I particularly like how you show the landscape around where you are, please maintain that. I also think my old man blood pressure drops when I see you sitting outside some cafe, having a drink. That's the life. By the way, I have conversations (aloud, but rather one sided) every night with the authors of whatever I've just read, be it poetry or a novel, I can't sleep without reading something, but then I have to discuss it, and I live alone. Although dead authors don't reply (everything worth being said has been said by those who are dead), I sense what their response might be as I turn out the light, and embrace my pillow. All the best to you, Brian, and thanks so much for sharing your life with us.
Ah... there you are! Nice! A bit of this and a bit of that... forget to film.. 🤣 Talking to yourself, build an chikenrun and a patio... ordering pizza and play with doggies... Camping.. great vlog!!💋
Signs of a happy dog. Completely relaxed despite humans doing random things with bits of wood. Still two puppies left? Thanks Brian. I enjoy your view of the world and life. 👍🏻
I think this is the most unusual vlog I have ever watched. It is so clever in that you don’t give too much away and hop from place to place without taking a breath. It must be the Irish in you. Thoroughly enjoy it and look forward to next week. Keep safe at the Chateau getting to giddy heights. 🍷🍷🇬🇧🇬🇧
The black netting looks like shade netting but 'roof' ideally should be sturdier with netting afixed because owls and small hawks can get in the pens. We have black bear, possums and racoons, not to mention fox that could get in your pen.. But in Virginia, US., we have to dig down 12" and install sturdy wire bent in an L shape with the shorter edge buried under the inner pen, just for the fox. HTH. 😊
Here racoons n possums also will try and pull a head or foot rhrough the mesh if not small enough and munch. Bears can get into almost anything.. Pigs will also kill chickens and would plow right through that structure. Hope none around there. Had to put contractor wire mesh stretched tight across rafters of wood chix shed to keep snakes from raiding the eggs.. 😔
The vine pergola will look lovely, but one tip from experience: if you're going to eat under it in the summer, or use candles in the evening, think about putting a fine mesh cover under the vine canopy to stop the insects falling out of the vine & into your food/hair/the candles!
I was visiting a home in Portugal this week and the owners had a grape vine pergola. They took the vine down because it was making a mess with grapes that dripped and bees and bird boop. I hope Brian's meets his needs.
You’re getting better at this every week Brian. 😁 20 thousand subscribers. I really do love the music!! Chicken Shack is up, puppies, camping, pizza, building a home French wine and cheese patio, and coffee of course. Can’t wait for the upgrade!!! Great interesting life you’re leading if you can’t see it yourself.
Dan follower-and now you too! Just a pleasure to see how you enjoy life and your outlook on things. One can learn many things from you. Thank you for sharing part of yourself and keep smiling. Chaumont is lucky to have you aboard. Looking forward to more!!😊
I still think you should take one of those puppies home. You can take the pup everywhere you go, including when you work at the Chateau. I'm sure they'd make a great camping companion!
Just walking in from the Arizona heat, with my dogs, and get the notification that Brian has a new VLOG out! lol Okay then, guess it’s time to start a little RU-vid session. Cheers 🍻
You have got just the right balance in your life. Work, camping, travelling, meeting friends and building projects on your own beautiful abode. Great vlog, 20k subs! Julie from Chester.😊
Those pups sure love it when you show up! Loved the music as you wound your way through that gorgeous French countryside. Always a good "filler" in my book!
You can talk to yourself and you can answer yourself but you shouldn’t repeat yourself cause you should have been paying attention the first time. At least that’s what I’ve been told 😅
My sister, a psychologist, told me that I could talk to myself and even answer. Even talking to trees was OK, but when the trees started to talk back, she wanted to know about it.
And I've heard it's fine to talk to yourself and to even answer yourself, but when you start arguing with yourself.... that's when the problem starts!!!😂
My 2p-worth on chicken run advice is, have it so you can move it around - unless the hens will be out free-roaming all day. Friends of mine have theirs in a run about that size, well it's just a perimeter fence. They move it around the garden every couple of months. The grass gets fertilised where the run was and the hens stay happy and disease-free. At night they go into one of those Iglu huts, which was bought 2nd hand. It has an automatic timer that locks them up safe at night and lets them out in the morning. ❤
Holy wow, just saw you have 20k subscribers! One thing chickens really like is things to climb/perch along and explore. Downed branches are perfect for this purpose. Digging in 20-30 cm of chicken wire around the perimeter will definitely deter chicken bandits.
Thanks for the tripping around your beautiful country side.. Loving the wooden framing and concrete stamping … it’s a perfect touch to your home… 😂talking to oneself …🤭🤪🙌 See you on the next one ❤
Ah, I envy the way you think, no food in the house, eat out and camp for the night (your solution). I would have dragged my tired self around the supermarket, unpacked everything, and eaten a truly awful microwaved ready-meal. At least I can live vicariously through your vlog.
Love the music! Thanks for taking us down the rural roads. The terrace is amazing. Re the chicken run: that netting will be worse than useless if you have predators. Good idea about the metal, but you'll need to bury it so foxes and dogs can't get inside. Go ahead and buy proper chicken wire. You can drape it from the bottom of the run, and stake it or cover it, out at least 18" so that tunneling predators hit it well away from the edge of the run - and give up.
Lovely villages and a boucherie du chateau?🤔That's handy! Congrats on the 20K🎉I think that you, Dan & Nick may have a beam addiction😆, but the pergola does look great (as does Dan's roof!) 👍
ZI talk to myself all the time with no concern. Years ago my boss, the company President said that "talking to yourself is the best way to have an intelligent conversation."😊
Lovely video Brian, love the spontaneous camping trips. Excellent idea! I see an outdoor shower on the side of the beautiful terrace in your future! Cheers from Oz 😊
Brian, this is a relaxed, weekend watch. Drfting along country roads, cafes in charming French villages and camping in rural idyllic corners of France. The perfect interlude to complement Dynamic Dan's week of restoration and hard work at Chaumont. Thanks for your filming. Mike Rose. ( from a hill farm in South Wales with a stunning view of the Bristol Channel)
Enjoying your vlogs Brian plus the music that goes along with it. Those puppies sure do love you playing with them. All the different bits of your life seem to fit together to make an enjoyable life from this side of the lens. Sometimes talking with ones self gets more done then talking with someone, nothing gets done cause all you do is talk about it rather than do it!!! See ya next time around.
To protect your chickens, you might think about setting the whole cage on top of chicken wire, and tying it to the metal supports. Great blog. Really enjoying it. Thanks Brian.
Great video Brian! I really enjoyed the drive to Dan's. What joy to drive along a single lane road! The stamped concrete, the pergola & the grape vine will be a lovely spot to unwind after a hard, hot day at the Chateau
Hi Brian, forgot to comment on how much I enjoyed last week's trip to Parris and drop in at the Olympics. Fantastic stuff that was. Yes on dinner in Paris anytime you wish to take us along. This week your house looks is very pretty and the new covered patio is just beautiful. Good work. See ya next week. 💚
Wow, your channel is growing so fast🎉 I can remember it was only a couple of 100. Really enjoyed every minute of it, big thanks from the Netherlands 😅❤
Hello Brian. Genuine new old person here... 😉 Also bona fides previous chicken keeper (sadly at present I haven't got the space). Yes your suggested arrangement with the metal should do the trick and help deter Monsieur Reynard from his wee tricks. Have you got the birds yet? If not can I strongly commend maybe getting a few Leghorns, if you can find them. Lovely compact white birds, who have the great trick of continuing to lay in winter when lots of other breeds go off lay for a few months. Superb white shelled eggs!
Oh! ❤️Once more Brian Thank you for your Vlogs, gettin better and better each time..Terrace and vines beautiful, the ride around France.. The Music 🎶! Wow 💓!
thanks for wearing your bucket hat at Dan chateau and at there beautiful house, you and Dan two baby border collies are so fun to watch, please take one or both home with you, if you do , you look back and be so happy you did !
Yes, a very beautiful place indeed to wait for a pizza. What toppings did you have on it? How do you spend your time while camping? Making new friends with the other campers? Reading a book? Do you have a favorite author? Do you fish while camping? Or do you just bike in the nearby trails? Awww, take a pup home with you. They make great traveling companions. Well, mine does anyway. Pergola looks great and the decorative concrete does, too. Was really great to see your vlog. A great treat for me after a long day of gardening. God bless!
Brian maybe consider a concrete frame around the base of the chicken coop. Foxes, etc dig under & crawl into to coops. Stephanie Jarvis can tell you what happened to her chickens or ask Dan I sure he knows.
I'd love to have seen you chatting away to yourself. So glad you are going to put metal down to protect your chooks. There's nothing worse than foxes getting your birds as they are evil. They don't kill to eat but they torment them to death and won't leave anything alive. Are the two pups remaining as "Chateau Dogs"? Hey it's lovely hearing you talk French... very pleasant to listen to. You've done masses at the chateau this week between you all.
How funny when Dan say good bye on Fridays, it starts Brian's weekly vlog on Saturdays. I would like to watch a wood cutting channel with Nick on Sundays :D
Man, wish I’d made in time for the pizza. Nice view while you wait indeed! Good luck with the rest of the coop project. I thought Dan had found new homes for all of the pups. Nice you still get to play with them though. 👍
Hi Brian! I love seeing everyday life in France through your eyes and camera! ❤Oh no, we missed the chicken installation😔, well, say hi to the chickens for us please.
You have to save house from foxes. Here is an idea :Plates in the ground One way to secure the chicken coop is by digging smooth eternite sheets vertically down around the coop. To prevent the fox from digging under, it is recommended that the eternite sheets should be 40 cm down. If they are also to prevent rats from entering the yard, the plates must be dug 70 cm down
Just a suggestion: fasten that black mesh netting down securely to the frame so it doesn't blow off. Your chickens will escape! But, I'm sure you know that!
