Roasting chestnuts from a 1000 year old tree!

philip are you wearing your best jacket and i don't know what's your profit age for lightest knives and firearms you cannot ever go here you said honda you're gonna have a wireless even if the chestnuts fail it's still nice to have a little bonfire philip who's is this car i don't know well i'm gonna leave you to deal with it my name is anna i'm an english former fashion and textile designer i moved to paris age 23 to work for the french couture house bauman and stayed for the questions the wine and of course for philip a filmmaker from the south terrorian alps after 10 amazing years getting married buying and renovating two homes and having two babies we decided city life was no longer for us philip had been dreaming of buying a chateau since the day we met and finally convinced me to start looking we came to visit chateau gonville soon fleur despite being in quite poor condition and needing a complete renovation we immediately fell in love with a tight budget we had no choice but to do most of the renovations by ourselves we're learning new skills as we go building muscles we never knew we had and getting creative to make the chateau as personal as possible whilst preserving its historic features it's all part of this crazy family adventure and we wouldn't change it for anything i think i'm going to start cleaning up now because we have guests that are coming soon [Music] [Laughter] [Music] yes it's tough cleaning up after storm is hard work but there is nothing we can't do as a family mama you were out of focus can you go back there with the brunch yes here and action it's a week after the storm and we've started a little bit to clear up there's still a lot to do but we just want to say thank you for all the very kind messages and just to let you know that the last vlog was a bit last minute because of what happened and some of this vlog that you're going to watch now was filmed before the storm which is why it's going to look like the garden is perfect please realize that we haven't just spent the whole week and managed to clear everything but anna look at this light there i think this is a sign this guy is telling us that everything's going to be fine and we will be finished with clearing up in a couple of weeks yeah philip have you seen the rainbow look at this oh yeah another sign [Music] philip whose is this car i don't know well i'm going to leave you to deal with it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is thank you [Music] [Music] whoo [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] come here and let's come here and show [Music] we're just going to make a fire right we need to go and get some bricks girls [Music] [Music] [Music] we can eat marshmallows oh i forgot to bite the marshmallows okay anna yeah i think that's enough bricks you're gonna build a house or make a fire i was planning a really big fire [Music] yes okay so i think i'm gonna let i'm gonna let peppa build the bonfire where's the the chestnuts and the tools i i was bringing the bricks okay i was placing the camera there and now it's filming us look guys this what are you doing [Music] you're not happy with my construction well i just thought it could be good like to do this oh i see it wouldn't be enough so we could do another a little bit like that [Music] let's get some wood so where is the wood i thought we were the wood stores oh yeah over there come on hurry up how high how big that's good that's for the chestnuts yeah it's getting bigger and bigger are you wearing your best jacket how do you know i'm a little scared you're going to get holes in it because you remember when i did a bonfire with my best jacket oh yeah that was the end of your best jacket it was it's nice and warm girls girls don't you want to come and learn how to make a fire in the jungle quick come otherwise it's too late ella wants to learn how to make a fire in the jungle ella i'm going to teach you important survival skills if one day you're in a jungle by yourself and it's cold and you're hungry and you just hunt a wild boar but you don't know how to cook it well we can also put it here yes we can put it here but if you don't have anything but a couple of logs [Music] and it's finished i'm telling you important things now imagine you don't have anything really an important lesson for you are you listening if one day you find yourself all alone in the jungle and you just killed your first wild boar and you have nothing but a couple of sticks a frying pan some onions and some other ingredients for the white boar and one of these then you will remember the day we made our roasted what's it called chestnuts chestnuts on the chestnut day papa gave you a present a precious present and from now on you have to carry that with you all the time this is a lighter this is something very special because you can make fire with this i know you can like that and then there's yes try it exactly will you keep that with you for the rest of your life i'm not sure we're supposed to give them lighters at six years old i thought that's the age when you give them knives and lighters no no oh lily then forget it and i don't know what's the appropriate age for lightest knives and firearms so my mom just said that it's unlike barbecuing when you grill the chestnuts it needs to it needs to be in real fire ah not in the middle but the fire has to be done underneath it yes the fire has to be the hunter so she thinks this is not enough bricks because the fire is quite high i wanted to bring more bricks but you shouted that i wasn't allowed yeah because i thought it was like barbecuing where you just need to wait till all the things becomes you know glutes we are complete chestnut roasting novices aren't we yes i don't think synthetic puffer jackets are the ideal outfit for making fire my mom just said so this is good phillip which means so it's good phillip anna do you mind fetching me up here what are you doing drinking it [Music] you cannot ever go here not ever okay why not because there's nothing what they can do here oh yeah what would happen if i would sit there then you have our iris oh my goodness i don't want a virus everything but not the virus you said honda you're gonna have a virus if i set on that i have a virus yes if you sit on this fire oh no but if you go here up then you won't have any wires okay i understand that makes perfectly sense so hot chocolate beer wine here we go girlies help yourself got it careful okay phillip ah thank you that's perfect thank you so much even if the chestnuts fail it's still nice to have a little bonfire and the glass of wine the children seem happy and quiet they've got their hot chocolate how nice is this here good drinking hot chocolate making a fire super good is it good or is it super good two hands good can you hold this one i'm killing the atmosphere with my iphone but at least we can see what we're doing okay you can see wow yeah all the outside bit is burning but then we can peel that off and inside they're all yummy [Music] [Music] now you open them up [Music] and i would just like to try that one still a bit hot careful careful what do you think ella not good she said no what do you think i think they're really good can i try one that looks good why don't you like it sorry because it doesn't have chocolate on it [Music] she's using it look lily's been making halloween cards at school and then when you put two out of the back like that and then it says happy halloween and then you fly show me your chestnut put this away fairly good is it good do you like it i think we need to add a bit of sugar happy it's really good if you think that they come from a thousand year old tree that's amazing so for a thousand years people have been eating these [Music] if you enjoyed this episode don't forget to subscribe and hit the like button for exclusive videos and behind the scenes updates have a look at our patreon page thank you so much for watching

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Length: 19min 47sec (1187 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 31 2021