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Where is my voice?
I haven't spoken really properly today yet, but good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Today is Friday and it is the Friday before we break up for Christmas.
Two weeks off.
Booboo exciting times.
I was up until half one in the morning because I waas doing how stuff and getting the house ready today I'm up.
It is raining.
It is miserable, but we are heading to Birmingham to them Going to see Nikki.
Let's do to get my hair done is the start of the Christmas beauty prep.
So I'm gonna get my hair done.
And then I'm also getting my eyebrows and having a facial and doing all of the good stuff.
Thio get myself prepped for the party season.
Few weeks we're having, like, a news eveything here.
I'm gonna get my eyebrows done.
I'm gonna have a massage.
I think I think I'm having a facial.
I'm doing lots of stuff just to get myself all rejuvenated after very hard December.
But it's been a good December.
Today I am wearing a bomb.
Undress, but I'm wearing it like a jumper dress, so I'm gonna put my boots on with it on then.
I've got my full agree bag on with it.
My new one.
My glittery, beautiful, gorgeous one on.
I'm gonna wear my Chloe boots with it on.
I'm gonna put a big, warm coat.
One because it is miserable.
Ali still in bed because he was up even later than I was.
But we are good to go.
So I'm gonna quickly short my coffee on head out.
We're currently watching Cow get dressed up in his Oh, he's really made an effort this year, but it's so lovely.
He has a Hamleys carrier bags.
Well, I love that you have a Hamleys carrier bag from my child and the light up jumper.
Yeah, we are almost at Nikki's house now.
It feels weird arriving here, not being a shadow of my former self.
Remember?
WeII done the sleep out.
That was horrific.
Absolutely horrific.
I know, I know.
I was trying to be, like, really like you, but I was dying.
I was so tired.
Way did take this flower wear in the hot seat both with our soils in on our soil sideburns way, way are currently racing home.
I wasn't even able to get my hair waves because such a tight time frame I'm heading down to London to meet the only in Alex with me.
So I had my head on straight.
It is so dark.
Look at this weather.
I just It is miserable.
This is not the Christmas I was hoping for.
Weatherwise anyway.
Yeah, I'm heading home.
I'm gonna wax waves And it seems the weights loves this weather with bacon with stand on on re touch up my makeup on head down for a Christmas drinking booze way are currently sat on the A five in near Stony Stratford.
We've been over about 45 minutes.
There's obviously been a crash on It Looks like the air ambulance is about to land.
So they just closed the other side of the A five.
Ali and I are in the car.
We were on our way down to meet Leonie and Alex, hoping that we make it.
Although we have about 40 minutes until the next train's, I hope that we are able to make it.
Obviously, we're very grateful that we are not involved in that crash and we're thinking of those people that are involved in it, but yeah, it's not looking good looking good, is it?
What?
I mean?
My We have been turned around on the A five on.
We are being escorted back the other way.
I've never seen this happen before, so I'm guessing it must be a very, very, very bad accident.
Oh, my God.
He's gonna have caused absolute carnage.
Good morning, Everyone know I was lugging yesterday, but not much happened today about me getting my hair done.
We've got stuck in traffic for two hours, then went home way big.
No.
Well, we've just hit traffic, but hopefully we're not.
It could just be congestion.
Know there is a a crash.
Yes.
We've left the comforts of our home on Ventured on the Saturday before Christmas to Birmingham.
Yes.
It's not the brightest idea we've ever had.
Good.
This one is driving us because it was his idea to come.
I'm just tagging along.
I'm gonna go and do a little bit of shopping, pick up some last minute Christmas present for him.
Really?
Yeah.
That were coming?
No.
Is that why I'm coming?
But it's one thing that I'm doing.
I'm also shopping for myself.
Oh, no, There's two lanes closed into this lane is not really a Northman is just that is Ah, that is a cloud that can steam.
Yeah, I put waves in my hair this morning and I'm loving how it looks.
How golden is Mickey is just a genius.
I love it.
Tony.
How is she?
No, Never seen.
She's very sweet.
Very sexy.
So I think it's very sexy.
So we are heading Thio.
I'm gonna have to Selfridges Andi, I think Reese and maybe all saints.
I'm not sure yet.
Gonna go have a look around.
Morning, babe.
I kind of get up, please be egg.
You got stuff today?
You get up.
Come on, then.
Good morning, everyone.
Ah, it feels very good to be on Christmas holidays.
It is the dream dream.
We've been doing some Christmas shopping.
I've bought some bits from recess everywhere.
Most of stuff in a sale, To be honest, just easy.
Throw on things to wear from there.
I've just spritz my face with the Laura Mercier flawless skin water, which I've almost finished my third bottle off completely purchased by myself.
I tried it for the first time when we were in Paris.
Well, I had my 1st 1 like, gifted to me, but I'm on my third bottle now, and I tried to pick up 1/4 in salvages and they were sold out.
But I love it as like a toner is so hard.
Rating.
I love it on.
My skin is super dry at the moment, so I need all the hydration that it needs.
They can get all that it needs.
Whatever.
I've been up butchering the kitchen to make some what's called some of the ginger tea lemon ginger shocked thing that my home, your path game, the rest people.
Obviously the last batch I made the ginger.
It was actually Officer.
This ginger root is not all on.
By making a new batch you can have it is a T all.
You can have it as a shop, so you can like add more hot water, too, if you want to.
But it is literally 100 grams of ginger root grated brought to the boil and then left to stand for 45 minutes.
He then sieve out the ginger root.
Add three lemon juice three lemon juice of three lemons to the mixture.
Andi if you want a large teaspoon of honey.
And that's why I'm doing basically not having that in the morning, cause if you didn't realize what he didn't realize I've kicked my Red Bull habit.
I have no had Red Bull for two weeks.
What is that on my screen?
Is that lemon lemon?
A little bit of lemon?
Yeah, I've no had Red Bull for two winks.
I ran out and I have a little fridge in my dressing room where I would usually keep it.
So I walk up stairs and as I got ready, I have a red bull I haven't had in two weeks, so I thought I'd share that with you.
I kicked my habit all of my own accord.
I don't really feel any different for I'm not gonna lie.
But I am looking for something like healthier to replace it with or just help each other.
So I'm hoping to have this most mornings on dhe It be like my like morning drink or something.
I don't know, because I'm hoping that soon enough I will get back on my healthy lifestyle train.
Hopefully, maybe it's because I don't like Arjun, but I don't know.
We've got more equipment.
Cummings.
That's fine.
And what else did I have to tell you?
Today we are wrapping gifts for Christmas.
My eyes are so red.
Sorry, Anne, I think needs to pop into town for something.
But I'm just gonna spend the time wrapping Christmas gift on doing festive stuff.
I'm gonna light my candles, spending a lot of time at home today, to be honest, probably spending a lot of time at home in general because it is so nice not having people in our house.
Oh, my goodness.
Everyday.
Obviously, we have people in our house And for the next two weeks, we don't apart from unlike Christmas Day and on New Year's Eve.
So, yeah, one time.
But my time, This is what I've been up to my lemon juice ginger time to put it all together.
I think what a glorious day.
If only it will stay like this for Christmas day.
I will be so, so happy.
You maybe doesn't know it's not so bad.
So bad that I don't know what to do with my face today.
I don't know whether to do like a whole shebang of beauty.
conceived my ring like is in the way.
Oh, yeah.
I don't think I'm gonna do a whole show beauty shebang thing.
I don't know.
Maybe I will.
Who knows?
I'm gonna pop the by Terry C C serum on my face because I love it.
I didn't even realize you can get it on Amazon as well.
Everything.
One Amazon today I want to do some writing.
You know, when you feel like writing, I I feel like writing on my block today.
It got a bit hectic in December, so I didn't get to do a huge mountain.
I've got letters like Low Post.
I'd really like Thio Get out before Christmas.
At least it's over like my dining table.
Like, basically, I did my whole dining table from Amazon, which will seek have seen in my dining room video on dhe.
I've got this whole thing that I've had is, like a brainchild.
It forever.
And I finally just taken some pictures of the 1st 3 installments, but basically I want to do a series about my foundation war drink.
I don't know whether any of you are like me, but I certainly don't wear the same foundation every single day.
I like to mix it up.
Yeah, I like to mix it up like Thio wear different products for different reasons on Dhe, You know, I'm going for a whole day of meetings in London and the weather is miserable.
I have a certain foundation for that.
If I'm having a good skin day in this beautiful light, I have a foundation for that.
So only what?
I put moisturizer always my camera.
How?
I don't know.
But yes, I'm using the Laura Massey A tinted moisturizer.
Yeah, I want to put down my reasons behind each products that I used because I feel like it's quite relevant on dhe ID.
Like it to be a little sort of roller depths off foundations.
Eye, he said.
Like the lower Massey, A moisturizer is like my What would I say?
ISS.
It's my French lace negligee.
That's what I'm saying.
Is it?
It's just like this tiny, almost completely invisible veil over my skin on Dhe.
It's just, you know, it's beautiful on.
That's why I use it when my skin is, it's best feeling my sexiest on dhe.
It's that in my wardrobe, basically, and then I have other products, like my power suit or my L B D.
And things like that, Like the literally naked option.
So I'm gonna put this together on my block, and I'm gonna have It was like a little searchable thing so that it's easy for you guys to look up like a my favorite basis on Be Understand why?
How?
Where, when I use them, that makes sense.
So I'm gonna hopefully have one of those up before this video goes like saw link in the description box down below.
But I am going to get myself ready for the day.
Look how gorgeous this is.
The mixture off by Terry C.
C.
On dhe the Laura Massey A tinted moisturizer is like just goals.
It just gives you beautiful skin.
Doesn't look cakey in any way, shape or form.
It just looks like hydration on dhe glow on DDE beautiful skin.
And if I have got any blemishes like I've got a little scar here, I'll just take my naz custard concealer and I literally do the smallest.
I can't get the smallest brush I have.
Where is this?
Where is my teeny tiny brush like this is probably the smallest brush I have a moment.
This is the Sigma angled brow E 75 brow brush.
It's not a concealer brush, but I'll take a little bit of custard.
I will just conceal it like that.
Any other sort of little he lives.
I have going on all these little bit like these.
Sometimes I get quite a lot of like readiness here, so I'm just a little bit of that.
But it's just super light.
I just don't want to hide my skin.
I want my skin to be on show and that is literally it.
Oh, my foundation version sounds says I'm gonna going in my foundation, brush with me.
This is not a makeup tutorial.
By the way, this is just me having verbal diarrhea Foundation brush.
AKI Oh, guys, come on.
There we go.
My foundation brush is the concealer blend Kabuki 79 and this is just what I use to buff everything in and make skin allow this and this has worked wonders.
It really does for making your skin look natural literally.
Yesterday, that was all I was wearing.
No, that's not the one.
The one I wanted My favorite color.
Oh, this one, my favorite color in the kind of lip balms like it looks obviously like neon peach.
But because it's so share, it gives you a peachy nudie barmy.
Finished.
This is coral on.
I use this over spiced with liner on.
It gives again a really natural finish to your lips.
It kind of looks like your own lips, but just a little bit better.
That's a little bit of an over exaggeration, but it just doesn't look like you're wearing a shed ton of makeup.
Which, when you were like Matt, let six.
It can make you look like So, Anyway, that's what I'm gonna be putting on my lips with spice.
I'm gonna get ready now for the day ahead.
All right?
I have been dealing on the safer Do not up.
You see, I did what we could have dinner.
We've got a lot of food that we need to use.
To be honest, that's a lot of peppers.
A lot of tomatoes.
Well, there's broccoli and cause yet.
Oh, my gosh.
There's just so much way need to do like a vegetable roasted vegetable thing to get Yeah, I need to do some batch cooking tonight, babe.
Yeah, Let's go.
At least go out presence and understand the workload that we need to get done.
Okay?
And then I'm gonna do some cocaine.
I have been summoned by my husband to the spare bedroom.
Yeah, just like turning the wall and looking at it in there.
Right?
This is what our spare bedroom look like.
And yet we have guests arriving in, like, two days.
This is the Christmas situation.
Actually, it's also has some PR stuff.
Those arrived.
So it may not be all Christmas stuff, but we just kind of hid stuff in here.
All of the wrapping supplies are here from Fortnum and Mason.
Hampers a lot.
A lot of stuff that we need Thio sort through and allocate to people.
So Lego I have a quick little tea.
Charlie out.
Robert.
President Tutorial.
Good morning, everyone.
I ended up wrapping all of last night's presence.
I got pretty much everything done, and then I spent the evening batch cooking because we had so much food in on with it being Christmas in a couple of days, I just I just decided to batch cook basically this morning I'm up on dhe.
I'm heading over to Derma Spa.
I'm having like, my full body mot that I think I told you about.
Hence why I'm a little bit fresh faced.
I'm going to have my nails and toes, and I have not had my toes on in months and months and months, so I'm sorry in advance.
Damn spot.
I've had my morning ginger and lemon shot.
You got water?
Andi, I'm gonna go and have a proper with my best friend.
I think she's only getting her eyebrows done, though.
So she probably won't stay with me for the whole time, but yeah, that's the plan of action for today.
I don't know what else we got to do, but we're already late leaving so livid.
Absolutely live it.
Basically, Allie went out last night.
Andi took one of the cars, too.
Like where he was going and left it and then drank.
And he was like, Don't worry.
I'll take you in the morning as like a But I can't be late.
We have to leave at half past and the time is 9 34 There were only four minutes late, and I guarantee that will make me late, Thio.
Damn smart.
He always does this.
I can never, ever count on him to get me anywhere on time because he's such a procrastinator.
He was like you were in the shower too long.
We have five bathrooms, Ali.
If you need the shower, use one of them.
Anyway.
We got so G May, May.
May.
May.
So the fluffy, made happy Christmas Eve Eve.
Everyone leaving.
Uh, we had a killer trip Thio Costco yesterday to get, like food and stuff in.
We will support layer of alcohol and stuff for me as well.
My hair is in a turban because I've got hair mask on some washing my hair for the first time since getting it done just to bring you up to speed on what I've been doing since Blob was finished, I popped up to Birmingham to see Nikki Lazo, and I've got my hair done for the second time on now we're probably leaving it for a while to get my hair rip ex.
I've had a lot of bleach on it.
I'm just doing a lot of like hair masks and things like that on.
Then yesterday I went for the pamper of all Pampers from Derma Spa.
Thankfully, they invited me down to have, like, a load of treatments and thing that I love about Dama spies, that they do everything pretty much all at once.
So there's no kind of waiting around and going from therapist to therapist.
I literally go in.
I had a college and wave facial, and I don't know whether you can notice the difference in my skin.
I've got nothing on my face right now.
I have some red marks these women really read yesterday on there now, like healing and they faith faded loads.
But on the whole, my skin looks so like even But I had the collagen wave.
What else did I have?
I had loads of different sort of treatments at once.
Oh, then I had the one where they like it, fires a solution into a skin and then it sucks it out.
Or that was my faith, apparently have really clean skin.
It didn't come out milk.
It'll it was like super clean.
Then I had the words that derma rollings there with the little needles and then Queen Kind replied on top.
I also had blue and red light therapy as well.
I also had oxygen lasted into my skin.
I had my eyebrows done, so they're probably looking a lot lighter.
We tried it for a second time.
It honestly, it's so funny.
This Brown nomination just doesn't work on my eyebrows.
But you have to bear in mind that my eyebrows are like a man's beard, like they're just so wiry on Dhe.
They go really nice and soft just afterwards.
I'm not allow.
It feels weird to have soft like fluffy browse.
Give them an hour and they are back to wiry, and I can't do anything with them.
So my brows, unfortunately, are no candidate for brown lamination, which is that, but I had them shaped, plucked and tidied up, ready for Christmas Day.
So today I am Anita Rapp Anne's presence.
So what if I got out early for Christmas?
I have got him.
First of all, I bought him a multi like Jim, but it's a cable machine, but I don't know when it's delivered.
No sure when it's delivered in each double.
Check that because the one that we ordered is out of stock and he wants a different one instead, which is just the same.
So I've got Thio finalize when that's gonna be delivered.
I've also got him a huge tub of lemur, which he loves.
I've got him a voucher.
The damage spot.
I bought him a £200 voucher Demas bar Because you know what guys like they just don't take care of themselves.
Like Ali needs a good pedicure.
He needs a good manicure.
He could even have a facial.
I just have some treatments to look after yourself.
So I got him that so they can go there and, like, book in and have some things done.
Even if he just wants to keep getting his nails that tied it up.
My dad always has.
His neighbor's name was tied up, so I'm no stranger to like that.
I also got him a voucher for reflexology.
Is he really, really wants that so he can start that in the new year.
And what else I think Oh, I got him a new toothbrush, a swell new toothbrush that I need.
Thio wraps all of this stuff I need to wrap now, so I'm gonna leave my hair mask on for that then I'm gonna shower will finalize again everything Christmas Day today with Annie's dad and his stepmom.
So that is the plan of action.
I think this evening we're going out for a few drinks where we used to live with Ali's friends just to basically see in the New Year away was I got my toes and yesterday So I honestly, when I was a demonstrate, I was having my facial whilst having my nails done.
So I got a new Christmas sales.
Considers you see, does Yeah, I got new Christmas nails because it's festive.
Nudie needs.
I got on my chose well, but I'm not gonna show you like an up close of my toes, shall I?
Ok, let's do it.
Little Christmas ball, ball toes just there on.
Then once my face was finished, they did my eyebrows, so it was really good.
It was really good.
Just like have everything done at once.
I loved it anyway.
Yes, we're going for drinks later.
We're not having a late one.
Ali's driving Andi.
Then we're coming back on.
Then it's Christmas Day, and I honestly have no idea.
And he is so good at keeping secrets It's ridiculous.
I have no idea where he's got me first.
Well, I guessed.
I think I've guessed one because I said something to him on his reaction.
Kind of gave it away.
So, yeah, there's that.
But I've had my ginger and lemon tea this morning.
Still no Red Bull, which I'm loving, kicks my habit.
What?
On me?
Andi?
Yeah.
So that's what we gonna do for the day.
Nice Christmas Eve and Christmas Day together tomorrow.
Looking forward to it.
The guest bedroom is almost set.
We just gotta get rid of these last Christmas presents.
I need to wrap Ollie's.
So that's what I'm gonna do in here now and then I'm gonna put my nephews president's away on.
I'm finally gonna get myself washed because I need to crack on with Christmassy.
Okay.
Doesn't know what happened.
My camera turned off, so it looks like we got no battery.
Oh, my god.
On I Okay, maybe I'm going to tell you that I finished wrapping.
Okay.
New battery in on these presents wrapped from Lee, me and I.
The big present is just for me because he can't afford it.
Unfortunately, times a tough I'm gonna pop these under the tree with one of the other presents.
Oh, look at all the guests.
Oh, that 1 70 Got my name on it.
Who?
These?
My ones like alleys.
Crappy bos.
Well, I've got loads exciting popped in there.
There we go.
We've got francs.
An archer playing in the house.
But I had to turn it off in the dining room because obviously YouTube copyright claim.
But I can't believe we get to use this room tomorrow.
I am so excited for it to get its first use.
Honestly, I can't wait.
And I'm just so excited, so I'm gonna get myself ready.
And then I'm going to spend the afternoon getting the house ready for our first batch of guests to arrive this evening on.
Then when we go out And then tomorrow Ali's parents Well done.
Set, Mom, come over.
Because Steve Ali has brought the crusty bread.
Lovely.
Yeah, crusty bread you before with name.
This is called a giraffe bloomer or technical.
And also something I wasn't expecting to arrive is too new office chairs for the team.
These from dwell and they're like a cream color.
And then they also have black bases, so I'm gonna be probably selling my other two.
But I didn't expect them to arrive on Christmas Eve.
I was not expecting a furniture delivery, that is for sure.
Ali is getting away while he's putting away all of his loot.
And I'm gonna go and get ready because your girl is clean and I actually can't believe how good my skin looks after those facials yesterday.
It looks like just new skin.
I love it.
Oh, I'm so booking in for that.
What does it?
I don't like the skin.
E don't know that need skin.
It is Christmas Eve.
But I have to go down into the office just to finish off tonight's video ahead of the last day of log.
Miss Love that the team left it so nice and tidy for me as well.
So thoughtful, lovely.
That took me a lot longer than expected.
But whilst I was doing it, my husband sorted out my new chairs from Dwell.
They fit the color scheme a lot better.
I need to have a little bit of a vision here.
It always gets so cluttered, though, but I love them.
They've got the gorgeous black matte black bass and then the white.
I think it's faux leather.
It might be really ever.
I'm not sure I'll let you know the description box.
Then I just need to get that re upholstered.
But I'm really looking for a good re upholster re upholsterer.
Is that the word anyway?
Because at the moment I said no, I have not got my stools from my dressing room.
So yeah, just someone that's gonna be really quick because I need my chair, obviously toe work.
But yet anyway, new stuff here, this is the bits that I got from Oka as well, just more of this faux bone in les detail ing.
I've got the bin as well because they've been in here is so ugly and these tones just really match Well, Ali is pumping some iron in the gym.
Hey, and I am heading upstairs to make us some dinner.
We're just having some soup soup that I made the other day because we just have a quick one.
And I did some batch cooking on dhe these air, the next things we need Thio, he's actually gonna have the one that Carrie made.
I'm gonna have the one that I made because I didn't taste my patch cooking.
Andi, I need to get better at that.
So pop these in the microwave because that is the joy of batch.
Cooking also is something that I learned.
I did not realize that this double did the second oven.
So I've actually got to you, Evans.
Amazing.
Wow.
A good suit.
Yes.
Well done.
Me.
Three good meals I made in a row shocked myself.
We had our suit on.
Oh, my gosh.
I can't believe that I made a suit that delicious.
I'm so proud of myself.
I think it was a what's it called a thermo mix recipe.
And I loved it.
But I am ready to go out now.
Awesome Christmas Eve drinks.
We don't usually do this.
Usually we spend it with family.
But this year we thought we'd go and have some drinks with friends on dhe.
Nothing.
Major Ali's drinking because we don't like being hung over on Christmas Day.
Because Christmas Day it's for drinking.
So yeah, it's my outfit.
I've got the gem it Easter volleying hate gym skirt into Miss Me Roll neck, Caledonia tights, Chloe Booze on Bordry bag on makeup.
I've gone super simple that she just sorted out from today rows looking quite thick.
I was just brushed my waves through.
And I feel like this is looks better.
And I don't know why I haven't done this with my hand, usually.
Oh, I think that's the sound of the beast has started the car.
Like what?
How did he get out there?
Right, I'm gonna put a coat on.
Andi, head the offerings.
Good morning, everyone.
I'm not quite sure where we got to you in this log.
To be perfectly honest, I think it was about Christmas Eve and we were getting the house ready for everything Christmas related because, as I mentioned only a few 100 times, we were hosting Christmas that year and it was really, really exciting on DDE.
I just loved every moment of it.
We had the most wonderful day.
If I have any clips from, like my stories, I'll insert them here and you can kind of get the general gist of what happened.
But I didn't really do much stories.
I don't think we just thoroughly enjoyed it.
And we spent the day lying around the house, watching films on eating so much food.
And I ate so much food that the amount of alcohol that I drank was like outweighed.
It was great.
So I just drank champagne from the early morning.
As soon as we got up, we pour ourselves a glass of champagne on dhe.
We set about enjoying Christmas, and that was what we did.
We drank all day right up until the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special was finished, even though I don't really watch governance, Stacy.
But that was the first episode I've ever watched on.
I actually don't really watch much of it.
I think I kind of dozed off, but then we went to bed and I had the weirdest.
It must have been all of the cheese because we had a proper cheese best.
We ate so much that we didn't even have enough room for dessert, and we ate so much cheese.
And I think there was this, like, rare bit cheese that I had on all of us.
All of us wrote, woke up the next day.
We were like I had the weirdest dreams.
I actually can't remember them now, but we had really, really weird dreams.
So obviously you are now watching this from the New Year on.
My house is not full of decorations that will go on basically, Onda still a few a few Christmas presents around here because I need to go and see my niece, nephew, nephews on my brother on my sister in law.
So that's why they're still there.
But as you are watching this, there will be no decorations left in my house.
However, I did, obviously take some amazing time off over New Year, and I will kind of bring you up to speed in all of the changes and resolutions and all of the things that I'm hoping to achieve and do on dhe just kind of work on on Dhe be better at in the new year.
So that is coming in my next video.
So sateen.
Sorry that you're getting festive set up, but I wanted to do a what I got for Christmas video, and I am filming it to us.
We still have the decorations up, so but yeah, I've taken some much needed time off on I've thoroughly enjoyed it.
I've no actually picked up.
My camera is thought as much as I thought I would, but it's lovely to have taken that time off and just been able to pick up as and when I fancy it.
So with a few days left of my Christmas Holly Bob's, I thought I'd sit down and go through everything that I got for Christmas this year from family and friends.
I think there's like is one brand that sent me something for Christmas on Dhe.
It was pretty special.
So I had Thio had to kind of feature in this video.
You without further ado, I guess.
Let's get into it.
So my first Christmas present actually arrived from my grandma on last year.
My grandma got me a subscription to Country Life magazine that comes every week, and I really enjoyed working my way through the magazines.
Andi, just reading a little bit more.
It was quite nice.
Just sit on the sofa on and read.
A magazine must have, like my morning tea or wherever it does come every week, though, and that's quite a lot, and I don't usually have that much time.
So this year she got me to new subscriptions and she's cancelled.
The country life one.
And she's got me the English Home, which I actually really, really like.
And I know I'm going to enjoy reading this a lot and also the English Gardens to subscriptions this year.
Andi, I love these.
I actually really think it's such a great gift because it's kind of the gift that keeps on giving.
I don't often buy magazines for myself.
It's kind of like an as and when I'm not a ll.
Yeah, okay, I'll get myself this about the other, and it's given me a lot more sort of insight into interiors.
It helps me find brands.
It's a hard to find good brands like Lighting.
Andi, we're doing our bathroom.
So it's good to find brands for that as well.
Yeah, so I've been flicking through my first edition of this one, but I'm pretty sure it's monthly.
So this will be a bit more like easy to work my way through over the month and then hopefully I would have done both by the end.
And then I get new ones.
So I really love that.
She would have got me a picture frame, so I'm gonna use that.
Probably put a picture of links in because I think that's what she intended it for.
Where should we go next?
Oh, so let's talk about other things that maybe you can't see.
So Carrie got me a wine tasting course.
So we're gonna be going on that in February, and I think we're gonna try and combine it with going to Tom Carriages Restaurant at the Corinthia.
We ate there when we say they're with cleared oppo on it.
Waas Amazing.
I loved it.
And I really want to take Allie.
So I think we're gonna take We're gonna, like, make her a day of it, and we're gonna go to Ronnie Scott's.
And then we're gonna go thio carriages on what we're gonna do the wine tasting with both our partners.
So we thought that would be good fun.
And so I bought it Valley for Christmas as well.
So that's really good.
Really happy about that on dhe.
I just wanted to get to know, like, wine a little bit more.
I only really drink kind of gin or wine, so that was a good one.
And then Aly's mom obviously caused the vouchers for Tom Carriages flagship restaurant where we went for our anniversary.
So is really funny.
It kind of Ali had booked to take me there for our anniversary, and I think he must have, like, maybe mentioned it.
His brother and then his brother must have mentioned it.
His mom and his mom had already got us vouchers for Christmas for the restaurant.
And so when she came in, she was She was like insisting that we open our Christmas present before Christmas.
And I think that that was because she knew that we were going and it meant that it would go Thio our like anniversary trip, basically.
And it's perfect such a great gift for us.
And we do love like the gift of experiences because often we get quite busy and we don't take time out.
So it was actually funny.
We had vouchers for the Ivy as well.
Like you could go to any of the Ivys on because we were in March at the hand of flour, we thought we were going to stay over.
So we thought the next day we could go to the I V, and we can use our vouchers for our birthdays, and so we had the dinner, the hand of how it was amazing.
We locked it.
And then the next time you went down there and honestly, I was really, really disappointed with the Ivy because his mom had spent so much money on these vouchers and she'd really like just given us so much money to be able to spend at the Ivy.
We went to pay for the meal, and the meal actually came to £75 on what we had vouches for more than that.
And they said, Basically, if you use your vouchers, you have to use like we'd have to pay Essentially say that.
Say the value of the vouchers was like £500.
It wasn't but just say it was on.
Our meal was only 75.
We would lose all of the rest of our voucher just to pay with £75.
I've never heard of that in my life, and I was actually we're both so disappointed.
We obviously paid and didn't use the vouchers because we're not gonna waste the money that Ali's mom has like put towards that.
So yeah, we were really disappointed with that, but hopefully what we'll try and do is kind of take them out for a meal there or something so we can use the whole voucher and spend a little bit more on top.
I think that's what we're gonna try and do.
But other than that, yeah, I thought that that was quite match on.
Then Ali's dad and step mom got us meal vouchers to go.
Thio le Manoir in Oxford.
They went there recently.
They've actually got twice recently and they just loved it.
So they got us vouchers to go as well.
And I'm actually super excited.
I can't remember where we decided when we decided that we're gonna go.
When are we going to the Manoir?
Oh, yeah.
So we're gonna go Valentine's Day that around that time?
I think so.
That would be good.
Really excited about that one.
So those were, like, experiences that I was gifted then to see some of the things that really got me.
Actually, those I had to get one of them out of the freezer on one out of the cup.
It because it has been put away.
You might see something sparkling on the hand.
Have another ring from Ali which it was one of the rings I was looking at from Miss Eka.
And if you know that I worked with the Seeker before Christmas as well.
So it was so funny.
And I think I kind of like guest because I told him that I was working with music.
And Ali is such a bad liar.
Like I can instantly tell when he's either trying to hide something or when he's lying.
And his response.
He was like, Oh, Miss seeker like I like I was like, You don't know who Miss Seeker are.
And then I thought so.
So he's definitely got me something for Christmas.
I didn't know what it was, though, and it was such a lovely surprise on get matches and goes really well with my ring.
Apparently, this is from the GI Hadid collaboration with The Seeker, and it's now discontinued, so you can't really get these anymore.
Patty, This is like the last one, but I love my sparkly rings on dhe.
It was just absolutely perfect and so much more than I expected Christmas, because we've spent a lot of the house and I didn't expect him to get me anything so that was very nice.
Got me some Italian new guard, the almond and hazel one hazel, not one from Waitrose.
This is just the little box here, Jessica.
I think I showed you this in my otherwise.
But look, it's gonna like, innit?
How?
Calling that, Andi.
He also got me a bottle of my favorite gin, which has been in the freezer.
This is a monkey 47.
This is, like my favorite easily accessible Jim.
I think you kind of get this in Maur restaurants on bars on you could get in Waitrose and MNS, I think, know, Eminence, but I do prefer, like, a lot more niece chins.
But this one is like the one that I always always go to.
But if I've got, like, a gin menu, always sample something super niche.
But this is like my just favorite like, easily accessible jin that I always go to fail safe.
I love it.
And yet, so I love that something was very happy to give all of this.
He also always gets me.
It's, um, cashmere socks from the white company.
Because I love them and they're cozy and I go through them so much those always welcomed as well.
The gifts from Ali's brother and girlfriend.
They got me this, and this is probably my most used Christmas present so far.
This is the candle brand could, like see Tre something or other?
I'm not really.
I don't really know their candles, but this is genius.
So this is a candle pater outtara.
Basically, rather than snuffing a candle or like putting the little say, the glass goes black or even if you don't, it's not like in a container can't really put out without blowing out.
And I always thought, That's so weird because surely eat when you're burning us, especially scented candle, you want to smell to feel the room, but then when you blow it out, it makes it feel with smoke.
The only way to put out a candle without making smoke is to dip.
The wick that is a light into the wax is melted and then pull it out, and they needed to be like something that was designed for that.
On this, I don't even know if it was designed for that, but this is how I've been using it.
So I plopped the wick into the wax, pull it back out with the hook and stand upright in its proper position so that it doesn't spread out on dhe.
Yeah, I've used this so much, I always have it handy to put my candles out, and it means that my house didn't feel with the smell of smoke.
I like the smell of smoke for my cat, my my log burner, but not from candles with I know but so handy, and I've used that so much.
This is the fever tree art of mixing simple long drinks and cocktails from the world's leading bar's Definitely think that I should expand my tastes with my Jin's and experiment a little bit more seeing about enjoy it so much and evidently from everything I got.
People understand that enjoy it so much s O.
That book is currently on the shelf in my kitchen.
Oscar carries cat because he always gets me a Christmas present.
Some favor, Auntie, this is a little plate that carriers like.
I know it's not your athletic I could not not get either.
So this is the chief sloth on dhe.
Yes, basically a portrait of me, isn't it?
It does make me laugh and alleys.
Step, Mom was like I was actually going to get you that How funny.
Then Ali's nanograms got me two bottles of gin.
One is well, this is mermaid gin, which I'd never heard off.
Apparently, this is small batch.
No, this is small batch, the pink gin, This one, The pink one is infusing their signature gin with island strawberries.
They've crafted vibrant mermaid pink gin refreshing on aromatic serve.
And then this one, which is the one that I will obviously go through it, is using the hearts and a column.
Still, they're able to create the remarkably smooth and complex yet complex Jin that is Mermaid lots of Jim there as well.
From Ali's Nan and Gramps, which obviously all of these people I have said thank you then my friend Alex Andi, her husband Sam got me this.
They said, apparently, this is amazing.
This is the Alesci cheese grater on DDE.
Yeah, I mean, I can't wait to use it.
I'm also I'm like, it's a bit like a work of art.
I don't even know if I want to use it so amazing.
But I love cheese.
So this Waas.
Very, very welcome there.
From my lovely friend from Dior, I was sent a bag on dhe.
I left it unopened.
I don't know why I did that.
I didn't know it was a Christmas present, so I left unopened.
I just happened to be rummaging through it on Christmas Day, and I realized that it was a lovely gift that came in this gorgeous box.
I feel like this is just a work of art in itself.
I'm never, ever thrown this away.
It's so beautiful.
But I've been wearing it ever since I arrived.
They sent me a bracelet, which I thoroughly enjoyed because I've obviously really got my do.
You will find jewelry bracelets, but it was just so may.
It's this kind of diamond.
J.
Christine, do your bracelet just there you can see and it goes in my stack Really nice meat, really nicely.
And it's got like pals on Bill Kristol's and a little dangly Christine Dual got, like, matching necklaces and everything so I can get more.
But I don't think this is like a solid gold one, so I should be a bit more careful with it.
But I do tend to wear my Jew.
We all the time very, very beautiful.
So thank you so much to do.
Or for that.
But I did text them straight weights.
They thank you.
We also got some champagnes and pink champagne on dhe.
I got some little bottles of gin which are like tree decorations from Cal.
And he also got me this book which I'll grab now.
Yes.
So Cal got me on Dolly.
So this is for b