May 26, 2025

(music) DOG WALKING | Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1360 | 26th May 2025

(music) DOG WALKING | Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1360 | 26th May 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's Jason Newland,

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and this is let me bore you to sleep. Today

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is Monday, the twenty sixth of May two thousand and

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twenty five.

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It's six fifty five peb.

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Ooh, it's Monday's boring Objects and today I am going

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to discuss dog walking. Oh yes, exciting. Did I say? Oh?

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Only listen and you can safely close your eyes. I'm

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not sure if I said that or not. I don't

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think I did what I have now anyway, check out

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my website, which is groovy. I'm just going to shut

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the top up my website. All the recordings are on there.

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There's playlists, there's podcasts, there's links to the different apps

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that my podcasts are on. There's a way to contact

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me whatever. Lots of different things in there. There's also

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a link to my Facebook group, which is Jason Newland's

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Boring Group. There's a link to my YouTube channel which

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is at Jason Newland, which is now my podcast on YouTube.

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So exactly the same recordings as you get on Spotify

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or Apple or cast box or wherever. It's all on

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YouTube now as well, including the ten hour ones. With music,

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you know, all this all version or six versions. I

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got the chroaky voice. I had a one day cold yesterday,

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which is weird. I still it's like a I think

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it's a weather change in reaction. It has gone from

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being warm to being cold to being damp. So the

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last couple of days it's been very damp and very damp.

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I guess, I don't know another word to explain it

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really rainy instead of being dry. So yeah, a little

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bit under the weather the last couple of days, but

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feeling all right generally. Just keep coughing a little bit

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and then my voice is fine. Just takes a little

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bit of lubrication. That's weird, isn't it. So I'm going

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to start off. I've walked dogs for years and the

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first time I walked the dog, I was fourteen, and

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it was misty. The what was it Saint Bernard or

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you may call it a Saint Bernard. You may wrongly

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call it a Saint Bernard. It's a Saint Bernard, a

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huge dog. So there's been that one. There's been my

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other friend's dog who I lived with. Either was my

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cousin's dog that I lived with. That was my other

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friend's dog I lived with. Then there was the other

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friend that friend's dog I lived with, and then it

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was Vinny, but also Logi downstairs. I was gonna say

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I never lived with Logi, but I did, didn't I

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for two months, but he used to see him very

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regularly for I don't know, six years, however long, however

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long he was living downstairs, stayed to take him for

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walks and spend a lot of time with him. Lovely dog,

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really lovely. Apart from other dogs, it's the most gentle dog.

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Just ridiculous how gentle and floppy and soppy he was

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with humans. But with other dogs, Nope, apart from one dog, Finny,

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Hinny was the only dog that he liked. Not totally true.

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There was a couple of I think he did. He

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had a girlfriend another dog that was similar to him,

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who get on with but generally did not like other dogs.

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Loved Vinnie Strange, I say, I mean he did Vinnie once.

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Vinnie and him lived together up here for pretty much December.

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I think it might have been three months, December, January, February.

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It's either the end of January or the end of February,

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so it's either two or three months I had him

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living here, them two together, and they started fighting. They

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started arguing with each other, and I think a lot

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of it was Vinnie trying to boss him around. I mean,

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Vinnie could have comfortably fitted inside his mouth and gone

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to sleep. You know, the size difference was ridiculous. He

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really looked like a gerbil next to it. So I

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don't know why. I guess this is Vinnie's home, But

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before that, he used to love Vinnie's to love him.

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I'm sure he still loves him, but he just used

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to absolutely adore him and gets so excited to see

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him and try and get into that flat every time

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he went downstairs to try and get in there to

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see Logi, and Logu tries to get up here to

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see Vinnie. And then it's weird, actually, because about a

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couple of months before my friend left, I'd say a

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couple of months maybe a few months, but Logi went missing.

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He just escaped and he run off and he was

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gone for about two weeks. That whole time, Vinnie was

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pining for him. He was sitting at the front door

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just waiting, like really kind of pining, which was weird.

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But after living here, I mean he did he got

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found at a hostel place or whatever and got brought

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back a rescue place. But when we after living together

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for a couple of months or three months, and Logi

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went and fact got his new home, Vinny didn't seem

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that bothered. It's weird. It seemed he wasn't celebrating. I mean,

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he wasn't like popping off streamers or anything, or dancing,

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but he was definitely.

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That.

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He seemed to be happy to have his home back.

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But what surprised me is I felt sad at the time.

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I couldn't really understand it. I suppose I understand it

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now because that was the last that was part of

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my friend, wasn't it. I'd lost him, But I didn't,

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So I didn't really connect him with Logi, even though

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there's an obvious connection. It was his dog. So once

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he was gone, all everything connected to my friend was

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pretty much gone, apart from the occasional contact with his dad.

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That's kind of it. So yeah, so I was piling.

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I'm the one that was sitting at the front door

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on the floor piling. Vinnie was in there, thinking, Oh

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what am I going to do about him? I need

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to distract him, maybe if I get him some bones. Anyway,

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So dog's walking. I thought I talk about dog walking

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because I actually forgot it was Monday today because there's

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a bank holiday Monday. It really really feels like a Sunday.

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That really feels like a Sunday in a sense of

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I've known its bank holiday right from the beginning of

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the day, or before eveyone went to bed last night,

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and it still felt like a Sunday. Quite often, a

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bank holiday feels just like a Monday. It's like just

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another day. I don't know why it felt like a Sunday.

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Thinking about it, I was thinking of last night as

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being Saturday. That probably explains it as well, because I

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was thinking about what I did last night. Well, last

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night I watched the Boxing. No, I didn't. That was

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Saturday night last night. I've got no idea what I did.

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I went to bed early pretty much. Yeah, so it's

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felt like a Sunday. But it's not. I mean, it's

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not a bad thing. I mean, I don't. I've got

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no issue with Sundays. It's a relaxing day. Some would

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argue all days are relaxing days for me, but you know,

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I like to think that I'm doing something with my time. Today.

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I actually found a way to stream my so I've

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got Kindle on my phone, so I opened it up

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and I found a way to play a book speaking

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out loud to me. But not only that, I mirrored

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it onto the TV so I could read along at

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the same time. So the voice is a you know,

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it's very robotic, so it's not like a decent voice,

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but reading it and because the screen's big on the TV,

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I could read it much easie than reading a book.

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I just can't just prints too small now for books

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for me until I get my eyes tested and get

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them get better glasses.

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So the.

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I think I spent about three hours reading a book,

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and occasionally I kind of closed my eyes and just

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listen to it. Then I go back and read it.

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And it's a book I've read before. It's a book

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I've already got on the shelf as well. But I

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also purchased it on Kindle about eleven years ago. It's

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a long time ago. And eleven years from now, what

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will I be. I will be sixty five. I'll be

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sixty five, I'll be two years off of retire. Wow,

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eleven years so thirteen years away. Forteen to fifty six seven,

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i'll be nearing retirement age. No, no, even less. So

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when I'm sixty five, I'll be fifty five in August,

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so twelve years from August, i'll be retired. I'll be

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retired age.

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Wow.

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I'll be thinking. And this isn't really related to dog walking,

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and probably most of the things I talk about during

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this recording will also not be related to dog walking.

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For some reason, but I started to have a little,

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a little feeling towards maybe it would be nice to

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have to be in a relationship, to have a girlfriend.

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I know, a girlfriend might not be the right term anymore.

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Partners probably the best, probably the correct term now, I

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don't know, but relationship, I'm just thinking maybe. And I

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kind of started to notice women a bit more just

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I don't know, I've not really had much interest in

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women for ages, not really, not really kind of just

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I don't know. Maybe it's the summer. Maybe maybe the

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sun's ignited some kind of testosterone in me. I don't know.

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Maybe maybe one of my hormones has regrown, because I

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think most of my hormones had gone, but maybe one's resurfaced.

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And I'm starting to I don't know, it's different. It's

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no desperation. I've been desperate in the past. Blimey, it's

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a long time ago. But I used to be like

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really like a pening dog, like really just I don't

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know why I did that impression of a pening dog.

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We all know what a dog sounds like when it pens.

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I don't know why I did that. I wasn't literally

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walking around and going, what's your name, I'm Jason. It

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wasn't quite that bad. It wasn't much better than that. Though,

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never any good at chat up blinds. I just thought

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he was silly, you know. It's just thought, well, if

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you make someone laugh, they were like, you never found

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out to be the case. It's like, it makes someone laugh,

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then you're in the friend zone. It's like instantly it's

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easy to be the friend zone by loads of female friends. Yeah. Anyway,

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So I've just been thinking about that, and I just

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noticed that I'm starting to maybe I don't know if

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I'm getting older and wrinklier and all those things that

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starting to think, hmm, you know, I know there's going

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to come a time when I look in the mirror

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and I will not recognize myself or there was going

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to come a time when I don't even look in

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the mirror anymore. And you know, I don't know. I'm

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not sure that will happen, but I guess that possibly

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will happen. I've seen many people that seem to be

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in that situation where they just I don't want to

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be I want to kind of there's not much to

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work with, but I'd kind of do my best with

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what there is, you know, try and should I die?

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Should I die my not my pubes, my beard? Should

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I die my beard? So die it gray? That be weird,

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wouldn't it? What weird thing to do? Because then someone

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could maybe I ask someone out and I think no

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because you're too old, and I say, no, I'm not.

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And I can just wipe it off, say look, I'm

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only partially gray. But then I don't know, yes's not

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really die? Is it? That would be coloring? I suppose

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perhaps chalk, like you know, blackboard chalk. I could like

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just push that into my beard and that look like

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I've got a white bear. And then I said, is

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it because I'm a bit old? Said yeah? Just I said,

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don't worry, and I pull out a what a wet

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wipe from my pants and just like look, it's look,

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I'm not I'm not completely gray. And now I might say, well,

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you are actually still gray, so no, I'm not. It's chalk.

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And then I go home and I realize, okay, I

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was I'm already gray. Some part of me is not

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gray because I shaved my head, and I shaved my

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I trimmed my beard the other day, and there was

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clumps of dark hair there there was There wasn't from

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me bum, so it's definitely from my face of my head.

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So I did it. Oh, okay, let's forget Yeah, right, okay,

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let's move on. So I think, oh, I got caught.

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This is really bad. Okay, I'm not just gonna help it.

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I was talking to a lady today when I was

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walking with me, you know then, and I think I

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got caught looking down the top. I'm sorry. I didn't

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mean to I didn't mean to get caught. I mean

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she didn't actually specifically say what you're doing looking down

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my top, but she did ask me why I was

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standing on the ladder, So it's kind of I don't know.

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It's hard to I mean, I don't know. It's hard

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to know because you can't just like question it. Oh

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did you catch me looking down your top? And she

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said no, but now I know you were. I said, no,

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you don't. I'm just saying, okay, you do, really don't you. Oh,

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but of course I wasn't, and I'm just making this up.

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Of course she was looking trying to look down my top,

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and I was offended, like, leave my bosoms alone, they're mine.

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I think my chest is coming along. I think I've

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definitely I seem to be flattering the tummy now that

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I was. I say that, and I've just grabbed a

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big massive Yeah. Maybe when I lay down, I am

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when I lay down quite slim. Yeah, when I hang

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upside down, I'm taller. I mean it depends, well, you know,

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sort of do with gravity. I suppose, isn't it the

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dog walk in I remember saying to someone that's had this.

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I think I was sort of kind of semulating this lady.

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And so I'm just outside it's a sunny day, and

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she said, why looking at my top? I said, what

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do you mean? Said? You're staring at my top? Is

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it something on it? Like she's spilled ice cream or something.

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I don't know, what do you mean? I'm not looking

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at your top. She said, I can see you're looking

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for it at my top. I said, you can't see

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me look at your top because I've got sunglasses. When

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they're not they're acting like normal glasses. And I said,

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you cannot see my eyes through these. She said, yes,

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I can. I said you can't. Why are you Indian?

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You can? You can't see where I'm looking because these

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are shades. When it's sunny, they're turning into shades. You

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cannot see my eyes. She said, I can see your

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eyes clearly. I can see exactly where you're looking. I said, no,

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you can't, So she she pulled a person pulled off,

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didn't pull off. She pulled someone to the side. Another

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pedestrian said, can you tell me that you can see

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his eyes? Can't you know? And she said, yeah, you

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can see the way he's looking. He's staring at your chest.

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I said, I'm not staring at staring at mine now,

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and I'm not I'm not staring at anyone's chair. You

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can't see my eyes. They've got I specifically bought them

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so that you can't see where I'm looking. And she said,

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I thought it was because of your eyesight. I said, yeah,

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it's because of my eyesight as well. Imagin't you know

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I won't wear glasses if I didn't need them. She said,

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but you said the act of light was because you've

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got the that macro degeneration in the fat and you

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have to be careful your eyes so that you know,

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you have to protect your eyes from the sun so

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that it doesn't progress any further, like with your dad

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and your nan and your other family members. And I said, yeah, yeah,

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that that is the reason. But at the same time,

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I actually was thinking that no one could see my eyes.

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She said, yeah, we can see your eyes. Someone else

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passed it, Yeah, I can see them. Stop looking at

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my chest and carried on walking. So it turns out

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and I start asking people that I know, can you

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see my eyes when I've got my glasses on and

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it's sunny. Yeah, I've asked everyone, and everyone can see

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my eyes. So for twelve years, twelve summers, twelve years,

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I've been walking around thinking people can't see where I'm looking,

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and they've all been able to see where I'm looking.

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My question is can I get a refund? Can I

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get my money back? I just when I get money,

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glasses I may just actually buy some proper sunglasses with

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my prescription in them, because that's ridiculous. I should be

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able to have the freedom to I'm just.

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Yeah, anyway, So walking the first dog I walked was

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I made all up?

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Of course, the first dog I walked was I have

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any friends with dogs at school? I don't think I did.

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I don't think I had any dogs, dog friends, friends

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with dogs, dogs that lived in a friend's house. No,

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I didn't. No, I had a friend that had two cats.

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And there were those board cats, the ones with no

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cut clothes on, you know, the ones that are just

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basically naked. And it looked like the kind of things

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that you see hanging up in a tie a tire market.

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I wasn't sure there were cats or bats, the lovely cats.

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Guvey it looked like statues, though, because they just used

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to sit there really still. And please don't shout out.

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We know what you mean by statues statue sit still.

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When people say it was like a statue, we know

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that that means it means it was very still, all right,

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BlimE me, just because bank holiday don't have to be

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all frizzy with me or frizzy and fuzzy and fizzy

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and blippy blippy blue blue. So I'm walking Misty. I

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talked about Misty the other day and she she used

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to drag me around. I could not control her. She

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was way too big, way too strong, no training, and

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it was such a shame because she's a beautiful dog,

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or dogs are beautiful, but she's she was lovely. She

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just couldn't. I was scared of her, to be fair,

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she was too big, twice my size. I mean, she's

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probably bigger than I am now. Maybe doesn't weigh as

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much as that way, but she she may well have done.

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She was a good twelve stone, maybe fourteen stone, maybe

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even more. Maybe you might even way more than I

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do now. Because she was big, big dog. And you

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can literally put her on the scales and just see

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the doll just moving slowly. You can see in real time,

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see her grow in real time. It was like watching

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the moon. You can see the moon move if you

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just watch it. I mean, technically, if you watch anything

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long enough, you can see it move, can't you. If

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you watch a mountain long enough, you can see the

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mountain dissolving and corroding. But you'd have to be a

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lie for sort of millions of years or thousands of years.

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But if you were alive for thousands of years or

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millions of years, it wouldn't be the best use of

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your time, would it. But then you might argue, yeah,

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but if you're going to live forever, what does a

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couple of million years mean? Suppose I did think that

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if I'd like to live forever, not for any other

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reason other than I just want to see everyone I

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care about die, No, wow, as a joke, I want

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to see I'd like to be able to read every book.

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Not every book, There's going to be a lot of

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really bad books, but I'd like to read every book

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that I want to read, see every movie that I

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want to see, do ever, study every subject that I

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want to study. So maybe if I wanted to go

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into I don't know, philosophy and just study everything and

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decide I'm going to spend the next fifty years or

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one hundred years study in philosophy, then in a hundred

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years time, I'm going to study everything to do with space.

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So I'm going to you know, it's like I'm really

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going to become good at one thing or something, because

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earlier today I was trying to think of something that

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I was good at, and I couldn't think of anything.

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I meant just watching television class as a talent. I

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don't know, so so Misty was Yeah, it was I

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couldn't take a dog. I couldn't take her for a walk,

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she was too big, couldn't do it. And the second

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dog I took for a walk would have been my

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friend who I lived with in London, and he would

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leave well, there was a time when I was at

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home and he was at work, and there's other times

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when he'd leave me looking after the dog while he

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went away. So when I had when I when I

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didn't have the dog, the dog was naughty. When he

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was there, He'd let the dog do anything he wants,

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and he was naughty when I had him for a

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week on my own. I trained him. I had him

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walking around the park with me and he never ever

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bothered other dogs, didn't bark at them, nothing. As soon

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as his dad got back, he turned into a terror again.

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And I also realized that, you know, when I first

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met him, he was barking at me for about three hours.

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After I moved in, I realized that he was a

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scaredy cat. He wasn't brave at all. He was not

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even a bully. He was just scared and he didn't

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have Yeah, he didn't have any kind of he'd bark

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out other dogs, but he didn't. Me did some unfortunately.

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He was a bit bity as well, but he behaved

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himself with me. And you know, he used to sleep

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in the bed with me, and when his dad wasn't there,

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he slept in the bed with his dad. But when

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his dad wasn't there, he's sleeping the bed with me.

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And you know, I got on really well with him.

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And I had a girlfriend, it's hard to believe that

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I did, and he loved her. I thought he was

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going to eat her because she wanted to come back

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to my place, and I thought, there's a good chance

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he's going to really bite her and attack her, but

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at the same time might get some sex. It was like,

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was out loud, no, I mean I kind of you know,

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it was like, I come back to your place, so okay,

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But I'm thinking, is he going to go crazy? I

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mean I could handle him, so I could get him

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into a different room and stuff. But I really thought

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he was going to go for her and maybe she'd

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be wouldn't want to come into the house because he

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was a proper barker. Like really, it was like a

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little puppy with her, a little puppy. Instantly, as soon

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as she walked in, he was laying on his back

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so she could rub his tummy. He was cutting up

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to her. Never met her before, absolutely loved her. Wouldn't

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let me in the bed though he was in the

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bed with her, wouldn't let me anywhere near her. So

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that relationship didn't last long. Dane ended up getting married

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but had kids I think fourteen. Honestly, he loved her.

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I didn't could not get my head around that, so

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what else? And she was ginger so I was him.

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And then the next one was my I moved into

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this house and there was a dog there. Oh, she

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was so cute. She's only a puppy when I moved in,

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so I used to take her for walks. No, no,

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she wasn't living there to start with. So the next

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one I lived with was my other friend. He had

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a dog, and she always slept in a bed with him,

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right under the covers, like, never on top, right under

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the cover, like really, and she she was she wouldn't

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leave him alone, so she did didn't really pay me

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much attention at all the whole time I was living

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there with him, because she just adored him. But I

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used to take her for walk sometimes and if I

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was looking, because sometimes he'd go, he'd go abroad, go

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to see family, and I'd look after her for the

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weekend or for the week or whatever. So I'd have

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to take her out and stuff. And she was good

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as gold, really good, good dog. Used to lick my feet,

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which I like. That was nice. And then she was

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quite cuddly. She liked to cuddle as well. And then

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the third dog, no, the fourth dog was when I

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moved in to my cousins for the second time, and

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she had a puppy this time when I moved back,

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and I took the puppy for walks, long walks, and

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I needed that. I so needed something, you know. It's

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quite a difficult period. It was back in ninety seven,

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summer ninety seven, and she really helped, this little dog

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help me. And the cat there was a cat there

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as well that it took to me like none other

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animals really taken to me before that. She took to

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me so love me. This cat she scratched at my

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bedroom door to come in, and she'd climb crawl up

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and down my back and sometimes I say, well, let

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me lay down first, and she, you know, it's a

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bit less less scratchy when I was lying down to

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be fair, but she's just so the peacefulness, the calmness

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of the purr and and she just took to me.

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I don't know why she was fully grown cat. It's

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not like she was a puppy or anything but or

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a kit and mother BlimE me, but this this dog

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so cute when of this little and I kind of

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I lived there for four years and I didn't really

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take it out for many walks later on, but I

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did like early on, but it wasn't it wasn't my dog,

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so the.

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She was.

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It was a girl as well. So she was definitely

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a mummies girl, like she's waited for a mum to

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come home. So yeah, she was.

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She was.

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She was a lovely kid, lovely girl. And then then

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LOGI I suppose is the next one. He's the next dog,

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because I haven't had any other dogs live in in

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I'm trying to think of all the different places I've

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lived since then, since London, since that house. That house, Yeah,

468
00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:36.119
that room that I lived in there, there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

469
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:39.280
So this is the tenth place that I've lived in

470
00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:43.280
since there.

471
00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:42.960
And.

472
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:47.920
I left there in two thousand and one. So yeah,

473
00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:51.440
I've lived in ten places since two thousand and one,

474
00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:57.719
but I've been in this place for ten years. So

475
00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:02.559
I lived in nine different places from two thousand and

476
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:16.320
one to twoy fourteen or twenty fifteen. M yeah, I

477
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:19.079
think I've got all the places. I lose track a

478
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:23.159
little bit. I try and remember I kind of roughly, yeah,

479
00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:29.800
got it mapped in my brain. So I guess Logi

480
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:35.079
was the first dog fur since two thousand and one,

481
00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:41.400
and when I got afficted from that place, so Logi

482
00:37:41.719 --> 00:37:46.480
was probably i'd say six years ago, maybe even seven

483
00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:49.800
years ago, but it's hard to kind of really pinpoint

484
00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:53.880
the year. So my friend got LOGI moved in. I

485
00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:59.440
saw him nearly every day, lovely dog and apart from

486
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:04.159
aother dog, but he was so excited. He'd come upstairs

487
00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:06.960
and they'd love coming in here, and he'd chuck stuff

488
00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:12.400
all around the place, like balls and bones, and it'd

489
00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:19.159
because Andre lived here, so he get excited. But he

490
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:23.119
didn't like Andre. He didn't dislike him as in being aggressive.

491
00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:25.599
He was scared of Andre because Andre used to come

492
00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:32.760
and bite him. It's true. And even though bear in

493
00:38:33.199 --> 00:38:38.440
mind the size of Logi compared to Andre, who was

494
00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:48.159
tiny compared to Vinnie, you know, Logi was petrified of him,

495
00:38:48.239 --> 00:38:52.880
and Andre had no fear, like zero fear. He would

496
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:56.480
start he would start a fighting an elephant. Honestly, he

497
00:38:56.559 --> 00:39:01.960
didn't care. It wasn't scared of anything. And he kept

498
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:05.159
trying to buy it Logi's balls. I'm not even joking

499
00:39:05.239 --> 00:39:07.679
he did. He just kept So Logi would be like

500
00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:12.559
all just lay on his back and and Andre would

501
00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:17.880
creep up. It's like I had to grab it and

502
00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:24.039
like stop it because there's I don't think there's probably

503
00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:27.760
a male on the planet that can watch that and

504
00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:30.519
not this, Like no, and I'm kind of that. That's

505
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.000
just no, leave that part of the body alone. Just

506
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:38.119
just no, no no buying, no punching, just no kicking,

507
00:39:38.280 --> 00:39:43.639
just just leave it alone. So leave it be, Andre,

508
00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:47.400
leave it be. So I used to have to stop him,

509
00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:51.679
but Logi would hide, he'd run and hide, but at

510
00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:53.920
the same time he'd run in looking for him because

511
00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:55.559
he loved him, but at the same time he was

512
00:39:55.599 --> 00:39:59.119
scared of him. So he liked to play, and they'd

513
00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:02.679
play like a run around and stuff. But as as

514
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:06.320
soon as Andre got a little bit rough, Logan didn't

515
00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:14.199
like it. But not once did Logi ever ever growl

516
00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:21.119
or show any kind of hostility towards Andrea. Ever, when

517
00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:24.519
he could have literally swallowed him by accident, you know,

518
00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:26.920
if he wanted to, if he could have just accidentally

519
00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:32.280
eaten him, like maybe he was just eating a I

520
00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:35.280
don't know, eating some bacon off the carpet. I don't

521
00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:37.960
know why bacon would be on a carpet and then

522
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:40.000
just onre part and he just managed to eat him

523
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:48.400
by accidents. But no, never happened. This was Andrea's. Andrea

524
00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:52.039
was the boss of this place in the same way

525
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:58.639
that Vinni's the boss of this place. But I think

526
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:02.719
in some ways Andrea was even all the boss. I

527
00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:05.000
do wonder how they would have got on them too,

528
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:09.119
Vinnie and Andrea together. I know I'm never going to

529
00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:13.039
know him I but it does make me wonder how

530
00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:18.800
would they have Because you've got Andre, who was not

531
00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:21.840
scared of anything, but you've also got a little dog

532
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:29.159
that he has got that hunting instinct for little animals,

533
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:34.760
and he also doesn't back down, so it would be yeah,

534
00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:37.039
I don't know if it would be a particularly good match.

535
00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:42.079
I think it'd be fine if Vinnie was a puppy,

536
00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:45.679
because it would know no different. You know, Andre had

537
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:51.000
always been there and he'd love him. But coming in

538
00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:54.559
at ten months old, I don't know. I mean, he

539
00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:57.559
was still technically like a puppy, I guess, but ten

540
00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:00.880
months old, it's not really a puppy. Is that he's

541
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:07.719
a toddler? I guess at that age. Turned three at

542
00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:13.679
the end of February. You believe it. I got him

543
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:16.800
at ten months old. Now he's three years, three months old.

544
00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:28.559
I don't understand. It got so quick, so quick. I

545
00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:36.280
can't believe he's now ninety five. So really, the most

546
00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:39.880
dog walking I do is with Finny, like I not

547
00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:43.559
obviously you say, well, yeah, he's a dog. I don't

548
00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:49.440
mean just now, but ever I used to take I

549
00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:53.199
used to go to Nottingham and my friend had a

550
00:42:53.239 --> 00:42:55.559
dog there. That's what I forgot about this. My dog

551
00:42:55.639 --> 00:42:59.800
had a friend. My friend had a dog, rather lovely dog,

552
00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:01.840
and I should take him. I think he was a

553
00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:11.480
greyhound and I should take him for walks and that

554
00:43:11.679 --> 00:43:20.000
was cool, you know, he was a cool dog. But yeah,

555
00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:22.000
so I forgot about that. So he had a dog.

556
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:26.360
Also also also also I did go on a holiday

557
00:43:26.400 --> 00:43:31.079
with a friend who also had a dog, and I

558
00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:33.000
used to take her for a little walks because we

559
00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:33.480
went to.

560
00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:41.360
Corn Wall, corn Wall during the lockdown I think it

561
00:43:41.400 --> 00:43:48.519
was two thousand and twenty two, twenty one, maybe twenty.

562
00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:57.199
One, yeah, twenty twenty one, and the everything was half closed.

563
00:43:57.199 --> 00:44:00.199
It was still it wasn't in full lockdown, but there's

564
00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:05.320
so much stuff wasn't opening, including a pub that was

565
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:08.360
closing at six o'clock in the evening or seven o'clock.

566
00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:13.159
What pub closes at seven o'clock in the evening. And

567
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:18.199
this was on a site full of holiday homes which

568
00:44:18.239 --> 00:44:25.280
weren't very busy for some reason. And so I took

569
00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:28.519
her for some walks and stuff, which was nice. I

570
00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:30.480
think it was the first time I'd ever picked dog

571
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:35.079
poo up. Never, never, never picked dog poo up before

572
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:39.800
until I picked andres poo up in the past, but

573
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:43.239
that dog poo never done dog poo before. Whenever I

574
00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:46.719
walked a dog in the past, I just and that's wrong.

575
00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:49.639
But back then there was no. It wasn't a legal

576
00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:54.400
thing in a bag. It's a legal a legal requirement now,

577
00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:58.719
but you know, in the nineties and stuff, it wasn't.

578
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:02.960
And I just it's not my dog, not picking up,

579
00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:06.960
not to her. But yeah, I would wouldn't be like

580
00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:14.320
that now because I'm now technically an adult technically. And

581
00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:19.000
my friend's dog ran ran away. She ran out of

582
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:23.320
the house in this like holiday place. So my friend's screaming,

583
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:28.880
come back, Daisy, Rosie days Daisy. So I'm like, I'm

584
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:32.599
running after her. It's a little dog. I'm like, I

585
00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:35.719
don't wanted to run in the road. You know, obviously

586
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:38.960
she's a lovely dog. She's running. It's like, I think

587
00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:42.599
it's turned into a game because I'm chasing her. She's

588
00:45:42.639 --> 00:45:46.440
got this big, fat, wobbly thing running. Well, I'm going

589
00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:48.679
to use the word running very vaguely on this one.

590
00:45:49.559 --> 00:45:55.480
And I end up falling over and toppling and rolling

591
00:45:55.599 --> 00:46:01.920
and all over the place. And it's amazing how many

592
00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:06.320
people appear when you fall over in public. Suddenly there

593
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:09.639
was like all the neighbors were on their grass outside

594
00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:15.239
their holiday homes, laughing. Even a dog stopped to have

595
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:20.000
a laugh. That's how she got caught, like you know,

596
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.920
her friend my friends who managed to get her because

597
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:27.559
she was rolling around laughing at me. Now I was

598
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:31.519
in pain. You know. This is when I was heavier

599
00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:35.960
than I am now, So I was you know, one

600
00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:39.440
hundred and two kilos or whatever, maybe a little bit more,

601
00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:42.960
so i'd like proper when I fell over, I was

602
00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:48.719
bruising myself. I wasn't bruising myself as I was falling,

603
00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:53.559
but the fall bruised you know, me and you know

604
00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:54.920
a little bit of a limp for the rest of

605
00:46:54.920 --> 00:47:00.400
the holiday. To be fair, it was a little bit

606
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:05.280
put on because laughing they laugh at her just annoyed

607
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:09.239
me a little bit. So you know, I'm hurt, and

608
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:13.079
I'm hurt here. I've hurt my leg. I've hurt my leg.

609
00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:16.880
And she said you haven't, have you? I said, yeah,

610
00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:20.079
I have. We'll stand up. Then I said, I'm struggling

611
00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:23.840
to so can you still stop laughing? She said, no, no,

612
00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:27.039
that's fine, I can't help it. You said, a look

613
00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:30.599
like what you mean? Look at it's my leg. See

614
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:33.719
it's there, it's my leg hasn't fallen off. It's still

615
00:47:33.719 --> 00:47:38.199
there and he said, can you just walk? And can you?

616
00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:43.559
I said, yeah, but it hurts. She's still laughing, like, really,

617
00:47:43.679 --> 00:47:47.119
you don't understand it. It hurts a lot. So I decided

618
00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:50.880
to limp, thinking that I might gain a little bit

619
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:55.719
of sympathy. It didn't work, but it did quite down

620
00:47:55.760 --> 00:48:00.639
the laughter a little bit. So for the rest of

621
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:05.719
the week, I'm limping. But my leg's fine, but I

622
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:09.760
kind of have to keep it going. It's a bit like,

623
00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:14.360
you know, when you pretend to be a vegetarian, or

624
00:48:14.519 --> 00:48:20.199
when I pretended to be interested in astronomy when I

625
00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:23.639
was a kid and end up having six years worth

626
00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:29.400
of books and stuff every Christmas and every Birthday something

627
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:33.480
to do with astronomy. I had no interest in astronomy,

628
00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:37.320
you know. All it was is I was just spying

629
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:41.679
on my next door neighbor sunbathing and through the binoculars,

630
00:48:41.760 --> 00:48:43.519
my dad's binoculars, and he said, what are you doing.

631
00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:46.559
I said, I'm trying to see the stars And he said,

632
00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:57.920
all this daytime, this is ridiculous. I said, I've always

633
00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:01.320
wanted to see I said, I can't see them. He said,

634
00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:03.320
you don't really look as directly into the sun either,

635
00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:08.000
because that could really cause problems for your eyes. I said, oh, okay,

636
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:10.400
I'm glad you got him in time. You really are

637
00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:14.400
the best daddy. He said, okay, So, so you're interested

638
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:16.920
in stars, he said? He said yeah. He said, you

639
00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:19.400
sure you're not just looking at that the next door

640
00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:22.480
neighbor's sunbathing. I said, where who?

641
00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:23.519
Oh?

642
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:28.199
No, I didn't didn't see her there rubbing oil. And no,

643
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:30.360
I didn't didn't see it. No, I had no idea.

644
00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:34.840
He said, okay, So if you were interested in the stars,

645
00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:38.800
why were you pointing towards the garden next door. I said,

646
00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:43.280
I was just just getting ready because the binoculars are

647
00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:46.719
so heavy, because I'm only little, and you're so big

648
00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:49.280
and strong, and you know you can hold them with

649
00:49:49.400 --> 00:49:51.639
one hand, but I'm struggling to hold them with two.

650
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:53.920
I mean, they weren't nearly as big as my head,

651
00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:57.199
to be fair, and I'm struggling to look up. You know,

652
00:49:57.239 --> 00:50:01.880
what I really need is a telescope. And he said okay.

653
00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:06.280
He took the binoculars away. He said, I leave them,

654
00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:11.360
and he went to the next room. And I don't

655
00:50:11.360 --> 00:50:13.440
know what he was doing, but I heard some weird noises.

656
00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:21.320
But he got me a telescope. I really didn't think

657
00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:25.159
anything was coin of it got me a telescope. And

658
00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:30.239
then from then on, every Christmas, every Birthday, an atlas

659
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:35.639
of the stars, a big picture of the moon, the

660
00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:41.119
history of telescopes. Books that I couldn't even understand, Like

661
00:50:41.199 --> 00:50:43.320
every three words, I didn't know what the word meant.

662
00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:48.199
I mean that's pretty much most books, really, but especially

663
00:50:48.239 --> 00:50:56.639
dictionaries for Saurus. What a stupid name. So I really

664
00:50:58.440 --> 00:51:02.679
just like, you know, it's a little bit like there's

665
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:05.760
not really anything like this at all, but you know,

666
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:11.000
when you offer someone I did this today, right, This

667
00:51:11.159 --> 00:51:12.840
is what I was going to talk about with Vinnie.

668
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:19.199
He stole he stole a ball. I was talking to

669
00:51:19.239 --> 00:51:21.440
this neighbor. She's not like a neighbor neighbor. She's a

670
00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:24.639
dog walker, lives up the road. And she said, oh,

671
00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:27.599
I'm going to do that later, and she pulled it

672
00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:30.360
to the wall, so she had like a wall in

673
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:33.679
front of her driveway with I said, what you're going

674
00:51:33.719 --> 00:51:36.480
to do to it? She said, I'm going to dig

675
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:42.239
up the all the weeds. I said, what are you

676
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:44.119
going to use a streamer or something? She said, no,

677
00:51:44.199 --> 00:51:46.519
I'm just going to he's going to pull them up

678
00:51:46.519 --> 00:51:52.119
with my hands. I said, that hurt my back. He said,

679
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:54.559
how how's me pulling up with my hands going to

680
00:51:54.599 --> 00:51:57.199
hurt your back? I said, I mean if I was

681
00:51:57.239 --> 00:51:59.679
going to do it, it would hurt my back. She said,

682
00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:04.519
you are for him? I said, you want me to

683
00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:07.360
do it? Oh? Thank you. It's like, how the hell

684
00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:11.760
did that happen? And I said, I can't bend over

685
00:52:11.800 --> 00:52:15.159
and do it because I got my back. It's just

686
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:18.440
it's going to cause problems, so I can't. You know,

687
00:52:18.599 --> 00:52:21.840
But if you've got a streamer or a what do

688
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:26.599
you call it, where those things where you can fly

689
00:52:26.800 --> 00:52:28.840
mo or whatever they're called. She said, yeah, I've got

690
00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:31.519
one in the garden. I said, if you really, she

691
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:34.000
said no. I said, why do you say you got

692
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:35.960
one in the garden? Fall Then she said, I thought

693
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:37.760
it be better for your story when you tell it

694
00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:42.000
on the podcast, because you know, not having one that's

695
00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:46.239
pretty much brings it to the end, doesn't it. I said, okay.

696
00:52:46.360 --> 00:52:47.840
She says she would just pretend that I do have

697
00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:52.920
one so we can make the story more interesting. I said, okay.

698
00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:55.400
So we went into a guard into the shed, got

699
00:52:55.400 --> 00:53:00.440
a fly mo hasn't been touched for years. I'm talking.

700
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:06.119
She didn't even know if it worked anymore. And you

701
00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:10.360
know it needed batteries. That's how old it was. It

702
00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:13.480
had gray hairs. I don't know. That doesn't make sense,

703
00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:17.800
does it? And I said, well, I kind of know

704
00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:20.639
how these things work. He said, how long is it

705
00:53:20.679 --> 00:53:25.559
since you use one? I said that I was trying

706
00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:33.239
to think back, so it's only about thirty years that saw?

707
00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:37.159
She said, is that all? I said, Yeah, that is

708
00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:41.199
a bit long, isn't it. She said, yep, especially when

709
00:53:41.199 --> 00:53:44.280
you're waiting in a queue, which is a bit weird

710
00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:49.880
thing to say. And I just said, well, we can

711
00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:53.400
trust we can test it out. I know roughly how

712
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:57.199
to get the bit of string plastic thing out and

713
00:53:57.239 --> 00:53:59.639
then we'll plug it in. She got an extension lead

714
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:03.320
and I ended up doing it. So it's one of

715
00:54:03.320 --> 00:54:08.239
those problems where this has happened to me before I

716
00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:14.639
made an empty offer. It happened years ago. You know,

717
00:54:14.760 --> 00:54:18.599
someone was saying I'm going to move. I said that

718
00:54:18.679 --> 00:54:23.400
what you're doing this weekend? We're moving home. Before I

719
00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:26.679
knew it, the wrong part of my brain said, do

720
00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:36.519
you need a hand? Oh brilliant, Thanks and it wasn't

721
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:42.519
a genuine offer. It was just it was to be fair.

722
00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:45.320
They did help me move, so I can't really moan.

723
00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:52.519
But it was just like, so what I tell people

724
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:55.079
when if I offer something to someone and they said no,

725
00:54:55.440 --> 00:54:58.239
I said, well, it was an empty offer anyway, So

726
00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:01.760
I don't have that makes me look a bit bad.

727
00:55:03.519 --> 00:55:07.079
Perhaps I need to rethink some of the things I've said,

728
00:55:08.599 --> 00:55:14.280
not just from this recording. Oh, I did a recording

729
00:55:14.320 --> 00:55:17.360
earlier and at the part it was like a body scan,

730
00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:23.079
I ended up talking about astronauts. I'm not quite sure

731
00:55:23.079 --> 00:55:28.800
where my brain's going these days. It's weird. I don't know.

732
00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:32.760
It's almost like I'm not sure if I can't go

733
00:55:32.920 --> 00:55:38.079
back to doing serious recordings anymore, to being all serious

734
00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:42.840
and all like solemn, and I don't know what the

735
00:55:42.920 --> 00:55:48.559
right word is. It's like, yeah, I don't know if

736
00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:53.000
I can do that anymore. I'm not sure the last

737
00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:55.800
time I actually did anything that was like super serious.

738
00:55:56.880 --> 00:56:03.920
Well maybe I have. But hey, I mean, so I'm doing.

739
00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:19.719
This this wall food mhm, and it.

740
00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:19.480
It's going quite well. I'm getting most of the wall

741
00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:23.360
done and then the thing breaks, you know, the thing

742
00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:25.920
snaps off, So I have to reput it on and

743
00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:28.760
it snaps again. Then it snaps again, and I think

744
00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:31.800
I change it or get it done about ten times

745
00:56:32.760 --> 00:56:39.400
and then the thing just falls apart. It actually banged

746
00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:48.639
against my leg, so m h, I p I ended

747
00:56:48.719 --> 00:56:52.400
up putting the sort of unplug it you and then

748
00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:53.960
put it back out. I just put it onto a

749
00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:58.440
in front of a porch, and after I stopped crying

750
00:56:58.480 --> 00:57:02.480
that once and where it went to my ankle act

751
00:57:02.519 --> 00:57:04.480
I didn't go into my bit. It banged my ankle.

752
00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:09.519
I wonder if there's any mark there. I can't see

753
00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:18.679
in this light. But I was trying to get this stuff.

754
00:57:18.840 --> 00:57:20.280
She asked me if I had to look at this stuff,

755
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:23.000
which is it was growing out of the concrete of

756
00:57:23.119 --> 00:57:28.480
the pavement and it just wasn't Yeah, it wasn't doing

757
00:57:28.519 --> 00:57:31.400
the job, and I think I might have broken it

758
00:57:34.159 --> 00:57:36.519
because it might have been working before. It did seem

759
00:57:36.559 --> 00:57:45.400
to be working okay before. But at the same time, yeah,

760
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:47.519
I was a little bit concerned. I didn't want the

761
00:57:49.800 --> 00:57:52.760
because it was when I was doing the pavement, bits

762
00:57:52.760 --> 00:57:55.920
of gravel were like flicking back at me and hitting

763
00:57:55.960 --> 00:57:58.880
me in the face. So that was probably a little

764
00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:05.519
clue that maybe it wasn't doing it correctly, and the

765
00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:09.679
seagull landed on my head. Do you know what? The

766
00:58:09.719 --> 00:58:16.320
other day this bird flew right at me and just

767
00:58:17.320 --> 00:58:20.719
missed me by an inch. I'm not even like making

768
00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:22.559
it up. I say, okay, maybe not an inch, but

769
00:58:24.039 --> 00:58:31.599
an inch is quite a lot. Okay, maybe it was okay,

770
00:58:31.719 --> 00:58:34.840
maybe a foot, but you know, to me, I think

771
00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:36.559
of an inch, and I think of a foot, but

772
00:58:36.679 --> 00:58:40.920
maybe yeah, maybe a foot. But it missed me really close.

773
00:58:41.000 --> 00:58:46.280
It's like just turned and it was at my head.

774
00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:53.480
I was like, even a bird doesn't want to kiss me? No,

775
00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:55.280
I thought, wow, why would you?

776
00:58:55.320 --> 00:58:55.440
How?

777
00:58:55.599 --> 00:58:59.599
First, how could you miss my head? And secondly, like

778
00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:03.840
birds are so good normally, I've never had a bird

779
00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:11.079
fly into me, even at my biggest, at my girthiest,

780
00:59:11.119 --> 00:59:18.599
I've never had a bird fly into me. I don't think. No,

781
00:59:18.760 --> 00:59:26.400
I haven't. No, no, I haven't not even a pigeon.

782
00:59:33.119 --> 00:59:39.840
I don't think. So. I'm just thinking maybe I have No. No,

783
00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:45.960
I don't know. I don't think I have. So when

784
00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:50.440
I got Vinny, I started walking in straight away and

785
00:59:50.480 --> 00:59:56.800
it was weird because this was blurh. What year was it? Anyone?

786
00:59:57.159 --> 01:00:02.960
Anyone got an idea what year it was two thousand

787
01:00:03.239 --> 01:00:12.840
and then twenty two December. Yep, I think it was

788
01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:22.360
twenty twenty two. And it was November twenty twenty three

789
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:28.719
that my friend left, and then we're gone for all

790
01:00:28.719 --> 01:00:31.719
the way through twenty twenty four. Now were in twenty

791
01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:37.840
twenty five, so I've had him a while now. The

792
01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:42.559
first week I got him, it was snowing, which started snowing,

793
01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:48.639
and you know, I got him on the Saturday. Start

794
01:00:48.679 --> 01:00:54.599
snowing on a Sunday something like that, but proper snow

795
01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:59.000
like it's settled. It was really thick and everything, and

796
01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:05.480
I took him out and unless there was snow on

797
01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:07.480
the ground at the time, I don't think there was

798
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:11.920
no snow all week, all till the next week, so

799
01:01:12.079 --> 01:01:14.519
snow on the ground. Then it turned to ice, of course,

800
01:01:14.679 --> 01:01:20.840
like it does. I was wearing boots. I didn't slip nothing,

801
01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:25.960
apart from once in the field. I did slip over

802
01:01:26.519 --> 01:01:28.639
some snow, but I didn't hurt myself because I fell

803
01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:31.000
in the snow, but that was because he led me

804
01:01:31.039 --> 01:01:45.119
down this ditch thing. And I was like, I felt

805
01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:49.239
quite proud of myself because I hadn't fallen over had

806
01:01:49.480 --> 01:01:52.880
slipped really apart from that one thing, but that was fine.

807
01:01:53.639 --> 01:01:55.960
But I didn't slip over on the pavement. I was

808
01:01:55.960 --> 01:02:00.119
wearing these big boots that were quite good grips, and

809
01:02:00.199 --> 01:02:02.880
it's like, okay, and I was being really careful with

810
01:02:02.920 --> 01:02:06.239
my posture, even though he was trying to pull me

811
01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:10.719
each way and everywhere. And he was happy to be

812
01:02:10.760 --> 01:02:14.280
out in the snow, in the cold. He didn't care.

813
01:02:14.360 --> 01:02:18.440
He was just happy just to be out and we

814
01:02:18.440 --> 01:02:22.079
were bonding. He was a bit naughty. It took a

815
01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:25.039
while for me and him to sort of lay the

816
01:02:25.079 --> 01:02:29.440
ground rules a little bit, you know, and I tried

817
01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:33.960
to have him stay in here, but he just kept

818
01:02:34.639 --> 01:02:40.760
barking and stuff. And in the end, you know, I

819
01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:42.760
let him into the bedroom and he's been sleeping in

820
01:02:42.760 --> 01:02:48.159
the bed ever since. But you know, he didn't want to.

821
01:02:48.360 --> 01:02:50.159
I think when he first moved in, he didn't want

822
01:02:50.159 --> 01:02:53.119
to be here, which is understandable. He wanted to be

823
01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:56.360
where his home was, which was across the road. That's

824
01:02:56.400 --> 01:02:59.440
where it'd lived for the last three months, and it

825
01:02:59.519 --> 01:03:03.280
was only ten months old, so I was literally his

826
01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:06.360
fourth place that he'd lived. He lived in a place

827
01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:09.639
where he was born until he was old enough to

828
01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:12.519
move somewhere else, and so he got his first home

829
01:03:13.880 --> 01:03:15.760
and he was there for I don't know how long,

830
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:20.559
a couple of months or whatever, three months, and then

831
01:03:21.599 --> 01:03:26.679
she became unwell, had to give him back or phoned

832
01:03:26.760 --> 01:03:30.039
up the breeders that can can you take him back

833
01:03:30.360 --> 01:03:33.320
and find him a home, So they took him back.

834
01:03:34.079 --> 01:03:39.159
He then stayed with a family member of theirs for

835
01:03:39.239 --> 01:03:43.519
three months or two two or three months, and then

836
01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:46.280
they sold it to me, sold it, sold him to me.

837
01:03:48.400 --> 01:03:50.599
So I was the fourth home that he'd lived in.

838
01:03:51.400 --> 01:03:54.199
So I think he was a little bit over, you know,

839
01:03:54.239 --> 01:03:56.400
all over the place. I'm sure he loved every single

840
01:03:56.440 --> 01:04:00.800
person he was around, and he was around a females.

841
01:04:01.119 --> 01:04:06.320
So I was the first only male that he'd lived

842
01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:10.559
with it lived. The first place he lived there was

843
01:04:11.519 --> 01:04:14.800
females and a man. The second place he lived there

844
01:04:14.840 --> 01:04:17.119
was just a female. The third place he lived it

845
01:04:17.199 --> 01:04:19.480
was just a female. And then he moved in with me.

846
01:04:20.119 --> 01:04:23.280
And he's got a real affection for females, he just has.

847
01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:26.920
He's he loves men as well, but he loves women.

848
01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:31.119
He's got a real Yeah, there is you consider more

849
01:04:31.119 --> 01:04:35.599
affection there for women than there are for men. But

850
01:04:35.639 --> 01:04:38.880
he's still got more affection for men than he has

851
01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:42.719
for dogs. He loves prefers humans. He's got a couple

852
01:04:42.719 --> 01:04:45.960
of friends that he absolutely adores. But the rest of

853
01:04:45.960 --> 01:04:49.480
the time, if he sees a dog, like with a human,

854
01:04:49.519 --> 01:04:52.840
he'll go up to the human. He goes so low

855
01:04:52.880 --> 01:04:56.679
to a human before he says them before he says

856
01:04:56.679 --> 01:04:58.320
a load to the dog, you'll say load to the human.

857
01:05:00.679 --> 01:05:04.760
So that's how he is, and it's weird. So we

858
01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:10.360
got through that whole period of snow ice nothing. The

859
01:05:10.480 --> 01:05:12.840
day it rained. That day, I think it was a

860
01:05:12.880 --> 01:05:17.360
Wednesday or Tuesday. The following week it rained, all the

861
01:05:17.360 --> 01:05:24.199
ice was gone. My friend downstairs called up bring him.

862
01:05:24.199 --> 01:05:25.599
Do you want to bring him out into the garden

863
01:05:25.639 --> 01:05:28.920
with LOGI said, all right. And this was like ten

864
01:05:28.920 --> 01:05:32.079
o'clock or something like that. Nine o'clock. So I go

865
01:05:32.239 --> 01:05:35.000
down with me crocs, not the pink ones I've got now,

866
01:05:35.079 --> 01:05:40.639
but the other ones, and I slip. So he's run

867
01:05:40.679 --> 01:05:43.119
down without the lead on, just run down into the garden.

868
01:05:44.360 --> 01:05:48.039
My friend standing not right at the bottom of the stairs,

869
01:05:48.039 --> 01:05:50.320
but you know, so he could see me. He was

870
01:05:50.400 --> 01:05:54.119
just standing waiting for me, and I slipped probably three

871
01:05:54.159 --> 01:05:56.400
steps down the top, and then I slipped and I

872
01:05:56.679 --> 01:06:00.559
bounced all the way down to the bottom. And my

873
01:06:00.599 --> 01:06:04.079
friend was laughing, which I probably would have laughed as

874
01:06:04.079 --> 01:06:06.119
well had to not fractured my back.

875
01:06:09.280 --> 01:06:09.440
But.

876
01:06:11.679 --> 01:06:15.920
I hadn't. Luckily I had my coat on. Now, if

877
01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:21.480
I had not had my coat on, I could have

878
01:06:21.639 --> 01:06:25.760
really really hurt myself, like but and this coat was

879
01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:31.199
quite padded, got like a winter coat. So I'm glad

880
01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:36.400
I did that. Yeah, so I slipped and bounced down

881
01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:41.119
the stairs. And that was the reason I mentioned this

882
01:06:41.199 --> 01:06:47.960
is because mentioned this is because the following after that day,

883
01:06:48.880 --> 01:06:52.920
for quite a few weeks, I'm still taking him for walks.

884
01:06:54.159 --> 01:06:57.960
I'm still having to bend down and pick up, you know,

885
01:06:58.039 --> 01:07:03.639
his poos and stuff. It was so hard it was

886
01:07:03.800 --> 01:07:12.159
just really like almost impossible. In fact, I shouldn't have

887
01:07:12.239 --> 01:07:15.320
really been doing it. I don't think it was probably

888
01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:18.960
a good idea to be bending over with fractured back.

889
01:07:19.280 --> 01:07:24.519
I had fractures in two places, and I don't think

890
01:07:24.559 --> 01:07:27.880
it's a problem walking around, but the bending over is

891
01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:31.239
I'm not sure how helpful that was to the healing.

892
01:07:32.159 --> 01:07:35.599
Maybe it was useful. I don't know enough about fractures

893
01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:39.559
of the back to know about that, but it did heal.

894
01:07:41.519 --> 01:07:45.360
And that was just such a weird way to start

895
01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:52.000
my dog walking experience with my own dog, because he's

896
01:07:52.000 --> 01:07:55.320
the first time I've had my own dog. I've only

897
01:07:55.400 --> 01:07:58.719
I've had three, I've had fourth. I had a couple

898
01:07:58.760 --> 01:08:05.320
of goldfish I had, I had a a budgy once,

899
01:08:06.199 --> 01:08:12.039
and then I had a I had Andre, but he

900
01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:15.239
was my son and Vinnie's my son. But there's I

901
01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:20.359
need to, you know, kind of responsible situations I've been in,

902
01:08:22.479 --> 01:08:24.479
so that Vinnie was the first dog that I ever

903
01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:28.800
had to look after and to you know, to live

904
01:08:28.840 --> 01:08:33.119
with and to be in charge or to be responsible for.

905
01:08:34.680 --> 01:08:40.119
It was such a weird start to be literally limping.

906
01:08:41.520 --> 01:08:46.600
I was limping. I was using I was using because

907
01:08:46.600 --> 01:08:55.279
I had this what did I have? I had a

908
01:08:59.560 --> 01:09:03.399
what did I have? Had an umbrella, but it was

909
01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:06.000
it had a like a walking stick on the end

910
01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:08.880
of it, So I was using that to help me

911
01:09:08.960 --> 01:09:14.039
to get a loot to get around. It was weird, honestly,

912
01:09:14.239 --> 01:09:16.119
And I was starting to hold onto that while I

913
01:09:16.159 --> 01:09:20.439
bent over and so I didn't fall over. It was strange.

914
01:09:22.479 --> 01:09:26.039
And then when I first started and taken him out

915
01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:31.960
for walks. We didn't really go into the field or

916
01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:36.159
to the parks. We started off walking around the pavement

917
01:09:37.439 --> 01:09:41.960
and because i'd never really okay, I think it was

918
01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:44.800
because with Andrea I used to take him walking around

919
01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:56.039
the estate, so I kind of it had been it

920
01:09:56.079 --> 01:10:05.039
had been a while to how long it had been

921
01:10:05.439 --> 01:10:08.760
had it been, Yeah, it been a while year and

922
01:10:08.840 --> 01:10:14.920
a bit since Andre. So I automatically just took him

923
01:10:15.119 --> 01:10:17.960
the same route that I used to take Andre, or

924
01:10:18.000 --> 01:10:25.039
the Andre used to take me. And so we'd walk

925
01:10:25.079 --> 01:10:29.720
around the pavement around the estate and then go through

926
01:10:29.720 --> 01:10:32.520
the park. And I'll be taking him out late at night,

927
01:10:32.920 --> 01:10:41.039
early hours of the morning, and then I think they

928
01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:43.439
changed the lights so the lights were a lot dimmer

929
01:10:43.479 --> 01:10:47.359
than they were previously. They changed all and like just

930
01:10:47.399 --> 01:10:50.079
couldn't see, couldn't see really where I was going. So

931
01:10:50.439 --> 01:10:56.800
I don't go out late at night anymore. It might

932
01:10:56.880 --> 01:11:00.359
just be my eyesight. I don't know. I'm nowise sure.

933
01:11:03.680 --> 01:11:08.680
This has been strange taking him out because since I've

934
01:11:08.680 --> 01:11:11.840
had him, I stop at the pavement, I say wait, wait.

935
01:11:12.720 --> 01:11:16.960
He does wait hm hm. He kind of palls as well,

936
01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:20.640
but he will wait sometimes and what I say is

937
01:11:21.039 --> 01:11:27.319
slowly cross slowly. One of the few things I say

938
01:11:27.399 --> 01:11:31.079
to him. And it's not a big request, is it,

939
01:11:32.479 --> 01:11:38.800
you know, just slowly. And I've been saying the same

940
01:11:38.800 --> 01:11:41.159
thing to him every time we cross the road since

941
01:11:41.159 --> 01:11:48.920
I've had him, and he still pulls, so I just yeah,

942
01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:53.119
but that's it. That's that's my history of dog walking.

943
01:11:55.000 --> 01:11:57.399
Got to know a few people over the years with Vinnie,

944
01:11:57.920 --> 01:12:02.359
which is good. And I was invited into someone's house

945
01:12:02.439 --> 01:12:05.880
today for the first time, well not the first time

946
01:12:05.960 --> 01:12:08.319
being invited, but the first time that I actually went inside,

947
01:12:10.039 --> 01:12:13.239
and one of the neighbors asked before I wanted a

948
01:12:13.239 --> 01:12:16.800
cup of tea. I said no. I didn't say no,

949
01:12:16.840 --> 01:12:18.760
I said no, thanks. So because I was just going

950
01:12:18.840 --> 01:12:21.600
to come home, so I all, being a bit under

951
01:12:21.600 --> 01:12:25.119
the weather, I didn't. I was just taking him out

952
01:12:27.560 --> 01:12:30.319
just to get some air and have a nice a

953
01:12:30.399 --> 01:12:34.479
long walk and then come back. And you know, but

954
01:12:35.279 --> 01:12:39.920
he had an opportunity to have a sniff around her

955
01:12:40.000 --> 01:12:45.359
house and go into the garden, and he loved it.

956
01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:48.560
And he gets on really well with with his friend,

957
01:12:48.600 --> 01:12:52.279
the other dog, and they got on really well. And

958
01:12:52.680 --> 01:12:54.880
she she said, that's not always a case. Sometimes a

959
01:12:54.960 --> 01:12:59.239
dog walks when they say, when they're walking, but when

960
01:12:59.239 --> 01:13:03.800
they're together, like they don't always get on very well

961
01:13:03.880 --> 01:13:06.479
with the dog, not him and her, but you know

962
01:13:06.520 --> 01:13:09.880
sometimes the other dogs. Her dog doesn't like the other

963
01:13:09.960 --> 01:13:13.119
dog being in her house, but she's seemed fine with

964
01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:23.239
any So yeah, it's I think there was a period

965
01:13:23.279 --> 01:13:27.319
once Andre was gone that I wasn't out. I wasn't

966
01:13:27.359 --> 01:13:29.960
going out because I was I didn't have to take

967
01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:33.960
Andre out for walks because you know, basically he didn't

968
01:13:34.000 --> 01:13:36.479
need to. I just took him out, firstly because I

969
01:13:36.520 --> 01:13:39.439
wanted to and when he wanted to. So it was

970
01:13:39.880 --> 01:13:43.439
a mixture of both. He loved going out or weather,

971
01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:46.600
didn't care. I wasn't a big fan of the rain

972
01:13:47.880 --> 01:13:52.600
or the wind, but didn't care about snow, didn't care

973
01:13:52.880 --> 01:13:56.520
the heat. He did get very hot. But big thing

974
01:13:56.560 --> 01:13:58.800
about it is that if he got if he got tired,

975
01:13:59.479 --> 01:14:02.880
he just him up and he'd go into my jacket

976
01:14:03.159 --> 01:14:06.279
and just go to sleep. So what he would do,

977
01:14:06.319 --> 01:14:10.159
he'd walk. It'd walk me this is under He'd walk

978
01:14:10.399 --> 01:14:13.720
ahead of me and he'd lead me into the middle

979
01:14:13.760 --> 01:14:16.880
of nowhere in the fields as far away as he

980
01:14:16.920 --> 01:14:20.720
could get. And then he just claps on the floor

981
01:14:23.359 --> 01:14:27.960
and say pick me up, so I'd pick him up,

982
01:14:29.000 --> 01:14:32.359
or he'd just stop and put his put his hands

983
01:14:32.359 --> 01:14:35.199
against my legs for me to pick him up, and

984
01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:38.560
I'd pick him up. And I didn't have to ask

985
01:14:38.600 --> 01:14:41.119
him what he wanted because he would literally climb into

986
01:14:41.159 --> 01:14:44.520
the top of my jacket and that'll be it. Go

987
01:14:44.600 --> 01:14:49.239
to sleep and a weird thing about it, right, guaranteed.

988
01:14:50.119 --> 01:14:51.600
I mean, there was no point in me caring on

989
01:14:51.720 --> 01:14:54.039
walking because it's going to take me an hour to

990
01:14:54.079 --> 01:14:59.239
walk back. Bless him. Why didn't just let me walk back?

991
01:14:59.319 --> 01:15:03.720
He wouldn't. He had to go as far away as possible, guaranteed.

992
01:15:05.000 --> 01:15:07.760
Just before I got to the exit, you know, the

993
01:15:07.800 --> 01:15:11.520
original entrance. When I was back nearly home, his head

994
01:15:11.560 --> 01:15:15.319
will pop up, look around, and you want to get out.

995
01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:20.640
So when we were five minutes away from home, his

996
01:15:20.680 --> 01:15:29.119
head would pop up every single time. He's so funny.

997
01:15:29.800 --> 01:15:40.000
It's like he knew he just knew strange. So, I

998
01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:43.640
don't know, maybe like Liam Neeson in Taken two, he

999
01:15:43.680 --> 01:15:47.880
could count the steps, Maybe he knew the sounds from

1000
01:15:47.880 --> 01:15:51.000
the different Yeah, do you remember that bit where he's

1001
01:15:51.000 --> 01:15:53.039
in the back of the van or is it Taken three?

1002
01:15:53.079 --> 01:15:58.399
I don't know or taken nine. So yeah, so it's

1003
01:15:58.439 --> 01:16:04.239
been I think that period between having Andrea and having Vinnie,

1004
01:16:04.600 --> 01:16:08.840
where I wasn't going out. I started walking around the

1005
01:16:08.880 --> 01:16:11.159
same route that I used to take andre sometimes, but

1006
01:16:11.319 --> 01:16:15.239
it was it wasn't the same being on my own.

1007
01:16:16.319 --> 01:16:24.760
And then when I got Vinnie, it's got me out

1008
01:16:24.760 --> 01:16:28.279
of the house, which is a good thing. I don't

1009
01:16:28.960 --> 01:16:32.319
enjoy it a lot. Sometimes I don't want to go out.

1010
01:16:32.359 --> 01:16:33.600
I don't want to get out of bed, and I

1011
01:16:33.640 --> 01:16:35.840
don't want to go out in the rain and stuff.

1012
01:16:35.880 --> 01:16:41.439
But I think ultimately it's it's been good for me

1013
01:16:43.039 --> 01:16:51.800
to have that movement, to have that those fleeting conversations

1014
01:16:51.880 --> 01:16:57.399
with humans that you know, those small bits of interaction.

1015
01:16:57.479 --> 01:17:04.119
It's probably useful. Maybe I'm not sure, but he loves

1016
01:17:04.159 --> 01:17:10.199
being outside. I think he'd spend his whole day out

1017
01:17:10.199 --> 01:17:14.199
there if he could. Really, I don't think he'd want

1018
01:17:14.239 --> 01:17:16.159
to come in. He'd come in for a little sleep

1019
01:17:16.199 --> 01:17:18.119
and then he'd go out again. If I had a

1020
01:17:18.159 --> 01:17:23.039
little cat flap which he could fit through, I don't know.

1021
01:17:23.079 --> 01:17:26.279
Maybe he'd need a little bit bigger slightly Yeah, he's

1022
01:17:26.279 --> 01:17:28.319
probably a little bit too big for a cat flap.

1023
01:17:30.479 --> 01:17:32.640
I'm not sure. Actually, he probably could fit through a

1024
01:17:32.680 --> 01:17:35.439
big cat flap, but he would, Yeah, he'd be in

1025
01:17:35.479 --> 01:17:38.439
and out all day long. But also if there was

1026
01:17:39.000 --> 01:17:43.960
also dog flaps or cat flaps, vinnie flaps in all

1027
01:17:43.960 --> 01:17:46.760
the other doors in this building, he'd be in and

1028
01:17:46.760 --> 01:17:49.640
out of those doors, in and out of those flats.

1029
01:17:51.079 --> 01:17:56.039
And if you put them in all the houses in

1030
01:17:56.119 --> 01:18:00.680
the road, he'd be in and out of all those houses. Seriously,

1031
01:18:00.760 --> 01:18:03.960
everybody would know who he is because it'd be in

1032
01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:09.359
and out standing loads of people begging for treats. It's

1033
01:18:09.359 --> 01:18:14.880
a proper scrounger, and he would be huge. He would

1034
01:18:14.880 --> 01:18:19.279
be absolutely huge, and one day he would get stuck

1035
01:18:19.319 --> 01:18:30.119
in the cat flap. That's guaranteed. Ah. I think I

1036
01:18:30.239 --> 01:18:37.119
kind of stuck to the subject Monday's boring objects dog walking,

1037
01:18:37.880 --> 01:18:40.920
So I think I did so. Right now it is,

1038
01:18:41.680 --> 01:18:48.600
what's it call? Past eight pm? I'm not sure if

1039
01:18:48.640 --> 01:18:51.600
I'm going to edit this tonight. I'll do it in

1040
01:18:51.640 --> 01:18:57.680
the morning when I wake up. I might do it tonight.

1041
01:18:57.920 --> 01:19:02.800
I don't know. It's hard to know, isn't it hard

1042
01:19:02.880 --> 01:19:10.159
to guess? Really? Really, so thank you for listening. Remember

1043
01:19:10.199 --> 01:19:14.600
to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to

1044
01:19:14.640 --> 01:19:18.000
be happy and be gentle of yourself because you also

1045
01:19:18.119 --> 01:19:30.760
deserve to feel safe. Lots of love, Bye, little flappy

1046
01:19:30.800 --> 01:19:33.520
ears right at the end, What was that? You always

1047
01:19:33.560 --> 01:19:37.199
know when I finished the recording, don't you yes, because

1048
01:19:37.199 --> 01:19:38.920
you say goodbye.