Im sure I mentioned once before after losing my wife and trying to cipe with grief I came across both your channels and try to comment on both . Seeing and hearing the joy that eminates from you both is heartwarming. Two gentle ladies . Alex and your Mum Gail. You find sone great stuff. Relaxing to watch you both.

@NorthernMudlarks

Ай бұрын

We are so deeply sorry for your loss and so humbled that you found our videos comfort. All the very best to you 🥰🦚🌸

@VickieV1333

Ай бұрын

James, you have support here in this channel! Stay strong 💪🏼❣️

@Magsmom2005

Ай бұрын

Loss is not easy by any means... sending strength your way James. I also use these videos as my time of peace and relaxation. There's just something soothing about Alex and Gail... Thank you ladies.

@kayesdigginit1519

Ай бұрын

Sending my best wishes and my heartfelt condolences on your wife's passing ❤

@UDarlin1967

Ай бұрын

Yes I find their channel Very relaxing. It’s a un-explaining relaxation. Much love and blessings, it just takes time. 🌸🌺🌻🩵

"Hole of Destiny" that made me laugh Alex. It sounds like a low budget film..."She dared not, but she did it! She jumped into the hole of DESTINY!!!"

@ratdetecting4780

Ай бұрын

I had a laugh at the title too!😂always great vids

@julben27

Ай бұрын

Destiny is all ! ( if you know you know 🤣🤣🤣)

So happy you still put the pudding doll in your finds pictures. Always fun to watch and see how she is posed. Nice lark at the tip!

@kayesdigginit1519

Ай бұрын

Yes, I love it 😊

@LutherianSteamship

Ай бұрын

The pudding doll often helps with scale when displaying objects of unknown size.

@ladywisewolf3942

Ай бұрын

I know! It makes me laugh every time I see it. I loved this week's button "hat" on it. So cute! 😄

You make me Sunday evenings not so lonely. Love you two,your infectious happiness for your finds makes me smile.

@2115virgo13

Ай бұрын

They both have great sense of humor! “ I’ve landed got me”! They have a beautiful mom and daughter relationship . Treasurer hunting looks fun!

@bonniemckay4007

Ай бұрын

I too have lonely evenings so I can understand your feelings! I love these two, makes me miss my mom even more.

@deirdrepasko9056

Ай бұрын

@@bonniemckay4007 aww I'm so sorry.

@tterbay

Ай бұрын

@@bonniemckay4007I feel for you and with you too.

Your humor is delightful. I love the hidden penny doll.

@kellyjoe1110

Ай бұрын

I crack up on how many ways she comes up to pose that little doll 😂❤

@wassahapening

Ай бұрын

I agree! It makes me smile and giggle ❤

I see you are still looking to figure out what the '3-legged white thing with the hole in the middle ' is... my thought is you fit it over a wide-mouth vase, and the hole in the middle is the receptical for an individual flower... seemed like a reasonable idea! Love you all!

I feel like Alex sings the background music. Y’all are my favorite KZread to watch

@annieg246

Ай бұрын

Yes! I love the Geordie song. I would love to hear the whole thing with the lyrics.

@elasmith4916

Ай бұрын

I think it sounds like Alex's voice too. A beautiful song indeed 😊

@alisonlyons4691

Ай бұрын

Yes l love the song too, and often thought maybe its Alex 😊

@peterkordziel7047

Ай бұрын

I'm certain of it. And I think it's the whole family , actually. Perfect music for the channel😊.

@_Aardvark_

Ай бұрын

Alex has got a beautiful voice

When you collect enough tiles your path will be amazing! 😊 Really interesting finds. A big shout out to the little person hiding! Thank you Ladies! ☺️💐💐

I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WERE SO MANY DIFFERENT PIPE BOWL DESIGNS. THEY ARE AMAZING TO FIND. ALEX, YOU HAVE QUITE THE EYE FOR FINDING THE TINIEST TREASURES, ESPECIALLY BEADS. THANKS AND STAY SAFE AND HEALTHY..❤️🙏

I just love the hiding pudding doll. I love looking for him every video. So sweet. Little did he know he’d be so popular! Great finds! 👋🏼from🇨🇦

I love seeing what the tiny dolly is up to each week!

An idea for your little white dish with the hole: Perhaps its a portable watercolour paint pallet! They sit on top a jug or mug of water allowing the painter to dip their brush into the whole to rinse it clean and mix their colours on top.

Gail, been watching your videos since the beginning. Its beautiful to see your smile grow bigger and bigger all the time . Keep shining

And again “ It’s a leg”. My favorite😀

@deirdrepasko9056

Ай бұрын

Mine as well. She cracks me up everytime she says that. 😄

Pencil leads are made very small for mechanical pencils,lovely lark ladies!❤

@GaryScott-pdx

Ай бұрын

I was sure that someone would identify the mechanical pencil. That style of pencil came from Japan. I believe that Pentel made the first mass market one sometime in the 1990s. At least that was the period of time that I first saw them in the U.S.

@janetpendlebury6808

Ай бұрын

@@GaryScott-pdx Mechanical pencils were around before 1990, I went to school in the 60's in the UK and used them.

Alex is very proud of her tiny doll. It's always in every conclusion of every video since she found him.

My favorite ladies in scottland❤can't wait for your videos

I don't know if anyone else has said this.Have been meaning to say it myself for ages.One man's trash is another man's treasure. Always look forward to see what new things you will find.

Awww that place is so enormous and has so many gifts ! I’m sure that there will be many more finds washed clean with all the rain we have had ! I love the last minute whistle and eye 👁️

Just a little tip if you want to use it. I noticed you wipe a lot of the items on your trousers to clean them. Take a small towel and tuck half inside waist of pants and let other half hang out. You can wipe the items on it and keep your clothes clean. Great finds!

@lolcatz88

Ай бұрын

Yes! They always seem to go so unprepared! No trowels to do a little digging or gloves to protect finger (even nitrile gloves would afford some protection!) not criticising, I love their videos and the exploration 😊

Hi I am Kim in Canada...I love your show. The white piece you showed at the end may be a Victorian Porcelain Bobech. A lamp base or chandalier, It could also go on a candle stick to catch wax. Good Luck.

@gingerbread1250

Ай бұрын

I too think it is lamp related..or part of a chandelier..😊

Alex, your mother & you "May you always find happiness were ever you go & what ever you do. For you bring a smile in people hearts with videos and creative art you design. My time on this earth is ending for the cancer is winning for the few months I have left. But Alex your mother & you when God willing I am in Heaven may still get watch you two & your friends have a very long and happy life. An may the Jesus always watch over you.

@deirdrepasko9056

Ай бұрын

May Jesus make your transition easy, and greet you warmly when you arrive. You'll be able to swoop right on over there to Scotland and be there with Gail and Alex when they dig, and nudge them in the right direction of where all the good stuff is, as you will have front row viewing. Peace to you, my sister in Christ.

"IT'S A LEG!"

It’s always wonderful to see you both enjoying each other company and having fun together.

Well that was the cutest sneeze I’ve heard in forever 🥰✌🏼🤟🏼🖖🏼😎

@sapphonymph8204

Ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing.

@sharlenezuhlke1561

Ай бұрын

Yes, and we ‘blessed’ you as well.

Please show us your pots with plants in them.

Oh that pudding doll peering out of the dolls eye socket😂!!

You should know that almost everyone would buy the bottles with small chips! Can’t find anything like them in USA. Please save and put on your site for sale!

@saraheaster8414

Ай бұрын

I heard from someone in Texas that Portland apparently has great mudlarking spots ☺️

If you ground the back of the mourning buttons flat and bezel set them as pendants they'd be gorgeous! Especially that lovely flower one! Xx

You guys found so many interesting things! I understand the dream wish list of projects I want to do vs the have to do list!!! But, one day the dram list will be fulfilled. The deer on the mug would have made a beautiful pendant. Thanks for taking us along on your adventures!

The cylinder with the pointed end is a Stylographic Pen- a kind of fountain pen.

As i've said before..There's nothing like starting my mondays watching you both. I just love it!

Crystal hunting! YES!! Hope the weather is a bit more cooperative. Love and hugs to you both from me in New Mexico USA.

I love your videos so much! Never gets tiring watching you find your treasures. I really love your music choices too.

Alex it's a propelling pencil, you put the lead inside. 😃

@mandycleezehappyhour4238

Ай бұрын

Yeah, in Canada we call these mechanical pencils

@susanadams736

Ай бұрын

@@mandycleezehappyhour4238 I still have one but don't use it nowadays..

@susanadams736

Ай бұрын

@@mandycleezehappyhour4238 I still have one, but don't use it now..

@annieg246

Ай бұрын

That was my thought as well.

@elizabethscruggs1622

Ай бұрын

I agree. The end is plenty big for the lead for a mechanical pencil. It's about that age for a pencil and it just got melted. Probably would have had a metal end on it with an eraser inside the metal housing.

Lovely visit ….thank you ladies! Can’t wait for more to come… and thanks again lovely beads! Pipe day, and marbles! I think…lovely….be well…see you next week! 🌹

Alex and Gail thank you for another wonderful video. I can so get lost in the humor excitement and joy of watching you both. Always end up with a smile on my face ... that is the BEST !!!

In 1914 a school inspector in London found that many children were wearing necklaces of blue or yellow glass beads under their clothes as an amulet against bronchitis and other lung diseases. If this belief in the magical properties of these particular colours of bead was widespread among the poor of Britain, this could be why so many of these beads are now being found by you.

Thank you so much for the video. I love watching you guys. 😊

Have you ever added to your mushroom houses fairy village you constructed and painted? I would love to see your made fairy village. Also a question, do you ever take broken glass and make your own glass beads? Suggestion, when finding things that you have researched before, attach your previous video that has your extended research on it will be such a great service for those wishing to know more, Take care ladies you are fantastic gals! center porcelain with hole for a juicer?

@karenarmstrong8282

Ай бұрын

They have made their own glass beads on an earlier video.

Greensleeves, I have an antique hair receiver it is cut glass with a silver top with flowers on it. They used to make "Hair Rats" which is a ball of hair that is their own, that is kind of like the modern hair doughnut, it is to give volume to an updo, because the Victorians and Edwardians had puffed up hairdo's it filled in the blank space and puffed it up without heavy teasing of the hair. I study a lot about the Victorian and Edwardian Eras.

You make me laugh every time with the places and positions in which you put the tiny, little pudding doll.❤.

Wasn’t feeling well today, but your video made my day when it popped up!❤❤😊

The old clay pots you have found remind me of Bill and Ben, the flowerpot men.✌️❤️

Thank you Ladies, still love seeing mudlarking Charlotte at the roundup. I was wondering about the eyeball and the plant pot, when you answered both . Lovely video with lots of wonderful finds. Thanks so much!

beautiful glass eye collection...never get tired of seeing what u find @ the dump. thanx!

My grandma had a hair receiver and I was told you could take the hair in it to a hair dresser(thus the name) and they could fashion hair pieces such as bangs and buns to hide balding spots as you aged. I inherited her hair receiver and I put change in it.🥰🥰🥰

The small eye with the all black center reminds me of a stuffed kitten's eye. The mystery pencil shaped object reminds me first of all: an engraving tool for leather or wood. Secondly, possibly to punch small wholes for some type of needlework. It will be interesting to know for sure! Thanks Gail and Alex for all your educational dedication and hard work. ❤❤❤ Love from over the Pond in West Michigan.😊

‘Pesh Frickings’. Proper!🤣

Love that you play Geordie. English folk song from about 1601 about the outlaw Geordie Stoole from your home county Northumberland. There's no doubting how much the singer sounds like Alex .

That last one, looks like the top of a water ashtray. You put the finished cigarette through the hole when it's finished, and also the ashes while smoking and it takes away the smell. Were used a few years ago when more people used to smoke indoors.

Always a pleasure to visit with you Ladies ❤❤❤❤❤😊

I loved it Gail, " Should I take them? Yeah go on. " 😄. I always appreciate the videos. Thanks for taking us along!

Just a thought.. the white porcelain piece could have a medicinal use. Put over a boiling cup and put hebal scents in the concave part of the piece. So it would steam a concentated herbal scent into the air.. and heat what was in the dish.. thank you for your creativity, humor and joy.. i will visit Scotland in the near future.

I feel like that white porcelain thing with a hole in it is a lamp part. I don't know why, just thought that right away. Lovely videos. I would just love to do this sort of thing and wish there were older dumps here in Manitoba, Canada.

@lisafischer4279

21 күн бұрын

I did a reverse Google of the picture and it shows some sort of candle or lamp and might have some other pieces missing or broken

Maybe you could make a border to your garden with all the beautiful tiles you find?

Some great finds ladies thanks for the adventure. Loved seeing a little nuthatch visiting your bird reeder ❤

So lovely to see your finds! Sending you wishes for warm weather. But also some rain to wash out the Victorian tip.

Another great lark with some cool finds...I can relate to the weather situation this was our first weekend with two sunny days all spring the rain has been relentless...the odd metal petal shaped piece may have been a decorative inlay on a horse drawn buggy possibly,,,thanks for bringing us along....Karl from eastern Canada

The piece of metal looks like a fan blade. It could have been attached with a bracket without there being a hole in the blade. Perhaps?? Enjoyed the lark as usual. Thank you. 😀

That pen looks like a lead pencil. The end part is where it pushed the lead out

The translucent glass is beautiful.👍

Happy Sunday. Thanks for sharing ❤

The coppery mystery find is the base of a cake/tart shovel (literal translation from my mother langage), it's a kind of flat spoon thingy that's use to dish tart or cake ... I think it doesn't have any hole because it was soldered to the handle 🤔

I still believe the porcelain piece is part of a vintage lamp. Search Glass Parlor bobeche lamp and you’ll see what I mean.

You should keep the tiny tea pot and cup and just make a new handle for them. That's what I would do!

Great video. Your pudding doll is doing a good job. I think the newest eye might be a very dark brown. Don't forget your bead boxes. As of this video your bird feeders were empty.

Great video again 😁 We haven't seen the fur babies lately, hint hint. I hope everyone is well.

My guess for the white thing is that it's a Bobeche. it's placed at the top of a candle holder or candlestick to catch dripping wax. It helps to prevent wax from dripping onto surfaces below and protects the candle holder from damage caused by heat and wax buildup.

I enjoy your videos so much because I too love to find old things that link us to the past and I watch the other channel as well. You are both so gentile which we don't find often here in the US.

One looks like a Scottish terrier and the other looks like a bird dog ( I forget the names of them, sorry) the pipe with the Queen Victoria's son is amazing. The morning button is beautiful, the jack, tiddler, and leg is a great find, the beads always are a good find. The bottles are cute. The doll faces are a bit creepy but nice. The small jam jar are becoming my favorite find along with the tea pots and the lids 😊. The cod marbles are cool, and the stoppers ❤. Great hunting with the finds 😃...btw a few seconds before you sneezed Alex, I sneezed, crazy lol...the dish with the hole I was thinking it could of been for a candle in a jar. Interesting non the less.

@kokoboo2654

Ай бұрын

Forgot about the whistle and the eye lol, it's a loud whistle for being a 100 years old 😆...loved the lost tower diaries video, Gail, you sure work fast lol, great video!

Another great Sunday evening. Look forward to your videos.❤

Your porcelain find looks like it could be the center piece for an antique 3 piece butter dish.

That was the tiniest little sneeze. Bless you❤ My cousin collects hair receivers. I had never heard about them till I saw hers

That deer on the cup would make a great pendant

I rarely comment, but watch every film. Thankyou for bringing us along. The time, the effort. Gale was correct- it's a mechanical pencil, and that 'pin' at the end there is the lead pusher. It would retract for loading.(iirc)

@NorthernMudlarks

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! 🥰🦚

I bought a lovely little glass hair receiver in a charity shop many moons ago. I also never knew it was a thing? The brass top is inscribed 'hair receiver'. I used it to put my Huskys forever moulting fur in. He passed away bless him in 2020. I still have it stuffed with his fur!! 💕💕💕

That cup is really nice to re-make into a necklace. the crack is at the correct place. Could cut the circle out the attach 925 silver around it and attach 925 chain.

Thank you for sharing your world with all of us armchair travellers. Love to see someplace new and yet so timeless, too. Beautiful scenery, history and the occasional giddy giggle of discovery😊 *candle drip guard seems to be the most likely*

Oftentimes, you leave things behind that I would have been excited to have purchased from your store. We don't have mudlarking opportunities where I live in California, so your treasure finds are exciting for me!

I believe that the pen is a metalpoint pen. It may have had a silver or lead or copper point. It was probably used for sketching, writing, or technical drawing. The metal point will write on a very rough surface. The surface may have been made rough enough to remove a tiny bit of metal from the metal pen tip surface by painting on some fine gritty material mixed with an adhesive and allowed to dry.This sort of pen was used by DaVinci, for one, to make his sketches. I duplicated the process by imbedding a bit of silver into the end of a wooden chopstick and sketching with it on a piece of Bristol board painted with gesso to which a bit of baking soda had been added.

You could have recreated new handles for that tea pit and doll cup. Loved this video.

@markpashia7067

Ай бұрын

I've seen Gail get creative with silver, A nice metal band handle could work to hide the area the ceramic handle broke off.

Your enthusiasm, cheer, and occasional despair over broken bottles is wonderful! I appreciate your attention to small details. I've been encouraged to do some metal detecting on our land where an old farmhouse stood and appreciate unusual details and mysteries. Good luck in all your endeavors!

Good day🦋🌷what a treat 2 videos, made my weekend! Today’s mystery item, I think it is a mechanical pencil & they do made leads that small. As for the porcelain mystery.. wonder if after you put the egg you pick it up and swirl it around the whites would come through? Or it would work well as a flower frog for a single flower 🌸 thanks for both your videos ☮️🇨🇦💜

I love watching your videos, and do try to figure out the mysteries that you find. So the little porcelain piece with a hole in the middle…could it possibly be related to a light fixture? Maybe a hanging light from the ceiling? Just a guess. I hope your bridge is finished soon so you can get out again.

"It's a leg"! I love this every time! 😂 The Mystery object is a mechanical pencil. The lead is extremely fragile and thin, and breaks easily. Only those who write lightly, can use them. Sorry, I don't know what the white ceramic thing is. Nice video again this week, ladies, thank-you. 😊

Great hunt ladies.i look forward to your video on a Sunday.lovw the eye and the gorgeous lady and gent pipe bowl 😊x

Wow 🤩 lovely legs and rustic pots Muddy paradise 🙋‍♀️

What a great dumpsite, a few mysteries that I have no clue on either, the gifted green bottle is stunning and that half doll face reminds me of Phantom of the Opera 🤗 As always had a lovely time with you both, another day brightened by Gail and Alex. Love and hugs, stay well 🥰🥰 xx

Love your videos!

Hello ladies, thank you for the vid its always a pleasurable experience to hear your voices, music and see the flora around you while you fossick for your treasures. Is it against mudlarking rules to use trowels? If not, why don't you use them? Cheers!!!🥰😘🤔💕👍👍👍🙏

I think the stylist you found is a copper plate etching tool. For engraving or intaglio plates. For printmaking.

My grandma used a hair receiver... she had something called a 'rat' made from her own hair that she had formed into a flat ball. She used it to plump up her bun . Her hair was waist length. She had never cut it into a Bob like her sisters. When she was young she wore it wound into two plaited buns over her ears, then when she got older she had a bun on top of her head with plaits would around it.

Well ladies you found some wonderful treasures today, I often wonder how someone decides/chooses were to start digging in those old dumps, and I always wonder what other treasures are hiding beneath the surface, another fab video, tfs x Julie

White ceramic thingy from last week, maybe a pot minder for boiling milk. When you hear it rattle you can turn the heat off to prevent scorching your milk..

I have another suggestion for last weeks white ceramic piece, my late husband collected victorian shaving mugs mostly the scuttle shaped ones but amongs his collection ia a plain white mug with a removable top similar to yours where we thought the shaving soap would sit and drain but we were also told it could be an individual spittoon ! Take your pick of which it could be but personally I prefer to think of it as a shaving mug ! 😊

I just had a feeling that you were both in for some special finds when the eye showed up first ! Fun.

I'm just jumping into the hole of destiny! There's much to be found in there! Love the video and all your finds! ❤😊

great video and living in the North East I can totally relate to your problems with the rain!

The flower on the mournig button looks like a violet. Small bottles are sweet. Pencil is surely a mechanical pencil 😊 I'm so surprised you hadnt heard about hair receivers. Glad you have some new information. Could the eggs have been smaller, perhaps quail eggs?