#824 Let me bore you to sleep - VACATION IN UK ADVICE - Jason Newland (19th APRIL 2022)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com Yeah my name's Jason Newland. That was a bit of a whistly. My name's Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. I've just been looking online today for maybe, baby, getting myself a ferret. Mmm.

Mmm. Mmm. Mmm.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know whether to or not.

Definitely would brighten up my day. I had a little, little furry fella running around and acting all silly. So yeah.

Yeah, I don't know. I really don't. There's one here.

It's about 21 miles away from where I live and this advert was three weeks ago. Two Hobbes ready to leave on the 7th of April. Now there's a good chance it's gone because it's, you know, it's, I imagine it's done but it's still possible they could still be available and I don't know.

Just seeing their little faces is ridiculous and they're grey as well when they're first born. They're like grey little things and then they get their colour and they're basically Andre's colour. I mean, I don't, although I loved Andre and how he looked and I thought he was beautiful.

I don't, if I got another ferret, I wouldn't want one that looked like Andre. I want a different one. I want to be reminded of Andre but I want to look at this little furry thing and look at him or her as a completely different entity, you know.

Yeah, it'd be Andre's brother or sister, although they'll never meet but I just, yeah, want one that's different, that looks different to Andre because, you know, some of them look so similar but then others, I mean, is these, this is from two days ago, blimey. Two days ago but it's miles away and this one's in Kent. This is seven hours ago.

Reserve a kit. Hiya people, I'll be having three litters of kits this year. The first litter's due 17th of May.

So yeah, they've got quite a few but it's a long way to go. It's doable, it's doable but I don't know, too far away really. Another one in Preston which is way too far, that's two hours ago.

Another one in Malton, I don't know where the hell Malton is. Baby ferrets Angota cross age six weeks mixed and that reminds me, there's a, there's a picture and he looks like Andre, like when he was a baby, just same colour and they all, they're all just beautiful, all of them, they're beautiful. I don't know what it is about them, they're just, I know I'm biased but there's something so beautiful about them, just the cutest little things, all of them and it's not even, I don't know, I'm not quite sure what it is.

I mean they look, some of them just look so similar to each other but that whole, I mean maybe I do need to get more than one, maybe so they've got someone to play with and cuddle with and sleep with and you know but then they might not need me, they might not want to cuddle with me and sleep with me and I don't know. I mean just seeing, there's a picture here, there's like one, two, three, four, five, six, there's about, honestly there's about 10 of them all like cuddling with each other and it's, luckily I can't have 10, I mean that would just be ridiculous, that'd be impossible to have 10 in such a small environment.

I mean they'd love it, they'd no doubt, they'd make use of the entire flat but 10, two would be enough, two, I think two's too many really but two Andres, I mean he was a handful on his own sometimes, to have two, I don't know if I could handle two and there's a one thing that, the two things that put me off, well three things that put me off having, getting another ferret.

The first is, you know, the losing him again, the, I know that's probably quite a negative outlook to look at, you know, to wait to look at it but the idea of going through that again just doesn't, I don't know, I just don't know if I could. Mind you I didn't think I'd be able to go through it the first time and I did so hey. And the second thing is, if I do get another ferret I'm pretty much stuck here, I can't go away, can't do the things that I'm kind of wanting to do as far as maybe going, doing a little bit of travelling, not a huge amount of travelling but maybe go away and do some stuff at some point when the world opens up again properly without restrictions.

Thailand being one of those places I'd like to visit. And the third thing is, the issue would be making recordings and for the, you know, for all the love I had for little Phil, little Andre, he was a pain sometimes when I was trying to make a recording, you know, making noise and scratching and just, which is okay doing these recordings to let me breathe asleep, people almost seemed to like him being in the background but not so good when I'm doing the hypnosis recordings or doing, you know, a very quiet sleep session or relaxation session.

Having him in the background, deciding to play in a carrier bag or scratch a box or do any of the weird things that he would do, he just, he always found a way to make noise which, you know, normally I don't care but just in those moments and that's the only, I don't want to say good thing or benefit because that's, there is no good thing or benefit of him not being there but that's one of the things I'm now able to do is make recordings without putting lots of, you know, trying to find somewhere for him to be.

I mean sometimes I'd put him in the bedroom and he'd scratch at the door to get out, however if I, if I waited till he was asleep then I'd pick him up and I'd put him in the bed and he was happy and he didn't bother trying to get out of the bedroom door or if he fell asleep on the bed and I closed the bedroom door he didn't seem that bothered sometimes and then other times he would, you know, continually like want to get out of the bed, he didn't like closed doors, that was it.

So yeah, we'll see, we'll see, we will see.

You know, I've been thinking, I watch YouTube videos and even adults making videos, I'm talking even older, older people and there's that, there's one thing that I really struggle with YouTube videos is the speed of the talking because there's no gaps hardly at all between sentences and there's definitely no paragraphs, no gaps between paragraphs, you know, I mean I know you don't really have a paragraph and a sentence that's spoken but there's no gaps, it's like one sentence leads onto another straight away and I'm finding television's becoming more like that as well in, you know,

just it's not me, it's not how I do it and I've always been, I was, I don't know, I was brought up to have gaps in between sentences, some, you know, even words really, I don't just, because if you don't have a gap between the words it's just a slur, isn't it?

But to not have a gap between sentences and by a gap I don't mean like a millisecond, I'm talking, I don't know what the right, even maybe not even a whole second but it has to be a gap, I say a sentence, you know, every now and then to have a second or two before you start talking, maybe not as long as I've just done, you know, I'll probably have longer gaps than is normal but, you know, that's this, this is, I suppose this is the speed that I talk at, well this is the speed

that I talk out when I make these recordings anyway, but I think I'm a fairly, quite, yeah, quite a slow talker but, you know, I get excited sometimes and I talk very fast, you know, I'm a human being, I'm not, I'm not static, always doing the same thing all the time, you know, I do, I'm a human one, kind of, but I would say I'm fairly, you know, I'm a fairly slow talker and that's just the way that I communicate and I know from many comments over the years, sort of on YouTube more than anywhere

else, where some people just like used to write, you talk way too slowly, I cannot stand it and, and that would be it, I mean, why they felt the need to type that out, I don't know, but they did and that was, that was it, I don't know why people feel the need to do that stuff and, but I understand, you know, it is, if someone talks very, very quickly, I'm probably going to have as much of an issue with them as they do with me, not personality wise, just generally because it, maybe it's quite

difficult to be able to follow someone who is either too slow or too quick and I'm probably, well, I say probably, I mean, I'd say definitely way too slow for some people, however, it's part of what I do is to, you know, talk slower, talk nice and slow when I make these recordings because it's an opportunity to unwind a little bit, you know, I, personally, I would struggle to find myself getting relaxed listening to somebody talking very fast, now, some people will find that relaxing, you know, it's, I don't know however weird it might sound,

but we're all different, aren't we?

I mean, some people will listen, in order to relax, will listen to heavy metal music or whatever the equivalent is now, nowadays, I'm a little bit outdated, a bit out of date when it comes to popular music and, you know, I used to do this, this is what I used to do for years and years and years, I used to listen to the top 40 charts on radio every Sunday afternoon between four and seven, I'd listen to the charts, the top 40 just to keep myself updated, so I could at least keep my foot in,

keep my toes in, as it were, with what's going on within popular music, at least in this country and, you know, quite often, I don't know, basically, if something, by listening to the top 40, I'm going to have an idea roughly what's going on in the western world music wise, because it's, I mean, it's not always, it's not always the same, but quite often the hits here are big in Europe, like around Europe and America, and America and the UK, when it comes to the charts, I know America got quite a few different charts and

country music's still huge out there, I think, in America, and then they've got the, I think it's the R&B charts and, I don't know, maybe rock and roll chart, I'm not sure, so yeah, but I kind of, I felt that by listening to the top 40 hit parade, hit parade, blimey, how old am I, hip, I just pressed the stop button by accident there, so I think I might have been in the middle of saying something, how weird, I just wanted to cough, so I pressed, I went to press the pause button, but I pressed

the stop button, I pressed the stop button, how on earth did I do that, still coughing a bit, to be, yeah, to be fair, it's probably a little, it's a bit better than it was yesterday, but I went for a very long walk earlier today, I was walking for about an hour and a half, so that was nice, just to get out and do a big old long walk, had my headphones on, I was listening to an audiobook by Rollo May, is it Rollo May, psychotherapist, yeah, Rollo May, I think so, and it was about

anxiety, so I was just, from a psychotherapeutic directive, or from their perspective, very interesting, and no useful hints, you know, for helping with anxiety, but it was kind of talking about the, the, the origins of anxiety within society, and the changes of our lives, how things used to be, and how things are now, and, and this, this book was probably, it's got to be probably 30, 40 years old, this book, so it's quite a long time ago, oh, excuse me, that's a nice bit of gas, oh, excuse me, I'm such a pig, um, I don't

just look like a pig, I sound like a pig, hmm, anyway, oh yeah, so I, I went for a long walk, what was I saying before I burped, I don't remember, I was saying something, well, I was talking about the hit parade, the top 40, listening to music, went for a walk, it was even, it was starting to interest me, and then it went, I can't remember, no, anyway, so whatever it was I was talking about, couldn't have been important, and there's a chance that Thailand is going to open up next month, because basically they

want, they want tourists back, because they rely upon tourism, it's like their, I don't know about their biggest industry, but I think it is their biggest industry, tourism, because it's, um, I don't want to say a poor country, because I don't want to say anything rude about people, but it's, I think the people living there, not everyone, but a lot of the people living there, um, they rely on tourism for their income, so I'm, I'm guessing, and it's not even, like, over here, I know we've got, like, in England, for example, you know, you've got

all the stately homes, and the zoos, and, well, I don't know, that's more for UK people that live there, I think, but, uh, you know, things in London, and in Manchester, and Liverpool, and, um, um, all the places that people come to from other countries, so someone, let's say, let's say America, just for example, so if you come to the, to England from America, um, there's certain things I imagine you'd like to see, if, if you could, if you'd like had a two-week holiday, or vacation, and you sort of, and you're only going to come

to England once, or it's the very first time you've ever been here, and you might have, like, a list of things that you'd want to do, I should actually put my lonely little list of things that I recommend, shouldn't I?

Maybe I can, maybe I'll do a little bit of that now, so I'm trying to put myself in the underpants of an American person, and thinking what I would find attractive about England.

Now, I mean, I know some of them anyway, I mean, London, which is going to be probably the place you come into England, I'm, I say that maybe there are other parts of the country that you can get to, some of the airports from America, I'm not, I don't actually know, being a southerner, kind of a little bit, I know probably a fair bit about this area, but I don't know about up north so much with airports and things, and I think they have airports, of course, and so you've got John Lennon airport, isn't there,

in Liverpool, I know that, it's always in New York, there's a John Lennon airport, I don't know if it's in New York, in Liverpool, I'm going to Google that, John Lennon airport, it is Liverpool, I thought it was, but I'm not going to Google this, but I'm pretty damn sure, okay, that there's going to be some stuff named after John Lennon in New York, okay, so I'm going to, so, well, there is a memorial, there is a living memorial to John Lennon in Central Park, it's one of the most visited attractions in New York City,

located near Central Park West, Strawberry Fields in Central Park, see, told you, I literally, first I heard of this, but I just knew that there would be stuff there, fashionably similar to the original flowing design of the park, Strawberry Fields is lined with all tall elm trees, shrubs, flowers and rocks, oh, excuse me, Strawberry Fields officially reopened in 1985, on October 9th, 1985, the 45th anniversary of John Lennon's birth, and on this day, as well as the anniversary of his death, visitors and fans from around the globe flock to Strawberry Fields to pay homage to

him, cool, and John Lennon and his wife lived in the Dakota Apartments, adjacently located to this area of the park, it shows a picture, that's a lovely nice place, it was here, okay, I'm not going to read that bit out, yeah, so keep it positive baby, keep it positive, so, oh, there's going to be other stuff there, anyway, if you go to, so if you come to the UK, or England, let's say for England, I'm going to say England, because you also, if you do, if you're from America, well anywhere really, but you know, if

you come into the UK, and you've got enough time, because even though it's a tiny, tiny little country, it still takes time to get around, you know, it's not, it's just not, it's not, you can't do everything in one day, there's, you know, this still takes time traveling and stuff like that, and so, if you really want to have, I'd say, if you can, come for a couple of weeks, and try and visit, as well as England, so if you, let's say you come to London, try and visit Wales, if you can, try and visit

Scotland, they're beautiful places, and there's so much to see, there's castles, you've got, in Wales, you've got Snowdonia, which is the, our biggest, well, pretty much our only mountain, really, I mean, we have some hills and stuff, but I don't know, in the UK, have we got Scotland, there's mountains of Scotland, isn't there?

Ben Nevis, or is that the river, or is it a bear, I don't know, but there's, you know, in England, there's not, there's some hills, and there's some high areas, and rocky areas, and you know, but mountains, but in, in Wales, and in Scotland, there's, they've got mountains and stuff, and I mean, they're not big, they're like, I mean, if, I guess, you know, Mount Everest would probably look insane, that's just a hill, but Mount Everest has got a reputation for being a bit arrogant, yeah, so let's not, let's not dwell on that, but yeah,

Mount Everest is, it looks all lovely with all the snow, but it's got a bit of an attitude, a bit cocky, bit cocky, yeah, honest, doesn't like, doesn't play well with friends, doesn't like to share, so what was I saying, oh yeah, so if you come to the England, I would suggest, so you've got London, you've got the standard stuff, go and see the Buckingham Palace, you've got, you know, the London Eye, which is basically, it's just a big, it's a, not a roller coaster, what's that, a big wheel, it's just a big wheel, it's

a thing, it's what you get on every fairground, really, but it's just a big version of it, yeah, and great, if you, as long as you don't mind heights, you'll like it, it should be cool, London, London, London, London, what is the, I mean, when I was a kid, we had places, you know, Madame Tussauds, the Tower of London, oh yeah, the British Museum, the art galleries, yeah, there's, that's a, that's, you could probably spend a couple of days in London and have a nice little, you know, look around, you've got, what's it called, some

places you can go to, but they're all pretty much in the West End, they're all, most of the places to visit, really, are kind of, in the kind of the West End, so you've got Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Circus, Oxford Street, and it's all, you know, within walking distance, so quite, well, maybe pop on a bus or get a tube, you've got Leicester Square, one of my favourite places of all time was Leicester Square, used to love it, Leicester Square, if, because some people call it that, and Covent Garden, another good place, that's cool, I

used to work in Covent Garden, the Opera House, when it was being rebuilt, the new Opera House, and that was in the 90s, like 97, I was working there as a security guard, I imagine it's all opened up now, it should be, shouldn't it, by now, and they're probably building a new one now, it's been so long, that's now the old Opera House, you know, used to have a canteen, used to have a fried breakfast, it always used to end up going right through me, just to remember that, and they actually had more toilets than

they had people working there, I remember once, sometimes I just used to, I'd get the plate of food and I'd just scrape it into the toilet, I thought I ain't got time to eat it, it's going to end up in there anyway, so save a bit of time, so that was a good, but it wasn't a good job, I think I preferred it at the weekend, because there was no one around, so I'd do uh, I think it was overtime actually, I didn't have to work weekends, but they'd say, oh do you want to work

the weekend, or do you want to work, do bank holiday, or whatever, so I said yeah, okay, and I'd be there all day and all night sometimes, and it's pretty, it wasn't much to do, so just sometimes I'd take a book in, and I'd read, I'd write, and it'd be a lot easier, I think, if we'd had the internet back then, when I was working in insurance, in security, I could literally do this, do this, I could do this, I could literally earn a living doing this, earn, get paid, so if I could get a

secure, security job, sitting in a building, where um, I've been nice and warm, nice and safe, you know, not having to go outside or anything, and just be, you know, be the security for this, for a big building, or office block, or something like that, and just stay there overnight, I could, I could make recordings, it's amazing, got a runny nose, that's nice, so yeah, um, all right, so oh, oh, this chair's very squeaky, I, um, I, oh, oh, oh, oh, that was peppery, oh man, that's not even funny, what on earth have I been

eating, oh god, I've been eating concrete, or something, oh, it's a damp concrete, oh, okay, sorry, um, yeah, I'm thinking, if you come to the England, to the England, so you've got London, you've got, you know, the basic places, Trafalgar Square, and all that stuff, but it's, you know, it's, I don't think there's enough for two weeks, I mean, yeah, if you've got a show to go to, and stuff like that, you know, you could probably spend three days in London, um, you could spend two weeks in London, you just do what you want, but

I'm just thinking, there's places in, around England, that are possibly worth a visit, now earlier on, I said that, and I'm still trying to think of somewhere, um, I mean, if you're, I can, one thing you, I would suggest to do, is go, go and see some of the beaches in the UK, in England, because if you're in London, first of all, there's no beaches in London, there's beaches near London, not that far away, really, um, so you've got, I mean, Southend is not far from London, you know, it's not, I wouldn't, I mean, I

used to live there, I probably wouldn't recommend that as a place to go to, although it's got one of the longest piers in the world, I think, um, I don't know if it's up and running, let me check, longest pier, longest pier, the world's longest pier is, the long, world's longest pier period, what's period got to do with anything, is the dis, oh, it's red, no, it's the disembarkation pier for cruise passengers at the Mexico City of Progreso, what is Britain's longest pier, Southend, okay, it's 1.

34 miles, or 2.

16 kilometers into the Thames estuary, it's the longest pleasure pier in the world, thank you very much, so it's the longest pleasure pier, so it's not the longest pier, but that other pier isn't really a this is a pier, I mean, hell, it goes out into the sea, but as I said, it's for ships, cruiser ships to sort of park, um, I guess the, the water is too shallow to come to coast, so it's, you'd have to have it out there because the water's deep enough, yeah, what are the 10 longest piers in the UK,

Southend pier, number one, Blackpool, Cromer, Brighton, Southport, Eastbourne and Bournemouth, now, if you like being gay, or if you like gay people, such a stupid sentence, I knew it before I said it, don't worry, I'm just being silly, right, the, a gay part of the country is Brighton, it's very, I don't want to say, um, gay friendly, because that's just a weird, that's as weird a sentence as I just said, most gay friendly, gay friendly town in the UK, blimey, well, I got that wrong, Edinburgh, apparently, but I'm saying UK, so if I say England,

in England, Brighton, see, I know my England, I just, I'm not so good with my UK, Brighton, it says here, considered by many to be the LGBTQRSTLYZB capital of the UK, Brighton is packed with possibilities from outrageous drag nights to an annual bear festival, I always wondered about bears, it's all that, you know, that, that, you know, bears always seemed a little bit, I don't know, fierce, but, but in a Beyonce way, that was at all, wasn't it, fierce, I don't know what I'm talking about, but anyway, so if you, if you, if you like

gay people, or if you consider them being gay, um, so yeah, if you're gay, Brighton is the hot spot place to go to in the UK, in England, and so, and that's good to know, I mean, let's face it, it's, but I'm, I can't talk for the whole country, and it's, it's not the most open-minded place in the world, you know, necessarily, so in Brighton, I think, I've not been to Brighton, no, I have been to Brighton actually, yeah, but not, I haven't spent a great amount of time there, but as far as I'm aware,

it's a place where you can openly express your, yourself, you know, and, but having lived around the country, there's a lot of places where you would not, it's not safe to do that, so, you know, it's, there's still quite a long way to go and stuff, but, um, it's, it's, it's a strange, it's a strange, uh, yeah, I don't know, I mean, don't, I think, don't, do you, you, it's, do you have to be gay to live in San Francisco, is that, is that right?

I don't know if you, you're not allowed to live there unless you're gay, I don't know if that's true or not, I don't know, I just, it's, I mean, cool, that's brilliant, um, for those that, um, want to live there and, or not, I don't know, where, oh, here's a great question, I love Google, it's so ridiculous, I think it's as ridiculous as me, where do most gay men live in the UK? Wow, this is interesting, by a slender margin, Northern Ireland has, was the country of the UK found to have the highest proportion of gay men, an estimated 1.

6% compared to 1. 5% for England, 1. 3% for Wales, 1. 1% for Scotland, who does these surveys? I mean, I've never had anyone walk up to me in the town centre with a clipboard saying, are you gay? And just, you know, or even, what's your sexuality? Unless people just look at me and assume that, uh, I thought I'd probably be classed as a zero, like, uh, nothing, um, um, yeah, a past, past for him, I notice that sometimes, when there's people with clipboards and they're trying to, you can see they're focusing on young trendies, and they see me and they just move out of the way, they literally move out of the way for me to walk past.

There was a time when I would get stopped, not because I looked trendy, but because I was young. But now, now, I don't get stopped at all.

It's okay. It's all right, doesn't matter. Okay, I'm calm, I'm calm.

It's fine. So yeah, the one point, who's make, that's why I don't understand this. So some people that are like, really kind of anti, anti whatever.

And then you look at the percentage, like, it's 1.6% of the population, 1.5% of the population of England. How can you really get upset at 1.5% of the population? Come on. Come on.

Tell me. I don't understand. It says in the Bible, I don't care what it says, and it says lots of things in the Bible.

It says lots of wonderful things, but there's a few not so wonderful things. So anyway, I'm not really interested in this as just just well, I was mildly interested. I went from peers to, to that for some reason.

I just get interested in things and I go off in a different direction sometimes. Okay, so if you're into peers, or no, if you're into peers, Southend, Blackpool, Cromer, Brighton, Southport, Eastbourne, and Bournemouth. Now, that's the only thing in Southend, kind of, it's not the only thing in Southend, but um, I think as a tourist, you know, if you were traveling from another country, from another country, I just just thought the idea of someone traveling from another country to actually to visit Southend.

Now, it's possible it might have happened once by accident. And but Southend is fine. It's okay.

Yeah. It's Blackpool. Okay.

Try and visit Blackpool. Because so you got Southend longest peer in the world, longest pleasure peer in the world. Okay.

So you can visit us. So that's something you wouldn't have that on your itinerary. But think about it, where when are you going to go to longest pleasure peer in the world? It's your opportunity.

So Southend, and it's a nice day out, you go there, it takes ages to walk, you know, if you walk, they've got a little train you can go on. But if you've got a nice day is a big promenade, you've got chip shops, and charity shops, some cafes, more charity shops, some other cafes, they might have a Wimpy, I don't know, McDonald's probably. And some charity shops.

And yeah, it's good. So give it a go. Give it a visit.

I used to live there. I did. One of my friends still does live there.

It's okay. It's all right. It's just and I've got what they do have, which is good.

And I used to like going there. And it's probably my one thing that I love about Southend. It's one of the only happy memories that I have of the place is there's a theater there.

It's been there for absolutely forever. And I used to go there when I was a kid used to go and see the shows sort of pantomime at Christmas and also just see shows and stuff. I think we got in free because we was I said we was in the children's home there.

So we used to all go on mass together. Not on mass, we went to mass first and then we went. And it was good.

Loved it. Absolutely loved it. Loved the theater there.

And so that was happy memories, actually. Really enjoyed that. Yeah, so and in those days, we didn't get what to watch much television or anything.

It was quite strict, quite strict atmosphere that we lived in run by the nuns. And wasn't all bad, but it wasn't all good, you know. I mean, probably the best part, the best people.

There was there was one nun there that was really lovely. And and there was they still I don't know if they were volunteers or if they were work there, but there was civilians, you know, normal humans work there as well. And some of those were lovely.

And I remember I used to. Yeah, it's just it's all take us and on a Sunday, we'd have our bath. That was how it was in the 70s.

You'd have one bath a week and it'd be on a Sunday evening. So if you ever wanted to, basically, that was a nationwide thing back then. And you could you noticed that because on Monday morning, people would all be standing a lot closer to each other.

And then as the week went by, by Friday, Saturday, people will walk usually 100 yards from each other because you know, given what smellier as a week went by. But on Monday morning, everyone's was relatively fresh. So yeah, used to be a lot.

So Brighton is quite a cool place to go to. Not just for for gay people is a good. See, I his when I was younger, I loved gay clubs.

And here's why. Because I found it was I just found it easier to pull men in gay clubs. No, the reason is, because I got more attention.

I did, but that wasn't the only reason. The amount of men that thought I was gay, when I was in my 20s. I don't know why I don't know.

I don't understand it really. Really don't. I mean, there's a whole thing is that with enough people, enough people say, say that you smell, then you probably smell.

So if enough people think I'm gay, then but no, I wasn't. I just I think what it was, is because I wasn't anti I wasn't. I've never really been into the macho bullshit kind of thing, you know.

So I don't try and put on pretend you try and be all man like, I don't know, whatever manly is. Just me, just me. And I liked gay clubs.

Because it's the most it I've been in lots, not for a while. Not for a while, but I used to go into them. And it's the only time I ever felt relaxed.

I don't mean in life. I mean, in you know, it's like, no, I mean, I learned to meditate and I never had to sort of like, my girlfriend said, Where are you going? I just can't relax. I'm going to the gay club.

No, it wasn't that bad. I could relax other places. But it was the only apart from the comedy club, it was the only public venue where there was members of the public there, where I could relax.

That's what I mean. Especially people that were drinking and that and doing whatever else. The atmosphere was good.

Atmosphere was relaxed and calm and and the only time I ever saw trouble is by the straight people. No, I didn't do a survey. I didn't spend all my life in places because otherwise, I guess I'd have seen it have a better understanding of the environment of each club.

But I went to there was one called the spiral staircase. And it was literally at the end of the road from the comedy club. So we'd finish at two o'clock in the morning or one o'clock in the morning on a Friday.

And just go around there and it was open till four. So we go around the corner. And just sometimes go over there, go around there with a girl I've met, or we just would meet someone there sometimes.

A female or not all of just let's move on. So yeah, I'd I think she was female. Yeah.

But yeah, so I went to quite a few gay clubs in that area. And there's one near where I lived as well. I didn't go into lots of not space to go into sort of the regular ones.

Fairly regular is one round the corner as well. And then there was one. Yeah, so it was 123.

Yeah, three gay clubs that I used to go into. And I liked a lot of the atmosphere is very relaxed. I like that.

I mean, it's a rubbish place to meet women. Generally, I mean, there are I have met women in gay clubs. But generally, it's you know, you I've been in trouble for even look, you know, that's the one thing is I was watching some women dance and I was just just standing there.

Everyone else was standing there watching people dance as well. But I got told to go away. And I said to the I said to the barman, I said, Look, I wouldn't do nothing.

I just said, Well, what can I what can I do for future reference? What can I do to in order for that not to happen again? And he said, keep your trousers on. We laughed. So other places other things to do.

Blackpool was the main place to go to one of the best, most popular holiday destinations in in England, in the past, you know, going back 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 years or whatever, you know, all the way up to, I don't know when the 80s, maybe the 90s, even I'm not sure. It was really popular Blackpool. And yeah, so it's still got a lot there.

They still got the Pleasure Beach, the Blackpool pier, and they have lots of shows and stuff. So other places to go to. If you're traveling to the UK or England, Liverpool, that seems like an obvious place because of the Beatles.

And not just the Beatles, though it's it's a it's a city. It's one of the main cities outside of London's, you know, it's, it's I've only traveled through Liverpool, so never actually stopped and had a look around. But, you know, you obviously you've got the Beatles and you've got the memorabilia and you've got the places to go to connected to the Beatles.

Not sure if that traffic cross crossing is still there. Is it Abbey Road album? And then it's bound to be a museum, a museum for the Beatles in Liverpool somewhere. And there's other things there you've got.

Also, like in Kent, there's the Cathedral in Kent. You've got castles, castles dotted all over the place. I mean, it's not it's not necessarily it's not necessarily a tourist attraction, but it does gain a lot of excitement in where whenever it happens.

But, you know, if you're here and you pick a right time and you're on the coast, you might see some beach whales. But as I said, it's it builds a lot of excitement for the locals there. In fact, it is possibly one of the most exciting things that happens in a decade to some towns.

Some of the best beaches. We've got some beautiful beaches in England as well. So and the sea is.

I don't know, I mean, you know, the seas are probably different, probably a lot colder here than what you'd get in other places. But we've got some beautiful sand beaches. Lowestoft is beautiful beach.

You've also got Yarmouth, which is like a pleasure, pleasure beach in Yarmouth. We've got. If you've got kids that you bring with you, lots of amusement parks, water world or whatever it's called, different places, butlins.

That's that's something, you know, you could you could do something and do something really different to what some people do. Some people, you know, just have a look online and say, OK, let's really get in touch with English life without getting too involved in English life, if you know what I mean. So you go to book a weekend of butlins as part of your trip, just a separate thing and go to butlins and you've got a few different ones and everything's in one place.

You've got everything. And it's and it's a very English, traditional English thing to do. It's a holiday camp and.

And it was, yeah, I think it's it's basically it was it was butlins and pontins and butlins that basically I think got their idea from Germany in the 30s and they basically it's very popular, very popular. They were very popular. And I don't know so much now, but the butlins is definitely still around.

And I used to work at butlins. I did see I used to work at butlins. I did a Christmas season there once.

Blimey, I've done so much in my life. I should write a book, a pamphlet more like. So, yeah, what other things in the UK? So if you go to, OK, you've got England, so you've got Manchester.

So I'd say visit Manchester. Visit Liverpool. There's lots of different places.

I mean, there's this this just there's so many different places that, you know, you've got the middle of the country, you've got the you've got the north, you've got the south, you've got the west country. Places like Cornwall, and all those kinds of places that are beautiful, very green, lush, almost a different kind of climate in some ways to the rest of the country. And then you got moved to Scotland.

It's the same landmass. So but it's a different country, Scotland, and it's a beautiful place as well. Loads there.

And if you love your whiskey, there's distilleries to go visit. In Wales, you got, sorry, I can't say it without laughing because I did a I did a recording moaning about it once. You've got the slate mines in.

Yeah, I did a recording slate in it, slate in the slate mines. And in Wales, I mean, some of the beaches are beautiful in Wales. And you know, I remember being able to walk out for miles.

Well, I didn't my brother did he could walk walk out for miles and into the sea without even like getting up to his waist. I want to do a joke about him having really long legs, but I can't be bothered. He's 72 foot tall.

So that was good. That was nice. There's castles in Wales.

There's got castles all around the place. There's Yes, a lot to see. But I guess it depends what you're interested in.

You know, if you're interested in trains, then you're going to want to be around trains. If you love beaches. It's lots of different beaches here.

It's but I think it's also worth just remember to relax as well. You know, he's, he doesn't matter. I don't think he no matter how long you stay in a place, you're never going to get to see the whole of the country.

I've lived here for 50 odd years, and I've still not seen. I probably only seen a small percentage of this country really. And I never will, because I don't really want to I'll be honest this I've traveled around a little bit and there's a lot of same same towns, the little villages is very similar.

I mean, it's different for everyone and it's different people and stuff. But you know, the church is so very similar. And the little town churches and, and you've got the same shops, the same.

It's almost like you could be anywhere in the country, really. Train stations and the train, you know, so it's this similarities. But then you know, you hear people talking in there.

Sometimes like, wow, yeah, I really am somewhere different because they've they've got a different accent, a very different accent. As are blimey. And yeah, so it's, I suppose really to really get a feel of what places like to get to understand or to see the difference, or to feel the differences to, to stay there for a while.

Because then you get to see maybe some different behaviors that maybe you don't see. In your own town. I mean, I'll give you an example of around here.

I saw someone walking to the petrol station in their dressing gown. I saw a woman dropping her kids off at the school in a dress, different people, two different women in a dressing gown. I saw someone today in a not falsie, what's it called? A onesie, you know, like pajamas basically walking across the park.

And you know, that's what happens around here. In London. There's nothing you won't see this and there's no, there's no nothing's out of bounds really, as far as weirdness, as to what you may witness in London.

It's one of those places where anything could kind of happen. And it's as I guess a good and bad thing depending on how you look at it. I mean, you know, you can be on a bus in the middle of the snow storm.

And the bus pulls up and there's a lady in a bikini eating an ice cream. Now I've seen that. Okay, she didn't have a bikini but she was, had shorts on and a t-shirt, eating an ice cream in the snow at a bus stop.

And so you know, you see some strange things. I've seen weird things in the past. And it's not only London, but it just, it's almost like what you become invisible, you can pretty much do what you want in London.

And people don't even notice, don't even take any notice anymore. I mean, I remember in Liverpool Street Station, there is a drunk person and a blind person, a blind man with his dog. And the drunk person, not meaning to, he didn't do this on purpose.

But he walked through the lead. I'm not laughing. He walked, like the dog was there and the blind man was next to the dog and he had a white stick.

The drunk person walked and he didn't realize that the lead between the man and his dog was basically walked through it, if it makes sense. So he started dragging this man along, not dragging him, but he was like being pulled along by this drunk person. And the dog was barking.

The dog didn't know what to do. Because it was just weird. Because normally people show respect that they see a dog.

But this bloke, he was drunk. He, he wasn't, you could see he wasn't purposely doing it. He was just, I think he might have been homeless as well.

Not that that's really relevant. But I could see even from a distance. I'm not laughing, I'll be honest.

And I went to help eventually. And no one was getting hurt. It was just the man, a blind man was swearing at this bloke eventually.

And it was just, and some people got upset and they're like, come on. He didn't mean to do it. He's just, he's just drunk.

He was very, very drunk. And he basically just got tangled. They got tangled up.

And it's weird because you know, when you revisit some place and you sort of get these memories back. But I went to Liverpool Street three weeks ago. Two and a half weeks ago.

I was walking through the station. They were still there tangled up. I couldn't believe it.

20 years later, they're still there. So yeah, if you are visiting, check everything. There's lots of different things to go.

Canterbury Cathedral, that's it in Kent. And you know what, while you're here, why not visit some of the Europe places? Because as you travel down, I mean, what I would do, I tell you, if I was, if I was organized, I'm not perhaps organized enough. But if I had two weeks and the money, you know, the money wasn't an issue, I would go to London.

And I would like try and book ahead of time, obviously the hotels and that, visit Liverpool, or visits, find some places you want to visit in the UK, visit Scotland, visit Wales. And then, you know, maybe spend three or four days doing that. And then visit Ireland.

And then visit France, and Germany, and Spain. And you know, just if you just move and try and visit a few places that are quite close by, because Ireland is, or I think France is, is it 20, 21 miles or something from England? It's just not a long way. And the Ireland's easy to get to.

So if you go to Liverpool, Liverpool to Ireland's a ferry, you haven't got to get a plane, just get a ferry over. It's an enjoyable experience, providing it's, you know, nice, fairly decent weather. It's not expensive either.

So go over to Ireland, go to Dublin. And you know, it's just an end, then maybe get off, get a flight to France. Or I don't understand this.

It's got nothing to do with me, is it? It's not my holiday. I'm organizing your holiday here. You know, if you come to the UK, why are you here? You should visit Lourdes.

I remember my saying, my nan, she used to always go, I want to visit Lourdes. And I booked it for her. Because she was a devout Catholic.

And she kept going, I want to visit Lourdes, I want to visit, I booked it for her. And she gave me, she phoned me up. I thought she phoned me up to tell me what great time she's having.

And she said, why are people playing tennis? So what do you mean? Now I want to check that this is right. It's cricket, isn't it? I got it wrong. Why are people Okay, it's a joke.

Oh, dear. Oh, dear. She said, why are people playing cricket? I said, what do you mean? She said.

Oh, that would have been so much better. Ignore the last bit. So my nan, devout Catholic, going on about wanting to visit Lourdes.

So which is a place in France that you get healing and stuff. And so I organised, got a ticket for her. And, you know, she phoned me.

I don't know what I'm carrying on with it. And she phoned me and she was, I thought she was going to phone and say, she's having a great time. She was complaining.

I said, why? What's wrong? Why? Why? What's wrong with you? It's not what you thought. Why? She said, well, people are playing cricket everywhere. I don't know.

It's a joke there somewhere. It wasn't a great joke. Okay.

It was actually quite a good joke. So stuff you, stuff you and everything you believe in. So it's time to go, baby.

I'm gonna go. Thank you for listening. And but this is a good country to visit.

It is. And, you know, I think on behalf of all of the, all of the white national, the white national people in this country, we invite you to visit as long as you leave again. Oh, no, it is a great holiday destination.

It's probably not in the winter, to be fair. But it's probably the cheapest time to come is in the winter. But during the summer, it's lovely.

We have some nice weather here as well in the summer. We had five days last year. We have some nice weather.

People moan. We love talking about the weather in this country is is just it's almost a cliche. It is a cliche.

It's not almost is a cliche. We love talking about the weather. I don't know why.

It's just one of those rules in life. So take care of yourselves. And remember to be kind to yourself because, because, because, because you deserve to be happy.

Be gentle with yourself. Lots of love. Lots of love.

Bye.