A big heart felt thank you to all of you wonderful folk that have managed to put up with us on our RUclips journey. Both Cristina and I, very much appreciate your love, support and encouragement. Thank you! Have a wonderful Christmas and New year. ❤
🌟Absolute Pleasure 👀Watching your Channel🌟, Hope you have a Wonderful 🎉Festive Season & bring this Reno On in 🥳2025🥳will wait for the notification your back on track! 🥰👏👏👏👏🙌🥂🍻🍹🍷🇦🇺
Who would think you don't plan?!?! The amount of planning,measuring,ordering,dealing with the unforseen and just pla 18:39 in difficulties is ENORMOUS.Yet you ALWAYS make it beautiful,precise and special. BTW,Jonathan is a real gift! Patient,hard working,really helpful and skilled!!15:04
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Cristina, James and Jonathan!🎄🎉 Also, a Happy 60th Birthday 🎂, James, and a Happy Wedding Anniversary💐💞! That's a lot of celebrating in the next couple of weeks.🍾🥂 I've been a subscriber since the beginning and look forward to viewing your videos in 2025!
Happy Christmas James & Cristina ! Feliz Natal Jonathan. All my best to you and your families for the coming new year. Everything is really coming along nicely. Loving the music choice 👍🏻❤️
Ooof, I'm knackered just watching that! It's great to have that particular part of the project behind you. Merry Christmas & a very Happy New Year James, Cristina & Jonathan, enjoy a your well deserved break;)
From the far upper NW corner of the USA to you All: Heartfelt Merry Christmas to you two and (of course) wonderful and pleasant Jonathan. Andy brought me over from his earliest posts - and You all are fixtures in every week now - inspiring me in my own tasks and remodels but also entertainment of the finest sort. I work hard; but it's so much more fun to watch someone else do it!!! I appreciate you 3 more than I can say as you've quietly become "friends" that I actually care about now. Happy 60th James, as well - and a rich and satisfying Anniversary of your loving marriage! That, is really the most important "project" of all - and my wife and I so appreciate you.
Thank you for this year, Cristina and James. It has been a pleasure to follow your channel. Circumstances have not always been on your side, but despite the challenges, you have found a solution and been able to move on. Exemplary attitude and endurance! Congratulations, James, and 60 years of life lived. Celebrate this milestone and enjoy the Christmas break with your nearest and dearest. See you again next year with renewed strength! Christmas greetings from Finland! 🇫🇮🎄✨️
That was some serious progress men, 2 mixers and battling on. Thank you so much for the vlogs and all the humor. James 60!!!!!🥳 All the best for 2025, have a great Xmas and enjoy the time off.
Wishing you a very happy birthday James, also happy anniversary to such a wonderful couple, you two sacrifice so much for so many! I would like to wish Jonathan a merry Christmas as well as yourselves, I hope you get some rest, some fun times with family and friends and all the very best in the New Year! Thank you for sharing your journey, making very interesting videos in beautiful Portugal!💕🇨🇦
Your channel and your brother's both bring me such joy and insight into doing something similar in the future, thank you for sharing all of your hard work over these years. It keeps me inspired for things still a bit off in the future. Wishing you both a restful time away and good fortune into 2025!
Lots of celebrations ahead ! Happy Birthday James 🎂 Congratulations to you and Cristina on your anniversary 🥂. A wonderful Merry Christmas to you all ! James, Cristina, Johnathan, your brother Andy, Detlav and all the fur babies. Lots of well deserved rest. Lots of love ❤
Thank you for sharing your experiences and looking forward to observing your progress next year. Enjoy your well deserved time off. Have a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
Well done!! Wonderful progress!! Wishing James a Happy Birthday!! Happy Anniversary to you both!! Wishing you all a very blessed Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Love and Hugs!! 🥰 ☃️🌲♥️🌲☃️
Got to admire your efforts getting the concrete poured and completing the foundations. Didn't know you got frosts over there - must have been the cold snap last week as I've just looked on the Albufeira webcam and there are people sunbathing on the beach today! Enjoy your well earned break, will be watching out for the next video in the New Year 🎅🎅
My late husband, Peter, who grew up in Mount Charles, St Austell, Cornwall would chucked at your description of the cold. And yes this girl from the prairies of Illinois, now living in SW Florida, does know the meaning of a brass monkey. LOL. Happy birthday, happy anniversary, and Happy Christmas!
Thankyou for all the wonderful vlogs. 60!! James you’re just a young’n and happy anniversary to you both. Merry Xmas and all the best for the new year 😀
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! and James enjoy your birthday and also you and Cristina a wonderful anniversary / Looking forward to your 2025 videos!
I really enjoyed the aerial view of the construction area of Detlef's place. It's hard to get it all in the correct perspective. I still cannot place the boundary with the blue line and its relationship to the electricity pole. Doesn't the commune have to remove the cement pole? Jonathan has proven a great assistant to your construction work. A Merry Christmas to you all. God bless.🎄🎵🎶🎵 ✨🎁💝🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️. 🇦🇺 🇩🇪
It is a bit confusing. It is a very nice shaped plot and I am sure James will show the lay-out and borderlines shortly in an aerial picture. As all 4 neighboring sides are rustic land nothing can ever been build there.
The boundary line is about 2m from the post and 5m from the house. Hope that helps. We are waiting for the electric company to remove the post, as mentioned. 😊👍🏻
Congratulations to you both & a very happy birthday James. It has been a blast for sure. Thanks so much for the fantastic entertainment you provide 🎉🎉🎉 all the very best , Merry Christmas & a very very Happy New Year .🍾
Pushing along nicely now. Big changes can be seen. I wonder if you could put the allen key into a power drill to turn the wire when doing the rebar to save all the manual hand turning? Are the trees going to be cut to stop the shade on the solar panels? Merry Christmas to you all 🌲
The end of another productive year... It's been great watching your progress and thanks for sharing the journey. Hope you all enjoy lots of fond memories over the holidays 🎄🎆 Happy 60th James and welcome to the Senior Citizen Club 🎂 Hope you and Christina also enjoy a lovely Wedding Anniversary 👩❤👨 Til next year...
What is Your "King Formula" for casting cement walls, eg. 1:2:4? Where no hollow block is to be used for a home build, only cast concrete walls and ceilings.
Aww Merry Christmas/Feliz Natal to you all James, Christina and Jonathan! Have loved seeing all the progress but have a well earned rest. Happy birthday, Happy Anniversary and Happy 2025 - here's to all the good things coming. Enjoy!
Wow, James, you & Jonathan have worked so hard, well done for getting so far, wishing you & Cristina a wonderful Christmas & a happy new year ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
@The-Quinta oh Jame's, age is just a number, it's a state of mind, you put your mind to it, you can achieve anything, your a good worker & very fussy in your work, that's not a bad thing, take care xxxxx
Thanks for all you ´ve showed , it was a pleasure looking to your videos. I got a lot of respect for you all with all you did. So from a cold and wet Netherlands, I wish you the very best with your holidays, aniverseries and of course a good and healthy 2025. Every day of the a bit of smiling. Greetings , Anjo
Amazing effort, thats a lot of mixer and barrow work. I have to say I expected a truck and pump for the footings. Have a wonderful Christmas and be safe and enjoy your time away from the reno.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from N.S. 🇨🇦 where it is currently -11 B.M.'s with snow. Happy Birthday James Happy Anniversary to you both. 🙂👍🎅❄🇨🇦❤❤
Hi folks a lot of work into that wall and a lot of concrete don’t think that will fall down anytime soon,on another note I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year keep the videos coming.🎉😊
😂😂 The phrase is based on the traditional Navy saying "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey". The brass trays, called "monkeys", were used to store cannonballs in a pyramid stack on the deck of warships. However, the story is considered a myth by most historians and etymologists. The U.S. Department of the Navy, etymologist Michael Quinion, and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) have all discredited the story. The phrase "brass monkey" has also been used to describe other extremes, such as being talkative or bold: Talkative: "The little feller, now, is smart's a whip, an' could talk the tail off a brass monkey" Bold: "He has the gall of a brass monkey" The phrase may also have originated from the "three wise monkeys" figurine, which was brought as a souvenir from China and Japan in the 19th century. The figurine was seen as an image of something solid that could only be affected by severe weather.
Hi James, are you going to buy slight pointy square caps for the tops of pillars? A vague match of the chimney one? Looks classy. Or are you going to fix slate on as you did walls? A drop of brandy in your tea flask, will warm nicely...GOD bless you all, take care...🍾🥂
Superb have a wonderful and well deserved break 👏 👍 😊 And happy birthday big man what a wonderful present you have given yourself all them footings poured up awesome enjoy enjoy enjoy 😊
A big heart felt thank you to all of you wonderful folk that have managed to put up with us on our RUclips journey.
Both Cristina and I, very much appreciate your love, support and encouragement. Thank you!
Have a wonderful Christmas and New year. ❤
Merry Christmas to you both! Have a relaxing, well-earned break.
🌟Absolute Pleasure 👀Watching your Channel🌟, Hope you have a Wonderful 🎉Festive Season & bring this Reno On in 🥳2025🥳will wait for the notification your back on track!
🥰👏👏👏👏🙌🥂🍻🍹🍷🇦🇺
Happy Christmas to you both and your families and I am waiting for you guys to finish here and get on with your own lovely property
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Thanks Scott, hope you had a great Xmas 👍🏻
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Thank you for your continued support. Merry Xmas 😊
Who would think you don't plan?!?! The amount of planning,measuring,ordering,dealing with the unforseen and just pla 18:39 in difficulties is ENORMOUS.Yet you ALWAYS make it beautiful,precise and special.
BTW,Jonathan is a real gift! Patient,hard working,really helpful and skilled!!15:04
Thanks.
People think a lot of things, but I hold the cards. 😉 Thanks for watching! 😀
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Cristina, James and Jonathan!🎄🎉 Also, a Happy 60th Birthday 🎂, James, and a Happy Wedding Anniversary💐💞! That's a lot of celebrating in the next couple of weeks.🍾🥂 I've been a subscriber since the beginning and look forward to viewing your videos in 2025!
Thank you and thanks for the support from the beginning. We both appreciate that very much. 😊
Thank you guys. It’s been a great year. James and Cristina ,and Jonathon have a great holiday. See you next year.❤️
Thanks Carlos 👍🏻
Happy New Year 🎉
James & Cristina & Jonathan. Carry on the great videos
Happy new year to you too!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone!
Cheers Larry
Happy Christmas James & Cristina ! Feliz Natal Jonathan. All my best to you and your families for the coming new year. Everything is really coming along nicely. Loving the music choice 👍🏻❤️
Thank you Lorrie. Have a great Christmas and new year. 😊
Ooof, I'm knackered just watching that! It's great to have that particular part of the project behind you.
Merry Christmas & a very Happy New Year James, Cristina & Jonathan, enjoy a your well deserved break;)
Definitely good to get that behind us.
Thanks for watching! 👍🏻
From the far upper NW corner of the USA to you All: Heartfelt Merry Christmas to you two and (of course) wonderful and pleasant Jonathan. Andy brought me over from his earliest posts - and You all are fixtures in every week now - inspiring me in my own tasks and remodels but also entertainment of the finest sort. I work hard; but it's so much more fun to watch someone else do it!!! I appreciate you 3 more than I can say as you've quietly become "friends" that I actually care about now. Happy 60th James, as well - and a rich and satisfying Anniversary of your loving marriage! That, is really the most important "project" of all - and my wife and I so appreciate you.
Thank you so much, that is so kind of you. It’s guys like you that motivate us to keep sharing what we do.
Merry Christmas ❤️
Thank you for this year, Cristina and James. It has been a pleasure to follow your channel. Circumstances have not always been on your side, but despite the challenges, you have found a solution and been able to move on. Exemplary attitude and endurance! Congratulations, James, and 60 years of life lived. Celebrate this milestone and enjoy the Christmas break with your nearest and dearest. See you again next year with renewed strength! Christmas greetings from Finland! 🇫🇮🎄✨️
Our pleasure! Thank you for sticking with us. 😀
Great effort to get the footings completed by Christmas Have a great time of celebrating over the next couple of weeks
Thanks! 😊
That was some serious progress men, 2 mixers and battling on.
Thank you so much for the vlogs and all the humor.
James 60!!!!!🥳
All the best for 2025, have a great Xmas and enjoy the time off.
You’re welcome. 😊👍🏻
Wishing you a very happy birthday James, also happy anniversary to such a wonderful couple, you two sacrifice so much for so many! I would like to wish Jonathan a merry Christmas as well as yourselves, I hope you get some rest, some fun times with family and friends and all the very best in the New Year! Thank you for sharing your journey, making very interesting videos in beautiful Portugal!💕🇨🇦
Thank you Cindy, Cristina and I appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment. Merry Xmas
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you both and Jonathan. Enjoy your break.
Thanks, you too! Catherine
Your channel and your brother's both bring me such joy and insight into doing something similar in the future, thank you for sharing all of your hard work over these years. It keeps me inspired for things still a bit off in the future. Wishing you both a restful time away and good fortune into 2025!
Thank you! Glad we help, good luck with your future plans and merry Xmas 😊
Great vid, thank you! Wishing you all a lovely Christmas and a fabulous 2025! 🎄
Thank you! You too!
Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday, congrats on your wedding anniversary. Love to the furbabies. A happy and productive New Year!
Thank you Lyn 😊
It's all coming together🎉 Happy Christmas 🎉
Same to you!
Have a great break 🙂 and we will see you next year. Take care be happy 🙂
Thanks! You too!
Lots of celebrations ahead ! Happy Birthday James 🎂 Congratulations to you and Cristina on your anniversary 🥂. A wonderful Merry Christmas to you all ! James, Cristina, Johnathan, your brother Andy, Detlav and all the fur babies. Lots of well deserved rest. Lots of love ❤
Thank you so much! It’s a busy time, both with renovating and celebrating.
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Merry Christmas to you both, you to Johnathan have a blessed time xx
Thank you Cathy 😊
All the best James and Christina have a great xmas with your family see you in the new year. Lots of love from your viewers.
Cheers John 👍🏻
Happy cake day, James 🎂🎉 Happy anniversary to both of you 🥂🍾 and Happy Holidays to you two and also to Jonathan. Enjoy the break ❤
Thanks so much! 😊 will do. 😄
Merry Christmas all of you and thanks for sharing your journey. ⏩️ for the new year.
Our pleasure!
It's really turning out well! Can't wait to see the reveal!
It’s taking shape! 👍🏻
Pleasure watching your progress. One of my favourite channels.... well done cannot wait to see more in the new year thanks and have a great break !!!
Thanks for that. It means a lot to us. 😊
Thank you for sharing your experiences and looking forward to observing your progress next year. Enjoy your well deserved time off. Have a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
Thank you! You too! You too!😊
Feliz Natal e Prospero Ano Novo , James and Cristina and Jonathan , Merry Christmas from Canada .
Thank you Mary and the same to you. 😊
Merry Xmas and a wonderful New Year team, its been a joy to watch
Cheers Ben 👍🏻
Merry Christmas to you two and Jonathan. Enjoy family’s gandering.
Same to you Rosana 😊
Well done!! Wonderful progress!!
Wishing James a Happy Birthday!!
Happy Anniversary to you both!!
Wishing you all a very blessed Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Love and Hugs!! 🥰
☃️🌲♥️🌲☃️
Thank you Meg, hope you have an enjoyable Christmas too. 😊
Happy Holidays you two, I wish you a great time with your family and friends, you deserve it❤️🎶🤗🎶🎄
Thanks Joanne 😊
Got to admire your efforts getting the concrete poured and completing the foundations. Didn't know you got frosts over there - must have been the cold snap last week as I've just looked on the Albufeira webcam and there are people sunbathing on the beach today!
Enjoy your well earned break, will be watching out for the next video in the New Year
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Thanks Mark, yes it was cold, but now we are pleasantly warm merry Xmas
My late husband, Peter, who grew up in Mount Charles, St Austell, Cornwall would chucked at your description of the cold. And yes this girl from the prairies of Illinois, now living in SW Florida, does know the meaning of a brass monkey. LOL. Happy birthday, happy anniversary, and Happy Christmas!
Not everyone knows the full saying. 😊
Thanks for watching Elizabeth.
It’s appreciated. 😃
Happy Christmas guys and a great and healthy new year 🎉
Thank you! 😊
Wishing you a wonderful Christmas James and Cristina! 🎄
Happy 60th James 🎉
Happy Anniversary 🍾🥂
Thanks Lezlie. 😊
Happy Xmas to you all, happy birthday James, and happy anniversary to you both. Thanks for all your interesting videos.See you in the new year 🎉
Thank you Andrew 😊
Thankyou for all the wonderful vlogs. 60!! James you’re just a young’n and happy anniversary to you both. Merry Xmas and all the best for the new year 😀
You are most welcome. Marry Xmas to you 😊
Happy Christmas and have a wonderful New Year 🎄❤️🎄
Same to you! 😊
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! and James enjoy your birthday and also you and Cristina a wonderful anniversary / Looking forward to your 2025 videos!
Thanks Albert 😊
Loads hard work as usual well done. Have a good one. 👍👏🏴
Thanks, you too!
Happy and joyous christmas, birthday, family festivities, and all the best for the new year 😊
Same to you! 😊
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year , wishing you all the best.
Thank you! 😊
I really enjoyed the aerial view of the construction area of Detlef's place. It's hard to get it all in the correct perspective. I still cannot place the boundary with the blue line and its relationship to the electricity pole. Doesn't the commune have to remove the cement pole? Jonathan has proven a great assistant to your construction work. A Merry Christmas to you all. God bless.🎄🎵🎶🎵 ✨🎁💝🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️. 🇦🇺 🇩🇪
The boundary line does seem very close to the buildings. I am also confused.
It is a bit confusing. It is a very nice shaped plot and I am sure James will show the lay-out and borderlines shortly in an aerial picture. As all 4 neighboring sides are rustic land nothing can ever been build there.
The boundary line is about 2m from the post and 5m from the house. Hope that helps.
We are waiting for the electric company to remove the post, as mentioned. 😊👍🏻
Congratulations to you both & a very happy birthday James. It has been a blast for sure. Thanks so much for the fantastic entertainment you provide 🎉🎉🎉 all the very best , Merry Christmas & a very very Happy New Year .🍾
Thank you Mary, you are most welcome. 😊
All the very best wishes for the holiday season and the New Year. Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday James.xx ❤
Thank you Katie 😊
It's been a great year watching this new project. Happy Holidays!
Same to you! 😊
Feliz natal to you both and also to Jonathan
Muito Obrigardo 😊
Love your videos and your channel.
“Level is Level”
Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary and Happy New Year.
❤❤❤❤🎉❤❤❤❤
Thanks Paul 😊👍🏻
Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to you both xx
Thank you Sandra 👍🏻
Looking good! Merry Xmas and Happee New Year!
Thanks! You too!
Pushing along nicely now. Big changes can be seen. I wonder if you could put the allen key into a power drill to turn the wire when doing the rebar to save all the manual hand turning? Are the trees going to be cut to stop the shade on the solar panels? Merry Christmas to you all 🌲
They do, do a tool that does it for you!
The trees have been cut today. 👍🏻
And a Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you 2 to🎉🎄
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Very nice progress. Enjoy your break. Happy holidays. Thanks for sharing. All the best.
Cheers Rob
Have a great Christmas and birthday celebrations. 🎉. Thankyou for all the videos in 2024. Look forward to watching your progress in 2025.
Thank you! Debbie. 😊
Happy birthday, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, and Happy Anniversary! Thanks for all the videos and fun!
Thanks Leah 😊
Wishing you all including Jonathan a very Merry Christmas... Happy birthday James 🧑🎄🎄🪅🥳🎉🎊🥂🍾🎂🎈🫶
Same to you! 👍🏻
Love this content - MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Glad you enjoy! Merry Xmas
Thank you Cristina, James and Jonathon for your great vlogs, wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Same to you! 😊
Joyeux Noël en famille !🌲🌲🎉
Bon anniversaire 🥳🥳🥂
Et a l'année prochaine pour de nouvelles vidéos !!!🌻🌻
Thanks Veronica 😊
The end of another productive year... It's been great watching your progress and thanks for sharing the journey. Hope you all enjoy lots of fond memories over the holidays 🎄🎆 Happy 60th James and welcome to the Senior Citizen Club 🎂 Hope you and Christina also enjoy a lovely Wedding Anniversary 👩❤👨 Til next year...
Thanks Wendy. Senior Citizen Club, now I’m feeling old. 🥴
Merry Christmas, Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday! And Happy New Year!
Thank you! Merry Xmas to you too. 😀
What is Your "King Formula" for casting cement walls, eg. 1:2:4? Where no hollow block is to be used for a home build, only cast concrete walls and ceilings.
I use 1:2:4
Merry Christmas and happy new year to your both and Jonathan, now let me go check what your brother's up to!
Thank you 🙏
Merry Christmas to you from Bavaria and happy birthday to you young man and say hello to Andy
Thank you, I will
Happy Christmas to you both and your families. Enjoy your holidays and see you both in the new year.
Thank you! 😊
Aww Merry Christmas/Feliz Natal to you all James, Christina and Jonathan! Have loved seeing all the progress but have a well earned rest. Happy birthday, Happy Anniversary and Happy 2025 - here's to all the good things coming. Enjoy!
Thank you Louise 😀 Merry Xmas 🎄
Blessed Christmas and a great New year!
Johnathan God bless you too, you deserve a huge rest!
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Same to you!
Happy Birthday 🎁 James , Happy Anniversary to you guys. Parabéns 🎊, feliz Aniversário. Um bom ano novo 🎆
Thanks Carlos. 👍🏻
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Cheers Dennis, you too! 😊
Thank You Great Work Done Right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Eugene😊
Cool editing James 👍
Thanks 👍
Wishing you both a merry Christmas and happy new year, and also happy 60th to James.
Thanks Robert. 😊👍🏻
As ever , another great video. Have a great Christmas and a well earned rest.
Thanks Cameron 👍🏻
Happy holidays guys.
Thanks Allan
Wow, James, you & Jonathan have worked so hard, well done for getting so far, wishing you & Cristina a wonderful Christmas & a happy new year ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks Jayne, definitely starting to feel my age, but we’re getting there.
@The-Quinta oh Jame's, age is just a number, it's a state of mind, you put your mind to it, you can achieve anything, your a good worker & very fussy in your work, that's not a bad thing, take care xxxxx
@@jayneward6649certainly is, but my back has other ideas.
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@The-Quinta oh poor you James, hope you have a couple days off over Christmas to rest it, take care xxxxx
Merry Christmas and happy birthday from Western Australia see you next year
Thank you, same too you 😊👍🏻
Thanks for all you ´ve showed , it was a pleasure looking to your videos. I got a lot of respect for you all with all you did. So from a cold and wet Netherlands, I wish you the very best with your holidays, aniverseries and of course a good and healthy 2025. Every day of the a bit of smiling.
Greetings , Anjo
Thanks Anjo 😊👍🏻
Merry Christmas , Happy New Year, Happy Birthday & Happy Anniversary ! Thanks for the great vlogs 👍
Thank you! Merry Xmas 😊
Wishing you a very happy, peaceful Christmas. 🙏❤️
You too Yvonne. 😊
Great to see that foundation! That was a LOT of hard work. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
Strange they don't just order cement like other people do. it would certainly save time.
i believe he said 1 and a half days of mixing cement.
@paulm.8554 very happy it’s done. Happy New year to you. 👍🏻
Merry Christmas to you both xx
Thank you Brenda 😊👍🏻
Amazing effort, thats a lot of mixer and barrow work. I have to say I expected a truck and pump for the footings. Have a wonderful Christmas and be safe and enjoy your time away from the reno.
It was a lot of work, but doing the block work was harder. My back is killing me. 🥴
Wishing you a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from N.S. 🇨🇦 where it is currently -11 B.M.'s with snow.
Happy Birthday James
Happy Anniversary to you both. 🙂👍🎅❄🇨🇦❤❤
Thanks Deborah.
-11 😳you can keep that. 🥴
Maria Crismas pra vos 🎄🎅
Thank you for another entertaining year
You’re welcome Jorge 😊
Feliz Navidad 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Obrigado 👍🏻
Merry Christmas, Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday. Be safe, enjoy your family time. Aloha and Mahalo. Mele Kalikimaka!!!
Thank you! You too!
Merry Christmas you two - have a great 60th and wedding anniversary 💜💜
@@kimbreadman4754 Thank you Kim 😀
Hi folks a lot of work into that wall and a lot of concrete don’t think that will fall down anytime soon,on another note I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year keep the videos coming.🎉😊
Hi Robert, glad to get it out of the way.
Thanks for watching! 😊
Happy Christmas, Happy anniversary, Happy birthday James and a fantastic New Year🎊💐🥂🎉🎈🥳🎁🍾🥂❤
Thank you 😊
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The phrase is based on the traditional Navy saying "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey". The brass trays, called "monkeys", were used to store cannonballs in a pyramid stack on the deck of warships. However, the story is considered a myth by most historians and etymologists. The U.S. Department of the Navy, etymologist Michael Quinion, and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) have all discredited the story.
The phrase "brass monkey" has also been used to describe other extremes, such as being talkative or bold:
Talkative: "The little feller, now, is smart's a whip, an' could talk the tail off a brass monkey"
Bold: "He has the gall of a brass monkey"
The phrase may also have originated from the "three wise monkeys" figurine, which was brought as a souvenir from China and Japan in the 19th century. The figurine was seen as an image of something solid that could only be affected by severe weather.
Interesting! Or as I know it, “ it’s so cold, you could freeze the nuts off a brass monkey” 😉😂
@The-Quinta 🤣🤣 well! You were walking funny 😁. Hope you all enjoy your R and R
Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and a happy new year you deserve a rest after all that concrete mixing and hope Johnathan has a brack to
Thank you Eric, same to you 👍🏼
🎅🏻 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you both. 🎄 👍🏼
And to you! 👍🏼
Hi James, are you going to buy slight pointy square caps for the tops of pillars? A vague match of the chimney one? Looks classy. Or are you going to fix slate on as you did walls? A drop of brandy in your tea flask, will warm nicely...GOD bless you all, take care...🍾🥂
Hi Nicolette, we’ve talked about it, but haven’t decided yet!
The walls are going to have the same look as the other walls. 😊👍🏻
Happy Christmas x
Merry Xmas 😊👍🏻
Superb have a wonderful and well deserved break 👏 👍 😊
And happy birthday big man what a wonderful present you have given yourself all them footings poured up awesome enjoy enjoy enjoy 😊
Thank you so much 😁
Merry Christmas folks🏴👍
Same to you Mike 👍🏼
Happy Christmas to you all 🌲❣💫
Thank you. 😊
You deserve time off. Happy Holidays and Best Wishes.🎉🎉
Thank you Marilyn, happy holidays to you too! 😀
❤️ 🎄 🎅🥂🥳🎈✨️Merry Christmas & Happy New Year ✨️🎈🥳🥂 🎅 🎄 ❤️
Same to you, Janet 😊