Slow fashion and slow cooking...........

hello i've got new paper bag jeans on uh so i'm gonna dress them up well not dress them up because who's dressing up nowadays i'm certainly not walking the dog in high heels and pretty frogs in fact i don't think i've worn heels for oh i can't remember when probably last summer when we had a bit of freedom um anyway yes first news news i'll bring the chair out so i can sit and talk to you um welcome to uh it's a bit unflattering isn't it i'll sit near it and you can't see my stomach sticking out ah yes look it's growing out the pinky orange is fading i haven't sprayed it with um dry shampoo to make it grayer remember that top tip anyway welcome am i looking in the right place yes welcome to my weekly we've decided to call them my weekly mutterings no i had a much better word than that which rings my weekly wittering is it weekly wittering or weekly witter rings anyway the light's fading jack needs another walk um but i thought i'd pop in while i had some time in the afternoon to catch up with you to say welcome to all my new followers i don't know where you've come from apparently you're just finding me suddenly um a few hundred of you have suddenly joined i don't know whether it's because i'm vlogging more regularly or because more of you are commenting and therefore as you know i always reply at length um i don't know i don't know youtube's showing me more or are you coming to me from instagram i've no idea but thank you thank you thank you because it makes it all worthwhile because i love your comments we're a proper lovely community on here and um everybody needs a purpose read my most recent blog i'll put it below i told you about it last week all about how to improve your sleep and how to improve your mental well-being um and one of the tips is to have a purpose so thank you lovely lovely lovely lovely people you have given me a purpose because you know life's a about a little bit more than get up late do some pilates or yoga walk the dog read snooze watch tv you know i i just need a bit more and i'm sure you do so um thank you for your encouragement i will get on to the outfits in a minute um i've got a bit more for next week as well so i'm i'm eking it out as you don't mind me just twittering i'm eating it out um what else is there oh god i've had the most disastrous day right today's thurs wednesday wednesday um the most disastrous day my laptop has developed a problem and it's got it's a bit like for anyone who remembers lighting at a rave uh when i'm watching videos or the screen is black there's just these lights that go up and down and up very brightly colored some so it's a hardware problem so my essential journey to eastbourne to an apple person who is already diagnosing it from the screen grab i sent him i couldn't go i had to cancel which i'm sort of glad about although it would have given me more footage for the video but um the weather was awful and i woke up to a freezing house boiler not working rang my boilerman who fortunately lives very very close however he's a paramedic in his spare time he's a sort of retired paramedic but he's gone back to help so on his day that he's a paramedic all evening i felt so guilty um he had to come round and sort it out when he told me over the phone what to do apparently the wind was in a certain direction and blew the light out well that's never happened before anyway i now know how to reboot my boiler then it happens again so he did come around he's checked everything and he said look if it comes to rebooting is this boring god this is boring if you're rebooting every single day then obviously you need a new boiler we found out it's 10 years old i thought it was only about six years old max where's the time gone on top of that so it's all the nights in the garden have gone so the lights in the garden electrician can't do anything because of the weather laptop uh boiler and last night all my apps on the tv stopped working so i couldn't watch netflix and of course i can't watch on the laptop now because of that um so it's been a bit of a week and i just thought when i rang the apple place he said well i don't know what's going on today because i'm not getting any of the voicemail even though it's all set up and i said i bet it's mercury and retrograde so do comment below if you know what i'm wittering about otherwise look it up um planetary align alignments i don't know how woo-woo people think it is but it does seem a little bit more than a coincidence that when mercury is in retrograde which it is now till the end of the month things go a bit awry well they're already really awry aren't they but it affects communication breakdown of communication and for some reason affects everything in your house that's slightly technical something that needs technology so there we are i'm still happy aren't i oh um trying very hard so on with the fashion show because i know you like a slimy stylie i will pop back even if there's nothing else i actually do have a bit more to share with you but i want to get this done before it gets dark sorry about the noise so these were they've gone down a treat on a on a photo that i put i forgot to use my microphone what's an idiot never mind i've started now i'll finish um they went down a bomb uh when i put them on instagram and facebook so some of you will have seen these before but some with the boots the famous boots so annoying i need a more wide-angle camera um don't they look nice and it's really cheap very expensive really cheap even cheaper and a very old build um yes certainly dog walking that's all i'm doing that's all any of us can do or see my bubble at the weekend so now i'm going to do a quick change and now not sure this belt works not with this necklace not sure the necklace works probably doesn't that's right without you know i love trying on with you watching you're doing it with me yes that's better isn't it i'm not a little patent leather felt girl um even if i had a navy blue one that would be smart but um yeah completely different look i hope same boots maybe am i doing having lunch with my bubble so at least this bit of me at the table looks as if i've made an effort so this is a thermal navy blue polo neck from m s well if you saw my autumn collection this is going to go so well in the spring when i'm wearing that little short blue jacket i'll show it to you another time no go back and watch it i think you'll enjoy if you haven't seen it already my autumn haul when i spent a lot of money on a lot of expensive clothes which i've probably not done for a decade so worth a peek so that sweater will go so well underneath and it is that jacket and it is just so warm and cozy so yes definitely not that khaki belt i think that's looking all right what do you think girls also easier if you're out walking the dog which would be with this on which by the way came from a vintage shop in brighton that's now closed well it was closed years ago so that was a bit of a find wasn't it look have a look isn't that gorgeous i mean it's a bit dressy but it's just for you um what was i saying yes if you if you have a weak bladder like me and you go dog walking in this cold weather it's very nice to just be able to pull them down and not have to fiddle with the belt let's get rid of that lampshade the great thing is you don't mind me being natural and farting about so it saves me loads of time editing so next try on so i thoroughly recommend m and s for a thermal polo net cheapest chips and keep the warmest toast god i'm full of cliches today um right this is very special a very special shirt i have had this shirt since i reckon before i moved to brighton so possibly no maybe i've moved possibly this is 20 years old or yeah about 20 years old from the vintage department of topshop which is now no longer as well but do you remember of course you do those from london i mean those who come shopping in london will certainly remember the giant top shop in oxford circus and i popped in once to see because i'd heard about their vintage department and had to go and have a look sorry this is so i don't have to take everything off that's better then you can see the collar um i still don't think i need the belt what do you think but anyway yes this was 20 years i've had this and it still gets i don't know i think that's quite nice it still gets loads of love actually black belt might be nice because of all the black in here i think i'll leave it just for now but um on with the camera angles let me know what you think this is i will never part with this this is like vintage vintage vintage double vintage whammy i hope it's not looking too bulky with the polo neck underneath probably oh well we're friends well i think the boiler is still working it's getting very hot it's because i've got these wonderful comfy warm boots on right so back to the did this in the wrong order didn't i and i've discovered there's an ugly chair for when i turn the camera that way up oh well hopefully nobody will notice i think you know it's just some lockdown isn't it it's making us all a bit full does it really matter really big scale of things or does it matter if a chair is showing what does it matter if i talk rubbish what does anything matter we just have to keep going and keep happy and make sure our cameras are straight not sure about this i'm i'm this is not one of my favorite buys it's a bit of a boring cardi isn't it although it feels lovely and not a great wearer of sweaters and thick cardigans as you probably [Music] noticed not mad about it but you might like this toast i think with the white kind of jeans or a skirt maybe yeah maybe yes i've got a little kilt with blue in it that would look lovely with that so not a waste of money but not one for just my paper bag trousers obsession now i've got this this is definitely spring time um but i got this little jacket in la when i was last there visiting my brothers um and so that must be three three or four years ago so that was probably 10 like the boiler um anyway i found this in a little boutique i was staying in an airbnb in las vegas felix and it is my very very favorite part of the valet because you can walk everywhere you can walk to griffis park in the morning you can um for exercise there's a an indoor farmers market type there's massage there's pilates there's boutiques there's everything a girl like me would like and um not having to get in the car and drive is just awesome because of course we've now got uber um so yes anyway yeah i would wear this [Music] it's a nice top isn't it what do you think very cute this is definitely a springtime one but it does have black i'm a bit obsessed with you know not matchy matchy i like clashy clashy but um i think the whole thing about these trousers is seeing that bit that's the secret it's seeing that bit that's better isn't it okay now we're at a um cool cool boots cletury where i got these um every time i tank them clattery in beverly hills always comments they are the friendliest people in the world so one day if i save all my money and i go back there i will buy my shoes at cluttery beverly hills instead of london because they're just so awesome um right then so what do you think yeah definitely open um but what do you think of the whole point of showing you this was a so i could do a little reels for instagram and b to see what you thought of these jeans i think they're fabulous and don't forget you can roll them up and i will be living in these in the spring and when it's warmer just turn them up little sneakers and i don't think they're as i'm not as worried about the flattering bit um as i was with the other ones the khaki ones i have bought some others i'll show them to you next week uh anyway um god at least i get to wear them doing these for you so let me know what you think i can thoroughly recommend these from zara i'm not working with them it's not a brand collaboration um but it is their yes slightly ethical sorry most important coming from me um they are using a percentage not the whole thing a percentage of recycled cotton so that was okay with me that some meets my ethics so that's it for now and i'll pop back tomorrow with um some more wittering hello quick addendum to the fashion show i was loading them all up ready to edit and i saw how awful before anyone leaves a rude comment there was one last week um these have to be worn with the belt because without the belt they looked really awful um when i'm lounging around at home on my own or dog walking with a great big coat over them so i can go to the loo easily um i won't bother but to actually look half decent god they needed that belt so there we are so now i'm going to be buying more belts so you find me in my bathroom um worrying about i've got a really important suit to do for foundation more later well in a couple of weeks um but meanwhile i think oh i better get i'm not naked by the way um i better get i'll watch in it's actually much better since i started using masks um so anyway this is the before right there there and we'll see if it's any better after 20 minutes and then i'll show who it is here we are oh gosh i have problems with my ears anyone else the tab keep coming off the ears so i won't talk anymore but we'll see i think anything naturals worth to try don't you girls and boys boys are allowed as well in fact if they're any boys watching please let me know if you do things like this oh see it's falling off i've still got clothes on well a towel see you in 20 or is it 15 i'll go and check i got so pissed off with these things falling off so i won't be recommending them although the results are good um you might have seen one of my previous videos called chin up well they appeared to have gone out of business sadly because they sent their mask with this thing so you could actually keep everything nice and tight so this is 20 minutes later yes it's much better i wasn't sure i think it's that really elasticated one i got that helps from chin up because look how much better is that i mean it's still there but it's much better isn't it anyway it makes me feel better the only other thing is surgery no i'm going for actually um i will be sharing a video eventually because i'm looking for a facialist and so is my agent call my agent um to do facial exercises easy ones that lift everything here did you know while i'm here wittering that people women i guess men as well but women probably more because of our lack of oestrogen um are in two groups aging wise they either age that way or they age that way i'm definitely that way i'm definitely in that camp thanks to mommy's jeans however the good news for me is that when i went for my vaccination my first vaccination in fact every time i've had to go anywhere medical um where they check your birth date over and over again um every time i'm wearing a mask they don't believe i'm my age which is gratifying so i might wear a face mask forever especially if i meet nice men when we're allowed out um yeah they actually asked me when i rocked up at the brighton center for mine are you a key worker um and then the staff injector well the staff the group who were in my injection booth they all went this is your birth date seriously so that made my day probably made my week possibly my month probably my year just popping in to show you how beautifully till i can get more belts this shirt vintage from a vintage market long ago how nice that looks you see the belt clinches all that in the problem is even the size down there too big so how's that just wanted to show you that much better than the blue cardi isn't it uh anyway i have my bubble coming there's three of us today we're building up slowly because of the vaccination and our safety i'm as obsessed with my slow cooker as i am with my paper bag trousers um so for the first time i'm trying chicken free range of course with lots of plant foods there's carrots there's red um i'll let you have another look red potatoes carrots onions broccoli bitter the villain lots and lots and lots very slow cooking not sure if it's going to be ready in time um and the top tip is to poke butter under the skin so it's got some moisture on top where it's not getting so much air and then i'm going to pop it under the grill for a couple of minutes to brown it and strain the veg uh make the gravy done deal how easy is that i just had to make sure it was on eight o'clock in the morning i just wanted to pop in and say bye bye i hope to see you next week i will be filming i'm having a week off because my laptop is not happy as you know so if i don't get my laptop back in time to edit then i may not be here on sunday next week but i'll do my best you know it'll be as soon as i can straight after thank you for watching thank you for commenting thank you for the thumbs up thank you for sharing me and take care stay safe and stay sane jack here just wanted to wish you a happy monday because my mum can't be asked to do her hair or even get dressed or even get out of bed so i'm here to say have a wonderful day and here's your monday mindfulness [Music] you

Channel: Alternative Ageing

Views: 13,703

Rating: 4.9840636 out of 5

Keywords: slow cooking, mindfulness, double chins, high street fashion

Id: qnbBsL8dMwM

Length: 24min 17sec (1457 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 21 2021