This is what it looks like when you're parked outside where you keep
all your extra stuff in storage and you're trying to work out whether you can fit...
This paddle board (which is from Sandbanks)
into this board cover (which is from Red Paddle Co) and therefore not exactly the
right size and shape but you need something to protect it for it to go on the roof.
Ah, fingers crossed it fits.
Of course the box I want to get to would be the one down there when I've just taken
two big boxes off the top so it's the bottom of a stack of four.
It's crazy.
So typical!
So I have trapped myself in my storage unit twice already where I've managed to block myself in with boxes
and um oh yeah I look a mess.
I've come to the conclusion that I own far too much stuff.
I chucked an absolute ton of stuff away leaving my flat.
Well, like gave it away, took it to recycling banks and stuff.
I still have like three big boxes that need to go to charity shops when they finally open.
I've got some stuff that needs to go to my family when I finally get to England.
But I just still have way too much stuff that I don't think I need.
So at some point if there's a rainy week in the summer I think I'm gonna have to sort it all out.
So I now have a paddle board sitting on my bed I am really hoping that the cover I've got for it is
going to fit once I blow it up but I need to get out of the city to be able to do that and I guess
find somewhere to lay out and when I say blow it up, I mean pump it up.
I don't blow it up because that would take forever - be impossible - so I need to pump it up somewhere I hope that the cover fits
properly it kind of fits deflated but the fin bits are in the wrong place so fingers crossed
it kind of works so that I can get out on the roof and it's protected when I'm driving around.
And then I'll have a paddle board on my roof hopefully at least until the autumn.
I have just - my mind's all over the place - I've just been into a big supermarket and I
Shouldn't do it because I just I start going like arrhh there's people and there's people that
aren't wearing masks or they're not wearing masks properly!
I know some people have reasons not to wear masks
but if they've got a mask on their chin or under their nose
it probably means they can wear a mask they're just not bothering.
So I had a little bit of a panic but I did manage to get
some soya chunks which a friend of mine - thank you Gem - suggested.
I've been struggling a little bit to get enough protein
I probably used to eat eggs and cheese more often when I had a flat
and don't tend to have them in the van with me so just trying to work out how I can get
a little bit more protein in my diet but I don't always have time to cook things like lentils so
I do eat a lot of seeds and nuts but I wanted a little bit of something extra so I'm gonna
try them out I've never cooked them so we'll see what I decide to do with them
I also treated myself to some fresh pasta which I very seldom buy but I have had a pasta craving
I have a tiny bit of cheese at the moment because I bought some cheese last week.
So I'm thinking pasta with some kind of sauce on it tonight,
obviously vegetables, always vegetables and I'm quite excited by that.
I've got some fresh rocket I think left over.
Some courgette, peppers, tomatoes, all that kind of stuff I always have but pasta and cheese is like mmmm I'm craving it so much!
So I'll try and cook that I'm not sure exactly how but it'll be interesting.
Hopefully easy to cook! So we'll see how that goes.
I may film it, not sure.
And yeah that's me done!
Well it does up so that's a good start.
So it does do up but the only problem is the fins.
So the fins on red pedal co company ones are a bit different to the ones on mine.
Yeah my board looks cool!
But I think this will do the job in that it will give it some protection from
stones and stuff when I'm driving and go on the roof and it does stretch over these so
I think that's okay it's a bit bigger than I need but it's the board's not inflated completely yet.
So I'll inflate it a little bit more and at some point I might find someone I know
with a very strong sewing machine...
Slight intermission for a family call there!
So I can't remember where I was but yes I hopefully have, well I do have a friend
that has a very strong sewing machine for making clever things like sails so I'm kind of hoping
I'll be able to ask him to sew these up and possibly add some little ones here
and I might also need a hole on the other side because I'm not sure yet how I'm going to lock it
because my little locking bit is on the other side.
Well it's not a locking bit the loop I use to
lock it to the roof is on the other side so I'm not sure how that's going to work yet.
So I need to finish inflating it otherwise it's gonna be really late and I'll be really
tired and hungry and won't have energy to make dinner.
So I will catch you guys later.
So I didn't film me cooking it but this is the resulting dinner!
I am so excited by this!
It might look like it is just a huge bowl of pasta but it's -
I can't really explain.
It's not the biggest bowl and there are vegetables underneath they're just
I had to cook in two different things because I've got very small cooking pots
so the vegetables are under there.
Underneath the amazing looking pasta and
oh look there's a sign of some vegetables and there's also some rocket under there
and in between I put some slices of cheese which should have melted by now
Why am I filming this? I need to eat!
The green stuff was just hiding!
Quite typically with Scottish weather and my luck,
it went from being a week of feeling like summer which made me get my board out of storage
and as soon as I got it on the roof the weather changed.
I had to take it off the following day because it was too windy to drive with it up there
and then when I was putting it back on the roof outside a friend's house we had hail!
At some point I will actually get out on the board
Once it warms up again.