VLOG - Lets chat and Catch up!

Ajouté : 2026-05-28

[00:00:01]Happy Friday, my friends. How are we all doing? Are we all looking forward to the weekend?

[00:00:07]I have a bit of a busy weekend, well, a busy couple of days actually. Yesterday, I did a manual handling course on my day off on Thursday. Today is Friday and I'm on my way up to do a personal development course when I should be in my bed really, but sure look, needs to be done.

[00:00:24]And then I'm Excuse me, [clears throat] I'm working all weekend. I'm working Saturday morning sun Saturday morning, Saturday evening, Sunday morning, Sunday evening.

[00:00:33]And then on Monday I am Indian head massage in the evening time.

[00:00:40]And then on Tuesday, I am driving down to my mom's.

[00:00:46]So, yeah, it's it's a bit of a a fluff of a week this week.

[00:00:51]But not to worry.

[00:00:53]Ooh.

[00:00:55]Sorry, it's 35 to 9.

[00:00:58]Oh.

[00:00:59]And I've only had one cup of coffee. Not that I drink much of coffee anymore.

[00:01:03]I've actually cut right down on my coffee. I only drink two cups of coffee a day and I don't drink coffee after 2:00.

[00:01:10]They are my new rules I have for myself.

[00:01:13]So, how is everybody doing? Anyone anything nice planned for the weekend that's relaxing? Like in fairness, I'm only working 4 hours on Saturday and 4 hours on Sunday, so it's not too bad. I have the majority of the majority of the day and the middle of the day free.

[00:01:33]But uh yeah.

[00:01:35]Just means I'm up and out early every morning. Sure not to worry. Not to worry.

[00:01:40]Oh lord, so this course personal development, I'm not actually sure what it covers. They had another course running that I wanted to do, but they didn't know the instructor for the course was out sick, so they don't know when it's going to be on, but But my name down for it.

[00:01:58]So, I'm trying at least every month to do a course that's not related to my work, if that makes sense.

[00:02:05]That's just for me. So, this personal development is for me. It's not work-related.

[00:02:12]So, right. I'm actually nearly at the center, would you believe? I didn't realize I was so close.

[00:02:18]But uh it's a cold old day today. Cold old day. It's 8° so it's not freezing or but it compared to the days we've been having, it's chilly.

[00:02:29]Good lord, I have to stop yawning.

[00:02:34]Anyway.

[00:02:37]Right, it's meant to be on from half No, quarter past nine until 4:00, I think, is the course today.

[00:02:44]I don't know what's happening at lunchtime. I don't know if you're allowed go home at lunch or there's sandwiches provided. I have absolutely no idea. I'm starting to go into this a bit blind.

[00:02:56]Anyway. Right, I will talk to you in a bit, guys, and let you all know how I got on. If I'm out for lunch, I might have a chat with you then.

[00:03:03]Or if we're not, I might just let you know.

[00:03:09]Hang around.

[00:03:11]And I will talk to you on my way home.

[00:03:15]All right, guys. Just finished the course there. It is quarter past three.

[00:03:19]We finished at three. So, it was half nine to three.

[00:03:21]So, it wasn't too bad. They did for our lunch, they gave us a soup No, not soup.

[00:03:26]Sandwiches and I brought a packet of crisps with me and a banana. Well, Hayley actually gave them to me.

[00:03:32]So, it was grand. I went up and had that. So, I'm well full.

[00:03:35]Um very tiring.

[00:03:39]Excuse me, very tiring course as in there was a lot to learn. There was a hell of a lot to learn. It was all about personal development, tailoring your CV, you know, all stuff like that. Things that you wouldn't necessarily think of.

[00:03:53]So, that was good. Um but yeah, it was tiring. So, I'm going to go home now.

[00:03:59]I have to edit a video.

[00:04:03]And edit a video while I'm at it, I suppose.

[00:04:07]I've got to do a bit of a food shop, I think.

[00:04:10]So.

[00:04:12]Oh, never ending, is it?

[00:04:14]Right, I will talk to you when I'm home, guys, and we'll see what the plan is for the the weekend.

[00:04:22]All right, guys. Made it home. I was only in the house about a half an hour, and I got a phone call asking me would I cover someone that they were stuck on the north side, and they couldn't get across the M50.

[00:04:32]So, uh that's what I'm doing. I'm on my way up to just cover a girl just for an hour.

[00:04:37]But, um yeah, I'm tired. I'm getting tired now.

[00:04:41]Um running out of steam.

[00:04:43]But, not to worry.

[00:04:45]Oh, my lord. But, before I go up, I need to look for a mirror hanging kit for my mom.

[00:04:51]She asked me to go look for one, so I just said I'd stop on the way out seeing as I might. I don't want to come home and then or wait till I'm finished with the client and then start looking.

[00:05:01]But, uh yeah.

[00:05:03]Um it's a lovely turned into a lovely day. Now, there's still a bit of a breeze, but the breeze isn't too cold, and it's 17°.

[00:05:10]So, happy out.

[00:05:12]Um sweating in the car. Mind you, I've no air conditioning. My air conditioning needs re-gassing, and I'm trying to get someone to re-gas it. It is a nightmare.

[00:05:21]Um So, it just yeah. I don't have air conditioning, so I have the windows open, and I'm trying to keep myself cool, but it is warm. Behind the glass, it's warm.

[00:05:32]But, yeah, going to go in here and see if I can find a mirror hanging kit, and then I will head up to the client, and then head home and get me dinner. That's That's sort of the plan for today.

[00:05:44]And, uh yeah, we'll see what tomorrow brings.

[00:05:49]Good morning, my friends. Happy Saturday.

[00:05:53]I am on my way up to my morning client.

[00:05:56]I'm actually going up early. It's only quarter to nine.

[00:06:00]And her friend is coming over to visit her.

[00:06:02]So, I want to go up like I hate being there when their friends are calling and stuff.

[00:06:08]I give them a bit of I if I can move my times around to suit, I would. And I can.

[00:06:17]Yeah.

[00:06:17]So, we're on our way up.

[00:06:19]Hopefully, she'll be up, dressed, and I think the excitement of her friend coming over will be enough to get her out of bed early enough this morning. Anyway, how's everybody doing? Bit of a dull morning here this morning.

[00:06:31]Quite overcast, gray. It's been raining sort of on and off.

[00:06:36]But not too bad. It's 11°. I actually want to turn that um So, today, myself and Heidi are going to try and work in the attic just to get it finished, get things organized, hang up hooks, and just bits and bobs.

[00:06:54]Um we've actually done Trojan work.

[00:06:58]Um she's done Trojan work as well.

[00:07:01]We have made uh she has in the attic, which I think is a brilliant little thing, she has a little um we call it the kitchen, but it's not a kitchen. There's no fridge in it, but there's like uh what do you call it?

[00:07:16]Hot water dispenser and stuff. And it's handy because if she goes up there and she's up studying or she's up doing anything up there, reading, um and she just wants a cup of tea, she normally brings up, you know, one of the flasks that she keeps drinks cold for eight hours. She normally puts a bit of milk in the well, milk in that. She can make tea. She has some instant um soups up there, cup of soups and stuff, which is is especially when her and Carrie are up there and they're playing on the PlayStation or whatever, or they're just chatting.

[00:07:46]I mean, it's nice, but we call it a kitchen. And she has uh I'm trying to think what else she has on it.

[00:07:52]She has the usual, she's a water.

[00:07:55]Just Japanese. Just so she doesn't have to run down two flights of stairs to get a cup of tea.

[00:07:59]Um and then when Carrie's there as well, it's handy.

[00:08:01]So, yeah.

[00:08:03]>> [snorts] >> So, we've made great progress, don't we?

[00:08:06]Excuse me, getting everything set up.

[00:08:08]It's just the tidy up for now.

[00:08:12]So, she says she's going to hang on to go up while you're up with your client.

[00:08:15]She says she's going to go up the attic and start. So, I was like, "Okay, would you want to hang?" She was like, "If you're free," she says, "I'll you know, I'm going to keep pestering us." So, I said, "I might come up and pester for an hour."

[00:08:25]So, that is the plan when I come home. I then I think after lunch I'm going to probably tidy up my room and get it ready for swapping over to summer clothes and bits, but I want to get the floor done.

[00:08:38]I want to get the sheets done, you know, the usual.

[00:08:42]The usual stuff. So, that's my plan for this Saturday.

[00:08:48]Um and then this evening I will say I'm back up with the client and um tomorrow I'm with the client again. So, but today I'm hoping, as I said, help Hayley in the attic and get the my own room ready for swapping over. I have the clothes ready to be hung up and stuff.

[00:09:04]So, once I have those clothes out, I can take all the clothes off the hanger the hanging rail and I can put them away for the winter, probably till the end of September, and then I can take them back out again.

[00:09:16]So, yeah. Happy days. Happy days.

[00:09:21]Right, looks like it's going to rain again.

[00:09:24]I actually don't When I'm cleaning like this, and when I know we're going to be fustering or in the house and stuff, I don't mind dull days. I actually think it's better.

[00:09:35]But it's not cold, cuz obviously it's 11°, not freezing.

[00:09:38]But it's not where I want to go, oh, I'll sit out in the back and read a book.

[00:09:43]So, yeah. So, works It works well for us all. Right, I'm nearly at my client's house. I will talk to you soon.

[00:09:49]Probably later. Well, excuse me, I'm yawning.

[00:09:54]So, I will talk to you later on when I I'm doing something a bit exciting at home.

[00:10:01]Well, hello my friends. It has been about 2 weeks since I recorded the previous clip. Did I do any of the things I said I was going to do in the clip? Absolutely not.

[00:10:11]Um on Monday Sorry, the weekend was just nice. We pottered. We did stuff. Sorry, I have to put on my glasses.

[00:10:19]Um we're in the middle of a heatwave at the moment.

[00:10:23]Um I think it's meant to end tonight or it's meant to start cooling down tonight.

[00:10:27]But I didn't do any I didn't change over my wardrobe. But Hayley did potter around the attic. But other than that, no. We didn't do much. On Tuesday Sorry, on Monday I did my Indian head massage. I had five heads that day. I did that, came home, went to bed. I'm always tired after it or I'm always more relaxed after it.

[00:10:50]So, I came home, went to bed. Tuesday, I got up and I went down to my mom's. But en route to my mom's I had to stop and clear out Carrie's student accommodation because she had to be out later in the week and I couldn't get down. There was just no way I could get down again.

[00:11:11]So, we cleaned out her house, brought everything out to my mom's. So, got out there Tuesday night.

[00:11:17]And then on Tuesday night, we emptied the car.

[00:11:22]And Wednesday, we spent the day putting everything away. And we came back up on Thursday morning.

[00:11:28]So, it was quite eventful. I didn't record anything cuz we were quite busy trying to organize everything in her house.

[00:11:34]So, when she went back down it wouldn't be all over the place cuz she was coming back up with me on Thursday.

[00:11:42]So, we spent the day just organizing the stuff in her house and getting food away and all carry stuff sort of organized in her room that it wasn't all over the house.

[00:11:52]And then on So, we came home Thursday.

[00:11:55]And then on Friday we had a wedding in the Merrion Hotel opposite government buildings there.

[00:12:04]Now, I will have to say I did feel a bit not out of my league, but a bit It was It was just It was a different type of wedding. There was oysters at the the reception and stuff and it was just like, "Oh, okay."

[00:12:21]Um it was lovely. The food was lovely when we did get to the dinner and it was really really nice and the band It was a wedding between an Irish family and a Spanish family.

[00:12:32]So, the crack was mighty, the music was high dough, everything. It was just such a good vibe.

[00:12:39]But the hotel was a bit pomp, shall we say?

[00:12:44]So, yeah. So, we had that on Friday. We got home in about I suppose 11:00 on Friday.

[00:12:51]We had Saturday. I was working all day Saturday.

[00:12:54]And then Mom went home on Sunday.

[00:12:56]So, it was just yeah. It was just crazy.

[00:12:59]I didn't pick up the camera. I did take a couple of pictures, but didn't really do much more than that. And since that we've since sort of then we've been having a heatwave and of course the want to do anything in the house is next to nothing. My big thing is keeping Mr. T cool and relaxed and make sure he doesn't overheat.

[00:13:20]So, sit me on him.

[00:13:23]You all right, sir?

[00:13:25]You all right. I do for those of you who are worried about Mr. T, I do have an air conditioner in my room. I brought it home from Spain when we moved back years and years ago, over 10 years ago.

[00:13:37]And people laughed at me back then bringing home an air conditioner. They were like, "You're living in Ireland.

[00:13:41]What are you bringing home a portable air conditioner for?"

[00:13:45]We may only get very warm weather for 2 weeks, 3 weeks of the year.

[00:13:50]But those are 2 or 3 weeks everybody comes to visit because it's lovely and cool.

[00:13:55]But I have one air conditioner in my bedroom.

[00:13:58]And we keep that as Mr. T's cool room because the sun goes off the front of my house in about 12:00 in the day.

[00:14:06]And I just get the breeze then once all the windows are open. And then we put on the air conditioner. We make it lovely and cool so Mr. T has a cool space to go to.

[00:14:16]And I put on a fan at night then and just keep the air circulating, the cooler circulating.

[00:14:21]So that's you up to date. I'm trying to think is there anything else? The fridge in my back garden is gone. For those of you that were here when I moved in, you would have known that when I moved in one of the previous tenants put a fridge out my back. And it was a big American double fridge.

[00:14:37]And [clears throat] my ex was living in the house and he said there's no way we can get it unless we hire one of those mini cranes to get rid of it and all this malarkey.

[00:14:46]But I was talking to the neighbor and it was annoying the neighbor. And one day he came in, took the doors off and we managed to get it out into the dump.

[00:14:54]So that's gone out of my garden. Um Trying to think is there Oh, I had a job interview.

[00:15:01]I'm waiting to hear back from this.

[00:15:04]I will let you know if that happens.

[00:15:06]It's only for 4 hours of a night on a Tuesday night.

[00:15:10]But it'd just be something a little bit extra to help with the the mortgage. You know yourselves, anything at this this climate. So that'll be three jobs I'll be working. YouTube, my day job, and then this job if I get it for Tuesday evening.

[00:15:25]And hopefully, they did say that there might be more evenings coming up, so we'll keep an ear out for that. But yeah, that's it, up to date. Mr. T is inside on the cool floor. Sorry, it's very bright.

[00:15:37]Um on the cool line on the cool floor.

[00:15:39]He does come out back when it's evening time. Now, what time is it? About 6:00?

[00:15:43]He does come out in the evening because half my garden's in the shade and he'll lie on the grass for a while. But about 9:00 now, he likes to come out here and just fust around and do what he needs to do. He um cuz it is quite cool. But the weather in Tallaght at the moment is just Well, the weather in the whole of the country, I think, is just absolutely gorgeous. Mommy's on a yellow weather warning for high temperature.

[00:16:09]So, yeah. So, my neighbor's roses are all budding again. They did bud at the beginning of the year, but they're budding again.

[00:16:17]They're absolutely gorgeous, the red roses. Let's see if I can show you.

[00:16:21]Down here. Oh.

[00:16:23]How is everybody doing? Are you all staying nice and hydrated in this weather?

[00:16:28]I do hope so because don't want to be getting sick now. I'm walking into the shade, thank god.

[00:16:33]Wait, let me show you these rose bushes that are here.

[00:16:39]That is her rose there. Isn't it absolutely gorgeous? They are huge.

[00:16:46]So, they are really, really nice.

[00:16:50]And she has some white ones and pink ones. Oh, look at this.

[00:16:54]Look at this um pink one.

[00:16:58]And they're all ready to bloom again. Oh my god, it's gorgeous.

[00:17:02]Really, really pretty.

[00:17:04]So, it is.

[00:17:07]But that's my neighbor's garden.

[00:17:10]So, I love all her roses. She loves roses. Out the front, we She has We don't. She has beautiful purple roses.

[00:17:20]They're absolutely gorgeous.

[00:17:22]But myself and Haley are hoping to get dug into this garden now in the next week or two now that the fridge is gone.

[00:17:29]Hopefully it'll give us a bit of space.

[00:17:31]We're going to make that into a barbecue area down there.

[00:17:35]Sorry, I just show you. It opens up the whole of the back garden like I mean there was a big American fridge there.

[00:17:44]And now it's gone.

[00:17:46]So this is rubbish here some of this. So we're going to get rid of all that get it cleared up and have that I think as a barbecue area.

[00:17:54]But we shall see.

[00:17:57]Haley has got the lady next door gave Haley a load of um pots to plant her flowers in. So we're hoping to to do that as well.

[00:18:07]But yeah, we're getting there slowly lads slowly slowly.

[00:18:11]Um not that I expected it to be quick.

[00:18:16]But yeah, anyway, right that's enough waffle for me. You are up to date now. I will let you all know as soon as I hear back from the job whether we got it or not. And um if anything else comes up I'll keep you all in the loop.

[00:18:30]Right, I'm going to go upstairs edit this and get this posted for you all tonight.

[00:18:35]But everybody stay hydrated. Remember your sun cream. Remember the tops of your ears.

[00:18:40]I remember listening to a show years ago when they said that's that's where farmers get burnt the top of their ears the most because they put on a cap or they put on a hat.

[00:18:50]The ear or the ears do be sticking out.

[00:18:52]So sun cream on the ears don't forget.

[00:18:55]Right, talk to you all in my next one guys. Take care of yourselves. Bye-bye.