Shadowing Practice: We're Engaged! The Proposal, The Ring, Our Holiday & Third Trimester Updates | ad - Learn English Speaking with Video
Les maken...
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good morning everybody it feels like such a long time since i've turned on my camera
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and actually as an fyi this is an entirely new camera
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because did we say this already in vloggust i don't know
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if we did but on the day of otty's party alfie accidentally broke my vlogging camera
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so we were then using alfie's camera to finish vloggust uh we took
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that away on holiday
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and alfie took it in the sea with this waterproof casing
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on it was it waterproof on this occasion no it wasn't
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so that was another g7x down the pan um
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so i feel like between alfie and i we have got through
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so many canon g7x's and i've just ordered a new one in order to sit down
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and bring you this vlog in this little bit of time i have between coming back from one holiday
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and then going on another which is like the most unzoey sentence ever so i
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so i'd always plan to make this video as a kind
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of holiday update pregnancy update moving into autumn just having a
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bit of a catch -up really i wanted to sit down
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and just get ready with you
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and make this like a one -off video was not expecting
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to also be updating you on this i will get into this in the video
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that happened on holiday um
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if you don't follow me on Instagram I am now an
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engaged woman I can like chat you through a bit of that
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but yeah I just thought it'd be nice to do something
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a little different um don't have too much time today as
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I said we've got like two days three days in between coming back from one holiday
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and then Alfie
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and I are going away again together just the two of
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us I want to be able to like sit down
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and fill you guys in on this little bit of the day
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that I've got um so that's what I'm gonna do
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if you haven't already grab yourself a drink grab yourself a little snack get cozy
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or we can just get ready together let's do
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that depends what time of day you're watching this i suppose we've come back from holiday
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and i feel like we've come back to autumn like it's
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blustery there's leaves everywhere i can see the leaves are changing
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color it's kind of cozy it's like really rainy out today
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it's actually kind of dark like i'm literally having to turn all the lights on
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and open all the blinds fully so
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that you can actually see what I'm doing to my face um
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which does feel quite nice however we are now going on holiday again
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so I need to like get back into like the being in the sun mindset before we get back
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and then I think I'm just gonna go like full autumn
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so I feel like I'm kind of holding back a little
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bit um I'm just gonna wait for this little like mini vacay with me
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and Alfie and then I think I'm just gonna go full on autumn
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haven't even unpacked my holiday makeup bag because i'm just going to be taking it again
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uh when we go tomorrow so i have nothing on my face yet
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but i have just washed it and toned it ready for my serum
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and my moisturizer now this is actually a new product i'm
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very excited to chat to you about i took it away
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on holiday with me i've been trialing it for a couple
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of weeks before its launch on the 26th of september
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and i think you guys are gonna really love it
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because i am enjoying using it a lot it is this from drunk elephant it's the be goldie bright drops
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and i mean you guys know how much i love the
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de bronzy drops i took both of these away on holiday these are basically just my holiday essentials
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so it is a serum um that i have been mixing in with my moisturizer
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but it just gives your skin this beautiful luminous glow it feels like the perfect base for your makeup
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or to start your day or even
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if you're having a bit of a no makeup day it just makes you look a little bit more alive
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which i need right now
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because my energy levels are on the floor the reason i think i love this
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so much is because it has one of my favorite skincare ingredients ever
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which is niacinamide it has five percent niacinamide
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which is known to help reduce any kind of spot marks
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or discoloration it's basically the best ingredient for you
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if you want to get a little bit more of an even skin tone or complexion.
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So it's absolutely perfect for me in that sense.
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I would say niacinamide is definitely something that I actively look for
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and make sure I have somewhere in my skincare routine at all times because I just notice it makes the biggest difference.
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I'm not one of these people that is blessed with perfect skin, never have been.
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So anytime that I get a spot or a blemish,
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which is fairly often, I always find the mark it leaves just just takes a lot longer than people
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that I know so that is why niacinamide is amazing for me
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because it's the skincare ingredient that I notice makes the most difference to my skin
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so I'm going to pop a little bit of this on with my Drunk Elephant La La Retro whipped cream
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and show you what it looks like before I get started on my makeup
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squeeze a little bit in there with
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that i need to clip my hair out the way do i have my clips yes i do there's one
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so as you can see it just makes my skin look just more glowy and healthy
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and also i love that you can use it on any other different parts of your body
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so if you want your legs to have a little bit of a sheen
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or your arms or like your collarbone or anywhere you want to put it
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so as i mentioned the drunk elephant be goldie bright drops will be launching on the 26th of september
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so keep your eyes peeled for that i feel like
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if you are a big fan of the d bronzy you're gonna love these first things first holiday it was
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so lovely to be away to be somewhere
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that we had to get to on an airplane
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because i haven't done that in so long
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and it was also just really nice to experience a holiday with otty at the age
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that she's at i just i freaking love this age
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so much i just feel like you get so much back
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and it's so fun and their little personalities are coming out
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and like her little personality really shone
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and she had a good time she loved the plane i made her these little like plane packs
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so i popped things like stickers
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and made her a little pencil case with um with some of the color wonder um felt tips
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and coloring in pages for any of you with toddlers those are amazing
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because they have no colour in the felt tip pens but
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when you put them on the paper the colour comes out
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which is perfect for an aeroplane when you're not too sure
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if your child is going to like draw all over the table she didn't
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but still I have to say I think stickers went down the best stickers
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and we loaded up her little amazon fire with some of her favorite tv shows um
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so we had like paddington bear and obviously the film matilda
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which she's obsessed with she actually loved it she loved it
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far more than i did i was actually fine anxiety wise
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we got there guys we got there it had its hairy moments
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and I definitely didn't find it easy but it was
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so totally worth it um and I'm doing it all again tomorrow
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so that's probably a good thing um
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but I'm not leaving like a big gap between doing it again
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but yeah it was just the most amazing time away and I just felt very grateful and lucky and
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oh fire alarm's going off albie's currently cooking lunch just needed
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to check there was no actual fire there isn't they're all
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good um yeah just it was just a lovely amazing time away
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and it was very much needed and we all had a really lovely time
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but yeah it was lovely to be back in mykonos ate
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some lovely food played in the pool it was quite windy
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for like the first half of the week um Mykonos is always kind of windy
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which we were quite prepared for but this was like 40 mile an hour winds
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so there was a lot of like games and like things
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that we did inside for a bit
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because like sitting outside was just like you're gonna get swept away
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but it was all part of the fun it was a glorious holiday I don't even really know
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if I got the sun
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that much you know I didn't really sit out too much um yeah as I said Alfie
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and I are now off on a I'm gonna call it
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a baby moon with Otty I feel like we were still in kind of pandemic times
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so I don't think did we go anywhere in the UK maybe I actually can't remember um
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but we were planning to go to the Maldives in March 2020
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and then that just never happened obviously
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so we really wanted to book another holiday just the two of us get away we can appreciate
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that it's going to be much harder to do
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that once we have two and once the new baby is like much younger
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so we were just like let's just do it
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and the only time that we could do it was like now
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so that is why this feels very back to back
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but i'm really excited we are going to rhodes
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so back to greece we go and we are staying at a hotel called kasakuk
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which is a place that poppy and sean have been to a couple of times
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and then alfie's parents also went in the summer
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and they just look like they had the best time it's
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one of those places where you don't really leave the hotel
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you kind of go down for breakfast you sit by the
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pool you read books like i'm not really an adventure holiday kind of gal right now anyway um
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so it just felt like the perfect thing for us to
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do it's gonna be very very nice i pressed a few buttons i hope you can still hear me
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and see me it was just looking very blue uh this
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weather is just not the one oh my god i opened my app the other day guys
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and it said third trimester and i was like sorry what since when since
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when am i now in my third trimester does this feel like it's going quickly for anyone else
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because it really feels like it's going very quickly for me
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and there's a lot of things
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that i need to do oh god i just had to nip downstairs
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and i've had half a hot dog so um in between
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that i may now have some hot dog
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or something in my teeth how am i feeling i feel
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like i need to like go through some other questions
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that i would answer through vloggers just to give like a proper little update mostly just
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so that i can look back on it
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but also for any of you that might be interested
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or you've just gone into the third trimester yourself i am
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almost no in fact i'm 28 weeks pregnant today as i'm
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filming this i'm 28 weeks pregnant i think by the time this goes up i'll be like 30 29
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and a bit 30 oh my god that's like crazy
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so the baby is around 2 .7 pounds and around 37 .9 centimeters
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and i can definitely definitely feel
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that she is like she is in there she is getting more
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and more compact we actually had an appointment yesterday all went
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well i had to do a blood test i think it's like the 28 week blood test blood test
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that you have to do i don't actually know so i did
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that yesterday and uh got to see her again
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which was really really nice i feel like the countdown is
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on your baby's heartbeat has slowed down to around 140
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and will slow further to 130 your baby's brain is now in charge of maintaining body temperature
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and also controlled breathing all the internal organs are maturing
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and preparing to function on their own at birth your baby's
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skin is beginning to look less wrinkly the extra fat under
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the skin will help your baby to regulate their body temperature at birth your baby is bursting with energy
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and you'll be feeling every bit of it don't i know it um i'm trying to work out
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if i feel like she's more active
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or less active than otty at this point i feel like otty was slightly more active
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but i think that's
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because i wasn't distracted like i wasn't as distracted um with
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otty i felt i like i don't know i was very
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zoned in on like pregnancy um whereas this time i just feel like having otty
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and like there's just
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so much going on i'm just i i think she's moving a lot more
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but i'm not like as aware of it um she definitely moves a lot more through the night
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which i don't remember otty doing as much i feel like she only ever really moved a lot before bed
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and when i woke up in the morning
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but i don't remember ever feeling her move like through the night whereas i feel like i'm waking up
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and she's like already awake your baby is as big as
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a pair of kids jelly shoes uh okay your baby is as big as a cabbage okay for some reason that seems
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that seems big well we've moved into the next bracket 25
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to 28 weeks is a small a small penguin bloody hell
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sweets a chocolate cake apt like the amount of cake i've eaten in the last month
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because of all the birthdays we've had we're now coming into like less birthdays
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and let me tell you i'm really excited about it i there's just
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so many birthdays in our family over this month the amount
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of cake i have eaten i'm not even doing my makeup
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at this point now i'm just chatting to you the amount of cake i've eaten
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and i love cake
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but i'm like i just don't want to see another piece
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of cake for a really long time this is saying 25
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to 28 weeks a papaya what's the next bracket okay
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so as you're watching this I will be in the next bracket which is a winter squash
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a chocolate box
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and a piglet oh my gosh that's yeah that's crazy how
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am i feeling pregnancy wise um i think mostly just still
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it's the pregnant energy it's the lack of energy it's the
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lack of breath it's the like heavy limbs it's the wanting to do things and my physical body just not
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being able to do it at the speed i want to do it
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or do it at all i've definitely found
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that more frustrating in this pregnancy than i did in my first pregnancy i think just
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because a lot of my first pregnancy was like in lockdown um i think i took it much easier
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and i did not have a toddler to look after
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so it's very different this time and the lack of energy
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that my body has like my physical energy not even like mental
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or like tiredness just the physical energy of my body is really starting to frustrate me
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and i know it's only gonna get worse there's like
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that lovely little golden bit which thankfully was vloggist even though
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that definitely had some very up and down days and up
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and down bouts of energy as
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that month went i definitely had it was like it was a good time in terms of like pregnancy
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and energy which i kind of knew it would be
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because the second trimester generally for most people is where you
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feel like relatively normal now i've moved into my third trimester
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and everything's getting a bit bigger and heavier i am definitely much slower
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and i am struggling with the guilt slash frustration of
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that um even though there's really not a lot i can
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do about it um it just it is what it is
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it's being pregnant just yeah it just really frustrates me
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because my brain wants something else and my body's like no girl you can't do
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that and if you can it's gonna take you five times as long
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so good luck with that i would say that that's probably the thing
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that is the most difficult and i struggled with
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that quite a lot on holiday just like not feeling like
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i could fully be as involved in a lot of the
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things um i did go in the pool on one of the days
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when it got like kind of warm i don't know like even getting up
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and down off the sun lounger i was like okay you ready and i just i can't wait to not
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have that aspect of pregnancy i just want to have the energy
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and be able to like lift otty a little more
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and like run around a bit more
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and i just i just physically cannot um
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but it's fine it is what it is do i have
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any new cravings no at this point not really not at
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all um it's mostly just like food i'm definitely feeling more
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full i should probably be doing my makeup at the same
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time as this shouldn't i like how have i just like forgotten
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that that's what i'm supposed to be doing right now is
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getting ready i'm still on the woodwink type by the way guys
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so any new symptoms quite a few rib pain has started uh that kind of like horrible stretchy uncomfortable
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feeling
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that you get with your ribs um it's not been as
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bad as with otty i have to say um they haven't felt fizzy
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which is how i described them when i was pregnant with otty i think possibly
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because my rib cage expanded with otty
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and it never fully went back like it definitely stayed slightly different slightly like wider after i'd had otty
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but it's like more the uncomfortableness here like
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if i touch my ribs they're tender like all the time
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so that is kind of uncomfortable like if i'm sat in a car
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or on the airplane the flight was like four hours long i want to say
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and that's just quite a uncomfortable amount amount of time to be sat
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and i kind of want to like almost like stretch my ribs up
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and like give myself a bit more space I don't know
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if it's because I have maybe a shorter torso
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or I don't know but or
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if I just seem to carry my babies really high
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but they really do like to nestle under my rib cage
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and I've had a couple of little kicks up into my ribs a few times
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and I can tell you now that is not a feeling
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that I missed um in my pregnancy with otty because
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that is like oh my god my acid reflux has been pretty bad like my heartburn
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and acid reflux probably similar to otty i would say i
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think that's really it there's nothing else i've noticed just itchy
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itchy around the boobs around the tummy there's a lot of stretch happening um
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and i'm having to really try and remind myself to
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moisturize and like ease that like itching because it's like so intense apart from that
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apart from that we are on the home straight guys
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and i know what you're thinking
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and you're probably thinking do you guys have a name now
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tell me you have a name we don't we still haven't decided on a name it's one of the things
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that we've told each other we're gonna really think about
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when we go away there is one name i quite like
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but i don't know for sure i i feel like the
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pressure of naming a second is almost more than naming a
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first with otty it's like i knew i loved the name ottilie
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so i was like well i love that name
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and i want to use it with this one it's like we used the girl name we really loved
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and don't get me wrong there are lots of beautiful girl names it's just finding one
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that I feel like gives me that same feeling
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but I don't know if I'm looking for a feeling
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that maybe might not come like maybe that's just not a
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thing with second kids maybe it's more just yeah I like this name
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and I think this would be great we shall see
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but yeah as I said there is one I really like
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it has really cute nicknames it's in a similar vein to otterley it's quite pretty it's quite feminine it's not
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that common um i haven't really heard it
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that much i think it could be a top contender
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but i just like i don't know i'm looking for
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that moment of this is what our baby's gonna be called
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but as i said maybe
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that moment just doesn't happen all the time um please let me know
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if you found that please let me know
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that i'm not the only one you might also be wondering what progress have you made on the nursery
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and moving otty into her own room
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and i will tell you now zero zero progress on that front
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and it's stressing me out a little bit i'm not gonna
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lie to you um i feel like it's gonna be project bedrooms
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when we get back off holiday we'll just see what we get done it'll be fine i am done
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and just go over the makeup
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that i used in case you want to know even though it's me we're talking about
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and i don't mix things up
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that much i used the collection lasting perfection concealers in both ivory
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and cashew then i used my bare minerals powder on top
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in the shade fairly light 03 then i went on top of
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that with the bare minerals warmth bronzer then i used from my nars palette um this pink uh blusher
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which is liberty and then the highlighter which is breathless what did i do next my eyebrows
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as always using the anastasia dip brow pomade in the shade dark brown
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and also used the milk makeup kush brow lamination then i
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used the old wood winked eye shadow for mascara i used my trusty um hourglass unlocked
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and then for lips i'm still using my old crusty tarte lip paint in exposed
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that i don't know how it still has anything left in it at this point
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but I love it I feel like I need to call Alfie up here so that we can chat you through
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how this happened um
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because I feel like that's what you're all waiting for let's be honest he's just coming upstairs
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but I did just remember I haven't done a bump update
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so I'm gonna do a bump update I actually have my tummy out right now
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because my leggings felt really tight but I'm gonna pull them up oh okay bump update 28 weeks look at that bump
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oh my goodness she is bumping don't you think look how
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high up look there's my bra this is where my bump
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starts like under my like literally off of my bra there
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is no room there is no room at the inn it's so tight
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and i've still got like how many weeks to go like 12 weeks to go 11 weeks to go
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and i also have noticed
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that her feet are now um really kicking out to this side
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which i actually find quite fun like it's quite fun to play like games with her
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and like push her feet back in
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and then she pushes them back out um
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but yeah that's my bump that's my 28 week bump come
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and sit down fiance that's so sad
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because i was going to say the same thing how were you hi fiance your fiance is here
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is here as you guys know alfie and i've been together
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how long nearly 11 years nearly 11 years 11 actually thinking about
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that we're guaranteed to forget our anniversary again is it the fourth of
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so really soon it's the fourth
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or the fifth of october the fourth of october we will have been together for 11 years
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and we've always as you know
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so frustratingly for
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so many of you we've been very very relaxed about this
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aspect of our life it's probably one of the things we
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get asked the most oh for sure probably the most asked
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question over the last 10 years really important to a lot of people
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and just not like it's important
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that it happens at some point in our lives yeah we knew it was gonna happen
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but like some people are like
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if i waited over two three years for my boyfriend didn't propose yet do you know it's just isn't
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that for us
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but also i just think marriage is very relaxed in our
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family like i have divorced parents your parents only got married
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like 17 years did they get married like 15 years ago
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or something maybe even less maybe like 12 it was just
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before you met me they got married i feel like um
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so it's always a very casual thing but also alfie
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and i from very early on in our relationship we did
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so much cool amazing stuff
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that we were big opportunities big life events yeah we did
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i think quite young for you especially i mean i'm a bit older than you
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but no definitely and we have obviously we've said this a million times before
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so you probably already know the backstory but for anyone
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that might stumble on this and be like sorry what you've been together nearly 11 years
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and this has only just happened do you know how many comments
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that i got
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that were like i thought they were already married like what
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do you mean you're not married wait hold up a second
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but they just assumed i think because we've got otty
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and obviously number two on the way that people just assume
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that we are yeah that's true i had no expectation of
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when this might happen i knew it would at some point
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but i there was never any kind of conversation around like i don't know this year
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or when or it was kind of just left in your
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left in your hands the most asked question at the moment
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that i'm getting dm'd is why now right right and it wasn't
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that like oh six months ago Zoe did something
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and I was like I know she's the one do you
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know what I mean it wasn't like nothing has happened
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that is like now is the time I've been waiting for
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this moment the moment has happened now I'm going to propose
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do you know what I mean like there wasn't like no
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once we've been together 10 years then I'm going to do it once we've been together 11 like it wasn't
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that as we said like we're just super relaxed
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so for me it was more just like like we said
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trying to like keep it as something as long as like
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possible so that we've still got something to look forward to
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and enjoy because we've been very fortunate to tick off
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so many amazing things in life yeah um
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but equally do want to do it do want to get married
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and just have the right moment to get engaged as opposed to like i now know
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that i want to get engaged you know what i mean like i don't i was explaining it to sean
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because he was like why did you do it on this holiday
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and i was like it's not
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that i wouldn't have done it two years ago it's not
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that i would be fussed
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if i did it in two years more like time like
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in two years in the future it doesn't matter as to like how many years we've been together or anything
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because i mean for me like having having children having children
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is more like a commitment for me personally than being married
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and it just felt like I always thought well I always knew like we'd always discuss
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when we had discussed things
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that like we wanted people to be around to be excited
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with on the day the evening of the week of
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but then equally have that moment just for Zoe and I
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and I was like the holiday is the perfect moment
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because it was 10 years since we were in Mykonos for the first time together
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that was like a really nice holiday
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that was such a lovely holiday i was like that's really nice
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and fitting that it was like 10 years on since
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that moment that we had together in mykonos
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that was our first holiday in mykonos too yeah okay yeah the first ever like proper holiday together
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and then also i love the fact
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that like both the children were going to be there kind of thing like kind of yeah um
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and i was like i'm going to be able to carve out time on
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that trip where it's just zoe and i which is how it happened
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but then equally everybody else be around in some capacity to like enjoy it with yeah excited with
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and i'm glad we did that because that was actually
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so nice because like we're going away tomorrow but
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if i did it just then i feel like we'd both be really excited
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and then not this bad thing
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but it'd just be just us two yeah whereas like it
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was nice being able to be excited with like my family
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and stuff yeah
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that was really really lovely it was just like the perfect like there was nothing about out! any of it
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that i would have ever changed like it was
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so it was just such a perfect moment god you know the pressure just even like picking a ring
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and does i mean i worked i worked over the last couple of months with like a local jeweler is
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that my word jeweler yeah jewelry maker yeah she's like a local woman designer
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and maker she makes some really beautiful pieces i've been working
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with her like secretly meeting up with her whatsapping her a
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bunch like secretly zero emailing under other email addresses to like keep everything hidden um
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so tough but also you're so good at
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that stuff like alfie is like incredible like i everyone would always say to me like oh what happens
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if alfie gets you a ring that you don't like
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or like what happens if he does this this
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and this i'm like he won't we've been together
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so long he can't get these things wrong it's one it's alfie you just never get anything wrong
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and two you know me sometimes more than i know myself
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if that makes sense um in fact what's
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so strange is literally like a week before we went away me
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and jay and alfie my friend jay was over we were having a conversation about like
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and the ring had already obviously been made at that time
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and we were talking about rings
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and he was like shape diamonds everything what would you want
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and i was like i would just want whatever alfie gave
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me like i'm i'm not like mad fussy i wouldn't say about it there's definitely certain styles
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that over the years i've been like wow that's an amazing ring like
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that would be like so lovely um
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but i definitely just wanted something kind of simple really there's definitely more choices than what i thought like
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when i was like i fully customized the ring
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and built it all like from scratch kind of thing with
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rosie who i've created it with actually at one point i was gonna
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but i was like otty's just too old now i would
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i really wanted to get a photo of otty helping make the ring like with her hands yeah
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and i was like i want to get her into the like into the jewelry studio
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and like making the piece but i know
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that like she talks way too much now i know she'd
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be like making a ring with daddy today oh like daddy's ring and i'll be like what do you mean
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what don't say that so true
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so i was like she's too old now like i just missed
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that to have her like help physically make it yeah um
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but yeah there's so many choices in the ring i put quite a few extra like little details
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and things into the ring that you can't show you
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because i feel like you're all just gonna want to see it right now so there is the ring guys
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it is beyond beautiful like i can't it's it's been like over a week
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and i'm still i still just stare at it every day
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and i'm like oh my god
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so i put 10 diamonds like on a dropped halo around it
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and i dropped it as much as possible around the outside just to like signify the 10 years
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that we've been together so far how cute
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and then on the inside of the ring there's no way you're going to be able to see this
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but on the inside on the band underneath the diamond on
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the band on the inside i got put in otty's birthstone and our second baby's birthstone as well it's so cute
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i just do you know how scary it was traveling with
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it as well i know i was gonna say alfie's like mr paranoid
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so the first thing i said tim was like how how did you manage to get
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that like here yeah like through customs i was like i was like
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if customs just like oh one minute can we search your
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bag a sec we just saw something in the bottom of your bag
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or like i was like can't obviously put it in the main luggage
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but i've got to keep it on me but then
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if zoe's like oh alfie let me grab your phone charger possibly your bag
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and i'm like no you can't have my bag you're like
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what do you mean why can't i go through your bag we're so open with everything that
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that yeah it was hard and the actual moment the relief the relief
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and the actual moment was so chilled it was
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so lovely alfie's family were at the beach um
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and alfie was the one with the car
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so he was kind of like okay now's my moment
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because we were in charge and then zoe and i came back
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and i was like i'll pick you guys up up in a bit
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so i was like they can't get back from the beach without me picking them up
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so now it's go time because they can't come back
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and otty was having her nap and it was like me
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and alfie were like oh this is so nice like we were by the pool
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on the sun lounger um and it was just like a really lovely moment i think i swore at you
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opened it you literally you opened it
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because i didn't open i didn't even think about opening it i was just like hell yeah i checked
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so many times on the holiday day it was still there
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and then zoe opened it
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and was like closed it again straight away i want to
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like i want to like relive it yeah it would be
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cool to be on the other side of it i think
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that about how like what no mine's just straight stress really
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well you didn't enjoy it at all no i enjoyed it of course one moment no i enjoyed it
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but i'm like carrying it holding it like
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i don't know we'd go out for dinner in town i'm like i can't leave it in the villa
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that we booked
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so i'm just like walking around making us with like bringing
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my bag afi kept being like i'm gonna take my backpack
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i'm like you don't really need to take your backpack
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and even that i didn't find weird i was like okay
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if you want to i remember i went for a wee
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in the restaurant we went out for dinner went for a wee
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and i was like oh it's in the bag is in
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between my legs with it in at the table yeah i
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was like then no one can steer there i didn't even notice
529
that you're being way more protective of your bag no
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but then i was like i need a wee i'm not leaving my bag here
531
because if my bag gets stolen you guys like obviously you're going to care
532
because it's my bag but it's not the end of the world
533
but my bag can't get stolen
534
so i was like i need to take my bag to the toilet with me
535
but then not have you guys all be like am i
536
taking your rucksack for a wee had you already proposed to me
537
when we were talking about like oh you don't want we don't want to get broken into
538
and i was like alf there's nothing like send there's nothing no i hadn't proposed yet
539
and i was no but i hid it
540
so well in the apartment in the villa
541
that nobody people working there wouldn't have found it i also
542
feel like a lot of people would want to know
543
if anyone else knew oh nobody knew no and i nobody like literally
544
that would be the way the only one person who knew
545
was our accountant who just made the payment for me because i was like
546
i don't want to be i don't have any email traces
547
or anything with me trying to do payments or via the app
548
or anything so can you just make the payment for my bank account for me that was it
549
i always knew alfie wouldn't tell anyone poppy over the years
550
poppy was like no no he would he would tell me
551
he would definitely tell me he would definitely want my involvement
552
i nearly got poppy's involvement with the ring did you
553
so i called in like so many different diamonds to look at
554
and compare the clarity and the color and the size
555
and the um the how low the profile was
556
and all of the different ratios
557
and everything all your cameras about to oh gosh we've been talking a
558
while right guys memory card was full
559
because we are clearly talking way too much i can't even
560
remember what i was gonna say uh you looked at a
561
couple of different diamonds calling in like different diamonds to compare everything
562
and there was two in particular this one and another one
563
that i was so torn between
564
and i literally i said to rosie who worked on the
565
ring with i was like should i call my sister to get her opinion on it
566
and get her to come down this evening
567
but i don't want her to know so i'm so glad you didn't i really don't want her to know
568
but it's so hard to pick something
569
and again like obviously not customizing a ring whatever kind of
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ring you buy for somebody number one finding out their ring size without them knowing that's
571
so hard so i had to steal one of zoe's rings
572
that she's worn on that finger in a photo i found
573
and then take
574
that with me to compare the size to be able to get it made the same size it's
575
so hard to buy a piece of jewelry for somebody that's such a different size to you
576
that like if i put
577
that ring near my finger it just doesn't look the same
578
like it's completely different i'm really glad you didn't tell anybody
579
because poppy's reaction was probably my favorite yeah that was
580
so good it was just so yeah i just loved it it was
581
so nice and it's funny because it's like you don't feel any different
582
but there's like a it almost feels a little bit more
583
magical i can't explain it you know what i mean like did you feel any different
584
or were you just like thank god i don't have to carry
585
that around with me wait do you mean how was it like today no as in like now
586
that we're engaged like do you feel different no no
587
no no no i do you know what i feel like
588
i don't feel like anything has changed except there's like a
589
little dusting of like magic oh it's like like a little
590
layer of excitement yeah yeah it's like a little bubble of like oh this is exciting
591
but as in in terms of like us
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and our relationship in terms of like commitment and all of that i feel exactly the same because that's always
593
being as it is but i definitely agree with you like a little bit of excitement but also it's
594
it's going to be nice finally to be able to go somewhere
595
or talk to somebody on the phone and be like oh my fiance
596
because i just feel like especially with having otty saying girlfriend just doesn't feel fitting yeah
597
and then like partner doesn't feel like the right term either whereas like fiance just seems more like
598
i feel yeah that feels feels more for anyone
599
that is thinking oh my god i can't wait for wedding
600
content i can't wait when's the wedding is it next year have you already found a venue
601
guys it took us this long to get engaged please don't expect a quick wedding
602
we do not want a quick wedding we've got number two on the way
603
and we've always said we want our kids at our wedding um
604
so like we have a time frame in mind at the minute
605
but we are in no rush it's a
606
while away we want to enjoy we've got we're going to have two kids that our next chapter is
607
another baby and life with two kids
608
and then we want to really enjoy the um process of
609
planning for a wedding once that's kind of like settled for me
610
because i like because i've been thinking about it for one obviously creating the ring
611
and stuff it doesn't feel like new news do you know what i mean yeah like i got my dm's
612
and so like we just received a second ago a bottle of champagne from a couple of people
613
that we know just saying congratulations and i'm like oh it's still for
614
that like it doesn't feel like new news to me
615
because obviously i've been thinking of it and so aware of it for
616
so long now it feels like it happened ages ago yeah
617
it didn't it was just the process started ages ago
618
but it is weird seeing it on your hand like it does feel
619
if i like catch it like with my eye it does
620
i'm now left -handed i do everything with my left hand no none of our friends
621
or anything i've seen none of our friends
622
or anything family have family have seen it yeah everyone's like
623
desperate for the story like everyone's keep messaging me like can't wait
624
but there's not there's not like a big grand no yeah
625
i feel like it could have gone two ways either really relaxed
626
and chilled which it did and it was like i'm
627
so happy that that's what you did though
628
because i feel like i could have gone really over the top
629
and i feel like you wouldn't have wanted that
630
if i'd planned all like some band waiting at the end of a band stand
631
and then this happened and some fireworks and i'm down
632
and what like that's just not us no it's not at
633
all no it's not i for me it's happy moment it's like the simplicity of a happy moment just being
634
that do you know what i mean it's like i love the way
635
that you did that and that's
636
that was like my perfect proposal honestly i did really forget
637
to ask the question oh yeah i was like are you
638
going to ask me i said like a little a little spiel
639
and then got the ring out
640
and then as i was like looking at the ring
641
and open the clothes
642
and then she was like got it out went to go put it on
643
and was like oh wait you need to ask me i was like oh yeah i haven't actually asked you
644
and you put it on my finger um there was also
645
for anyone that's like oh at what point did you know
646
he was like proposing genuinely 0 .1 second before alfie got the ring out of his pocket
647
i could hear
648
because i was laying on his arm not even on my
649
chest on my arm not even honest i was laying on his arm like this on the sun lounger
650
and i all of a sudden his heart it sounded like
651
it was gonna like explode out of your chest i've never
652
heard anything like it like this is alfie days he's cool calm
653
and collected at all times and i was like what the hell
654
and then he pulled the ring out of his pocket
655
and i was like that's so funny
656
that i was like what's happened like your heart's gone wild
657
and then you were like oh i'm glad it wasn't like
658
that for like 10 minutes beforehand no it wasn't you seemed
659
so chilled it was getting me ice pops i was chatting
660
away like i didn't shut up alfie's like come on
661
so i like voice note one of her friends for like
662
10 minutes i was like yo otty's gonna wake up in a minute
663
and then my sister facetimed like yo could you pick us up from the beach in a minute
664
and i was like maybe like half an hour she's like oh can we do like 20 minutes
665
so i was like i've got something important i need to do
666
but i can't tell you it was so good it was
667
so good alfie actually did film it just for us for our memories
668
but really casually like not like a vlog camera on the
669
side also you can just hear like the wind of Mickey Mouse and like
670
but I love it I love it I just put a
671
camera on another sunbed like over the other side I didn't
672
even notice anyway sorry the battery just ran out yeah my
673
battery just ran out this video is pretty chaotic to be honest um
674
but I hope you enjoyed oh you're ending off the vlog
675
yeah my makeup's done I'm ready for the day I'm good
676
I need to go pack exactly have you told them what
677
we're doing where we're going yeah i'm excited yeah i'm gonna
678
head yeah our last trip together on an airplane just the two of us was amsterdam in 2018.
679
2018 amsterdam yeah wait was that
680
when i got my tattoo your first tattoo yeah whoa that was long ago yeah i know
681
maybe we need to get tattoos in roads i don't think i can get a tattoo that you're pregnant.
682
Oh yeah, neither can we, we can't have a holiday either.
683
No. And not when you're pregnant.
684
No.
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5 Must-Know Phrases for Daily Chats
- “down the pan”: A playful way to say something is ruined (e.g., “My camera went down the pan after getting wet”).
- “catch-up”: A friendly chat to share news (e.g., “Let’s have a catch-up over coffee”).
- “get cozy”: To make yourself comfortable (e.g., “Grab a blanket and get cozy”).
- “blustery”: Windy and cold (e.g., “It’s blustery outside—wear a jacket”).
- “hold back”: To wait before doing something (e.g., “I’m holding back on decorating until after the trip”).
Master the Dialogue with the Shadowing Technique
Ready to boost your speaking practice? Try shadowing—repeat the speaker’s words immediately after her, matching her tone and speed. Here’s how: 1. Listen once: Focus on her rhythm and pauses (she often pauses when sharing exciting news!). 2. Shadow in chunks: Start with short phrases like “good morning everybody” or “grab yourself a drink.” 3. Focus on pronunciation: Notice how she says “alfie” (short “a”) and “cozy” (soft “z” sound). 4. Repeat daily: Even 5 minutes a day will help you sound more natural. This video’s mix of casual stories and quick updates makes it ideal for pronunciation practice. You’ll learn to speak like a native in no time—just hit play and follow along!
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is | i've been trialing · have been mixing · I've been waiting |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | i've turned · i've just ordered · we've come |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is known · is blessed · wasn't distracted |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | another which is · bracket which is · highlighter which is |
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.