Hello, hope your keeping well. ha ha you have hit the nail on the head, im busy cutting the winter wood now ! prepping like crazy as the world goes tits up ! i will also be insulating the old cottage soon so we burn less wood. thanks and take good care
OMG what fantastic memories I have of spending two weeks at the Ponsmere in 1979 with my husband and baby daughter (now mid 40's ) It was the first of many happy holidays at this fantastic hotel run by the wonderful Mrs Bachelor and her son Peter, now both sadly deceased. I remember clearly the entertainers Vicki Lee with the Keyboard player/ drummer referred to in a later comment We bought an LP of Howard's, I can't recall many of the songs except for one called Sometime When We touch which is a beautiful song. I think the album was in the name Howard King where the other person who posted and worked with him refers to him as Coley so I can only assume King was a stage name. I wish I knew what had happened to the record. I remember Vicki being a great entertainer and all the kids being marched off to bed with their parents every so that the adults could have some grown up entertainment. One year the Cornish comedian Jethro appeared he must have been just starting out in his career. My family members and their children were still going to the Ponsmere up to it's demolition, Such a sad day when the old place was knocked down. Perranporth was such a fantastic place for a peaceful safe family holiday. I hope it still is, we've not been back for about 30 years but thank you for posting this and taking me down memory lane. Lesley
wow this was so lovely to read, we may have crossed paths if we was both there in 1979, i would have been there for 2 weeks and it would have been in august during the 6 weeks school holidays. Thankyou so much for your comment. Yes it was sad to see it demolished, i followed the news stories on the internet about it going. Thanks and take good care.
hello Maria, hope your both keeping well, a new video is coming very soon, im half way through editing it and the water well is complete and running ! so you cant take the piss about that one anymore ! ha ha ! 4 years talking about it and another 4 years building it ! my longest, slowest project ever ! It was lovely seeing you both, keep up the great work and thanks again for the goodies, a real treat for us. keep safe and well ( once again we have just missed the rain ! and still super dry here ! coming up to 3 months no rain ! )
Hi Gary. Fab footage and great memories for you, your brother was lucky! Thanks for this, I hope you are all well, all good here. Take care. Best. Johnny. 😎
Hello Johnny, hope all is well up north, hope your not struggling, the system is now showing very large cracks ! and its going to get worse ! and mother nature ( who is my boss ha ha ) is also getting angry ! so so dry here, but i have just got my solar water well pump hut running, i also have a video coming soon with this in it. Stock up, get prepared for the winter, energy blackouts could be next ! never a dull moment eh ! keeps us on our toes ! busy is how i thrive ! keep safe and well, take good care.
I was there 20 minutes ago....bluddy love it. :) I've really enjoyed watching your vids over the last couple of days. Great stuff. :) Thank you. Cow and his calf in the background :))))
Hello Benjamin, thanks for popping by with kind words. Cow and calf ?? Anyway a new video will be up soon, ive had a long break away from civilisation and kind of enjoyed being very isolated, but some videos will now follow slowly. keep safe and well.
Hello Fraser, its a shame its changed so much, the hotel has be flattened and turned into housing, i was comparing scenes from this video on google street map view. We had many holidays here over the years. You grew up in a lovely place ! thanks for popping by with a comment. take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD yes indeed , it was a great place to live back in the 70's / 80's , a real community spirit to the place . thanks for the video .
Wow cafes and shop buildings hadnt changed much since had they! We discovered the Ponsmere Hotel aprox 2010 and went back every year. Great place for parents as kids were so entertained. Good food and entertainment. What a shame it had to go. Very interesting film
wow lovely to read this comment, ive had a few comments by people who loved to holiday here in the past. thanks so so much for popping by with a comment, take good care.
Awh these videos are so precious, love the music 😂 We do miss your videos they are something we look forward too. Not long now and we will be down with you, we can't wait 😃 Take care Deb & Trent xx
Hello, looking forward to your visit, all is good here, ive got plenty of work done and projects finished because of the extra time saved in not doing videos. i hope your keeping well, see you soon !
hello, the older you get the faster time goes by, i remember as a kid playing over the park and my Dad would say "you have one hour to dinner " that used to seem such a long amount of time ! keep safe and well Ortorea.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD I have some good news, James Roney has solved the sticking point for a magnet motor today at 9pm I scheduled a livestream to go public with details on his video and some anylisis on why it works.
Sporting the ole lionels, us brits never wore shorts in the 70s lol. I remember going to spain in 1980 with my parents, my dad got some odd looks on the beach in long trousers and a hanky on his head 😁
Blah ha ha ! yes the old Lionel Blair's ! i have not heard that phase for a very long time ! they will be back in fashion very soon ! ive just started seeing young girls wearing them again ! keep safe and well. ( An update is coming very soon on whats been going on here)
Wow! Just the day before yesterday I went on an internet hunt to see if you and yours were ok, and found... bugger all :) I imagine you've been really busy lately and making videos takes forever. Hope you're all well.
Hello mate. You're so lucky to have that footage. My parents only took the odd pic now and again and I have nothing much to look back on. Hope all is well. We seem to be living on courgettes at the moment, will be tomatoes next month I guess then the potatoes. I think it's going to get tougher but we have plenty of rabbits and pigeons here and even the odd deer. Woods piled high for the winter, can't really afford any more oil so will try and make it last. Take care mate.
Hello, sounds like you going to sail through these hard times, this is good to hear ! but thats what happens when your self sufficient and frugal, we are also all set for the winter and the coming year. thanks and take good care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Thanks Gary. I just found a jar of carrots that I fermented earlier in the year, never tried it before. It was a bit of an experiment and I forgot about them. Well we just opened the jar and tried them and they are delicious. I was looking into preserving without freezing, boiling or pickling. If I can do that I will eventually do away with the freezer if poss. I would like to cancel the electric eventually. We use less than the standing charge most days, all this sun helps my solar. Take car mate.
Hello Eric, hope your keeping well, sorry for a late reply. This area in the uk is the best for beaches, its on the south west coast of the UK, around 340 mile from where we live now. keep safe and good luck, the world is getting very crazy and the self sufficient and frugal will get through this. ( especially the Amish ! ha ha they have it right ! ) God bless.
I've been waiting for your new video for what seems like an age. I respect that you have needed time off but so glad to see your post. I hope all is well with you and the family and you are riding out the matrix storm with relative ease because you are so well set up and adapted for just such carnage as is happening "out here". I'm still working toward the same set up, it seems to be taking forever. All the best to you x
Hello Dilly, its lovely to hear from you, hope all is well. Yes all is going well here, as you know the more self-sufficient you are the outside world tends not to effect too much. Im just finishing off the water well hut with a solar pump, hopefully all will be ready for the coming drought and water shortage !! the world has so many crazy things happening all at once ! a perfect storm for harder times. I hope your mum is keeping fit and well, the older generation know clearly about harder times so we can always turn to them for great advice !! after all they are the experts on hard times as they have lived through them which was much worse back then ! Thanks Dilly, keep safe and well and good luck on your future planning for a self sufficient life style, take care.
Good to hear from you! Hope you and the family are doing well. Crops have gone to hell in many places in Western Canada. Fields are flooded. This year I’ll have no beets or carrots, potato harvest will be at less than 20%. Garlic, onions, tomatoes, cukes are doing well. I hope you’re fairing better than us. So nice to hear from you!!!
Hello Roger, its good to hear from you. sorry to hear the hardships your having. Yes the system is showing signs of collapse and yes people like us can cope easy with that but when mother nature casts a blow it hits us hard ! we are desperate for rain here ! we are in a severe drought with mains water running low ! A video is coming real soon ! keep safe and well.
Hello, Wow ! amazing ! ! i do remember vaguely of a band. ha ha so we meet again ! We was there in mid summer, We were there when a break in happened at night and the cash till was broken into and stolen, my brother found it round the back buried in the sand, the owner was so please that he let my dad have some free meals from the restaurant. I also remember that there was racing ( grey hound i think ) on the TV some evenings that you could have a bet on, after that the entertainment started which was probably you and the other band members. Thanks so so much for your comment. Glad your still here to tell this story ! i will also tell my dad this, he is now 84 ! keep safe and well.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD You made my day. 79 was a long time ago. Our lady vocalist was Vicki Lee. She had a larger than life personality. I stayed at the hotel all summer. The Drummer was Howard Coley. Can't thank you enough for your reply. Stay safe my friend and love to all your family. 🖖
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD I remember that, the stolen till. I also recall the kids entertainment Pirates and Smugglers, I was Pirates' Captain and used to do the Prince Charming dance up and down the dance floor on my own
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD great it's nice seeing what the winter storms are like on the small holding and preparations for the cold weather looking forward to the new vids
Hello, ha ha , hope your keeping well, I'm hoping to put a " what the hell has been going on here vid " after a long break from youtube. keep safe and well, hope your land is working out well for you. take good care
Hello Moose, hope your keeping well, all is fine here, the solar water well pump hut will be finished next week all ready for the bad drought we are having ! its as bad as 1976 ! even the mouth of the river Thames is 5 miles shorter than normal, just a dry river bed ! I have got loads of jobs done quicker after taking a break from here. thanks moose keep safe and well.
Why did we do that in the '70s? There's always a picture or video of a kid pointing off to nothing. We did it in the US as well. I never understood that. When we went somewhere and my mom took pictures, she always said point somewhere off in the distance like you're pointing at something exciting.
How ar you guys currently managing within your self sufficient household this summer? These sudden heat waves killed 50% of my garden in only 2 days up here in Newcastle 1 week ago Nothing I could do, it was ridiculously hot Hope you and the wife and James and your daughter are all keeping well and hope your live stock are keeping well too Its suddenly turned cold now and raining for the first time in 2 months Much needed, blessed, take care, fine wishes
Hello, all is well here thanks. We have not had any rain for over two months now ! so so dry, a video is coming very soon. keep safe and sorry to hear about your hard times ! its getting us all ! even the self sufficient people. Mother nature is impossible to escape but the system can be escaped. take good care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Glad to know you all are well, and my goodness I SHALL DO A RAIN DANCE for you Gary , up north we have natural springs which feed our water supply so we don't worry about droughts but I understand further down south that isn't the case and judging by the u.k grid drought map the south is suffering most, But I know that you are very smart man and well aware and educated because watching your videos has granted me with invaluable knowledge, irreplaceable wisdom and witness to unconditional adorable family love which integrates and reinforces an outstanding belief within myself to continue marching forth against the grain through every soulfull endeavor may that be years beyond, Escaping the matrix was once a dream ,but that concept was only an mental restriction, it's not a dream but as you say achievable Good night Gary
hello Dave ! chickens all good here ! but we have ate most of them now , keep prepping, we dont want brown freckles from that fan ! its coming very soon ! nice seeing you fly over the over month ! amazing stuff ! keep safe and well Dave and family.
Glad to see you’re still around Gary, you’ve been missed 😉
Hello, its good to hear from you, hope your keeping well, a new video is coming very soon.
Great to see ur still out there Gary. I’m sure ur busy with garden duties and fire wood processing. Hope too here more from u soon
Hello, hope your keeping well. ha ha you have hit the nail on the head, im busy cutting the winter wood now ! prepping like crazy as the world goes tits up ! i will also be insulating the old cottage soon so we burn less wood. thanks and take good care
Love the old cine film. Great family memories 😃👍🏻 Trev
Hello Trev and Sue, hope all is well, im enjoying my break from here and have got so much work done in doing so. safe travels and take good care
Miss you Gary and fam! Much love xx
Gary. Your back! We have all missed you and the family. Nice video.
PLS keep making the videos they are informative and genuinely hilarious.
OMG what fantastic memories I have of spending two weeks at the Ponsmere in 1979 with my husband and baby daughter (now mid 40's ) It was the first of many happy holidays at this fantastic hotel run by the wonderful Mrs Bachelor and her son Peter, now both sadly deceased. I remember clearly the entertainers Vicki Lee with the Keyboard player/ drummer referred to in a later comment We bought an LP of Howard's, I can't recall many of the songs except for one called Sometime When We touch which is a beautiful song. I think the album was in the name Howard King where the other person who posted and worked with him refers to him as Coley so I can only assume King was a stage name. I wish I knew what had happened to the record. I remember Vicki being a great entertainer and all the kids being marched off to bed with their parents every so that the adults could have some grown up entertainment. One year the Cornish comedian Jethro appeared he must have been just starting out in his career. My family members and their children were still going to the Ponsmere up to it's demolition, Such a sad day when the old place was knocked down. Perranporth was such a fantastic place for a peaceful safe family holiday. I hope it still is, we've not been back for about 30 years but thank you for posting this and taking me down memory lane. Lesley
wow this was so lovely to read, we may have crossed paths if we was both there in 1979, i would have been there for 2 weeks and it would have been in august during the 6 weeks school holidays. Thankyou so much for your comment. Yes it was sad to see it demolished, i followed the news stories on the internet about it going. Thanks and take good care.
The music is so you Gary, miss you guys so much, keep the videos coming, RUclips isn’t the same without you guys, keep smiling x
hello Maria, hope your both keeping well, a new video is coming very soon, im half way through editing it and the water well is complete and running ! so you cant take the piss about that one anymore ! ha ha ! 4 years talking about it and another 4 years building it ! my longest, slowest project ever ! It was lovely seeing you both, keep up the great work and thanks again for the goodies, a real treat for us. keep safe and well ( once again we have just missed the rain ! and still super dry here ! coming up to 3 months no rain ! )
Hi Gary. Fab footage and great memories for you, your brother was lucky! Thanks for this, I hope you are all well, all good here.
Take care. Best. Johnny. 😎
Hello Johnny, hope all is well up north, hope your not struggling, the system is now showing very large cracks ! and its going to get worse ! and mother nature ( who is my boss ha ha ) is also getting angry ! so so dry here, but i have just got my solar water well pump hut running, i also have a video coming soon with this in it. Stock up, get prepared for the winter, energy blackouts could be next ! never a dull moment eh ! keeps us on our toes ! busy is how i thrive ! keep safe and well, take good care.
I was there 20 minutes ago....bluddy love it. :) I've really enjoyed watching your vids over the last couple of days. Great stuff. :) Thank you.
Cow and his calf in the background :))))
Hello Benjamin, thanks for popping by with kind words. Cow and calf ?? Anyway a new video will be up soon, ive had a long break away from civilisation and kind of enjoyed being very isolated, but some videos will now follow slowly. keep safe and well.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD the cow and calf is one of the names of the islands off the beach. :)
@@ukulelalienation ha ha i did not know that, i was looking for animals in the background like the tit i am !! thanks Benjamin
Missed ya videos dude! Glad to see you posting. Comment
Hello Jim, hope all is well at your end, i might do a little update video soon. thanks and take good care.
Nice Throwback Gary, Hope you are all well.
my home town back then . i was 17 at the time you took this .
Hello Fraser, its a shame its changed so much, the hotel has be flattened and turned into housing, i was comparing scenes from this video on google street map view. We had many holidays here over the years. You grew up in a lovely place ! thanks for popping by with a comment. take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD yes indeed , it was a great place to live back in the 70's / 80's , a real community spirit to the place . thanks for the video .
Wow cafes and shop buildings hadnt changed much since had they! We discovered the Ponsmere Hotel aprox 2010 and went back every year. Great place for parents as kids were so entertained. Good food and entertainment. What a shame it had to go. Very interesting film
wow lovely to read this comment, ive had a few comments by people who loved to holiday here in the past. thanks so so much for popping by with a comment, take good care.
Looked like good times 👍
Aww so cute 😊 oh my goodness, how times have changed.
The good old days ! im stuck in the past, thanks so much for popping by, take good care.
Awh these videos are so precious, love the music 😂 We do miss your videos they are something we look forward too. Not long now and we will be down with you, we can't wait 😃 Take care Deb & Trent xx
Hello, looking forward to your visit, all is good here, ive got plenty of work done and projects finished because of the extra time saved in not doing videos. i hope your keeping well, see you soon !
Wow, these films are so special
We used to holiday there around the same time, gutted the hotel is no longer!!
Hello, thanks for popping by, yes they knocked it down for swanky apartments that locals could not afford ! i had about 5 holidays there.
Cool I was 19 yrs old in 79 wow time flies
hello, the older you get the faster time goes by, i remember as a kid playing over the park and my Dad would say "you have one hour to dinner " that used to seem such a long amount of time ! keep safe and well Ortorea.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Yes and a school day felt like a year lol
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD I have some good news, James Roney has solved the sticking point for a magnet motor today at 9pm I scheduled a livestream to go public with details on his video and some anylisis on why it works.
Sporting the ole lionels, us brits never wore shorts in the 70s lol. I remember going to spain in 1980 with my parents, my dad got some odd looks on the beach in long trousers and a hanky on his head 😁
Blah ha ha ! yes the old Lionel Blair's ! i have not heard that phase for a very long time ! they will be back in fashion very soon ! ive just started seeing young girls wearing them again ! keep safe and well. ( An update is coming very soon on whats been going on here)
Wow! Just the day before yesterday I went on an internet hunt to see if you and yours were ok, and found... bugger all :) I imagine you've been really busy lately and making videos takes forever. Hope you're all well.
Hello Simon, hope your keeping well, a video is coming real soon !
Hello mate. You're so lucky to have that footage. My parents only took the odd pic now and again and I have nothing much to look back on.
Hope all is well. We seem to be living on courgettes at the moment, will be tomatoes next month I guess then the potatoes.
I think it's going to get tougher but we have plenty of rabbits and pigeons here and even the odd deer. Woods piled high for the winter, can't really afford any more oil so will try and make it last. Take care mate.
Hello, sounds like you going to sail through these hard times, this is good to hear ! but thats what happens when your self sufficient and frugal, we are also all set for the winter and the coming year. thanks and take good care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Thanks Gary.
I just found a jar of carrots that I fermented earlier in the year, never tried it before. It was a bit of an experiment and I forgot about them. Well we just opened the jar and tried them and they are delicious. I was looking into preserving without freezing, boiling or pickling. If I can do that I will eventually do away with the freezer if poss. I would like to cancel the electric eventually. We use less than the standing charge most days, all this sun helps my solar. Take car mate.
Nice beach, it reminds me of Florida when I was a kid.
Hello Eric, hope your keeping well, sorry for a late reply. This area in the uk is the best for beaches, its on the south west coast of the UK, around 340 mile from where we live now. keep safe and good luck, the world is getting very crazy and the self sufficient and frugal will get through this. ( especially the Amish ! ha ha they have it right ! ) God bless.
I've been waiting for your new video for what seems like an age. I respect that you have needed time off but so glad to see your post. I hope all is well with you and the family and you are riding out the matrix storm with relative ease because you are so well set up and adapted for just such carnage as is happening "out here". I'm still working toward the same set up, it seems to be taking forever. All the best to you x
Hello Dilly, its lovely to hear from you, hope all is well. Yes all is going well here, as you know the more self-sufficient you are the outside world tends not to effect too much. Im just finishing off the water well hut with a solar pump, hopefully all will be ready for the coming drought and water shortage !! the world has so many crazy things happening all at once ! a perfect storm for harder times. I hope your mum is keeping fit and well, the older generation know clearly about harder times so we can always turn to them for great advice !! after all they are the experts on hard times as they have lived through them which was much worse back then ! Thanks Dilly, keep safe and well and good luck on your future planning for a self sufficient life style, take care.
Good to hear from you! Hope you and the family are doing well. Crops have gone to hell in many places in Western Canada. Fields are flooded. This year I’ll have no beets or carrots, potato harvest will be at less than 20%. Garlic, onions, tomatoes, cukes are doing well. I hope you’re fairing better than us. So nice to hear from you!!!
Hello Roger, its good to hear from you. sorry to hear the hardships your having. Yes the system is showing signs of collapse and yes people like us can cope easy with that but when mother nature casts a blow it hits us hard ! we are desperate for rain here ! we are in a severe drought with mains water running low ! A video is coming real soon ! keep safe and well.
Can't believe I'm seeing this. I was the keyboard player in the trio at the Ponsmere in 79. I was there all summer. I probably played to you.
Hello, Wow ! amazing ! ! i do remember vaguely of a band. ha ha so we meet again ! We was there in mid summer, We were there when a break in happened at night and the cash till was broken into and stolen, my brother found it round the back buried in the sand, the owner was so please that he let my dad have some free meals from the restaurant. I also remember that there was racing ( grey hound i think ) on the TV some evenings that you could have a bet on, after that the entertainment started which was probably you and the other band members. Thanks so so much for your comment. Glad your still here to tell this story ! i will also tell my dad this, he is now 84 ! keep safe and well.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD
You made my day.
79 was a long time ago.
Our lady vocalist was Vicki Lee. She had a larger than life personality. I stayed at the hotel all summer. The Drummer was Howard Coley.
Can't thank you enough for your reply. Stay safe my friend and love to all your family. 🖖
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD I remember that, the stolen till. I also recall the kids entertainment Pirates and Smugglers, I was Pirates' Captain and used to do the Prince Charming dance up and down the dance floor on my own
More vids of the small holding and winter updates?
Hello, hope your keeping well. More videos to come, ive just put up a new one, thanks so much and take good care.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD great it's nice seeing what the winter storms are like on the small holding and preparations for the cold weather looking forward to the new vids
Gary!!!
Hello, ha ha , hope your keeping well, I'm hoping to put a " what the hell has been going on here vid " after a long break from youtube. keep safe and well, hope your land is working out well for you. take good care
good stuff brother good to see you back. is the small boy on the beach throwing rocks around is that you? so cute
Hello, yes im the youngest one in this video, i was just 8 years old ( over 40 years ago now ! ). Hope your keeping well, take good care
I was busy working in my restaurant, The Stork-which is now the Doctor’s surgery
was wondering where you had gone. hope all is well mate.
Hello Moose, hope your keeping well, all is fine here, the solar water well pump hut will be finished next week all ready for the bad drought we are having ! its as bad as 1976 ! even the mouth of the river Thames is 5 miles shorter than normal, just a dry river bed ! I have got loads of jobs done quicker after taking a break from here. thanks moose keep safe and well.
Why did we do that in the '70s? There's always a picture or video of a kid pointing off to nothing. We did it in the US as well. I never understood that. When we went somewhere and my mom took pictures, she always said point somewhere off in the distance like you're pointing at something exciting.
ha ha ! yes your so right, thanks and keep safe and well.
How ar you guys currently managing within your self sufficient household this summer?
These sudden heat waves killed 50% of my garden in only 2 days up here in Newcastle 1 week ago
Nothing I could do, it was ridiculously hot
Hope you and the wife and James and your daughter are all keeping well and hope your live stock are keeping well too
Its suddenly turned cold now and raining for the first time in 2 months
Much needed, blessed, take care, fine wishes
Hello, all is well here thanks. We have not had any rain for over two months now ! so so dry, a video is coming very soon. keep safe and sorry to hear about your hard times ! its getting us all ! even the self sufficient people. Mother nature is impossible to escape but the system can be escaped. take good care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Glad to know you all are well, and my goodness I SHALL DO A RAIN DANCE for you Gary , up north we have natural springs which feed our water supply so we don't worry about droughts but I understand further down south that isn't the case and judging by the u.k grid drought map the south is suffering most,
But I know that you are very smart man and well aware and educated because watching your videos has granted me with invaluable knowledge, irreplaceable wisdom and witness to unconditional adorable family love which integrates and reinforces an outstanding belief within myself to continue marching forth against the grain through every soulfull endeavor may that be years beyond,
Escaping the matrix was once a dream ,but that concept was only an mental restriction, it's not a dream but as you say achievable
Good night Gary
I will never do a river dance again. Nope, day after country flooded . Freaked me out.
Where's the chickens bro
hello Dave ! chickens all good here ! but we have ate most of them now , keep prepping, we dont want brown freckles from that fan ! its coming very soon ! nice seeing you fly over the over month ! amazing stuff ! keep safe and well Dave and family.
This reminded me of the Snowman...except in summer ☀️ Excellent editing with the music 😎
Very noble returning the till 😌