#317 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (30th January 2020)

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How's you doing? You know what day it is. 30th. Yeah, it's the 30th of January.

2020. 2020. 2020.

30th of January. And tomorrow, the 31st of January, we, Britain leaves the European Union. Brexit actually happens.

And I've got no interest in talking about that. I just thought I'd mention it. It's just one of those things that's been going on for years and years.

And yeah, so yesterday, you know, I like to talk about stats, you know, me and my stats. I actually had, yeah, over 5000 downloads yesterday. 4800 and something the day before.

About 4700 the day before that. So yeah, the podcast again, a lot more listeners and downloads than ever before, really. So that's pretty groovy.

So thank you. Thank you for listening. And it's not just this podcast.

It's the deep sleep whisper hypnosis, the relaxation. I'm laughing because of one that I did today. The relaxation hypnosis for stress, anxiety, panic attacks, and the sleep hypnosis weekly, plus the two insomnia podcast I have.

Now earlier, a few hours ago, I did a recording for the relaxation hypnosis, a stress anxiety podcast. And it's a mixture of things that I do. Sometimes I'll talk about a thing.

Let's say the subject might be asking for help. Or another time, I might do a standard, I say standard, but you know, a relaxation session, where I'm just saying, you know, focus on your legs, focus on your knee, knee, knee, knee, and just doing the relaxation session, where I'm just talking and the person can just listen. And I want to do more of those as well.

Because I think they're really useful. Other times, I will do a offer, like an exercise, a technique, an exercise that you can do. I had one the other day where you look in the mirror for five minutes, and you make really big, excessive, exaggerated smiles in the mirror to yourself for five minutes.

And you set your timer, you do it for five minutes, and then you stop. And that's just, you know, so that's one of the things I do. So there's lots of different things I do within the podcast.

There's now, I think, 80, I don't know, 81 recordings, I think. And that's had 80,000 downloads. So anyway, anyway, today, I did a recording which had me singing.

So if you fancy a laugh, and you want to hear me singing, then have a listen. Although it's not, you know, I'm not doing it as a comedy recording. But it might be humorous to some people.

And I had this idea and I thought, you know, because, you know, with things like stress, or any kind of emotional thing that's going on, we can interrupt those, the flow of those emotions, so many different ways. And sometimes if you do something that's kind of absurd, I'm not saying that singing is absurd, but in certain circumstances, singing would be a kind of ridiculous thing to do, perhaps. And so yeah, I just, it was quite a funny recording, really, in a sense.

But that podcast has really taken off. It's become on a daily, you know, from a daily angle, one of my most popular podcasts. There you go.

But this one, yeah, and the Deep Sleep Whisper, they're all in their own mind, in their own mind, in their own way, got their own audience. Just like this one isn't necessarily going to, it might not appeal to someone that wants to listen to a whisper, like someone whispering. Just like the whisper sessions might not be for someone that wants to hear me just rap it on about nothing for an hour.

So you know, each one has its value, I suppose, you know. But anyway, I just, I'm constantly saying thank you, aren't I? But you know, thank you for listening, but I don't think there's anything wrong with that, really, is there? You know, it's not like I'm begging you to listen, I'm just saying thank you for listening. So that's just, please listen, because that doesn't seem any point in there, because you're listening, you know what I mean? It's like, please listen to my recordings, but we are, unless you hear me say it, if you don't hear me say it, it means you're not listening.

But then you won't hear me say it, if you're not listening. So yeah, I don't know. I suppose that's what advertising is for.

So what I thought I would do is, well, first of all, just tell you, I bought a bag today, and some tracksuit bottoms from a friend, and they've not been worn, never been worn. And so I got those. And then I got a bag as well, and I was going to use the bag, because I don't actually have a bag.

I just use carrier bags, which are a bit, well, not ideal, you know what I mean? Not great. And this bag fits on my back, you know, it's got straps and stuff. The problem is, well, for the last few months, Andre's green and brown bag that he's had for years, he loves that bag.

Every now and then he gets caught in it, he now gets caught in the lining of the bag, because he's worn it out. It's just worn, you know, it's just, because he's in there, and he's scratching, and he's basically, he's torn the inside quite a bit. And every now and then he gets caught, and he can't get out.

It's happened a few times. But it happened the other day for the last time, I thought, no, because what happens if I'm not here and it happens? It happens a lot, doesn't it? So I thought, nah, nah, nah. So I decided to get rid of the bag.

I took the bag away from him. I left him with the jumper, the blue jumper that he loves, that he has inside the bag. But I took the bag away, and he was not happy.

And he's been looking for the bag. And sometimes he's just there. He just lays down on the floor near where the bag was, and just looks at me.

I say to him, look, look, Mr. Bag is gone. He's gone. And he didn't, he just wasn't happy with that.

And I had in this new bag, this bag that I got, that I bought, well, I got given it, but someone owed me some money, so they gave me a bag. And I put the bag on a chair, on a chair, and the strap was hanging down the chair. And Andre saw the strap, and he was trying to get to it.

And he wasn't trying too hard, because when he really decides he wants something, he never quits. He'll keep going for hours, seriously. So he clearly wasn't that bothered.

But I reckon, once I went to bed, he'd probably spend a bit of time, he'd find, he can get onto that chair if he wants to. And the chair, that chair is the one that's going to be in the recording studio once, or the shed, the garden shed. Once it's actually soundproofed and everything, that chair will be in there for me to sit in.

But at the moment, I'm taking it out because, well, I'm hoping to get the soundproofing foam to start putting it in there. But it's going to take a little while before I can afford to get that. But once it's done, it's going to be so good.

Because even earlier, even though it's the middle of the night, I sat in my bedroom, Andre was asleep in there, and I thought, I know I'll take, I have to do what I do around him. Because if he's running around, I can't do a whisper recording. I can do this recording.

I can do other stuff, but I can't do something where I'm being really, I don't know, it's different. You know, a whisper one, you really hear background sounds a lot more. And also, I think with quite a few people that listen to this recording, actually like Andre.

And I've seen him on video in the past. And, you know, there's a picture of him on the podcast picture itself, picture of Andre. I mean, he, he is the mascot for this podcast.

So therefore, hearing his little feet running around onto the paper, and, you know, he's kind of part of this. He's a part of the podcast. But he's not part of the whisper recordings.

So I closed this, the front door, or the living room door. I closed the kitchen door, so that none of the sort of fridge noise and stuff would be a minimum. I closed the bedroom door, I made sure the windows were closed.

And this was probably at two o'clock in the morning. I was sitting there. All I can hear is the train.

I thought, why is it so loud? I don't live anywhere. I suppose I do live near a railway track, but I don't, you know, if you know what I mean. It's, it's not like a five minute walk.

It's quite a distance to get to the track. It's a good 10 minute, maybe 15 minute walk from here to the railway track. So I wouldn't have thought it'd be so loud.

But it was, and I'm just like, oh, I wish my, wish my recording studio was all set up. But then I haven't had it that long. And I think I got it in October.

So it's only three months. And, you know, with Christmas, had other things to pay out for, Christmas presents and all that stuff. And, you know, just generally, you know, the winter, the bills are more on the electric gas and all that stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but I am gonna, oh, I'm so looking forward to getting that shed kitted out. I'm gonna, I'm gonna really do a good job on it.

And it's gonna be, hopefully, it will be completely silent. So when I make my whisper recordings, or making like the sleep hypnosis weekly, that's one that I'd want to do in the recording studio, or in the shed, recording shed. Another one would be if I was doing a relaxation recording where it's just like a hypnosis session, rather than me going through a, you know, a technique or, I was gonna say homework, but you know, giving someone a task that they can do that will be useful.

And so yeah, I think once it's done, once it's there, once I feel comfortable in there, I might start to do more stuff. You know, if I can do, if I can make recordings during the day without interruption, without any kind of sounds, then I might not wait until the middle of the night and make all my recordings. I might, I'll probably still be awake at night because that suits me better.

But I might start making recordings maybe in the afternoon, you know, maybe three, four, five o'clock and spread them out. Which means I could end up doing more than three recordings a day. But we'll see, we'll see what happens.

Or maybe even make some ahead. You know, it's just, I think it'd be nice to have a few spare recordings. So, you know, if I'm unable to make recordings for a while, for a few days or a week or something, I can still upload some, you know, here's one I recorded earlier, that kind of situation.

So I might do that. You know, if I decide to go on a cruise, travel the world or something, maybe I'd still be making recordings. Imagine how cool that would be.

I'd say, welcome to let me bore you to sleep. You know the website by now. I don't need to keep telling you the website.

Oh, you don't know the website? Okay, jasondenner.com. I've only said it about 2,000 times on these recordings. And I'll be there. A big cruise liner, big cruise ship in the Mediterranean.

Just saying, you know, welcome to let me bore you to sleep. Let me tell you about what I've done today. I've done nothing.

I watched all the people get off the ship to go on the exclusion, whatever you call it. And I stayed here. I stayed at the bar.

And I watched them all come back on again. I reckon I probably wouldn't go on much of the exclusions that people go on when they're on these ships. So I don't know if technically I could say that I've to those countries if I haven't actually got off the boat.

So I might get off just to say that I've been there. But I'd probably end up getting on quite well with the staff. Because I just stay on there.

I don't think I'd probably get off much. Plus I'd be on my own. So I wouldn't have, you know, wouldn't really be talking to anyone else other than the staff probably.

So that'd be quite cool. I can make my recordings. Maybe at a quiet time, I could make the deep sleep whisper ones.

And you have the sound of the ocean. Just, you know, like the natural sounds. How amazing would that be? In fact, if I had some free, I don't know if I've got some better, some more improved recording equipment, not portable, I could actually start recording some of the sounds of the weather.

And then just having that as something for people to listen to. You know, just something really relaxing. Like five hours of the sea.

And then five hours of the sea. Another five hours of the sea. Unless I like go on planes and I can have five hours of a plane engine.

That probably wouldn't be quite as relaxing. Or if I'm really lucky, on a plane, five hours of a baby crying. No, no, no, I would prefer.

See, I would get on a cruise liner, but would never go on a small boat. Because I can't swim. But for some reason, a huge ship.

I feel safe on a huge ship. Plus, I always find out where the lifeboats are. So I always kind of know the exits.

And I wear the life jackets and all that stuff. So I always kind of check for that. When I got on a plane for the first time, I remember, because I've been on boats before, but never on a plane.

I've always kind of had a system, you know. And I was walking around and the flight attendant said to me, excuse me, JJ. I said, yeah.

I said, what are you doing? Can I help you? What are you doing? I said, I'm just looking for something. She said, what were you looking for? I'm looking for the parachutes. She said, what? I said, I'm looking for the parachutes.

Where do you keep the parachutes? Because I'd quite like to just put it on now, you know. And she said, no, there's no parachutes. I said, what? She said, no parachutes.

I said, what are you talking about? Stewardess. She said, no, there's no parachutes. How can that be possible? She said, well, no, there isn't.

I wasn't madly impressed with that. She said, oh, but we do have life jackets. Okay.

So this is, you have life jackets. So I suppose, I mean, if you, if your company had ships, would they offer people parachutes on the ships? She said, no, that's silly. I said, that's silly.

So if I'm a hundred foot in the air going 500 miles an hour, what's a life jacket? What use is that going to be for me? Unless, you know, unless this thing attached is actually a magical whistle, you know, turns into a parachute. She said, no, it's not. It's not magical at all.

I said, okay. She said, can you sit down? And I swear, I don't know if, I imagine every part of the plane that I traveled on the first time has been disassembled. Because it's a long time ago.

The plane won't even exist. Not even the fabric on any of the chairs, none of the glass, it would all have been broken apart and in some landfill, probably by now, or melted down. Because it was back in 1989.

So 31 years ago. And my first trip was to Spain, Malaga. And I've talked about in the past, I actually had, I went there for the afternoon.

And the lady, seriously, I say elderly, but I was, what was I, 18 at the time. And elderly to me would probably be anyone over the age of 40. So she may well have not been elderly at all.

But my driver friend, there's someone called Sebastian that used to call me elderly. Even though I'm only, you know, early 30s. Yeah.

Yeah. So he, this lady, I think she was, I don't know, she's probably in her 50s, 60s. But again, she might not have been.

And she said, oh, if you've not been on a plane before. And I said, go away. I don't want to talk to you.

She said, what? I said, no, sorry. Sorry, I just get agitated when I fly. She said, that was a little bit more than agitated, wasn't it? That was rude.

I said, go, go, just, yeah. She said, what was that? I said, yeah. She said, you're very rude.

I said, what you are is what you say you are. She said, you didn't get that right, did you? I said, no, I was nervous. She said, do you want to have another go? I said, okay.

What you say is what you are. She said, that's better. I said, thanks.

She said, that's still a bit rude though. I said, well, you asked me to say it. Yeah, not the first time.

Yeah, but you encouraged me to say it the second time. She said, technically it's probably about the sixth time because you were stuttering so badly. I said, stop having a go at me.

She said, sorry, sorry. And a little cuddle. And she said to me, well, don't worry.

I've flown loads of times. And I said to her, how is that supposed to help me? She said, what? I said, how is that, you telling me that you've flown loads of times, supposed to help me? She said, well, just letting you know that it's safe. Oh, so you've flown loads of times.

You're basically saying, I've flown loads of times, but I've not yet been killed. So therefore, yeah, it's safe. No, it's safer than, safer than driving on a motorway.

It's safer than driving a motorway, but driving the motorway is not always the safest thing, is it? She laughed. I said, besides, I can't drive. That's why it wouldn't be safe.

She giggled at that. But I said it in a different way though. Basically, I said, driving a motorway isn't safe.

She said, why is that? I said, I can't drive. So that was a more mildly humorous version. But didn't think about it until afterwards.

And when we came to take, yeah, when we came to land, well, I didn't land the plane, obviously, but the, the, the pilot landed the plane. And I, she was really nice. She said, I had one hand on the, the headrest ahead of me, like the other person's headrest.

And she held my hand as we landed. And I had a multiple of thoughts go through my head. For some reason, for some reason, I was thinking to myself, I'm still a virgin, which I was, I was still, I was very, very pure back then.

I hadn't, I hadn't, the, you know, the, the, the, the act had not been accomplished at that point. And I just, so I'm holding her hand and I'm thinking, this might be my last opportunity. And I wasn't very knowledgeable.

So I kind of wondered, she's holding my hand, is this losing my virginity? Because, you know, I always figured that the first time with human contact with a woman would be really scary. And it was. So I thought, is this it? But, you know, apparently it wasn't.

Technically, you know, regardless of how much pleasure you have, it's not, it's not the, not the actual thing. She held her hand. And I remember I said, thank you.

And she looked at me, because we landed, you know, safely, obviously. And no, we crashed. And this is my ghost talking.

And come back to haunt everyone with podcasts. So I'm holding her hand. I said, thank you.

And she had tears in her eyes. And I thought, I've really made a connection with her. Really, you know, there's an emotional connection.

Maybe she thought of me as like a son or something. And I, you know, I could definitely have, I was in need of sort of a mother figure, really. So I thought, oh, maybe this is, this is going to be a lifelong friendship, like a really deep kind of love, you know, a deep friendship, you know, going forward.

She had these tears in her eyes. And I said, I feel like you want to say something to me. And she nodded her head.

And I said, go on. You don't, you know, just say it. Don't, don't feel embarrassed.

Just, just you say it first. I feel the same. You say it first.

And she said, let go of my hand. And I did. I said, Oh, yeah, okay.

And apparently, took about nine operations to fix her hand. So, you know, I said to her, you shouldn't have squeezed mine so hard. If you know, that's probably why I did that.

She said, No, I think it's the other way around. And the thing is, for some reason, she didn't want to see me again. And the other thing is the headrest, where I was gripping on with my left hand, I left a mark, it was literally there was an indent of my fingers in the headrest.

Now, what I didn't realize is there was someone sitting in that chair. I didn't realize. I looked over.

And at first, as I walked off, I thought, a chair that that the back of that chair looks like someone's face. Then I realized it was like I squashed their head into the chair. I couldn't believe it.

We laughed. Yes, it's quite good. It was all right.

I mean, I've been on that many planes. 1986. Wow.

Isn't it weird, you know, when you see the news? So I watched the BBC news at night. Because they go more in depth and you know, worldwide. It's not all kind of stuck into like a half hour thing.

And it just came on every night they talk about they have this week in history. They do all throughout the week, they do a different one each week. And you know, if he's like the Berlin Wall coming down and I can't think of any others.

Gandhi in a sandwich, I don't know different things. And the just then I had something that happened in 1986. See, my memory of it happening was earlier.

Probably about 1984. Not 1986. 1984.

Because I remember coming home from karate. I think it was either Tuesday or Thursday night. So those were the two nights that I went.

And it was a different school to the one that I actually went to. Because where I lived, there was two high schools. The high school that I used to go to is now closed.

It's some polytechnic thing. Oh, man. So I'm just seeing something.

I think I'm going to have to become a vegetarian. I think I'm going to have to. Never mind.

So this event that happened, I was like, that was 1984, surely, or 1985. But it turned out it was 1986. So I just don't know, it's just this weird, it's like, well, I'm pretty sure it was 1985 or 1984.

Because the song, remember the rhythmic song? Playing with my heart, no one else can be like this. It's all we do, the only keys. There must be an angel playing with my heart.

And maybe I was wrong. Maybe that song wasn't earlier. Maybe it was 1986.

But it would have been early 1986 because I was 15. I was still at school. And I left school in April 1986.

So it must have been January, February or March. Wow. And so I went to this high school, it's different from the one I went to.

But both my brothers went there. But they'd left school by the time I started doing karate there, both of them. But it wasn't like a huge distance away from where I lived either.

You know, it was further than the school I went to. I suppose it was double the distance. But it still wasn't a long way.

Because I lived in town. I lived literally in one street away from the town center, where I lived at that time, which was quite a good place to live really. But it was only a small place anyway.

So everywhere was quite close. Although I did know people that were so lazy that they would get a bus. Instead of walking for 20 minutes, they'd get a bus.

And I'm talking about young, healthy people who were able to walk. They just couldn't be bothered. I never did that ever.

Apart from when I did. Yeah, that's the only time I did do that is when I did it. And this school that I used to go to, to do the karate, I used to walk up there.

Sometimes I'd get a lift home, because some of the karate people were adults, or, you know, they were sort of 17, 18, 19, 20. They had cars. So they'd give me give me and maybe some of the other kids a lift back into town.

So that was good. And especially when it was raining. Plus, I had this big bag full of, like my kit full of pads, hand pads, foot pads, groin protector, and probably head guard as well.

I don't know. I can't remember. We had head guards back then.

And so I had this big, it wasn't a heavy bag, but it was had a, it was definitely full. It wasn't heavy, but it, you know, had a fair amount of content inside of it. And so I used to walk up, and there was this entrance.

The thing is the entrance, so this road, so if you went down, I'll give you an exact, let me have a look. Yeah, so if you came out of my house, where I used to live at that time, turn right, then turn left, because it was a road there, turn left, which heads into the town. And then just keep, or cross the road, or walk down that road, all the way down to the end.

Turn right, and it takes you over a little bridge, then turn left, and follow that road all the way around. And that literally ends up parallel to the school, where you just basically get to the end of that road. Oh, no.

No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't at all. What am I talking about? There is a road that does that.

What road is it? Oh, okay. Not that road. Walk up a bit further around, because there was a flower shop.

And yeah, walk around, and then there's a road, which if you walk all the way up, it ends up opposite the school. I think, is it Seaton Road? I forget. I don't know.

But anyway, it ended up, and it's, I mean, to get down that road, it's what, about a 10-minute walk. But it was one straight road, so it's all right. It was okay.

So I'd walk there, get there, and go through the main gates, although they weren't really gates, it was just a gap. There was gates, but they were each side, but it was just like a, that's cars could get in. In fact, buses used to go in there and pick up kids and take them.

I don't know where they took them, but buses used to pick up the kids sometimes. And so I'd go in, go around to the front of the school. Sometimes, well, generally, I'd be there first.

I don't know why. Probably because I was enthusiastic, maybe. And I said enthusiastic, rather than enthusiastic.

Enthusiastic? Enthusiastic. Anyway, I was, I used to get there early. Yeah, I did.

And we did this, sometimes I'd have to wait outside for either, I was going to say my boss, but my instructor, Paul, to turn up. And he's like a sensei, teacher. I'm not sure if I used to call him sir, I might have done, because there's an etiquette when it comes to martial arts.

You bow as you enter the hall, and you bow as you leave the hall. Or the room that you're practicing in. Even if it's a gym in the school, you still, it's like a sacred space during that period of time.

And it's quite weird, right? Because when I was at school, after being there for a while, I'd go to school and go to the gym. And I felt myself wanting to bow before going into the gymnasium. Even though I'd never trained in that school, the school that I was going to, the gymnasiums are practically the same.

Same like wooden floor, and same kind of sweaty smell, you know? So it's weird. Anyway, I'm trying to think of the directions towards where the, you go in. And I did used to know the way towards the gym, because I used to go there for a couple of years.

So I can't remember the exact way, but I know that when I got in there, the hallway bit, which led to the gym, the gymnasium, you see the changing rooms were on the left, and the gym doorway was on the right. But I think there was two doorways, because it's a big old gym. So I think there's two entrances, but we only use one entrance.

And sometimes the other hole, the other gap can be, the doorway can be an exit, you know, depends. So in restaurants, so I don't know how they work at the restaurants, you know? Sometimes you've got the, they're both using the exit and the entrance at the same time. And I just, it's like, how do they do it without banging into each other? I remember my friend, when I worked in one of my places, and he'd always say, don't ever, I don't want to see anybody going into the kitchen empty handed, or coming out of the kitchen empty handed.

I said, what about the toilet? He said, what? I said, what, do you want us to come out of the toilet empty handed? Is that okay? Well, I've got to have a hand of poo. He said, no, that's not what I'm saying at all. Please don't do that.

I said, okay. So he'll put the people off their dinner. I said, all right.

I'm just trying to help. He said, that wasn't really helpful, was it? Luckily I like you, otherwise you'd be sacked. I said, well, you know, you love me, don't you? You love me.

He said, no, I tolerate you. I said, oh, that's rude. He said, no, it's not.

It's true. And he said, don't ever leave, don't ever walk into the kitchen empty handed. But he didn't mean, like, don't make sure you've got a book in your hand, or you know, Paddington DVD, or, you know, holding a blancmange in each hand.

It's about making sure that you're taking back, like, an empty glass from the table, an empty plate, cutlery, anything. Just make sure you're always clearing and bringing stuff back to the kitchen. If you're leaving the kitchen or leaving the bar, take something with you to take it to a table.

So you're always making use of that journey. So I thought that was quite good advice, actually, in life. So I'll do that now.

So when I'm indoors, which is most of the time, really, is if I'm going to go into the kitchen to, let's say, go to the fridge, what I do is I look around to see if there's anything I can take into the kitchen whilst I'm heading in that direction. And that's what I do. I think, oh, I'll take that plate in there.

So I carry the plate into the kitchen. Then I go to the fridge, and I'll bring something out with me. And then the next time I go, maybe if I'm going to the toilet, I'll think, well, I can take something into the kitchen now and then go to the toilet.

So there might be a wrapping, you know, something by wrapping. I don't mean a wrapper wrapping, a little M&M sitting on a table, swearing. I don't mean that.

He's a genius. He can rhyme swear words. No, he's a genius.

And I kind of take stuff in. So I'm constantly, I like to think of myself like an ant, like a little working ant. You know, I kind of make use of those journeys that I make, those little journeys to the bathroom, to the bedroom, to the front door.

It's like, okay, what can I take with me? Yeah, I remember the first time I ever went to karate, it was my friend, Stefan, or Stefan. His brother was going, and we were just chatting. I think it was a science lesson, and I was bored.

I never did any work in class ever, pretty much from the first year onwards, especially after the second year. After the first year, I didn't bother. So for at least four years of school, I put no effort into any of the classes at all.

Didn't do anything, did no work. And my friend said, well, Stefan, I said to him, oh, what are you doing tonight then? Which doesn't sound like something that I would say. So he must have just brought it up in conversation.

Because, you know, what I did at night was just go home and watch telly, and maybe read, and try to avoid the family. So I just kind of watched telly. So when I got my first television, it was a black and white television when I was about 15.

I might have been 14. I might have been 15. I'm not sure.

All I know is I loved it. It was probably one of the happiest moments of my life, getting that black and white television. I didn't care that it wasn't color.

All I knew was I could now watch television in bed, mixing the two things that I loved most in the world, other than reading, sleeping, and watching television. The two things, you know, two out of three things, and farting. So for all of those things, which I could actually do in bed, having that television, I mean, I'm not exaggerating the pleasure that I got from it.

And it's quite weird because I started going to bed earlier and earlier. And I was like, oh, I'm so tired. I feel like I should go to bed now.

It's only three in the afternoon, Jason. What are you doing? I was like, oh, because it was so good. I could get away from them all.

Didn't have to listen to them. And I didn't have to interact. And I could just go and be in my room and just watch television.

Oh, it's lovely. It really was nice. And I'd be up till late at night as well.

I think in the last year, pretty much, I think I stopped doing the early morning paper round. I might have still had the evening. Yeah, I think I did still have the evening paper round.

But I might have got to the point where I got rid of that as well. And I'm not sure. There was a point where I kind of like, I sort of semi-retired from all that stuff.

And I've been doing it for a few years, you know, paper rounds and all that stuff. It's just like, oh. And getting up early in the morning, I forced myself, but I felt tired all day.

And then I'd get home from school. Well, I wouldn't get home from school. I think I'd either go home and then go out straight away and get the papers, to deliver the papers for my evening round.

So I'd have two paper rounds. And then I'd have a weekend leaflet delivery. Then I'd have a monthly delivery as well.

So I'd just be constantly on my feet or cycling around delivering, putting stuff into people's letterboxes. So I did that for a while. In fact, I had more money then than I have now.

Really, I had more spendable money when I was about 14 than I do now. Isn't it weird? And that television, oh, I loved it. I used to kiss it every night before going to sleep.

And one of the things I remember most, or two things I remember most about that TV, two television shows that I watched that I just loved, loved, loved, loved, loved. The first one was MASH. And the second one was Cheers.

Now I remember Cheers, just the theme music from that TV show. I just feel really good when I hear it. That TV show Cheers has nothing but positive connotations for me.

It's completely beautiful. I don't know, it's really in my heart. That television show was funny.

It was upbeat. The characters were brilliant. The writing was brilliant.

It was just funny as well. It was a great TV show. And I watched it.

I didn't watch it right from the beginning because I wasn't allowed to stay up that late. But once I got my TV, there was no checking up on me. And to be fair, to start with, I was a little bit worried.

You know when you're a kid and you're trying to read. So I started sort of trying to watch TV by flashlight or by torch so that I have the TV underneath bed covers. Then I realized I didn't need the torch because the TV has its own light.

And then I realized I probably didn't need to have it underneath the quilt or the bed. I couldn't fit it under the actual bed. I tried.

So at the end, I just left it on the top and didn't get bothered. And it was really good. And Cheers was on late at night.

I say late, probably like maybe 10. Maybe, I think they might have been showing repeats on quite late, maybe half 11 or 12. And I loved it.

And then as I got older, when I kind of reached like sort of 16, 17, I used to watch it every Friday, 18, 19, 20. Cheers was still on. So I'd watch it right the way up to the last ever episode.

And they used to show it on Channel 4. So I loved Cheers. So Andre was trying to get that bag from the chair, that backpack bag. And I thought, and I'm looking at him and he's lying down on the floor looking at me.

And he's little blue jumper next to him that he does sort of climb inside, but it's not the same. So in the end, I gave him, I got the bag, put his blue jumper on inside it. And I put the bag on the floor.

And he's been sleeping in it for the last three or four hours. Because he likes, he doesn't like the light shining on him when he's asleep. He likes to have, and he likes that enclosedness.

He doesn't like to be locked in. So he doesn't want the zip done up. But he likes it kind of closed at the same time.

But so he can open it and close it whenever he wants. So he's now got his new place. He's asleep in there now.

He's got the smell of the jumper, which originally was my smell. So he wanted that because it smelled of me. And I put it in there.

He actually stole it off me. So I just let him have it. And he's basically commandeered the bag, because he was going to.

He was waiting to grab it, waiting for me to be out of the room so he could get onto the chair and sort of, because as soon as he gets in it, he kind of lets off a smell and he makes it his own, if you may. It's kind of like unusable for anything else other than for him. He definitely, it's almost like when you move into a place and you redecorate, maybe put in different furniture, different color walls, different carpet.

He just gets into that bag, lets off a stink. And it's kind of the opposite to fumigate him. He defumigates it.

I don't think that that's right. So now that bag is now his and I can't go anywhere near it. And if I dare move it, it'll have the up with me.

Seriously, he does not like me touching his stuff. You might think I'm joking, but he genuinely does not like me touching his stuff. It's his.

And he's making a little noise. So he knows I'm talking about him, don't you Andre? So he's happy now. He's got a new bag that's his.

Nice little bed for him to sleep in. And now I don't have a bag. So I literally had a bag for two hours.

Now I don't because he has commandeered it. Bless him. So that's it.

And I have no idea what I talked about. I talked about something I must have done. Anyway, I will be back again tomorrow with more exciting stories.

Thank you for listening. Remember, remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy. Lots of love.

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