*Afterthoughts & Addenda* *Non-growing plants* - yesterday, the day before this video went live, I pulled up a weed in that little plot with the stunted plants and discovered a huge ants nest (the nest was huge, not the ants). I think that might be what was holding the plants back.

@DanceTranced

11 ай бұрын

Unlikely to have helped any.

@MissTrouble1972

11 ай бұрын

Add a little ground maze to the area the ants will clear out quick smart it's non toxic to you or the dog, I make lines with the ground maze. Replenish after heavy rain or if you see ants again.

@kinn1647

11 ай бұрын

B&Q walk way solar light for the top of the bottle, they’re round and come on at night. Lmao snap spag 👍

@SilverDragonJay

11 ай бұрын

I'm glad you don't have an infestation of ginorm-ants. Huge pests, they are.

@sarahstrong7174

11 ай бұрын

If 'it' is a bright light it is not an it but a lady glow-worm, waiting for a gentleman to happen along. Only the males can fly, but they have only a little greenish light.

I'd love it if you did a video on footpaths. My mum wrote a couple of books of circular walks based on my town following footpaths she'd know since her childhood. She even managed to make sure at least one wasn't lost through disuse and persuaded land owners to repair and maintain stiles. I'm planning on writing another along with my sister.

@makeitmythic

11 ай бұрын

this, i was just thinking to myself watching an earlier video wondering if mr. shrimp would ever do a video about uk's footpaths.

@Cofficodifkjdinf

11 ай бұрын

this and desire paths!!

@edtuckerartist

11 ай бұрын

There is a short path near me that went between two housing estates the local council put a fence with a gate across the path then padlocked the gate, they said it was for security reasons yet no one seems to know what the security problem is. The path being blocked means residents on either estate have to walk fithteen minuites to visit friends, family or get to shops either side.

@PandemoniumMeltDown

11 ай бұрын

I'd love this as well.

@sarahstrong7174

11 ай бұрын

The path down to Soar Mill Cove in Devon is festooned with glow worms in the summer.

An Atomic Shrimp video on a rainy Saturday morning. This days prospects just improved.

@darthyoda4934

11 ай бұрын

I’m in the exact situation haha

@divaden47

11 ай бұрын

An hour an a quarter to brighten up a rainy day in London Town......

@JustKarlos

11 ай бұрын

It’s idyllic. Bed, the sound of rain outside, and Shrimps cosy content

If you are out at night, a red light emitting torch will not ruin your night vision, nor disturb animals - it seems that a great many animals can't see the red light. I used to use one when I did security work, and it saved me going base over apex in the pitch dark of the countryside, many times. Lovely video, Mike - always the perfect start to the weekend. Thank you. 👍👍👍 I do like the way that you talk to Eva, almost as if she were a small, mischievious child, than a dog. It always makes me smile. 👍👍👍

@thomasherzog86

11 ай бұрын

i think its not that they dont see red light, but rather that they ignore it as just another source of heat like most infrared light they see.

@ironpirate8

11 ай бұрын

Haha, I like base over apex. How about apogee over perigee? Doesn't flow as well I suppose. 😁

Being in my late 20s I felt pretty detached from the "real world", I've been watching your videos for a while now, especially through covid your videos have helped keep my spirits high, now, rather than always sitting on my phone or computer I've tried to focus more of my spare time into learning about gardening and creative ways I can also challenge myself or find different ways I can view a problem to find alternative solutions. Thank you for your wholesome content, I think you are brilliant and I hope to be as creative and green-fingered as you one day.

A suggestion to my cucumber phobic friend Mike. The skin and seeds tend to be the most astringent part of cucumbers. Try peeling, then removing the seeds, then lightly salting them. After about ten minutes, give them a rinse in cold water. That might be a solution for you. It's a method I used in professional kitchens. Blessings, chefmike

I love your take on slowing down to just enjoy things. I never understood why others always find it odd or "childish" to take delight in something simple. For example, I really do love to see birds of any kind. They're truly a wonder to behold. But many others see them as mundane and don't understand why I'd bother to stop and watch a robin or a raven going about their day. I mean, their wings and body language are all so facinating, how can I not?!

@AtomicShrimp

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, why is it somehow noble to decide not to enjoy a thing, because you're a grownup? It's just a missed opportunity for happiness.

@angustheterrible3149

11 ай бұрын

@@AtomicShrimp Exactly! I'm so glad I ran into your channle a year or so ago. You really helped me to stop shaming myself based on what others might think when something makes me happy. I've taken up gardening too, and grew heirloom tomatoes on my front porch just because seeing all the colors starting to come through on them makes me absurdly content. thank you, for making my life happier!

@ironpirate8

11 ай бұрын

Yes I agree, and although I have seen the seasons many times, I always notice new bugs and plants and stuff every year, it's all fascinating. Also why do we learn to propel ourselves by skipping along when we're children, and then at some point we stop and never skip again? 😄

@PandemoniumMeltDown

11 ай бұрын

@@AtomicShrimp Sounds like a mischief from someone with pills to sell...

Fittingly, the automatic captions think there's applause during some of the glow worm section 👏

It's so nice to watch something that isn't about how horrible a world we live in. I'm going through some stuff at the moment, and you are of great help to me. "Tusind tak" from a big fan in Aarhus, Denmark.🙂

@thegrumblesquad4949

11 ай бұрын

i hope you are alright, xxxx be strong xxx

@PandemoniumMeltDown

11 ай бұрын

Always keep a few islands of peace, whatever you do.

I don't usually have time to watch the longer videos in the morning, but sometimes I do skip ahead and watch comment positivity. As it turns out, positivity does rub off. Not the worst thing at the start of the day.

Great glowworm! Noise was a female Tawny Owl, the keewit call to the males wooo response.

@GehenDieLeute

9 ай бұрын

Probably a juvenile, in this case. Sitting on the ground (it perched higher up) calling to be fed is common for young tawny owls during that time of year. They should never be approached or picked up though, parents are feeding them and can even attack if they feel you threaten them.

"I'm gonna Shrimp that" could mean, "I'm gonna narrate my thoughts through this project while I figure it out." I feel the most "like shrimp" when I walk around nature and pount out plant I recognize.

You finally captured the glow worms! Really cool creatures

@Bluscream

11 ай бұрын

I wonder if i had a chance to see glow worms in germany

@arjen4120

11 ай бұрын

@@Bluscream Yes, at least in south west germany. probably in other areas too

@johanneswerner1140

11 ай бұрын

@Bluescream I saw them in June in the rhein main region. Just after dusk. Wonderful, and unexpected. Congrats at MrShrimp, good luck with the taters! Need to plant some again, hope it won't be too late after the summer vacation... Meh, we'll eee. And overcrowding is also a problem in my garden. There's so little space and so many fun and tasty things to grow! And we need to pick our cucumber.

@tylerdejong6930

11 ай бұрын

Can you use them to create infinite energy?

@PandemoniumMeltDown

11 ай бұрын

@@tylerdejong6930 BBC Earth - What Lurks in the Midnight Zone? | Blue Planet II - 2min 44sec

52:27 Predilections and contemplations - Moss. I love moss. When on a walk around the grounds I will stop in my tracks to bend down and stare at the world of moss: the little forest, the little garden, the little worlds, the different mosses with their miniscule blooms or bitty "trees" or tiny fields of verdant softness. I will spend quite a bit of time staring at moss. It makes me unreasonably happy. It stills my mind. Perhaps that is the "purpose" of such large onion/odd pumpkin/sumptuous moss fascinations. Next time I see an exceptionally hefty onion, I will think of Mr. Shrimp, and will think of the other viewer who adores pumpkins when fall is here and the gourds are about. :)

@pheart2381

11 ай бұрын

I used to annoy my mum by trying to set up moss gardens in fishtanks on my bedroom windowsill. Still love a nice green round hummock!

@Sybil_Detard

11 ай бұрын

@@pheart2381 Hello, fellow moss lover. I don't know what I'd do if I ran across a hummock!! Where I live the tallest moss I've ever seen is a little lump on the ground. The moss only appears in small patches. Little oases of loveliness. Earlier in my moss love, I tried transplanting. It hurt my heart to fail as I did.

@edtuckerartist

11 ай бұрын

Has a acer palmatum tree that has been in the same pot for over ten years (guess it needs repotting soon) oh and a scots pine tree alongside it that seeded itself, anyway the soil is completely covered in moss and looks lovely most of the year though it goes a bit brown in the summer.

Some of the sea glass will have come from old fashioned crab pot floats. As a child (aeons ago!) I used to visit Lyme Regis regularly (coming from Devon) and we'd sometimes see the fishermen mending pots and replacing the glass floats that had been smashed in storms. They were often green or blue, standing out against the sea. Lyme Bay was a great place for edible crabs back in the 1960's!

I really like the "being happy on purpose" philosophy. Taking the time to enjoy the things we like, and to savour the moments. Any time I find an exeptionally large onion or a girthy carrot now days, it makes me happy. Not because I find them particularly funny, but because it reminds that you like them, and that happiness can come from all sorts of things.

Oh the glow worms are very amazing! Here in Michigan, US we will have fireflies, I have fields that strobe so brightly and almost in sequence like they copy each other! Thanks for sharing nature on your part of the world!

@President_Starscream

11 ай бұрын

The first time I encountered fireflies it was so surreal. And it was during my first ftx in army bootcamp, which surely added to the emotional impact of the experience.

@ghostladydarkling3250

11 ай бұрын

Catching fireflies is a sweet childhood memory for me, from Ohio.

@sarahstrong7174

11 ай бұрын

Stayed in West Bay once. Could hear the stormy waves pounding against the harbour gates all night.

@sarahstrong7174

11 ай бұрын

I enjoyed the river & sea walks, thankyou.

@kjdude8765

11 ай бұрын

Love those Michigan Fireflies.

Oh my God, that person who said "I'm gonna shrimp that", we do that too! For the past year or so we have been using the phrase "Shrimpin' it" whenever we are following a recipe and it starts to go wrong and we just start improvising to fix it. We also say Shrimpin' it when we are just going with the flow and making something that isn't working work! I love that we're not the only ones doing this!

Re the random noise in the dark. It is the sound of recently fledged tawny owls. They use the call to stay in contact. 🦉☺️

"I'm gonna shrimp that" lol love it It means I am going to take a found bit of something seemingly insignificant and, through error and undaunted trial, transform it into something beautiful or delicious or funny.

RE: the tomatoes. We have found if we mix varieties in the greenhouse we get lower yields and more disease or just general health problems. My suspicion is the cross pollination that happens causes weakness in the plants. When we grow just one variety we get better yields and almost no health problems at all. For that reason we now only grow our favourite variety and we do crowd them in quite close together but I do prune quite aggressively to keep as much air flow as possible, tomatoes will flourish with surprisingly few leaves as long as they are healthy young leaves.

Hey Shrimp! I recently learned from a vid here that you can use lichen to dye fabric and it will turn PURPLE! I thought this seems like something you’d be interested in.

@AtomicShrimp

11 ай бұрын

That is the best colour

@DanceTranced

11 ай бұрын

I made lichen dye once, I didn't manage to make it very color fast. It was fun tho, I'd definitely try it again.

@brianartillery

11 ай бұрын

Indeed. But to stop it fading in the wash, it needs to be 'fixed' with a substance known as a 'Mordant'. The most common mordant used by our ancestors was... Human urine. Easy to obtain, but not very pleasant. I hope that more modern, synthetic mordants are available. 🤔🤔🤔

@evelinharmannfan7191

11 ай бұрын

@@DanceTranced I died a cotton dress with dyer´s bugloss ( Alkanna tinctoria) using alum (alumen) as a mordant. The dye came out as a brilliant violett, that never faded over the years. No problem with washing it regularly. Best colour ever. Dying with elderberries also gives a nice colour, but a lot of it comes out in the wash.

@Pooky-Cat

11 ай бұрын

💜

We may not have seen your smile, but we could definitely hear it. Thank you for sharing your glow worm sightings, even on screen there was something magical about it.

I have a 10 hour flight tomorrow and was looking at videos to download with KZread premium on my phone and this pops up. Perfect! Can sleep the other 8 hours 🤣

Positive comments have the best potential. That's an electron joke - I say - an electron joke, son.

@dogwalker666

11 ай бұрын

Positrons are doing face palm 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

@anidnmeno

11 ай бұрын

​@@dogwalker666just annihilated them

@dogwalker666

11 ай бұрын

@@anidnmeno 😯🤣

@President_Starscream

11 ай бұрын

Definitely read this in Foghorn Leghorn's voice.

@TobyRobb

11 ай бұрын

what did one atom say to the other atom, " i think i lost an electron!" , " are you sure ? ", "yes, i'm positive!"

Time for excited mumbling in the dark, as promised!

@PandemoniumMeltDown

11 ай бұрын

I mean... that pixel...

Okay, I wasn't quite as prepared as I thought when it came to you finally spotting glowworm activity. I think I was almost as excited for you as you were about seeing them. 😂 I, too, had a goofy smile on my face because it was so obvious how happy you were. Congrats, and may this be the start of many more nights of glowworm mating rituals in the future!

I used to live in Yamaguchi (the Cornwall of Honshu, Japan) and near where I lived there was a glowworm festival. There were hundreds of them in all the rice fields. Lovely.

You do the coolest things Mike. Thank you for allowing us to follow you in your adventures.

I know the feeling with the garden. First year doing it, got some brand new raised beds set up in Yorkshire. Tomatoes are doing great, just starting to turn red. Got huge red cabbages coming along well, had broad beans do ok, peas in abundance, plenty of basil and lettuce. Cucumbers though, they dont want any of it, they got slightly beyond seedlings and then just stopped growing at all.

Blossom-end rot is the bane of a tomato grower’s existence. I’m in the northeast United States, but here’s what I’ve discovered makes an impact on reducing the likelihood of it: 1) get plant types that are naturally resistant to it. That’s the most important thing. I grew San Marzano tomatoes last year and they were really susceptible to it while my Celebrities hardly experienced it at all. 2) tomato plants really do like more watering than I’ve realized. I have mine in well-draining pots (much like yours) and they really perform better when I absolutely soak them when I water them. I’ll mention that we’ve gotten a lot of sun here this summer. Additionally, good, moist soil allows the plant to be able to absorb the calcium in the soil better. 3) finally, providing calcium for potted plants is important, however, it’s more of a watering/absorption issue. This year, I planted the Celebrity variety and Early Girls (which are also resistant to blossom end rot), and I haven’t had a single incidence of it yet…knock on wood! I hope this helps!

Hour & 15 minutes - what a treat!

Just woke up and this is the perfect thing to watch while I’m easing into the day

Maybe taste a borage flower? They have a cucumber flavour, if they also taste like library books, you can assume it's a change in your taste buds rather than in supermarket cucumbers? Ref the blossom end rot, it's insufficient water in the soil of the affected plants. Toms don't like to dry out. Keep the great content coming! :) x

I've grown potatoes from favorite supermarket odds and ends for years with no problem. The ones we buy are grown from disease free stock anyway.

I love all these random stuff videos, always interesting (love all your other content too so probably not surprising) I particularly enjoyed the wildlife friends, glow worms and the creative genius use of artistic soft focus

@martynehook590

11 ай бұрын

also I hope someone knows what the little animal noise/call was

@PandemoniumMeltDown

11 ай бұрын

@@martynehook590 To me, the answer is right under your comment... @DonnyOutdoors

I know what you mean about cucumbers suddenly tasting weird one day. When I was younger I used to eat tons of cucumbers at school, until one day they started tasting really weird and I couldn't stomach them anymore. My childhood mind blamed the shops for "making cucumbers wrong", and my mum thought I was crazy. But hearing that you went through the same thing as an adult makes me feel much less crazy.

@martnava1661

9 ай бұрын

yes, definitely something wrong with shop cucumbers. they've started tasting really weird. thought it was me at first but then i tried a more expensive waitrose cucumber and it tasted normal. the cheaper ones at asda taste garbage.

Literally said "Yay!" when I saw you'd posted, thank you very much, love a bit of Atomic Shrimp on a Saturday morning!

@lozziestardust01

11 ай бұрын

Something relaxing about some AS and a cuppa to start the day

@beccy2188

11 ай бұрын

@lozziestardust01 and bonus, now I've seen a glow worm! And so pleased Mike found some, perseverance pays off 😊

Have you tried the cucumber variety that is popular in America to see if it also tastes strange? It's a larger diameter but shorter in length cucumber with smooth dark green thick skin, not bumpy (we tend to use those for pickles), not ridged. The majority of the ways I have seen them prepared is to skin them completely or in alternating sections end to end reducing the amount of skin but not removing it entirely.

@8:00 - To be quite fair - all the veg in shops taste foul. My wife works for a Masonic Retirement Village that has it's own farmers market. That is the key to a lovely veg - or, in your case, a fantastic garden.

Blossom end rot is generally caused by the plant not getting enough calcium. Calcium requirements do vary somewhat by variety. However, there is an infection tomato plants can suffer from (sorry, I don't remember the name or specific details of it from reading up on the problem a few years ago) which interferes with the plant's ability to uptake calcium, which can cause blossom end rot even in tomatoes grown in soil with plenty of calcium.

Really enjoyed this video, I’ve never seen a glow worm they are quite amazing. I believe the screeching is a tawny owl, I hear them often where I live and it took me a while to correctly identify them. Keep up the fantastic work

I can't help but wonder if there isn't possibley some faint overlap in the aromatic compounds/VOCs that give old library books their smell and cucumbers their taste.

@Pooky-Cat

11 ай бұрын

I always put the smell of old library books down to the old librarians 😏😉

Thanks I really enjoyed your video.Those gloworms were magical.I remember seeing glowing fireflies in Whitstable when I was a kid more than half a century ago.Yes I too think that was a Tawny owl,ive seen them in the dark where I live,they fly really low to the ground,quite spooky.Have a good weekend.

One more vote - your footpaths story would be interesting. I'm from England so I expect it won't all be surprising or new to me but no doubt I'll still learn something. I expect your viewers from other countries would enjoy too.

Hello Mr. Shrimp, I'm reasonably sure your mystery bird is a tawny owl; i'm no expert but its a sound i've identified locally before.

@janewills3379

11 ай бұрын

I was wondering if it was a Little Owl or possibly a Nightjar.

There aren't many people for whom I'd watch a completely black screen in the hopes of seeing a pinprick of light, but you sir are one! Best of luck with the gardern, I imagine there's nothing as good as something you've grown yourself, picked at the appropriate moment of ripeness rather than for maximum shelf life. Thank you for all that you do. It's appreciated.

Most produce in the UK tell you where it was grown on the packaging, usually down to the region. This is great for when you want to buy cheap potatoes, garlic, onions or anything else that you know will grow well in your area while still being as cheap as chips, especially compared to buying sets, seedlings and seeds online. My one caveat to this is that Sarpo Mira are hard to find in the big supermarkets and are particularly great at resisting slugs and blight which are problems towards Autumn and Winter and so I'll sometimes buy those as seed potatoes.

Nuts how much better fresh food harvested at the right time is. The plants with the rot need more regular watering. The lack of water inhibits calcium uptake, so the other fruits should be good if they get enough water.

@AtomicShrimp

11 ай бұрын

I think the fruits that developed after the automatic watering system went in are all OK, so that checks out

Great stuff as usual. Especially love your walks around the local area as I grew up in south Somerset and spent many happy times along the Dorset coast. A personal request, if you ever walk along the coastal wall between Bowleaze Cove and Weymouth please show a bit of it. I often travelled along it as a child when holidaying at BC, and my father used to patrol along it in the early part of WW2 (yes, I am that ancient 😀)

@rihardsrozans6920

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like you should make a video, I bet you have stories to tell

1 hour of shrimp on a beautiful Saturday eve! Oh is it Christmas already?!? 10/10 content mate. ❤

The glow worm footage was fantastic! Particularly the definition you managed to get of the segmentation! Just amazing. However... I do feel I need to reprimand you for showing such dark footage during your video. It meant I had to brush away all the dust from my laptop screen to be able to view it. I have been building that collection of dust for a such long time - it was even possible to see the outlines of the keys in it! The sacrifices I make for Atomic Shrimp videos! :)

@emmajacobs5575

11 ай бұрын

Haha! Same here with my telly’s screen

The pumpkin comment reminded me that my mum has been known to walk around the house carrying a aubergine because she likes the way it fits into her hand and it's soft smoothness.

So many things put a smile on my face in this video - the snail was amazing, imagining your smile at seeing the glow worms, seeing your baby oak trees - just to name a few 😃

When you were talking about the Nigerian diet and how tomatoes, spicy peppers, and onions are such a big part of it, I found myself wondering why, or how, since tomatoes and peppers are both American crops that didn't exist in Africa until Columbus brought them back to Europe and they spread throughout the old world. I wonder what it was about them that got them so heavily entrenched in the culinary culture.

"Shall I Shrimp it?" is what I now ask myself if I'm out shopping and see an unusual foodstuff that I've not heard of but am suitably intrigued by. My most recent triumph was discovering Laoganma (I think) crispy chilli flakes in oil. I found it in a little Chinese market and now put it on EVERYTHING savoury. It goes spectacularly well on cheese-on-toast, for example, but also in pot noodles, curry, omelette, steamed broccoli.... I'm currently trying to find something it DOESN'T wonderfully compliment. So thank you, Mr Shrimp, for helping to turn my natural curiosity into a scientific fact-finding mission!

You triggered a childhood memory for me. I'm sure I used to go down those paths to the harbour/beach that you did. Couldn't have been older than seven at the time. Wow.

Really loved the artistic flourish of the soft focus scene. Really symbolized the ambiguity of your cucumber issue. I hope the problem and solution becomes clear soon. :)

Correct uses of "Shrimp It": - Making food from unlikely ingredients - Pulling apart electronics - Opening Cans - Looking very closely at something - Taking on a wild DIY project - Telling a superb dad joke

I love this series and how it has evolved over the years!

Regarding sea glass segment: it was still very worthwhile for the sorting, because it was very satisfying to see!

You should be prescribed as a mental and physical health tonic, you've helped so many people accept their preferences, try new hobbies and generally improved a lot of people's wellbeing, all by just sharing having the courage and wisdom to be yourself! ❤

Yes, more on your footpaths, please. Also, what you pack for lunch, the average length of your treks and how Evie holds up. She seems quite spry.

@PandemoniumMeltDown

11 ай бұрын

A series.

Love these long videos full of different things, thank you, and I really would love a video on public footpaths, etc in the UK.

@PandemoniumMeltDown

11 ай бұрын

A serie.

We have had so much rain here the poles that are staking up my tomatoes are falling down. I've done my best to prop them up. I have had to start picking the tomatoes when they first start turning red or they will rot on the vine. I checked my potatoes and they are still small but I over planted them so, I'm pulling early. As I dig them up I'm planting my 5th set of green beans, with the prices of food right now a big pot of green beans with fresh potatoes and small pieces of bacon could last us a couple of days. We tilled up the whole back yard this year, and I have kept it busy growing. My okra didn't grow but that is o.k. can't afford the egg wash. We like fried okra but it's to expensive with the price of eggs. I just planted green onions and I hope that we have enough time for them to do their thing. Thanks for the video.

Hi Mike! The footpaths conversation also has another layer when you take into affect that Scotland has significantly differing rules to England 😊

@PandemoniumMeltDown

11 ай бұрын

A big series.

As someone who uses a wheelchair and is bed bound most days, that used to love going for nature exploring walks and foraging, it’s really soothing watching your videos, living vicariously through what you do. I know I’ll probably never be able to do what I used to for multiple reasons (the main ones being inaccessibility, pain, energy levels and and lack of funding for a regular wheelchair let alone an all terrain one) but it’s comforting I can still enjoy them through the wonders of the internet.

Yay, you spotted the elusive glow worm!

You would love the glow worm cave in New Zealand me and my niece got to visit. It was magical. You're lucky to have them in your back yard. My mom collected only blue sea glass, which I inherited, I never gave it much thought about what the origins were, interesting. Thank you for sharing.

@sassywolf1

11 ай бұрын

I am also a kiwi and glow worms are everywhere and so special. When I was a kid we would go glow worm hunting when camping. Then when I became a girl guide leader we would find them when camping. We are very lucky to be kiwis

Hi Mike, and Jenny. Mike, another brilliant layed back long form video, I love these types of videos you do. Brightens up my week, especially as we've had awful rainy weather here in Dublin for over a month, so seeing your gorgeous garden and glow worm hunts and other random stuff is just a treat. 😊

@47:28 there are a multitude of uses for proper Karter borosilicate glassware in the kitchen. Among the uses are - placing a beaker directly on a burner to melt butter for popcorn, pouring boiling water in a beaker to make tea or such, and finally, to separate the fat from stock - I simply pour the hot stock in to beaker and place it in the freezer. The fat congeals in to a puck in short order, then I remove the fat using a spoon. It also helps to brush up on your metric measuring skills.

@PandemoniumMeltDown

11 ай бұрын

Yep: a bowl, a good bit of strategically concentrated absence of heat and time.

Love west Bay, and so glad to see it included in an Atomic Shrimp video. Born and lived in Dorchester until I was 20 with family in Bridport and Weymouth and never get down as often as I should. A little reminder of good younger memories 😊

Lovely video! The glow worm section reminded me of David Attenborough in the wilds, I could hear the joy in your voice as you saw them. Also lovely walk to West Bay, it isn't a part of the world I know very well so it all looks good to me. You inspire me to get out and explore my local area more by foot if the rain ever stopped!

Usually I don't like to watch videos longer than half an hour but yours are always worth watching. Like some kind of "Reader's Digest" in video format 🙂

The noise is an Owl- we get them in a wooded ravine near my home. It perches quite low on trees, signposts, etc. So it might sound like it's on the ground. I tip toed for 35 minutes one night trying to get close enough to see one but it would always playfully move just a bit further away when I got almost close enough to see it, but land again close enough that I can try to sneak towards it again! Then a fox turned up and both called out into the night together for 10 minutes- made me very happy.

Stuffing Mix. We grew up with not a lot of money to spare in the 50s & 60s, and one tea-time treat Mum used to make was a sort of cheese rissole, out of packet dried stuffing mix, rehydrated with boiling water, and grated cheese, about 3-4 to 1 ratio by rehydrated volume. She’d make this (not too wet) mixture into patties, roll in a little dry stuffing mix and fry in whatever fat we had to hand. Bacon fat or beef dripping made the best ones. Absolutely delicious! Bear in mind that cheese was a cheap ingredient in those days, and beef dripping was very cheap and readily available from any butcher. I still make them occasionally as a nostalgic treat. Similar to Glamorgan Sausage, as I found out later as an adult, but I like these better.

Love the 'Random Stuff ' videos, brilliant. A video about footpaths would be very interesting, especially in light of the recent lifting of the ban on wild camping on Dartmoor, so you could take a day or two to trek some of the longer-distance paths we have in the UK. Thanks for all the work you do to produce such interesting and varied videos.

50:57 "Easy packaged tasty thing" - the best way to describe unhealthy food. And also the phrase i'm going to use now to describe anything that's unhealthy! 😂

I absolutely loved the glow worm segment, it was nice to just hear the moving and talking and then see the occasional little bug. Reminded me of the experience of glow worm hunting myself, and was kind of like a lovely podcast. It's interesting that the glow was green! Here in Aotearoa our glow worms are blue, and kind of look like little stars on a cave wall. Thanks again for your lovely stuff!

Another great video to watch full-screen. I'm in a fairly urban area, so I really enjoy these nature-focused videos.

Awesome video , thanks for the garden update.

Have you considered purchasing one of those drones that can follow you without intervention/needing your input after launch? Some of your walks-and I enjoy them as they are, please don’t get me wrong-would be elevated to another level with the addition of some overhead and tracking shots. This is not an “I demand” comment, just a query. I do so love your outdoors videos, I look after my elderly dad in London, so I don’t get much chance to get out in the countryside anymore, so a lovely walk with you on a Saturday morning lifts the old spirits.

At the end of the harbour wall (near where you were at 1:13:15) is a stone circle. If you stand in the middle of it your voice gets echoed back to you in a really strange way but I couldn’t work out a good way of recording that for KZread in the short time we were there with family.

Thank you for another wonderful Random Stuff video. As I was cycling through the woods the other day, I began wondering about the acorns you'd planted and if you'd be able to do an update on them since moving, so this was a nice surprise answer to my ponderings. Thank you!

You have a couple of issues with your tomatoes: Overcrowding being the biggest one. Could also be a condensation problem, as greenhouses are generally quite humid, and don't like sudden changes in temperature. Proper watering and adequate plant spacing, having well-drained floors, warming plants, moving air and venting moisture are ways to reduce humidity in greenhouses. The least expensive method is to keep the greenhouse dry, especially going into the night, when the temperature drops.

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11 ай бұрын

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I loved watching you sort and then mix up the glass again. It reminds me of my obsession with jigsaw puzzles- I love the process of putting them together, but once it is finished I immediately show my husband then take it apart and put it back in the box. Taking it apart is part of the enjoyment for me

Hi Shrimp! Thanks so much for your videos, they helped me to feel like o could go outside during lockdowns, and after lockdown it helped me overcome my fear of going into nature. I’ve taken great joy in going hiking and identifying all the different plants around me. And I 100% understand what you’re saying about the cucumbers. They started tasting really weird a few years ago, and when I say that to people around me they look at me like I’m an insane person. Thank you so much, Jessica :)

Your videos have helped me recover from a particularly bad headache today (bad enough to switch on dark reader which is rare for me). Doing as little as possible and trying to relax works well but I find it very difficult to relax when all I can think about is whatever it is I'd rather be doing that day and I end up feeling frustrated that I can't do anything until the headache goes away. I find your videos give me something else to focus on while being calm enough to not aggravate the headache.

I wonder what your sea glass jar would look like with some of those micro led lights inside as well?

During the glow worm hunt I was admiring some of my Transformers collection behind me, reflecting off the black screen.

Fantastic and relaxing video as always! I found it so relaxing when you were out in the dark looking for glow worms, Im more of a night person. It felt like I was there and could only hear the sounds and see a fragment of the road. Im glad you did not use a light source. Great work!

What a lovely random video, thank you Atomic Shrimp. I would like to compliment Jenny on her excellent sewing skills and cheers to you for your wildly-cheerful taste in geometric design patterned material, the purple is seriously attractive. Your videos always make me happy. 😊

My cat really enjoyed the glow worm segment :)

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11 ай бұрын

We all did! 😻

Thank you for the videos, I really love them. One year every one of my tomatoes had blossom rot, but this year they are great, its my sweet banana peppers that are turning brown on the end now. I really like the way you did the fence, support around your garden beds, I am going to do that next year, I used wire this year on one raised bed but it was so hard to cut, the ground hogs love my tomatoes, but I guess them tasting one a day is not a total loss. I hope the odd taste from the cucumbers gets better for you some day, I got covid bug and can not eat sweet food now, its awful because I love chocolate, but gag on it now, it has been two years going on so far. In one of your videos you said " its not the end of the world, just eat something else", I always remember that when I go food shopping, we still have shortages of many things in the US, I apply that Shrimp saying to many situations. Thanks!

Absolutely adore the wildlife friends segment ❤ would love to see more/see it become a regular thing 😊

I could quite happily listen to a podcast with you just walking along a route describing what your looking at! Glow worm success!

Good job capturing video of the glowing. I was lucky enough to have seen bioluminescence of the water during the summertime in the tide and sand. It was magical.

I can't believe how bright those glowworms are. Amazing!

The gloworms were fantastic, I've never seen one in real life wow brilliant. I loved looking around your veggie plot ,yet another great video thanks for all your time so I get to see these things x

Your cucumber looks like the ones they sell in the San Francisco Bay area (where I've lived all of my 67.6 years) whenever available, as "English cucumbers". They come in plastic shrink wrap, maybe because of their more delicate skin. They always cost more, and they're the only cucumbers I had growing up. The "regular" cucumbers have a tougher, smooth looking, and crunchier skin that is usually removed or partially peeled, giving them a green and white striped effect, Leaving it on completely isn't very pleasant, it makes more chewing necessary and gives the cucumber a stronger and more of a bitter taste. After eating the "regular" cucumber many people have small, cucumber flavored burps for a while. When shopping, when I see "English cucumbers" at a less than normal price I buy them for my own enjoyment. I put them in green salads, and I'll make lots of cucumber salads; sliced with yogurt or sour cream (or both) a bit of a mild vinegar, salt & pepper, and fresh (or dry when necessary) dill. Though my antecedents have always been cost conscious and thrifty, only buying (or growing) "English cucumbers" is a family tradition, perhaps even going back as far as the big rebellion, but I don't know. Considering how long my ancestors have been settled on this continent, it has often amazed me how many of the foods my grandmother prepared seem to have been rooted in Britain. To say my mother wasn't much of a cook is a whopping understatement. She never spent much time AT ALL in the kitchen, and among many other things, I really enjoy watching you preparing food.