Hoi, I'm gonna do another Space Report,
AKA a little life update.
I always make a list and I never know where to start.
I think I'm gonna start with the news that I'm moving.
It's gonna be a couple of months, but this room,
will not be here forever, and I filmed a room tour.
Because I want to sort of document my room.
I just love watching back my old room tours.
Marion helped me with it so that will be up at some point,
but yes I am going to be moving
and I'm moving in with Rosianna which is super exciting.
She's back from the US and we were flatmates before
if you've watched my videos for quite a few years.
We lived together for I think just over two years
when I first moved to London with other friends as well.
But it's just going to be the two of us this time,
so that's update number one.
Update number two is I'm going on a trip to the Netherlands
next week I guess it's like this week,
when this video goes up.
I haven't been to the Netherlands in about six months.
Which is terrible!
So I booked a nice long trip,
I'm going to go for about five days
and it is going to be King's Day when I'm there.
I haven't celebrated King's Day in,
well probably since I left the Netherlands.
When it was still Queen's day.
I was also talking to my colleagues
and they didn't know that the Netherlands had a royal family
and a king so yes in case you didn't know,
that is the case.
I did get a new vlogging camera
and I think I might bring it along
and either I'll film the whole trip
or I'll film some specific videos on the trip.
I really really love this camera.
It has the amazing flip-up screen, perfect for vlogging.
But yeah it means that I can actually just bring
my small backpack which I'm usually allowed
to bring on the plane and bring a camera that
isn't as massive as the one I'm filming on right now.
Because it's very big, very heavy
and it's been years and years since I've had
a camera like this so hopefully I'll be able
to do some more like follow me along for the day videos.
Or if you have any specific requests of what kind
of day you'd like to see or if there's somewhere
you'd like me to take you in London let me know.
It will be a lot easier with this.
I went to Bath a little while ago and it was so beautiful,
so lovely, we stayed in the most amazing Airbnb
which I'll leave a link below.
This one in particular was so stunning,
it was in a beautiful building that matches
the aesthetic of Bath perfectly.
The view was incredible, the beds were lovely.
It was basically a dream house.
Which I feel like a lot of Airbnbs end up being like that.
You kind of like see yourself living there
and you imagine what your life is like
if you lived in that city.
But when I was in Bath I went to this beautiful park,
you might have seen it on my Instagram stories.
It kind of looked like one of the settings
from Pride and Prejudice.
And it was a National Trust Property.
Now the sun was out and everyone's excited
to go explore nature but tomorrow I think I might get
a National Trust Membership.
Which I think is about six pounds a month maybe?
Because I do end up going to lots of castles
and parks and buildings and maybe it's a sign
of me almost being 30 that I just thought yes,
it is the time now.
So if you have any recommendations for really good
National Trust properties around London
or somewhere else, hit me up!
What else is there?
My Blog is in full swing, I keep doing little redesigns,
because it's so addictive.
I don't know if you have a blog yourself,
like I love spending time on making it look really nice.
I keep seeing other websites that I like,
and then slightly changing my mind
and changing some things around.
But I'm really happy with what it looks like now
and so now I'm just adding more and more posts.
A lot of ones from trips I've been on.
Also I still frequently get messages from people
asking me if I have a blog, so I figured
I haven't mentioned it enough booksandquills.co.uk.
What I love as well is that iPhones are so good now,
that you can just take pictures on your phone
and they're good enough to have them fullscreen
on a website, just blows my mind
and the last update is that I have sort of rebranded,
re-jazzed up, is that a word?
Redone, my Patreon page.
If you're familiar with Patreon it's like a way
to support creators online, that you love.
It doesn't effect anything else I do really.
But if you're interested in supporting me you can go along
and it is $1 a month up to like any amount you want.
But it's sort of the minimum is that $1
and I post a lot of my videos there early.
I also have a downloadable that you get
when you sign up which has a recommendation list
of some of my favorite books of all time.
I'm gonna be sending audio updates
and little surprise downloads throughout the year.
It helps me pay for the monthly costs
like hosting costs of blog on Squarespace
and Adobe to edit stuff.
I support some of my friends and illustrators that I love
on there as well so if that's something
you're interested in, I'll put a link to that
in the description.
I feel like I should do a little reading update as well.
This is what I'm reading at the moment.
I am reading, I've almost finished this.
A Change is Gonna Come which is a stories
and poetry collection all by BAME authors
and all the stories are about change.
There's, I really loved a poem at the beginning.
There are some contemporary stories, dystopian stories,
it's a really nice mix and I raced through
the first half of this on a train journey
and I'm loving it so far.
I will talk more about it in a video at some point.
Just started this, How to Break Up with Your Phone.
My thumb is hurting quite a lot at the moment
and I'm partially blaming it on my stupid phone!
This book definitely starts off with the author saying
don't worry you don't need to chuck your phone
out of the window so why not go through this
and see how I feel.
And finally I am reading Educated by Tara Westover
which I've mentioned a couple times before
it's a memoir of a girl who grew up in...
I keep forgetting what the state is, Idaho,
preparing for the end of days with her family
and then this is the story of her growing up
and then also leaving to get an education.
Because she goes on to study
at all these amazing universities.
Alright that's all for me, I hope you are having
a lovely week, I hope the weather is treating you well.
Finally I would love to hear if you have any
projects you're working on this year.
Or if you have any projects that you are gonna be working on
a bit further into the future.
But something that you've always wanted to do.
I love seeing the projects that motivate people
or like the dreams they have about stuff they want to do.
Alright thank you for watching and I'll see you soon. Doei!