Thank you for your service to the NHS. Enjoy your retirement

Thanks for care and dedication 👏🏻❤

😂😂😂😂

Lol! 😂

Damn that sucks!

Well played. 🤣🤣

had me there for a few seconds

I don't want them to leave 😊

Yes, they are. I was just thinking, simply: I am so happy that he is happy here 😊

Now they are expecting twins it would be crazy for them to go back to the US and c. $50 k medical bill.

You must be so proud. You deserve the glass of wine for a job well done as a parent!

Thats amazing Joan, glad to hear the life has been good to you and the family in the UK and your children had the opportunity to excel.

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you sound amazing.

It really is great to see the indigenous English population being replaced in their own ancestral homeland. Progress!!

Yeah but @Stephen Ryan I moved to Ireland a year ago, after living in England 24 years (I grew up in America and lived there well into adulthood first) and the pot under the rainbow here are the people - kind, friendly and helpful, Lord love them.

There was that whole thing about "Have you heard the one about the Irishman that...", and making them out to be stupid, but I think a lot of that was down to all the Irish "navvies" building houses and roads at the time, which were, it has to be said, not the brightest of people. Then came the whole "troubles" thing, which everyone would rather not discuss.

​@@TryptychUKshould be discussed as they were terrorists

@@Theganjaman88 Well, unless you are either British or Irish, you have no skin in this game. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

The trouble with America is that they didn't have enough British / Anglo Saxons etc in the country before they let anyone in , now alot of times some just don't mix and just be Americans , my estate was built in the 50s after the war and it had lots of people from all over the British Isles as well as Latvia , Estonia, Lithuania, Germany , Italy, France and from every part of Yugoslavia ( names like Serwilski , Jankowski heck we have more Skis here than the Alps ) , all came to work down the coal mines etc and everyone got on due to the Anglo Saxons attitude ie everyone is welcome but must integrate and not separate

You are where you are born,America you are American,Jamaica you are Jamaican etc.

Seems to me that by saying African-American it's saying they are not Full American. Which is stupid.

Ngl, the rest of the world that isn’t the USA just sees the term “African-American” as a way to divide the people.

@@lawrenceglaister4364 Everyone is not genetically hugely Anglo Saxon. There is a lot of Welsh. Irish and Scottish ancestry, which is a completely different heritage.Look at the population difference of attitudes, between the North, Midlands, South of England and North Wales, South Wales, different areas of Scotland, and Ireland, ( I'll not even attempt to analyse). I proffer that this is one of the reasons for the famous British reserve. Even with each other.

Me too and I have travelled all over the world !

Same here. I feel incredibly lucky to be born an Englishman.

I think the UK is pretty in the middle of the road on most things when it comes to being a developed country. There are thing it does better or worse than other countries British people just talk bad about themselves

@@vinniechan I just think we're less self promoting and more reserved than some countries. I think you can be proud of your people and country without shouting it from the rooftops. However there are certain things we are very vocal about like our local and national rugby and football teams and where we live in the UK. We complain less and are liable to wait in queues longer than some without fuss. But every person where ever they were born should be proud of their country, people and heritage.

I've travelled extensively and worked in a good number of countries. The UK is up there with the best, but the northern European countries and Scandinavian countries are beyond us.

4 years in the UK, and just bought the house we were renting. Plan to die here. 💗💗💗 🇬🇧. (Lived in the US for 30 years, from the age of 12, and was never able to say I loved it there)

Life is so strange, my dream is to escape the UK at some point.

@@zedtrek You should. I did, I went to Australia for four years. Then we decided to come back. I will never forget stepping back on these shores (yes, at Harwich) the train to Liverpool St. Seeing London on an October night. Then to my parent's house in the country. The green! the green!

@@Lily-Bravo My plan is to go to Sardinia, lot of green and blue over there :-)

I always think that our glorious Springs are our reward for coming through the winters.

I agree. The 6 hours of feeble grey light in winter when actually seeing the sun is a rare occasion is grim but thinking back the mental filter does a great job. The 20 hour days in midsummer more than make up for this and somehow getting home at 4 PM in the dark in winter is erased by being out at 10 and still light in summer. Right now it is May which is my favorite month, the trees are all bursting with new leaves and the roadsides are covered with cow parsley flowers. It takes winter to properly appreciate spring.

Horrible winters? I grew up in England but my career took me to Sweden for a few years and Pennsylvania USA for a couple of decades. I am back in the UK now, and I didn't even scrape my car last winter, let alone shovel snow to move my car. You don't know horrible winters.

@@TR4zest It isn't to do with snow. It's to do with not seeing the sun for days or even weeks on end. To do with driving wind and rain to the extent that you arrive at work damp, take hours to dry off, and then get wet again on the way home. It's to do with never really being sure if anything you plan that involves being outdoors will be able to happen, and always having to have a back-up plan. It's to do with facing the possibility in early December that you may not see sufficient decent days to count on one hand before April. Or even later. It's wondering how much damage to your home/business our ever-increasing extreme rain/flooding events and extreme wind events each winter will bring. It's turning up at the train station not being sure your train will arrive to get you to work owing to said rain and wind events (line flooded, trees and branches brought down on line by wind, not enough train drivers because they've not been able to get to work owing to flooding on roads, trees and branches brought down by wind and blocking roads etc). I've not owned a car for 25 years, so I've been very exposed to British winters for a very long time (no walking 5 metres from front door to car on drive for me!) and it's been getting increasingly difficult for me.

@@clairenoon4070 OK, OK, you win!

As I watch this a blackbird is singing in my garden and the sun is shining, no man-made sounds are intruding

Since when have Brits been African?

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@Joe G plonker

There's a few American airbases out that way. I once met a bunch at a Knebworth rock concert in 1978, and they asked me to join them, so they shared Budweiser beer and pop tarts, neither of which I had ever seen or tried before. I reciprocated with a 5 litre bottle of West Country scrumpy cider. (A pint of which is enough to poleaxe most people) Suffice to say, we all had a very merry time.

I suggest you return to good old UK if you have regrets, you will enjoy the health services, the railways infrastructure, the modern wide open roads, clean streets, low crime rates, fabulous weather, low cost of living, low rent and mortgages, amazing education system etc.

@@prp3231 depends where you are in the US or where you’re going in the UK. Much of the infrastructure in the US is basically 3rd world compared to the UK. It’s always funny when Americans get so incredibly sensitive if anyone dares to suggest that the US doesn’t have the best of everything. Life is more complex than that.

@@pejpm well, there's nothing stopping you from going back to the U.K. so that you can enjoy the world class open, wide, traffic free, smart motorways. The railway infrastructure is amazing, you will love it, cheap, reliable, clean and the trains go at 300 kmph. You will enjoy the world class health service where there is no long waiting lists for operations, no long wait in the emergency department with people waiting for hours on chairs and trolleys waiting to see a doctor. The streets are amazingly clean, hardly no litter or dumped used old furniture and kitchen sinks. Living costs are low, low rent, low mortgage rates and plenty of good, modern housing stock set in salubrious areas. The kids get to enjoy a world class education system and low crime. To top it all off there is the fantastic weather to look forward to. Leave southern California and come back to the likes of Sunderland, I've heard the beaches there are comparable to Waikiki.

@@prp3231 wow, copying the same comment again, what a great wit.

Mike, sorry to hear about your father... my father died about three years ago... I am still adjusting. I am a huge fan of rural life... I hope you find your move pleasant and relaxing.

I find it funny that our entire nation changed so quickly, we pretty much 180’d in around 30 years.

Most people around the world are pleasant and down to earth - just wanting to go to work, put a roof over their heads then go home to their loved ones and do whatever it is they enjoy doing in an evening. It's the top 1% that ruin it for everyone dragging us into wars and power grabs.

Yes, thank you

@Adam Kennedy I don’t see that comment from you under all those here from people stating they are black. Interesting. Race doesn’t matter, we are all equal, but it still exists.

It is.

Thank you! 😃

A native called “wiszowaty” 😂

@@jonatho6677 Quite a lot of Poles ended up living in the UK permanently in the 1940s' for... reasons. Lots of their grandkids, and probably greatgrandkids still do

@@talltroll7092 Yeah, so they’re Poles and not natives then.. I wonder if these same Poles would endorse mass immigration into their own homeland🤔

@@jonatho6677 After like 3 generations, I think they count as natives... if you follow your logic to its' conclusion, there are almost no natives left in the entire UK, maybe a couple of thousand, tops, in some of the Welsh Valleys. Everyone else in descended from one wave or another of immigrants

Sad to say I think there is a lot of inbuilt xenophobia amongst Brits, and a lot of looking at the world through the wrong end of a telescope. But, that said, I know of much worse places and mostly here those things are muted (not least because Brits would rarely express their feelings so openly). Difference is strength. Keep up the good life and videos.

@@ogilkes1 I agree, it still is there but is not so empowered. Especially as racist speech is actually illegal in the UK, unlike the US

@@ogilkes1 inbuilt xenophobia..,you do know every country on earth has that. It’s inexorably human to be tribal and to prefer your own. What’s genuinely frustrating is some of the comments on here that celebrate ‘white’ areas no longer being white. You fail to realise this is our home and it’s not your duty to change our demographic. We are more than welcoming for those that choose to build a life here and become part of our community. What’s not on is the sanctimonious attitude of some who believe we’re somehow deficient without non British people in our towns and villages. We have a glorious and proud heritage and it’s a privilege to live amongst us wherever you hail from.

@@hawker1262 well said sir 👏 👍

@@hawker1262 No reason not to call it out. Particularly prevelant and nasty in the UK at the moment.

Yes a good point !

@Jazzmaster Jay Like the world owes you a living for being randomly born somewhere, I suspect

@Jazzmaster Jay That has been a problem in the UK, for at least 40 years plus. Not investing in training, There are a few exceptions, but too few of them. They expect everyone to be academic, when they are crying out for Plumbers, Electricians, Builders Carpenters, Joiners, Plasterers,Etc. But no serious effort made to train youngsters in these trades. It's easier to get people from overseas. these trades.

We will!

gotta make an apple crumble with some custard, ...... rhubarb crumble please , be civilised :)

@@richard6440 - of course....but only pears and apples were mentioned....if there's rubub about....gotta be done !!

as an American, he would be more familiar with a fruit cobbler.