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chapters:
00:00 Reflections on slowing down
08:51 Matchuing workouts with my cycle
12:08 Getting back into the garden
22:24 Resting in bed
25:03 Monday morning
30:00 Finishing my weekly work in the garden
32:52 Tuesday morning
38:09 New nails and food shopping
42:46 Weekly food shop
54:17 Thai green curry for dinner

Good morning everyone it’s Sunday I feel like oh Alex is literally watching me um I feel like it I’ve only had time the last couple weeks to Vlog on Sundays which makes me a little bit sad cuz I need to prioritize it more in the week but

That’s just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes oh my gosh this is so cold that it won’t come out the tube my bu Ence good start to the Vlog I’ve got toothpaste on my mouth this is my favorite lip balm the bias squala and rose lip balm I did prefer it when it

Was in a little tub though I will say it’s Sunday and it’s 11:00 I’m going to the gym um I’ve had a nice relaxing morning I was having a coffee in bed with Classic FM and then I wrote my shopping list and and ordered a delivery on

Riverford because I had some credit on there which uh if you want to sign up to riverford then I think that if you sign up bya my link you get £15 and I get £15 I think that’s how it works for your first if you’re a new customer um and

Sometimes someone does sign up and then I get a little bit of um money in there so I can buy some delicious veg so thank you to the last two people who got themselves a river fed delivery cuz I had about £40 on there to do our food

Shop with so that’s great so thank you um and hopefully I I think it means you get £15 too so it’s like a win-win so if you want to get signed up to riverford they do delicious organic fruit and veg and they do lovely veg boxes and I

Really rate them I’ve been using them for years my parents have been using them probably like 15 years since I was a kid so they’re really great place to buy organic vegetables and they’re a really great company they really care a lot about farming and paying workers properly and

They just they were great I’ve met them before I’ve met guy and I’ve been to the farm farm and they’re just wonderful so um I’ve done that I’ve put my shopping list so that feels very lovely and productive I know last Sunday we spoke about having slower days and relaxing

Days and that’s what I did last Sunday and I vlogged it I actually had that yesterday um and I loved all of your responses on my video last week it was so lovely to hear how many of you have been going through the same experience

How many of you want to slow down and how you find it challenging how you really need to move into a different era of being less productive all the time and actually like love yourself and take care of yourself and find those hobbies and those lazy leisure activities that

Are to be done just for the sake of enjoyment and so many of you offered really great hobbies that I should start like things like crocheting or um sewing uh just so many really lovely suggestions so that comment section was the most wholesome lovely comment section and it really made me feel

Lovely that we’re all connecting in that way and feeling that urge to slow down and challenge ourselves I suppose to not focus on being productive all the time today however is a productive day because I decided someone did point out they said to me you’re having a slow

Relaxing day but you’re filming it Maddie so you’re still working and I agree so yesterday I did have that day where I just did the things that I wanted to do I did find it challenging I will say this because I ended up with quite a lot of anxiety yesterday and I

Wanted to share this with you because I wondered whether maybe some of you might experience the same if you start to have days where you’re not working you’re not doing any to-do list you’re not productive at all and you are purely doing things out of enjoyment you don’t

Have to socialize you don’t have to do anything that feels like you know it’s very different for everybody but if you feel like you you have a day where there is no expectation and you just have to do what you want to do I wonder whether you also will experience similar um

Anxiety feelings come up because I really felt that yesterday and it it makes me feel a bit shamed or ashamed of myself which I know is a normal feeling to have shame is common when you are facing your fears um but yeah I I really found it challenging I had quite an

Emotional day maybe it’s because it’s the week before my period probably but I also think it’s because I’m so used to making all of my time about to-do lists about being productive about getting things done that when I actually stood stood back and said to myself you can do

What you want today it made me feel very comfortable and if I’ve had enough therapy then I know well therapy has definitely taught me that that isn’t something to shy away from that is definitely something I need to become more self-aware about that if I’m feeling that uncomfortable about just

Having a day where I relax and don’t do anything I need to pay attention to that and not ignore that because me continually doing to do list and continually working and always doing stuff is a coping mechanism and it is me running away from my fears and my

Anxieties and in a in a roundabout way it is perpetuating that anxiety and I now know that and it’s something that I need to not run away from anymore in my 30s I need to appreciate that every other day where i’m like trying to work trying to keep going but I feel

Anxious I think I’m I’m helping myself by getting stuff done because I don’t feel anxious in that moment but it does just delay the problem and then it appears out of nowhere and then you have a really bad day and it it ruins stuff

So yeah it has it has given me a wakeup call let’s say that I need to do that every single week at least one day a week because I haven’t been um and this is again this is not me saying that I don’t have a wonderful life that has

Lots of leisure involved I do but it’s your mindset it’s really got nothing to do with your action it’s far more to do with how you’re thinking so even though I’ll Vlog myself doing a lovely day like today where I’m going to be gardening and doing nice things my mindset still

Is in an anxious State of Mind where I’m thinking of to do or productive things or working when I’m filming um so it really doesn’t matter what you’re doing even if you’re doing nice things you could be at a party you could be reading a book but if you are anxious and your

State of mind is telling you that you’re not good enough or you should be doing other things then it’s really not worth it and you need to challenge that that way of thinking and try and get into a state of mind where you’re enjoying yourself and allowing yourself to enjoy

Yourself so that’s what we’re working on as a group hopefully this I don’t know has connected with some of you I think it did cuz a lot of you commented so so thoughtfully on the last Vlog so that is what we are challenging and um sometimes

I’m going to Vlog it because some of you did suggest that that would be helpful for you but I will also have a day to myself as well if I do Vlog it if I do decide to do a vlog where I share with you my lazy leisurely Hobbies I will

Also try and have a day where I don’t Vlog it so it’s not work involved but today is not one of those days because um it’s kind of in a mix obviously I’m Vlogging so I’m working but yesterday yeah I I like I read my book but I also

Had a nap cuz I think that my brain was so exhausted from it all that I fell asleep we went to the cinema what else did we do I baked some shortbread so I did actually have a lovely day it was just my mindset was struggling look at all

These um FlyAway frizzies I have going on anyway that’s 8 minutes of chat to start the day I’m going to get in the Garden today cuz I think that I’m trying to listen to my intuition more and this channel is becoming a therapy Channel like come on like maybe I just don’t

Care I’m just going to do what I want to do and I love it when I hear other people talk about this stuff so yes that’s what my channel is and lots of you like it if you don’t like it probably not the channel for you stick

To the food videos um but today I have this pool to get outside it’s sunny and I want to get in the garden it’s cold but I feel like spring is coming and I need to not avoid the garden this year I think that last year part of my issue

Was that I was viewing the garden as a productive to-do list thing and it made it difficult for me to get Todo but actually the Garden is never a productive to-do listing because gardening never ends and it continues and it’s it’s day-to-day tasks and it’s a process of just doing it and maybe

That’s why I’ve always found it kind of difficult to keep up because it it’s not like one way other things in life where I can kind of finish it tick it off um so I think that this year I really need to prioritize it because I think it’s

Going to really help my mental health a lot in terms of understanding that gardening doesn’t end and you just have to keep doing it and it it’s you should enjoy it for the sake of doing it if that makes any sense anyway I’m going to

Go to the gym stop yabbering on cuz it’s now 10 minutes and I’m going to have my protein shake we’re going to get our workout done and then yeah I would like to be in the garden for anytime today whether it’s not raining and I don’t

Know what I’m going to do I’m just going to go in the garden and we’ll see workout is done we did full body still using co-pilot let me show you my workout we did deadlifts we did did um barbell hip thrusts we did thrusters lunges and then some ABS at

The end and it was quite an intense workout I think cuz it’s coming up to my period it does impact your energy levels but it does feel so good so what I do with my period cuz I know that um this is really important it’s something I’ve

Learned in the last year or two that training around your period is really important to take notice of because as women our hormones change throughout the month men hormones change throughout the day so for us uh pre period like the week before our period it’s your Lal

Phase you’re I think you have a lot of um progesterone I’m not a doctor but you have your hormones basically changed during that period so you’re more tired you’re more lethargic it’s not the time to be lifting heavy weights going for PRS or challenging yourself so in the

Week leading up what I do is I really listen to my body um I I don’t go to the gym if I don’t want to if I feel too too tired but I actually do find personally this maybe a different for you personally I do quite like going to the

Gym because what I do in the gym is just really reduce the I guess level of impact because I find it does actually really help with my PMS it helps take my mind off things it um reduces anxiety and I think it also helps with period

Pain for me and maybe different for you cuz I know that everyone’s extremely different when it comes to their periods uh and what I do in the gym is I don’t challenge the weight today actually felt quite good I was able to stick to the

Weight but what I’ll do is I’ll work my way up so on the first set I will do a lower weight and then just see how I feel I think that’s really important to be really in tune with your body pre period And then after your period That’s

When you’re strongest uh so like the the week following when you finish your period That’s when you’re strongest that’s when you can go for your PRS this is like pre-ovulation you can lift heavier you can do more intense workouts whatever working out you enjoy when I

First found out about this it made me feel sad I was like what we only get like one week that sucks but now I actually think of it as like a superpow it’s like it gives you this kind of cyclical feeling throughout the month where there’s a week where you can

Really focus on pushing your limits and getting PRS and challenging yourself and then um during other times of the month you can rest more or like do different kinds of exercise so and I just I think it helps you to be in tune with your

Your body I use the clue app to track my period And I just I notice it like I found today like more and I guess previously I would have felt bad about that I would have been like oh that was a sucky workout whereas now I’m like no

This is normal and i’ I’m listening to my body and it’s a good thing that I went despite the fact that um I’m not as strong as I maybe would be after my period so something to just keep in mind um if that’s something that you find

That you do exercise and you feel bad you like oh God it wasn’t very good today it’s it doesn’t necessarily need to be that way of thinking it can be more like no I’m actually listening to my body and this week is not the week to

Challenge myself this is a week to maybe stretch for longer go on long walks that kind of thing um today is going to be chatty one I can tell anyway let’s go home I’m going to have this and then when I get home have a delicious brunch I’m home I’ve showered I’ve

Watched I didn’t Vlog I think I forgot I was vlogging um I made myself a quick sandwich I watched the first episode of one day hello Bobby hello she always does this whatever I come here to talk you always want to join don’t you you always want to join hey what’s

Up look at your long hair she’s like looking out the window what’s out there huh what’s that there huh oh you’re so fluffy I wish you could experience the fluff of this doggy not just the best yeah I had a sandwich which was delicious with Alex’s fresh bread and

Then I watched the first episode of one day which I read years ago and I remember watching the uh fil film adaptation with an hathway and it was not very good I feel like maybe I enjoyed it cuz I’d read the book but I remember thinking her accent I love an

Hathway but I remember thinking her accent was quite distracting cuz she went from being English to Northern I mean I know it’s a difficult thing to do a northern accent as an American but I don’t recall the movie being that good compared to the book which was amazing

So I’m really excited and I’ve seen it all over social media ever everyone being like it’s so good so um I’ll probably watch more of that the bath later I have got myself ready I’ve had a quick shower to freshen up cuz I was a

Bit sweaty from the gym and it did rain for a bit that’s kind of why I was I haven’t gone outside yet cuz it was raining it’s not raining anymore so I’m just going to go outside until I get cold and come back inside but I’m going

To start at the bottom of the garden because the vegetable beds are just they’re just all overgrown and it’s just a mess and I’m just going to start attacking them and maybe I’ll do some stuff out the front I’m a bit tired from the gym so I feel like I’d rather just

Go to the bottom of the garden and just clear out some of the vegetable beds and put it in the compost I’m going to tie my hair up I have this experience so often if you’re the same as me let me know does your life revolve around your hair wash days

Because I wash my hair and then I’m like well it’s a shame to put it up cuz I’ve just styled it cuz like if you have curly hair or wavy hair and you spend ages styling it then like the last couple days I I yesterday was I didn’t

Go out and then today I’m going to be in the garden and I just feel like what a waste like my hair looks all I mean you can’t see it cuz it’s so dark but it’s like all nice and wavy and you know it’s actually looking good cuz it’s like day

Three so I find day three is like Peak best hair for me cuz the frizz has died down and it just looks all nice and wavy and I’m just going to tie it up and go in the garden and then like the days that I need to film a video like a food

Video or I need to like go out or something is always the day where my hair hasn’t been been washed and it’s all greasy and gross a yay at least you saw it for 30 seconds there here is my gardening OOTD complete with laundry uh Nintendo switches Curry takeaway vouchers or menus air

Dehumidifiers hanging laundry so I’ve got my finister a overalls and then this is like an organic base six Polo neck to stay nice and warm I’ve got my finished fleece on as well which is very very comfortable it’s recycled wool to start a debate I as a vegan wear recycled wool

Because I think it’s a sustainable material I wouldn’t wear new wool this fleece I’m going to keep forever I love it so much these overalls though these dongar though are very short on me they only go like halfway down my Cal which is kind of annoying um but I do love

Them other than that these are the shortbread that I made this is a recipe from my cookbook they’re very very very very very easy and absolutely delicious and I’ve already had two of them today with my coffee seriously yummy highly recommend you make them if you’ve got my

Cookb if you haven’t made them yet I just thought I absolutely have to show you the state of these shoes these are my finister Blundstone vegan boots can you see how they are covered like every inch of them is covered in mud these are my dog walking shoes

And they always look like this and it kind of makes me sad cuz they’re really nice boots bye um they are literally the comfiest boots I’ve I’ve got walking boots and I just find these way comfier they are the best and also another thing is that they are so easy

To put on cuz they’ve got the little loops on both sides in the morning when you want to just shove your shoes on you don’t I don’t want to have to be like or in the afternoon I don’t want have to be dealing with uh laces and all that kind of stuff

So yeah these are my most worn boots or shoes of all time I wear them every single day of my life but that Gap should be illegal look I’m wearing uh Alex’s socks like men’s socks and this this is just like six foot girl problems like why okay so as you can

See these beds have just kind of gone to ruin um this is kind of like a good representation I was going to actually say that like this is a representation of things like anxiety and depression because you get excited for stuff and then you let it go and

That’s what I’ve done here and it makes me sad but I’ve got to like go on with it so um yeah this is a judgment free zone it’s a lot to deal with doing your such a big Garden so um I’m just going to get stuck here there’s lots of Stingy

Nettles there is stuff that I can Harvest like onions and things so I’m just going to work my way through it and listen to my book and enjoy in fact do I even need to listen to my book such a beautiful bird song oh now I can hear a police fan So the heavens have opened and it was raining it’s not raining anymore it rained so I had to bring the camera in and um it was that kind of heavy rain but it’s quite wet so I’m just going to take a break I kind of

Want to finish that one bed so I might take a break and just finish that bed I did two and a half um I wanted to do no dig again this year but I’ve left it too late it’s February I think you need to put cardo down like in the winter so I

Will Put cardo down maybe on some of the bigger weeds but I’ve just been trying to dig like the surface just to make the the beds clear and actually we do have quite a lot of our own compost so I’m going to start distributing some of the

Compost from our compost bins onto the Beds which should be really nourishing and I can start doing some seedlings the mistake I made last year was that I didn’t really think and I planted Every Single Seed from every packet now looking back I actually think what was I thinking I guess hindsight is

Always incredible because am I okay cuz why why did I do that I don’t understand so I ended up with way too many of certain things so this year I think I’m going to split my beds in half so we’ve got 16 vegetable Beds which is a lot so

I think I’m going to do eight with vegetables and I’m going to do eight with flowers because I when I was thinking about hobbies and this whole kind of slowing down I was thinking about how much I enjoy flowers and having flowers in the house it’s one of the things I

Love and I love flower arranging and I thought I would get so much enjoyment I think from growing my own flowers and I really want to try that this year I kind of left it to the last minute last year and didn’t think it through because I was focusing on the

Vegetables but if I had like eight beds to like grow loads of different kinds of flowers like sweet peas I know I can start sweet peas now and beautiful like da is and just different flowers that cut flowers I think that I think I would really enjoy that so that would limit

The amount of vegetables and I can kind of grow vegetables that are easy to just plant out straight rather than ones that need a greenhouse cuz we don’t have one so obviously things like onions and potatoes and cabbages and kale which I did last year anyway we’ve got plenty of window sills

And think of it less I think that this is the key cuz last year I was thinking it as a task like I’m going to complete this this this this year I’m just going to think of it as fun so nobody’s watching me I mean you’re watching me

That’s funny I’ve just said that but like nobody is I’m there’s no test and I can just do it how I like and learn so if if I think of it that way and think of it as just fun and enjoyment and a nice thing to do it removes that

Pressure and it’s just something if I have time on a day and I think you know what I’ve been working a lot today it’s 5:00 I’m just going to spend an hour doing some nice things then that’s what I’m going to do my back does hurt a little bit from

Deadlifting earlier so that’s not great I’m going to make a cup of tea and have a little sit down the issue with making something like shortbread is that you just want to eat it all day long do you want a shortbread Alex see he just said I’ve just had one

Thanks how many of you had today two two is that it yeah oh my gosh I think wasn’t there a time last time where you had like 10 in one day cl to yeah you might think it’s bedtime but alas it’s Sunday get into bed and read a book time and

Bobby and Zeus just want to hang out in bed so how could I say no huh oh Dearing it lately with my new conditioner where from no I hope you haven’t no cuz that’s expensive isn’t this like3 of MOT what you’re using my conditioner well yes

There it’s got pump you got rid of my face wash I need to you something I didn’t get rid of your face wash what do you want Bobby she come CLE come CLE mommy yeah what be planned for my birthday next weekend next weekend that’s quite a while

Away crazy cat crazy Kitt cat going to order your food now okay sit here and read me might just do that look at her quick oh scared look okay why are you such a jealous Beast no hey hey good Monday morning I feel ready today my back still

Hurts so I didn’t go to the gym I had a lovely bath last night with epsom salts and a Lush bath bomb and watched some more of one day which is so so good and went to bed early and finished not finished but I continued reading my book

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow cuz I haven’t been reading um enough and it’s made me a bit sad so I decided to not watch television but read and I really enjoyed it and I fell asleep and had a lovely restful night so I’m feeling a lot more fresh this morning I’ve got

Makeup all over my turtleneck I’ve got my lovely hair band in that was one of the best buys I love it and I want to get more in different colors cuz on days like today where my hair is like it’s clean but I don’t really want it in my face

And 100% these pieces are going to go back in the hairband probably in an hour um but I really like it to match to my outfit so I think I’m going to get some different colors it’s a shop on Etsy called homman Moss I think and they

Do like Liberty print headbands which is just adorable um but yeah I’m all dressed got my charity shop turtleneck and cord o top and then my Lucan Yak cord trousers which are so comfortable I literally live in them they’re just more they’re more comfortable than leggings I’m pretty sure they do them in

Different colors I’ve got them in black and I think that they do them in like purple and green and I really think I should get some different colors because I wear them so much only issue is they some of lucc stuff is they do longer sizes so they’ll do longer leg lengths I

Think this one just comes in one length and it isn’t long enough that’s my only annoyance it’s kind of similar to the dungar yesterday and that it goes halfway down my C so if I’m wearing socks so in the winter not ideal in the summer though but then I don’t I

Wouldn’t be wearing cords in the summer so maybe they do another type of cords that have the leg length as well but I think it’s only certain clothes they do for that anyway I’ve got hair on my face cuz whenever I put makeup on I always get hair on my face

And it drives me nut for the whole morning I feel like this has got oh yes it has sometimes it has a little brightening sorry about that yeah that’s better I’m going to I’m annoyed that I don’t have any protein I ran out of protein yesterday I’m going to go to the

Shops later and see if they’ve got any protein in the health food shop in the natural store they must do um because I need to order some more form nutrition protein um and we’re going to go for walk it’s really Frosty today which is quite nice cuz it means it’s sunny so I

Potentially will finish off what I started yesterday in the garden I mean finish off as I’ll finish that bed at the very least and if I have time I can do another bed and just work my way down um 10 to 9 Charlie and Tom will be here

In a minute so I’m going to decide what I want for breakfast and get going with my day oh my gosh Alex made another great loaf of bread look at that oh it’s so crispy oh my gosh I want to eat this I’ve just had lunch I’m going to have to

Have a slice just feels like it’s a rule at this point that if Bread is made it has to be eaten this is really cute this water is going to be [Applause] hard oh my God this butter is so hard cuz it’s been in the fridge it’s kind of melting just wow bird feet oh my God these two off bye he going a circle backround why did she do that cuz she’s jealous I’m going back out into the

Garden I’m already fed up of saying it but I’m just not having a great time at the minute so it’s hard for me to Vlog hey Bob so gardening is a good um antidote um and some of you ask me why they’re like why are you feeling down

What’s happening and I’ve learned over the years to just keep some things to myself so I like to share what I’m feeling but I don’t NE have to like say why it could just be hormonal but um I’m going to go out and carry on cuz it’s

Just all my brain can handle and then I think that that will clear my mind a little bit and I’m just going to sit on my laptop I was going to go out this afternoon to the shops that’s my routine on a Monday but the way the shopping was

This week I’ve got riverford coming which I’ll show you in the next Vlog and there’s only like three things I need from the shop like I think maybe even less than that so I can just get that from a local shop like I’ve got like a

Corner shop near me on the way home from the gym tomorrow I don’t need to go all the way into hstone to do that and Alex took Roxy to the vet this morning um so he walked her this morning so yeah I’m just going to go in the

Garden and finish off what I started Yesterday Okay so we’ve made progress I want to get the rest of this plant out but I need a shovel cuz it’s too deep um it may be beneficial but I just don’t love it and I want to start from scratch I’ve broken up the cabbage and chucked it

Back on to compost this one’s also been done oh I’m just realized I think the that’s a strawberry plant so I’m leaving him there let me know if that’s wrong and then these ones are all cleared as well and at some point I’m going to gather all the apples and Chuck them on

The compost cuz they’ll enrich the soil but we’ve got quite a few to go look at that mess I’m embarrassed showing this but oh well good morning everyone my new goal is that I’m going to try and Vlog more through throughout the week cuz I leave

It to the weekend and then it’s only one day so I want to have like an official weekly Vlog every week where I’m actually filming bits and pieces throughout my days for more variety less pressure on me and it’s kind of a nice thing to do it keeps me going I actually

Love vlogging it’s like a diary and I find it really relaxing and it it motivates me to do things so it’s Tuesday and I’ve got my new bottle they kindly sent this to me ocean bottle and I can only assume I think that the label came something that said break up with

Plastic so I think it’s that kind of like Valentine Edition bottle cuz it’s red but what I like about it number one is it has this very handy but number two it has a normal lid but you could use it as a flask because it’s got a cup

Little mug so I can use this in the summer at the beach to take like hot chocolate or tea or coffee or wine because it’s a thermal as well so thank you to Ocean bottle for sending this I actually haven’t had any of their bottles before and my Stanley Cup I love

It but it’s huge so it’s not the most convenient in the gym and I have knocked it over a few times and it leaks when you knock it over um it’s Tuesday today we’ve got a nail appointment my nails have grown out a little bit I almost am tempted to ask

Her this time to have like four weeks Gap cuz I don’t I feel like nobody would know like from this distance especially there’s a tiny there’s a tiny bit of growth but it’s only like two and a half three weeks is so I might might spread the

Next one out a little bit I don’t know anyway I feel like when it’s cold your nails just don’t grow as much I think I’m going to go for nude and just cut them short cuz I don’t really want anything crazy happening this time I kind of miss the boat for Valentine’s

Nails cuz today is the 13th so I don’t really want Valentine’s Nails after Valentine’s Day we have a riverford delivery coming today so I’ll show you that very exciting things and what else let’s something else I need to go and post something that I sold on Vintage I’ll leave my vintage account below

Because I have never really done this before but I used to always just declutter and donate to the charity shops near me but I used vintage the the day just to sell um one of my bridesmaid’s dresses that she wasn’t going to wear again and it’s a really

Easy way to do it so I’ve really enjoyed the process so I think next time I do cluster I will use vintage to sell my clothes because I always just donate them and I think that’s great for things that are just easily donated but if there’s something of value like a

Bridesmaid dress I think it’s a really good platform to use if you haven’t used Vinted before then it’s great for secondhand clothes one thing I do really want to get on there is a massive woolly jumper it’s one of the things I really regret decluttering years ago I had a

Massive oversized like Iran jumper from Scotland that I bought at University and I declustered it and I really really regret doing that because I loved it so I’m on the hunt for one of those on Vintage or on Depot or in a charity shop but the thing with me is because I’m so

Tall it needs to be like XXL because I want it to be like this I want it to be long enough that it covers my bun otherwise I don’t wear it as much and cuz I’m so tall it needs to be big to do that and yeah I used to wear that

All the time on my like hangover days with leggings at Uni to the library anyway I’m going to go to the gym come back and get a bit of work done before I start the day and um yeah post gym got myself ready I’ve done my little um messy hair bun that I

Shared in a vlog recently that is just the best little hack that I learned cuz it means my hair looks nice I used to tie my hair up in a bun and think it just looked like I was at home and looking sloppy and now now I’ve done it

This way it requires like three hair clips and a hair tie feels really comfortable and I feel like it looks nice Alex even said he’s like oh I really like your hair so I’m very very chuffed and then I just this is still drying but I kind of respray the front

Pieces so they go nice and curly and someone said it’s giving Jane air so that is exactly the vibe I want I feel like I need to try it lower down for a different kind of vibe I also feel like this would be really good for a wedding

If you like blowdried your hair and looped it like neatly um I’m going to get on with some work I have like a tiny little uh pocket of time before I have to go get my nails done I’ve got myself a little blueberry yogurt with seeds and a heart bowl in honor of

Valentine’s Day tomorrow pancakes be oh my God it’s Pancake Day I forgot about that do you know I never really do anything for pan pancake day cuz I always forget did you forget no you could make pancakes but I don’t have time to make pancakes thing with

Pancakes is I love them they just take forever yeah it’s bit a chore people have been asking after you L hi we are in the car I have got so much cat hair and dog hair all over this coat and every time I go out I think wow this

Coat is covered in cat and dog hair and I think I must make sure that I clean that up for next time and I know do right we’ve got to go get these nails done nails are done we were laughing because I had like mud under my na nails

And I hadn’t noticed cuz my nails were dark and even yesterday I was telling her it’s not focusing I was telling her that yesterday when I finished gardening I like scrubbed my hands cuz I was obviously aware that they got mud in them but I used the um the riverid like

Scrubby brush but it’s obviously way too big so when she took the thing off one of them had lifted one of my nails the gel had lifted a bit and there’s like mud underneath it cuz obviously you can’t see it when you’ve got um nail polish on but anyway we’ve gone for a

Lovely pale it’s not focusing a lovely pale pinky nudie color and I’ve cut them short and they’re like a square shape um I find the square shape is so much more practical if you’re a um girl like me and you do a lot of cooking and gardening and stuff the oval shaped

Nails even when they were like shorter they just always broke or got caught on things or got stuff stuck under them these are much better when they grow out I have to go to the shop quickly I’m going to go to SS breze I’m I’m really

Trying to figure out my routine now so I don’t have to actually do I need to go to sa spres I don’t think I do I’ve just put my seat belt in but I think I don’t need to because I’ve got riverford coming cuz like I said had some credit on riverford

Cuz if you get riverford from me you get £15 I get £1 15 I’ll leave a link to it below if you want to try out riverford and get some organic vegetables they also do like uh cupboard stuff I’ve ordered some tofu and some uh chickpeas from them as well

I think this time and a few I think I’ve got maybe some bread coming but yeah basically you can order vegetables fruit cupboard stuff um I think they even do oat milks and things I feel like the only things that I need on my little meal plan no I do need

To go cuz I need to get vegan cream cheese so I’m doing a shoot on Thursday so I need vegan cream cheese chopped tomatoes red lentils and frozen berries so I could go to the Natural Store but they do they do they do vegan cream

Cheese I feel like they might do do you know what I’m going to pop via the natural store cuz I really really one of my newest resolutions was to shop more locally when I could um and just get more organized I I’m trying to get into this routine with food shopping

Yesterday I didn’t go because I was just feeling really tired but I’m trying to do it at the start of the week and doing it locally and using things like riverford or hland Roots going to the Natural store but I need to find like a website that I could maybe order some of

These extra I feel like the vegan kind is fine anyway I’m really rambling feeling fresh getting my head tomorrow so this is a proper like pamper reset with you to get these Grays cuz look at the Grays growing out nothing wrong with gray hair it’s kind of Pretty in a way

But I want the fresh all dark one hair color um and I’m going to I’m going to get it chopped a little bit I was going for like a butterfly cut because that looks lovely with wavy hair to have that kind of soft triangular shape but I’ve actually realized with my hair texture

Which is fine that ends up looking not like a lovely floaty shape because I don’t have thick hair it ends up looking like the ends of your hair are just thin because my hair is fine so I’m going to try and go for more of a blunt end to

The bottom of my hair with layers cuz I saw a photo of me from a few years ago where my hair was really long and it was kind of more like cut at the bottom with a few long layers and I really love the look of it it looked very um Fairy like

And Lord of the Rings um I don’t know it just looked lovely so I was like I want to go for that rather than the kind of more rounded butterfly cut shape so I feel like if I do that though it probably will mean for the time being my hair

Will go a bit shorter inevitably and I just need to grow it back out again so we’ll see anyway I’m going to go we are back home let me show you rord has arrived let me show you what I got I’m doing it over here because I can

Prop you up move that out the way so things don’t go flying so we’ve got a lovely big head of broccoli which I can use this evening I’ve decided I really want a TIG green curry so I’m going to make that we have got chilies which very excited for

Chilies yummy and and the one thing I’ve never done with River food is this where I pick the food and I don’t know why or why I didn’t think about this because we used to get their veg boxes and then our frustration was that it was lots of

Onions and carrots and the seasonal vegetables but for me if I’m just if I was just your you know person who just had a normal job didn’t have a job in food had a normal day-to-day um I would do that but because of the fact that my

Job is recipe creation it never works because I need to shoot specific recipes and buy specific ingredients whereas if I just got the veg box and I was just you know planning my meal plan for the week I would set my meal plan according to what was coming in the riverford box

Or what was in season doesn’t always apply for me depending on what theme of the video I’m shooting so you can just specifically buy specific vegetables which I’ve never done and I don’t know why I’m kicking myself because I’ve just ordered what I wanted we’ve got avocados in here some garlic

Bulbs this is the chilled stuff and the good thing about rivord is you leave this kind of thing for them and they um take the packages back and reuse them so we’ve got tofu I was so pleased they sold tofu so we’ve got um two just normal plain tofu and then one marinated

Tofu which sounds delish I just bought more tofu as well from the natural store cuz I really want some for lunch now we’ve got some delicious looking Linguini which is looks like this is from Italy so they partner with some really great um people um and companies to sell organic

Produce wow look at these spring onions they’re massive they look delicious oh my gosh they smell so good I swear like organic food just smells more strong we’ve got some coriander these are compostable bags no parle and coriander we have got the organic chickpeas from Bal Bean Company

And I met the owner of this at my um cookbook launch event and I’ll link them below because such a cool company um this is a lot more chickpeas than you’d get in a tin and apparently they are the tastiest beans so I’m excited to try

Them and then you can have the jar afterwards cuz I want to start learning to make my own pickles and Kim cheese and things and I noticed in the natural store they actually even had pickling mix like seasoning so I can grab that we’ve got some mushrooms some Chesnut

Mushrooms this is the exciting thing they often sell lovely mushrooms these are King oyster mushrooms and I know that they also often have um Lion’s man it was sold out this time but my goodness I’m going to have these this evening I can’t wait and then we’ve got some onions and the only

Thing I did get prepackaged was a salad bag because the ingredients in here were kind of the things I needed so I needed peppers for a recipe that I’m making and then also some chopped tomatoes not chopped tomatoes just cherry tomatoes cuz Alex really likes those in for lunch and some salad

Cucumber just for lunches and stuff feel like the salad bag is very useful for that reason Reon and then from the green Grocers have to clear all this up I’m making a mess here from the green Grocers I got this lovely bouquet of flowers which is local

To me it’s um Flowers by Clow which is a local place and I was like that must be very near and they are so gorgeous really bringing in Spring and it’s Valentine’s day tomorrow so I bought these for Alex because why not we don’t really do Valentine’s gifts we tend to do things

For each other so in the green grossers in Helston just a couple things they had some sugar snap peas and these can go in the curry later got another red pepper just for the curry later as well because the other red peppers are for the recipes on Thursday I got some raspberries because

My new favorite thing as a snack because um I’m trying to eat more fruit to be honest cuz I just don’t eat enough fruit um I freeze berries and then have them as a snack freeze grapes blueberries berries um and just snack on them you obviously can also buy the frozen berries but

Delicious and I got a cette also to put in the curry cuz I really want just like a veg filled Curry this evening and then from the natural store I stocked up on some teas because we’d run out so I got the Clipper uh peppermint tea which I

Have every evening before bed and then I just spotted this which just is an AIC blend with ginger orange peel and chamomile from Yogi tea because I am pessing bad right now um we stocked up on kimchi this is from loving fermented foods loving Foods fermented hot and

Smoky kimchi with smoked paprika and kayenne pepper delish I got some garlic granules cuz we’d run out stocked up on Oatley cuz that’s also running low my organic rose water which is from Amore organic because I use rose water every single day and I just ran out of the last one

Honestly if you don’t use rose water as a part of your skincare or was just something to enjoy give it a go I do have um a discount with IH herb you can buy on IH her they’ve got loads of different versions it does not matter

Which one you get they last forever this was like £645 but it will last months and it just it’s a lovely face mist that’s just one ingredient if you’re into your natural skincare it’s beautiful I use it as a toner it smells lovely it’s so refreshing and I really

Think it enriches your skin this is the Ole creeme fresh I was talking about which we can use in the pasta I got two cuz I was unsure how much I needed brown rice noodles for the curry this evening we’ve got some Veggie cakes spinach and

Pesto I’m one of those people who loves rice cakes not even just for the healthy reason I know a lots of people use them as like a healthy alternative I just absolutely love rice cakes because I’m one of those weird people who also loves puffy Airy crisps like what sits and

Quavers with my thing growing up any sort of Lent chips I way prefer them to the potato crisps don’t know why it’s the texture thing and then I got loads of chopped tomatoes they had them on offer some Suma organic chopped tomatoes some Suma organic red kidney beans for a

Chili mixed uh sprouted beans this is another things I want to try and do is Sprout my own um beans and things because I just think that’s very an interesting thing to try at home and I got some more tofu cuz I just wanted to have enough for lunches and things cuz I

Was noticing at lunchtime I was a bit struggling for food recently I also got a smok tofu I don’t remember buying that what’s wrong with me coconut cream for curry tonight they didn’t have coconut milk but hey ho and this is my favorite snack mango dried mango reminds me of

Thailand it is 10 out of 10 way better than sweets trying to avoid sweets right now because I had a filling recently and I was just like just don’t want more feelings so I’m not having sweets not that I ate sweets very often anyway but these are really lovely lovely snack

They’re so delicious and sweet they are very expensive but I only buy them like twice a month or something so it’s okay I’m going to put some of this away and make myself lunch quickly I’m out of breath in fact I’m going to make my

Lunch first cuz it’s like it’s 10 3 and I’ve only had yogurt and blueberries today so I need food first I think I may have whipped together the best sandwich ever look at this oh my gosh Alex’s bread as well so delicious so that’s got smoked tofu bean sprouts lettuce cucumber um sauerkraut and I put some of the V life parmesan in there I feel look it could

Do with maybe some Chutney but we haven’t got any seriously yummy though oh my gosh this is such a boyy thing to do Alex has put the chopping board in the fridge what else was I going to do you seen those memes of um people showing like men versus women

In where it’s like woman puts it in a plastic container and the man just puts the whole rice cooker in it up in the fridge In fairness I saved it cuz we were supposed to have risoto for dinner and I thought we’ll use that tonight that’s quite good

Idea it’s pointless to put it in a container Alexa play Texas Holden by Beyonce a station based no Alexa Play Beyonce no I want Texas Hood Beyonce on Spotify yes Alexa louder Beyonce’s got a new Song Beautiful right so I’m whipping together some dinner we are having Ty green curry I was really craving it so I’ve just got onion garlic ginger and then these amazing oyster mushrooms I’ve just roughly torn them and then the bigger ones I sliced they have such a meaty

Texture sorry that steamed up like crazy they have such a meaty texture and I just absolutely love them and then we’ve got loads of fresh veg we’ve got corette pepper broccoli and sugar snap peas and may not use all of this I’ve chopped it

All up but I’m just going to Chuck it in whatever fits I feel like I’m tempted to like make loads maybe move it into a bigger pan just so we have like leftovers cuz that’s always very useful and then this is the curry paste I buy I get this from

The Asian shop in Truro but if you ever see this particular one they do a really great range of vegan curry paste cuz curry paste often has fish in it so the brand is May Ploy and they’re green curry paste and I’m pretty sure they

Have a tom yum one as well that’s vegan and this is very good it comes in a really really big amount and it lasts a really long time and it is super spicy and full of flavor like it it tastes more um authentic because the curry

Paste you get in the shops they V the variety is a lot they they do vary a lot whereas this one does taste like what I remember when we were in Thailand it tastes more strong in the seasoning and the lemongrass and the galangal it just it just tastes more

Authentic to Me Maybe wrong but I’m assuming because this is an act ual Thai brand of curry paste so that’s going to go in in a second then we’ll add the rest of our veg this coconut cream and probably some water as well and then we’re going to have it with some brown

Rice noodles I really wanted udon noodles but they didn’t have them and they only had like small rice noodles and I kind of wanted the thicker noodles so these will be Good