hey everyone uh right i have just packed up the car and me and ava off home it is saturday i've
been on my own since wednesday and i had absolutely zero plans wednesday through to
sunday so i haven't seen anyone for like three days and my mom was like what are you doing this
weekend i was like nothing and she was like do you want to come home and i was like maybe and
then i thought about it and i was like yeah i'm literally doing nothing today i'd just be
walking the dog going to the gym doing work like all the same things so i was like well
i might as well just go home and have fun go see my family so that's what i'm doing
just going for one night i'm gonna come back uh tomorrow night so i'll be there just over
24 hours uh which will be nice but yeah need to get there and i need to fill up with fuel fuel
is so blooming expensive but never mind let's go we've arrived ava gets so excited going in
straight to the front door and she'll start pouring at the door as well to the left her in
luke just arrived at the same time as me with crumpet so excited all the dogs together
ava off what have you got ava she's got a ball
mom's made a lovely cake for us for our arrival you're the perfect housewife
he's just a bit possessive
ah that was a lovely catch up luke has um gone back home with crumpet now because he's got some
marking to do and me mom and dad are having lunch outside we've got leftovers so i've
got mum and i'd cooked this pesto pasta with some vegetarian sausages so i've got that they've also
got some leftover stir-fry that i think mum's having and so dad's having a cheese sandwich
we're all having something different anyway i'm so glad i came back now i'm here i'm like
oh it's so relaxing i can't wait tonight just to get my pjs on and watch tv with mom and dad
and this the lovely flowers over here come on then gary got your cheese sandwich
very nice right me and i've just come to the dump we've got some stuff to drop off
um a smelly bone they put a lamb bone in the bin and then all the
maggots have gathered and it absolutely honks so now it's gonna honk at the dump
disgusting
here we go this one
my house smell of rotting flesh what's that gloves have known before
so i thought there's some white oh no here yes yes
the dump is also near where there's a bmw garage nearby and it's coming towards the
end of the term on my mini um next year and so i'm starting to look at what car i might get next um
and one of the cars i like is a bmw x3 it's a lot bigger than a mini because the mini is just
too small for me now um so we're gonna go have a look because i've never seen one in person just to
see if i like it but it's probably too expensive and i don't need one right now but just getting
ahead of myself you've had bmws i mean this is a bmw do you like them yeah i didn't like the one
i had in 2006 very much but this one this one has been wonderful this is the best car i've ever had
because you were audi weren't you team audi and then yeah bmw audi then bmw then audi again
it's they've got a mini garage as well because it's owned by bmw but
let's go and look at the bmw because i've grown out of the mini oh okay x1 that's not bad actually
that's a lot i saw some online for 60k i was like i cannot afford that what's that x1 you say
it is that's what i need i need five doors and a boot that ava can go in
the boot instead of going on the seat next to me
25 that's literally 5k more than what my mini was so it's not a lot yeah this is the x5
i think and it's a lot bigger than the x3 but i don't think i need one this big 46 that's 407
i'm just settling down to read some magazines i bought a whole bunch with me that i need to catch
up on period living two men's health two house and garden i need to get through them i've got
a whole backlog of magazines and i'm thinking of getting a subscription to an online magazine
company where you get it all on your ipad for a set monthly fee because this is just a lot of
paper but um yeah very nice it's very hot today but i cannot cope in the sun neither can aussie
it is blooming hot today and sitting in the sun sun i sat in the shade as you saw singing in the
shade has been really lovely reading my magazines uh but i realized i've only done 2 000 steps today
and i want to do a minimum of 10 000 hopefully more so i've come on a little walk ava is just
playing around with oscar so i figured i won't bring her for a walk she'll prefer
to play with aussie and aussie's already had his walk today so it's just me um but i also
thought as suggested by my dad i could have a walk down to the audi garage that's near us
and just have a look at some of the audis so i'm gonna go and do that and i thought i'll bring you
guys along with me yeah just to explain a bit more about the car stuff my mini comes to an
end so i got my mini on a contract and that comes to an end may next year and the way it is in the
uk i don't know if this is sort of globally but there is a real car shortage new car shortage
to the extent where so i've also been looking at range rovers and i inquired about a brand new one
and it would take 52 weeks from placing an order to receiving the car a full year and i was like
that's ridiculous so the way forward if you want a car sooner than that you really have to get a
used car that works fine for me because actually i don't really want a brand new car i think that you
pay so much for it and it loses value immediately and yeah affordability wise i you know getting a
used car is much more affordable so that said i'm not looking at an old old car i'll probably
only look for cars that are like three years old maximum hopefully like two three years old
would be sort of my max so yeah but again i don't really know what i want all i know is i want five
doors rather than three because mine currently has three doors don't know why they call they involve
the boot or the trunk as a door anyway i want five doors i want it to be big i wanted to have
a big boot um at the moment if i put anything like a suitcase in my boot i have to put the back seats
down i don't want to do that so yeah this is kind of what i'm settling on a bigger car but a bigger
car means more expensive so we'll see here we go i'm a little bit nervous and embarrassed to walk
around and i don't want anyone to come and ask me if i need help because i don't want help
um but i think i just need to do it here we go so these are what i'm looking at the queue
this is a q2 so that's actually smaller than what i was thinking let's have a
look these ones are better q3 this is what i was imagining something just a little bit bigger um
get to these big expensive ones i think this is yeah q5 which i would love the bigger the
better for me however i do not need one this big at all um it would just be nice to have right well
i didn't stick around long i was worried that someone would come out and talk to me and um so
i went to that garage when i got my mini or before i got my mini i was looking at minis and audi a1s
which firstly crazy how that in you know two and a half years later there's no way to have an audi a1
or a mini again they're just too small like at the time it was absolutely fine i didn't have a dog
i didn't have a lot of stuff i just wanted a little a car to run around london in now
i'm doing journeys up and down the country and i've got a dog i've got lots of things
so i want a bigger car and it's crazy how that's changed in two and a half years but anyway at the
time i remember i got really put off that audi garage because i went to test drive in audi a1
and they were firstly you can't see me firstly they tried to upsell me on everything and they're
like what about this what about an audi a2 what about it and i was like no i just want a basic
small car also the difference in sales technique when i told the mini garage that i was considering
an audi they were like oh audis are great and like they'd be good for this this and this but maybe
a mini's more suited to you because of this like they obviously were biased towards minnie but they
acknowledged that audi were really good and i remember when i tested over aldi and i said i was
thinking of a mini they're like mini are rubbish you should never get a mini cause and i was like
i don't respond to that sort of sales technique i would have responded so much kinder to aldi's
if they were like minis are fantastic little cars in there just make it up just say
just give credit where credit's due don't like try and bash your competitors do you know what
i mean anyway i have no idea what i want i think i am erring more towards the bmw but
i think those audis seemed like they were more reasonably priced than the bmws
which is odd because i always thought audi was way more expensive than bmw
but they looked a bit more reasonable but they also look smaller so yeah i don't really know
anyway it's not a decision i have to make right away i've always wanted an audi q series car
like the big ones even since i was like i think like 12 13 years old i remember seeing in the q7
and being like oh my gosh i want a q7 um but nowadays i'm like i do still like them
i don't know i just i don't know to be honest i'm not a car person all i'm going based on is
size affordability and how pretty it is so that's it also another reason for getting a bigger car
but i didn't mention is age i find getting in and out of a mini minis are very low down and i just
find it more hard on my lower back i feel like i need a bigger car just for to be more comfortable
but i'm only 30 but yeah i just feel like my body is slowly breaking down so i just need to cater
for that um by getting a more comfortable car that said when i went past the mini garage today i was
like oh my gosh i love them i love them so much and i'm like oh it makes me really sad because i
do love minnie i've i learned to drive in a mini my parents had two minis um i've had a mini like
i just love the brand so much i just think for me at this stage of my life it's not practical
but i can imagine me getting a mini one day later down the line as a little run around like having a
bigger car for like the bigger journeys and then a mini for all my smaller journeys back from my
walk and dad is this dad or mom dad has made a homemade pizza look at that looks incredible and
some pasta what's in the pasta it's blue cheese roasted red pepper some roasted garlic yum yum
pizza and pasta and salad probably the best dinner ever
right some of you may remember that when i was doing my chair diy in that video i
uh mentioned that my parents were gonna have their living room done and we were painting
colors on the walls and then i said to you well that's not my project to show so back on with the
chair anyway their living room is pretty much done now and i just asked mum if she minds me showing
you guys she said no go ahead so i just thought i would show you so so the main difference is i mean
firstly the furniture mum and dad have bought a new three-piece suite this love seat is
actually massive it doesn't show on camera but it is huge look at that um oh the tv's just
turned on sorry there's no particular order to this room tour that's a sky glass tv um
and there's no wires it's amazing it comes on automatically when you walk in the living room
um so yeah they've got the new sofas a brand new plush carpet which is lovely a new fireplace they
had a dado rail all the way around the room which they took off um got a lovely mirror
here new tables new lamps um new curtains over here and the things that aren't finished
is that firstly mom and dad have ordered a shutter to go here um but the shutter won't arrive until
next month or august or something um so yeah that will look lovely and then in terms of stuff on the
walls mum would like to get a gallery wall full of photos and prints and things here so she told
me to make you aware of that also the ceiling has been smoothed over and new light fixtures so yeah
it is looking lovely in here definitely feels way more up to date um and it's yeah it's just
really nice and this wall is called penoir i think which is a slight pinky gray and the rest
of the walls are an off-white but yeah that is the living room mum and dad have actually bought
some throws that go all over these sofas uh for when the puppies come over so when ava's here
when crumpets here my brother's dog because they want to protect the sofas because normally mom and
dad have gone for leather sofas because they're more hard wearing you can wipe them clean so they
were like this time we're not going to get leather sofas but we need to protect them from the dogs
um so i'm sure in a minute mum will whack out the throws to put on the sofa so that ava can come in
right i found the throws ava already jumped on the sofa but just don't tell my parents
look how stunning that looks
hey eva
coming in good girl
they don't need them for isaac because he's a good boy you're a good boy yeah guys that is the end of
the vlog it's so hot it's just not stopping this heat wave is continuing i actually read an article
it was something like for example why 30 degrees centigrade is hotter in the uk than 30 degrees
centigrade abroad and it was like because of the humidity where we are that we get like off in the
evening the temperatures do not drop they like stay the same which is like a tropical climate
plus obviously the obvious one we don't have ac and also because our houses are built to keep
heat in not out so like especially it's hot down here but especially when you go upstairs
all the windows are open everything but as soon as you go upstairs the heat just intensifies
and i'm like why won't the heat leave but it's because i live in a victorian house that it's
designed to keep heat in so ridiculous anyway i'm not going to complain about that but what
i will complain about that my lucy's fridge and freezer has broken on the hottest week of the year
so as you can see the light's still on that's just all warm in there the freezer
is completely defrosted and not working so our neighbors have lent us cool bags and ice packs
so in here we've got all sorts i don't really want to let too much cold air out but i've got
like some yogurt in there we've got some meat with loads of ice packs
tomorrow we have an engineer coming out to look at the fridge and freezer i hope they can fix it
if they can't then that's just going to be a whole other expense of buying a brand new fridge freezer
which is annoying because i wanted to like get a new fridge freezer when we redo the kitchen
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