(no music) #1212 - Boring objects-ish - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (12th October 2024) (2)

Hello and welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name's Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

This is Boring Objects. Boring Objects on a Saturday. Yes, on a Saturday.

I didn't do it on a Monday like I would normally, but I will still also do another one on Monday. So I'm going to do a Saturday's Boring Objects because there's no reason really to be honest. Although I do need some more subjects.

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And so these recordings, I started, I like to give myself more work for some reason. Yesterday's recording, I did six versions. Not sure if I'm going to do six versions again, but I might well do.

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Let's get on with the recording. So I did ask, I did a like a poll a few weeks ago, asking which ones you found most interesting, or which ones you'd like me to do recording from. I think it's just come up to me.

So I've got the door closed, well, pretty much closed. I've got the window open, got to have one or the other because the air needs to circulate. Otherwise, it gets too stuffy in here.

And so hopefully, you won't be hearing anything that's happening within the building so much. And because it's sort of semi raining on and off, there possibly won't be too much going on outside either. Although I've just heard something in the hallway.

Sounds like someone's banging against all the the staircase. So I don't know what that is. I've got my camera anyway.

So that comes on if anyone people don't knock on the door anymore, they press the buzzer on the camera, got one of those camera doorbells. Had it since December, I think. No, January, had it since January.

But I don't, I took it off for a while and I'll put it back on again. Because I had those toilet rolls got stolen. The thing is, do anything.

But the two things I will not put up with is someone not returning my umbrella and having my toilet roll stolen. That who who'd have thought that was the line not to cross? Hey, who'd have thunk it? Don't steal my poo wipes. It's just don't do it.

It's important stuff. We need that. It's not it's not.

I don't buy it because it's fun. I don't. I don't you know, it's not it's not like a hobby.

It's not. Anyway, so Wellington boots. Now, I'll be honest with you, I'm not sure if I've even talked about Wellington boots before.

If I have, I'm going to do it again. And that will happen. I will occasionally.

You know, do the same stuff, talk about the same thing, which is I guess I do anyway. I talk about Fiddy a lot and I talk about I will be. I'm guessing.

Because of my my focus is starting to be given towards the degree course I'm doing that I will be starting to probably include some of that stuff that I am learning. I learned something really interesting. I got to tell you, sorry.

I found this very interesting. Did you know that children have rights? Did you know that? They have rights, like in law. Like is international law that a lot of countries abide by.

America doesn't. For some reason, America doesn't recognize that law. But this country does.

And I don't want to say too much because I know how people get angry about it. But the this. Because you know how legal, how law site kind of they always like quote a previous court case.

So if there's a landmark court case and let's say the. The person wins the case, then it's almost opens up for other people to also in a very, very similar situation to. Also sue and win.

Well, this a mother went to court to basically get the court to tell this is in this country, my country, the UK of England, Commonwealth, Britain. Used to say Europe, but can't say that anymore. Because we're not in Europe anymore.

No. And so we used to. Yeah, OK, so she took her doctor to court, a family doctor, because the family doctor was seeing her 16 year old.

No, no, I think she was even under 16, but seeing a child daughter. And given her contraception. Without telling the parent.

Just as I thought I was going to be able to have a peaceful recording, then he starts barking. I can't even I can't even explain the pleasure of doing a recording without him barking. Because the editing is easy.

I mean, easy, literally. Yesterday's recording. All I had to do is find the beginning, but, you know, take off the beginning bit where I'm getting ready or whatever.

Phasing. Go to the end, cut off that bit phase out. You know, adjust the volume, just check through any spikes to see if anything needs to be done, you know, just to because I can't always remember whether or not he's barked or if I've had to, you know, clap my hands, which is what I do when he's been barking to be able to mark it on the recording so I can see that the big spike on the recording.

And if he hasn't, like yesterday, he hadn't barked or the whole time, he made a few sounds which were cute. The recording was edited. Really quickly, really quickly.

I still go through it a bit, you know, I still want to kind of see, make sure all the bits are okay, but it's a lot quicker. And the rest of the time is just taken with uploading, which is quite time consuming and, you know, making an image and whatever. But the editing part, which is the part I don't, I don't always look forward to, to be honest, especially if he's been barking a lot.

But today, he just started and he's really listening. He's almost, I've closed the window. I told him to get out of the living room, but he wouldn't.

So he stayed in there with me. But he's listening, his ears, all he's doing now, I can see it. He's listening for something to bark at.

I've got my little dog whistle thing here. And the app on my phone, so I can press that, which will hopefully stop him from barking. But it's not even a case of the, he's going to stop eventually anyway.

But don't look at me like that. What's wrong with just having a little cuddle? The thing is, right? If I'm not making a recording and he starts barking, I let him have a little bark. Provided it's not early hours of the morning, or late at night, I let him have a little bark.

I don't let him carry on for ages, but let him have a little bark and then say that's enough now. If someone knocks on the door, he barks, and that's normal. I don't, don't give me any hassle for that.

Just like, yeah, cool. Good boy. Because you are a boy, aren't you? Yes, you are.

Your tail's going. Yeah. You're a good boy.

So that's kind of what, that's his job, isn't it? He's, he's here. He's protecting me and he's, you know, he's lovely. So he does get an opportunity to bark.

It's not like I'm kind of stopping him from being himself. It's just when I'm making a recording and I could put him in the bedroom and just leave him in there every time I did a recording. But I like him being here with me.

I like him, to me, he is my co-presenter of this recording. He's doing it with me. He's part of this.

Just like Andre used to be part of it. It's, yeah, maybe it's a weird thing to say, but it's how I feel. So I like cuddling him when I'm doing the recording because it feels nice.

I remember something my friend downstairs used to say to me. I said, I need to go and, I need to go upstairs. Yeah.

And he said, if there was someone else in the flat with him and, you know, they'd be, it used to get a little bit uncomfortable at times. And I just say, I'm going to go upstairs. And Luke would walk to the door.

He said, you want to go and, you want to go and give Andre a cuddle? Because you're stressed. And I said, yeah. He, I didn't even tell him that, but he figured, he sussed it out.

That Andre was my kind of stress reliever. See, I'd come up here, I'd give him a big cuddle and I'd de-stress, you know, I'd feel, I'd feel better. I'd be away from, it might just be like a bit of verbal hostility going on or a lot of negativity.

A lot of that used to go on. And I would just remove myself from the situation and cuddle my little boy and I felt better. And it's a kind of a similar thing here, I guess.

I'm cuddling my little boy, cuddling Vinnie. He's cuddling me. And once he's in this mode, he doesn't seem to care about anything else.

Because there is sounds going on downstairs and he loves, he loves the girl downstairs who lives there. Absolutely, he adores her, honestly. And he, if he hears, he barks when he hears her coming and she shouts hello to him and he tries to get into her flat every opportunity he can.

He's always sniffing at the door. He's sniffing her pussy because she's got a ginger cat, ginger pussy cat. And it's, she's, his name's Arthur.

And she, he, I don't know what he wants to do with her pussy. I don't know if he wants to play with it or if he wants to eat it or he I don't know. Because he's, he barks, but is he being aggressive? Does he want to attack the cat or does he want to, does he want to just run around like he does with dogs and just play with it like the way he does with little dogs?

I don't know.

I sometimes thinks he thinks he is a pussy cat because he's so little himself, isn't he? So yeah, I don't know. Although a neighbor's pussy absolutely petrifies him. He went around there and the problem is this is like a few months ago in, during the summer.

Summer was a long time ago now. Now during the summer, he went around there when he was in the garden and he just wandered off. Now they've got a pussy cat, but she was pregnant and he went a bit too close and I think she might have swiped him.

Whatever she did, it was no physical injuries to him, but he was very upset and he was hiding underneath a tree shivering and scared. So I had to like coax him out and pick him up and I don't know really what happened, but they had a little punch up and the cat won. Ever since then, the cat has bullied him.

Like honestly the cat comes, I went in there the other day, cat was on the roof. No reason to come down, but when as soon as, as soon as she saw him, as soon as the pussy saw him, he came down and started tormenting him. Like really just trying to push him around and like hissing at him.

And he just, he got so scared, absolutely scared. And he was, he made sounds I've never heard him made before. And I picked him up to like try and console him in that.

And I thought, well, I'll take him to the bottom of the garden just to get him away, just to give him a little bit of space. And he didn't, and he was making the weirdest sounds. He didn't want me holding him.

He wanted to go back, but he didn't want to be there. It's very strange. And I went there recently and he wouldn't even walk up the driveway.

Refused to walk up the driveway because he's so, I think the cat is his enemy. Like he likes pussies, but I think that particular pussy is not his cup of tea as it were. So yeah, it's weird.

Maybe the reason he won't like the one downstairs, because she's a ginger pussy and he's ginger, isn't he? He's like, he's red, red. He's ginger, isn't he? Red head, little, uh, Jack Russell. You know, I just realized that it won't be long before I start hearing the train.

This is a, what was it? It's like a farm shop thing with a restaurant and they have this train that goes around. They have it during the summer, but they have it especially at winter, like the weekends leading up to Christmas and especially during the Christmas holidays. Why anyone would want to be going on a really slow train in the cold, I don't know.

Although I did a train like that journey and it went up Mount, not Everest. What's the one in Wales? Mount Snowdonia. We went up there at least twice, once by train and then once we walked.

It's pretty much a path. We might have done it three times and went up in like the more rugged way, but I think it was, yeah, I think we went up, we might have walked up it twice and went up by train once because Wales was kind of the holiday destination when I was a kid. We used to go there and go camping and it's a beautiful place.

The places we went to was lovely, really lovely and the beaches were amazing and yeah, it was just really cool, the whole thing, I mean the area and that. So what was I going to do? Yeah, so Wellington Boots, that's what I was going to talk about. This is the boring objects.

I forgot I had a reason for doing this. There's music downstairs now and it's a little bit distracting, just a little bit, probably because I'm thinking he's going to start and I don't want him to start and hopefully he won't start and he'll be quiet just for a little while. And today, boxing, boxing, boxing, boxing, because it's now 17 past 12 in the afternoon and I think the boxing starts three or four o'clock.

I'm not sure exactly, I need to check. So that'll be an interesting in afternoon and evening. And what I will probably do, if I stop yawning, is once I've recorded this, I might just edit it and do what I did yesterday, just upload everything and then it'll be done, done, done, done, done.

And then tomorrow is Sunday papers. Yeah, so this is officially Monday's boring objects, but on a Saturday. So Wellington Boots, did I talk about Wellington Boots? I don't know, because I do talk about the same subject sometimes.

And I was just thinking, even with the questions, the Q&A Friday, I'll might have the same question, but I'll answer it differently. So even if I did a boring objects on, as for example, say for example, hair, which I think I have in the past, it's going to be a different recording each time. I'm just trying to think if there's anything a bit more interesting than Wellington Boots.

I know it's supposed to be boring, but I find something that interests me usually bores other people. That's what I find. Oh, yeah, this woman, so the woman, she went to court and got found a gangster.

So the law, I think it was 1989, an international law said that the doctor does not have to contact a parent about things like that. I'm not sure what the age limit is on that. It might be because the age limit for doing whoopee in this country is 16.

So maybe I don't know if it's younger than that for contraception. I don't know. But anyway, I don't know the full story.

But yeah, it must be weird to have kids and thought, you know, doctors can prescribe. You know, it's weird. I don't think I even went into the doctors without my stepmom.

I think she came into the doctors with me until I was about 15. Is that normal? I don't know. I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure she did.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure she did. I don't I don't think I ever went into the doctors without her. I'll tell you why.

Because I remember the last time I went to the doctors was because I was having headaches. No, I was having headaches. And then I was having I had problems with my feet.

Yeah, so I had I was having headaches. And I strain and that's what the doctor said. So she was with me.

And I was I was 15. She came into doctors with me. And I had to I got sent to the opticians.

And the reason I was getting headaches is because I needed glasses. So yeah, she came to the yeah, she came with me. So I was 15.

And the other thing, the my toes were hurting. And they said was because of the karate. I said, What do you mean because of the karate? Since you're using your toes, you're doing unnatural acts.

With your toes, I said, really not. And she said, he said, No, no, but it's, it's not normal. Most people don't spend so much time on their toes.

And she's basically said, the doctor said, you've got a thing called ballerina toes. I said, No, I don't do ballerina. And she says, she said, No, it's basically is what ballerinas get.

Because I spend so much time on the toes, it's unnatural to be standing like that. And because you're, you're doing that you spend a lot of time moving around. I mean, I wasn't balancing on my toes like a ballet person.

But I was, you know, I was a lot of bouncing around and kicking and stuff. So yeah, so there's there's nothing you can do other than stop doing karate. So I thought, Okay, never mind.

So I mean, a lot, it might have been growing pains, still growing at that point. And maybe I was overusing. No, because if I was, not every part of me that was being used a lot was aching.

So yeah, I guess, I don't know my toes. I don't know. It's weird.

I mean, they probably were getting bashed quite a bit, you know, but people doing a sparring and getting blocked. And yeah, maybe I don't know. But the point is, my stepmom was in in there with me.

She was the doctor. No, she wasn't. She was in there with me.

So maybe that's not the way things are now. Maybe that's not the way things were then. Maybe it was weird.

And luckily, I never had to have any. I don't think I went to a doctor for anything particularly sensitive when I was a kid. Now there was one thing but I was early teens, maybe 12, 13, 12, 11, 10, 11, 12.

I'm not sure if I went to a doctor for that. Yeah. Anyway, I'm not gonna talk about that because that's that's a little bit embarrassing, really.

Okay, here's what I used to do. No, I don't. No, I'm not gonna tell you.

No, I want to tell you but it doesn't really fit in with the therapeutic the healing part of the recording. I don't know. It's just a silly thing that I used to do when I was young and I kind of caused myself a bit of problems.

It's got an infection. That's all. Now you you really want to know now don't you? I know you do.

I'm not going to tell you. And nothing. Okay, it's probably a bit weird, but nothing like weird, weird, just a bit.

Anyway, so yeah, Wellington Boots. I haven't worn Wellington Boots since I was probably the last time would have been oh yeah the last time I wore Wellington Boots was the 90s. Just remembered.

The 90s. Now, I grew up in the 70s and Wellington Boots were the norm. I mean, we'd wear them in bed, you know, it's just everywhere you went.

You go to if you get any photographs from the 70s of weddings, you see them all wearing Wellington Boots. You know, wedding dress, Wellington Boots, it's just, it's a complete lie. But they were popular.

And a lot of people were wearing them. And they weren't even really. I mean, I've never been particularly fashion conscious myself anyway.

But they weren't like the opposite to fashionable. I'm not sure they've ever been fashionable, fashionable, but they were useful. It was one of those things that they were useful.

I mean, it's nothing fashionable about try to think like a stapler, but it's useful, isn't it? Sellotape is useful. It's not fashionable. An umbrella, not fashionable.

But it's useful. At least it used to be when I had one. Toilet paper.

So I can't once I think about one, I have to think about the other. It's not fashionable, but it's useful, very useful. So Wellington Boots was something that everyone, not everyone, but a lot of people seem to use, especially in the winter, or when it was raining, and also in the garden.

And, you know, just those kind of situations. And I don't remember ever wearing Wellington Boots until I moved in with my dad and my step mum. My first step mum.

I don't recall ever wearing Wellington Boots before then. I might have done, I just don't remember. But we definitely did then.

It was a family tradition, I think. We all had Wellington Boots. And I'm just trying to think of the ones I had, I'm sure I had a pair of red ones, which is, isn't that what Paddington has? Does Paddington Bear have red ones or yellow ones? Now, they were good for, I mean, good for keeping your feet dry.

And that's a useful thing. It's, and I don't think there's anything fashionable about having wet feet. Personally, what's the point of looking good if you, if you like, you know, comfort is definitely worth something.

I prefer comfort over, I don't know, I would quite like, I'd love to have been fashionable. I just never really had any interest in fashion. And I still don't.

I mean, there have been occasions when I've become smart. When I've like, I dressed smartly. There's been a few times in my life when I have.

And when I do, I do feel better. I do. I feel probably more confident, maybe.

I feel, yeah, it just feels nicer to be dressed nice. I mean, nowadays, I wear the same things all the time. I've got about eight pairs of tracksuit bottoms.

Blue, dark blue. And I've got t shirts and tops and they're just all the same stuff, really. Still haven't worn any socks since, I think, January.

But I'm gonna, I may start to look against to wearing some socks. Because I've actually, I've got some boots, really good boots. They're not Wellington boots.

They're more like hiking boots. But I got them a few years ago. Probably, I'm probably had them out four years.

But they're really good. They're the kind of boots that if you look after them, they possibly will last a long, long time. And because I've hardly worn them at all, they're not even scuffed.

They're not dirty. They're nothing. I've just worn them a handful of times.

And I've never, I did actually know, that's not totally true. I was wearing them, I really started wearing them properly. When I got this little one here.

And I'm pointing to Vinnie by the way. Don't be rude. I, I took him into the fields and it was a, you know, it was snowing.

So I got him on the Saturday. And I'm pretty sure it started snowing like on the Sunday. And then by the Wednesday, all the snow had gone.

Wednesday or Thursday, that's when I went, fell, fell down the stairs, slipped. But I, I took him out in the snow and I was wearing the boots in the snow. And they were perfect for that.

They, they were crunching right into the ice. They weren't, I'm not saying that it was no slip because ice is ice, isn't it? And it didn't have nails in the bottom of them or anything like that. But they did, they're quite a good grip and they are more for mountaineering or, I don't know, maybe more hill climbing than mountaineering maybe.

But they are a good, really sturdy. They haven't got steel toe caps, but it feels like they have got steel toe caps. It's like really solid toe caps.

So I could, could kick a wall and not hurt myself. Why would I want to kick a wall? I don't know. I'm just saying, as an example, I could kick a wall and not hurt myself.

I might hurt my knee though. Because the shock of it. I don't know.

I've never kicked, I mean, last time I kicked a wall I was in bed. Did I tell you I kicked a wall twice? Both times I was asleep and it's all happened since January. The first time I broke my toe really, oh man, that's why I have to stop wearing socks because I couldn't get them on.

And that took quite a while to heal. And then I did it again. But luckily, the second time, I think I might have had the duvet on top to kind of protect my foot.

So all it was was just a, ow, woke up. Oh no, not done it again. And just thinking, okay.

But the initial like, pain just subsided. And I thought, and it was a little bit bruised, but that was it wasn't really a big issue. The one in January, wow.

Wow. I haven't seen colors like that for a long time. It was a mess.

So that's enough about my portrait picture. I, oh, I've not got the DNA test back yet, but I'm looking forward to that. You know, I've got a friend who said that she didn't get a DNA test done for herself.

She just got both her parents done. And then she said she didn't need to do one herself. Because the DNA was, because we're 50% DNA from both the parent and the mother, mother and the father only.

So she said, well, I know what I am. But you still don't know what predominantly you are though, do you? What genes have been a predominant thing? And I said, well, she said, well, I know what I am, just generally. I said, yeah, but what, what if your mum or if you got, you know, a different dad and you didn't realize? Probably not the best thing to say considering my mum was in the back of the car listening on loudspeaker.

But I just, it's so, I just think it's, it's that whole thing is like, if you're going to do something, do it properly. If you're going to do a DNA test, yeah, you do it on both your parents. I can understand like the concept of, you just look at theirs and you can get your own, but no, do your own.

Find out what kind of percentage, because I think her dad was a Greek or something. A high percentage of Greek, which they didn't know. And, but she might be more percentage of a mum who was Chinese or something.

So she might be sort of more that way. So I don't know. It'd be interesting for her, not for me, for her, be, I think it would be interesting, but see, I don't have that luxury.

I can't, first of all, my dad wouldn't do it anyway. And I don't have the other one to ask. So it's one of those kind of just got to do it myself.

So it'd be, I'm just, I'm thinking it's quite, it'd be interesting. I was also thinking it'd be nice to do some kind of other tests and maybe IQ tests. I guess I can do that online anyway and just go through it, but I don't know, I think IQ tests, it seems to be so much based on mathematical ability along the way.

And my mathematical knowledge is at this point, not possibly at the same level as another person of a similar age as myself. I just, I would say I'm probably, mathematical age would be about 10 years old. Seriously, my mathematical ability, I can do basic stuff, basic fractions.

I can do, I can work out the times table, the 10 times table. I mean, once you go higher, that's, so I can do, I can work out any times, like six times, nine, four times, three, whatever, I can do it. Some are easier than others.

In a way, nine is quite easy, even though it's this, you'd think that'd be the hardest one, because all you do is just take one off, don't you? So eight times nine, where it's 80, take off nine, so 71. And so it's kind of, yeah, that is easy. But when it comes to fractions, I understand the basic fractions and percentages, just the basics, but long division, and algebra, and so on and so forth, you know, just, it's not like it's ever really being required either.

I mean, there's some things that I've learned, because I've needed to learn. And one of the things was conversions. So when I was doing sales, I had to convert, get the conversion of how many calls to how many sales, and then how many, how many quotes to how many sales.

So I give it my percentage, my conversion, conversion, my sales conversion, or my call to quote, you know, things like that. So I kind of learned my way around that by doing it every day. But I did, yeah.

So to have that as part of the IQ test, because for me, the IQ test, my understanding is it's not about memory. It's not about what you know. It's about how your brain works.

It's about if your brain is, I guess, to me, it'd be your brain's ability to learn, to learn new ways of doing things. And when I did do the last time I did an IQ test, I think I came up just above average, you know, pretty much average, just slightly, slightly marginally above, let's say average. And that wouldn't be ideal for a lot of people.

I'm just guessing, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people would not be happy with average. But me, for most of my life, personally, my belief, he's sighing, why are you sighing? My belief was that I was very, very below, very, very low intelligence, based on what I was told, based on my academic non-prowess during my school years, based upon being taken out of my maths class and put into a special needs class.

It would be classed as now.

Back then, it was just classed as the Dunce's class. So I was taken out of my, I was, it's weird, because I was average. I was just in the kind of average kind of classroom.

So I was put in all the other classes, you know, English, History, Religious Education, Geography, Science, Metalwork, you know, whatever, all the different classes I did, including maths, was all kind of average. I wasn't in the lowest class, because they had a thing called Osprey. So I was a top, Y was the bottom, and I was R. So I was just P and R were kind of both equalish.

O was top, S was second top, P, I guess P was above R, but they were kind of, kind of evenish, you know, or R was just below P, but in the alphabet, but then you've got E and Y, E and Y were the lowest, Y was the lowest, according to the teachers, that's what they said. So this is not my idea. This is what we were told.

Not a good system. I'll be honest, I don't think. So all the really clever kids when, I mean, well, actually, it's not true at all, because, you know, supposedly all the intelligent kids were in O. So they'd be in that class.

So there was O, S, P, R, E, Y, six different classes in my year. And they'd all be treated differently. Now I was in, what happened, I think, is the people that were in the middle, it's almost like the teachers were uncertain at that point.

We'd started high school, they didn't know. It's like they weren't sure. Or maybe we weren't all at the top of every lesson or every subject.

So they put people in the middle. And then after that, they started moving people. So I had the, a few of the kids that were in the first year with me, moved up to O. Because they were, to be fair, it was two very intelligent, like intellectuals, and I got on really well with them.

Yeah, I got on really well with them. Blimey. Wow.

So one was, he, God, I forgot I used to play with him outside of school. I forgot all about this. So there was these two, they were intelligent.

I mean, proper, I don't know how to explain it, but they were very clever, really clever kids. And I used to hang out with them outside of school. And we had a little detective agency.

And this sounds like I'm making it up now, but it's true. We didn't really do anything, but it was a detective agency. And one of my friends, we used to go around his house.

And the other one, he used to come around as well. And we used to go around and we'd have these guns. They weren't real guns.

And we'd go around shooting each other and stuff and run around the streets. And that was, it was a lot of fun. And he moved away.

His whole family were musicians. And I think he played the violin. But in the house, it was a big, big old house, similar to the one I was living in, actually.

And it was only around the corner from where I lived. And he had this, the whole front room was just violins and cellos and a piano and I don't know if his parents were music teachers or musicians. I can't remember.

But the whole family was musical. And I remember the going in there and talking to my friend and at one point him say, say to his mum, can you stop playing that thing, please? Stop, put the piano down, please. Will you just stop? I'm trying to talk to your son here.

Apparently that was rude. I shouldn't have said that. The thing is, he literally was holding the piano up with one hand.

She was very strong. Don't mess with someone that can hold a piano up with one hand. That was something I learned.

So she chucked the piano at me. It's only then that I realised that I thought it was like a really, really big room. But it wasn't.

It was a really small room and the piano was really tiny. I was, my spatial awareness was a bit off back then. Anyway, we went upstairs.

I don't know if it's, if my, I think there's only one person, there's only me and the person who, who lived in the house were there on this occasion. And we went upstairs. He said, I've got some bad news for you.

I said, what? They're not taking Dr. Who off the air, are they? He said, no, no. I don't know about that. I said, what about the A team? He said, no.

He said, why would they take the A team off? I said, I don't know. I think BA, I think he's going to suss out eventually that they keep drugging him to get him onto planes. And if he stops that, he won't be able to get on a plane.

They won't be able to go to where they need to do, have the adventure and the whole show will go to pot. And he said, no, that's not the reason. And he said, it's about the detective agency.

I said, okay. And he had an office, literally his bedroom was an office. He had all this as a desk.

Honestly, it was brilliant. It was so good. And he said, I'm moving.

I said, what? He said, yeah, I'm moving. I said, what about your parents? He said, no, they're coming with me. They're the ones and I'm going with them.

I said, why? He said, I've got no choice. I think he's, I don't remember why it might have been. I think it's either his dad had to move because of the job he had, or his mum wanted him away from me.

I'm not sure which one it was. But yeah, I was so sad because he was a friend. And for some reason, they accepted me, him and the other bloke, the other kid, they accepted me, even though I wasn't on their level of intelligence.

Because the people I normally would get on with was the, you could say the ruffians. But I was able to get on with both sides. So it was those.

Yeah, because basically with the mathematics class, I had a teacher called Mr. Johnson. And this is the first year of high school. And he was the only maths teacher I ever had that took notice and listened to me and tried to explain how to do it, how to do the job.

And yeah, it was, he, I think he was only there for the first term. And then he, he left, he was ill, arrested. I don't know.

I think he, I think he was ill. And he, I used to see him in town sometimes. And he had this big beard and big long hair.

And he was sitting there on the bench in town, can of special brew. And I just, he was so lovely. And because he was kind and gentle during the maths lesson, I mean, he, I kind of, I don't know, I became, I wasn't interested in maths, still didn't make me interested in it.

But it made me less scared of it. If you know what I mean? I was a little, I was, I was no longer scared of those numbers on the page. But after that, I was taken out of the class and put into the Dunces' class, which they didn't officially call it the Dunces' class, but everyone else did.

And I was in there with a lot of the kids who were either uncontrollable, or I suppose would be classed as anti-social maybe. Now, back then, maybe they now would just be special needs, which having special needs, that is not a negative thing. Just sometimes just a little bit of help to get you back, get you to where you need to be maybe, you know.

But I was, if I'd have been born, if I'd have been at high school now, I'd have been in, I'd have been under special needs based on how I was when I was a kid. And I suppose I knew that. I knew what was going on.

I was aware that I wasn't at the same level as the other kids. And also, because I was the youngest, I wasn't even physically or mentally really up to date with them, because some of them were like a year, nearly a year older than me. So they had a year's extra growth, a year's extra experience.

Their brain was a year more advanced than mine was. So, yeah, it was weird. But what it did do is it gave me an opportunity to meet and make friends with people that I might not have made friends with.

And so I had friends, because we were just basically left in this big classroom on our own to do whatever we wanted for a couple of hours. And it was like once or twice a week. That was it.

It just like, there was, there didn't seem any, any reason or any point to it. And eventually, I think the, the teachers sussed that out because we were enjoying ourselves in there, because there was games and we used to get married and stuff. And I think in the second year, they brought us back into normal classes and just made us sit in the class.

And if we didn't do anything, they just left us alone. And those that were disruptive would be put in detention or just get away with it, be ignored. I was more the ignored disruptor.

So I was, I used to be disruptive in maths, because a different teacher and we didn't get on. Me and her were not best friends. And so yeah, we used to, I used to be disrupted in that lesson.

English, I can't hardly even remember English after the first year. First year. Yeah, because the first year was when I was actually excited about going to high school.

I was going to make a go of it. I was going to, I thought, yeah, I'm going to, this is going to be good. I didn't know that it was nothing like being in junior school.

It was like, it was just, yeah, completely different. But I went with optimism, with an open mind. Genuinely, you know, I thought it was going to be a lot of fun.

So I got there. And my home teacher, we all had like a homeroom. So mine and my my teacher for the year or my, you know, whatever for my group are for that year was also my English teacher.

So that's the room we used to be in, like before lunch, after lunch, you know, at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day. And he had glasses and the room basically led to the library. The back of it went to the library.

And there was also like a room in the library where the teachers, the two English teachers had, was it two? There might be, I think it was two. Oh, the lady next door. I was in love with her.

Anyway, so I had this teacher and he, I think he, I don't know what happened. But I said to him, no, he gave me some homework. He didn't do that.

He didn't go. Because that would have been weird. That's me doing that.

I don't know why that happened. I could have just edited it out. But nope.

So yeah, I I did. Yeah, got some homework. It's basically just started reading this book.

And the homework was to go home. Because that's, you have to be there to do the work. Because that's, you know, homework.

And he said, just write what you think is going to happen next. Now, there cannot be a right or wrong answer to that, can there? I mean, if I had come back, and I'd written a poem about a snail racing against a poo, then yeah, that would like, that's not relevant. But no, I actually did say, I did say what I thought was going to happen next.

It didn't quite fit into his idea of what might happen next. And it definitely didn't happen next in the book. But he didn't give us the book to take home.

We just read the first chapter. And then what do you think is going to happen next? And so I handed it in the homework. I wish I still had it so I could read it to you.

It basically, he said, I get I got really, really low marks. Now I spent hours, I spent minutes, I spent hours, writing this homework really enthused. I, I even didn't watch TV that night, I was so excited about doing this story, and handed it in.

And he handed it back. And it was really low marks. And basically just so awful.

And ever since then, at school, that was kind of my crumbling point. That was like, because English was the only subject that I liked. Going into high school, that was the only subject that I enjoyed.

Like reading was the only thing. So yeah, that was weird. And I actually asked him one day, why don't you like me? And he just looked at me.

He's carried on eating his kebab. I mean, maybe he didn't like the idea that I was disturbing his Saturday night out. Yeah, but it's still just why just I did that.

I said that to another kid once I said, do you like me? I don't know why I was asking people that. I mean, I was like, 13, probably at the time, 12, 13. And he said, Did you say do I love you? I said, No, I didn't say that.

Do you love me? He said, You said it again. I said, No, I didn't. I said, Do you like me? He said, No, you said, Do you love me twice? Then you said, Do you like me? I said, No.

So just do you love me? He said, You said it again. No, I didn't. I didn't say it again.

But yeah, he didn't love me. Why would I ask people if they liked me? I'll tell you why, because I didn't know. I didn't know.

I've never known. And I don't know now. I still don't know.

I don't know if anyone likes me. I don't know. You can tell if they want to spend time with you.

No. I genuinely don't know. I have no concept.

This the whole thing is like, oh, you can you know how many people seem to be able to mind read? Well, I know what you're thinking, right? But I don't really any idea of empathy. Like, oh, you can, you can sort of almost let you know what someone's feeling. Like, no, I don't.

I don't know what anyone's feeling. And you know what, I think that's the reason I was quite a good counsellor. Because instead of sitting there, thinking that I know what they're feeling, and nodding my head, and all that stuff, being compassionate, which is a really good thing to do, obviously, if you're a counsellor, I would ask the person how they're feeling.

And I'll try to understand it in a try to comprehend what they were saying. Instead of just assuming. And sometimes that breaking down of what they're thinking, and then getting explaining it to me, because I noticed a lot of communication, sometimes is this missing stuff.

It's almost like, well, you know what I mean? No, I don't. Sometimes I just don't say anything. I just accept it.

It's the same way as if someone uses a word that I don't understand. I just like, carry on like nothing has happened. You know, I mean, sometimes I will ask what the word means.

Or what do you mean by that word? What do you when you use that word? In what context? Do you? Are you providing it to me during this particular conversation? Yeah, I don't know if people like me. I think I'm more on the verge of assuming they dislike me. I think.

I can't tell. Just can't. I'm not sure.

I mean, people will be friendly, but that just means they're being friendly. It's really just, I guess, take people for face value. And it is what it is in the moment, but I don't know.

I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I mean, I used to do, I went through this period. Went through this period when I was testing myself online. I'm talking 20 years ago.

So, and since then as well. But I started thinking, I started reading books and like, what is going on with me? What is it? I mean, some of you might be thinking, yeah, what is going on with you? Why have you not talked about Wellington Boots? That's what this was supposed to be about. You're ruining the recording by talking about your life.

We want to hear about the Wellington Boots. We want to hear about that rubber. We want to... I'm sure I had a pair of yellow Wellington Boots once.

Blue, black, red, even green maybe. I'm sure I had some fluorescent Wellington Boots once as well. So I had a few different pairs.

I didn't like it when they were too big, but I didn't like it when they were too small either. You know, when your toes are really cramped. It's like, no, this isn't fun.

But then when they're too big, you literally, you lift your leg and then it's like three seconds later, the actual bottom of the Wellington Boot lifts off the floor because there's that much room inside for your foot. So I started thinking, you know, what am I? What am I? What's going on? So I can't read people. I don't know what people are thinking.

I have a genuine, like, I'm not interested quite often in people. And I like a little bit of juicy bit of gossip now and then. And if someone tells me that they're in trouble, yeah, I care.

But it's not because I'm interested. It's because I care about the person and I want to help. But I don't.

I don't know. It's really weird. So I could like, I can't work it out myself.

I've always wanted to be one of those like really compassionate people that was always interested in other people, interested in what they've got to say, interested in their lives. And most of the time I'm not. Sometimes I am.

If someone says something that interests me, that's when I ask follow-up questions. The rest of the time is just small talk, which I try and stick to the weather. You know, once when I was at the comedy club, it was an after party.

Just the staff and I was just, I think I must have drunk a little bit too much. And the manager the next day said, or the next week said, I think you need to get some counselling. I said, why? He said, some of the stuff you come out with when you're drunk.

I said, what do you mean? You mean I'm aggressive? He said, no, you're not aggressive. It's just you talk about really serious things and we just try to have fun. Well, excuse me.

I mean, I guess I used to be a bit deep. I used to go a little bit deep and talk about feelings and talk about things and they didn't want that. But at the same time, I can do silly.

I can do pointless. I can do, I mean, some would argue that small talk is all I do when I make these recordings, potentially, I suppose. But I just, yeah, I don't know.

I did end up getting counselling. I did have counselling previous anyway, I think. Yeah, I had.

And then I had loads afterwards as well. But that, the idea of helping people without being interested in them is a concept that seems very difficult for some people. The idea is I will help someone, but I don't want to know all about their life.

I don't need to know that. It's not that I don't, it's not that I'm not interested. Well, it is.

But the thing is, it's not that I'm not interested as in I don't care. That's the difference. Not I don't care.

It's just I'm not naturally interested. I'm only interested in the things I'm naturally interested in. And that varies depending on the situation, depending on the day, depending on whatever.

But it doesn't mean I don't care. You know, I care about my dad's health. I care about, but I'm not interested in pretty much any part of his life.

Although he's got lovely hair, lovely beard. But you know, I don't, I'm not, I'm interested in his life where it involves me. And however weird that might sound, and it's, I guess, maybe sounds very selfish and whatever, but I'm interested in what it was like before I was born.

I'm interested in what it was like when I was a baby, what it was like when I was a kid, you know, that that time. That's what interests me about him. What he's doing now, as long as he's happy, as long as he's healthy, as long as he's well, and I'm not, I have no interest really.

And I know that he's got no interest in what I do either. He, well, I don't know, but I imagine he's, he's just, you know, we meet up and there's nothing to talk about. And just, it's like, okay.

And I'll just say what's going on. They'll say what's going on. And it's just, there's just, you know, talk about garden, gardening and stuff like that, which I've got no interest in, in at all.

And so that, that being interested in someone else, I guess it is, it's not not being interested in the person, just not being interested in their interests, which is why I do these boring objects, because I sometimes, or I do this, I do the talk about things in the Let Me Bore You To Sleep about things that are interesting to me. But I know that to a lot of other people, it will be very uninteresting, because other people's interests, I find not particularly stimulating or interesting.

And I can't, you know, I know that there's a lot of people that, I know a lot because I read it online and people told me, not everybody loves boxing.

I love it. I can't even tell you why I love it. I just do.

But a lot of people really don't. But then billions of people love cricket, and football, soccer, football, you know, English football, billions around the world, billions love cricket. And I don't really like either of those.

I don't understand. I definitely don't understand the cricket one. Apart from it can be quite relaxing to be there.

If it's a nice day, and you can see it's, it can be quite relaxing, as long as you can get to the access to the toilet. And football, I can see the skill. You know, it's obviously hugely skillful players.

They can do stuff that I could never do in a million years. It's like, I just don't have that. And yeah, I don't have that kind of coordination or, plus, I wasn't interested in it anyway, to play.

I didn't like playing it. I was always picked last. If that was really between me and my friend, we'd get both get picked last.

So it was either me or him. And whoever it was, would tea, whoever got picked last would get teased by the other one. So if he got picked last, I would tease him for the rest of the day, you got picked last.

And he'd do the same to me. But basically, we were just, we didn't do anything. We stood at one of the ball, one of the, the net things, you know, where they keep the ball in.

And we used to spin around like Wonder Woman until we got dizzy and just fall over. That was what we did during football time. So I think that made me a little bit unpopular.

Sometimes, because if you're not a team player, and football is definitely a team game, isn't it? It's something that needs teams. Everyone kind of at least giving it a go. I didn't even attempt it really.

And although I did quite well once, yeah, once I did well in the second half. But it's just I didn't realize that when you got into the second half, the goal changes the other side. So I scored a couple of goals, home goals, and couldn't figure out why, why everyone, no one in my team was actually cheering.

In fact, I didn't know who was in my team. I was like cheering with the people and like, that's not your team. I said, but everyone's just dressed in their normal stuff.

How do you know who's who? That was my argument. So, so that was something that is the question. Why am I? Why am I not? Why do I need? Why do I need to be away from people? How? Why is that my recuperation? Why do? Why do sometimes I get so drained when I'm around people, when I'm around groups even.

I never could understand it. So I get on so well. That's the thing.

I do actually get on really well with most people that I meet. But my, my tolerance for human interaction, let's say, is very limited. It's not that I dislike someone.

I don't mean tolerance like that. I mean, just, it, it gets a little bit too much. And I have to get away.

And once I get away, I feel better. But I enjoy part of it. It's a strange one.

That's what I was always hoping. I'd meet somebody like a female. And that would be the tester.

If I met her and I liked being with her, I didn't want to get away from her. That was always a good tester that there was a chance of something, you know, lasting. And that's just my, my jumper.

Can't be good. I'm getting hot, not excited. And I think, I'm trying to think what girlfriends I've had that I felt really comfortable with.

No, no, no, no. Probably, I had probably two that I would say that I was quite relaxed with. One in 91, very relaxed with her, but she was almost slow motion.

And I wasn't, I wasn't the slow person I am today. I was a little bit, I was like 20 and a bit wired, you know, a little bit, a little bit, I don't know, not quite as I am these days. And she was very slow, like the way she talked, the way when she walked.

And like, she's like, oh dear son, let's go to the cinema. Because she was from Wales. And she, she was so relaxed.

And I noticed that I felt calmer when I was with her. Just felt calmer. And the other one, although she only went to the cinema and she went to the toilet.

She went to the toilet. Honestly, she was in there to like halfway through the movie. Like, what were you doing in there? I mean, did you have an operation and then heal from the operation? I mean, what were you doing? Writing a book? I mean, blimey.

But yeah, so she's, she was never in a hurry. Which I thought was, it was a little bit, it was calming. But difficult at times as well.

But I felt quite relaxed with her. Never really got an opportunity to spend time with her properly. We had lots of dates, but never, never spent any time at home, my home or her home.

So that wasn't really, yeah, it was weird. Yeah. I'm just trying to think, how did we manage to get? Yeah, I think she, she, we were dating for a while.

It wasn't a long time and then she moved. And I used to visit her where she lived. Because she was, became a student nurse.

That was about 50 years ago, blimey. There was another one, not 2005. I met someone that I got on really well with.

That was relaxed. And I mean, I think, yeah, we got on really well. The only thing that used to, I'd be watching TV and it threw me off a little bit.

It's because she, she wanted, she kept wanting to do close up magic. And I was like, I'm trying to watch EastEnders. And she's like, which, which hand have I got a coin in? Like, pick a card, pick a card.

No, I'm trying to watch TV. Coronation Street's on in a minute. And she'd like pull out a rabbit from her hat.

But other than that, we got on really well. I'm trying to think of any others. There was one girl, a lady, say girl, female, that I met.

I still don't know why nothing happened. Because we were quite compatible as people. I mean, nothing happened like with us physically.

But we met, she was, she was basically the sister of my girl. My friend's girlfriend's best friend, sister. Does that make sense? So my, my best friend's girlfriend, her best friend used to come round his flat.

And I was kind of fancy though, but not her attitude. She had a real, she was one of these where if this happened, this is what I would do. If I was that person, I'd do this.

And that was constantly, like, I would do this in that situation. Like, you don't know what you would do. It's never happened before.

I would do like, yeah, of course you do that. You do. It used to wind me up a little bit.

Anyway, but I did fancy her. But the thing is, she was, she had a few men on the go. So I just thought, oh, no.

Well, actually, she wasn't interested in me. That's the fact. But she did have more than one boyfriend.

She even talked about it. So, so anyway, we went out to the pub. I can't remember what it was for, but we went along.

I went along because my friend was going and his girlfriend was there. And this woman comes up to me and starts talking to me. And we get on really, really well.

And we're having a couple of drinks. And it turns out that she's her sister, the one that's always talking about what she would do in any given situation. And we held hands as we walked home.

She took me back to her place. We sat on the settee. And we were just, just chilling out.

And then her sister came in, because they all walked back. But they, I don't know how she got home, but we just walked. It wasn't a long, long distance.

She came back and said, I'm going to bed. I got up and said, and I thought, oh, no. That wasn't a, it wasn't an offer.

So I stayed sat down with her sister. I said, so see you. She said, okay.

And then I'm with, with her sister. I can't remember what her name was. I'm not sure if I learned her name.

And we probably together for about half hour, maybe a little bit longer, just chatting. Her, her parents owned a booking and like, what do you call it? Bookies, like betting shop empire or something. And the, the same as I think my girlfriend, my friend's girlfriend, her, her parents also did as well.

So that's, they were quite wealthy. But I don't, I just, I liked her, but I just didn't know. I don't know.

It's just, it was weird because I got a phone call from my friend. They were downstairs in the car coming to pick me up. And I said, all right, I'll be down in a sec and sort of see you.

I said goodbye to her. I never saw her again. I actually really liked her.

What was going on? What was that about? I don't know. And I felt comfortable with her, but I just didn't, I don't know. Honestly, one of those weird moments that I couldn't read her either.

I think sometimes I need to be told, I might not believe it, but at least if I've heard it, I can at least sort of go from there. But I didn't know if she, I didn't know what, what she'd invite me back for if she wanted to sort of maybe start some kind of relationship with me. I don't know.

I don't know. Cooked me a meal, made me a cup of tea, didn't even make me a cup of tea. I was furious.

And I wasn't at all. She was nicer. I liked her.

But I didn't, didn't even ask for a number. Didn't, nothing. I just said, off now, see ya.

Why? It's weird, very strange. So, and I was like, like part of the reason why I was kind of like doing these online tests, because I wanted like, you know, why, why do I need, why do I go from being super social to completely antisocial? And by antisocial, I don't mean antisocial behavior, but just wanting to keep away from people. Because at school, I used to be, I remember one period when I was literally hiding from everyone during lunch.

So I could, I was reading these Star Trek books. And it was, they were based on the original series. And I was getting through them.

I mean, I was literally, I had loads of them, and I kept reading them. And that's what I did during my break times. Because I could not face spending time with anyone.

And I was probably about 13 at a time, maybe 14. Probably 13, actually, thinking about it, because when I was 14, once, once I discovered karate, that was, that was it. I was, that kind of became my, my focus.

That was my main focus in life. So yeah, that was quite a big thing for a while. The old karate.

But it's just, I just remember even sitting, because we had this, I don't know what it was, it was it, there was the back entrance to the room, to the classroom, and the front entrance. And I basically sat in the back, no one went into the back entrance, it was more like a fire escape, I guess. And I used to go up there and sit outside and read, and people would find me.

And I was like, can you not see I'm reading? And like, they'd find me, like, what are you doing there? Like, reading. Why? Because I like reading. What are you reading that for? Like, I just never quite understood what it was, but I needed to be away from people.

It's weird. And other times, I needed to be with people. And I'd be super excited about stuff and weird.

Well, it's not really now, but it seemed weird at the time, didn't really get it. Plus, I used to be a werewolf as well. Did I tell you that? I used to think I was a werewolf.

So I did, I've talked about my delusional childhood. And I think some people, well, I've got a lot of ideas about what people might think, haven't I, today. Some people listen to me talking about rolling around on the floor, turning into a werewolf.

Well, I think I was joking. I mean, of course, I didn't turn into a werewolf, but I did think I was. I genuinely believed I was turning into a werewolf.

And, you know, I was 13 at the time. 12, 12 maybe. So, yeah, I had these, I used to think I could control the weather.

I used to think I could turn myself invisible. Who would have thought that one day I actually could be invisible, which I am now. Especially to women.

I am invisible, baby. I used to think I could read minds. Even at the age of 15, I remember, yeah, looking at a baby sitting there, my stomach's gurgling, I need to eat.

Looking at this little baby in a pram. And my stepmom was talking to someone and I just was looking at this baby's eyes. And I was talking to the baby, like in my mind.

And I thought I could control dogs, stop a dog from barking by just telling it in my mind to stop. I found out recently that doesn't work anymore. Not with this one.

But yeah, I used to believe that stuff. I used to really, like believe it, believe it, not just as a joke. Yeah.

I used to think I could make it rain. Like I could look at the sky and actually I would spend time choosing the weather I wanted and commanding the weather to become how I wanted it to be. Ironic is I always wanted it to be raining when it was really cloudy, when there was more chance of raining.

I never gave myself a harder task, like in the middle of summer, make it snow, make it snow, like never did that. I didn't want to really put myself through too much of a challenge. Yeah, stick to the easy ones.

You know, if it's forecast rain, everyone's walking around with their brollies. I'm going to look at the sky and make it rain. I'm going to prove to myself I have that power.

Bless my little childish little brain. The childish brain I had then, not the childish brain I have now. Oh, you're such a baby.

And I didn't even talk about Wellington Boots, did I? What's going on? Why didn't I talk about Wellington Boots? I guess because I ended up talking about something else. I mean, technically, I have come back to it. But does this count? Does it count or not? I don't know.

What do you think? Should I still call it Wellington Boots? Maybe I'll call it Wellington Boots-ish. Yeah, maybe I'll do that. Yeah, maybe.

Oh, what I did, yeah, in 2004, I started looking into... In them days, it was called Asperger's or Asperger's. I think in America, I think it was Asperger's, but here it's Asperger's. Or the other way around, I'm not sure.

And there is an easier way to remember the name if it's new to you. But it's not nice, really. But then it's not used anymore.

It's now on the autistic spectrum. And I studied the subject. Because the one thing, because I was having all these anxiety stuff going on, and I was trying to figure out what was happening.

The one constant thing that I've had in my lifetime is becoming obsessed with something, like a hobby. I mean, obsessed, completely, above everything else in the whole world. So it happened when I was a kid.

It's happened as an adult. Multiple times. I mean, this is the first time it's lasted, really, for any, like, really length of time.

But I became obsessed with vampires and the occult for quite a while when I was a kid. I was in the library studying the history of all these different things, you know, just I think that was during my werewolf period, probably. It makes sense, I guess.

And I became obsessed with karate. I became obsessed with, what obsessions have I had over the years? Oh, blimey, building websites. That was a huge one.

I spent a year and a half nearly doing that. Completely obsessed with that. Became obsessed with hypnosis.

Trying to think. Just different things. Obsessed with, what other things other than comedy, I guess.

Obsessed with comedy. Just in like, it's like my whole life. It becomes my whole life.

And since 2006, this has kind of been what I've been doing. These online recordings, videos, whatever I do. That's been my life and it's become my life.

So it doesn't feel so obsessed as it is just, it is like breathing to me now. But I find myself moving a little bit towards the psychology. A little bit towards, am I going to get obsessed with the university course? Which, it's not a bad thing, to be honest.

It just means I'll learn more. I'll have a deeper knowledge of the subject. Deeper and broader.

I will want to study. I want to learn. And my stomach will want to gurgle because I need to eat.

So that's, I'm going to go. I need to eat some food. But yeah, it's a box it's odd.

I don't know what type boxes starts. I don't know what time I started this recording. I don't really have no idea.

But I'm going to go and get something to eat because my tummy is telling me, feed me. Yeah. So thank you for listening to this.

Boring objects ish Wednesday. I don't know what I'm going to call it. I might just call it this was supposed to be a boring objects.

I might do that. And then on on Monday, because this is Saturday now, on Monday, I will do a proper boring objects. Monday boring objects.

I semi promise. I have a semi promise that I'm presenting to you. I probably will.

Yeah. I'm going to attempt to, I intend to. So thank you for listening.

Remember to be kind to yourself. And be gentle with yourself. Because you do deserve to be happy.

Lots of love. Bye.