so it's all over for another year yes it's time to put away the Christmas tree
pack away the Christmas lights and wave goodbye to Santa Claus because Christmas
is over for another year however there is still one more celebration that we
have to observe and that is the new year yes 2019 is just around the corner how
will you celebrate the new year what are your plans for next year do you have
anything special planned for the new year maybe today you can share it with
us and of course we will be doing the same thing by we I mean me mr. Duncan
and mr. Steve as well also today we'll be taking a look at some of the
highlights of 2018 we are all here together on the live chat after all it's
a Sunday afternoon it's just after two o'clock here in the UK it's New Year's
Eve Eve and this is live English live from Much Wenlock in England on a Sunday
afternoon this is live English
yes another year is coming to an end but don't fear because a new one is just
around the corner
yes the day after tomorrow everything will be fine as we say hello to 2001
92019 is just around the corner and we are getting very excited here in much
Wenlock because we like to welcome in the new year with lots and lots of
fireworks hi everybody this is mr. duncan in england how are you today are
you ok I hope so are you happy are you excited for the new year
I really hope so here we go kaboom bang whizz fizzle it's New Years
Eve Eve it is the day before the day before the new year I hope you are well
and happy today how was your Christmas did you have a good Christmas was it
nice did you see our live broadcast on Boxing Day we were here live on Boxing
Day right in the town centre of the place in which we live
much Wenlock and we were there on Boxing Day we did our special livestream lots
of fun and excitement there were many people walking around on when was it
Wednesday so Wednesday was Boxing Day and there are lots of people walking
around at that time and they were asking lots of questions they asked mr. Steve
to take a photograph of them there were there was a family there and they wanted
mr. Steve to take a picture and there were some other people they came up to
ask what are you doing is it for the television so they thought we were from
the BBC well almost almost the BBC so here we go
oh my goodness 2019 is just around the corner are you
excited for the new year now at this time of year lots of people make
hands for the new year they make new year's resolutions yes they do
so another year has come to an end and once again a new one has begun for many
people this time represents an opportunity to make changes these
alterations can be small or big you might want to make a change in your
behavior there may be a habit you wish to break such as smoking or drinking
alcohol perhaps you want to pursue a change of career maybe there is someone
you wish to get back in touch with such as a long-lost friend or maybe a close
relative with whom you have had a rau and fallen
out with for many of us the coming of a new year brings a fresh start the plans
we make for the new year are called resolutions they are the things you have
resolved to change the changes you plan to make the habits you wish to stop or
break they are your new year resolutions of
course making resolutions is easy the hardest part is sticking to them many of
us find it hard to realize these plans we have the intention but not the
willpower to fully carry them out the word willpower refers to your inner
strength your determination to carry out your plans to make the big changes in
your life you really do need lots of willpower resolutions are not only made
at the beginning of a new year we may also set goals for ourselves as we
celebrate our birthday becoming another year older reminds us that life is short
and with the passing of each year the time left to carry out our plans becomes
less and less rather like watching the sand slip through an hourglass each
birthday gives us a much needed jolt to stop talking and start doing of course
the older you get then the more intense this feeling becomes
do you ever make new year resolutions what were they were you able to achieve
any of them did you fail to carry any of them out why do you think that happened
was it your fault whatever your plans are for the future I hope they all
become reality for you I wish that all your brightest plans will come to
fruition may your resolutions be they big or small come true for you that is
all from me for today thank you for watching me teaching you this is mr.
Duncan in England saying enjoy the year and of course Tatar for now
don't worry I'm not leaving you just yet we've only just begun as the carpenters
once and so it's Sunday it's a fun day it's time to improve your listening
skills yes we are here on New Year's Eve Eve what about you have you made any
plans yet for 2019 is there anything you would like to achieve or to improve on
during the next year which is just a few hours away oh my goodness are you
excited I don't know why I always feel a little bit apprehensive a little bit
worried a little bit afraid at this time of year as the New Year approaches I
don't know why I always have a strange feeling in my stomach that that may be
some big change will occur during the following year anyway a year from now
this time next year we will all find out what happened during 2019 we were
talking about Christmas on Wednesday we did a special live
stream from Much Wenlock and as promised I said that I was going to show some of
my Christmas presents and also Steve will be doing the same thing as well
first of all let's have a look outside now I know that behind me in the studio
it looks like it's snowing but outside it is definitely not snowing it's
already starting to get dark can you see so here in England it gets
dark at around about 3:30 4 o'clock because we are now into mid winter we
have a few more weeks of winter although having said that it's very warm
here today it's so warm it's about 13 degrees today it feels quite nice
outside in fact yesterday I went outside in just my shirt I didn't have a coat on
at all and it was really early mild so we are having some very
unseasonable weather at the moment some very unseasonal weather so it's very
mild no snow no rain just lots of cloud and of course a lot of joy because this
time of the year is very exciting mr. Steve received a very big present on
Christmas Day Santa Claus was very generous to mr. Steve would you like to
have a look at one of mr. Steve's presents that he received here it is now
look at that now that is a big box that's a very large box but I wonder
what's inside and which generous person bought it for him hmm I wonder who it
could be I wonder who who is so generous and kind
that they would buy such a large present for mr. Steve so we will find out all
about that a little bit later on what is inside mr. Steve's box hmm
I'm very intrigued of course we have to mention the live chat because the live
chat is what it's all about you are here to improve your listening skills and you
can join in as well on this livestream don't forget we are here every Sunday
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because we are talking all about the live chat yes that is the reason why we
are here well done to Martha Martha Poland who
says hello mr. Duncan you are first on today's live chat so congratulations to
you
very nice also we have Connell and Belarusian and also Tomic Pedro is here
don't forget Pedro and Belarusian are today's moderators on the live chat sue
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moment beat trees Martha Lucas Gabrielle and Aeschylus sue goose anis koloski oh
I like your name by the way I hope I pronounced it right Rosso Pao b TS is
here hello TS and can i say a special hello to everyone watching in indonesia
i know that there have been a few problems major problems in indonesia
caused by one particular natural event and i have been thinking about you who
rocco is here as well hello from malaysia my daughter who works in london
is on board coming to kuala lumper oh I see so Hiroko your daughter is actually
heading back to Malaysia right now how is she getting back is she going back by
plane I think so also Paulette hello Duncan I'm Paulette from Brazil I wish
you and Steve a Happy New Year yes I hope so I hope we have a Happy New Year
who knows what will happen during the next 12 months anything could happen
also Fuad is here Azerbaijan oh hello Fuad
also we have Pierre hello Pierre Bonjour I believe you are in France if I'm not
mistaken recce dare is here as well Silvana Eng also Abdul faz nice to say
hello to you as well also we have Francisco
getsu wow so many people today on the live chat thanks for joining me now I
know that many people at the moment are still having their holiday they are
still off work and they are not at school so I do appreciate the fact that
you are joining me today during your holiday time thank you very much for
giving up your precious time just for me also we have Angie hello Angie nice to
see you here is it your first time don't forget if it is your first time let me
know and I will give you a special hello Julia hello Julia I wish you a lovely
new year mr. Duncan and mr. Steve thank you very much for your donation on the
super chat that is very kind of you thank you very much Julia also we have
power be Christian and also we have Muhammed Monica Wow ught is here hello
ute nice to see you here as well Najib Happy New Year mr. Duncan you are
the best English teacher worldwide oh that's very kind of you thank you thank
you very much burlap has sent a donation on the super chat Thank You burlap happy
new year continue your incredible work I will I will be here next Sunday and of
course next Sunday will be the start of 2019 so today we are having the final
live stream of 2018 and then we will be back next week with the first live
stream of 2019 oh my goodness are you excited I hope so
so thank you very much to bill up for your lovely donation thanks
a lot PA we are from France
yes mr. Duncan you are right oh thank you very much III made a very wild guess
wild guess if you make a wild guess it means you
just guess guess you don't have any other information you just make a wild
guess you make an estimate you make a wild
guess Elgar is here hello mr. Duncan thanks for joining me
today Thomas is here as well today is my first day chatting with you is it really
Thomas nice to see you here and because it's your first time I will give you a
special round of applause I might even give you some fireworks I might put some
fireworks on later because the new year is just around the corner Truong is here
Edgar hello Edgar watching in Peru how are you today
Ana Rita have you any new teaching project for 2019 well first of all can I
say that I will be here during 2019 I'm not going anywhere and don't forget next
year is my 13th year so next October I will have been teaching here on YouTube
for 13 years so at the moment it's 12 years next year 13 can you believe it
hello mr. Duncan hello from Indonesia we have been battered by several natural
catastrophes at the end of the year yes I've read all about it I've seen the
terrible pictures on the news here in England so yes my thoughts are with you
at this time Gabrielle is here as well Kareem happy to see mr. Duncan greetings
from Algiers oh it's suddenly gone it's disappeared
ala Rove a lavrov I Love You mr. Duncan I'm from Iraq hello to Iraq and a big
hello to everyone watching there so many people on the live chat thanks a lot for
joining me also Anna and Alper hello mr. Duncan I
am studying at prep school I've learnt a lot of things from you
thank you John M says it is my first time chatting but not my first time
watching your videos well because it's your first time John
I will now give you a round of applause and also some fireworks as well mmm look
at that you get fireworks and applause so thank you John for joining me today
X n let's make an educated guess happy new year
yes an educated guess is a wild guess you are making an educated guess
TR says Oh number 13 is lucky for some people well here in the UK here in
England we believe that 13 is unlucky and of course we have amped all I can
see am tall and priyanka priyanka watching in india and i know for a fact
that i have lots of people watching in india we will go back to the live chat a
little bit later on we are also going to have a review of this year some nice
moments i will be sharing with you during today's livestream things that we
did during the year do you remember when we went to a special place a place we
loved going back to every single year and during 2018 we went to this place
yet again and this is what happened
mr. Steve has been working out our finances for the year and apparently
because of all the money that I've earned from YouTube this year from the
generous people at YouTube and of course Google we can actually invest our money
into something quite amazing Oh mr. Duncan I've been looking at luxury
yachts luxury luxury yachts just for you and me mr. Duncan imagine the fantastic
lessons that we can produce onboard our hundred foot luxury yacht wow it sounds
amazing we go to Monaco we can sail all around the world on our luxury yachts
all the profits that you've made from your YouTube channel this year mr.
Duncan anyway there's a nice boat yard here I've been to speak to the owners
they've got a fantastic yacht for say oh ho okay
would you like to see it yes I would I'm getting very excited it's right behind
you mr. Duncan are let me show you what do you think it just needs a bit of
paint that is not a luxury yacht
we can afford mr. Duncan I've just realized well we can afford I'm sorry
I've just suddenly realized we are not making as much money from this YouTube
channel as I thought because Google and YouTube don't pay as much money and how
fortunately there's an answer to that there is or take a nice walk up that
hill and make another lesson straight away and then we'll be millionaires
that's a nice idea a very interesting idea so now we are going for a walk up
that hill over there and I have a feeling it's going to be very tiring so
we will see you later
come on mr. Duncan it takes so long this is a lovely spot hurry up Oh Helen the
things I have to put up with look how slowly mr. Duncan is coming up
there told you it needs to get fit we're trying to get him to lose weight as well
as you know don't say anything Shh he's a bit sensitive about his weight
you're here how wonderful this is a lovely spot you know miss exhaustion
coming up that steep hill this is so tiring Steve there's that there is a
bench over there can we go and sit down yes let's go and sit down on that lovely
inviting bench showing that fantastic view of the lake please oh hello there
we are on a lovely walk today we're taking a nice walk but we are having a
little rest at the moment mr. Steve has just finished eating his peanut bar
there we go energy bit of energy because we always
like to take care of some food with us and have a nice rest don't we mr. Duncan
look what I've got here this is the instruction it's a booklet on all the
walking trails at Lake Verne we that's the place that we are at and that's the
the most amazing thing about this area there are so many places to actually
walk around it's huge look at all those walking trails today we there are 1 2
there are 5 walking trails that all color-coded and today we are taking the
what do trail oh yeah that's great I can't wait to see the subtitles for that
that's Welsh by the way and it's the red route we're taking the red route the Red
Road danger if you are going to go in any direction always follow the red
route but it says here this is a steady climb and it gives
hi views looking down on the lake at access to the hills Moreland forests and
fields it says there's a moderately steep hill moderately we've just come up
so we've walked for around about three miles and I'm guessing we haven't got
much further to go let's have a look there's just another six miles to go six
miles I'm not going six miles when you're
trying to lose weight mr. Duncan look this is what we've come on this walk for
to help you get fit and lose weight I am losing weight see I haven't given
him a peanut Barb's get them all over to myself during this walk I have lost
weight and also the will to live well the only right you're losing is you keep
losing bits of equipment look what it says here you see walking it gives you
some very inch some smart pieces of advice before you set up on your wall
these are the things that you must bear in mind you must think about you must
think about these things before you go on a walk for example number one we're
strong shoes or walking boots check check take that one off take warm and a
waterproof clothing oh I've got my warm clothing Steve's got some warm clothing
I haven't look I've got a rain poncho a rain poncho what's up what's a poncho
it's a look there we go there's a picture of a lovely lady yes thought you
described it it's a plastic waterproof film covering that if we get caught in a
shower we put this poncho on which is just sort of just covers you it's
basically a plastic bag plastic bag there goes your head it goes over you
but normally a poncho is something you wear loose over your body so you put it
over your head and then it just covers your body if you if you remember in Star
Wars Luke Skywalker wore a poncho but but apparently apparently most of the
scenes deleted with him wearing the poncho but
there are a couple of scenes in Star Wars where Luke Skywalker is wearing his
poncho always have to get something in about Star Wars it's so boring mister
don't course anyway that's that touch waterproof clothes watch out watch out
for service vehicles on forest track yes don't get run over don't get run over
it's very important I can't see any service vehicles on that track so I
think we're all right for now so unless they're electric we'll be able to hear
them keep on the roads and footpaths yes well we've got directions there we are
on the road and footpath there is the road behind us can you see the road
there it is yeah keep dogs under control that's it Oh or in this case I have to
keep Steve under control yes saying I'm a dog mister do you want you are a bit
of a dumb animal sometimes thank you very much lock your vehicle and leave
don't leave valuables on the display well the cars at the hotel so we're safe
there so we're ok there we don't drop litter unless of course unless of course
at the hotel there is a special cough of conference for people that break into
cars in which case we might have a problem don't drop litter have fires or
barbecues don't drop litter don't drop litter let's see what happens if we do
so there we go I've had this peanut bar so all that was
delicious mmm what a lovely beautiful spot this is
hmm so Steve has just dropped some litter he is breaking the countryside
code you should never drop litter in the countryside nothing's happened I haven't
been arrested I think we've got away with it
okay then I'll I'll pick it up I won't be naughty mr. Duncan because we're
setting a bad example your viewers yes so I'll put it back in the bag don't
forget we are influences we influence the world must recycle don't swim or
paddle in the lake while there's no chance of that because mr. Duncan
doesn't like water I can't swim and it's too cold anyway we don't
water camping is not permitted camping so no no camping oh no camping mr.
Duncan oh so you're not allowed to over to mints around out here in the
wilderness oh no camping no okay I'm going hang on
it me know it's it's it's camping under canvas it doesn't mean that kind of
camping it's the other type of camping where you overnight in the stars okay
the lake is a drinking water reservoir I don't know we know that and a White's
told us that by being water efficient you can ensure water supplies are secure
there's a picture of a man with a dog does that dog look like it's being kept
under control it doesn't it hasn't got a lead on it could just run off at any
moment and attack anyone so they're breaking
their own rules by showing a picture of a dog that hasn't even got a lead on so
there we go you found a sign it says danger overhead powerlines
Wow I can't see any overhead power line I think this has come from somewhere
else maybe we'll find the power what if we find them we'll show you
there we go that's that's about all I've got to say really unless it people want
to know any facts about Lake Vernon well later on we will be talking all
about Lake Vern we and don't forget I also made a video here an actual lesson
filmed here in Lake Vernon WA but now we are going to carry on with our walk
shall we shall we carry on let's carry on we'll continue with our wall get your
bag right let's go off we go see you it's in my pocket okay
then Oh all right let's go mister don't good great off we go bye bye
can you see where we are standing now we are on the big Dam yes the big Dam and
there are two uses and two spellings of the word dam aren't the mr. Duncan that
is true first the thing we are standing on right now is called dam dam something
used for containing water normally made from stone and there you can see this
dam is holding all this water in this is the reservoir the dam contains the water
and there is another use and spelling of the word dam and it's a form of
exclamation a swear word and expletive normally used when you get very very
angry about something damn I missed my bus damn I'm late for work
damn you mr. Duncan I'm hungry and I want to go to the hotel and have
something to eat and you've kept me out here filming for far too long oh okay
then do you want to go back to the hotel I'm only joking I think Steve I would
never swear mr. Duncan I'm hungry as well though to be honest so shall we go
back to the hotel now yes we're going back right now
doo-doo-doo-doo it's a Sunday it's a fun day it's time to improve your listening
skills yes we are live for those who are wondering we are we are actually taking
a look at some of our high points some of the highlights of our time here on
YouTube during 2018 and of course lots more fun to come during 2019 it's just
around the corner talking of people lurking and hiding around the corner
here's someone now here he is it's the guy who always likes to hide around the
corner and sometimes in the bushes it's mr. Steve Oh mr. Duncan hello
everybody I don't know what you're trying to suggest or insinuate hanging
around the bushes that doesn't sound very palatable mr. Duncan
we were both hanging around in the bushes yesterday because we went for a
lovely walk so there are lots of trees and bushes near to where we lived so we
we had we had a lovely walk yesterday into town him back because the weather
was quite nice it's so warm at the moment it doesn't feel like December it
feels like early summer it was about 13 or 14 degrees yesterday which is very
unusual because it was probably about minus 3 this time last year yeah I know
one thing mr. Duncan we've used a lot less fuel to heat the house this year
that's it we predominantly use oil to power the central heating system because
we can't get gas where we are I can't get gas apparently guest doesn't
go uphill we haven't got the pipes I haven't got the infrastructure they
haven't put pipes into into where we live mr. domes
so we don't have gas pipes here so we have to use a big oil tank instead but
this year because it's been so mild and warm we haven't used much oil and and we
did have the Bogg fire as well and we haven't used
many logs either no so because it's been so mild we don't actually have to have
the heating on in the house I would say we've used at least 1/3 less oil to heat
the house than last year and probably half the amount of logs because mr.
Duncan it was probably mentioned this before when we have that bad winter last
year we had the the the log fire burning for what was the record how many days I
think it was about I want to say 19 days it's something like 19 days in a row so
for 19 days we had the the log fire in the living room it was lit and burning
for 19 days during Christmas last year because it was so cold we had a lot of
snow last year this year it's the opposite and don't be fooled by the
background see that isn't real behind me but at the moment outside let's just
have a look out the window right now I've been out there mr. Duncan I will
try to make that a little lighter but because because now of course it's going
dark it's gloomy out there mr. Duncan gloomy so when we say gloomy we mean
that there isn't much light there's a lot less light than there should be mr.
Duncan's adjusted his camera a bit there but it's still when you go outside
there's no Sun the thick cloud it's a little miserable today can you see can
you see in the distance Steve can you see on the top left
sorry top right of the screen you can see some houses oh yes do you know where
that is is it little Wenlock it's little Wenlock
ah it's the sister of Much Wenlock so at the top of the hill in the distance you
can see some houses and that place is called little Winlock so yes so if
you're in much Wenlock you can point a camera and see little Wenlock yes it's
amazing we've been there haven't we mr. Duncan yes it's very small there are no
shops there it's very similar to the place we live but it's very high up very
high up someone told us that it was the highest village in
England but him apparently it isn't Oh apparently it no I don't think it is
perhaps is the highest village in Shropshire our phone's going mr. Duncan
someone's after us let's hope there aren't any emergencies that we need to
attend to that's a strange moment of time there
strain because as I've been watching your show until I've come on and and
this is what you do isn't it the towards the end of a year you I wish you'd give
me some warning mr. Duncan until the end of the year you tend to look back at
what you've done over the last 12 months you take stock of what you where you've
been what you've done what you've achieved and that's what mr. Duncan's
been doing and he's got a lot of other videos to show about what we did last
year now I've got lots of I'm going to talk about New Year's resolutions what
we both are we want to know what your new year resolutions are if you have any
going to look a bit of the history of that how successful people are with it
and then we're also going to look at probably common new year resolutions and
also how to achieve these what methods or what what little tricks you can use
to make sure you actually do achieve these resolutions because statistics
show only about well less than 20% of new year resolutions ever actually come
true people just give them give up or they're too difficult or they forget
about it so we're going to talk about that am I still on camera to mr. Duncan
you sure are I don't like it over here it's a bit lonely so New Year's
resolutions now I have a list here we're going now back onto the main camera turn
around now Steve yes look at that to give me a warning about that it can't
look very professional it's like I'm producing this show as well as
presenting it it's very hard work trust me it's not easy doing this so we have
New Year's resolutions New Year's resolution
Jones everybody now I'm going to share some of my new year resolutions and
you're going to talk all about making plans for the new year
words and phrases connected with that as well that's correct I believe so
2019 2019 is just around the corner we have some New Year's resolutions here is
one of them now this is something that I'm going to continue doing because I
have lost a little bit of weight but I have a feeling maybe perhaps Steve yes
maybe during the Christmas period I might have put a little bit of weight
back on because we've been eating a lot of food dish this week so many
vegetables I can't believe how much vegetables how many vegetables we have
eaten this week so many I think we've we've contributed towards the rise in
greenhouse gases quite significantly over the last week or so due to off the
amount of of high fiber vegetables we've been eating I think what Steve is sorry
to explain yes I think what Steve is saying is that there have been a lot of
farts in the house and also a lot of a lot of pooping as well I don't think
I've I don't think I've pooped so much this week because of ever in my life
we've eaten so much so much vegetation carrots potatoes parsnips parsnips
Brussels sprout of Brussels sprouts now some people don't like Brussels sprouts
but I lift them and Steve loves them as well so we we have eaten so many
Brussels sprout justing I wonder if in other countries watching us whether they
have Brussels sprouts as a vegetable yes because I've got one in the in the
Aeneid in the oven in the fridge we could we could bring one and show people
what a Brussels sprout looks like I think many people know what a Brussels
sprout looks like if you don't let us know and I can
show you but of course in other countries it might have a different name
they're related to cabbages they're like small cat very very small cabbages very
small it's not easy eating a cabbage but I'm a very small skank-ass and they are
one of the things that can they can make your your digestive system overworked
thus causing lots of there are specific veg specific vitamins in in Brussels
sprouts as as there are in cabbages so they're very very good for you so this
is one of my new year's resolutions is to lose more weight I've been losing a
little bit of weight but now I want to lose even more so hopefully I can get
rid of maybe I want to lose at least one stone another stone in weight so I can
be a little bit more slim and beautiful well we've been watching those videos of
us mr. Duncan several years ago and we realized that you know sadly like
everyone we are starting to age yes so we've got to do something about that
because we need to remain looking young for our viewers otherwise they'd all go
and watch new people coming up you know there are lots of sexy people now on
YouTube teaching English and and and maybe to some people maybe we just look
too old that's it I see it slice does it's like it's like they just they just
eat the chips and then they throw the paper away and guess what Steve we are
the paper that they throw away ah yes but you see youth only has so much
appeal there's it's nice to look at lot on the outside it's something that's
beautiful but is there any substance underneath you see we've got years a
lifelong experience that we can share with that with our pupils mr. Duncan
don't look so sad that's true whereas young people they've got the looks but
they haven't got the experience the maturity the knowledge
the integrity and the wrinkles true but now it's fine we're okay we're looking
forward to 2019 we will be here every Sunday during 2019 for those who are new
because we've had quite a few new people today so every Sunday you can catch us
live on YouTube and also some people are asking for my email address as well so I
suppose I shouldn't ignore that so this is my email address for those who are
wondering you can catch us at that address if you want to send a note
message something nice maybe a photograph or video of where you live in
the area you live you can do so at that address mr. Steve has vanished he's gone
he's wounded off he's gone away I don't know where Steve is gone he's just
vanished suddenly I have a strange feeling that he's going into the kitchen
to get a Brussels sprout that's what I think come on Steve show us show us the
Brussels sprout would you like your own camera go on okay that he will have I've
noticed have asked to see a Brussels sprout there's one there is one so
that's the stalk end comes off there's lots of them in a row on the plant and
you pull them off and it's sort of yes it's like a cabbage leaf and they've got
a distinctive smell they grow during the summer and they're picked over the
winter periods and they're just like miniature cabbages oh that's and it's
from the same family of plants and you just boil them and just eat them and we
like them and they're full of fiber but they do make you produce a lot of wind
hmm they're renowned for that but there we go Brussels sprouts if you've got
these in your country are they known by a different name we would like to know
can I come back to the other camera would you like to come on the other
camera here's Steve he's been busy pulling
pulling off sprouts somebody asked about I think it was remember who it was now
about stones they weren't sure what stones were that you wanted to lose a
stone in weight yes do you know I do okay then a stone is it's an old
imperial measurement so that's something that we used to use in in in the UK so
probably in other Commonwealth countries before we went metric in the 1970s it's
a measurement of weights the measurement of weight and one stone
is 14 pounds which is which is about about 30 kilograms I am no more sure of
what stones are so yes asterisk don't because nowadays we tend to use
kilograms well that's it that's what that person said or pound so yes 14
pounds in a stone and it's about two pounds to a kilogram so it's about 28 30
kilograms is a stone so you want to lose thirty kilograms okay that is what you
want so I want to you I want to lose about stone because I want to lose some
weight also another thing I suppose this is connected as well one more resolution
I'm going to show some more French frogs that I can I can juggle but it's easy to
juggle with two can I just say that that that is not juggling I can't juggle
another New Year's resolution for mr. Duncan daily walks well so I'm going to
have a walk every day now I do walk during the week maybe two or three times
a week but now my plan is to have a walk every day so I'm going to have a daily
walk so maybe in the morning when I get up or maybe in the afternoon when I have
some time spare I will have a walk maybe down the road
uphill but that is something I'm planning to do that is one of my new
year's resolutions a New Year's resolution of course is a tradition you
would call it a tradition which is very popular in Western countries and do you
know mr. Duncan where it originates I have no idea well well you won't like
this mr. Duncan because I've been talking about this particular subject
many times although it's not meditation no oh okay it's not cars no it's not I'm
trying to think of I've been talking about a lot recently mr. Duncan have
been pontificating and I've been its religion oh I see yes religion because I
was starting to think that Steve had had got something from above but apparently
he's got something from below instead yes apparently new year's resolutions
stent they've been around quite a long time but they they they sort of stem
from religious beliefs that at the end of the year you should particularly from
the Christian religion that you should but it goes all the way back to sort of
Babylonian times that's a long time ago two thousand years before well yes it's
four thousand years ago practically it's before last week so they used to do it
then and and then the Romans used to do it but so you sort of at the end of the
year you're sort of taking stock of what you've done over the year and then
you're making promises to your God of the gods whatever your promise to do
something new in the new year and they used to be they used to be very much
centered around improving you're improving yourself self-improvement you
might want to be a better person or something like that so that's where it
all comes from mr. Duncan yeah comes from comes from sort of religious
beliefs so you might also describe them Valve's says something you you vow to do
so I vow to lose weight I vow to do more exercise next year so it is a kind of
promise isn't it it's a promise and instead of just making it to yourself
you would make it to you know a deity you would make it to some something that
you believed in God or something like that I think we've got a leak and a leak
we had leaks last night in the soup ha ha leaks leaks is a type of Sonico
vegetable that grows in the ground and well we made good use of the chicken
didn't we that we had for Christmas the chicken wasn't very big we had we didn't
have turkey this year we had chicken instead and it wasn't a very big chicken
but Steve managed to get three meals was it for me or for meals what was a
medium-size chicken it wasn't a very big one it was only a small chicken but you
you managed to get so much and you didn't waste any of it
I loved that I'd ever I can't stand wasting food so I so with that chicken
we had two meals where we we carved the meat off and we had it with vegetables
and gravy and then we made a curry out of out of what was on the wings and the
leg that says that was on Friday it wasn't that was on the Friday and then
yesterday I put the carcass what was left into a saucepan boiled it with
water for a couple of hours and said all the the goodness comes out of the bones
and all the rest of the meat falls off and then you can just remove all the
bones or so and then you've got all the goodness of the rest of the chicken
carcass whether the carcass is there sort of what's left after you've taken
all the meat off so it's the bones but also on the bones you will find there is
there are little little tiny pieces of meat so if you boil it you boil the
carcass with an onion and then all of the meat will come up and then you can
take the bones out take the bones out and then you're left with all
all the bits of meat in this lovely soup soup it's called there and then what I
then do is add a chicken stock cube and then I added some potatoes some leeks
and some carrots turned it into this lovely thick soup and we had it with
bread and that's what we had last night for for meals we've got out of that
little chicken yes who would have thought it so so we've decided now every
year what we're not going to have a turkey at Christmas we're going to have
a sort of medium-sized chicken instead because it's much easier to cook it's
smaller it fits in it fits in the in the fridge it fits in the oven and you don't
waste very much because trouble with the turkey is when there's only two of you
you go to the supermarket to buy a turkey and you have to because they have
them people are always after these turkeys so you just arrived at the
supermarket and you have to pick whatever is there on the day and
sometimes you haven't got much choice and you have to and you end up quite
often by one far too big than you actually need for a family of six or
something like that so you buy this yeah cost you about a lot of money and then
you end up wasting a lot of it that's it I think I think that's one of the things
also I don't think now I'm sure people will disagree with me but I don't think
turkey tastes as good as chicken I prefer chicken so that's it go doing
that next year from now on it's chicken every Christmas people are talking a lot
about Brussels sprouts they have one of the food it's like they're like mmm it's
like Marmite you either love it you either love them or hate them yes it's
quite sort of if you don't like cabbage you probably won't like Brussels sprouts
a lot of people don't a lot of people don't like to eat sprouts the live chat
is very busy would you like to have a look Steve I would let's go back a
little bit and see what people are talking about the other thing about
Brussels sprouts is sorry they're like what you call a seasonal vegetables so
it when it's cold and in in winter here in the UK you don't you can't grow many
vegetables but you can grow things like Brussels sprouts because
they grow during the winter okay period so that's why we have them at this time
of the year so there are lots of sprouts sprout around on the live chat daily
walks is the reason of of my losing 12 kilograms in 3 months
well done Connell so it sounds like Connell has been doing lots of exercise
to lose weight 12 kilograms in 3 months that's not too bad is it that's that's
yet 12 kilograms yes that's about 24 pounds because of the mistake many
people make they try to lose too much weight in one go I mean I've done that
in the past where I try to lose too much weight but of course there are two bad
things about that one is it might have an effect on your health and two you can
become a little obsessed with it so your your obsession with losing weight can
take over your whole life and this happens sometimes now many people think
that this only happens to women or girls but men can also get this anorexia
really so yes you always have assumed that it's it's a female problem but
actually it's also male as well so some men can also become anorexic they they
worry so much about their weight so when they look in the mirror they always
think they are overweight but then they then they stop eating and go very very
thin that's it but but in the mirror they still think they are fat yes that's
it all I believe bulimia is the other one yeah it's not very pleasant yes well
done : so you've lost I've just worked that out about 2 pounds a week which is
what they say is the ideal amount to lose you don't want to lose any more
than 2 pounds a week or statistically it's been shown that you won't tend to
keep that weight you will tend to add that weight back on again hmm so yes
jeff says that we could a drink vodka in the new year yes and then go driving in
my new Ford Mustang well Jeff mentions New Year's
Eve yes and quite a few people today have asked what we are doing on New
Year's Eve so normally we don't do much we normally stay in the house but
because we live in an area that has such a good view we can actually stand
outside the house and watch all the firework displays as the New Year
arrives so we can watch everyone letting off setting off launching their
fireworks do you know mr. Duncan what is the success rate the average success
rate for people wanting to set themselves New Year's resolutions did
you wait until oh I thought you mentioned it already have i okay
wasn't it 21% it's less than 20% less than 20% stick or continue with their
New Year's resolution so not many people succeed if you look at this statistics
of that most New Year's resolutions failed so what else have we got here
bitch Beatrice says I need to gain weight please tell me what to do know
that you've got an easy job they're putting on weight should be easy it's
the opposite of losing weight eat more and take less exercise I think it's safe
to say that losing weight is much harder than than gaining weight usually used to
have a problem with not having enough weight when I was young I was I was so
thin I wasn't I was like a matchstick and I couldn't put weight on however
much food I ate I used to eat food all the time
and my mum used to take me to the doctors and he we the doctor would say
it's just a very high metabolism so when Duncan eats his body burns the calories
straightaway so the energy is not stored so when I was a child I was so skinny I
was very thin but the problem was I was also very tall as well so I looked very
strange when I young Mario Perez is new and wants some
applause oh hello Mario Perez is it your first time okay
then raela Mario you can have some applause and also some fireworks as well
because the new year is just around the corner well done Mario anest oh the
Nesta says come to the south of Italy and you can taste the best issues ever
for example panzerotto ooh well yes Italian food of course we would love
that yes so we would love to come to the
south of Italy the same rule applies to everybody who said will you visit our
country yeah we will if you pay us yes give us the money to go! this is the
agreement this is the agreement a joke so we will go anywhere anywhere in the
world but you have to pay for the airfare the hotel and don't forget it
has to be a five-star hotel not none of that none of that backpacking I can't do
that at my age because I've got I've got you know sciatica I've got I've got an
aching arm and then and I've got a very sort of painful neck so I have to have a
very nice comfortable bed something very comfortable to lie on at night so
definitely definitely no backpacking all hostels it has to be five-star hotel and
maybe maybe business class yes on the play definitely oh yes yes I think
business millions I thought I've never flown business class on a plane ever and
I've always wanted to just to see see what it's like so I've heard it's very
nice but I've never been business class on a plane ever
saturnino says that I think somebody was trying to I was asking is about putting
weight on hmm satoru know says eat a lot of Nutella Oh
Nutella Nutella yes I don't like Nutella it's horrible that's full of fat yes so
fatty foods can't the most energy per rate
well isn't Nutella it's just full of nuts exactly nuts and chocolate isn't it
yes nuts and chocolate to things that contain a lot of fat and tons and tons
of energy I can't think what nuts in there now it's not almonds hazelnuts I
think is I think it is hazelnuts I love Hazen yes I don't like Nutella so
so I won't be touching that anyway lots of new people we've got our salon from
Kurdistan hello there we've got David vilela single mom from in Thailand
Barbara lots of names who don't recognise me raagh lots of new people
yes Burrell ops says if you want to lose
weight eat vegetables only yes that's a very good suggestion but we don't eat
much meat anyway but what I mean what I'm intending to do next year is to
exercise a little bit more eat less and hopefully lose some more weight so
that's something I'm planning that is one of my new year's resolutions that's
what we're talking about do you have any more information Steve about New Year's
resolutions not really yeah I've got some information about common New Year's
resolutions that people tend to choose okay then there are a lot of common one
news go you can go on your personal camera common resolutions that some of
the common ones are all revolved around losing weight getting healthier and
avoiding stress lose weight get fitter save money start a hobby be less
stressed get more exercise get more sleep these are the common New Year's
resolutions that if you there was a study now all around the world about
what the communist New Year's resolutions I think the communist was to
lose weight but what I want to talk about when mr. Duncan's ready advice I
can start now do you want me to start now mr. Duncan
it's about how to actually make your New Year's resolutions
happen because it's alright to say I want to do this or this is where but
with good intention we will and if in the days leading up to the end of the
year up to New Year we will say I want to do this because you've got you're on
holiday you've got time to think got time to take stock of what's been
happening over the last year and then you decide oh I'm going to do new things
in 2019 I'm going to lose weight I'm going to eat healthier take more
exercise etc etc but what happens is of course you get back into your normal
routine you go back to work and your normal routine that was there before the
holiday period between Christmas and New Year and then you just get back into the
old habits so you go get up at whatever time 7:30 you go to work you come back
you get your tea ready and then you maybe make some phone calls and then you
sit in front of the television then you go to bed and you go to work again and
you just carry on with the same routine you might be looking after children and
it's finding the time and putting some time aside in order for you to actually
do it now the common mistake people make apparently in making New Year's
resolutions is that they don't make them specific enough so they make them a bit
vague and the human mind doesn't like vagueness it likes something it likes to
be told what to do and it needs some very precise instructions so what
apparently what they suggest in order to that so you've got a resolution I want
to lose weight in 2019 but what they say is you to turn these into goals and look
at them as if you were at work and you were setting goals and objectives and
and approach it from that direction and then you have a much higher chance of
success and I'm in sales so we're always doing
this at work we get sales targets and that's a goal that you need to achieve
by the end of the year and and so what you have to do is you have to break it
down and decide what's the best way for you to achieve this so the first thing
to do is I think this is a good idea and I'm going to suggest it to you now and
and and have a go at it and see if it's if it will be successful so for example
let's take the common list one resolution I want to lose weight and
then turn it into what I call what not what I call what is called a smart
objective or a smart goal there we go see you've got your resolution I want to
lose weight but turn that into something that is going to help you to achieve it
so what does Smart what is smart well we know what Smart is that someone who's
clever but in I'm using this as an acronym so the every letter is it comes
from a word so the S means specific and it's also in mnemonic so it's something
that helps you remember something so it's an acronym and it's also in
mnemonic at the same time so what does that stand for the S stands for specific
so set a specific goal and M stands for measurable so it's something that you
can look at now and then measure it after a period of time and you can see
if you've achieved it is it achievable that's the a is it relevant or realistic
and time-bound so for example if you wanted to lose weight you would not say
I just want to lose weight you would say I want to lose 30 kilograms in the next
three months and there that is specific so you've narrowed it down and said you
how much you want to lose it's measurable because you know what your
weight is now and you can measure again in three
time is it achievable could you lose 30 30 kilograms in three months you might
think that's too much or too little if you said I want to lose 300 kilograms in
three months that wouldn't probably be achievable or realistic so you might
want to just make it a bit less and it's time-bound so you've said I'm gonna do
that in three months so that's a specific goal and then the ideal thing
to do then is to write it down because if you write something down a goal or an
objective this cements it in your mind and then write it down a piece of a bit
and read it every morning to yourself you probably think of something I'm not
a guru on this but that's apparently what works in setting in setting goals
or in this case setting New Year's resolutions make them specific read them
out to yourself and you stand a much higher chance of succeeding if you stick
to those rules if you google smart objectives you'll be able to read all
about it and I think that's how you ought to treat your new year's
resolutions whereas mr. Duncan gone he's vanished
so goals that's the word I use they're a goal it's an aim and objective an
endpoint it's something that you want to achieve where you some kind of effort or
work is required in order to achieve it and of course a goal in football that is
the endpoint you've you've scored a point so that's another use of the word
goal or you can as I've already said you can turn your new year's resolutions and
call those goals and then set your smart objectives and see if you achieve them
so that's what mr. Duncan you see that's what mr. Duncan needs to do he needs to
say I want to lose well he has done it I want to lose a stone which is about 30
kilograms and but what what period of time mr. Duncan do you want to lose that
over well I'm hoping to lose this weight over
the spring thanks so so by the time summer arrives I'm hoping that I will be
look lovely so I can wear my lovely bikini on the beach in the summer so I
want to go to a nice sunny place by the sea and then I can rest on the beach in
my lovely one-piece bikini or maybe two-piece bikini and then people will
come up and say hey hi do you want to come for a swim with me and then I'll
say I'm sorry I can't swim so maybe that should be one of my resolutions maybe I
should learn to swim well oh you see that's interesting
so you brought up a something you you said to yourself right I want to learn
to swim but do you really want to this if you're setting yourself these
resolutions or goals there's no good setting yourself one
where you don't really want to do it because you will have failed right from
the start I mean you might some people might think oh I should lose weight or I
should stop smoking or I should take more exercise but do they want to hmm if
you don't want to then don't set it because what's the point you're not
going to achieve it if you don't really want to do it so what you're really
saying is your goals have to be realistic well they have to be something
that you want to do yes because the motivation has to be there motivation
has to be there in the first place you have to want to do it to do it if you
don't want to lose weight then there's no point in saying I want to lose weight
yes because you won't do it right so if you're not bothered whether you're
overweight or underweight or whatever then carry on as you are a little bit
later on by the way we are going to take a look at some of our Christmas presents
because Steve received a big box you want to see Steve's big box oh here it
is so that's the big box now now who who
bought this for you who gave you this amazing present it must be a very
generous person he was you mr. Duncan he was me so he's very surprised this is
the gift that I I got from mr. Steve now we are also
taking a look at other things today do you remember Steve when we went to the
beach because we just mentioned beach because that's what I'm doing next year
I'm going to lose weight and look very sexy on the beach but do you remember
when we went to the beach I do we went to the beach during summer 2018 so we
are now in the car we are about to leave Lake Verne we and we are going somewhere
else somewhere quite exciting somewhere we haven't been for a long time
are you excited Steve yes very excited
that's excited so off we go but the big question is where are we going
so here we are mr. Duncan and mr. Steve but where are we we are now on the beach
on the beach at a typical British beach scene it's freezing cold
we're wrapped up in in woollen winter clothes that sun's out it looks lovely
but it's actually very cold so I've got the beach towel and what have you got
mr. Duncan I have my Spade so I can dig in the sand because we are on a sandy
beach and I have my bucket as well my little bucket so I can put the sand into
the bucket and I can build a little sandcastle whoo I've got the same
matching I've got the blue ones you've got the red ones so are we going to
start building sandcastles mr. Duncan I'm all excited I think mr. Steve is
very eager even though the wind is blowing it is quite windy on the beach
we are very close to the sea we are on the Welsh coast in a place called a
bedevi it's very nice normally but unfortunately it's a little cool and
quite windy what else have you got there Steve I read a beach towel yeah which
I'm now using to keep warm with do you hike do you like Steve's beach towel I'm
using it as a scarf to keep warm so let's start building some sandcastles
oh I do like to be beside the seaside oh I do like to be beside the sea all over
the UK during the summer months people come and they visit the seaside they go
to the beach I don't know what it is about being near the sea the sights the
sounds the weather and also the fresh air to be honest with you there is a lot
of fresh air around today because it's so windy and look at the
sea isn't it beautiful in fact I think mr.
Steve is going to go into the water for a paddle you paddle in the water you
splash around in the sea
all that splashing around in the sea has made mr. Steve feel very hungry so he
decides to go to the local chip shop there's nothing like a bag of fish and
chips piping hot from the fryer with extra
salt and vinegar mr. Steve appears to be enjoying his chips hmm delicious do you
know what this bird is it's a seagull a very common bird that can often be found
near the seaside or on the coast we decided to see what would happen if we
threw some of the chips on the ground
needless to say the result was chaos you will often see seagulls at the seaside
so our day trip to the seaside is almost at an end as we walk off together into
the sunset
ah another lovely memory of 2018
do do lots of things still to come we are going to take a look at some of our
Christmas presents we received this year and the big question is what was in mr.
Steeves big box also hopefully some more flashbacks to this year we had a lot of
wonderful moments this year so we will share some more before the end of
today's livestream meanwhile yes we are live on YouTube on a Sunday it is New
Year's Eve Eve so it's the day before the day before the New Year so 2019 is
just around the corner all that talk of food by the way has made me feel very
hungry so I'm I'm now eating some nibbles mr. Duncan how is this going to
help you lose weight 29 grams of fat 400 grams
mr. Duncan and the calorific content is 512 calories per hundred grams or 128
per handful mr. Duncan I am going to confiscate these I don't think you
really want to lose weight I suppose you could say I was expecting you to say but
it's not it's not the New Year yet so I don't have to start so is that what
you're going to do you're going to stuff your face an expression that we use
stuff your face eat a lot of food very quickly is that what you're going to do
between now and the end of the year you're going to eat up every high
calorie snack that we have in the house actually you smell very nice
hmm mr. Duncan visa please a very tasty Duncan where have you been hiding these
I'm going to lock them away mr. Duncan I will eat them because I can afford to
put on a little bit you know slim bod as I am I can afford there we
go that's what you should be eating Brussels sprouts you should be eating
just vegetables mr. Duncan well you shouldn't do that because if you were to
just eat vegetables you would not be getting the required nutrients that your
body requires you would not be getting protein or carbohydrate get some
carbohydrates but you wouldn't get any fats so you need to have a balanced diet
mr. Duncan vegetables little bit of protein a little bit of carbohydrate
what you need to do actually they say that people but the people that put on
weight they're only eating probably two or three hundred extra calories a day
which is only like a couple of chocolate biscuits or a glass of wine or something
like that a beer couple of beers so you ain't eating you don't need to do a lot
to tip the balance back you only need to make small changes you don't have to
make drastic changes to lose weight people always think if you're going to
lose weight you've got to make these drastic changes you don't if you want to
lose a lot of weight suddenly you can go on these vegetable soup diets and you
can lose a stone in a month or something but they're not very good for you and
then you do it you go you're not establishing good habits then which will
last for a long time you're only doing something very quickly to lose a lot of
weight suddenly and that's not very that's no good for the long term because
then you just revert back to your old habits so you just got to make a few
Changez so say for example we eat a lot of chocolate so what we should say is we
will only chocolate at the weekend or we will only buy chocolate on Friday night
instead of having chocolate three or four times a week or sometimes every
night we will only have it say on a Friday and a Saturday so you still got
that treat but then you're not having it you still have you gone done mr. Duncan
yeah anything for a long I'm not listening to a word you're saying all
I'm thinking about is those lovely cheddar nibbles what nibbles give me
more nibbles we've had some good other ideas some very good ideas on the live
chat so we want ideas from other people yes yes eat all of the junk food before
the New Year arrives so that's what I'm doing that's what I was doing I was I
was eating all of the junk food so when the New Year arrives there'll be no junk
food in the house you see that's what I was doing I was preparing for my new
year's resolution well the thing is though you you will be adding weight on
you'll just make it more difficult to to lose weight you'll have more to lose in
the New Year but there you go that's it there's always that you can't just eat
vegetables there's plenty of time so sue Kats a vegetarian of course yes I know
yes and vegetarians that they if you look at the statistics they tend to lead
healthier lives but you've got to be careful you've got to know what to do
because otherwise you can you can be lacking in in certain proteins if you
don't know what you're doing so I don't think that's necessarily the answer Eric
says that mr. Steve has a teenagers body wow thank you so much this is true he is
buried in the back garden Oh mr. Duncan are you suggesting I've murdered some
teenager and put him in the garden well no I haven't that was a joke mr. Duncan
of course it was yes I know thank you though thank you for the compliment
surely in Germany says I love your videos made with nature thank you for
all your wonderful lessons we will be out and about during 2019 we will be
going out at the moment unfortunately because it's winter the days are short
we don't have much time but hopefully we will be doing a lot more outside during
2019 so let's get up-to-date with the live chat something I wanted to say
about because there was some we saw an interesting program you weren't very
interested in it I wasn't interested it was about sort of theories about how the
human brain works it wasn't a program it was an advertisement on YouTube yes but
it was somebody had written a book based on research so there was some truth to
it that if you want to that most of your programs most of them most of the things
that we do every day I just we don't really think about them they just habits
things that we do routine things and we don't even really think about it because
we're we've got these programs hardwired into our brains and we just carry on
doing the same thing day after day day after day because most of the things
that we learn to do we learn before the age of seven apparently and according to
this person it was trying to sell a book yes but it was based on research and
then if you want to change something the only way to do it is to either be
hypnotized or to keep on you've got to keep doing something for a long time
repetition if you want to get a new program something new into your brain a
new behavior you've got its repetition you've got to keep doing the same thing
over and over again until you Britain until your brain thinks that this is
something new that it's got to carry on doing all the time so you're talking
about learned habits yes that's right so if you for example are in the habit of
always having a chocolate bar after you know at lunchtime
that's a habit that you built up over many years so you've got the only way to
break it is to stop having it and then after about three months or you write
something down I do not like chocolate I don't want to eat chocolate bars anymore
or something like that you've got to start a new habit going that's all I
wanted to say oh okay well that says used at four minutes of the live stream
I look sue Kat says her brother is 60 he has a body like mr. Steeves
surely nobody else in the world has a body like mine I'm sure I've been
practicing yoga for 16 years and eats everything he isn't a vegetarian either
hmm interesting well III don't dispute the fact that
sometimes your mind is is is the thing that can make you either healthy or
unhealthy we all know that we hear about it all the time in the news things like
depression so yes your your mind can can have a negative effect or a positive
effect so I'm not saying that it's it's all rubbish
my brother is 60 yes sue can your brother is 60 now don't tell us your age
we don't want to know because a lady should never say her age Palmeiras says
one of the unpleasant things every day and you will be good maybe that means
get rid of one unpleasant thing every day and you will be okay
strangely enough Eleanor Roosevelt yeah Palmyra I've got I'm going to give some
sort of inspirational quotes at the end from from from authors okay and she
actually came up with a lot of a lot of quite interesting phrases who's that
no I haven't got that one I thought I got it I haven't okay but yes
she also said apparently that yeah I can't remember oh that's it well Don
yeah she was well-known for her quotes another minute well spell she said no
she said the future is the future is for those that believe in their dreams or
something like that okay so she was always coming out with these
inspirational quotes so thank you for that pal Mira don't put off till
tomorrow the thing that you can do today procrastination oh I don't do that very
often I used to do it a lot when I was a teenager Oh
procrastination oh I thought yeah I thought you said something else I know
you did I'm going to swear less next year now you might not realize it but
sometimes I do swear no not not online so not on the internet not during the
live streams but sometimes when I'm talking to you or if I get a little
annoyed about something I will swear so the here's another thing I'm going to do
less of I'm going to try and swear less you swear girls I swear don't you ever
hear me swear when I get a little annoying me that can hear it yes but
it's still still a bad habit so I'm going to swear less less rude words so I
will I will have a lovely clean mouth no rude words will leave my lips eric says
that he lost weight this year but people were saying asking whether he was sick
okay because of course if you lose weight people think that some that you
could be ill well quite often if you are seriously ill you will you of course
will lose weight if you have it if you have a serious illness like cancer you
you quite often will lose weight and there are lots of other diseases that
will cause you to lose a lot of body weight so yes so that that's true I
think if you suddenly lose weight also if you lose too much weight suddenly you
might find that you look very unwell very
Gaunt boy i love that word gaunt it means that the bones in your face stand
out and and your face looks very hollow you look very gaunt this is the trouble
of course when it would keep talking about losing weight all the time but it
seemed to be spending a lot of time talking about that but often when you
lose weight particularly as you get on water your features you get you can you
can start to look old because your skin starts to sort of drag in and if you
want to look younger as you get older sometimes it's you don't want to lose
too much weight because all your skin starts to hang yes I think I'm getting a
bit of that now I think I'm very aware that the skin on my face is becoming a
little a little looser so because it's all starting to go sort of downwards and
that's what happens but they get older gravity this is this isn't very happy
anyway this is yes but as we're talking about happy things now I have a lovely
memory of this year because this year of course for those who like sport this
year was a very big year because there was the World Cup this year and Steve do
you remember when we went into the garden to play football I do yes well
for those who didn't see it here it is right now
live from Much Wenlock in England on a Sunday afternoon this is live English it
sure is Sunday Funday time to improve your
English listening with mr. Duncan and also mr. Steve as well yes we are going
to show you some of our Christmas presents but I believe you have a couple
of words to show oh yes people are getting impatient they
want to see weather okay I'm going to show you one of my Christmas presents go
on then okay here here is one of the things that
Steve bought for my lovely Christmas box and here it comes right now now this is
something that Steve has been worrying about for a very long time he's been
very worried about me getting cold here in the studio when I'm working at the
computer because my feet become very cold so Steve has very kindly given me
some slippers Oh mr. Duncan some lovely warmed slippers don't they look lovely
people always receive slippers for Christmas it is a bit of a cliche but to
be honest I love I love these slippers they are so cozy and warm so now I wear
those when I'm sitting at the computer doing my editing so that's because the
floor around your computer is like a hard floor there's no carpet there so
your feet get very cold and I thought I want to get you something to get your
feet warm mr. Duncan and there it is there is it there they are a pair of
slippers to keep my feet warm on those cold days when I'm busy in here working
on my English videos which of course I will be during 2019 there will be lots
of new stuff to come your way next year so I hope you enjoyed that but
the big question is of course Steve what was in your Bop
mr. Steeves big box there it is now you had no idea what it was did you no idea
at all I've never received such a large present it's a very big one I've never
received such a large present and I couldn't believe that you how you
managed to hide it from me for all those many weeks leading up to Christmas yes
somehow you did yes III bought this a long time ago and
I had to keep hiding it from Steve because it's pretty big so because it's
so large III didn't know where to put it but on Christmas morning Steve open the
present and it was something rather special wasn't it it was joy to have a
look go on okay here it is now imagine Steve surprised when he opened when he
opened the present and saw this no not the jacket that Steve's work jacket this
what is it Steve it's a set of drawers that I can have in my office to store
things in yes that one I currently have has broken and I like this like the
colors in that mr. Duncan he's a big surprise I would never have guessed and
it's not very often you surprised me like that mr. don't know but you did
this year so I got a set of drawers for mr. Steve so he can put all of his work
his papers his receipts all of his little bits of office stationery so
everything can go in this set of drawers so I always like to buy presents that
are useful in fact Steve I think you're very similar so you always like to buy
something that's useful and it's realized they would make a smaller
version of that would make a very good bedside cabinet oh yes there you could
put those by the bed in fact they do smaller ones so they do smaller ones so
yes you could use those also as a bedside cabinet yes I think we've just
solved another problem it's Dennis what problems that come on beside people
normally have don't they buy their bed you know I'm really not going to share
this information with people let's not share it don't share that information
rather embarrassing if if Steve tells you what I think he's going to tell you
I will never be able to show my face on the internet ever again so we will keep
that a secret that was close so that's the the present
that I got for Steve it was a very big one it was um but the thing is mr.
Duncan I've got to tidy up my entire office now because I want to have a nice
and I think this is something else that lots of people do as New Year's sort of
just before New Year's to tidy everything up clean so that you start
the new year with everything nice and clean and in in a nice order organized
and my office has got Messier and Messier as that as the year has gone on
but it's going to be a big task to clear it all out I've started mr. Duncan
because often starting something is harder than keeping it going yes but yes
well I'm doing the same thing here in the studio so as soon as we finish today
I'm going to take some of the studio to pieces I'm going to completely move
everything I'm going to vacuum I'm going to clean I'm going to sweep I'm going to
dust so everything everything in the studio
will be nice and clean for next year good idea anything else any other
presents that you receive mr. donor I received I Wasi you know somebody
special I receive something very nice here from an admirer some aftershave
some aftershave to put on my face so when I have a shave I can put some of
this on and it smells gorgeous better than normal that's powerful stuff Mr Tan
very powerful stuff it has a very very strong smell so so that's one of the
things Steve bought for me in fact you bought lots of things for
one present for me - for you so far ok what else did I buy you
mr. Duncan Steve bought me some new Underpants you ought to see the state of
the via of his old ones that's not jackal of holes I have lovely
Underpants but that I just don't have many of them so sometimes I have to wear
them for about two weeks and they can they can actually stand up on their own
they're like cardboard so there's some some lovely underwear to where you need
to model them for your for your pupils mr. Duncan I could put them on now if
you want please don't might be a bit embarrassing I can try
try me underpants on would you like to see me try my underpants no that's so
far one present for me three for you and three for you anything else that you
might have received mr. dink probably somebody special in your life so we have
aftershave I have slippers I have new underwear Oh something else mr. Steve
bought for me this is something that's very useful indeed oh yes thank you mr.
Steve for buying this as a Christmas present for me now this is something
that's going to be very useful when we go outside with the mobile phone this is
a little power bank so this will charge or keep my mobile phone charged so we
don't lose the battery power so that is one of the presents that Steve gave to
me I was overwhelmed and in fact we used this didn't Lee on Boxing Day we did so
we actually used this gift on Boxing Day during my livestream and that allowed
the mobile phone to stay fully charged during the whole livestream in fact I
worked out that we could probably use that for about three hours non-stop Wow
on the mobile phone if not longer maybe longer so I hope you enjoyed that some
of the gifts some of the presents that Steve bought for me and I bought Steve
one present but one big presence you see something very useful and of course the
other gift is me you have me for another year how
delightful mr. Duncan ah I'm so overwhelmed with joy that is a priceless
gift you can't put a price on that I could I could put a price on it well
I'd rather you didn't we were asked any joke if we could show the word gaunt
gaunt if you lose too much weight you might become very thin and your face
will look gaunt so there it is drawn drawn in for those asking the word is
gaunt and I've got a few words here and I've got some inspirational quotes are
you going on the Steve cam I think so Steve cam tell me ray and mr. Duncan I
want this look seamless so get ready to turn around with your dramatic
professional intensity now is that good very good take stock there we go
so take stock say you had a shop and you did a stock take you would you would go
around your storeroom and you would see what you've got in stock and you would
note everything down and then you'd know exactly what you got in stock what
things you had in your shop to sell now if you take stock of your life it means
that you you look at everything that you've got everything that you've
achieved and you see where you are at this particular point in time and people
do that at this time of the year take stock of your life you know where are
you what what job are you doing all that sort of thing everything in your life
you look at it you take stock and then you decide from that point what you want
to do where you want to move forward from there so taking stock of your life
just adding up everything that you've got in your life where you are now not
necessarily materialistically adding up but maybe just the things that you've
achieved so far taking stock now if you want to change
an aspect of your life and perhaps you're not you've been a bad person or
you haven't been behaving very well you might want to turn or take turn over a
new leaf turn over a new leaf so that means to stop doing something bad or
harmful and start behaving or doing something in a better way for example
I've been mean to everyone at work so from now on I'm going to turn over a new
leaf and treat people better so it just means that you've suddenly realized that
you haven't been doing something right or you've been bad or not behaving well
and you decide to turn over a new leaf and start being a better person you
might decide in 2019 that you want to kick a habit kick a habit that means you
want to stop doing something bad or stop doing yes stop doing something bad for
smoking for example eating too much chocolate anything that you do which you
don't like that's a habit a bad habit like smoking drinking eating too much
you might want to kick that habit which means you might want to stop doing it
so there we go so it's like you've got that that bad thing that habits those
packets of cigarettes and you kick them with your foot or you put your foot down
on it and you stop doing it so to kick a habit means to stop doing something bad
oh yes but I can hear you saying is that easier said than done so that's a phrase
which means you say that phrase easier said - done easier said than done when
you've got something to do but in practice you eat sounds good when you
say it oh I'm gonna stop smoking but sometimes just saying that is quite easy
to do but the practice of actually doing it is much harder so it is difficult
stop smoking as many people know who have tried it's also difficult to lose
weight a lot of people find it difficult to lose weight and sometimes that's
easier said than done you could say I in 2019 I want to go to the moon and
somebody might say to you well that's easier said than done so you have to
make plans sometimes if you want something to happen so it's just a
phrase oh it's that's easier said than done if somebody says to you why don't
you lose two stone in weight and you might say oh that's easier said than
done somebody might say to you what why don't your not happy with your life why
don't you change your jobs and go work for a different company and you might
say to them that's easier said than done in other words you're saying it's
alright for you to say it but it's actually harder to do in real life
sometimes you set yourself a goal or set yourself a task but that task is
actually probably could be beyond your capability or is you suddenly realize
when you start it that all that's a lot more work or a lot more effort or it's a
lot more difficult than I thought it would be and then that you could use the
expression bite off more than you can chew so if you do something that's too
difficult for you so you might be very enthusiastic about
something you might say oh I'm going to I'm going to buy a house in the new year
in 2019 I'm gonna buy an old house and I'm going to do it up and then sell it
for a profit but that you you if you actually then buy a house and then try
to maybe it needs a new kitchen a new roof and you want to do all this
yourself that's going to take a lot of effort and somebody might say to you
you've bitten off more than you can chew so you've taken a big chunk of something
and you can't bite you can't chew at all because they're too much of it so you've
taken on board a task which is to to got for you to do you may be able to do
it next year or you may be out you may need help from other people to help you
achieve it so try not to do too much I think it's the it's the it's the motto
from that have you ever bitten off more than you
can chew mr. Duncan sometimes sometimes I think about 30 years ago I bit off
more than I could chew I think I know what he's referring to
ah I think you both know uh when you start something you cut sometimes use
the phrase get the ball rolling and that just means to to start something and
that actually is derived from physics probably because it takes more effort to
start something going than to keep it going
and sometimes say you want to decorate a decorator room or do end of the
decorating room for example oh you don't want to do it and you might say come on
let's get the ball rolling so you just tear some paper off so just start just
do something I think mr. Steve's head sometimes looks
like a football see that's what I'm doing there hello my name is mr. Steve
and I like talking on YouTube and similar phrase bite the bullet Oh
bite the bullet I've done that quite a few times so if you were to try and bite
into a bullet that obviously would be quite difficult to do you'd probably
break your teeth so if you bite the bullet it means to do something
difficult let's bite the bullet and start decorating the living room so
let's just start doing it let's bite the bullet let's just something
uncomfortable you don't want to do it but let's just start doing it anyway and
bullet reminds me of the Ford Mustang Jeff why because there is a special
version of the Ford Mustang called the Mustang bullet Oh
mmm but spelt with an IT on the end not an ET from the famous film ah the famous
film bullet didn't it dare do bullet I'd say don't buy a special version of the
Ford Mustang call the Mustang bullets I'm trying to do the theme the theme
tune to bullet don't do doo doo de doo dee doo dee doo dee dee are green and
has all sorts of special features hark back to the original 1960s film and I
was hoping mr. Duncan would buy me one for Christmas but he didn't know he
bought me a box instead which I'm very pleased with I bought you a box of
drawers to put all of your papers and all of your secret files in yes all of
the secret files secret papers maybe mr. Steve has lots of secret things he wants
to put in those drawers hide them away from me but there's no locks on those
drawers mr. Duncan no you just go in there at any time I would never do that
anyway if you want to organize yourself to get something going then you often
say get your act together yeah get your act together so if you are disorganized
and you've been talking about doing something and you don't do it somebody
might say to you come on get your act together
in other words organize yourself and start doing what you said you were going
to do hmm so for example you're never going to get
that job that new job unless you get your act together so what they mean is
write your CV start applying for interviews things like that start
looking in the papers your boss at work might say to you get your act together
or you'll soon be out of a job ooh so you haven't been performing well at work
you've been disorganized and you haven't been achieving your objectives and he
might say get your act together in other words you used to be doing it before
you're not anymore so stop start doing what you used to be doing yes start to
do what you should be doing another one another my favorite Steve is is pull
your finger out pull your finger out yes pull your finger out can I come back to
the other camera you want to come to the other camera well it's time to go well
I've got some I've got some inspirational quotes well I've got I've
got a very inspirational war I've got a inspirational quote there is a clock
right in front of you Steve I know but how is actually doing things I can't
believe that you were surprised by what time it was when there's a giant clock
just in front of Steve's face talking of time yes this is the final the last the
last live stream of 2018 however there will be a new video posted on my channel
tomorrow as well to talk about the end of the year which is the thing I do
every single year so this is something I've been doing for the past five years
so I'm going to do it again tomorrow so there will be a new video but there
won't be any more live streams in 2018 this is the last one so the next time
you see us we will be talking to you in 2019 when you think about a new year
it's it's a bit silly ready because every day is a new year isn't it if you
go back twelve months ever every year is a new year really yes I suppose you love
date but I oh can these twelve monthly cycles I always say that it's
insignificant when you think about it it's very good to have years as a guide
to make sure your life goes on the right track but as I always say the universe
doesn't care that it's 2019 the universe couldn't care less it doesn't know it
just carries on with its silent process as everything moves around the cosmos so
the universe doesn't even know only we are aware of time and the fact that it's
2018 and soon it'll be 2019 but as far as the universe is concerned
there is no time thirteen billion years old is it the universe something like
that mr. Duncan what into my mind is blown by that a long time by the way I'm
blown away it's a long time so mr. Steve has some inspiration not not
perspiration I might have a bit of that inspiration so are you going to give us
some inspiring thoughts for 2019 so to help you with your new year resolutions
what your camera can do so I can have a sleep on the floor and then we'll come
back to you afterwards mr. Duncan and cue mr. Steve inspirational quotes to
help you through 2019 20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things you didn't do than by the ones you did Mark Twain so and that is true
if I look back in 20 years all the things I set up wanted to do I'm more
disappointed about the things that I didn't do and the things that I did it's
never too late to be what you might have been George Eliot so in other words it's
never too late if you've got some big goal or something you want to do it's
never too late you're never too old to start doing something it's never too
late to be what you might have been a very a very smart woman pardon George
Eliot George Eliot okay George Eliot was a woman yes of course mr. Duncan ah it
is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent but the
ones most responsive to change who said that mr. Duncan
you just Charles Darwin her famous naturalist yes so everybody often miss
quotes him he never actually said only the strongest and fittest survive that
was something that was taken on board by politicians too to make people ruthless
hmm what Charles Darwin said is that the ones that adapt to change are the ones
that survive and you find this in work all the time we live in a period of
massive change there is always change new technology
new ways of working so if you want to survive in the workplace not just as a
human being if you want to survive at work you've got to take onboard new
changes yes otherwise somebody will come along and take your job and this is
something I've had to learn because I'm not very good at taking on board changes
I like things to stay as they are and you have to learn that if you don't
respond to change and adapt to change and new ways of working
you will become irrelevant success is not final failure is not fatal it is the
courage to continue that counts Winston Churchill so what he's saying is that
even if you fail it's not going to kill you carry on anyway but even when you
are successful you can't just stop you've got to carry on as well so it's
the courage to continue whether you fail or succeed because even if you succeed
you can't just stop where you are because if you stay where you are other
people will go past you so both ways whether you fail or succeed you've just
got to pick yourself up dust yourself off and continue anyway and the last one
when a person really desires something all the universe conspires to help that
person to realize their dream and that's from a book called The Alchemist written
and I think it was 1988 by Paolo I don't know how you pronounce his second name
is Portuguese Paolo Kahlo I think or cello so in other words when you decide
you really want to do something somehow it all happens
just happens and that's probably a bit of faith I don't know but there you go
they're my little inspirational not mine quotes that I've picked up off the
internet yes that might help you move forward in 2019
so that's your selection that's my selection yes so they're not yours you
didn't write them I wish I could say IT one more for me use my time efficiently
this is a very important one this is one of my new year's resolutions I want to
use my time more efficiently so I don't waste time if I have a spare moment I
will find something to do during that moment I won't waste my time I won't put
things off to the next day I won't procrastinate I won't keep
saying I will do it tomorrow I will do it tomorrow and another bad habit of
mine is I often put things off and keep putting them off and keep putting them
off or I do the opposite and I don't do anything and I have to do everything at
the last minute yes so maybe you don't prepare or do any preparation for
something and suddenly you have to do it you have no choice because there's only
a little time left pressure pressure so I am going to use my time efficiently in
2019 there's another one here this isn't mine I don't know where this came from I
think this might be from Pedro Belmont it says live stream every day can you
see that I think I think this might be be Pedro Belmont I think so because
Pedro is always asking me to do live streams every day that's easier said
than done mr. doe yes you see that's the reason why not because it's easier said
than done so I'm afraid there won't be live streams every day but there will be
live streams of course during 2019 it's time to go let's have one last look one
last look at the live chat yes I wonder if May
Trix is going to change the name now because matrix is is called matrix Trix
2018 but of course you will have to change your name I think you'll have to
change your Roman numerals that's interesting Jimmy Jimmy New Year family
said the social Darwinist Herbert Spencer mmm the one that first proposed
the faith phrase survival of the fittest uh-huh but it was a misquote and it was
a bit of a distortion of Charles Darwin's principles yes and in fact that
often used that was often used in particularly the 1980s in in business
circles to suggest to people that it's only they're only the fittest that
survive and you should push everybody else out of the way yes but in fact that
isn't the way to survive yes so what they're saying is you have to to survive
you have to push people out of the way you have to be an ST person to survive
but that isn't really what it means it's just the survival of species not the
individual person so yes it has been twisted a lot well it was twisted
because Darwin as you said you've got to you've got to be able to adapt hmm
species that survive adapt to their environment and sit and if you want to
survive in your workplace you've got to adapt and take onboard new changes
that's pretty good so lots of people saying goodbye for the for the year
thank you French frog have a super-duper new year thanks for your message as well
by the way concerning the French retirement age all
right yes we got that wrong didn't we yes apparently a 60 not 55 Martha says
bye mr. Duncan Pedro is going as well he was a great life lesson thanks Martha
thanks Shirley yes please life streams every day oh I wish I could I wish I
could don't forget I do all of this for free this costs nothing so I'm always
looking for donations if you'd like to make a donation for the end of the year
or maybe the beginning of the year feel free to do so thanks also for your live
checked donations today is well thank you very much for that
so Dinesh Martha Pedro Victor Jeff
there is Jeff watching in the USA a new year happy new year to all of you I hope
you have a super time and that is where we have to end the last livestream in
2018 the last livestream in 2018 with less stress in oh yes we will be back
next year which is the day after tomorrow yes so you don't have long to
wait another week and we will be back don't forget every
Sunday 2:00 p.m. UK time have a super time whatever you are doing have a great
party have a great celebration I think we should have some fireworks to end so
have a super New Year and from mr. Steve and mr. Duncan Happy New Year and have a
great time and we will also celebrate the New Year of course it does occur at
different times doesn't it it does it does so we will celebrate ours and you
celebrate yours when you are ready we will see you next year have a
super-duper week and of course you know what's coming next until the next time
we meet which will be in 2019 Happy New Year and...
ta ta for now 8-)
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