 Hello and welcome back. Today I'm doing something slightly different. It's the Easter holidays and Lyra and I are both home and free because it's the holidays Lyra is one of my two nine-year-old daughters. Say hi. Hey So you might also know Lyra from her YouTube channel called Fizzy Fun I'll link to Lyra's YouTube channel in the description below Great place to go if you want to hear jokes or crafts or all sorts of stuff from Lyra and Ellie's stuff Okay, so today Lyra's going to answer 15 questions about mum that we found online because we thought that would be fun We'd have a chat about it. So number one. What is something that I always say to you? I love you I do love you That is something I say a lot isn't it? Oh and can I throw this away? I do say that a lot. I love throwing things away So in our family we were kind of converts to the Con Marie method the joy of tidying up like long before it kind Of came to Netflix and stuff. So if something doesn't spark joy, it kind of goes in the bin But maybe I'm sometimes a bit too enthusiastic with that. Is it that's right? Yeah, sometimes a lot too enthusiastic What can I say I love to throw things away Number two what makes me happy? I want to give you hugs and kisses. Yeah hugs and kisses are one of my favorite things and throwing things away. Yeah What makes me sad? When you don't see us for a while Yeah, so I'm away for work quite a bit aren't I and sometimes I'll be away for two or three days and that makes us all sometimes on the week Occasionally a week, but we talk on FaceTime don't we and that's good and then when I'm here in the holidays It's nice, isn't it? So yeah, rough on the smooth rough on the smooth if I was a Character from a TV show or a book or film. What character would I be? Do you think Lyra? Matilda because you'd love to read books. I Totally thought I was Matilda reading up. I read that book like 40 times when I was about six or seven. Yeah, I Love Matilda. That's a good choice anyone else. Who would you be? Well, of course, I think you would be Lyra Balakua because that is who you're named after Lyra from the Northern Lights When my husband Tom and I were pregnant with Lyra, then when we were thinking through names We had a lot of disagreement over names but we agreed on Lyra because so the Philip Paulman novels are set in Oxford and that's where Tom and I met when we were at university and We thought that Lyra was a really cool like feisty heroine to be named after so we gave you the name Lyra So yeah, that's who I think you'd be and I think you kind of live up to that headstrong and independent Kind of character pretty well. So yeah, I think you'd be Lyra Um What am I really good at? Piano and climbing. I love that you think I'm really good at piano So I've been learning piano for like about a year and a half maybe but we learn maybe yeah, we learn using an app Don't we so? Yeah, we have this app and it gives you like three stars if you learn to play the next song really well And I really only started because you suggested it didn't you like Lyra was learning piano and I said I always wanted to learn piano so I was like, well, why don't you then? So now we learn together using the app. Thank me another thing that I made you do Like what else? Like in making you drive. Oh, yeah I used to be really really scared of driving. So I learned to drive when Just before I felt pregnant with Lyra and then when I was pregnant with Lyra I had like loads of diesel spells and stuff So I didn't drive and then I didn't drive for years because I was too scared and then one day I kind of like said, oh, I'd really like to learn to drive again. So you made me didn't you? What did you do? How did you make me? I said right tomorrow morning? We're getting into the car and you're we're getting into dad's car and we're gonna drive We did it every day for a while, didn't we that like five o'clock in the morning in our pajamas And now I drive everywhere. I drive like thousands of miles every month. So thanks Lyra And actually my car is one of my happy places And so and what am I not very good at? Being around lots of people eating potatoes Yeah, so being around lots of people so because I'm autistic I find being around lots of people can be difficult and stressful and I get a bit Anxious and they may be angry and stuff from around too many people too long eating potatoes I'm just scared of them. I need to do something about that at some point Oh, no, I did eat a jacket potato with you a while ago. Didn't I? Yes, but you aren't gonna be having any a presumably not any new potatoes on Sunday. No No, it's the Sunday. No, I'll have other things though one day. I'll get back on the potato bandwagon Not quite ready yet. What makes you proud of me? I Everything Do you want to tell you what makes me proud of you? What makes me proud of you is how you try really hard of stuff and How if you can't do something at first that you keep on trying and you're really good at problem solving and finding different ways round stuff I like how you like if you can't do something on the piano You don't just give up straight away. You just keep trying until you get it We're both quite good at that actually aren't we like there was a piece we were both trying to learn that maple Oh, yeah, and we tried so many times. I still haven't got three stars But yeah, but we both keep trying and trying and trying don't we? I mean help each other Yeah, and the other thing I'm always really proud of is pride of I'm really proud of The other thing that makes me proud of you is how kind you are so You're often really really kind to your sister and other people and you really get it Yeah, just being nice to people and like with your cousins You're really good at looking after them and playing with them and being patient with them So yeah, I like how kind you are to be patient. So next question is what are things that you and I do together a lot? Probably playing games in the evening So we've introduced this new thing in our family happy in the evening where we have like completely screen-free time And it's not just screen-free actually like we are not allowed to do tidying up or anything. Are we it's just family time basically? And we play games then family time and what games do we play then? Geisters blitz twist or sometimes sometimes we never the weather's nicer than we play outside Yeah, you were teaching me to pogo stick. Why aren't you that was pretty fun and skip him Yes, you're being hula-hooping Because we've got a huge hula hoop. Yeah, so we love that Maybe you should make a video about how to hula hoop one time. Oh The next question. How are you and me the same or similar? We've got our funny chins. We have got the same chin And then how are we different? You're a little older than me. That's true You're more wrinkly All right, I I like reading fiction Like stories you like reading non-fiction don't you about people like you're reading that rebel girls book at the moment And but I like reading stories Not the same I like things to be tidy I Like things to be tidy, but I never bothered to tidy so they aren't How do you know that I love you? you tell us when Like you tell us that you love us when we're having hugs and kisses and stuff. I do love you Millions if I had an extra million pounds, what do you think I'd spend it on? And a really really good editing suite I Might be able to buy a few other things as well But yeah, that would be that'd be a good first thing actually I think we both want that and you know What else I would buy I'd buy you your own Mac book so I could get mine back Yeah, because I always steal mom's Mac book Yeah, so we've all got our own computers in this house, but I'm the only one who uses a Mac But it turns out that when you're editing video that a Mac is the way to go so Often I want to use my computer, but Lyra's using it to edit her YouTube videos. So Yeah, that's the thing I'd buy What's my favorite thing to do? Climb climb What's your favorite thing to do? Probably make slime make slime Lyra makes a lot of slime. Don't you yeah, what's my least favorite thing to do? What do you think I don't like doing? Sitting and having like a big dinner with loads of people. Oh, yeah, that's so true Yes, sitting and having a big dinner with loads of people not my idea of fun. No, no, no, no And then a final question is what's the most important thing that I have ever taught you? To be proud of myself and not worry about like what's different about me Yeah, be proud to be you you do you Have a cell phone you as well about Ellie going Yeah, we can hear Ellie in the background. Well, there we go. Have you got any final questions you want to ask or anything else Why do you like to tidy up so much? I Don't like having too many things Like so I prefer to have fewer things and to really enjoy them than to have loads and loads and loads of things So I read this book a little while ago that was all about like mindful consumerism and minimalism And it just made me want to throw away Everything yeah, so I wanted to have fewer clothes fewer just fewer items in my house and Not to buy many things but when I did buy them to like really think about whether I actually wanted and needed this thing and So then I don't buy so much, but the things I buy I really enjoy Yeah That's why And also when you have less stuff you don't have to do too much tidying up that's all so important Why do you like making YouTube videos about mental health? So mental health is my job. So I kind of teach people about mental health And the reason I like making YouTube videos about it is because so I quite often will go You know when I go away for work and I speak at like big conferences and things but not everyone can come to them And also I usually get like an hour and I've got so much to say And so the videos mean that all sorts of different people can learn from this Even though they might not be able to come to those events so people from all over the world And I can say more stuff so I can help teach people basically and I can yeah provide Free teaching resources for people to learn about mental health because I think it really really matters Because as you know, I've been very poorly with mental illness in the past haven't I with my eating disorders and things like that and Yeah, I think it's important that people know how to help people like me basically And it wasn't nice when you were When you were ill it wasn't nice when I was ill was it no Because you only see you once a week. Yeah, you only got to see me once a week That wasn't ideal But when you did come you always drank that hot chocolate. Didn't you and it was so good Hot chocolate is good and you like going around in the wheelchair, didn't you? But yeah, I think we're gonna try and avoid that again. Aren't we yeah, try and stay well stay home. Yeah, because the classes Well, okay pluses but they were like we could just um Well, we could just have hot chocolate at home with mum not being in the hospital Yeah Right, I think that's a rep, isn't it? Why won't you buy me a mac book? Actually, I'm gonna make a deal with you on camera pinky promise right I will match fund you so if you save up Towards half the cost Of like say refurbished mac book air. I'll make up the other half So you've got to get saving How much is it? I reckon So you've probably got like nearly 300 pounds in your account at the moment if you can save it up to 600 pounds Then I will pay for the mac book. That's gonna take like that's gonna be when I'm like 16 Well, you get money for birthdays and things and you can always earn extra money by doing chores and stuff Oh, okay. Uh, what tour am I gonna do to more 60 chores am I gonna do today? I don't let's go right list Let's get do it. Bye