The Urban Wanderer

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Mobikes, (rare) Grumpy Sarah, Wanders | Weekly Vlog 1

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So I have been toying with the idea of starting a weekly vlog, and this week sees the first one ever!  It includes, Mobikes, a (rare) grumpy Sarah and wanders.  As well as some other stuff in between.

This week has been one of weirdness.  So much so that I omitted a day so that it wasn’t a miserable first vlog!  Oooh, it’s not miserable really – just a bit of challenges that I faced in the beginning.  I have been having some issues with my ankles.  This means that I had a day of hospital and doctor things so I completely skipped that day.  It does get better as I perked up quickly with some kitty love!

This week in brief

Monday was all about trying to get back into work after our time away.  It also included the yucky bit of trying to get an appointment to find out what is wrong with my sore ankles (meh!)

The day was made better when my upholstery fabric and spiky plants were posted to me.

Cats!

I got appointments, but decided to skip that day so that the vlog wasn’t miserable!

More cats!

I darned my jeans, got quite a bit of work done and perked up.

We enjoyed a delicious slow cooker veggie sausage and cider casserole with mash.

Probably some more cats!

I did the cleaning and managed to not keep my walking mileage down…

We borrowed a couple of the new hire bikes in town, Mobikes, and took an adventure to Didsbury.

And finally on Sunday, I did the weekly meal plan, food shopping and we had a relaxing slow wander around National Trust Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Country Park.

Then I remembered to sign off this morning.  (I’ll get there once I get used to vlogging!)

Oh and I didn’t make it to the WI either – logistical issues that I forgot to mention in the vlog!

I hope that you will make it through the whole video and leave me some love!  I am expecting that this week will be a bit more upbeat (even if I do have some Doc appointments) as we are off to Go Ape on Friday and have some fun plans for the week too.  We are actually going to see the Dinosaurs, so make sure you tune in for Vlog 2 to find out more!

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Transcript

0:32
good morning it is the third of July and this is the first of my new vlogs
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sorry just being nosy at the neighbors and today I am doing a bit of scheduling for
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my blog writing a couple of posts and also procrastinating about phoning the
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GP or the NHS 111 service to find out what to do about my painful ankle so
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I’m gonna keep this shot for now and I’m going to go and do it now
1:11
all right so a little bit of an update for me I’ve had my lunch and I’ve phoned
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111 and phoned my GP and unfortunately I’m no closer to getting
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my ankles looked at. I’ve got to try tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. and hope the best
1:35
otherwise it’s an appointment 17 of July, so fingers crossed and let’s see what happens
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so today hasn’t really been as productive as I’d hoped
1:46
I’m not exactly the best stop for my vlog really hoping it’d be a more
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positive night but my ankle is really hurting the other ones starting to ache
1:57
and I just don’t really feel like doing much at all so I’m gonna leave it at
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that for today I’ve got a ton of shopping to put away and hopefully I’ll
2:08
be feeling much better tomorrow I do however have very very attentive
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nurses so that’s always a plus
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however, on a brighter note, I’ve just found out that my fabric for my footstool I’m
2:23
going to reupholster (which was my Nana’s actually) it’s on its way as well as my
2:28
pyracantha as some gorse to pad out and prickly out
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our hedge
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that is until they decide that they like them when they’re able to steal them
2:46
hello and welcome to *hesitating* Thursday… no, Wednesday *confidently* Wednesday and yes I’m aware
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that I didn’t vlog yesterday and that is because I spent most of my time in
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doctors and hospitals that’s one of my cats there
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because I was getting my ankle checked out getting an x-ray and trying to find
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out what was going on with that so it wasn’t exactly the most fun or positive
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day so I kind of thought rather than making this really really really miserable
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vlog that I would miss that bit out so um today I’m not going to talk about
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that because it’s pretty boring and unconcluded so what am i doing today
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well I went out for my walk this morning and I came back I’ve put veggie sausage
3:43
apple and cider in the slow cooker so that’s what we’re having for tea
4:00
I’m wondering whether I might be heading out to try out a meeting at the WI so
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that’s quite exciting so I’m gonna get my stuff done and I’ll be back a bit
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later *to the cat* what are you doing hey? you’re right on my keyboard… is that what you want?
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am I paying too much attention to the screen
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so what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna darn the pocket of my jeans because I’m
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frugal that way and ta-da! All sealed up! favorite way to kill some time while waiting for Jit
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is to head to the travel department in Waterstones on Deansgate
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welcome to the route of our morning walk
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*music*
5:48
hello and welcome to the real Thursday today I’ve been out for my walk this
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morning I took a few videos which um will be in here obviously and I’m just
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sitting down to some work right now editing some photos and doing a bit of
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copy editing and the cats are having a wonderful time because it’s nice and
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sunny in my studio so I’ll turn the camera around now and I’m keeping most
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the blinds chat on the phones of the house today just to try and keep it a
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little bit cooler in here so I’m just gonna go you can see one of my cats
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again I’m gonna be getting on with some work at my computer today and later on
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I’ll go for another walk depending on how bad this predicted thunderstorms
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going to be but I have brollies and waterproof so we should be fine …and now
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is the crazy run to try and get the bus as I’m not able to walk to town at the moment so I
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don’t have to sit next to or anywhere near the creepy guy who keeps wanting my
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phone number so I had to get the buffer least her he’s not on it so I don’t have
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and I’ve made it
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*chattering people and bus sounds*
7:01
*people chatting, traffic sounds*
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*music*
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as you can see I’ve got a bit of a penchant out for the kind of grimy
7:32
back streets but it’s kinda where the most interesting stuff happens
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*music*
7:52
we have tiny weenie cucumbers
8:00
good morning um today is Friday and I’ve
8:03
already been asked my walk this morning um I’m just having my smoothie now it was 17
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degrees when I went out at half past seven and it’s getting warmer it’s nice and
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sunny we didn’t get the storm yesterday so I did do a bit of walking then I’m
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not doing too well on the erm not walking too much thing as I still managed to do nine miles so…it’s not really working!
8:33
today is Friday which means for me it’s cleaning day so I have that to do this
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morning and and then I’ll be sorting out a bit of work maybe writing down all my
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ideas because I like to do that on a Friday so when it comes to Monday I
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have complete like some free rein of doing all this stuff and it also means
8:56
I don’t have to think about over the weekend which is nice and I’m also planning what
9:01
we’re going to do this weekend we’re thinking about trying those Mobikes in
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town I’m not sure where we’d go but they look pretty cool and they seem pretty
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cheap so that would be quite fun it also means I won’t be walking say that’s a
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good thing um and then I’ll go for my normal walk this evening which I think I
9:22
might nip by the Apple shop as well because I don’t know if anyone else to
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have this problem that since the new update I have battery drain I found
9:30
other people on Twitter to have the same thing and I have no idea whether they’re
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gonna do anything about it but right now I have a phone that’s as bad as my
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iPhone 3 which we actually just use the house phone now so we’re not really house
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phone actually just controls our lights and our Sonos and stuff
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but yeah it’s really annoying so I’m gonna go speak to them I think see if they
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can sort something and that’s about it for now so I’m gonna go see the cats say
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hello to them and get my cleaning done so bye for now.
10:01
Hello pusswins! Hello! *lots of cooing over the cats!*
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Morning, it’s Saturday morning
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well it’s okay so 25 past 11 and today we’re gonna go grab some Mobikes and
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cycle down to Didsbury so we’re gonna give it a go we’re gonna see it’s like
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and I’ll also be doing a post on that as well um
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the Sun shines out so it’s gonna be a lovely day and we’re gonna go adventure
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and also try out the new Dutch lanes on Oxford Road so that’s gonna be pretty
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fun as well so I will take some videos while I’m
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doing it and I’ll be back later
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*music*
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so we’ve walked for two miles so far we still haven’t come across a Mobike apart
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one cycling towards us which obviously we couldn’t take so we’re still on the
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hunt for one and hopefully we’ll finally yes we have been following the map
11:07
looking for the bikes
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*music*
12:13
well as you can see I’m a little bit red from cycling but and that’s I’m so pale
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and we’ve done eight point two kilometers saved one kilogram of carbon
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one kilogram of carbon and an hour and a half so that’s pretty good and the bikes
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are nice they are a little bit of bone shakers on some of the cycle tracks but
12:34
other than that, pretty good so far
12:42
good morning and welcome to Sunday um so far I have had a lie in which was nice
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and I’ve also done our meal plan so that’s everything for our dinners this
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week I’ve done online shopping which will come tomorrow and I’m about to make
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our brunch so it’s a nice relaxing morning the sun is shining I’m not sure
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what we’re doing later and there’s another cat Woah! so he’s
13:03
sliding down my leg with his claws we’ll probably go out and do something
13:08
in the sun later, maybe go and see the dinosaurs down the road we’ve got dinosaurs
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in the park down the road so we might go see those and then play it by ear, I think
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so yeah that’s Sunday to start for you when you’re trying to see what you’re
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doing for brunch and you have a cat perfectly placed on the meal plan!
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*music*
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so I completely forgot to do the um ask The Urban Wanderer yesterday or do an ending
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video so yeah and we had a great weekend we managed to get out about on the Mobikes
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we went to Quarry Bank mill and had a look round Styal Country Park and we
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also managed to get all our chores and so that’s pretty cool and now we come
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into the next week so if you’ve made it this far in the video thank you for
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watching to the end and also give me subscribe give me like a thumbs up and I
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look forward to hearing what you want to see in the video whether you liked it or
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you go see different and I will do my best to make it better for you so thanks
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again and remember to subscribe and give me a thumbs up

Published on Jul 10, 2017