15: The Scottish Isle. Journey Back in Time-Scotland, Highlands, Hebrides, Island, Off Grid, History
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
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Title music 'Wild Mountain Thyme'; a traditional Scottish folk tune, performed by Tara Howley.
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Reidun Schlesinger on harp, a Belgian classically-trained musician plays Fanny Power, attributed to Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738).
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Stephanie Liney playing Si Bheag, Si Mhor on harp, traditional Irish folk tune by Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738)
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Reidun Schlesinger on harp, a Belgian classically-trained musician, playing Blind Mary - attributed to Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738).
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Rocio Galena playing The Clergy's Lamentation, traditional Irish folk tune by Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738).
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Quite a history lesson,and beautiful church and what a view!
The church is beautiful! I love your videos. Thank you.
It was never about uploading anyway. We just enjoy watching you guys live your lives together like this. Uploading is secondary and not in the least a priority. Your uploads are appreciated and even adored, 3 out of 7 days is more than enough.
Thank you so much 🤗
I so agree!!! You are more than worth the wait ✋️ 💕
with the quality video diary you are producing, there must be much time diverted from your lives to turn out each one. i am honored to be allowed a peak into your awesome lives.
Loved Katie's bench chair joke .. had me laughing! The walk through the Church was lovely.
Katie, ye' wee tike 🙂
Wouldn't it be better to change the bedroom and living room around so if you're sat in the living room you don't need to go through the bedroom to get to the toilet or kitchen?
I should have showed in the video, there's a side door into the kitchen!
I'm thinking the same thing. The bedroom at the far end. I like the overall plan except going through the bedroom to get to the bathroom/hall and then into the kitchen. If they do have company who is going to think it's nice to go through the outside then into the kitchen and bath especially in snow or rain? Unless there is another way into the kitchen from the inside.
@@PreppingAngel Yup, I wouldn't want my guests to all walk through my bedroom in order to get to the bathroom or kitchen either. I know it would be a massive amount of work but maybe you could close up the existing doorway into the extension and build a new one in line with the existing doors by the front wall? That should make arranging furniture quite a bit easier.
Or you could swap the kitchen and bedroom around and have the bedroom in the extension. Still not ideal in my book (I don't like guests to see my kitchen if it gets a bit messy) but still much better.
I like the new plans. As you get older, you will be happy that the bathroom is next to your bedroom.
100% part of the thinking. No more midnight treks across the slalem course. And we do have another door into the kitchen too, which didn't show up on camera!
Just love your videos, history lessons, and humor. ❤
I love your description of church. Dad was a minister in small churches. He was a very good teacher.
Ah! Stovies! Best meal on a cald day!
You know what you are living in an area with poor internet connection, we understand and will relish the next time you post a video. Another lovely episode.
But I realise it must be very frustrating for you, especially as the wet weather days might limit other things that you want to get on with.
Thank you for the history background, I am fascinated by the rich history surrounding you. You Are doing excellent work.
Thank you! Kx
Have binged all your videos, wonderful..take us away to a simpler time🥰
Glad you like them!
You're humor is beyond delightful😅. I wonder why the add-on was not built like the original build, with stones. Funny how we think "modern" is better, with slugs and all 😂 I'd be tempted to rebuild the add-on using stone. I'm so enjoying your videos. Greetings from sunny, warm Pasadena California USA 😊
If they could rebuild the add on in stone that would then make a great bedroom (what a biew to wake up to), then the existing livingroom could become the kitchen. Make for a better floorplan.
I think you guys had a great idea with the walkup you are putting in place. I love the way you are striving to keep a natural look in all designs. The wind was not too bad to me. I really did enjoy the visit at the church. Thanks again for this journey. Peace and blessings to you🤗
I am sure you will get plenty of ideas so here is mine. The current bedroom becomes the living room, the current living room becomes the kitchen (it will stay really warm in the winter with the thick walls and stove) and the cold room becomes the bedroom as you only sleep there and with plenty of blankets you would be fine. Whatever you decide it will be so fun to watch it happen!
Stovies a great u have put me in the mood for some
Love the history. Feel like I’m learning not just wasting time!
Love your plans! It makes better use of the spaces and having the bathroom off the bedroom is a convenient blessing!
I don't think I have to mention all of the thing everyone else commented on. Sufice to say I LOVED it all! I am always pleased when I see you have posted 😍💜❤💜 I do want to add, plant local blooming plants like heather and wild flowers, that reseed, on both sides of the steps
Heather and wildflowers would be so pretty!
You guys are terrific! Thanks for the plate of stew, yum😋👍❤️
🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I just love you guys!!! Your sense of humor is spot on!!!
What an amazing and challenging journey you have chosen. The island is beautiful. I wish you all the best.
Loved the tour of the church. ❤
I love the steps, they look wonderful but I would be worried about slipping on the slate. Cant wait til you figure that part out. I can vision the grass growing on either side. It will be just lovely.
oh I have to say, I love Katie's humour @8:29 lol...and that is a beautiful church
Thank you for let us know some of Scottish history.
Thanks!
Wonderful, thank you very much! 😊
Thanks so much for this lovely video, esp. when we know how much extra effort it takes you, with your internet problems. The church you visited is so beautiful. The history is fascinating. The renovations you plan look very good to me! I wish there were a way to build an enclosed walkway along the front, so you could go from the living room to the kitchen without passing through the bedroom or going outside. Maybe in the future?
Hello from Chicago! You are coming along really well and great ideas on the house layout. One question and maybe it's my eyes or my screen? Am I seeing lilac-colored water as it flows along the streams? I noticed that in your previous video before this one as well? I think Sotvies is going to be my new favorite Scottish meal! I LOVE a good mush and mash-up! I am a huge fan of porridge so Stovies is right up my alley! lol And those views..again..it must be so difficult to get much done but yet very rewarding whist working in your surroundings! God bless and prayers for you getting Starlink! Well done on the stone step pathway Scott! take care! ❤
The Scotch sense of humor is delightful!
I'd leave the steps as blocks as slate as you say is so slippery when wet. It will still blend into the natural
I’m in Cornwall and I have problems with both internet and phone signal when it’s cloudy, heavy rain, fog or just mizzle. And I’m at the top of the town about a mile from the phone mast. You’re doing ok😉, love from Annie🌸🙂
Loving the O'Carolan tunes on the harp.
Weather was remnants of a hurricane from the tropics!
😆Slugs making good birthday gifts. If they are the same sort of slug we have in the garden here in Michigan, try putting out some beer for them in cat food type tins or a low dish. They will drink themselves to death! Always enjoy watching and the music is so excellent. Don't ever change it!
Slugs usually leave a silvery trail. Best to find out where they’re getting in & address that. (I have an ongoing battle with cockroaches & feel your pain! All my cutlery & cooking utensils are sealed in Tupperware!)
My dad always said "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all" he waz a very wise man my pop. Thank you for sharing. I love to watch you cook.💕
Casey has a great sense of humour 😂loved the bench seat
Cheers sue Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Hi Sue, just so ya know her name is Katie, and yes she has a great sense of humor. Made me laugh also. God bless!
@@avery0358 sorry I am getting a little hard of hearing🤣 I think she like to keep you guessing .😀 her answer was very 😆 funny cheers Sue
Binge watching your adventures as a recent discovery while convalescing from surgery. Lovely memories of a wonderful trip around the Isles , and also Shetlands and Orkney.Thank you for filling my days and I’m eager to see your progress. I love that you take time to appreciate your surroundings amidst the hard work days. From another Australian follower of Scottish heritage ( and some Scottish education)
So inspiring and possibly achievable for me sometime being on the West Coast myself.
You have quite rapidly become my favourite channel.
It took us many years to find this place. Our advice is: don't lose sight of that goal, keep moving towards it!
Thankyou I'll keep that in mind I can see how you fell in love with your Isle some things truly are meant to be.
Does anyone else who’s Scottish , feel very emotional when they hear Bagpipes? Think it’s Primeval ( from the beginning of time!)
Love everything about your channel Katy and Scott!
@@annewood4986 They do stir our blood no doubt about it Sis' maybe partly because we all have ancestors in our lineage who would literally have followed the Pipes into battle and then they're also played at weddings and funerals.
I love them too.
You know with all the negativity happening in all parts of the world, you have become my rock to lean on for a simpler way of life, thank you two and your sheep and cat, for sharing your life. Very grateful.
Thank you, Ann. That's kind of what we're hoping, that the wee vids will be a relaxing relief for people.
Hello from Ashland Oregon! Luv your show...luv u two & pets!! Thks kath
I so love your beautiful Isle and your home has the wonderful spirit of olde Scotland 🙏🙏
Wow the church is beautiful and the view from the church is amazing as is all the island and beyond. Katie I love your sense of humor and enjoy the cooking you share with us. You both are beautiful people and love to you both 🤗🤗
I'm so enjoying your channel and all the wonderful content you put into your videos...so happy I found it! please keep posting:)
Live off of leftovers. Always 2nd best 🥘
The church is glorious. The setting is so picturesque,; that deep yearn must be my fore fathers in me, and can feel there ache for their homeland. Would love to see through my eyes
No need to apologize for the wind, adds to the effect. Love the side trips to the mainland. Isn't December the wettest time of year for that area? Better to deal with rain than snow.
We have the beloved Banana Slugs where I live, a treasured creature amongst the redwood groves. Although I wouldn't want them in my house either!
Another enjoyable video, keep 'em coming! Email sent guys !
Just a thought regarding the steps, I can see you eventually using local flat stones why don’t you tilt them back on there selfs, so hopefully you might not slip coming down them because you foot will be slightly up, and the same coming up them your foot would be nearly touching the back of the one above, i hope you can make sense if this 👍
Hello Katie and Scott, Katie I just had to tell you that after I watched your youtube short, of you singing "poor Professor Higgins" I have had it stuck in my head too. For days! What an earworm.
Dang, I read this comment this morning and you gave the ear-worm back to me, all day! LOL Kx
Love respect gratitude 🔆
Re the stone steps, maybe a sprinkle of sand on each step, held in place by sprinkling the sand onto either a coat or 3 of mat varnish or whatever clear adhesive you prefer. Choose whatever sand(s) most closely match your predominant stone colour. Just an idea, it’d give you a grippier surface in icy weather, that and a handy pile of road salt? 🌸🙂
I think December through to December is probably the wettest time...
@@TheScottishIsle With the dry season lasting from 23:58 on 31 December to 00:01 1 January ;-)
We sprinkled wildflower seeds in dirt between stepping stones. Turned out well bc they looked nice plus helped w slipping on damp stones. Some herbs too..they smelled nice even crushed..maybe more so!
Hello!
Fist time I saw your site pop up on my feed. I enjoyed todays clips, lively.
My oldest daughter lives in Cumbria so know how brutal winters are up northwards. I was there for a month last December and like to have froze most of the day in daughters 400 year old farmhouse, even with heating on at times. You have to work indies when it’s bad weather and enjoy the good days to work outside. You just can’t do much in Wintertime there, so I know it’s harder where you are. I’ve been to Ft. William in the 80’s on a trip from Suffolk. I try to get home once a year for some good tasty things that I miss living overseas.
Best of luck with the back steps.
I so love to bake , but cook too. Soon be time for making of my holiday cakes to enjoy though the season. Be safe and stay well!
All the best. Maureen.
Great video. Love your recipe instructions: "enough for an army and then add more" Looked delicious. Great to see your new steps. Another big project you have completed.
Some kind of finish sealer with sand in it painted on the stone steps to prevent slipping might work.
I so got a kick out of the bench plaque interpretation 😂
I agree the views are stunning. Katie I loved your tongue in cheek joke and Scott saying you are fibbing ha ha. Loved the walk through the church and I would not worry too much about the upload as we understand with the weather you have and the location it is difficult. Thank you for sharing those beautiful views which I never tire of and your walks. You both have such a lovely place and I love your banter and your dinner looked delicious.
Your dinner is so easy and looks so yummy. I will have to try it. I love the idea of the steps, predictable and pretty. I am not a builder or engineer, but maybe your "living room" can be the kitchen and the lower kitchen can be your bedroom? So you don't have to travel trough your sleeping are to get to the kitchen? I don't know if any of your appliances or stoves can be easily moved to that area.
No expert but the new floorplan looks amazing to me. Lighted and more compact and efficient kitchen and a bigger bathroom? Absolutely. I know it's hard stone but it would make more sense to me if that "westward" doorway from the new bedroom was moved down flush with the "south" wall. I noticed from an earlier video that some of that stone is already gone? Probably too much hassle. Anyway I'm so glad you decided to share your adventure with us. It's fun just to think of the possibilities and see where you go.
Thanks, Mark!
Ahh, the rain, the joys of living in the west of Scotland where it rains on average 300 days per year! Living in Ontario now, I definitely don’t miss the rain. Have you considered using the library in Fort William to upload your videos
🙋♀️❤️ the stairs hill is going to be wonderful!
I shared and highly recommended your channel to my Facebook friends!🤗
Thanks for sharing!!
I very recently found your channel. It is charming and lovely. I especially liked the music played during the slopes steps being built.
Thank you very much! Check out Reidun Harp Music, she plays lots of old O'Carolan songs like that.
Excited to be a Patron!!! ❤
Thank you, Vicki, it's great to have you. Kx
Loved your video love Katie's humour slugs for birthday presents haha😂😂.
Just an idea not sure how long it takes to upload a vlog but would doing shorter videos more often help. One of the other channels I watch tries to upload 5 times a week but each vlog is 5- 10 mins long. Love your renovation plans too. And good scots' cooking bringing back memories. Dinner when we were kids was a good thick soup or stew and a hunk of bread to dunk. Love you guys ❤😊
The stew looked delicious, made me hungry lol.
That is a nice looking wood burning stove you have. You can get small fans you either put on top of the stove to direct the heat into the kitchen, or you can hung it in the corner of the entry to do the same thing. This is what we did when we burned wood.
The church was lovely :)
Great job on the step 🙌
Thank you! Cheers!
It is exciting to see all your plans what you want to do with the house. Look forward to seeing how it all turns out! From a fellow Scot living in NL 🇳🇱
Great I love this scenery around the church..I would be very thankful Katie if you could share some Scottish Recipes for cooking that would be so nice…❤
Eventually if possible, I would seriously consider bumping out the side kitchen wall and making the entire “new” addition even wider; possibly even raising the roof on that side. You’d get less-cramped rooms that way, and would have enough space for the bathroom without loosing anything. That upper kitchen part could make a lovely library space.
I also agree with those who suggest putting the bedroom at the far end as the footprint now stands. It will make a bit of a walk to the bathroom, but then any guests won’t be walking through your bedroom OR through rain or snow or wind to get to the bathroom. Or, widening it out would give you the option of putting a bedroom in the new half as well, leaving the original cottage as living room, office, and dining room. The new would then be bathroom with bedroom on the far side; library (or dining room and swap the library into the old part, and kitchen.
You could put another heating stove in the kitchen. We love using an micathermic wall heater-we live in a US city but don’t have a central heater. This is more energy-efficient and cheaper.
I would be in my element with my cameras there
The stairs are going to look great, and are such an improvement already :) well done!
Hmmmm, that recipe looks very hearty and wintery. Would have needed that after the stair build and the boat rowing!!
I hope you get to put a little motor on it soon. It will make the cross faster and in times of urgent need, much faster.
Katie, the drawings of the house looked really good, very clear and I can understand why you'd want to have everything how you want it.
My two cents would be to make your kitchen into where you are thinking of having the bedroom. As you have lots of openings in the rocks through the doorway, you would be able to bring water and electrical pipes wherever you'll need. Then you can have a nice large work prep area (like kitchen island) for when you'll need to process all your veggies, and make preserves etc.. and use the kitchen island to have meals by the fire for example etc..
With moving the bathroom etc it shouldn't be too much a trouble, you can always elevate sinks, toilets, bathtubs and showers a bit to allow for pipes etc.. especially since it was added not that long ago.
If you use the most recent extension as your bedroom, it would be big enough to have your writing desk and knitting / sewing nook with great lighting. And use the littler room between (the possible )study as a more formal dining room perhaps? Just because you will have your office in the outside building?
Anyways, just a few added thoughts.
In the end, it's you & Scott who are living there, so go with what will work for you ;)
The only advice I can give which I have found helpful, is separately draw to size furniture that you know you will be using and cut them up, do label them 😂. Then use them in your drawing to see what really is do-able or not. Good luck, this is the fun part!!! 😊
Thank you! It's great to have many brains at work on the plans! Kx
@@TheScottishIsle you know, I just realised that the little room is actually quite small, so that would make for a very enclosed dinning experience, lol!!! So yes a little study would work great, and so nice to have!
And thinking more of your plans, I actually think it makes sense. I didn't realise you had a sliding door into the kitchen, and I was imagining you carrying your veggies all through the house ;)
Then that means that cooking will warm up that space nicely, and you get to have a cosy fireplace in your bedroom, and that's just lovely :)
Isn't it something how we get so involved in your plans!?!
Good luck with it all, you guys are doing amazing, and I love the stairs outside. They are going to look like they have always been there.
Copper tape around the treshold works pretty well for keeping slugs from crawling in through doors for a few years until the patina on it stops it being toxic to slugs.
I cook the same as you even down to cutting the onions exactly the same. I loved the church, thanks for this video. Is it that we were taught to use up every last scrap of food and waste nothing?
You can obviously do whatever you want since it's yours, but I would personally prefer putting the bedroom on the right side of the entrance since it seems to be the most private room. If you ever have company and they want to go to the kitchen they would have to walk through the room left of the entrance. So you would have people walking through your bedroom in that case (assuming I understood the explanation correctly).
I like the plans for moving the water heater and enlarging the bathroom though!
Blessings
I just thought that "Fanny Power" arrangement reminded me of my harp teacher who taught me to play the celtic harp when i was a teenager. Then i looked at the music credits and found my harp teachers name, Reidun. What a crazy coincidence! I really should repair the strings on my harp so i can play again...
She's been very good to us in allowing us the use of her performances. Very nice lady. Crazy coincidence indeed! Kx
My mum used to cook stovies about twice a week.However she would pan fry everything instead of stewing them sometimes she would also add carrots as well. Haven’t had them since I was about 15.
Every area and household had their own special recipe, eh? Tiree...my Mum grew up there! She was the factor's daughter.
Sadly I have never been to the island I was named after hopefully one day. All throw it is increasingly not looking good life is ticking on and Australia is a long way from their. It was an argument my dad won in the end my mum wanted Lakeeta but my dad preferred tiree. At least my mum got something Scottish after all she grew up in Aberdeen. Loving your content. @@TheScottishIsle
Love the joke 😂
I laughed out loud at the Captain Pugwash bit! Some Thyme would be nice growing by your steps. Handy for cooking with too! I really enjoy every episode and hope the weather improves for you. Gloves and earmuffs might be a good thing when it gets cold! xx
Great idea, some creeping thyme would be lovely.
My mum used to add corn beef for the stovies
Take a week off & make your videos in advance then upload them a week behind.... Local cafes often have good wifi to upload vidoes in bulk thats what i have to do here in Wales we can have a lot of rain for weeks on end & our wifi Is 0.03mb upload speed at home so can take 8 hours forjust one 30 minute video so making them in advance has been very helpful local cafe has fibre & uploads the in 5 minustes each....🙂🙂 I love your new steps too...🙂the church & stained window was gorgeous thank you for showing us...🙂have a blessed weekend...🙂🙂❤❤🐓🐓🐓🐓
Starling just lost a bunch of satellites. It may not be any better than you have. I think you are doing ok.
That looks like a crannog in your bay!
Wouldn't that be amazing if it were!
As a quick solution, salt for the slugs.
Sprinkle around window frames, plinths and of course any of the tinest openings.
May be this would help for the time being?
We'll try that!
Ah stovies - you can also throw in chopped up root vegetables that are "spare".
...onions, meat, potatoes, stock,...😋 25:10
a bit of cream, thyme and two caps full of red wine vinegar.
From the restaurant....
Love it!!
thinking on your redesigned steps. I would pull the steps (edge of first step up) line up to the existing old wall. Thus having wall "become" your stair wall-rail, when you come down the steps.
but that is your flavor of design...
Not a builder but I'd sure not want only entrance to kitchen through the bedroom. LRoom in center of house will be warmer in winter, and sleep is better in cooler end of house as it is now. I have an odd livingroom and i just have chairs and a small loveseat. All can easily be moved around to accomodate guests or whatever your current needs are.
The idea with the house is to put it back to its original state as much as possible, whilst retaining modern comforts. But there is another side door from outside straight into the kitchen, which maybe didn't show on film.
Starlink is on sale where I am in rural Canada right now. Which means you should likely get it also if you press them.
Ooh, thanks for the tip!
Be really careful with steps a lot of people make this fatal mistake. When you descend you naturally go in a rhythm and in balance, so when you abruptly change this even by 15mm it can cause a trip hazard, hence the building regs for internal and external fire staircases etc. I’m not sure if Scotland has regulations for external access steps. As for landscaping steps it is usually best to follow suite by keeping an even height “rise” about 120mm to 160mm but you can alter the depth “going” 220mm - 300mm. The best way to introduce a random appearance is to create a landing area in which you could change the direction of the steps and add some planting.
Thanks for this. It's already a marked improvement...you should have tried walking up the Great Atlantic Wall! So, yes, you're completely right in getting the 'going' of the steps right. 👍🏻
It's so difficult to know for sure but I'd prefer to have a bedroom away from kitchen. Rumbles from white goods and smells from cooking would bother me. We converted our house from its original use as a barn and struggled with the layout for quite some time.
Thanks for the cameo ;)
Did you whiz by at Glenfinnan? 🤔
lol @@TheScottishIsle - No. I was referring to the cameo appearance of the barra. Best mate wheel barra x
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Good job on the steps!
Capitan Pugwash, Brilliant 🙂
Made us laugh too!
I can be there in 4 hours! Can i have stovies too? They look bloody good!!
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You got a few meals running around in the garden there 🍗🍗🦌😂
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In your area I’m sure the helicopter flying around will be search and rescue or an air ambulance.
It would be a better flow and room to room relationship if you made your bedroom the kitchen, with bathroom, heater, washing machine in the extension, than use the sunken extension as your bedroom. Office and coat closet, bench in the entry vestibule as you have. Cozy living room on the right as you have.
Cheers!❤