Live from Much Wenlock town square - on Boxing Day 2022 - English Addict with Mr Duncan + Mr Steve

We are now live from the beautiful English

town of Much Wenlock on Boxing Day 2022.

The first thing I want to do, of course you know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to ask if you can hear us.

First of all, can you hear us?

Can you hear us?

Can you hear us?

If you can hear as clearly.

Can you please say, Mr.

Duncan, we can hear you very clearly and then we can

reveal ourselves.

So what we're saying. Hello?

Can you hear us?

Please let us know if you can hear.

Oh, Olga says yes. Hello? Hello, Olga.

Thank you very much, Christina.

Now, as long as we are not, sir, as long as we are not too loud

and we are not too quiet, so we will see what her thing says.

Beatrice. Oh, perfect.

So if the level is low, if the sound is low,

please let us know on the live chat.

So I suppose we should reveal ourselves.

We are now live as promised.

We are having a very busy Christmas period

because this is now our third live stream.

We were with you on Christmas Eve.

We were here on Christmas Day, which was yesterday.

And here we are now

with you live again.

Oh, my goodness.

Here we are.

We are now life as life can be.

Hi, everybody. This is Mr. Duncan and Mr.

Steve in much Wenlock life on Boxing Day.

And it's oh, yes, it's very busy here

in much around town centre is much busier than we thought it would be.

Lots of people milling about, lots of people out walking.

But we are quite cold because it's quite a cold day today on Boxing Day.

I wasn't expecting it to be, but it is.

It is and it's cold.

It wasn't. Drink is very cold today.

So we brought some drinks.

You want to hold that, Mr. Duncan?

We have. We have coffee already.

We've only just arrived.

We've only just arrived and already we are freezing cold.

Although I'm not wearing my coat, I might regret not wearing my coat.

So before we

do anything else, we're going to have some coffee.

Which one's mine?

Oh, I see.

I get the big one. Mr. Don't.

Why do I have to have the small one?

That's not very nice.

So cheers.

This is mostly whisky.

Come back slightly, Steve.

So here we are then.

It is now.

I don't know what time it is.

2:20, Mr. Drink.

It is now 2:20 o'clock.

It's still looking Christmas.

It's very difficult for us to see the live chat,

by the way, because I can see it.

I know, but we haven't got a big screen so we only seeing them flash past.

Yes. Well, very quickly.

So it's very difficult for us to actually see what comments people are making.

But it's not freezing cold, Christine.

But it is quite cold. Yeah. So

we brought some coffee with us because we didn't have time.

Cheers, Mr. Duncan. Cheers, mate.

We didn't have time to have a cup of coffee before we went out.

Now, somebody said, Can you just stop doing that?

Well, how am I supposed to check the live chat, Mr. Duncan?

That's.

That's. I put my finger on the screen.

Make it. Use your other hand. Could I?

Let's try that.

All right.

So you mean. Yes.

Now, some of them are saying that there were some lovely messages on the live chat earlier,

so I'm going to go back.

Blimey, I can't go back that far.

No. Well, it was first on today.

Well, don't forget the live chat starts before we come on,

because the live chat is already open, so don't worry too much about that.

Let's see what people are saying.

Hello, classmates. Um.

Oh, yeah, that's very interesting here.

Also, Christine is here. Lewis is here.

So we don't know who was first on today.

The Mr.

don't know because the live chat is running all the time.

Been doing it like this so we haven't got on.

Does anyone want to hear the technical details we haven't got on normal view.

So it's very difficult for us to follow the live chat.

But anyway, just letting people know in case people are putting things

on, you see, and don't think why we haven't replied to that.

Okay, let's go back.

So we can't read the old ones because they're too, too far.

Oh, look, Paloma is giving you a donation.

Thank you very much, Palmira, for your.

Thank you very much indeed.

Thank you for your super sticker.

Much appreciated.

I must make.

Must use my other finger, Mr. Duncan.

Hello, everybody.

But don't worry about it, Mr. Duncan.

She is giant finger.

Yes. It's because I was using the wrong thing.

Mr. Duncan is chastising me. I'm not telling Mr.

Steve off.

I'm just saying that no one is going to watch that.

You say that.

I didn't do that.

No one's watching that.

I didn't do that.

I'm not a technical expert, Mr. Duncan.

You're the technical expert.

It is true. I am the technical expert.

So for those wondering where we are, can you can you just leave that for a second, Steve?

Okay, fine. Please.

It's okay,

because I've only just started the live stream.

I have to make sure it's a working.

So for those wondering where we are,

we are now we're going to establish our location.

We are in much Wenlock because I have a feeling a lot of people are going to ask, Where are you?

Mr. Duncan?

So we are in much Wenlock, I hope you can hear, is clearly one of the problems with doing this

is you never know how how well the sound is coming over because we can't hear it.

Well, we've asked and people have said, I can hear is perfectly yes, but all we like to loud.

Well, I don't think.

Or are we very quiet because if it's too quiet, people can't as well.

So can you hear us okay? Somebody said yes, perfectly.

Okay. Good.

I will trust you by Christmas. Connell Yes.

Well, it's the day after Christmas Day.

We had a super time, didn't we?

Eat a lot of stuff yesterday?

We did. We had.

We rushed our meal down just before the live stream.

We were later on because we

were eating late and then we had a long gap while we were on the live stream.

Then we fell asleep.

Perfect people are saying.

And then we just ate lots of junk food all evening.

Probably like a lot of you who are celebrating Christmas at the moment,

you probably handle your sugary snacks, your salty snacks.

We did eat a lot of rubbish last night.

I have to be honest with you.

We had so much rubbish last night,

very little alcohol, I got to say, for Christmas

we had half a glass of beer each,

which is probably you would call as a light weight. Yes.

Not. Not, not much.

We didn't have much alcohol.

We had lots of sticky, gooey, unhealthy, sugary food.

Mr. Steve had his twee glitz as usual.

And actually, I've got something I brought something to eat with us, Mr.

Duncan, because in case we get cold

and lacking in

and you want some more, I'll have some more, but not yet.

In a little bit.

It's all down here and I've got a big flask of coffee to keep us warm

throughout this live stream, so we're not sure how long we were going to be here.

Charles says.

Louis, hello to you, too.

We don't know who was first on today.

We have no way of knowing because we can't check.

All we can see is a very small amount of the live

chat and it's flashing past very quickly.

So apologies if we don't

respond to everybody's will.

We have food.

By the way, for those wondering we are eating some food inside this little bag, there is one of Mr.

Steve's dates. There is a mince pie.

There is Mr.

Steve's

coughing.

I've got a date.

And also inside you can see there is a little marshmallow.

The things we were eating the other day that a lot of people

seem to like actually they are having.

Yes. Look at that.

Christina is having salmon today.

How posh? Yes, very nice.

Yes, we had salmon on when we have it.

Was it couple of days ago?

Three days ago, Something like that. How lovely. Yes.

How did you cook it?

Christina, tell us how you cooked it.

We had we had the salmon on Thursday night.

How do you feel now, Mr. Duncan?

I'm just sharing what we've got.

It's very stiff. So.

So say no. We ate these the other day, didn't we?

We did.

We ate them life.

Yes, We had these the other day, and they were very delicious.

Mr. Steve is got his mince pie.

Traditional Christmas. Mince pie. Yes.

Which is one of those love or hate foods.

Some people love them. Some people hate them.

Did you know that mince pies used to be made with real meat?

Not anymore.

Not anymore.

You're a vegetarian now? Yeah, well, I'm not sure I was.

He didn't share the date.

I was going to say the dates. Mr..

And the date is the 26th of December.

Oh, yes. You see, values.

Are we teaching English already?

This is a date.

It's a medjool date.

It's a from America.

An American. An American date.

Oh, yeah.

Is it from Las Vegas or Hollywood?

Oh, sure.

Maybe it's a Hollywood date.

Actually, I eat it. It's.

Yes, I think I'm feeling a bit peckish.

I might eat it, Mr. Duncan. Okay.

Because it's healthy. It's good for you.

Sort of sugar, of course, but

you've got to remember,

it's a big stone in the middle.

I mean, you don't want to

lose a joint date.

Did you eat all this chocolate?

No, we didn't.

We didn't eat all the chocolate because there are too many.

And if we had eaten all the chocolates, Christine

would have ended up in hospital.

So we know we didn't eat all the chocolates.

Was that nice?

Mr. Steve had a date.

Oh, by the way, Mr. Steve also bought something for me.

An extra present last night that I opened late.

If I can just do that.

If I can, Mr.

Steve put an extra present for me last night, and it was a lovely Christmas

light in the shape of a star.

And I have to say it is lovely.

We might show it to you next week.

Salman Balls says Palmira.

I didn't know they had bowl with some mushroom sauce.

I didn't know Simon. Simon had little balls.

Why not mushrooms?

But Mr. Duncan doesn't.

So I would have eaten all of that delicious meal.

Yes, I'm standing too close. Mr..

No, it's okay, Steve.

We've got our tinsel on.

So the locals, the local people

walking past probably think this looks very strange. Yes.

I mean, they're wearing tinsel at Christmas.

How we. As I know.

But you don't wear tinsel out in public normally.

Well, it's festive.

Yeah, but I'm just saying, you're just explaining that this isn't normal.

You know, this this isn't north. This is.

This isn't normally how we dress in England, by the way.

This isn't.

This isn't our extravagant English clothing. But

I think you look lovely today, Steve.

It's not nice here.

You can see lots of people are walking by walking their dogs.

Of course.

No doubt they dogs need a good walk because probably they didn't go out yesterday.

Well, the dogs now, because the owners would have been too

tired and drunk after the Christmas meal.

Probably the dogs need some exercise today.

You know, there are people who buy their dogs Christmas presents.

I mean, how do they open them?

That's what I want to know.

So when they wrap the present up for a dog,

how does the dog know that that gift is for them?

Pedro's here.

We can't show Flags of the World again, okay, Because we haven't got that technical facility.

May have noticed when we're outdoors in the middle of nowhere.

So if you're expecting Flags of the World,

we're going to disappoint you.

If it was five of us, if it was Flags of the World, maybe we we could have helped you.

There isn't cooking, by the way.

There isn't a theme to today.

Is there some reason that there's a theme? Hello, Claudia?

No, there isn't a theme.

The theme today is two people standing outside freezing cold.

And Claudia is here. What are you cooking, Claudia?

I wonder what Claudia had yesterday for Christmas.

What did you eat yesterday, Claudia?

Anything.

Anything nice?

Christina asks, What are these buildings behind as well?

Their shops,

their shops.

Which is quite a common in a British high street. Yes.

You see shops.

You see shops, shops and above the shops.

The shops are on the ground floor.

And then above the shops are flats where people see the Rolls-Royce.

Then now there's a Rolls-Royce.

Look at the Rolls-Royce.

Very nice.

That that was a Rolls-Royce.

That's probably a classic, a classic car.

I'd probably say that's probably 30 years old, that car.

So yes, these these are shops with flats above them where people

are living probably. And

yes, we

Claudia was we know that you weren't with this for long yesterday.

You were cooking, but not today.

I'm cooking and Olga's cooking today.

So yes, you can probably see that that shop there

that is.

Oh that's tea on the square sir.

That is a tea shop.

A little cafe, A little cafe which is shut today.

And then these are the flats above where people are living everywhere is today.

That's like a gift shop

flats above where people are living.

And there is the the museum that white building is the museum.

It's closed.

Everything is closed today.

The only place that's open today is the local spa shop.

The convenience store that is open today.

But everywhere else is closed because it's Boxing Day Shop store.

That's right.

Yes. They're all shut today, Rosa, apart from, as Mr.

Duncan said, the Spar shop, which is like a

convenience store where you can buy bread and milk

and just sort of anything that'll be open probably until about five.

And it could be open all day, couldn't it?

Well, be open till about seven or 8:00 tonight.

Maybe. Yes.

Christine, it is medieval, You are correct.

Yes, it is a very old town.

I think.

I think almost a thousand years. Yes.

And there's a ruined abbey,

which was one of the one of the apples that

that famous king would have dissolved

in whenever it was 150 years ago.

Welcome to history with Mr.

Steve King, of course, Of Henry V a Henry the eighth. Yes.

And Henry the fire.

My aim with the fire.

So he destroyed all the monasteries and there's a ruined one here.

But the abbey the abbey was built about 900 years ago,

and the original abbey was actually the only building here.

Yeah, So originally it was just the abbey.

And then people started coming and bringing their.

Their wares and vegetables to sell outside the abbey for the people that were there.

Yeah.

And that's how much Wenlock was born around 900 years ago.

That's a long time.

I've Delicata wants to know about the history of Boxing Day.

We have, of course, covered this before, but the reason, the reason why we have Boxing Day.

Traditionally people who were working over the Christmas period would receive

their gift or their payment the day after Christmas.

So when the rich people were having their feasts and their dinners,

all of the servants would receive their payment

the day after Christmas.

And normally it was given in a box.

Hence Boxing Day Mum Christina says she can see a tower.

There is probably the church tower.

There is the church behind us. And look.

Oh, Pedro.

Pedro, there is a flag.

So there is one of our flags of the world.

There is the English flag.

It is basically a red cross on a white background.

So we do have one of the flags of the world.

Look at that just for you.

So there it is, the church.

So that part of that church is very old.

And the other part of the church is quite recent.

A few hundred years. Yeah.

So that's that tower.

Christina The one in the foreground is this one.

Here is a clock tower. Hmm.

That's a you can't see the clock face because it's round the other side. Yes.

So there's only three clocks. Yes.

And we happen to be on the side where there isn't one.

So that is the area where you get inside the clock.

If you want to repair the clock, there is a little door there and there is the thing

at the top you can open to repair the clock if it goes wrong.

Yes. No, no.

Actual boxing involved.

It just refers to the box, isn't it in the box that the gift would be given in. Yes.

For the employer if the employee in fact, I remember before before or

there's a sentence there somewhere.

I remember my father used to get paid just before Christmas

and he would always call it his Christmas box.

So it was quite a quite a well-known phrase.

Even in the 1970s, people would say they were receiving their Christmas box.

So that was the payment before Christmas.

Like a bonus, people often get paid a bonus before Christmas.

Used to be done on today, the 26th,

but these in modern times, it's usually done before Christmas so that people

then have the money to go out and buy presents and things like that.

So it is a commercial thing, you see.

It's Yes.

So a Christmas bonus is quite it's very I think it's even more popular in America isn't it, the Yes.

Christmas bonus.

But yeah, people normally wait for something from their employers.

Well of course that extra money in the United States, everything

surrounds or revolves around Thanksgiving.

So they're big payment is before the end of November,

which is why we have Black Friday.

So Black Friday is the last

trading day before Thanksgiving.

And now we do it here, even though here we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, to be honest.

So the flag on top of the church tower probably looks white to you

because probably it's too far away and you can't see the Red Cross.

There we go.

You should be able to see that.

Hopefully there should be the Red Cross. Can you see it?

It's a Red Cross.

It is blowing in the wind on a white background.

Yeah. Look, Mr.

Duncan, There we go.

That's it.

It is.

I'm doing your your famous pointing. Oh,

so yes, Francesca said they can see it.

Now, I know one thing. I'm starting to get cold.

All right, You want to put your coat on?

Fortunately, I've bought my coat, so my coat is over there,

and I put it on in the moment because I'm getting a little bit cold.

Yes, it is. Oh, sorry. I was going to read the live chat.

Go on.

That's very kind of you explaining the surroundings and features of much Wenlock.

Where does much Wenlock name come from?

It comes from the Abbey.

The White Abbey?

No, I would imagine that originally

the Abbey was painted or had some some white features.

So that's what much Wenlock is.

Wenlock I think it's the white church or white chapel.

All right.

And I didn't know that Mr. Dingle to watch you and something.

Thank you very much. Fancy pen.

You were not just standing here for nothing.

We're going to actually teach you something as well.

I think it actually derives from Welsh as well, because at one point

this area was was a contested area of land between the English and the Welsh.

There were there were a lot of battles and fights that took place in this area.

So we are sort of on the border of Wales.

Yes, we're probably about 20 miles from Wales

and you can tell that

there's a lot of Welsh influence here in much Wenlock

because the the local ATM at the bank where you get your money out

asks you whether you want to read

the instructions in Welsh or in English.

So that just shows you how much influence

there is from from Wales in this area.

Not that we are you feeling a bit warmer now?

Mr. Duncan?

Then I've got long johns on.

So long johns are sort of cotton

and the trousers in underneath my jeans.

I have some long johns, they call them.

They're just

insulating

trousers underneath. Yes, aren't they?

They're long underwear.

Underwear.

That's it. Yes.

So think of underwear. That's very long.

And you can wear it under your clothing.

Thermal underwear fits tight to the skin.

When you were in China, when it was in very cold countries.

They wear these all the time, don't they do.

And then they just take the chances off

when they go indoors and then keep those on and then put the trousers back on when they go out.

Yes. It's not unusual to go round to someone's house in China

and they're all sitting around in their underwear.

It's very common. Hello, Mr.

Duncan and Mr.

Steve Giovanni.

How are you? We are in the main square again.

Yes, we are back here again, but it's a little quieter than the last time we were here.

It was full of people the last time we were here.

It's starting to

fascinate me a lot and I am very curious.

Happy Boxing Day.

Oh, by the way, we didn't get any any Boxing

Day bonuses from anyone, did we know?

We did not know.

YouTube didn't give you a Boxing Day bonus, didn't they?

They just about pay me a basic wage, never mind anything else.

Of course I'm not working at the moment, so

my company used to sometimes

give us something, but very only if you'd sold enough.

So it wasn't just a you know, you just didn't get money for nothing.

Well, no.

Well, that's why I would imagine most people, if they get

some sort of bonus in their salary,

normally it's because of their performance.

But the Boxing Day bonus was normally just a

thank you really for the employer to the employees to say, well,

thank you for all your hard work this year, whatever that job is.

And they would give you and depending on how the company had

performed, you might get more money or less money.

I am freezing.

Are you freezing?

Do you want some more coffee?

So I give you another flask of coffee.

We'll have another cup of coffee.

Yes, Yes.

For those who have just joined us, don't worry.

There is nothing wrong with your computer.

We are outside in.

In a beautiful setting.

And also we have the sun today.

It's very sunny.

Mr. Steve has brought some coffee.

Thank you for bringing this with you.

You can see the steam coming off it.

Look at that. A nice hot

cup of coffee.

Oh, that's what you need.

On a day like today, you need something to warm

you up inside.

Oh, if only Christine says at Christmas we receive the so-called 13th.

Oh double salary.

Double salary.

Christina, I'm going to go and work there.

So you get, like, instead of 12 months pay, you get an extra month.

So is it a month's pay that you get?

Uh, yes. This is Mr.

Duncan. Bought me that.

Yes. Let's show the.

Yes, we have a hot coffee in the flask.

This is something I bought for Mr.

Steve many years ago.

You can move back slightly to show it.

You can?

It's a

thermos.

Yes, probably the original.

The company that made these kind of

vacuum insulating devices.

It's.

Yeah, it's a thermos. Flexible vacuum flask. Yes.

So but this is this is a special one because you can drop it.

Apparently, you can drop this from the top of a building and it won't break.

So we try that, Mr. Duncan.

We won't try it today. We won't try it today.

No, Mr.

Duncan bought that for me for work when I was going out in my car,

in my sales job, he would make me a flask of coffee.

Well, he did for for a few days. And then he gave up.

And the idea was that I would take it with me when I felt like a cup of coffee

instead of having to pay £3 for one, it's virtually free.

Yes, Free coffee for me.

Did you hear yesterday the King Charles message?

We did not.

Thank you, Rhubarb, for asking.

We did not see the message, but I would imagine it went something like this.

Hello?

It's Prince Charles here.

But soon I will be your king and you will obey me.

And don't forget to keep that bloody ink away from me.

I don't like ink. Abdelkader.

Yes, that is thermos.

That is correct.

Which is the brand name of a vacuum flask

which keeps you your drinks hot or cold?

Well, thermos. Thermos.

Make all of the different insulation.

I think it's quite a very big company.

I think thermos flasks are just one of the things they make.

Yeah, they're still made from glass or glass

because there's a vacuum in there.

So that that helps to, they say, stays hot for hours in one of these, isn't it?

What do you think about his accent? What? It's very nice.

I would like an accent, not Prince Charles. Thank you very much.

Everybody wants to speak like me.

Giovanni has a thermos flask or vacuum flask?

I think it's still made from glass.

Actually, I don't think there's any other way you can make them.

No, They are made of glass.

So if you drop them. Yeah, they.

They make a Well, that one, that one's quite safe because it's, it's tough.

Mr. Doom.

Yes, it's tough and strong like a solo.

Christina used to have a thermos when she was a skiing.

Very useful. Yes, because you can make it.

And the drink will stay warm for hours or, of course, cold.

If you put a cold drink in there, the drink will stay cold.

So it's quite magic, really, when you think about it.

It's like witchcraft. All You ready to eat anything?

I, I wonder if Steve wants to eat something.

I know I do.

You don't mind is eating, but

you know that. And also the flying.

Yeah. Thank you. Yes.

We just keep talking and hopefully you are learning

just from us, talking how to pronounce certain words.

Well, it's just listening is one of the main parts of

speaking English.

As your wife, you're learning English.

Listening is probably 70% of learning the language

or any language or anything you can learn by listening.

Maybe you are listening to the way your words are pronounced,

but also you are listening to the information

that is also being given.

So it is not just the language itself,

but what is contained within the language.

Yes, Christina, we did see the news about the very heavy snowfall

and cold weather that they're having in America at the moment.

We're hoping not to have it here.

I think it went down. We discussed that the other day.

I think it's gone down to about -40 or something like that.

Hi, this is Aria.

40 degrees below zero is very cold.

Sami asks, Do we have any alcohol in the coffee now? Yes.

My father would always put whisky in

the coffee, but

we haven't put any alcohol in the coffee.

This is mine. This would be.

I don't know.

We should have done. Probably.

That's my mince pie. Hmm.

I said get your mouth around it.

Pastry and

inside dried fruit.

I'm sure people know about mince pies, but

this will keep me.

Will you still hold me?

Sit and no.

Hmm. Hmm.

So this is a marshmallow.

Very soft with chocolate and biscuit.

The biscuit is on the bottom.

It's very nice.

We've got biscuit on your bottom.

Oh, the bottom of that.

Oh, well, they are delicious.

All that's missing from this

is some hot custard.

So last night I had one of these

and I put custard over it and I hated it in the microwave.

But this one's cold.

But nevertheless, it's going to keep me warm with the coffee.

I'm hoping that I didn't make that coffee too strong, Mr.

Dunkin, because too much caffeine and I get heart palpitations.

Great.

So we don't want to have to call an ambulance, of course, because there aren't any.

They're all on strike. No, that doesn't strike today.

But they have been.

They have been on strike.

So maybe that they're going to be too busy.

Mm hmm.

Yes. Christina, we do risk a hypo

hypoglycaemic crisis.

You are correct.

I've raised blood sugar, so we've got to hope that our pancreas

can cope with producing enough insulin

to to cope with this sugar rush

from all these sweet snacks and drinks that were eating.

I'm immune to it, to be honest. I'm immune to sugar.

Sugar has no effect on me anymore.

He's got the pancreas is bigger than his liver.

My pancreas, I have to carry it.

And a small bag that I put over my back,

my pancreas goes, goes round the back.

It's so large.

You're a medical curiosity when it comes to sugar.

I know.

And that's why that's why when I'm done, when I'm dead, I'm going to be put in

lots of little jars for people to look at.

Semi Semi says I am hungry,

my mouth is starting to water.

Do we know?

Inspector Barnaby says from Inspector Barnaby.

Well, well here in which when can look at a television programme.

It is he is, he is a detective

and he solves murders in a particular place.

I'm not, I'm, I'm trying to remember the name of the programme.

I think it's Midsomer Murders.

Is that the name of the TV show Midsomer Murders?

And I think then the name of the.

The name of the character is Inspector

Barnaby.

Like, what are you doing?

You've got. It's like a baby you got look after him. Come.

There's a microphone there.

I was worrying about the microphone, Mr. Duncan.

Okay, well, when it sounds, it sounds like rubbish.

Later.

Of course, in England you don't have to worry about putting the rubbish in a bin.

You can just throw it away like that.

Did you throw it away?

Oh. Oh,

yeah.

I'm joking. I'm fine. Okay.

I'm right.

Apparently it is Midsomer Murders.

I don't know how I knew that because I've never,

ever watched that programme.

I don't even know how I know that information.

But do you ever find that sometimes you know things, but you don't know how you know them,

that the information somehow

has got into your head, but you don't know how it got there?

I know that Inspector Barnaby

is from Midsomer Murders, but I've never watched it ever.

Giovanni asks about.

I'm a tea man, says Beatrice.

No, Giovanni says. I'm a tea man.

I'd like to find an online shop which delivers big boxes of tea.

Well,

try Amazon. Yes.

Clipper.

Clipper c i PR Clipper

teas are brilliant, but a whole range of them.

They're the ones. Or what's the what's that of the make.

I have Mr.

Duncan but Clipper teas look that up

and you will they have a whole range of lovely English teas.

Oh great he's all sorts of different things.

Organic. Non-organic.

Yes. Well, I think, I think maybe maybe he's on about the actual property.

Different teas like Lady Grey.

Yeah. That, that's what they do.

Clipper do all those Earl Grey Darjeeling.

Yes. I've picked it up.

Jessica I like Earl Grey and also Assam tea.

Indian tea.

Yes. Try Amazon obviously.

But Clipper is good for teas.

And what's that are the make of pukka pukka teas.

P p you k k a I think.

But to be honest that's not that's not property though is that's herbal it.

They do but they do do properties as well.

Herbal tea is horrible but you can get anything on Amazon can't you.

If you are.

I mean who needs the high street anymore

when you can, when you can get everything in the name of the pigeons are going crazy.

Oh no, it's the crows.

The crows are flying over the rafters.

Mr. Duncan, I have to be there after Mr.

Steve's mince pie. Probably.

They're probably seen as eating they're probably are lurking around, hoping that will throw in some crumbs.

There are pigeons flying everywhere.

I would picture a football and a dog.

I've never seen that before.

Yes, that's exciting. Steve.

Yeah, yeah.

Dogs.

Yes, it's everyone's everyone's got, everyone's got dogs.

Everyone has dogs nowadays.

Rosie Yes.

Clipper is a, is a, is a brand of tea

and pukka is a brand of tea. Yes.

But I don't know whether you can get Clipper in other countries.

Well I think I think a lot of these teas are sold all around the world. Yes.

As tea often is.

That's right.

There's a as a tea emporium in Ironbridge. Hmm.

A tea emporium.

And they sell so many types of tea.

Some of them I've never heard of. Yes.

So you go into this tea emporium and there are just

shout rack after rack of different types of teas. Hmm.

So? So.

So an emporium is an old fashioned word for shop.

A place where things are gathered and sold.

Please ask us any questions you like and we will attempt to

to answer them if we can see the live chat.

There we go. I've got to be careful what I stab at. Swipe.

Don't tap, swipe, Don't tap, swipe, don't tap.

So semi.

Yes tea.

I prefer tea with milk.

Most people in the UK would have tea with milk.

Of course there is controversy as to whether you put the milk in first or whether you put the tea in.

You put the milk into the tea after you've poured the tea

or you put the milk in before no one puts the milk in before.

It's disgusting.

I always do, but

there's always controversy about that in the UK.

It's supposed to be posher, I think if you put the milk in afterwards.

Okay. I think is the general consensus.

If you put the milk in first, people say, Oh, I'm common,

but if you put the milk in afterwards, then you're seen as sophisticated

and aristocratic and upper class.

Very nice.

So for those who've just joined us. Hello, welcome.

It's Boxing Day, everyone, and it doesn't mean I'm going to box Mr.

Duncan's face.

Boxing Day has arrived the day after Christmas and we are here

live in much Wenlock, the place where we live.

Tea with men's. What's that?

Tea with men's.

Please tell us what that means.

Never heard of that before.

The Christmas lights are here, as you can see.

But they're not armed.

No, not even the Not even the Christmas tree.

So the Christmas tree is just over there and they haven't even put the lights on.

They haven't You would have thought

that they would have because they knew we were coming.

So you would have thought.

I would have thought that the people in much Wenlock

would have put the lights on for us because they knew we were coming.

Abdulkadir is watching chess

and also got one eye on the chess from one eye on us.

Chess?

Uh, what chess championship?

You've you a you're obviously very clever.

Um, what TV Watching.

Watching chess makes you clever.

Mario says tea is very expensive in Poland.

So if I watch open heart surgery, does that make me a surgeon?

I'm leaving the English and Esperanto

using video and Duolingo.

Duolingo is a very good company.

They do a lot of very good software and a lot of good programs for learning English.

Yes. Good one.

I would say that if you want some British tea,

then come over from Poland and visitors.

You can bring tonic with you as well as he's over there at the moment.

And then you can buy all the cheap tea you like and take it all back with you.

I don't know if there's any customs restrictions on bringing tea back into Poland,

but maybe it's treated like cigarettes.

Maybe there's a limit.

We could send you some, of course.

Cigarettes and tea. Hmm.

There must be companies in the UK that you can buy tea off and they will send it to you.

I would have a look on Amazon or somewhere like that. Yes.

So the place to go is Amazon.

Look up booker t p u k k a clipper or

clipper tea?

See what happens.

Tea with Amber.

I don't know what Amber is.

Tea with Amber.

It's not that kind of.

What is Amber, Please tell us what Amber is.

Xavier says I prefer coffee to tea.

Yes, some people do.

Coffee is becoming very popular in the UK, I think.

I think that might be a fan of ours.

If you went if you were to go back to when we grew up in the sort of seventies,

not many people drink coffee then, but I think the latest statistics

are showing that more people drink coffee now in the UK than tea. Hmm.

So yes, it's probably only because it's seen as

coffee in the UK is seen as sort of

is seen as more modern than sort of with it.

If you drink coffee, if you drink tea.

Now people think you're very old fashioned.

So if you want to seem sort of up to date and with it in modern, you drink coffee.

And I think I think genuinely speaking tea is seen as slightly more sophisticated coffee.

You, me, No tea. Take.

You have high tea in the afternoon with a cake, a cream cake and a cup tea around here

they always serve tea and cakes in the afternoon so I think it's.

But coffee has become a place to be seen.

So the coffee shop.

So people go to the coffee shops, young people, because they like to be seen, young people

and people that want to seem like they're still young and youthful or I guess like us.

Of course I like one.

I like coffee.

I like one cup of coffee a day and one cup of tea and everything in moderation

and I have to say we are getting a lot of mileage out of tea and coffee.

Yes, Indian tea?

Yes. Indian tea is

is different.

It's slightly different to British tea in that it tends to be

have more sort of aromatic spices in it,

sort of like cardamom and things like that.

So you've got the tea leaves and then they add things like

cardamom and warm spices and lots of milk and sugar.

So it's quite different to British tea,

which tends to be taken without sugar and just with a little bit of milk.

Yes. Well, we often think of the traditional place where.

Tea was grown originally. Is India, of course.

Oh, I think that's is that the explanation there with the amber?

Amber is a hard, clear yellow brown substance

used for making jewellery or ornament.

Oh, okay.

Does does it come from maybe it refers to the colour, maybe it's the colour.

Yes. Yes.

Amber tea might actually be the colour.

So certain types of herbal tea do

have an amber shade or the colour is very similar to amber.

So maybe it means that maybe the colour. Yes.

Tea is often described as the colour of amber, so it's a sort of brownish orange colour.

I think amber comes from the lights.

Just came on though.

The Christmas lights have just come on.

They're listening to us.

I think Amber comes from, um.

Isn't it the sap from a tree or a plant?

The lights are on.

The Christmas lights have just come on. Wow. It's.

It's almost as if they. They knew.

I wonder what time it is, Mr.

Duncan. Yes, sir.

Maybe the tea with Amber.

I don't know whether you could, but I think Amber comes from

a tree.

I think it's the sap from a tree that sort of sets into

into this sort of golden brown, a yellowy colour, I think.

Well, that's what animals and insects from thousands of years

ago, millions of years ago, have been trapped in.

Haven't you ever seen Jurassic Park or comes from the sea?

It's not the colour. It comes from the sea.

Well, I like to try that.

Uh, still don't quite know what it is, though.

Still not quite there.

Have we got any Italian products which you'd like to buys

as Giovani consume in your daily life?

Um, well, Italian coffee.

We would buy certain biscuits.

He comes from Italy.

I don't think we have Italian coffee. They do.

I thought ours comes from Colombia.

Probably the ones we the one we like is Colombian coffee.

We don't really, do we?

Italian products, Italy, Italian products are known

for sort of their fashion in the UK, not so much for food or drink.

Italian coffee is quite popular, but normally people think Italy.

In the UK they think of high fashion clothes don't they?

Well, as Italian food there is just Italian cheese, Italian cuisine, pizza,

Italian restaurants.

Yes, lots of Italians.

We often think of the style of food. So.

So when we talk about food here, we often talk about the style of food, don't we,

rather than the produce itself.

Yeah.

So Italian food we often see as the style, the type of cooking

or the type of ingredients used French cooking,

things like that are of course, is very popular here.

And pasta, uh, people will buy pasta linguine.

Yeah, people will buy pasta and make

normally dried pasta and boil it in water and make a nice pasta.

We use we quite often have that.

So, yes, we do have Italian food

here for in terms of pasta, pizza, that sort of thing.

That's nice.

The sun is is not behind me, but it's actually in front of us.

But it's reflecting from the window behind us.

So it looks as if I'm in the sunlight, but I'm not.

It's actually being reflected from the windows behind us. Yes.

Francesca, Italian coffee is very strong,

and I think you have small,

small amounts of it, almost like an espresso.

And it's very, very strong. Yes.

Um, probably wouldn't be to our taste,

but it's just what you're used to, isn't it?

That's a that's a lot of information.

You get a bit coldness.

I can I can tell you now, if you watch this again later, you will get so much information,

more information than your brain can hold.

I think so.

So I think we will be going in a few moments.

Okay. Mr.

Drink, two reasons.

The sun is going down.

As you can see, it is now reflecting from the window behind us.

Also, I'm a little bit cold.

Latté espresso. Cappuccino. Yes.

Are all Italian phrases that are associated with coffee?

Yes. Turkish coffee. Palmira.

That's very strong as well.

I have tried.

Yes, we did try Turkish coffee semi when we were in Turkey.

That is. It's almost like like oil.

It's very, very strong. It's very thick. Very strong.

But we had that.

We were invited by quite a few people.

We were walking around a beautiful place called Fisher in Turkey,

and two or three of the shop

owners actually invited us in

to take coffee and also some tea as well.

Very nice, very hospitable.

That's one of the things always remember about Turkey is the people are very hospitable.

Giovanni says that there was a sign

behind the Christmas tree

and they'd like to know what that is.

Restrictor in Italy, strong coffee.

I think it was that maybe that.

So when you were standing over here, the living room,

I think that there was no no, because you can't see it.

The only sign you can see is the telephone box.

So there is a telephone box there.

Is it the telephone box?

Because that's the only writing that exists.

That sign didn't know it.

No, it's not there.

You can't see it.

It's too far over there.

Oh, okay.

I think it was actually the telephone box.

Oh, right.

Yes, telephone box rather than a sign.

Not that anyone uses them anymore.

So are we going to stay on for the full hour?

I think we will go in a moment.

And yes, that is the one

Steve was pointing, but that's impossible because I didn't turn it that far round.

Let's have another go

do it.

Was it that one?

Yes. Well, it's it's just talking about the weather.

We can't show it because it's too far away. Unfortunately.

It just says it's just talking about the place where we are.

The the the town square,

the history of the square

unfortunately, we can't move the camera around that far.

I'm sorry.

Yes. It's just giving you information

about telling you that you're standing in much Wenlock Town Square.

It's worth mentioning that we get loads of tourists here

during the summer, so there are lots of things around, lots of signs

giving information about this local area, including the

the museum over there that I showed you earlier.

Uh, yes.

The White House says, Christina, that is the museum.

That's the museum.

And yes, sir. Yes.

It's telling you about the fact that this town goes back hundreds of years.

So, yes, there are lots of information points,

a lot of them concerned with the with the Olympic Games, of course.

Yes. The place where the inspiration

for the modern Olympic Games began by Louis.

Lovely to have you here.

Thank you, Louis, for joining us.

Enjoy the rest of your Boxing Day, I suppose.

Before you go, Louis, can we just say this is the last

live stream

of 2022?

It's the last one.

The next time you will see is.

Is in 2023.

We are back with you next Sunday.

Of course, it is the 1st of January.

A brand new year is beginning next Sunday.

So this is the last final

live stream for a few days.

We are taking a well-deserved rest

over the next two or three days.

And we will be back with you on Sunday, next Sunday,

the 1st of January, New Year's Day,

New he his day next Sunday.

Did you Francesca says, did you have to pay a tax for standing there?

Well, no, no, I think you don't have to do that because it's a public space.

A public space.

So, no, you don't have to actually pay any money to stand here.

No, this is a free place.

As long as you don't upset anybody and cause cause a commotion

or then you don't sort of trip people up.

Can I just say how lovely the light is?

Can you see? Isn't it? This

light is reflecting behind us.

It looks like the sun is next to is, but it isn't.

It's actually the light look coming from that window that.

Can I just point out it is So there there is

the sunlight reflecting back.

It's not amazing.

It almost looks like we're in the sunlight.

The sun is shining wherever we go. Mr. Duncan.

It is. It is. It is true. Certainly.

That is not beautiful.

It's not beautiful. Beautiful setting.

Thank you for your very pleasant company as well, Christina.

Everybody here on the live stream, we are going

we've had three days, three very busy days over the Christmas period.

And we will see you on the 1st of January.

So there are no more live streams this week

and no more live streams this year.

This is the last one.

So all I can say is thank you very much for joining us.

Over the past three days, it's been a very good fun.

It's been rather interesting and a little exhausting.

But may

I take this opportunity to wish you a happy New Year?

I hope you enjoy the rest of your Christmas celebrations

if you are celebrating and anything you want to say. Mr.

Steve No, I just want to say it's been it's been lovely to share

the last three days with you all and to read your lovely comments

and to to know that you appreciate what Mr.

Duncan does in terms of teaching English.

And I suppose the only thing left to say

is to wish people a happy New Year.

Yes, I hope the beginning of the New Year is a nice one

and I hope it's a little better than this one

has been for all of us, onwards and upwards.

So, yes, happy New Year to everybody.

And some of you will by the time we come on board,

it probably won't be New Year in some countries when we go live on Sunday.

Yes, it's name of the year. That's it. Yeah.

But for those of you who will join us after

midnight, your own time, then Happy New Year.

But we can wish Happy New Year on Sunday. Okay.

We will be we will be here on Sunday,

not here in the town square, but in the studio.

So on Sunday, that's the next live stream.

Sunday, the 1st of January 2023.

See you then. This is Mr. Duncan and Mr.

Steve saying thank you for joining us today and also for the past two days as well.

Have a super duper time. See you next Sunday.

And of course, until the next time we meet here, you know what's coming next.

Yes, you do.

You you

enjoy the rest of your Christmas and of course...

ta ta for now.