The cattle pens are probably for the herd of belted Galloway that are often grazing on the land around the monument. Great to see you both in the wild and thanks for taking the time to chat 😺
Fun fact, 17% of Swedens surface is covered by bilberry bushes. We see them as weeds, useful weeds, but non the less weeds. My dogs have always loved the berries and pick them themselves from the bush, so Eva should had been included in this battle. You could have just weighed her before and after. 😉
My aunts daschhund likes bilberrys and it looks funny when she skips around in the forest cause she's a bit lacking in the terrain capabilitie due to low ground clearance😂
Mike. It is so heartening seeing fans stop and give you some well deserved love. It is also so nice to see Jenny appearing to be a little more comfortable on camera. I hope you know the amount of joy you both spread doing this. Thank you so very much.
"Stop talking, Michael. Start winning." I honestly laughed out loud at that!! And that tart was very beautiful. You both did those berries justice. So nice to see Jenny's face!!
I, too, felt that was very endearing indeed, but I also thought in that very moment that going for a bilberry battle with one's partner is already basically the definition of winning at life. 🌸
I'm only part way through, scrolling comments while the video plays,.and I caught your comment about "a beautiful tart". While I enjoy the sight of a good looking woman, my guess is you mean these berries will become part of a nice pastry. 😁
A dozen or so years ago when I lived in the South West of England, I took my grandchildren whortleberry picking on the moors. On our way home we stopped in the village shop to pick up a few groceries, and my grandson proudly showed off his morning’s haul. I asked the shopkeeper what is the difference between a whortleberry and a blueberry. She told me, straight faced, “Mostly the spelling”. 😂
@@raymcdonald6734 Eva is how my little old girl would like to be. Sadly she has never been able to cope with the energy level Eva displays, having been neglected and abused as a puppy, causing her to lose a back leg and leaving her with spinal issues. BUT she's loved and happy, now 10 years of age. (we rescued her at 8 months and she'd been through too much already) So, like you, I love seeing her!
That final shot very cute made me remember my mum and dad, my dad sadly passed away a year ago and I’m in a different country than my mum right now. love your content Mike. all what you want you can find on this channel, informative, funny, relaxing, etc. whatever mood I’m in there’s always a video for it. All the love and respect!
i really can't properly put into words how uniquely meaningful this video felt to me. it's like a microcosmic tribute to the big things that we should really be spending our time loving - other people, nature, and ourselves. it epitomizes everything beautiful about your channel, and at the risk of sounding cheesy, about the world. i think i'm going to go plan a picnic with my girlfriend now. :)
Thank you Shrimp and Jenny - as I disappear down a well of panic before flying out through this storm tomorrow, this was a little oasis of calm. I hope you both enjoyed the day, and the resulting pudding :)
Love the varied content of your channel. Have thought of starting my own years back but never had one interest to build a channel around. It is great to see you do well as a generalist rather than a specialist. Keep up the good work!
I love bil(blue)berries. This reminds me of an interesting story about them. A few years ago, a friend and I went camping on an island that is almost entirely crown land, and access is only by private charter boat. We loved to camp and hike and picked a weekend. In my province, summer is about a month or two behind yours, we get much longer winters. So it was mid-august and a heat wave struck just as we setted out. During a hike on the island, we had to start rationing our water before heading back to camp, and became very tired and dehydrated. Just as fate would have it, a clearing by an old radar post had a huge and massive field of wild blueberries, as far as you could see. Perfect ripeness. I couldn't believe just how many there were, it was incredible. We ate many, and it gave us the energy needed to return to camp. I still hope one day to return there and pick more properly to bring home. There is nothing quite like wild berries.
First I wondered: "What's a bilberry?", since I had never heard the word before. Then you explained it, and I said: "Ah! Waldheidelbeeren!" And then you explained they usually dwell on woodland or heath, and it dawned on me, that *this* is the root of their German name... (Wood = Wald, and heath = Heide.) And it took me only approximately 50 years and your video to finally get it...😅 (but I did get it! 👍🧠)
26:40 you're probably already aware, but in case you're not - you can clean out the leaves and gunk from the blueberries with a hair dryer. Simply put the berries on a flat tray or something with a non-steep lip or frame, then gently blow into them at an angle to blow away the lighter leaves and stems while (mostly) keeping the heavier berries on the tray.
A biscuit crumb tart is a joy, it's a nice change from pastry. You can firm up the crumbs and make the sides stick together if you press them with the base and sides of a drinking glass
In my neck of the woods (West Yorkshire) you often find cars full of people, picking berries like they are going out of fashion. However you and Jenny have introduced me to what would be a new twist to my diet, using a biscuit base. Locally it is more common than not to find bilberries served as the filling of a short pastry pie usually made in an old saucer, with a pastry lid and a dusting of granulated sugar added just before the end of cooking to partially melt it on top but to keep the grainy texture on top of the crust. Usually the saucer size of tart can be consumed either by a single individual and slightly less often it is shared between two people.😊
Stop talking Michael, start winning. OMG I love it. Can I just say, you and Jenny seem to have a fantastically lovely relationship and I enjoy seeing little snippets of it. When you talked about not subjecting her to your most recent budget challenge it once again highlighted this. Do you give much thought to being a role model at all? I subscribed my kids to your channel in hopes they might emulate some of your behaviors rather than the other youtubers they watch.
I love that Jenny is getting more involved with the videos. These are the highlights of my week working in London - gives me a sense of escape when I can’t get out to the countryside.
Bilberries are very abundant here in the Austrian alps (they can grow quite high up too) and they are absolutely some of my favourite berries, there's so much you can do with them and they are so much more aromatic than any store bought (American) blueberry. Probably not as abundant here as in Scandinavia but still amazing, and if you don't want to collect them on your own local farmers often sell them too (they collect them from the wild) when they're in season (also freezing them works very well too if you want some outside of the season).
I used to love billberry picking as a child because we always found some amazing caterpillars. As an adult I find it a bit tedious and end up with a tiny amount, You used to be able to buy them by the pint on Chesterfield market. I now tend to buy them in jars in Polish supermarkets
I'm glad the viewer called mountaincat123 stopped to have a little chat with you, it clearly brightened both your day and hers. I think if I spotted you in the wild, though, I'd feel a bit cheeky disturbing you. Although after seeing that nice little chat, maybe I'd say hi and make polite small talk. Thank you for the video, I think I'll keep my eyes peeled for bilberrys now
I commented it before a good while ago but seeing closer shots of the ground and stuff always makes me think how similar the climate over there is to a region in denmark I spend my summer vacation at! Can't wait to go look for berries too, it's always great fun though it seems like you guys have more abundance in that regard. Love seeing jenny more, she brings a fun spirit to the videos! :)
I went to Sweden in the summer a few years ago and some of the rural areas were very similar in their flora to our acid heaths in Wales and England! Bracken, mosses, heather, brambles and bilberries. But in the summer when it rained, it would clear up and the sun would come out and it would be bright and warm again. Here the rain usually precedes cold and grey weather that seems to go on forever. I don't know if that's similar to Denmark. You should come over and visit There's too many gorgeous places to mention 😊.
Truly! All of scandinavia is far too gorgeous. I'm actually from somewhere halfway down germany and going up those thousand-ish kilometers makes a whole world of difference, here it's super hot, sunny and dry. I actually really like how rainy and cold it gets in summer up there in comparison! My brother went to norway for two weeks last year and they were constantly getting rained on but wow was I jealous by how pretty that country is too... I'd love to see the british isles on day, so many unique biomes squished together on a single (relatively) small landmass, it really makes you jealous!
I love the competitions and the good natured way in which you compete. Like threatening to barge Jenny out of the way! 😂 As always, also very educational. In one of your q and a sessions it would be interesting to find out how you remove ticks if they attach.
I went wild blueberry picking once in the Cascade mountains of Washington state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. We saw a young black bear on the road going in about a quarter mile from our picking spot. The people who had invited me had never seen one before. We made a lot of noises as we picked to ward off any more bears (singing and talking loudly). They never invited me again thinking I was bad luck and attracted bears!
Looks like fun! Years ago, while visiting my grandparents on summer vacation, we would take a day and pick loads of blueberries on a hillside near their home. The land had once been part of my grandparent's farm so they knew where these plump, sweet berries thrived. Outfitted with our blueberry buckets, we'd scour the hillside, under the blazing hot sun, and pick our fill. When we got home, it was time to make blueberry cobbler with grandma, saving some berries for blueberry pancakes in the morning. A real treat was a simple dish of berries with a splash of cream and a sprinkle of sugar. Your and Jenny's pie looked delicious, a well earned reward. Thank you for bringing back lovely memories 🌸
It was really good to see Jenny's face on camera at last. I'm very camera-shy as well so two thumbs up to her. I have an elderberry in my front garden that's more ornamental than fruit- bearing. It does have a few berries but I usually leave them for the birds. However, I have barberry, cotoneaster and pyrocantha for them so I might steal the elderberries for myself this year. I'm in the middle of replanting my back garden and you have given me so many ideas for that as well. I was already gong to have supercolumn apple trees (great for small gardens as they only need to be planted two feet apart), but now I'm having fuschias and honeyberries as well, thanks to your videos. The rest of the garden is going to be purely for bees and butterflies; hardy geraniums, lavenders and herbs. And probably catmint as we have two cats to please. Thanks again for your videos. I learn more from you than from googling.
Like your subscriber in the wild, I also didn't know that bilberries were wild blueberries! I haven't seen any in my neck of the woods, but it's likely not acidic enough soil here. I will say though that we have a second year of very abundant blackberries - every 'branch' is smothered with fat fruit! Come late August I hope to make a blackberry version of your bilberry pie...no ticks!
I came for the scambaiting and stayed for the rest. These videos are so relaxing to watch while enjoying a leisurely weekend breakfast and make doing chores so much more enjoyable. It’s great to see more of Jenny as well. Seeing the two of you enjoying the countryside and doing these challenges really rounds out the videos. I’m from Australia so the close look at the English countryside, home of some of my ancestors, is something I really love. Well done Mike and I can’t wait to see more. Loving the cooking videos as well including the budget ones, not that we could try them here; food is more expensive. But it’s fascinating to see some of the ingredients I’ve never seen here - what even is clotted cream?
Brought back so many memories of wimberry picking as a child on the moors above Bolton. Thankfully no ticks but swarms of midges! After hours of picking my mother would make a shallow wimberry pie with the shortest pastry that would melt in the mouth. Great vlog as always. Thank you.
These are called blaeberries where I’m from in Scotland. We had a blaeberry park in our woods.We used to do the exact same activity as children. It was my wise mothers way of encouraging us so she didn’t have to🤣The jam she made was amazing. She also made a lovely coulis for our ice cream. Problem was the associated stomach ache because we ate as we picked🤣🤣. I’m a septuagenarian 😊
@@rmil4531 Unfortunately, I do not know much about our common history that the countries around the North Sea have. I wish I knew more, but the fact that we have many words in our languages that have a common source is a truth. Have a nice day!
Thanks so much for the video! I love these foraging ones. Entertaining and educational. I thank my hubby every time I watch another one of your videos as he's the one that showed you to me. I've been addicted since!
Almost every year, my aunt and I go billberry picking. Only here in Austria, we just call them wild blueberries (Heidelbeeren), as opposed to the bigger, kind of flavorless, non-coloring blueberries (Kulturheidelbeeren) you can buy in the store. The wild ones are much preferable. Your battle was very enjoyable. One of these years, I gotta make it to Dorset also, it looks stunning and I would love to gp fossile hunting on a beach as well.
My siblings and I used to pick blackberries at the side of the road all the time as kids, though I find less wild berries now in London. It's theraputic to watch other people still at it!
I work at a property managed by a conservation and history charity, and on site we have hundreds of bilberry bushes (one of only 5 sites in my county to have them). Feel very lucky being able to have bilberrys for breakfast every morning!
I hope the bilberry battle is an annual treat :) I have very happy memories of picking up on the yorkshire moors as a child on holiday and returning the spoils to my aunt Joan to transform into big mouthwatering sugar crusted pies for the whole family :) Thanks for taking us along x
That tart was so perfectly set! I'm wanting to try a biscuit crust now. Graham cracker crusts are on the sweet side so something a little less sweet would be nice. Thanks for taking us out with you. Jenny is delightful and such a good sport. So you're 1-1 on gathering competitions now. She's a strong competitor!
A lovely video! Reminds me of going to visit my grandparents in south Wales. We'd pick what in that part of the world are called wimberries and then my grandma would make an apple and wimberry pie, always served with lots of custard.
I always find it charming that, at least in the videos, Mike Shrimp will speak a novel's worth of words, and Jenny Shrimp will reply with just one or two. The contrast always makes me laugh.
I love this channel! ❤ I hope to visit your beautiful country one day. Thank you Michael and Jenny for always being a joy to watch, love from another Jenny across the pond as they say. 😊
I love that you know about bilberries! They are the kind of blueberry I grew up picking and eating every summer, and I much prefer them to the large American variety. A good recipe for them would be my grandma's potato based dumplings with the bilberries and a little sugar as a filling, with some breadcrumbs toasted on butter, with extra melted butter to drizzle on. Thank you for this video, it makes me feel very nostalgic and cozy :)
I love that the food you cook isnt just for the sake of the taste, but also the memories made along the way ^.^ will you be doing anything with the seaglass from the seaglass battle as well? Id love to see more of these types of videos, no pressure though. I want it to be fun for you and not forced.
We also have a lot of ticks in my area and first - full clothes always put on, second - we use repellent - it works good - we also spray bottoms of pants, sleeves etc. and a lot on necks... even if ticks jumps on us they do not bite and are easier to just brush away from clothes... and third - we both take shoots - they are free in my area :)
Childchood memory unlocked 😭 They have the best flavour straight from the bush but go exceptionally well in pastries (jagodzianki) or sweet dumplings. They are my fav!
Such a wholesome video: the interaction with the cyclist had me smiling. Usually where I live I’m so used to people being rude and just seeing a friendly chat between strangers is refreshing.
I love blueberry picking, its so relaxing and plus delicious, sweet berries that beat store-bought by a country mile! I may not have time this year, we are moving house... Thanks for all the wonderful content Mike, greetings from Nova Scotia, Canada 😃
Really enjoyed watching this video Mike. It was so nice to see you and Jenny picking the berries and then making/enjoying the pie. It looked delicious 😋 You are very lucky to have each other and I'm very grateful for you sharing the video with us🥰🥰
Good on you Jenny!!! It was a close thing, congrats Mike!! Absolutely delighted to see Jenny getting over her shyness and doing more, she's good craic (as we say I Ireland) Lovely video as per usual Mike, keep up the brilliant videos, they make my weekend!!❤
This reminded me of my childhood. Here in the US we have huckleberries, that are similar. They would get us kids up early in the morning during the summer and we would pick pounds of them. Our mothers and grandmothers would make pies, jams and cakes with them. Us kids would be picking ticks and bitten by redbugs. Oh what fun!
The first time I saw Blueberries in the supermarket, I thought, "oh they look like big blaeberries"..... it took me a long time to believe they were actually related.
I live in Pennsylvania (USA) and we’ve had a horrible year for ticks. It never got cold enough for a deep freeze this winter, we didn’t get any snow beyond flurries, and now we’re in a drought, so the ticks this year are just the worst. 😵💫 If my son and I are kicking a soccer ball (football 😅) around in our yard- ticks. If I walk my dog and stay on the paved sidewalk- ticks. If I take my younger son to the playground- ticks. If I pick my tomatoes- ticks. Ugh.
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I was out walking in thr peak district 2 days ago and came across loads of Bilberries! I took a leaf out of your book and picked a big handful and gob'd the lot, delicious!
Oh, that looks real tasty, I must go out and pick what we in Sweden and Norway call blueberries. When we were little, we always were told not to pick the whole plant, but only take the berries like you did. Some years ago I learned that a blueberry plant can become around 30 years old. I now understand better why our elders told us to treat them with care, so as to get berries each year.
Nice way to spend one of the hottest days this year,watching this.Another similarity,berry,especially blackberry,cobblers in the US are occasionally made with American biscuit dough that has been sweetened a little and sprinkled with some sugar before baking.Jenny's crust resembles Graham Cracker Crust which is usually made with a pie with a creamy consistency like Key Lime Pie or cheesecake.
Startled me right awake when the camera dropped. Was watching on my phone above my face while laying in bed felt alot like when you are kind of sleeping or just dozing off and you fake fall.
i dont comment on your vids but i just want to say how much i love your channel and your ”slow videos” on a platform that wants fast everything. dont change being random and slow and interresting and intelligent. as the saying goes ”well done that man!” or bualadh bus(pronounced boo la bus) in irish.
The cattle pens are probably for the herd of belted Galloway that are often grazing on the land around the monument. Great to see you both in the wild and thanks for taking the time to chat 😺
Lovely to meet you!
I was hoping you'd pop up in the comments!
@@tgcpark Ha ha had to say thanks as such a friendly couple 😺
Nice gravel bike, I have the same mudhugger on the rear!
@@tinglydingle They are great and nice to get something made in the UK from recycled plastic 😉
Happy to see Jenny in the videos a bit more, she seems like a good sport!
Yeah, comment positivity one for Jenny! Shrimps a lucky man. Great companion in wee Eva too. Always a joy to see them in the vids.
@@roldzzI 2nd this! 👍👍
They're so wholesome, makes me want to find someone too
200th like, %, agree.
Gorgeous young couple. Thank you Jenny and Thank you Mike. Hugs for Eva.❤❤❤
Other channels: Fan meetups at conventions
Atomic Shrimp: Randomly meets fan while picking bilberries in countryside.
So fitting 😀
Fun fact, 17% of Swedens surface is covered by bilberry bushes. We see them as weeds, useful weeds, but non the less weeds.
My dogs have always loved the berries and pick them themselves from the bush, so Eva should had been included in this battle. You could have just weighed her before and after. 😉
Such a great natural resource to have. Sweden could be the world's number 1 exporter of bilberries.
Ah, I remember that from the third book in the Kalle Blomqvist series, where they complain about only having bilberries in the forest on the island 😁
@@johanneswerner1140 I can understand why. Since they were on the run from kidnappers and they were the only thing they had to eat.
Came here to say this! I can at least add that 17% of Sweden is roughly the size of Scotland.
My aunts daschhund likes bilberrys and it looks funny when she skips around in the forest cause she's a bit lacking in the terrain capabilitie due to low ground clearance😂
Mike. It is so heartening seeing fans stop and give you some well deserved love. It is also so nice to see Jenny appearing to be a little more comfortable on camera. I hope you know the amount of joy you both spread doing this. Thank you so very much.
Lovely.
"Stop talking, Michael. Start winning." I honestly laughed out loud at that!! And that tart was very beautiful. You both did those berries justice. So nice to see Jenny's face!!
That should be on a T shirt!
@@drjoyfulnotes Agreed!
I, too, felt that was very endearing indeed, but I also thought in that very moment that going for a bilberry battle with one's partner is already basically the definition of winning at life. 🌸
I laughed too! 😂
I'm only part way through, scrolling comments while the video plays,.and I caught your comment about "a beautiful tart". While I enjoy the sight of a good looking woman, my guess is you mean these berries will become part of a nice pastry. 😁
A dozen or so years ago when I lived in the South West of England, I took my grandchildren whortleberry picking on the moors. On our way home we stopped in the village shop to pick up a few groceries, and my grandson proudly showed off his morning’s haul. I asked the shopkeeper what is the difference between a whortleberry and a blueberry. She told me, straight faced, “Mostly the spelling”. 😂
Classic British humour!
The old ones are the best 😅
Love that someone rode up who knew the channel. Really got me smiling. Wonderful interaction.
Lovely to see Jenny! Her gentle contribution truly compliments your style, Mike. Thank you both. Now to find a starring role for Eva!
Eva is a star ⭐️ all of her own! Makes me happy whenever she’s about!
@@raymcdonald6734 Eva is how my little old girl would like to be. Sadly she has never been able to cope with the energy level Eva displays, having been neglected and abused as a puppy, causing her to lose a back leg and leaving her with spinal issues. BUT she's loved and happy, now 10 years of age. (we rescued her at 8 months and she'd been through too much already) So, like you, I love seeing her!
She's already the Toast Police, Deer Huntress, Service Barker, Model...
Mike, you and Jenny should do more videos together. It's nice to see her participating in your ventures.
That final shot very cute made me remember my mum and dad, my dad sadly passed away a year ago and I’m in a different country than my mum right now. love your content Mike. all what you want you can find on this channel, informative, funny, relaxing, etc. whatever mood I’m in there’s always a video for it. All the love and respect!
I'm sorry for your loss, friend :(
I’m so sorry for your loss. Hugs 🫂
@@tylerdejong6930 thanks 🙏🏼
@@tylerdejong6930 thanks 🙏🏼
I lost my dad years and years ago. But it's still fresh in my memories the time we had together as Father & Son.
i really can't properly put into words how uniquely meaningful this video felt to me. it's like a microcosmic tribute to the big things that we should really be spending our time loving - other people, nature, and ourselves. it epitomizes everything beautiful about your channel, and at the risk of sounding cheesy, about the world. i think i'm going to go plan a picnic with my girlfriend now. :)
wholesome ❤
Thank you Shrimp and Jenny - as I disappear down a well of panic before flying out through this storm tomorrow, this was a little oasis of calm. I hope you both enjoyed the day, and the resulting pudding :)
So awesome to see a fan of yours out in the wild! There are nearly a million of us after all
Love the varied content of your channel. Have thought of starting my own years back but never had one interest to build a channel around.
It is great to see you do well as a generalist rather than a specialist. Keep up the good work!
I love bil(blue)berries. This reminds me of an interesting story about them.
A few years ago, a friend and I went camping on an island that is almost entirely crown land, and access is only by private charter boat. We loved to camp and hike and picked a weekend. In my province, summer is about a month or two behind yours, we get much longer winters. So it was mid-august and a heat wave struck just as we setted out.
During a hike on the island, we had to start rationing our water before heading back to camp, and became very tired and dehydrated. Just as fate would have it, a clearing by an old radar post had a huge and massive field of wild blueberries, as far as you could see. Perfect ripeness. I couldn't believe just how many there were, it was incredible. We ate many, and it gave us the energy needed to return to camp. I still hope one day to return there and pick more properly to bring home. There is nothing quite like wild berries.
I so adore how much fun you and Jenny have togegther, and how much obvious respect and love there is between you
First I wondered: "What's a bilberry?", since I had never heard the word before.
Then you explained it, and I said:
"Ah! Waldheidelbeeren!"
And then you explained they usually dwell on woodland or heath, and it dawned on me, that *this* is the root of their German name...
(Wood = Wald, and heath = Heide.)
And it took me only approximately 50 years and your video to finally get it...😅
(but I did get it! 👍🧠)
26:40 you're probably already aware, but in case you're not - you can clean out the leaves and gunk from the blueberries with a hair dryer. Simply put the berries on a flat tray or something with a non-steep lip or frame, then gently blow into them at an angle to blow away the lighter leaves and stems while (mostly) keeping the heavier berries on the tray.
That's a good tip - thanks!
A biscuit crumb tart is a joy, it's a nice change from pastry. You can firm up the crumbs and make the sides stick together if you press them with the base and sides of a drinking glass
In my neck of the woods (West Yorkshire) you often find cars full of people, picking berries like they are going out of fashion. However you and Jenny have introduced me to what would be a new twist to my diet, using a biscuit base. Locally it is more common than not to find bilberries served as the filling of a short pastry pie usually made in an old saucer, with a pastry lid and a dusting of granulated sugar added just before the end of cooking to partially melt it on top but to keep the grainy texture on top of the crust. Usually the saucer size of tart can be consumed either by a single individual and slightly less often it is shared between two people.😊
Love seeing Jenny taking a more active role on the channel. Do miss Eva a bit, so hope she’s okay! :)
I absolutely love that jenny is getting involved in the videos a lot more, little by little she’s building her confidence 😊 bless you all! ❤
So sweet that you and Jenny go for walks and pick berries together. You are a lovely couple.
I love these little competition Videos between Jenny and yourself. I hope we get to see more of them!
Stop talking Michael, start winning. OMG I love it. Can I just say, you and Jenny seem to have a fantastically lovely relationship and I enjoy seeing little snippets of it. When you talked about not subjecting her to your most recent budget challenge it once again highlighted this. Do you give much thought to being a role model at all? I subscribed my kids to your channel in hopes they might emulate some of your behaviors rather than the other youtubers they watch.
I love that Jenny is getting more involved with the videos. These are the highlights of my week working in London - gives me a sense of escape when I can’t get out to the countryside.
Bilberries are very abundant here in the Austrian alps (they can grow quite high up too) and they are absolutely some of my favourite berries, there's so much you can do with them and they are so much more aromatic than any store bought (American) blueberry.
Probably not as abundant here as in Scandinavia but still amazing, and if you don't want to collect them on your own local farmers often sell them too (they collect them from the wild) when they're in season (also freezing them works very well too if you want some outside of the season).
I used to love billberry picking as a child because we always found some amazing caterpillars. As an adult I find it a bit tedious and end up with a tiny amount, You used to be able to buy them by the pint on Chesterfield market. I now tend to buy them in jars in Polish supermarkets
I'm glad the viewer called mountaincat123 stopped to have a little chat with you, it clearly brightened both your day and hers. I think if I spotted you in the wild, though, I'd feel a bit cheeky disturbing you. Although after seeing that nice little chat, maybe I'd say hi and make polite small talk. Thank you for the video, I think I'll keep my eyes peeled for bilberrys now
Thank you both. The tart looks delicious.
I commented it before a good while ago but seeing closer shots of the ground and stuff always makes me think how similar the climate over there is to a region in denmark I spend my summer vacation at!
Can't wait to go look for berries too, it's always great fun though it seems like you guys have more abundance in that regard.
Love seeing jenny more, she brings a fun spirit to the videos! :)
I went to Sweden in the summer a few years ago and some of the rural areas were very similar in their flora to our acid heaths in Wales and England! Bracken, mosses, heather, brambles and bilberries. But in the summer when it rained, it would clear up and the sun would come out and it would be bright and warm again. Here the rain usually precedes cold and grey weather that seems to go on forever. I don't know if that's similar to Denmark. You should come over and visit There's too many gorgeous places to mention 😊.
Truly! All of scandinavia is far too gorgeous. I'm actually from somewhere halfway down germany and going up those thousand-ish kilometers makes a whole world of difference, here it's super hot, sunny and dry. I actually really like how rainy and cold it gets in summer up there in comparison! My brother went to norway for two weeks last year and they were constantly getting rained on but wow was I jealous by how pretty that country is too... I'd love to see the british isles on day, so many unique biomes squished together on a single (relatively) small landmass, it really makes you jealous!
I love the competitions and the good natured way in which you compete. Like threatening to barge Jenny out of the way! 😂 As always, also very educational. In one of your q and a sessions it would be interesting to find out how you remove ticks if they attach.
I went wild blueberry picking once in the Cascade mountains of Washington state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. We saw a young black bear on the road going in about a quarter mile from our picking spot. The people who had invited me had never seen one before. We made a lot of noises as we picked to ward off any more bears (singing and talking loudly). They never invited me again thinking I was bad luck and attracted bears!
Looks like fun! Years ago, while visiting my grandparents on summer vacation, we would take a day and pick loads of blueberries on a hillside near their home. The land had once been part of my grandparent's farm so they knew where these plump, sweet berries thrived. Outfitted with our blueberry buckets, we'd scour the hillside, under the blazing hot sun, and pick our fill. When we got home, it was time to make blueberry cobbler with grandma, saving some berries for blueberry pancakes in the morning. A real treat was a simple dish of berries with a splash of cream and a sprinkle of sugar. Your and Jenny's pie looked delicious, a well earned reward. Thank you for bringing back lovely memories 🌸
It was really good to see Jenny's face on camera at last. I'm very camera-shy as well so two thumbs up to her. I have an elderberry in my front garden that's more ornamental than fruit- bearing. It does have a few berries but I usually leave them for the birds. However, I have barberry, cotoneaster and pyrocantha for them so I might steal the elderberries for myself this year.
I'm in the middle of replanting my back garden and you have given me so many ideas for that as well. I was already gong to have supercolumn apple trees (great for small gardens as they only need to be planted two feet apart), but now I'm having fuschias and honeyberries as well, thanks to your videos. The rest of the garden is going to be purely for bees and butterflies; hardy geraniums, lavenders and herbs. And probably catmint as we have two cats to please. Thanks again for your videos. I learn more from you than from googling.
Really lovely to see Jenny, loved the way you cooked the tart together!! Blessings from Mid Wales😊😊😊
Like your subscriber in the wild, I also didn't know that bilberries were wild blueberries! I haven't seen any in my neck of the woods, but it's likely not acidic enough soil here. I will say though that we have a second year of very abundant blackberries - every 'branch' is smothered with fat fruit! Come late August I hope to make a blackberry version of your bilberry pie...no ticks!
cant put into words how much i love ur channel man thanks for making these videos
Awww I love seeing Jenny. You both are so sweet. Love your videos Mr. Shrimp.
Nice to see you getting recognised. You deserve more recognition
I came for the scambaiting and stayed for the rest. These videos are so relaxing to watch while enjoying a leisurely weekend breakfast and make doing chores so much more enjoyable. It’s great to see more of Jenny as well. Seeing the two of you enjoying the countryside and doing these challenges really rounds out the videos. I’m from Australia so the close look at the English countryside, home of some of my ancestors, is something I really love. Well done Mike and I can’t wait to see more. Loving the cooking videos as well including the budget ones, not that we could try them here; food is more expensive. But it’s fascinating to see some of the ingredients I’ve never seen here - what even is clotted cream?
Brought back so many memories of wimberry picking as a child on the moors above Bolton. Thankfully no ticks but swarms of midges! After hours of picking my mother would make a shallow wimberry pie with the shortest pastry that would melt in the mouth. Great vlog as always. Thank you.
I loved this episode, really hoping you make this competition thing into a series of
mr vs mrs its so fun and pleasant to watch
The cyclists knowing who you were was great, nice little moment
Nice gravel bike atomic shrimp fan 😊 great video as always, nice to see Jenny again too. That tart looked just perfect.
Oh my lord my mouth dropped open seeing your pie! It looks AMAZING!
These are called blaeberries where I’m from in Scotland. We had a blaeberry park in our woods.We used to do the exact same activity as children. It was my wise mothers way of encouraging us so she didn’t have to🤣The jam she made was amazing. She also made a lovely coulis for our ice cream. Problem was the associated stomach ache because we ate as we picked🤣🤣. I’m a septuagenarian 😊
Here in Wales we call them wimberries spent many a summer with parents and cousins picking them.
Could the name come from the time when Scandinavia and Scotland shared a language? Blåbær is the name of the berry in Norway and Denmark.
@@maidsua4208 your knowledge is much greater than mine so thank you. It sound perfectly plausible, thank you💗
@@rmil4531 Unfortunately, I do not know much about our common history that the countries around the North Sea have. I wish I knew more, but the fact that we have many words in our languages that have a common source is a truth. Have a nice day!
Thanks so much for the video! I love these foraging ones. Entertaining and educational. I thank my hubby every time I watch another one of your videos as he's the one that showed you to me. I've been addicted since!
Almost every year, my aunt and I go billberry picking. Only here in Austria, we just call them wild blueberries (Heidelbeeren), as opposed to the bigger, kind of flavorless, non-coloring blueberries (Kulturheidelbeeren) you can buy in the store. The wild ones are much preferable.
Your battle was very enjoyable. One of these years, I gotta make it to Dorset also, it looks stunning and I would love to gp fossile hunting on a beach as well.
This was wonderful! Love to see the return of Jenny cam, and really glad to see that Jenny's more comfortable being in the videos!
I love videos like this so relaxing to watch
My siblings and I used to pick blackberries at the side of the road all the time as kids, though I find less wild berries now in London. It's theraputic to watch other people still at it!
Lovely to see Jenny in the videos and get a little glimpse into your relationship and interactions. 😊
I work at a property managed by a conservation and history charity, and on site we have hundreds of bilberry bushes (one of only 5 sites in my county to have them). Feel very lucky being able to have bilberrys for breakfast every morning!
Absolutely LOVELY to finally see Jenny x brilliant vid today, thanks xx
I hope the bilberry battle is an annual treat :) I have very happy memories of picking up on the yorkshire moors as a child on holiday and returning the spoils to my aunt Joan to transform into big mouthwatering sugar crusted pies for the whole family :) Thanks for taking us along x
That tart was so perfectly set! I'm wanting to try a biscuit crust now. Graham cracker crusts are on the sweet side so something a little less sweet would be nice. Thanks for taking us out with you. Jenny is delightful and such a good sport. So you're 1-1 on gathering competitions now. She's a strong competitor!
A lovely video! Reminds me of going to visit my grandparents in south Wales. We'd pick what in that part of the world are called wimberries and then my grandma would make an apple and wimberry pie, always served with lots of custard.
I always find it charming that, at least in the videos, Mike Shrimp will speak a novel's worth of words, and Jenny Shrimp will reply with just one or two. The contrast always makes me laugh.
I love this channel! ❤ I hope to visit your beautiful country one day. Thank you Michael and Jenny for always being a joy to watch, love from another Jenny across the pond as they say. 😊
Love seeing Jenny in vids & a special treat seeing her cook a bit!
I love that you know about bilberries! They are the kind of blueberry I grew up picking and eating every summer, and I much prefer them to the large American variety. A good recipe for them would be my grandma's potato based dumplings with the bilberries and a little sugar as a filling, with some breadcrumbs toasted on butter, with extra melted butter to drizzle on. Thank you for this video, it makes me feel very nostalgic and cozy :)
That sounds delicious!
Those bees were having a wild thyme
Was gonna post similar beaten to it now im ticked off, surprised Shrimp didn't say similar, probably too obvious for an old pro like Shrimp :)
I love that the food you cook isnt just for the sake of the taste, but also the memories made along the way ^.^ will you be doing anything with the seaglass from the seaglass battle as well?
Id love to see more of these types of videos, no pressure though. I want it to be fun for you and not forced.
Wow that tart looks luxurious. Thanks for the video
We also have a lot of ticks in my area and first - full clothes always put on, second - we use repellent - it works good - we also spray bottoms of pants, sleeves etc. and a lot on necks... even if ticks jumps on us they do not bite and are easier to just brush away from clothes... and third - we both take shoots - they are free in my area :)
So lovely to see you and Jenny having a nice day. Love seeing her in vids more!
I was so excited to finally see Mrs. Shrimp! Jenny is adorable!
Childchood memory unlocked 😭
They have the best flavour straight from the bush but go exceptionally well in pastries (jagodzianki) or sweet dumplings. They are my fav!
Such a wholesome video: the interaction with the cyclist had me smiling. Usually where I live I’m so used to people being rude and just seeing a friendly chat between strangers is refreshing.
Such a wholesome video, and that pie looked absolutely cracking. Clotted cream was a good shout
Mike being recognized in public, his reaction is just *chef kiss*
26:00 love to see Jenny taking over the channel 👍👍
I love blueberry picking, its so relaxing and plus delicious, sweet berries that beat store-bought by a country mile! I may not have time this year, we are moving house... Thanks for all the wonderful content Mike, greetings from Nova Scotia, Canada 😃
Really enjoyed watching this video Mike. It was so nice to see you and Jenny picking the berries and then making/enjoying the pie. It looked delicious 😋 You are very lucky to have each other and I'm very grateful for you sharing the video with us🥰🥰
Jenny hard-core when Shrimp ask her if she doing OK with the ticks and Jenny reply "yeahhh I'm fine" that's what someone who hardcore say 😂
commenting again just after finishing the video, this has to be one of my favorites so far, thanks for your videos
Good on you Jenny!!! It was a close thing, congrats Mike!!
Absolutely delighted to see Jenny getting over her shyness and doing more, she's good craic (as we say I Ireland)
Lovely video as per usual Mike, keep up the brilliant videos, they make my weekend!!❤
This reminded me of my childhood. Here in the US we have huckleberries, that are similar. They would get us kids up early in the morning during the summer and we would pick pounds of them. Our mothers and grandmothers would make pies, jams and cakes with them. Us kids would be picking ticks and bitten by redbugs. Oh what fun!
Can’t wait for the finale of the Collection Cup, the pie looked like the real prize though.
Lovely to see the both of you having fun, though I feel the same about the little interlopers. I'm a martyr to the little devils!
The first time I saw Blueberries in the supermarket, I thought, "oh they look like big blaeberries"..... it took me a long time to believe they were actually related.
I live in Pennsylvania (USA) and we’ve had a horrible year for ticks. It never got cold enough for a deep freeze this winter, we didn’t get any snow beyond flurries, and now we’re in a drought, so the ticks this year are just the worst. 😵💫 If my son and I are kicking a soccer ball (football 😅) around in our yard- ticks. If I walk my dog and stay on the paved sidewalk- ticks. If I take my younger son to the playground- ticks. If I pick my tomatoes- ticks. Ugh.
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I was out walking in thr peak district 2 days ago and came across loads of Bilberries! I took a leaf out of your book and picked a big handful and gob'd the lot, delicious!
Awesome video and much interesting information shared! Super fun to watch
Thank you and Jenny for letting us join you on your day out.
Oh, that looks real tasty, I must go out and pick what we in Sweden and Norway call blueberries. When we were little, we always were told not to pick the whole plant, but only take the berries like you did. Some years ago I learned that a blueberry plant can become around 30 years old. I now understand better why our elders told us to treat them with care, so as to get berries each year.
You're famous Shrimp, sending big love to Jenny and Eva
Thanks Mike n Jenny I hope you do something interesting with the Bilberry’s & that pie looks delicious & thanks 😊
That pie looked amazing. Congrats on winning this instalment, I can't wait to see what the decider match will be. 😁
We used to ride cross country and pick berries on horseback, long time ago, love this video. Glad you guys had a good time!
Thank you agian ! I love that we have jenny more in the videos.
Nice way to spend one of the hottest days this year,watching this.Another similarity,berry,especially blackberry,cobblers in the US are occasionally made with American biscuit dough that has been sweetened a little and sprinkled with some sugar before baking.Jenny's crust resembles Graham Cracker Crust which is usually made with a pie with a creamy consistency like Key Lime Pie or cheesecake.
Its great to see at the end what the fruits of your labour turn into. Looks like something I wish I could make myself.
Startled me right awake when the camera dropped. Was watching on my phone above my face while laying in bed felt alot like when you are kind of sleeping or just dozing off and you fake fall.
That pie looks absolutely magnificient. What a wonderful way to savor a summer day!
nice to see jenny more comfortable on camera and that you share the same interests love your video and very knowledgeable keep doing what your doing 👍
i dont comment on your vids but i just want to say how much i love your channel and your ”slow videos” on a platform that wants fast everything. dont change being random and slow and interresting and intelligent. as the saying goes ”well done that man!” or bualadh bus(pronounced boo la bus) in irish.