What are your favourite YouTube channels and why?

[DancingTurtle]

Bonus points for Irish- or British-based channels from mid-life women living happy, healthy, expansive lives.

E.g. I enjoy Rewilding Jude and Morrigan's Cottage, both are vlogs from young people starting a new life in the country (Scotland and Ireland respectively), renovating their cottages and keeping chickens.

I also like London Eats (delivery man on his bike(s) delivering food and parcels with great views of London) for background.

Anyone?

https://youtube.com/@ukexplored?si=vLVy2q-qbYIl1OzH

I really enjoyed his videos but he’s not posted in ages. I wonder why. It’s a shame, really.

I don't really get the appeal of YouTube beyond searching for videos about very specific thing you need at a very specific moment.

My only subscription is to "We Rate Dogs" for his Friday "Dogs of the Week" video.
Otherwise, I just dip into YouTube when I need an idiots guide to some DIY shit, or how to wrap a strangely-shaped present 😅

Heck they look a bit depressing 😁. Are the videos more positive than the titles?

I know what you mean, but recently I’ve started treating it like another tv channel because some of the content is such a high standard.

We also enjoy London Eats!
Other ones we watch are post10 (clearing drainage blockages) Midwest mike cleaning, little china everywhere, lots of American lawncare channels, fascinating horror, jago hazard, various train cab pov channels.

I like history hit and similar, I also quite enjoy the walking tours ones that show you around cities virtually.

I follow a lot of book posters if that’s of interest?

Also I watch competitive eaters BeardMeatsFood and KatinaEatsKilos

My issue is that I can't find such high standard content 😂

I used to like watched walker in lock down. Felt like I was outside walking round London.
we watch all sorts but I don’t know the names, it’s our main source of watch tbh and we like travel, food and music videos

Kris Atomic - narrow boater very good at cinematography.
Storror - parkour athletes who are incredibly in tune with each other as a team.
Geowizard - good storyteller who likes walking in straight lines.
Leena Norms - encourages current day climate panics into positives as well as books and crafty things.
Steve Marsh - travels.

I watch these even though it turns my stomach (the belching 🤢) I think I must be a masochist.
also Fascinating Horror and Disasterthon, and a couple of urban exploration accounts that I can’t remember.
Gary Eats. Fallow for cookery content. Tasting History with Max Miller is great (he cooks old recipes like the Titanic menu). 48 Hours for true crime. Walk With Me Tim for travel.
we also regularly do quizzes, mostly Quiz Master Dale.

I like Gary Eats

I like
The Vintage Read show
run by an Australian shauna kay.
Through her I came across the excellent Andrew Lownie
long before Entitled. re his books on Mountbatten and Duke of Windsor.

I also like jack Jones who gives flowers to random older people.

Also printographer who takes pictures of police officers and soldiers and presents them to them. The smiles of gratitude are wonderful.
Also Now I Am Known by a single foster dad in north Carolina. He was a street kid himself in 🇺🇬 Uganda. Peter Mutabazi. Very funny.

I love the idea of the train cab video guy.
Alexei Sayle has some lovely relaxing videos where he cycles around London and gives nuggets of history.
As a bit of an insomniac I love audiobooks , favourites Bitesize Audio Classics with Simon Stanhope, ghost and detective stories.
Classic ghost stories, Tony Walker. Both brilliant . There's a lot of AI slop out there too alas.

Ps There's an English guy Let's make a trip who does lots of nice train bus and ferry trips, often enough in Ireland. Lots of useful information too. Great to get a different viewpoint. My strongest memories of Cork - Tralee consist of raging impotently as I await a connection at Mallow, a very different vibe ! 😆

I like Michelle After Dark. She does in-depth analyses of ongoing real life crime investigations/court hearings. Think she is a former university lecturer in forensic psychology or something like that. Not your typical mobile phone sleuth making all sorts of hysterical conspiracies anyway.