It all works. It looks as a lad, yeah? Yeah, you're right. OK. Have you sorted this out, then? Have you sorted that? If anyone comes up, you can talk to me for a minute. OK, just put it on Instagram. Just put it forever. Yeah. Well, it's working. We've got 14 people, then. Oh. Hello. Excuse me. I'm just fixing the cock up on the mat from there. I put it over this way. Yeah. So, what's that? That's got no abuse, so that we can get rid of that one as well. No, that's an old one, yeah. There we go. There we go. Even in RP. And once you've sorted that out, we'll move the iPad central. Yeah. That's moving on, isn't it? No abuse. Everything with no abuse will get rid of it, so we can't go up again. Yeah. The context is we're ready to go live on the mat, as usual, but... Bit complicated for us. Yeah. Nothing's ever easy for us. We had to set it up on the iPad because... Because I can't wear the mat? Essentially. The streaming addresses were the same, as like an old one, so we couldn't do it. So... It doesn't take much to confuse us, though. No. Here you go. So, what's fit for us to stand? Angus Brown, oi oi. Angus Brown. Angus Brown. Angus Brown. I hit my glasses. Let me get it up on my phone, so the chats keep disappearing. We'll see if I can get one up on the end. Oh, that's a very flat reason to, there we go. So long as you have the chance to come up now. We can see them on the phone as well. Yeah, so I've got my life on this, we're bothomated. Your favourite isn't? And it's aberty6. Hello there. I can't see it with, can't see it with out. That's tiny. You know what, I'll go grab my stand and I'll pop it here. Okay, bring it right, Tad. Yeah, okay. Bigger. Back on the new builds. Well, you should say that went. We doth lose on the estate, so I was down this morning. So I just drive down and actually put our scaffold up. So we've loaded, took all the fence and stuff out of the van and put all the bricklaying stuff back in profiles, put all that kind of stuff. So we're good to go tomorrow. It's as long as you've signed the scaffold off of it. Yeah, we'll just have to go back and go find another job. Got a couple of little daisies, we can slot in. Just don't want the chaos to come out of sight. Go by the screen. If I have a QBOK, I just built on top of sliding. Yeah, should think so. There's no way to, is there? You want to do the brick by brick? No, you can see that. How's things land? I'm just in the door from work. 228 on the van, quality one. I think he must be mad. I don't even have worked that much. Yeah, we're doing good. We've had a day off today, haven't we? Yeah. So I'm sort of top. I've been running around doing good bank quality lives. Yeah, nice, chill one. Mm-hmm. Do we drink alcohol? Every blue moon is a treat. We will be seeing one with water towels, won't we? I always have a bottle of cider bottle in towels. That's it. Yeah, Dylan, yeah, nice, quiet one. I, Gareth, what's your came in? Not much today, nice, chilled dead. Maybe put it one or two courses up, but I shouldn't think make a difference. Don't put it on the slabs, because it won't, maybe I'll just push the barbecue a little bit. I shouldn't think. I've never known about a DPC going to barbecue. You don't stay fit, do you? I don't drink alcohol, do you? No. You don't stay fit, not drinking alcohol, is it? You don't stay fit, not drinking alcohol, is it? I don't know how you fit on that one. I can't hold you. A bit of a lag on that one, isn't it? Yeah. Just coffee in my bricklaying with Stephen Archmug. Available online. It's the best route for someone to get into the industry in your opinion. It's usually, it's usually now in somebody, in the trade or someone in the family.  It depends if you're a college age or not. If you're a bit old you can start off as a drank at your job labouring. See how that goes? I need to sit down and look at it. Can't get a t-shirt in there. Now you're trying to get me in. Yeah, but we're already in TGS on tonight, show supports are already in. Any questions? I was trying to tune in to do a live stream. It's been advertised for us two and a half. You do like it, haven't you? Yeah. It's pretty good though. Very small. That was better on this on the evening. Then you go like this. You can also read it from the back of the camera, so. Right. As you're on 86, any tips on getting rid of bad, which was a checkup? Bad habit when building.   Take more pride in what you're doing. Yeah. It's all about pride. And then getting the old pussy costume will kick you into shape. I've just done offence for the very pussy costume and that's not me criticising that.  But it's fine because, you know, check it what he wants from you. So you just, it's not worth doing that. I was just going with it. Just think to yourself, if this was, whatever you're building, just think if this was mine, how would I want it? Or it was my grandma's house.  It'd be nice to have Stephen Alex for your videos. Thank you very much, Steve, you do. Thank you. Got all kinds coming up. We've got a little wall, a lot of site work. We've got a couple of fencing videos. We've got the second half of our show's video. The last fencing video is on the builders. So we've got these all for that. Someone complained, said, I've watched the video and there's no end to it. I should have put the parts on. What else could we have? We've got that little landscape and job moving in the wall pillar. Oh, yeah. We've got about six videos ready to go. It's all different stuff. What type of tiles do we use, Mark? Mark green. I have an ox 11 inch fillet. Alex has the... I don't know, it's 11 inch, I know that much. Spear and Jackson, that's it. Philadelphia pattern. They're both quite a lot smaller than that now. You're a great building in last evening. Just come and say hello, great videos and information. How do you work your... Are you on a schedule and how do you cope with the high demand and time wasters? The time wasters are the building company we work for on site, but then the time wasters. Yeah. We're not over chock-a-blot we work, but it's balancing. Like, because we only got one plot on site, we've just waited maybe two weeks for scatter, don't we? Yeah. So I have to bring people up and say, can I start tomorrow in a couple of days? It's all a bit of last minute. Shoot the time wasters, as Lee said. Yeah. Okay, vehicle. Yeah. You've still been on site and you've been mostly doing private recently. Recently, we've been doing the private work as I've extended to waiting two weeks for scaffold. Yeah. The last week on site was being filming and the band called us up to the next lift. So we're all second to scaffold now. Alex missed the last week because he stepped down off the boards onto the trad. The piece of the trad has twisted on an angle and it's gone over on his ankles. He's made a bit of a mess of it. Yeah. And he's trying his best to work with it, but every time he twists it, it just sets him back. This is... I don't even know how to do this. Well, it is extension, I know it. It is work, which we're giving the size once it's finished. Well, as they say, the customer's always right. That's the undeniable about it. I gave them a price. And basically it's one of our old customers who ever did a steeling there. So they opened up the steels and they couldn't decide what to do, the kitchen. And when they did decide, they wanted the white goods out of the kitchen. So they wanted the washer dryer gone. So they've actually put a downstairs toilet under the stairs, which is really good, they fitted that in.  So basically it's just a laundry room. It's all it's needed for, go in, put the stuff in the washer dryer, then to the dryer. Is this the extension? Yeah, a little. And then having a few coats up, it's just out of the way. And then it's intelligent to the customer what they want to spend the money on. But it does look smart because they've got a good room for them to finish it off and it looks really good. And I've been filmed actually for the last part of the video. So you'll see it all finished, apart from the window. Stevie D, what do we, what do you put on the concrete blocks inside the house? I think you mean plastering, then it's a dry lining. So it's all stuck on with the DC. We don't do anything with the blocks on the inside. And you're pretty used to getting the brick work up first with the block work and why, then and then. I'm also good, I prefer the brick work first. I always have. Because the reason being, your brick work, you set your windows out with your brick work, you put your block work up first, and you set your windows out on your block work, you can be slightly out. Whereas if you do vice versa around, the block work follows the brick work and the brick works right with the windows. And also, I like building my corners. I don't clean my corners, I measure them off the back of the face work. Just a bit quicker. I just old habits that I have, I suppose. I have done the block work first, but we've put that in the installation board and we're just putting on the block work and clipping everything and I hated doing that. Such a pain. Thank you, Stephen Riyad. I think that says Riyad. Should have got my reading glasses on. Nasty, not good, they're trying to come here to go wasn't good, they're moving around. That's rightly, that's what's doing him. We're going to finish that bench until it rained for an hour, so everything just was slippy, so we're slipping and sliding. With these big long pieces of tin about 5.4 meters long. Big lumps they were. And then I whacked him on the foot of the bar as well. Do you run's fantastic. It's shame to get dirty though. Hate it when it's getting dirty. How long do you spend in a quartz heap? And do you have time? When it's saying no more than an hour, just a minute. It just takes as long as it takes really, because none of our quartz are, I mean the kind of stuff you do is you get lots of getting that whole garden in the warm. Well, we don't have anything like that. Ours are just small jobs, so it doesn't really take long. Very simple. 86, once done in extension, it's about a meter by one and a half meters in the kitchen. One second. The whole point was to make room for the machine in the kitchen. Yeah, same as what's on the kitchen. It's no better. You know what? There's where we're trying to set this properly. Get the bars, professional studio. Put the bars away. There, yeah. Alex isn't happy to set up no-cast skills. That's not such a bad thing. There you go. Now if you move over a bit, let me in. Why won't the check on it? I don't know. It keeps appearing and disappearing. Here's Mark. Hi, Mark. Hi, guys. Didn't know you was live. Well, we did advertise it, and then that live sort of disappeared. He watched my vlogs. Why don't you come down and say hi to everyone, Chris? Come on and give everyone a wave. We'll be up to. You're watching your Hello from Orlando. You're jamming so they wish I was in Orlando right now. Hello to you too. Thank you very much. Oh, wow. Hey, thank you. That is going straight to the Garden Fund. That's going to be here. That's the next big thing going on in this house. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I really appreciate that. Yeah. That's going to go towards the flag. So the digger, isn't it? Just? Yeah. We've got so much to do out there, but that's great. Thank you very much. I really appreciate that. It's greatly appreciated. Yeah. I wonder if he's meant to put £4.80. That's a big, big mistake. No, no. All right, so we'll be up too, sorry. Do you ever suffer from bad backs? Every day. You're watching, you have a great channel. Thank you very much. It's getting old now. This channel, it's three years old. Just gone three years old now. Yeah. What other bricklayers do you enjoy watching on YouTube? Jimmy, Jimmy Ladd. Right. Well, he doesn't watch anybody. I'm a YouTuber. So I'm rodent. Definitely rodent's a favourite. Jake Poynbrock. He's called the Belgian Bricky. He's absolutely fantastic. He used to watch Ginger Dust until he lost his job. He's not an anymore. Tricky Bricky's good. Watched Chandy occasionally. Oh, Charlie Cohnson, obviously. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, Justin. Bit right. Building landscapes. Bit of a mouthful, Justin. He's on the chat tonight. Watching. He's very good. Chase Tumensi. Easily. I love watching his channel. The stuff he does and just breezes through it. Nothing, nothing faces him whatsoever. My library quilt thing does us in. Oh, yeah. Well, come on, sir. You've been gone. Okay, let's put it in first. What's going on? Mark. Oh. Apologies. Christine's just shouted down. Mark. I can't believe I forgot your marker even in here. Oh, yeah, Rob Song as well. Oh, looks bad on you. Oh, my God. Sorry, Mark. At least Christine's looking out for you. There's not many people where we count. Yeah. My problem is I subscribe to loads and if I subscribe, I watch everything. So I watch too much YouTube really. Yeah, you spend more time watching it than editing. Editing, yeah. Very rarely suffering bad backspots. Sometimes, yeah. Don't mind more me hips. Me as my foot. Yeah, so, at the moment, boys last first channel. Do you want to put it as channel? No, I'll put it here on your side, see? Okay. It's the last. It's better. Oh, we can move it a bit. It's in the camera. With the first channel, at least, I will. Much appreciatedly. Hell, yeah. One of our originals. Alex, send the best back row. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Choose to me and set his job. Yeah, Rob, something's great. Watching him today.  So, they've gone a bit, I do like him, but it's not Brit Lane, so I'm not really interested if it's not Brit Lane. He ends this. It's Brit Lane Chat. Channel YouTube fact mark, it was a good mark. I think loads of Jay's profiles set up in the, yeah. These profiles are amazing.  Christine's put, oh, yes, the garden. She's not really listening. Well, Christine, you can say thank you in the chats, Tilly, for that super chat that you've given us. Plain phraser. Why did some extensions use 3.5 Newton blocks and some seven on the in-leaf just one round? I don't ever use sevens below DPC, three and a half's above. Unless you specify two sevens on the external, but even then, I'd say three and a half's. For our last block extension, use 3.5s. Three sevens are heavy enough. You had a tough wind. You had a tough wind to you guys, of course. It was a tough winter. We've still got parts two of our tough winter fence video to do, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's just a thank you, Steve, for the mention. Made it appreciated. Rob, something you forgot.  Okay, no worries. I get shout out to a few guys every week long. Yeah. You get shouted at as well by Christine, don't you, Mark? Indie, Indie barrage. Hi, Steve, could you do a close-up of the timber on the wall with the line of pin and the extortures? Yeah, next time we do that, I will. I'll go through it properly. It's pretty simple, but once it's explained, it's a double. The main thing you need, we'll use is about 40 mil hilti nails, which are the hilti gun nails, which are designed to be fired into concrete steel. They have a little washer on them, and I got a tub of them left over, and you just keep reusing them. Gotta use masonry nails, that's the main thing, unless the mortar's soft. So you need to get yourself some masonry nails for stuff. That's it? You've been there, too.  I was using your brick tongs last week, it was great looking. Oh, great, Mark. Good. They are a collector's item, then, because there's no plans to make anything for the foreseeable, unless we can get them redesigned. I probably end up making that last lot for nothing, the hours that went into them, but I've just got the people we bought them, got them. But of all people's changes, were you snapped in the post? I don't know how they're snapped. It must have just been a bad weld on that one corner. But they are, my original set, probably four years old, did you have them when you started? No. No? I've read them a while. We didn't even have block grubs when I started. No, it's true. Right, brick tongs. Disturbed. Disturbed. Hey, Richie. Nice to see you. You're on mute. Are we? Sounds off.  Right, have I done that? You're not toasting it, can I have you? I don't think so. Well, here's one way to find out. I think so. Well, here's one way to find out. Oh, yeah? Well, here's one way to find out. No, you're not. What? All right. We're not, obviously we're not now. Got to go, sorry lads. Richie wants to watch a film. Good luck. Enjoy filming. Oh, enjoy. Justine, thanks for tuning in. Sounds off. Tickle, justine, you're doing fine. Sounds good. You're sound is fine. Oh, good. We've got bamboozled. Yeah. Now Ben Gent's seen how it is. Right, Ian. Bed, bed. All right. Does that mean you had your second job? DJ sing. So doing block work first time ever. Best way to set up the block work when it's 35.2 meters at the bottom is pretty low. So do I just work at each end at each corner? Yeah. Put your, that's a good way to do it. Put your one block at each end and run that first course in. Stick your level on top and then you can work out if you need to bump up or down at each end. No, your good sound is on. Thanks, Mark. Mr. Yard and the Caneers. They're doing pretty YouTube terrifies me. It's not so bad once you get used to it.  Anyway, Richard with the YouTube, Instagram. Instagram. And I'm obviously not. You know, correct them on them. Very convenient, okay. Christine had a real bad turn from us. She had the bad headaches and she was checked out for blood plots, actually. Yeah. She was okay. Thank God. We were struggled to get the materials during lockdown. Yeah. The first lockdown we had with sand we couldn't get hold of. Yeah, nice sand again. Yeah. Sand and cement and something else. Apparently, the rumor I heard that HS2 was using all the materials up and so the small bills are getting what's left, which isn't much. It's telling the truth, we've done a lot of fencing making, so we haven't needed sand, cement and stuff, so we're probably gonna get a big shock. I think last time we were in local merchants, he said, I think he's about a week before the cement came. After a minute of saving the name so people know you're breathing it. Yeah. Summer set, bricky evening, nice looking over the hills. Thanks very much, summer set, bricky. What's the trial holder with the magnet and where do we get them? Down the man. Down. What's the trial holder with the magnet cause? I've no idea where we got them. We cheat skates, we just bought a power tool and used that for the, we haven't been offered a prototype one of someone on Instagram, but I forgot and I haven't sent me a address and it's not been in Twitch since, so I'm not sure that's what's gonna happen. But there's a couple of people try it. There's a couple on Instagram, isn't there? Yeah. Rich is on here, I bet he could tell us who he is because I've seen it on his Instagram. Do we use a magnet on water? No. Only on site, isn't it? Yeah, it's just that silo stuff, I think that's got lime in it. Yeah, other than that, no, just sensing it. You know, I've always said much, I've lost my voice. I've lost my voice. Just regarding them, I think a little bit can't hear them. Is your volume turned up? I think it must be, it's just you mate. If everyone else can hear me, can you hear us fine? You need to have a fiddle with your device mate and see what's happening. Yeah. Summer set, bricky, struggling for cement and summer set only allowed five bags each, yeah. It was, it went from running low to actually bagging your own out of a tongue bag and even that stopped now. Massive shortage of cement now in Scotland. It's ridiculous, isn't it? Joshua Hogg, say hello to Nick Larson, please. Hello, Nick Larson. Hi. Where do you get the ham holster? Everything was from berries. Yeah, CW berries. I mean, you can probably... You can get them online as well on Amazon. Yeah. I searched up for the snap hammer holster and you can get it on Amazon. Yeah, it's a very, it's plano, P-L-A-N-L. It's a very common tool maker. So you get them on Amazon. Yeah, all I got are other bills and merchants. Yeah. Berries is just good for, it's got a good shopping. So we just pick them up in berries one day and they're quite cheap. But you probably won't get any, it won't be any cheaper from berries. You'd be fine getting them on Amazon. Well, there you go, a lot specifically the one we have, but on Amazon, plenty to work from. It's definitely in... Daniel's Mashville has all the sand, Jimmy Ladd. Joey Builder. I use a Dutch pin at the top and bottom with this corner block as a spacer. Fix it to the wall. Then use a dowry to pull the line off instead of nailing it to the wall. That's a good idea. The truth with that is not everyone's got the Dutch pins in the door, as you see. But it is a good idea. Anfield Scouse, good evening, gentlemen, hope you're well. Yes, Colin, nice to see you. We're doing good, thank you. We're back on that house tomorrow, so we'll get you some more pictures. Anfield Scouse, this is Colin, he's a friend of ours. We met up in Florida. And he lives in the house type that we're building at the moment. So we're taking pictures and sending them on to him. So you can see what this house looks like without the glass from the walls and the roof. HS2 taking off somewhere. That's what I've heard here. Our peachy ears. No worries. Why can't I hear you? I'm sorry, Mr. Gardner. It's just you. Maybe try switching us off and then going back on again. Hello from Holland, lads. Hello, Baltimore 32. Is Bowie's just near you? Or shops or what? No, it's just, it's the biggest independent bills and merchants in the country. It's massive. Well, you've seen it on the video. It's huge and it's just one branch. In Leyland? Yeah, it's in Leyland, in Lancashire. But they do online stuff. And Travis Perkins tried to buy them out once and they were having none of it. It's a family-owned business. So Travis Perkins built a brand new bills and merchants on the same road, Golden Hill Lane, to try and compete with them. And I think just after lockdown started, Travis Perkins closed down, he's gone. I've seen everybody. He'd been gone for a long time. Yeah. Do I like picking dip? I gotta be honest, I really don't. I'm not very good with change as a whole. So like I just can't get around the picking dip. It must be hard for Alex because he just started and shown how to do it that way. And I'm getting used to that. Just as he's getting into it, right, we're gonna try to do it this way. And I mean, I still go with it. I can't begin with the not filling the joints. And it's especially hard for us because our bricks have the holes in so it's a good system, but like we can't work with it unblockingly. And it's fast paced enough. Be honest, I can't keep up that pace all day. I just can't. So I've just got to stick to blodding and wait for this one to speed up so you can carry me there. Sorry, Dad, you slow down, I'll sort this out. Where are we now? He's picking dip. Double skin block work coming from original wall. Is it outside full block inside half? I've never seen brick unblock, not block unblock. Don't think it makes any difference. No difference whatsoever. So do they need it? Tony, hi, Tony. Glad to see you. Happy band holiday.  Coup up his berries. Oh, it's like going to the toy shop, Mark. I need new boots, so I'm gonna go to berries and get me some from berries. Well, that's a good one now because I can't hear you, but keep the clips coming and watching you work somewhere. Sorry, you can't hear us. That's a shame, Mr. Daryl, but thanks. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for tuning in anyway. And well, because we've done a live today, we won't be another video this week till Friday, so join us on Friday. Do you have a chat on Friday? Well, even though you can't hear us say all day. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no, yeah. We'll wave at him. Yeah. I work near Golden Hill, the old rubber factory. Yeah, that's right. Bearing him in later in the rubber company, which is called, remember that? Still remember that getting torn down? Not lucky, expensive. The inhaled site. Oh, that site, the site where the, I see, I can't remember what the site was. DJ Chris Music. Picking dip, I believe it, for more site work. We are getting paid per brick. That's right, it's definitely, it's all about, it's a speed technique, out speed, because even Charlie Connorsson said, he'd rather do long, traditional, but picking dip is so much faster when it's all set up right. Goss fourth handyman, love the channel, that's great change from Jordy Land. Why am I? Hello to you too, Andy Mack. Hey, David, did I hurt? No, I can't pick and dip. Picking mix, I can. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, we're going to be picking mix. That's why I like that. Pateodos, my mum thinks I'm silly. Oh dear. Oh, me too. RP, I'm 40 years old and serve my town with my dad. If he was a pick and dip, then I'd prefer traditional. Yeah, it's not a new technique, it's just, it's coming around again, isn't it? And then Charlie's helped me by putting it on YouTube and really blowing it up, so everyone's having to go with it. Yeah. And Instagram as well, all the social media stuff's helped, but it gets, it's worried around a lot quicker. What is picking dip for someone who hasn't got a clue?  It's just a technique of how you set the bricks.  It's just, the bit I like about it is you get less movement.   Whereas spreading it, spreading it, spreading it backwards and forwards, then you're back and forth to the bricks. Yeah. So theoretically it's a lot quicker. Less moves. If you've got the right bricks. And the right set up. I don't think it's, you probably need the labor as well, I think. Yeah. I love seeing all my new Steve's most videos, though. I do. Got loads of gloves. I just don't like throwing them away until they're really gone. Oh, God. We've got some off my walk. You've got some really good ones. So we've still got a lot to use. Watch your plan for the week, guys. Hopefully get some sight work done. We'll soon see. Depends if the scaffold's been signed off or not. Yeah. And then would you have any inspections when it will have to be all the trains and everything? Oh, that's right. That's the first job. So what are flapping around this week? You can do that while I start loading out. Oh, thanks. So the plan for the week is to clean the cavities, get it inspected, get loaded out, and get up to window height. Inhale, John Walker Subway, all right. I was doing conservatories back then around that area for crossing conservatories. You probably saw the bands when you worked up there.  Oh, God knows how many times in the book when we did the foundations. John, the one I specifically remember is walking. Almost like it was one of the footings along the long strip of footings and there was a giant course of pig. Yeah. Not in that wall in the foundations. That wasn't us putting in. No, we have to pig the walls out. We've actually, I've actually got in, I did a garage and it's pylon beam with the precast beams and they managed to get the precast beam 75 millimeter level. So that was a good one. You're watching you guys, you're good. Thank you very much. Thank you. Just need to spread the word, tell a few more people to come and join us. I think it's large command, if you have switched to TV off now and just watching your type of challenge. Jimmy Ladd, that's true. I don't want to tell you much anymore. It's pretty much YouTube. Yeah, YouTube or Disney Plus. The thing with YouTube is you type in what you want to watch and it's there to tell you for a way to see what, something comes up that you want to watch. Got no time for that anymore. So that's the random thing you've seen when doing an extension or changing something. Say a rat skull. I'm going to say the rat skull. Yeah. What were we doing? We were doing a lintel job, weren't we?   Yeah, like its fangs were still intact and everything. It was pretty well preserved in the wall. Yeah. I've also found a plug-in chisel in the cavity and I must have had that about 12 years now. Miles better than anyone can buy. It's just this, this all looks like it's home made. It's brilliant, brilliant chisel. Yeah. And this is DJC. Has the channel got your work, DJC? Has someone paid for your services? Thanks to this YouTube channel. We've had plenty of offers of work all over the country but obviously we're not traveling them over the country.  No, we've had all kinds of stuff. Paper our services, I'm trying to think. We're currently pricing a job in Leyland and he's found us through YouTube. And there's a couple of jobs we've got that people have got us through Instagram. It's easy to contact us on Instagram. Yeah. Mr. Ali. I love your videos, always gain new knowledge. Thanks again, guys, much appreciate it. Well, thank you very much, Mr. Ali. That's all we're trying to do. I'll pass on anything to help. And entertain a bit. Yeah. Dean Evans, highlights, love watching your videos. I've been playing landscape for 35 years so now it's physical and stressful at times. Just wondering what you do. You both downtime, what interests you have, have you got? Cool. What? I haven't got any managed YouTube, hasn't it? All my downtime is spent at the price of jobs or watching YouTube or editing videos. Who built Lego? Occasionally, yeah. Yeah, every now and then, we build the other Lego set. Yeah. I play my Xbox. He's an Xbox man, really. But he does comic-cons, you know, with cosplays. He's got some crackin' outfits. And then he's got some good lightsaber skills because I'll be putting that up on the Instagram tomorrow because it's May the 4th. So I'm gonna stick with video of Alex what we're playing with his lightsaber. It's a great video. He's a Star Wars nut. Yeah. Alex, have I finished my apprenticeship? Second year, brunch as an island. It takes fours to get qualified. Yeah, I finished. It only takes two to get qualified and you can do an optional third year. But I decided to not do the third year since I already had work lined up. So, and the third year was like more technical stuff, not stuff that you'd be doing. It's like Rob Songer level stuff which I'm not gonna be doing all the time. I've like, so I've got like the basics down in year one. Year two was like building some like fancier stuff and then after that, I started working full time. Mm-hmm. Alex, do you prefer footage or supers? That's a tough one. That is a tough one. Supers were a lot less complicated and stressful, but the conditions you had to work in made them crap. You mean foundations? Yeah. To be honest, I can't, it's hit and miss with them, isn't it? Cause like obviously some, obviously the super we're doing right now is really complicated as hell, but like it kind of balances out. I would say, I would say- I like jumps. Yeah. I'll say supers just for the fact that I'm not spending half a day sweeping modern water out of the foundation. That's the main thing. Covered in it? Yeah, cause like some foundations are really alright. Like doing like a word to word that wasn't buried. Yeah. It's just nice and easy. Yeah. So I'll say supers by margin. But even on supers you just can't get going.  And it's, you're dependent on that thought, whereas in the foundations, we had mixed our own stuff and the machines brought everything to us. Yeah. We earned a lot of that money in the foundations, but we were travelling and I'd rather take a hit and not be travelling. We actually worked two miles from home now. And then the stress that has been released from not travelling and driving and getting up early. Yeah. It's worth it. It's worth taking the hitting one, is it for that? Would put it off.  It's when it's not level basically. So one ends like three, you've got the straight wall, but when you put a split level on it, there's like six courses at one and the five at the other. And it should be six and six or five and five. You have to compensate by doing really awkward beds or like cutting bricks. The gem has to bed up to the big bed, then you put brick and edge for a bit and then you've got those two courses. It's, when I say we friendship, the concrete's just poured in and left. It never leveled. So sometimes we had a two foot pig in it. So you're talking 600 mil from outer level. And we'd have to get that level.   We had that for two years today. Alex and, Alex and, Dom Martinos. Shelby. Shabbat Shalom. I'm not sure what that means, but I am, hello. DJ Christmas music. Didn't expect to see a rat score.  Yeah, it wasn't very nice, was it? Random bit. Oh, it was cool. Generally when we're doing lintels, you just find that much sand cement just gobbled up on the cavity tray. Cause he went forcing our cavity trays back then. And then we find a skull. I would have kept it, but it fell apart. Right, we took out a little, a lintel on an old mill and had two toy soldiers staring at it. That was pretty cool, long time ago. I'd be gone. No, that's horrible. I'd leave. Oh yeah, don't forget Florida's an interest. So are you terrible today? Are you forgetting everything? Colin, that's not really an interest. It's more an obsession, that won't, but it's a bit subdued at the moment. And I'm still upset that the blue man group's gone from Auckland, Florida. I still can't go over that. Alan Scanlon. I'm sorry, Adam Scanlon. Very old mate. I learned it's all brick, block and stone. That's a decorative word. And I found the art graph. Yeah. You've never done stonework, have you? You've never learned it at a college? No. The ravioli and stuff that my father had in me. Oh, I learned thick stuff. Yeah, I learned a bit of block-paving in year two. And I think that was about it for stuff that wasn't brick-laying, yeah. GJC, last one for me in previous videos. You made a mix of water, four shovels, half a cup bag of cement, four shovels of water. This is called basic routine for mixing and mucking mixture. Yeah, water, sand first. So mate of mine used to put his cement in first and basically cement can build up. So it used to get built with the back of the mixer, which is a bit you can't clean, but we put sand in first. It basically lines the mix and stops the cement sticking. So it mixes better. You've got to keep the mix wet all the way through. So it doesn't dry off the stick at the back? Yeah. And then you wait in like five extra minutes for it to like drop, so it can mix again. But you've got to be careful because you can't take water out. So you've got to be careful. Be moderate with the water. Yeah, bit at a time. It's just experience, just get used to it. Yeah, I used to be petrified to do a mix and now it's second nature. Wet sand, you're throwing wet sand in like normal and then all of a sudden, bam, it's gone. Yeah. Once the air gets into that wet sand, it just flows really wet. No profiles, all normal work. Wish I had the light blocks. I think it's going well. No profiles. Oh, that's island, isn't it? Yeah, it's all seven o'clock and working island, isn't it? One second.  Ha, ha, ha. We'll head a few cows.  Sorry about that. We're only on the iPad, as you see. We're supposed to be on the Mac. We're still not too good on the live stuff. It's a bit technical. What's the purpose in a clean cavity? The main reason it's gotta be clean is because it's blown in insulation. So they drill holes from the inside through the block work and blow in the insulation. And if you've got a dirty cavity, there's a chance it can block. And if it did block, then the insulation won't blow right through the cavity. Cleaner cavity, the better the insulation, it won't blow through it. Have been sent to Scolgia? I thought you mumbled it, apparently. Oh. Ha, ha. Sorry about that. Can we do a loud and clear? Guess it's just mumbling, mostly. How many years have you been on the trade, in your trade? Further ash. Since 85. So 36 years this year. Straight from school on to the East Training School. And then got very lucky to get an apprenticeship out of it. And then went from there. Ralph stopped down bridging. I'm not sure what that stopped bridging. I'm not sure what that's from. Joey Wilder, do you stay in Villa Hotel in Florida, which is best? We stay in the hotel. I wanna talk, now you're talking. We always stay on site. We stay in a Disney hotel, or a Universal Hotel. So we usually have two weeks in Universal, and a week in, no, when we're up for a birthday, we have two weeks in Universal, and a week in Disney. So we stay in the Art of Animation, no, Pop Century, All Star Sports, All Star Movies, Caribbean Beach, and then we stay in the Aventura, in Banner Bay. Royal Pacific. Royal Pacific. Is that it, three? Oh, and Sapphire Falls Minimals. Oh yeah, you stayed in there. Yeah, it's a lot more expensive, but it's so good at staying on site. You get early entry, you get buses to the parks. It's worth the extra expense. Never done a villa, because we don't drive over there. We do lift and Uber, cabs everywhere, or the Disney Transport and Universal Transport. Adam Scanlon. Yeah, Breakers 700, yeah. 400kb. Reaching out for, can I switch it up? How's the other way, if you can't see why I'm not using them? I've had me profile since I was a apprentice. Best thing they ever bought. Still going strong. I used to use the Blake's, not the box section, the Blake's. Yeah. Guys, is it crazy? J.P., guys, is it crazy to think where advances in technology are leading us to paint it? Have you seen any robot bricklaying videos in real life? What do you think of it? I've seen them pop up on YouTube, but I can't be bothered watching them. The ones I have seen, it's always on a flat, concrete floor. All perfectly set up. Just one of them robots in the foundation, you can see what happens. It just falls in the mud. J.P., who's it Ralph from the Clean Cavity question? Oh yeah, if you've got a really bad dirty tie wire, there's a chance you can get the cold bridge and damp. You know what to do. It is work here in the summer as well. God, I can't imagine. Where's that? Orlando, isn't it? Oh yeah. I remember when they were building, when at Hollywood, and they were roasting heat in their bloody pants, long sleeve shirts. All things covered in the neck, but basically, and even the hats covered the faces. Yeah, I'd be glad if I'd be melting. Yeah. We'll get used to that soon, it was not allowed to wear shorts. Yeah, God for dead. You watched Lawrence Curwin. I remember getting into a tangle with you, Steve, on Rodion's channel, where you humbled me with the polite schooling and construction science, where you square a building with a knife, with a knife and respect from London. No hard feelings, Lawrence.  I like gym. It's a live stream, it's not really late, you just stay on until whenever. Be a Morgan, Adam Scanlon, been using profiles in not many of the years, like, yeah. Obviously, that was widely available, but everything's available now you've got online stuff. I know where Blake's profiles, they sell their profiles on eBay, but they have their Instagram account as well, and they do a lot on Instagram. Did you hear Chris music? The brick robots and pre-built bricks walls will only be on commercial builds, and you don't think you'll be able to house and select from those. No, definitely not. Big square houses with the concrete floors, I can see that happening, but not on the houses. Grant Brick, if you weren't bricklaying, what trade would you be, would you get into? I was almost a joiner, until my mum saw all the big power source. What about before you left school, and what did you want to do? I wanted to be an artist. Yeah. And then I realised... What do you want, an artist? You're an artist in bricklaying. See, that's what you could say, aren't you? Artist in bricklaying. An artist in bricklaying. I was Billy, I was, what was his name? Eddie. I used to work with Eddie, and if someone asked him what he did for a job, he said he was an artist in bricklaying. Oh, I was supposed to be a joiner as well. Doing an extension for a guy with imperial bricks and metric blocks. Any advice on gauge for the blocks? So we did an extension. We've just done that, yeah, and this is an extension, we've got that. So the imperials, I usually work 85 mil per course. What I do is, because the towers don't line up, when you've got your towers on your block level, I twist them and put them into the perps. So you've always got your towers flat, because if you follow your gauge, your towers are gonna be doing this. So that's what I do. Gauge the towers at 450 and twist them into the cross joints if they're not level with the beds. I used to do a lot of them on conservatories. Wheat and bread, even lads. Never used to profile another hand in my life. When we started using them in England, I would not be without them, where I am. That's right, wheat and bread. Now people look down on them, but it's not just the speed, it's the accuracy. The plumbing wants some three courses, the rest of it is a speed straight pole. So your brick works flatter as well. The best thing is the slice bread. Yes, absolutely. Yo, what's new? There isn't a lot of good brickies anymore. I think there is, but there's just... I think price work compromises brick layers, because you've got to go as fast as you can to make your money, so it's all about speed. When can I get the joiners? When can I get the scaffold lifted? Would you a CML, Sue? When's the move going on?  You've lost a couple of days still, whether you're always trying to make things up. The higher ups don't really care about quality anymore. Not in the slightest. They don't care what it looks like. That's another reason I prefer private work, so we can make it look nice. Take our time and make it look nice, yeah. Yeah. I work for a company, Andrew Parleage. I worked for a company in 1974, and they were using blakes that long ago. Yeah, they've been around. I can't remember how long they've been around, excuse me, but it's one man design, and it's pretty much been the same design ever since. Well, it's good we know how it's feeling. They send either. I felt like a right plunker, and I've used the method. You'll explain from there. I can't actually remember that, to be honest. Maybe it's the Pythagoras 345. Yeah. Love how you changed the brickwork. Love how you changed to do brickwork and then doing a fence. We just do what's there. We do enjoy the fencing. Yeah, well. Although the last one was an absolute killer. Yeah. It was hard. Putting up a wood fence is nice, but taking out a concrete fence is not nice. Digging the holes where a post is through pattern concrete against the retaining wall. So basically it took us half a day to dig two holes. And the holes were too small to get the break as in properly. Yeah, it gets us in depth. Yeah. One of the holes it got was getting a bit of wire and scraping the bits out. And the concrete, the post broke into four.  And that had a good hook and a high five after that. What a relief that was. I like crane. Yeah. Oh no. Ian. Ian Morgan. Steve, the health and safety thing was crazy over the top compared to now. Not at all. It is a bit ridiculous. Health and safety now, we can't wear shorts. No, no. Or hoodies. Hoodies, hoodies I can understand, but shorts, what the hell? Like, okay. So you love putting foam off the scaffold because they're flaking out now instead. We even had in, what we did went to really hot. We take our shirts off, we just put the vest on, hide this vest on. So we're still wearing hideous clothing. Yeah. So the bill manager said, go back and put your T-shirt on with you. As Alex said, if we're not allowed to wear shorts, we should go in the skirts because there's nothing in the health and safety says you can't wear skirts. Like them, like them ones in the school. Yeah, the shorts are banned and they all wear skirts. Yeah. And the shorts were allowed then. Yeah. Have you ever had any problems with customers?  Well, that last job, we had a slight issue with them and with them, a nice hole was in the wrong place. Oh yeah. Nothing. We've never had anything too bad, have we? No. It's mainly been the neighbors who have been the problems, not the customers. Yeah. Been lucky with the customers, really. I can't think of finding anyone really bad. You should have a few not jobs when you used to do the conservatories. You should have got accused of killing somebody's dog once. The instructions were you turn up at the job, customers left the patio door open, just lean in, plug your lead in and carry on. So did what I was told. Next minute, the dog's in the house, barking, gone berserk. I don't need to forget to lock it in a different room. Next minute, the customer comes rushing home. She runs out with the dog and apparently the dog got out of a heart attack and the customer said it's my fault, which it wasn't, so I was just doing as I was told. Well, you've finished accused of breaking somebody's window as well on a garage where it wasn't even working, which is one of the tricks that people played on the conservatory when they didn't want to pay. We're at Wheat and Bread. Wheat and Bread, can it, can it? That is too small for me, that, can it? Cannot be the best bricklayer if you're tasting quality. No, there's very few out there who can go that fast and make it worse. I think Charlie's the top man for the speed and tidiness. So it's like we're on the site, so we're working on like a load of the, they're all whizzing up and then when you go up close, it's a different story entirely. On the other site, remember all the bricks are upside down? Yeah. They haven't even turned the bricks right way up. Terrence O'Connor, I love you guys. You work so hard and work well together. That's part of the sum. Do you ever argue over anything on site? We've got you all the time, we just don't film it. We're 80s, really. No, we do get on, don't we? Yeah, we don't argue at each other. It's just when we have a bad day, we... He told me off the other week. We get stroppy. Because I made him come in with his sofa and at the end of the day, I went, I shouldn't have even been here today. And he just sort of, he's pulling up all day and at the end, he's just letting go. It was like what, it was the day... Two days after. Two days after I'd been done, it's still swollen now and I was there, the swollen foot couldn't walk, I couldn't get, couldn't walk up the ladder.  Whereas I'm old school, it's like I was walking off.  Oh. Right. That's what they say sometimes. Shane Taylor. On the bad days though, you've always got someone to give you a hug. Unless we're both having a bad day in the kind of Arabian... Highlands Emma Lloyd driver Shane Taylor and delivered to building sites a lot. Why am I citing managers such knobs and torture like crap? Oh, someone would think there's something special. Some of them have a God complex, because they're a site, because they're a manager. We've been quite lucky with our managers. Our current manager was great. Yeah. I say, well, he's got to leave him now. Because he's got his notice in here. Yeah. What do you think the hardest and the easiest trade is? Painting, I imagine, would probably be easier trades. Yeah. Compared to... Physically. Yeah. Electricians and plumbers, I think, they probably... Mainly because they're working inside. Yeah. And they get paid well. And it's not as physical as what we do. Yeah. Whereas we don't get paid enough.  People say, Bricklayer are a good money, but it's not given to you. You have to work hard for that. And often a lot of Bricklayers pay for it with their health. And if you work for the company we work for, you don't get paid. That's true. Still working on that one. Still trying to get paid for a job. Months ago. Where are we now? Is that shame, too? Yeah. We're at Fire Blaster. Yo. Grant Brick. What do you think of that? Oh, yeah, Fire Blaster, yo. Yo, Fire Blaster. Do you know what projects you're coming up with, lads? It's like, say, house. Got a... More slight work. More slight work. Oh, we've got more. Practical offenses. Yeah. And the price to couple of extensions, garage conversion coming up. And she's frustrating, because some of the stuff is getting repetitive now, where we've done videos of them, just afraid that people are going to get bored or another garage conversion, another war, another extension. But the extensions tend to do well because there's a bit more to them. But the defences don't go that well because it's a bricklaying channel. We do rely on our subscribers who watch us because they like the channel, not because of what we've actually put on it. They'll watch it because of the channel. And what else have we got coming up? Little patching jobs, points and jobs. I don't really film the points and jobs because they are pretty boring to watch. Patching job. We've just done a video editing at the moment of we knocked down a pillar in our garden wall and moved it over to make the drive wider, put a couple of flags in. And I actually did a bit of patching on the back of the house. With a hoarding. Yeah. And there's a load of blown bricks, but we need a scaffold for that. We're going to go back for that when we can fit that in. Yeah, I think that's it. Mark now. Mark. Definitely when I was at Pricework, I was just brushing them in on the private jobs. It's all about the look in the first brick here. Definitely. Yeah, you work your business card, isn't it? There's no slashing on the extension. You want it to look right. And it's like we do a lot of extensions and stuff on the same estate. So you drive and patch your work all the time and you're proud of it. Well, I've got that. It's good. See, that's why we're slow on site because we're too fussy. Well, they think we're too fussy, but we're just fussy. Yeah, this is someone's house we're building. Yeah, whereas they just want it up. Yeah, like Sarah's house is probably out of square. Half of the stuff is out of square. Like, you've got to at least have a square house. Yeah. See, that's what we used to do foundations. It's very rarely we've got foundation on because we're very meticulous on setting them up. Yeah. You can guarantee our house was square. Terrors are kind of kilts. That's a good idea. Yeah. Oh, imagine probably just agents working up from the top of the scaffold. I could get them a cloud tarm. Scotch Pi 501, Douglas. Don't know if I told you, but recently found a tie. Found a tie in from my home. 1936, it was half inch thick. Not my taste, but those things are awful. Another one says, you mean they don't bend and when you're knocking the wall down, they take chunks out of your head and they rust like billy out. We've just done remedial work on Ted's house and there was a lot of cracks and that's because the ties have started to rust and expand. So it's gone from like a pointing job to now take the whole face off and fix the tie before the house comes down. What you have to do is you've got to find the ties and metal detectors, take the break out, isolate the tie, get rid of it, and then you've got to drill. The tie in, yeah. Yeah, it's a bit of a specialist job, like. Get yourself some kilts. Yeah, just join the chat. What are blakes and is better than sliced bread? Blakes are profiles. I've actually done a couple of videos of how to set blade profiles up. And the sliced bread thing was a little pun because the wheat and bread was the one who made the comment. Yeah, best things in a sliced bread. That's your dose. How much is the first one? We've not done one for a while, so I can't remember. We're on a pair of semis at the moment. We've only just figured out the bloody prices now. Yeah, I think it's on a pair of semis and I think it's eight, four, seven per house, per lift. Because where we work, the lifts are evenly spaced out. So you get the same price for the topping off the pipe as you do for the lift wall. It's to encourage people to stay and finish them and not take all the money out and leave the pikes. So you get well paid on the pikes if you stay on the job. Pug boy, you've been in Germans? Oh. You've been Pug Boy? Yeah. Grant, Joshua or Fury? Don't follow boxing, sorry. I'd rather someone take pride in their work than someone who just does it quickly. Yeah, it's true, Colin. Exactly. You're quite lucky, Colin. You've got good brittles on your eyes, this. Yeah. There's a lot worse than yours. There's tears right near the other ones that were the awful things. I'll tell you all, high lads, bad day for Britley. It definitely was. Yeah, because we weren't doing it. Yeah. It's quite nice to have a day off, to be honest. If you were on my extension job with the railway sleepers, you would have built 10 for weeks. That's a shock a lot. You put on Instagram. It's set at two minutes to go. And Mark loves these. Thanks, Jim. Yeah. It turns out, Colin, imagine building those big chimneys that Fred didn't use to knock down. I often wonder about those. And I mean, it's them. Those big chimneys and all the... There's a YouTuber called Martin Zero. And he's an urban explorer. So he goes in tunnels and culverts and stuff. And some of the stuff you rent him there. It's a brook somewhere in Manchester. And it goes through a reservoir and to keep the brook water out of the reservoir water. They culvert it, but it's a brick culvert. And you can walk through it. And it goes underground. And it comes over ground. It goes over a viaduct and goes back underground. And it's all built in brick. It's absolutely amazing. It goes up and down and round. It's all just this brick built tube. And it's some of the stuff he sees on this channel is amazing. St. George's as well, Liverpool. Yeah, St. George's a whole, yeah. It's like the arches that hold meat up and all that. Now that's the Albert Dock. St. George's as well. Oh yeah, that's the more fancy Albert Dock, just the warehouse. Yeah. But the stonework and brickwork in Albert Dock's just amazing. Do I plan to take over the business when you retire? I think I might be retiring with him. I don't know what I'll do without him. You'll have to keep coming in at least. You'll have to supervise me at least. Yeah, I'll keep it on you. You'll say I'll be retiring anytime soon anyway. I want to keep going to Florida. 85 people. Yeah, we've been on for 17 minutes. Have we? Yeah. Shall we say 15 minutes, nine o'clock? Yeah, call it nine, yeah. Can I just get past, can I just get me another drink? Right. I guess I'm going to drink for a minute. Someone asking some difficult questions now. Not yet, they're being generous. I've got a question. When are we starting the garden? More? Yeah. Let me see how kind of tax man's going to be. See if he leaves us some money. By the time he's talking, I'll tax me out for us. Doing those slides, love the videos. Oh, thank you very much. Thank you, man. Thank you. Much appreciated. How did I get into it and what, Alex, how did you get into it and what skill have also you got or trained into? So I did two years of college, so I got a two year end. I've got two years training. Sorry, I did level one and level two training in college. And then when I wasn't in college, I was learning from Dad in the apprenticeship. So I would say I've got decent skills. What's it called? An improver. Yeah. And I'm an improver. It's done the college bit now. It's like, I always say it's like a passenger driving test, a crashy test, and then you learn to drive after. And Brit Lane, you're learning from. That's it, you're learning until you finish. Mark, have I got a beard yet? I'm working on it. We'll see maybe soon, hopefully. It's 11 in the middle east. Thank you very much. That's dedication. Stay up to 11 to watch us. Yeah, thank you very much. Oh, Sarah's on. Hi, Sarah. Hi, Sarah. I'm surprised she's not in bed. Mom's coming and faces at us. She? Yeah. Oh, Sarah is in bed. I'm surprised she's not asleep. Yeah, I'm always learning Steve in every job. Yeah, I'm learning all the time, all the time. That's a little fetch job just come through. Although, like, I'm learning things, but not always the best things because maths is terrible. Who's? Yours? Oh, an estimating. Yeah. Stephen, why not your hair? It's not sleeping hair. I don't appreciate it, Stephen. My life's coming back to the UK to start an advanced electrical installation, causing, like, good on him. Yeah. That's a good job to get into electrical installation, definitely. That's where the money is. And it's, you're not going by the weather, which is your other brickwork. Grant, what else do you watch besides bricklaying? I watch horror stuff, random fact stuff. I like him. Some YouTubers. I like him. Anything to do with Orlando. All in the tower. Attractions? Attractions, yeah. Attraction magazine, all that stuff. All those, I don't do a show anymore. Like, as a whole, as well, just attractions, like the towers, the park, any other rollercoaster thing. Yeah, I subscribe to all of them. It's probably an example. Seeing Park Enthusiasts. So I like watching stuff like that. There's a, like, all their time. John from Liverpool, he's cracked me up. He's dead good in. Really funny. Yeah, do you like the rollercoasters? Yeah. DJ, thank you, Stephen and Alex, for your answer. I was interested in getting into it. I do multi-skilled trades, and I've just never tried doing it. But your videos are very interesting to watch from Kevin. Thank you very much, Kevin. I'm glad that you were able to find something useful out of the video. And I just need to explain things a bit more. We don't exactly explain things, as well. No, like, I'll film myself building a corner, but I'm not talking it through us and going, which I shouldn't do. That's just, it's just remembering that the camera's there and it's talking to the camera a bit more. Bicking block solutions. Yeah. Ask things of prices coming up in the UK at the moment. They're going crazy in Ireland. Material prices, yeah. The wages prices, you know, stagnant where we're working. Yeah, like, all right. Same prices since 2019.  And like, the fencing, but the bots have doubled in price.  Yeah. But hit and miss weather this week. This is Wheaton Broad this week. Plenty of showers, but I have a good weekend, so I'm going to load up my van. Say it's annoying. The name is early in the morning. Cheers, pal. Thanks for tuning in. Yeah, same to you. I did the van before we started the live stream. Yeah. Oh, sorry, we did the van. Yeah. What are your hobbies to get away from the bricks? Main hobby is editing YouTube videos. Believe it or not, I do enjoy it, but it takes a lot of time. Now the weather's nice. I like Overwatch and Christie around. We like self-port, like Eating Out, which we'll be doing as soon as we can. I don't want to eat outside when we're cooking, so I'm going to wait till I can eat inside. I love going to theme parks, but we're going to... I'll tell you in a couple of weeks, we're going to Blackpool Pleasure Beach next month. That's just me and Alex. And holidays to Florida. That's the main... That's always the... That's the main goal avoid to work is to get a Florida holiday as often as possible. Yeah. I've been nine times now, hasn't it? Yeah, still not enough. Love it. I play Xbox, listen to music, and cosplay. Cosplay, yeah. Steve, where's Stu gone? Got any clues? No, sorry, I haven't got any clues on that one. Do you watch Tim Tracker? He's based around him. Yes, I was subscribed to Tim Tracker for years. I've actually met him, me and Christie met him in 2019 in September, when we were there. I managed to get a picture with him, had a little chat with him. But I've not... Cos I've got so many channels I've unsubscribed lately because they seem to be doing a lot of staying in expensive places, which doesn't really appeal to me. It's not a kind of place I'm ever gonna go. So it's gone a bit... It's not as relatable anymore. Not as relatable and down to earth as it used to be. I still like them, but I don't watch them as much anymore.  Trench blocks. I think if they're not even about Turbo blocks, Trench blocks we use are 300 wide, 225 by 450. And yeah, they're okay. I prefer the thermite ones because they have handles on, the tumble groove ones, and you didn't have to perp them. You just butted them up. Yeah. They're the best, but too expensive. Clive. And if you've put a few F-clamps coat in the ends, bent them over at right angle, good for internal corners. See, we don't use that kind of stuff. We don't use F-clamps on that. It's either blakes or we're put on a temporary profile with our intermediate sort of level because we have the BT stuff. We don't only F-clamps. Yeah, I can't even forget that. Was it... I'm pretty sure it was a Hagrid's or was it the Hulk? I can't remember. You can't say anything about Hagrid's. You can't say anything about Hagrid's. Why? Because I've not been there yet. No. I can't remember which one it was, but it's a nice place to meet somebody. I know we did talk about houses because we both have the same builder. Massage shorts and brickeys over here and block prices are up to 250 a block.  Brick and block solutions, 250 a block. We're on 140 a block. That's amazing. A 7 Newton block, though. But you'd have to pay for that price. Do you think we'll be getting out of the country this year on holiday? It's not looking good, is it? No, we're hoping. I think it's crossed, but like... We were supposed to be in Orlando for Alex's 21st last year. Middle of July. So that was put back to... We'll put it to October for my mum's birthday. Then we moved to this October for my mum's birthday. And now we've cancelled that. And we've booked Paris for Christine's 50th. Well, it's definitely not good right now. It's not looking good either, so we'll have to see. We'll get out there one day, but I'd rather wait and not get Covid than the rush over there. Yeah. It'll still be there. It's hard graph bricklaying. It's always undressing me to buy other trades. Absolutely. Yeah, you have to brick it. It's not just hard graph, it's on the new builds as well. There's so much to think about. And yeah, it's not as easy as it looks. It's the same old thing, isn't it? A good bricklayer makes it look easy, but it's not. What was Tim Tracker like in real life? He's very timid. I mean, he was chatting away and very polite. Because we were the two people he knew him. And they said, oh, hi, Tim. Me and Christine just, like, Jules phoned, like, it's Tim Tracker. And he came home and said hello.  Just had a chat with you. And we said, we'd be able to get rid of a picture of this. Yeah, no problem. Jumped up another picture of us.  But he was a really nice fella. He's not cocky at all. He's proper down to earth, very friendly. Do you pick and choose the private jobs or do you just price pretty much everything you're offered? If it's a bit of a trouble, if it's a bit of a journey, I wouldn't give it. It's going to be local. There was one exception that was calling. He was just next comment. I went to do a little bit of patching for him in Scotchdale, which is a bit of a trek, but I didn't mind doing it for him. Very special. Yeah. Yeah, I agreed it was. I thought it was. Yeah, because that was the one queue, but well worth the wait. No, it's got the Inman's wife. We've got a Ben and Donbuck for July. I think it's crossed. I think Spain's looking promising, isn't it?  Might be all right.  I couldn't believe how bad it was done like that. Yeah, that one. We did the original garage conversion and then the customer decided to park his Mercedes back in the garage on Christmas Eve so they got the insurance companies to redo it and they just couldn't live with it. They hated it and it was that bad. I sent a video to the insurance company and they actually reimbursed the customer because they just paid me to do it. The customer paid me to do it and then they got back some of the money off the insurance company because it was that bad. Do you watch Pretty Wicked? I do, yeah. I watch his proper videos, so don't watch the live streams so much because obviously the other videos are proper bit-length videos. That's it. All right, all right. Nine o'clock. Nine o'clock. Is it? Mm-hmm. That means you have to go now. Yeah. Oh. Excuse me, I'll take this. Roll there. When you free, mate. Mm-hmm. Oh, we'll stop, I'll wrap it up then. Yeah, yeah, we'll wrap it up then. I want to be on. Nearly an hour and a half. All right, that'll do. Yeah. Put this through long enough. Yeah, it's a little, it's not some people have a bank holiday. A mulled pot. Coffee. Yeah, I've got to go, let's put the kettle on for Christy. Take care, let's see, Steve. Everyone else as well, everyone take care, have a nice rest of your back holiday. Yeah. Get ready for work tomorrow. Yes. Fingers crossed, the weather's not too bad, let's get something done. Yeah. All the best, everyone. Thanks for tuning in. Thank you, Mark, Steve, Clive, Tony, and everybody else. Thank you, everyone. We'll see you all on Friday. Yeah, Friday 8.30. We'll expect you all to be there. I don't know what to put up yet, but we'll sort that out. So thanks again. Now where's the off button? There. Thank you. See you later.


Wow, what's up everybody once again is Brandon man Sean and I got to talk about an opportunity that I've been telling people about for a minute, but I have to reiterate because some people will miss this boat who have a legitimate opportunity to use this and that is using e-gaming live streams for your own promotion. You have to understand that e-sports is a real thing as a matter of fact, just as a symbol of the traction they're having in e-sports right now, it's been recently announced that Scooter Braun and Drake have invested in 100 Thieves. Now if you don't know who 100 Thieves are, it's actually a company. They're a lifestyle e-sports brand. You can find out more about that company at the link in the description below, but the business is booming. That company alone has raised $25 million over the last two years. Drake even hopped on a Fortnite live stream early this year. Why? Because there's a lot of visibility there. I know some of you have heard about games like Fortnite and a lot of these other games, but you have to understand that it's a legitimate culture that has been on the rise for years and in the last few years it's just becoming stronger and stronger. People are getting million-dollar prizes for winning tournaments. People pack out stadiums just to watch other people play games, but at the same time it's a completely undervalued route for marketing. A lot of people haven't even realized how to truly penetrate it outside the top of the top of the top of the influencers who are doing e-sports live stream gaming. The main platform is Twitch. That's where a lot of it blew up on, but you can not only just use Twitch, you can also look at Mixer. That's Microsoft's competitive platform to Twitch. And you might have a good opportunity there because there's less competition on the platform at the time. That's only to your benefit. The first movers usually get most for the least value. Once they start getting more brands and sponsorship offerings, it's going to be harder and harder to use that route for your form of marketing and advertising. Now, so when we look at these games, you got to realize one of the most organic experiences is people listening to music when they play games. You hear a lot of gamers do it all the time. If you've watched streams, I've watched streams and tournaments in the past. Find somebody to reach out to. I knew somebody who was going to build their entire artist strategy on getting into Twitch screams. As a matter of fact, they were going to create their own stream. And then as they build themselves up, they were going to continue to play their music as a part of playlists in the background. So they could capitalize off of that. Just take the same theory when people talk about getting on vloggers, platforms, and so many of these other platforms. When we look at Instagram and on influencer pages, it's the exact same thing for Twitch. But a lot of people still are not taking it seriously. A lot of people build things up on Discord. If you don't know about Discord, that's the chat that gets used a lot in a relation to Twitch. Look up Discord, look up Twitch if you don't know what it is, look up Mixer if you don't know what it is. But these are true opportunities that I have to do a video on just so you guys could once again do your own research, find somebody that might match with you, that might actually like your music, and see if you could get on with them. Before I get out of here in this video, I got to mention one thing that's really important when it comes to gaming and just analyzing these streaming types of platforms or influencers. Unlike Instagram, YouTube, and so many of these other platforms you check out, you aren't necessarily going to be looking at the subscribers they have or followers they have as heavily. Kind of like you might check out the views a YouTuber typically gets and there's something called ACV, right? And that's essentially the average amount of viewers watching a streamer at any given time. You want to be able to check and get an idea of what that might look like. I'm just going to make up some numbers right now, but let's just say this person has 10,000 followers, but for whatever reason, their ACV is only 20 people at any given moment. Then when you get shouted out, that shoutout will happen, but maybe only 20 people will see it and what real value is that to you. Now it's a very hard platform to actually penetrate, but that's just the groundwork that a lot of artists have to do at the very beginning. A lot of brands are having trouble. There's a platform called PowerSpike that's working on this, but they're not really necessarily looking to do sponsorships with small level artists and things like that at the time. If one of y'all has some kind of big check, maybe y'all could reach out to them. But anyway, I would love to know what you guys think. As always, have you used any kind of streaming platform or if you use Discord, something like that to grow your music base or get any more listeners? How did it work out for you? I know I've talked to people who've done that kind of stuff before. Other than that, if you liked this video, go ahead and hit that like button. If you like it, you might as well share it. And if you're not subscribed, you know what to do. Hit that subscribe.


So, my article explores how humanitarian space in conflict affected states impacts on the knowledge produced about those states and how humanitarians then respond to that knowledge. And the background to the article is actually an observation that's made in quite a lot of the literature that humanitarian agencies working in conflict affected states don't actually occupy the exact sites where violence takes place in those states, but rather they live or occupy this space that is a kind of safe, bunkerised area slightly away from the violence. But despite the fact they don't occupy that space they do need to know what's happening in the places where there is most violence and they need to gather information about that. And my article looks at how they go about doing that and in large part the main way they do that is by resorting to remote technologies to gather information. So the article specifically looks at the peacekeepers in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and there the UN peacekeeping mission is using a number of remote technologies in order to gather information. They are using crowdsourcing technology that is asking populations affected by conflict to give them information via mobile phone and internet technologies and they're also using unarmed aerial vehicles or drones as they're perhaps better known to survey the areas where there's high levels of violence, particularly areas where armed groups might operate. And then they're using that information to inform their practices to help with the delivery of aid and to survey the activities of armed groups. Because of the multiple uses of this technology there is a tendency to think that remote technologies are a magical fix to the problems of insecurity that prevent the humanitarians from operating in specific areas and that the potential of tools, particularly tools like crowdsourcing can't be overestimated. But in my article I show that the potential of these technologies can actually be overestimated and in some cases they can lead to harmful practices because they reify the type of knowledge, the kind of simplistic narratives of the causes of conflict that often end up leading to ill judged humanitarian policies. So the article focuses specifically on two different approaches to research that I undertook when I was conducting research on armed groups in the Eastern Congo with humanitarians in mind and reflects on the types of knowledge the two types of research methodology generated. So in the first case I was conducting a kind of ethnographic study with armed groups travelling to the areas that they occupied interviewing armed group members and the populations under their control and in the second research approach I was utilising these remote technologies. I set up a crowdsourcing platform and conducted some semi-structured interviews via text message with armed group members and populations under their control. And reflecting on that I found that there were two quite clear differences in the research in that the first element of the research, more ethnographic approach to research produced quite detailed understandings of complex dynamics and the more remotely gathered data actually produced quite thin data that was quite hard to verify and hard to follow up on. But there were other issues such as who gets to control the narrative in these two different approaches and in remotely gathered data a lot of the narrative tends to be monopolised by elite actors who are more technologically savvy and able to speak out and reach out more but it's also controlled by these elite actors and we've seen that actually a lot of the information gathered ostensibly for humanitarian purposes gets used by authoritarian governments and authoritarian actors for coercion and control. So I conclude by arguing that humanitarians and academics have to be weary of being overly reliant on remotely gathered data and that while it might be helpful supplementary evidence when there are issues of inaccessibility and security that they can't rely on this alone and that they must supplement their knowledge with embedded on-the-ground data that they gather themselves.


The Lake District National Park is a world heritage site and renowned for its lakes, forests and mountains. Some of the finest landscapes are spread across the region of Cumbria. Lake Windermere is one of the most popular visitor locations within the National Park, but this channel is about golf courses and not lakes. Although I do like a lake. What I can tell you is just five minutes drive away is a golf course that was founded in 1891. I've never been there before. It's a little bit chilly, but we're going to take a little bit of a look around. Before we get to the golf course, the camera lady just saying she's down to us because she wants them to eat. So we're going to stop by in Windermere where I believe she's found a nice cafe for some breakfast before we kick off. And it seems cafe culture has spread from the cities as we had a queue on Monday morning to get into what was obviously a very popular spot. And it was soon easy to see why. Tracy ordered the cornbread with avocados, eggs, mushrooms and a whole lot more, which quite honestly was divine. I sell for a simple bacon sarnie, but it was quite honestly the best I've ever eaten. So with the camera woman fed and watered, we could now make our way to the golf course. Shot and was a decent shot away, but we've just had, well, not great news anyway. I've just arrived. We left very early this morning and it's been very cold overnight. I've just arrived in the pro shop and I've been told we're going to be playing 18 temporary greens, which is not going on two parts.  And two, we're trying to show this golf course off. And for me to show you any drone footage, that kind of thing is going to be a challenge when there's no flags in the real greens. But we'll work it out. We'll get some positivity out of it. This series has already led me to places I wouldn't have otherwise gotten to. It has led me to a new excitement to play golf again, discovering golf courses for the first time, provides a mix of excitement, optimism and sometimes a heightened anxiety of first-tea nerves, all of which are good reasons to get out and about if possible and try something new every now and then. And the first positive we're going to take is just how nice is the day. It's pure blue skies and as I've already said, extremely cold and fully understand why these greens are. Pretty much frozen underfoot, but either way, I'm going to struggle but we'll find a way of showing off what seems to be already a real quirky golf course that it looks like I'm going to have to come back to. Just to give you some idea of the frustrations is behind me. We've not played to this whole yet, but a sort of elevated green with that mountains in the backdrop is just, well, breathtaking. Unfortunately, I won't show you the green while you're playing too, but it's so frustrating. But also, in a way, it's drawing me back in because I'm getting a little teaser today and that means that ultimately, I've got to come back and see this course at some point, not only with the greens out, but obviously with leaves on trees and maybe in a bit warmer days. But absolutely breathtaking views. Well, it's time for a little rest on Neil's seat. A bit of water. It's a bit of a hike to be fair. There's a few inclines to say the least, but as I keep saying about the views, incredible. What I've decided to do something a bit different, and I wondered if you can ever relate during the winter golf, is that I've set a different kind of challenge to myself and that's I'm not putting on the greens or anything like that. So I'm trying to hit fairways in regulation. So all my concentration has been on my game off the tee. And at least it focuses the mind a little bit because, like I said, when I get to the greens, just in case I pick up the ball, put it in my pocket. But having that at least sort of mindset on the tee, set some kind of challenge. And the rest is just about walking to the ball and taking in those views. Now once again, a huge thank you to Tacomo Golf for supporting this series of videos. Quite simply without their support, we couldn't do this. And as you'll hear later in this video, I can't help but be impressed by all of their golf clubs. The one thing our camera ladies just picked up on that I hadn't is that there are no bunkers on the course release. Not so far anyway. I've not seen any. And the other point that I'd like to mention is I've not played driver yet either. There's a lot of interest in short par fours, but really all about position it looks to be. This one plays, well, two sixty three off the back. We're another 40 yards further forward. So either way, I think there'd be a lot of strategic play around wind them here, but we'll have to come back before we work that out. Which seems the perfect moment for photo of the week. Don't forget Tracy or Andy in the comments down below. I'll tell you what I will say whilst the camera's on. It's just a shout out to the Tacomo Threewood, which we're going to look at in a lot more detail in the weeks ahead. But I'm absolutely nailing this thing. And actually, you know, I'm not overly keen on Threewoods, but this is super impressive, you know. And whilst winter greens aren't ideal, I took the time to enjoy the surroundings. Windermere is a very pretty golf course indeed, with some breathtaking backdrops, and somewhere I will no doubt return in the warmer months. I'm ripping this thing. Well, it's at the black of my marker post. But you know what? I think this challenge is actually doing me a bit of a favour, because again, I've hit a fair way in reg. And my concentration on tea is perhaps far greater than it normally is, because maybe just get up here and give it a wallop. Whereas because of this challenge I've set for myself mentally, I think it's actually helping my game. Right, so that's golf finished, drawing it to a bit of a premature close, because we're staying in a van this evening, and as yet we've got nowhere to sort of physically stay, park the van. So before it gets too dark, I think we need to get a bit of a shift on and find somewhere suitable. And that led us to the oldest pub in Windermere to plan our stay, but we learned that heavy snow was forecast in the area, which could cause a problem with travelling the following day. We needed a change of plan. So 48 hours later I am back in Hollywood Golf Club, a golf club that isn't open either. You see, it was a very good decision. The snow did come down, and the temperatures dropped to something like minus four overnight. Despite my willingness and also my wife's to get out and stay in the van, it's not perhaps the most comfortable thing to do right now, and certainly it was a wise decision to return home. Unfortunately home looks like what the Lake District did, and that's a golf course covered in snow, so for the time being we'll be in the van editing and we'll wait. Keep our fingers crossed and hopefully be back on the road next week, and that snow disappears. We've got another episode of Off the Beaten Track, and without temporary greeners. See you next week. That was nice anyway.


Fade Transition Monitoring Groups, TMG, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, SISLAC and Cano Civil Society Election Situation Room have kicked against some groups of civil society networks advocating cancellation of the outcome of much-athemed governorship elections in Cano. Besides, they distanced themselves from those they refer to as faceless groups who cooked up fake stories about civil society organizations, otherwise calling for a review of the governorship poll in the state. Some groups of accredited observers recently urged the Independent National Electric Commission, INEC, to consider a review of the election where Abba Kabeeru Yusuf, the candidate of the new Nigerian People's Party NNPP, was declared winner. At a joint press conference, the chairman of TMG, Awal Ibrahim Rasfajani, insisted that no accredited observer would interfere with the conduct of elections or call for cancellation. Civil society organizations that are accredited with INEC would never call for a cancellation of any election. Our work is to observe the process, document it and make recommendations for an improved election, never to call for any cancellation of any election whatsoever. It is not part of the mandate of any credible accredited civil society organization. The spread of these petitions and malicious news in a time when political space in Nigeria is already heated up is not only worsen but also has the potential to further overheat the policy. As a champion of democracy, we will never allow snare campaigners and people with politically motivated reasons to drag civil society organizations in Cano State and indeed in Nigeria at large, into political wars with political parties. It is not part of our mandate, it is not part of our responsibility because we are not politicians and we are not associated with any political parties or politicians. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Catalytic pyrolysis is a promising method for converting lignocellulosic biomass into chemicals and fuels that can be used in current petroleum infrastructures. This process involves the use of catalysts to modify bio oils produced during pyrolysis, which is the thermal decomposition of organic materials under high temperatures without oxygen present. These catalysts are designed to eliminate or substitute oxygen and oxygen containing functional groups in the bio oil, as well as increase its hydrogen to carbon ratio. Additionally, researchers have been focusing on the development of catalysts that combine hydrodeoxygenation and zeolite cracking processes. These catalysts are designed to produce drop-in fuels and petrochemical commodities from wood and other lignocellulosic biomass streams. This article was authored by Theodore Dickerson and Wansoria.


Got your back you will call me profit And I demand your help The next blighted land I protected me followers Guided by the light But they came and took them from me for your man of faith general You think you've faced a dark before But you've never seen the likes of this Be quiet this way Monstrosities for now and mine is a power. I know you're champion. Oh father That all who dwell and a volley know seen our victory. We will prevail