What's in the SECRET ROOM? Cleaning out the Forgotten Room at our 300-year-old Scottish Farmhouse!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2023
- This week we clean out a neglected, forgotten room at the farmhouse. Plus life work continues at our remote Scottish homestead. Living in Scotland!
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I have a chronic disease and i am housebound - i have been following all your videos but i particularly love seeing you at home I miss outdoors so seeing you working together makes me so happy.Thank you. 😀
i hope you can get out a bit, somehow.
I'm also housebound from chronic illness and channels like this keep me sane! I hope you have some better days coming your way soon
Such hard working women. I love seeing Alex tackle anything and brave enough to try something new.😊
Man oh man…That is some gorgeous country where you live. No wonder you’re both always so happy.
My thoughts while watching Alex pulling things out of the pots reminded me of my mom's favorite quote. "Where there is a will there is a way." Being a home owner of any house is a full time job. I can only imagine taking care of your house and grounds.
Yes, Alex and I had quite some trouble wrestling with that poor tree and rose 😅
You ladies never cease to amaze me! Your videos are so interesting and I look forward to each one!! 💝💝
We live in a small cottage with a hundred foot garden and I find that hard enough,can’t imagine how you both manage but you do and are making a very good job of it x
ABSOLUTELY love watching your videos!!!
You ladies sing beautifully. 🎶🎵🥰
Thank, but it's not us singing x
The flower, plants and yard look great. Your hard work is showing. Your back kitchen and craft rooms will be just as great soon. Thank you for sharing!
I love gardening my first Job was working in a green house when I in 4 grade works for him for 8 years until he died back in the 60’s he taught me a lot.❤
We admire people more that take care of what they have, than those who complain about what they have not being worth taking care of. Thankx for the upload
Love this channel, it’s down to earth, not pretentious at all and breath of fresh air. Thank you gals, well done, lots of hugs from Airdrie, Canada.
Love the Simon and Garfunkel song. One of my favorites
We love it. It’s a cover of a very old tradition ballad from North East England. Although they pronounce “Scarborough” incorrectly 😅
Just found your channel. Quickly becoming an early morning fave. Love your music choices. Hello from Australia.
Glad you put another vid out Gail and Alex I love the mudlarking ones but these lost tower ones bring my childhood memories back of visiting my Uncles farm in Yorkshire. I have always loved this style of living the country air comes through the screen. Loving so much what you do.
I want to play lol. Retired master painter and I love this kind of stuff 😊❤
Hi Alex and Gail your a super team 👍
Watching this makes me think of my Mom💖& how I treated her.Anybody else?Every Mom💖should have a daughter like Alex💖👏👍😎 #teamwork?& the dream works!. 😊
Your hard work is paying off. Things are looking great. God bless you both
Wow you two live in just such a beautiful little corner of the world ❤
You both have great teamwork and obviously get things organized and finished. Loved watching the secret bedroom being sorted.
Your work on the house & grounds is never ending. Each project leads to another project. I wonder if you will plant a garden under Chicken Wire? so you can have more than just letuce.. Good Work! ~ I put house plants in bird cages to prevent my cats from eating them & getting sick. It Works!
The shwoos are so beautiful together in their little family, it really warms my heart. So glad White Shwoo isn't alone anymore, poor dear.
I thinkj White Shroo is one of Brown Shroo's chicks.
@@fairyacorn4854yes but there was an original white Schwoo who sadly went missing leaving brown Schwoo lonesome… hence Alex bought some eggies for brown Schwoo to sit on and hatch! 😊
You two are a force to be reckoned with! Up with woman power! ❤
Loved the Nancy Drew style thumb nail:)
I just love your home. A work in progress. Will be very lovely when your done
"I need a cow's jaw, I'll keep it in my room." Hahaha!
Its true when they say that women's work is never done.
I saw they caught the culprits that cut down the sycamore tree. 🌳
I think putting veggies into a cage to deter animal incursions is brilliant. I don't know whether I would have thought of that (perhaps because I haven't done much gardening), but as soon as I saw Alex setting it up I knew exactly what her purpose was. 👍
Good luck. My girls would definitely fit their heads in there, though
@@domenicas.2645 - It kind of looks to me like the Shwoos' heads might fit through there too, but Alex is smart, I reckon she would have thought of that. 🤔
I put old bird cages over my seedlings. The possums here in Australia will decimate any seedlings overnight. Even chilli seedlings.
I bet that room will look just adorable when you get through. Can't wait for that adventure.😊
the pet cage idea is brilliant! We have squirrels and they wipe out our veggies.
Perfect place to live in peace
I absolutely love "Scarborough Fair."❤❤❤❤
I love the wire cage to protect lettuce. Ingenious idea!
A satisfying days work when you clear out something that’s been annoying you,. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you so very much for a most enjoyable video. 🌸💕
A lot of work but I think the back kitchen will look lovely and be very practicable
Ladies a little tip. Before taking an old plant out of a pot...water it first. That way the roots release and the dirt becomes soft making it easier to remove from the pot.
🙋♀️❤️. I'm so glad you saved the parrot cage! And of course Alex must have the jaw! Lol!
I have to congratulate you on your contribution to compost sales this year! 😁
Dear lovely Ladies of the lost tower.
👍👌👏 This is such a wonderful video, nice and calm. I absolutely love the harmony between you two. By the way: Alex, your singing is simply angelic. Additionally you performed one of my favourite songs. I'm eagerly looking forward to watch a series about the modification of the little room. A sink and shelves etc. are reasonable will be quite helpful.
Thanks a lot for making explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards, luck and health in particular. To both of you of course.
The rearrangement of trees and flowers are hard enough, but you ladies do everything! I remember my dad always getting me outside to help him take can of some small projects when I was around 10 years old. Back then it was fun learning from him, but when I started in my teens he would always tell me to remember the lawn. Don’t forget the weeds around the house. Don’t forget we will be cutting branches off shrubs and bushes all around our yard. 😮 Boy, by the time I was married and out of the house, I was happy. Then I found out not only did I go and help him on the weekends, I also had to do my own property. My ex- husband wouldn’t do anything. Great work ladies! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜
Thank goodness that there are two strong women living in your home or nothing would get done!
"I need a cow jaw!"
Of course you do. Everybody shold have a cow jaw!
But, mom, I need a cow jaw! Its very important. Gotta love quirky Alex😂
It’s been many a year since I heard anyone mentioning a ‘back Kitchen’. I suppose they’re ‘Laundry rooms’ now. We always had a kitchen and back kitchen.
You can use the parrot cage to put vegetables into as well!
I just love watching all your videos
If you put a French drain around the back perimeter of the back kitchen, it wicks away moisture from the foundation. It's most likely the same amount of labor, just need to buy the pipes and cheese cloth and get the drainage angle correct.
Great little room to fill with bottles ☺
Why do I feel a little guilty watching y’all work
❤️🤟🏼✌🏼🖖🏼😎
You're both amazing and your home is gorgeous. So many rooms and so much land is incredible but no doubt also means a lot of work. I love both your channels. Rachelle, Australia x
That back room would make a brilliant mud room too so you can take off your muddy boots and coats and not get mud in the house though as it is a farm you might already have one
Is that you ladies singing? It sounds like your voices. I wouldn't doubt it as you ladies can do anything and do it well. Love this channel.
If you ever wonder where you driveway? It is in the bottom of your flower pots. 😳 perfect for drainage I agree. Poor driveway is looking barren. 😂
I need a Cow Jaw! I love it that Alex said that. Love your music and this channel. You two ladies are great.
Save your money , don't go to the skip just throw it over the back fence!! Gail and Alex of 4089ad. will love to find and reuse.
LOL!! jumped out of my chair as the smoke alarm was going off!! UMM, no, Gail, charging batteries!!
You two women are incredible! ❤❤❤❤
Aw, thank you! xx
That lil' cart is getting quite a work out. It was a great buy.
Every video I watch makes me realize how lazy I am! Good job ladies 🦚
Love you ladies y’all will get there.Just an old man from Mississippi.
Little tip on the lettuce if you have any Copper wire then put around the outside of that pot, slugs hate it, failing that, glue old copper coins around or on top of rim. The little room will be so handy when done as well, xxxx Love this new channel so subbed and thumbs up, xxxx Dede
Love these video’s. Lots of hard work you two do❤️
Oooh that squeaky barrow. Mine was like this once and I couldn't find the oil anywhere,so I put a dollop of petroleum jelly on it. Yay. Bingo. Lol 😆
Very good idea in using the cage to have lettuce growing in there to protect it from the shwoos. Watching you two do garden work has also inspired me on to do work in my garden. Even if it is a little at a time. It will be good to see things get back in shape. 🌱🌷
Watched this again it is so good! (24th Oct.) Lovely with Scarborough Fair. UK
Have you ever seen any ghosts in a 300 year old house? This version of Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme is so beautiful. Is there a link to the artists? Could you put a French drain outside the little room to keep the water out?
Putting the lettuce in the cage is a great idea. I will try that, i have deer.
In another video you had plastic pots, another good reason, is can hold the water longer. Where i live thats a plus.
Done all this in the Scottish Highlands. Converted an old croft, including animal room, and "barn" not that much hard work and beautiful area on the West coast, but drove me mad with the lack of "other" things to do.
Oh, how I miss nettles. Did you know they are a herbal property to them? There are several utube videos about them. Best to use the young leaves in the early spring. I learned so much from the Alaskan Natives while living threre.
When repotting or transplanting soak the containers in water the seedlings or shrubs come out a lot easier and don't damage the roots.
You were both busy.That small room will make a perfect laundry and storage room,and give space to fold your washing too.Brilliant idea.Also a good place to store wellies,you can come in that way and take them off in ther and clean them if necessary.if you could get a radiator in there ,you could even dry washing in there on one of those ceiling driers ,the washing would drier faster,but with no heat,I know these old houses are freezing as I owned one with the thick walls,as the cold can radiate of the walls themselves .Love n Light 🥰
I love this channel! Vicki
Great video and I love the music y’all play
Lassies, you are my fav vids at the moment.... I can't wait to see you make full use of your back kitchen...as always huge huggles from falkirk central scotland ❤
Cool! You are inspirations. Always busy! And enjoying yourselves to boot.
I love these videos. I especially loved the song Scarborough Faire... Scarborough is my maiden name. 😊
Just saying, you will need some plumbing for the extra kitchen. Brilliant idea though, keep on the good work, I admire you both very much.
If you cut one side of banana place 3 spent buds into the banana, place in a pot water and cover with plastic. 2,-3 months you should have 3 more roses. I will leave this hint with you.
You could plant out that bird cage with succulents. My sister did one and it’s beautiful.
My I ask who was singing Scarborough Fair it was beautiful x
Love your video as usual! 🥰
A loved my twin tub washing machine, washing was out on clothes line in an hour. I'm the same washing out then on clothes horse, can't beat fresh air smell especially bed sheets. Great vlog again ladies 👍
Who are the folk singers in your music background, the voices sound like it could be you two lovely ladies. ❤️❤️
Always put some broken up crock in the bottom or old polystyrene in the bottom of any pots so you use less compost xx
That Alex singing?! It's lovely! I look forward every week to watching both videos - Northern Mudlarks and this one. Keep up the good work ladies .... you're awesome!
Hi Gail and Alex, you are both so hard-working. I have never seen a mother and daughter quite like that before. I love the closeness you share. That spare room will be great when done. Perhaps some paving right around the house might help the damp as well. Just a thought. Thanks and love to all.
I love how hard working you & your Mother! Everything you do turns out beautiful so it’s worth the hard work! My favourite thing ever Is your beautiful Peacocks 🦚 l love them ❤
It’s really inspiring to see you tackling those junk areas ! I’m much like Alex and would find a place for a cow Jaw ! I need to tackle some jobs like these . Thank you as ever for your wonderful channels 🙏
Is that Alex singing the song? It’s beautiful 😻
I would have kept some of the items you were throwing away, for instance, corrugated metal comes in handy for roofing and other projects.
I noticed you were putting stones in the bottom of your pots, and that's good. What not is good though, you did not rinse them first. Always, always, always put your stones/pebbles in a sifter first, and rinse thoroughly with a hose. This way, you'll remove any seeds that might be hiding with the stones, thus preventing them from going into the pot and stealing nutrients away from your main plant. ALSO, you should wash the inside of your pots as you would wash your dishes. This prevents microscopic bugs from destroying your plants. Rinse thoroughly to remove all suds. --I worked in Landscaping/Gardening for 30+ years. I call this 'The Trick of the Trade'.
I Love your house and land. 😊
We will throw out whatever we feel necessary. The corrugated material was made of tar and had degraded. All of our potted plants have always done fine =)
I just love following your process, and progress. Love your home. It is a whole lot of work for you but I would imagine it is also very rewarding. I am in awe of you.
Its always nice to know other people have a junk room too. Nice to see you pot up the roses and give the lettuces a new home in fresh compost. I hope they serve you well. Well done girls keep up the good work. Love to all.
I have been meaning to ask you, Alex, if you sing the songs that play in some of your videos? If not the girl that sings sounds very much like you. You girls have the hard working gene! Talking of cleaning out the shed, we have to do our garage. I think in the next couple of weeks it will be cool enough to get in there and get it organized again. Have a lovely week and thanks for sharing.
No she doesn’t
Isn’t it ironic that watching you two labor relaxes me?! I am loving this channel!
My house is only 93 years old and quite small. It keeps me very busy, though. Your old house will keep you in project for a long time. Enjoy the charm of it. Blessings!
Love getting to see inside your beautiful home, a real privilege x
This tree being a Sycamore, I know a spot for you to plant it along Hadrian's wall...
So sad to hear about the loss of such a beautiful tree!
Hi! I love your Lost Tower diaries. The beauty and the pace and the companionable way you work together are truly heartwarming. I was just wondering if the 'tanking' you have in mind for the wall is compatible with lime plaster? My understanding is that lime plaster inside and lime render outside would allow the wall to breathe, whereas tanking will just push the damp up the wall to the point where the tanking stops. At least, that's what it does in my house! Above the tanking we inherited, sadly the wall is damp.
Hard working Warrior Women, on yet another mission. Another victory!😊
Nothing more exciting than waking up and seeing you have a new video out! Yay could watch you both all day!
The milkhouse xx