(no music) Whisper Wednesday | LMBYTS #1371 | 11th June 2025

Welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland This is... Why is this?

Let Me Bore You To Sleep Whisper Wednesday And Vinnie As soon as I start doing this recording He's up and awake He was fast asleep about 30 seconds ago I think he just wants a bit of a cuddle So, to say hello to everyone A big special hello to Ben Who is the only person I know that likes the Whisper Wednesdays Wednesday Whisper, whatever this is I say the only person I know that likes them They do get listened to by lots of people Hi Ben, that's what I'm saying, hi Vinnie, say hello to Ben He said hi as well Actually he said no I don't have to do what you tell me He's very rude So today is Wednesday The...

I've got no idea what day What the date is I think it's the 11th of June 2025 I was thinking about doing this recording But I was watching something on TV And then there was this massive sound outside I had the window open And I thought It's the lawnmower man Just cutting the lawn Which means It's loud But it doesn't last long But it seemed to be lasting a little bit longer than normal Because The communal garden here Is very small It doesn't take more than Probably 5 minutes For them

to cut And then they start To hear revving That's my impression of a revving And I realised it was a motorbike Over the fence So I had to close the window Because it was way too loud But when I closed the window The motorbike stopped And now I can just hear Loads of voices So I'm going to continue Making this recording Even though Literally As we speak I heard the person Trying to start the motorbike again It's just Yeah It's not It's very loud Very very loud I might just continue

talking Anyway Because It might not be very loud on the microphone Because it is literally Outside Over the fence And You might not hear it Or it might be very faint I can hear it Well I can't hear it now Because it's not It's not going but Anyway Oh yeah please only listen When you can safely close your eyes It's times like this That I That I feel glad That Yesterday I actually Made use of the day And made some recordings Because a day when there's A motorbike being revved All

day long Which has happened Well for a few hours anyway It's I just find it distracting To make a recording I mean I can't make any kind of Hypnosis-y stuff like that But yesterday I did do a couple of new Recordings As well as the Trivia Tuesday Or is this Whisper Wednesday No it's Whisper Wednesday isn't it I'm trying to Stick to the routine Of Mondays Boring objects Trivia Tuesday Whisper Wednesday And Q&A Friday So that's Four Days when it's like a regular Type of recording So I do try I

am trying Not very hard but Very minimally Giving it a go Oh yeah Oh yeah I found a new Way of doing some exercise I come using the word exercise Very flimsily But I took My little one out For a W-A-L-K And he started Pulling me towards the bridge So we've got this railway bridge And it's not even really used I think it was originally built Because they were going to be building A railway station there And they never built the railway station But they put a brand new bridge in

It's one of those Really nice bridges I say really nice bridges I mean you might not be into bridges But it's like metal And it The steps go up But also a big ramp as well So if you're on a Bike or in a wheelchair You can get Access And it's a big old Bridge And for some reason Vinnie was trying to take me He wanted to Take me away from I think what it is He gets bored Being in the same Little park everyday He wants to Go for a

walk and explore Other places So I just let him Lead me the way Sometimes I will do that I'll just follow him Or as my old friend Andre used to say Folly Follow Folly Folly And he led me To the Bridge And he started trying to Walk up the Like the ramp bit And I pulled him away and said no And then he walked And he tried to go up the steps So I thought well he clearly Wants to go up here so I just followed him up the steps He

walked Across the bridge And then I think we went down the ramp No we went down the Steps And then He wanted to walk Further away Which would be leading us Pretty much to nowhere Really And I thought No But he clearly wants to have a good walk And I need a good walk I need to I get out Walking but I don't I don't walk any kind of real distance Not really I don't think I get my 10,000 steps a day I get a few thousand But I don't think

10,000 Maybe I do But I doubt it I've never counted them It's quite hard though Isn't it if you count your steps And then another dog Walker says hello What am I supposed to do So wait a second Let me just write down the Steps that I've done so far It's I think there's a gadget You can get A step counter There used to be This thing That you could use Which it basically It was like a wheel And You put it on the ground And you walked with it Pushing

it And it measured the distance you went And I used to I used to have one of them And I'd use it Sometimes in London Because I wanted to see how far I'd walked It got some very weird looks But you got Yeah apparently I think the Stepometer things It's just because you shake So literally You could just I don't know Stand on one of those Shaking machines And it looks like you've walked For miles When in fact you haven't done anything Or you could bounce On a bouncy castle Although

that would be exercise As well wouldn't it Yeah I wonder if it registers Steps on the moon I don't mean When I'm walking I mean somebody that was on the moon But then I suppose Because it's so advanced Isn't it All the technology that They probably are Registering the distance That the astronauts Are travelling anyway And how many steps they take Plus They don't have to make as many steps today Right Because they're almost being Pulled into space But the heavy boots Keep them down Which I never understood How heavy

are those shoes Wouldn't it make more sense Right Because if the shoes are really really heavy Because you imagine If we didn't have any gravity On this planet We would just End up in the sky How heavy Would we have to have How heavy would our shoes have to be To keep us stuck to the ground Because I've seen Movies where No gravity And Things Cars are just being Pulled up into the air Because there's no gravity Ok It's a movie But if that's the case Does that mean that the

astronauts Shoes Slippers or boots or whatever Boots I guess The astronauts boots Wellington boots Are heavier than a car So if that's the case Then That's got to be Part of the reason why it's so hard To get Into space Because there's not so much Getting through the atmosphere The rocket is the weight Of those shoes The astronauts shoes So wouldn't it make sense If they just had a little I don't know On the moon Or on the space station A shoe cupboard or something Where they can just leave the shoes there So they could wear Slippers or Crocs Going up And then when they get there They can put on,

slip into their Astronaut wellies That are really heavy So They might end up using A lot less fuel They might get there quicker I might have just solved a big issue See It's amazing what you can do When You're not even trying That's the problem But I bet you not one astronaut Or not one Astrophysicist Or Scientist Is listening to this Because if they were This could change the whole The whole landscape Of space travel In fact it could be the break needed That could Bridge Could bridge towards Further Exploration

Because they'd be able to get In and out of space a lot quicker And they could just start To store stuff in space On the space station Or on the moon And have that as a Like a lock up You know Like an old lock up Just keep spare stuff in there Or they could even Open shops up really But I guess that's more for the future Like a shoe shop Helmets Do they need a helmet on when they're travelling up Again I'm not sure I thought the container They were

in was pressurised Which meant they'd be able to breathe I might be wrong What they could do Is fill You know the air bags That they have On their back which gives them oxygen Why not fill them with oxygen Like Thousands of them And just keep taking them into space So that eventually We have unlimited Supply of oxygen up there But I don't know Would that run out the oxygen In this world If we kept filling If you kept filling An oxygen tank up From oxygen In the air And you

did that And got millions and billions and billions of them With the oxygen run out And another thing What's the life You know The lifespan of oxygen Does it go off After a few years Does it go mouldy Because I used to think That soup Tinned soup lasts forever I remember seeing these Again I'm not sure if they were documentaries Or if they were movies Or TV shows Where people would be climbing up a mountain And they'd get to a shack Or some kind of wooden House And there'd be a

cellar Or there'd be a With lots of food and stuff But all tinned food Because bananas don't last long On a mountain But they go there And the last time anyone was there Was like 100 years ago Because Someone wrote in a book I was here 100 years ago Or I don't know whatever And They'd open up the food In the tin and they'd eat it And it'd be all yum yum yum yum yum Mind you Cat food would taste amazing If you hadn't eaten for 5 days Wouldn't it It'd

be the most delicious thing You'd ever eaten And it'd taste even better If you didn't know it was cat food So don't present it in a cat food bowl Probably Not that you can present it I mean if someone's hungry And you're getting them some food And they haven't eaten for days You're not going to be worried about presentation Are you I suppose They'd probably be happy Just to eat it out of the tin Well I used to think That all Tins Lasted like forever And I say forever Maybe not

thousands of years But just a long long time Because They were airtight And they were built to last Well let me tell you The tins of today Are not built to last I had some tins of soup And they were good ones Like Heinz They weren't They weren't like Little Home Brand Not that there's anything wrong with Little Home Brand I'm just saying it was Heinz The most I would say Probably the most famous Soup maker In this country anyway Heinz Tomato Soup And most people Even if they don't Have

soup I nearly said eat soup But soup isn't eating it's drunk isn't it Even if it's got Vegetables in and stuff It's just lumpy water Lumpy flavoured water That's what it is It's not a meal At best it's a starters Did I ever tell you about the date I went on And She said would you like some lunch Before we go out And I thought oh yeah She gave me soup And one piece of bread I was like what am I Is this a Date or Is this my first day

in prison I mean what the heck I mean literally I get Better fed in prison I was like what's going on Those are the days When my belly didn't enjoy soup I needed food Same thing happened when I visited My dad And my step mum And This was I think it was December 2011 December 2011 And I just wanted to Tell them I'd just been diagnosed with bipolar And I wanted to tell them Because it was I don't know It just seemed like the right thing to let them know I

think when my dad Well maybe both of them Looked at each other like That explains it But what I remember about that Meeting Is we met in this restaurant Cafe place Had soup Soup I had no money So I couldn't They paid for the meal And they had soup In fact I'm pretty sure the conversation was Should we just all have some soup I'm like I thought they were joking Soup We could have done that at home I don't know why I'm focused on soup today I just I like soup

I'm not prejudiced against soup I'm not You know I do like Chicken soup Like cream Cream of chicken Or I don't know creamy That's nice I'm not so Beef broth Vegetable soup Okay Tomato soup At tix the boxes for me But it's not a meal It's not a meal Although thinking about it Maybe I'm going to start It's weird isn't it I started off moaning about soup Now I'm starting to think I'd quite like a nice bowl of soup What a strange brain I have A nice bowl of soup And

a few Maybe two or three slices of toast That seems like a real yummy thing But I don't have any I don't have any soup I did That's why I'm telling you the story I had some soup Okay that's the point They're supposed to last A long time I went into the cupboard Next to the Cooker On the left hand side Underneath I don't go in that cupboard Really ever And I went in there just to look What's in there Because I'd forgotten Tins of soup were in there So I

went to pick one up And it was empty Well it also leaked So basically All the soup cans Had Disintegrated To the point Where the lids came off The contents Leaked out And also disintegrated There was no smell or anything It just Had been there for maybe six years Seven years And it was Completely destroyed And the ironic thing is On that particular day I really fancied a bowl of soup I remember thinking Why don't I drink more soup I really used to like soup Which I did But I was

a kid back then And I used to get soup Whenever I was a little bit poorly Maybe I'd go home from school Or maybe have the day off And I remember sitting at the table My step mum would be looking after me And she'd make me some soup And I'd watch Sesame Street on television I think Sesame Street Used to be on about midday And it was great A couple of bits of toast A cup of tea as well That was a bit weird Because it feels like You have a

liquid drink With solid food It almost felt like I should be eating Some kind of solid drink Maybe an icicle or something I don't know You can't really get solid drinks Other than a slushie Maybe that's quite solid I'm not sure that would fit together With soup though Hot soup I suppose I feel a little bit Nostalgic towards some of those times Because I got to spend time with my step mum And me and her No one else there It was just nice, quite peaceful No arguments I just like I did me soup It's weird how quickly soup Cools down Don't you think?

It can be like Super boiling hot And you put the spoon in Because the spoon is metal It conducts the heat I think But the spoon is very hot And you're blowing on The spoon And then The soup Squirting off the spoon Depends how hard you Blow I guess Could just spray over everyone else At the table Or you make a little dent in it Almost like What I used to do I used to try I'd have a spoon I'd look at it I'd fill it with soup And I'd try

and blow it So that it parted in the middle A bit like Moses did With the Red Sea And I'd just Pretend To hear music Pretend to hear music Sometimes I would hear music If music was being played So yeah Tomato soup Or any kind of soup Would be An opportunity to Reenact the Moses scene From the Bible I'm sure I'm not the only one That did that So That was pretty good Special effects Considering the movie was Like in the 60s The Moses Parting the sea I think,

I don't know if it was Just the Bible was the movie There was another one The greatest story ever told Maybe it was actually called Moses But yeah That scene where They're walking across the sea And all the The sea wall Is kind of just splashing But it's not That's the weird thing about it It didn't seem realistic In one sense because If you had the sea parted And you're walking down And there's a big wall And both sides There'd be some splashback Wouldn't there Not one splash They just walked

along You'd think there'd be You wouldn't moan About a few splashes You wouldn't get to the other side Moses would be feeling Pretty proud of himself Probably Everyone's saying well done Moses One person says Actually Actually My shoes are ruined That's another thing isn't it I have to clean my glasses Because of all the splashback from the water When they walked across The ground was dry Now the ground would be wet Wouldn't it be muddy I know it's just details But Maybe that's not the most unrealistic Part of the whole

story Maybe So we're walking over This bridge And I thought To myself This is quite a distance Really Walking over Going down the steps Walking all the way back The long ramp Back to the bridge again Crossing over Walking down the steps Then walking up The other ramp on the other side Which is like Up one end And then back again So it's I thought you know If I start doing that Maybe did that ten times a day Maybe I don't mean going up there Ten times and walking over it

once Maybe going there once And doing it ten times Or maybe twice And doing it five times I could go there five times And do it twice Or I could go there Three times And do it three times Oh no I could do it three in a bit Or I could do it three times And then on every third day Do it an extra time Maybe do a fourth Would that make sense?

Three, six, nine No, wait a minute Three, six, nine Three, six, nine No, every other day too No Three, six, nine So nine, nine, nine, nine Nine, nine, nine, nine So that would be ten days It would be ninety Instead of a hundred So on the tenth day I could do twenty Or on the fifth day Do fifteen And on twentieth day Do fifteen Which would mean it would be the equivalent of doing ten a day I'm not sure if it's really necessary To get too bogged down In specifics Regarding How many times I was to walk over it But I thought Maybe that would be useful To Get a little bit more exercise And You know,

get out Plus there's not really anyone around There are people around But not much And the whole The whole way up and down Is up the ramp And across the bridge Which is all It's got sides the whole way So Vinnie can't wander off He can only go one way Or go backwards Or stop, which he likes to stop He just likes to do the opposite To what I want him to do Earlier today,

we went into the park And the first thing he did was He stole another dog's ball Amber's ball That's the name of the dog He would not let it go And the ball was too big for his mouth It was huge But he loved it He fell in love with this ball It's almost like it was The most precious item in the whole world And I literally had to pick him up And prise it out of his mouth So I could give it back to the dog He didn't want to give it back There was one point,

right I kind of picked him up a little bit To get it out of his mouth And he wouldn't let it go So I started massaging his hands Now he does not let me do that Ever Without growling and snapping He doesn't like me doing that But on this occasion, he couldn't do anything Because this ball was in his mouth So I'm thinking Next time I want to cut his toenails I'm just going to stick a ball Get him to hold the ball And then he won't know what to do

I think it's good though Because he needs to spend more time Walking on the pavement Because his toenails do need to get trimmed A little bit They're not long But they're not short either It's weird The feet His feet toenails are always short But his finger toenails Or his toe toenails His toe toenails His finger toenails Are longer than his toenails And it's not like he's Walking sideways So his feet Are on the pavement And his hands are on the grass That would make sense If that's why they're at different

lengths But no Normally he does run forward And he's either On the path Or he's on the grass Or in the mud Or wherever Although he does love running Into the long grass This is his thing I don't know if other parts of the country do it Or other parts of the world do this The council Have ordered the Lawnmower people Who cut the grass In the park To leave certain areas wild When I say wild I don't mean angry You know They're not just walking up to that bit of

grass And teasing it They're leaving it They're not cutting it So it's something about Well Encouraging wildlife And then after about A year They cut it Another dog walker pointed out Well First of all I don't think there's a huge amount of wildlife Maybe There is insects and stuff That's definitely true Because those Grass flea things They get onto him If I let him in the long grass So I don't Before I used to have him off the lead In the park And he used to love the long grass But

he'd come home with all these ticks And all this stuff like that Now I don't let him go in the long grass And He's got nothing Hasn't had any For over a year Hasn't had anything on him And Someone I think a couple of days ago Another dog walker Was pointing out It's all fair and well Encouraging wildlife But what happens To that wildlife when they cut the grass That's a fair point isn't it The thing is When it comes to Wildlife I literally live In the countryside There's a farm At the end of each road At the end of every road There is a farm If I turn left,

there's farms If I turn right There's farms If I go through the park And keep going through there There's farms It's just farms everywhere By farms I mean Growing farms, not animal farms I tell you what, animal farm The movie was very different from the book But yeah, it's not really So you don't Don't get to hear Cocks every morning Like Whatever they do But that wouldn't bother me really Because I'm up quite early anyway I'm sure there are some farms like that Somewhere around here But it's really just like

growing crops But they're everywhere All around here This whole area is farms But there again The whole country is pretty much farmland With some towns And some cities And some beaches But it's just a huge amount of farmland here And The bloke who Who owns the Dyson vacuum cleaner thing He's the biggest Farm owner in the country Or one of them And in America The biggest farm owner I think is Bill Gates And that's not just farms That's land isn't it To be a land owner That's If you own the

farms You almost kind of own the food Wow Oh there's a plane going past Maybe not I taste strange Oh yeah can you hear that No it's a train Is it a train I don't know I just realised I don't think it's very windy today Because normally Only on days when it's very Mild Very calm I can hear the trains When it's windy I generally can't hear the trains It's lovely out there Blue sky Sunny It's going to be It's going to be difficult Because I've got my jumper Oh well

That's kind of strange Because I have the window open most of the time But with that window closed It's so much quieter Because they are literally just Wow wow wow You know In the garden I can hear I can't hear what they're saying Quite often I can't hear what they're saying anyway Not that I want to but It's Weirdly enough Unless my hearing's changed I can't really Hear them very well I'm not complaining It's lovely Oh yes So yesterday I walked twice over this bridge So I went up the steps

Went over Went down the steps Walked back up And then back up again Because the The ramp is in two parts It's quite long It's in two parts So you go up one bit Then you turn around and you come back the other bit And it gradually goes up For each one And then you end up at the top Of the Basically you end up exactly where you were Where I was before Before I went down the steps It's built for Large traffic Really It's the kind of It's the same

kind of bridge that you would see At a busy train station But there's no train station there There is a train track I'm not I think part of the reason they did it Was for safety Which is fair enough Because people used to just Cross the track There was no way of monitoring it So it's a good thing That it's got something over there But One of the neighbours When I moved in ten years ago Said that They spent like half a million pound Putting that bridge up It still looks

In good condition It's hardly been used I mean Seriously I reckon The amount of people that cross That bridge in a year Would be the same Amount of people that would cross A busy train station In a day Probably less in fact Yeah probably If you get 50 people a day crossing that bridge I'd be surprised Maybe a hundred I'd be surprised if it was that high Seriously it's not a lot is it Would I class as Two people because I went over twice Or did I go over three times

No I went over twice But I went over and back twice That's four times actually yesterday So I went down So I went up the steps Across the bridge Down the steps Back up the ramp Cross the bridge Down the steps Back up the ramp Cross the bridge Down the steps And then back up the ramp Cross the bridge And down the steps And then we went home So what is that One Two Three Four So we crossed the bridge Four times So four times We went up and down the

ramp One Two I don't know if you said four times we passed Over the bridge So how many times did we go up the ramp Go up the steps Cross the bridge Go down the steps On the other side So up the ramp One Up the ramp Cross over Down the steps Then up that ramp again Then cross over Down the steps Up that ramp Cross over Down the steps That's just three Okay Let me do this again Up the steps Cross the bridge Down the steps Then up the ramp

Crossing over the bridge Down the steps Then up the ramp Cross over the bridge Down the steps Up the ramp Cross over the bridge Down the steps So how many times is that Across the bridge One Two Three Four So it's only three ramps I walked up the ramp three times One Two Three Four Is that classed as four?

You know Because I've crossed four times I don't know Maybe if I walked up the ramp The first time Crossed over Went down the steps Then went up the ramp The other side Walked down the steps Went up the ramp Or what I could do No Yeah I mean I could just walk up the ramp Cross over the bridge Go down the ramp And then just turn back And walk up the ramp again But it just I don't know Yeah It's a weird one I'm not really sure It seemed like Maybe walk up the ramp Cross over the bridge Go down the steps Then walk up that ramp Cross over,

down the steps Walk up at that So I don't walk up any steps But technically The thing is I was thinking Is it better for me to walk up the steps Because that's more Exercise But at the same time If I'm walking down a ramp That's not really Putting a lot of Energy Is it As I mean it's not like Steep, steep But it is steep It's walking upwards Yeah I don't think I'd want to Roll a heavy ball up there Definitely wouldn't want to Try to roller skate up there

Because gravity Yeah I might fall back I don't know I have to think about it I just thought it'd be quite nice If I had this Nice space To take him over a few times And Another thing I was thinking I could do is walk up and down My steps where I live Across stairs And maybe try walk up And down Start off maybe doing it Twice and then work it up So I'm doing Walking up and down maybe a hundred times a day Like in one go Just as an

exercise thing But I don't know I'm not sure I've started doing press ups again And Doing some exercise With My weights And doing leg raises In bed For my stomach so I'm kind of, because I took a little bit of a break For probably two weeks Where I wasn't really doing much Exercise at all Not even the The weights Not crouching What do they call it?

Crouching I don't know whatever it is That I do for my lower back While I hold weights I've not done that For a while I did it the other day But I've not done it regularly Like everyday Like I used to Part of the reason for that Is because At the weekend I readjusted my bedroom Not purposefully Thinking I'm going to readjust my bedroom I didn't wake up that morning on Saturday Thinking I jumped out of bed With full excitement I'm going to move my chair to a different part of

the room I don't mean that It's just I was getting the microphones Out of the storage room Setting them up So I've got one here on my chair Near my chair Attached to a table I've got one next to my bed I had one Attached so I could make videos But I don't think I can do Videos anymore I just I prefer audio It's an old saying You know Some people have got a Face for radio And I'm one of them I think it's possibly a disappointment If someone Sees me

They might be listening to me for a long time Some people have been listening to me For years And then they They get curious And they go onto the YouTube channel And they see me and think Well now that's ruined That's ruined everything So you know It's not like I'm not hiding myself But Plus I think With video I've never liked Pictures I don't mean I've never liked a picture I've ever seen I've never really enjoyed a picture Of me Because I don't think photographs Necessarily Show the person But a video can Your personality can Show in a video You know The smiling,

frowning The facial expressions The voice, all that stuff Movement Which I guess is part of the whole Video process isn't it Movement But I didn't I feel I've done that now I've been there I've spent years doing videos It's a little part of me thinking I just wish that I just don't really want to make videos I prefer audio This is more relaxing for me This is where I can really Just be myself Because if I've got a video camera there I've got a tendency of I don't know if it's

so much showing off But I definitely Feel very self conscious At no point do I forget That the camera's pointing at me With the microphone This is almost the most natural thing in the world For me To just talk into a microphone It's There's no effort I think that comes across Clearly there's no effort That's why it's so awful No energy, no effort No planning But it's real It's just me And I don't Necessarily think That that happens As much on a video Because I feel self conscious I mean I

didn't enjoy it when I had hair But now Now that my hair's kind of It's really weird Like I've got a bald patch at the back And my hair's I trimmed my hair so it's like A true cut I guess But I can see in the mirror That the gap Between the hairs Is growing And some of those hairs that are growing back Are not the same strength Or thickness That they used to be And I'm thinking that Possibly The next ten years I might Okay Well I'll be bolder That's

it really I showed a picture to Jack TPT To create an image for me And I said oh Make an image of Vinnie and me Vinnie's on the bed Making a podcast Or something And I'm sleeping On a dog bed On the floor So I did that And They said Oh Jack Russell And I posted a picture of him So they changed it To a lifelike picture of Vinnie I think he was holding a board Which said Q&A Friday or whatever it was And then I said Can you Make my

image as well So they said Upload a picture of you So I did It just showed someone with a massive bald patch And just hair growing on the side Like that's not what I look like Not yet It possibly will be But it won't Because I will shave my hair I will That's so annoying though Because I'm pretty sure That the side of my hair And the back of my hair Is so thick And curly But so thick that it will never bald I don't think I'm ever going to be

That that will always be Thick hair And at the side as well But not so much in the middle It is going back to Moses It's a little bit like the parting of the Red Sea It started at the back And it's just slowly moving to the front It's weird Moses and bridges That seems to be the topic of the day I did another video I never posted that It was a podcast image And They said I want to put in An image of me They said describe yourself I said

oh a 54 year old man I looked about 90 When they put this picture of me Like this old Old looking person I do not look like that Or maybe I do I don't to me But I do need to have my eyes checked To be fair I'm saving up for an eye test And to get Well the eye test is free But the glasses aren't So I think I get the lenses For free But I have to pay for To have the gloss The protection on them And also the

actor light So they go dark in the sun So I have to pay for that And I think I get a discount On the frames Or I think I can get a free frame But they're like NHS There's nothing wrong with NHS But I kind of think I don't care what the frame looks like If they're for reading Because I'm not going to be reading outside Pretty much I'm going to read here And I'm looking forward to getting my glasses So I can get back to reading again I just can't

do it at the moment Not with these So It's going to cost me a few hundred pound To Because I'm going to have to get Two different Probably three different frames One for Distance Normal day to day One for reading And one for When I'm on a computer I need to start Protecting my eyes a bit more And I've noticed that I can't I can't Spend as much time looking at the computer Screen as I used to do Which is I mean it's not It's not a terrible thing really Because

I don't really want to be spending all day Looking at a computer screen But at the same time It is limiting And I'd at least like to have the option But at the same time By looking after my eyes So As soon as I've saved up enough I'm going to Get an appointment Go to the opticians I'm thinking about asking For Because I saw somewhere That there's certain lenses That are quite good for people with bipolar Now I might have dreamt it But it's not something I would normally dream about

But then I don't remember everything I dream about In fact I can't remember the last time I had a dream I have a dream I mean I have dreamt I just don't remember Exactly what I dreamt about And Yeah Wow I think I had a dream the other day And I just Can't remember what it was I don't know What was I talking about Dreaming What was I talking about dreaming Oh Bipolar lenses I know that there's some lenses That People With some conditions Not just visual conditions Wear Like different

coloured Tinted glasses That colour all the time Not just in the sun Mine tint dark In the sun Apparently people can see where I'm looking though Which is Came as a bit of a surprise after 10 years Of thinking I was My eyeballs My eyeballs had freedom So now Before I go to the opticians I'm going to do a bit of research If there's something That can help me In some way If looking through a different Coloured lens Could be useful Then it's worth exploring And That's on my to-do list

Yeah Because I remember One of the Bee Gees I think it was the Maybe two of them But one of them had a I think like a yellow Tilted or tinted glasses And I used to know someone I think she was a customer Or I said when I worked in the Evolution shop In Ipswich She I think she worked next door In Snappy Snaps Which was this Camera processing place Or picture processing And she had I think yellow lenses Or blue lenses And I said I asked her about it And

she said It was something to do with I'm pretty sure She said autism Or I'm also I have a memory of hearing That Lenses can help with ADHD Again I'm not sure These are like faint memories That may be Complete Fabrications But I think Anything Really is worth a try isn't it There's now to lose I might get some funny looks But what I was thinking Is Maybe Going forward I'll ask them if I can get Lenses that are always dark All the time Like Roy Orbison Did you know Roy

Orbison Didn't wear those glasses Because he had anything wrong with his eyes It's true He had an eye injury Or he had a sty Or something like that So he wore those glasses When he was on stage Because his eye was all yammy This might be a lie But this is my memory of it And he wore these glasses on stage To perform This is Roy Orbison the singer And he liked them so much He decided to spend the rest of his career Wearing those glasses Those big thick glasses Dark

Which Looked like he had Serious Sight issues But Apparently he didn't I have seen People wear those type of glasses That were Very Um Impaired sight But I was thinking Maybe I could get some I don't want them like that But just The thing is I think Some people look They think it's weird If you walk around in the winter Wearing sunglasses And I've had a couple of people say Why are you wearing sun shades I'm not These are my normal glasses But these Don't look like sun shades Because it's

a different frame These look like glasses Because sun shades are normally a bit more More stylish More There's a different kind of a frame I think With sun shades Although I I kind of do like You remember The Blues Brothers That kind of Sun shades Yeah Maybe I'll look into that Maybe that's what I'll do Just something to kind of Protect my eyes from the sun From the light I'll see What the Optician says but Before that I'll do a little bit of research Online,

maybe watch a few YouTube videos and Find out What's about and Perhaps do a bit of research Into the science behind it And See what studies Have shown because I figure If anything that can help is brilliant Although In the future The smart glasses Will be the norm And I'm interested in that I do like the idea of wearing smart glasses And being able to talk to them I like the idea of being able to Make a podcast while I'm just walking around And I probably Don't know how good The

microphone would be on The glasses but Audio is improving all the time And the ability To improve audio as well After recording Technology is just improving all the time So it's There's so much more that can be done So I'll see what happens but I'm going to look into it My question is What was I talking about when I very first started this recording? Because it wasn't bridges It wasn't glasses What was it?

I don't know, I can't remember I cannot remember Old motorbikes in the garden That's it So I've got no idea How long I've been talking It might be 20 minutes, it might be an hour I don't know But I'm going to go So thank you for listening Remember to be kind to yourself Because you do deserve to be happy And be gentle with yourself You deserve to feel safe Lots of love Bye