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Chapters:
00:00 – Homemade Soup & Smoothies Jars
06:46 – Natural Beauty Products
14:13 – Greenhouse Tablescape & Hosting
17:40 – Morning Pilates, Daylesford Shop & The Spring Garden
22:50 – Morning Health Smoothie
26:28 – Perennial Presets & Wedding Tips
33:54 – Seed Sewing & Spring Gardening

[Music] good morning my darlings I’m looking a little bit Bonkers because I decided to try out heatless curls again today haven’t done it in quite some time today is actually bank holiday Monday and we’re treating today a little bit like a Sunday because we we saw loads of friends over the bank H weekend yesterday and Saturday so we’ve not had any time to do like the house stuff you know when you need to just reset everything like the chores that you would normally do on a Sunday we’re basically doing today and then we’ve got Rory and Nathan coming over for dinner so it’s going to be a lovely day I thought hair can be looking silly as I do the chores and then hopefully it might look nice later so I’m not going to film the process but I’m just about to make a maybe I’ll do a little time lapse cuz that doesn’t hurt um I’m just going to do a leak and potato soup for lunch and then also it can be my lunch and anyone else that wants it lunch tomorrow and Wednesday this is inspired by the leak and potato soup that I did not have yesterday at the fox at odington it was you know when you have like a second choice starter I went for the barata and I couldn’t stop thinking about that leak and potato soup so bought some leaks this morning so I’m going to do that I know it’s not very seasonal especially because when when you’re watching this I think it might even be 23° wow I know crazy first actual sign of warmth this year um but I love a good soup and I can have them every single day so I’m going to do that and then do you want to know what’s on my too list for this bank holiday weekend um we’ve got some bacon which I’m going to cook for the dogs which is ridiculous but um it needs using up so I’m going to do bacon for the dogs I’m going to make my smoothie jars because I have run out and it’s a Sunday job I’m going to do my end of the month flower pressing I know we’re well into may now which is mindblowing but at the end of each month I like to press flowers to um kind of commemorate the flowers from each month and I haven’t done my April ones yet so beans somewhere I’ve got a pack of bellot beans which I’ll pop a photo of them on the screen here they’re like a pink and white pod they’re amazing I need to sew them I need to plant out the remainder of my sweet peas and I bought some Ed and Mar seedlings a couple of days ago so I need to plant those out make my leak and potato soup tidy the greenhouse and lay the table ready for dinner so that doesn’t sound like too many things but at the same time I’m also doing like a load of loads of laundry I do really need to do some tidying up upstairs and why am I telling you my entire to-do list I don’t know but um that is the plan for today I thought we could do those things together but yes as I said said I’m just going to stick on a podcast make my leak and potato soup and then we’ll do the fun stuff together [Music] [Music] well my darlings I feel like if you are a regular Watcher of the Vlogs you will know exactly what I have just been doing here on this tray I have made my smoothie jars for the next week so we’ve got berries we’ve got banana we’ve got nuts we’ve got seeds we’ve got um peanut butter and we have got all of my crazy different additions from maca powder to grass-fed collagen to my wild nutrition protein powder without that I add in um coconut and MCT yeah loads of different bits and Bobs mushroom powders this just saves me so much time but I know I’ve spoken about these a lot before so let’s put the lids on these are going to go in the freezer Charlie came in and he just was like surely freezing nuts is not a good idea so I Googled it and apparently it’s actually a very good idea because of the high oil content in nuts it just helps to keep them at their best so yeah perfectly fine to freeze everything and then in the mornings I grab a jar I put a bottle of cafir in the blender along with an asai Berry pouch um and then I fill after I’ve emptied the jar I fill it with cold water to like shake it up and get all of the drgs out the bottom put that cold water into the smoothie and it’s the perfect consistency so there we go that is actually two weeks worth of smoothie because one of these jars actually lasts Me 2 days because these are the bottles of cafair that I buy from dford to put in the smoothie and what I do is I fill up the empty bottle with smoothie this is the one that I made yesterday so that is Smoothie day two reusing the bottle so yeah there we have two weeks worth of smoothies smoothie jars are in the freezer and leak and potato soup is done actually left it sitting for a little while it’s got a bit of a top on it but that’s absolutely fine I’m just going to do a really simple bowl with a scrunch of pepper for a bit of a light lunch normally I do my hery croutons but I haven’t got time for that today or just can’t really be bothered so there we go go a lovely quick homemade leak and potato soup yummy [Music] well my darlings somehow it’s already half past 4 I literally don’t know where today has gone um I haven’t ticked off any of the gardening things on my to-do list but I have ticked off like all of the house chores so I’m not too annoyed because it’s still been a really really productive day and I think the weather in the week is going to be glorious so that will be my time to do the gardening let let’s see if looking like King Tut and Carmon all day um will have been in vain or not with the heatless curls what I sometimes do I know this is the most ridiculous stage is I just leave them like this for a few moments I think we might be in luck I doubt they’ll hold very much because of how silky my hair was I always just attach um the bubbles back onto it to keep it all together let’s see just use my fingers I mean we’ve got a little bit of movement haven’t we that looks quite nice so the next on my agenda is to just go and lay the table before Rory and Nathan get here and I think we’re going to eat in the greenhouse I was just tidying up in there a little bit just sweeping some bits away and I think it’ll be a good temperature it’s meant to get a bit sunnier later fingers crossed before I head down and do that though I wanted to show you something really fun especially for those you that are interested in more natural deodorants because I’m I’ve mentioned this probably many years ago but um also during our honeymoon I particularly mentioned it I think it’s no surprise with everything that I’ve been talking about Lately from a nutrition and like General Wellness point of view that using a natural deod is kind of a no-brainer for me avoiding the chemicals especially in these areas it’s so close to your very important lymph nodes um and so if I can minimize chemicals in this area then that’s something that I really want to do especially when minimizing the chemicals doesn’t have any downsides like it’s not like you don’t get as Superior product by making a natural switch and I think that for me is the biggest thing like switching to a more natural SPF or a more natural skincare routine whether it’s the organic Pharmacy or Ole products that have looked to nature for functional ingredients that do not compromise on how a amazing they feel on the skin how well they work um how amazing they smell I don’t want to compromise but I do want to be considerate as to what I’m putting on my body so this is wild deodorant which you’ll have heard me talking about before this is my current one but I wanted to show you something really cool that has just arrived and it is their new limited edition spring carry case they have collaborated with Emma Bridgewater and the bees were the customer favorite design so that is what they’ve gone for in their reusable aluminium tins they’re really Nifty really tiny um I keep one in my gym bag and they’re just they don’t look like a deodorant they look really really cute which is one of the things I love especially if you can get your hands on one of these limited edition cases I will leave this link down below and you can use the discount code on the screen here but that’s not all that’s exciting they have got a new I call them flavors but it’s not a flavor it’s a scent this is their honey and Cactus flour vegan friendly aluminium free this is the refill and these are completely compostable so think how much plastic you’re saving by getting little refills popping it straight in the bottom of your deodorant you don’t have to worry about using or you don’t you don’t have loads of um plastic within your products that you’re having to think about recycling it’s literally as easy as that to set it up and then we’ll scroll it oh oh my gosh that’s that smells amazing they also have body washes and body lotions if you want to continue your fragrance Journey but that honey and Cactus flour that is Heavenly so while deodorants are completely safe there are no harmful chemicals within them you still get 24-hour protection I find the formula really moisturizing um and just lovely to use on my underarms um I love the fragrances I as I mentioned love the that there are no toxic chemicals in here vegan vegan friendly aluminium totally reusable super sustainable compostable refills there’s really nothing not to love and also the fact that it keeps you smelling amazing for um I was about to say forever but no I do put this on every single day and also they do worldwide shipping so wherever you guys are you can get your hands on these which is amazing so if you want to try this out for yourself which I would so highly recommend 20 JY is the code that you need I’ll leave a direct link to get that discount in the description box down below and I’m also going to pop a little barcode up on the screen here cuz I know that lots of you watch the Vlogs up on your television so if you’ve got your phone in your hands you can just scan this barcode and that will take you to wild deodrant with the discount code so yeah there we go I’m so happy to have partnered with wild deodrant to share this exciting new launch with you and bring you that wonderful discount so do check it out and let me know if you’re already a huge huge fan as I mentioned I’ve been a fan for I don’t even know when I first started using W probably 3 or 4 years ago I first of all went in like I kind of like gradually introduced myself to it but then as using more natural products became more and more important to me um it’s just become my daily go-to so check it out and now I’m going to head down to the green house I’m going to do a little kind of kitchen Garden themed surprise surprise dinner table set up there I think we’re just going to have a super chilled stir fry for dinner which is nice and easy using some salad leaves from the garden some of my pack Choy so it’s going to be a really nice evening [Music] okay the greenhouse is looking good it’s brightening up which is a good sign after a fairly cloudy day I’ve decided um we’re going to keep things seasonal with the cocktails seeing as the dinner is not particularly seasonal and I’m going to do a rhubarb gin and tonic I think what I’m going to try is using a potato peeler on a slice of rhubarb to see if I can do a nice funky garnish and I’ve got my rhubarb could I put some of my rhubarb jam in there I think that could be quite fun I feel like you can get very creative with a gin and tonic let’s see so here’s my rubab plant want a nice colorful bright stem for this that looks good perfect I think that’ll probably be all I need and then I’ve already got my floral whatam call it ice cubes okay the boys are going to be here any second I will start constructing these as soon as they get here but I’m just going to explain what I’m going to do so in the bottom of the glasses I’m going to add a little bit of rhubarb jam and a touch of the apple and rhubarb cordial which is from the N we’ve had this in the covered and don’t know why we’ve not used it yet but I think ACC cordial will be lovely it’s going to be quite rhub barie for Rory and I we’re going to have this Spirit of ilmington rhubarb gin which is created only a few miles down the road in the local Village of ilmington and then for Nathan and Charlie who won’t be drinking we’ve got this mother root which um has got a little bit of a gin gness to it and it’s a little bit gingery as well so that’s one of Charlie’s favorites tonic wise an Indian tonic water we’re using this one from Double Dutch is a nice addition to a rhubarb g&t I’m going to slice and use a potato peeler to create a garnish on the rhubarb and then the floral garnish will be these little bits of oregano just simply cuz we’ve got so much of it in the garden and then for the ice we’ve got my lovely Viola floral ice cubes which I’ll pop out in a second and it’s not one that I’ve tried before but I think all those ingredients together are going to be rather lovely [Music] [Music] oh oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] good morning my darlings it’s Tuesday morning now yes I’m trying this again it didn’t last very well last night so I thought while I’m in the Rhythm I’m trying it again today and I just put a little bit of sea salt spray in my hair before wrapping it up but I’m only going to leave it an hour or so just while I do some work this morning I’ve got my smoothie selection out again which goes against everything that I said yesterday about preparing the jars so that I don’t have to do this every day but it’s because I just really fancy a coffee smoothie this morning so I’ve made a coffee in the lar zoko it’s currently in the fridge to try and cool it down a bit and I’m going to add in um well it’s actually going to be like a chai coffee morning smoothie so I’m going to put my mud water in which I kind of introduced you to a couple of Vlogs ago this has got cocoa Masala chai cinnamon turmeric liines man Rishi and Himalayan salt it is so nice in a smoothie or just with almond milk or even just with water um and you get the benefits of the adaptogenic mushrooms so really really great to have um in the morning I think my discount code is josy 10 I’ll leave that here and down below so definitely add this into your routine if that sounds like the kind of thing that you would enjoy I love it I’m going to put in a bit of my organic maca powder this is from Kiki health most of these things you can get on the health website which again I’ve got a 10% discount code for I’m going to pop in some of the Osa organic collagen a little bit but not too much of my superfood powder um protein powder from Wild nutrition this is berry flavor so I really don’t want too much because in fact no I don’t think I’m going to put that in cuz I don’t want to mess up with the flavor I’ll do a little bit of my ancient and brave cacao to give it an amazing chocolatin almonds Brazil nuts hazelnuts chia seeds banana and peanut butter ooh and of course where are my dates I think CH tidied them away a couple of dates ironically my dates have actually gone out of date but I don’t think it matters that much I think they’ll be fine um and they just add a little bit of sweetness so I’m going to blend this all up with my coffee and it should be sensationally delicious oh [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] Okay so we’ve just had a couple of calls in the office this morning one of them was a little bit of a kind of strategy call for our perennial presets which we’ve done have I got cheer seeds in my teeth probably which we’ve done with cat and we’re trying to think of um what our focus is going to be when it comes to advertising them this month and we all um decided that I think the focus for us preset wise this month is going to be around weddings so if you don’t know what we’re talking about um basically cat is the fantastic photographer that I have worked with for nearly 10 years and all of my early and most of my current blog photography has been done with cat and we spent so long developing a photo style together um and now we’ve created perennial presets which is where you can buy a pack of presets and apply they’re kind of like a really Advanced filter to your photos to really elevate your photos so I’ll put a few before and afters on the screen here that we’ve shot recently like Garden style photos um travel photos food photos and you can do it on your phone with iPhone photos you can do it with professional photography and the Lightroom app on your phone is completely free so it’s just an amazing way of elevating your photography from something that’s quite like a normal maybe a little bit of a flat image into something which looks really professional and beautiful but without without changing how you look you know it’s not blurring your skin it’s not cinching you into the waist or getting rid of any spots it’s a lot more natural um and yeah basically most professional photographers use presets as a way of editing their photos so we have basically put nearly 10 years of our photography style together in this preset pack that you can now apply to your photos as well so it’s been going really really well since the launch um but we thought let’s let’s try and now be a bit more themed as to what we talk about when it comes comes to the presets so yeah this month we’re going to be sharing a lot of wedding content and I think that this is for anyone getting married or being an incredible guest at a wedding then I think this using these presets is such an incredible way of elevating wedding photography I’ll put some before and afters on the screen here of our wedding photos that were just taken mostly on a camera some on iPhone before and after the presets have been applied to them and as you can see it just makes them look so much more beautiful I am often that guest that will take a camera to a friend or a family member’s wedding and I honestly think it’s one of the best gifts that you can give people is memories of their wedding if you are semi okay with a camera or with a shooting video then if you can create content around a loved one’s wedding and share it with them then I have found every single time I’ve done that that they have said it’s one of the best gifts that they have received so just using the presets to apply this editing to the photos I take on the camera or on the phone instantly elevates them and makes them look incredible last year we started to see the trend of inviting a wedding content creator so it could be one of your friends that’s just particularly on it when it comes to social media because the thing with professional wedding photographers they are amazing and I would not get married with that one but they can take up to like 6 to 8 weeks to send you your photos back they’ll often send you a small handful um a few days later but speaking from experience especially in this world of like instant and plentiful content you want loads of photos and you want them like the next day so if one of your friends brings a camera with them and shoots some really lovely photos and then applies perennial presets to the photos they’re often as good as the professionals photos but you get loads of them you get the candid moments they look beautiful and you get them straight away what I will do as a guest is sometimes even that night or the next morning after the wedding I will just import them all into my Lightroom again you can do it on your phone or you can do it on your laptop the laptop version of Lightroom you have to pay for but it’s more advanced you have so many things you can do to the photos but it’s very easy to use um and I will edit like 200 photos from the person’s wedding and then I’ll put them on my phone and I’ll aird drop them to the bride and green the next day and honestly they are they’re so thrilled to receive that so if you’re a bride um maybe allocate one of your friends to be on content creation Duty or if you are a wedding guest I could not recommend doing this any more highly for um yeah basically providing the briding groom with so many beautiful photos and the presets we’ve designed them so that the style of the edit is completely Timeless it’s not like something that’s going to look really trendy right now like I do see a lot of people getting um a certain style of wedding photographer and it’s quite like washed out like whitewash style imagery I personally think that’s a little bit of a trend and it’s going to you’re going to look back in 15 20 years and be like hm kind of wish I did something a bit more Timeless and that’s what we aimed for with the perennial presets we just wanted them to be completely Timeless just naturally enhancing your photos not changing them in any way so yeah if you are interested I will leave the link to Perennial presets down below um if you have any questions on them please just let me know down in the comment section below and I shall Endeavor to answer them for you but you don’t need to be a professional photographer just anyone that likes taking photos and you want to elevate how your photos look then that is what you can use the presets for as I mentioned Lightroom on your phone is completely free so you can use the preset on your phone and a lot of the people that have bought them so far have actually been small business owners because they want to elevate the imagery that they’re sharing on their social media or on their website we’ve also had a lot of photographers buying the presets I think that when you compare our presets to other professional presets um obviously anyone can make a preset but when you when we worked with cat as a very high level professional photographer to make them really precise and perfect the amount of presets that you get for the price is actually incredible I think they are amazing value if you’re a small business owner it’s an expense if you are passionate about photography but it’s not your business it’s um just something that you know you buy it once and then you can use them forever so I’m really glad so many of you are loving them and um I’d love to see people’s wedding photos this year with prenal presets applied very very exciting anyway I’m actually going to pop some shorts on and head out into the garden now cuz it is such a nice day 21° and um I’ve got lots of stuff that I need to do in the garden and how has the hair turned out today this won’t last I’m sure but it’s just nicer than um nicer than having boring flat hair so there we go not bad for just having it up in my magic sausage for a couple of hours during our work calls well this feels truly magical I’m in the greenhouse in a strappy top which I think is yeah the curs curls did not work today think my hair is just too soft for um heess waves at the moment never mind yeah this is the first time this year that I’ve been able to be out in the greenhous and gardening in a strappy top and shorts yay literally feels like finally we’re getting a spring summer so I have laid out in front of me here these are all seeds that you can sew in May that noise is Charlie bringing the bins in so I think what I’m going to do is do most of these as direct sewn which means I’m going to sew them straight in the beds this is my PE collection bless you bless you and then I’ve got some really fun things here oh my goodness bless you I’ve got some really fun things here like different M two varieties and the peas that are purple pods and then they turn green when you the pods are purple and then they turn green when you cook them then I’ve got the barot kind of French beans which is so exciting cuz they are absolutely beautiful and the Cobra ones so I’m going to do some like Bean variety type growing today a mixture of impulse and direct Zone then I’m going to direct sew some spring onion some carrot some spinach and a load of beetroots the beetroots I think need slightly warmer soil so I’ll probably do those in my clavon Clash so yeah it’s basically a really busy seed sewing time I think let’s just head out to raised beds um with some plant labels and get sewing this is so exciting okay so we’re going to need my little foot rest and for the sake of my manicure I’m going to wear some gloves today [Music] [Music] w [Music] [Music] what a gorgeous day it is today I’m actually warm in my strappy top and shorts so let me update you you can see the areas that I’ve watered this is a trio of beans that I’ve planted in there my white runner beans my Botta beans and I think the third type is called the Cobra so a really nice Bean variety growing in there this little watered patch is radish and carrot but quite old seed packets so I’ll be pleasantly surprised if they germinate my nsts from last year they just dropped seeds everywhere and I really don’t want them growing throughout the beds so I’m just having to pick up little nerian plants what I am going to do is um fill a few plant pots with nsts that’s what Carol Bamford had at her place and I’m definitely inspired by that idea I just don’t want them growing amongst my Asian greens like this uh over here we did some I did some more spinach don’t know why I often do the Royal Wii we didn’t do it I did it the succession sewing of spring onion and spinach so when these are nice and big I will have some more little ones coming through look at this we have got our first rose buds very exciting and it’s really not going to be long until my peanes explode and that is going to be so exciting we’ve got a lot of peanes this year roses and peanes in this bed incredible and then here this is the broad Bean Station broad Bean Zone over here and uh we’ve got a real mixture so funnily enough this one is doing the best and this is one that was in a pot in the greenhouse and I actually just really quickly planted it when cat was here and we were filming a gardening jobs for the weekend video and it’s doing the last we’ve obviously got the ones that were in the L roll tubes in this little support these are the ones I had in the greenhouse up until this morning and then this channel here I’ve direct sewn a few more seeds I also threw in the ground amongst here a selection of my beans that I saved from my actual plants last year however a few of them in the jar had gone moldy I stupidly left it on the floor and then watering in the greenhouse meant that it got a bit moldy so who knows if it’ll do anything if it does and they’ll probably bloom after the broad beans so it should be a nice succession so I’m just going to water this area and then I’m going to take a little break for lunch [Music] [Music] just been inside in the office for a couple of hours doing work calls which I find so hard on days like today because there’s so at the moment few and far between I just want to be outside every minute of a sunny day it is a little bit of an obsession and I don’t know I’m sure other people can relate but especially if you love gardening and you love sunshine and you live in the UK there’s like 12 days a year like this pretty much um but I’m I heard someone say that Summers alternate so you have bad Summer Good summer bad Summer Good summer I hope that’s true cuz last summer aside from our wedding week was definitely a bad summer so I’m hoping that um this is going to be a good one so yeah 2 hours later back in the garden and let’s get back to seed sewing uh it’s yeah it’s a crazy busy time of year for seed sewing and then I need to tidy the greenhouse a little bit more because we are shooting something exciting in here tomorrow um with Jake so yeah I need to give it a little bit of a spruce up but I think next on the too list I’m going to do some beetroot exciting let’s do it I’ve put some electrolytes in my ocean bottle because extra hydration extra mineralization lovely okay let’s go [Music] n [Music] a great little seed sewing session so let me show you what I’ve done 1 2 3 four five rows of different things we have got a row here labeled up at the top with flaming Barrel beetroots a Golden beet variety chopped the top off this packet but this is um a variety of chickpea and you can eat them similarly to how you’d eat a m or an EDM in that you can actually eat the pods as well then we’ve got choga beetroots down here which is the ones um these are the ones that got the wonderful Rings you know I’ll pop a picture on the screen here different depths of color within them red oak salad along here which looks like this which would be great for summer barbecues and then we’ve got traditional edamame down there my first time growing them but I think that’ll be good fun looking forward to seeing how they all turn out so there we go I’m going to give them a nice water and hopefully before too long we’ll start to see some little seedlings appear [Music] a a [Music] well look at that gorgeous evening sunlight hitting the greenhouse and this habous Border in its early stages but the purple of the aliums popping through very exciting hints of what’s to come can’t believe how great it already looks and I think it was Charlie’s idea to do the herbaceous border around the greenhouse I think that was one of his best ideas ever so the last little time lapse that you will have seen was me throwing my narum seeds from last year into this little pot and hopefully they’ll grow in here and it’ll be great for picking them for salad leaves and things like that purely for a visual point of view kitchen Garden starting to get a little bit Shady now as the sun’s still quite low but I planted lots of peas and M to on the support round there I actually a little bit risky could be very risky if we have another Frost but I’ve planted out some of my cette plants already and a few Tomatoes just because they were starting to get very big in the greenhouse so we’ll see how they do obviously got the rows of seeds that I just planted there um the French beans around here can’t even remember already what was there what was it um radish and carrot old seeds should have labeled that Whoops a Daisy so yeah very productive session in the kitchen garden and I have also just been doing a little bit of tidying up here of some of the Tulips that have finished come to the end my little trough by the kitchen doorway oh my gosh but first let’s just talk about the Wisteria it is looking amazing hope that the leaves will come out soon because it’s just very purple at the moment but doesn’t it just look at absolutely gorgeous so many blooms beautiful blue skies I’ve had this little tray of plants out enjoying the sun today I will probably pot on some of my Peppers tomorrow we’ve got my pea sprouts few more days and I’ll be able to eat those and very excitingly Charlie has got the deck chairs out from the shed and we’ve put them either side of the Tulips and the cushions are out out so we can enjoy lovely sunny evenings it’s very optimistic but hopefully if today is anything to go by the rest of the week is just meant to be getting warmer and warmer still a bit of a chill in the a in the evenings but lovely to sit out here and enjoy that Evening Sun and what was the other thing I needed to report I can’t remember but what a gorgeous evening do you know what I might actually send my drone up should we give that a girl why not dexie you are seriously handsome and I adore you maybe not because I can’t find the charger for it bless you blim me we are having we are having our first I think it’s our first outdoor dinner of the Season yay with a gorgeous Sunny backdrop B A PE [Music] it out [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music]