"Bee vomit from aphid poo" - I look forward to hearing about your job offer from Lidl's marketing department in your next Random Stuff video. 🙂 The phrase brightened a wet and dreary Saturday morning.
I read this comment, got to the last part "brightened my wet drea--" was like wait what? "brightened my wet and dreary Saturday morning-" oh.. makes sense
The older I get the more I realize just how contagious negativity can be. It's uplifting to be reminded that positivity can be contagious as well. Bless you Mike, sitting down with one of your videos always helps me find some balance when the chaos of life is starting to nip at my heels
Here in Pennsylvania, USA we've been dealing with a huge spotted lanternfly infestation for the past few years. They're an invasive species so they're new. And I've talked to a few local beekeepers who have been excited that their new batches of honey have been turning out dark brown or even black, and how fragrant and strong it is. They say their neighbors must have planted some alfalfa (a plant known to cause dark honey when consumed by the bees). They aren't so excited when I tell them it's because the bees have been eating spotted lanternfly "honeydew".
Worst part is, I don't think there's much here in PA that eats them outside the typical wasp and mantis. The only birds I've seen take any interest in them, are chickens, but they're garbage disposals on legs. I don't think it's fair to compare chickens to native birds in that regard.
@@tylerdejong6930 yeah not a great idea to add another species so many countries have messed up there ecosystems by doing that.... Thats 1 reason Australia has such strict restrictions,
Just dropping in, im currently going through a very difficult time rehabilitating from a lifelong addiction. Your videos are great, your voice is very calm and soothing. Thank you for the content
When I was a kid, a friend of mine had a book called "how to do nothing all alone by yourself" full of neat little activities and projects. This was on the 80s and some of it was a bit outdated even then as it seemed to assume we'd have access to leather off-cuts and so forth. Nonetheless, I feel it's the kind of book you'd get a kick out of. (The only bit I remember is instructions on making a little suction cup on a string with which to pick up smooth pebbles from a stream)
I came across your channel just before the birth of my first kid, and I have been a huge fan since. Now with my 2nd just arrived - watching Atomic Shrimp during late night feedings and time up with the newborn has become a small tradition for me. Your gentle, slow and thoughtful content is perfect for those twilight hours holding a newborn in your arms. Thank you, you make a big difference as well with your channel.
As a young adult with a ton of hobbies your channel always gives me a mix of comfort and motivation. I have a similar philosophy of treating things as a thinking. challenge It’s great to see what you do with their interests. Seeing how many things up dabble in gets me to focus on the things I want to be doing.
I love your channel because it reminds me of the old times when UA-cam was created. Your videos are not aimed strictly to generate profit, you're not filling them with sponsors and clickbaits. You are passionate about the things you do and it shows. I really like the variety of topics and it's surprising how you can make fun content sometimes out of things that may seem uninteresting at the first glance. Please keep up the good work! :)
I've been watching your channel for a few years now and it really helped me appreciate nature and candid simplicity. As a teenager I'm offered a lot of pastimes that are very fast-paced and brightly colored; and while that's exciting, it's very comforting to know I can someday live like you. Thank you.
I love the Slaughter Valley saga. I share those videos with an English friend of mine from Swindon who has no idea of what you usually post and we both have a jolly old laugh.
Your channel just exudes comfort to me. There isn't a series of yours that I don't like even if I am normally not necessarily interested in the topic. Some of these I don't watch immediately but leave for special moments like the slow tv or random stuff segments - I like to watch those when I'm feeling particularly down and need a bit of a wholesome pick me up. Because of certain reasons I can't go out much so your channel is bit of a connection to the outside world to me, as well as a kinder world. I hope I can live in such a calm, wholesome manner one day. You're an inspiration.
It’s midnight, and as soon as I read “Slaughter Valley” I was ready to give up Sleep in favor of watching this video. 🙂 I hope this smile is indistinguishable from Genuine happiness. I’ve been practicing.
That last remark is SO Slaughter Valley - somehow I imagine that Slaughtercester City Council has a Happiness Enhancement Course (participation mandatory). Jokes aside, I hope you will get better soon.
The first time I saw your channel was on Reddit, when you made the video where you took a sample of water from a local creek and spent a while observing the things that grew in it. I subscribed so I wouldn't forget to check on updates about that project, and I've been a regular watcher ever since. I, like most of your other fans, enjoy the wide selection of topics that you cover. Also, I find your voice very pleasing and calming. You were one of the people who made the lockdown more tolerable for me. Thank you for all that you do.
Referring to the screws used to hold the glass panel in place, might I suggest that you use a small amount of temperature resistant copper grease ( as used to lubricate brake part’s in your cars) when you next do any maintenance work on the screws holding the glass panel in place. Also may I suggest that when you are sowing your burdock seeds, you can expose the soil a little by either making shallow holes or cuts in the forest floor, or simply use your boot soles to scuffs clear spot so the seeds get the opportunity to contact the soil without obstacles.
I stumbled into your channel via Slaughter Valley, peered into your other content, became irrevocably bespelled, and have been a fan ever since. Many of your videos transport me straight back to my childhood. I lived in Chicago and also spent three to six summer weeks a year with relatives in rural Missouri. In both areas I spent a lot of time wandering, looking for interesting things and people. I found leading with "May I watch? I'll be quiet and stay out of the way." was an effective key into many rooms of the world. More often than not people would explain what they were doing almost as a reflex. I picked up an immense amount of eclectic information in this way. "May I listen?" or "Is it okay if I sit over here?" were also effective ways of soaking up adult conversations when they assented. I didn't understand much of what was said at first; my father (probably joking) advised me to read the paper before I went out. Starting at age eight I'd keep a notebook as I read so that I could follow up by going to the library and researching interesting or confusing topics. (As a kid I noticed that barber shop banter, topics, concerns, passions, et cetera were often very similar in every neighborhood regardless of culture or race. That definitely influenced the way I interacted with the world at large.) Pardon, I believe I am now rambling... Back on point, when I found this channel it transported me straight back to those times and that mindset. Thank you for letting me watch and listen, sir. 😊
As a result of doing anything that interests you, your channel is a real museum of curiosities- I imagine as a typical visitor I find cabinet after cabinet of things I had no prior knowledge of or interest in- strangely intriguing & more often than not- surprisingly fascinating. Keep doing you.
❤️ i will watch almost all your videos because some of the things you cover I’d never have realised how interesting the specific thing is. Your taste is worth trusting!
"It's bee vomit based on scale insect poop" That is simultaneously the most disgusting, but factually true description of pine honey I think I will ever find, lol. Love videos like this, a bit random, a bit wonky, but always delivered with humor, humility and full of wisdom and knowledge, as only Mike can deliver. Hope you, Jenny and Eva are having a great year so far!
@@johanneswerner1140 I wanted to taste some, after watching a post of Russion girl on that pine honey, but now that I've heard Mike's in-depth & scientific 👨🏼🔬 description... I'm not so sure, I still have the same craving... Lol... #KnowledgeIsPower 👩🏼🦰 Haha...
This video was a delight. It's like hanging out with a cool neighbor on a Saturday. We had snacks, did a little diy...Re toast tax and dogs. It's apparently very normal. My childhood dog would sit on Dad's right, waiting for toast corners, most days, then come to me for more. But on days I had a Pop Tart he started with me. Apparently he preferred pastry to toast! Eva is such a lovely combination of energy and happiness. I always look forward to seeing her in your videos.
The astonishing power of true curiosity. That's what your channel always demonstrates for me. There are so very many things I've watched you do that I would never have sought out myself. And I watch because your genuine curiosity engages me! So please, please, please keep taking us along as you explore. A new Atomic Shrimp video always makes me cheer!
I love your diversity of your videos. Well done for fixing your burner door. Hopefully your burdock will flourish and you will soon being harvesting the stems and roots. Thank you for taking me along with you on your many strolls through our beautiful woodland. I often find videos you have posted which are a few years old and throughly enjoy them. I know I have plenty to view. Thank you for doing what you do and please don’t change. ❤
We bought a stove in the summer, and I love it. Every night we pop it on and open both our doors to the hall and dining room. The heat then keeps the whole house warm and no need for our heating to come on. Our heating only comes on for an hour in the morning so I’m hoping our gas bill will be bearable. Love your videos, so different from everybody else’s.
Mr Shrimp. Loved your positive comment section especially. You're always a joy to have on in the background whilst I'm working. Keep doing what you're doing. :)
You seem to be a person I would like to have a deep conversation with. I have been enjoying your videos few years now and everything about foraging, plants, making something or fixing is really interesting. You also have a very soothing voice. Greetings from Finland. What comes to plants, I've picked and dried yarrow, blue berries, pineappleweed, raspberry leaves and lady's mantles last summer. Making like a home pharmacy. :)
Lovely video, as always, so thank you! Glad to see you're enjoying the new property and country life. I grew up on a farm in Oregon (US) and really miss the warmth of a real wood fire and the comfort of nature. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences to everyone. Cheers!!
Chances are you won’t read this but I discovered your channel a few months ago and you have quickly become one of my favourites. I watch your videos daily and love the variety of interesting content. Thank you for what you do! Wonderful channel!
All of your videos are brilliant regardless of, and thanks to, your interests. I look forward to another year of great viewing! Thanks for all you do! 🙂
Hiya Shrimp, Your channel is an oasis of calm on a platform that's driven by drama and outrage, and it's always a joy. Glad your move went well, and looking forward to seeing what happens with the new plot of land. :)
I watched the stove door maintenance carefully because I have a woodstove door in similar shape, so thanks for that! If I may: I like how you don't repeat yourself, how your train of thought is organized (while the delivery is casual) and how you tend to speak in complete sentences. Nice.
On the comment positivity, I once read a story about a philosopher which ended in the moral "To change the world, start by doing the dishes for someone you love". Being an agent in the world means embracing the small ways we can help each other and in doing so, make the world better in our own bubbles of influence. If everyone did that to their bubbles of influence, the whole world would get brighter. All that to say, I've had a very hard year in 2022 with some extremely painful and scary medical things I won't splurge on a UA-cam comment. One of the ways I kept sane was watching your channel. You made a massive impact on my life by helping me keep my head straight whilst waiting in A&E or for the results of a scary test and whilst recovering from surgery, and I really hope that one of my comments helped you in return.
I think the first video of your I watched was where you made butter with your hands, and I remember being grabbed in a way I haven't felt in years with a "I need to try this!" feeling! Since then I've been a big fan! I really admire your passion for so many things. I don't feel like I'm trying to emulate or copy your personality, but to a certain degree you have certainly inspired me to try new things, DIY, gardening and cooking improvisation are all things I've now found that I enjoy way more than I thought I would. Thank you for enjoying life and sharing it with us, because in a small way you've helped me enjoy mine a little bit more!
Thank you- you’ve just reminded me I need to replace the rope in my very own Stovax5! Great little stove which heats the whole house. Tip- you may want to look into putting a fan on top which will not only help distribute heat further, but prevent damage to the internal workings if the stove overheats- I buckled my baffle through this and that’s not what anyone wants lol
Delightful, as always. I grew up with both open fires in the house (fireplaces, not slow-burning units like you have) and a big wood-burning stove. Learning to light fires was an important part of living. (Things seem to have changed from this now, but then, I grew up in a very remote place.) I spent the first half of my life studying STEM and computing, then ten years repairing and building computers-and now I write novels. Why am I explaining this? I can absolutely and 400% agree with the principal of avoiding too much of a topic lest you get stuck in the same tropes and ideas as others. I love inventing and exploring a topic unbound by others' opinions on it. As always, Mr. Shrimp, I hope you have a wonderful day, and may your room be warmed without additional smoke ingress (though the council of elders of Slaughter Valley still maintain that you must burn a compliance pallet and inhale the smoke it produces daily).
Trick to get the fire going that helps particularly with small stoves: leave the door open slightly. It makes a strong draft that will cause the fire to reach towards the opening. Put logs in that path. Close when the stove is hot enough to keep the fire going on its own.
Ive stumbled upon this Channel recently. Ive never found a channel more soothing and relaxing than this one. I find this the best way to relax and de-stress before bed. Not only are you fascinating, kind, and very warm sounding. But you also make videos that inform, help me expand my thoughts, and bring interesting topics to my attention. Thankyou for this! Also please pet the dog for me :).
Excellent mix of a perfect Saturday morning Atomic Shrimp mix. Thank you. I always learn something, and without exception your videos entertain. Slaughter Valley reminds me SO much of my childhood - both the world at large, and behind closed doors: plenty for me to process THERE. So that's the afternoon sorted, then.🙄😂😂😂
This is very likely one of my favorite channels to support. Your content is always fascinating. I love to see someone still embodying the spirit of UA-cam's "Broadcast Yourself" motto. Thank you for making the videos that you do and sharing them with us.
The variety of your videos is what I enjoy most, after that, I'm here for the way you deliver the information. I'm genuinely delighted to see you make the move to a cottage where I hope you and the family are very happy.
Thank you sir Atomic Shrimp for all the interesting and entertaining videos! Seeing them show up in my subscription feed truly is one of the highlights of my UA-cam experience. I am so glad you are getting positive reinforcement through the nice comments - you deserve every bit of praise and more. Keep doing what you do, you are amazing! ♥
Well done with replacing the rope on your fire door ... remember having all sorts of trouble cleaning off excess goop when I tried. Keep up the great work 👍😀
I really enjoyed this video , thank you for making these videos. Your delight in making the different topics shines through as does your enthusiasm. Many of the films such as your log burner repair are informative as well as inspiring. I am glad you have a larger property to investigate and put to use. Looking forward to many hours of video time as you find exactly what you have there at shrimp cottage. Thanks to Jenny and Eva too
A thought I had about your variety of content, and how I enjoy and interface with it. I do not enjoy scambaiting, I just find scammers so irritating. I have never been able to separate myself from this feeling enough to enjoy scambaiting without feeling overly irritated. However, I do enjoy that scambaiting is something you do, and that others enjoy watching. Oddly enough, the references and jokes I really DON'T get, somehow add a sense of liveliness and variety. I find myself enjoying merely being adjacent to people who are enjoying themselves. It's a really lovely feeling, one I rarely find elsewhere.
I didn’t read the title or look at the run time (any time shrimp crops up in my sub feed I’m going to click it!) so I was only expecting a Saturday morning honey review. It was so great when I realised this was going to be a miscellaneous items episode!
The spring and summer is going to be wonderful and interesting now that you have your own bit of woods. I have recently moved part time onto the tree farm that I own and enjoying getting to know the land, plants and how I can add to it in order to make the property a food forest.
You really have one of my favorite channels on UA-cam. Being in Canada 🇨🇦 I'm surprised at how much warmer you're climate is compared to Ontario Canada 🇨🇦.
Hey Atomic Shrimp, I really enjoyed the stove maintenance segment. As a fresh homeowner, I like to see how to fix stuff around the home. Even though, I don't own a stove or fireplace, I liked that you explained and showed how to maintain it properly. Could you reconsider what you said about not showing the small house improvement/maintenance projects on this channel?
We think you are the bomb! ... This is a good thing. In case the American euphemism is allusive. We are loving what you do , and that you hit so many different topics. And your research and experience comes together so well. Thank you for what you do. We are an Aussie and American married, living in Virginia America. You have made a beautiful channel.... :)
Hi Atomic Shrimp, as a Hampshire-born Yorkshireman, of nearly your age, currently travelling in Central America, your videos are the perfect tonic for homesickness. You have the same M&S crockery as me. The comparison with Jack Hargreaves a month or so ago wasn't wrong. Your videos are what historians will be looking at in several hundred years. Thank you for what you do
As a fellow serial skill seeker I highly appreciate your variety of topics, and expanding my interests! My brain works like yours does, with a high variety of somewhat overlapping interests, and I found this broader approach to be actually very useful because skills can translate to unrelated areas - in sometimes unexpected ways! Your videos are an excellent way to showcase this, besides the clear care you take in your video production and sound quality, the content quality and consideration for other people's places in life or lived experiences taken into account is wonderful, and you make it feel like it's a given. But it doesn't *feel* overproduced or inflated. You still take us with you on your journeys, in your kitchen and garden or woodlands. It's like watching along with yer dad or uncle or good neighbour working on his projects. I know how much brainwidth and effort it can take to feel like you're just "taking us along", and it feels like a given from you, but it is still thoroughly appreciated.
You are an inspiration to most of us who subscribed here. To explore things interesting, to love nature, to do manually things if it brings joy and accomplishment. Also you are here to highlight bad actors online. I am honestly thankful you are here for all of us showing an attitude to life and still being a human being respecting all living. You have made me move out more often and get into mushrooms and discover it together with my 11y old daughter. We explore them, take a picture of them and leave until we fully capable to recognise them. She loves every moment. My dad who I have lost at 8yr old was a forest engineer teaching me how much to respect the forest and nature in general (because I am only a visitor he said) and how animals will always know my presence before I am aware. I am still missing him to this day, but your videos are ringing the same bells in my mind about "living and respecting and only take what you consume to keep nature and it's all habitats intact". He was my role model in that regard and you over the years I've followed your channel came very close to his view of nature and living. Thank you for being here! Have a lovely 2023.
When we were younger, we used to go once a year into the pine forest and gather budding pinecones before they've had a chance to mature, become hardened like wood etc. At that stage of their growth, they look long and needly almost like the "leaves" of the pine trees, but they're super infused with pine resin. So you gather a few big bags of these young pinecones, boil them in water as you'd do any fruit, add sugar and put them in jars for the winter. It's the most delicious thing ever - goes well with pretty much anything normal honey would go well with, especially pancaksed and french toasts. It's great, because it has a mild or medium bitter flavor to it, with extreme taste/arome of pines, that clashes with the sugar content of the pine honey syrup and you get all the taste and almost none of that too sweet feeling from eating normal honey, fruit jam or similar things. We'd also do similar syrup using dogwood fruits when they're red and sour. It's the best. Sourness + sweetness + fruitiness in one, but again the sweetness is not overwheling and it enhances anything you put it on, especially pancakes and french toast. Man, I miss those days, haven't eaten a good jam like those two in a decade. I know you're into trying these types of wild foraging recipes, and those two jams are probably the best nature has to offer.
I've filmed ants harvesting from aphids. It's really interesting to watch them, they approach the aphid and tickle it's back and it responds by releasing a drop of sugar water. In return the ants don't eat the aphids and in fact defend then somewhat by putting off other aphid predators.
The aphids have apparently o evolved so that their rear end resembles the face of an ant. To the extent that ants 'think', they think they are being fed by another ant
Mike and Eva and Jenny and commentatoristers. Whenever you make these collections I lightly look over 🔍 the contents and kind of decide what might be most interesting to me. I enjoyed everything this time, which is a delight. I had never heard of pine honey, but love contemplating on the fact that what we sometimes eat is excretious, shades of Kona Koffee. Maintenance of an appliance I will never own was decidedly fascinating. Planting seeds to be able to uproot and enjoy eating appeals to all my interests. Being Kind to others is one of my central values. And last but certainly NOT least is your surrealist gem. Surrealism, when done properly, should make dream like connections and I was ready to list a ton of other works of art it made me think of (good job), but, as you asked us not to list a lot of useless stuff, I'm being nice about it 😆, Excellent job my friend. For me this was one of your triumphs. Thank you JIM Oaxaca Mexico
While I'm here and I just finished the end of the video , for me it's reminiscent of The Prisoner, Tarkovsky's Stalker and the Midwich Cuckoos. All very dystopian and disturbing. I love it.
Nice work on the stove! It is amazing when we encounter actually helpful customer service. It would be nice to see the new stove used to cook something.
Awesome videos! I found this channel via your hilarious scambaiting videos. I'm a big fan of the slaughter valley series, foraging, cooking, walking to islands by foot and your other random projects such as retracing the route of the old railroad tracks in that lovely village. I particularly enjoy your collaborations with Babatunde from Africa Everyday as well. Thanks for the wonderful videos! Happy new ears!👂👂
I absolutely love the randomness of the topics and the varied interests covered in these videos. The multifaceted variety of the videos is what keeps me coming back video after video. That, combined with the delightful narration, is a winning combination.
Have always loved your channel format, it's like a magazine that contains articles on a variety of subjects and like a magazine if there's an article I'm not that interested in I can skip it knowing that there are others that I'm very interested in. Although not a fan of the Slaughterhouse series I can appreciate the work involved and that others will appreciate it. No clickbait, no sensational headlines just honest to goodness stuff. Thank you for your time and effort.
I love your videos and I love everything you cover. I may not be able to watch every video all the time, but eventually I get to it. You have opened my eyes and taught me a lot of things. You've taught me more things than my dad ever did. Even though we're from different countries and different cultures, we do have some stuff in common and its amazing. Thank you for being here.
I've always liked the fact that I know your videos are random subjects, means it's never gets old because there is always something different watch, even if it's something I wouldn't normally be interested in but I still watch to learn something new
I have something similiar to pine honey, it's forest honey, basiclly honey made in forest, it has some flowery notes and subtle woody, sprucy or piny aftertaste without any citrusy notes. It's very dark compared to other honies. It's quite delicious on the piece of toast.
I think these are two names for basically the same thing. Pine honey may be more "pure", coming from monocultures. In German we also call it "Waldhonig", forest honey.
For some reason I love the 'editing shrimp' face appearance with Eva too. It's like some mystical higher being with the faded edge. I have only seen this a few times in videos but I already love it!
Another wonderful diversion, practical & entertaining, thank you. I bought some 'forest honey' from Aldi. Slaughter valley reminded of 70s childhood in Britain, dangerous toys, school television, public information films, the prisoner. I liked the inspiration & ideas - ah Scarfolk must be just over the imaginary county border. I had not heard of the genre analog horror. The practical spoiler was not required, although generous of you to share, never let daylight in on magic! You are super creative.
Dear Atomic Shrimp, it has been quite a While since I have smiled as wide as I did when I saw that you hearted my Previous comment, so thank you. I might cry.
Thank you so much for the explanation of your Slaughter Valley vids, which I enjoy. Now I see your process is just another outgrowth of your foraging habit. Like a foraged soup, SV can vary or even change completely by what you find. Thank you also for acknowledging the influence of positive comments. I don’t understand people’s reluctance to leave them or “hit the like button.” The ratio of views to “likes” on even very popular videos I enjoy always surprises me. Do people feel they get a limited number?
The stove maintenance was fascinating, I really enjoyed the fact that you diy it explaining every step. I don’t own a metal stove. I’m disabled and therefore even if I did own a mental stove it is impossible I could even do this maintenance myself, yet none the less fascinating. I love this channel so much for the variety and depth of content. It’s like my own personal tv channel with all my favourite programmes in one.
Bit late, but best wishes for 2023, Mr Shrimp. These videos are genuinely relaxing on a Saturday or Sunday morning and they inspire me to be curious about certain topics i would normally not give a second thought.
This is the first time I’ve watched one of your videos with a comment positivity section. What a lovely idea. “You have the power to have an effect on other people’s mental health” - right back at you! There’s a good reason why I keep coming back and watching your videos, even the ones where the topic doesn’t seem like it’s going to interest me at first. It’s nice to be reminded to be interested in the world around you, and that’s what I get out of all of these vids. So, thanks for that 🎉
I've been trying to get myself in the habit of doing regular youtube content for many many years, but have always been worried about trying to find "my one thing" to do. But echoing your comment about the variety you make videos of, definitely helps me feel safer to just experiment and have fun and just focus on what I want to do rather than what I think other people would like.
"Bee vomit from aphid poo" - I look forward to hearing about your job offer from Lidl's marketing department in your next Random Stuff video. 🙂 The phrase brightened a wet and dreary Saturday morning.
"Bee vomit from aphid poo" a perfectly descriptive information snippet from Slaughter Valley perhaps?
I read this comment, got to the last part "brightened my wet drea--" was like wait what? "brightened my wet and dreary Saturday morning-" oh.. makes sense
The older I get the more I realize just how contagious negativity can be. It's uplifting to be reminded that positivity can be contagious as well. Bless you Mike, sitting down with one of your videos always helps me find some balance when the chaos of life is starting to nip at my heels
Here in Pennsylvania, USA we've been dealing with a huge spotted lanternfly infestation for the past few years. They're an invasive species so they're new. And I've talked to a few local beekeepers who have been excited that their new batches of honey have been turning out dark brown or even black, and how fragrant and strong it is. They say their neighbors must have planted some alfalfa (a plant known to cause dark honey when consumed by the bees). They aren't so excited when I tell them it's because the bees have been eating spotted lanternfly "honeydew".
Worst part is, I don't think there's much here in PA that eats them outside the typical wasp and mantis. The only birds I've seen take any interest in them, are chickens, but they're garbage disposals on legs. I don't think it's fair to compare chickens to native birds in that regard.
PA and the entire east coast needs to introduce some invasive asian parasitoid wasps that specialize on these lantern flys
@@tylerdejong6930 Is that all they eat though? Look up what happened with cane toads & cane beetles in Australia.
@@tylerdejong6930 yeah not a great idea to add another species so many countries have messed up there ecosystems by doing that.... Thats 1 reason Australia has such strict restrictions,
I live in Michigan and 2022 was the first time the lantern fly first spotted. In a way bees eating them is good and bad news at the same time.
Just dropping in, im currently going through a very difficult time rehabilitating from a lifelong addiction. Your videos are great, your voice is very calm and soothing. Thank you for the content
Good luck 👍
Stick with it. It sucks and it will be a hard ongoing journey, but it is definitely worth it. Take it 30 minutes at a time.
Wishing strength and peace for you. ❤
Good luck! Getting through something like that will really test your character but as long as you're committed and strong, you will make it through :)
Wish you comfort and strength. I hope you find other ways to deal with pain.🐣
When I was a kid, a friend of mine had a book called "how to do nothing all alone by yourself" full of neat little activities and projects. This was on the 80s and some of it was a bit outdated even then as it seemed to assume we'd have access to leather off-cuts and so forth. Nonetheless, I feel it's the kind of book you'd get a kick out of.
(The only bit I remember is instructions on making a little suction cup on a string with which to pick up smooth pebbles from a stream)
Sounds lovely - I have just ordered a copy!
@@AtomicShrimp I hope there's plenty to delight you, and maybe others in your family.
@@AtomicShrimp would love to see a series on those!
@@AtomicShrimpdefinitely would love to see some projects from that!
I just read a sample of it and found I did a lot of that as a kid! Great memories. Yiu learned from home or other kids.
I came across your channel just before the birth of my first kid, and I have been a huge fan since. Now with my 2nd just arrived - watching Atomic Shrimp during late night feedings and time up with the newborn has become a small tradition for me. Your gentle, slow and thoughtful content is perfect for those twilight hours holding a newborn in your arms. Thank you, you make a big difference as well with your channel.
Congrats on your new sprocket. :)
@@thecatherd Sprocket lol
Congrats 🎉
Congratulations on the new rugrat
Congrats on the new tiny person, and I hope you get some rest between all those feeds.
The Pine Honey we have here in the Black Forest ("Waldhonig") is much darker and has a quite strong pine note to it. I love it 😍
The one I tried also was much darker. It was very strong in Pine flavour and was actually difficult to enjoy on toast.
As a young adult with a ton of hobbies your channel always gives me a mix of comfort and motivation. I have a similar philosophy of treating things as a thinking. challenge It’s great to see what you do with their interests. Seeing how many things up dabble in gets me to focus on the things I want to be doing.
I love your channel because it reminds me of the old times when UA-cam was created. Your videos are not aimed strictly to generate profit, you're not filling them with sponsors and clickbaits. You are passionate about the things you do and it shows. I really like the variety of topics and it's surprising how you can make fun content sometimes out of things that may seem uninteresting at the first glance. Please keep up the good work! :)
It's difficult to find these channels amongst the noise lately. I miss the old YT days.
I've been watching your channel for a few years now and it really helped me appreciate nature and candid simplicity. As a teenager I'm offered a lot of pastimes that are very fast-paced and brightly colored; and while that's exciting, it's very comforting to know I can someday live like you. Thank you.
This channel has a similar feel to the Jack Hargreaves programmes from the 1960s and 1970s.
I love the Slaughter Valley saga. I share those videos with an English friend of mine from Swindon who has no idea of what you usually post and we both have a jolly old laugh.
Your channel just exudes comfort to me. There isn't a series of yours that I don't like even if I am normally not necessarily interested in the topic. Some of these I don't watch immediately but leave for special moments like the slow tv or random stuff segments - I like to watch those when I'm feeling particularly down and need a bit of a wholesome pick me up. Because of certain reasons I can't go out much so your channel is bit of a connection to the outside world to me, as well as a kinder world. I hope I can live in such a calm, wholesome manner one day. You're an inspiration.
Same here.. I totally get where you're coming from
He's always felt that like kind friend who tells you stories whenever he visits.
It’s midnight, and as soon as I read
“Slaughter Valley” I was ready to give up
Sleep in favor of watching this video.
🙂
I hope this smile is indistinguishable from
Genuine happiness. I’ve been practicing.
That last remark is SO Slaughter Valley - somehow I imagine that Slaughtercester City Council has a Happiness Enhancement Course (participation mandatory).
Jokes aside, I hope you will get better soon.
@@kimvibk9242
Oh, I’m all good!
I’m just sitting in my room drinking
A smoothie while it’s raining outside
🙂
The first time I saw your channel was on Reddit, when you made the video where you took a sample of water from a local creek and spent a while observing the things that grew in it. I subscribed so I wouldn't forget to check on updates about that project, and I've been a regular watcher ever since. I, like most of your other fans, enjoy the wide selection of topics that you cover. Also, I find your voice very pleasing and calming. You were one of the people who made the lockdown more tolerable for me. Thank you for all that you do.
Referring to the screws used to hold the glass panel in place, might I suggest that you use a small amount of temperature resistant copper grease ( as used to lubricate brake part’s in your cars) when you next do any maintenance work on the screws holding the glass panel in place.
Also may I suggest that when you are sowing your burdock seeds, you can expose the soil a little by either making shallow holes or cuts in the forest floor, or simply use your boot soles to scuffs clear spot so the seeds get the opportunity to contact the soil without obstacles.
Don't ever change your topics I'm happy with how eclectic your videos are.
"You have the power to change the world in tiny but positive ways." This is a great lesson.
I stumbled into your channel via Slaughter Valley, peered into your other content, became irrevocably bespelled, and have been a fan ever since.
Many of your videos transport me straight back to my childhood. I lived in Chicago and also spent three to six summer weeks a year with relatives in rural Missouri. In both areas I spent a lot of time wandering, looking for interesting things and people.
I found leading with "May I watch? I'll be quiet and stay out of the way." was an effective key into many rooms of the world. More often than not people would explain what they were doing almost as a reflex. I picked up an immense amount of eclectic information in this way.
"May I listen?" or "Is it okay if I sit over here?" were also effective ways of soaking up adult conversations when they assented.
I didn't understand much of what was said at first; my father (probably joking) advised me to read the paper before I went out. Starting at age eight I'd keep a notebook as I read so that I could follow up by going to the library and researching interesting or confusing topics.
(As a kid I noticed that barber shop banter, topics, concerns, passions, et cetera were often very similar in every neighborhood regardless of culture or race. That definitely influenced the way I interacted with the world at large.)
Pardon, I believe I am now rambling...
Back on point, when I found this channel it transported me straight back to those times and that mindset. Thank you for letting me watch and listen, sir. 😊
As a result of doing anything that interests you, your channel is a real museum of curiosities- I imagine as a typical visitor I find cabinet after cabinet of things I had no prior knowledge of or interest in- strangely intriguing & more often than not- surprisingly fascinating. Keep doing you.
❤️ i will watch almost all your videos because some of the things you cover I’d never have realised how interesting the specific thing is. Your taste is worth trusting!
"It's bee vomit based on scale insect poop" That is simultaneously the most disgusting, but factually true description of pine honey I think I will ever find, lol. Love videos like this, a bit random, a bit wonky, but always delivered with humor, humility and full of wisdom and knowledge, as only Mike can deliver. Hope you, Jenny and Eva are having a great year so far!
This made me want to order some. It takes all sorts.
This is actually quite common in parts of Germany, I used to enjoy the taste as a kid. I need to go on holidays in the Blackforest and pick up some!
@@johanneswerner1140 I wanted to taste some, after watching a post of Russion girl on that pine honey, but now that I've heard Mike's in-depth & scientific 👨🏼🔬 description... I'm not so sure, I still have the same craving... Lol... #KnowledgeIsPower 👩🏼🦰 Haha...
I don't usually comment, but this is one of my favorite channels. I enjoy the variety!
I thoroughly enjoyed your video of replacing your wood stoves glass.
It was quite calming to watch.
Excellent work.
This video was a delight. It's like hanging out with a cool neighbor on a Saturday. We had snacks, did a little diy...Re toast tax and dogs. It's apparently very normal. My childhood dog would sit on Dad's right, waiting for toast corners, most days, then come to me for more. But on days I had a Pop Tart he started with me. Apparently he preferred pastry to toast! Eva is such a lovely combination of energy and happiness. I always look forward to seeing her in your videos.
The astonishing power of true curiosity. That's what your channel always demonstrates for me. There are so very many things I've watched you do that I would never have sought out myself. And I watch because your genuine curiosity engages me! So please, please, please keep taking us along as you explore. A new Atomic Shrimp video always makes me cheer!
I love your diversity of your videos. Well done for fixing your burner door. Hopefully your burdock will flourish and you will soon being harvesting the stems and roots. Thank you for taking me along with you on your many strolls through our beautiful woodland. I often find videos you have posted which are a few years old and throughly enjoy them. I know I have plenty to view. Thank you for doing what you do and please don’t change. ❤
And now I need to find pine honey and replace the rope on my wood stove. Luckily, my glass is intact. Another delightful video, Mr. Shrimp.
We bought a stove in the summer, and I love it.
Every night we pop it on and open both our doors to the hall and dining room. The heat then keeps the whole house warm and no need for our heating to come on.
Our heating only comes on for an hour in the morning so I’m hoping our gas bill will be bearable.
Love your videos, so different from everybody else’s.
Mr Shrimp. Loved your positive comment section especially. You're always a joy to have on in the background whilst I'm working. Keep doing what you're doing. :)
You seem to be a person I would like to have a deep conversation with. I have been enjoying your videos few years now and everything about foraging, plants, making something or fixing is really interesting. You also have a very soothing voice.
Greetings from Finland. What comes to plants, I've picked and dried yarrow, blue berries, pineappleweed, raspberry leaves and lady's mantles last summer. Making like a home pharmacy. :)
Absolutely love slaighter valley. I wondered where you got all the footage. Great video 😁👍🏻
I was really looking forward to seeing your stove door repairs. You did a thorough and excellent job.
Lovely video, as always, so thank you! Glad to see you're enjoying the new property and country life. I grew up on a farm in Oregon (US) and really miss the warmth of a real wood fire and the comfort of nature. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences to everyone. Cheers!!
Wife and I love your videos. Always interesting and you come across as personable and likeable.
I always look at the videos on special occasions as if they were special sweets that I really appreciate 🌟
Chances are you won’t read this but I discovered your channel a few months ago and you have quickly become one of my favourites. I watch your videos daily and love the variety of interesting content. Thank you for what you do! Wonderful channel!
You have the most lovely, calming voice. Thanks for another great video, greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
Thank you for the insight into Slaughter Valley. I had been intrigued for a while, but that clears some things up.
Hope the move is going well!
All of your videos are brilliant regardless of, and thanks to, your interests. I look forward to another year of great viewing! Thanks for all you do! 🙂
Hiya Shrimp,
Your channel is an oasis of calm on a platform that's driven by drama and outrage, and it's always a joy. Glad your move went well, and looking forward to seeing what happens with the new plot of land. :)
I watched the stove door maintenance carefully because I have a woodstove door in similar shape, so thanks for that! If I may: I like how you don't repeat yourself, how your train of thought is organized (while the delivery is casual) and how you tend to speak in complete sentences. Nice.
On the comment positivity, I once read a story about a philosopher which ended in the moral "To change the world, start by doing the dishes for someone you love". Being an agent in the world means embracing the small ways we can help each other and in doing so, make the world better in our own bubbles of influence. If everyone did that to their bubbles of influence, the whole world would get brighter.
All that to say, I've had a very hard year in 2022 with some extremely painful and scary medical things I won't splurge on a UA-cam comment. One of the ways I kept sane was watching your channel. You made a massive impact on my life by helping me keep my head straight whilst waiting in A&E or for the results of a scary test and whilst recovering from surgery, and I really hope that one of my comments helped you in return.
I think the first video of your I watched was where you made butter with your hands, and I remember being grabbed in a way I haven't felt in years with a "I need to try this!" feeling! Since then I've been a big fan!
I really admire your passion for so many things. I don't feel like I'm trying to emulate or copy your personality, but to a certain degree you have certainly inspired me to try new things, DIY, gardening and cooking improvisation are all things I've now found that I enjoy way more than I thought I would. Thank you for enjoying life and sharing it with us, because in a small way you've helped me enjoy mine a little bit more!
Thank you- you’ve just reminded me I need to replace the rope in my very own Stovax5!
Great little stove which heats the whole house.
Tip- you may want to look into putting a fan on top which will not only help distribute heat further, but prevent damage to the internal workings if the stove overheats- I buckled my baffle through this and that’s not what anyone wants lol
DIY is my favorite youtube subject matter, so Atomic Shrimp doing DIY is like my favorite youtube channel doing my favorite youtube thing. Love it!
Delightful, as always. I grew up with both open fires in the house (fireplaces, not slow-burning units like you have) and a big wood-burning stove. Learning to light fires was an important part of living. (Things seem to have changed from this now, but then, I grew up in a very remote place.)
I spent the first half of my life studying STEM and computing, then ten years repairing and building computers-and now I write novels. Why am I explaining this? I can absolutely and 400% agree with the principal of avoiding too much of a topic lest you get stuck in the same tropes and ideas as others. I love inventing and exploring a topic unbound by others' opinions on it.
As always, Mr. Shrimp, I hope you have a wonderful day, and may your room be warmed without additional smoke ingress (though the council of elders of Slaughter Valley still maintain that you must burn a compliance pallet and inhale the smoke it produces daily).
Have you published novels? I’d love to read. I dabble in writing myself.
Thank you for providing insight into Slaughter Valley both in universe and out. The whole series has been very interesting.
Trick to get the fire going that helps particularly with small stoves: leave the door open slightly. It makes a strong draft that will cause the fire to reach towards the opening. Put logs in that path. Close when the stove is hot enough to keep the fire going on its own.
Ive stumbled upon this Channel recently. Ive never found a channel more soothing and relaxing than this one. I find this the best way to relax and de-stress before bed. Not only are you fascinating, kind, and very warm sounding. But you also make videos that inform, help me expand my thoughts, and bring interesting topics to my attention. Thankyou for this! Also please pet the dog for me :).
These videos are genuinely my favourite thing on youtube. Just wandering along with Internet Dad, listening and learning, safe and happy. Thank you.
Excellent mix of a perfect Saturday morning Atomic Shrimp mix. Thank you. I always learn something, and without exception your videos entertain. Slaughter Valley reminds me SO much of my childhood - both the world at large, and behind closed doors: plenty for me to process THERE. So that's the afternoon sorted, then.🙄😂😂😂
This is very likely one of my favorite channels to support. Your content is always fascinating. I love to see someone still embodying the spirit of UA-cam's "Broadcast Yourself" motto.
Thank you for making the videos that you do and sharing them with us.
The variety of your videos is what I enjoy most, after that, I'm here for the way you deliver the information. I'm genuinely delighted to see you make the move to a cottage where I hope you and the family are very happy.
Thank you sir Atomic Shrimp for all the interesting and entertaining videos! Seeing them show up in my subscription feed truly is one of the highlights of my UA-cam experience. I am so glad you are getting positive reinforcement through the nice comments - you deserve every bit of praise and more. Keep doing what you do, you are amazing! ♥
Well done with replacing the rope on your fire door ... remember having all sorts of trouble cleaning off excess goop when I tried. Keep up the great work 👍😀
Watching your videos is a favorite part of my Saturday mornings. Thank you for that!
I really enjoyed this video , thank you for making these videos. Your delight in making the different topics shines through as does your enthusiasm. Many of the films such as your log burner repair are informative as well as inspiring. I am glad you have a larger property to investigate and put to use. Looking forward to many hours of video time as you find exactly what you have there at shrimp cottage. Thanks to Jenny and Eva too
A thought I had about your variety of content, and how I enjoy and interface with it.
I do not enjoy scambaiting, I just find scammers so irritating. I have never been able to separate myself from this feeling enough to enjoy scambaiting without feeling overly irritated.
However, I do enjoy that scambaiting is something you do, and that others enjoy watching. Oddly enough, the references and jokes I really DON'T get, somehow add a sense of liveliness and variety. I find myself enjoying merely being adjacent to people who are enjoying themselves. It's a really lovely feeling, one I rarely find elsewhere.
I didn’t read the title or look at the run time (any time shrimp crops up in my sub feed I’m going to click it!) so I was only expecting a Saturday morning honey review. It was so great when I realised this was going to be a miscellaneous items episode!
The spring and summer is going to be wonderful and interesting now that you have your own bit of woods.
I have recently moved part time onto the tree farm that I own and enjoying getting to know the land, plants and how I can add to it in order to make the property a food forest.
Thank you for the background on Slaughterer Valley. I really enjoy those shorts and the production quality and artistry is remarkable
Huuuge shout out to Stovax, nice to see good customer support. And that they help the common man to do repairs themselves.
I am sick in bed today (first time since the lockdowns) waking up to one of your videos lifted up my mood.
You really have one of my favorite channels on UA-cam. Being in Canada 🇨🇦 I'm surprised at how much warmer you're climate is compared to Ontario Canada 🇨🇦.
And our climate is getting warmer and wetter.
Yes. I looked at a globe and was surprised at how north the UK is, and how moderate the climate.
@@ianbutler1983 Not all the time!
It made me so happy hearing that you have your own woodland now, a little jealous but I can't wait to see what you do with it 😁
Hey Atomic Shrimp, I really enjoyed the stove maintenance segment. As a fresh homeowner, I like to see how to fix stuff around the home. Even though, I don't own a stove or fireplace, I liked that you explained and showed how to maintain it properly. Could you reconsider what you said about not showing the small house improvement/maintenance projects on this channel?
I'm probably going to include one 'fix it' type segment in each of these monthly videos I reckon
We think you are the bomb! ... This is a good thing. In case the American euphemism is allusive. We are loving what you do , and that you hit so many different topics. And your research and experience comes together so well. Thank you for what you do. We are an Aussie and American married, living in Virginia America. You have made a beautiful channel.... :)
Your Slaughter Valley videos are my some of my favorites, love them so much!
Hi Atomic Shrimp, as a Hampshire-born Yorkshireman, of nearly your age, currently travelling in Central America, your videos are the perfect tonic for homesickness. You have the same M&S crockery as me. The comparison with Jack Hargreaves a month or so ago wasn't wrong. Your videos are what historians will be looking at in several hundred years. Thank you for what you do
As a fellow serial skill seeker I highly appreciate your variety of topics, and expanding my interests! My brain works like yours does, with a high variety of somewhat overlapping interests, and I found this broader approach to be actually very useful because skills can translate to unrelated areas - in sometimes unexpected ways!
Your videos are an excellent way to showcase this, besides the clear care you take in your video production and sound quality, the content quality and consideration for other people's places in life or lived experiences taken into account is wonderful, and you make it feel like it's a given. But it doesn't *feel* overproduced or inflated. You still take us with you on your journeys, in your kitchen and garden or woodlands. It's like watching along with yer dad or uncle or good neighbour working on his projects.
I know how much brainwidth and effort it can take to feel like you're just "taking us along", and it feels like a given from you, but it is still thoroughly appreciated.
When the rope came up short the first time. My god, the stress. When the rope stretched and fit, the pure relief.
You are an inspiration to most of us who subscribed here. To explore things interesting, to love nature, to do manually things if it brings joy and accomplishment. Also you are here to highlight bad actors online. I am honestly thankful you are here for all of us showing an attitude to life and still being a human being respecting all living. You have made me move out more often and get into mushrooms and discover it together with my 11y old daughter. We explore them, take a picture of them and leave until we fully capable to recognise them. She loves every moment. My dad who I have lost at 8yr old was a forest engineer teaching me how much to respect the forest and nature in general (because I am only a visitor he said) and how animals will always know my presence before I am aware. I am still missing him to this day, but your videos are ringing the same bells in my mind about "living and respecting and only take what you consume to keep nature and it's all habitats intact". He was my role model in that regard and you over the years I've followed your channel came very close to his view of nature and living. Thank you for being here! Have a lovely 2023.
When we were younger, we used to go once a year into the pine forest and gather budding pinecones before they've had a chance to mature, become hardened like wood etc. At that stage of their growth, they look long and needly almost like the "leaves" of the pine trees, but they're super infused with pine resin. So you gather a few big bags of these young pinecones, boil them in water as you'd do any fruit, add sugar and put them in jars for the winter. It's the most delicious thing ever - goes well with pretty much anything normal honey would go well with, especially pancaksed and french toasts. It's great, because it has a mild or medium bitter flavor to it, with extreme taste/arome of pines, that clashes with the sugar content of the pine honey syrup and you get all the taste and almost none of that too sweet feeling from eating normal honey, fruit jam or similar things.
We'd also do similar syrup using dogwood fruits when they're red and sour. It's the best. Sourness + sweetness + fruitiness in one, but again the sweetness is not overwheling and it enhances anything you put it on, especially pancakes and french toast.
Man, I miss those days, haven't eaten a good jam like those two in a decade. I know you're into trying these types of wild foraging recipes, and those two jams are probably the best nature has to offer.
I've filmed ants harvesting from aphids. It's really interesting to watch them, they approach the aphid and tickle it's back and it responds by releasing a drop of sugar water. In return the ants don't eat the aphids and in fact defend then somewhat by putting off other aphid predators.
The aphids have apparently o evolved so that their rear end resembles the face of an ant. To the extent that ants 'think', they think they are being fed by another ant
@@AtomicShrimp 😂 "... have you got a match..." 😂
Mike and Eva and Jenny and commentatoristers. Whenever you make these collections I lightly look over 🔍 the contents and kind of decide what might be most interesting to me. I enjoyed everything this time, which is a delight. I had never heard of pine honey, but love contemplating on the fact that what we sometimes eat is excretious, shades of Kona Koffee. Maintenance of an appliance I will never own was decidedly fascinating. Planting seeds to be able to uproot and enjoy eating appeals to all my interests. Being Kind to others is one of my central values. And last but certainly NOT least is your surrealist gem. Surrealism, when done properly, should make dream like connections and I was ready to list a ton of other works of art it made me think of (good job), but, as you asked us not to list a lot of useless stuff, I'm being nice about it 😆, Excellent job my friend. For me this was one of your triumphs. Thank you JIM Oaxaca Mexico
While I'm here and I just finished the end of the video , for me it's reminiscent of The Prisoner, Tarkovsky's Stalker and the Midwich Cuckoos. All very dystopian and disturbing. I love it.
One of your talents is to make very obscure things really interesting.
Nice work on the stove! It is amazing when we encounter actually helpful customer service. It would be nice to see the new stove used to cook something.
Awesome videos! I found this channel via your hilarious scambaiting videos. I'm a big fan of the slaughter valley series, foraging, cooking, walking to islands by foot and your other random projects such as retracing the route of the old railroad tracks in that lovely village. I particularly enjoy your collaborations with Babatunde from Africa Everyday as well. Thanks for the wonderful videos! Happy new ears!👂👂
I absolutely love the randomness of the topics and the varied interests covered in these videos. The multifaceted variety of the videos is what keeps me coming back video after video. That, combined with the delightful narration, is a winning combination.
Have always loved your channel format, it's like a magazine that contains articles on a variety of subjects and like a magazine if there's an article I'm not that interested in I can skip it knowing that there are others that I'm very interested in.
Although not a fan of the Slaughterhouse series I can appreciate the work involved and that others will appreciate it. No clickbait, no sensational headlines just honest to goodness stuff. Thank you for your time and effort.
Your a very talented man, and it shows in your work. Thank You.
Fantastic, it's 2am and I need something to watch. Thanks!
The Fray Bentos pie tin as a screw container instantly reminded me of Big Clive and his Explosion Containment Pie dishes.
I love your videos and I love everything you cover. I may not be able to watch every video all the time, but eventually I get to it. You have opened my eyes and taught me a lot of things. You've taught me more things than my dad ever did. Even though we're from different countries and different cultures, we do have some stuff in common and its amazing. Thank you for being here.
I've always liked the fact that I know your videos are random subjects, means it's never gets old because there is always something different watch, even if it's something I wouldn't normally be interested in but I still watch to learn something new
I have something similiar to pine honey, it's forest honey, basiclly honey made in forest, it has some flowery notes and subtle woody, sprucy or piny aftertaste without any citrusy notes. It's very dark compared to other honies. It's quite delicious on the piece of toast.
I think these are two names for basically the same thing. Pine honey may be more "pure", coming from monocultures.
In German we also call it "Waldhonig", forest honey.
I really was expecting Slaughter Valley to be some kind of allegory for the real world.
Ah well. It's still an enjoyable thing to watch.
Thanks for compiling random bits into videos. That's my favourite type of videos to watch.
For some reason I love the 'editing shrimp' face appearance with Eva too. It's like some mystical higher being with the faded edge. I have only seen this a few times in videos but I already love it!
Ditto @BearMugs I love the little picture
Just wanted to add a timestamp for future reference: 23:46
Love all your videos Mr Shrimp and reading the comments adds to the entertainment.
Another wonderful diversion, practical & entertaining, thank you. I bought some 'forest honey' from Aldi. Slaughter valley reminded of 70s childhood in Britain, dangerous toys, school television, public information films, the prisoner. I liked the inspiration & ideas - ah Scarfolk must be just over the imaginary county border. I had not heard of the genre analog horror. The practical spoiler was not required, although generous of you to share, never let daylight in on magic! You are super creative.
Dear Atomic Shrimp, it has been quite a
While since I have smiled as wide as
I did when I saw that you hearted my
Previous comment, so thank you.
I might cry.
Hey Arwen have a ❤from me if it helps. You may well have found your tribe, welcome friend.
I'm really enjoying the comment positivity section. It's so nice to see positive, constructive things in the world.
A pleasure as ever, I almost wish I hadn't watched the slaughter valley explanation now. Thanks for the content.
Thank you so much for the explanation of your Slaughter Valley vids, which I enjoy. Now I see your process is just another outgrowth of your foraging habit. Like a foraged soup, SV can vary or even change completely by what you find.
Thank you also for acknowledging the influence of positive comments. I don’t understand people’s reluctance to leave them or “hit the like button.” The ratio of views to “likes” on even very popular videos I enjoy always surprises me. Do people feel they get a limited number?
The stove maintenance was fascinating, I really enjoyed the fact that you diy it explaining every step. I don’t own a metal stove. I’m disabled and therefore even if I did own a mental stove it is impossible I could even do this maintenance myself, yet none the less fascinating. I love this channel so much for the variety and depth of content. It’s like my own personal tv channel with all my favourite programmes in one.
Bit late, but best wishes for 2023, Mr Shrimp.
These videos are genuinely relaxing on a Saturday or Sunday morning and they inspire me to be curious about certain topics i would normally not give a second thought.
This is the first time I’ve watched one of your videos with a comment positivity section. What a lovely idea. “You have the power to have an effect on other people’s mental health” - right back at you! There’s a good reason why I keep coming back and watching your videos, even the ones where the topic doesn’t seem like it’s going to interest me at first. It’s nice to be reminded to be interested in the world around you, and that’s what I get out of all of these vids. So, thanks for that 🎉
I've been trying to get myself in the habit of doing regular youtube content for many many years, but have always been worried about trying to find "my one thing" to do. But echoing your comment about the variety you make videos of, definitely helps me feel safer to just experiment and have fun and just focus on what I want to do rather than what I think other people would like.