Adventures and Naps

What happened this week

Hey nappers! 👋🏻 This week has been ✨wild✨ so let's chat!

Hope you've had a good one!!

I love judging food

Hey nappers! 👋🏻 `hope you're having a great start to your weekend! Here's the crisps and chocolate tier lists if you want to play along! 🥔🍫

When this goes live, I'll likely be getting ready for ...

Birthday Q&A + unboxing! 🎂

Hey nappers! 👋🏻 Thank you so much for the birthday questions and all the gifts, y'all are too kind! 🥹 Hope you're having a great March so far!

Strangest Aldi taste test I've ever done

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 I've got a food comparison video coming up on Youtube and I needed some bits from Aldi, so I thought: "While I'm here....!" The poor cashier who saw what I bought lol

Hope you have a great weekend!

February Book Club review - soooo goooood!

For Book Club this month we read FAIL SAFE by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. I loved this so much and once I got close to the end, I stayed up for hours reading so I could finish it 💥

I originally picked this because Goodreads recommended it and the reviews seemed positive, so why not? I had no idea how much I'd enjoy this - incredibly anxiety-inducing, very technical but understandable, terrifying and thr...

Reacting to Women's Rugby FOR THE FIRST TIME

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 On Youtube, I did a video reacting to Rugby's Hardest Hits and so many people said I needed to check out Women's Rugby - so here we are! 🏉 Grab a seat and get cozy!

Spoiler alert - I found this so much more enjoyable lol

I need your questions!

Hey Nappers! (maybe a new exclusive-community-member name??) March is my birthday month! 🎉 and I'd love to do a Q&A to celebrate 🎂 please leave any questions down below! Funny, serious, about Canada, England or totally unrelated!

Fire away below! 🎈

Guessing my way through Mum's recipes

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 Recently I found my mum's recipe book and I wanted to try out 2! 🧑🏻‍🍳 Hope you like the video!

Also if you have any favourite family recipes, let me know!! 🍽️

Cider taste test (vs the Butler's ranking!) 🍎🍻

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 I felt like it had been ages since we did a cider video, so here we are! 🍏🍎 hope you like it!

And heads up, Tuesday video is all about wine lol cheers!

Quiet + chaotic days in my life 🏋🏻‍♀️🧼🪴

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 This week's video is a few snippets into my week! A bit quiet and yet also chaotic lol hope you've had a good January, even though it's lasted a million years!

January's Book Club Pick Review: loved it! 🗺️📍

For January's Book Club we read The Lost City of Z by David Grann. This non-fiction follows the famous British explorer Percy Fawcett's journey into the Amazon...

My first book from this author was one we read last year, The Wager (the one about the shipwreck and mutiny). I lovvveeeddd that one so much I wanted to try another from Grann.

While I...

Tasting weird snacks + unboxing surprise gifts 🍫🎁

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 I received a few PO Box gifts recently that I wanted to open and I STILL had some taste test gifts sent back in December...! Hope you're having a nice start to your weekend 🙏🏻

RIP TikTok 🪦

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 So TikTok is (supposedly) getting banned in the US... seems like a good time to share some of my favourites with you - hope you like the video and have a great rest of your weekend!

Raw egg drink?? | Making historical British drinks

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 Join me as I make 3 historical British drinks out of Mrs Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Management - big shoutout to Tony for sending it to the PO Box!

Hope you like the video! 🧑🏻‍🍳

A+N stats for 2024 | What worked, what didn't

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 What a year 2024 has been....!!!!!

I wanted to reflect back on the year with A+N, what worked, what didn't, share some graphs and rant a bit lol

Sometimes when creating content as a career, you focus solely on what didn't work (or didn't work as well as you hoped). And it can be really easy to overlook the good stuff - or maybe that's just human nature? Who knows.

I created my channel on Dec 20, 2015 - although I didn't start making weekly content unti...

A Year of A+N Book Club 2024 📚✨

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 Grab a cuppa and let's recap our Book Club picks from this year! There were so many good ones that it was actually hard to pick a (few) favourites!

If you read anything you enjoyed this year, or want to suggest something for Book Club 2025, let me know!

Happy Reading!

December Book Club Review 🔎 I loved it!

To finish off Book Club this year, we read Five Decembers by James Kestrel - I really enjoyed this one! So nice to finish off the year on a high 📚

I loved that this incorporated so many different genres - crime/noir with a bit of romance and a bit of war and to top it off, a murder mystery! I loved how the writing was direct and to the point like a hardened detective would think and really enjoyed the expansiveness ...

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🎄 SO MANY PO Box Gifts!

Hey, Patreon! 👋🏻 Hope you had a lovely Christmas or at the very least, a happy Wednesday ☺️ I received so many PO Box gifts these last few weeks, I had to put them into their own video!!

Thank you SO MUCH for your generosity and for supporting me - it really keeps the dream alive!

Thanks again and I hope you have a lovely rest of your week!

🇨🇦 My mum visited England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 Recently my mum visited me in England for our annual Christmas get-together! Here's all the hot gossip (and what went wrong).

Originally I was going to add-in all the PO Box goodies that have been sent in the last few weeks but there's been SO MUCH that I'm putting those into their own video. You guys have been too kind!!!!

Hope you're having a great December so far!

Reacting to the strangest UK Christmas #1s

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 Shoutout to Will who suggested checking out Britain's strangest Christmas #1s! I can safely say, I was pretty surprised lol

Hope you enjoy the video and are having a nice December! ❄️🎶

Making my own Christmas wreath 🎄❄️

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 New year, new wreath! Today we're continuing with our new tradition of making a Christmas wreath, but will it be as nice as last years???

Hope you're having a nice December so far!

The UK has the strangest Christmas crisps (so I tried them)

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 The UK is the WINNER of wild Christmas crisps... and I wanted to try them all lol 😅🎄

I also made a tierlist for the snacks in case you fancy trying them yourselves!

Book Club REVIEW 📚 What a time-capsule!

This month we read Notes from a Small Island, sent to the PO Box by Andy! 🇬🇧 I had heard this title and author mentioned before, but never read it or any of this other works.

This one in particular covers Bill's journey around the UK in the early 1990s and I found it like a 90's time capsule. I'm sure many of the references/observations about various British towns and villages no longer hold true but I still foun...

My FAVOURITE funny videos (lately)

With the early-Christmas-chaos upon us, let's have a seat, get a hot drink and (hopefully) enjoy some of my favourite videos lately! ☕🎄

9 Years in the UK | Exclusive Q&A

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 It's been (nearly) NINE YEARS since I moved to the UK 🤯 hard to imagine!

Thanks to everyone who submitted questions - I've added chapters to the video in case you want to jump around.

And THANK YOU for your support over the years. I never imagined this little hobby would turn into what it is now 🙏🏻

Can I guess these British accents? | UK ACCENT QUIZ

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 I found two British accent quizzes - let me know how you did! 🌎

Either way, hope you like the video and have a great rest of your weekend!

Why does my Co-Op stock the weirdest snacks??

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 I went to a local Co-Op recently and was shocked at all the weird snacks they had... so naturally I had to buy them all 🫣 If you haven't been to Co-Op in awhile, you should pop in and see if you can find these snacks!

9 YEARS Q&A!!!!!!💖🎉🇬🇧

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 My 9 year anniversary moving to the UK is coming up mid/late November... I can't believe it!!

I'd love to do an exclusive Q&A - so please leave any questions you have below! They can be serious/silly, about living here or totally unrelated ☺️

Happy November!

October Book Club Review: spooky-ish! 👻🔪

This month we read Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak - it was ~fine~

There were some spooky elements, but nothing that felt too dangerous or life-threatening. Some of the writing actually made me laugh out loud when it really shouldn't have... but I still read the book and zoomed through it, so that says something!

It was a fine thriller, but I'll certainly forget it soon. And that's OK! Sometimes you just need a simp...

Reacting to the Great Train Robbery

Hey Patreon! 👋🏻 Happy Saturday! 💛

This week I reacted to the Great Train Robbery - a massive heist famous in British culture that I had never heard of! I love it when that happens 🚂💰 hope you like the video!