"The biggest difference between Britain and America is that Americans think one hundred years is a long time and the British think a hundred miles is a long way."
You don't ever imagine typing these words. My father died on Monday. He taught me that a sense of humour goes a long way; that there's value in optimism; and that few things are more useful than useless trivia. I couldn't be more thankful to be his son. He'll be missed immensely.
The numbers for this video have broken all kinds of 'Lost in the Pond' records. Thank you all for your kind words. Burdened by a stiff upper lip it's difficult to express in words how I feel at this moment. But I did it. I secretly became a US citizen:
Naturally I have a stiff upper lip, but I must confess that it wobbled slightly upon reading the huge outpouring of well-wishes from you all. My dad would be confused and excited in equal measure. Thank you.
Here's the thing you got to understand. If you've got something to say on this social media platform and you can not find a way to say it in fewer than two-hundred and eighty characters, then it just might be that you're not particularly cut out for a professional career in editi
I am officially adding Adirondack chairs to my list of 100 greatest American inventions. The acquisition of my own set would firmly move them into the top 50.
Happy birthday to Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Christina Ricci, and Tarah (my wife).
When I was fifteen, I dreamed of marrying at least one of those people, so life has worked out pretty well, I'd say.
Training a puppy at the same time as making a video about training a puppy is a) hard work, and b) the start of an existential crisis. Nonetheless, come say hello to Arthur.
Like most people alive today, I've never known a Britain without Queen Elizabeth II, which is a wild thing to say at 40.
It's even more gobsmacking to think that—when I was born—she had already been on the throne nearly THIRTY years.
Rest in peace, Your Majesty.
In the space of 38 years, England came up with three of the world's most recognizable bears—despite boasting no actual bears. Scientists don't know why.
My YouTube channel just passed 400,000 subscribers. I would like to thank all of you for helping 'Lost in the Pond' finally exceed the population of Wichita. It's always been a dream of mine.
'Lost in the Pond' smashed its own records again in 2023, so unfortunately I'll have to keep doing this.
• Views this year: 70 million (more than 3 times the previous record)
• New subscribers: 235,000 (185% increase on previous record)
• Awards lost: 1
The cat has been so excited with the new house that he's barely slept. To address this, I folded up his favorite blanket and popped it down in the living room. It sort of worked.
Here we are, six months into the year, and 'Lost in the Pond' has been watched more times in 2023 than in any other year since we launched—and by some distance.
Dear viewers, if you haven't patted yourselves on the back yet, do that now.
We finally moved our cat into the new house. He has pretty much marked the entire building as his territory, and we're in the process of putting the house in his name.
REPORT: Arthur has shown incredible progress. So far, in his first three days with us, he has learned to do the following:
○ Sit on command
○ Do his business outside (mostly now)
○ Find his way home
○ Force Laurence to run for the first time since 1998.
This is wild. My channel has now officially had more views in 2020 than the previous five years COMBINED. Can't decide if this is because of the pandemic, the fact that I've gone full-time, or because my mum just binge watches more. But I genuinely had to do a double-take.
Here's my dad helping me and my brothers do something that would become outlawed twenty years later: feeding pigeons in London's Trafalgar Square. I'm the one in the middle (child, not pigeon).
@NoContextBrits
"The biggest difference between Britain and America is that Americans think one hundred years is a long time, and the British think a hundred miles is a long way." - someone.
Before going outside, our puppy still struggles with getting his hind legs out of the crate.
Before eating food that's just been prepared for him, our puppy has absolutely no problem getting his hind legs out of the crate.
Imagine filing taxes as a self-employed person who both rented and owned a home in 2022, and who transitioned from alien resident to US citizen in that very year.
My American sister-in-law to my wife just now: "My daughter (your niece) demanded to watch the Christmas episode of Peppa Pig three times today and is now calling Santa "Father Christmas."
This, my friends, is how Britain will reclaim America.
Having now moved homes in both a heatwave and thick snowfall, I'd take the second one every time. Walking outside into the winter chill after lots of heavy lifting is an oddly beautiful thing.
Farewell to Angela Lansbury, who—in addition to a stellar career—held British, Irish, and American citizenships. I believe my first introduction to her would have been Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Today is the one-year anniversary of me going full-time on YouTube. Back then, even though I'd just passed 100,000 subs, I was hyper-aware of the risks—especially with the emerging pandemic. Yesterday, I passed 256,000 subscribers. Turns out this might be a proper job after all.
I may have been naturalized in time for the New Year, but the knighthood confirmation from the new king "got lost in the post" again. Like mother like son
Maybe it's because I'm from Britain, but I've noticed that hardly anyone is talking about the fact that the world's largest tea pot is located in West Virginia—a state shaped like a teapot.
The fourth of July is as American as apple pie so long as you forget that apple pie originated in England and that "fourth of July" is written in UK date format.
Before adopting a puppy, I didn't realize HOW popular they are with human strangers. Must have been stopped thirty times in two hours at the outdoor mall. Hope in humanity restored.
As a compromise, the wife and I watch neither American nor British New Year coverage, but Canadian. And... it's amazing. A performance was delayed—and I'm not making this up—because a polar bear invaded the stage.
It's my wife's birthday today and we just came to a pleasing realization; her birthday is forty-three days from the start of the year and mine is forty-three from the end.
I just reached 10,000 Twitter followers and my first thought was, what would Jesus do? And then I realized he'd feed half of you and I simply don't have the budget for that.
"The biggest difference between Britain and America is that Americans think a hundred years is a long time and the British think a hundred miles is a long way."
While my wife was out, my dog just led me to the front door from inside. Then he turned around to grab one of my wife's socks, dropping it next to the door. He jumped up at the door, excitedly, before repeating both actions. And then it hit me, and it was profound.