#51 Let me bore you to sleep - LIVE - Jason Newland (29th October 2018)

Hello, and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland, this is a Let me bore you to sleep. And it is, indeed, number 51 in this series of extremely boring videos and mp3s. You can download them for free in video format and also as mp3s on my website.

So, it's all free, so you can have the video to keep as well. And so I've got a few people, I've got someone just come on here just now and said something but I couldn't see. I'm hoping that the sound is okay, maybe I'll move this sound a little bit closer to me.

Sound should be, it's quite close to my mouth. I've actually got myself a new clip-on super-duper, well hopefully it's a super-duper microphone, specifically for the iPhone. However, it's come with a normal plug-in socket, so I'm going to have to get an adapter because it doesn't fit into the lightning socket of the iPhone that I've got.

So, I've had the iPhone for just over a year, so it's iPhone 7 I think. So there, there you go. Only watch this or listen to this when you can safely close your eyes.

And what I was going to do, I'm not going to do it on this video, but I'm going to try and see whether or not I can embed the live sessions onto my website. So you can just, I can just say, instead of going to my YouTube channel or going to the Facebook channel, just go to my website and you can watch the live session. And if I'm able to do that, and if it works okay, I might start doing some more regular live broadcasts, maybe relaxation sessions, perhaps twice a week, something like that.

So, I haven't got me goggles on today, as you can see, and there's not any reason for that really. I can, I can see for that kind of distance, I can see general in front of me, but if the television was on, which it isn't, it would be blurry, which is a shame because my eyesight never used to be like that. But then, everything changes, doesn't it? So I'm not going to wait for lots of people to come on here, because pretty much wherever you start listening, the level of boredom is pretty much the same and the stories I tell aren't necessarily going to need continuous following, as it were.

Stories? Will I tell a story? I might tell a story, I might do, I might not. So before I start, please like this video if you like it, subscribe if you haven't subscribed already, so that you can be notified of new videos. I try and do a new video every day.

Sometimes I manage to, sometimes I don't do any videos at all, but my aim is to try and do at least one thing a day, whether it's to Let Me Bore You To Sleep, whether it's daily hypnosis, and I'm hoping, really, really hoping to build up to a point where I'm doing the daily hypnosis session every day. So I don't necessarily intend to Let Me Bore You To Sleep every day, but I think every couple of days is quite good, you know, there's only so much time in the day. And I might have mentioned this in the past, that it's not just the recording that takes the time up, it's the uploading.

So sometimes it takes, the other day it took five hours to upload an hour-long video. Sometimes it takes an hour. So it just depends upon the internet speed at that time.

So in that period of time that I'm uploading, I can't make any other videos because the iPhone is being used. That makes sense. But I'm going to look into maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe getting the camera out.

So I've got a camera, a video camera, and trying to start making maybe some, they will have to be shorter videos, I think half an hour or 29 minutes is the cutoff for those. So, so just had a, I'm getting a couple of messages, so I'm just going to wave in response to the messages that I've got. And thank you for that.

But I won't say what's been said. You can read the comments anyway, comments will be in the video as it's being, as I'm doing it live. And also, I'm not sure, but I think the comments will be there at the end as well.

So you can sort of read what's been said. But I won't actually verbally respond because I probably have my eyes closed a lot of the time and I'll just be yabbering on about stuff. But it's not that I'm ignoring messages, I'm just, well, I suppose I'm, I suppose it is ignoring them, but not, not in a kind of a rude way.

So if I see a message, I'll just say, hi. I suppose to let you know, there's a new thing that me and Fiona, or Fiona's doing it. And it's going to be a Facebook page for those people that watch my videos and that like what I do, a place to go for some, maybe some like emotional support and somewhere where you can talk and maybe make posts, but it'll be set as private so that only people that want to join can apply.

And so the outside world can't like read what's being said. So it's just a, so it'll only be people that are, I guess, known to me or known to Fiona regarding people that watch the videos, whether it's on, you know, whether you watch me on Facebook or on YouTube or on my website, whatever. So, so I'm just, that's, that's it really, but I'll tell you more as it occurs.

So please remember if you do like what I'm doing, just to say that you visited, maybe click the like button. I like to collect as many likes as possible. It's, uh, gives me a light, warm, fuzzy, warm, fuzzy feeling inside makes you feel all cozy, like a little, like a little ferret in a stinky bag.

Whenever I get the idea of a ferret in a stinky bag from, oh, Andre. He's got this bag. I can't get it because it's over there and he's getting out of the chair, but he is so stinky.

It's the smelliest little bag ever inside. He doesn't smell like that, but when he gets out of it, he does a bit and it's just, he loves, the worse the smell is, the more he loves it. He's just attracted to really, really bad smells and I don't know why, I don't know why.

So today I had a delivery. Oh, well, I went to bed quite early as in the morning, probably about six o'clock this morning and yesterday I was up, I was in bed most of the day, so I was woken up at about 10 to nine this morning with a delivery from Amazon and it was my microphone, the one that doesn't work. Well, it works, but I can't use it yet and so Soren says, could I do a Halloween special Jason Chats? I thought about doing a Halloween Jason Chats special, actually I was thinking, like it's like it all made up, that'd be weird, but maybe, I don't know when Halloween is, it's in a few days time.

So I, I've got to stop answering, otherwise I lose my track of thought and with these little boys asleep, it's just me just talking. So the whole, yeah, 10 to nine this morning I got a delivery and it was the microphone for the iPhone and I couldn't believe how early it was and I just, oh, I've been asleep maybe less than three hours and I went back to bed and I got woken up again about 11 by Amazon again, but this time it was my laptop being delivered.

So I put, you know, I got the laptop and put it on the table and left it and went back to bed again, but I wanted to be up in time to watch the budget, because it was the budget on telly today, on telly it was a budget in the House of Commons, but I always watch the budget if I'm able to do that, if I'm, you know, if I'm not working or whatever.

And the first thing that they said, the first thing that Philip Hammond, the Chancellor says was, this budget is for hardworking families, so straight away it's alienating pretty much anyone that's ill, straight away, you know, it's just, oh, that's nice, so just how about this budget's aimed for everybody, ah well. So I think Andre's looking for his dinner. I didn't want to wake him up, he was asleep and I thought, should I give him his dinner before I do the video or should I give him his dinner after I've done the video?

I can't give him his dinner during the video because it's not adjacent chats, I can't really just get up and do what I want, this is more, very much more disciplined, very much more, I'm very much more professional when I do these.

And my SoundCloud account is being reinstated, my previous one that was deleted, but I don't know if it's going to have all the tracks on it or it's just going to be, I just don't know. So I've got to wait, I should know by tomorrow, if it is, if it's got all the tracks back, then all the links and all the embeds, Andre's playing with the wrapping from the laptop, all the mp3s are embedded into my website and that's quite a few days of work to do that. So it'd be nice to not have to delete all of those, you know.

I'm hoping that Andre will be quiet in a minute. Yeah, I think basically he's woken up and he's got lots of energy. He's absolutely loving a little bit of plastic, it's like a little plastic bag that the plug came in and he's getting excited about it.

Oh, I'd love to know what's going on inside his mind sometimes, only sometimes. I think when he's sniffing at the drain when I take him for a walk and he's sniffing, trying to get his head down the drain, I don't think I want to know what he's thinking at that point. That worries me a little bit.

I don't think I'd want to know the motivation behind that. No. So for those that haven't watched these videos before or listened to these mp3s before, this is just me talking and talking and talking and talking.

And there's no necessarily, there's not really a... Unnecessary isn't a real word, but it's not necessarily any reason to what I'm saying other than just to be boring. And I discovered years ago that actually the things that I enjoy talking about the things that interest me don't seem to interest other people and they find it boring. So it's a skill.

It's my superpower to be boring. And for some people it would be, I guess, a difficult thing, you know, for some people to be really boring would be a I guess it could feel like a disability to some people. But for me, I'm using that.

I'm using that power for good to help people to sleep. In the past, I've been nicknamed the Sandman. Didn't know what it meant.

But then Adam Sandler calls himself the Sandman. Andre's looking for his dinner. It's really weird.

I never hide his food. And he's now looking for it. It's always in the same place.

And whenever I give him his dinner, even if he's asleep, I'll wake him up. I say, Andre, ding ding. And I'll give him his dinner and he'll sniff it and lick it.

And then he'll get out of his bag or wherever he's sleeping and he'll walk around the side of the cage and I'll, you know, put it onto the floor and he can eat it there. It's always in the same place. Always.

But when he's hungry, he starts looking. He's running around the flat, looking in the kitchen, looking inside the cage, in the bathroom. It's like, why would I suddenly start putting it in the bathroom? I said that to him and he said, well, I don't know.

I said, well, it doesn't make sense, does it, Andre? Why would I start putting your bowl after three and a half years or three years and whatever months it's been since, you know, we've lived together? Why would I start putting your food in a completely different place? And he said, well, why are you picking on me? I said, I'm not picking on you. I'm just asking. He said, look, I'm a ferret.

What do you expect? Were you after some kind of philosophical conversation? I said, no. He said, these are my basic urges. I'm hungry, therefore I want to eat and I will look for the food.

It's in my nature to hunt and look for food. Yeah, but you don't have to do that. I don't think he could.

I don't think he'd do very well in the wild. If he left home, he would. He'd have to take a tin opener with him and he'd have to take a tin opener so he could open his tins.

Then how would he carry all the tins? Imagine if he actually did catch a rabbit and he'd have his tin opener and say, well, where do I open it? Like, no, it's not a can. So yeah, Andre's, you know, his tail, I was a bit worried. Well, I was not that worried.

I mean, I wasn't like, you know, sitting up at night thinking about it, but his tail was getting a bit bare. I think that's the only word. It was just, this just seemed for some reason, there was less hair on his tail and the rest of him was furry, you know, he's covered in hair.

The rest of him was like lovely. And there was just this little bit at the end of his tail that looked like a, it was a bit of a nub, a bit of a nub. It was, yeah, like a gremlin's nipple.

It was that kind of, and I don't know why, why was there no hair on it? But now it's full of hair and it just seemed to happen really quickly. Since the season started to change, you know, a few weeks ago, when it stopped, you know, it started becoming autumn and he did sail. I feel very autumnal, daddy, very, very autumnal.

And I said, wow, I can't, didn't know you could talk. He said, I can't really. I said, well, why are you talking if you can't? He said, well, you've done 50 of these recordings already.

You've got to start making some stuff up because there's only so much of your boring life that you can talk about. You know, you haven't been alive long enough to, you think you've got one hour for each year of your life, pretty much, that you've talked. And one year of your life does not take an hour to talk about.

I said, that, that is rude. He said, well, why is it rude? I said, well, I do do stuff, you know? And he said, well, like what? I said, I do stuff. I go out.

He said, when did you go out? I said, what do you mean, when did I go out? I've been out lots of times. I go to the shop. I went to the garage today.

He said, oh, you went to the garage? What, all by yourself? I said, well, there's no need for that. Anyway, what do you mean all by myself? I'm 48. I can go to places on my own.

He said, yeah, but you normally take me with you because I make you feel safe and confident. Yeah, well, I don't know where you get that idea that I can't, I didn't really know what to say to him, to be fair. I just said, well, because the fact is that when I've got him with me, I'll talk to people.

So I'm not really, it might be because I lived in London for a long time, but I'm, you know, not really a hello, sort of waving to people as I walk down the street. Not really done that for a long time. Not really, never really did it.

But with, when I've got Andre, people smile and sometimes they come over and talk to, like talk to him and they say things like, oh, how old is he? It's like, and he says, oh, he's about 70, I think. I said, well, you know, why are you talking to the, talk to me? He can't even talk. I'd say, well, he just did, didn't he? He said you were 70.

I said, how can you even understand that? He said, oh, I used to be a, I'm a half ferret. I said, what do you mean you're a half ferret? Yeah, well, my mother was, she had an interesting and exciting love life and I thought, that's more than I needed to know. And Andre giggled.

Andre does that quite a bit. He finds weird stuff funny. He has these different ways of getting back at me.

So if I tell him off, or probably the worst thing in the world I can do with him is give him a bath. He doesn't like baths. He's got this real thing about baths.

Never liked them. But I know another ferret who's absolutely fine with baths, but he, he just really has an issue with it. So, I only, I only give him a bath every couple of months or maybe once a month, couple of months.

I try and take him out when it's raining. So he gets a bit of water, but he doesn't, you know, he's got a natural cleaning coat with oil in it and everything. So it's, and he's very clean.

He's a very clean boy. I know he's, his bum's clean because he keeps wiping it on the carpet. He giggles then as well.

So as, as I speak, he's actually inside my cupboard in the bedroom. I can hear him scratching it, trying to get out. So he's scratched to get in.

So he's gone, going like that to get into the cupboard. He's lying on his back with his head near the door and he keeps scratching it until it opens. And then he puts his head and he pushes, pushes the door wide open.

Well, wide enough. And he climbs in and the door closes behind him. And then he just starts banging it, banging the door and scratching the door.

And when he first started doing it, you know, a couple of years ago, I used to get worried and I'd go in there and I'd stop whatever I was doing. I'd pause the television program if I was able to pause it, depending whether, I mean, it depends what I'm watching. If I'm watching Now TV, I can pause it.

I didn't realize until the other day that you can actually pause the Now TV if you watch the live channels like Sky or Gold. Gold's another channel. They have the geographic channel.

I think they do have the geographic channel on there. And I'm not sure what other channels they have. But when you're watching the live TV or Now TV, the, let's say Sky One or Gold, I quite like Gold because they, they play the old TV shows that I used to like watching.

And, you know, especially, I very much like to play the Only Fools and Horses, which is one of my favorite programs. And usually around Christmas time, maybe even on Christmas day, I'll watch Only Fools and Horses. I'll just watch them back to back.

Isn't that a strange term, back to back? The only time I've ever been back to back with someone is when I've been measuring my arm width with them. So we're trying to touch their, their tips of their, not toes, their fingers, just to see what the length of the arms are of my arms compared to theirs. I suppose a duel as well would be another one.

You'd start with your back to the person. I can't think of any other reason to have your back towards somebody, your back against their back. I'm trying to think.

I suppose those of you who were stuck, you'd like, it was glue or something, super glue, and you both happened to have super glue on your back and didn't realize that each other had that. And maybe we're going into the lift at the same time and the doors were closing and you kind of backed against each other, or maybe you're on a tube, you know, a train or underground and it was very, you know, one sort of squashed together. I suppose you're back to back there as well, aren't you? Sometimes, or front to front or side to side, I suppose.

Unless, of course, you're sitting down and then you're head to groin, because you're kind of, your head level is where they're, wherever bits are, wherever, wherever. Yeah, I used to, I used to travel on a tube very regularly, every day for years. And I always used to stand up, unless, of course, I sat down, then I'd sit down.

But I like to, so if you get on a tube, not everyone perhaps has been on a tube yet. And perhaps if you're living in a place that doesn't have tubes, because I know, isn't it called the Metro in in France, and in America, it's called the, not the Broadway. It's not the underground.

Although that's what the underground, that's what the tube is here. It's the underground. Underground trains.

That's gone out of my head. Underground America. It's not Metro, is it? It's the, but as far as I'm aware, England was the first country to have underground trains.

But then I suppose, unless you class the mines, because they used to have trains on a railway track going through the mines, and there's been mines all over the world, isn't there? I don't know where the first mine was. It's got to be somewhere. It's hard to know, isn't it? Sometimes it just seems so obvious.

Oh, that's, yeah, it was in Malibu, or Hong Kong, or Australia. That's where the first train going underground was. But I think the first actual passenger trains underground was, what do I think, in Boardwalk, underground? Yeah, I'm just still trying to think of the American underground trains in America.

So when I used to get on, so I'd get on to the underground, I used to use the central line quite a lot. Because I lived in Stratford. Not all the time, but you know, I'd get on at Stratford.

Sometimes I'd get on at Maryland station. And depends where I was, other times I might get on at Leighton, or Leightonstone, or Forest Gates, or Upton Park. So I used to, you know, it depended where I was going and what, you know, where I lived at the time.

Because, for example, if I lived in Forest Gate, I'd go to the Forest Gate train station. I wouldn't walk all the way down Forest Lane to Maryland station, or even further down to Stratford, because that'd be, there wouldn't be much point in there. But then it depends really where I was going, because now sometimes it's nice to go for a walk.

It's a nice day. Sometimes it's nice, you know, especially if it's the central line that I'm wanting anyway. But when I lived near Upton Park in East Ham, I used to get the, you know, Upton Park used to be, it was Green Street is the road.

There's actually a film named after it. And I used to walk, and there used to be a kebab shop on the corner. And across the road from the kebab shop, there was, I think like an off license.

And the road was very much full of closed shops on one side, one end. And then as you moved more, just past the pub on the left, there was some supermarkets. I think Iceland, maybe a Tesco.

There's a few supermarkets. Everything, everything I needed was there. And then as you move further down, there is a big market.

So I think it was, I don't know if they called it Upton Park market or East Ham market. But then if you keep going, there's like a hill. It's not a big hill.

But if you go up, and then when you get to the top of the hill, you could see that that's where the train station was. But you could see down and further down the hill on the left, there was Upton Park football stadium, where West Ham played. That's where they, that's their foot, that was their football team, like ground.

They now play at the Stratford Stadium, the Olympic Stadium that was built for the Olympics in 2012. I'm not sure why they moved. But sometimes on a match day, let's say a Saturday, Sunday, I'd be going, getting ready to go to work.

So I used to work nights, and I'd be traveling and I'd get, I'd be walking up that hill. And I could hear, I could hear people. I'd look down as I got to the top of the hill and see thousands and thousands of people all walking towards the train station.

So I'd try and get on a train just before they got, got on there. Otherwise, everything got delayed and I'd end up, maybe I'm to stand and, you know. I do remember though, because you could walk down past the, because there was, sometimes our electricity would run out or, and we'd have to wait until six o'clock or 6.30 or seven to be able to go and get some credit off the newsagents.

So we'd walk down the road on the way towards the Upton Park station. Andre's really been a little bit, you've been a bit naughty, Andre. So yeah, you could walk down and that's the, his biggest newsagents that I'd go into.

Sometimes I'd buy a chocolate bar. Not always. I can't remember what I used to buy.

Maybe like a Mars bar. Oh, at that time I was really into these, I forget what they were called, but they were, they were new. There were these new chocolate bars.

I think they were from, they weren't new in the world, but they were new in, they weren't specifically from where I lived, my area, because generally confectionary isn't marketed to a specific set of roads, you know, it's usually for the whole country. So I forget what it was called, but Reasons, that's it. Reasons.

I think it's spelled R-E-I-S-O-N-S. Oh, really? And they were like toffee, but chocolate and they were lovely. And the adverts were just really silly.

I think they were kind of like maybe Scandinavian adverts and they were dubbed, you know, the voice was dubbed over it and it was, they were just, just, just really silly. Didn't really make a lot of sense, but they tasted nice. And I think I bought some Reasons on a, in a morning when I was getting electricity.

I was about, how old was I then? 26? Yeah, I was 26-ish. And so it was 22 years ago. So I'm not, my memory's not going to be perfect for those things.

Didn't even think about it until I started talking about it. And I'd go in and I'd get the electricity, electricity, electricity. I can say the word and then I get a packet of Reasons.

But it was too early in the morning. It's, I didn't really, I've never been an early morning chocolate eater. Early morning chocolate eater.

That's a, it's a bunch of words, isn't it? Never really, I like breakfast in the morning. I'm not really even too excited by cooked food first thing in the morning. When I, when I stay in a hotel, like most hotels, there's usually a, not that I stay in hotels very often, it's usually more like a holiday inn or something like that.

But when I do, there's usually a breakfast, like a cooked breakfast available. Some, they'll bring the cooked breakfast to you and it'll maybe be part of your stay. So if you stay overnight, which I suppose most people do with hotels, you can't book them by the hour.

Not, not actually my brother. It's totally true. My brother came up to London and he had nowhere to stay.

And he basically, he was looking to stay in London. And I put him up for a couple of days, but he farted too much. I just had to get him out.

No, he didn't. But you know, it wasn't my home to, to let him stay in. But he was, you know, I managed to put him up for a couple of days and then we started looking for somewhere for him to stay in.

So like a bed and breakfast or, you know, something like that. And knocked on a few doors and they said, we're full, we're full. But there was some that had signs that said, no vacancies in the front window.

So these quite big houses. And I remember it was in, we were walking down, I think it was the Romford Road. And it's basically a road that turns off from Stratford.

And it's a long, long, long, long, long road. I guess it leads to Romford. And it's very busy all the time.

Always traffic 24 hours a day. And it's a very busy area where it used to be. I don't know now it might, there might only be three people living there now, but unlikely.

I don't remember ever seeing an ice cream truck there. That's not really part of the story. So we turned to, we went to a different bed and breakfast and I found a place that had a vacancy sign in the window.

And if I recall, facing the house, the steps were going up. And I suppose there's only one way they can, well, they can go down as well, can't they? But it's either up or down. But usually I think to go up to a door, the steps have to go upwards.

But I think it was a few, not a lot of steps, maybe about one, two, three, four, four, five, six, seven, maybe seven or eight steps going up. And then I think there was a, like a little flat surface and then a couple of more steps. So one, two, and then it was, I'm not sure what color the door was.

I have a feeling it might've been blue, like dark blue, or it might've been yellow. It was definitely a dark color. So it might've been, it could've been red or white.

No, I don't think it was white. It might've been bright yellow. I'm not sure if there was a letterbox in the door, but there usually is.

But then some places, I don't have a letterbox in the actual door, but there's a letterbox at the side of the door, you know, built into the brickwork or, you know, to the side of, you know, so it's not actually in the door itself. So the hole of the door has no holes, but it's not totally true. If it's got a lock on it, it has to have a hole.

Locks don't work without holes. And, you know, to put the key in, I was going to say, it's like, you can't make a cup of tea without a kettle. But of course you can boil water in, in a small saucepan where you can boil the water in a medium-sized saucepan, maybe in a, you know, a large saucepan, I suppose, but it depends how many people are wanting to, you know, have a cup of tea.

I never made a cup of tea that I remember using a teapot, you know, putting in the loose tea and then adding the hot water and then putting a tea cozy over the top and letting the tea brew, because my nan used to do that and she made the lovely cup of tea and she used to do that. She'd, she'd boil the water. I think she used to use a kettle, but then I imagine at one point she would have used, they used to have these kettles that you could put on the gas.

So you'd cook, you know, you put it onto the hob of the cooker, whether it's electric or gas, and the water would be in it and it'd be like a whistly kettle. And when it was boiled, it'd start whistling and that's when you know it's done. So I don't know if it was specifically designed for people that were busy and they might have needed to go out somewhere else and not out of the house, but maybe into a different room.

Because where my nan lived, the kettle would be on the side. I'm trying to remember, was the cooker on the left or the right side of the sink? I think it might be on the right side or the left, left side, maybe. I can't remember unless it was on the other wall.

Could it be on the other side completely? I'm pretty sure it's close to the sink, but I know that if I was visiting, then I think my nan would go and say, I'll make a cup of tea. And she'll go and she'll make a cup of tea, but then she'd come back in and I'd be waiting, thinking, oh, what, where's, she'd say, how are you, how are you getting on, grandson? And I said, why, you normally just call me Jason. She said, well, I thought I'd make this story a little bit more interesting.

And I said, okay. I said, I'd like to tell you how I'm getting on. But she said, well, what's, what's going on? I said, I'm just not, it's just the way I'm feeling.

It's, you know, she said, well, if you're not feeling great, you can talk to me, tell me, talk about anything. I said, well, I was feeling all right until I got here. So why, what's happened? I said, well, you said you were making a cup of tea, but you've come back in empty-handed.

Where's my tea? And where's the biscuits? And she said, okay, well, I do have biscuits, but is that really what's on your mind? I said, not really. She said, why did you say, why did you mention it then? I said, well, just like you, I wanted to embellish and brighten up the story. She, she laughed.

She did a little dance and then she, she went back into the kitchen. But just before she did the dance, you could hear the, the whistle of the kettle. So she, I think, I don't know, I think it was a tune.

I think it's, my nan was very, very creative. And I think that the sound of the whistle of the, of the, the kettle being boiled, it was a mixture of, um, excitement for the, for the tea that was going to be coming. But also there was a jolly tune from the whistle as well.

I got my nan tap dancing. So then she went into the kitchen. I'm guessing she went to the kitchen because I always see the Lidman, but I don't really see her having gone anywhere else.

Um, cause she came back in and she had the teapot on like a tray. The teapot had a tea cozy over it and there was two cups on, uh, saucers, not flying saucers, but saucers, not UFOs, but saucers, where I think the point is it, it captures any, uh, residue, any spill, any spillage. So that, I think that's what the, I'm guessing that that's what the origination of the saucers was, but it might also be a mixture of, it's some, it's a way to hold it.

So you could hold the saucer with your fingers or your hands. My fingers are part of the hands, aren't they? So with your hands, which is I used to do, sometimes what I do is I pick it up, pick the sauce up with my left hand, but also kind of hold the cup with my right hand, uh, holding the handle. So it's not that it was heavy, but you know, I had to be able to, to lift the cup and drink out of it.

But once you spill some tea into the saucer, you need to have the saucer underneath the cup at all times. Otherwise it drips all over you. I didn't want to burn my cleavage.

So I just kept it underneath my chin. And it was really nice because, uh, what my nan did is she'd already have the tea with the tea bag with the tea leaves in and she'd have a tea strainer. So she put that and have these little hooks.

So it rests on top of the cup, but these two little hooks on, uh, I think it was metal, but it might've been plastic with a mesh. Uh, it's kind of like a, like a fishing net, but a lot smaller and for tea specifically for tea leaves rather than a fish. And she'd pour the, she might stir it first.

I think she used to stir it first. I start open up because the teapot depending on which one she had, because I think she had a few. So this particular one, I think it was like China or ceramic or polystyrene.

I don't know that she'd lift the lid up, but you had to turn the lid to lift it up. There was, so you can just pull it off. You have to turn it first and then lift it up.

And then she'd get a spoon, but she didn't have, she didn't use the little spoons, the little teaspoons that we had. She actually had a larger spoon, but it wasn't, wasn't like a dessert spoon. It was, um, a long spoon, but not the same kind of spoon that you have with a Knickerbocker Glory ice cream.

Not that kind of long, maybe that length, but the actual, the spoony bit at the end was a bit bigger. It's a bit like a normal spoon. And she'd stir the inside of the teapot and you could hear it, but not a rattle.

I don't know what the right word would be, but tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, tingle like that. And then she'd put the lid back on, but because she's, she'd been making cups of tea for so long or pots of tea, she knew just the right way to put the lid back on. And it made it look so easy.

And then she'd put the tea cozy back on the teapot. And I said to her, are we not going to, we're not going to have any tea then? She said, oh, it's always good to let it to brew. I'd like to let it brew.

I said, okay. She said, yeah, it's good to brew. That's why in some parts of the country, they call it a brew.

Like where we lived, we called it tea, but other parts, some other parts of the country call tea a brew because that's what it is. And they call their cars brum brums because they go brum brum and they call their toilets flush flush. So, you know, it just depends where you come from.

And she was always generous. My Nan was always about helping other people, putting other people first always. And she poured my tea first and then she poured her own tea.

And it was like a little, like a little mug, but it was like quite little that had milk in it. And then she had a bowl that had sugar lumps as well. I remember her saying once, because I used to like just eating sugar lumps on her own.

She used to say, oh, you should have been born a horse. And I remember saying to her, what do you mean? I should have been born a horse. Well, I'm a human.

Why would you want me to be a horse? You've got a bicycle. What would you want to ride me around? She said, no, it's just because you're eating sugar lumps and horses like sugar lumps. I said, what? So a horse's natural diet is sugar lumps.

That's what they eat in the wild, is it? Well, they go and search for the sugar lump tree. And she said, what are you talking about? I said, what are you talking about? And then we had some tea. I put some milk in.

I never used to put a lot of milk in. I think it's kind of, you can never undo the amount of milk that you put in. But you can always put more.

So I used to just put maybe a little bit less in than I needed. And then other times, I might put the right amount in. And then other times, there's also times when I put maybe a bit too much.

So I'll go into the kitchen, pour it out, and try and even out the color by putting more tea out of the teapot in there. But then quite often, I would forget about the tea strainer. And I'd end up with a mouthful of tea leaves, which is annoying because I've always had a very, I don't know what the right word is, but eclectic tongue.

My tongue has always been very interested in the occult and things like telling the future. And that was a bit annoying because I'd be drinking my tea, and the tea leaves would go in my tongue. And I'd be trying to spit it out, but my tongue would be trying to tell me what's going to happen in the next week.

So I don't want to know. I just want to spit it out. And my tongue will be going, yeah, but do you realize that maybe you're going to have five children? And there's all these things.

You're going to live a long life. And one day, you're going to go on a hot air balloon ride. I'm like, what's that got to do with hot air balloon ride? I'm never going to do that.

That's not going to happen. It's like, yeah, but it might. And did you, if you, you know, I stopped listening after a while.

Then I had a biscuit. I used to like biscuits. That used to be my favorite thing about drinking tea is the biscuits, the dunking biscuits, and dunking donuts.

I don't think we have it in this country. We might have, but I've never seen one. But can you actually dunk the donuts in the tea or coffee? Or is that just the name of the place? Yeah, I used to have my tea.

I used to like it. I'm more of a coffee person now though. I really drink tea.

I have one cup of coffee a day and that's when I get up out of bed. Not always straight away when I get out of bed. And then I usually go to the toilet first.

Sometimes I'll probably yawn. That's probably the first thing I do. I have a stretch.

I like a good stretch with my arms. You know, sometimes I, to save time, I combine the stretch and the yawn. So both do them both at the same time.

You know, release any unwanted wind, you know, just basically just free myself up a bit. And I go in the bathroom. I put my slippers on first.

Well, they're not really slippers. They're more like clogs, plastic, crock, crocks are they called? And that's just because Andre will eat the slippers if I buy slippers. So I had to, I had to get these because he can't, because he's a like hard rubber.

He gives up on them. But yeah, I'll have a cup of coffee in the morning with my breakfast. And usually that's the only time that I drink coffee.

I used to drink coffee a lot, but not really anymore. I quite like dipping digestive biscuits into coffee. Even ginger nuts, ginger nuts are quite nice.

The only problem with that is the ginger nuts taste nice with coffee soaked into them, but the coffee doesn't taste quite as good with the ginger, which I never quite worked out. You'd think it'd be the same, the same mixture, wouldn't you? But it doesn't seem to be. So I suppose I should bring this to an end because the hour is fairly up, I think.

I can't quite see, I haven't got my glasses on, but it's about an hour, maybe a bit longer, an hour and 10 minutes I've been talking. So take care of yourselves. I'll speak to you next time.

Bye. On I go. I've got to press the off button.