I'm impressed far more by you guys making the expedition with your growing family than by any show. Well done, hope you manage to get a rest at some point.
My goodness...... what a huge event! I do admire the energy that the family have......... walking all that way around! Thanks very much for a lovely tour.
The Royal highland show is the biggest event in the calendar for Scottish farming, a lot of the animals, horse jumping etc would have to have won & qualified from other shows to take part at the RH
Mac thank you for doing such a thorough job of showing us around that vast show/event. If I had done that in person I would have been exhausted by the end. I can’t get over your boundless energy and enthusiasm. I wish I had half your get up and go.
So glad you enjoyed the Royal Highland! Most Scottish districts also have Highland games through the summer months. Also well worth a visit if you happen to be around then. Another great day out is the Edinburgh Tattoo, with pipe bands from many different countries.🏴
My dad was a Ayrshire Dairy Farmer and showed cows. Next time you visit Scotland, drive out to the Heads of Ayr and visit Culzean Castle. (Look out for the stairs to the secret beach.) Dunure is also a lovely wee place to visit on your way, plus the Heads of Ayr Farm Park for the kids is fantastic. Beautiful family. ❤
I have only recently discovered your RUclips channel so i'm still lucky enough to have a bunch of your videos still to watch. I get this overwhelming sense of happiness and joy watching your videos. I am subscribed to more than 200 channels but there is just a small handful of channels that touch me in the same way as yours does. I adore everything about your outlook to life, your achievements and the absolutely wonderful family you have. You guys really are something special. Thank you for sharing a small part of your life with us. I feel very privileged to be able to watch you. You are inspiring. All of you.
Thank you this was a lovely video. Very impressed with the children being so well behaved. I think the family's calm demeanour kept the twins content 😊 So happy to see Grandma enjoying her trip. You captured the Show very well - I've never been - great for me as I can't walk far. Thanks again. L
Looks like an amazing show. Really loved those footstools! So cute. And the horses and goats. Thanks for taking us along again with your beautiful family ☺️💕
As I watched the video I kept going back to the like button forgetting I've already liked it!, wish I could have liked it multiple times. Love your videos and loved seeing your beautiful babies xxx
Ive heard Ayrshire associated with pork and potatoes too, so I suspect it is a famous farming area of Scotland. The particular variety of Lorne sausages I buy come from Ayrshire, they are a VERY popular square sausage
What a great event. They have so many local varieties of live stock it’s unbelievable. My favorite sheep are the black face sheep, they are so cute. And the Highland cattle Wow you all did a lot of walking. It’s a huge place.
Great video - brings back memories - I was brought up in a small town just a few miles along the motorway and every year the scholl would tske you on a trip to The Highland Show - I think the last day is a special schools day - and i remember my mum working there a for a few years in the beer tents i think - she used to bring back little key rings and novelties which as a small boy i loved - you did the show proud with this video - thanks for showing us so much - you have a lovely family
You are a wonderful family and your videos are so interesting and informative. So happy that you live here in the UK. Very best wishes to all of you 💖❤
Hey Mac, you must by now understand why travelling the length of the UK is such a big deal. Any Americans I've engaged in conversation fail to grasp that distance isn't the only factor, they usually come back with comments like "Hey bud, we travel across the state just to go shopping". Our roads aren't as straight as those in the US and petrol (gasoline) prices don't cause palpitations at the thought of a journey the length of the UK.
I live I Edinburgh and go every year I love it, didn't make it thus year due to family problems unfortunately.did you see the chainsaw area cutting shapes and the guys spreading up the high poles ? Glad you enjoyed it, come back one day lovely to see you all enjoyed it.
Hello to everybody in your family. Just subscribed as your vid popped up. We love all of you and really enjoywhere you take us on your journeys. New twins are so beautiful. Take care. Ps....glad you liked Nottingham. Where I live. You need to come for another visit as there was alot you didnt see.😊
Thursday and Friday at the Highland Show tends to be the farmer days. Lots of business done on agricultural equipment. Saturday and Sunday would be more of the family days. Sunday is my favourite because they have the 6 horse heavy turnout and the parade of champions. Also have the livestock parade and a lot of the finals of the competitions. Finals of a lot of the show jumping. Finals of the farrier competition at the forge. I always go on the sunday for the 6 horse heavy turnout. They had 5 teams of 6 horses this year. Very few shows in the UK are able to attract teams of 6, so to get 5 teams turning out this year was pretty awesome.
Mack, Sometimes my local honey sets after opening, what I do is drop it in the microwave for 30 seconds and it turns back to liquid then let it cool and you are good to go, a lot of this Honey is natural and not pasteurized so it sets sooner.
Fantastic vlog Mac with your wonderful family. I grew up on a farm with Ayrshire cows. My dad was a ploughman and dairy farmer ....the Highland show is wonderful and a great day out. So glad you were blessed with good weather. Look forward to seeing your next adventure 😊
That's a great picture of you all. Edited to add I like what you did with enlarging the Business Name on the footstools. That worked well, was unobtrusive and a nice touch.
Great video guys. Your channel is great because you do the magic trick all great educators and entertainers do. You can take a subject people may not have a natural interest in and make it compelling. It's such a great window onto a life unlike mine as a city boy, from inner London originally, with a one child family. I just love your curiosity about the world. Thanks guys.
We call the horses Draught horse this includes breeds like shire, Cleveland’s and Suffolk punch. Is it same in the states? Most just call them shire horses or draught horses
That exhibit reminds me of a case of bees that used to be in our nearest city’s museum, with the queen bee marked so you could see it. There’ll be a local beekeeping society close to you. You can now get replacement bees by post - queens, etc. They arrive in little tubes in packages.
Just think, guys, a couple more sets of twins and you'll have the makings of a rugby team! 😂 Seriously, though, your travels with the family are an inspiration to others. You have yet to mention your kids' schools, however, and how they are adapting to the curriculum and having local friends. Btw, if not this year, maybe next, take in a highland games somewhere. Braemar is the most prestigious, held the first Saturday in September each year.
Mac and Blair, really? With such names you were destined to visit Scotland. Edit. Beautiful cows indeed, but sadly hornless. The Salers, which is a breed from central France, have quite long ones. Those looked like nude without their horns.
Great vlog loved this video. The highland cows are gorgeous as are the black nose sheep. Sad to see the large cargo truck, a lot of animals travel long distances in hot cramped conditions, I hope one day we stop doing this.
Did you intentionally rap the first 3 seconds of this vlog? If not, your'e a natural... I do enjoy your vlogs. Coming from rural Suffolk and Norfolk, there's nothing quite like it.
I can't get over how your channel name has become a self fulfilling prophecy. 9 inc. unforeseen babies x 2 and Grandma. B4 'Murica :) (artistic license). My dad had a lot of tales about farm life, he's probably the only person that loves the smell of silage. His dad was a ploughman from Wiltshire with his own team of Shire horses that could be hired. Ploughing wasn't all they did, they'd haul lumber, drive heavy carts, pull out tree stumps, manure pastures for free grazing, busy most of the year. Grandad went off to war in The Pioneers (front line engineers) in1939, got wounded in the retreat to Dunkirk, he lost a bicep, I'm not sure how. The army in its wisdom retrained him as an ambulance driver and mechanic. At the end of the war after France, North Africa and Sicily/Italy he came home to find out that his craft was obsolete, all of the farms now had tractors. The generational skill he had been passed down about what types of furrows were needed for different crops and animal (horse) welfare was now all mechanised, no skill needed. But... he knew how to service and fix them and their attachments, one hand taketh, the other giveth. My dad has fond memories of playing on farms on sunny days as his dad tinkered away in a barn. His love of farms and horses meant he trained as a blacksmith but modern life took over. He still volunteered with the National Parks as a warden on weekends though. You couldn't keep him out of a field or off a hillside. I have a great memory of us being trapped in a white out (blizzard) in Northumberland and sheltering in a cave that shepherds used. Anyway, good to see you and fam' still in touch with the Earth, but tractors? Boooo!
The simple answer is it's many sugar and sugar wants to crystallise. It doesn't mean the honey is bad of course. It'll melt back to runny naturally with heat
@9B4MTheFamily Twins get easier later on. They play with each other and don't keep saying "Mum...Dad... I want this, I want that...".as much as singleton kids do. But the early says are haaaard. Get any help you can.
I'm impressed far more by you guys making the expedition with your growing family than by any show. Well done, hope you manage to get a rest at some point.
Yes, imagine the cries of "It's my turn to sit by the window" all the way up there!
Another great video... and the bonus was seeing the baby twins , so cute . Love and blessings🙏♥
My goodness...... what a huge event! I do admire the energy that the family have......... walking all that way around! Thanks very much for a lovely tour.
Our pleasure!
The Royal highland show is the biggest event in the calendar for Scottish farming, a lot of the animals, horse jumping etc would have to have won & qualified from other shows to take part at the RH
The wicker baskets in the honey tent are known as "skeps".
Used by beekeepers to transport a captured swarm of bees to their waiting hive.
Thanks. I didn't know... 👍🏾
@@MacandBlair Mac we desperately need bees, I'm devastated at their decline, but only have a very small garden, please help them for me..thanks xx
Mac thank you for doing such a thorough job of showing us around that vast show/event. If I had done that in person I would have been exhausted by the end. I can’t get over your boundless energy and enthusiasm. I wish I had half your get up and go.
I appreciate that!
So glad you enjoyed the Royal Highland! Most Scottish districts also have Highland games through the summer months. Also well worth a visit if you happen to be around then. Another great day out is the Edinburgh Tattoo, with pipe bands from many different countries.🏴
That was a lovely day out. The cows you mentioned are Ayrshire. Ayrshire is a county in South West Scotland. It is pronounce Airsher by us Brits.
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My dad was a Ayrshire Dairy Farmer and showed cows. Next time you visit Scotland, drive out to the Heads of Ayr and visit Culzean Castle. (Look out for the stairs to the secret beach.) Dunure is also a lovely wee place to visit on your way, plus the Heads of Ayr Farm Park for the kids is fantastic. Beautiful family. ❤
I have only recently discovered your RUclips channel so i'm still lucky enough to have a bunch of your videos still to watch. I get this overwhelming sense of happiness and joy watching your videos. I am subscribed to more than 200 channels but there is just a small handful of channels that touch me in the same way as yours does. I adore everything about your outlook to life, your achievements and the absolutely wonderful family you have. You guys really are something special. Thank you for sharing a small part of your life with us. I feel very privileged to be able to watch you. You are inspiring. All of you.
Wow. Your words are inspiring. Thanks.
Thank you this was a lovely video. Very impressed with the children being so well behaved. I think the family's calm demeanour kept the twins content 😊
So happy to see Grandma enjoying her trip. You captured the Show very well - I've never been - great for me as I can't walk far. Thanks again. L
Little tip. If your honey chrysalises you can sit the jar in a bowl or warm water and it will turn liquid again.
Really loved this x
"I'm not made of money!" "Yes you are!" 😂
Any dad's lot since the dawn of time.
😅 True
Again another great video your Grandfather Billing was a bee keeper!
Looks like an amazing show. Really loved those footstools! So cute. And the horses and goats. Thanks for taking us along again with your beautiful family ☺️💕
Great country of Scotland one of the best there is
What a wonderful day out.
It's OK to eat crystallized honey. It hasn't gone off. If you warm it a little it'll come back.
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As I watched the video I kept going back to the like button forgetting I've already liked it!, wish I could have liked it multiple times. Love your videos and loved seeing your beautiful babies xxx
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Ive heard Ayrshire associated with pork and potatoes too, so I suspect it is a famous farming area of Scotland. The particular variety of Lorne sausages I buy come from Ayrshire, they are a VERY popular square sausage
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Yes Ayrshire new potatoes are highly prized here in Scotland
That was quite an expedition for you all. I’m sure it was worth the effort though. I love Scotland.
We used to get taken to the Highland Show every year with high school. All the way down from Aberdeen
What a great event. They have so many local varieties of live stock it’s unbelievable. My favorite sheep are the black face sheep, they are so cute. And the Highland cattle
Wow you all did a lot of walking. It’s a huge place.
Salers, Limousine, Blonde Aquataine, and Charolaois are all French breeds actually.
Great video - brings back memories - I was brought up in a small town just a few miles along the motorway and every year the scholl would tske you on a trip to The Highland Show - I think the last day is a special schools day - and i remember my mum working there a for a few years in the beer tents i think - she used to bring back little key rings and novelties which as a small boy i loved - you did the show proud with this video - thanks for showing us so much - you have a lovely family
You are a wonderful family and your videos are so interesting and informative. So happy that you live here in the UK. Very best wishes to all of you 💖❤
Why can't we leave more than one like?!
Lovely video 🥰 you just seem to enjoy “life” 👍🏻 and I am so happy for you xx please continue to make these vlogs xx
Hey Mac, you must by now understand why travelling the length of the UK is such a big deal. Any Americans I've engaged in conversation fail to grasp that distance isn't the only factor, they usually come back with comments like "Hey bud, we travel across the state just to go shopping".
Our roads aren't as straight as those in the US and petrol (gasoline) prices don't cause palpitations at the thought of a journey the length of the UK.
"I'm not made of infinite money, Guys!"....."Yes you ARE!" Haha. Brilliant. 😄
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That looks like a great Show! Thanks for sharing Mac and well done on your energy levels with your young family !
Lovely to see you all ❤
Brilliant video to you and your family. Goatage.... never heard that before! 😀
Scottish dancing - back to schooldays, learning the Gay Gordons and the White Lancers. I can’t remember which dance is which now!
I live I Edinburgh and go every year I love it, didn't make it thus year due to family problems unfortunately.did you see the chainsaw area cutting shapes and the guys spreading up the high poles ? Glad you enjoyed it, come back one day lovely to see you all enjoyed it.
Hello to everybody in your family. Just subscribed as your vid popped up. We love all of you and really enjoywhere you take us on your journeys. New twins are so beautiful. Take care. Ps....glad you liked Nottingham. Where I live. You need to come for another visit as there was alot you didnt see.😊
Soooooo glad you were here with us and at the Highland Edinburgh Games!
Thursday and Friday at the Highland Show tends to be the farmer days. Lots of business done on agricultural equipment. Saturday and Sunday would be more of the family days. Sunday is my favourite because they have the 6 horse heavy turnout and the parade of champions. Also have the livestock parade and a lot of the finals of the competitions. Finals of a lot of the show jumping. Finals of the farrier competition at the forge. I always go on the sunday for the 6 horse heavy turnout. They had 5 teams of 6 horses this year. Very few shows in the UK are able to attract teams of 6, so to get 5 teams turning out this year was pretty awesome.
Fascinating! Those wee babies are so cute!
15:40 nice to see a good old northern irish country man there haha.
Mack, Sometimes my local honey sets after opening, what I do is drop it in the microwave for 30 seconds and it turns back to liquid then let it cool and you are good to go, a lot of this Honey is natural and not pasteurized so it sets sooner.
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Just loved this video. Hope you enjoyed a warm welcome from us here in Scotland.
What a beautiful family.
I never made the Royal Highland Show in 14 years living in Scotland! Silly me. The Black Isle Show was our local, wonderful!
Thanks that was awesome show.
Oreo cows! That's made my morning.
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Fantastic vlog Mac with your wonderful family. I grew up on a farm with Ayrshire cows. My dad was a ploughman and dairy farmer ....the Highland show is wonderful and a great day out. So glad you were blessed with good weather. Look forward to seeing your next adventure 😊
It was a Beautiful day...
Welcome back to our town. I knew you'd love this show.
Great video fella, loved it, gave us a good insight of what to expect at the show! Perfect amount of content on each area 👌 Cool family!
If your honey turns to sugar, take the lid off and sit the jar in an inch of boiling water and it will eventually turn back to liquid.
That's a great picture of you all.
Edited to add I like what you did with enlarging the Business Name on the footstools. That worked well, was unobtrusive and a nice touch.
Thanks for noticing... it makes the edit worth it.
Great video guys. Your channel is great because you do the magic trick all great educators and entertainers do. You can take a subject people may not have a natural interest in and make it compelling. It's such a great window onto a life unlike mine as a city boy, from inner London originally, with a one child family. I just love your curiosity about the world. Thanks guys.
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Another great video Mac. What I do to help prevent my honey crystallising so soon is to keep it by a sunny window.
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We call the horses Draught horse this includes breeds like shire, Cleveland’s and Suffolk punch. Is it same in the states? Most just call them shire horses or draught horses
That exhibit reminds me of a case of bees that used to be in our nearest city’s museum, with the queen bee marked so you could see it. There’ll be a local beekeeping society close to you. You can now get replacement bees by post - queens, etc. They arrive in little tubes in packages.
Just think, guys, a couple more sets of twins and you'll have the makings of a rugby team! 😂 Seriously, though, your travels with the family are an inspiration to others. You have yet to mention your kids' schools, however, and how they are adapting to the curriculum and having local friends. Btw, if not this year, maybe next, take in a highland games somewhere. Braemar is the most prestigious, held the first Saturday in September each year.
Oh we are done... 6 is a beautiful number.
@@MacandBlair Yes, it is. I have six too: Daryl, Geneviéve, Philip, Felix, OT, and Sam, aged today 16-46!! Next come grandkids....🤭🙄🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🤭
That looked like a brilliant day out😊😊😊😊😊
Not sure if anyone said but it's Ayrshire, like air-shire.
Mac and Blair, really? With such names you were destined to visit Scotland.
Edit. Beautiful cows indeed, but sadly hornless. The Salers, which is a breed from central France, have quite long ones. Those looked like nude without their horns.
Nice one 👍
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We were on that ferris wheel in our Christmas vlog I believe.
You can take set honey back to runny by putting the jar in a bowl of warm to hot water. Don't overtop the jar obviously. Just a fair way up the side.
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Bwyonf right. (too pissed)
Great vlog loved this video. The highland cows are gorgeous as are the black nose sheep. Sad to see the large cargo truck, a lot of animals travel long distances in hot cramped conditions, I hope one day we stop doing this.
Ayreshire is a county in south west Scotland 😊
Ayrshire
Did you intentionally rap the first 3 seconds of this vlog? If not, your'e a natural... I do enjoy your vlogs. Coming from rural Suffolk and Norfolk, there's nothing quite like it.
Completely unintentional lol
@@MacandBlair lol If any of your subscribers has the ability to produce digital music..Original catchy theme tune perhaps?
I can't get over how your channel name has become a self fulfilling prophecy. 9 inc. unforeseen babies x 2 and Grandma. B4 'Murica :) (artistic license).
My dad had a lot of tales about farm life, he's probably the only person that loves the smell of silage.
His dad was a ploughman from Wiltshire with his own team of Shire horses that could be hired. Ploughing wasn't all they did, they'd haul lumber, drive heavy carts, pull out tree stumps, manure pastures for free grazing, busy most of the year. Grandad went off to war in The Pioneers (front line engineers) in1939, got wounded in the retreat to Dunkirk, he lost a bicep, I'm not sure how. The army in its wisdom retrained him as an ambulance driver and mechanic.
At the end of the war after France, North Africa and Sicily/Italy he came home to find out that his craft was obsolete, all of the farms now had tractors. The generational skill he had been passed down about what types of furrows were needed for different crops and animal (horse) welfare was now all mechanised, no skill needed. But... he knew how to service and fix them and their attachments, one hand taketh, the other giveth. My dad has fond memories of playing on farms on sunny days as his dad tinkered away in a barn. His love of farms and horses meant he trained as a blacksmith but modern life took over. He still volunteered with the National Parks as a warden on weekends though. You couldn't keep him out of a field or off a hillside. I have a great memory of us being trapped in a white out (blizzard) in Northumberland and sheltering in a cave that shepherds used.
Anyway, good to see you and fam' still in touch with the Earth, but tractors? Boooo!
Thanks for sharing.
Ayr, the land of Robert Burns.
Twelve Quid for a jar of Bee Vomit!!
When you put it that way... lol.
If you visit Inveraray take your Mother in Law to visit the Jail, if you can video inside the Jail it would be interesting to see her response.
did he say why it crystalises
The simple answer is it's many sugar and sugar wants to crystallise. It doesn't mean the honey is bad of course. It'll melt back to runny naturally with heat
Where do you get your energy from?
I feel like my energy level is down... I am working to get it back up.
@9B4MTheFamily Twins get easier later on. They play with each other and don't keep saying "Mum...Dad... I want this, I want that...".as much as singleton kids do. But the early says are haaaard. Get any help you can.
Hope you grabbed yourself a kilt and some bag pipe's Mac 😂
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