#185 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (31st July 2019)

Hello, welcome to LetMeBoreYouToSleep.com. This is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

And this features the background sounds of Andre the Ferret, Andre Dooley Newland, who, until I press record, was in the bedroom doing something that he enjoys. And you can hear that background sound. It's him climbing through his tube.

He's got a plastic tube and he's climbing through it. I think he likes it because it's a tunnel. Hey, where are you? Come give me cuddles.

Let's see if he'll give me a cuddle. I don't think he wants to. I'm trying to grab him but he's so quick.

Oh, he's biting me. Ow. Ow.

He's really biting me. He's biting me hard. Oh, God.

I have got him. Ow. What are you biting me for, baby? Basically, he bites when he's playing.

But he bites not hard hard, you know. If he bit me hard then it would be very painful. Oh, he's let a smell off as well.

It's a little, every, what they do, well, I'm not an expert on ferrets. I'm an expert on this ferret. But ferrets, they let stinks off.

They basically, it's their glands. And different times he seems to let it off. Sort of, if he's excited or if he's angry or or let's say if there was another ferret in the room, he would let off a pong.

You know, it'd be the first thing he'd do. They'd both let off pongs. A little pong bomb.

He wants to go. He's gone. And he did it last night when my friend's dog was up here.

And he hasn't let off a stink for a while. But he'd just done one just then. But it was a little one.

It was probably when he, when he was biting me, he probably let off that kind of, he was in his little fighty mode. When I was, when he was little though, when I first got him, he'd be letting off stinks all the time. Like proper, you know, had to open the windows.

Really bad smells. Not farts. You know, that's me.

But he was letting off, it's hard to explain what it smells like, but different smells. But once, one day he climbed up on me. And that's him in the background.

Now he's eating his food. He's got some dry food. So you've got some lovely background music.

It's Andre eating his dry food. And, and he does that. And the reason he does that is because he basically inhales the food because it's dry.

And the pellets, they look a little bit like rabbit poo, but very hard. They're like really big vitamins. Do you know the big vitamins that are just a bit too big to swallow? But you can do it.

But it's just a bit, oh, I wish they were a little bit smaller. And that's a, that's a sentence that no one's ever said to me. I wish it was smaller.

So they, he, I think he gets it caught in his throat and he kind of sneezes and chokes and pushes it back out again. Because he'd been so greedy. He was trying to swallow it before it's crunched up.

I love that little furry poo head. And once when he was little, I remember this because I think it only really happened once. He climbed onto me.

It was in the summer, I think. Well, it was, I was indoors, so I might've had a t-shirt on. It might not have been summer because sometimes, even in the winter, if I've got the heating on, then I can wear a t-shirt indoors.

I'm not, I'm not one of those people that wraps up and has the heating off and just sits in the cold and wears, you know, 14 jumpers. I don't do that. I've had to do that in the past when I've had no control over the heating or when I've lived in a room without any heating.

But no, I don't, don't need to do that now. I think just keeping warm in the winter is a basic thing. Just like washing your hands after you've been to the toilet or washing up your plates in hot water, not cold water.

It's, you know, it's just standard stuff, really. It's like having a roof, having a roof on your house. It's, you know, it's not having an essential heating on or having it on is, for me, that's like sitting in a house in the winter without a roof.

You know, it just, it needs a roof. You know, it's nothing like that at all, is it really? Anyway, what he did is he climbed up, and this is the times when he was little, and he could just zip up my leg. He was like a little mouse, but he wasn't a mouse.

But he, you know, he moved really quickly. And he just, he could climb up my trousers while I was standing up. Can't do that now.

It's too, it's too big. He does sometimes, if I've got like tracksuit bottoms on, he can sometimes get a good cling with his, with his toenails and his fingernails, and he can climb up to kind of my thigh. And then I just grab him the rest of the way.

It's little sneezes. He still does that thing that he did when I was a baby. They'll grab food from the bowl, and then he'll run to a different part of the room.

And he'll kind of hide eat, I think is a, or secretly eat it. I'll just grab one now, and he's gone through his, into his little plastic tunnel. I can hear him, he's eating it inside the tunnel, so no one can get to it.

As if I'm going to eat his food. Mind you, my friend's dog does eat the food, but there's always food, I've always got spare food that I put back in there. So I don't know, I think it's, because when he was little, when he was a baby, when I first met him, he was, I don't know, five weeks old, four weeks old, something like that.

And he was with his brother. I was going to say his twin brother, but you know, if they're born at the same, they're born, you know, the same time or the same kind of time period, then it's going to be his twin brother, isn't it? They didn't look like each other though, but they, Andre was kind of being bullied by the other one. And the other one always got to the food first, and pushed him out of the way.

So I think that's kind of imprinted on him. And because now he's, he's the king, he's the king of the castle. He has been for, I don't know, nearly four years now.

He's got this whole big flat to himself, well with me, but I'm his lodger. And he's got toys and everything scat all around. He's, you know, he's got that little bath, got a little bath full of dirt as well, which he goes in every day and digs and stuff.

It's basically, if I were moved, if he, if he moved out and, you know, got himself a new place, maybe got a girlfriend and got married and had kids and he, you know, decided to move to get his own home, I would suddenly have a lot more space because all of his stuff, all of his toys, and there's a lot of them, would all be, they'd just be gone. And no paper on the floor, they'd be, they'd be weird. It'd just be strange.

It just, because that's the only thing is having him here means that the place is a bit messy. And it's, it's all about him. It's all set up for him.

But once he's, once he'd moved out, it'd be all tidy and I'd get a new carpet and everything, but then he wouldn't be here. And I'd just be here on my own, talking to myself, which I guess I am now, but I know I'm not, because I know, you know, you're listening, but I talk to him. I do.

Every day, at least once, probably more, I'd pick him up and chuck him against the wall. No, I don't. I'd pick him up and I'd give him a big cuddle and tell him how much I love him.

And he bites me and says, get off, get off, leave me alone. You can't tell me what to do. And just, you know, give me food, food.

I want food. I want more chocolate. And he's just, yeah.

Anyway, when he was little, he climbed up on me and I think I just had a t-shirt on and he let a stink off. He basically let a smell off, which basically was really powerful. It was a powerful smell.

It was one of the worst ones I've ever known him to do. He's done quite a few really bad ones, really smelly ones. And I put him down, I said, oh, I opened the windows.

And luckily the windows are quite big in this flat. Otherwise I'd have to knock a hole in the wall just to get some air in. And then I walked into a different room and the smell was following me, like, ah, what was going on? And I realized it was following me because the smell was on me.

He had destroyed the t-shirt. It was literally melting in front of me. It's like, it wasn't, but it was covered.

It was invisible. Whatever it was that he, that smell, he just rubbed it all over my t-shirt and it was awful. So I had to take the t-shirt off.

So I think, generally when I normally take a t-shirt off, I pulled the head, the neck bit over my head. And then I take my, what do I do? I think I take my right arm. I'm not sure if it's my right arm or my left arm first.

I know what I do is I lift the neck of the t-shirt over my face and then I pull my right arm out. So I grab hold of the cotton or whatever the material is that comprises the t-shirt and I pull that off over my arm. And then I do it with the, well, then once you've done that, it just kind of falls off the other arm, but then it can fall on the floor.

So it's probably best to kind of grab hold of it so it doesn't fall on the floor because then that saves having to bend over and pick it up. Although you can flick it up with your foot. I mean, I think when I was younger, if I didn't have any socks on or slippers, which I can't walk around like that now because of him, because he likes toes, he likes nibbling on them.

I used to pick up the dirty clothing, whether it's t-shirt or whatever, underpants, maybe jeans, maybe socks, garters, bra, you know, whatever I've just taken off and I'd pick it up with my toes where I basically I'd put my big toe and, well, I don't know what the toe is that's next to the big toe. I suppose like the second biggest toe, unless of course you've got, I mean, you've got two big toes generally, one might be bigger than the other. So the second biggest toe might be the left one, the left big toe.

But I think I'd normally use my right foot because that is, I guess, it's not that I'm right-footed, because normally, you know, we talk about right-handedness or left-handedness, and I suppose right-footed would be, could be used that term if or when I was a professional footballer. I remember when I played for Man United, they used to say, when I first joined, and they said, you know, welcome to Manchester United. And I said, oh, thank you.

They said, what are you looking forward to doing? What are you looking forward, you know, I said, well, I'm quite looking forward to going on a tram. And they said, why is that? You're joining the, you just joined the world's biggest football team, and you know, you've just been paid 30 million pounds, and all you want to do is go on a tram. I said, ah, no, I didn't say that's all I want to do.

I said, it's a thing that I want to do. If it was all I want to do, that means that I just want to get on a tram and spend the rest of my life on that tram. And no, no, no, that's not how I want to spend my life.

I put words into my mouth, and he said, oh, sorry. And because he had alphabet spaghetti, and he was putting it into my mouth. I said, look, I can feed myself.

Well, technically, I do like it when you feed me, but can you not do it during a press conference? He said, oh, okay. Sorry, JJ. And so there's all these reporters, and they're asking questions.

And Doris from the Daily Mail said, hi, JJ. My name is Doris, and I'm from the Daily Mail. I said, okay, that's nice.

How are you today? She said, oh, terrible. I said, why? She said, well, my name is Doris, and I work at the Daily Mail. How could it be anything but terrible? And I said, oh.

And she said, what do you mean? Oh, I said, I don't know. I'm not really sure what to say, because I don't know. I'm just a little bit embarrassed, really.

She said, why are you embarrassed? I said, well, I kind of agree with you. Doris is a terrible name. She said, well, that's a bit rude.

I said, I'm just agreeing with you. She said, well, actually, Doris is a very popular name. Some of the most famous women in the world are called Doris.

I said, name one. Doris Day. Okay, name two.

Doris Stokes. Okay, name three. Doris Brown.

Who's Doris Brown? She's my best friend's next door neighbor. Yeah, but it's not famous. Is she? Well, she is now.

This is being filmed, isn't it? This is being filmed live, and the whole world's watching. So Doris Brown is now a known person. I don't know.

Does it work that way? She said, well, yeah, but you're famous. I said, no, I only class myself as famous. She said, well, you just signed a big football contract.

You're going to play for the world's best football team, according to Manchester United. And you're on television live, being interviewed by all us wonderful newspapers. And you get free doughnuts.

Oh, okay. Yeah, well, wait a minute. Did you say I get free doughnuts? Yeah, we all do.

All the reporters and everyone, we all get free doughnuts. I said, I didn't get no free doughnuts. She said, well, yeah, everyone.

It was on a table. There was loads of them, different glazed ones, jam. And there was one with truffles on.

Which I thought was a bit extravagant, but didn't stop me eating it. And yeah, it was really nice. Cups of coffee, tea, juice.

But not juice that you get out of cartons, you know, from the supermarket. But juice as in proper juiced. What do you mean, juice? You mean like steroids? No, not steroids.

Juice as in like carrot juice or, you know, juicer, a machine, you know, you put vegetables and stuff in and it juices stuff. And it's really healthy for you. Ah, well, where are the doughnuts? Yeah, I don't know.

They've all gone, I think. I said, wait a minute, wait a minute. So you're telling me that I'm the star of the show.

This whole press conference is here because of me. Because the world wants to see me. Because you or you reporters want to interview me and ask me questions and I don't even get a doughnut.

Someone in the back shouted, you are a doughnut, mate. You are a doughnut. Which didn't really make sense.

And I said, look, can't I just get a doughnut? Please. Because I like them. I want a doughnut.

And I started having a tantrum. And I did, I started rolling on the floor and just hitting the floor and just like doughnut, doughnut, doughnut, doughnut. It's just the people laughing and someone chucked an action man at me.

A naked action man, which is a bit weird because I haven't seen an action man since 1980. The idea is, it doesn't seem like that's something that you would plan either. You know, going to work, you're a reporter for a big newspaper.

So what, what's, what's my, what job have I got today then, boss? Oh, you've got a lovely job. Oh yeah, brilliant job. You've got to go down to the O2 arena.

Yeah. And you're going to interview JJ, juicy JJ, who's going to be joining Manchester United football team. Why is, why is it in the O2 arena then in London? Why is it not in Manchester? Well, the reason it's not in Manchester now is because I just said the O2 arena before thinking about the fact that it was supposed to be in Manchester.

So we're just going to go along with it being in London. Oh, so is there no O2 arena in Manchester? I really don't know, son. I don't know.

Uh, there might be, there might not be. I don't want to say there is. I don't want to say there isn't.

There's lots of things I don't want to say, but there's lots of things I do want to say, but this isn't the time for us to discuss that. That's more of a therapy situation. So what I'd like you to do, me old boy, is put your trousers back on and get yourself down there and I'd like you to interview juicy JJ.

Now you won't, you won't be like an interview interview, not one-on-one. It'll be like a press conference. So there'll be a big table out in front.

Um, yeah. And there'll be juicy JJ will be there. I think the manager of Manchester United, a trainer, one of the trainers or the head trainer or something.

And, uh, I think another member of Manchester United might be there as well. And yeah, and we're going to have a lady, um, in a bikini, just standing by the table, just behind and put on a fake smile. What do you mean? Well, it's, there's a table with people sitting on it and they sit behind the table so that the, the press, you know, the reporters can see them and the news and the TV cameras can film them.

No. What do you mean? There's a lady in a bikini smiling fakely. Well, yeah, it's just a standard sporting thing when they have it in boxing, they have it in motor racing.

It's just a standard thing. That seems a bit weird. I don't understand why son.

Why is it weird? Well, what do you mean by like, why was she having a fake smile? Well, it's not going to be a real smile, is it? Standing up on stage in a bikini. It's December and all these people with cameras taking pictures. Guaranteed not all of those pictures are going to be for the newspaper.

So yeah, it's going to be a fake smile. What? What do you mean, JJ? No, the lady with the bikini. Why don't they have a man in a bikini as well? I don't know.

Why don't, why don't you go down and ask, ask somebody instead of asking me? One more thing. The next time you want to talk to me and ask me about your next assignment and all that stuff and want to have a long conversation, can you wait until I've finished with the toilet? You just like, wait at my office. I'm in the toilet.

I don't need to be disturbed. This is one of the only times I get any space, normally. Okay, boss.

Sorry about that. That's all right. Now can you just get out of the cubicle? Okay.

There's not enough room in here for the both of us. Go, go, go. Give me a quick kiss.

Okay. Okay. Bye.

And then she just walks into the office with his, you know, I don't think at any point he's going to say to his colleague, you know what, do you think it would be a good idea for me to chuck a, an action man, like a, you know, at JJ in case, you know, if he has a tantrum. Well, yeah, if he has a tantrum possibly, but no, I don't think, you know, it means going out and buying one and, or getting back into a time machine and going back to 1983 and buying, buying one. And why has it got to be naked? I don't know.

Why have you got a carrier parachute around with you everywhere you walk? That's my business though. It's got nothing to do with you. Exactly.

We all have our little quirks, don't we? We all have our little quirks. Come on, Steve, get out from under the desk. We can see you there.

Yeah. Your little quirk will get you arrested, mate. Get off, go on, go away, go away.

So in my thinking, he must have actually not bought one, especially for the occasion, but carries one around with him wherever he goes, carries an action man figure, which is unusual. I think one of the problems of being a professional footballer, when I was, you know, playing for Manchester United, City, United, City, United, one of them. And it was a big commute from London every day.

And when I joined, I thought, it's all right. It's not a bad job, really. I work once a week for, I don't know, 90 minutes every Saturday, maybe once during the week as well, depending on during the season.

If it's an away game, then you've got to add a few hours onto that for travel. But yeah, all in all, it's a pretty good gig, really. And then though, I was really surprised.

So, you know, I signed a contract, the money went through, and everything was good. And then Monday, about, I don't know, 10 o'clock in the morning, I got a phone call, and it was a trainer saying, GCJJ, where are you? I said, what? Where am I? Where are you? Well, you just phoned me on my landline phone number, hadn't you? Yeah, well, your mobile was busy. It was switched off.

Well, if you just phoned me on my landline number, where do you think I am? Okay, I know where you are. You're at home. Yes.

Why are you at home? Because I just spent two million pounds buying this property. That's why I'm here. I just moved all the way from London.

And, you know, I've got a lot of unpacking to do. Well, I would do it if I was able to get some sleep. And he said, are you still asleep at 9.30 in the morning? I said, it's 10 o'clock, isn't it? He said, I can't remember what time we agreed that it was.

That's about three minutes ago. I've forgotten. He said, you know, you need to have some continuity with these stories.

You know, it's the problem. It's the same thing, isn't it? With the news conference, the press conference. Wasn't it originally in Manchester? And then it became the O2 Arena in London.

No one said it was the arena. You wouldn't have it in the arena, would you? But you'd have it at the O2. They do have other rooms, big rooms for conferences.

And I think we've got rooms that can hold like 10,000 people. Are you sure? No, I'm not. But does it matter? Because a lot of people that will listen to this won't even really care.

Some of them won't know what the O2 Arena is, or what the O2 is, because they live in another country and they have their own arenas and their own, you know, places. So, perhaps they're not, some people might not know that Manchester is a long way away from London. Oh, you think, you're sure you're not thinking too deeply into this? No, I've never thought deeply into anything.

Apart from when I go to Subway and try and decide whether to, you know, those sauces they have. I can always kind of choose what I want to have in the Subway sandwich or roll, whatever you want to call it. The footlong sandwich.

But it's the sauces, I can never just start, which one do I want? Do I want Peri Peri? Do I want just, oh, which one? Which one? I think the problem is the only one I know is Peri Peri. I don't know the names of any of the other ones. I think they're in different coloured tubes, not tubes, but you know, like containers with, that can squirt the stuff out.

There's a few different ones, maybe one's mayonnaise, that, that would make sense. See, I don't, I don't have mayonnaise, not, not a, not a huge fan of mayonnaise. I do like salad cream.

I'm like, I really, really, really like salad cream, especially on, with chips. Salad cream and chips is beautiful. It's, you know, it's a disco, was it a disco in my mouth? I don't know, it's kind of, it's, it's just nice.

I don't know why I like it so much. I don't think before, like when I was younger, like young, young, I didn't used to have salad cream. But then in 2001, when I started working for an insurance company, I was working in a team.

So there was a table and there was a, how many people was there? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, between eight and 10 people, probably of us, working in the, in the team. And every now and then we'd go out to the pub and have lunch. But I think at that time it was a small team.

Then it got bigger when they started recruiting more people. And yeah, so I'm trying to think who was there. So there was the team leader, there was my friend, then there was at least two others, maybe three, there's about five of us.

So we'd go to this pub. It wasn't, it wasn't next door to where we worked. And there was a pub that was only like a few doors up.

We didn't go there because I don't think they served food. So we went up the hill to a pub and I don't remember the name of it, but they served burgers and stuff like that. And that's what we would have.

And the good thing about it is because we were with the team leader, our boss, is we could go back late to work without getting into trouble. Which happened a couple of times, really more because of the, it was lunchtime, you know, they were busy in there and we didn't get our food quick enough to eat it in time, quick enough to get back to work, quick enough. And so we'd have a couple of pints of lager and a burger and chips.

I don't remember anything else, maybe a little bit of salad, perhaps a, yeah, perhaps a onion rings or something like that. Because if I was at home I would probably have baked beans. But when I'm out, maybe when I'm out on my own, I would ask for baked beans in a cafe or something such as like that.

But for some reason I never order baked beans when I'm out with company. I don't know why really. I'll tell you what I do like baked beans with, KFC.

And although I haven't had a KFC for years, actually, there's a new one being built. It's not close to where I live, it is a bus ride. It's a bus ride or an hour and a half walk.

And I wouldn't walk an hour and a half to go to have something to eat. I wouldn't walk an hour and a half to marry a princess. You know, it's just too far, there's a limit.

I think 50 minutes, for me 50 minutes is a limit. If anything takes longer than 50 minutes to get to, then it doesn't exist. It's just a rule of thumb that I live by.

It's a shame because the amount of pots of gold that have just been like 52 minutes away, and I just kind of, I could see it. But you know, look at my clock, I've been walking 50 minutes, I've just got to walk a couple of hundred yards or 100 yards and that pot of gold would be mine. You know, I just got to walk back.

Keep to your principles, you know. The baked beans with the KFC are really nice. A bit hot sometimes, sometimes not very hot.

And when I was, I think it was 2011, I lived. Yeah, my university course finished in 2010. I got my, what do they call it, you know, when you go and you dress up and you collect your diploma or your degree certificate.

I forget what it's called. But I did that in November 2010. And then January 2011, I got evicted.

Well, I got the eviction letter from a landlord or landlady. And so I moved, eventually I managed to move out, but I had to get, I got some storage in the yellow building or whatever it's called. It's like a place where you can rent some storage room where you can store things.

And I rented a place out for, I had it in there for about four or five months. And I put all my books and it's mainly just books, really. So that when I did find somewhere to live, I could just take my clothes, you know, just literally take a, not a suitcase, but just everything was kind of already moved in a sense.

But I remember I got this room and I was trying to find places, but I just, I didn't have, I couldn't find anywhere. And I was like, oh. But then eventually I found something and it was a, I think it was on a website, rooms for rent or rooms to let or something like that.

And it was this en suite bedroom in this big house. I say big, it was quite high. I mean, it's very unlikely that you're gonna kick your football onto the roof.

It's got a bit too high for that. And there is, as you go in there, turn left, there is a kitchen. And the kitchen was an okay-sized kitchen.

It's a lot bigger than my kitchen, but it's not big enough for the amount of people that were living there. I suppose it would be big enough if it was a family, which was what that house was built for. It was a family house.

It wasn't built for occupancy, multiple occupancy. Because the facilities just didn't, you know, the walls were really thin and it just didn't work. It's just the plumbing and there is too much activity in there for, you know, than would normally be happening, you know, as couples living in there.

So it wasn't built for the amount of people. But the kitchen was okay, but I never really used the kitchen because I don't know, I just spent so many years cooking in kitchens and sort of sharing a kitchen with someone, sharing a fridge and a freezer and only being able to buy enough stuff for a couple of days or because other people were also using the same space and, you know, sink full of dishes and the oven maybe being used. So waiting for someone else to finish using the oven and the amount of times that I put something in the oven and somebody's come along and change the heat of the oven, put their own stuff in as well.

So I go down to collect my things, so I've left it in for 20 minutes, come down and it's hardly cooked because they've turned the oven down to like 180 instead of 200. And then they put their casserole in there, which was cold, taking away all the heat out of the oven that had built up during the time that my particular food item was in the oven up to that point. And yeah, I had many years of that.

Not that one incident didn't last for many years. You know, the casserole went off eventually. But yeah, the, yeah, so I just, it was a nice kitchen but I didn't really use it.

And so walking in, I don't think there was anything on the right hand side. But if you go, if it went straight, all right, there was, there was the stairs that went up and then there was a toilet, downstairs toilet, which was next to the stairs. And then further up, there was like a, like a sitting room diner, which is again, really nice, good size if you had a little family.

And there was a garden out the back. Again, fairly good size if you had a little family. It was nice, a nice house for a family.

If you had a couple of little kids, it's, you know, could have been nice, a nice area close to town. And, but the living room wasn't really used because, I don't know, if you, if you rent a room, in my experience, if you rent a room, then that's your room. And although I did make a couple of videos in there, in the living room, but yeah, it wasn't, yeah, I didn't, it was, it was kind of one of those buildings that was really nice.

But at the same time, it wasn't. It's a weird one, really. So going up the stairs, there is, what was it? There was one room on the right, which was the same as mine.

So a double room, it's a big room with an en suite. There was a room next to it, which was straight ahead, as you go up the stairs. And that was a big room as well.

But there was no en suite. It was just, just a big, a big room with a double bed in there. And then next to that on the left hand side, and there was a much smaller room.

It was still, I think, big enough for a double bed, but it was a small room. And then you go up the stairs again, and then go up some more stairs, and that's where I lived. And as you go up there, there was my room on the right, and next to my room, there was a bathroom, which the people that lived in the rooms without an en suite bathroom would use.

And then turn left to go up, and there was two rooms. And one was an en suite as well. That was parallel to my room.

Then there was a room next to it, which was just a kind of a small-ish room, like the one downstairs. So there were six rooms, six bedrooms, and one bathroom, and one toilet at the bottom. And then there was, I'm trying to think, we had a few different people who lived there.

I was only there for like a year, I think. But there was, when I moved in, there was a man living there on the right hand side room, as you come in, and he was singing a lot. And then he moved out to go and work on, I don't know, ships, sort of, I don't know, tourist ships, just going on and doing cabaret and stuff, I think.

The room next to him, which was just like a big room, that was the lady that would clean the house. She got paid to clean the house and other places. And then on the left hand side, there was a room that, I don't know if anyone was living in there at the time when I moved in.

Then upstairs, it's my room on the right, which was en suite. And opposite me, on the right hand side, there was a couple living there, young couple. And on the left, there was a young man moved in, student.

No, there wasn't, he wasn't there. No, there was no one in there. But I think after about a week or two, no, maybe there was.

But there was, yeah, there was a couple moved in there as well, another young couple. So when I moved in, there is, including me, there's one, two, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven people living in six bedrooms. Does that make sense? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Anyway, people moved around and I think the couple living upstairs, one of the couples moved out. And then, because they were always arguing and stuff. And then a man moved in there.

The couple live next to them. The man living below me, the ocean, who left to become a singer on an ocean liner thing, he left and the couple upstairs moved down to his room. Oh, originally, yeah, the lady living in the middle room, she was living in the small room.

So she moved. So whoever was living in that middle room, I don't remember, she moved into there. And then a couple of girls moved in to that room.

So at that point, there was me, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight people living there. And then the two females moved out and a man moved in there into that room. The two people living underneath me, they moved out and the lady who cleaned the place then moved into that room.

So she had an en suite. A man moved into the room that she'd been in. And yes, all the rooms were still full.

And then I moved out. I was so grateful to get out of there. Just, it was just too expensive, really.

But I didn't have cooking facilities that I felt comfortable using. So for most of the time there, I was eating sandwiches and takeaways. And I think I cooked twice, actually used the kitchen twice in the year that I lived there.

And one of my favorite things to do on a Sunday afternoon was to walk into town, which was only a short journey, go to the KFC, get myself a big bucket of like a mixture of everything with sweet corn, baked beans, and you know, all that stuff, come home and watch. I think at that point I was watching, was it Game of Thrones? I think it was when Game of Thrones just first started. And I'd be watching that on the computer and it was lovely.

Anyway, that's my story of KFC, my story of that room. All these other stories actually, but I'll tell you another time. Take care and I'll speak to you very soon.

Bye.