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5 Youtube Channels I recommend:
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@WalkWithMeTim
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Hi everyone it's Karen from the Geordie Grandma welcome back to my channel and welcome to the first and a regular Sunday slot in collaboration with the transatlantic housewives of YouTube which includes myself at Busy B. Marie at Tina's Talk Time and at Maria Crocker. We'll also be having occasional special guests so that means on a Sunday morning at half seven you're going to get at least four perspectives
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on one topic on each of our channels. So today's collaboration video is YouTube recommendations
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We thought we'd give you five YouTube recommendations each, so five channels that we really enjoy watching
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and we can share them with you and hopefully you'll enjoy them too
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Remember, if you have any recommendations, leave them in the comments below
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So do go across and watch each of our videos and then you'll get
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20 recommendations for YouTube channels to watch. So let's get into my five recommendations
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The first channel I want to recommend is It's Just Me, Marlene
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She's a lady, I think she's from Ireland. She is over 40 and she has a plus size try-on clothing channel
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where she does lots of different try-on halls from lots of different shops and online shops
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She does things like Sheen, she's done H&E, done H&M, she's done ASAR, lots of different ones
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And she tries on a variety of outfits from dresses to trouser suits
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She's even done a video on different shapewear that she's found in what she thinks of each one
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She's done a few of them, I think. So lots of different try-ons
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She's done capsule wardrobe videos. She does two videos a week. She's very down to earth and she's very honest
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you know when she's we try something on if she says she doesn't like it if she doesn't like the
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material if she doesn't like the cut she will say what she doesn't like about it she also usually
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says what she does like about the outfit and even if it doesn't suit her body shape which she says
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is apple shaped if it doesn't suit her body shape she'll say you know if she likes the item but it's
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just not for her she will tell you that as well so i really do enjoy her channel she had a really
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great tip in one of our videos that i've found very useful and
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for you ladies who are you know maybe plus size you may know what I'm talking about when I talk
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about chub rub so when the tops of your thighs rub together and it can be can be quite painful if
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you're walking around all day in a nice summer dress when you are on holiday and the top of your
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thighs are rubbing together and you get that rash and it's just uncomfortable and you may not want
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to wear cycling shorts or you know whatever your chub rub pants I think they call them she
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recommended something called gold bond friction defense which I've found really really useful I got it from Amazon I think it was about 13 pound and it's like a push
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up like a push-up Vaseline stick but it's not Vaseline and you just rub it on the top of
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your thighs and it really does work I used it on holiday last year and I found it
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really really helpful I didn't suffer at all so I highly recommend I'm just
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Mae Marlene her channel go over and have a look she got tons of video like I say she uploads twice a week and she has some really good tips if you looking for you know videos that talk about plus size fashion
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The second channel I want to recommend is a channel called Walk With Me Tim and I've just come across Tim recently and we've made my husband have been binge watching his channel
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It's absolutely addictive and it is a travel channel. It's mainly in the UK that he does and he'll walk around different
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towns he's done Blackpool he's done Skegness he's done Tenby he's done Whitby and he'll
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walk around the town obviously taking us with him and showing you different areas of the town
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things he likes he'll say if it's been voted you know best town worst town and if he agrees with
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that he also does lots of reviews of hotels so he'll go and stay in our hotel and he'll show you
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around the room and show you around the hotel you know talk about the breakfasts does the
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bed test tell you if the bed's comfortable and he all with that as well he does you know
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hotels that have been rated best and hotels that have been rated worst on trip
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advisor and it's just very addictive to watch he's been to quite a few places that we've also
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been to maybe not the hotels um although he does done he has done premier in and travelings which
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we've stayed in and but he's done towns that we've been to and I always think it's nice
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to watch travel videos from places that you've been to so you can say if you agree
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So he is really fun to watch. He's done places like Butlins, which I found quite interesting
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He's done caravan parks. He's been to the seven-star hotel in Dubai, you know, completely from one end to the other
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And he's really honest in his reviews. He actually stayed in a jumbo jet in, I think it was Sweden
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that was really interesting. He stayed in a helicopter, you know, like a glamping thing
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Again, he's very down to earth. He's very relatable. He's honest. One of the best tips that I've gotten from his channel
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is some of his videos, he also goes and tests fish and chips
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maybe places that have been rated at the best fish and chips cafe in the area
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and he'd go and test the fish and chips and he was recently in Whitby
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I mean, I love Whitby. We go quite a lot of Whitby. And the cafe he went into, a cafe called the Magpie Cafe
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I've never been into. I thought it was a pub, but it's not. It's a fish and chip restaurant
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And he says that was probably the best fish and chips and mushy peas he's ever tasted
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So definitely the next time I go to Whitby, I'm going in there for fish and chips
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So I highly recommend walk with me to him. He does at least one video a week and there's plenty there to
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to binge on if you want to go across and watch them. The third channel I want to recommend
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is something, a channel called Curiosity Street Style. Now it's a very, it's a different kind of channel
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not something I've ever seen before. And it's basically, I don't know
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I don't know who it is, I don't know if it's a man or a woman, I think it's a woman
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They've just kind of, they must have like a GoPro camera and they're just filament on the streets of London
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and if somebody who is very stylish catches that I or somebody who's wearing clothes that are interesting catches that I
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they kind of zoom in on them and you know and give you a good look at what they're wearing it's basically like a
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fashion show but yeah obviously it's not a fashion show because I don't know if the people actually know they're being filmed
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but they just walked along the streets of London and they'll zoom in on on whoever who looks really stylish
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and it quite an interesting channel there is I think there is another one I can even board it called but the one I watched is Curiosity Street Style And I find it quite fascinating
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If you know, if you like people watching, it's a really good channel
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They're usually about 10 minutes, the video, and it's just nice to have on if you're having a cup of coffee and sit and watch it
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And you can get, if you're interested in fashion, you can get some really good ideas
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You know, if you're like me, I'm absolutely rubbish at styling things
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I'm terrible in styling clothes. I love fashion programs. One of my favourite programs on TV is Project Runway
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So if you like things like that, you'll really like this channel of Curiosity Street Style
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It does give you some ideas of, you know, what bags you can use with what outfits or what shoes
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It's quite fascinating actually to watch what some people wear. There's quite a few on there to watch already
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She has done some just walking around the streets of London. There's no talking on these videos
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It's just set to some nice background music. And they have walked down the streets of London
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just showing you different areas and different features, which are quite interesting
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So, yeah, I do recommend that. It's quite an interesting channel, Curiosity Street Style
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The fourth channel I wanted to recommend is a channel called Beauty by Des
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And I've just came across Des in the last six months and I'm really enjoying her channel
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And actually in her description, she calls herself, An optimistic woman touching 70
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She does not look 70 at all. And she has a, it's mainly a beauty channel
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She also does a little bit of fashion, some skincare, things like that
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But she has some really good videos. I recently watched one of her videos that was the top 10 over 60 beauty secrets
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which I found very interesting. And one of the tips I picked up from that was to use white eyeliner to make your eyes look brighter
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and I'd actually forgotten I had a white eyeliner. I used to use one back in the 80s and I bought one I think a couple of years ago or it came in a beauty subscription box
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But after I'd watched Desa's video, I thought, I'm going to dig out that white eyeliner and I've started to use it again
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And it does really make your eyes look brighter. So thanks for that, Des
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I really enjoyed that tip. There's also videos like five makeup tips to look instantly younger
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And she definitely doesn't look 70 a high. recommend you go and watch these videos if that's something you're looking for to look younger
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She also has a monthly newsletter that you can sign up to where you get more than beauty
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and skincare tips. She also has things like books she's been reading, you know, things that interest
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her. So you might want to go and sign up to a newsletter, which I'm about to do because I haven't
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done it yet. So I find, I love her videos, so I'm sure I love her newsletter as well. But yeah
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I definitely highly recommend Beauty Buy days. And the fifth channel I want to recommend is a channel called Ellen's Abundant Life on Less
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And this is an American lady who has a channel where she talks about life on a fixed income
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She talks about frugal living. She is retired. She's vegetarian, so she shows you the vegetarian meals that she's eaten
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Always very budget friendly. she thinks that she talks about. She always starts a video making a cup of coffee
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and I just find that quite interesting to watch people making a cup of coffee
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She'll tell you what kind of coffee she's having, what kind of syrup she's putting in it. And she sounds like she really enjoys the coffee as well
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She's one of these ladies who've got a really calm voice. She's really easy to listen to
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She's got a very dry sense of humour as well. She's a no-nonsense kind of woman
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so if you like that kind of thing you will like this channel she got a very interesting house that on a recent video I found out that she actually built it herself well I assuming she didn build it
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herself with her own two hands but she was responsible for you know put having some
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input into how the house was built she is retired so I think she's been
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living in this house for you know quite a while now and she shows you around her
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garden she's got a container garden where she grows some of our own food
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and flowers and it's kind of spread into her house as well you know she's got lots of plants in
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a house i found that video quite interesting where she showed you around that she she talks about
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slow and easy living now that she's retired you know she's taking life easy so she was saying that
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she'll tell you what chores she's got for the day so she might say i want to get this table
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cleared for the day she says i might put some nail polish on you know my nails need do and she's
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but I think today I might just take the old nail varnish off and shape my nails
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and tomorrow I might put the first coat on and she says there's no rush you know we've got
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time she's just really easy going and one of the tips that I actually picked up from her
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channel recently and I just thought this was it's so obvious and it's just I just really
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resonated with me so you know don't keep buying things play with the things you already have
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Now how many times do you say that to kids? I've said it to my own kids
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I've said it to my grandchildren. You've got tons of stuff go and play with it. And I know personally, I sometimes feel the need to go out shopping and buy things that I know I don't really need
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I've got tons of eye shadow palettes and I keep buying more. And like I'll sit and I go, what am I going to do tonight
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You know, I've got tons of games upstairs, jigsaws, you know, things, puzzle books, things that I could be doing
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So why do I feel they need to go out? and buy more stuff. So by watching Ellen's channel, that did really resonate with me
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And it's made me think a lot more about what I'm doing and the things that I do already have
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So I'm going to start playing with the things I've already got. But I highly recommend Ellen's abundant life unless you'll, I think if you like that kind of person
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you'll really enjoy her channel. She also has three rescue dogs that make an appearance on
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that channel as well. And I always love to see people's pets on their channels. so yeah that's nice to see as well so those are my five recommendations for today the five
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YouTube channels that I've been really enjoying recently I really enjoy YouTube you know I think I'm
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tend to watch YouTube a lot more than I watch ordinary TV now it's just so easy it's nice
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to just sit down for 10 minutes or even better 30 minutes with a nice cup of tea have your
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notebook at hand you know so you can write down any tips any anything they're
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recommend I like to have a notebook to hand to write that down and I like to watch it
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on the big TV so you might have seen at the beginning that's where I watch my
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YouTube on the big TV so if I follow your channel and you're a bit freaked out
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by being watched on a big TV I'm sorry but I think that's better to watch it
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on I find it difficult to watch it on my phone so that's all I've got for you
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today don't forget to go across and watch at Tina's talk time at Maria Crocker
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and at busy be Marie to see what YouTube channels they recommend and then
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then you'll have lots to watch and don't forget to let us know what channels you
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recommend in the comments below next Sunday we'll have we have a special guest
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Emma's lifestyle will be joining us and we'll be bringing you a video each packing our
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summer capsule wardrobe into a carry-on case to take to a destination that we will
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leave some clues to through the video for you to guess where we're going so don't
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miss that that would be half seven next Sunday so thank you so much for watching that's
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all I've got for today so bye for now
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