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- Published on Mar 16, 2026
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a thirty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a RUclips video every Tuesday plus an additional video every Saturday on Patreon + YT Memberships. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT/BST on Twitch.
Alanna x
Swans are the hardest birds, if you don't include Glaswegian women.
This comment doesn't have nearly enough likes. Absolutely class. 😂
'It's just the one swan actually' 😁
😂😂 😂
You'll definitely hear the Glaswegian bird coming, the Swan not so much. It's mute.....
.... I'll get my coat.
@theonlyLoneWolf_ Dam right!! Where are the likes.. made me chuckle 🤭 I tell ya 😅
Yes, we’re a very dark humoured sarcastic bunch of bastards.
"bastards"
Yep - around 40% of us by now, I'd imagine!😀
And this is why we are the most misunderstood people in the world.
@marvinc9994 lol
Yes, and we have a habit of never directly saying what we mean, it drives Dutch people around the twist who don't know British people as they are very forthright and blunt in their speech, they are far from humourless, just more blunt. They like the sarcasm.
@tonyhaynes9080 "Them"
Gunpowder deliveries directed towards Parliament, and you posted this on the fifth of November. Perfection.
Classic Guy Fawkes joke, delivered on time.
Yeah, but she loses a point for calling it “Tesco”.
It’s Tesco’s, innit.
TE Stockwell and Cohen
The clever tw@ who put that gunpowder delivery sign next to parliament is a genius.
Had me in stitches for a solid 2 minutes 😂
"if your Aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle. But she doesn't, so she's not" 😂😂😂
I once had an antediluvian jar of treacle which when opened, the treacle made a rude gesture, pulled the lid back down and rolled the jar back in the corner of the cupboard.
That cup of tea is whats referred to as 'Gnats piss'😂
YEP, that's what my auntie used to call it.
That cuppa needed bloody crutches it was so bloody weak😂😂😂
You can't tell me that wasn't bloody Horlicks!
Weaker than a fortnight and even that is two week
10:43 That's not a cup of tea, that's an act of war.
It's a cup of tea. Stop moaning!
@samil5601no that cup of tea an act of war
Posties wear shorts because they dry quicker than trousers when it rains! 😂
One told me it's because long trousers stick to your legs when wet and make walking uncomfortable, but same kinda answer basically
Also, wet trousers will eventually soak into your socks and hey presto! Wet feet too.
A postman told me they played a game on who can wear shorts the longest
Which? The legs or the shorts?
Tesco do build places like that.
Yup, they are always some architect's take on a planning requirement to be "sympathetic to local building traditions."
They are all over the place, all purpose built.
I think it was mostly a late 80s/early 90s thing,
Tesco Extra in Baldock is magnificent.
90's Tescos are architectural wonders.
This is water from a puddle in a pothole the council hasn't filled yet - might be the most English sentence you've ever uttered X
My gramma used to deride anyone who made her a cup of tea that wasn't strong enough to render the tea spoon a light brown colour. "For God sake, boy! Put the bag in the boiling water. Don't just show it to the mug from the other end of the kitchen". Or, after visiting someone, "That woman, I swear she's still using the same tea bag as when I last took tea with her, five years ago." 😅
😂 incredible!
Mate your Nan was a legend
My gran, on the exact other end of the scale, used to drink her tea by scaring the water with the tea bag. My dad used to say we needed to call an ambulance to get out of the cup
My mother was very dismissive of people who didn't properly fill the cup with tea: a "vicars' collar cup" is how she described it.
That awful man in the vest is Ronnie Pickering and he is a disgrace to my home town, from Hull in East Yorkshire.
"Mince Pies - The ideal accompaniment for Christmas afternoon tea (best before 04 DEC)"
Ah but which 4th December?
so it's still good then?
I can't believe it didn't have 'you can't park there sir'
Poor Linda is going to have PTSD from ASDA
Victoria Woods “Lets do it” - peak British comedy xx
Otherwise known as The Ballad Of Barry And Freda. That song still cracks me up and always will, especially the Woman's Weekly line.
@ ah yes, the proper name 🤣, she was so funny - is it on the trolley - sadly missed.
@louburnett6782 I think the term 'comedy genius' is overused but in her case it very much applies.
Left us far too soon; loved her - R.I.P. Victoria 💜
Postmen in shorts is so true. You will see them in the winter snow wearing shorts and a fleece jacket. 😂
Highly recommend watching "Hot Fuzz" best cop comedy ever. And yes we have Canada Geese here but beware the swans too.
The pringle baiter was playing with fire !
Watched it last night, nearly as good as Shaun of the Dead.
As for geese, b@st@rds one and all. I once saw my nearly 50 y/o mother clear a five-bar gate in a single vault with my brothers' Gander chasing her, honking and squawking fit to raise the dead. All my brother said was "his missis is down on eggs and he thinks you're after them, stay out of the field.
I'll take swans any day rather than geese.
Hot Fuzz is a bit gory for me, BUT quintessentially British humour and HILARIOUS, though I shant spoil the ending!
On the Devon/Dorset border(A35) the County signs are 25 m/yds apart Around 1980 it snowed. The snow was 600mm/2ft deep, each Counties snow plough went up to their sign and stopped and went back leaving a 25 yd impassable, by car, patch of snow.
Thats incredible, love it.
And they have the cheek to tax us. (spitting with justifiable rage)
The only problem with that is that metres and yards are not the same length. A yard is 3 feet. A metre is 3' 4", so 2 metres is 6' 8", and 3 metres is 10 feet, meaning that three metres is 3 and 1/3 yards. 24 metres is therefore 26 yards and two feet. 25 metres then, is 27 yards, two feet and four inches.
@Crispvs1 Depends which side of the road you measure it, it's on a bend.
Should have made a tunnel😊
Poor Linda! Ex Railway guy here. Unfortunately "Leaves on the line" is a railway shortcut phrase, you see when wet leaves fall on the railway lines, and trains roll over them, under the pressure, the leaves get converted into a really excellent lubricant, so the trains lose traction, making it hard to go, and hard to STOP which is very dangerous. Keep Reacting!
it's why those two trains crashed into each other in wales a few weeks ago isn't it?
@-elle-o.o NO COMMENT!
I think that is a subject for the inevitable enquiry (no humour intended or attempted)
Very nasty things train crashes!
I live almost next to a single-track railway, which passes through a wood. At this time of year there's a "leaf clearing" train that goes past every other day at about 01:30. Sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner!
The enquiry has already determined that the mechanism that should have applied sand to the rails to give traction were blocked .@davidberesford7009
@-elle-o.o yeah from whats been investigated it seems to show that the train slid for a little over 1000 feet on wet leaves at 15mph before impacting the train coming in the other direction
I'm an American living in the US, and today is our presidential election. This is just the type of escapism I needed today!
Fingers crossed for you! 🙏🏻
Thank you for the good vibes! 🙏
Plenty of British humor on RUclips ,
Just look at naps posting of them and others
Presidential election is a joke, but not a funny one.
I hope for the USA that Trump doesn’t get voted in to office.
Tbf with the leaves on the line thing, usually it’s wet leaves because it’s Britain and a train can derail because it will skid.
They don't _derail_ - they slide on braking, grinding the wheels, so that they become flat on one side.
Seems like sliding (though not because of leaves?) was a factor in the recent fatal train crash in Wales. So it's a serious thing, not a feeble excuse.
Yeah train on wet leaves is like walking on ice. Makes it equally hard to stop as it is to get going, so sometimes the best option is to stand
@wessexdruid7598 im not saying they do all the time but derailments can and have happened.
It is important to remember that these are not just any old leaves - they are the "wrong kind of leaves".
I genuinely had to stop the video at 6:05, go and make myself crumpets and tea, then return to my computer to eat them whilst watching the rest. 😆
The guy with the buckfast is the blue van man on RUclips
"It's a swan actually"
The Canada Goose was behind it.
They say a swan can break a man's arm....
No luck catching them swan's then?
@danielblyth2841 it's just the one Swan actually
I seriously need crumpets with lashings of butter. NOW! I'm also a crisp hobbyist. Love me some crisps! 😍(PS Happy bonfire/fireworks night everyone in England!)
Why just England 😢
That cup of tea was shocking.
The person who made that should be deported for such behavior.
its a Mute Swan Alanna - that particular scene being from Hot Fuzz 🙂
Yeah, it's a mute swan, so no chance of getting a confession out of it !
@fredMplanenut 🤣😂👌👍👉👃🦢
@fredMplanenut
That's just DUMB !!! 😊
Alanna, British humour should be the only thing on the UK Citizen test, if you get it you're in. You would easily pass with flying colours 😄😄😄
Boris was a modern Benny Hill i think. Compare the postures and gait
There is something very Fred Scuttle about him.
And the running round after women with a lecherous look on his face.
If I remember right. Most large supermarkets needed to be a certain height for planning permission. so... they just started building random spires that serve no purpose
That's what's commonly known as a cup of dish water from the kitchen sink.....
Whoever made that cup of tea in the thumbnail should be in prison
With NO possibility of early release!
I used to be a community midwife. I got so worn out by peoples lack of ‘milk control’…(as a midwife I have the right to judge here), that I started drinking it black. That was 40 years ago. People can not be trusted.
Lots of (all?) out of town centre Tesco's were built with weird almost church style towers in the 80s and 90s. It was surreal.
So you could find it without a map
Blue Van Man thats who he is
6:30 "Apparently they can break a man's arm... Or blow up a man's house."
Poor Linda, that is bullying, funny, but bullying.
Insult to injury to bulls, let alone when also @bused and worst of all?
Get a life
What makes British humour top tier?
Simple…the weather…hundreds of years of grey skies, unpredictable weather, long muggy winters and short summers…if we hadn’t learned to laugh, the depression would have wiped us out eons ago!
still are depressing, the biggest trait in the UK, is the ability to moan, and hatred of foreigners is still a thing too. There is not much empathy for others here, we are a selfish bunch.
@ i suppose that depends on where in the UK you live. In a big tourist city, yeah people get fed up with tourists pretty fast! In a smaller town where it is quieter, not so much. If you live in a friendlier area, such as the west country, its even less of an issue.
In fact, my partner is italian and has settled status and living in the UK full time. Some of the worst ‘anti-foreigner’ hate she has had was from other ‘foreigners’ who had also moved to the UK!
Also the UK is not alone, most countries native populations have issues with foreigners/tourists!
No, we Irish are the funniest in the world. We even have proof that this is a fact, and not merely an opinion, Mrs Browne's Boys. You will catch up to us one day, England.
@greengrass811well as i am half irish anyway (mother was born there) i can concede that! Being top tier doesnt make the british no.1 at comedy.
@Veran1337 Who is better ?. They have mastered the art of sarcasm, and as Oscar Wilde once said.
"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence."
I have a large collection of rubber bands that postmen love to throw on the floor.
That cup of tea is a crime against humanity.
Quintessential British humour eh. I think you're about ready for the one, the only, "Carrot In A Box".
I saw this live when the episode aired ☺️ great bit of TV history!
@AdventuresAndNaps the follow up is even better because he won AGAIN
British TV ads. Ie. Marmite? Or bit before your time Boddington or Carling Black Label, (the dam busters one is a classic)?
Irn bru ads
Not that you'll be allowed to show them, but the Hamlet cigar adverts! Happiness is a.....
Cadburys mini eggs will be delivered to supermarkets on Christmas Eve. More than likely on shop floor before new year
Huh?. Mini eggs are available all year round. Had some the other day.
@ I have only ever seen them sold seasonally. I might have just completely missed them throughout the rest of the year. I’m going to be on the look out now though
Leaves on the line have stopped trains since trains were invented. The wheels skid so no traction no movement.
Leaves on the rail lines makes the rails slippery. Slippery rails make it hard for trains to accelerate and brake effectively. Delays because of this are a safety precaution.
Yeah, it basically creates a layer of pectin (the stuff in jam) as the trains go over them and mush it down.
10:43 my mum would say thats "water bewitched, tea be buggered"
Alana, that is a Swan not a Goose, the scene is from the movie Hot Fuzz, you need to watch it !
You're reactions totally cracked me up! This was so wholesome, i loved it!
Ronnie Pickering, I think that mans name is.
All together, now - "Who's Ronnie Pickering?"
Tesco's built those in the late 80's early 90's, now they go for the big warehouse thing.
The Berries and Cream man is from a 2007 Starburst Ad ...
TikTok at the cutting edge as always ..
I stopped buying them because I was annoyed at the name change from Opal fruits
@NoNo-uwotm8’Opal fruits, made to make your mouth water’ I’m with you on the name change and they changed the taste as well, I’m certain of it.
Tomorrow, tomorra, tomorrow, tomorra- you're always a day away!
Tomorrow and tomorra and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day...
@martinclegg8536 Love it - nice one
That swan could break a mans arm!!!!!! Arrrh! 😆
Those squirrels must be some tough thugs to literally hijack at train...😅🇬🇧
I net it way immigrant grey's, not the more peaceful native red
Re postie in trousers, that would be yes. The sorting office I used to work at there were maybe 4 or 5 wearing shorts out of about 150.
I think the Tesco thing is where they bought up old market halls initially in villages/towns, so already had the clock towers.
But some have been purpose built as supermarkets since and they get easier planning permission for a more 'in keeping with the area' building than if were to propose a boring block building.
So I've heard...
Nah, my local one they built like that, I suspect that all the stores built around the same time were built in a similar way - late 80’s or early 90’s I think?
@RealMrStoofus yeah the newer ones from 90s I think we're due to that planning permission ease. But just something I heard once. One near me also has tower and from late 80s, used to be field and built intended for Tesco. And apparently keeping a more classical town hall look helped with approval
@MrStoofus My local one was built like the one on the right in the meme and I've seen several in the same style on my travels.
@MrStoofus Yep, there's a whole video about this.
That brew looked like they forget the teabag entirely!
I was on a train that got delayed, we stopped in the middle of no-where for about 20 minutes. Then the driver came over the intercom and apologised to everyone and said he had been told he had to stop the train "because bees had been seen in the area".
That happened to me only once, for about 45 mins and that was in the middle of nowhere too. Never did find out why but on the plus side, I did the same journey the following week but the ticket office was closed as it was late. I got on, planning to pay the attendant but they never showed, so I got off without paying. Karma.
@Elwaves2925The ticket staff had probably been carried off by a swarm of bees
I've experienced self-deffacating humour - I shat myself and my mate couldn't stop laughing at me.
"you've been tangoed" ads for Tango drinks, there were so many, so even got banned.
Aren`t you happy that you are not called Linda....🤣Thanks again for making me laugh out loud... all gems....even the cringe ones......
Thank you! ☺️
I miss when Starburst were called Opal Fruits :'(
Made to make the mouth water😮
That 'tea' is EXACTLY how my sister likes it, in fact on more than once occassion I haven't put any tea in it (just hot water and milk) and she couldn't tell the difference.
😂
"My nans dead..." got me. Took a good minute to recover
The leaves on the line thing is a necessary risk not worth taking, because trains crush them and the residue left over affects a train's ability to brake and stop.
Yeah, its looking like that was partly why the crashin wales happened a few weeks ago killing 1 person
Yup, it basically a Teflon coating on the rails which isn't exactly ideal for stopping a fast moving vehicle
It's not cold until you see your postie in trousers. 😂
The Mighty Boosh!! Full of dark whimsy, oh, also Red Dwarf and Bottom, and all of the task master series... Blackadder.. sooo much Stand up too
Grab a bottle of something fruity, gather a friend or two, some cosy clothes, a throw/blanket or too, lights low... Maybe a cake... and have a bloody good giggle, it's cheap but refreshingly good for you!
Have fun!
Oi! What about The Young Ones ????
'this feels aggressively british' is such a glorious line. Love it
Other people have already pointed out here that leaves on the line can be dangerous for train operation because they reduce the effectiveness of braking - which can lead (and has lead) to accidents. There is also a longer term, costly, condequence. If a train slides on the slippery leaf mush when it brakes, the wheels can be ground flatter at the sliding contact point. It's not a good idea for a train to have wheels that are not properly round - it causes rough riding, wear on the bogies, and wear on the track. So the train operators eventually have to replace the worn sets of wheels with new (round!) ones at great expense. If enough trains are affected this way in a short time then there may not be enough new wheel sets available, so trains waiting for repair have to be temporarily taken out of service. The resulting shortage of rolling stock means a worse service for travellers!
It is worse than that, there is a chemical in the leaves that with the friction and crushing pressure of the train reacts with the iron in the steel rail/wheels that creates a teflon like non-stick surface. Worse than ice for train braking.
Before they replace the wheels, they can be turned, on a wheel lathe. This doesn't require dismantling - the train is run over the lathe, turning one axle set at a time and cutting them circular again (but smaller).
@wessexdruid7598 Indeed. But I don't think the maintainers of the class 313 trains I used regularly in the 1980s and 1990s when leaf fall started to become a real problem on the Great Northern loop for the first time, had that luxury. I remember the train operators saying that there were cancellations because of a shortage of rolling stock - trains with messed up wheels that couldn't be fixed because they didn't have enough spares and had to wait for more to be manufactured.
@johnevans2044 I used to work in the same building as the wheel lathe at the St Phillip's Marsh depot in Bristol, in the early 2000s. It was then primarily used for GWR's HST sets (class 43s) - but didn't get a lot of work.
It's the wrong sort of leaves, the ones still attached to the tree..
The gunpowder delivery sign was good
As said earlier, it's US election Day. This kind of humor 😂was needed. Thanks Alanna!
Cheers Brian, thank you so much!!
Posties do wear trousers, but they have to also wear shin pads cos of the dogs, if they are lucky, they might get two pairs like when I used to work for Argos, which came in handy after when I went for a interview.
Alanna i just couldn't stop laughing 😂🤣 at the man with the mask on his "nob" oh dear that was seriously funny! Thank you for this video i needed a good laugh.positivity peace and love ♥️
That was from Gogglebox a TV series, of people watching people on the TV, those two are my favourites on there, Jen and Lee.
@vallee3140 it was so funny it was the expression on Jen's face when he said it.priceless🤣
@charisse234 I love those two
Just had the best BFG Sainsbury Xmas ad in your video.
Jimmy Carr makes horribly offensive jokes: Ok these are kind of funny
Jimmy Carr puts his feet up on the subway: Cancelled
😂 yes exactly!!
Subway?
Your reaction videos always have me giggling, your cheeky laugh is awesome.
If you want to see real British humour you need to check out monty python, probably life of Brian. 😅😅😅
That could well be the Tesco Extra in Purley
That goose is swan,you need to watch Hot Fuzz!
Tesco late 80s until late 90s used to build traditional inspired shops - the Essex barn look
I just read a comment on the recent US election result. It was from a guy in Barnsley. It read, "I have seen a man beat a woman as badly as that since the Paris Olympics." - thank you for the giggle random man in Barnsley.
To be fair, that's a reasonable approximation of UK police.
The police: "Excuse me Mr Criminal, would you mind awfully not criminalling for a bit?"
Criminal: "Right you are then chief, sorry for any inconvenience."
Always entertaining, thank you 🙏🏾
2:41 All posties come from Newcastle, which is why they wear summer clothing in the winter.
Nah, shorts _are_ winter clothing up there.
Someone on the radio said about being out at midnight in January in the middle of Middlesborough and there were two young women walking along in bikinis and stilettos.
8:22 water storage for fire - sprinklers
I wish i could find Boris funny, But his existence just makes me angry
His verbal dysentery and mock bumbling buffoonery insults our intelligence! He's a sh1te of the first order, not even hiding his thievery and backhanders to his mates. Better stop there !
Alayna , Love your channel . love the fact that our humour rings your bell . TY for the videos x
I’m british not one thing did I find funny
Me too - must have been away from my birthplace too long!
You will probably find that you’re welsh
The Tescos with a clock tower looks a lot like the one in Dorchester.
He was so funny, even though... he was destroying our Country?
@tmarsden1878 I think that comes with leaders who have absurd yellow hair.
@t.a.k.palfrey3882 I had spotted certain similarities.
Funnily enough the other day RUclips randomly recommended me a video about why supermarkets are built in the style of an Essex barn.
No, Boris Johnson is never funny.
Never on purpose
And never accidentally
next time you think of 'leaves on the line', just think how dangerous black ice is.
A recent train crash in Wales seems to have been caused by them. North America also has the problem, just not so noticeable because they don't' have so many trains.
then consider leaves are worse as when crushed into the rail, they react with the iron to make it a more permanent slick surface.
they forgot the tea bag in that "tea"
Exactly. Get your feet off the seat. Sorry, Jimmy get your feet off the seat .
LINDA!😂
That tea was water that was just threatened with milk and the teabag.
The weird supermarket clock towers are purpose built, not exitsing buildings that were converted. There was a lot of resistance to "big box" stores when they were introduced in the 70s as they didn't fit in with the aesthetic of the area, so they started making them look more like older buildings to get planning permission, and the clock tower thing just kind of stuck.
Wait till you hear "this service delayed due to a train on the track".
They genuinely just build big Tescos like that