We Did Something that we NEVER Do

My wristwatch is broken, my shoes are untied. Time is a ticking, so is the tide. But I am not worrying, things are what they are. Come rain or come shine or a shooting star. I've been to the south, I've been to the north, east and the west, the middle of course. I may have been astray, but I've never been lost, never been beat by the road I've crossed. I guess I've been lucky to some degree, for someone who ate all the fruit from the tree. The star's been a-lying and my goo's hanging high. I'll be okay in the sweet by and by. Hello guys, welcome back to a brand new video. We're starting the vlog together and there's no baby in the back. Coda is not with us. Hear that silence? Oh I miss it. I miss him too. I don't want silence, I want someone going more. Oh dad. Baba, dada, mama, hi mummy. That's his latest one. He walks into the room and goes hi mummy and he waves at us. So cute. God, we're those annoying parents aren't we? It's us, we're at that stage in our lives. Yep, I wouldn't change it for the world. So anyways, we have had a nice day so far. I took Coda to forest school this morning and he had the best time. He got mud everywhere possible and just sat in muddy puddles and just played outdoors for a good hour and a half. Absolutely loved it. While George was at home getting some work done, working on a very exciting George project coming soon. And now his grandparents and auntie are at our house right now watching him. My mum and dad and my sister. Yes, and we are going to the gym together and we haven't done this for about a year. We've done it once. Once ever. Since he was born. And that was about a year ago. I think we made an Instagram reel from memory. Yeah, we did. And yeah, so we're going to the gym together and we never get to do that. We both work out a few times a week separately but we never get to do it together. So we don't know how strong each other are right now. We're about to reveal our current fitness levels to each other for the first time in a long time. Imagine like one of us hasn't been going. Yeah, yeah. I just say, I just put gym clothes on and say I'm going to the gym. Yeah, you just go to the drive through. You've actually seen me in the gym, do you? No, that's very true. Not much evidence there, George. Same for me though, to be fair. Just go and drink coffee on my own for an hour. Go to the pub. Decompress. Feeling good. Feeling strong. Feeling tired. Haven't eaten enough today, which often happens, but we are at a place that can fix that. We're at one of our favourite places and we thought because we are childless, we would treat ourselves and have a little day out at Holmberg. It was so strange. I should have gone the other way. Yeah, you should have gone the other way. It feels so weird. You can't park in the baby spaces, George. You're not with a baby. I know that's what you were heading for. That's so true, actually. Maybe park. Yeah, so we thought we'd treat ourselves. If you're not aware of the beautiful place that's Holmberg, it's home to a Tesco's, an M&S, a McDonald's and a Next. Anything else? That's it, isn't it? Basically, it's a big shopping centre. Shopping centre, basically, that's quite close to us. Nice to look around. We wanted to get some bits for the weekend. It's Friday today when we're filming this. I think this video is being published on Sunday, so it's a two day old video. We are back up to date with the vlogs, guys. We know a lot of you prefer it when the vlogs are in real time and so do we, honestly. It is better. It gets a bit confusing when they're not. Can you stop driving around the corners that quick? I'm about to throw up. I've got my baby in the car. I was going to drift around it. I thought I was your baby. You are one of. That sounded really bad. I mean you and Coda. Brilliant. Anyways, moving on very swiftly. Mind the wheels, mate. We wanted to pick up some bits for the weekend from M&S, so that's what we're doing. And then we're going to probably hit rush hour traffic on the way home and then be reunited with our baby and see. Maybe he'll be happy to see us because he hasn't seen us. One of us is always with him. He doesn't go to nursery. Let's film his reaction. Let's see if he's happy to see us or if he's over it and doesn't really notice that we were gone. I've just been getting some emails done working on Project Roy, which Lucy and I've been speaking about in vlogs for the last few weeks. Project rest of year. Now, I think we've hinted at it. We haven't said exactly what's going on, but we've hinted at it. And if you know Lucy and I, you know it's going to be involving some travel. We just can't get enough of being in different places, experiencing different cultures, the food, the people. If you've watched the channel for the last six years, you will know that our favourite thing to do is immerse ourselves in these new places that are different from how and where we grew up. It's actually perfect timing to speak about the sponsor of today's video, which is LingoPie. Now, LingoPie is a language learning platform, one like I've never seen before. They got in touch with us and kind of said, hey, look, this is what we do. This is what the platform is. Would your viewers be interested in this? I said, yes, absolutely. I think a lot of them would, because we know how many of you guys also like to travel and experience new cultures. But LingoPie is the world's first language learning platform that uses foreign TV shows and movies to teach new languages. So it's a subscription service where you get access to thousands of hours of foreign TV shows. 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So we were speaking with the team and they've agreed to give Juicy Vlog viewers a seven-day free trial. And they're also very generously giving 55% off. If you want to move forward with the subscription, you can do all of that with the link just below this video. I think this is really cool. One of the first things we do when we get to hotel room in whatever country we're in is turn on the TV and watch a little bit of whatever TV show is on in that country. And I think this is a pretty cool way to learn a language. A little bit different. And at the end of the day, a little bit more fun. So if this interests you, please go and check it out. Another thanks to Lingopie for sponsoring the video and working with us. And if any of you guys try this, please let us know in the comment how you get on. I'm personally hoping they have one thing here that is Lucy and I's favourite. I know what it is called. The yum nut. The yum... Is it? Yeah. No, it's called a yum nut. It's... I'll show you. They better have it because it's the most delicious thing in the world. I'm picking up some sour... Garlic bread sourdough for the weekend as well. Oh, that looks amazing. Looks nice. It's frozen. Oh. You're not expecting it to be. I was thinking I was going to feel how soft it is. But it's rock hard. This is what I'm interested in. They do these individual doughnuts. Just look... Incredible. Yes, these. These are the yum nuts. But we need a whole box of them. This is the section that I'm interested in, guys. On a weekend, we do like to have a little something sweet. Comment below if you can relate. I mean, one of these each would do the job. Chocolate. M&S do such nice stuff. This is not an ad for M&S, but it might as well be because we are big fans. This is the one, guys. Three or six. I'm going to go for six. Oh, this is a better date. A box of six. This, honestly, you are ever in M&S. This is what you need to pick up. Very successful. Super successful. So we got the six box of the yum nuts. Do you know what happens if you lift them up? What? The icing comes off on the lid and you don't get to eat the icing. The icing is the best bit. We also decided in there that for dinner this evening, Lucy's going to make her famous nachos. World famous nachos. I don't know where we got that from. They are because we have viewers all over the world. So therefore, when we show them on the vlog, we make them famous worldwide. You would have seen them on the vlog many a time. And if you haven't, you're in for a treat. So we're going to have that. And then when we get home, we will show you Coda because we know you guys like seeing Coda in the vlogs. Whenever there's a vlog recently without Coda in, which happens occasionally, not very much these days, we get comments saying there's no Coda in this vlog. Where's Coda? What's Coda doing? You know what the funny comments are? It's just people that say Coda question mark. Coda? Yeah, like where's the boy? So yeah, let's get home. Hopefully, there won't be too much traffic. But this has been such a cool afternoon, but a little bit strange, I have to say. Very odd. But how nice. So nice. How nice is this? Like, it feels like our old life. I know. But I don't want our old life. It doesn't feel like our old life because I'm just thinking about him all the time. True. It feels really strange that it's just the two of us kind of going around. I feel like a teenager just going around doing whatever we want. It's been a weird day today because we worked kind of like half the day. It's Friday for us. So weird. And then we've just kind of been going to the gym. There's not much going on today, really. It's just like chilled. Yeah. But I don't know. I don't know. Other parents may relate. Yeah, it's weird. It is very weird. And it probably just seems so normal if you haven't got kids and you're watching thinking like... Yeah, you've just gone to the gym and gone to a shop. Get over it. But you don't get to do this when you've got a baby. I mean, he could come around M&S with us, but we'd then constantly be like thinking if he's OK and what he's doing. And is he eating things he shouldn't be? And is he hurting himself? Is he OK? But when you're in there just the two of you, you don't have to have that responsibility and you can just think about what you want to eat, which is really nice. And I just said to Lucy, it's so nice doing something together. Yeah. And then I thought we're always together every day. But we're never together. But we're also never together because it's like... There's always another person that's more important. Not that we change it, of course. We always put Coda before each other when we're with Coda because he's a baby and of course we want to. Exactly. But then we can put each other first when we're just together. Yeah, it's nice to have a couple of hours together. So thanks to the old grandparents. I do miss him. The old grandparents. He's only just turned 60. That's true. Hello. Hi, Coda. Hello. Did you have fun? We've been dancing. Oh, we've been dancing and also... Have you been dancing? Did you miss us? I took Tony out. Cool. Can you dance with Gramps? Nana dancing? Yeah. Good dancing. Did you miss Daddy? Open. Coda, did you miss Daddy? Oh, okay. Wow. Okay, it's about an hour later now. The shopping has been put away. I put the shopping away. We've emptied the dishwasher, really emptied the dishwasher, had a bit of a tidy up of the house. Coda's had his dinner. He's had a bath. He's gone to bed. He's asleep right now. And the nachos have been made. They're currently in the oven. Very excited about that. But yeah, he seemed really happy to see us. He wasn't upset or emotional with the fact that we were back or that we'd been gone or anything, but he was just genuinely happy to see us. He was like, mama, and was really pleased. So he had a great afternoon. Yeah, so we're going to have these nachos and then tonight we will feast. Maybe have one or two donuts each. They're so good. I actually love them. Oh, look at that. Glory. Oh, bloody hell, it's hot. Glorious. Oh my goodness. Can you hear the sizzle? Do you think he has? Good morning, guys. It is the next morning now. We're just looking for something that we've lost. We're now at a stage where we're losing things in the house, which is kind of funny because a few months ago, we didn't really have any things to fill this house with because we came from a smaller place. Anyway, Koda's now down for his nap. Lucy is making us a full English breakfast. Before this vlog ends, I will show you a shot of that because I'm personally very excited. Still figuring out this vlogging angle. Kind of just want to sit down and have a little casual chat for a second. Something like that. Is it a little bit too slouched? I don't know. Yeah, I want to thank you for watching this vlog today. It's the weekend for us now. We're heading out this afternoon for a little walk in the countryside. And honestly, those treats last night finished us off. We both fell asleep at about 8 p.m. on the sofa and that's why we didn't vlog anything else last night. I feel way too chilled here. So this morning is actually quite exciting for me because I'm launching something that I've been working on for the last month or two, I want to say, kind of behind the scenes around what we do. And it's something that's going to help people grow on social media and potentially turn doing social media into a full-time job like Lucy and I have. So I'm basically taking six years of my experience and knowledge and insights and I'm running a 90-minute masterclass online for anyone who wants to join, anyone who has an interest in growing their audiences. Maybe they're a business owner, they want to get more customers through social media, they want to make an income online, they want to turn a passion into something they can do every single day. So yeah, the email is going out today. I've had a fair bit of interest, more than I expected. So I thought I'd mention it at the end of the vlog in case anyone watching the vlog wants to be a vlogger or wants to do social media. So if that interests you at all, I'll leave a link below. You can add yourself to my email list. Then I can get in touch with you. This vlog is going to end here with a beautiful shot of Lucy's full English breakfast. So thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in the next one very soon. Oh, Project Roy. Project Roy. Things are happening. Flights are getting booked. Hotels are being arranged and spoken to. Destinations, old and new. Like, Project Roy is coming together, guys.