The Lodge Guys Life Update – October 2022

Hi all. We both hope you are doing well and life is going fine.

The clocks have gone backward, it’s dark early today and I’m (Leigh) currently sat all cosy in the lodge, candles, and lights on with the sound of the rain pitter-pattering on the skylights. I thought it was the perfect time to write a short blog post on what’s been going on with us over the last couple of weeks and some information for the future of the channel.

If you follow us on Social media you will be aware of what’s happened with Nick’s Mum since we arrived in Florida at the start of October. We won’t be sharing much about Nick’s Mum in this Blog post so please see our Facebook page or Instagram if you haven’t seen the original post regarding that.

We arrived in Florida after a very eventful few days in New Orleans (vlog coming soon on that). We enjoyed our time in other states but as always, we enjoyed the familiarity of Orlando. These days it really does feel like a home away from home. We managed to squeeze in all four Disney parks, Halloween horror nights at universal and a few meet up with friends.

Our original plan was to spend around six days in Orlando along with some time on Anna Maria Island with friends. As our Road trip brought us ever closer to Florida we decided to extend our time in the Sunshine state until early November so we could make the most of our time there and film a lot of videos we had planned for a long time.

As you may be aware, our plans didn’t go as expected and we had to cut the trip short and return home for family matters.

We do appreciate each and every one of you who has reached out to us with emails and messages of concern, love, and support. We share so much of our lives with you all that we felt it right to let you know what was going on in that original social media post. We know you will be concerned and we love you all for that. We will update you on things as and when we feel it’s appropriate to do so and will always get Gail’s blessing to do so.

We particularly want to thank the people that reached out with any tips and suggestions from going through the same situation with family members or a bad diagnosis that you have lived through. We have been contacted and helped by some lovely people and we are eternally grateful for your continuing help

As far as vlogs are concerned. They will continue. We have enough USA road trip vlogs to see us through until the first week or so in December. We hope you are enjoying those. Once they end we will go straight into Christmas vlogs. Life continues, and on our days away from visiting, so will the vlogs.

We adjusted our vlog schedule from four videos to three, this will be the ongoing schedule from now on. During Christmas, if we get the time to film any extra vlogs we will put them out when ready but our main schedule will continue to be Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday.

What else has been going on

In between spending time with Gail, we have been squeezing other things in as and when we can. We spent some time with the girls making ghosts and uncle Nick dressed up as a lovely-looking lady when we looked around an old hall

Theme park Bazza and the lovely Maxine have been in the UK for a time and we met up with them for a few hours for breakfast and a cuppa. We have all been dealing with family things so it’s been nice to have someone to sit with over a drink and just get things out and share what we have all been going through.

We have some plans to see friends in November and December. All being well these will still go ahead. We do have a flight to Florida booked for next year which has been in place for a few months but at the moment we can’t see that going ahead.

We also planned a few days in Disneyland Paris over the festive season which would have been part of Vlogmas. For now, this has also been cancelled.

We are taking each day and week as they come and shifting and altering plans where we need to. We thought going to Lapland and Santa Claus village would be amazing for the Christmas vlogs, we found flights and a beautiful log cabin Airbnb with its own Sauna but we just can’t risk booking anything at the moment. Vlogmas will probably be a mix of apartment and lodge vlogs. We will do our best to make it as festive as usual.

Nick has already brought the Christmas tree and all the decorations into the lodge ready for them to go up. We all go around with sayings such as “You only live once” and “every day is best” but it’s the times when someone’s health gets taken away that you really feel the meaning of those sayings. If Nick wants to start Christmas even earlier than usual this year then let’s go for it.

We always knew that filming every day on the USA road trip would mean we had some time away from vlogging when we arrived back in the UK. That time gap has allowed us to spend time with family. It has been the longest period in over five years where we haven’t picked up a camera. Its been quite nice to live life to ourselves for a time and it has meant we have been able to spend some extended time with friends without planning for a vlog. But don’t worry. There will be no break in the vlogs and we aren’t going anywhere permanently.

I like to include a link to one of our vlogs in a blog post so thought it would be appropriate to share this one of us trying Japanese food one Christmas with Nick’s Mum

We hope you are continuing to enjoy the vlogs and we will be here on our social media as much as we can

Thank you again for all your support and we will see you on the next Vlog / Blog or Social media post.

Love from

Leigh & Nick