(no music) #1106 - I thought I’d lost Vinnie - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (29th April 2024)

Oh, oh, well hello, how are you? How, how wonderful it is to see you again. So how have you been? Oh that's good, oh. Okay yeah, bye, bye then, take care.

Love to the family. Who was that dad? No idea, no idea. And why were you nice to them? They seem to know me.

Okay sorry, hello, welcome, welcome to, Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name, my name is Jason Newland, Newland. My website's jasonnewland.com. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

Vinnie is under the table, having his, eating a bone. The loud neighbours decided to come into the garden to be loud. Bless them.

It's like a volume, it just, there's no volume level, it's like just loud, loud and louder. Bless them. Oh well, maybe I'm really loud.

You don't know do you? I could be really loud and everyone can hear me, in which case I should shut up. So, oh Vinnie, you just guffed. Stop guffing.

You just let one off. Oh, it's proper stinky. So please only listen when you can safely close your eyes, if I've not already said that.

I don't remember what I said it because it's kind of an automatic thing. You know when you're driving down the motorway and you realise that, Vinnie? Okay, you alright? Oh now there's a dog barking. Okay, hopefully he'll stop.

Yeah, I forget, I do the introduction and, because I do it, I've been doing the same introduction for 18 years. The like, only listen when you can safely close your eyes. And sometimes I say it automatically, don't realise I said it.

Yeah, it's like you're on the motorway, you're going down the motorway and you realise, oh I've forgotten something, what have I forgotten? Oh, my car, where's my car? And you know, it's kind of that kind of situation. So, he's just sitting there looking. I don't know why he's looking.

I don't know, I think he likes listening to the sounds. Between me and you, I think he likes listening to me talk, because sometimes, if providing there's no other distractions, he just falls asleep listening to me. So, he's sitting up and he's leaning against my leg, against my foot.

So, I mean, I'm surprised he's not asleep, because he's had the time of his life today. Seriously, we've done one, two, three walks, but normal walks. We went into the field on the third walk.

So, we had a nice walk around the field. On the way back, okay, maybe two walks. Yeah, maybe we'd had two walks.

I lose track. Anyway, I forget sometimes. I mean, it's a bit like, you know, when you're on a motorway.

So, I, you know, it's like someone, you know, you're flying on holiday, you're on the way to the holiday, and you're flying in the air, and you think, oh, I forgot to catch the plane. I don't know, I'm in a silly mood. And I wonder if Superman ever forgot to put his pants on.

If he ever got dressed wrong, and he like, because I'm guessing the pants, his trousers were crotchless, and then the pants were over. So, blue, like, I don't know, lycra leggings, which went up to his waist. But I'm thinking that the bottom part is crotchless and bumless.

And then the red thong that he wore, maybe it shouldn't be called a thong was. So, did he ever like forget to put the thong on? Go into the telephone box, telephone booth. Of course, the telephone booths don't exist anymore.

You can't like run into a mobile phone, I suppose, a mobile phone shop, maybe, and change. Although he did once run into a hotel, you know, those swinging doors that go around and around and around. And he did that really fast, didn't he? And then came out the other end, dressed as Superman.

Imagine if there was someone else. I mean, didn't they do it? If someone actually was in there, and then at the end of it, they come out, and they're all disheveled, because they were stuck in there. In reality, they'd be splattered, wouldn't they? Because that was proper fast.

It wasn't just like fast. That was a thousand times or whatever. It's like, wow.

I was wondering if sometimes he got dressed, because he must have had that stuff underneath his suit. But why? What happened to the suit? Where did that go? Did he eat it? Did he put it somewhere? You know, insert it? I don't know. How, where did the suit go? Because, you know, he'd be in the office with his suit, shirt, tie, shoes, all that stuff.

With, I guess, his spandex Superman costume underneath. So what happened to the suit? Unless he just, maybe he, I don't know. I can't think, lasered it away.

Unless he just left a pile of clothes every time, which would have been expensive, wouldn't it? Because he was on a reporter's salary. And I can't imagine he was getting paid enough to buy, you know, a new suit every day. And also, he'd have to go back home.

So when he'd have to go and buy a new suit after every time he turned into Superman, which means he'd be walking into a suit shop, whatever they're called, clothes shop or whatever, clothes store, dressed as Superman. And then walking out as Clark Kent. So people would, they're going to notice that, aren't they? Superman just went into that shop.

I wonder where he is. Let's wait. An hour later.

Has anyone come out? No. Well, there was one bloke. He looks like a reporter.

Actually, he looked just like Superman, but wearing glasses and a suit. What, he looked exactly the same as... Exactly the same. No different.

Just wearing glasses. Mind you, it can make a difference. I remember when my dad, when I first met my dad, when I was seven, just before I was seven, I knew him for the first six months or whatever, but I didn't know him until I was about, just before I was seven.

He had this big bushy beard, beautiful thing it was. It was a work of art. It was, this was the, what, 1977.

It was, honestly, it was a wonderful beard. Beautiful beard, honestly, just amazing. I've got pictures of it.

Not the beard, he's attached to the beard as well. Not just of the beard, because that would be weird. I've got it in a bag.

It's like, no, that'd be weird. But yeah, anyway, one day we came home from school and this was 1978. I say we, my brothers.

No, or was it on a Saturday morning? It might have been a Saturday morning, and he came down. Well, this bloke came down. Morning, kids.

And I was like, Dad, Dad. He said, yeah. I said, no, not you.

Dad, it's some strange man. Some strange man. It's like, he's on the stairs.

Dad, Dad. And like, no one came. He said, Jason, it's me.

I can see it's you, but where's my dad? And he's like, I had a shave. I shaved the beard off. And we all rolled around laughing, because he looked so silly without it.

Just because we'd only ever seen him with it. He didn't look silly, not really, but he just looked, well, he's bald. He wasn't bald on his head, although the face is technically the head, isn't it? It's the head, and then there's a face.

It is the head. It's part of the head. But the head, the face part of the head, and then the head part of the head.

Ah, it's confusing. But he had hair on his head. That's what I'm trying to say.

And we laughed. It was hilarious. I'm not sure if that was the response he was looking for.

And it must have taken him hours to get rid of it, get it gone. Those were the days before decent razors. So I don't know, it must have taken about 10 hours or something.

He must have gotten up like every hour during the night just to have a little, chop a little bit more off. That's what I imagine happened. Or he hired a team of monkeys to cut it while he was asleep.

I don't know, that's just silly. But anyway, shaved it off. And every time I saw him, I'm like, who's that bloke? And my dad got so fed up because everyone else was getting used to it.

I still couldn't get used to it. Six months later, I was still like, who's that bloke at the dinner table? It's me. It's your dad.

But my dad's got a beard. I haven't had a beard for six years. I only had a beard for three weeks.

Anyway, what he did in the end, or what I did, because he wouldn't do anything about it. So whenever he was there, I drew a picture of a beard and I basically just put it in my eyesight so it was just below his nose. And it's like, oh, okay.

And it's like, oh, it's my dad. Okay. Oh, it's my dad.

Oh, it's my dad. And I did that. And I was just a kid at the time.

I was 14, but I was still a kid. And it just took a little bit of adjusting. You know, sometimes things take a little bit of adjusting.

And it's a little bit like, you know, like when you're in a space rocket and you think you're in a space rocket, but you're not because you're not actually for the sake of the joke. And you're heading towards the moon and you think, what have I forgotten? Oh yeah, the space shuttle. It doesn't work so much if you've already mentioned that you're in a spaceship.

And then you say, well, I'm not actually in a spaceship because I'm going to mention I'm not in a minute. Yeah, kind of ruins that. But if I hadn't said that, maybe I could have said something different.

It might have been better. So Vinnie went for, so he did two walks. We took him out.

The first walk was just a standard walk and cross the road. He didn't want to go the way, the way that I was going. So he pulled me and then he saw another dog, the side of the road, the other side of the road.

So he crossed over to say hello. Same, same race as him. It was a Jack Russell.

So the same kind of species. And he is the same race is the same. And it was like a bit bigger, though, bit bigger.

16 years old, 16 years. And I started thinking 16. Does that mean I've got him for another 14 years or 15 years, which means I'll be 68 and I'll still be walking him around the field in the park and I'll be an old man.

We'll both be old men. He'll be old. He'll be 120 in his years and I'll be probably 150 in mine, but I'll be 68.

Come on Vinnie. What? I said, come on. What would you say? What? We'll both be probably half deaf, half blind, not knowing what we're doing.

It's going to be a weird scenario. He probably have a walking stick as well. It's just going to be strange.

In fact, I might be in a wheelchair and he'll be the one pushing me. Blimey. What a strange.

I wonder if he'll go grey. You see some old dogs and they are grey, aren't they? They go grey. So I wonder if he'll go grey.

I wonder if in 15 or 16 years time he'll actually start to like me. I wonder. I just had a visitor just now.

Just one of my neighbours knocked on the door. Just have a little chat and he got up to leave and Vinnie was like, no, don't leave me. Don't leave me with him.

Not with him. Don't leave me with the nasty man. Honestly, please begging him not to go.

I give this little dog everything that is possible to give. He gets treated like a king. Well, not like a king.

He doesn't have a crown or a throne. I have a throne, a toilet, but he's treated well. He gets everything he wants, but it's like he doesn't even like me.

So I took him for the first walk of the day and he went. He basically wanted to go a different direction and what I thought is, you know what? Let's go into the field. Let's at least.

Come on then. In you come. I'll take you on a treat.

It's a treat. There you go. Yay.

That's being protective. That's for barking continuously. There you go.

Yeah. Someone downstairs closed their front door and he started barking. Now I had the front door, my living room door opened.

I should have closed it because he hears everything and because I've no TV or music playing, you know, everything's a little bit more accessible to his ear lobes, the sound. So I took him for a walk. I don't know if I took him for two or three walks, but anyway, I took him.

There's one walk that we walked up to the field entrance and I looked into the entrance. It's very muddy and I thought, and then, but there's two entrances. Well, maybe one's an entrance, one's an exit.

Some people probably class them both as entrances. I don't know. I mean, I go into both.

I'm not that fussy, but sometimes I go into one and other times I think of it as an exit. Maybe go into one and around and then back out the other side. They're very close to each other, both the exit and the entrance.

But sometimes I will walk, I'll go into, I mean, it depends because they both kind of lead into the same place. Although one, there's a ditch or a dike between the fields. So if you don't know what a dike is, it's basically, it's a ditch, but that's where the water is collected when it rains and the overflow from the fields, but it also helps to feed the fields as well, if that makes sense.

So like the water level goes down. So it's, there's quite a few of those. So it stops the fields from getting flooded because the water overflows, goes into the dike.

And, but then, and it basically they're in between all the fields, the outline and also in between each field. And they're, they, you know, it works. It's a good, good way of doing things, I think.

I approve. This seems to be quite clever. So, but the other entrance or the other exit, whichever way you want to go, is it wasn't, it didn't look very dry, but Vinnie wanted to go in there anyway.

He said, I'm going. I said, well, you can't really just go without me. He said, I'm going, I'm going in the field.

I said, yeah, but it's might not be, might be too muddy. He said, look, I'm already here. I'm going to the entrance.

You can't tease me like that. If you're going to bring me to the field, then we need to go in the field. Otherwise it's not fair.

I said, yeah, but it's mud. If it's muddy, I don't want to slip over and I could hurt myself. He said, how's that going to affect me? Wow.

He's, it's really is, it's a little bit selfish to be honest. I don't like to, to be rude, but I do, but he's just a bit annoying anyway. So that's kind of what happened.

I followed him a little bit. I thought if it's muddy, muddy, like where, do you know that kind of mud? It wasn't, it was kind of quite flat mud. Although I did slip a couple of times, nearly slipped over.

Well, I don't know if I slipped over, but I slipped. Then I thought I need to keep my back straight. And because sometimes I will walk leaning forward a little bit.

And I think that's a natural thing. If you, if you're top heavy, like I am. So I kind of lean back a little bit and put my weight, you know, make sure that my weight's a bit more evenly distributed onto my feet.

This is turning into some kind of physics exercise. And then, but it was okay. But there's been times in the past when I've walked in the field and it's been so muddy that by the time I get to the other end of the field and all the way around the field and out the other side, I'm about seven foot taller because the mud's just collected underneath my feet.

I'm looking down at the trees that I was looking up to before. I was like, wow, it's quite hard to get the mud off when you're like nine foot in the air, you know, it's difficult anyway. So luckily it wasn't that kind of situation.

The mud was there. It wasn't sticking to my feet. And you might argue, why don't you wear some shoes then? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I just walked and a little bit slippery, but it was fine. When we got in deep into the field, well far enough and I could see there was no one around, I let him off for a little while. He had a little run around, but then he, what did he do? He started making his way into the field itself.

He caught a scent. Like he caught something, I don't know if it was a rabbit or whatever. And he started to bolt into the field, which is very, quite highly grown at the moment.

Well, probably, yeah, probably at least up to my chest, I'd say. So I couldn't even hardly see him, maybe up to my belly button, maybe up to my waist. I don't know.

It was higher than him. I just realized he is quite small. I called him and he was probably about 100 foot away from me, maybe not that far, maybe 20 foot, 30 foot away.

And he did come back and I put him on the lead and he bounced back like you kind of almost, you know, imagine a little horse on a, you know, those horsey courses where they jump over fences. It was a little bit like that. Did greyhounds jump over stuff? I think they might do, you know, I can't remember.

But anyway, that's what he looked like. He looked like a little horse jumping over fences, but it wasn't. It was, he was jumping over the crops, whatever the crops were.

I think that place might be potatoes. I've got no idea. And so I put him back on his lead, you know, in the duration, the duration of us walking to the end of the field, around the corner a bit and then back, he did three poos.

I had three bags of poo to carry. Now, normally, once we get into the field, if he does a poo, he was doing it on the pathway, so I had to pick it up. If he's in the field when he does it, if he's off the lead and he's middle of the field, I just leave it.

Or if he does it in a ditch, I leave it because it's good for the soil, I guess. Yeah, it is. I mean, it's, there's lots of, it's on top of the soil, but, you know, generally it's, that stuff breaks down and it is, it's good for the soil.

But, and they, they use manure, don't they, in the soil and stuff. So the food we eat pretty much is created by poo. Ironic really, isn't it? Because it's a full circle and not the poo, you know, the, you know, you grow it, you poo, poo goes on the ground and then it's turned into food and then it's given to, it's given to the animal and then does a poo and it's going, it's just round and round and round.

So, so we did that. So that was nice. Yeah, that was the second walk.

The first walk, I think we just went into the park. The second, the first, the second walk, I think we did that and we came back and on the way back, he was trying to pull again to go into one of the neighbours' flats where one of my, two of my friends live. And he's trying to get in there, like, no, we're not going that way.

And then he sees a van parked outside where we live with a couple of neighbours that he knows as well. So then he starts running towards them. So she, one of them's in the passenger seat.

So she's just talking to Vinnie, hello Vinnie, all that stuff. And she said to me, why don't you meet me in the park later on? She gave me a time and we'll just, you can run around, I said, and with, with her girl, she's got a little girl and Vinnie loves her. So I said, all right, I could do that.

So I went home. This was about midday and I've been working on uploading Sleepy Boring Objects, all the podcasts from there, and like making images and all that stuff. So I've been working on that all day, but I've not got very far.

I've literally done 13 out of about, I don't know how many is 28 or something. But there is four versions of each one. So I'm now about to do 14.

So it's, it's a bit, it takes a while because after everyone has, everything has to be uploaded. And I've already make, I've already got the, the images made for all of them, but I won't add the images until I've completed the uploads. And then once that's done, I will then process it and put the RSS feed, put it into Apple Podcasts, make it live to make the podcast live.

So that's, then there'll be another one done. And there's still descriptions to do and all that stuff, but the main part of it is accomplished. And then, and this, so this is going to take me all the way tomorrow as well.

So because what, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. I mean, yeah, it's, it's 6.47pm. The chances of me doing all 28, because I think I've got 14. So 20, I've only got half done.

So there's going to be quite a few left to do. So I'm still going to be doing this tomorrow. But it'll be done, which is good, you know, and then I can just move on to the next one.

I don't know what the next one's going to be though. I can't really decide. I mean, I want to try and do not because of laziness, but a little bit because of laziness.

I want to do the smaller podcasts first. Because I know that once I start on the ones that have got hundreds of recordings, such as the sleep, relaxing sleep hypnosis daily, which got about 208 recordings, and multiple versions of them. And then there's the relaxing sleep, relax, anxiety, sleep hypnosis one, no, the relax, relaxation.

I don't know. What is it? I can't remember the name of my own podcasts. What's the name of it? Let's have a look.

Hypnosis for stress, anxiety and panic attacks. Okay, so that that one is got 228 episodes. So divide that by four if there's four versions of each one.

And the where is it relaxing sleep hypnosis daily 206 episodes. Okay, so that's four times that. And then you've got stress and pain relief.

Podcast is 47 episodes. So it's four. So I'll do that one next because that's the smaller one out of the three.

And I did sleeping born objects. What's 36 episodes really? No. I don't think there's gonna be 36 episodes.

It doesn't make sense. There is sleepy born objects. I thought there was only 28.

Well, clearly there's not. There's 36. Blimey.

See, this is gonna take a while. I'll probably be doing this all day tomorrow. And then I've got the deep sleep whisper hypnosis podcast.

And there are, according to this 425 episodes without music. So whatever that'll be in, you know, don't know how many I got saved for that one. So you're looking at for a at least well over 1000 on that one.

So this is going to take a blimey weeks. Oh, let me boil your pain away. I should do that actually, because that's only got a few when you've got nine episodes on there.

So nine times for whatever that is. I've done the stop smoking. I've done the bedtime story time.

And I've done the ASMR Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Okay, but then there's a chronic pain hypnosis one. I'd have to check to see which ones because now, as I'm putting these together, I'm only going to use the ones that have decent audio.

So I have pretty much got rid of not got rid of, I've still got them, but I've, you know, made unavailable any of the recordings from the from the past that were not very good audio quality, which is most of them to be honest, you know, anything pretty much before 2014 2015 to, you know, even then before 2018. There was some that weren't very good audio, which is a shame you think all those years, so to say it's like eight years, 10 years even worth of recordings that I can't that I don't use.

Because the audio quality just isn't very good.

So yeah, this is a this is a blimey, there's way too many recordings to go through. It's going to take forever. And once I've done a deep sleep whisper, once I've done all the ones that are on their own, then then I'll have an idea of how things are going, I guess, you know, if things are working or not.

So what I've got so far, I've got 87 plays on my speaker. I'm still getting that's loud, isn't it? I'm still getting downloads. Oh, wait a minute.

This surprised me. So even though I've changed the RSS code, so the direction of the podcasts are not being directed to Spreaker anymore for certain ones. So stop smoking hypnosis is not being directed to Spreaker anymore.

The ASMR let me body sleep is not being directed to them. Jason's bedtime story time is not being directed to them. But they're still getting people listening on Spreaker.

The stop smoking hypnosis podcast, not a lot to be honest, 17 downloads today or 17 plays. But it hasn't been aimed at the Spreaker podcast since yesterday. So yeah, I'm confused, man.

They've been confused. So analytics wise, it's not not been a huge amount today. I don't know.

Not quite sure why that is. As far as for these, so sleepy boring objects. Right, no downloads because I've not I've not released it yet.

Stop smoking has had four analytics. Okay, here we go. Here we go.

Sleep at ASMR Let Me Bore You To Sleep three today. Jason's bedtime story time three. Stop smoking 41 sleepy boring objects none.

So today's been very quiet. Yesterday was a lot, a lot more. So I don't know.

It's in my I've got to check whether or not it's an Apple podcast thing. Because I had a few problems with some of the podcasts. When I change over the RSS feed, and it just doesn't show up, shows up initially and then it stops.

So and that that same happened with a deep sleep whisper podcast. Put it on to Apple podcasts. So on Spreaker and not Spreaker on SoundCloud.

Shared it to Apple podcasts and it was fine to start with and then it just seemed to stop sharing it or a little bit confused if I'm honest with you. Anyway, so we get back to the flat. Vinnie's had a big long walk.

Well, it wasn't a huge long walk. We don't we don't go all the way around the park. But I think he felt lighter because he, you know, he did three poos all on the path.

So I had to pick them up. And if it's in a place where no one's going to walk. Oh, well, if I can't get to it, you know, then I can't pick him up.

But if he's on the lead, it generally does it on the path on the pathway. It's a mud, it's a mud path. It's a mud, it's a mud path.

And trampled down by people, I guess walking. And I was walking towards the, because I just had this conversation with a man who's also got Jack Russell and saying that he's, he's one's about 16 years old. And I just started wondering if I was going to be here.

Here. When I was 68, still living here. And still walking him in the field and and it's weird for the first time.

I mean, first of all, I was walking down the country road thinking I hope the car doesn't come around because this is not a safe place to really to be standing. And but and I was thinking I wish I'd had my shoes. But we're still walking.

And I think, you know, it's not a terrible thing, in some ways. If I am still here, and I've got my little boy with me, and we're going for walks. We're both old men at that time.

And maybe it's not a terrible thing, you know, companionship. He might like me by then. You never know.

You never know. We'll both be grumpy old men. Well, I already am really and I guess but anyone that's listening who's 68 or older.

I'm not calling people 68 old. I'm calling myself old as 68. Just that get that this is saying why I call myself fat.

I don't. I don't make fun of people's appearance, or their age. But I do make fun of myself.

And in a weird way, I think of myself as looking about 90 or 100. And I'm 68 which is strange. There's no reason why I should.

But it'll be I don't know. Who knows, you know, come on, Vinnie. That's enough.

A lot of activity somewhere. You hear a lot of voices. Not a good sign.

Now this he can hear as well. So it's definitely out outside of my head. And I don't know just a lot of people like shouting or very echoey.

Very echoey. So I'm working on the website on the podcasts. I had a little nap.

And then I got up about one o'clock, no two o'clock in the afternoon. So I was about an hour listening to some music, laid down with Vinnie and we had a little sleep, little nap. And I've been out since four.

So it's fine, I think. And okay, it's the fifth nap since four. But you know, let's just move on from that.

Because I did the editing as soon as I woke up. I think it was 10 to four, four o'clock. I come in and I do the editing for the podcast I did yesterday.

So all that stuff. So it took it took an hour from when it wasn't uploaded, but from editing it, processing it. And all that stuff took me about an hour.

So that was good. You know, it's just then I had my breakfast, watched TV for half an hour, an hour, I don't know however long. And by the end of that, the recordings are mainly uploaded.

And then I'd already created an image as well. So that was done on most of them. So you know, so that's pretty much what I'm going to do today as well.

So even though technically, I could upload this because it's it's only seven o'clock, it's not late. But I like having that break from recording to editing. I like having that that time.

So when I first get up in the morning, that's what I do do the editing. And he's always in bed, pretty much when I get up. He's generally still asleep.

And it's cool. So I do that. And it's, it's not that I look forward, look forward to edited blindly.

I'll tell you what, it's a hell of a lot easier now than it used to be. It used to, I used to talk about this actually, a few years back before I got better equipment that recorded a bit clearer than it used to. It would take me pretty much three minutes for every minute of recording.

Three minutes on top. Well, three minutes for every yeah, I'd say three minutes for every week. So there's an hour recording, it's a three hours to edit.

And sometimes it takes so long that the software would just shut down. I'd have to do I'd have to keep saving it every like half an hour, and then reopening it. Otherwise, it shut down.

And it was difficult sometimes. I mean, the occasional time, there was very little editing. I mean, the only editing really I have now is just a few box.

Yeah, there's not a huge amount. I have like a listen through it. But he, the main thing is the processing is the thing that takes the time really editing doesn't take huge amount.

Although when I did that two and a half hour or two minute two hour 40 minute thing on Friday, the I need to post something like that on a Friday q&a. I'm gonna do another one this Friday. Blimey.

Why do I put myself through it? It's hard work. I don't think future q&a Fridays are going to be that long. Because that was too.

I was Yeah, that's quite a long. I remember my throat was so dry at the end of it, even though I had water. It was too much talking.

So I'll put a notice on Facebook on my Facebook page. The group rather, which is Jason Newland's boring group, please join. And it's the best place to contact me.

And that's where I post my stuff. So I used to take me ages to edit. I mean, give you an example.

How many days did I spend? I think is it 14 days? Putting together my stop smoking course was a four week stop smoking course. Back in I did this in 2009. I think I bought equipment and everything and it was I'm not gonna say it was top of the range.

But it was, you know, more decent than what I'd been using. And the thing that took longest time was the editing. And because I wanted that to be well in my mind as perfect as possible.

I was really spending 10 minutes per minute editing, just in the amount of time it took me. And then redoing little bits, redoing a word here and there like it's just took forever. And the ironic thing, it's not really ironic.

But all four recordings could fit in about one and a half hours into one recording, one and a half. It took me 14 days to make an hour and a half recording. I mean, I think I even went through the process of writing out what I was going to say.

And just all that stuff. So I put more effort into that than probably ever put into anything that I've done. Regarding like recordings.

I mean, there's no no other time if I devoted 14 days to just one thing. No, apart from that, there was that when I first got internet. When I first discovered internet, I was in my bedroom for about three weeks.

But hey, that's a different story. So it was trying to listen to see what I can hear. Something going on in the garden, not my garden.

Sounds like a garden a long way away. Long, long time ago. I can still remember when the music used to make me smile.

Oh, yeah. So when we went out again, I took him to the park. And my neighbor hadn't turned up yet.

So we just walking around just have a little, just a little little just slow walk. And then another person that another dog owner came, and she let her dog off and Vinnie. Vinnie likes him a lot.

So they played with each other for a bit. And then we headed up to the to him off of a friend was where she was collecting her kid. And then we came into the into the park.

And Vinnie was running around. So I was sitting down talking to my neighbor, and we're just chatting and stuff. And she had one of her friends with her.

And then he was off the lead running around. At times he was on the lead with her daughter. And then I said, Well, I'll just let him off the lead.

And he's having the time of his life. And I just took, I kind of just left him to it. And he, you know, he was all the kids and he was having fun.

Obviously, I wouldn't do that if I was just in the park on my own. Of course, but I was, because I was with one of the mothers, and they all know her. And they know her daughter.

And I just basically, I left her daughter in charge of Vinnie. So Vinnie just was playing with her and then playing with all her friends and stuff. And we was there probably about an hour.

We're just chatting and stuff. And it's a nice day. It was sunny, bit cloudy.

I still have my jacket on. I realized I'm gonna have to do something because I need to get a new jacket. I haven't got a light jacket.

I've just got my rain jacket that I wear. I wear during the winter. It looks like I'm about to drive a forklift truck or something.

So I need to sort that out. I don't quite know how, but I will sort it out. And because you can't, okay, there's one thing I walk around a tracksuit top.

But what if it rains? It's sometimes nice to have a like a midway jacket, isn't it? For spring and for autumn, when it's, it's not necessarily warm enough to be not wearing a jacket or especially in this country, the weather changes quite quickly at times. See, we have four seasons in this country. Some might say, well, we have four seasons everywhere.

No, not every country has four seasons. I think I might be wrong. We sometimes have four seasons in one day, it feels like.

Have you stopped yet? Have you stopped barking now? Look, it's just people slamming the door. They don't have to slam the door. So if you bark when people slam the doors, then that's tough on them.

They haven't got to slam the door, have they? No. I know we slam the door sometimes, but it's an accident. Well, he just started barking again then.

Someone slammed the door downstairs. And I try and get to be quiet. Then I think, you know what, if someone slams the door, they let the door slam, he's going to bark.

It's just the way it is. It's not very little I can do about that. And they don't have to let the door slam.

It's up to them. They choose to let it slam and it slams very little. It shakes the building sometimes.

They're very heavy doors. I'm not bothered about them slamming, to be honest, I don't care anymore. But it does affect him.

It gets him agitated or excited or something. I don't know. So he barks.

But I thought I'm just having a moan now. I'll stop. So I was so nice.

My neighbor downstairs on Saturday, I might have mentioned this. I thought I heard her cat outside because it escaped at least once. And because it's a house cat and it got out and she was looking for him or her, I think it was a boy.

Anyway, on Saturday, I think it was. I was making a recording and I'd called her and she didn't answer the phone. I was just going to say, I think your cat might be outside.

Didn't answer. So I just left it. And I made my recording doing a podcast.

I didn't realize she'd phoned me twice, but I didn't answer because I had it on mute. So there's a knock on the door. Vinnie's going like this on the door.

That's his sounds like hectic, but he's like putting him just being calm. Hey, dad, why don't you go and answer that door, man? But to me, it sounds like he's like really super, super excited. So he, don't you bark it.

Keep it quiet, mate. Keep it calm, please. He knows I'm talking about him, don't you? You know I'm talking about you, don't you? Yes, you do.

I can tell. I can tell from your eyes. Anyway, so there's a knock at the door and it's pitch black outside.

So I couldn't see who it was. So I shouted, who is it? She said, it's me, your neighbor from downstairs. She doesn't sound like that.

I don't know. I got to stop the voices. No, I'm not going to stop.

Anyway, so like, who's me? And then she said her name. Oh, okay. So I opened the door and I said, come in because I couldn't see her because it was dark out there.

So she came in and I didn't say come in, can come in if you want. I didn't like command her, get in here this instant. And she said, are you okay? I said, yeah.

And the reason she knocked is because she was concerned about me because she'd missed a phone call from me. And then she tried to call me back twice and she was worried. It's so nice, isn't it? So I said, no, fine.

It's so nice. When she, she went and I carried on the podcast, but, and then it dawned on me, she's 19 years old. To her, I'm an old man.

To her, I'm probably like a pensioner. Like, like in through her eyes, it's like me looking at an 80 year old, an 85 year old, 83 year old. And she's looking at me, a 53 year old, 30 odd years older than her.

And that's what she's seeing. She's seeing a really old person through young eyes, through her young eyes. It's like, wow.

And I don't really see myself like that. And that's a look in the mirror. It's just like, wow.

Wow. She's concerned that I'm okay. Worried that I might have fallen over or something.

I might, I've done me hipping. Wow. I can't believe I'm in that category now.

I'm in a category where people are thinking of me as elderly. And it's, yeah, it kind of like, wow. I started barking again.

What was I talking about? I don't know, some door slamming contest going on downstairs. What was I saying? Oh yeah. So that was really nice of my neighbor, wasn't it? Just to check up on me.

And that's what I do with my neighbor opposite to me. He's about 80. And I check up on him.

Like, wow. So I was taking him, I'm in the park with Vinnie. He's just off doing his own thing.

I'm talking to my neighbor and her friend. And then one of them says, where's Vinnie? I look around. I can't see him anywhere.

All the kids are just playing on their own. He's nowhere to be seen. So I stand up because I felt that was the right thing to do.

And I'm looking and I call him, I call his name. And he comes running. I don't know where he was.

Generally don't know where he was. He came, I don't know if he'd left the park. I hope he hadn't.

But it looked like he came from the bushes. More like behind, like still in the park. But he came running.

I was like, wow. So I put him on his lead. So I'm sitting there.

And then my neighbor hands me the end of the lead. She's let him off the lead for some reason. And now he's harassing a couple of people sitting on the grass, watching the football being played.

I was like, I just got him back on. It took me a lot of hassle to get him back on the lead. And they just let him off.

Really? But I tell you what, I was for a little while, I was like shook. Because like, oh no, there's someone taking him. It's like, where is he? But he came back.

I was so pleased to see him. But what I'm surprised is when we got back, we got home and everything. He's not tired.

Come on, mate. Stop barking. We're ending the recording now.

Okay, good boy. No barking. I was just surprised he wasn't tired.

He hasn't slept or anything since we got back. Maybe a little bit, but other than that. So that's it.

That is it. I'm gonna go. So thank you for listening.

Remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy. Be gentle with yourself. Lots of love.

Bye. You can bark now. We're finished.

Oh, now you don't want to bark. Now you don't want to bark, eh? Now that we've finished the recording, no barking. What are you sniffing my knee for? You're such a woolly.

You're such a woolly head.