(music) Women’s Weekly LMBYTS #1459 Jason Newland 11th October 2025

Hello? Why is that buzzing? Something's buzzing. That's weird. Something's buzzing.

I don't know if you can hear it. I've unplugged the laptop. Hmm, it might just be the flat.

Well, it's not the iPad, because iPads don't buzz. Hmm, that's very strange. Oh, anyway, hello.

Welcome to jasonnewland.com. This is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland. Do you want this, Vinnie? Do you want it? There you go, good boy.

I was giving him his dinner. All right, he's just sniffing at his water whale in disgust. Okay, you haven't got to eat it, you know.

But if you don't eat it, you don't eat. Sounds a bit harsh, but he's gone through this new phase where he likes me to feed him by hand. Now, I don't actually give him the food by hand, necessarily.

I can drop it on the floor and he'll eat it off the floor. But I have to sort of take it out of the bowl by hand and put it on the floor, or drop it, instead of him just eating it out of the bowl. It's like he wants some kind of participation from my part.

I don't know quite why. So only please listen when you can safely close your eyes. It is Saturday the 11th of October 2025.

There will be some background sound in the garden, which I can't do much about, unfortunately. Hopefully you can't hear it too loud. It's kind of like just a volume thing.

It's not that they're doing anything bad or anything. They just don't have volume controls. And I think the area outside is very much like a little vacuum, a little sort of echoey.

I can't even really hear what they're saying, thankfully. But I can hear the occasional word. And it's not that I want to be able to hear it.

It's not like, you know when you're on a bus, or you're on a train, and someone's talking on a phone, and they're doing it the old fashioned way. Where you can't hear the other person. But you can hear them, and they're being very loud.

And they're having this conversation that goes on for, it seems like days and days and days. It's probably not that long, but it seems like a long time. And I'm kind of, I might be there getting frustrated.

And then I realised that actually the frustrating part is not knowing what the other person is saying. Because sometimes it sounds like quite an interesting conversation. And only getting half of it isn't that much fun.

Of course, these days, for whatever reason, I guess, easy, easiness, simpler, to talk without putting the phone to your ear, which I do when I'm at home, I'll be honest, I do on loudspeaker. Not when I'm out. You know, I wouldn't sit on a bus or a train, or in a cinema, or a funeral.

Oh, this is funny. Uncle Sausage's funeral. Someone phoned.

One of the people that was at the funeral. And it was a what's it like a video phone call. But the person's very elderly.

And they didn't know how to hang up. And she didn't know how to hang up. Because I think it was I don't know why, but she was struggling to get rid of the call.

And this person kept phoning back over and over. Oh, yeah, it was her brother kept phoning back over and over again on this video call. And the reception was really bad.

So she was trying to say, kind of busy here. A little bit busy. And he was saying, Where are you? You're supposed to be here.

And it got a little bit silly. And they're still there now. Honestly, still, like trying and still trying to get him off the phone.

I'm trying to like, there's other people were coming in. Literally other funerals are waiting to get in there. Can you take it outside? This isn't even your family.

Can you please take it to the garden? Thanks. What I might try and do is let me know if you find the background sound. Why? I see if I try and block out some of that noise with the curtains.

All I've done is a close the window completely up. and I've covered the, I've closed the curtain, the big old supposed to be soundproof curtain. I hope it's going to block a bit more of it.

It's yeah it's just a volume thing. I kind of, the way I think about it is now is they wouldn't be like that by choice. No one, I don't think anyone would like choose to be irritatingly loud.

You know it's kind of, they're not choosing to be like that. It's just how they are. Like I don't mean to be, it's not my fault that I'm super sexy.

You know what I mean? It's that kind of thing. So what I thought I would do is in today's world of equality and inclusion and you know everything like that, I thought I'd go through a magazine called Woman's Weekly. Yep.

So this is a real magazine. It's in the UK and it's from the 14th of October 2025. Which is a little bit weird considering it's only the 11th now.

So I guess that's the, that's the latest episode or the latest magazine. 14th of October. It would cost £1.99. Really? Yeah.

So let's have a look what's in it. It says Woman's Own, Woman's Weekly, sorry. Be inspired every day.

That's, yeah that's good. I'm glad about it. I was feeling a bit uninspired but now I do feel more inspired.

In fact I can even visualize feeling more inspired tomorrow when I wake up. It just shows you that sometimes just a few nice words really can make a difference. According to this, meet the new women pilgrims.

I think of who, I think of who has walked these routes before me. Okay. Cozy, comforting classics.

Six easy recipes. Gorgeous bag to sew. So, so far we've got stuff about health on there.

We've got cooking, bags, handbags and clothing. But at least it's getting to the cliches of you know how, how women used to be presented in the past. You know, because it's all about inclusion and respect.

So here we go. What's the first thing we've got on there as an advert? Oh, for women's jackets. Okay.

A waterproof with cozy fleece lining, an inner waist drawcord, detachable hood, adjustable cuffs and handy pockets for all your women's stuff. Wow. Special, special pockets for lipsticks.

The pockets are huge. I'm not even joking. The pockets are massive.

How much stuff do you need to carry around with you? Wow. Okay. And then should we just go through the adverts first just to see what's.

Okay. So is it going out? Oh look, there's a man. What's a man doing here? He's the editor.

His name's Jeff. Jeffrey Palmer at FutureNet.com. She who would be valiant. She who would valiant be.

What? So this isn't like normal language is it? She who would valiant be. I suppose the Middle Ages were the golden time for Christian pilgrimages. Many beautiful churches were built on the profits from the trade and donations from the devout across Europe on routes to St. James Shrine at Santiago de Composaleta in Spain but also here in the Uck and sometimes in surprising places.

The parish church at Chilton Hampton near us in Devon has an unusually impressive tower. A small giveaway revealing the village was once a major pilgrimage destination. Blah blah blah blah.

Someone said to me the other day we need to start getting reparations from the Italians for when the Romans came over here and was it 400 years they had us as slaves? Basically they controlled us for 400 years. So we're just waiting for our reparations for that. Inside this, is that what he told me? I don't know.

Don't even know what it means. Reparations is when you repair. Reparations, rations isn't it? Reparations or decorations.

Inside this issue on the cover Anton Dubek. Loving children keeps me young. Celebrating Britain.

Great British castles. I do like a nice castle. I do.

I've been to a few castles. I have. Yeah, I like a nice castle.

Real-life pilgrims progress. Three women share their experiences. Cookery, comfort food, classics.

This is the index. Good to know. 60 plus money saver secrets.

So is that 60 plus as in 60 different money-saving secrets or money-saving secrets for people that are over 60 years old? Could be either of those. I don't know. Mind you, if it's 60 plus, they might as well just like say over 60 money-saving secrets.

But then over 60 is more letters isn't it? And that would cost them more, take up more room on a page. Craft. Pretty storage bag to sew.

Oh, sewing. Okay knitting now. Knitting.

So lightweight jumper that's perfect for layering. So what we've got. So we've got sewing, knitting, cooking.

Now we're missing the cleaning. We haven't got any cleaning. So once we get the cleaning then we've got the full quadruple cliche.

Great reds. Good to share. It's a funny old word.

World singer Peggy Seeger. So these are good reads. Fashion.

How to wear barrel leg jeans. Okay I don't know what barrel leg jeans are. Anyone? Another one under the beauty tip.

Deodorants. Okay I wouldn't call that as a person. I wouldn't think that as a beauty tip.

Deodorants aren't part of a beauty regime. They're part of a not stinking regime. It's about not smelling bad isn't it really? Deodorants.

I've never had a deodorant that made me look attractive I don't think. I mean more than I already am. You know super sexy as I am.

But I don't think I've ever had a deodorant that's improved that. Although I used to love Old Spice. I did.

I don't know why I made that sound. But I used to love Old Spice. Red tin.

I like the smell of it. I didn't even care if anyone else did. I did.

Oh I turned myself on. Oh good now they're not being able to disturb me with their voices. So now they're banging stuff.

Oh bless them. Health. Your well-being.

And then you got Dr. Gill. Coping with iron deficiency and anemia. I was going to say amnesia there.

Anemia. Here to help. And then what we got.

Your home. Retro. Revival.

Give your shared spaces a bold update. And then we've got gardening. Oh I forgot about gardening.

Pretty patios in Autumn Glow. Plus three of the best Japanese anemones. Anemones? What's an anemone? Then we've got some fiction.

A short story. Another one. We'll call it Thorn Cottage.

Then another one called Working It Out. Then we've got a serial. Part 3 of Time and Tide by Celia Bryce.

And then books. Next to books is our book editors favorite pics of the week. And then last but not least.

Puzzle Time. Your Weekly Stars. And Rosemary.

I'm guessing Rosemary is the like agony aunt thing. Oh I'm up for this. Good to share.

Saving tiny frogs. Celebrating Lee Miller. And connecting to canine classes.

I don't know about that but the saving frogs definitely. Okay it's basically Avatar. Oh look at this.

Steve Mann. You can now train your dog with online lessons. A new BBC maestro course from expert Steve Mann.

Covering everything from puppy training to loose lead walking. Recall. Separation anxiety and correcting antisocial behavior.

£79 for 30 lessons. BBC maestro.com. We still have to pay the TV license. Where's that money going? A conservation leap.

Fathers play a key part in the development of Darwin's frogs. What? Carrying their tadpoles in their vocal cords. Okay I'm confused so far.

And now London Zoo is playing a vital role in conserving the future of this tiny green rainforest species. A deadly fungus was affecting the frogs in their native Chile or Chile. But 11 healthy mouths and 33 tadpoles made an epic climate controlled journey to our capital.

From Chile? Really? What to England? How? Where they successfully metamorphosed into froglets. Measuring some two centimetres of their eventual three centimetre full size. For more information visit Londonzoo.org I'm just thinking.

I'm sorry but you know London Zoo. I know they don't always have massive animals but frogs are quite small aren't they? You need more than like six. Literary lineup.

A host of top writers from crime king Ian Rankin to wild swans author Jung Chang will gather in beautiful Buckingham Shire for the Cliveden Literary Festival from the 11th to the 12th of October as well as leading literary lines. Historians, journalists and speakers from the world of film will host discussions with the news agents Emily Maitlis, actor Rachel Weitz or Weitz and film director Neil Jordan. I'm bored with that sentence.

I Lee Miller. A new exhibition celebrates the work of trailblazing 20th century photographer Lee Miller who was portrayed by Kate Winslet in the 2023 film Lee. Didn't see it.

Okay. Even if you're only an occasional drinker you might want to join in with Sober October. I thought it was called something else.

November. Movember. Even if you're on an occasional drinker you might want to try joining with Sober October.

The average household spends around 18 pounds each week on pub drinks or alcohol for consumption. So even if you only give up for a month you might save more than 70 pounds. Well I don't drink so it's not gonna make any difference to me.

I didn't drink alcohol at all. I thought keeping sober, I thought that was a name. I mean Sober October makes sense because it's quite rhymy.

But November? Movember? People grow their beard in November isn't it? That's the one time of the year that I can look disheveled and no one seems to, well people still notice but less so. Good to share from you to us. We love to hear what you've been up to so do get in touch.

I need to start sending in stuff tonight to let me know what I'm up to. So here's a, this is from Georgina Morley. I was flicking through Woman's Weekly and I read Tanya Wakeford's piece in the Your Wellbeing section, the 3rd of June issue, about how she got in control of her weight and mindset after reaching a low point.

I just wanted to say how inspirational. I found that and to send love to Tanya. Good luck on your continued empowerment journey.

That's nice. What else? It's a bit small. Letter of the Week.

How am I supposed to read this? We love letters it says. We, get in touch. We love letters.

Woman's Weekly. Look what I made. Oh look.

This is a photo of the peg bag featured in Woman's Weekly, 10th of June issue. It is made from an old duvet cover cut into 1cm wide strips and tied together with a reef knot and knitting, knitted with two strands together. I like that it is recycling a worn out household item unto another useful one.

Unto? Don't you mean into? Unto. The language is changing man. The more, more stuff I watch on YouTube, the more I feel the need to shout out, allow it, allow it.

I don't know what it is, fam. Stamped out. I was just surprised to see an article about Green Shield Stamps in your 29th of July issue.

See, that's weird. We do not in this country say, we say 3rd of June. We say 29th of July.

We don't say 29th of July issue. We don't talk like that in this country. So I don't know why they're writing it down like that.

I still have books on them. I still have books of them. Green Shield Stamps.

I don't even know what Green Shield Stamps actually are. I kind of know what they are. Or how can you not know what they are, but you do know what they are.

Now what I mean is, I know there's stamps. And I think you get them from a petrol station. And I'm feeling really excited about this for some reason.

Weird, isn't it? I'm getting an uplift in my body just thinking about Green Shield Stamps. It's almost like it's giving me a boost of energy and happiness. And I still have that.

This is me, by the way, not the letter. I still have books of them. I wonder if there's anywhere I can send them to.

Or is it just a case of them going in and recycling? Perhaps there are some other readers who have suggestions. I mean, I mean, surely. They're not giving answers.

Give an answer. Oh, they have given an answer. Do you Green Shield Stamps? Alright, it's just going it's given a little bit of the thing that they're referring to.

So knitting, sewing. No washing up yet. It's weird.

I wonder what the men's magazines are going to be like? Is it going to be like, make sure you don't you keep quiet and you hold everything in and you get angry about stuff. And Abraham writes 73. Wow, she's not 73 is she? Do you ever say that to someone? When they say their age, you say, you're not that age and you realise that actually they do look their age.

And then you spend the next 20 minutes complimenting them fakely. Anyone, anyone do that? It's just an automatic reaction in my way. Like someone says, oh, I'm, I'm, I'm 70.

You know, it's like, no way, you're really 70. And sometimes I say, well, I thought he was about 79. But, you know, then they laugh not realising I was telling the truth.

And her daughter is 30. She was 43 when she had a daughter. It's not a lot of difference between the two of them really.

If they look, you can definitely see that they look quite similar, especially their cheeks. The chins got very similar chins. Yeah.

Okay, let's have a look what the story is. Oh, it's about the look. What are you wearing? What you're wearing? So that's that's what this page is for.

Anne and daughter Yemi. I bought my wild fang dungarees in America. It's fun to experiment and they're so comfy.

My top is H&M. The bag is Brahmin and the trainers are Adidas. Yemi has gone for similar colours.

Her jacket and trousers are both by Rabbins Salona. Her top is from Meshki. Her trainers Nike and bag Valentino.

What's your favourite thing about yourself? Anne says, I'm a bubbly person and I love people. And Yemi says, my tits. No, she says being intuitive.

It helps me connect with people. And is it me or? It's a long way to go to get some dungarees isn't it America? Couldn't you just order it online? All that air flight cost and forgetting the time. Fleur 47.

She's going to tell us what she's wearing. Tell us about your look Fleur. Fleur.

I might not be pronouncing it right. Fleur. Fleur.

Fleur. I like that name actually. Fleur.

You alright Fleur? I dress to suit my mood and today it's easy and relaxed. At the moment I'm moving my grey silky bomber jacket. I'm loving my grey silky bomber jacket which I picked up in France.

Again, it's a long way to go. It's the perfect transitional piece for early autumn. My case you don't know what autumn is.

You may wrongly call it fall, but it's autumn. Yeah. My silky shirt is by with nothing underneath.

Oh, saucy. And my Levi's are vintage. Does that mean they're second hand? Or does that mean they're from vintage or vintage? My bag is a long champ.

I thought about my bag like it's just normal to have a bag. Why? Why would you have a bag? I mean carrier bags. That's what women used to have, isn't it? In the old days, the cliche, the sexism and all that.

Women. Oh, it just don't hit me with your handbag. Like, no, women don't have handbags anymore because it's equality.

Men just like men don't work on roofs. I don't know what what do men and men don't fix cars. What's the cliche of men? I'm trying to think.

Oh, yeah, men don't cry, of course. Does anyone know? There's a bloke called Jordan Peterson. He's quite famous online.

You might know him. He's a kind of a psycho psychologist, or a clinical psychologist. It's fairly as it's fairly famous online.

And he's, he's always, when he talks, you can hear in his voice that he's on the verge of crying, pretty much the whole time. He's in the wrong job. It's really a talking job, where you're talking in front of an audience.

That kind of like, no, man, this is not the right job for you. You need to do something a bit less, a bit nicer, maybe for yourself. I mean, he's really good at what he does.

But it's very controversial on purpose. He always always said ever since I heard him talking, like, and you see him he's on Finney, can you make a bit more noise? It's always on the verge of like, bursting out crying. I haven't actually seen that many men cry.

I only cry. I used to cry. I used to used to build up and then I cry and I wouldn't know why.

I wouldn't know why, why I cry. I thought that was going to be a bit of a better song. A bit of a better rhyme.

And I thought, I mean, it was a very quick thought pattern. But there's got to be lots of words and sentences that can rhyme with I, like why and cry. The only thing I came up with was stye.

I thought that'd just be weird. Just to start saying, Oh, why? Why don't I cry? Is it because I've got a stye in me eye? And that'd just be weird. You know, just like that's kind of gone the wrong way.

Finney's chewing on a bony thing, by the way, just in case you're wondering what he's doing. What he's doing. I'll be honest with you.

I tell you what I don't never really enjoyed about the old sexism thing about our women do this, men do that and like being put into that category of this is how you're supposed to be. But it's still being kind of, you know, done, isn't it? Even when babies are born, boy has blue clothes, the big girl baby has pink clothes. I know not everyone follows suit with that.

But a lot of people do in this country anyway, is kind of the standard. Which means, of course, it's going to be harder for the kid, because they get older to kind of really, they're gonna, you know, it's, I don't know what I'm trying to say, just I've always felt more female than male. Really? I think like my brain, not my body.

I don't feel like I need to have a like a, anything like that. Just I would say I've probably got more of a female brain than a male brain. Yeah, I just I do get on with women, much more than I get on with men.

Because I just find, and not all women, obviously, but I just find that the women, the females that I know, that I meet, have stuff to talk about, they can hold a conversation. And so can some men as well. But it seems to be less.

Maybe it's a trust thing. Maybe, maybe the men just don't want to talk to me. It could be that.

And that's, that's why that's part of the reason why I don't like anyone sitting in my living room when I'm watching boxing. Or if I'm watching a movie or TV shows, I don't want anyone near me. Okay, and men.

Generally, I mean, if I was in a relationship, it'd be different. But I don't want someone sitting next to me during a boxing because partly because they might talk and interrupt me. But the real reason, if I'm completely honest, is that I will talk all the way through.

Because they're there, and I will talk to them all the way through. And I'll miss it. Because I can't stop myself.

If someone's in a room with me, I will talk. That's why I like being on my own. And I like making these podcasts because I can talk, and then it's done.

It's like a big fart drop, you know. And it's done, and it's gone. Brain fart, whatever.

And I'm just and then I can just not talk anymore for a while. But what I noticed is when I'm around people, any length of time, I don't want to make a podcast because I've used all my words up. So if I've been visiting, having lunch with someone or visiting, and I've been chatting with them for an hour or more.

When I get home, I want to lay down. I'm absolutely shattered by it. And I really don't want to make a podcast after that.

I don't want to talk anymore. And it's not that I don't enjoy the process. It's not that I haven't had fun or had a good conversation and had a few laughs along the way.

But it does drain me, being around other people in a way that I still can't really can really understand. But getting back to this, this whole kind of I'd like to have a handbag. That's really what I'm moaning about.

I want to be able to have a handbag. When I was at school, I wanted to do knitting and sewing. And I didn't, I didn't like the way that the these gender roles were pushed upon us.

Now, I didn't have the verbal ability to explain that when I was, you know, seven and eight and nine years old, or 10 or 11 or even well until I heard the actual expression yesterday on YouTube. But I didn't, you know, I loved and I tell you one of my favorite things ever in junior school was crotch, not crotch stitching. Now that'd be painful.

Cross stitching. Cross stitching is it cross? Yeah. I used to really enjoy doing that.

To the point where I'm thinking I need to just get another get some of that and start doing it again. Because I love doing it. It's very relaxing.

It's nice to focus on something like that. Kind of shut my brain down a bit. And maybe even learn to knit.

It's stuff like that, which would be good. Which I never I did try and learn to knit. My nan tried to teach me.

But in the end, she just ended up pushing me out the window. But I probably wasn't a good student. I didn't.

It looked easy. And it is easy. But it's repetition.

But then it isn't easy. And it may be my non mathematical brain struggled with. I tell you what it is, I was more focused on the end result rather than the process.

So it's kind of like, okay, so I've got these two sticks, two pointed sticks, and some wool. And I want to produce this thing at the end of it, which is a hat. How the heck is that going to happen? But it happens by just doing is starting, you have to start bit by bit.

And then you get there, don't you? I didn't want to paint though. I wanted to be a painter, but didn't like painting. Now that might sound like a strange statement.

And that wasn't that's not to do with like female. Because there's nothing. There's nothing I don't think there's any anything female about sewing or knitting or cross stitching or anything.

But that's that's definitely the the roles that were kind of put upon us when I was a kid. I I wanted to be good at something. Actually, no, I wanted to be really good at something.

All my life, I wanted to be just exceptional at something. It's not about being better than anyone else or being the best. Because I think that's just I respect people that don't even make out that they're the best.

You know, like if you go to boxing, there's some amazing boxers that will still say that like heavyweight boxers that will still say that Muhammad Ali was the best that ever they ever did it. Even Mike Tyson says that there were other he wasn't the best. And that was when he was in his prime and he was he was the best at the time.

And chances are no one could have beaten him in history when he was at his peak. We're never going to know that. But but he still gave credit to people like Jack Dempsey, of course, you know, Muhammad Ali, of course, and many others that he knew about, like Joe Louis and that.

So I think that there's something quite admirable about not thinking of yourself as the best. And having someone up there. Higher, like not higher, but someone to aspire to be like, but to not be as good as but to be to, you know, to try and be nearly as good as maybe like a musician will have their favorite musician, an artist will have their favorite artist, and no matter what they do or what they produce.

The thing is, like, if you look at Beethoven, no matter what any musician does now, they are never going to be compared as great as Beethoven, even if they are as great as Beethoven. Just because he's he's not the only one, but he's cemented, isn't he, in the world of among the greatest composers in history. And then you've got actors.

And if you look at art, Meryl Streep, for example, or Marlon Brando, these people from many years ago, or actors, Robert De Niro and Pete Al Pacino, ones that I'm trying to think of some female ones, this is terrible, isn't it? There's loads of female actors as well. They're great. I'm just, the only reason De Niro jumps out is because I like their movies.

And I kind of, I put them together with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and what's his name, because of the Godfather movies, because they were all together, weren't they, in the Godfather movies. And the idea is, like, they probably all believe that someone else is better than them. Robert De Niro, does he believe he's better than Marlon Brando? Does Marlon Brando believe that he was better than Laurence Olivier?

Really? And they might think it might, you know, at times might think it when he was alive, but do they really, you know? Sporting people.

I suppose if you break world records, then you can kind of say, well, I'm the fastest sprinter in the history of sprinting, which is something I didn't expect to say out of my mouth today. Sprinting. I used to be quite a good sprinter.

Not on the track, but I used to be able to run. But I suppose most kids can, can't they? But I used to, I remember once I was running, and I had my head down, and I actually kneed myself in the face. That was weird.

Why did I do that, though? I didn't do it on purpose. I wasn't like, it wasn't self-injury. I mean, generally, I didn't know I was, why did I have my head so low down? But I used to run in a straight line down the town, and I'd end up jumping over prams and like really stupid things like that.

And I never banged into anyone. To be fair, I think people used to get out of my way, but I thought I was going like 100, 200 miles an hour, which in reality, I probably wasn't. Probably more like a little snail, and people were thinking, okay, maybe some people were actually just like changing their pram for an old pram that was in the doorway, and let's put that there, and let him pretend he's jumping over an actual pram.

And they might have just had a whole set, a whole like road that was built just for me for when I did that. Funny enough, there wasn't anyone there. Anyway, in my mind, I was running very fast.

I wanted to be good at something. I wanted to be, I like the idea of being good at art, and I wasn't. And I was not happy with being okay at art, because I didn't, I enjoyed, I enjoyed drawing.

I didn't enjoy painting, never enjoyed painting. No, it wasn't really my thing. And painting by numbers, although I did like the smell of the paint, and yeah, not really.

It's a bit, just seemed a bit pointless, really. Like if the image is already there for you, I mean, for me, on my, from my perspective, I couldn't see the point. I did it a few times, I had a few of them, but I think it's because my stepmom was, the two things she was really, really, well, she was really good at lots of things, but and she had two talents that I kind of wanted to have, to be like her with, I guess, and that was art and music.

She could play the piano, and she was a great artist. So what I did is when she was drawing, she was so good. So I try and, and I guess I try and draw.

And I wasn't, I wasn't particularly good. I ended up, I started off drawing birds out of a bird book. And then I'd end up drawing cars with rockets on them.

I mentioned I'm a little bit like a a childhood version of Elon Musk, but without the intelligence, just the autism, not knowing, no actual ability. I don't know, I enjoyed, I enjoyed that for a while anyway. But I did prefer reading, but I wanted to be good at something.

That was really something, you know, I mean, when I moved to London to do comedy, I wanted to be, it wasn't about being the best. I just wanted to be good. I wanted to be a game, talk about cliches, I didn't, it's not like I wanted to be the best version of what I could be the best that I could be, whatever that is.

And ironically, the only time that I really excelled in any situation in my life really was when I started working in insurance, selling, well not just selling in general, actually, because I was good at that. And I became really good at selling on the phone. And I won't lie and say, well, it's not something I ever wanted, because it was, you know, I wanted to, I used to read sales books for years, many years, all through the 90s.

But I was more wanting to do face to face sales and stuff. But, so I found something that was good at, that I excelled at. And it was nice for the period it lasted, like in some ways.

But I also realized that I'm completely dedicated when it comes to something like that. And I was going in, I was even going in on my days off sometimes, just to get extra sales. I know, it's not good.

Shouldn't have done that. They shouldn't have let me do that. But I did.

I remember once I came in, it was on my day off, just came in for the morning. I was going to go see my nan in the afternoon. And I was sitting there with a cup of coffee.

And one of the team leaders shouted over, Jason, you've got to get on the phones, there's calls waiting. I said, I'm not working, it's my day off. I said, well, go home then.

He said, if you're sitting at your desk, you're available for work. Oh, wow. Okay.

So I went to the toilet. I'm not sure if that was a good ending to that story. It seems a bit of a letdown, doesn't it? It could have been built up to something a bit more interesting.

So I went to the toilet is not really a good ending to any story. Unless, of course, you know, desperate to go to the toilet. And then I went to the toilet.

I was like, okay, anti climatic, but still like, okay, that was a nice clean ending in more ways than one. Phoebe, Phoebe, Phoebe or Phoebe. She tells us about her look.

I get lots of my clothes from charity shops, which I'll team with a few high street buys. My sweater is Primark and the skirt is from a charity shop. My bag is also a charity shop find and my boots are from Stradivarius.

I usually go for neutral tones and I love to mix textures like this wool jumper and satin skirt. What's your favourite thing about yourself? My hair. Okay.

Helen, tell us about your look. My jeans come from a charity shop and I love them. The label says Ivy Copenhagen.

They were such a great find. The shirt is a hand me down from my sister and my linen mixed cardigan is Primark. I've added a belt from a Tommy Hilfiger outlet store and my trainers came from a London boutique.

I think good accessories pull your look together. What's your favourite thing about yourself? I'm really kind. Okay.

See Fleur says, what do you like about yourself? What's your favourite thing about yourself? I like to think I'm a kind person. Yeah, fair enough. But I'm really kind.

It just sounds a bit strange hearing it. There's nothing wrong with it. I just think it's kind of, I hope it's a kind, you know, being to me, like, I like to think I'm a kind person.

I like to help people. But it's for other people to say whether or not I'm kind or not. You know, I can, I can go all day about being on generous.

It's really for other people to tell me whether or not I'm generous. Or if what I'm doing is helping people. All I can say is I hope that what I do is helping people.

But only the people listening can actually tell me if what I'm doing is of any help. Having children keeps me young says Anton Dubek. He's on a TV thing called Strictly Come Dancing or Strictly.

They call it Strictly because Strictly Come Dancing is such a lot of words, isn't it? So they just call it Strictly. So how old is he then? He's 59. Okay.

He's, I mean, I imagine it's not that hard to meet someone when you're on TV. And not in a kind of a weird way. Just I know, just from personal experience, what I've seen.

With my own eyes, that a little bit of fame, just a little bit of fame, gets people excited. And, and they want to meet you. And, you know, it's, it can be an aphrodisiac, kind of.

But being on the biggest TV show in the country, which I'm sure Strictly would probably be one of, it's, yeah, like Simon Cowell. He was never, never going to be single unless he wanted to be, was he? Or anyone else on any of these shows, whoever they are. Because, oh, look, I'm still writing songs.

Folk music, folk, folk music legend, Peggy Seeger. I first went on stage when I was 15 years old, 75 years ago. So my final performance in Dun Logar near Dublin in June was highly emotional.

Wow, it's 90. She's doing, she's doesn't look 90. She looks like 60.

Now she does look 90. No, she doesn't. I don't know what 90.

Why is it not okay to look old anymore? What's that about? What's wrong with looking old? I mean, I saw a picture of, uh, what's his name? Simon Cowell. He looks like a stuffed dummy. Or like a ventriloquist dummy or something.

It's just, I don't know what he's done to himself. What's wrong? I mean, what's wrong with just getting old? There's loads of things I could do to make myself even sexier. Hard to believe, but it's true.

But I just like, I kind of, I don't know. I can see there's benefits in plastic surgery. You know, it's obviously it's amazing stuff.

And there's a whole really famous book called cyber cybernetics or something. And it's all about that, how having making a change to your physical appearance can change your entire personality. So, you know, from a psychological perspective, it can be transformative.

Or transformative. Oh, look, all these different meals or more looks horrible. The thing is, all cozy feet, extra roomy, extra wide or for extra wide or swollen feet.

Oh, that's nice. They're tiny though. Look at this 20% off full price knitwear.

Knitwear. Why is it no pictures of men wearing clothes? Sexist. Dr. Jill advice from our woman's weekly doctor.

No, that's right. I want to focus on health stuff. Let counselor Karen lighten your load.

I don't know why that's funny. I'm sorry. Here to help struggling at home alone.

I'm 79. Okay, that's not Yeah, that's a sad one. So yeah, that that is death.

Yeah, I'm not that does make me wonder because I'm what, you know, I'm late 30s now and living on my own. I do wonder, you know, kind of, I know I've got feeling and stuff. So that's good.

But if I was on my own, you know, I mean, but Wow, okay, I'm not going to read any of this out because all quite Yeah, see what this one I'm up all night I go to bed fall asleep easily, but wake three hours to go to the loo. I blah, blah, blah, go to a toilet. You're not alone.

It even has a name Nocturia. It affects more than 50% of adults over 50. And I need I go to a toilet a couple of times a night.

I mean going to a toilet. At least once a time a night since I was Blimey, forever. I don't care, it makes no difference to me.

But I do drink a lot of water and I drink water before I go to bed and when I've done a wee wee in the middle of the night I come back and I drink water again. Because, because, because, well for one reason, the medication I'm on does make me have a dry mouth. It makes me feel dehydrated.

Maybe I'm not dehydrated but it feels like I'm dehydrated at times. So I do drink perhaps more water than is necessary at night. But that's just one of those things.

And I'm all here with it. Oh look at this. Knitting.

So this is a Casual Chic. These abbreviations. Measurement to fit bust.

82 to 86. In brackets. 92 to 97.

102 to 107. 112 to, what is all that? I don't know what all that is. Actual measurement is 94.

So that's why. Because this is knitting. This is stitching.

28 stitches and 28 rows to 10 x 10 centimetres over stocking stitch using 3.75 millimetre needles. No. It's too complicated.

Wow, this looks, it's got a knitting pattern here. It looks like something, some kind of rocket formula. Seriously.

Wow, just looking at some of these adverts. My stair lift has made a massive life changing difference. My nan got a stair, did she get a stair lift? I'm sure she got a stair lift.

I can't remember now. I'm sure she did. Because I used to ride up on it.

Took ages. Like just all that time just to go up one to probably 12 steps. So 12 steps on the stairs.

And it would take probably a good couple of minutes for the stair lift to go all the way up. And then another two minutes to go down. So maybe longer.

It's a lot of a waste of time. Yeah. And then sometimes I'd be up there in the bathroom.

And someone had brought it down. My dad had come in. So what's it doing up there? And he'd like make it go all the way down again.

So that might because my nan was downstairs, so she could be able to go upstairs. So now I had to stand there and bring it all the way up again. In order to get down.

So that's like four minutes just to get back downstairs. Wasn't a lot of room either. Not really.

But it did the job. Okay, great reads and cleaves. When Gavin met Stacey, a heartwarming companion to the beloved series.

When Gavin met Stacey and everything in between, offers fans an intimate glimpse into the show's creation. Penned right by writers and co stars Ruth and James. Okay, cool.

Always an advert for pillows. Wonder pillow transforms lives over half a million people. A father's devotion leads to incredible patented pillow.

One day all pillows will be made this way. So I'm not going to read about it because I know it's going to be a sad story. But looks like the pillows are nice.

Not a lot of like major uplifting stuff here. How much is two pillows? 41 pound 99 should be 59 pound 99. Really? Really? That seems a lot of money for a pillow.

Oh, fleece lined ladies zipper. Why did ladies zippers zip a different way? The zip bit which you pull up push up is on the other side to men's. The reason I know that is because I've got a tracksuit top, which is a woman's one, which I didn't know when I bought it online.

And the zip is the other way. I mean, why? What surely what difference would that make? You know, I mean, like what, what, what difference? I don't know. Okay, right.

So let's have a look at the stars Aries. Having expectations of others often leads to disappointment. If you can drop them, your relationship should improve.

Terry's stop Taurus, stop comparing yourself to others. Think about what makes you different mentally, emotionally and physically and your self confidence will soar. And Gemini, now is the ideal time to learn something new or improve on an existing skill.

Your love challenges your love challenging your Oh, you love challenging your mind. And cancer, your home is your haven. This is a great week for paying more attention to your environment.

You'll be really glad you did. Leo, focus on your physical health and well being. It's important to find something you enjoy, then you'll make more of an effort.

Ah, Virgo, while experts have their place, isn't a Virgo? While experts have their place, only you know what's right for you. If something doesn't feel good, question it, and don't proceed until you're sure. Libra, volunteer for a cause you love and offer your services to others.

Time invested in this will uplift your soul and your spirit. Scorpio, your courage is needed now more than ever. It may be time to face something you fear and walk through it.

You have great inner resources to be utilized. Sagittarius, it's the perfect week for getting outstanding jobs accomplished at home or in the office as these can be completed quite easily. So get that washing up done.

Can't believe they put that in there. Capricorn, it's vital to concentrate on one or two important issues. Now, don't allow yourself to be distracted by anything else except laundry.

Blimey, this is proper sexist, this place. Aquarius, say yes is usually easier than say no. It's time to stop people pleasing.

What you need and desire matters most. Like knitting that new hat. Pisces, you may feel overwhelmed by various responsibilities try delegating.

You'll be pleasantly surprised at the response. If you ask others to help out. We've set in a table.

Wow, so this is good. Oh, right done. That's all all of that 64 pages.

There's another advert for a pearl necklace, something, some necklacy thing. I don't really never been into necklaces. I know some people do.

And the game juries definitely seems to be more a female thing. Apart from different cultures, I mean, in some cultures where a lot of jewelry, don't they? And but in like, I don't know. I don't wear any jewelry.

I don't have any, any rings, necklace or nothing. Don't have any a single thing. But yeah, I know some, some people.

Some people do. I don't know necklaces. I find again a little bit away.

I got a little crucifix for my 18th birthday for my dad. And it just got covered in soap when I in the shower. And I thought, well, just, you know, you know, I mean, and it was so little, and the chain was so tiny, that I couldn't physically take it on and off myself because it was too small.

Anyone? What kind of necklaces Do you like if you're listening? Do you like? If you like necklaces, do you like gold necklaces? Silver necklaces? Like a nice diamond necklace, maybe? What about maybe a pearl necklace? Maybe you love a nice, a good, you know, a nice pearl necklace? Or what's that? That? What's that stuff? That's always not not it's not diamonds, but it's allo allopelagic. Appley alopecia, alopecia necklace thing, where it's not so it doesn't cause or it's non gold or it's not it's not silver, or whatever.

I forget the name of it.

Not hemorrhoids. But it's like there's a like a stone that isn't real. But it became popular in like the 80s and whatever.

But people used to buy it because it was nice. But it wasn't like a proper diamond or any kind of rare stone. But it was I think they used to grow them in a lab.

Some kind of necklace, jewelry lab thing. And because they were quite unique, they'd all come out with different colors. So they were almost quite I don't know.

Julie in her own way, you know? Not alopecia, not hyper allergy, how hyper allergenic? Is that the one hyper allergenic? That was the that was the metal wasn't it? So you could put it earrings. So some people were didn't they couldn't have gold or they couldn't have silver, but hyper allergenic was I think it might have been plastic. I don't know.

Yeah, that's it. Asseline Dion says it's all coming back to me. And on that note, I'm gonna take Vinnie out for a walk.

So thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself. Because you do deserve to be happy.

Be gentle with yourself. You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love.

Bye bye bye bye. Tomorrow, Sunday papers.