(upbeat holiday music)
- Well hello, we are about to go off and buy our
Christmas tree. - Yay.
- Aah. - A small one.
- We'll see.
- We're having building work done, darling,
we don't have much space. - We'll see.
For anyone confused and thinking, "Goodness,
"why are you going to buy a tree at nighttime?"
It's not nighttime.
This is just England.
- It just gets dark and cold and gloomy.
(woman chuckles)
- That's why we need a Christmas tree, with
Christmas lights. - Yay!
Oh my God, it's 4 pm.
- It's not even 4 pm.
- It's not even, it's not even 4 pm.
(upbeat holiday music)
You can't tell but it smells amazing
- I can't tell with my visor on
- So, this is actually the size of tree
that I want, okay?
(sleigh bells chiming)
(women laughing)
- (whispering) Oh, this is not good.
- [Man On Computer] Fifteen seconds.
Ten. Nine.
Eight. Seven.
Six.
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Four.
Three.
Two.
One.
Icing down!
(laughing)
- (behind camera) He's getting drips
- Oh, Oh, that was meant to happen.
This is a-- oh no.
Oh, Ooh.
That's unfortunate.
It's a, it's a gluten-free one.
- It's gluten-free chocolate?
- It's really-- please, someone guess
So I can just put that down.
- Looks like Freddy Krueger at the minute
- You know what? Fine. It can be that.
It was actually princess Diana, in the Crown.
See, the beautiful blonde hair. There was,
in one of her classic eighties, horrendous jumpers.
And it's all gone wrong for her, much like it did.
In real life and the series so,
- After the car crash, God bless her.
- This is, (laughs) Jessie!
Yeah, so there you go! Tragic.
You made it really tragic now.
(upbeat jazz music)
♪ I'm walking around feeling free. ♪
♪ Thinking about what's happened to me from July. ♪
♪ Up till now. ♪
♪ Don't know where, don't know how. ♪
♪ Lately I've come to realize, ♪
♪ That I can see it in your eyes ♪
♪ So it's true, I'm so glad you feel it too. ♪
♪ And nothing to add. ♪
♪ We're falling in love. ♪
♪ To me, it's perfectly clear. ♪
♪ We're falling in love. ♪
♪ It's true this part of the year, ♪
♪ Has something in store for us. ♪
♪ We're falling in love. ♪
♪ Summer ended, but we did not. ♪
♪ Started something, this thing that we got. ♪
♪ Grew stronger, each day. ♪
♪ We're together, all away. ♪
♪ We're falling in love. ♪
♪ To me it's perfectly clear, ♪
♪ We're falling in love. ♪
- TA DA! Tree!
That we decorated.
- No, it just it's all Jessica.
I'm not that bothered about decorating.
I'm not at all bothered really about decorating.
- You try.
Yeah, you're not that bothers and I really,
really care about color schemes.
- Yeah. - So.
- So she was like, I just like occasionally walk past
and she'd be just smiling to herself with a ball ball.
I was like, wow! This really does bring you lots of joy.
- It does! It makes me so, so happy.
It just always has done, like when I was a little kid
and my grandmother would let me decorate the tree
I was like, oh yes! This is one
- There's always someone that wants to do it.
Like my sister used to like, yeah, she loved it.
And then I think I remember one year she like
literally locked me and my mom out
so that she could do it.
And we were like, this not Christmas spirit!
- Yeah. That's me.
That's me.
My mother always had this like drapey, not tinsel
but do you know what I mean?
Like, you could pull it apart.
- Oh, it looks like cobwebs, like what you have at Halloween
- Yeah, it's like gold, shiny cobwebs.
- Yes, not nice.
- She would always drape that over the tree.
She loved to do it.
- I think it's meant to look like snow
or like dew, or like, you know?
- But gold?
- Yeah, you know like the sunlight hitting the
winter-y dew.
- But we used to put our tree in a stairwell in our house
and she'd go up like two flights of stairs
and drop it from up high.
And it would just kind of settle on the stairs.
And then we'd have to pick it up and drop it back.
It was not a good look.
I don't think personally.
- Well, I'm a big fan of the classical red and gold.
Like we did try I think one year, we went silver and blue.
- Did we try?
Did we try and go out there? Maybe we did.
- And we were like mm.
It's just not as Christmas-y!
- It doesn't bring me as much joy, I must say.
So sometimes, I think my Mother gave us a white
and blue bobble last year and I was like,
- No. - Thank you!
(women chuckle)
But I'm a-- I'm a gold and red kind of girl.
We've done remarkably well this year, I must say.
Normally, when we go and buy our tree
it's a very long process.
As you probably know,
from having watched previous tree buying videos.
And if you missed last year's vlog mas, actually,
I'm going to put it in the card-- I can't actually see.
- We went to like a tree farm.
And then there was like, reindeer!
- Yeah! It was amazing!
- And like, Pygmy goats cause they're really crazy over here
- So many different-- - And I was just like...
- So many different types of trees!
And you just like, it was just Christmas heaven!
- It was like an educational, like,
it was like a museum for Christmas trees.
- We learnt so much about Christmas trees.
- I mean, but kind of like, if you think about it--
- It kind of is too much.
Was it too much choice?
- There was a lot of choice.
We were there for at least half a day.
- We were.
(woman laugh)
- We had great fun though.
- And then we were like, next year,
we'll come back with an ax
and we can chop it down ourselves.
So romantic!
- It's locked down, it's closed.
- Yeah. It's probably not considered essential.
Which is, you know.
- I mean ...
- Well, you know, well anyway.
- I'm shocked by some of the shops
that are allowed to remain open
- I don't see why they have to close when it's all outdoors.
- That's true.
- Like, you know?
- Yeah. If we're all allowed to go to a park together.
- Well, no we're not.
I mean, with only one other person
- They don't police the number of people in the park though.
- No, when we went last year, it's just the two of us.
No one else was there.
- And when you go to a shop, - Yeah.
- Oh you're meant to go with someone from in the household.
- Yeah. They do.
- But you could take like your whole household.
- You could, you could have eight children.
- Anyway.
- Not the point, getting severely off topic.
- Anyway, we bought it from a garden center
which apparently is an essential business, essential shop.
Yeah. - Who knew?
I mean, you say that though but we bought a mallet.
- And that, that was not from the garden center.
That was from our home ware, like, department store
- Still essential.
- It was essential, yes!
I spent my day malleting in some little like, fences
to like, control. We're making kind of like,
a playpen out there.
- Oh yeah, cause if you've seen on the stories.
We now have a lawn! It's stunning.
So that person who once replied back with "what lawn?"
when they took a photo of it.
- Yeah we actually have a lawn now.
- Shameful. We genuinely have a lawn now.
- Like a fancy lawn.
- It's in strips. Therefore, fancy.
- Yeah, yeah. - Is it even a lawn?
If it's not in strips?
- I went and unrolled a little bit of extra turf
that was going to spare.
And God, it's heavy stuff!
I was like, this is easy.
And I tried to pick it up and I was like, "Oh whoa!"
- But at the at the end of our lawn...
- Yes. At the end of the lawn,
we've got some, like some kind of trees
and nothing really grows underneath.
- Can't really grow grass.
- And they drop their needles and they're very acidic
and they make the soil just like not have, you know
they make it a bit hostile for other plants.
So, and they also block the light.
So you know, what wants to grow in acidic, dark, dry soil?
- There's got to be something.
Someone is going to leave in the comments.
The perfect thing to put under your collar for tree is
(slaps leg)
- But that looks nice, as well. You know?
Anyway. So, we thought a good idea would be to like,
border it off and create like, put basically,
put bark chips down but not just any bark chips,
- No, no. - But play bark chips.
That you find in playgrounds and it's going to be
like a future playground for, you know, future, future.
- You say future, we literally have a three-year-old nephew.
- Oh yeah.
- Who comes to our house and needs somewhere to play.
- Yeah. That's true.
So then it'll be nice and ready for his summer.
- Yeah! - Spring time.
He can have like a little climbing, like frame.
- Oh yeah.
Oh we can get a toddler one!
I have the toddler expansion pack in the Sims 4, obviously
Cause I'm a family player.
I'm a family Sims player.
I mean, I don't even do rags to riches.
It's just family all the way.
Got to build those generations,
really into generational wealth as a thing.
And it brings me comfort and joy in a very unstable world.
- It is a little bit alarming though.
When I like look over my shoulder and the names that she's
come up with for our great-great-grandchildren like, really?
That's on your list of potential names
you would like in our family?
- She won't let me name our child Araminta.
- Araminta? No.
There's some, definitely some--
- Minty! It's so cute!
- There's definitely some other ones in there
though that I'm like, what?
- Oh yeah, probably.
Did you know I had twins the other day,
and named them Gia and Geo because,
I was in a moment of like,
no creativity.
- Gea, like spelt G E A?
- G I A.
- Oh, Gia, okay. - Gia.
- Oh Gia. - Gia and Geo.
It was a girl and a boy.
- Okay. Anyway, it's obviously referenced
to your Italian descent.
- They have Italian descent!
Their mother, who by the way is
like a third generation from some other family I made.
Anyway.
- Yes.
- Where were we going with this?
Yes so we went and we bought a tree!
And rather than spending hours and hours at a tree farm,
And mostly taking lovely photos,
we took lovely photos of tree farm last year,
I think I'm going to post one used one.
- Anyway, this year was very impressive.
We went in, we were like, we need a tree.
We looked at one tree, it was too small.
We looked at another tree, was a bit--
- Just right - No it wasn't.
It was a bit thin on top. - Oh sorry!
- And then we looked at the third tree.
And Jessica was like, yeah, I was like, really?
Oh, amazing. Let's buy it.
Before you change your mind.
And look at all the other trees.
- Yeah. Normally I, I do love to look
at every other tree.
- Normally she's always like, we should get a bigger one.
And I'm like no.
- And then I did see a massive tree, which I was very, very
happy to see. - That was massive.
- That was very exciting.
- And then the only place it would potentially fit
in here, like, under our skylight
but then where the hell would our dining table go?
- Next year?
- Okay.
- We'll see.
- Oh dear.
- I think it could definitely work.
Cause you would just have to move the dining table
in to where the tree is right now.
- Okay. Anyway, we'll discuss this off camera, darling.
- Okay. Fine.
I'm just saying, yeah, it's lovely.
One of the nefarious things about putting a tree together,
I think, is the kind of things that we've collected
through our years together and brought to the family
- I mean, - of decorations.
- Just now I freaked myself out
because I was standing up and I just like,
looked over at the tree
and I saw her face amongst all these bobbles.
And I just assumed it was my face being reflected
in one of the bobbles.
Cause you know they're quite reflective.
And then I realized in another split second
That this as not my face. - How would you think
that this was your face?
- It's because it was the same angle
of turning side-eye at the tree.
(Jessica laughs)
So I was like, - Okay.
- And I was like, that's not my reflection!
And then also, - This bobble is from
our first Christmas together.
- Has it got anything in it? - No, no, no.
It did originally have fudge in it.
- Why are you trying to open it?
- Just to show you it doesn't have fudge in.
Yeah. I, I don't know. - I don't care.
If you tell me, I'll trust you.
Anyway, but this is from our first Christmas together.
Cause we bought our friends fudge inside bobbles.
and then gave them the fudge and kept the bobble.
- I forgot about that.
- Because I was like, these are really cute!
Can we keep them? - Yeah.
- So yeah, there's that.
Then we have...
- We have these ones, the glass ones
that we bought like, a few of.
- Oh yes! The lovely.
- I don't remember where we got those.
- Those are from MNS when you worked over in Lancing.
- Oh, okay. What memories!
- And this one (girls laugh together)
That was lovely, cause we went after work together
- Yeah, yeah.
- I'm very sentimental about many things.
- I don't remember all this stuff.
- This is from when I went to the tower of London
and did a speech there.
- Yes, you did.
- And I bought this as a souvenir
and was very pleased with it.
- It was your first corporate speech.
- It was my first corporate speech!
- I didn't get paid for it, but--
- Oh you didn't? - No, I didn't.
- Oh, well yeah. - I flunked.
Charge for your time, Jessica.
And then we bought these ones from an antique place.
- Yes! Yes.
These little one, they're hand decorated.
We bought these together, these lovely ones.
And these glass ones, we bought these together.
Now, these fabric ones, where are they?
Oh, that one there. Yes.
Those fabric ones.
They're from my family home in Bristol.
- And then we bought the Coca-Cola because obviously.
- I don't think we did darling.
I think it came.
- I bought it. We bought it. Yeah.
- Yes.
- We bought it.
I don't know if you can see it up there.
- We'll show you later.
And this one up here, this is really special.
This one, this is my peace dove.
This comes from my Nana and Papa.
And this was on their tree every year.
It must be very old, actually,
because I think my mother remembers having it
when she was a kid.
- Oh, it's nice!
- So. And I've inherited it.
- Oh, that's nice.
This is the Coca-Cola one.
I have, I have to have a Coca-Cola bobble, obviously.
- Christmas!
That's my, I don't know what song that was meant to be.
(laughing)
- She's just prepared, you know?
She's just, she's just happy.
It's all right.
You just be joyful. (kissing noise)
- But anyway. It's been a long day.
- Yes it has, yes.
- And we're going to go.
- We should leave you now and stop rambling.
- We're going to go watch our first Christmas movie
(clapping hands) of this season.
- Yes. We don't know what it's going to be yet.
- We're going to skip through Netflix
and, or flick through Netflix. - I really wanted to see...
- Do you think that's why it called 'flix?
Netflix.
Anyway.
- It's because it's online films, films, 'flix.
- Net, on the net.
Oh my God.
- Okay. Anyway, we're going to flick through the net.
Of Netflix.
- Yes, darling.
- Sounds a bit dodgy, doesn't it?
- Netflix and chill sounds dodgy.
- I think flicking anything sounds dodgy.
- That's very true.
- Anyway. - A dodgy word.
We're going to find something,
probably not Happiest Season.
Although I am excited to see that lesbian rom-com.
Apparently it's not so much on the 'com.
- Oh, typical. - Yeah.
It's like a holiday film,
but it's still a tragic coming out.
- Yeah, I saw an trailer where like,
- Really? - Yeah.
And also how she pretends that she's her friend
not her girlfriend.
- There's a Christmas-y moment in Imagine Me & You.
So that still remains my favorite lesbian Christmas film.
- Wait. Oh no.
They're not lesbians.
I was going to say The Family Stone features gays.
- Oh, God I love The Family Stone.
That one makes me happy! Can we watch that?
- No. (laughing)
That was another film.
That came out a couple of years ago with Rachel McAdams.
It's called like Game Night, but it was an 18.
And instead it was like a murder mystery night
but turns kind of real.
And I was like, is it scary?
But it was in the comedy section.
- Oh, well in that case, let's watch it.
- You think? But it was amongst,
it might not necessarily be Christmas-y.
It was just put with a lot of the Christmas comedy films.
- We'll find out. - It was 19.
So like, I don't like scary movies.
- It might just have lesbian kissing because that's
you know, how they run things.
- Oh. Or it could have like a graphic murder scene.
- She's strangely all right with a graphic murder.
You're just scared of the the supernatural things,
aren't you?
- Yeah. If there's a ghost doing graphic murdering
then I'm like, that's not okay.
- There was just a bad human. You know?
(smashing noises) She's quietly fine.
- Weirdly, I can kind of rationalize that.
That's not going to happen to me when it's the human.
Cause I'm like, well, I don't know that person.
(Jessica laughing) Like, whereas.
- They're not going to murder me!
- Yeah, where as supernatural, it's like,
well it's unexplained.
- Oh it's gotten dark out
- We both got a little bit creeped out
with that film Contagion.
Was that what it's called, no?
- Yes, I think it is.
- No, it's not.
- The one where they all get ill.
- No, no that's fine.
No the other film.
Parasites.
- Oh Parasites! Yeah.
- Jessica was more freaked out by it than I was actually.
Weren't you?
(upbeat holiday music) - Goodbye beautiful humans
We will see you in the next video!