Does Jago realise that a law is being broken in this video? Since by law if you can catch a Grey Squirrel (Rat with good PR) you are required by law to kill it. Since Grey Squirrels are on the vermin list. But then this video would not be You Tube friendly. 😀
Jago Hazzard's mid-video adverts for his sponsors are better than a lot of people's entire videos. Thanks, Jago. You are the persistent squirrel to my snowy park.
Very nice! Thank you for this and for all your videos of 2022. As seen here, you really do have an eye for composition in the frame and for the turn of a phrase!
Excellent work young man, I have a small pond in my garden, I was working in notting Hill last year 2021 when I was told my beautiful daughter had passed away, I instinctively left work and sat by the Kyoto pool and instantly found peace , I humbly thank you for your sympathetic view on this gem in the heart of our brilliant mad House of London .I shall shortly join the growing list of patreons or whatever they are called , ✌️
Holland Park takes its name from the 1st Earl of Holland, who lived in Holland House and gave it its' name. His title referred to the Parts of Holland, which is a region of Lincolnshire.
One winter in the 1990s my wife and I were in London: whatever we were meant to be doing, it ended up as a survey of the behaviour of the squirrels of the London parks. In Regent's Park we met a classic squirrel: eat one peanut, then take the next and bury it in a flower bed; repeat until the humans leave. In Kew Gardens, a squirrel came up and put its weightless cold feet on our fingers; we gave it a peanut, and it stayed, explaining that it was a two-nut squirrel, and when we gave it another nut, it pouched the two in opposite cheeks and ran off. In Hyde Park they were all over the place: a woman was feeding some, but the others ran up her coat and into the pocket where the nuts were (we also saw a strikingly elegantly turned-out Chinese woman teaching her daughter to feed birds--seed on palm of hand, extend arm to full extent, and wait in quiet stillness--London is great for unexpected moments like that). In St James's Park (? apostrophe in that toponym), in the morning I swear the squirrels were striking poses for photographs, but we came back in the afternoon and no squirrels--evidently they do so well in that part of town they only have to work mornings. In Greenwich, just behind the Maritime Museum, a squirrel climbed up a wall and saw us. It must have done the squirrel equivalent of shouting "PARTY!!" because we were soon pursued by an unruly mob. Thanks for all the videos, and have a wonderful 2023.
@@typhoidtyphoon You could do worse, and it would be an opportunity to practise Attenborough voice. ? a UA-cam channel? BTW, at Bury St Edmunds we were practically mugged by a pair of squirrels as we went into the ruins of the Abbey--they just stood on their hind legs and demanded nuts.
@@typhoidtyphoon IME, peanuts are the thing. When I discovered that the squirrels at Bury St Edmunds were charging admission to the ruins of the Abbey, I discovered two other things: there aren't many places to buy nuts in Bury, and those don't have stock a big range; squirrels (at least, mob squirrels in Bury) don't eat cashews. Never had a raw peanut refused, though.
Well, they do have pretty sharp claws and teeth. If the little bugger made contact with Jago's skin, he probably would've wanted to get checked out (might've required a tetanus shot).
@@andyjay729 Like my dad trying to feed a nut to a squirrel in Greenwich Park and get photographed. The stranger struggled with Dad's camera, the squirrel got impatient and bit the nut and Dad's thumb, and a jet of blood spurted out. Life lesson; sweet furry creatures are not always as docile as they look. "Nature, red in tooth and claw ..."
There's also a Maizuru garden in Portsmouth, donated by the city of Maizuru, which is home to a Japanese Naval Base. I'm not entirely sure if Maizuru has a Portsmouth garden but I like the image of a bunch of Samphire and Seaweed growing on lumps of chalk somewhere in a Japanese park.
My dad used to smoke Holland House tobacco in his pipe. Very fragrant: very like the smell of the drying silage-grass on my father-in-law's farm. No squirrels there; they learn quickly, if you know what I mean... Happy New Year again!
A very nice way to end the year, thanks, a very nice garden that. The squirrel did remind me of the occasion when in a completely unprovoked attack, a squirrel attacked me in Hyde Park (and that's not a euphemism) as I was reading a noticeboard. The "blighter" came up to me from behind and bit or scratched me on the leg. Ouch.
There are squirrels right outside my flat most days, possibly because I'm not far from Newsham Park. The local cats (including Snuggles who visits me every day) watch them but generally seem to recognise they've no chance catching one. The ones across the Mersey in Birkenhead Park are, ahem , "handy". If you offer one a peanut its reaction is usually "Oo, lunch! And it comes garnished with a peanut, yummy!"
Hello Jago, Now come on the real reason you were in Holland Park was to have “Close Encounters of The Furred Kind” I always look forward to your videos, thank you for all your work making them. I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas and wish you a Happy New Year. Best wishes from Oxfordshire.
Goodness! I walked a little way into there from the direction of Kensington High Street and had no idea I'd have found this if I walked a little further.
During lockdown I had no garden or balcony and this park was my saviour. I spent many hours there at all times of the day. My favourite place in London
I admire your fortitude squire. Braving the clearly harsh winter, well, harsh by southern standards, weather. What with the monsoon rain in your previous presentation, snow in this! One can only wait with baited breath as to what 2023, and the Met Office, has to offer! 😊
It’s no accident that Tokyo is a phonetic anagram of Kyoto, since the 2 kanji for Tokyo (東京) mean east capital, the successor to Kyoto (京都) with these 2 kanji meaning capital metropolis. Tokyo was a contrived name to keep the phonetic sounds of the Kyoto name in the name of the new capital, even though one of the kanji is a homonym.
I also need to point out that Tokyo was called Edo during Shogunate, and was only renamed Tokyo when Imperial Court moved there from Kyoto as a result of Meiji restoration.
How happy I am to see this video. I've been visiting Holland park since childhood, way back in the 1970's. It really is an oasis of calm away from busy Kensington High Street. There used to be an adventure playground there, and the Commonwealth Institute, now both gone. The ruins of Holland Park House are used as an open air theatre. As a youngster me and my friends used to play on the stage, we pretended we were putting on our own play. It's a beautiful park, so many happy memories, thank you Jago for this video. Happy New Year!
The adventure playground was fantastic. You could also play table tennis for a few pence if I remember correctly. The height of the wooden walkways ( no hand rails) would cause an outbreak of health and safety officers hyperventilating... Happy memories
@@JagoHazzard We had a school trip to the Commonwealth Institute back in primary school days. I guess times have changed, and a lot of the Commonwealth countries are less close to the UK now.
@@JagoHazzard oh definitely - it is/was a very interesting place. The roof was made of copper, so around when I was born, it was a glowing copper-bronze colour, but then gradually changed to green and then I fancy finally black (or was it the other way round) - anyway the point is it gradually got attacked by first the Nitreous Oxide, and then the oxygen, and thus was in a constant state of chemical flux - unlike the exhibition inside - which never seemed to change much - although again that may just be my memory.
I agree. In the 1960's I attended a small school just off Kensington High Street - called Allendale run by the gloriously eccentric Miss Jenkins & Miss Todd. They used to take us to the park almost daily, walking in a crocodile up Allen Street and along the High Street. In fact there is now a bench to the memory of the late Miss Jenkins on the terrace just outside the Orangery.
About 25 years ago, I was in the area and saw a crowd gathering at the Kensington High Street entrance to Holland Park, with police also in attendance. I ventured over and asked what was going on. A policeman told me that Her Majesty The Queen was coming to pay a visit to the Commonwealth Institute, which was in the park. Sure enough that wonderful lady came and walked passed me no further than six feet away.
Thank you Jago for a fine video. I found the garden quite by chance this summer. I had come to the park to visit the Design Museum and spotted a signpost to the garden. It is a wonderful place, well worth a visit.
When I was a kid, back in the 60s, Holland Park had a great Adventure Playground, which essentially we could construct ourselves using found timber, rope, tyres, old cars, nails, saws, hammers etc. I seem to remember we could also have fires. Happy days. Later the park got over-run with rabbits, people had rabbits as pets back then, then discovered they didn't make good pets after all, and released them in the park. Presumably someone then made them into pies? Anyhoo, interesting to see squirrels have now taken over from rabbits. Like the parakeets in Kensington Gardens? Thanks for all the fun in 2022 Jago, and have a great 2023. I'm sure you could sneak in a couple more videos before the New Year, "Go on, go on, go on…"
That was a very close squirrel encounter! Thank you for all your wonderful videos in 2022. I am looking forward to all the new videos in 2023 (and your beautiful and relaxing voice). Wishing you a happy new year!
What a lovely place to end the year. For me it is also the scene of some of my very earliest memories dating from around 1960 or 61... although as you explained the addition of the Japanese gardens is more recent. Back in my day it was a muddy woodland, leading to a ramshackle adventure playgound that I was always far too scared to use. Strangly however the Peacocks are an original feature from those earlier days, and I have photos of a very young, and slightly anxious, me being chased by one in the early 60's. I don't recall the Squirels ever being that friendly however, so I expect that was just for you - for some reason they must have liked you! Anyway - Happy New year indeed Jago.
Thank you for a wonderful year of entertainment. You are the delight to my UA-cam viewing (hmm - it that's harder than you think). All the best for 2023.
You know what they say about squirrels. But since you're bound to read it 1000 times in the comments below I just stick with "Happy New Year from Belgium'. Thanks for your hard work and dedication. Your videos are the mayonaise on my fries.
Happy New Year, a fabulous video and a way to see out the New Year.All the best to you and your loved ones. Looking forward to what you can do in 2023. All the best. Alex.
Talking about squirrels, in my previous home, they seem to have figured out a way to get into the attic. I had an unwanted family and the noise they made chewing up the insulation for nesting was so deafening that I had to sleep downstairs. Eventually, I got the exterminators in and a few well-aimed air gun pellets did the trick. However, all my neighbors then started getting squirrels in the attics as well. The fact that all our houses were constructed in exactly the same way probably did not help, but I always wondered if the squirrels were organising some kind of secret night school to pass on the savoir-faire of breaking into attics..
Thank you Jago for all your excellent work in 2022, it is a constant source of fascination away from the maddening world, have a great new year and see you in 2023
Thanks. That was lovely. Made me think of my dear friend Alan Merrill who knew Kyoto very well, having lived in Japan for years before moving to London- Campden Hill Gardens on the corner of Aubrey Walk puts him in that general area. Lost him to covid in March 2020. Other places I associate with him are Berkeley Square, Charles Street, The only running Footman, and 335 Nell Gwynn House (where he wrote "I Love Rock n Roll") He loved Arisugawa Park in Tokyo very much. I'm sure he would have loved this
The Kyoto Garden is a lovely spot away from the hurly burly of Kensington High Street - I always make a point of visiting when in the area. Like you Jago, I also experienced the attentions of a forward squirrel - fortunately not climbing up my trouser leg but doing a thorough “bag search” of my rucksack reminiscent of airport security.
It's often very busy here. It's also worth looking at the Japanese garden in White City and the small forgotten about Japanese garden in Regent's Park. The one in White City has a bit of history.
Watch out they’re after your nuts! I’ve not heard of Kyoto garden, as a Londoner I hang my head in shame. I’ve visited the pagoda in battersea. This garden Looks lovely i must visit when I’m next back in my hometown. As someone who considers themselves a Londoner well versed in all things London i can still learn from Jago. Really looking forward to what he has in stock, rolling stock perhaps, for 2023. Happy new year Jago.
A great video to end the year. A Year where you have produced many wonderful stories and experiences, where we have all learnt a lot. Happy New Year from Singapore sir. May 2023 bring you much happiness, peace, good health and prosperity.
Your videos are always entertaining but your reaction and comments of the squirrels made my day. I think you have found your calling, you are the next David Attenborough and I look forward to more videos and your encounters with animals 🤣
Thank you for so many enlightening, interesting, and funny videos this past year, and here's to many more in 2023. They're always something to look forward to. Happy New Year, or as we say in Austria, Guten Rutsch & Prosit Neujahr!
This is among my favorites of your vlogs, and I will have to look into how many of my favorites are of this impromptu variety. I guess I just like what you do with London, an idea, a camera and a script as raw materials. Thanks, again.
I did a very nice 'Park Walk' a few years back. Started at Holland Park, went through and on to Kensington Gardens. Through there and across Hyde Park, then through Green Park and across St James Park down to the river.
I will “squirrel” away the information in this entertaining video. And as a lover of squirrels I so want to visit Holland Park and be entertained 🐿️👏👏👍😀 Happy New Year Jago. 🎉
A nice relaxing video to counter the madness of the Festive Season. Nice to see the nature there is very (overly) friendly. Might have to pay a visit next time I'm on London, as it looks like a lovely place to be. Also, Happy New Year. I hope 2023 brings lots of love and prosperity to you and those you care about.
Was there in September. Met a sad looking peacock, plenty of squirrels and a lovely just wed couple getting photos taken. Also decided to walk back to Paddington and spy the little fairy tree thing at a different park en route (while also getting chased by a wasp).
Hey! I was just in London a couple of weeks ago and, inspired by this video, decided to pay a visit to Holland Park. And it's just as nice as you see here. What a great find. Also, there's a Daunt Books shop right near the tube station!
Did anyone notice the London County Council coat of arms over the entrance to Holland Park? The exact same coat of arms was on the wall of my primary school (Wix Lane in Clapham) in the sixties. The London County Council was superseded by the Greater London Council and the schools were taken over by the Inner London Education Authority. I'm definitely going to take a trip to see theses Gardens.I note you can't take your dog but that's okay as I shall be taking my squirrel !! Happy new year to you Jago and everyone else in Hazzard land !!
I get squirrels romping about on my veranda roof all the time. Red ones but not like British red squirrels. Ours have a long thin tail. We do have racoons however. Someone took a picture recently of a boar in her garden with a racoon on its back. Last rutting season I had a stag right outside my house barking its head off.
That was amazing. Definitely a place to go if you need a bit of tranquil 'quiet time'. We have a much smaller 'Japanese Garden' in the college I work for and it is also a lovely place to chill. Happy New Year to you too, Jago, and I look forward to 2023 and more of your videos.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing that little gem. Please go back in springtime and share the lovely blossoms (if you have time) with us. A very happy new year to you and keep up the great content.
A nice change, thanks for sharing! The persistent squirrel reminds me of my dad trying to feed a nut to a squirrel in Greenwich Park and get photographed. The stranger struggled with Dad's camera, the squirrel got impatient and bit the nut and Dad's thumb, and a jet of blood spurted out. Life lesson; sweet furry creatures are not always as docile as they look. "Nature, red in tooth and claw ..." I hope you escaped more lightly Jago, although the squirrel seemed determined that you were a tree.
I am amazed I didn't know about this garden. I'm in south London so it's not local but definitely worth a trip out west by the look of it. Thanks, Jago. I always enjoy your videos whatever the content. PS I knew there would be a bit more squirrel hassle! Even more friendly than the little rascals in my local park.
Another garden worth a look is the walled garden at sunbury on thames ( served nearby by red TFL buses with the river nearby for boating adventures, vids or the ferry to hurst park - when working - and a walk back to Hampton Court/East Molesey and if feeling like walking more the Model Engineers minature rail system off Portsmouth Road at Thames Ditton. (no red bus so walk to Kingston or Long Ditton/Surbiton for red bus home or chance the half hourly SWR service
Every time we go to London we go to Holland Park and after a while got tired of the squirrels and leave. If you want to shoot a photo of one with a telephoto lens it usually freezes into some sort of pose for you. Some of those poses could be quite entertaining. The parrots could also be annoying when they decide to behave that way.
Regarding Kyoto and Tokyo, "kyō" means "capital" in this sense. Kyōto means "capital city", and Tōkyō (also known as Tōkyō-to, "Tokyo Metropolis") means "eastern capital". Note the difference between "tō" and "to". The "ō" is a long vowel, sometimes written as "ou". (Disclaimer: I know very little about Japanese, but I have a certain knack for languages.) Interestingly, Beijing means "northern capital", and the character for "capital" is essentially the same in both Mandarin and Japanese.
Thanks for a great year of entertainment and education Jago. We need to hear and see more of the real Jago in 2023 ! We also need the return of the squirrels and the sign off "You are like a squirrel to my nuts"!😜
As someone interested in Japanese Gardening this was a great revelation, will be making a trip very soon living within striking distance of London in St.Neots.
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Jago and The Squirrel being an underrated comedy duo is the best way to end 2022 😂
a place of tranquliity and relax... OH GOD NOT THE SQUIRRELS
Does Jago realise that a law is being broken in this video? Since by law if you can catch a Grey Squirrel (Rat with good PR) you are required by law to kill it. Since Grey Squirrels are on the vermin list. But then this video would not be You Tube friendly. 😀
@@hublanderuk But he didn't catch a squirrel, the squirrel caught him.
@@zalthemaniac4633 well nothing stopped him grabbing the Rat with good PR 😃
Am I the only one imagining a 1980's sitcom theme song for Jago and the Squirrel?
Jago Hazzard's mid-video adverts for his sponsors are better than a lot of people's entire videos. Thanks, Jago. You are the persistent squirrel to my snowy park.
Very nice! Thank you for this and for all your videos of 2022. As seen here, you really do have an eye for composition in the frame and for the turn of a phrase!
Excellent work young man, I have a small pond in my garden, I was working in notting Hill last year 2021 when I was told my beautiful daughter had passed away, I instinctively left work and sat by the Kyoto pool and instantly found peace , I humbly thank you for your sympathetic view on this gem in the heart of our brilliant mad House of London .I shall shortly join the growing list of patreons or whatever they are called , ✌️
Holland Park takes its name from the 1st Earl of Holland, who lived in Holland House and gave it its' name. His title referred to the Parts of Holland, which is a region of Lincolnshire.
Wishing happy new year and lovely visit by the squirrels
One winter in the 1990s my wife and I were in London: whatever we were meant to be doing, it ended up as a survey of the behaviour of the squirrels of the London parks. In Regent's Park we met a classic squirrel: eat one peanut, then take the next and bury it in a flower bed; repeat until the humans leave. In Kew Gardens, a squirrel came up and put its weightless cold feet on our fingers; we gave it a peanut, and it stayed, explaining that it was a two-nut squirrel, and when we gave it another nut, it pouched the two in opposite cheeks and ran off. In Hyde Park they were all over the place: a woman was feeding some, but the others ran up her coat and into the pocket where the nuts were (we also saw a strikingly elegantly turned-out Chinese woman teaching her daughter to feed birds--seed on palm of hand, extend arm to full extent, and wait in quiet stillness--London is great for unexpected moments like that). In St James's Park (? apostrophe in that toponym), in the morning I swear the squirrels were striking poses for photographs, but we came back in the afternoon and no squirrels--evidently they do so well in that part of town they only have to work mornings. In Greenwich, just behind the Maritime Museum, a squirrel climbed up a wall and saw us. It must have done the squirrel equivalent of shouting "PARTY!!" because we were soon pursued by an unruly mob.
Thanks for all the videos, and have a wonderful 2023.
Hmm seems like I'll need to plan my whole trip around that. *takes notes*
@@typhoidtyphoon You could do worse, and it would be an opportunity to practise Attenborough voice. ? a UA-cam channel? BTW, at Bury St Edmunds we were practically mugged by a pair of squirrels as we went into the ruins of the Abbey--they just stood on their hind legs and demanded nuts.
@@JP_TaVeryMuch I see what you did there.
@@michaelwright2986 Hot diggity daffodil, I'll have to bring a few pounds of assorted nuts and a picknick blanket!
Looking forward to it.
@@typhoidtyphoon IME, peanuts are the thing. When I discovered that the squirrels at Bury St Edmunds were charging admission to the ruins of the Abbey, I discovered two other things: there aren't many places to buy nuts in Bury, and those don't have stock a big range; squirrels (at least, mob squirrels in Bury) don't eat cashews. Never had a raw peanut refused, though.
I am 73, born in NW London, used to work in Notting Hill and have never been to Holland Park. Lovely video, I must visit in 2023
I love the squirrels in Holland Park. They’re like little fluffy muggers.
Jago getting scared by the squirrel is hilarious and adorable!
Well, they do have pretty sharp claws and teeth. If the little bugger made contact with Jago's skin, he probably would've wanted to get checked out (might've required a tetanus shot).
@@andyjay729 oh my. Thanks for the info
Jago isn't scared of anything. After all he can take on the great Geoff Marshall !!
Worse yet - persecuted !!
@@andyjay729 Like my dad trying to feed a nut to a squirrel in Greenwich Park and get photographed. The stranger struggled with Dad's camera, the squirrel got impatient and bit the nut and Dad's thumb, and a jet of blood spurted out. Life lesson; sweet furry creatures are not always as docile as they look. "Nature, red in tooth and claw ..."
Who knew that squirrels were your Kryptonite? Happy New Year to you, thank you for making 2022 so entertaining and informative.
Delightful. Captures the time perfectly. Happy New Year.
Kyo to old capital (was Edo) To Kyo new capital. Happy new year. Love your stuff here in Western Australia.
Thank you, Mr. H for your videos of vehicles, vegetation and whimsy! They are the trousers to my squirrel-mind!
All the best for 2023!
There's also a Maizuru garden in Portsmouth, donated by the city of Maizuru, which is home to a Japanese Naval Base. I'm not entirely sure if Maizuru has a Portsmouth garden but I like the image of a bunch of Samphire and Seaweed growing on lumps of chalk somewhere in a Japanese park.
Very very good memories to Holland Park Station. All the best for 2023 and see you next year!
My dad used to smoke Holland House tobacco in his pipe. Very fragrant: very like the smell of the drying silage-grass on my father-in-law's farm. No squirrels there; they learn quickly, if you know what I mean... Happy New Year again!
A very nice way to end the year, thanks, a very nice garden that.
The squirrel did remind me of the occasion when in a completely unprovoked attack, a squirrel attacked me in Hyde Park (and that's not a euphemism) as I was reading a noticeboard. The "blighter" came up to me from behind and bit or scratched me on the leg. Ouch.
There are squirrels right outside my flat most days, possibly because I'm not far from Newsham Park. The local cats (including Snuggles who visits me every day) watch them but generally seem to recognise they've no chance catching one.
The ones across the Mersey in Birkenhead Park are, ahem , "handy". If you offer one a peanut its reaction is usually "Oo, lunch! And it comes garnished with a peanut, yummy!"
Hello Jago,
Now come on the real reason you were in Holland Park was to have “Close Encounters of The Furred Kind”
I always look forward to your videos, thank you for all your work making them.
I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas and wish you a Happy New Year.
Best wishes from Oxfordshire.
Goodness! I walked a little way into there from the direction of Kensington High Street and had no idea I'd have found this if I walked a little further.
During lockdown I had no garden or balcony and this park was my saviour. I spent many hours there at all times of the day. My favourite place in London
I admire your fortitude squire. Braving the clearly harsh winter, well, harsh by southern standards, weather.
What with the monsoon rain in your previous presentation, snow in this! One can only wait with baited breath as to what 2023, and the Met Office, has to offer! 😊
It’s no accident that Tokyo is a phonetic anagram of Kyoto, since the 2 kanji for Tokyo (東京) mean east capital, the successor to Kyoto (京都) with these 2 kanji meaning capital metropolis. Tokyo was a contrived name to keep the phonetic sounds of the Kyoto name in the name of the new capital, even though one of the kanji is a homonym.
I also need to point out that Tokyo was called Edo during Shogunate, and was only renamed Tokyo when Imperial Court moved there from Kyoto as a result of Meiji restoration.
@@mancubwwa True, but not related to the point of why the Tokyo and Kyoto names contain similar sounds.
Unlike all of us, the squirell knows what Jago looks like.
How happy I am to see this video. I've been visiting Holland park since childhood, way back in the 1970's. It really is an oasis of calm away from busy Kensington High Street. There used to be an adventure playground there, and the Commonwealth Institute, now both gone. The ruins of Holland Park House are used as an open air theatre. As a youngster me and my friends used to play on the stage, we pretended we were putting on our own play. It's a beautiful park, so many happy memories, thank you Jago for this video. Happy New Year!
The adventure playground was fantastic. You could also play table tennis for a few pence if I remember correctly.
The height of the wooden walkways ( no hand rails) would cause an outbreak of health and safety officers hyperventilating... Happy memories
I was thinking of doing a video on the Commonwealth Institute. It’s a curious building.
@@JagoHazzard We had a school trip to the Commonwealth Institute back in primary school days. I guess times have changed, and a lot of the Commonwealth countries are less close to the UK now.
@@JagoHazzard oh definitely - it is/was a very interesting place. The roof was made of copper, so around when I was born, it was a glowing copper-bronze colour, but then gradually changed to green and then I fancy finally black (or was it the other way round) - anyway the point is it gradually got attacked by first the Nitreous Oxide, and then the oxygen, and thus was in a constant state of chemical flux - unlike the exhibition inside - which never seemed to change much - although again that may just be my memory.
I agree. In the 1960's I attended a small school just off Kensington High Street - called Allendale run by the gloriously eccentric Miss Jenkins & Miss Todd. They used to take us to the park almost daily, walking in a crocodile up Allen Street and along the High Street. In fact there is now a bench to the memory of the late Miss Jenkins on the terrace just outside the Orangery.
That squirrel really loves you, yes the Jago and squirrel duo, I guess they have never come across someone as interesting as you
About 25 years ago, I was in the area and saw a crowd gathering at the Kensington High Street entrance to Holland Park, with police also in attendance. I ventured over and asked what was going on. A policeman told me that Her Majesty The Queen was coming to pay a visit to the Commonwealth Institute, which was in the park. Sure enough that wonderful lady came and walked passed me no further than six feet away.
And anyone who says she is now six feet under will be banned.
3:55 a moorhen appears, you just can't keep away from rails even in a park.
I would feel right at home there - for it is clearly a place where the nuts hunt for squirrels.
Happy new year Jago and everyone.
A very pretty garden - squirrelled away in Holland Park!
A night at the opera in the park by the house used to be a summer treat for me. To expensive these days unfortunately.
Holland Park and its Japanese Garden are well worth a visit. Another less well known gem nearby is Leighton House, also worth a visit.
Thank you Jago for a fine video. I found the garden quite by chance this summer. I had come to the park to visit the Design Museum and spotted a signpost to the garden. It is a wonderful place, well worth a visit.
When I was a kid, back in the 60s, Holland Park had a great Adventure Playground, which essentially we could construct ourselves using found timber, rope, tyres, old cars, nails, saws, hammers etc. I seem to remember we could also have fires. Happy days.
Later the park got over-run with rabbits, people had rabbits as pets back then, then discovered they didn't make good pets after all, and released them in the park. Presumably someone then made them into pies?
Anyhoo, interesting to see squirrels have now taken over from rabbits. Like the parakeets in Kensington Gardens?
Thanks for all the fun in 2022 Jago, and have a great 2023. I'm sure you could sneak in a couple more videos before the New Year, "Go on, go on, go on…"
I would wager that Jago viewers taking viewing as seriously as those people enjoying their local library.
Coming next year Jago's squirrel ranch. An epic adventure across the wild plains of West London
Thank you Jago for all you've brought us throughout the year; best wishes for the upcoming 2023.
That was a very close squirrel encounter! Thank you for all your wonderful videos in 2022. I am looking forward to all the new videos in 2023 (and your beautiful and relaxing voice). Wishing you a happy new year!
What a lovely place to end the year. For me it is also the scene of some of my very earliest memories dating from around 1960 or 61... although as you explained the addition of the Japanese gardens is more recent. Back in my day it was a muddy woodland, leading to a ramshackle adventure playgound that I was always far too scared to use. Strangly however the Peacocks are an original feature from those earlier days, and I have photos of a very young, and slightly anxious, me being chased by one in the early 60's. I don't recall the Squirels ever being that friendly however, so I expect that was just for you - for some reason they must have liked you! Anyway - Happy New year indeed Jago.
Thank you for a wonderful year of entertainment. You are the delight to my UA-cam viewing (hmm - it that's harder than you think). All the best for 2023.
You know what they say about squirrels.
But since you're bound to read it 1000 times in the comments below I just stick with "Happy New Year from Belgium'.
Thanks for your hard work and dedication. Your videos are the mayonaise on my fries.
Happy New Year, a fabulous video and a way to see out the New Year.All the best to you and your loved ones. Looking forward to what you can do in 2023. All the best. Alex.
Talking about squirrels, in my previous home, they seem to have figured out a way to get into the attic. I had an unwanted family and the noise they made chewing up the insulation for nesting was so deafening that I had to sleep downstairs. Eventually, I got the exterminators in and a few well-aimed air gun pellets did the trick.
However, all my neighbors then started getting squirrels in the attics as well. The fact that all our houses were constructed in exactly the same way probably did not help, but I always wondered if the squirrels were organising some kind of secret night school to pass on the savoir-faire of breaking into attics..
Thank you Jago for all your excellent work in 2022, it is a constant source of fascination away from the maddening world, have a great new year and see you in 2023
Thanks. That was lovely. Made me think of my dear friend Alan Merrill who knew Kyoto very well, having lived in Japan for years before moving to London- Campden Hill Gardens on the corner of Aubrey Walk puts him in that general area. Lost him to covid in March 2020. Other places I associate with him are Berkeley Square, Charles Street, The only running Footman, and 335 Nell Gwynn House (where he wrote "I Love Rock n Roll") He loved Arisugawa Park in Tokyo very much. I'm sure he would have loved this
The Kyoto Garden is a lovely spot away from the hurly burly of Kensington High Street - I always make a point of visiting when in the area. Like you Jago, I also experienced the attentions of a forward squirrel - fortunately not climbing up my trouser leg but doing a thorough “bag search” of my rucksack reminiscent of airport security.
It's often very busy here. It's also worth looking at the Japanese garden in White City and the small forgotten about Japanese garden in Regent's Park. The one in White City has a bit of history.
It's so nice for the squirrels favourite UA-camr to see you in person - what a celeb! 👍
Watch out they’re after your nuts! I’ve not heard of Kyoto garden, as a Londoner I hang my head in shame. I’ve visited the pagoda in battersea. This garden Looks lovely i must visit when I’m next back in my hometown. As someone who considers themselves a Londoner well versed in all things London i can still learn from Jago. Really looking forward to what he has in stock, rolling stock perhaps, for 2023. Happy new year Jago.
A great video to end the year. A Year where you have produced many wonderful stories and experiences, where we have all learnt a lot. Happy New Year from Singapore sir. May 2023 bring you much happiness, peace, good health and prosperity.
Your videos are always entertaining but your reaction and comments of the squirrels made my day.
I think you have found your calling, you are the next David Attenborough and I look forward to more videos and your encounters with animals 🤣
happy new year jago looking forward to what you bring in 2023 to the comfort of our homes.
Thanks Jago - the comic turn with the squirrel made my day!
And thank you!
Thank you for so many enlightening, interesting, and funny videos this past year, and here's to many more in 2023. They're always something to look forward to. Happy New Year, or as we say in Austria, Guten Rutsch & Prosit Neujahr!
Has encouraged me to travel by Tube to visit the squirrels,sorry meant Gardens,well done and Happy New year.
HNY, Mr H. And thank you.
My favourite line of the year: "The rising price of squirrel traps" :-)
Very tubby squirrels...
This is among my favorites of your vlogs, and I will have to look into how many of my favorites are of this impromptu variety. I guess I just like what you do with London, an idea, a camera and a script as raw materials. Thanks, again.
Happy New Year, Jago! Thanks for all the wonderwel videos. And keep em comin'... Greetings fron Holland :-)
Thank you for all the videos throughout 2022. Keep up the great work and effort. Wishing you all the best for 2023.
I did a very nice 'Park Walk' a few years back.
Started at Holland Park, went through and on to Kensington Gardens. Through there and across Hyde Park, then through Green Park and across St James Park down to the river.
Definitely something to do, while all the trains are on strike!
I will “squirrel” away the information in this entertaining video. And as a lover of squirrels I so want to visit Holland Park and be entertained 🐿️👏👏👍😀
Happy New Year Jago. 🎉
Thank you and Happy New Year!
A nice relaxing video to counter the madness of the Festive Season. Nice to see the nature there is very (overly) friendly. Might have to pay a visit next time I'm on London, as it looks like a lovely place to be. Also, Happy New Year. I hope 2023 brings lots of love and prosperity to you and those you care about.
Thank you for a fantastic year of videos looking forward many more in 2023. Happy New Year
Jago, the squirrel whisperer. The garden is magnificent and a treasure for all to access.
Happy New Year to you too !
Thanks for this *gem* of a video!
All the gardens, all the parks, all the squirrels!
And a Happy New Year 2023 to all!
Who would have thought, Charles Tyson Yerkes reincarnated as a troublesome squirrel.
Was there in September. Met a sad looking peacock, plenty of squirrels and a lovely just wed couple getting photos taken. Also decided to walk back to Paddington and spy the little fairy tree thing at a different park en route (while also getting chased by a wasp).
...and I thought that YOU seemed wide-eyed and bushy-tailed in these videos... you've got some serious competition now!
Funny and beautiful. The video was excellent, too, of course, Jago. 😀
Squirrels are nice and fluffy, right up to the time you think it's a good idea to pick one up.
Have a Happy and Safe New Year
A snowy Christmas! So different from our sweaty down-under Christmases. One day...
Jago. Happy New Year. Thanks for all your fascinating and informative videos. Looking forward to more of the same in 2023. Pete.
Hi Jago from Spain. Happy New Year and look forward to more great content in 2023.
Glad to see that you had a nice stout pair of trousers on there, Jago. Those squirrels were definitely out nut hunting...
As soon as the weather improves I'm going here. Thanks for the tip.
Hey! I was just in London a couple of weeks ago and, inspired by this video, decided to pay a visit to Holland Park. And it's just as nice as you see here. What a great find. Also, there's a Daunt Books shop right near the tube station!
Did anyone notice the London County Council coat of arms over the entrance to Holland Park?
The exact same coat of arms was on the wall of my primary school
(Wix Lane in Clapham) in the sixties.
The London County Council was superseded by the Greater London Council and the schools were taken over by the Inner London Education Authority.
I'm definitely going to take a trip to see theses Gardens.I note you can't take your dog but that's okay as I shall be taking my squirrel !!
Happy new year to you Jago and everyone else in Hazzard land !!
Happy New Year!
I get squirrels romping about on my veranda roof all the time. Red ones but not like British red squirrels. Ours have a long thin tail.
We do have racoons however. Someone took a picture recently of a boar in her garden with a racoon on its back. Last rutting season I had a stag right outside my house barking its head off.
That was amazing. Definitely a place to go if you need a bit of tranquil 'quiet time'. We have a much smaller 'Japanese Garden' in the college I work for and it is also a lovely place to chill. Happy New Year to you too, Jago, and I look forward to 2023 and more of your videos.
Absolutely brilliant 🤣🤣🤣 thank you for the videos from the last year, happy new year Jago from the Vienna woods
Happy new year Mr. Hazzard and thank you for your hard work and dedication.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing that little gem. Please go back in springtime and share the lovely blossoms (if you have time) with us. A very happy new year to you and keep up the great content.
A nice change, thanks for sharing! The persistent squirrel reminds me of my dad trying to feed a nut to a squirrel in Greenwich Park and get photographed. The stranger struggled with Dad's camera, the squirrel got impatient and bit the nut and Dad's thumb, and a jet of blood spurted out. Life lesson; sweet furry creatures are not always as docile as they look. "Nature, red in tooth and claw ..." I hope you escaped more lightly Jago, although the squirrel seemed determined that you were a tree.
I am amazed I didn't know about this garden. I'm in south London so it's not local but definitely worth a trip out west by the look of it. Thanks, Jago.
I always enjoy your videos whatever the content.
PS I knew there would be a bit more squirrel hassle! Even more friendly than the little rascals in my local park.
Another garden worth a look is the walled garden at sunbury on thames ( served nearby by red TFL buses with the river nearby for boating adventures, vids or the ferry to hurst park - when working - and a walk back to Hampton Court/East Molesey and if feeling like walking more the Model Engineers minature rail system off Portsmouth Road at Thames Ditton. (no red bus so walk to Kingston or Long Ditton/Surbiton for red bus home or chance the half hourly SWR service
They paid so much attention to detail that they did the sane flower pattern on the stone wall as they have on the castles in Japan.
I'm only here to see if anyone suggests you are the squirrel to their bag of nuts!
Happy New Year to you and all your watchers and readers.
Every time we go to London we go to Holland Park and after a while got tired of the squirrels and leave. If you want to shoot a photo of one with a telephoto lens it usually freezes into some sort of pose for you. Some of those poses could be quite entertaining. The parrots could also be annoying when they decide to behave that way.
Jago, you have a yen for producing great videos....................I'll see myself out.Happy New Year to you and all you subscribers from Australia.
And on that faithful day after he encountered the squirrels, Jago was never seen again
Jago vs The Squirrel could become a whole series! Happy New Year.
Regarding Kyoto and Tokyo, "kyō" means "capital" in this sense. Kyōto means "capital city", and Tōkyō (also known as Tōkyō-to, "Tokyo Metropolis") means "eastern capital". Note the difference between "tō" and "to". The "ō" is a long vowel, sometimes written as "ou".
(Disclaimer: I know very little about Japanese, but I have a certain knack for languages.)
Interestingly, Beijing means "northern capital", and the character for "capital" is essentially the same in both Mandarin and Japanese.
Thanks for a great year of entertainment and education Jago. We need to hear and see more of the real Jago in 2023 !
We also need the return of the squirrels and the sign off "You are like a squirrel to my nuts"!😜
As someone interested in Japanese Gardening this was a great revelation, will be making a trip very soon living within striking distance of London in St.Neots.