 hello welcome to another video I've got dog lead on my little poo bags and treats I've got a dog bowl for water for food I've got your dog food and I'm here with Nimbus he's a Labrador slash Labradoodle but he's a bit shy on doodle so he's pretty much a Labrador and he's about five or six months and I've known him since he was first born me and Fern helped birth him so the roles are reversed Fern's away doing a multi-day hike and I'm out with dog so I decided to find some nature down south and I booked into it's like a little shepherd's hut slash tiny old-school caravan like a traveler style caravan with this lovely couple at the bottom of their garden it's got a fire pit it's got a toilet shower it's lovely I thought you know what I'll find somewhere nice I booked in just for a couple of days because he's not ready to go while camping yet so I thought this would be a good introduction we can have fires we could go for walks in the countryside get him used to everything plotted in my OS map I think it's about maybe five or six mile hike from our shepherd's hut in a big loop taking in a brewery and yeah just thought I'd introduce him to you introduced is eating grass at the moment so we're gonna hit through these woods and we're going in a huge loop and just see what we can find lads all the day come on I'll give him about unless you're good lad should I show you what you can do to show you what you can do some of his skills nimbus middle good boy skill see nimbus sit wait I'll wait for however long I want him to look wait nimbus come right and the pièce de resistance in verse lie down bang yeah yeah good boy good boy time to be alive look the first ever walk past with dog I think you did well there high-five high five good boy it has just occurred to me that I'm just filming myself taking dog for a walk but it's more than that it's just and this is my test I'm testing if I can film and if I can hike with nimbus and then if so we'll do a few of these or I won't upload them all don't worry but I'll do a few of these and if he passes the test and in time I think we'll attempt some it a little bit longer obviously not going to be doing Kate Raft trail or anything like that but I reckon we'll do we start with like an overnighter and then we'll work our way up to a little multi-day hike glorious down here mate it's a I mean there's planes but it's only a little nice plane farm machinery going on but that's all part of rural life you don't I don't begrudge it one bit exploring the trails and bridal ways of Sussex aren't we mate I have to keep stop I have to stop calling him mate so much because he starts to think that's his name mate mate and you don't need that water a rare sight indeed oh mate I mean nimbus nice woods man we were up here yesterday we did a bit of hiking looking for some mushrooms but because of the hot weather hot and dry weather they've all collapsed and gone but we had a walk yesterday I went to the I think it's called the three bells or the six bells pub we had a pint and some food and then walked back about 15 20 minutes through the woods and the field in the dark and it's a new moon so it was pitch black and I loved it and he was brilliant he wasn't spooked he wasn't barking at anything it was amazing right crossroads right have a little look at the map map time right now we're joining on to the Wild Way which is I think it's about an 80 mile hike down to south and I've got my eye on it I was having a look at it in pub last night and I thought you know what fancy that nice little 80 mile not with a dog obviously let's do that on my own but this is us joining that path man have to lift you over he's crying come on then young and here we go let's get your lead on by your wriggly worm face I'll see you in your mouth boy meet us let's go how I struggle he's a certain he's a certain dominance on me are you taking me for a walk all right fine fine you win you win boss but that means you've got to lead the way you can so it's chewing your lead you don't know there's I mean stop mountainous and all that but there's a definitely a quaint beauty there's a church steeple in the back ground there and it's rather joyous I was our first of probably many goofing oh wait I've said that field was supposed to be in that one I avoided it's got sheep in it but we've got to go through it we try to introduce him to as many things as we can early doors so it doesn't freak him out later in life it says you have to introduce him to everything which I have not even introduced myself to everything you look what you found truffle you know I mean everything so a sea lion a sea lion on a treadmill a clown in a washing machine a pack of biscuits all biscuits every single biscuit in every combination it was in a book was reading said introduce them to everything when they are like I say everything is a lot mate everything is a lot but so best just introduce you to stuff that you're gonna be doing so sheep not I'm gonna be doing sheep but sheep tents fires hiking horses things like that we'll get off your lead we've got to get through these sheep first thing you can't be trusted kid oh that's cool isn't it right come on in boy I'm done man down just exhausted I don't know he's any puppy you don't need much but if you want to you want by the way look at this lovely church I'm gonna have a look around that I'm on a cricket ground there is well done right back drop good boy yeah you want to give him a good run about and then on the evening when you're tucking into your pine and your staking ill pie or your curled up bike fire in your shepherd's hut he's zonked out and he's not going mad bring it back drop drop your ball good boy nimbus come your bramble brombolino come on you've not you've opened that gate and closed it come on if you're getting left to an eye die you're they're gonna be the CEO of latch and locks nimbus watch this it's a classic it's a standard but what's acoustic it's nice and it sounds good pre-church very monthly so we don't go disrespecting the graves I don't know if dogs were allowed in church I don't know we've got here look it's a classic and he's just done a threaded screw bolt on it and I like that nimbus you distract me from what's functional as well good stuff going to get yes me she's stunning in it beautiful I was never a dog person I never had pets growing up besides sin bad the shrimp which is a shrimp found in a river called it sin bad fed it cake it died I cried the end but I was never really allowed pet pets and I spent a large part of my life not really been into having pets I thought it was a bit weird and who were we to have mastery over this animal and breed it so you know to it can't breathe and its legs fall off or whatever and then throughout my life I met a few dogs me mates dogs stand in particular with border collie who just changed my mind completely about dogs saw some of it clicked and I was actually I could see myself having a dog and then the main ferns have had this little guy since he was a pup tiny little thing and it took me a long time to like love him she's like do you love him yet I'm like no I can't lie I was just because you know they say that the bond between a man and a dog and all that and I was like expecting it to be massive and it wasn't there so I wasn't gonna lie and say yeah I love him but a few things happened and it sort of grew and we spent more time together and there's a time when there was loads of people in a room and he chose me to come put his head on it's little things like that and coming away on this holiday with him this little weekend break is another thing that's like bonding us because it's just me and he's a bit of a mummy's boy normally you know fern goes out and he's stood next door and stuff so this is good for us to spend some quality time together and build our bond and become best pals as he climbs into a little drain yeah good boy good boy get in bog in bog you're getting bog bog foot make all our beds dirty no don't drink that come on off I've got you a drink in here do you want a drink come on you have a drink I've got for a drink down here come on find somewhere nice and we'll stop for a drink we got here boy counterweight lovely stuff you're gonna enjoy this kid there you go and then let go are you watching you're not bothered let go come on counterweight it's what you were born for impressed cause you are can't face of impressness get out of that you'll eat them all here we go buddy where's your bottle this is you yeah nimbus yeah yes thirsty work being a doggy go on get all that down here top tip if you want your dog to drink more water than you're drinking put a treat in there that'll sink sis it's at bottom you can't and he'll lap it he'll lap all the water just to get to treat is that good or not I don't know but it works if you want to drink on a hot day so he's trying to get that thing at the bottom but you can't help but drink it all it's just top tips in it top tips it was camping top tips now it's dog top tips you good yes slavery wet nose I've got to stay hydrated on a day like today you've got to stay hydrated mate I've been hiking for a couple of miles so it's nice to have a little rest bit water you can get in the shade and then we'll crack on I teach him to go back for camera retriever I've been waiting to use one of these for so long and now I officially can ready you lift it or is it a lift it nimbus come good boy yeah the joys of having a dog nerds the gun pint on he's got his water ain't your boy it's a pint of Marjorie this car is going past his music in background but last life pub life absent friends that is delicious cold refreshing beautiful I've made a mistake though this is called the gun and the brewery the tap room is also called the gun and I was like I'm off to your brewery next he's like nice not ours and apparently because the streets called the gun they've called it the gun brewery and they've got the same logo so an easy mistake to make but apparently it's just half a mile as the crow flies that way so have a pint he's gonna have his dinner maybe have a little rest in the shade and then we'll head off to the gun tap room lads lads lads look at that can't hack it look half a pint of vodka and he's done suitably refreshed after a pint back out into the countryside there's buzzards flying is it a buzzard it's a kite it's a red kite I'm aware this video is there short on entertainment it's just me and dog having a meander so let's just talk about stuff shall we and this is something important that I've got to tell you a couple of weeks ago I found some fake tan some of Fern's fake tan and this mate right and I've not used it before I was like you know what let's do it I'm a I was feeling a bit down I thought right I'm just about to go up north let's get a bit of a tan on so I squared it he was like came out like moose onto this pad and then I started rubbing it on myself rubbing it all over my face I was like all right cool this is good and I wanted to kitchen and firm was like what are you doing so I'm sure you see some of fake tan so you haven't put it on your face have you I was like yeah and she says it's apparently you not to put it like you don't go straight to firm onto your face you just need a little bit on thing so and that because I was I was on a deadline I was on like a schedule I'll be alright I won't worry about it because it looked anything bad so I'll set off up north anyway because it didn't look like it's worked and on the way up north I got caught in a bit of a traffic jam and when I get you know when I've got a bit of time like that I often get people asking me like oh can you wish me mum happy birthday can you wish me dad a happy Honika and all these sort of shout out things so far I'll do a few of them while I'm in a traffic jam and we've got a camera out to like do me a bit looked at my face I look like that I just looked like a tea stained idiot it was it was shocking I had to do the videos in black and white so if you're one of the people that got a video of me in black and white because that's why and it was like I'm homeless now because I'm in camper van I've got no how do I get it off and it was just getting worse and worse and told her and she was laughing and she told me daughter Kyra and they were both having a laugh about it how can I make a video like a tea stained egg but luckily because I'm still a member of the squash club in York and that's where I was I nipped in there and had a shower and it sort of took the edge off but I'll put some photos in it's not as maybe as bad as I made out but it looked worse in real life I have some of ink car I've got like a white there orange face and then one of me just before I got into shower that was just like oh no and I had a wash it was still sort of like it was still pretty bad but I don't have I'm telling you this so here's a top tip lads don't just go around willy-nilly using your girlfriend's beauty products because you haven't got the skills for it and you will come a cropper what's this are you gonna how are you gonna manage this one mate you're gonna go under I'm going through there sheep on field dogs on lead not you see if we can snare in it lead come on yeah snares will so snare right how are you gonna do this mate can you shimmy underneath do you think I'll do in the middle I like what you've done about this one oh he's got nails on look he's got it nails on him and then balsam look good eating like come on the good thing about having a blonde or a white dog is it's good to take ticks off them ticks show up so you can sort of get them off before they before they get attached whereas I imagine if you've got a brown one on a black one needling a haystack in it I think I'm going wrong way because his path is it's I don't know you can hardly call it a path really how are you doing back there you good someone said there was sheep in here but there's not it's overgrown look at it we've been lost a few times we've got lost yesterday quite a bit but that's the part the adventure in it getting lost he's doing better with sheep but where we're staying they've got ducks they've got ducks just roaming around shepherd's hut so I said oh he's a bit of a he's a bit of a duck menace so they put them away and told me to just let ducks out when I go out so I let ducks out and then when I get back I have to bang this lid on them or like a dust being a metal dust being and then they all come running back and getting their little house I'm gonna get stung here that's lol's so these ducks are better trained than him where for are we going in let's just keep going over these fields as the crow flies I'm looking forward to this brewery everything everything why is that bone that's a lovely bone that any one it can have it again the two wobbly are you this place isn't on my OS map so we've been going round and round looking for it like a beacon in the night in the day even brewery tap room let's get tucked in there let's get tucked in put camera away so it look like a wazik you're going you're not having that look at head on that you're not having any bit decent brewery decent ails had two beers and a lamb wrap I'm stuffed he had what do you have five pints of stout so he's on one he's on one he's looking to fight he's looking to do anything he wants he's absolutely mullered he's a liability for Monace now are you boy hopper aggy liability right so my conundrum now if you can call it a conundrum is I've got 8% battery left on my phone and I need that for me OS map so we'll see if we can get home decent recommended what do you recommend are you too mullered speak right I think it's down here and then we cut off over the fields we'll see I think we've done about six mile maybe got two left so eight miles is quite a lot for a puppy of like five or six months he's luckily snoozed in every in the last two beer gardens he's had a snooze but what sort of training are we doing I say what training we're doing long distance hiking and dealing with things of the trail sheep geese ducks beers things like that cat beautiful this is Patrick greens but in it beautiful lovely I'm gonna get through this one old conundrum face working it out look he's worked it out well done well done you're not as daft as everyone says you are yeah you're a good lad but we're gonna get brambled out down here like wait a minute let me just check if we're going right way because we don't want unnecessary brambling oh that's the right way so yeah let's just get it out come on bramblehead stung I don't want you getting scratched and stung let me go first he's going for it look you don't care that's him stung that's me stung in it why go on you've got to go for it aren't you get stung ouch stunk stunk took a few hits there like do you take any hits mate you're alright I took a lot of hits to the legs come on let's keep plodding on spicy little stingers can you get stung through that fur probably you can't just watch your nose watch that beak good lad had joe old nettles man I'm getting whacked to bits we're going for it though aren't we boy adventurous ouch you're getting whacked I'm getting annihilated just had to just plow through legs are on fire our legs are on fire how are you doing mate you how's your leg you don't care he's fine aren't you your nettle proof skin fur jacket both legs burning oh my dog good have you mate ouch right map time look at this okay good and this is all part of me fixing my noodle I've just been doing the things that I love to do and just disconnecting a little bit from people and a little bit from the internet my phone and stuff it's the first time I've ever hung out with a dog for this long on my own I know he's my dog but Fern's always been there and he's always been with Fern so this is our first lads holiday together and I'm loving it because he's so loving and stuff so he's always there for you and you've always got something to do I've always got to make sure he's fed make sure he's not chewing through electric cables you got to make sure he's walked so first thing on the morning it forces me to get out and have a little mooch about and today just mooching all over the place it's turned into quite a high key weekend and that's thanks to that guy because otherwise I'm prone to just sort of stewing in my own juices sometimes you know if left to my own devices I can go off rails a little bit but having him whilst Fern's away it's like right I don't just want to sit right house with dog let's go out let's do something and that's the beauty of having a dog in it I guess and that's what he's going to bring because I'm hopefully going to train him up to be a proper little feral dog coming on camping trips going to see all that sort of stuff and it fills me with hope I like it I like the thought of it in my brain when I think of the future and I think of him in it doing bits outside I'm like that's all right that that's good I was touching go at first he was a bit hard working I was like do I really want a dog but I do I really want a dog and I want this dog probably for the best because he ain't going anywhere is he he's not going anywhere okay swan I've hardly seen anyone I've hardly bumped into any other humans and I was worrying look at this can you see that little green bog bully cat I was worrying being down here because I'm creating quite a built-up area and I was like oh I feel claustrophobic I can't get I need to just be away from humans and everything else and on this trip which is only 40 minutes from the house it's been like that I've just plotted in routes they're just off the beaten track and look at this it's a Saturday and there's not a soul are you going for a swim I'm not going there mate it looks a bit rough but it's up to you if you want I'm going to stop you you've got to make your own where is he going to fall in live oh lovely little woodland walk to end on and then we're going to go put our ducks away don't we get our ducks in order nimbus come good boy good boy we're nearly home we sit off that way this morning down that road full circle a lovely little adventure that one it I might end it here I might know I might show you around digs it's pretty cool digs actually I should show you I will show you don't worry I'll show you here we go it's ducks okay here's him trying to get the ducks not happening not happening there they are look there's me ducks here's it digs look oh little area nice some chairs got a little light barbecue fire pit look at that what he says what he says is you've got to just rattle this tin and then they come they come come boys have I done it I'm doing it that's for sure right what's going to happen now you've got to get in get some more juice yeah get in all here I've done it I've done it I've just wrangled ducks did you see that let's see if this little guy's all right hello let's get your lead off let's get your lead off there you go mate show you around digs MTV cribs look I wish I had some beers back here excuse it's a bit of a mess you've got a shower opposite that you've got your composting toilet with sawdust down there it's even got a record player which is pretty cool we can play your vinyl look at this this is the pièce de résistance wonderful wood burner with a chimney going up you've got a cooker I've got a fridge sink you pull this table out these two chairs um thought out into one bed so someone go down there he's just sort of going on here and then I'm up here I put his dog blanket on so he could have a little snooze with me this morning got a little chandelier and there it is and there's my boy that sounds like it boy fire pit and all these fields and woods I'm allowed to walk in I can take him off the lead and just walk all around these fields and woods it's stunning all right thanks for watching see ah thanks for see ya uh jokes jokes coming jokes so that's me I live here now thanks for watching see ya bye I don't know I might film a little bit another time maybe later tomorrow or later this evening but I can't be janked we've had a good walk today you'll say bye to nimbus turkey rustler good boy good boy hey good boy good boy soldier you've earned a little rest you've earned a little rest boy oh you've earned a little less than me a little cloud faced nanny I've got him a buffalo horn look you never said thanks for that it's a buffalo horn you're welcome right see you as late as