Young men who feel like they need good role models rather than tictoc idiots need to find a man like James. Compassionate and intelligent and yet highly capable and charming.
Once Removed? Why does everyone call him "Once Removed"? How bad does one have to behave to be kicked out of the family? (I'm joking. I know what the term means.)
The absolutely beautiful silliness of crossing a literal moat to the front of a grand castle door just to have a hand-written note on lined paper letting you know they are out for lunch is... so deeply funny and cute to me. Turns out the most effective defense feature of all is mandated lunch breaks.
The BBQ thing is referring to little single-use BBQs that are basically a tin foil tray pre-loaded with charcoal with a mesh over the top for the food. The British have a deep but *very* different BBQ culture to North America.
Different to Australia too... We just have big stainless steel hotplates that you can fry up your sausages on - if a park has a public toilet and a playground it probably has a public barbecue
James even hates brexit? And hes an electrical engineer? Obviously I know this isnt a thing that can be done. But wouldnt it be outstanding to have him on an episode of Tinker Tailor Solder Fry with Ian?
In the UK we have what are known as disposable BBQ's that are little metal one time use BBQs that come with the charcoal and firelighters already in them. These are often taken to the beach, so it can mean the whole thing!
This episode is comedy gold. The Cowes joke, the Limericks, James's humorous takes (the bastards who caused Brexit meeting the business end of a guillotine particularly sent me), and Penelope's Na-rain-to running (im sorry) all put me in a better mood than I was already in. Thank you for these brilliant snippets of your life. Edit: the roadkill story. I forgot the roadkill story. Brilliant way to meet a loved one.
Graham, regarding your observation about the roads in England. I lived in northern Italy for three years as a child and enjoyed watching my mom and dad drive through narrow tunnels and openings barely wide enough to fit our 1966 Chevy Corvair Monza (late style Corvair). (My dad was USAF.) The USAF school busses (Bluebirds and Internationals) were even more fun on those same roads. And this was in the early 1980s. You and I are from relatively young countries and are used to municipalities that could build their infrastructure with modern vehicles in mind. For Europe, much of their public thoroughfares predate the Horseless Carriage. Before about 150 years ago, the main measuring stick for how wide a road should be was the ox cart or horse drawn carriages. And most of those tended to be less than eight feet wide. And widening the roads to accommodate modern vehicular traffic is either going to be very expensive or not possible with the existing structures around. So, yes, you're going to see things like DoubleDecker busses on what we could generously call "paved over goat paths". This makes them quaint. But you said quaint was fun. (And I agree.)
The reason they don't look like buffalo in North America is because the Buffalo in North America aren't in fact buffalo. The American Buffalo, Bison bison, is as its scientific name suggests actually a species of bison and is recognised as such however the name American Buffalo is still taught in history (in England that is and I assume its the same in North America). They were incorrectly labelled as buffalo by the first European settlers on the continent. What you saw were actual buffalo in the tribe Bubalina. Bison are in the sister genus to our cattle whilst buffalo are more distantly related.
The UK has a proud history of Aviation. Around 750 airfields have existed over the last century or so, most of which were created for WWII and many of the ones that exist now are still used for military purposes, with some for civilian use. As an ex-Air Cadet, I would say we are very proud of our aviation here so I am not surprised to see a memorial for a closed one
James is a delight and it sounds like Carol is as well. Fantastic storytelling, fascinating historical explanations, and hilarious political insights. And he tells limericks!
I love the fact you have a lovely relative who seems interesting, slightly eccentric in only the way elderly relatives in England can be, I'm now hoping for a mad Scottish Uncle living on an estate in the highlands in future episodes!
Cousin James is an absolute delight. Please thank him for sharing his amazing sense of humor and delightful storytelling. And as always, thank you for sharing your travels with us. This series has been wonderful. My husband and I have been watching it every day at lunch.
Thinking about why we watch these as a member of your audience. I think it is these well shot video, the music is normally setting the right mood, and these amazing people you can show off. Brit James or LRR's extended friendbase is why I think we watch. I'm sure viewer overlap with LRR is 99%
I have to say, getting to know so much local trivia knowledge about both the local area of Calshot and in general a lot of fun things have been amazing, not to mention that James seems to be an absolute delight of a person. Thank you to James for being such a kind man and agreeing to be filmed, and thank you so much Graham for filming and sharing your lovely cousin with us!
8:18 - Oh, It's not JUST the three hanger buildings. There's an ATC control tower in the background as well. Been on enough airports and airbases to recognize that structure anywhere.
When I first moved to Alaska, I was surprised by the… fervor for roadkill. Here, though, it is moose, which are significantly bigger than those little deer. Collision with them is generally fatal to the vehicle as well as the animal. But there are still Rules. There is a “Charity List” which is not, as I first thought, a list of food pantries who could use game meat, but a call list of people in the area with the means and motivation to come out (often in the middle of the night) and butcher roadkill moose. I did have to get over my initial “but it’s roadkill” reaction, it is hundreds of pounds of (mostly) serviceable meat that would go to waste otherwise. Fascinating to see the equivalent in Olde England. Greatly enjoying the travel vblog, Graham, and can echo the other commenters that your cousin James is a treasure!
Please communicate to cousin James (once removed) that he's a delightful man and the internet is now full of his fandom and he seems such a delightful person.
I am not a man who experiences envy easily. And yet, upon seeinh British James, and listening to his tales and yours about him, I find the little green monster within me wishing to be in your family. Everyone you show and introduce is a true delight and you all share a sense of real... Family thats becoming rarer and rarer nowadays. Many people are lucky to meet their first and second cousin, let alone share a great relationship. And allowing us to watch you share it with Penelope is a treasure you're letting into the world.
@@TheEvilCheesecake lol I'd say parasitism --social at best. Graham only gets money to live from the relationship, while we all feed *Silence of the Lambs mouth noise* lol
Graham, thank you (and Jordynne for the editing!) for sharing these videos! Your cousin James is a lovely individual, and the forest is gorgeous. I also appreciate the two very friendly cats included.
4:15. Disposable single-use BBQs are somewhat popular in the UK (basically they're a foil tray with a bit of cheap mesh over them). So they may have had a problem with people tossing the entire disposable BBQ in the trash can (which would include the ashes and such).
Graham, they are beach sheds. People don’t live in them. They store their beach stuff in them, like towels, swimming costumes and surfboards. Some people decorate them to be nice instead as a retreat for when they on the beach but only a fool put anything edible in them as they’re a nice home for mice and rats.
Yeah he mentioned that specifically. He talked about how they’re not meant to be primary residence and people store their beach things in them. They were talking about hypothetically living in them, probably because property in Victoria is ridiculous XD
@@ZephyrKelsey no he didn’t. Yes it may have dawned on him when looking the one that was for sale that these are non residential properties. But this wasn’t made clear through his body language or speech, so I believe he simply didn’t know. It is after all a uniquely British custom to return to the same holiday location every year¹ (if not two or three times a year) to warrant owning a beach huts in the first place. Like how he mentioned how most of them are boarded up but if you look through the footage, none of them are boarded up in the British term they are just locked tight which is completely understandable since that isn’t beach weather. Nor is it the school holidays. ¹Actually it’s not really uniquely British as a lot of European do this too. But I’m not sure American/Canadians do this.
@@TabbyLavalamp these aren’t cabins or cottages we have those too they called holiday homes here. No these are basically shed you own at the beach. Typically owned by people with caravan who need extra storage space for when they on holiday to beach. Edit: or campers, you could store your tent and sleeping bags in one although typically if you can afford one of a beach hut you can afford a caravan and so you won’t typically use one while camping.
Further along the beach (opposite our house) there are larger huts (which sell for a quarter of a million or so) with cooking and sleeping facilities. The owners are (officially) limited to 90 day/year residence - one can't use them as a permanent home. Mains sewage, but no electricity service.
Not to sound like the local tourist board, but if you like seeing buffalo in the New Forest then you might very well enjoy going to see the recently-reintroduced European bison population at Blean, which is near Canterbury. Canterbury also has the advantage of having an enormous, important cathedral - another of those UNESCO World Heritage Site thingies of which you may have heard - as well as moanstic gardens, beautiful architecture, the place Legolas went to school, and a pub for every day of the year. It's well worth a visit, and you can get on the high-speed train from St. Pancras and be there (or indeed pretty much anywhere else on that line) in about an hour. Just don't get off at Thanet Parkway, there's literally nothing there =]
I have been enjoying these so much that I have went back and I am rewatching all over Graham's vids again. It's the most wholesome thing on the internet.
As someone who grew up on cattle farms, yes cows can cross cattle grids if they're smart enough. Lost our whole kitchen garden once. Thankfully, we could eat the cow that did it so we got our veg in eventually.
Hearing about the free roaming horses reminds me of when I went to Ireland and my family and I found free roaming sheep out in the peat bogs. I remember some had a line of spray paint down their spines, presumably to differentiate which sheep belong to which farmer. And I agree. Cousin James is a delight. I could listen to his fun facts all day.
Seeing Graham & family get caught in a traditional British sudden downpour, reminds me of the aphorism that "Other countries have Climate, Britain has Weather".
James has such a wonderful air of David Attenborough about him. A wonderful font of information and fun facts. And knowing how long you spent growing up in Britain, i feel a much stronger kinship with you all 😊 explains the sense of humour at least 😁
So, I have to say A.) James is so nice, love getting so much local color from him! B.) At one point, you noticibly pick up a bit of his accent, and I just find that so fun to hear.^_^
The New Forest is indeed gorgeous and to be treasured :) A lovely showcase. Your relative's wisdom is much appreciated. Also VERY VERY GLAD James did not and does not support Brexit, I agree completely with his estimation of all involved in that horrendous misinformation campaign. Yet more wisdom indeed!
Graham, I would just like to say, I have been thouroughly enjoying these Eurotrip vlogs. As I'm from the EU myself (NL) it is really fun to see your impressions of all the beautifull things we have to offer. I would also like to extend warm greetings to James, who seems such an incredibly nice man. His teachings have been much appreciated! (also, please let him know that we Europeans would LOVE to see our British friends back into the fold asap! :) )
From the shots of all the book shelves I could tell that Cousin James has big SMOF energy. When you said he is a frequent Worldcon presenter it all clicked into place.
Five panels next week in Glasgow:- Arthur C. Clarke and Post-war Britain's Fan-to-Pro Ascensions Designing Things That Don't Exist 3D Printing - What's Available, Getting Started, and Current Trends SFF Limericks In Real Time For the Love of Books
I live in Soton, spend a lot of time traipsing through the Forest, and have been to Calshot on university retreats before so wonderful to see places I've become a bit jaded about through someone else's excited eyes!
Favourite part of the video, after fun facts with James, was the camera angle when walking off the chocolate pudding in Chichester making it look like Graham was a giant walking through a street of toy houses.
Its genuinely wild to me to see G in and around Pompey, Southampton and Chichester. As a Chichester local, formerly Littlehampton local, its so strange that my LGS was so close.
I had to pause out of curiosity to see what those beach huts look like inside, and yeah, some have seating and gas stoves and people will decorate them, but they are basically just dressed up storage sheds.
I live in the humboldt redwoods, the new forest in areas do remind me of some groves that i live near Also love James' knowledge lmao Penelope's Naruto run
It's very odd watching my favourite RUclipsrs wandering around the town where I used to live and had the happiest times of my life. Proposed to my wife pretty much exactly where you cut into the rain storm, and we had our wedding photos in Prior Park, in 2002, so we may well have walked past each other...
It's kind of funny about the comments on roadkill. I don't know how Canadians view Roadkill as a food source, but in the US, it's kind of looked down on, as something "only those in rural parts of the south do". Not something I'd expect polite Englishmen to do. But cultures differ in all sorts of places in the world. As for me, I can't eat it. Because the animal was struck by a car, it renders the meat "treif". (Treif being Yiddish word for "torn by beasts".) If it wasn't felled by a skilled butcher and didn't die instantly, it's not considered Kosher. Otherwise, deer are kosher animals. My reaction to this would be to make sure the animal wasn't still suffering, then move it off the road where it can "rejoin the environment and return to the forest."
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Kathleen last episode: "I'm really more of a bog witch"
Kathleen this episode: "I find this bog incredibly charming for some reason"
British James: knows interesting facts and tells amazing stories!
LRR James: falls in holes
"Unlike a car a horse doesn't bend. It dies." Wise words :D
James is a national treasure. I could listen to him share interesting facts all day long.
Young men who feel like they need good role models rather than tictoc idiots need to find a man like James. Compassionate and intelligent and yet highly capable and charming.
"there's a stable horse population ..." Good accidental pun there by James. Love his storytelling as well!
OMG, I love your cousin (once removed), seems like a good soul and a very interesting person. Enjoyed your adventure, thanks for sharing!
Once Removed? Why does everyone call him "Once Removed"? How bad does one have to behave to be kicked out of the family? (I'm joking. I know what the term means.)
Theres something hilarious about Penelope Naruto running in the rain.
Clearly she will grow to be a strong member of the weeb nation
A little hilarious, and a little adorable.
James is a delight! I'm glad he agreed to appear in the videos to share local knowledge!
The absolutely beautiful silliness of crossing a literal moat to the front of a grand castle door just to have a hand-written note on lined paper letting you know they are out for lunch is... so deeply funny and cute to me. Turns out the most effective defense feature of all is mandated lunch breaks.
It felt very Discworld!
"Wednesday Siege rescheduled for Friday, please clean up after yourselves."
The entire roadkill part was an interesting listening. How he met his wife was GREAT!
Gotta love a lady who can butcher a deer.
James is an absolute gem. I could, would, and want to listen to his stories for hours on end.
There's an old joke about Southampton -- "Why did you ever leave Southampton?" "I found the railway station!"
Sound like something someone from Portsmouth would say
The BBQ thing is referring to little single-use BBQs that are basically a tin foil tray pre-loaded with charcoal with a mesh over the top for the food. The British have a deep but *very* different BBQ culture to North America.
Good to know.
Different to Australia too... We just have big stainless steel hotplates that you can fry up your sausages on - if a park has a public toilet and a playground it probably has a public barbecue
James is so charming. Thanks to him for willing to be a part of these videos you share with us :)
I enjoyed seeing "New Forest Facts with Cousin James"
I love that it seems to be a universal Stark Men’s quality of picking their Wives based on tenacity and character. Legitimately great to see.❤
James even hates brexit?
And hes an electrical engineer?
Obviously I know this isnt a thing that can be done. But wouldnt it be outstanding to have him on an episode of Tinker Tailor Solder Fry with Ian?
James is a delight, and I loved the story of how he first connected with his wife.
In the UK we have what are known as disposable BBQ's that are little metal one time use BBQs that come with the charcoal and firelighters already in them. These are often taken to the beach, so it can mean the whole thing!
loved the responds " seemed like a good idea at the time"
Honestly a lot of British History is like this
Yea Cousin James sounds and seems like an amazingly fun tourist guide for that region. His delivery is on point!
I don't know why but "unlike a car a horse doesn't bend, it dies" took me out. James has the best comedic delivery, even unintentionally
That was actually the winning slogan in a contest for animal road safety a few years ago.
@@jamesmbryant2742 it's a very good slogan, I just was not remotely expecting the sentence to end like that
This episode is comedy gold. The Cowes joke, the Limericks, James's humorous takes (the bastards who caused Brexit meeting the business end of a guillotine particularly sent me), and Penelope's Na-rain-to running (im sorry) all put me in a better mood than I was already in. Thank you for these brilliant snippets of your life.
Edit: the roadkill story. I forgot the roadkill story. Brilliant way to meet a loved one.
We don't do guillotines in England - the King's headsman uses an axe. (Or used to.)
Graham, regarding your observation about the roads in England. I lived in northern Italy for three years as a child and enjoyed watching my mom and dad drive through narrow tunnels and openings barely wide enough to fit our 1966 Chevy Corvair Monza (late style Corvair). (My dad was USAF.) The USAF school busses (Bluebirds and Internationals) were even more fun on those same roads. And this was in the early 1980s.
You and I are from relatively young countries and are used to municipalities that could build their infrastructure with modern vehicles in mind. For Europe, much of their public thoroughfares predate the Horseless Carriage. Before about 150 years ago, the main measuring stick for how wide a road should be was the ox cart or horse drawn carriages. And most of those tended to be less than eight feet wide. And widening the roads to accommodate modern vehicular traffic is either going to be very expensive or not possible with the existing structures around. So, yes, you're going to see things like DoubleDecker busses on what we could generously call "paved over goat paths". This makes them quaint. But you said quaint was fun. (And I agree.)
The reason they don't look like buffalo in North America is because the Buffalo in North America aren't in fact buffalo. The American Buffalo, Bison bison, is as its scientific name suggests actually a species of bison and is recognised as such however the name American Buffalo is still taught in history (in England that is and I assume its the same in North America). They were incorrectly labelled as buffalo by the first European settlers on the continent. What you saw were actual buffalo in the tribe Bubalina. Bison are in the sister genus to our cattle whilst buffalo are more distantly related.
The UK has a proud history of Aviation. Around 750 airfields have existed over the last century or so, most of which were created for WWII and many of the ones that exist now are still used for military purposes, with some for civilian use. As an ex-Air Cadet, I would say we are very proud of our aviation here so I am not surprised to see a memorial for a closed one
And, a proverbial stone's throw away from Southampton in Dorset, Radar was invented/perfected.
James is a national treasure. Protect this well-spoken gentleman at all costs.
James is a delight and it sounds like Carol is as well. Fantastic storytelling, fascinating historical explanations, and hilarious political insights. And he tells limericks!
And if you're at the World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow next week I'm on a panel composing limericks in real time in front of an audience.
I love the fact you have a lovely relative who seems interesting, slightly eccentric in only the way elderly relatives in England can be, I'm now hoping for a mad Scottish Uncle living on an estate in the highlands in future episodes!
Even in England, you can still find time to blame James.
Love how the video opens with it raining in England. Perfect representation of the country
Cousin James is an absolute delight. Please thank him for sharing his amazing sense of humor and delightful storytelling. And as always, thank you for sharing your travels with us. This series has been wonderful. My husband and I have been watching it every day at lunch.
Thinking about why we watch these as a member of your audience. I think it is these well shot video, the music is normally setting the right mood, and these amazing people you can show off. Brit James or LRR's extended friendbase is why I think we watch. I'm sure viewer overlap with LRR is 99%
I have to say, getting to know so much local trivia knowledge about both the local area of Calshot and in general a lot of fun things have been amazing, not to mention that James seems to be an absolute delight of a person. Thank you to James for being such a kind man and agreeing to be filmed, and thank you so much Graham for filming and sharing your lovely cousin with us!
I respect the need to tell an overcomplicated story with a bad joke at the end. I've been there and will be in that situation again
38:58 the anime run from Penelope is weirdly heartwarming and silly. Made me smile 😊
8:18 - Oh, It's not JUST the three hanger buildings. There's an ATC control tower in the background as well. Been on enough airports and airbases to recognize that structure anywhere.
When I first moved to Alaska, I was surprised by the… fervor for roadkill. Here, though, it is moose, which are significantly bigger than those little deer. Collision with them is generally fatal to the vehicle as well as the animal. But there are still Rules. There is a “Charity List” which is not, as I first thought, a list of food pantries who could use game meat, but a call list of people in the area with the means and motivation to come out (often in the middle of the night) and butcher roadkill moose. I did have to get over my initial “but it’s roadkill” reaction, it is hundreds of pounds of (mostly) serviceable meat that would go to waste otherwise. Fascinating to see the equivalent in Olde England. Greatly enjoying the travel vblog, Graham, and can echo the other commenters that your cousin James is a treasure!
Please communicate to cousin James (once removed) that he's a delightful man and the internet is now full of his fandom and he seems such a delightful person.
I am not a man who experiences envy easily. And yet, upon seeinh British James, and listening to his tales and yours about him, I find the little green monster within me wishing to be in your family. Everyone you show and introduce is a true delight and you all share a sense of real... Family thats becoming rarer and rarer nowadays. Many people are lucky to meet their first and second cousin, let alone share a great relationship. And allowing us to watch you share it with Penelope is a treasure you're letting into the world.
getting a little too parasocial in here eh
@@TheEvilCheesecake lol I'd say parasitism --social at best. Graham only gets money to live from the relationship, while we all feed *Silence of the Lambs mouth noise* lol
Graham, thank you (and Jordynne for the editing!) for sharing these videos! Your cousin James is a lovely individual, and the forest is gorgeous. I also appreciate the two very friendly cats included.
Very much enjoying every iteration from Graham of "breaking news, it's rainy in England"
Glad you got the classic British summertime experience
4:15. Disposable single-use BBQs are somewhat popular in the UK (basically they're a foil tray with a bit of cheap mesh over them). So they may have had a problem with people tossing the entire disposable BBQ in the trash can (which would include the ashes and such).
"and the pigeons are annoyed"
well that will ruin your planned lovely walk right there
James is a real one. First ballot hall-of-famer
"We were planning to go for a walk..."
[Instant Rain]
Yeah that tracks. Classic British Summer weather lol
Cousin James makes us brits proud! What a wonderul man!
James is an absolute superstar.
A+ for James' library, especially the old Astérix and other Franco-Belge BDs
I inherited my grandfather's collection of old galaxy and analog magazines when he passed away. They're great.
Graham, they are beach sheds. People don’t live in them. They store their beach stuff in them, like towels, swimming costumes and surfboards. Some people decorate them to be nice instead as a retreat for when they on the beach but only a fool put anything edible in them as they’re a nice home for mice and rats.
Yeah he mentioned that specifically. He talked about how they’re not meant to be primary residence and people store their beach things in them. They were talking about hypothetically living in them, probably because property in Victoria is ridiculous XD
@@ZephyrKelsey no he didn’t. Yes it may have dawned on him when looking the one that was for sale that these are non residential properties. But this wasn’t made clear through his body language or speech, so I believe he simply didn’t know. It is after all a uniquely British custom to return to the same holiday location every year¹ (if not two or three times a year) to warrant owning a beach huts in the first place.
Like how he mentioned how most of them are boarded up but if you look through the footage, none of them are boarded up in the British term they are just locked tight which is completely understandable since that isn’t beach weather. Nor is it the school holidays.
¹Actually it’s not really uniquely British as a lot of European do this too. But I’m not sure American/Canadians do this.
@@Zabzim Owning cabins and cottages is a quite popular thing in Canada for those who can afford them.
@@TabbyLavalamp these aren’t cabins or cottages we have those too they called holiday homes here. No these are basically shed you own at the beach. Typically owned by people with caravan who need extra storage space for when they on holiday to beach.
Edit: or campers, you could store your tent and sleeping bags in one although typically if you can afford one of a beach hut you can afford a caravan and so you won’t typically use one while camping.
Further along the beach (opposite our house) there are larger huts (which sell for a quarter of a million or so) with cooking and sleeping facilities. The owners are (officially) limited to 90 day/year residence - one can't use them as a permanent home. Mains sewage, but no electricity service.
Seeing Kathleen and Graham being baffled by the concept of a beach hut is quite amusing to me.
Not to sound like the local tourist board, but if you like seeing buffalo in the New Forest then you might very well enjoy going to see the recently-reintroduced European bison population at Blean, which is near Canterbury. Canterbury also has the advantage of having an enormous, important cathedral - another of those UNESCO World Heritage Site thingies of which you may have heard - as well as moanstic gardens, beautiful architecture, the place Legolas went to school, and a pub for every day of the year. It's well worth a visit, and you can get on the high-speed train from St. Pancras and be there (or indeed pretty much anywhere else on that line) in about an hour. Just don't get off at Thanet Parkway, there's literally nothing there =]
I have been enjoying these so much that I have went back and I am rewatching all over Graham's vids again. It's the most wholesome thing on the internet.
As someone who grew up on cattle farms, yes cows can cross cattle grids if they're smart enough. Lost our whole kitchen garden once. Thankfully, we could eat the cow that did it so we got our veg in eventually.
James is magnificent and I'm so glad we got to spend time listening to him. 😄
If you told me the Cowes joke to me in Third Grade, it'd be a snort laugh, like a fart joke.
James is delightful, thanks for sharing him with us!
Trivia Time with Cousin James is great! 10/10, would listen to more facts.
James is the best!! He added sooooo much to this vlog, props to him for being such a cool dude.
Hearing about the free roaming horses reminds me of when I went to Ireland and my family and I found free roaming sheep out in the peat bogs. I remember some had a line of spray paint down their spines, presumably to differentiate which sheep belong to which farmer.
And I agree. Cousin James is a delight. I could listen to his fun facts all day.
Cousin James is lovely! Enjoying the vlogs and he's been a highlight 😀
Can’t Bend Horses Club
I don't think the tarp budget could sustain that one
Seeing Graham & family get caught in a traditional British sudden downpour, reminds me of the aphorism that "Other countries have Climate, Britain has Weather".
Didn't expect to see the video open with Benchy, the 3D printer benchmarking boat!
penelope naruto running through the rain is peak
Excellent all the way through - James is a fantastic addition 😊
James has such a wonderful air of David Attenborough about him. A wonderful font of information and fun facts. And knowing how long you spent growing up in Britain, i feel a much stronger kinship with you all 😊 explains the sense of humour at least 😁
So, I have to say
A.) James is so nice, love getting so much local color from him!
B.) At one point, you noticibly pick up a bit of his accent, and I just find that so fun to hear.^_^
Graham your cousin is absolutely amazing.
Every time we meet or hear about more of G's family, I think (a) what a cool family and (b) I can see exactly why Graham is who he is.
The New Forest is indeed gorgeous and to be treasured :) A lovely showcase. Your relative's wisdom is much appreciated.
Also VERY VERY GLAD James did not and does not support Brexit, I agree completely with his estimation of all involved in that horrendous misinformation campaign. Yet more wisdom indeed!
Graham, I would just like to say, I have been thouroughly enjoying these Eurotrip vlogs. As I'm from the EU myself (NL) it is really fun to see your impressions of all the beautifull things we have to offer. I would also like to extend warm greetings to James, who seems such an incredibly nice man. His teachings have been much appreciated! (also, please let him know that we Europeans would LOVE to see our British friends back into the fold asap! :) )
"I left the head in your bin, I hope you don't mind." Meet cute or meat cute, either way adorable.
Cats!
Also cousin James is great, love hearing him talk.
From the shots of all the book shelves I could tell that Cousin James has big SMOF energy. When you said he is a frequent Worldcon presenter it all clicked into place.
Five panels next week in Glasgow:-
Arthur C. Clarke and Post-war Britain's Fan-to-Pro Ascensions
Designing Things That Don't Exist
3D Printing - What's Available, Getting Started, and Current Trends
SFF Limericks In Real Time
For the Love of Books
"why are there buffalo?"
*shakes fist* "pablo escobar"
I live in Soton, spend a lot of time traipsing through the Forest, and have been to Calshot on university retreats before so wonderful to see places I've become a bit jaded about through someone else's excited eyes!
the idea a driver that hit and killed a deer may not take and eat that deer due to conflict of interest is just absolutely hilarious to me.
I do hope you've let James know he has a fan club now.
Favourite part of the video, after fun facts with James, was the camera angle when walking off the chocolate pudding in Chichester making it look like Graham was a giant walking through a street of toy houses.
Its genuinely wild to me to see G in and around Pompey, Southampton and Chichester. As a Chichester local, formerly Littlehampton local, its so strange that my LGS was so close.
Yooo, thanks for the Quaker (Religious Society of Friends) rep at the very end! Followed immediately by trash bird 😂
James has a nice lab and I'm a bit jealous.
The market for beach huts is wild.
Shout out to James. A true national treasure.
"Unlike cars, foals don't bend; they die."
Your cousin is a really cool guy, but oh boy does he love his venison. 😂
Let Penelope know that her Naruto walk is top tier
James is an absolute delight and I am very glad we were able to meet him.
Cousin James is now my favorite character in the travelog lore.
I'm very jealous of James' workshop. I've got the same printer and completely sympathize with Penelope getting absorbed by printing.
James seems like an utterly fascinating man
Thank you cousin (once removed) James for your fantastic insight on such a wild variety of things
I had to pause out of curiosity to see what those beach huts look like inside, and yeah, some have seating and gas stoves and people will decorate them, but they are basically just dressed up storage sheds.
Graham and Kathleen being slightly bewildered by beach houses is something I wasn't expecting from this series 😂
I cannot believe Cousin James pulled an RFK Jr. on that deer. Astonishing.
I live in the humboldt redwoods, the new forest in areas do remind me of some groves that i live near
Also love James' knowledge
lmao Penelope's Naruto run
It's very odd watching my favourite RUclipsrs wandering around the town where I used to live and had the happiest times of my life. Proposed to my wife pretty much exactly where you cut into the rain storm, and we had our wedding photos in Prior Park, in 2002, so we may well have walked past each other...
It's kind of funny about the comments on roadkill. I don't know how Canadians view Roadkill as a food source, but in the US, it's kind of looked down on, as something "only those in rural parts of the south do". Not something I'd expect polite Englishmen to do. But cultures differ in all sorts of places in the world.
As for me, I can't eat it. Because the animal was struck by a car, it renders the meat "treif". (Treif being Yiddish word for "torn by beasts".) If it wasn't felled by a skilled butcher and didn't die instantly, it's not considered Kosher. Otherwise, deer are kosher animals. My reaction to this would be to make sure the animal wasn't still suffering, then move it off the road where it can "rejoin the environment and return to the forest."
This is maybe weird, but man I want to hang out with your cousin. He’s so cool! ❤ His wife sounds amazing too. XD
James rules!!! And so does this eurotrip vlog! Can't wait for the Netherlands one :)
James is a highly based individual
Cousin James is amazing, he seems like an awesome chap