern houses have ignored centuries of engineering and instead swaddle houses to make them as warm as possible.

@arthurterrington8477 3 месяца назад

@pere4836 Overall AC would reduce energy usage, given that AC is three times more energy efficient at heating homes that central heating is. Besides, a major volcanic eruption (which could happen anytime), would eject enough aerosol in the atmosphere to cool the planet for years.

@arthurterrington8477 3 месяца назад

@@jgharston From I gather, the idea of thick insulation is to keep to homes at a more steady temperature; in other words to block out excess warmth, as much as excess cold.

@BooBaddyBig 11 месяцев назад

You should get a dehumidifier. The UK weather, particularly in the winter but not only is humid AF. If you stick your wet clothes next to a dehumidifier it will use less electricity than the heated rack, and you won't get mold growing all over the rest of the house. We got a relatively cheap one in Lidl (it was about £120), and it's been fantastic. It's not FAST, but everything gets bone dry and all the windows in the house no longer mist up nearly so badly.

@laurieo1933 Год назад

Fun fact (or so I've heard) the reason dryers are more common in North America is because it was at some point (maybe still is?) considered unsightly to hang your washing to dry outside, made the white picket fence neighbourhood look untidy, so a lot more people bought dryers over there. But this idea was never really a thing in the UK though so people just continued drying their washing outside when the weather was good and didn't see much point in buying a dryer just for the days when they couldn't dry them outside.

@paulthomas-hh2kv 11 месяцев назад

I have the American style washer & dryer, so you van get them, if you have the space

@mothmagic1 6 месяцев назад

Sounds about right to me.

@daveelliott5855 Год назад

A clothes rack? I've always known it as a clothes horse. Ours is currently next to our heater where it'll be until the heating gets turned off.

@baylessnow Год назад

'Clothes maiden' where I come from. Don't ask me why, I don't know. We have 2. The old concertina, fold up type.

@TheErador Год назад

Maiden, airer, horse. Different dialects

@crose7412 Год назад

@@baylessnow Which county says that? I've never heard it but I like it.

@coast_2coast Год назад

Mines currently in the stables eating hay

@TheErador Год назад

@@crose7412 yorkshire or Lancashire, was used in my house growing up, I'm a product of the two counties so could be either. Probably Lancashire tho.

@hughtube5154 Год назад

I also appreciate the value flowers can add to a room. It's why I keep two vases on my table, one for wholemeal, the other for self-raising.

@fourthdrawerdown6297 Год назад

A very British thing happened to me last week. On the night of the heavy snow the electricity went off and I thought about how I should buy a Coleman lantern and a wind up radio and a little camping stove but forgot about those things immediately when the power came back on 20 minutes later. 🤷‍♂️

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

omggg 😂

@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb Год назад

Where do you live....the Outer Hebrides?

@tonys1636 Год назад

I've got wall mounted oil lamps all around the house but after buying two cans of Paraffin last November may have to change, €20 per can was three times previous years price and the can has shrunk from 5 to 4 ltr. One good thing is they give out heat as well as light very handy when the heating needs power and gas and can't be bothered to light a wood fire. So far only used twice this winter. One a planned maintenance outage that overran by 3 hours, the other the transformer at the end of the road went bang and fell off the pole.

@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb Год назад

@@tonys1636 What century do you live in....the 19th?

@tonys1636 Год назад

@@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb No but power outages are very common here in SW Ireland. Got better over the past few years.

@jasonsmart3482 Год назад

Alana just to let you know that in Canada the sun is not strong enough to create vitamin D during the winter months, Agree that doing the laundry in North America is so easy, in our house we had almost industrial size washing machine and dryer. No wonder the average American use 2.7 timres more electricity than us Brits. For me clothes always smell freshher if dried on the line.

@matchmade44 Год назад

Yes, having lived in Texas and Edmonton, Alberta for four year, I can confirm North Americans use an incredible amount of electricity, oil and gas compared to the UK. This is partly explained by the low energy taxes, higher incomes, long travel distances, and continental hot summers and freezing winters which require boilers and air-con systems that would power multiple properties in Britain. They also use a lot more insulation and draught-proofing, for sensible reasons, and have monster-sized fridges and tumble-driers. So, yes, Canadian tumble-driers do the job much quicker, but at what cost? If they paid UK electricity prices, which are tied to those of gas, they would soon be crying!

@jaymareachealee3351 8 месяцев назад

Just thinking about the huge contribution to global warming by the North Americans.

@victorialovatt976 Год назад

I love my heated tower airer from Lakeland…there I’ve said it I am now officially middle-aged! 🤣(plus it keeps my flat fairly warm, which means I don’t have to put the heating on too. Tune in for more money saving tips! Oh god I really am old….) ❤

@jamesgraham814 Год назад

You’re lucky to have driers, pull-cord lights and radiators. Living in Wales we still inhabit castles without electricity (but we do have plenty of daffodils).

@tomsenior7405 Год назад

Delightful. Bloody-lovely stuff. My Gran's house was full of the kind of stuff that reminds me of your home. Her Singer Sewing Machine doubled as a table, to display the flowers she picked. A full Brass Coal Scuttle and all the accoutrements sat proudly next to the Gas Fire. Sausage Dog shaped draught excluders were behind every door. By Law, her mantlepieces had to include a model of the Blackpool Tower. Chair Arms had those white doilies, always crocheted. Tea cosies, Tea Towels, Table covers, children and pets: all were crocheted.

@ftumschk Год назад

It gladdened my Welsh heart to see the daffodils! A sure sign that Spring is on its way - March 20th, officially - they brighten up any room :)

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

Totally agree!

@kw8757 Год назад

I live in Wales and the grass verges by us have got literally thousands of daffs on them and they look fantastic.

@ftumschk Год назад

@@kw8757 As a rugby-mad Welsh teenager, I went on a schools' rugby tour of the Netherlands. On a "non-playing day" we went on a coach-trip to the famous Dutch tulip fields, only to be disappointed to find that the tulips weren't yet in bloom. Instead, all we saw was field after field of daffodils... as if we didn't have plenty of those at home :)

@johnwalsh128 Год назад

I have wild daffodils in my front garden. I usually go over them with the lawn mower.

@hairyairey Год назад

Met Office says March 1st - Equinox is March 20th this year BUT it's still more likely to have a white Easter than a white Christmas.

@OneTrueScotsman Год назад

In Scottish summers we don't really get full darkness even in the middle of the night. The sky just sort of turns dark blue. I have a photo I took of the beach (I live on the coast near Aberdeen) and it's amazing how light the sky still is, when I took the photo at 02:30 in the morning.

@friedjohn Год назад

Actually Southern Ontario is a lot further south than people here in Northern Europe sometimes think. Toronto is the same latitude as Nice, France which we consider warm French Riviera. Because of the continental climate Toronto gets cold in winter, but the sun is still more powerful than in London. Also you get less variation over the year for the day-length than England, not to mention Scotland.

@tonys1636 Год назад

@@friedjohn A lot of us forget just how far north the British Isles is, they might remember if the Gulf Stream slips any further south than it has already.

@ougadougou9 Год назад

@@tonys1636 The other way of looking at this is that Kent is the same latitude as James Bay, i.e. further north than any decent size settlement in Canada, other than Edmonton.

@lucyj8204 Год назад

@@friedjohn 90% of Britons live north of 90% of Canadians.

@tonys1636 Год назад

@@ougadougou9 Losing our Atlantic climate and being under a continental one would be hard to live with for a few years to say the least. Might be an improvement here though. Less than 1650mm (65") of precipitation a year would be an improvement weather wise, might be a headache for the water (and Electric) company and farmers.

@rheostar Год назад

In our old draughty Victorian house, we have draught excluders on several doors. We also have Tesco’s daffodils too. 😀

@timelord5920 Год назад

Strange place to put daffodils 😂

@eze8970 Год назад

Your kitchen brickwork shows you're in a historic property, it's been thrown up (typical of the time), it's a lot better elsewhere though! You could put a telescopic curtain rail (wont damage the paint) & curtain behind the front door, will make a world of difference, or the landlord could put draught strips in. My old house had 77 square feet of glass that froze up every day in winter! Thanks Alanna!, stay warm! 🙏🙏

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

Great idea, thank you!

@eze8970 Год назад

@@AdventuresAndNaps 😊😊

@frankmitchell3594 Год назад

Now you have a teapot, the next thing you'll need is a Tea Cosy to cover the pot and keep it warm.

@Phiyedough Год назад

Next crochet project!

@donmurray3638 Год назад

"Never trust a man, who left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on! B Connolly.

@WideCuriosity 2 месяца назад

What I find strange is that all tea brands are infusions, but despite the marketing, not all infusions are tea. They aren't from the tea bush. Yorkshire is a decent brand but I often wonder how they managed to get such a large part of the market given other counties also have brands named after them. Not that I can bother to try them all. Presently, for me, it's tea first in the morning, coffee afterwards, (unless one fancies a change and has another tea for the heck of it). It got that way after I treated myself to a bean to cup coffee maker. Prior to that it was tea most of the day, coffee granules maybe at 11 am.

@antonygould2222 Год назад

The draught excluder clip was sooo funny!! 😁 We love your videos!

@ZebraKitten Год назад

#respect Learning to crochet isn't always easy! Well done and welcome to a wonderful community. Hope to see more crochet from you.

@taz692 Год назад

The teapot coaster thing is called a Doily,and you must crochet yourself a tea cosy .....

@Mohegan13 Год назад

True story: I used to work in factory that made Tumble Dryers, we made them for several European countries as well as a couple of Asia ones. All but one of the top well known brands were made by us. The same people, the same parts, the same set up inside. Only the visual aspects on the control panel were different. So when I was in electrical stores hearing people say "x brand is better" and watching them pay £150 more for a bit of ink and a name difference I couldn't help but laugh.

@leefitzpeter4287 Год назад

A friend of mine worked in a bakery. Exactly the same bread would be put in different wrappers for different outlets, both the "posh " shops and the cheaper supermarkets. 🤣😊😁😄

@Mohegan13 Год назад

@@leefitzpeter4287 Back in the 60s my dad used to work for ASDA, he once found a tin of baked beans on the shelf with three different brand labels on it. 😅

@SnabbKassa Год назад

People are quite happy to pay for the name. Mondeos are better than BMWs but nobody wants them.

@jhmasterson3087 2 месяца назад

Its all about adding value make the masses believe the hype & the CEO's, sales managers & shareholdes can buy that 3rd home, Range Rover & yacht etc Waitrose & Aldi have the same supplies most of the time @@SnabbKassa

@alancrane4693 Год назад

Thank you Alanna for the tour of your beautiful home 🙂. Clothes horse you can plug in that was Sci-Fi back in the day 🤣. Put up clothes line in the kitchen to hang and dry clothes was popular. Looking forward to next video Alanna all the best 👍

@jcasillas78 Год назад

Great video! "You know what I can't live without?" 1. large inflatable palm tree full of balloons. 2. Cat mask. 3. Traffic cone jumper.

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

😂 omg

@cathrynbagley8005 Год назад

If you have started crochet then there is no hope - you will soon have a large box (or two or three) of yarn and you just can't walk past a yarn shop without buying more. I love the way you say "Yorkshire", it makes me smile every time.

@briangriffiths1285 Год назад

The French too use wire clothes driers. Years ago I spotted one branded Pont de Tanquerville, named after the suspension bridge! Cut draughts with bathroom sealant… rub Vaseline around the door or window and then apply sealant (acetic acid smelling stuff) around door/window frame and close for 2 hours. The Vaseline should allow the door window to release freely but you will have a draughts proof opening.

@timothyp8947 Год назад

So many of your videos bring a smile - this one’s no exception! Especially the, ‘I’m sure everyone’s clicked away by now,' moment 😊 or the, ‘I really hope I actually took a photo of the daffodils'

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

Thanks pal, I really appreciate it ☺️

@AmberJayneArt Год назад

It’s so interesting seeing the UK from a different point of view! Didn’t know about the daffodils, and weirdly, bathroom light switches 😂

@wobaguk Год назад

You know you are becoming British when you express surprise every year at how soon you notice the days are getting longer (or shorter)

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

😂

@laratheplanespotter Год назад

Or older!

@Julia-uh4li Год назад

@@laratheplanespotter BINGO!! At 55 I'm really feeling this comment.

@scooterdooter Год назад

Happens everywhere around the world every year but yeah uniquely british or whatever

@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming Год назад

It all depends on the type of dryer you have Alanna, ours takes 9KG of clothes and dries clothes in 10-15 minutes, or if you opt for the 20-25 minute setting, 3/4 of the clothes don’t need ironing.

@simonturner138 Год назад

Your next crochet project should be a tea cozy. It's a little jacket for your tea pot to keep it warm.

@rbrooks2007 Год назад

I remember decades ago that we had a white goods dryer that was an open topped metal box. You would hang clothes over wooden dowels that were then placed into recesses at the top of the box in rows. At the base was a low power heating element.

@SheilaKarner Год назад

Temps in Denver are similar to London, and people told us we wouldn't need a/c when we moved here. We didn't waste any time buying central a/c, but the upstairs is still warm at night so we got a unit that looks much like yours for our bedroom. Love it!

@bdwon Год назад

Your videos are always such high quality! Thank you, Alana! My house-built in early 1960s-has exactly one room that uses a pull cord!

@bdwon Год назад

I bet Brit flowers are from Holland so they cut less on account of less transport cost. Most Northamerican flowers come fro Colombia

@billydonaldson6483 Год назад

A lot of the older listed houses have a heavyweight curtain over the front door for cold weather use.

@ffyrestarr Год назад

Yes! My mum did this year's ago for our backdoor before it was replaced by a double glazed one.

@quantisedspace7047 Год назад

What TF is so weird about radiators and pull-cords ? Tumble driers are readily available in UK, and they take about the same time as you quoted (20 mins) provided you keep the drier filter clean, and do a proper spin cycle in the washing machine.

@shed66215 Год назад

Our draft door excluder is in the form of a (slightly longer) Dachshund, complete with little head and four very small legs 🐶🤣

@BeeSting862 Год назад

What you need is a heavy door curtain, it knocks spots off a draught excluder!

@the-999-asmr-tarot-show Год назад

This video was the funniest thing I've seen all day! Thank you. And I watched all the way to the bitter end. I like the inflatable palm tree!

@tirainthewoods Год назад

you might think these vids are boring or whatever but they're relaxing and relatable so i like them.

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

Thank you!!

@robinevans1293 Год назад

Brilliant video..Full of humour..Loved it Alana

@wonhung Год назад

Love the Palm tree. I see someone has at least a modicom of musical talant. Draughty front door. Yep all seems quite normal for a British home, including the laundry rack; which we Brits tend to call a Clothes Horse. So glad to see you're so happy with it all.

@oz25 Год назад

I used to live in a flat with a big gap under to door. I used the door mat as my draft excluder., jammed to the door with the hoover. It worked really well. We are currently using a folded bath towel for our back patio doors. We also have a make shift curtain made out of a duvet cover and drawing pins at the bottom of the stairs to keep the heat down in the living room. We the open the 'curtain' so the hot air rises with us when we go up to bed x

@MS-19 Год назад

3:32 I have one of these as well, and you're right: it's a thing worth having, especially as our driers are indeed not very effective.(When I was little we had an old tumble drier machine but they seem to have gone the way of the dinosaur...) Mine has a zippable sheet that goes over it, which makes things dry quicker and better. It's also good for proving bread dough prior to baking, believe it or not!

@betagombar9022 Год назад

I love nosing around homes, so thank you Alanna for showing us around yours x Why not crochet your very own draught excluder, now there's an idea....or maybe not!! 😉

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

That's a great idea!

@heskeyisgod8039 Год назад

Great video Alanna! I'm glad the winter is nearly over. It's nice to go to work and come home in daylight instead of pitch black :-)

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

Yay me too!!

@Judgles Год назад

Great video, Alanna. For your next crochet project you could make a tea cosy to keep your teapot warm. There are loads of amazing patterns on the internet. Also, you missed a trick by not getting a draught excluder in the traditional shape of a sausage dog - maybe you could get one to put on top of the first one? Anyway, thanks for keeping us entertained!

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

Ooh I've been looking at tea cosies! Might try knitting one instead since that's so much easier than crocheting!

@alancrane4693 Год назад

Tea Cossie very popular and fun 😀 my mother in law has one which looks like a woman breast 😂 and pulling on the nipple to remove it from the tea pot 🤣. I mentioned dread to think what you use for the milk jug 😂🤣

@helenagreenwood2305 Год назад

Yes there's some fab knitting patterns for tea cosies which look like crowns - I'm a knitter and I've made Queen Elizabeth ll King Charles lll a Beefeater and a Kings Guard all ready for the Coronation 👑🇬🇧

@maximushaughton2404 Год назад

@@AdventuresAndNaps Why don't you knit a draft excluder, one that would big enough to cover the gap?

@stuartferguson8967 Год назад

I thought the traditional draft excluder was a snake

@ffyrestarr Год назад

Put a velvet or other thick material curtain up over the front door and just buy or make another draft excluder (you can make one really quickly with a pair or old tights stuffed with other old tights or old socks etc. Stuff the one leg as long as the door is wide then roll the other leg over the top. Maybe even kids tights)

@trevorlsheppard7906 Год назад

Spring begins either on 20th or 21st March ,I'm looking forward to that, BST begins 26 th March clocks put forward then ,lighter evenings you'll be pleased to hear ,What you call a drying rack I call and this is going to make smile A Clothes Horse , probably only by older people now though, enjoyed the vlog ❤️.

@sarkybugger5009 Год назад

Yep, we had a clothes horse for winter use. Guess I must be old?

@trevorlsheppard7906 Год назад

@@sarkybugger5009 not necessarily ❤️

@shaunw9270 Год назад

I still call it a clothes horse too !

@jhmasterson3087 2 месяца назад

not silly or old..... a 3 kw tumble dryer costs about a pound an hour to run!!@@sarkybugger5009

@naitchb16 Год назад

Loved seeing a list of strange British things that didnt include me 😅😋 Cheers as always Alanna!

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

😂 Thanks so much for watching!

@alejandrayalanbowman367 11 месяцев назад

Hi Alanna from Spain. Hang a thick curtain at the front door, keeps ot the cold in winter and keeps out the heat in summer. That's what we do here,. We have one of those heated drying racks (from Lakeland!) and we put pieces of old towelling on the bars to stop them from marking the clothes.

@judithhope8970 Год назад

I have a tumble dryer in the garage but don't use it unless it's very wet outside. They're expensive to run and not environmentally friendly. Mine works ok but so does my washing line on a dry breezy day. Good video. x

@t.a.k.palfrey3882 Год назад

My school dorm in England had a clothes horse (yes, that's what it was called), similar to yours. After clothes and sports kit was just a little damp, it would be moved to the house airing cupboard. My roomie's family home (where I often spent shorter hols and exeats) had one too. The house's hot water heater was there too, and so clean togs were always warm to put on on chilly mornings. Bliss!! Btw, Allana, the annual number of hours of sunshine in Toronto is 2066. In Canterbury, Kent it is 1560. The difference isn't as great as you suggest.

@stuartferguson8967 Год назад

but that works out as 305 days in toronto vs 130 days in canturbury

@docsmellyfella Год назад

Crochet yourself a blanket. My gran used to make them with wool from old jumpers. Lovely and warm when you wrap yourself up in them.

@keithlillis7962 Год назад

Meteorological Spring in the UK started on the 1st of March, whereas Astronomical Spring starts on the 20th of March - just to confuse everybody. The clocks go forward one hour on 26th of March 🙂

@Nigel-xp4rf Месяц назад

We've got a wet room with a heated towel rail, but at my Mum's house, we either put our clothes to dry on a washing line or a clothes horse, but it was not plugged in. So we put it in front of a radiator or a fire in the fireplace.

@stuarts1219 Год назад

Agree with you that combined washer-driers are useless. My mum bought one and honestly we thought it was broken because it took forever to dry the clothes! Nice observations are always 🙂

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

Cheers Stuart! ☺️

@wilmaknickersfit Год назад

When I got married 37 years this week 💞, I asked my Uncle Malcolm what washing machine to buy or avoid. He repaired them for a living and I the only thing I remember him saying is do NOT buy a combo machine. In fact, even when someone gave us a tumble DRYER, it sat unused in the garage for years. But we do have the exact same Lakeland heated airer! We turn it on overnight because we're on Economy 7. We have a cover for ours though. Love Wilma xx

@MeFreeBee Год назад

I had a nice AEG one which worked really well until it gave up the ghost (after 16 years so not bad). I could stuff it pretty full, set the timer and my stuff would be dry when I woke up. My mum has a Zanussi which is useless at drying for anything more than 2 pairs ok knickers.

@DaddyStoat Год назад

Some of the expensive washer-driers (Miele, Bosch, some of the LGs and Samsungs) are very good, but they cost a fortune. We had a reasonably good Hotpoint one, and even that was £700. You can get the big toploading US-style washers and driers in the UK, but they're very expensive, you need a big utility room with a gas hookup for the drier, and the washers use a lot more water than a typical frontloader.

@raystewart3648 Год назад

Love these type of videos as your not just sitting down in one place like all those boring American React youtubers (which seem to be a growing trend lately). You give us both a great smile every time your on. Love your content. I was going to say get a Tea Cosy, but many in the comments beat me to it.

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

Thanks Ray, I really appreciate the support ☺️

@raystewart3648 Год назад

@@AdventuresAndNaps Your the best, thank you.

@kathchandler4919 11 месяцев назад

Go to a DIY store, ask them for draught excluder tape...comes in a roll & is, usually pliable sticky tape with sponge on the non-sticky side . You stick it all-round the door frame & it sorts your draughts out perfectly 🎉

@ozelhassan8576 Год назад

Alanna I always enjoy our videos it’s fun.

@anignorantbrit Год назад

We must be weird!!! We spent a small fortune on a top of the range tumble dryer two years ago and we hardly use it. In winter the clothes horse and radiators do the job. In summer the hot weather. Only really use it if we need things dried really quickly which is rare.

@GrilloTheFlightless 11 месяцев назад

Daffodils were my grandmothers favourite flower. She grew them in masses in the garden and would always cut some each week to put in a a vase in the house.

@MrNigelBriggs Год назад

The clothing dryer is traditionally called an Airing Horse. I still use one in my Flat as a) there isn't room for an electric dryer and b) Electric dryers are not efficient. You get used to things taking two days to dry in winter and only a couple of hours in the summer :P

@bernadettebiscuit8748 Год назад

OMG a heated drying rack??? I didn't know these existed! Thank you - I'm off to Amazon :-) I am in the US and do have a tumble dryer, but I hang dry many of my own blouses and more delicate things, and in the wintertime there's always a lovely display of clothes draped and hanging around the house in stages of drying.

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

I love it!! You can also get a cover to put overtop and it heats up even quicker 🥳

@BooBaddyBig 11 месяцев назад

@@AdventuresAndNaps They're one of those things that seem like a good idea, but in the long run you realize they aren't. The problem with them is that the moisture has to go somewhere, and it typically recondenses inside the house. If you do use one, you have to open the window or otherwise ventilate really well otherwise or you'll get mold everywhere.

@Sine-gl9ly 8 месяцев назад

@@BooBaddyBigRunning a dehumidifier alongside, or instead of, a heated dryer solves any condensation or mould issues. Dehumidifiers are wondrous things!

@keithrn9447 2 месяца назад

I think you are GREAT!! So natural and your delivery is charming, I can't help but smile warmly. Why am I not seeing you on the TV? Perhaps the rest of your 151k subscribers could inundate the BBC & ITV with requests to get your youtubes converted into sets of 30-45 minute programmes! On a different note we used to have widows like the ones you showed at the beginning of the video, sash windows , some older houses may still have them. Pre double glazing era.. Two framed affairs with pulleys and counterbalance weights . Sometimes the ropes would perish and the weights plummet with a crash! Ill fitting and draughty , they had character, yes, but not too thermally efficient.

@mikesmith2905 10 месяцев назад

Having married a girl from California and lived with her in the UK so much of this was familiar (though you didn't mention 'mixer taps', I had to buy and fit those, or top-loading washing machines). Two things though, draught excluding curtains work very well and if you are replacing a hot water tank with a combi-boiler get them to add a radiator in the base of the now empty cupboard and add some rails (surprisingly effective). It helps if you add a vent at the top and bottom of the door to get a through-flow of air.

@stephenlee5929 Год назад

The clothes drier, when heated, works much better with the cover, it reduces the time by about half, thus also reduces the running cost. You can get (or make) thicker door draught excluders.

@0utcastAussie Год назад

She could crochet one... A BIG one !!

@stephenlee5929 Год назад

@@0utcastAussie Cover or draught excluder? My understanding of crochet, is tying holes together, wont that mean the result will have lots of holes, might work for the drier cover. 😊😊

@dandare6623 Год назад

Crotchet and draught excluders? Send help indeed! 😄 Seriously thank you reassuring me I'm not the only one who piles up things to stop draughts from doors and windows

@keithlillis7962 Год назад

In the UK we have pull-cords in bathrooms as a safety feature, as it is possible to get an electric shock of a light switch if your hands are wet. That is also why you will not find a mains plug socket in a bathroom. And, I would call your drying rack a clothes horse - seriously.

@esseil Год назад

There was a heated clothes rack (actually looked like a radiator but was specifically labeled otherwise) in a hotel where I stayed once in Bradford. Came in very handy when the airline didn't deliver my suitcase until the evening before my flight home! I haven't tried Marmite, but I have had Vegemite (almost, but not quite, the same thing). I actually like it, at least once I learned to spread it thinly!

@AaronTheHipHopGuy Год назад

Great video! Hope you’re having a good day!

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

Thanks! You too! ☺️

@elunedlaine8661 Год назад

You could also go mad and knit or crochet a larger draft excluder. Use old knackered tights or stockings for the filling

@garypltn69 Год назад

such a good video roll on the clocks going forward bring on the summer

@lauzasaurus Год назад

I've always found washer/dryer combos to never dry as fast as a standalone tumble dryer :)!

@xorsyst1 Год назад

What most people don't know is that in combo models you are only meant to dry a half load at a time. If you do that they work a lot better.

@dannygatland1353 Год назад

Washer dryers are terrible. I would never buy one myself. The one in my rental property has decided the dryer function doesn't want to work at all now

@-Pol- Год назад

Another top tea tip - if you have a ring on your cooker that's usually unoccupied, why not get a stovetop kettle to live there and so free up some counter space. There's no rush. Just wait a couple of years until you have to throw out the electric kettle thanks to built in obsolescence, and replace it with a nice whistling kettle - A good one should last a lifetime and nothing announces a cup of tea better than a whistling kettle - it's a Pavlov thing!

@ronfehr7899 Год назад

I don't recall how my mom did it during the colder months, but I do remember having clotheslines outside, letting the wind dry the clothes of course. At least back then, you didn't need scented detergents.

@grahvis Год назад

To dry clothes, it is the humidity that matters more than the temperature. The temperature can be below freezing and clothes will still dry if the humidity is low enough.

@Elwaves2925 Год назад

Up until a few years ago we also had and used a clothes line for drying, along with a dryer in the garage. It works so much better for airing bed sheets out.

@ronfehr7899 Год назад

@@grahvis I hadn't thought of that, but it definitely makes sense. Maybe my mom did still use the clotheslines in colder weather and I just don't remember it.

@chrissmith8773 Год назад

I love the way you say “Yorkshire”. It makes my ears go all tingly..😂❤

@chriswalker8132 Год назад

I think you need a bigger draft excluder or need to ask your landlord if he can replace the door. If not, you can buy rubber seals or furry seals that fit on the outer side of the door itself to cover gaps

@leej9897 Год назад

We have inverted light switches attached to the ceiling for one very important reason. It reduces the risk of steam condensing in the light switch. The pull cord stops you getting an electric shock if it does. FYI we used to have decent driers back in the day till appliances had to be energy efficient.

@libradragon934 Год назад

A drying rack is for your dishes and bowls. You have an AIRER that you hang your clothes on! And you're right about the tumble driers!

@Lily_The_Pink972 Год назад

Or a clothes horse or maiden!

@NorthDownReader Год назад

The draught excluder is sometimes called a "long felt want" as a kind of pun. As other people have mentioned, for a front door you probably ought to have a more technical solution. The draught excluder is really for your cosy winter room.

@peterbann4759 Год назад

Haven't we had the guided tour or your place before? There is only so much interest one can get out of bathroom light pull cords. Best tea: Aldi's English breakfast. Love the blow-up palm tree! very trippy.

@RedcoatT Год назад

A indoor clothes rack is often referred to as a 'maiden' in parts of the UK. We also have a heated maiden, though we have it in the utility room.

@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb Год назад

That's exactly what I was thinking. Clothes 'maiden' is what I have always called them. Maybe a northern thing.

@creakybones2407 Год назад

@@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb Never heard of that. Always been known as a Clothes Horse (perhaps a yorkshire thing) 🙂

@hilary4576 Год назад

My southern in-laws have no clue what I’m talking about when I say maiden 😂

@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb Год назад

@@hilary4576 I think the term 'maiden' dates back to non-PC ancient times when a women or 'maiden' would do the laundry. Now of course, it's most likely the bullied and domestically abused male of the household, who does all the laundry!

@tonypate9174 Год назад

INCOMING ...DILKINGTON'S Run away run away...

@christhorpejunction8982 Год назад

We do have dryers in the UK, you can even get combi jobs. Plus its the budget, you pays your money and you get really powerful ones. Oh and daffs I visit a fairly large place every day and no joke must be thousands of them there and I’m allowed as many as I want, the wife picked a bunch for someone.

@suzanneantippas8420 Год назад

My condolences about the state of British air conditioning🙂🙂🙂 Thanks for the tour!!!

@GeorgeFoot Год назад

You can put a dehumidifier next to the clothes to dry them faster

@fatbelly27 Год назад

13:10 'I don't think we have anything too weird' says Alanna, sitting in front of an inflatable palm tree.

@leeandrew8987 Год назад

Love watching your adventures keep dropping them brilliant videos mate love from the pagan community across Europe and worldwide shout from Lancashire uk

@sjnm4944 Год назад

"There's nothing weird in the office" *the giant inflatable palm tree says "hi"* Thanks for the vid; it'sinteresting to get an insight into how UK homes might be perceived abroad.

@AdventuresAndNaps Год назад

😂 Cheers SJ!

@vicky1883 Год назад

You can normally get Tulips for £3 from the Co-op at the moment, I like to shake it up and have daffs and then tulips and sometimes a crossover!

@AndrewwarrenAndrew Год назад

Door curtain. Couple of Command hooks, curtain pole, job done.

@stuartferguson8967 Год назад

drinking tea and fighting draughts, "one of us, one of us"

@stuartferguson8967 Год назад

and rather than a tumble dryer a lot of uk homes used to have a drying cupboard. A cupboard built into a wall with rails for hanging clothes on and a heating element at the bottom of the back wall.

@alisonrodger3360 Год назад

Crochet some loops for your draft excluder & use those command strip thingys to hang it from the bottom of the door. Or crochet a bigger excluder - stuff one leg of an old pair of opaque tights for the filling.

@SSRT_JubyDuby8742 4 месяца назад

Nice reveal, 😊. To help the 'door snake' along, un pick an end and remove some or pack tighter the stuffing and reseal or fold under the end. Whilst I grew up, I am the first year Gen X, we had triple glazed windows, only in winter though, glass in the middle, ice out and in 🥶, 😂. Like deployed 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@bubbly_fuck Год назад

When making tea you should use a tea cosy or even a tea towel to keep the heat in.,which is the trick for making good tea. (6-8mins)brewing time. If you want to make a nice cuppa try mixing English breakfast with Earl Grey.. Your welcome.

@wbradleyUtube Год назад

Loved the video and seeing these parts of your current lifestyle.

@davidchurch3472 20 дней назад

Our clothes drier is outside. It was a bit annoying having a line across the street, which had to be used when no tall vans using street, but since we moved, we have one that doubles as a bench. Oh, and a chicken-perch!

@josephgittos3787 Год назад

Every summer I always say "right thats it I am going to buy a mobile aircon unit " but never buy one lol . Loose tea taste cleaner the bags, buy another draft excluder and stitch them together to make a double decker draft excluder 😃

@SvenTviking Год назад

You will find that you can get big, powerful clothes dryers and you can set a washer/drier to either slightly damp for ironing, wardrobe dry or clothesline dry.

@anthonystevens8683 Год назад

I confess I'm a tea addict, preferably Earl Grey but I also like coffee but only tend to have that in the mornings. I have the same kettle as you. It's still going after 2 years of very heavy use boiling lots water for my tea. It'll maybe pack up tomorrow now that I mentioned that. Air conditioning would be brilliant but again in the UK with our houses these have to be an extra and that's OK if you like the aircraft sounds bellowing when you're trying to get to sleep. ear plugs don't work well for catching the morning alarm though. People don't always appreciate what us regular brits put up with. Any way thanks for sharing Alanna.

@carolineskipper6976 Год назад

Great video, giving us a little insight into your homelife, in a non- stalky way, of course! Washer/ dryer combos are rubbish- well, the dryer element is! I know needs must, and if you don't have room for separate machines, and don't want to be airing clothes indoors for days a a time in winter, then it's better than nothing. Separate dryers are much better - but don't know how they compre to North American ones.