Oh no, thank you. I don't want to buy anything sorry.
Hola, Mr Bartlett somos nosotros.
Oh, sorry. Sorry
I thought it was I thought it was someone trying to sell me something.
Well, welcome to my dad's house. He's on holiday so we can do whatever we want.
In this video I'm going to show you ten things
that are going to surprise you about an English house, ok?
but before you come in you have to take off your shoes and ...
err...You're wearing your shoes!
Yeah, these are my house shoes. These are house shoes. They're very clean.
Once you've come in, we have to speak only in English, ok? This is an English house.
I accept because I'm very interested.
Oh that's a very kind gesture.
These are my dad's slippers, but he won't mind. Are they smelly?
Oh, they look quite new yeah they're fine. All right
Perfect okay uhh they're cosy.
So this is actually a very old building
it's over a hundred and fifty years old you can see it has original beams
It's a brick house and it's well, it's like a cottage.
many many years ago it used to be a pub
so it's actually haunted as well. There are a few ghosts
Are you warm enough? Do you want a cup of tea or something to drink?
I'm alright.
Let's go into the kitchen and I'll make something.
Alright.
Shall I put the kettle on?
No, I've just had a coffee so don't worry, okay!
so
One thing that I think might surprise you is what we find in the sink
If you take a look down here, you will find a washing up bowl
I think a lot of Spanish people complain about this, but it's actually very useful
Let me explain why. If I drop a glass in here and it hits the plastic
It's not gonna break is it?
however, if you hit it on this metal sink
It could damage the glass
okay, that's one of the reasons now the other reason is if you're doing your washing up and you want to
get rid of some dirty water from a pan
Then you just pour it down the side like this
Just pour it down the side and then you still have clean water here.
If you need to use the sink
You can just take the whole lot out
And then you can use the sink for something else.
This is actually quite useful, especially in a house that only has one sink
Right. I'm not totally convinced Phillip...
and I'm sure all these Spaniards are with me on this.
This bucket is always in my way
This bowl. Putting your hand in here is quite scary because you never know what you're gonna find.
don't hate me okay British people,
but I've seen you, I've observed you
I've seen
that people don't wash the dishes properly
Okay a little bit of rinse no? You rinse it a bit and that's done
Perfect. I mean you have some delicious wine
tasting of fairy liquid
Dishes dishes dishes dishes as well always has problems with the SH sound
Dishes dishes. Okay. Sorry about that
They are wilting or they have wilted
your sunflowers have wilted but look, they're still beautiful
Write it down WILTED the flowers have wilted
Let's move on!
Oh
This is the folding door, this is actually the downstairs toilet and utility room so you can see here we've got the
toilet
We've got in the boiler
Okay, see that? This is the boiler where we get the hot water then we've got a sink here and the washing machine down here
Okay
To wash your clothes
Now if this house didn't have a utility room
Where do you think we would put the washing machine any guesses Isabel?
In Spain usually if you don't have a utility room, then you would have it in the bathroom. I think that makes sense
In many houses, they put the washing machine in the kitchen
Okay, yeah very interesting let's see what number three is.
Okay number three is the taps look at this
Here we have
The cold and the hot separate taps
now in many houses in the UK these days modern houses
We have mixer taps like the rest of Europe, but it's still quite common to see
Separate taps and this is because a lot of old houses used to have the hot water
supply tank in the attic and
the hot water supply tank could be easily contaminated in order to avoid contaminating the
clean main supply we used to always keep the
Hot and cold separate how do you wash your hands? Give us a demonstration, please
Okay, you turn on the hot, turn on the cold...
Like this
It's actually great for saving water because when you wash your hands you just want to get it over with as quickly as possible
So it could be good for Spain because there's there's a lot of drought in Spain
Anyway, that's the utility room and this toilet. It has a very powerful flush
So always make sure that you are standing before you flush the chain
So this is carpet, okay carpet goes from wall to wall and this is a rug
Okay 'alfombra' rug and carpet is 'moqueta' Mm-hmm not Spanish
Who would have a rug on top of a carpet? What's that for?
Good question
Anyway, it's really to keep the carpet clean. Okay, whoa
Okay, and number five is in the bathroom, let's go in the bathroom
It's a bit dark in here Phillip. It's bit dark, isn't it? Let's look for the light switch
No switch. No
no switch, where's the switch?
In order to turn the light on you need to pull this cord?
And there you go in British bathrooms, we don't have switches because it's against health and safety regulations
If you've got wet hands, it's not very safe to switch on a light with a switch. So this is the solution
Okay, and what about that noise in the background? Yes, when you pull the cord the light comes on and the
extractor fan also comes on automatically
Mr. Bartlett. Hmm. I think you've missed something and this is that in England
I usually kind of dry my hair
here, I usually have to go to the bedroom or to the living room or
the kitchen
Garden. Yeah, and why is that?
Well, what's missing? No?
sockets
English people water and electricity don't mix look
Magic Oh
Impressive
It would be pretty hard to electrocute yourself in this bathroom, right?
Right! Yeah and something else I'm noticing what I'm here is this...
well, I'm sure they have it in some houses in Spain but
it's not so common. However, I always see it in England. Yeah, what is it for? It's a towel dryer
See take your wet towel. Just hang it on there like that, and then it's nice and warm
It is lovely in the winter, isn't it?
Hey, sorry
Have a look here... We've got some medals from the First World War my great-grandfather
These stairs are really really steep.
Back in the kitchen...
Phillip's going to give us a demonstration..
Nooo, don't do that, don't do it.
Don't worry
And now it's completely safe to lick whatever you've been making with the blender.
I'm pressing the button, safe it's safe it's completely safe this is a great safety feature that
British plug sockets have they have an extra switch so you can switch things on and off
You can't actually put anything in here because you see these are closed
mmm that's right yeah
So in order to open them you need to put this one in first, hmm
and then they open.
It's very safe
it always lands like this and if you step on it ouch
This really hurts
You can never miss this one in an English house, don't worry
If you find a spider just grab a glass and a piece of paper and catch it. We don't kill them
Okay, we just let them free. Okay, so let me demonstrate. Put it over the spider
Don't worry don't worry, it's all under control. Oh
Slide the paper under Oh
Oh
Don't hurt its legs
There you go
And then of course we let the spider go.
I also like to make a wish as well.
Just let it fly.
Yes, these are double glazed windows and they open by sliding down
and up like this to close.
Double glazing is important in England because it gets pretty cold in the winter. It gets a bit chilly.
Notice as well. There aren't any roller shutters, which are very common in Spain every house has roller shutters that come down
We don't have those here.
Okay, but for us what is a bit different is the way you open the windows because you usually open
the windows towards you, so part of the window stays in the room. So maybe a
child could hit
their head on it. I've never seen windows like this
Not all houses have these windows there are lots of different types of windows.
There's another spider!
Oh Goodness! Shall we go into the garden?
Okay, let's go into the garden
Oh Gordon Bennet, look at that lovely hanging basket.
Haha a lady from Hitchin taught me that
oh look lady bird
Yeah
Gordon Bennett, if you live in a house, then you might have a little garden like this one. This one's
a nice size.
Here you can see we've got tomatoes growing
Yeah, my dad's tomatoes. We must make a 'gazpacho'.
You can grow your own vegetables and
usually you'll find
something like this to feed
the birds you got here some nuts
Do you want to feed the birds? You should feed the birds
Yeah, it's true. I've seen a black squirrel come in here
The squirrel goes on there
and it comes down and
tries to eat
the birds' food
It would be great if it
if it turned up now.
I saw a grey squirrel earlier today. I think he was taking some tomatoes
Oh, eating my tomatoes?
and... this one is very interesting. Do you know what this is called?
This is rhubarb
So well the battery is running out so we have to say goodbye and Phillip's mum is coming to pick us up
We're gonna go for a drink at the pub because it's Friday and this is what English people do
so yeah time to say goodbye
Make a wish. I wish it goes far away.
Mission accomplished
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