This video will honestly either make you want to dry heave into a paper bag or fill you with utter joy; it’s ever so slightly sentimental andI use my “mummy voice”. You have been warned. I went to Lapland on a press trip recently and wanted to film something for Ted and Angelica to show them what I get up to when I go away (sledding, ice-fishing, staying in a treehouse – standard), but then I thought, why not just put the video out there and see how it goes down" Maybe people love being spoken to like a small child – it could be a new trend. An ASMR kind of thing. Regression therapy.
So anyway, here’s my trip to Lapland condensed into one manageable episode; there’s a lot of talk of snow and how many layers I’m wearing, but that’s the sort of thing you talk about when you’re talking to three year olds. isn’t it" To be quite honest, I don’t think I could film one of these for the kids again – it’s enough work having to think about filming all the time anyway without also having to consider how to film it in a way that’ll be engaging to toddlers. I mean, short of breaking into a Mr Tumble routine what can you actually film on your own that would be interesting enough for under-fours" There’s only so much jazz-handed enthusiasm one woman can conjure when talking about relatively mundane things. “Now I’m going to breakfast!” “This is my litt...