We bought a DJI Mavic Air drone which we'll be using to get some incredible footage for our future canal and narrowboat vlogs. Here's an introduction to it, and (hopefully) some useful information for anyone thinking about buying a drone.
Let's get this blog off to a happy, positive start... I've never really enjoyed holidays! Don't get me wrong. The landscape was beautiful, the weather was perfect (if not just a bit too hot), and the food... well, the food was mostly British (The local shop sold Oreos!). I get a bit too stressed about everything from leaving the house to arriving at the destination. Car park, check-in, lounge, departure gate, boarding, flying, landing, passport control, luggage, hire car, finding our way to the villa; It's all a stressful load of faff! Shaun on the other hand is the complete opposite. He loves everything about it, from the moment we leave the house to the moment we arrive back. He's like an
In this episode, Shaun and I talk about all the questions we've thought of since visiting the Crick Boat Show two weeks ago. We're in Spain right now, enjoying our first holiday in nearly five years, and using the free time to scour the Internet from our sunbeds looking for our next Narrowboat. Our house went on the market a week ago (with plenty of interest).
This is a tough one to write about. It's also the twentieth time I've deleted this first line and started again! I decided to record a vlog about my autism after some of our YouTube viewers asked why we moved off our first boat back in 2004. Of course, at that time I hadn't been diagnosed with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). That didn't happen until 2013, but many of the problems back in 2004 (and before that) were exacerbated by my autistic traits and the two main problems caused by them - Chronic anxiety and unimaginable, uncontrollable stress. When I decided to talk about my autism I spent a good three or four weeks writing notes and scripts for the 'Autism and Me' vlog, and I must have g
