 obviously it's nice if you can come out and make it part of your walk to collect these little beauties but let's not kid ourselves you can find them in your garden you can find them in any just any green land near where you are it's city centres mate they'll grow everywhere but I've got a load in my garden and I'm about to cut the lawn so we'll use them there okay I'm out of practice mate look at the levels in that I can't even get my head in mate it's been a while on it a bit rusty get up here get up there get up there that's better isn't it how you doing mate long time no see unless you follow me on Instagram then I've posted a little bit on Instagram but I've been a bit being a bit off the radar mate for one reason or another the main reason is just wanting to sit with everything that's going on I've just wanted to take a step back and concentrate on the little things mate concentrate on my noggin you know I started off quite well in quarantine then just you know missing my daughter missing my girlfriend and my friends and family and stuff it sort of started to get to me and then bad habits start creeping in with me and then one thing leads to another and I'm just you're just drinking whiskey out of a shoe it for it morning out here or whatever and so I'm back on right path mate I'm back on right path of not I've I started playing Xbox and that just to pass the time I dusted off my old Xbox started playing Grand Theft Auto 5 and all this sort of stuff and I realized that it's just have wasted time man I was just I was just wasting my time so I've got rid of that I've started running I've got shin splints from running so much because I got a bit put on a bit of a bit of quarantine mate a bit of extra a bit of extra pud a bit of extra podge so anyway it's a slow progress and I'm sure a lot of you are struggling as well and I send you nothing but love mate it's it isn't easy I'm not gonna say it is but it is with with little incremental steps you can get to somewhere good a good headspace and that's what I'm doing at the moment with you know with my diet exercise plenty of just while swimming going out into nature and stuff I'm not I haven't been filming I've just been doing it for me but I wanted to just do a video just to say hello really and just to wish you all love and just let you know that I'm okay as well because a lot of people have reached out to ask if I was alright and I really do appreciate that and the messages of support and the reason I'm out the reason I'm out filming because you just just the legends a lot of you so I thought I wanted to come and speak to you and just to say hello and just to say like we've got this but I have to do something a bit outdoorsy so I've been looking at I've been doing a lot of foraging of late getting back into it and I thought shall I do something elaborate because I know there's a lot of I found a lot of Japanese knotweed near me I was gonna do like a Japanese knotweed crumble and stuff but what I thought I do was just keep it very simple and do something that getting bit into bits mates getting late in the evening all the all the biting bastards are coming out I thought I'd keep it simple and do something that everybody can do if you've got a garden or a bit of green space near you even in the inner city and that is dandelion dandelion flowers so we're gonna deep fry some dandelion flowers now usually you would do that as a savory thing I was thinking maybe a bit of curry powder in the batter and then do it with like a mango chutney dip or something like that but then I thought now cuz that's been done so we're gonna we're gonna we're going we're experimenting now we're going experimental with the emphasis on mental because we're doing we're doing sweet dandelion and birdock flower fritters if we can we'll give it a go anyway we'll see what we can do got me up northern monk bag for life for the north I'm gonna go mad on it it swears me dandelions picked them from garden and then let them soak in water for about ten minutes just to get rid of all bugs and dog piss and whatever and then put them in with some kitchen roll or some toilet roll sausage roll whatever just to get all the moisture out of them you want to do they're gonna be nice and as dry as you can get them really should get a good specimen yeah I bet you've missed me focusing issues aren't you what you want to do is you want to strip as many of these green leaves off around as you can around the holding all the yellow petals together because they can be quite bitter stock off you don't have to get them all off that's about good enough for me so I'm just gonna prep all these flower in and then this is where it gets a bit this is where I'm going off piste dandelion and birdock and I what are you thinking lockdown's gone to his head he's lost it he's gone and you might be right but it might be delicious it might work I mean my thought process was you know you can do beer battered stuff can't you so why not if you're doing a sweet thing why not use dandelion and birdock batter that's what we're doing anyway and you're here to watch whether it whether it fails or whether it's a success don't yeah don't want it too thick mate just want it nice and just like cut some there that'll be that I reckon that'll be good nice and just just seems right dust me dandelions which I don't think I've ever said that before and this will just help the batter stick so we're ready we're ready mate let's get it off it at fire drop a little bit of batter in see if it when that gets hot I don't want to overdo it don't too many in this you don't want to stick together and you don't want to reduce the heat too much it looks all right I got some honey from my friends David and Mary from Dunster Dunster honey and that's made in their garden by the very own bees so we're gonna use that drizzle it over them a little bit of a dusting of that's icing sugar I'm just Jenny from the block me that's all right I'm losing me like passing about trying to get a thumbnail no point let's just enjoy it mate look at this let's show you should get a good specimen he looks like a decent bud right come in come in here m cat on lens yeah right I'm going in you know what that is a success you need the sweetness of the icing sugar otherwise it would be a savory thing but that is I've nailed it hey are you having that mate are you having that back in the game mate back in game been out at game for a while but that's how you better try out front-returning it by having focusing issues can you hear how crunchy that is sorry all of it all of it chin or chins as it is after since lock down I'm growing growing me send a few more chins this is well good genuinely really good you could do anything I guess you like I say make them savory if you want this was just my own idea and using dandelion and birdock in the batter gives it a sweetness as well and you know what I'd like to I'll probably have a guess that I'm first person in world to do that trail blazing mate trail blazing with dandelions hungry as well know that absolutely know that getting eaten alive by stuff but I don't even care this is last one mate if you just walk through them trees now when you like easy can I have your last deep-fried dandelion and birdock battered dandelion flower I'd be like yeah mate it's yours 100% give it to you go on lovely mate absolutely lovely it is a diuretic the um the dandelion so I'll probably piss the bed tonight but what's new and the whole of the plant can be eaten as well it's a really versatile plant and the leaves you could make make a tea out of the leaves you can eat the leaves in your salad they're quite peppery you can use the roots you make dandelion root coffee and all sorts mate there's full of vitamins they're good for you you can eat this just eat the flowers nice I'm well happy with that well happy with it delicious um so yeah that's something for you to try with your family with your kids or just on your own before you mother-lawn pick all your dandelion heads and use your imagination do whatever do whatever you don't have to necessarily batter them yeah use your imagination and and get involved again it's just one one less thing that you have to get from supermarket in it and that's always gonna be a good thing it's nice to be out in woods I've been coming out but I've not been filming and I've enjoyed it mate I've enjoyed it I've enjoyed the experience of filming because it is a hobby a man but I realized you know in lockdown that it is just that it's a hobby don't take it too seriously don't try and take over the world is or that's what I was I got a bit caught up in like right I've got a release of video a week I've got to keep up I've got to like try and make it a business try and make a living off it and it and it just isn't it's not doable for me it ain't doable I'm a landscaper that's what I am I'll never not be a landscaper ain't worth it mate I'd like to just take a step back and just and just get back to nature and get back to doing what I love drinking cream diet starts tomorrow as me fire just dies down mate and I'm just finishing off me cream I'm not really gonna eat that drink that now that's mad in it that's mad if you're trying to get rid of these bad boys can't be drinking cream so as I said before mate I was just I've struggled a little bit with me I've not like lost the plot or anything like that it's just got into some bad habits in just bad habits man I'm sure we all are just drinking joint day I was being like my mind was being lazy my mind my chimp brain was if you've ever read the chimp paradox my chimp brain was winning and yeah I was just picking up some bad bad routines bad habits and I was just missing missing my girls man missing my girls but on the what kick started it all is so I was able to see my daughter and we I took her down the down the by the sea and we looked for crabs and stuff and we had a beautiful day out that was that's a tick for me that's a big ticking heart that read a picnic on the rocks which is it's a lovely thing to do which is something that my old man used to do with me it's full full circle it's nice to get out the house for you in it first you didn't get out the house much with the current situation so we don't see each of us because of the current situation so it's been it's been lovely just to hang out and see if we can and just explore the rock pools and see that mad red fish there's a wrasse that herring had got or something or a cormorant anyway this is it oh that's enough for our coastal adventure and I'll take you back to the garden or the woods or wherever I've managed to end up kaya you slap that for me and then and then because Alice works my partner friend who was new here works on the front line for the NHS so I'm high risk so we've not been able to see each other and she got tested before the weekend a couple weeks ago and it came back negative so I was able to spend a whole weekend with Alice we went out near where she lived we did a bit of wild swimming had a few picnics just had some lovely time and it really seen my loved ones just rejuvenated me and then I was sort of like on the right path and and I posted about it I posted a I put a picture on Instagram just saying you know that I've been struggling and stuff and the response was what really did get me get my ass into go just it was it was wonderful and everybody in the comments was so nice and so nice to each other not just me I just put I just put a picture on there but everyone was being nice to each other saying like you know we'll get through this together and it was a real community spirit and it give me a right kick up the arse and it made me feel just felt proud me felt real proud I can't thank you enough I genuinely can't thank you enough mate from the bottom of my heart like you you know it was dark times it was dark times and your kindness and everything in the nice words you just got me through so I owe it to you to make it you know to at least get out there and start making videos again now that I'm in a good space and I know I look like I'm in a good space because I'm ah I'm getting emotional and stuff but that's all part of it mate that's all part of it I'm an emotional I mean I'm always emotional mate I don't know that's just how it is that's just how it is but thank you thank you thank you so much for the kind words and you know I don't I can't reply to everybody but I try and read as many as I can and trust me they've made me feel absolutely amazing so thank you thank you thank you what an idiot I am what an idiot right let's square this fire away mate and get back into quarantine quarantine a turner and do one of these do a quick yarn keep it bushbox because it has been a dry we've had a real dry sunny spell here in the UK and there's a lot of leaf litter about here so if I'm just coming in and out quick I don't want to I don't need to have a full fire on the floor the beauty of the bushbox right thanks for watching and as a lot you know I'm self-employed I'm a landscaper and a but I haven't been able to work man I've not been I've not worked for weeks and weeks because I'm high risk as well and I can see a light at the end of the tunnel because think the the tips have started to open and things like that so hopefully I'll be able to start working soon but it has been absolute chore I've had to do everything I can just to keep my business going and just to keep a roof over my head and I'm just gonna be quick with this I did I designed these patches look it's my logo but in water and it's a dunk the junk thing and the idea was that I was gonna dunk the dunk me junk or what's my light doing here look it's not time to think about light is it and yeah I was gonna dunk me junk in awareness for men's testicular cancer because I've had testicular cancer and that's when yeah I nearly popped me clogs lost all me that's when I was looking at all photos of myself recently I've heard there's any it was before like social media and stuff and camera phones and stuff so I've only got a couple of photos so I was looking at it thinking I shall I shave me head for quarantine and what I was looking back at them thinking oh that's what I just to see what I look like and it's not not good not good like some sort of rat rat pink yeah so I brought these patches out and I was gonna sort of dunk the junk and to raise awareness for testicular cancer because I used to check me nuts in the bath like I used to play with me nuts in bath because they float and stuff as you gentlemen will know you junk float in the bath so you play with it you know you just fondling it because you know how else to do sorry this is very candid I do apologize but it has to be said and I moved into a place that only had a shower so I didn't have a bath so I wasn't checking my junk when it was in bath and that's when I missed it I missed my I missed the lump and so I had to have a testicle removed it spread to me lymph nodes in my stomach lots of chemotherapy and stuff and I just wanted to do a little something to raise awareness I was gonna bring these patches out dunk the junk for men's testicular cancer and prostate cancer is another thing that men should talk about go to doctors and get a digit but you send but in light of recent events it just it didn't seem right mate they hadn't seemed right to be like oh don't my junk and I was gonna tag free people's go dunk me junk then tag free people and and all that but it just doesn't seem right so only if if you're in same boat as me mate and you're self-employed and you're skinned and you you're on your ass mate please do not buy one of these I'll be angry with you if you buy one I don't want you to buy one only buy one if you can afford it if you've got a spare a spare couple of quid hanging around and you want to contribute to getting me a pint or buy me some dinner or whatever it is then I would be most grateful I'll leave the link below and it's the dunk you junk it's a vinyl and a vinyl sticker for outdoors and this doesn't have an edge on it so that you can you can iron it onto your gear look there you go get yourself a plain t-shirt and you can just iron that on onto you onto your trunks or something mate and you'd be helping me more than you know and I'll leave the link for that below right now I'm a staying doors mate now I'm a staying doors for now here's outdoors will be back soon hopefully take care of yourselves love you bye I am going though I'm coming back mate I'm coming back it's been too long man love you bye I live by guns be by guns can they box a look on five by the month