Your house is looking beautiful! The red Christmas candles look magical against the green/grey walls. Thank you for lighting them for filming this vlog, and treating us to this lovely sight 🕯
Vivi, you absolutely did the right thing by getting a new refrigerator and freezer. We had some hold ups when we were selling my dad's house that it wasn't worth not taking care of it if it meant blowing the sale. You wouldn't want to start the process all over again. You made the right choice. Plus, you need to be able to keep your food in the meantime. Personally, I think your viewers would pay $15.50 for your lovely lavender bags. You could do a poll on your community page, possibly. Anyway, I know you'll sell out either way.
I take heart from you, Vivi, as things in my townhouse need replacing or repairing. It frustrates me that I get so overwhelmed. You are one courageous, astute woman.
AI eliminates humanity. It negates the gift, the value, of human art, writing, vision, understanding, creativity. the unique quality, individuality of human thought and personality smashed into uniform soulless script! It steals inspiration and labels it its own! Very scary!
@@carolwhite6979 and in the middle of Vivi’s video there was an advert by a “doctor” telling how to reverse diabetes. Something odd in the inflection made me look closely. It was entirely AI!
Oh Vivi bad luck having to replace your freezer. You are like me I always have something on the go like my knitting or mending which I do when I sit down to do something that doesn’t need my hands. As a lady with a arthritic knee and a knee replacement I moved to a ground floor apartment which has allowed me to remain independent as I can get things in and out without be reliant on others to take things up and down stairs. It really gets me down when I have to rely on others because I have always been independent.
How annoying! I guess we’ve all been there! One Christmas the oven wouldn’t work so lunch was very delayed whilst a neighbour was found who’d cook the turkey etc for us, many years ago! But somehow such events seem worse when on one’s own now , so well done for managing ! You are very resourceful ! Not feeling too well with a slight virus this year I enjoyed 2 soft boiled eggs and soldiers?? for lunch ..very weird! Praying all will be well for you in the new year and fridge n freezer arrive as expected!
You might have avoided a worse disaster Vivi, imagine the new lady moving in and the freezer burning out in her first week! She would go straight to the lawyers I reckon. Fingers crossed you get a date very soon, or else it’s time to reconsider.
So wish I could purchase one of your lavender bags but I live in Canada so doubt that is possible. Loved your take on, and agree with, your perspective on AI.
@@WhatVivididnext That's fabulous! I looked on your online shop but didn't see them available there? Assume that is because they aren't quite ready yet? 😊
I hope the new white goods are installed smoothly, and the old ones removed. Re AI, it's not quite the same thing but since my hearing has started to deteriorate (along with everything else, it seems 😉) I often use sub-titles when watching tv/TH-cam (although I find some (including your channel) speak clearly enough to hear properly). Some of the sub-titles take a bit of working out, and some downright hilarious, and I often wonder how they are done - is someone sitting there typing in what they think is being said? Unlikely, I suppose, but by having the sound on and the sub-titles showing I can usually work out what's going on (background music allowing). Happy New Year Vivi.
Oh, dear! If that happened here I’d immediately empty the freezer into a cold corner of the house and throw every available blanket over the stack as insulation. Sorry for your loss of almost a week’s meals. There’s a word for the feeling of sunshine in winter: apricity
Automatic closed captioning turned a garden educator’s discussion of peonies in the yard to “penises” and how to “cultivate” them as they’re really beautiful and can last 100 years. 😂😂
I still have my lavender bag that I purchased from you, can't remember when, but it still smells lovely. 🎉 I will definitely get another one! So beautiful!
Shame about the freezer,nice lavender bags,my husband is still in hospital for his hip pain because he fell,the nurses have given him pain patches which helps.
Hello Viv ! Happy Holidays to you and may the New Year bring all your dreams come true ❤. I have to tell you I worry about the candles in the background, if they fall over or discolor your wall you would be devastated. 😢 Just a watching out for you !
Hello Vivi, Happy New Year to you! Love your natters, humour and expressions e.g 'bananas'! Re the freezer.......what timing! You will probably have a good laugh about it next week despite the hassle. The lavender bags are lovely. They are handmade so well worth the money and money review. I think they will sell like hotcakes
I was considering purchasing a second freezer but now am wondering if a pressure canner would be better? By that, I mean preserving food in jars to put in a cupboard instead of using electricity to power another freezer. Currently doing some research into the concept!
I remember that annoying paperclip thing 😩. I too wouldn’t want AI translating my words into languages I cannot understand, this could be used for awful things and we wouldn’t know 😦. I’m so glad you got through your own produce before your freezer packed up, but how frustrating. There always seems to be an extra cost with a move that no matter how you try will always pop up somewhere. Your buyer is so lucky that you’ve sorted this, presumably they’ve got a better deal as they didn’t have a fridge in the kitchen at point of sale. We were told a few days before we were due to complete that appliances would be now be left, we initially thought oh wow bonus, as we’d budgeted for buying new appliances. When we got the keys and checked the appliances we soon realised we were not so lucky. Everything was beyond filthy and the washing machine was broken. So cost us to get rid of them, then in removing them we discovered the kitchen units were totally degraded, everything just fell apart!!!!! We didn’t have enough money to buy a new kitchen as we were older first time buyers and used all savings for the tiny deposit we managed to get together. We lived without a kitchen for some time, (that was hard!) then used our appliance budget to put on a deposit for a kitchen and did it on a payment plan. Looking forward to your lavender bags going live 💜 x
I feel your pain... my TV blew up on Christmas Eve. I ordered a new one from Argos and it is being delivered today. I agree with you re AI... it is soulless. Sending you my love xxxxx
I don't have internet .. I had to replace my TV last year.. It was a nightmare trying to find a TV that worked on an aerial.... when I switch on it still prompts me to connect to the internet..... I swear at it every day!😆
I agree with you, ref AI. When doing cleaning decluttering, I sometimes put on long videos or an audiobook. I hate the AI voices that read them. And i do mean hate..... with a passion. I started listening to a book today whilst i was cleaning sorting and decluttering my kitchen. Oh my days..... i was losing the world to live. So i turned it off and decided to talk to myself 😆 🤣 😂 My lavender bag still smells great. It's a lovely comfort.
@WhatVivididnext so true.... I had a whole conversation about baking 😆 🤣 and which cupboard all the things should go in. Was my cooking ingredients fresh. Yaddar Yaddar. 😆 Oh, and a conversation on Pyrex. It's not the new stuff. 😆 🤣 😆 😆 old stuff I collected. Still I entertained myself. Books should be read by real people and not AI. Even the audiobooks need to be human voiced. Same with vlogs..... Xx
Vivvi thank you for the video love the lavender bags but l did want to say l read my books at least twice with a gap in between and it's amazing how you can read it and you find something else you missed the first time l just find it interesting so l just wondered if you feel the same
Fingers crossed that your lack of complicated chain gets your move done swiftly. 🤞 Met a guy outside his house as I was going to the allotment yesterday. I asked whether they had taken the house off the market as the sign had disappeared, but he said it had just blowing down and they hadn't bothered to put it back up as all the conveyancing was going through though they didn't expect to move until the end of Febuary or even March... Apparently their chain is really long and complicated so it's going to take about 4 or 5 months! 🙄
Lesbian chocolate. Nice to have a silly giggle and those kind of jokes remind me of the level of my humour still sometimes. Reminds me of a lot of Heidi & Lil Bonnie's humour over at The Narrowboat Pirate. But seriously these ai bots can make a lot of silly translation errors still. I don't like being stuck in an ai bot loop on the phone when needing to just talk to a human. I've never used an Alexa but have tried out chatGpt.
If you've ever read the close captioning while watching a video, it's quite often so different than what is actually being said. Accuracy is not TH-cams agenda. It's profit, sad to say.
The AI translates when the spoken language is English it’s pretty good actually. And the words that they were not able to translate will write them in the other vocabulary. So when we -who read the translation in other language- see a wird that don’t make sense we know the program was not able to translate. And we just benefit from the whole context of the sentences not necessarily needing the translation to be a word by word, .
Hi ViVi .I know how that feels my fridge went out last year..ugh Did you have a consignment shop near you maybe you could sell from there just a thought..Have a cuppa and try to relax..Do you have a junk man that might remove for recycling. Just Another thought...junk removal service we have this in America..Good luck...
Dr Kat from “Reading the Past” channel just did a video where she tested whether generative AI could script or write content like she does. Very interesting results. There is no way dubbing Al or even if it was a real actor could duplicate your essence or syntax. ✨
You have just explained why sometimes I find videos with a fairly obviously AI voice talking over images, presumably the real voice is in a different language. I always switch them off, the words might be right (but like you say, who knows!) but the intonation is wrong. Let's hope AI doesn't get harder to spot.
lol the revenge of Clippy disguised as a co-pilot typical windows, this is why I like Linux I feel more in control. Agree about AI I don't think it's really ready for the size rollout it's getting in all corners of our lives, the Apple news / BBC fiasco showed the mistakes it makes all too often
Your house is looking beautiful! The red Christmas candles look magical against the green/grey walls. Thank you for lighting them for filming this vlog, and treating us to this lovely sight 🕯
I love having candles on really dark days in winter......good for my soul.
Candle light is beautiful 😍
Vivi, you absolutely did the right thing by getting a new refrigerator and freezer. We had some hold ups when we were selling my dad's house that it wasn't worth not taking care of it if it meant blowing the sale. You wouldn't want to start the process all over again. You made the right choice. Plus, you need to be able to keep your food in the meantime.
Personally, I think your viewers would pay $15.50 for your lovely lavender bags. You could do a poll on your community page, possibly. Anyway, I know you'll sell out either way.
Aww, thank you lovely. 😊
Lavender bags look fabulous, Vivi. ❤
Thank you lovely. 😊
I hope everything got straightened out with your appliances. I bet those lavender bags smell heavenly!
The whole flat smells heavenly......and soporific. 😊
I was very lucky to manage to purchase one of your lavender bags at least 3 years ago and it still has a beautiful smell. Heather
I'm so glad, thank you lovely. 😊
The atmosphere of this video is beautiful, Vivi!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😍😍😍😍 (Didn't realize you had ceiling lights).
Thank you lovely. 😊
You create such beautiful stuff. Those bags are going to fly out of your shop!
Aww, thank you so much....here's hoping!
Hiya Vivi , enjoyed a visit with you today take care Luv Ontario Canada 🐝🇨🇦
Thanks for coming. 😊
I take heart from you, Vivi, as things in my townhouse need replacing or repairing. It frustrates me that I get so overwhelmed. You are one courageous, astute woman.
I understand the overwhelm......I have certainly felt it at times over the last five years! X
AI eliminates humanity. It negates the gift, the value, of human art, writing, vision, understanding, creativity. the unique quality, individuality of human thought and personality smashed into uniform soulless script! It steals inspiration and labels it its own! Very scary!
Exactly!!!
@@carolwhite6979 and in the middle of Vivi’s video there was an advert by a “doctor” telling how to reverse diabetes. Something odd in the inflection made me look closely. It was entirely AI!
'There might have been some overlap….‘ You‘re so polite. I laughed out loud.
😉
Wonderful video Vivi. Hope your 😂troubles right themselves soon. Looking forward to seeing your cooking videos. All the best...
Thank you.
Hope your fridge freezer delivery has gone smoothly Vivi 😁
Those really look large! You do such beautiful work.♥
Thank you! 😊
Ooooh -the lavender fragrance is
gorgeous! I love the patchwork pouches . The colors and patterns are charming !
Happy new year eve Vivi!
❤xx
Thank you lovely. 😊
Oh Vivi bad luck having to replace your freezer. You are like me I always have something on the go like my knitting or mending which I do when I sit down to do something that doesn’t need my hands. As a lady with a arthritic knee and a knee replacement I moved to a ground floor apartment which has allowed me to remain independent as I can get things in and out without be reliant on others to take things up and down stairs. It really gets me down when I have to rely on others because I have always been independent.
Ach, I hear you!
that was very relaxing watching you fill the lavender bags and they where all pretty bags 😄
Thank you lovely. 😊
How annoying! I guess we’ve all been there! One Christmas the oven wouldn’t work so lunch was very delayed whilst a neighbour was found who’d cook the turkey etc for us, many years ago! But somehow such events seem worse when on one’s own now , so well done for managing ! You are very resourceful ! Not feeling too well with a slight virus this year I enjoyed 2 soft boiled eggs and soldiers?? for lunch ..very weird! Praying all will be well for you in the new year and fridge n freezer arrive as expected!
Oh I hope you feel better soon. x
You might have avoided a worse disaster Vivi, imagine the new lady moving in and the freezer burning out in her first week! She would go straight to the lawyers I reckon. Fingers crossed you get a date very soon, or else it’s time to reconsider.
So wish I could purchase one of your lavender bags but I live in Canada so doubt that is possible. Loved your take on, and agree with, your perspective on AI.
Vivi does send across the pond. 🐝🇨🇦👋🏻
I do post to Canada. 😊
@@WhatVivididnext That's fabulous! I looked on your online shop but didn't see them available there? Assume that is because they aren't quite ready yet? 😊
@@janer319 Correct......hopefully in a couple of weeks......I'll put a message in the community tab here when they're ready. 😊
@@WhatVivididnext Yay! I'll keep an eye on that! Thank you!
Aw Vivi you're very special!
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I hope the new white goods are installed smoothly, and the old ones removed. Re AI, it's not quite the same thing but since my hearing has started to deteriorate (along with everything else, it seems 😉) I often use sub-titles when watching tv/TH-cam (although I find some (including your channel) speak clearly enough to hear properly). Some of the sub-titles take a bit of working out, and some downright hilarious, and I often wonder how they are done - is someone sitting there typing in what they think is being said? Unlikely, I suppose, but by having the sound on and the sub-titles showing I can usually work out what's going on (background music allowing). Happy New Year Vivi.
I'm so glad subtitles are available.....it can make so much difference to someone's viewing experience. 😊
Oh they really can be funny sometimes 😂 most of the time I can work out what is meant though. Vivis gorgeosities often comes up as gorosi!
@@charlotterydz6343 Hahahaha. 🤣
Oh, dear! If that happened here I’d immediately empty the freezer into a cold corner of the house and throw every available blanket over the stack as insulation. Sorry for your loss of almost a week’s meals.
There’s a word for the feeling of sunshine in winter: apricity
Automatic closed captioning turned a garden educator’s discussion of peonies in the yard to “penises” and how to “cultivate” them as they’re really beautiful and can last 100 years. 😂😂
Hahahaha! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Be keen to know the garden educator's channel Cynthia... just asking for a friend! 😁👍😉
😮😂
@@paulsavident Hahaha. 😉
I still have my lavender bag that I purchased from you, can't remember when, but it still smells lovely. 🎉 I will definitely get another one! So beautiful!
Shame about the freezer,nice lavender bags,my husband is still in hospital for his hip pain because he fell,the nurses have given him pain patches which helps.
I so hope Ernie improves soon. X
That paperclip with Microsoft was called Mr clippy! 😂
I agree with you .A.I. is scary...
Yes, it is terrifying for me.
Wait till all the doctors teachers and judges are AI 😢 just because the technology is there doesn’t mean it should be used.
Haha, I loved that paperclip but agree with you on the AI copilot! 😂
I've just discovered how to turn it off - yay! 😊
Hello Viv ! Happy Holidays to you and may the New Year bring all your dreams come true ❤.
I have to tell you I worry about the candles in the background, if they fall over or discolor your wall you would be devastated. 😢 Just a watching out for you !
Hello Vivi, Happy New Year to you! Love your natters, humour and expressions e.g 'bananas'! Re the freezer.......what timing! You will probably have a good laugh about it next week despite the hassle. The lavender bags are lovely. They are handmade so well worth the money and money review. I think they will sell like hotcakes
Thank you. 😊
Good to see you have a plan and enough resources to face your upcoming challenges head on, as per. Here's wishing you a fantastic 2025 ❤
Honestly I think they are worth more money. Lavender bags should be like 20 dollars because they are homemade.
Thank you.
I was considering purchasing a second freezer but now am wondering if a pressure canner would be better? By that, I mean preserving food in jars to put in a cupboard instead of using electricity to power another freezer. Currently doing some research into the concept!
Vivi, have you seen the film Finding Your Feet? Wild swimming in that. Think it is/was on over Christmas. Maybe on catch up?
Oh, no, I haven't seen it....sounds just my thing. 😊
Looking forward to buying another lavender bag hopefully….i think £15 is very reasonable to be honest. Such a pain about the appliances….
Thank you lovely.
I remember that annoying paperclip thing 😩.
I too wouldn’t want AI translating my words into languages I cannot understand, this could be used for awful things and we wouldn’t know 😦.
I’m so glad you got through your own produce before your freezer packed up, but how frustrating. There always seems to be an extra cost with a move that no matter how you try will always pop up somewhere. Your buyer is so lucky that you’ve sorted this, presumably they’ve got a better deal as they didn’t have a fridge in the kitchen at point of sale.
We were told a few days before we were due to complete that appliances would be now be left, we initially thought oh wow bonus, as we’d budgeted for buying new appliances. When we got the keys and checked the appliances we soon realised we were not so lucky. Everything was beyond filthy and the washing machine was broken. So cost us to get rid of them, then in removing them we discovered the kitchen units were totally degraded, everything just fell apart!!!!! We didn’t have enough money to buy a new kitchen as we were older first time buyers and used all savings for the tiny deposit we managed to get together. We lived without a kitchen for some time, (that was hard!) then used our appliance budget to put on a deposit for a kitchen and did it on a payment plan.
Looking forward to your lavender bags going live 💜 x
That's such a nasty trick to play on their buyers (you!). I sincerely hope my buyer will be delighted with the state of the flat when she moves in.
@@WhatVivididnext oh she really will be 🥰 you’ve loved it so well, she’ll be able to feel it, I’m sure of it 💖
Glad you turned off the AI I totally agree Vivi, it would be so weird. Hope you get sorted with those pesky appliances, much love x
Cheers lovely. Haha, yes, very pesky! 😉
Nice to see you .nice chat has usually see you soon
I feel your pain... my TV blew up on Christmas Eve. I ordered a new one from Argos and it is being delivered today. I agree with you re AI... it is soulless. Sending you my love xxxxx
I hope you can catch up on any of the shows you were looking forwards to.
@@WhatVivididnext I don't actually watch tv... my son and i were watching a Christmas movie on Netflix when the TV blew up lol.
@@lisafenn4238 😯
I don't have internet .. I had to replace my TV last year.. It was a nightmare trying to find a TV that worked on an aerial.... when I switch on it still prompts me to connect to the internet..... I swear at it every day!😆
@grumpy_poo lol
Thank You Lovely Vivi!🥰
Life on life's terms so glad you will be able to replace the freezer can't wait to sit on the sofa with you❤ in 2025😊❤
I'm so looking forward to it. 😊
I agree with you, ref AI.
When doing cleaning decluttering, I sometimes put on long videos or an audiobook. I hate the AI voices that read them. And i do mean hate..... with a passion.
I started listening to a book today whilst i was cleaning sorting and decluttering my kitchen. Oh my days..... i was losing the world to live.
So i turned it off and decided to talk to myself 😆 🤣 😂
My lavender bag still smells great. It's a lovely comfort.
Yay for your own voice/conversation.......a million times better! 😉
@WhatVivididnext so true.... I had a whole conversation about baking 😆 🤣 and which cupboard all the things should go in. Was my cooking ingredients fresh. Yaddar Yaddar. 😆
Oh, and a conversation on Pyrex. It's not the new stuff. 😆 🤣 😆 😆 old stuff I collected.
Still I entertained myself.
Books should be read by real people and not AI. Even the audiobooks need to be human voiced.
Same with vlogs.....
Xx
@@karenbransome6978 Hahaha....great chat!
❤
I agree about AI assistants 😊
Vivvi thank you for the video love the lavender bags but l did want to say l read my books at least twice with a gap in between and it's amazing how you can read it and you find something else you missed the first time l just find it interesting so l just wondered if you feel the same
Definitely.....though it tends to be a few years between rereads for me.
👍👍👍
I have great concerns that the evil AI can assist with will greatly overshadow the good things about it.
I worry about that too.
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Fingers crossed that your lack of complicated chain gets your move done swiftly. 🤞 Met a guy outside his house as I was going to the allotment yesterday. I asked whether they had taken the house off the market as the sign had disappeared, but he said it had just blowing down and they hadn't bothered to put it back up as all the conveyancing was going through though they didn't expect to move until the end of Febuary or even March... Apparently their chain is really long and complicated so it's going to take about 4 or 5 months! 🙄
Fingers crossed for everyone buying and selling!!! I so wish we had a simpler, quicker system. 😊
Lesbian chocolate. Nice to have a silly giggle and those kind of jokes remind me of the level of my humour still sometimes. Reminds me of a lot of Heidi & Lil Bonnie's humour over at The Narrowboat Pirate. But seriously these ai bots can make a lot of silly translation errors still. I don't like being stuck in an ai bot loop on the phone when needing to just talk to a human. I've never used an Alexa but have tried out chatGpt.
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Where do you sale the Lavender bags? 🪻
They will be in my shop (details in box below video title)......in a couple of weeks time I hope.
If you've ever read the close captioning while watching a video, it's quite often so different than what is actually being said. Accuracy is not TH-cams agenda. It's profit, sad to say.
The AI translates when the spoken language is English it’s pretty good actually. And the words that they were not able to translate will write them in the other vocabulary. So when we -who read the translation in other language- see a wird that don’t make sense we know the program was not able to translate. And we just benefit from the whole context of the sentences not necessarily needing the translation to be a word by word, .
Second one is sopretty
Thank you. 😊
In the Netherlands everything on tv is in the original languages with subtitles. It’s very weird to see dubbed tv films on German tv.
Glad to hear it! I far prefer subtitles.
Hi ViVi .I know how that feels my fridge went out last year..ugh Did you have a consignment shop near you maybe you could sell from there just a thought..Have a cuppa and try to relax..Do you have a junk man that might remove for recycling. Just Another thought...junk removal service we have this in America..Good luck...
How do I get the link to your shop please Vivi.
It's in the 'read more' box under the video title. The lavender bags won't be in there for a couple of weeks yet, though. Thank you for asking.
I stopped using microsoft and use google for everything. google docs, spreadsheets , photos etc. Its all free and the format is almost identical .
Dr Kat from “Reading the Past” channel just did a video where she tested whether generative AI could script or write content like she does. Very interesting results. There is no way dubbing Al or even if it was a real actor could duplicate your essence or syntax. ✨
That's how I feel about anyone being dubbed. 😊
You have just explained why sometimes I find videos with a fairly obviously AI voice talking over images, presumably the real voice is in a different language. I always switch them off, the words might be right (but like you say, who knows!) but the intonation is wrong. Let's hope AI doesn't get harder to spot.
Ugh, I hope so too.
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Ask the AI how to shut it off... they should know :)
Suggest that you do charge £15 and then you wont need to increase the price for another 5 years (hopefully)
lol the revenge of Clippy disguised as a co-pilot typical windows, this is why I like Linux I feel more in control. Agree about AI I don't think it's really ready for the size rollout it's getting in all corners of our lives, the Apple news / BBC fiasco showed the mistakes it makes all too often
Hahaha....I'll have to find a way of getting my own revenge....by disabling the blighter!
Will your insurance pay out for freezer? X
No, the excess is £500.
Hi Vivi, tell copilot to disable itself. At the very least it'll give you step by step instructions!
Done! Well....it's hidden now, at least. 😉
Bloody flu!
Oh no! Feel better soon. x
How do you feel about dehydrating food. With a dehydrating machine
Neither for nor against....but I wouldn't buy one.
You should write a book Vivi
just call it Living Well Without a Wage
One day, maybe......when I've retired. 😊
Personally I don't watch dubbed movies shows etc I prefer subtitles,
Same here. 😊
See you in 2025, dear!
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Viv on my youtube they asked are you willing to Let AI use your videos in training i ticked No 😊
Good on you. 😉
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