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00:00Good morning, whoop. Good morning, good morning. So I actually wasn't planning on vlogging

00:15today as you can probably tell just from like cosy joggers we are having the most relaxed

00:21day. It's currently 12 o'clock, like lunchtime. We headed out this morning to a little local

00:26farmer's market, just ate some good food, had some good coffee. The girls got hot chocolate.

00:30We actually met my parents as well and had a catch up with them and now we're back home.

00:34I've just decided to randomly get the vlog camera out. I think it's because, as I said

00:38in my previous video, I've been watching back recently. Let me just adjust you and get a

00:43little bit more relaxed, a little bit more comfy, you know? Yeah, I've been watching

00:47back quite a few old vlogs of mine recently and a lot of my favourite videos that I've

00:51been watching are just like the most mundane, simple days. Like there's not a lot going

00:55on. I'm not like bungee jumping or skydiving or travelling or going on holiday and all

01:00of those kind of things are like fun moments to see. But my favourite vlogs to watch are

01:05just like chill days when nothing's going on. Just like feeling like the vibe and the

01:10atmosphere of the house within the video and the family and potentially like friends popping

01:14over and just like normal day to day life. Today is that exact day. So we have no plans.

01:20This vlog is going to feel like a throwback, old school, relaxed Alfie Days style vlog.

01:27So if you've been watching for that long, I hope you enjoy. I hope you're almost a little

01:31bit nostalgic, you know? Like a little throwback. Anyways, I did arrive home a minute ago to

01:37a delivery that I've been waiting for for so long and I cannot even tell you how buzzing

01:42I am to open these. And the fact that I haven't opened them yet until, like you can literally

01:46see the seals here. The fact that I haven't opened these until the camera is rolling

01:51is just a testament of how much I care that I want you to see my real reaction and I want

01:56you to see them. I mean obviously I know you're seeing this like a few days or whatever after

02:00I filmed it, but you're kind of seeing it at the same time as me. That's what it feels

02:03like anyway. So in December I released this, which I haven't actually properly shown or

02:10spoken about in a vlog on my YouTube channel because it got released in December and we

02:14were doing Vlogmas and then obviously I took January off of filming. I've never really

02:18got the chance on my own YouTube channel to actually talk about this properly and show

02:22it and to be able to like have it in my hands. This here, if you don't already know, which

02:27I guess most of you already do, this is the future of lifestyle journal. I spent, I don't

02:32even know how long last year, six months, eight months designing this, coming up with

02:36all the concepts and like building it out and then actually sampling it all up and making

02:40it what it exactly is today. The only way I can describe it is like the most Alfie Days

02:45product I've ever released. This feels like everything I want to push within my videos,

02:51I want to share with anybody that's watching, put into one thing. This journal will actually

02:56help you like genuinely, I can't explain, this will actually help you become the person

03:02that you want to be. This will actually help you do the things in life that you genuinely

03:07want to do. This is like 12 or 15 years of all the different like tips and tricks and

03:12little things that I like implement in my life. To be able to get to do all of the things

03:16in my life that I love doing and do more of them, I've put into this journal so that you

03:22can experience that as well. So there is a lot going on. I mean, this is literally my

03:27personal one so you'll see that I'm like actually filling it out myself. And as I said, I released

03:31this in December last year. I had no idea if anyone was going to purchase this. It's

03:35so different to anything that I've ever done before with future self, which is like predominantly

03:39clothing or coffee. And instantly it was the most sold future self product I've ever done,

03:44which is just crazy to think about. But then at the same time, it kind of doesn't surprise

03:49me because as I said, it's like the most out of your day's thing I've ever released that

03:52I've literally poured so much time and energy into to make it into what it is. And those

03:57of you that have been following me for a long time, like I guess that we're so similar because

04:00that's why you watch the blogs. Like we enjoy the same things in life and everything. So

04:05I'm guessing if it's incredibly fitting for me, then it will be for you as well. Anyways,

04:08I released this in December. Feedback was just unbelievable. It sold out straight away,

04:12which I totally was not expecting. So I got more made in January and there is not even

04:18many of those ones left on the website because they're just selling so quickly. Anyways,

04:21getting back to these two here, this journal, which is the only one that I've released so

04:25far, I did a poll on my Instagram to see which colour I should release this journal in. And

04:31the winning vote by far was this like plum, burgundy kind of red. But because it keeps

04:36selling out, I thought, why not release it in another colourway? And then I thought,

04:41you know what? Why not release it in two more colourways? So I've ordered up the number

04:44two and the number three most popular on the poll that I did colourways. I've been sampling

04:49them a bunch. So I've already seen them in like different samples on prints on just like

04:53front covers. But these two here are the very first prints of the new journal colourways

04:59that as I'm saying this right now, like literally right now, they were available to pre-order.

05:04You'll literally see, oh man, it is so sick. It looks so much better than what I even thought

05:10it would. And I also haven't seen it with the double ribbon of the matching colourway.

05:16Oh man, it looks so good. I'm not even just saying that because it's mine. This genuinely

05:21looks so sick in blue. Oh man, I'm so excited. Okay, so that is available to literally pre-order

05:28right now. And then here is just so nice. I can't explain just how good it feels to

05:36be working so hard over something. And then when you receive the final, final, final actual

05:40real version for it to look even better than what you hoped it would look. Like this genuinely

05:45looks even better in person than what I thought it would. And again, this is also available

05:51right now to pre-order. It's just so wild to think that like a year ago, this was just

05:57a concept like floating around my head and I was like toying around with the idea. I

06:01didn't even know it was going to be a journal. I just knew it was going to be something.

06:04And then now look how good that looks all together. Honestly, this is the most proud

06:09I've ever been of anything I've created. This is so sick. My battery just ran out on my

06:13camera, which is probably a sign that I'm just getting a bit too carried away and a

06:16bit too excited talking about these. Both the new colourways are available to pre-order

06:22right now on the website. I'll leave a link down below. When I say pre-order, it's not

06:25going to be ages until they're at your house and in your hands. They are already made.

06:29Like they literally, you can see here, I've got two of them in my hands. They're already

06:33made, but I just need a couple of weeks to make sure that they all get counted into the

06:36warehouse correctly, packed up and then shipped obviously out to wherever you live. There

06:41is also not many of these at all. I've only ordered 500 of this colourway and 500 of this

06:46colourway. So I don't know if I'm going to do another print run of these colours or not.

06:50So if you do want a blue one or a green one, definitely head over to the website now and

06:54place a pre-order. One thing that I've noticed with the journal is that a lot of people order

06:59multiple at once. So whether that's like either just two for themselves to fill out like back

07:03to back or one for their partner or a friend or a family member so that they can be like

07:08filling it out at the same time. So what I've done is I've put up on the website at the

07:12moment two for 40 pounds. So if you want to buy, I mean you can't just buy two for yourself,

07:16but if you want to buy like two of the blue ones or a blue and a green or red and a green

07:19or red and blue, whatever you want, there is currently two for 40 pounds on the website.

07:23So definitely make the most of that if you want to pick one up for a friend or a family

07:27member so you can fill them out at the same time as each other. That's like a really nice

07:30thing that I'm seeing so many people do. But yeah, anyways, let's crack on with a chill

07:35little day. This is what I'm talking about at the farmer's market this morning. There

07:40was a pizza tent and they're only there probably like once a month or once every six weeks

07:45or something. And they were there today. What was this called? A hot ronnie. Spicy ronnie.

07:50Hot ronnie, which is basically pepperoni with honey. There was going to be jalapeno

07:56on there, but I was like, that is going to ruin my acid reflux. So I asked for no jalapeno.

08:02Pesto-y dip. Two different kinds of arancini. One's pesto and one is induja. Is it induja?

08:11And then of course, can't not hit up some truffle parmesan fries.

08:16We have been making cupcakes. As you can see, they're nice and cool now because we're

08:22going to decorate them, aren't we?

08:24Well, differently, there's one more in here.

08:28Oh, one of them's got a little double.

08:32And there's another one in there. So it's not very differently.

08:40Horty doesn't like that there's two on that one. Is there another one with two as well?

08:44Do you want me to take it out or do you want it back in?

08:46Oh, you do want it in. Okay.

08:48It's a double cake.

08:49This is what they've been baking up this morning. Spectacular science.

08:55Are they those little like popping balls on the top?

08:57I have to say, I had a smell of one a minute ago. It smells so good.

09:05Proper like cake.

09:06Like kids' birthday cake.

09:11Horty just keeps thinking, I'm going to try and eat one.

09:13She really doesn't want me to until they're finished.

09:17Who's the funniest, me or mummy?

09:19Mummy.

09:21I didn't even think that was-

09:23Who's the silliest?

09:26Mummy.

09:29Who's the most fun to play with?

09:32Ralph.

09:33Ralph. That's one of her friends.

09:37What about out of mummy and daddy?

09:40Everybody.

09:41Oh, that's the right answer, baby.

09:43But a little bit more, daddy.

09:45Just a little bit more.

09:56Zoe hasn't seen the new journals yet.

09:58You've got to be 100% honest. Obviously, that's the original.

10:00Oh, the colours?

10:01Yeah.

10:01Yeah, love that. Love that.

10:04And also, look, these are matching as well.

10:06Oh, I love them. I think blue's my favourite.

10:09Do you think?

10:10Yeah, I love it.

10:11Okay, which one do you like most?

10:14Blue.

10:15Two votes for blue, daddy. Oh, I love it.

10:19It looks like, doesn't it?

10:20It feels like-

10:20I think maybe green.

10:23It feels like this is autumn winter and this is spring summer.

10:26Yeah.

10:28I love that there's just options. It feels so different, yet obviously it's the same.

10:33It's just a different colour. It looks good together, doesn't it?

10:35Yeah, really nice.

10:36And also, these are all matching.

10:38Yeah, they're really lovely.

10:40Mum, I'm going home.

10:41Right, shall we go and get your little trampoline now?

10:43Go and get your trampoline.

10:43Auntie wants to get back out her trampoline.

10:46And when I say trampoline, everyone's probably expecting a big trampoline in the garden.

10:50It's like the tiny little kids' trampoline that you have the handle on.

10:53It's probably right for nobody's kind of age.

10:54Yeah, but it's so small.

10:56It's okay. Shall we go and get it back out?

10:58Yeah.

10:58It's in the basement.

10:58It's sharing with me.

11:00Because sharing is caring.

11:02Sharing is caring.

11:03But not you and mummy go.

11:04You and mummy and Nala can't go in there, so she's going to be there.

11:10And you and mummy are going to break it.

11:13We're a bit too big, aren't we?

11:14Nala's going to be scared, so she can't go in there.

11:16And mummy and daddy are too big, because you're going to break it.

11:18Aww.

11:19Let's go in the basement.

11:21This is how we do it.

11:22Are you showing me how to go into the basement?

11:24Yeah.

11:24All right then.

11:25No, turn that light back on.

11:27I can turn it when I get down there.

11:29Oh, you're going to use that one?

11:31Because I want to do the little ones.

11:33Cor, you're just too clever.

11:35But you have to turn on this light, because I don't know how to do this one.

11:40Is this everything?

11:41Do you want anything else whilst we're down here?

11:43No.

11:44Perfect.

11:44That's just everything.

11:45Let's go.

11:46Let me put the camera up there.

11:48He's nearly done.

11:50And he comes over this.

11:51And then are you ready?

11:52Mm-hmm.

11:53We could even do no handle if you wanted.

11:56Well, I wanted one.

11:57Do you want the handle on?

11:59Yes.

11:59Yeah?

12:00Yeah, because I might fall over.

12:02All right.

12:03It's also the handle will be a little bit better for Noby as well.

12:06There we go.

12:09Whoa, whoa, whoa.

12:13Doing straddle splits.

12:15Cor, a little gymnast.

12:17Star splits.

12:19Oh, star splits.

12:20Sorry, I got them wrong.

12:22Zoe's in hosting mode.

12:24I can just feel it.

12:26We've got all the family coming over tomorrow.

12:28I've got an idea.

12:29I mean, the reality is it's not going to happen.

12:31Do you know what my idea is?

12:32I think it's going to happen.

12:33So we've got all the family coming over for a roast tomorrow.

12:37And I thought it might be quite nice if you,

12:42Otteroo, so instead of writing people's names,

12:45I thought you could draw them.

12:47So you could draw Nanny.

12:50So then Nanny knows where to sit at the table.

12:52Oh, we're going to have to get a couple more seats out, haven't we?

12:54It's like basically-

12:55It's like Christmas.

12:56Yeah, it's basically like Christmas.

12:58Yeah.

13:01You have to do it on the outside, not the inside, okay?

13:04Why?

13:04Because it's not a card.

13:05It sits like that on the table, do you see?

13:08So you do it on the front.

13:09So you do it like this, so it stands up like that.

13:12Yeah.

13:12And then you do it on the front of it.

13:14So you draw it here.

13:16Yeah.

13:16Which Nanny are you going to draw?

13:18First Nanny Buzzy.

13:20Nanny Buzzy, that's my mum.

13:22Just the face, yeah.

13:23A big one, and then the nose, and then the mouth.

13:28Yeah, and the eyes.

13:29I'll probably do some ears and some hair as well, I reckon.

13:32I don't know how to draw ears.

13:34That's okay.

13:37Oh, that looks exactly like Nanny Buzzy.

13:39The ears come off like this.

13:42Do you want to do some arms?

13:45No.

13:45Just your head.

13:46Perfect.

13:47That's Nanny Buzzy.

13:49Yeah, I'll write the name inside, yeah?

13:52Nanny-

13:52We should do it so everyone has to guess who it is.

13:54Yeah.

13:54So they don't open it.

13:55You put it on the table and you'd be like, right-

13:57You sit where you think.

13:58Yeah, and then we reveal if they got it right or not.

13:59And then they can look inside.

14:01Right.

14:01Some hair.

14:02What does Nanny Hector's hair look like?

14:05That's lovely.

14:07Do you want to try and do the little ears?

14:09You can do ears.

14:09Do you remember?

14:10Do you see where mummy did them?

14:11Two little bits on the side.

14:12Oh, these are so cute.

14:15Now Dada Buzzy.

14:16Now Dada Buzzy.

14:17Do you want me to pop the lid back on?

14:19Right, what colour for Dada Buzzy?

14:21Green.

14:23Favourite colour.

14:25Is that his favourite colour?

14:27Yes.

14:27Okay, there you go.

14:28I'm going to do the colour brown hair.

14:32Short hair, so I'm going to wash it.

14:36Perfect.

14:36Can you do ears?

14:37I'll do the ears.

14:39I think everyone's going to love these.

14:42Okay, next person.

14:43So this one's Aunty Poppy.

14:45Aunty Poppy.

14:47Don't say it because Aunty Poppy would know.

14:50Oh yeah, we can't say.

14:51She's next to Dada Buzzy.

14:53She's got longer hair, hasn't she?

14:56So it's a little bit longer.

14:59Perfect.

15:02Okay, now Uncle Shauny.

15:03Wow, it's like curly hair.

15:05I'll do the ears.

15:07Here we go, time to do mummy.

15:12Do me really smiley.

15:14Yeah.

15:15The biggest smile.

15:17Perfect.

15:20Lots of hair.

15:26Oh yeah, I'll do the ears.

15:27Pop it down.

15:30Oh my God, I love it.

15:34Oh, and it says mummy.

15:36Thank you, Auty.

15:36I love it.

15:38That's a good one.

15:40That looks exactly like mummy's head.

15:43Have a little look at my face, see what I look like.

15:47Do a really round head.

15:49Daddy's got a big round head.

15:49I've got a really small head, don't I?

15:52That sounds like a big head.

15:53Whatever you just drew sounded big.

15:55Daddy does.

15:57Whoa, that's so good.

16:01And it says daddy.

16:02That is my favorite one so far.

16:06All right, this is Dotty.

16:08Oh, baby Dot.

16:10She doesn't have much hair, does she?

16:11You can't see that bit.

16:13She only has a little bit of hair.

16:15Yay.

16:16Oh my God, that's so cute.

16:18Well done.

16:19Now I'll write Dotty.

16:21This one here's Auty.

16:24You got three eyes.

16:25Yeah.

16:26Did you do that on purpose?

16:27Yeah, she did.

16:29She wanted to be a monster.

16:31Right, Novy.

16:32Last one.

16:33Maybe Dot's seen bits of her, don't she?

16:37Yeah.

16:38I like-

16:38Oh, this one.

16:39I love that one.

16:41Auntie Poppy.

16:42And I like this one.

16:44Novy, yeah.

16:45That's a really good one.

16:47I want Novy next to me because Novy's in my hand.

16:52I'll put her to Novy next to me.

16:55One.

16:55So cute.

16:57Well done, Auty.

16:57These are amazing.

16:59Maybe there's more trampoline in there.

17:01Go on then.

17:01Go and have a little bounce.

17:03Oh, my legs are tired.

17:05That's like mummy on the trampoline.

17:07The sun has just popped out up there.

17:11And it is time to head out.

17:12If you saw the last vlog, you would have seen

17:15that I'm currently in the process of building the dream veg patch.

17:19Cutting flower garden.

17:21Little morning coffee spot.

17:22All of the good stuff.

17:29So all the vegetable beds are going to go on top of this.

17:33And then we're going to fill it with mushroom compost.

17:36And then we're going to get all wood chippings all the way around it.

17:39And it's going to look lovely.

17:40And then the vegetables will go in the vegetable bed on top of this.

17:44Wow, I want this on it.

17:47Yeah.

17:47I want this on it.

17:49Look at Auty's little outfit.

17:50I love your new little waterproof.

17:52I want this on it.

17:53Is that the wrong way around?

17:54I'll turn it around for you.

17:55There you go.

17:55That one says sweet corn.

17:57Basically, if you watched the last vlog, you would have seen that I've ran out of membrane.

18:01There's a little sliver on the back here.

18:03So I've ordered some more, which obviously has now arrived.

18:05And I'm about to finish it off.

18:08That one says broccoli.

18:09And I've got my little helper with me.

18:13Using the word helper lightly.

18:15Don't know how helpful.

18:16But that one says garlic chives.

18:31The membrane's fully down.

18:32However, I do think, as you can see, there's some little gaps.

18:36I think I need another box of these pegs before we put down everything else.

18:40Wow, it's big.

18:41It is a big space.

18:43It's going to be so good.

18:44Do you know what I'm tempted to do?

18:47Wait, if you wait here, Zoe.

18:48Do you remember what was here before?

18:50No.

18:51It was that big half pipe.

18:54Yeah.

18:55I have no idea what Daddy's getting.

18:58This is looking good, isn't it?

19:00What are we going to grow here?

19:03Vegetables.

19:04All of these vegetables.

19:05That vegetable, that vegetable.

19:08Lots of vegetables.

19:09That vegetable, that vegetable, that vegetable.

19:14Oh.

19:17Let's see what this looks like.

19:19So at the end of the last vlog, Zoe threw a spanner in the works and was like,

19:22I think we should move the entrance.

19:24To like, the closest to where we're going to.

19:27So I've redesigned it up.

19:29And this is now looking like it's going to go here.

19:34Oh, lovely.

19:36Three of these in a line.

19:37One's about there.

19:38And then the other two next to it.

19:40I think that'll look great.

19:42Yeah, I feel like that fits good.

19:44It's huge, actually, isn't it?

19:45And then the other one's along here.

19:48Yeah.

19:49And then the table and chairs here.

19:51You need to order the table and chairs.

19:53Yeah.

19:53We should get a cute little vintage one.

19:55The only thing that I haven't been the best of,

19:57I feel like I'm going to get a lot of comments on.

19:59The ground's very uneven.

20:01I was going to say, I feel like I nearly snapped my ankle.

20:04So I hope that I've got,

20:05I've got 3,000 litres of wood chippings coming.

20:09Hopefully that's enough.

20:10I feel like it's hard to know that kind of thing.

20:12Because I can't measure up from the space,

20:13because obviously the beds take away from the space.

20:15You could always get more if you need more.

20:17Yeah, and that's coming in two days.

20:19And 6,000 litres of mushroom compost.

20:23They're going to go, so we need to put the beds,

20:24basically, before Monday.

20:26Is that what you're going to do tomorrow morning?

20:27That's what I said, we.

20:28So we need to put the beds.

20:30Yeah, I mean.

20:32That's one of nine.

20:34Oh, my gosh.

20:35Obviously, they're not all as big.

20:36Yeah, they're not that big.

20:37So there's three that big.

20:38There's three that big.

20:39Yeah.

20:39And then the other three that go along here are double the height.

20:43Yeah, tall ones.

20:44So there's a nice variety of heights.

20:46And you've got some round ones, right?

20:48Round ones that are one and a half the height.

20:50Should probably go and check where Artie's just disappeared to.

20:54I know I keep saying it, but I cannot wait for summer.

20:58Oh, you're drinking.

21:00You're drinking some ketchup.

21:02Nice.

21:05That's hot chili sauce.

21:06Hot chili sauce?

21:08Oh, no.

21:12You got your little wetsuit on as well.

21:14Let's play hide and seek.

21:15You want to play hide and seek?

21:17Yeah.

21:18Really?

21:19All right, you go and hide.

21:21I wonder where Artie's hiding.

21:23I just can't see at all.

21:25Novie, can you see Artie?

21:36Where's Artie?

21:50What else should I write?

21:52I love you.

21:53I love you.

21:55I love you.

22:01Do you want to write Artie?

22:05Yeah.

22:24Just saying to Zoe, I'm like looking at them both now and I'm like, this is the age.

22:30This is like the dream age that I've always like thought about having kids.

22:34When I watch back old videos of Poppy and I on family VHS recordings from when we were little,

22:42it was this age.

22:43It was like, I was Novie and Poppy was Artie.

22:45Ding dong.

22:45Here you go, Novie.

22:47Hello.

22:51Hello.

22:54Her little hello is my favorite thing.

22:56Novie.

23:00Novie's only just started recently wearing outdoor shoes,

23:03so she's getting used to like the solid bottoms of them and like the balance.

23:09She's doing good though.

23:16This actually looks so sick.

23:18So you see the little balls on there.

23:19I thought there was just going to be a little packet of like pre-made little jelly balls.

23:24But what Zoe and Artie have done is put this little mixture that they've made into the fridge.

23:29So mostly only into jelly balls.

23:30Okay, ready?

23:31And then they're basically going to put little droplets into here,

23:34which is like a calcium solution.

23:37And then they turn into little jelly balls.

23:42Look.

23:47That's actually so sick.

23:48That's cool.

23:49Do you want to go up?

23:51There we go.

23:52Drop it really gently.

23:55Whoa, look at the green bubbles.

23:59How is it doing that?

24:00It's magic.

24:01More green?

24:02Yeah, more green, more green.

24:04What do we think out of 10?

24:0610 out of 10.

24:07That's good.

24:08And these took like all day.

24:10To be fair, they do look like on the picture.

24:14There's a lot of chilling, like back in the fridge and waiting for things to get cold.

24:20But it was very fun, wasn't it?

24:23Good morning, good morning.

24:25It is currently two days since I last picked up the camera.

24:28Yesterday was the Sunday that we had everybody over for a massive Sunday roast.

24:32You would have seen earlier on in the video when Otty was drawing all the little name cards,

24:36that lunch was yesterday.

24:37Had such a lovely time with the family.

24:39And whilst everyone was over, I was talking about how all of the compost for the veg garden

24:44and the wood chipping that's got like around the veg beds was arriving today.

24:48And very nicely, everyone basically said to me like,

24:51how are you going to do that by yourself?

24:53Have you got a plan?

24:53Have you got anyone helping you?

24:54Are the people who are like delivering it going to put it in the beds for you?

24:57Like, do you realise how much you've actually got arriving

25:00and how long it's going to take you to do this solo?

25:03So my parents offered to help out.

25:04Tracy's husband, Graham's offered to help out.

25:06I think Joe might even be popping along at some...

25:08Potentially Sean might even be popping along at some point as well.

25:11So it's kind of like an impromptu, spur of the moment family get together

25:15to just help make the veg patch happen as quick as possible today.

25:20Because everything is arriving anytime now really, like within the next couple of hours.

25:24And I haven't fully finished building the veg patches.

25:27So the aim for this morning is to put those together as quick as possible.

25:30My parents are literally currently putting two of them together now.

25:32I was just helping them a second ago.

25:34Graham's also arrived.

25:35He's about to start putting one together.

25:37And then just to add on top of that, Zoe this morning was like,

25:40why don't you just put that piece of meat that you bought at the farmer's market on Saturday,

25:44here, a piece of pork belly I've been marinating,

25:47on the barbecue so that everyone can have a little like pulled pork situation kind of thing for lunch.

25:51The first thing I did this morning was come outside and get the egg barbecue going,

25:55getting it to temp and everything.

25:57I haven't used this since last summer.

25:59It just feels good, like even lighting it.

26:01Like now, if you could smell this, it just smells so good.

26:06I can't even explain.

26:07That is my plan right now, to get this piece on.

26:10Cooking up for everybody.

26:21Just seeing the little red and yellow car in the garden,

26:24just feels so nostalgic.

26:27Dad's working a bit too hard.

26:31Mum's going.

26:33Dad stood on the phone.

26:34Hiya.

26:37It's like an elves workshop in here at Christmas time.

26:41Yeah, you should see.

26:43You coming to help?

26:44You gonna get building?

26:46I don't know if nobody's ever been in here.

26:49I don't think she has.

26:50She came at Christmas, I think.

26:52Look at you.

26:54Hello sweetheart.

26:55Hi.

26:57Hi.

26:59She wanted to come outside.

27:01Mum's the first one to finish one of the new beds.

27:04A nice round one.

27:06Next one's done.

27:21Dad.

27:23Another one's coming out.

27:24Oh, it's raining.

27:26Pop your hood up.

27:28Wow.

27:30Where is it going?

27:32At the end.

27:37You all right out there?

27:40It's go time.

27:46I think it's a bit of a cheek actually, our age,

27:48to ask us to be doing stuff like this.

27:51Especially when he's playing around with a cup of coffee.

27:53Yeah.

27:54I mean, has he actually done anything?

27:56I must say, I actually believe in you as well.

27:58I think you're doing something really nice for us.

28:00Do you?

28:01Yes.

28:04That wasn't what you were saying on the way over here.

28:06You said on the way over here, what are we doing this for?

28:10Because it's our job.

28:11We're going to go to the cinema this afternoon as well.

28:12Yeah.

28:13We were thinking of cinema, choosing a sofa.

28:16He's not very grateful either at the moment.

28:18He's going through a phase.

28:20In great.

28:21Well, he's outside.

28:22Again.

28:23Supposedly.

28:24What's he doing?

28:25Digging up a wheat.

28:26I bet he's blocking his wheats again.

28:28Yeah, blocking his wheats.

28:30Nobody cares, do they?

28:32Who's interested in his bloody wheats?

28:35And then he'll put up a video saying...

28:45Is Poppy the favourite?

28:46Oh, 100%.

28:49Yeah, I can't see if we get a sandwich from her.

28:52Yeah, he'll ask us if we want a delivery in a minute.

28:55You wait.

28:56I can take one.

28:57Yeah, because he wants it.

28:58Yeah, for sure.

29:00Poppy's always been, yeah, she would have probably prepared lunch for us.

29:03She would have done.

29:04Off.

29:05You wouldn't even have to ask.

29:07Yeah.

29:10Oh, bless.

29:12It's six o'clock.

29:13Here we go, the last bed.

29:15It's finished up and going out.

29:17Joe's turned up to help.

29:19He's in all his gardening gear.

29:20I'm inside.

29:21He's even got his own gloves with him as well.

29:23I'm not wearing gloves.

29:23And I'm just, I'm in a...

29:24Cor!

29:25I thought that was going to be a future selfie.

29:27The beds are all here.

29:28I can't believe you haven't got one up.

29:30If it wasn't this, it's usually a future selfie, yeah.

29:33All the beds are finally in place.

29:35Just waiting for everything else to arrive.

29:38I thought there'd be vegetables.

29:39I thought we were going to be able to take some veg home with us.

29:41Ready to eat?

29:41Yeah.

29:44Ho, ho, ho, ho.

29:46Coming along.

29:47Low and slow.

29:48Wow, what are you cooking up?

29:50We're done.

29:52We ate the pie.

29:53You've already eaten the pie?

29:54Yeah, with cherries on top.

29:56Lovely.

29:57And now we're going back inside.

29:59The sun is actually poking out a little bit.

30:01And the lorry, which is 18 and a half tonne lorry,

30:04has just arrived with all of the wood chippings.

30:07We've just got to somehow try and get it dropped off as close to here as possible.

30:11It's a big old pallet, so we're going to have to just see what we can do.

30:14Yeah, perfect.

30:17Oh, man.

30:19That's it.

30:37So a couple of hours later, we've just had the second delivery arrive,

30:41which is 6,000 litres of mushroom compost.

30:44So we've basically got the same unloading to do,

30:47but even more, and this time into the bed.

30:58Hello, Daddy.

31:00Hello, Daddy.

31:03Who's that?

31:44So

31:54the compost is all in and it's now time to start on the bags of wood chips.

32:14So there we go.

32:19Looks unbelievable.

32:20Look at that.

32:22Thank you so much.

32:25Pleasure.

32:26Look at the state of me.

32:27Look at the state of me.

32:33And then all I need to do now is get the fence built and the little gate down there.

32:38The table and chairs arrives in a couple of days.

32:40Mum just won't stop trying to perfect it.

32:43I feel like literally a week ago, maybe two weeks ago,

32:47I was like, trust me, this is going to look good.

32:49It's going to be what I have in my head.

32:51Here we go.

32:53The boss has turned up.

32:54The boss.

32:57What does she think?

32:57Oh, my God, it looks so good.

33:01I didn't know you were going to put the wood chip down as well.

33:05Oh, my God, it's so cool.

33:08So cool.

33:09You've got enough.

33:10Oh, yeah, all the compost will sink a little bit.

33:13Might need a top up, but that's it.

33:15It looks amazing.

33:17Well done, everyone.

33:18What did you think?

33:19For one day's work, that's pretty good, isn't it?

33:21You've transformed it.

33:23Like you were saying, to like paint the...

33:25Oh, yeah, I said to Zoe, we should paint all of this and like...

33:29And string fairy lights.

33:30Oh, that'd be good.

33:31I was going to say, like, let the girls, like,

33:33let Otti paint some flowers and stuff like that on it as well.

33:35Yeah, this is so cool.

33:38So it is a

34:07couple of days later now.

34:09And in one of the last clips that you saw,

34:11when I was stood here the other night,

34:13I said that there were two main things left to do.

34:15Number one being the fence that's going to come along here,

34:19along here, and then have a gate in down there.

34:21And that has now been confirmed for next week.

34:24And then secondly, the table and chairs to go here,

34:28that's just arrived this morning.

34:29And then obviously, there's still a bunch more of other things to do.

34:32Like I need to put the little black trims

34:34that you would have seen me speak about in the last video

34:36on the top of each bed.

34:37I'm also going to need to put probably

34:39some more topsoil and mushroom compost on

34:41because obviously the compost level is going to drop

34:43a little bit over the next week or so.

34:44And then by far the most important thing

34:47is the actual planting of the vegetables.

34:49So obviously that's going to happen in probably like a month's time.

35:07So this is it.

35:23This is the vision that two weeks ago,

35:26I literally sat here in the vlog,

35:28maybe even less than two weeks ago,

35:29probably like a week and a half ago

35:31or two weeks since I started like hacking down all of the weeds,

35:35relentlessly with this here.

35:37They were like up to my chest.

35:39If not, some of them were probably even taller than me.

35:45And now stood here with this so nearly complete

35:48and it will be complete over the next week or so

35:51to be able to just come out here this summer

35:53with the blue sky, picking fruits and veggies with the family.

35:56Like I said a minute ago in the vlog as well,

35:58like I might get the girls to paint this wall here.

36:01It is just the space that I wanted

36:03and I couldn't be more chuffed.

36:04It's come together so quick.

36:08It is yet again the next day.

36:10I feel like I've been filming this vlog gradually over the entire week.

36:15This is the first time that the girls are seeing the new table and chairs

36:20and everything like so nearly ready.

36:23I love it.

36:25What do you think, Otty?

36:27Too bright.

36:28That's a good problem to have if it's too sunny.

36:32Oh, it goes so well.

36:33Doesn't it?

36:35Enzo has just been online this morning

36:36and found some little pillows to go on these chairs that look so nice.

36:40What do you think, eh?

36:43You love it.

36:44Oh, you love it.

36:44I love you.

36:46There we go.

36:46We can have our little breakfast in the morning out here.

36:48All right, come on then.

36:49Shall we go back inside?

36:53It is time to end off this mammoth vlog

36:56that I've been filming for like literally the last week.

37:00This has to be one of the longest vlogs I've ever made on this YouTube channel.

37:04I absolutely love it though.

37:05I have to say this video has been so much fun to make

37:09from talking about the new journals that literally are released

37:12as you're watching this right now they got for pre-order.

37:15So link is down below.

37:17Definitely go check them out.

37:18All the way to just like hanging out with the family

37:20and Otty designing up all the little name cards for the roast that we had.

37:25Getting the barbecue all fired up again.

37:27Basically finishing off more or less the veg patch

37:31that is just...

37:32I couldn't be happier as I said with how it's all come together

37:35and if any of the family are watching, thank you so much for all of the help.

37:39I totally thought that I was just going to solo it.

37:42It would have been a big old task to solo all of that soil

37:47and all of that wood chipping.

37:48Like I probably would have pulled my back

37:50and had to go and get like a sports physio on my spine or something

37:54from trying to do it all by myself.

37:55So really appreciate all of my family jumping in and everything.

37:58I'm so lucky to have everyone so close and get on so well.

38:02But yeah, I just want to sit down

38:03because it is time to answer the question of the vlog.

38:05At the end of every video I sit down

38:08and I answer a question that was left on the previous video.

38:12If you've got any questions about anything,

38:13there was no right, there was no wrong.

38:16You want to ask me, I'll pick one and answer it at the end of the next video.

38:19But this week's video question is...

38:24What life lessons do you want Otty and Nobie to learn

38:27from the way that you have lived your life?

38:31I love that question.

38:32I get asked so much about like personality traits

38:36that I want the girls to have

38:37or careers and jobs that I'd love the girls to have when they're older

38:41that I think is going to be something that they like

38:43might be interested in going into from their personalities at the moment.

38:47But life lessons.

38:49I read that a couple of minutes ago or like 10 minutes ago.

38:52I had a good think about it

38:53because it's really made me reflect on like

38:56what are the key life lessons that I've learned throughout my life

39:01that like particularly stand out

39:03and then obviously ones that I'd love the girls to like take on

39:07and grow up experiencing and like having in their life going forward.

39:12And I think the main one for me that I just feel so heavily at the moment

39:17with the place where I'm at in my life

39:19is that life is all about the small norm things

39:25and the more you can make them enjoyable

39:28the happier and the more enjoyable your life will become.

39:31We live so many normal Mondays, normal Tuesdays, normal Wednesdays,

39:35normal Thursdays and Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays.

39:38We very rarely have those like big moments in life

39:42like going on holiday once a year or two years or three years

39:46or however often you get to go on holiday.

39:48Those moments are amazing and they're so much fun

39:52but they're only every now and again.

39:55They're fleeting moments you know they go by so quickly

39:58but we live so many normal Mondays and Tuesdays.

40:02So therefore tweaking just the small daily things in your life

40:05and making them better and improving them

40:07and make sure you're enjoying those moments

40:09is so much more important and that to me

40:13and like I said especially where I'm at in my life at the moment is everything.

40:16Being able to just make sure that I enjoy as many

40:19just daily normal things as possible and that they're as fun as possible

40:24and that I'm living through them and doing them

40:26in as enjoyable way as possible

40:29whether that's literally like switching up my breakfast

40:31and having nice breakfast or I don't know

40:33listening to good music in the shower

40:35or going on little walks with the family

40:38or seeing my family as much as possible.

40:40Whatever those daily things are that bring happiness on a daily

40:43like just a regular small basis

40:45that's literally what life is about

40:47because yeah you live those normal days basically every single day

40:51and very rarely we get to experience like a particularly special day.

40:54Don't get me wrong it's lovely and they're all fun

40:57but the vast majority of your happiness is coming from just those ordinary normal days.

41:02So the life lesson that I hope Ottie and Nobie have going forward

41:07is just being able to enjoy the small moments the everyday

41:10as much as they can just enjoy and get happiness

41:13from like a normal everyday that is what I'd love.

41:16So just yeah I feel like I've rambled over that answer

41:19but I hope you get what I'm saying.

41:20Right I'm going to end off this vlog here.

41:21I hope you've enjoyed it.

41:22If you have if you if you like the garden let me know what you think of the garden.

41:26If you think there's anything I should switch up or change or implement

41:29or certain things I should plant in certain places anything.

41:32I'm so up for all of your input.

41:34I hope you like what it's turned into.

41:36As I said next week I literally get the fence installed around it.

41:39Next week I've also got a very exciting very big new addition to the garden.

41:45So many people have been DMing me trying to guess what it is.

41:48Nobody has got it right so far which I'm surprised about.

41:50I thought a lot of people would get it right.

41:52So that is going to be coming maybe next week's vlog or maybe the one after.

41:56I'm not quite sure yet but very soon you're going to be able to see the massive

41:59new addition to the garden.

42:01But yeah I hope you've enjoyed the vlog.

42:04As I said give it a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't already

42:07and I will catch you very soon with another new video.

42:11Go check out the journal links down below.

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