Hello, lovely people. Hi!
Hello! So today is Friday - it's not, it's actually Thursday.
C: Yeah, I was like, "...?"! Oh, you mean they're gonna watch this on Friday, but today is--
J: Yeah, they're watching this on Friday, but today is Thursday.
C: It's very confusing.
J: Because we have a very busy Friday and we won't be able to film, edit, and upload in one day.
C: Today is an exciting day!
J: Yes! As you already know.
Because they'll have seen yesterday's.
C: Oh, OK. But it's still exciting for me!
J: OK. Tell them why it's exciting.
C: See this bare bit of arm?
C: It will no longer--it will not be bare...
J: By the time you're watching this.
C: Yeah. In ten minute's time...
J: And if you haven't seen it already, you have to go and watch yesterday's video
to find out what goes on her arm.
J: I should also make a comment about the way I look.
J: Because... C: Yes, what are you wearing, my love?
J: Claudia does not approve.
C: Luckily they can't see the skirt half, because it's really bad. J: It's not going well down here. It's not going well.
If you follow me on Instagram,
you'll probably have seen that a couple of weeks ago,
I posted some choices of really Christmassy Amazon dresses for you guys to help me choose.
And you chose this one.
Oh, my goodness, everyone. It happened.
Christmas dress from Amazon that's actually arrived
in time for Christmas
Who saw this coming?
Right, shall we?
Here it is.
OK, er, first off.
"Medium." Says medium! I definitely ordered size small.
Ooo, it, um...it's a very, very bright
colour.
But it definitely feels like...it's an orange.
OK!
So...
Gosh.
Yeah.
The first thing to note, really, is the smell,
which is...incredibly plastic-y.
It isn't as itchy as I would have thought it would be
but it definitely needs to come down lower.
So, if you follow me on Instagram
(and if you don't, why don't you?)
you should know that I put in my story a selection of these dresses
and I've seen other people
receive this dress and open it.
And it was definitely red. Why is mine orange?
Um, yeah, so I had a selection. And you guys chose.
You chose this.
So, tomorrow, I'm going to go out wearing this.
C: You're not going to wear it in public, are you? J: No, I'm not wearing this out the house.
So I'm wearing it for a video, but it will not--it will not be...
C: I'll do a little photo of you like 'outfit of the day' with it on?
C: Just so, you know, people can...no?
C: It doesn't even make that?
C: It looks quite Australian with the stars.
I think this is what someone would wear in Australia on Christmas Day, because it's really hot out there.
You know, they'd go to a barbie.
Don't...comment on my Australian accent.
J: Please comment on her Australian accent. I can't judge for myself how bad it was.
J: I need you to tell me. C: You kind of knew a little bit.
J: Well your face gave that one away.
J: We're going to do a little Q&A. C: Ooo, another one?
J: No, we did a "most likely to."
J: But, again, I did ask you on the Community tab
on my channel.
Community tab.
So you can find it for any future things I might ask.
J: OK, we're gonna go down the list. C: OK.
J: Number one:
C: This is the most asked question.
J: Most asked question.
J: "Do you plan on having children? If so, have you picked out names for the future little ones?"
C: I think this is kind of obvious, isn't it?
C: If you watch our videos, surely you must know. J: We spend so much time going, "I'm so broody."
J: "Oh, my God. I can't wait."
C: I don't know. People might think we just want like a whole pack of dogs.
C: No, we do want actual human babies.
J: Yes. Three of them.
C: No more than three, because my argument is that we have to fit in one normal-sized car.
J: We don't intend to have octuplets. C: No.
But three children would be nice. And yes, we have names.
C: Well... J: We're not gonna tell you those names
J: We have names. C: We have some name ideas.
J: You'll just have to keep following us, for many years
because we don't plan on having babies for another...eighteen months.
C: It's not that far, really. J: No, that's not that far.
C: No.
J: But you've got to wait, obviously, to find out what all three of them are called.
C: We're going to test drive my niece or nephew first. J: Yeah.
J: Due in January! C: And be like, "Oh, this is awful"
Like we're gonna hold out for another two years.
C: Or we're going to be like, "This is epic, we want one of our own!"
J: Well, this actually relates to another question that we've been asked:
J: Is, "Would we adopt?" C: Yes.
J: Yeah. Yeah.
J: I think we want to do--well, Claudia would like to give birth
J: at least once. C: Don't know if I'd LIKE to give birth.
C: But I'd like to carry my child and
C: ...yeah, I'd like to have my own--I'd like to have--
be a biological mum
but
I'm not really looking forward to the birthing part.
J: No.
C: And then...you would love to as well, but Jessica can't. J: Yeah, I can't have children.
C: She's been told she can't. So it's just as well she's a lesbian, because she's got a spare womb.
J: God has a plan, guys. Clearly.
J: And we'd also like to foster. In the future.
C: Yeah.
J: When we have space and time. C: But that would be like way in the future.
J: Yeah, way in the future.
J: Next question!
J: This isn't a question, because it has an exclamation mark.
"Proposal story, please!" Exclamation mark.
J: Also, please tell us about meeting each other's families for the first time.
C: Aw, no, I was like, "It's too private."
J: How do you feel now?
C: I don't mind. People can know now.
C: I don't know why I, like, yeah.
C: I didn't want those ten thousand loyal fans at the beginning to
C: know about it, but now... J: Baby, we had...that was like a thousand.
C: Oh, yeah. J: At the one thousand mark.
C: OK, well. I've become more comfortable in front of the camera.
J: But I think that's--that's its own video, because it's a whole little story, so.
Next year. That will be in there next year.
J: So, for now, "Also, please tell us about meeting each other's families for the first time."
J: This is by stacystacy100. Hi, stacy.
C: [Singing] Stacy's mom has got it going on.
J: [Singing] She's all I want...
J: Aw, no. What's the rest? C: Dunno.
C: That's all I know.
J: The first time you met my parents, we'd been dating for three weeks.
C: Oh, yes. Well, I was basically in between jobs.
OK, my one-year contract came to an end and then there was a position coming up
at the same place, so I then got that job.
J: Yeah.
But before the job became available, there was like a month where I wasn't needed.
So, I was like, "Oh, great, four weeks off"
J: And I'd just graduated.
C: And we had just met like a month before that
or something like that.
C: Or three weeks before that.
Anyway. So we just spent like every day together
and then you were really sad because your parents had just moved down to Cornwall from Bristol.
Bristol is manageable; Cornwall is like that little bit more further away.
J: Yeah, Bristol is a four hour drive from where we live; Cornwall is an eight hour drive from where we live.
C: Yeah.
J: Or more. C: Bristol is also accessible via motorways all the way
C: and Cornwall is like the further west you go, the narrower and smaller the roads get.
J: My parents moved to the depths of Cornwall, guys.
C: It's kind of like Hobbit land for people who don't know what Cornwall is.
J: That's pretty--yeah, yeah, we'll go with that. It's Hobbit land.
C: 'Cause I didn't have a car at the time.
J: Oh, yeah!
C: And so I said, "Hey, well, I've got this time off work," and so I just rented a car
for I think a week or whatever it was.
It was quite nice; it was what inspired us to get our car.
It was like a Ford... What was it?
J: Kia? No. C: No, that's two brands, darling.
C: Anyway, we drove--Kuga! Ford Kuga.
C: Anyway.
C: And I drove you all the way to Cornwall
J: You did! C: to meet your parents.
C: I think it was a moment of madness.
C: Why did I do that? J: Why did we go and stay with my parents for a week?
C: Fair enough, they're your parents; you wanna see them and you wanna show off your stunningly attractive
C: hilarious girlfriend who was obviously going to impress anyone's parents. J: Who wouldn't? Who wouldn't want to show you off?
J: This dress is really hot.
J: It's, like, so... Anyway. C: Is it...? Yeah.
J: It's not great.
C: But I don't know why I wanted to go.
C: No offence, [Jessica's parent's], but... J: So that you were near me at all times.
C: I know, but I could've been near you instead, like...
You weren't like, "Oh, I'm going to Cornwall, you can come if you like."
C: You were just like... J: You were the one who very sweetly suggested
"I will drive you to Cornwall to see your parents," so...
J: Yes! So, we went to Cornwall
with my parents for a week, which was quite an intense first meeting, wasn't it?
C: Was it a week? Oh, my gosh. J: Yes, yes.
J: Yep. It was a week; it was very intense.
You really got to meet my parents.
J: And I think my mother was just relieved that someone was gonna...
C: They'd met your previous girlfriend; it's not like I was the first girlfriend you'd ever brought home.
J: No, no.
J: They didn't like her, though, so...
Pretty much anything--anything was an improvement.
Yeah, and they love you. And my mother's like, "You love my daughter. Excellent."
"What more can I ask for? Go."
C: Your mum said to me - and she still does sometimes -
well, she doesn't so much any more, because I think she knows I can hold my own a little bit,
but she used to be like,
"Don't let Jessica boss you around. Don't always just agree to whatever she wants."
And I was like, "Oh!"
J: "Jessica, stop overriding everyone else!"
I don't!
C: Camilla! I think she called me Camilla once and I was like, "Er, that's a step too far."
J: When I met your dad, I remember we drove and met him in a pub.
C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We met in a pub half-way between Brighton and Guildford.
J: Your father is very--he's very British.
J: He's very British. He doesn't give much away.
C: He would've greeted you exactly the same way, whether you were a man or a woman.
J: Yeah, but your father would also greet me in exactly same way whether he hated me or loved me.
He's very British and very polite.
C: But now he's like--yeah, he was a bit, like...
I mean, he's very British in the way that, like, the fact he's even meeting us is showing his support.
J: Yeah, yeah.
C: He doesn't have to be all--and also he's not a particularly, like...
J: He's not going to put a rainbow flag up.
J: He's probably not going to tell people I'm his wife's--"his wife's"?
J: He's probably not going to tell people I'm his daughter's wife
but just the fact that we're around
he's very--he's supportive.
C: Yes. J: Yes. That's how he shows his support
in his quite British way. C: Yeah. I think he's very fond of you.
J: Aww. We like history. We talk about history together.
C: "What are your goals for the next five years? Both you and Claudia as a couple and as individuals."
C: As a couple, we probably want to move a bit more rurally.
To a bigger house. More rural. We love Brighton, so we'd still stay around this area,
because it's such an accepting space for gay couples.
J: Yeah. So we want to be in Sussex.
C: Yeah, that's one. Second, we'd like to have our own family, so we definitely have to have at least one baby.
J: Two! We should have two babies in five year's time! C: In five years, yeah.
C: But "at least" one, is what I said. J: Yeah, OK, fine.
C: And...be just as much in love as we are now.
J: Aw.
J: Of course. C: Those are probably our goals.
C: I would say.
J: And...travel a bit.
I guess.
C: Yeah, well, we're going--we're doing that. J: We are doing that.
J: We are doing that.
C: The problem is, darling, you can't travel and have two kids.
C: Like, you've kind of gotta do... J: Yes, you can.
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J: Personal goals. What are your personal goals for five year's time, Claudia?
C: I usually hate this question. I used to hate it way more.
But now I kind of know myself a little bit more.
I'd say...
I just wanna be... This is kind of a bit, like, maybe a cop-out, but like sort of wanna feel really
- not really, but I wanna feel like I'm on the way to success
in both, like, personal life
- which is the couple thing - like, in my hobbies,
and my interests, so, like--which actually merges with out job,
so I really wanna improve my camera skills and my editing skills
because I really enjoy it, so I'd love to feel more confident in that.
J: Yeah. And she wants to own a drone.
C: I wanna have a drone. J: Don't miss that out.
C: Well, that's also included in I want to improve my photography and filming skills.
J: OK. I want to...
keep growing our YouTube channel,
C: Yes. J: I want to do more TV work
because that's really exciting and fun, and I love that.
Just presenting stuff.
And I really want to be able to write more.
C: Ah, yeah. Writing more.
C: Oh, also. Another personal goal. J: Yeah?
C: I really wish I could just be a bit stricter with myself in doing my yoga
or some form of exercise.
C: Because I'm only getting older. In five year's time, I'm going to be halfway to forty.
J: Yeah. Well, no, but yeah. C: I mean between thirty and forty.
J: Every night, my phone pings at 6 o' clock and says, "Make Claudia do yoga."
C: Yeah. Well, then, it's on you, isn't it? You don't make me do it.
J: "How did you know you were in love? Did you have a specific moment where you just knew?"
J: I did! The very first time I met you.
C: Yeah, Jessica said she had love at first sight.
J: I looked up and I felt this jigsaw piece just click into place, and I was like, "Oh!"
"It's you!"
"Going to spend the rest of my life with this person."
C: Aww.
C: I don't think I felt it right then, because I was a bit flustered; I was about half an hour late;
I was a bit hot. It was a hot, sweaty day and I'd walked up this hill to get to the pub,
so I mean it was quite an ask for love at first sight to hit me at that point.
I mean I was just like, "Oh!" "Flustered!"
C: So, um, I think it was more...
I think it was more like a slow thing; it wasn't like a big [explosion noise]
bang like it was for you.
Mine was like--not slow like, "Oh, it took me until we got married to realise."
C: I just kind of got well [?] into that. J: It took her, like, maybe two weeks.
C: Yeah, I mean, it was like a little bit--
I remember, um...I remember saying, "I think I'm falling for you."
J: Yeah. C: Because I think that's when I felt it.
C: And then I took you away for the weekend. J: That was actually the seventh of August.
J: That you said that. C: So like a week after.
J: We met on the 23rd of July.
C: I think when I took you to Danesfield House. J: Yeah.
C: That's when I first said, "I love you" to her.
J: But I think the, "How do you know?"
People ask that a lot. "How do you know it's real love? How do you know...?"
I mean, sorry. If you know, you know.
It's such an old saying, but I think it's really true.
C: Yeah, it's kind of a hard one to answer.
J: I can't...spend days without you.
C: Well, Jessica's a hopeless romantic who always thought that she would probably fall in love at first sight
and be whisked away, and so if you have those expectations,
C: and then it happens, maybe that's how you know. J: I think I'm just better at recognising.
C: But then I was opposite. I was like, "Oh, I don't fall in love that easily
and I'm not even looking for someone particularly long-term right now;
I just wanna date and meet people and grow as a person."
Yeah, and then so, because Jessica came along and I was like, "Oh!"
"Oh, no, this is where I get off."
C: This is where I stop. J: "Stop the train, stop the train."
C: Because it took me by surprise; I was like this is real, this is it,
C: because I wasn't, like, looking for it. J: Yeah.
J: I've been on - I should add - I've been on a lot of first dates,
but you were the only person that I've ever had that [heart stop/skip sound].
J: Right. "How do people react when they see that you are married to a woman?"
Asks Anna.
C: Um...
C: Depends who it is.
C: If it is another lesbian, they're like...
"Aww, yeah!" And they'll instantly be like, "Let's be friends!"
J: Or they generally go [?] something like,
"My girlfriend was going to come to this event, but she couldn't make it."
C: Yeah, or, um...
J: "I'm gay, too, guys!" C: And then we kind of bond.
C: If it is a young man who was cracking onto one of us, then they're a little bit, like--
they're either like, "Cool, yeah!" and then you can see them trying to work it out in their heads.
Or sometimes they're like...sleazy.
But that doesn't happen that often, actually. I think people of our generation are really quite accepting.
They might just get the wrong end of the stick and then once corrected, they're like, "Oh, OK."
J: I think we--we've never had any homophobia...?
C: I've been chucked out a taxi in London before for being gay, but...
J: That wasn't with me. C: That wasn't with you.
C: And that was...quite a few years ago.
J: Yeah, we live in Brighton; it's a little bubble of...kindness and love and gayness.
C: Yeah... J: It's a rainbow bubble.
J: Right, "How do you express your love for each other without saying the love word?"
C: Oh, all the time, like...
C: Just like, always...physical contact.
J: We are constantly in each other's space. C: We have pet names for each other.
J: We just--we walk around the house together like this
J: We talked about...
we could get an extension on the house and get the kitchen bigger, but
what would be the point? Because we'd just be like this anyway.
C: Yeah, and Jessica can't go to sleep unless I'm spooning her.
J: Oh, my God, don't act like you can sleep without the spoon. C: Yeah.
C: And...just little things like that.
When, you know,
I always get--I get Jessica a drink
without her having to ask me, and then Jessica will offer to rub my feet even though I haven't said anything that
C: implies that I want her to. J: I don't always offer; I just start rubbing.
C: Yeah, just really nice gestures for each other
which you don't even think about as a gesture; you just do it automatically.
J: "What are some of your favourite quirks about each other?"
J: Um, I like that you get your words confused.
C: Aww.
J: That's really sweet. C: I do.
C: I had to have speech therapy when I was little.
C: I still get a bit jumbled in my brain.
J: She points at tomatoes and goes, "Can you pass the potatoes?"
C: Yeah, that's weird, that one.
C: Tomatoes, potatoes. J: Or sausages, you get sausages mixed up.
C: Yeah, they all get mixed up. J: I love that you just start randomly singing and dancing a lot.
C: I think I was trying to twerk in front of the mirror in my pyjamas
and Jessica was like, "I'm so glad you do this on your own when I'm not even here." I'm like, "Yeah."
C: I mean, you're just generally a quirky person.
I like your distinctive dress style and the fact that you sleep in hair rollers almost every night.
C: And, you know, that's just who you are. J: Yeah.
C: I couldn't date someone who was... J: Normal.
C: "Normal"!
Yeah, like...
Everyone I've dated has always had something a bit quirky about them.
J: Yeah. An interesting person.
C: Yeah. J: OK, last question!
J: So, Marissa asks:
"If you could both eat one thing for the rest of your lives without consequences, what would it be?"
C: "Without consequences." J: Bom bom bommm!
J: That's a good--that's a good [question]
C: Let me guess yours and you guess mine. J: OK! OK.
C: I reckon yours would be...
crab.
J: Oh! Interesting. C: You'd just have endless crab.
C: And you wouldn't get itchy face or fingers from it. J: Oh, yeah, that would be good.
J: I was actually going to say seafood platter, so... C: Well...pretty close!
J: Very close!
J: Ribs, burger, steak.
C: It would be--yeah, it would probably be...ribs or a steak.
J: Don't know whether to change mine to dim sum now.
J: Wow, we are really heavy on our proteins. C: Yeah...
C: We do love our proteins. J: We love vegetables as well.
J: So, there you go, I hope you feel like you know a little bit more about us now.
C: Sorry about my ramblings.
J: Thank you, everyone, for all your questions.
J: We'll definitely do another Q&A in the New Year.
J: So any questions that we didn't answer, we will get to. C: Yep.
C: And go check out yesterday's video
if you haven't already seen it
because I am excited to find out myself
because right now...it hasn't happened!
Bye, everyone! Mwah!
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