Five Decades of Slow Living | an introduction | part 1

[@robertseddon2512]

It's not slow living, its how we always lived until mass consumerism, it is the normal and natural way to live. But people now are always working for the next holiday, the next car etc. Always hoping that the next thing they buy will make them happy. Developing your inner world and living as nature intended is the only path to true contentment.

[@primalengland]

Funny you should mention the buying happiness thing. In my next video I talk about the difference between pleasure and happiness.

[@debbiesittard7653]

The way Creator GOD intended man to live and be.

[@winterwoodcottage3657]

Hello from the USA. I enjoy your videos. Slow living to me is finding peace and joy in everyday mundane tasks. Finding beauty in hanging clean sheets on the line, seeing poetry in clean dishes drying on the countertop, feeling privileged to be able to stop everything to help a child with a challenging math problem. It’s being in the moment with joy. You can have a good attitude no matter where you live.

[@primalengland]

@@winterwoodcottage3657 It’s such a shame that more people don’t realise that there is so much peace in everyday tasks, and we don’t need all the paraphernalia that only bring fleeting pleasure, and not happiness.

[@TheWastedHippies]

@robertseddon2512 No truer statement, it's as if you have stolen my thoughts. It's how people are 'programmed', told how to think, feel and live. The fortunate become wise to the fact that this isn't the way it should be...

[@JK-es9wu]

This would make a great TEDx talk.. In particular, people facing retirement .... a lot of them just fall off the cliff into boring mundane existence .. your suggestion of multiple hobbies and interests is excellent..

[@primalengland]

Thank you.

[@Okc668]

Please tell us your ghost story sometime!

[@primalengland]

I shall. It’s not scary, quite comforting and a head scratcher. 👻

[@linpollock54]

We retired early 12 years ago because I couldn't bear watching my husband fall asleep from exhaustion every night on the sofa in front of the television. He looked old, washed out and grey. We weren't wealthy but we knew we'd have enough. Nagging him to give it up and move here to Crete was the best thing I ever did. We bought a doer upper in a small village with an outside bathroom and we did it slowly when we had the money. Everyone thought we were bonkers! Now it's all done and I garden, knit and bake and he walks in the olive groves and runs the village football sweep each week. We eat locally grown food, swim in the sea, explore this beautiful, wild island and have a quiet life. You don't need to be wealthy or wear a flowery frock to lead a slow life. You just have to decide what matters.

[@nicoeeek.7181]

Sounds brilliant!! Good on you!

[@LauraSnow-in3nx]

We built a 5 bedroom 3 bathroom 2 living rooms & a 3 car garage. Happy here but in my heart when I read messages like this I think “wow THATS perfect!” Maybe someday we will do the same!!

[@primalengland]

That sounds perfect. May you enjoy it for many years.

[@TheBillaro]

and he looks healthy again i bet. i'm thinking of doing the same but in japan.

[@linpollock54]

He does indeed! I've never been to Japan but it's on my wishlist list. Just do it. We have no regrets apart from not seeing our daughter and granddaughter often enough. Best of luck!

[@highlandjournalart654]

I would love a cottage in the woods but I’m extremely grateful for our ex council bungalow on a small council estate. The bonus being that it’s near the woods and the song thrush wakes me up every morning. Great video, you have a new subscriber.

[@primalengland]

Thank you. Much appreciated. 😊

[@ingeleonora-denouden6222]

I am glad (happy) that the song thrush wakes me up too, even here in this ground-floor appartment in a small town in the eastern part of the Netherlands.

[@lucydonald9130]

The woods...the song thrush....treasures beyond compare.

[@highlandjournalart654]

@@lucydonald9130 they are and a great way to practice gratitude for what we actually have.

[@jenwick8708]

I simply loved the start of this video - sipping tea, while running through a corn field, while baking cinnamon rolls...😂 awesome, simply awesome 😂

[@primalengland]

😂 If I did that I would probably get locked up.

[@janeycooper940]

I watch them all! Some make me giggle with the flowing dresses! 😂but I do enjoy them. I live alone and introverted and I enjoy my own company. I run my own little business just to pay my bills! I also enjoy your no nonsense videos best. Keep them coming 😊

[@primalengland]

Will you marry me? 😁. You sound like you’ve got your head in just the right place.

[@Kay-xb9cp]

I’ve only just found your channel on KZbin but totally agree with you on this point…a lot of the ‘slow living’ content on KZbin is a moneymaking/profit driven exercise because ‘slow living’ is trendy at the moment….often these channels advertise very expensive products that no true ‘slow living’ person would ever buy!

[@primalengland]

I think you and I are cynics, but I also think we may be right. 😉👍

[@Ajax-t1q]

I think it's the music in the middle ground, that gets me. Soon as I hear it I know what's coming.

[@deeannh17]

You made me laugh a few times talking about the slow life. It’s pretty and it’s eye candy but it’s usually unrealistic. I watch and enjoy them occasionally as escapism from all the craziness that is going on but I find out they have have a husband who bought the house and there are things that seem impossible for the average single woman. I much prefer to follow a woman who lives in her car. They are usually more real.

[@connydm729]

I fully agree.!!! 🙂 ...greetings from Belgium 🤗 Conny

[@primalengland]

They are mostly just escapism. That is absolutely fine, as long as they don’t try to be anything else. I think many of them may believe their own hype.

[@chefinwood]

Lock down opened my eyes to how blind I was to living. New subscriber here ❤

[@primalengland]

Thank you.

[@Ajax-t1q]

Agree

[@katherineb6102]

Well meaning people are always telling me I need the newest gadget for cooking, or housework, or gardening. They just don't understand that I don't want my life to be "easier" I want to live every minute of it and at 69 years of age, I'm not in any hurry. I want to bake from scratch and garden with bare hands and sweep the floor with a broom. And enjoy the peace and quiet.

[@primalengland]

That sounds perfect. I’m also 69…. Until June.

[@Ajax-t1q]

I couldn't agree more with what you have written.

[@eaglevp]

I have lived the slow life all my life,I always lived the simple life with no money worries if I wanted anything I would save then buy it and not get into debt.

[@primalengland]

Can’t remember when I last had a credit card. I’m like you. If I need something I save up. Don’t see the problem, it seems to work really well.

[@Pugwash.]

My ideal house would have a moat and a drawbridge. Nothing massive, just a small fortress to keep uninvited people at the gates.

[@melisand8295]

Oh I so love that idea! 😊😊

[@Chrissyhappy]

Mine’s a lighthouse….with tides that allow access about once a year. For supply delivery 😂

[@primalengland]

I always used to say I’d like a cottage miles from anyone, a stout gate and a shotgun. 😊

[@fionasmall4384]

First timer here really enjoyed your stories and philosophy on life. I retired 3 years ago at 64 after working since I was 15 I am not ruled by a clock and it’s the most wonderful gift I’m not saying life is perfect but it is perfect for me and I am so thankful…

[@primalengland]

You sound a lot like me. I’m 69 and retired at 65. Best thing I ever did. I’m loving life.

[@JillGrant-e7f]

This video absolutely thrilled me because it took me back to my childhood. I am a British expat living in Western Australia but I grew up on the Isle of Wight living the Slow lLife in the 50s and 60s. I spent those years roaming the outdoors in the woods and nearby brooks, picking Primroes and Bluebells for my mother and our neighbours - who didn't have daughters. I miss the English countryside so much and hanker for that long-ago life. I have lived the Slow Life - for me it is the simple life - for many years here, and go out into nature to feel the peace and harmony wash over me and fill me, but it is not England. My heart has always been, and will remain, in the English countryside. So grateful for this video.

[@primalengland]

Thank you. I have found, from the comments, that there lots of us kindred spirits.

[@Onthe9thlife3730]

I'm a west Aussie but had the extremely lucky fortune to spend nearly two weeks going around the south western region of England in may about a decade ago, it was cold, there was some sun but mostly cloudy and wet. Definitely my preferred weather. Only downside was the birds didn't sound as nice as Aussie birds.

[@primalengland]

@@Onthe9thlife3730 That was probably just the West Country accent. 😉

[@LauraSnow-in3nx]

You’re not despised, you are honest & open about who you are & how you feel.

[@logothaironsides2942]

I think we all NEED the slow living experience. Anxiety and stress everywhere and isnt that because we are not all superhuman?

[@primalengland]

But the media shows us superhuman beings to aspire to. Beauty, brains, perfect families, perfect jobs. I wonder how many people have actually suffered mentally because they feel they have to meet these standards.

[@logothaironsides2942]

@@primalengland Many I imagine. TV can be very brainwashing and I think humans naturally compare themsleves to others. Unfortunately TV is manipulated to show the world as it very rarely is in real life.

[@oremstale8558]

@@primalengland Millions, I'm sure...

[@SIERRATREES]

The irony is, if you slow down, your life becomes fuller. I used to have a 24/7 job in finance, running at a million miles an hour. Sure, I could eat at 5 star resaurants and was staying in nice flashy hotels, but , in my new slower life, my horizons and knowledge of life have expanded immensely ; having to time to read and study more, and notice more, including the delicous small moments of life, will do this for you. You can lower your cost base and be more self reliant. Im really just repeating the great wisdom of Primal England.

[@willeel3750]

Not simple, or complicated, slow or fast, large or small. Just call it living.

[@mariaelenadieguez5211]

Oh my goodness you are singing my song! The slow and simple life allows us to take in all the special and curious and interesting moments of the day- otherwise they just whizz by… along with our precious life. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and most amazing scenery, so lovely 💚 continue to live and thrive young man 🌱🌷🌿

[@primalengland]

Young man! You have just made my day. 😊

[@CaldonianDude]

A similar thing happened in the minimalism movement - it all became about views and making money...

[@primalengland]

But the KZbin trend will move on, and these videos will be a thing of the past. It’s all about making money.

[@Ajax-t1q]

Agree

[@karen4you]

I once got a bee up inside a flowy skirt and I didn't much like that.

[@highlandjournalart654]

😂

[@primalengland]

😂 I bet you could write a limerick about that. There was a young lady in a frock When a bee gave her quite a big shock……..

[@RebekahMarnie]

​@@primalengland There was a young lady in a frock When a bee gave her quite a big shock... They both buzzed around The young lady frowned And the bee ended up in her sock ! 😊

[@primalengland]

@@RebekahMarnie Congratulations, you just won the internet. 🎉🎉

[@Stumpybear7640]

​@@RebekahMarnie😂

[@JLingelbach1]

Thank you for this video! I am also 70 this year, live in PNW of USA. I agree with you, nature, gardening, crafting and hobbies are what bring me joy. 💕😎

[@primalengland]

I’ve found, from the comments, that there are many out there who share our views. 😊

[@Pondapple]

You're a teacher and philosopher. I also enjoyed looking a your knitted cap!

[@primalengland]

I’m a little bald pensioner drifting happily through old age. 😊

[@lindacrawford5029]

Love that slow natural living I don’t even need the music, sounds of real nature heal me!

[@primalengland]

Perfectly said. 😊

[@Ajax-t1q]

Eerr, the bloody music.

[@Stumpybear7640]

IMO It's about how you live in your own skin. Contentment is the aim. Connection to your spirit is a very real bonus❤ Location is immaterial.

[@mandyhewitt8030]

Absolutely spot on 💚

[@raggedblossom508]

Twenty-five years ago a debilitating chronic illness pushed me kicking and screaming into the slow life. Now, I wouldn't have it any other way. Travelling for the sake of keeping moving and hanging around cool cafes is now the last thing on my wish list. In fact, my current wish list is quite small. Like Diogenes, asking his important visitor to move aside to let in the sun.

[@primalengland]

Funny how the expensive things bring pleasure, but the simple things bring happiness. 😊

[@MrFrampo56]

That visitor being….Alexander the Great …..

[@qwq203]

I remember when the lockdown came here in America. I worked at an essential job. I had people telling me how much they missed out on day to day. I myself lived in a small cabin in the woods off grid. I would tell them that they have a choice. I never lost out on my freedom or ability to do my day to day life. Not cooped up looking out the window or worried about the neighbors breathing on me. I completely retired at 55 and have enjoyed what others say is unattainable for them. I tell them, if you want it, it's up to you to make it happen. God bless

[@primalengland]

Absolutely perfect outlook. When you live frugally, you don’t have far to fall. If you live a lavish lifestyle, heaven help you if anything goes wrong.

[@CARACAS1]

Molly is very beautiful ❤. By the way Nigel, what equipment do you use for your videos, camera, audio, computer, editing software.? Thanks

[@jennil7797]

Slow living? I just call it living life with less than many, but more happiness than most. It has been my lifestyle for 50 of my 70 years.

[@primalengland]

That’s funny. I have video that I haven’t posted yet, and may not do. In it I mention living this life for 50 of my 70 years…. Snap!

[@vickipruitt6288]

I think I'm in love with this fellow with great accent (could listen to him forever ) and very beneficial philosophy of life.😊❤ Vicki from Tennessee in the USA 🇺🇲 My Scot side of family has name of Stark. emigrated to US in 1700s.from Glascow.

[@teres469]

The Slow Life to me is really to live within our means...Dont follow the crowd...Those younger youtubers are ok some of them, but others fake and unrealistic. I think definitely country life would help with no shops/consumerism nearby 🙂......And please dont wear a frock 🤣🤣

[@primalengland]

I promise I won’t. 😁

[@teres469]

😂😂

[@debzehr3244]

I thoroughly enjoyed today’s walk. 😊. And look forward to hearing more about how you live your life. From one slow-living Boomer to another. 💖💖💖

[@primalengland]

We boomers need to stick together. 😊

[@Trevor-iy6db]

Love your content, as a man of 38, I really appreciate your wisdom 👍.

[@primalengland]

Now, wisdom is not a word used very frequently to describe me, but I’ll take it, and thank you. 😊

[@Seamus3051]

Without realizing it, we become prisoners of our possessions.

[@primalengland]

Brilliantly put. I’m stealing that. 😊

[@mckennasweda3614]

Im a prisoner to my car. Gas, insurance, repairs. I want to sell it and get an electric scooter but i havent fully decided on it...

[@FarOutAlaska]

Hello from a new subscriber in Alaska! Love the tone and tenor of your channel. Like taking a walk with a wise friend. We are approaching 60 with thoughts of doing less and living more.

[@primalengland]

You must maintain that dream. I was forced into retirement by cancer. Thank you cancer. I bet no one ever said that before. 😊

[@karenbral8918]

You are amazing. There is much I can learn from you.

[@primalengland]

I’m learning more every day. Every day is a school day, and you’re never too old to learn.

[@WanabeHippie]

Just found you. Love your vibe and agree totally with your view of the world. I shall look up your catalogue of vlogs from now. Thank you.

[@primalengland]

Thank you so much. 😊

[@dawncooper1975]

Sounds like you're on the path that you should be Sir. I come from the big city of Manchester and i moved to Worcestershire 22 years ago. Ive never looked back. I easied into "slow living" like water offa ducks back. Im definitely where i should be ❤

[@primalengland]

That sounds fantastic, we’ll done. I’m kind of glad I grew up when I did. There were fewer distractions in the day, and no one bothered what you said or how you dressed or what you thought.

[@brianchislett2699]

Thank you for mirroring my own thoughts.simple living can include a wind up watch and a Citroën 2cv.

[@primalengland]

Why would you want more? 😊

[@lindagumbleton6569]

PS Peace is the end product of a life well lived with enthusiasm, gratitude and freedom to explore and know your Self, the living vibrating energy that dwells within us all and yearns for true connection to Life. 🙏

[@maryscarpa229]

I look rubbish in a frock great line

[@primalengland]

But true. 😊

[@thissunchild]

Thank you! Finally, someone is saying what I've been saying for ages. The whole slow living thing has actually become a bit of a joke. So perfect. So beautiful. So utterly unobtainable.

[@primalengland]

But it gets you lots of views on KZbin. ……. Oh, dear! I’m getting quite cynical. 😊

[@thissunchild]

@@primalengland 😂

[@Ajax-t1q]

And the back ground music. 😖

[@mariaetheridge8343]

I really, really like the way you're thinking! Thank you for sharing your take on slow living. I do some of that myself here in Cyprus where I live.

[@primalengland]

It is only when you talk about these things that you realise, there are a lot of us out there.

[@bay7521]

The majority of slow living videos present a completely fake and unattainable lifestyle. They try to portray their life as the perfect Disney fairytale, I loathe watching them because of how unrelatable they are.

[@primalengland]

I think, once you realise how unattainable they are, then you can just enjoy the fantasy. I’ve had personal push back off a couple of these creators, but they seldom stand up to scrutiny. 😊

[@skmcc9252]

I can't thank you for that image you just put in my head but it did make me laugh - "I could do that but I'd look a bit daft in a frock." I've been blessed with a vivid imagination Nigel and it's taken awhile for that one to be, at last, erased! That God for little mercies - all the best from Oz.

[@primalengland]

I’m am the stuff of nightmares. 😊

[@marianfrances4959]

I really enjoyed this. I, too, have decades behind me. Thanks for laughs. 👍🇨🇦😎✌

[@primalengland]

My pleasure.

[@GeekyC.]

Ive just turned 30 so not super young but you gel amazingly with me mate and i love that i found your channel it got me thinking

[@primalengland]

That’s great, and thanks for the comment.

[@ankerimalltag990]

Laughed five Times hard in the first 10 seconds, New follower here❤

[@primalengland]

Thank you. 😁

[@jsams4990]

I often roam barefoot through the moss in the wooded acreage at my off grid, and sometimes in my flowing nightgown 😅 but at 65, I won't put it on you tube 😂 I do love the fantasy content too. Love your accent and your cheekyness (is that a word!) 😉 Just found your channel...new subscriber from Nova Scotia, Canada. Love your content ❤✌ and seeing your beautiful countryside.

[@Hermod_Hermit]

..."drinking herbal tea while simultaneously running through corn fields"... and you got my thumbs up before I even watched 50 seconds of this video 😂

[@primalengland]

😂 Cheers.

[@JoButterwick]

Thank you ☺

[@primalengland]

No, thank you. 😊

[@aldsworthlogs4516]

I'm admiring your jumper - did you knit it?

[@primalengland]

No. I used to have to get them on obscure websites. Now they’re all on Amazon.😊

[@Martina_BCJdesign]

Just here to say I love your messages and you are so right. I had no idea "slow living" was even a thing. Recently discovered the term. And saw that, it's the closest to what I've been doing for a while now. I picked it up as retrospective self-therepy in a way, due to ptsd. And it worked. And I've built a business doing it, selling my art. Though, without cinematics and romanticising in that sense. Enjoying coffee with my cat in old PJs every morning, sculpting in the afternoon and just being. Took a lot of mental and physical work to get to it but I'm here now.

[@primalengland]

I had no idea it was a ‘thing’ either, and, apparently I’ve been doing it for years. I think more people should get the message. Who wants a stressful life!

[@bhaapi4942]

Hi there. Thank you for this lovely talk video. Just want to tell you that I am your subscriber. I have enjoyed this video and a few others of yours. Stay healthy and keep posting ❤

[@primalengland]

Thank you, and thank you for subscribing. 😊

[@balluna1453]

"I believe that happened ...tho I don't believe in ghosts", that's "about" your gut over riding incoming information, ...that does happen, int Nature brilliant?!.

[@primalengland]

Everything about nature is brilliant. We are just along for the ride.

[@foodforalgos-zs8iy]

"O to be in England, now that April's there..." So nice to see those familiar hills and walls and the little lambs! My dad saw a ghost near the Wrightington fish ponds. He drove for Ribble Busses. It was almost midnight, the last bus. He thought the lady was on her way to the bus stop so he stopped and waited for her. Instead, she walked across the road and through a stone wall! Apparently, other drivers had seen her too. Great video, another nice hat! Now I'm off with the dog to get my own sheep in, but not in a frock! :)

[@primalengland]

I love the area around Wrightington. Some great walks. There was also a really good motorbike importer up there some years ago. I bought one off them. Only problem was they had kph clocks. I’m a sceptic, but I’m not disbelieving your dad. The experience I had was real. I might tell it on here, and encourage others to share their experiences. Could be a fun episode.

[@MrFrampo56]

Haha. A Ghost , yeah right. Of course he did.

[@niallwildwoode7373]

I've not really worked out what 'slow living' is. It's easy for these pretty lasses in floral dresses within a rural idyll, up to their elbows brewing camomile tea before settling in front of a blazing woodstove. But what they're not doing is felling the coppice wood, or splitting the logs, or wresting the heavy horses out into the plowfields dawn 'til dusk. They've someone working hard to pay for their privilege to float around, or have a cabin on Mummy and Daddy's estate. Show me one who's genuinely bashing her laundry on a rock by the beck, or smashing away with the plunger in a dollytub, sleeves rolled up and sweat dripping off her nose. They're faux, and mistakening the simple living lass, with the squire's wife who had staff to run around at her every whim. All pleasant to look at but a deception for those who aspire to a simple, rural existence.

[@primalengland]

I’ve had this conversation so many times. It is make believe, and one day the KZbin trend will move on to the next big thing. I just like to watch a couple of them because they are well produced, like watching fiction. I often wonder whether they rent some of these places and knock out a few months worth of videos. They certainly don’t live in my working class, north England town, where the local shop gets robbed every week and cats are screaming all night.

[@iam_hannabailey]

This guy knew the secret of real living stress free

[@colourmyworld5837]

I've just found you and i must say that i enjoy your rambling and your wordy rambling too and i whole heartedly agree with your philosophy! I'm looking forward to the next one. I live slowly in the Welsh countryside. I have neighbors, but only a few, but surprisingly they are not like minded people and so i tend to navigate them very carefully!!!

[@primalengland]

‘Wordy Ramblings’ I’m going to have that on my headstone…. ‘He Was a Wordy Rambler.’ RIP Baldy. 😁

[@DP-ez1kt]

I live a slow life now that I am retired. At this point of my life, I feel calm and satisfied.

[@primalengland]

It’s sad when people can’t live a calm life in retirement. Everyone has earned it.

[@noctembra]

This is my second video of yours I've seen (first was on hobbies), and I'm looking forward to seeing more! Your videos have a certain serene yet authentic beauty to them, not just including but being One With the natural world, that is wonderful to watch and inspirational to me!

[@primalengland]

Thank you so much. That is a lovely comment. 😊

[@Su-ri5ob]

I don't know that i live a slow life, but I do know that I dislike the consumerism and madness of modern society. I don't watch the slow living videos (incidentally, why does EVERYTHING have to have a label?) I choose my own path and don't give a damn about what people say or think.

[@primalengland]

I think I mentioned in this or another about the label, ‘slow living.’ You’re right. People say they want to live a simple life, then complicate it by spending energy thinking of a name.

[@Glucosechicj]

Blessed to found found your channel ❤

[@primalengland]

Thank you.

[@almostzentv]

This guy is the bomb

[@primalengland]

Thanks from the ‘bomb.’ 😊👍❤️🙏

[@jazfarm5726]

OMG!! YES!! I look like shit in a smock as well. I am 61 living on the high plains of Colorado. Simple does NOT mean it isn’t hard. I work very hard to live out of the system and self-reliant. I am not as big a fan of all the 30 something women in frocks. It comes off as phony.

[@primalengland]

Oh! It’s very phoney. I agree. I just like some of them because they are so well produced. Mine look like they have been put together by a drunk on a bad day. 😊

[@meadowsweetfarmfiberartsdesign]

Hi I am a knitter and I love the hats you are wearing Can you tell me the name of the patterns. The one in this video and the one before. Thank you!

[@primalengland]

To tell you the truth, I couldn’t read a pattern to save my life. I’ve tried but I just get confused. I just watched a couple of videos, then took out a notepad and worked out the number of rows and stitches roughly. I did most of my hats on circular needles, which are a bit weird to start with. I tried socks, but after nearly having a couple of nervous breakdowns I gave up. I knitted my friend an awesome Bob Marley style slouch hat a couple of years ago. I’m going to see if she still has it and wear it in one of my videos.

[@meadowsweetfarmfiberartsdesign]

@@primalengland Ok Thank you so much! They look great on you!!!

[@raquelmacfarlane3932]

I found God 47 yrs ago with no turning back…..never bored,200% fulfilled,200% at peace…wow my God never disappoints.cheers! USA 🇺🇸

[@union310]

I had a conversation with a lad at work who took up fishing after COVID, fantastic I said I have fished virtually all my life, fancy a trip out? We met at the bank and he landed in his van, with a trolley about the size of a one from Morrisons or Tesco. A whole host of very expensive gear. I was stood with a rod and reel, a plastic tube with my floats in and a small tin box with the rest of my kit. My trusty Border terrier at my feet. A mornings fishing produced me Grayling and Trout and sadly my friend caught nothing, "Idon't understand" he said. My answer was what I was told from an old man in the the area I was born, "If you pay attention to commerce and all they will sell you, then you miss out on what life is about, focus on the task ahead and choose what is ONLY NECESSARY to achieve it" The next lesson was from the Bible, "Never a lender nor borrower be" Thank you Sir for your content, thank you for experiences, and may God bless you Sir .

[@Bessie66]

I stopped watching TV a couple of months ago- particularly because of the news. Yes upsetting stuff is going on in the world and here in the UK it feels “broken”. Living on my own little world, making sure family and friends are OK is the most important thing.

[@zencat17]

All the time they must spend editing the drone shots and multiple angles on one activity, phew, seems like hard work and far from slow 😅 but to be honest, I've never known this phenomenon in the 70s onward, we just had to live within our means and make what we could from what we had, it's been vamped up now. For the better in many cases, we did it out of necessity not out of an income source

[@primalengland]

I have a video that I haven’t posted, and may not post. In it I talk about this ‘slow living’ being just living as we all did all those years ago. I think a lot of it means living without technology. My technology was building my own bike out of bits.

[@ShaunHall-i7e]

I'm just an artist trying to find my bliss regardless of what reality has in store for me.

[@primalengland]

It will probably find you. 😊

[@ShaunHall-i7e]

@@primalengland Ha! 😆

[@SimoneWhippArtist]

I really enjoy your videos. I wish I could meet like-minded people (like you) in my 'real' life. 😊

[@primalengland]

I don’t know many, or any people that think like I do. My mother laughs at it, and says I should be sitting in front of the tv watching baking programmes.

[@rosemaryhilton2029]

Well said. I like your hat, and jacket

[@primalengland]

Thank you. I’m an old hippy, really. 😊

[@kellihillebrand8341]

New subscriber! Adorable dog🥰🐾🙏

[@primalengland]

Thank you, and yes she is. 😊

[@fastemx]

That’s the algorithm bro , it thinks it will get engagement from women who do your thing 😂

[@bb2021]

"The finger that points to the moon is not the moon."!

[@primalengland]

But if we find the moon, the finger has served its purpose. 😊

[@bb2021]

@@primalengland yes! Just pointing is not enough. 😃

[@lucielou7745]

Loved every minute of your video, not least, I love your accent. My grandparents emigrated England to come to Australia in the late 60’s and whenever I hear a similar accent it makes me want to visit England. Sadly I’ve never been but would love to see where my ancestors lived one day.

[@primalengland]

My mum hates my accent. She was brought up in Bolton and I was brought up in Leigh about 8 miles away. She says my accent is lazy, and she never brought me up like that. I think my mum is a 96 year old snob. 😂

[@craftykez]

Cause you look rubbish in a frock! 😂😂😂😂 You had me right there. Subscribed immediately!

[@julegate]

I am glad I came across your video. You are absolutely right about stress and illness. I found that out 14 years ago and have been moving to slow living since. Looking forward to other videos.

[@primalengland]

Thank you so much. 😊

[@Parianparlay]

Subscribed immediately! Smashing film, so glad I stumbled onto your video. Thanks ever so much, thoroughly enjoyed watching and listening to such sense and poetry! 🌺

[@thehowells228]

YES!!

[@valeriewalker954]

Bjorn from Norway said, "You are wonderful to watch. " A Canadian from Ontario here. The joy of not being forced to take the jab for a job. I love my feral cats.

[@primalengland]

‘Take a jab for a job.’ Is one of the most terrifying sentences I could ever hear. We mustn’t let it happen. ❤️

[@mbeckers7595]

Ha, ha, now algorithm has given you back to me. How wonderful.

[@orthodoxsophia]

Listening to you was a bit like listening to a "Northern poem" at points. Happy slow living!

[@julienichol7291]

I found your videos just at the right time in life a couple of weeks ago. Thankyou so much as I now feel complete in my slow life, even if no one else around understands, I do. Cheers from Julie in sunny Qld Australia. Peace and love.

[@pilpelet100]

I prefer watching and listening to your words of wisdom than seeing the videos that you talk about. Yes - they all promote this wonderful life and it sounds idyllic, but for the most part, it's unrealistic. As I've said before, I'm happy the way I am (okay, I could probably do with improving my personality a bit!!🤣🤣) and wouldn't want to work hard at that peaceful existence.

[@primalengland]

I’ve started getting cynical, Ruth. I think they rent a property in the countryside and bash out a few months worth of videos in one go. I certainly don’t think they walk round Aldi in the flowing dresses.

[@beckyann8502]

Recent subscriber here. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about many subjects.

[@primalengland]

Thank you for subscribing.

[@Homehaven3]

I also admire the lovely, dreamy videos that these young girls do. I have often wished I could create one. But it takes hours of prep and editing. Hours that I don't have. I once took nearly 4 hours trying to do a basic 10 minute video. I realized then and there that youtube wouldn't fit my lifestyle. I am already living a slower, hard working, homesteading life. I don't need young girls talking me into it.😅

[@primalengland]

Their videos are, indeed, beautiful. There must be a huge amount of work goes into them. I usually take about an hour or two to edit mine, and about the same to record and film b roll. I just wonder what will happen when this trend passes, as they all do. I’m ok, I have my tiny pension that I can survive on and I don’t need a Mercedes. I’m happy with my little Fiat 500.

[@KevinTofel]

What a treat to hear your introductory thoughts - thanks for sharing them! I’m a Gen X’er who has slowly migrated into a minimalism / essentialism lifestyle over the past five years. So I appreciate your wisdom and experiences on whatever label you or I want to use to describe a satisfying, stressless life. Looking forward to the follow ups. Cheers!

[@primalengland]

Thanks, Kevin. I seem to be resonating with a younger demographic, which is awesome. We are, after all, the same people. It’s just that some of us have woken up in the morning more often than others. 😊

[@TheTimutube]

Love you matey and what your about

[@primalengland]

Thanks Tim. 😊

[@StitchedByMrsFox]

Thank you for another fabulous video. The fact that we live in the same part of the world and I see places I know within them makes me smile. Looking forward to part 2 :)

[@primalengland]

It’s quite nice round here, despite the ‘It’s grim up North.’ Reputation. 😊

[@ashatan4554]

Sounds like you’ve lead an interesting life. I agree about the trendy “slow living” movement videos. I find them very relaxing and they are talented videographers. But it looks like so much work and trying to keep up a channel, creating new content each week will probably get stressful. I consider them more storytellers. Like a fairytale.

[@primalengland]

I’ve started wondering if they rent these properties in the countryside, and knock out a few months worth of videos in one go. I’m a bit cynical.

[@ashatan4554]

@@primalengland That’s actually quite possible, I hadn’t thought of that!

[@angelinal9377]

Why am I watching someone making toast

[@primalengland]

Cos you are a masochist, and I make great toast. 😊

[@mistymint7983]

Meditation changed my life and my thinking, thank you for your content ❤

[@primalengland]

It’s such a shame so many people consider meditation a bit hippy and silly. It’s a really important part of my life.

[@Grace0Claire]

I absolutely love the idea of slow living 😂, the problem is... To create a nice home, there's a lot of EFFORT needed. I love Beatrix Potter, I even have some stuff of that in my house. Living alone with my youngest daughter, I had to put in a lot of heavy work, feeling like a builder for weeks/months ahead to create, visiting secondhand shops to make it affordable. All nice and done, then you need to look at the next thing; how to make it "slow" or "easy"... I haven't had a TV for years now, but replaced it with the internet, KZbin etc. And although I have used it to learn, after a while I just wanted to relax... To read, to knit, whatever... Or maybe just staring at nothing... We are bombarded with the whole world's ups and downs, ins and outs, its madness. We don't need all of that. To find balance is perhaps the hardest thing, and takes time, to wind back and come close to you, yourself.

[@primalengland]

I don’t have a nice house. I’m nearly 70, and I owned my first house at 20. I’ve owned a few houses, but ultimately lost my house in a divorce, then lost my business to heart attack. I live in a rented terraced house in a working class town. I just have my pension to live on. I have terminal heart failure and am recovering from cancer, and you know what? None of that matters. I can’t be unhappy or stressed. My simple life, hobbies, love of the countryside and the odd gin and tonic means that I can genuinely say that I’m at peace. My kids love me, too….. That’s a nice bonus. You sound like you have pretty much everything you need, and the right attitude. I predict a happy future. ❤️

[@Grace0Claire]

@primalengland It might sound like I have everything in place, but I have suffered immensely, which resulted in a full-blown stroke. After that, I changed. I recovered pretty much, only to feel myself very quickly exhausted all the time. It's what it is....

[@primalengland]

@@Grace0Claire That sounds tough, but, easy for me to say, you sound strong enough to make the most of this one crack we have at life. I always say to people that when I go, I want to look back and think. ‘Yep, that was alright. I’m happy with that.’

[@Steph-fr6co]

Wow, what you have said is spot on. As much as I love all these beautiful, ephemeral videos of the slow life and cottagecore lifestyle, I've come to my own conclusion that it's a mindset, not something to attain necessarily but things or location. The mental impact alone slow living has due to consuming less, valuing what you have or pursuing what is natural to you is priceless. Unplugging from social media will give anyone time to reset and truly think about what matters to them. I understand the spiritual side to it and for me it's my faith in God and gratitude for all He has made. Just stopping to appreciate nature and hear the music of the birds and wind blowing through the trees is sometimes everything. Not to mention all the natural beauty we see and the beautiful souls we come across just because we're not distracted. I'm glad I came across your channel and i look forward to what else you have to say

[@primalengland]

You just summed it all up perfectly. 😊

[@Steph-fr6co]

@@primalengland 🫶🏽 thank you. Much peace and warmth to you 💚

[@ryanandida8618]

I love both the cottagecore videos as well as the ones you make. I’m a young Norwegian girl in her 20s. The lifestyle you promote is in many ways similar to how I grew up in the Norwegian countryside. I’ve lived in South Korea for nearly seven years now, for my education. However, as one of the most competitive countries in the world, I feel that it has taken away much of my enjoyment in life. I’m tired of the digital and the superficial… I find myself longing back to the “slow life” as you call it. Although I still have a few months left before graduating college in Korea, I have started with some small steps… I carry an old mp3, instead of relying on music subscriptions. I leave my phone at home when I can, and bring with me a book instead. I find that not being connected and available all the time can be such a blessing, and I find myself enjoying life again in ways I had nearly forgotten before. This autumn I will be moving to England for my postgraduate studies, and I hope that I will be able to continue a more “disconnected” lifestyle and live my life in a more meaningful manner. Thank you again for your videos. I enjoy them very much, and I look forward to your next upload :)

[@primalengland]

Thank you. I have a friend who lives in Ulsan, and visited a couple of years ago. Korea is very modern and geared to tech. I managed to escape to temples and bamboo forests for peace and to meditate. Still, the society was a little too high paced for me.

[@donniblanco5239]

A Great Ethos, Eloquently Put 👍🏻

[@primalengland]

Thank you.

[@Anita-rq9ev]

Haha: "I could do these videos, but I look rubbish in a frock 😂. Love your sense of humour. I was laughing at your whole description of slow living in the beginning. I watch some of these videos out of entertainment. I guess, we all know it's not real. It's a fairytale. Thank you for being who you are Nigel.

[@primalengland]

They have their place. I love Daria and Poetry of Slow Life. She’s a videographer and filmmaker and her channel is such a joy to watch, but I’m in the industrial north west of England just trying to be a friendly old hippy. 😁

[@keithsunderland8839]

Our videos'. ???????

[@primalengland]

Yep. I always include Molly. It’s just a habit.