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welcome back to a new vlog everyone how are you i hope

you are well not gonna lie

i'm coming off the back of a pretty shitty week

we had a very chaotic week last week as a family

health stuff in the family a big kind of panic crisis moment everyone is okay

but the adrenaline is starting to settle

and i'm trying to get back into real life a little bit

and i wanted to start a new vlog just as rich comes in come in it's fine

i knew you were gonna say

that we've lived too long we've lived for too long

i actually didn't know i was gonna start this vlog right now

but then rich was like i've got a minute to do

that pole thing shall i do it now

and i was thinking i better start this vlog basically i'm in my office this is our loft conversion

if you don't already know it is did you do it perfectly oh it's like tiny little gap

so i can slot it in it's my office is rich as office it's a spare bedroom for

when people want to stay

and it's also got all of the storage here

we made these cupboards the eaves are behind

there eaves are like where you store things in the roof we made these cupboards

so that if potentially this is either our bedroom

or whoever buys our house next is bedroom

they could be wardrobes as well anyway these cupboards are not being used to their full potential

and this rail here this rail here is

so annoying it's wobbly it's just gets in the way

and my wardrobe isn't big enough and we don't have a room for a walk -in wardrobe.

So I thought maybe I could use these cupboards as a bit of like an overspill for clothes.

Let me bring you closer one sec.

So this cupboard at the end has a rail in it

and it's where we put like winter coats when it's not winter.

And then this cupboard has basically a load of workout clothes.

I probably do not need that many workout clothes.

It's got stuff to sell on Vinted.

It's got boots at the bottom.

Then the middle cupboard, that's how you get into our eaves

and then oh I really need to move this rail there's another cupboard here

which has like all of my work stuff in

but again it's just not organized like

if I organized it then I think I would have

so much extra spare space so

that is what I want to do I don't think I'm going to get it all done now today

but I finished up my work for the day

so I thought maybe I could make a little head start

and then maybe I can move my workout clothes into there anyway the idea is this cupboard here

we're going to take the shelves out

and I'm going to take these top two shelves

so I'm going to leave that one

and we're going to put a rail in a pole

so I can hang these clothes in there

and get rid of this very annoying clothes rail

which just gets in the way especially during winter

when we have to put the clothes horse out up here

and dry all of our clothes there's too much stuff out

and we've got the peloton and we've got lights

and it's just it's really easy for this room to become a bit of a dumping ground

so let's start by emptying the shelves so that

Rich can um oh my god i literally have fake presents

this is what it's like being a content creator i've got fake christmas presents here

because we tend to shoot christmas content in october oh god

rudy's not gonna get that wrapping okay we've got spare towels in here for

when guests stay feel like we could probably put these in the bathroom somewhere

we also probably don't need this many oh I haven't tried

this yet I got sent this I love the brand by matter they've got a really nice spray

that I use on my clothes to give them like longer before

you need to wash them makes them smell amazing they've got this liquid iron

so it's a wrinkle release fabric spray I haven't tried

this yet I really need to I'm going to leave it out

so I remember to try that these are for

when I sell things on vintage I always give them a little um flint flint roller is

that what it's called

and then sometimes i give them a little spritz with the steamery fabric spray

this is my steamer this is the best steamer by the way

if you need a recommendation i've shared this on instagram

so many times

but i love it it's much better than the steamery one it's from phillips it looks like this

and it bends and you can basically use it like an iron it's

so good and it's got two different sizes you can fill up with water love this

so much highly recommend an eye out in case it's in like a black friday sale

or something okay now these are all workout clothes

and i bet a load of them are summer like tennis stuff

which i could definitely put away in storage in some sort of like summer box

i'm gonna throw everything out for now

and then i can go through it over there don't need

that many workout clothes don't work out

that much more workout clothes why is there a random oh

kids christmas pajamas five to six rudy can wear those this year

tennis rackets okay everything on this shelf is i think stuff

that i need to sell on vintage these are boxes for mugs for my foggy mornings guests

and i just totally forgot i had them

and i'd be like wrapping the mugs terribly totally forgot

that needs to go in my work cupboard can i sell glasses these are um ace

and tate glasses i think they're ace and tate

and they're really nice but they've got my prescription in them like would people buy glasses

and then put their own prescription in i don't know

i'm just taking these shelves out i feel like we should keep these

i don't know good you've got to kind of twist it

oh i took the second one out is that one not going to come out as easily okay hole

yeah in well why is it

so hard for me to hold a pole up for this long why don't

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you just hold your pen normally i am you're not

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you're holding it like at the end weirdly oh my god my arms are gonna fall off

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and it's done tough to

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that i think this could make a massive difference actually

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i'm gonna hang i think i'm gonna hang all my knitwear my jumpers up here

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because they're so thick and they take up

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so much space space in my wardrobe i think it'll be really nice to have them have their own little jumper wardrobe.

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Have I got any others up here?

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I mean it's looking very colourful so far.

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Okay guys it's the next day, apologies.

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I had to stop vlogging

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because it got to the point where this room was such a mess

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and I needed to actually get on

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and I actually find it quite hard sometimes to vlog whilst doing a task like this

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because I need to put music on,

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I need to concentrate and yeah the room's looking a lot better and I finished the the knitwear wardrobe of dreams.

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I thought I had finished and then I went down to my bedroom, pulled out something from under my bed and realised

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that all of my knitwear was under my bed in this like Dunelm storage box so it did kind of make sense.

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I felt like there wasn't much knitwear and now, oh my god look at this, I'm so happy with it.

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Look how brilliant this looks.

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I have ordered some special hangers from Amazon for knitwear

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because I actually have some extra jumpers there that haven't gone in but look how beautiful and colourful it looks.

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I've even managed to fit my fleeces in.

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This is like an old fleece from Arquette which I love

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and then this one is new from Sweaty Betty I love it

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so much look at this colour it's so cosy and gorgeous

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so those didn't like fit in the coat cupboard downstairs

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so it's nice to have for them to have a place

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and I've got so many lovely knicks this one and the one

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that I'm wearing now are both from Hush last year

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I've got my bright green

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this one's also from Hush Hush are really good with the coloured knitwear

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I've got a couple of jumpers in this style I've got the burgundy one

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and a red one these are from Arquette

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I really like those Suzanne knitwear Suzanne's very good with the knitwear

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this is new from Wise love a cobalt blue

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and I think I got this one last year in M &S sorry

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if I just screamed down the microphone

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that's very festive someone was asking where this is from oh yeah

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this is from Nobody's Child I really like the blue

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and brown colour combo it's kind of similar to this

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which I got this year from olive and frank

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which is a really lovely brand i love the smiley face

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i was going to show you last one this is this this season from suzanne very nice brown knit love

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that so much really happy with that i do desperately need to go to ikea

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because i need to get more of the plastic storage boxes like this like this

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but the bigger size because these are what fit above our wardrobes

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and gray's wardrobe

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but i don't think

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i have time today to drive all the day all the way to ikea

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i also really want to get the round mirror

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that you saw in Catherine Almorod's Foggy Mornings episode she has

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that classic Ikea Stockholm mirror and she painted stripes on it

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and I actually think that's a really great quite affordable way to have a nice funky mirror

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I know I said last week

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that I was going to switch the mirrors around I think

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I'm going to keep the round mirror in the lounge

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and get the Ikea Stockholm for the hallway and paint it green

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and pink stripes I think that'll be really fun

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and a really nice like thing to walk into in our entrance way

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but not today today is not an ikea day apologies

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if you can hear my dishwasher it is

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so loud oh hello sunshine i know i mentioned in previous videos um

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that i was trying that liquid collagen

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which i really didn't like i mean

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i really like my wild nutrition powder collagen

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i just pop in my coffee i'm not like on the hunt for a new collagen

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but i think because i said that this company reached out

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and said that they wanted to send me some of these collagen jelly sticks from a brand called rin

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and i tried one yesterday

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and it was delicious the thing is let me know what you guys think

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because the whole collagen thing is very confusing look how clever these are they're jelly sticks

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and they taste delicious see look it literally looks like this can you see i mean it's

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so yummy it's like having a sweet

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so delicious the thing with collagen is a lot of people say like you're not getting enough in it

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that it's not worth it it's like not really like a proven thing

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which i think makes it a bit tricky like there's no harm in having it

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because yes it can help with your hair and nails

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and stuff but there's a lot of people

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that don't really believe there's enough research into it

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but also things like this i never know it says it's got 2 .650 mg collagen per stick is

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that a good amount and then also

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because obviously it tastes good i checked the ingredients

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and it has got sugar in it

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but it says it has less than two grams of sugar per stick is

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that a lot is that not a lot very tricky i don't fully understand

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that they are delicious anyone wants to let me know please do let me know

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because i love that they are yummy i need to make myself some lunch i am

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so hungry i have no idea what to make we've got eggs we've got prawns

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and avocado oh should i do like a prawn, avocado, mango.

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Poke bowl.

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Feels like a lot of effort.

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I've got smoked salmon.

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I've got mortadella ham.

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I've got jacket potatoes in the freezer.

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I've got no motivation.

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Okay, I'm going to make a sandwich.

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I've got ham.

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I've got salad leaf.

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I'm going to chop up.

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I've got some tomatoes.

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Maybe some some olives.

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Mayonnaise.

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Maybe Japanese beer.

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Some chopped up pickle.

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Oh, cheese.

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Well, I need cheese.

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Yeah, I feel like I need something.

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I need like a spread.

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Like I can't just have bread with no spread.

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Hummus gonna work.

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There's a lot of things going on here.

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There's a lot of things going on here.

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This smells like a McDonald's McChicken sandwich.

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I don't know why.

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It must be something to do with the lettuce.

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Kind of regretting not putting anything spicy inside.

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I feel like it could done with a bit of like a spicy condiment

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that's too hot i need to wait a minute

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and then i'll give it the taste test okay let's give this a go that's

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so yum weirdly the japanese mayo and the hummus work well you wouldn't think

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but the hummus has got that really nice savory taste

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because the japanese mayo is a bit sweeter than normal mayo

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and then it's got the pickle that's good that's a good lunch it's a little bit later

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and uh we're just making the kids dinner but i'm actually popping out

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because my mum said she's going to costco she's got like one of those costco membership things

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i don't have it so i can never go

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and i love costco it's like one of those places where you get everything in huge

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but they have like really good things i think

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they do the ninja coffee machine like discounted quite often it's just i haven't been there for years

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and i love a costco trip

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so i'm gonna go with my mum sorry rich do you get the peanut butter puffs in the big yeah

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i get like fat they're really tasty okay i'll get you some peanuts i like it

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when you get fat take the pressure off me been in costco for about 10 minutes

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and i haven't turned on the camera because i feel a bit overwhelmed

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if i'm honest oh lemon drizzle cake i just haven't been here for a

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while i forgot how big it is i don't really know where to start gosh they got like lobsters

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and cling film this is crazy

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i wonder what these muscles are like i can't like the mns ones though whoa those are big fish

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you actually would you actually get that i wouldn't know what to do with

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that wow look at these oh my god

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i shouldn't have come here at dinner time i was hungry oh they've got halloween fancy dress didn't expect

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that let's see

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if they've got oh they got a buzz light year outfit mario kart jesse

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i don't think my kids will want it oh my god the toy aisle

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i'm absolutely gonna try those they look amazing i'm also going to get some of these they're

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so yummy you keep them in the freezer

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and they're delicious let's look at these pickles oh my god size for reference oh

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i'm in heaven the hangers arrived so let's get these open

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and i can hang up the rest of my jumpers okay

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so i went for this type i hope they're not too wide

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i actually like hate this kind of hanger in general i used to have them i found them

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so annoying but they're very good for knitwear because they they don't create

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that kind of funny shape on your jumpers

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so I think I'm gonna go in

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and like replace some of the ones I've already used

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and just hang everything up in here yeah

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because some of these have these wooden hangers

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which are a little bit annoying Costco with my mom was fun

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but like I said it was so overwhelming just

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so busy they do have some cool stuff in there I really wanted to film some kind of reel today

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but I feel very stuck on what to film I don't know why

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because it's like I know I've got some new clothes to show

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and I know I've got stuff that I want to show

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and talk about but I just can't work out like how to film

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and what I think

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there's a lot of pressure these days for like every video on Instagram to have a hook

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and be really engaging

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and I think I have quite high standards for myself what makes a good video

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and I've been putting loads of effort into my ads recently

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but I feel like I haven't been

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so good at doing like the organic content I just find myself kind of scrolling

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and then just having no idea what to do myself which is a bit of a frustrating feeling.

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Like I feel like I've got time now to film

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and my hair's done and my face is done and now is the moment but then I just can't.

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I just don't know what to film.

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It's such a frustrating feeling when I get this.

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I think what I might do is actually head out which isn't always the best answer.

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Sometimes I feel like I'm trying to like run away from the situation

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but maybe I'll feel more inspired filming something out and about rather than filming something at home.

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I do find that like filming an outfit or something is quite boring.

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I'm just going to put of these away it's looking

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so good i'm so happy with it one thing i didn't think about is

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that at the end of the day i have to kind of come upstairs to put my jumper away

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which is a bit annoying i've been kind of leaving it on the stairs

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and dealing with it in the morning good morning guys

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it's saturday morning kids are in my bed watching louie they're gonna want breakfast soon um it's halloween they're

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so excited it's halloween they're both at the age now where they like really get it and they're super excited

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Sadly, also at the age where I don't think they will realise if we get rid of and eat all their sweets.

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Like in the past, they've had a few

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and then we've put them in the cupboard and they've never asked about them again.

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That is not going to happen this year.

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I mean, it's fine.

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But when they get back, I always get rid of all the sweets that aren't in wrappers because that is just such a no -go.

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Anyone that hands out sweets that are not in wrappers, terrible, terrible.

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But yeah, they're super excited and I've got quite a busy weekend.

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So I need to, I'm up a bit early

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because I need to head to M &S and I also need to head to a toy shop.

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I have to head to a toy shop

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because Rudy went to a Halloween party yesterday that was

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so cute and the mum put in so much effort

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and I feel so bad because I turned up empty -handed

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because I'd been out all day

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and I think it was kind of instead of birthday party for the kid

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that their birthday was earlier in the year

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but I just feel really bad

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so I'm going to go get like a little thank you gift

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and drop that in and we've got friends coming over for dinner tomorrow night

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so I need to go get some bits from M &S.

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Today me and Rich both have PT at various different times, so we're not going to be doing much.

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And then obviously tonight is trick or treating, I need to get the kids ready.

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Rudy I think is going to be the little boy from Coco, so he's got a red hoodie,

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got skeleton trousers and I'm going to face paint his face.

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Basically any outfit where I just need to face paint the kids and they can wear their normal clothes is excellent.

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Grey wanted to be a zombie cheerleader

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and she was actually going to wear her normal cheerleader outfit

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but i did find a zombie cheerleader outfit on next

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so i ended up getting that

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because i know she'll wear it loads she loves like fancy dress stuff

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so yeah we'll trick

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or treat tonight hopefully do a little bit of a balance between like trick

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or treating and letting the kids stay here and answer the door

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because they really like doing that tomorrow we are going to arsenal ladies to watch football

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which will be rudy's first time at a football match

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so that's gonna be so cute gray's been before

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and she loves it

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if you want to um let me move you just in case it's too bright behind me

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if you want to introduce your kids to football

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and I highly recommend going to one of the women's matches

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because they're much more like family friendly and calm

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and like no crazy swearing

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and yeah it's really I think a lot of people do it

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so there's a lot of kids and which is really nice

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so we're doing that and then yeah I'm friends over tomorrow night

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so I think the plan is to make a big Brussels sprout salad

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and then make a big thing of yummy rice and then I'm gonna buy or I think we've already got one actually.

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Yeah I've got a couple of these slow roasted lamb shoulders from M &S.

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I know I could have like properly done the lamb.

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Actually I couldn't really because we're out all day.

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I don't love the idea of leaving the oven on all day.

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My mum thinks I'm crazy.

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She's like everyone does it because she said just buy a lamb shoulder, cook it low and slow all day.

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It freaks me out leaving the oven on all day.

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So I'm like I'm doing the rice and the salad but M &S are doing the lamb.

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I'm just gonna have my cup of tea and then maybe I'll bring you with me to M &S.

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Guys I've been doing this doodle every time the kids sit

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and do drawing I've been doing this

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and this is exactly what I used to do in my school books obviously just with like a biro

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this looks way more colorful

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if I bring it close can you see it's like different shapes

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this is a doodle

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I would like my books about Shakespeare from like GCSE are covered in these doodles

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it was the only way I could concentrate at school

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if I was doodling although saying that I failed no I failed everything

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so I obviously wasn't concentrating it's the only way

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I couldn't like fall asleep of boredom oh rich one of

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the fish is about to fall off the wall don't let it fall off

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because it'll break is it

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that top one anyway i've been doing this doodle i think

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i'm going to carry on i'm going for a dark purple next i don't know what i'll do with

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that when i'm done probably throw it away

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but my favorite kind of doodle to do you just do any random shapes very satisfying okay

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i'm in b &m and actually i just found some um christmas baubles

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that i think would work quite well on our tree like green

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and red striped four pounds for a pack although it's only a six pack

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so i had to get quite a few getting ahead don't have any Christmas baubles B &M is

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so good for the felt tips they've always got

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so many options these little 3D printed eggs that have dragons inside are

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so popular with the little four or five year old boys

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so I think I'm going to get a couple of these as a thank you

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and I'll get a couple of Paw Patrol Pez

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because classic okay I have to head to M &S

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because I'm in such a rush

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I need to get back in time for Rich to get to PT I could spend hours in here

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but I need to back another day

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i'm very much into this type of white wine at the moment a son sere

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and you can get them at m s

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so i'm going to get a couple of these one for tomorrow night

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when our friends come

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and one just to have the next time i fancy

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it i need some kind of drink i think

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i don't know what elderflower presay classic m s truffle crisps are the best

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okay i've got hummus i've got like a little lemonade dip

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i've got trumpets family granite parsley my favorite smoked salmon and cream cheese spread

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okay i just got back from pt i had the most delicious pastrami sandwich from gail's it's like pastramony pastrami

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and sauerkraut was really good

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and a matcha feeling good although I have not yet showered really do need to

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but I need to prep a salad for tomorrow we're having friends around tomorrow night

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and I thought I would make a big thing of rice

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so I'm going to soak the rice overnight

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so it's extra fluffy um a brussels sprout salad

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and then I told you I think I told you about this already the lamb

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so let's go and prep the salad

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because we're out all day tomorrow okay the kids are watching 101 Dalmatians

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I'm gonna make brussels sprout salad it's a recipe I found on Instagram it's maple mustard crunch salad.

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The first thing I need to do is shred all of these Brussels sprouts

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and then use this which is from OXO so I'll just use that and I go like this.

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This is kind of how it shreds.

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Okay I've shredded a load of Brussels sprouts

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so I'm just going to pull them out onto a baking tray

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and cover them in olive oil and salt and pepper

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and roast them to make sure i think i'm gonna have to do two of these

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squirt that all over and i'll give them a good shape

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which is chopping i'm slicing

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because you can't do this left -handed i feel like butter sprouts shrink down

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so much once you roast them i'm using like three bags here are you gonna stay in

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and hand out sweets and i'll take them trick -or -treating do you not want to yeah

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yeah yeah yeah you have to be like oh you are

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so scary yeah i actually hate doing that and i'm gonna be that parent

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that doesn't dress up yeah yeah yeah yeah

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i wouldn't say like a fun house to come to we're driving back

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and there's a house with octopus legs coming out

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and the mum was in the front garden dressed as a witch already

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oh we should put christmas music on christmas brussels sprouts cooking it's halloween i bought christmas balls yesterday yeah why

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because we needed some remember i put it in the diary yes

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we haven't got any round ball balls i thought

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that was the liberty ball ball thing we do no

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because we don't have any round baubles

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we've just got a tree of eclectic weird ornaments

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we have no actual round baubles i like the eclectic yeah we both do both

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but we need like baubles is it finished okay what do you think of it tell us about 101 donations

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yeah and the grace went through all the emotions watching 101 donations i swear they've dumbed down films these days

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when my kids watch like new films they just have no emotion and

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when they watch films from the 90s they are like terrified

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they're laughing they're sad

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she almost cried at one point films used to be much better gray okay time to get ready for trick -or -treating

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Grey's going as a zombie cheerleader

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So we're doing I haven't done up your top I don't do it

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Do you just want like ponytail bunches or plaque bunches?

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Just totally Rich is going to put that in the window

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Or like in the car window

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It's not like that

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That'd be funny

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But it's angry.

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Yeah.

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Should we make your hair back home it and make it a bit crazy looking?

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Is it any more scary?

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Yeah.

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Has anyone managed to do their kid hair without having to say sorry the whole time?

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At least you've got straight hair.

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If my mummy had to do my hair, I would just scream the entire time.

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Why? because it was so curly and

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so tangly she brushed it it was like the end of the world make it a bit like

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this i don't think i've ever had a vlog that is

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so bitty before i keep starting

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and not ending i know what is going on this week

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i also feel like i've looked really crap in this entire vlog

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but anyway i feel like i think next week is the week

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that i was gonna do a gift guide i'm not gonna like buy all the stuff

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so it's just gonna be like where the the gift pops up on the screen

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or something anyway one minute rich needs me to show him where to put a picture up

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i framed the card that Rudy made for my dad in hospital.

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I can put him in a little pop of colour.

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Okay.

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Oh my god, you need to shower.

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Unbearable.

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It's so cruel.

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We have another very busy day.

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We are going to Arsenal Ladies today at Emirates.

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Rich took Grey recently and she loved it and

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so we're going to go today and me and Rudy are going to join.

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It's going to be his first football match.

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Really excited.

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I haven't been to Emirates for so long.

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My family are big

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Arsenal fans but I haven't been.

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Like I used to go as a teenager to like almost every match

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but not so much as an adult so very much looking forward to it.

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Then we're having friends over for dinner tonight

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so I have my rice soaking in the fridge

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and I've started the Brussels sprout salad

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and then yeah I'm just going to do pitta and dips

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and lamb should be all good kids got some of this

473

magic snow from the garden center yours is looking very snowy

474

everyone's ready in their Arsenal t -shirts I realized

475

that I'm not going be allowed to take this camera in

476

because whenever I go somewhere big they say

477

that it's like too much of a professional camera so I'll try and film a little bit on my phone.

478

I'm wearing this little scarf.

479

I'm very red but guys it's a bit cold out.

480

Do you think you're going to be warm enough?

481

Here we are.

482

It's so amazing and massive.

483

Look we booked club level because it's the only tickets

484

that were left so you get special kids boxes and you get a um what's that called again program

485

yeah you can open it all the way until you sit down great how cool is it

486

club level is next level the food looks so good thinking about getting my gum t -shirt

487

i got myself lunch sticky prawns and rice

488

and slaw looks delicious rudy show me what you bought from

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the shop who is it what's his name great what did you buy from us

490

we are back and football was so cute going to arsenal women's

491

or any kind of women's football was such a nice way to introduce kids to football like honestly

492

it's way less people there's no like shouting

493

and swearing it's such a nice environment and

494

because we did the club thing they got little kids pack with colouring

495

and they got to meet the um gunasaurus dinosaur got a little free drink although the food was not free

496

and it was not cheap i spent 20 pounds on this like rice prawn thing

497

it was really fun though really really fun definitely go again really still a little bit young

498

but grey is well into it right i'm gonna end this video here we're gonna go

499

and see friends this afternoon and then we are having friends over tonight

500

and i've got to make dinner

501

so thank you for watching this vlog i think the next video you're going to see is going to be

502

the gift guide if all goes to plan so i'll see you then bye

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “A Little Home Project & A Big First for the Kids”. This video has 502 sentences and 5642 words to shadow. The speech runs for 27:49. The speaker talks fast, about 203 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
salad noun	/ˈsæl.əd/	A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often…
wardrobe noun	/ˈwɔɹdɹoʊb/	A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
delicious adjective	/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/	Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
jumper noun	/ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚ/	A woollen sweater or pullover.
rail noun	/ɹeɪ(ə)l/	A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
lamb noun	/ˈlæm/	A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months.
workout noun	/ˈwɝk.aʊ̯t/	An exercise session; a period of physical exercise.
trick noun	/ˈtɹɪk/	Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
mirror noun	/ˈmiɹɚ/	A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
arsenal noun	/ˈɑːsənəl/	A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
outfit noun	/ˈaʊtfɪt/	A set of clothing (with accessories).
shelf noun	/ʃɛlf/	A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects.
bedroom noun	/ˈbɛdˌɹum/	A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
yummy adjective	/ˈjʌm.i/	Delicious.
grey adjective	/ɡɹeɪ/	Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
fall off verb		To become detached or to drop from.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
hand out verb		To distribute; to give out, either by hand or as if so (figuratively).
work out verb	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	To calculate.
come off verb		To become detached.
do up verb		To fasten (a piece of clothing, etc.); to tighten (a nut etc.)
dress up verb		To put on special or fancy clothes.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Have I got any others up here?
I mean it's looking very colourful so far.
I've even managed to fit my fleeces in.
I've got jacket potatoes in the freezer.
Do you think you're going to be warm enough?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been putting · I've been doing
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to have · used to do · used to be
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if all goes to plan so i'll see
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	we've lived · haven't tried · i've shared

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 253 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I've, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, donation /doʊˈneɪʃən/, prescription /pɹəˈskɹɪp.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: apology /əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, affordable /əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, recommendation /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like salad, wardrobe, delicious.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?