Aug. 17, 2025

(music) Latest Update | LMBYTS #1412 | Jason Newland | 17th August 2025

(music) Latest Update | LMBYTS #1412 | Jason Newland | 17th August 2025
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In this “Latest Update” episode of Let Me Bore You To Sleep (#1412), Jason Newland rambles through the everyday happenings in his life with his trademark mix of humor and laid-back storytelling. From noisy neighbors and barking dogs to memories of beaches, travel dreams, and reflections on Sunday traditions, Jason meanders through thoughts and anecdotes that drift gently from one subject to the next. As always, his conversational style is designed not to excite but to soothe—helping you relax, switch off, and drift into peaceful sleep while listening to stories that don’t demand attention.

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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name is

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Jason Newland and this is let Me pull you to sleep.

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Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

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Blah blah blah. So yeah, it's Sunday, the seventeenth of

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August two thousand and twenty five. Yeah, it's been I mean,

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technically it's been quite a busy week, but really just

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because of all the recordings I made, but I only

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made like since Monday, I've only made to let Me

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boy you to sleep recordings. I didn't do a Q

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and a Friday this week because or last week where

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you want record it, you know, this previous Friday because

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I got one question. I know, perhaps I left it

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a little bit late to post on the Facebook group,

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you know, any questions. But maybe I should just stop

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doing the Q and A Friday if no one's if

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there's no more questions, then there's no more answers. I

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can't answer questions that are not asked. So yeah, if

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you want me to continue to to the Q and

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A Friday, then please, I mean, you can send a

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question in via my website if you want, and I'll

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just add it to a list of questions. Just let

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me know it's for this coming Q and A Friday,

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and I'll add it because there's a contact form on

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my website, or you can you know, when I post

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any Q and A questions for Q and a Friday

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on my Facebook group, which is Jason Newland's Boring Group,

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you can maybe leave a question there as well, or

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instead of you know whatever. But yeah, I can't. I'm

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not going to do it if there's no questions, because

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it seems a little bit I mean, there was one question.

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I mean, in all fairness, I probably could have made

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that one question last for about an hour, but the

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question really was whether or not I preferred personal questions

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or non personal questions? And has there been any times

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that I haven't answered a question because it was too personal?

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So I can kind of answer that here in a

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sense of generally, I'm open to most questions. If it's

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a question that I don't really want to answer, then

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I will be purposefully vague, I suppose, or I will

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distract myself and move on to something else. I don't know,

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it's I'm not I'm not great with family questions because

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that is personal. But also I don't really have much

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in a way of family to talk about. Really, Yeah,

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as long as it's about me, it's fine. I'm okay.

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You know, I talk about myself. That's the only thing

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I've really got any right to talk about, really, isn't

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it in a sense? I mean, you know, I've done

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a few done some podcasts about step moms and stuff,

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but that was all nice things that I talked about.

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So yeah, generally, if it's about me, that's kind of

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what the the Q and a Friday's for. But it

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can be about you as well. It can be like

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you could ask my opinion on something. You could ask

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me because I've been a life for so long. You

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can ask me about world events maybe that's happened during

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my lifetime. Asked me about English culture. If you live

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in another country, you could ask me jobs, places I've lived, girlfriends, hobbies, interests,

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TV programs that I liked, music, movies I've seen. Yeah, really,

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it's I think sometimes I'm better at some of the

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older stuff because if something because let's say, if I

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went to someone slamming the doors downstairs like constantly, and

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I really don't know why they've been doing it for

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about twenty minutes, just slamming it. Well, let it slam

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over and over and over again, which is very sure.

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I never got a dog barking. That's why these recordings

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are so much better than hypnosis recordings, because I can't

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I have to stop talking. If a dog barks in

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the background. With these recordings, all sounds are fine. I mean,

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maybe not for you, but generally it's in a distance,

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it's in the background, and it's either make a recording

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or don't make a recording. Can you hear that? One

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of the things that starts that dog off, and also

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starts Vinni off, and also starts another dog around the

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corner off or across the road off is this cat.

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So this lady that lives in a building opposite, she's

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put bells on her cat's collars. Now, I thought she

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did it just to annoy the docks, but she didn't.

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She did it to warn birds. So actually she's done

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it for a really nice reason. But the side effect

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of this particular medication is dogs hear it. I mean

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he can hear it in the middle of the night

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and he starts barking sometimes or growling, and I don't

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know what. I look out the window. I can just

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make out the cat, and the cat's just standing in

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the garden staring up at the window. Proper wind up

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merchant that one. So it's weird, isn't it. It's what

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she's doing is a really good thing to have, because

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I really love birds. But there's always there's a it

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seems to be a what do they call that thing?

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Not a brush off, a playoff the downside, I don't know. Yeah,

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it's not a win win situation. It's a win win

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situation for the birds, which I'm really pleased about. It's

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not a win win situation for the cat. So the

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cat doesn't get to catch birds, which is good, but

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a cat does get to get some pleasure from annoying

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the dogs, which I imagine is quite pleasant for it. Now,

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it's not a win situation for the dogs, unless, of course,

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the dogs getting excited. So Vinnie might actually be enjoying

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barking when he hears the cat. It's more excitement than

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anger or anything, so bless him. Yeah, so Uncle's sausages.

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The funeral has been changed. It was on the toy.

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It's supposed to be on the twenty first of August,

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but they haven't got the birth the death certificate yet,

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so it's been put off till another week. So that

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was that's weird. The I had to get the counseling

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for the mouse exterminator people. I'm not sure what you

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call them, animal prevention unit. I don't know, vermin control,

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something like that. And they came in last Friday and

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they put down bait, and they came back this Friday

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and said there's nothing in there. There's no They put

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stuff in the into the lofts and everything, and there's nothing,

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no sign, not a single sausage, excuse the pun. And

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it's all the residue, all the leftovers from the previous

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mister there. So it's not Yeah, it's old historic, he said,

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which is good. It's not good in a sense, but

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it's good obviously for the rest of the building because

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we don't want those things running around. But it's not

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it's like he was living with all that stuff around.

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He didn't even know it. So the I'm thinking that

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the council are going to come in and start emptying

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his place, probably in the next week or so. So

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I've still got his key to let them in and

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then that'll be the whole process coming and emptying it.

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And painting and all that stuff, and getting a place

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ready for the next tenant and a new a new

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adventure begins, hopefully a quiet adventure. But we'll see. Yeah,

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I could, really, I really don't need a new neighbor

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opposite me. You know. It's the noisy ones, the ones downstairs,

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and then there's a couple. Well one's moved out now,

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but there was a couple that slammed the door continuously downstairs.

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Now it shakes the building. It's really loud. It echoes

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through the hallway and stuff. And it's one thing downstairs,

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but here, if I had the same thing happening opposite me,

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it's going to be I think it will be disturbable, disturbable,

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disturbably loud, and I don't Yeah, I'm not looking forward

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to that because there seems to be two types of

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people in this world, those that know how to close

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doors and those that don't know how to close doors.

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I didn't think it'd be too complicated, you know, and

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so considerate people and inconsiderate people. But I also realized

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as I got older, that inconsiderate people aren't actually quite

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often doing it to be harmful to other people. They're

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just not thinking, they're just they're just going about their business,

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going about their life. They're not even noticing the doors

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slamming when they leave, and perhaps not noticing they've got

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loud music at night, or you know, they're just they're

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not doing it purposefully to cause problems. I think some

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people just they're just not aware of that, or not

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aware but not aware that other people are around that

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can hear. Maybe they assume that they're everything they can

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hear is just for their ears and no one else

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can hear it. Have you ever seen someone on public

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transport talking about someone else and they're literally like ten

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foot away, but that person can hear you. I can

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hear you, and I'm in the next town. It seems

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to Yes, it's kind of weird. One no one can

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hear me. Yeah, they can hear you, you know, when

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we're not not everybody. But so that would be interesting.

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I mean, I hope it will take a while before

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they get anyone in there, and I hope when they do,

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it's not going to be you know, it's going to

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be yeah, Well, I hope it's going to be a

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nice person, that's all. Someone that's idea is someone that's

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older someone that's maybe, but I don't think it really

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matters about agees that they're nice, nice and quiet. That

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would be nice, Yeah, nice and quiet. How many people

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have I had lived here, not in my flat, but

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live in this building since I've been here for ten years,

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ten and a half years now. Oh so when I

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moved in, we had her him him, him, So there

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was someone when I moved in, there was Uncle's Sausages.

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He's been here the whole he was here the whole

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time until recently. And then next to him there was

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someone that was there for a while and then he

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moved out, and then someone else moved in. I didn't

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realize it was a different person. But he's been in

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there for a long time, and I'll get on really

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well with him as well, So he's cool. He's about eighty.

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And then so this has kind of been the same

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for a long time, the last probably eight years. This

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has pretty much been the same upstairs until now. Downstairs

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there's someone that's been there the whole time as well

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as she was here when I moved in, not below me,

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but one of the flats downstairs, and then in the

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other flat next to the one, I was just talking

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about downstairs. That was where my friend Luke lived, and

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he was I think he's been there for like two,

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two or three years before I moved in, at least

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a couple of years before I moved in, so and

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he was here until what month is it now, August, September, October, November,

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so it will be two years in November that he left.

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Let me dark shut up. I do wonder if she

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just the owner of that doctor's prods it to make

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it bark, because always it's too quiet and we need noise. Bark.

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That's good. I haven't got to think now, just make

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lot noise. We need noise. So when he left, the

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counsel came, did their thing and all that stuff. But

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it did take quite a long time before anyone moved in,

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so it was a good I don't know if I

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just got a feeling it was last summer, but maybe

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kind of April May time, so December, January, February, March April,

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so at least five or six months before someone moved

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in there. Yeah, so it wasn't it might have been

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March April. It was all I know. It's very very sunny,

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so maybe four five months, so it's quite. It's quite

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a long time. I mean, the longer the better. The

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longer it takes, the better, I think. Not for people

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that are waiting for housing, obviously, it's not good for them,

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just for the tenants, you know, just have that little

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break that's I don't know, a bit selfish, isn't I suppose. Sorry,

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I give myself permission to be selfish once a day,

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and that was my little selfish moment. So and then

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so soone moved in there into to loose flat about

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I don't know. I'm sure it's about May, but there

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might have been earlier. And then she's moved out already

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as far as I know, she's moved out a couple

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of weeks ago. So that tenant's gone. So there's now

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another flat empty, but the council haven't come in to

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refurbish it. So I'm not sure what's going on. All

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I know is she moved I've been told that she's

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moved out. And then downstairs, so we've got two flats

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empty at the moment, but both kind of just been

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lived in it as it were, you know, so they

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need to be what the count would normally do. You know,

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if there's stuff in there, like there was still some

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stuff in there with Luke. They come in and they

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take all the stuff out and they put it to

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the back of a like a lorry van thing, you know,

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those cage vans. And I don't know obviously where you live,

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I'm not sure what it's like, but they kind of

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they use quite often for cutting, like you know, the

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grass cutters that are doing parks and stuff, and they

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chuck stuff in the back there, so it's got a cage.

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it's got a cage at the side, so then it

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doesn't you know, and they can open it at the

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back and put stuff on and wheel stuff into it.

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I mean, it's probably used in building sites that kind

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of things. Well, I don't know, but I imagine, well

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they use that's what they generally seem to use, so

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they chuck stuff on there. Then there's a while because

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I guess the process depends well how quick the process

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is depends on how many flats need to be done,

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because they've got limited workers to do it, I imagine.

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So you know, if suddenly one hundred flats become available,

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a hundred properties become available in one month. They're going

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to struggle to do that many they're it's gonna take

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a while, I guess, but there I don't be honest,

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I don't really know what the council actually do to

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the property. I mean once they take everything out, which

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they I know, they take the carpet out as well.

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The only way you get to have a carpet is

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if you do a council swap with someone else. So,

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for example, I'd love to live in Talkie. It's a

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long way away, but I just think it's beautiful place

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or maybe something like Cornwall or you know, somewhere that's

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just nice visually nice with a beach. And yeah, I'm not,

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I'm not. I mean, this is okay as a base,

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but it's not. I'm very secluded here and I do

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like beaches, and I've lived on a well, I've lived

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in towns with beaches three times, including Buttlings. I mean technically,

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well was not. Technically there was a beach there, but

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I think I only went to it twice and it

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was winter, so it wasn't. Really I'm pretty sure the

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beach was. I think that part of the beach might

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have been private, just for no it wouldn't have been

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private with it. I don't know anyway. I remember I

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did go there a couple of times at late at night,

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and it's very windy, very cold, very rainy. Yeah, I

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do quite like beaches. I lived in South End when

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I was a little kid, and back then South End

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was a very popular place for holiday goes, and I

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mean it probably I think Blackpool was always the most popular.

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I think, but I think what happened and I might

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be I'm partly making this up. Is depending on where

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you lived in the country, when it came to a holiday,

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you'd go to the popular place that's in that part

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of the country. So if you lived in I suppose

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Liverpool or Manchester and stuff like that, you perhaps travel

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to Blackpool. If you lived in London, perhaps you travel

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to South End or to Clacton. And if you're in Essex,

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maybe Clacton or South End because both of those are

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in South End. So and it's probably the same in

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other places. You know where you'd go to a place

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where there's I was trying to think the East coast Yarmouth.

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Yarmouth was a very popular place. Yarmouth Beach is one

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of the nicest beaches I ever went to in this country.

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It was a long time ago. I went on a

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school trip. Was there a school trip? Wow? Why I've

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always gone sweaky? Why did I go to Yarmouth? I

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went on a trip with someone, but I don't know

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why I went. Maybe it was with the see Cadets,

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or maybe it was a school trip. Might be the

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school trip, might have been the Cecredets. But I've got

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a memory of it, and I think one of the blokes,

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one of the kids, met a girl while he was there,

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and he was not in the Cecredets, So I think

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it was just a school trip and we went to

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Yarmouth for some reason for the day and stuff like that.

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It's brilliant. Yeah, probably that's what's a memory I forgot about. Yeah.

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I remember running on the beach and just like the

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sea coming up and I'm kissing my girlfriend and she's like,

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we're upset because she's going back. She's on holidays. She

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was going back to Australia and I to go back

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to school. I wait a minute, as speakinning of Greece. No,

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but there's definitely a beach. There was a beach. I'll

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tell you another beach really lovely, really Lowerestoft, so the

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East coast if you ever do come to if you

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live up north, or you live in Scotland or Wales

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or the middle of the country Norwedge. I mean, if

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you live in the South area, you're probably going to

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know about the East Coast. But there's some really nice

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beaches here. Now, I don't think anyone's going to come

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from Wales to go visiting beaches other parts of the UK,

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because Wales has some of the most beautiful beaches in

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the world. I think I covered myself there. Good does

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Scotland have beaches? So I said, do Scotland have Wales? See,

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I have been to Scotland, but I was a tiny kid.

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I think I lived there for a while. I'd like

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to go. Well, do I say Scotland, I'd like to

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go to Scotland. I'd like to It's one of those

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places like I've been to Wales multiple times over the years.

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I've been told I live in England, but I've been

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to lots and lots of places in England. I lived

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in Newcastle, lived in South End, lived in East Anglia,

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lived in Essex, lived in London. Yes, I lived in

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the Northeast. In the south I've been to. You know,

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a lot of the places I've been to Nottingham, Liverpool, Manchester,

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Bolton and most of the towns in this on the

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east coast area, you know, all those different beccles and

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lowest staffed Yarmouth, all those places in Norfolk as well.

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I've been to lots of places in Norfolk over the

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years in the past, not recently, and I just haven't

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really as an adult or as a like a because

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when I was there, I was too young to really

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know where I was. When I was in Scotland. That

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is so my oldest brother said, we lived in Scotland

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for a while, but I don't recollect it. I don't

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remember it because I was I might have even been

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a baby, not a baby, but like two years old

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or something, which is still a baby, isn't it really?

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And I'd like to go to Scotland just to visit,

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and because I would be a tourist like my dad

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is literally not literally, because there was a while back,

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but probably about two months ago for sus yeah, Putty,

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about two months ago he was in Scotland on holiday

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and he did a little tour of Scotland and I'm

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not sure where he went because I've got family and

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my ancestry. Although forty eight percent Irish, I am about

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two percent Scottish or four percent Scottish, so you know,

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my Celtic percentage is quite high Irish and Scottish. And

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I don't know if it's any or whales in me now,

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just god, we have visual whild you want and well

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or whal and you would, but yeah, I don't know

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if I've got any. We're all mixed, and we ultimately

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there is the idea is that there's a pure breed

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human out there. Shut up, shut up, doesn't exist. You're silly,

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silly person. I'm pure me. No, you're not. Maybe pure

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of mind, I'm a pure breed. No, there's no such thing.

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There's not even such thing as a pure breed dog,

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because most dogs have just created. You know, You've got

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a dog and then you say, Okay, I like this,

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I like this little mixture we've got. Let's make more

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of just this mixture, and we'll call it a pure breed,

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even though the original wasn't a pure breed. It was

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just a mixture. No, that's not how it works. So

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I remember besides saying, oh is it Jack Russell? And

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he was the bloke that tried to selling many to me.

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He's a pure breed, you know, I said, okay, and

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I did a bit of research. Now, Jack Russell's were

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created on purpose by mixing a bunch of dogs together

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to create hunters. So there's nothing pure a pumped hair.

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It's like, you know, it's weird. There's definitely no pure

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breed humans. Is that controversal? No, but it's true. Ah. Yeah,

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So Scotland, I reckon it would be quite a nice

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place to visit. Wales. I'd like to go back to

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Wales and visit again. Yeah, I'd like to see the

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beaches again, just to see if they are what I remember.

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I'm going to be smaller than I remember, because I

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was tiny when I went there, you know, because we

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used to go camping in Wales every year for quite

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a few years, and I didn't like camping. I'll be

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honest with you. I didn't like it. It's just not

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my I mean, you haven't got to be an adult

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to know what you do and don't like, have you.

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I mean, I knew from the very first time that

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I was standing there in the rain putting a tent up,

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that I didn't enjoy the process, and that I didn't

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really want to do it again, I would say, the

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only nice thing and this is going to be weird.

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Actually there's two things. The only I didn't mind sleeping

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in a tent, but I didn't like it, however, weird.

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That is what I liked, is laying down in the tent.

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And because we're in Wales, there's the obligatory rain has

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to occur. I mean this was in the peak of

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the season, peak of the summer. Beautiful for pupil are

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beautiful weather, but also you know, some rain as well

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around it, which is why it's such a luscious country.

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And that sound of the rain on the lid of

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the tent was just so nice. It was I mean,

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I don't personally, I probably did get tingles. It was

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maybe that's my ASMR thing. I just found it very relaxing.

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But being inside the tent when it was happening. I've

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always enjoyed hearing rain unless I have to go out

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in it, then I don't enjoy it. And wind and weather.

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I like weather. I'm kind of used to it. If

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you ever lived, if you lived in this country, all

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we have is weather. It's just continuous. Yes, So I

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don't know. I think, yeah, laying down, I don't know

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where everyone was because there was like what one, two, three, four, five,

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and myself there was six of us, way too many

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people to spend time together. But we did and you

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know it was, it was what it was. Can't change

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it now. Yeah, parts of it were lovely. I liked

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the the sandy beaches. And because in Whales, like I'm

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like a tourist guy, don't I If you've never been

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to Wales, and if you thought about all I'll go

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or not, I'd recommend going, maybe be prepared to travel

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around because you know, it's not that Wales is a

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huge area. I mean it's not tiny, but it's still

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it's there's you know, there's still quite a lot. There's

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quite a few beautiful beaches. You've got Snowdonia the mountain,

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and I went up there twice. I think maybe three times.

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I think it's twice. Went up by train once and

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went up like walked up to the top. So did

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the journey. I think it was twice. Train's a lot quicker,

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so I wouldn't try and not in a not even

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in a No, I wouldn't try and walk up it now.

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I mean there are parts of it that he kind

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of it's an up hill walk, but it's not steep

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the whole way. There's parts of it that feel almost flat,

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and then it sort of gradually, you know, you end

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up and I think you kind of walk around the thing.

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I think, but in my memory it might not be true.

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But yeah, not really, not really for me anymore. I

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would go up by it. I probably. I don't know

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if i'd even bother going up by train because I've

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done it. I did it years ago, I did it

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when I was a kid. Wouldn't be that bothered to

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do it again. But if you haven't done it, it's

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definitely worth it, I would say, because I don't know

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about your life. But how often do you get to

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stand at the top of a mountain? I mean some

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people would, I guess every day if you live on

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a mountain, obviously, but I, yeah, it's quite not yeah,

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it's quite. Maybe I would do it again, but go

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by train. And the trains were old, like really made

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of woods, kind of proper old trains, just like that,

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And my dad saying to me, Jason, can you stop that,

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I said, but it makes fun. It makes it more

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fun if I had some sound effects. But yeah, I

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quite liked it. Yeah, that was all right. We also

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went to slate places, so basically just old minds where

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they used to dig for slate. We did also go

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to a couple of coal mines, old coal mines, and

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I think what really surprised me. I don't know why

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I was surprised, but how big they are like underneath really,

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I mean, I do kind of think that if you're

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going to build a hole like that, you're going to

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dig a hole. When you finish, you need to fill

461
00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:56.159
the hole in. That seems to be the obvious thing.

462
00:42:56.519 --> 00:43:00.960
You don't leave a big, massive whole all in the ground.

463
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:08.599
I'm not talking about the entrance or the exit. Maybe

464
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:12.400
U classes the entrance or the exits, probably both, isn't it,

465
00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:21.519
but all of the space inside because that's going sideways,

466
00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:26.039
and you know there's a lot of ground that's basically

467
00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:31.519
underneath the place where people are walking. This big, massive

468
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:41.960
gap of empty space sort of made sense. I don't know,

469
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:49.880
to me do something with that space, I don't know

470
00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:59.000
what build, build like a shelter or some kind of

471
00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:06.679
I don't know it, you know it just so it's supported.

472
00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:11.599
So it's really really well supported for the ground. And

473
00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:14.920
you can tell I know nothing about what I'm talking about.

474
00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:18.519
But doesn't that since stopped me before, So why should

475
00:44:18.519 --> 00:44:23.760
they stop me now? Hey? Why there's no mere USM.

476
00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:36.320
So yeah, I'd like to go to Scotland. I'm not

477
00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:40.239
sure where though, because I do. I'd like to go

478
00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:46.239
to Ireland again as well. I mean I'm a sole

479
00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:52.119
traveler generally, but if I went to Ireland, it's I

480
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:55.239
could visit a couple of people that I know, or

481
00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:59.079
three people that I know on the whole of the island,

482
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:07.119
including the northern Ireland, and that with Scotland i'd quite

483
00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:16.239
like to go to. Trying to think of Scottish place

484
00:45:18.119 --> 00:45:22.039
they've got. They've got towns in Scotland, haven't they. Do

485
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:30.239
you have houses there? Yeah? I don't know. I just

486
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:35.400
I just like to visit and just have a look around. Really,

487
00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:46.280
there's no specific place necessarily. I mean, i'd like to

488
00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:50.320
go to Edinburgh, but i'd like to go during the

489
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:58.840
Edinburgh Festival, so that would be cool. Glasgow is another

490
00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:06.519
place I'd like to visit. Yeah, outside of that, I

491
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:17.519
can't think of any other places. Edinburgh Glasgow. Hmm, that probably.

492
00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:20.920
I'm not saying that's that's all, but that I guess

493
00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:26.159
they're two of the main places. Glasgow just I don't know.

494
00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:30.000
It's somewhere that I wanted to visit for a long time,

495
00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:37.000
Edinburgh solely because of the Edinburgh Festival, the Fringe Festival,

496
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:42.119
so where the comedy and stuff is on a I

497
00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:45.199
think it's in August. I think it's now. Actually probably

498
00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:58.880
I've not been to the Isle of Wight now. I

499
00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:02.199
have family on the Eye of White, not that I know.

500
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:05.480
I just I've got like distant relatives that live there,

501
00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:13.800
as I do on the Isle of Man. And well,

502
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:16.159
one of my close relatives, my auntie, used to live

503
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:19.360
on the Isle of Man. She doesn't anymore, so that's

504
00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:21.599
that's not a distant relative that she's my auntie, but

505
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:29.639
she's my daddy's sister or she's my granny's daughter, so

506
00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:31.920
her and her daughter lived on the Isle of Man.

507
00:47:33.239 --> 00:47:39.719
The Isla White is more distant, distant distant relations sort

508
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:47.400
of my NaN's relatives relatives, and I'd like to visit

509
00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:50.519
the Isla White. I think it's has to be quite

510
00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:53.719
a decent place to go, quite a nice place, so

511
00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:57.440
maybe go there because these are more like closer places,

512
00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:05.159
aren't they, rather than traveling across the world. About here?

513
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:09.599
About all the places that there are to visit here,

514
00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:16.800
that I could visit here? Yeah, I don't know. Just

515
00:48:17.079 --> 00:48:22.840
maybe maybe could go and have a look around, have

516
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:30.400
a little wonder. But then you've got lots of islands,

517
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:36.320
haven't you around the local islands like Bergerac you're there,

518
00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:43.199
and is Love Sheppy is it? There's some Scottish islands

519
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:50.000
that I could visit. And I think there's like one

520
00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:54.480
hundred and twenty one different little islands around the UK.

521
00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:58.119
There's a few anyway, I don't know if there's that many.

522
00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:02.280
I made that up, but there's a few. There's definitely

523
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:08.800
a few islands with small amounts of people, you know,

524
00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:13.519
So I think it'd be quite cool to visit some

525
00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:17.599
of those places. And again it's just a ferry, isn't it,

526
00:49:18.679 --> 00:49:23.159
And maybe another boat to take me to the island,

527
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:26.599
as long as I don't have to get in the water,

528
00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:32.519
you know, if it's a small boat like from a

529
00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:36.360
ferry or a ship, and then a small boat there

530
00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.320
needs to be at least a jetty, you know, and

531
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:43.079
someone to help me off the boat. I don't want

532
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:47.199
to be like having to jump in the sea and

533
00:49:47.719 --> 00:49:53.559
walk up get all wet. No, I don't no, stop

534
00:49:53.639 --> 00:50:02.159
asking me to do that. I don't want to. So yeah,

535
00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:04.920
So there's lots of places I'd quite like to visit

536
00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:15.920
in the foreseeable kind of surroundings, I suppose, you know,

537
00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:22.400
because none of this is particularly far away. It's a

538
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:26.800
few hours. A few hours. I mean, the Isle of

539
00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:28.800
Man is quite on the Isle of Wight is a

540
00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:33.559
fair distance because I don't know about the Isle of White.

541
00:50:33.599 --> 00:50:36.400
But with the Isle of Man, i'd have to go

542
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:41.199
to Liverpool, I think, to get the ferry from there

543
00:50:41.840 --> 00:50:45.480
to the Isle of Man. So Liverpool. To get from

544
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:50.079
here to Liverpool is probably about five hours on a train,

545
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:56.559
if not more, five hours, maybe less, maybe more, maybe

546
00:50:56.679 --> 00:51:02.599
six hours, and then the ferry over. If I've got

547
00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:04.599
a nighttime one, it's going to take all night to

548
00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:11.800
get there. Daytime daytimes usually travel quicker, don't they, But

549
00:51:11.880 --> 00:51:17.400
at nighttime. And I do like a nighttime journey a

550
00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:23.639
nighttime ferry, but I like a daytime fairy as well.

551
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:28.119
I think there's the benefits of a daytime, as you

552
00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:30.159
can see, you can go out on the deck and

553
00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:35.440
you can see stuff. At night, you can't really see

554
00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:43.159
that much, but it is more slow and more relaxed,

555
00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:48.000
and there's less people the nighttime. In my experience, I've

556
00:51:48.039 --> 00:51:53.599
done a few nighttime ferries over the years, and it's

557
00:51:53.639 --> 00:51:56.480
just less people around in the nighttime. I think the

558
00:51:57.480 --> 00:51:59.960
I guess in the majority of people prefer to travel

559
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:07.639
during the day, especially when it comes to or in

560
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:15.199
the past, going to Belgium, there was a very popular

561
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:21.199
pastime for people and they would travel from England to

562
00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:28.760
Belgium or England to France and basically get off the ferry,

563
00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:38.800
go to the duty duty free place, buy lots of

564
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:41.800
alcohol and cigarettes and then get on the next ferry,

565
00:52:41.840 --> 00:52:45.320
back load their lorry not the lowry, load their van

566
00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:51.760
or their car with stuff and pretend that it was

567
00:52:51.840 --> 00:52:55.280
for personal use, and then get back and sell it

568
00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:00.280
in the pubs. Now, that was something that people did

569
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:04.360
for years and years and years. And I mean there

570
00:53:04.440 --> 00:53:06.559
was a time we didn't even need a passport to

571
00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:10.079
go to to go abroad. You could get like a

572
00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:13.639
little part like a day a day passport, a day

573
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:19.679
pass and because I didn't have my I went abroad. Oh,

574
00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:25.360
I didn't get my first passport until nineteen ninety four,

575
00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:33.840
and so before that time, I traveled to Belgium multiple times,

576
00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:42.800
to France, and I flew to Spain and I didn't

577
00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:48.039
have a passport, just got a like a I was

578
00:53:48.039 --> 00:53:52.639
just allowed to go, which is a bit weird because

579
00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:54.880
everywhere I've been since then, they've all asked to see

580
00:53:54.920 --> 00:54:01.079
my passport and this is you know, this is I've well, yeah,

581
00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:04.440
I don't think I've left. Have I left the country

582
00:54:04.519 --> 00:54:12.599
since Yeah, it's not to do with us leaving Europe

583
00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:24.159
because a few years back we basically put our little

584
00:54:24.320 --> 00:54:26.679
sales up and we moved away from Europe. We moved

585
00:54:26.679 --> 00:54:31.719
the whole country away, floated away. We did. It's weird,

586
00:54:32.599 --> 00:54:37.400
very strange. We can actually see the sun moving to

587
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:41.320
the side as we moved. So yeah, so if you

588
00:54:41.400 --> 00:54:45.320
do travel to England, just be aware that we're not

589
00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:48.440
in the same place he was. They haven't changed all

590
00:54:48.480 --> 00:54:53.760
the maps because they take ages and it's expensive. So

591
00:54:54.760 --> 00:54:58.519
plus England is such a dot on the map anyway,

592
00:54:58.559 --> 00:55:03.920
you almost miss if it was the scale, so it

593
00:55:03.920 --> 00:55:06.559
doesn't really matter of fact. We've moved a few thousand miles.

594
00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:14.760
So yeah, well, now in China you didn't know that. No,

595
00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:20.360
you didn't know it nowhere near Hong Kong. Yeah, So

596
00:55:20.519 --> 00:55:25.519
we moved out of Europe a few years ago and

597
00:55:25.559 --> 00:55:31.880
the weather's changed. It's a lot warmer now. Yeah. The

598
00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:35.960
thing is the problem is I didn't they didn't plan

599
00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:38.800
it very well because they managed to get it set,

600
00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:43.599
but anchorage there wasn't enough. Anchorage didn't have enough anchors.

601
00:55:44.480 --> 00:55:46.679
So we keep kind of just you wake up. You

602
00:55:46.760 --> 00:55:49.480
never know when where you could have end up. The

603
00:55:49.519 --> 00:55:52.280
other day, I was in Spain, woke up, looked out

604
00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:58.039
in Spain. Three weeks ago, I was in Somalia. Just

605
00:55:58.119 --> 00:56:07.920
you don't, I don't know. So yeah, and so this

606
00:56:08.079 --> 00:56:16.440
is my Sunday afternoon. Sunday afternoon. There was a time

607
00:56:17.559 --> 00:56:23.079
in England where everything was closed on a Sunday. I'm

608
00:56:23.119 --> 00:56:28.880
talking everything. The only thing opened. Two things are opened

609
00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:32.639
as far as for public, okay, other than you know,

610
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:37.760
going out and stuff. You know, there was still amusements

611
00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:39.519
and all those kinds of things were open on the

612
00:56:39.559 --> 00:56:48.159
weekends for people and maybe a Sunday market. But newsagents

613
00:56:48.199 --> 00:56:55.280
opened on a Sunday morning and then on a Sunday

614
00:56:55.559 --> 00:57:01.599
lunchtime off license could open for about an hour and

615
00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:05.159
a half, then they closed, and then they'd open up.

616
00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:06.719
I think they were allowed to open up in the

617
00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:09.880
evening for about an hour and a half then they close,

618
00:57:11.880 --> 00:57:16.000
not one hundred percent sure that's true. And pubs would

619
00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:18.760
be allowed to open up for a short period of time,

620
00:57:18.840 --> 00:57:23.039
probably being between eleven and one or eleven and two.

621
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:27.760
The pubs would open and then they'd open again in

622
00:57:27.800 --> 00:57:34.039
the evening for about seven till ten or six till ten.

623
00:57:35.480 --> 00:57:39.280
They close it they close at ten o'clock. That's what

624
00:57:39.639 --> 00:57:42.199
that's Honestly, that's what Sundays used to be like in

625
00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:51.239
this country. No supermarkets, no anything walking around is just

626
00:57:51.400 --> 00:57:54.599
not everyone to be at home apart from those that weren't.

627
00:57:57.519 --> 00:57:59.480
And it was kind of like an official day off.

628
00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:05.719
I mean, and it's not official, it was That's the reason,

629
00:58:05.880 --> 00:58:07.880
wasn't it so that people can have the day off working,

630
00:58:10.239 --> 00:58:14.000
So probably the majority of people in the country wouldn't

631
00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:23.400
work on a Sunday. Yeah, a lot different back then,

632
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:38.880
and it still was like that when I'm pretty sure.

633
00:58:39.159 --> 00:58:42.920
I'm not sure how relaxed things got, but I'm pretty

634
00:58:42.960 --> 00:58:46.639
sure it was still like that when I met when

635
00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:49.880
I moved to London, because I lived in a small

636
00:58:49.960 --> 00:58:54.679
town at that time and I moved to London and

637
00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:04.800
things are different because shops were open. Some shops are

638
00:59:04.840 --> 00:59:11.599
open all the time, like all the time, and I've

639
00:59:11.639 --> 00:59:14.400
never seen that before. Like you could just get stuff

640
00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:16.760
whenever you want it, at any time of the day

641
00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:21.719
or night. Not everywhere, but there were places you could

642
00:59:21.719 --> 00:59:29.000
get stuff. And there was this when I lived in

643
00:59:29.119 --> 00:59:33.599
forest Gate. There was this little shop right on the corner.

644
00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:38.440
Worst shop in the world. It was on the corner

645
00:59:39.800 --> 00:59:42.719
and you had to ring the doorbell for them to

646
00:59:42.800 --> 00:59:46.840
let you in. So it's basically it's almost like they'd

647
00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:52.840
confer their front room, their living room into a shop

648
00:59:54.119 --> 00:59:58.559
and it's sold groceries, suits, just bits like that. Yeah,

649
00:59:59.519 --> 01:00:05.400
everything was behind the counter, so you couldn't just take

650
01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:07.599
what you wanted and put it on again. They had

651
01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:12.159
to get it for you and you had to ring

652
01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:15.639
their doorbell and they would come and open the door.

653
01:00:18.920 --> 01:00:23.320
To me, that was someone that did not want my money.

654
01:00:24.280 --> 01:00:26.519
They did not want to work, they didn't want to

655
01:00:26.519 --> 01:00:30.960
be open. So I just I wouldn't go there. I'd

656
01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:34.320
walk I'd walk two miles away to get stuff. I

657
01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:37.159
just refused to go in there. I was very young,

658
01:00:37.239 --> 01:00:42.400
I was very I was very political back then. I

659
01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:47.159
was very stupid. Back then. I just annoyed me because

660
01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:48.639
a couple of times I did try and get in

661
01:00:48.639 --> 01:00:53.400
there and they just wouldn't answer the door. We're busy,

662
01:00:54.239 --> 01:00:57.480
Come on, I just want to can of coke. We're busy.

663
01:00:59.480 --> 01:01:01.960
Couldn't you just come I just want one can of coke.

664
01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:08.880
We're in bed. Really, can't you just give me a

665
01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:12.159
can of coke? It's four in the morning. We're going

666
01:01:12.239 --> 01:01:15.599
to call the police if you don't go away. We

667
01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:22.079
know where you live. Okay, fair enough? So yeah, I

668
01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:23.960
understand they didn't want to open the door four in

669
01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:31.760
the morning. But it's I remember when seven eleven opened. Now,

670
01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:40.280
that changed the world in this country because suddenly or

671
01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:45.119
they were open, because everything, even during the week everything

672
01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:48.440
was closed, you know. I think the pubs had to

673
01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:55.039
be closed by eleven or half ten. I think maybe

674
01:01:55.079 --> 01:01:58.039
they could open a bit later at the weekends. But

675
01:01:58.159 --> 01:02:01.519
the whole kind of being open late late didn't happen

676
01:02:01.679 --> 01:02:10.800
till late nineties, I think, maybe two thousands. Yeah. Wow,

677
01:02:12.519 --> 01:02:16.679
A lot of changes, a lot of changes over the years.

678
01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:21.159
But seven eleven that was so good, and I don't

679
01:02:21.199 --> 01:02:24.440
know why it didn't. I mean it might still be

680
01:02:24.519 --> 01:02:31.679
around parts of the country, I don't know, probably maybe

681
01:02:31.719 --> 01:02:34.480
in London, if there are are cities, maybe, but it

682
01:02:35.280 --> 01:02:38.840
didn't last very long there. And I never understood it

683
01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:43.440
because it was the perfect place. They had everything, everything

684
01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:46.840
you could possibly want in it of an evening. I mean,

685
01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:50.840
unless you wanted to buy some underpants or something, then

686
01:02:51.039 --> 01:02:53.639
they didn't have that. If you wanted to buy a

687
01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:57.000
you know, a game of chess, they didn't have that either,

688
01:02:59.039 --> 01:03:03.199
you know, a packet of screws. No, didn't have that.

689
01:03:03.559 --> 01:03:11.800
But they had like basic things my biscuits, cakes, drinks, alcohol, cigarettes,

690
01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:22.239
and chocolates. I suppose, like basic. I think they might

691
01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:26.039
have had a few basic groceries also, yeah, they probably did. Yeah,

692
01:03:26.039 --> 01:03:29.119
they did have basic groceries, so like tins of beans

693
01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:32.679
and coffee, tea, you know, the kind of stuff that

694
01:03:32.719 --> 01:03:36.480
you'd probably find in in any seven eleven around the world,

695
01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:44.840
because there's lots of them. It was brilliant. I loved

696
01:03:44.840 --> 01:03:49.800
it now. I used to go when it first started.

697
01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:52.440
I'd go in there when it first opened. I mean

698
01:03:52.760 --> 01:03:55.960
i'd say, what time are you're closing, they'd say eleven.

699
01:03:56.960 --> 01:03:59.079
I mean, to start with, it was like, oh, eleven o'clock.

700
01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:03.199
After the fifteenth time of going in there, like every

701
01:04:03.280 --> 01:04:08.719
day in a row, they said, it's still eleven o'clock.

702
01:04:10.320 --> 01:04:12.960
Then after about three weeks of doing it, they took

703
01:04:13.039 --> 01:04:19.599
me outside and pointed to the sign and what I

704
01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:22.119
think they thought I was making fun of them, but

705
01:04:22.159 --> 01:04:27.360
it wasn't, because I really I grew up seeing everything

706
01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:31.280
close early, like my whole life up to the age

707
01:04:31.320 --> 01:04:37.760
of sixteen, seventeen whatever. It was, everything closed early in

708
01:04:37.800 --> 01:04:44.360
the evening on a Sunday, everything, and I just couldn't

709
01:04:44.360 --> 01:04:48.719
believe that something was open late till eleven at night.

710
01:04:49.639 --> 01:04:56.760
It was unheard of. And I kind of because of

711
01:04:56.840 --> 01:04:58.800
the because I was working in the chip shop at

712
01:04:58.800 --> 01:05:03.679
the time, and I didn't finish work till probably ten

713
01:05:03.800 --> 01:05:06.280
half ten sometimes if it was a really busy lot

714
01:05:06.360 --> 01:05:09.480
to do and stuff ten o'clock, I don't know, and

715
01:05:09.920 --> 01:05:12.639
I'd go and check in that because I wanted to

716
01:05:12.639 --> 01:05:15.360
make sure I could go in and get myself maybe

717
01:05:15.440 --> 01:05:19.920
some drinks or some chocolate bars or something. So i'd

718
01:05:19.920 --> 01:05:22.440
go in, you know, like earlier in the day. What

719
01:05:22.599 --> 01:05:27.880
time you closing. I'd try and get at like a

720
01:05:27.920 --> 01:05:31.719
different member of staff. I'll always get the same answer,

721
01:05:31.920 --> 01:05:36.440
eleven o'clock Jason. And so I thought, well, I'm going

722
01:05:36.519 --> 01:05:41.239
to start doing is phoning them. So I phoned them up. Now,

723
01:05:42.079 --> 01:05:48.480
if you go somewhere regularly and then you start to

724
01:05:48.559 --> 01:05:52.039
phone them, it's a good idea to put on a

725
01:05:52.039 --> 01:05:54.559
different voice if you can. Because they just knew it

726
01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:59.960
as me straightway, because I said to Hi, it's Jason

727
01:06:00.039 --> 01:06:02.280
from the chip shop. What time have you closed today?

728
01:06:03.400 --> 01:06:09.599
Eleven o'clock? Like every other day, it's eleven o'clock, seven

729
01:06:09.960 --> 01:06:14.360
eleven it means seven in the morning to eleven at night,

730
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:17.400
you know, and seem to want to know what time

731
01:06:17.480 --> 01:06:24.079
we open. We open at seven. The clues in the sign,

732
01:06:25.559 --> 01:06:31.760
the clues in the name. Thank you for calling Jason.

733
01:06:33.239 --> 01:06:35.239
Now my problem is I should have put on a

734
01:06:35.239 --> 01:06:40.800
different voice. Clearly, Hi, it's Jason from the chip shop.

735
01:06:41.719 --> 01:06:46.719
What time you closed in today? See, I just didn't

736
01:06:46.880 --> 01:06:51.440
think on my feet it would be a lot easier,

737
01:06:52.239 --> 01:06:56.639
but I just thought it out first, like could do

738
01:06:56.760 --> 01:07:00.519
with these recordings. I mean, you wouldn't believe Eve that

739
01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:04.280
I spend probably six seven hours a day. You know,

740
01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:07.079
putting on his script together what I'm going to say,

741
01:07:07.159 --> 01:07:12.679
and you know, practice in for a good two hours

742
01:07:12.679 --> 01:07:20.239
before I start the recording, and then it sounds so natural. Wow.

743
01:07:20.400 --> 01:07:24.719
Can you imagine if I did that? Well, yeah, you

744
01:07:24.719 --> 01:07:29.719
can imagine, because it'd probably be really well presented instead

745
01:07:29.719 --> 01:07:34.880
of this whatever it is that I do. But this

746
01:07:35.119 --> 01:07:39.800
is what you get. This is me. My name's chasing

747
01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:49.440
La la la la la l L. So yeah, that's it. Really,

748
01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:55.920
it's me talking about Sundays and what I had did.

749
01:07:56.280 --> 01:07:59.159
Church used to be open on a Sunday evening, I

750
01:07:59.199 --> 01:08:02.320
think it did. I know it used to be opening

751
01:08:02.320 --> 01:08:07.440
on a Sunday morning because I would often go to

752
01:08:07.559 --> 01:08:10.800
church with my nan. More often but quite a fair

753
01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:14.440
few times. I'd go to church for my nan when

754
01:08:14.440 --> 01:08:20.119
I was a teenager sort of six fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, whatever,

755
01:08:21.439 --> 01:08:27.359
and then we'd go and because there'd be a coffee place,

756
01:08:27.760 --> 01:08:29.800
so there'd be a place you could get some coffee.

757
01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:32.239
Or was that during the week. That might have been

758
01:08:32.279 --> 01:08:36.680
on a Wednesday. Maybe she went to church on a

759
01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:40.279
Wednesday and I'd go to church with her. Then maybe

760
01:08:40.279 --> 01:08:49.000
it was a Sunday, I'm not sure. Maybe it was

761
01:08:49.039 --> 01:08:51.840
a Sunday. We'd go and get a cup of tea

762
01:08:53.479 --> 01:08:58.520
and a cake, and then I think we'd walk back.

763
01:08:58.600 --> 01:09:02.119
There wasn't a cute, huge walker. This is a fair distance,

764
01:09:02.199 --> 01:09:06.840
but it wasn't a huge walk. Or maybe my dad

765
01:09:06.840 --> 01:09:11.319
would come and pick her up. I don't know. I

766
01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:21.520
don't remember exactly how much of this is true. I

767
01:09:21.560 --> 01:09:26.119
did used to go to quite yeah, quite a few times.

768
01:09:26.119 --> 01:09:31.119
I went to midnight Mass with her at midnight, but

769
01:09:31.159 --> 01:09:34.520
then they also had an early midnight Mass for people

770
01:09:34.560 --> 01:09:40.039
that couldn't get there, you know, for midnight, which makes sense.

771
01:09:41.159 --> 01:09:43.079
It doesn't make sense the way I said it, but

772
01:09:44.199 --> 01:09:50.520
some people it wasn't you know, walking around at midnight

773
01:09:50.600 --> 01:09:54.239
wasn't really ideal. So they did like an early one

774
01:09:54.239 --> 01:09:59.319
at about seven or eight in the evening, and once

775
01:09:59.520 --> 01:10:09.960
one day got a bit older, i'd probably say from yeah,

776
01:10:10.000 --> 01:10:14.359
the last twenty years, No, the last two thousand and

777
01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:27.600
four two four, wow, the last ten years no, because

778
01:10:27.600 --> 01:10:31.399
that's the thing because after two thousand and four, because

779
01:10:31.399 --> 01:10:33.439
I went to midnight Mass with her, but it was

780
01:10:33.560 --> 01:10:37.720
early one, it was about eight o'clock. I know my

781
01:10:37.800 --> 01:10:43.039
auntie was there and she wanted to go to her

782
01:10:43.159 --> 01:10:46.159
church because she my name's a Catholic, and she had

783
01:10:46.479 --> 01:10:49.079
our own church that she wanted to go to, so

784
01:10:49.119 --> 01:10:51.960
I'm not sure what it was that she went to,

785
01:10:53.840 --> 01:10:55.479
and she wanted to go to there as well to

786
01:10:55.520 --> 01:11:03.319
do the actual midnight service. And it's still one of

787
01:11:03.399 --> 01:11:07.239
my favorite Christmas is as an adult two thousand and four.

788
01:11:08.319 --> 01:11:12.159
It's weird, but there's something special about it to me.

789
01:11:13.279 --> 01:11:18.239
And I was staying at my nun's house in the

790
01:11:18.279 --> 01:11:20.600
spare room, the room that I used to have for

791
01:11:20.680 --> 01:11:25.239
myself when I was eight years old. I my own

792
01:11:25.279 --> 01:11:28.439
bedroom was brilliant, and I was back sleeping in there.

793
01:11:30.279 --> 01:11:33.800
My aunt and uncle were in the other room, which

794
01:11:33.920 --> 01:11:38.039
was that's where my two brothers used to sleep in

795
01:11:38.079 --> 01:11:43.239
bunk beds. And in my nun's bedroom was where my

796
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.840
parents used to sleep, and that's where her and her husband, Mike,

797
01:11:47.920 --> 01:11:53.840
my granddad, that was their room from nineteen seventy nine,

798
01:11:56.800 --> 01:12:01.399
you know, onwards. So I had that room for about

799
01:12:01.439 --> 01:12:04.600
a year, my little room, but I wasn't there for

800
01:12:04.600 --> 01:12:06.560
a year in two thousand and four, just there for

801
01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:11.399
one night, probably two or three nights. So because I

802
01:12:11.439 --> 01:12:13.359
was living in a different town, So I come over

803
01:12:16.399 --> 01:12:20.199
probably Christmas Eve, because I was working. Yeah, I was working,

804
01:12:20.239 --> 01:12:24.880
So I come over with Christmas Eve. I go out

805
01:12:24.920 --> 01:12:31.840
to go out to church to midnight Mass, but it's

806
01:12:32.039 --> 01:12:35.039
early with my nan because she couldn't have said she

807
01:12:35.039 --> 01:12:37.199
couldn't go to the late one. It was too late

808
01:12:37.279 --> 01:12:41.600
for by that time because she was you know, she

809
01:12:41.760 --> 01:12:47.319
had like a disability because of her hip and stuff,

810
01:12:48.079 --> 01:12:51.439
so she needed a walk and stick and stuff, so

811
01:12:51.560 --> 01:12:54.720
you know, walking around at night wasn't really ideal. Although

812
01:12:54.760 --> 01:12:58.800
she would have got a lift, you know. And then

813
01:13:04.239 --> 01:13:06.159
I say she would have got She did get a lift,

814
01:13:06.279 --> 01:13:07.680
but she would have got a lift back if it

815
01:13:07.720 --> 01:13:11.279
was late anyway, So she got a lift anyway. So

816
01:13:11.319 --> 01:13:16.399
we went up with my aunt and uncle, and then

817
01:13:16.439 --> 01:13:19.319
we came back and my aunt and uncle. My Auntie

818
01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:22.000
wanted to go to the other thing, but I don't

819
01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:24.039
think they went in the end, because they spent too

820
01:13:24.119 --> 01:13:26.239
much time talking about it and discussed with were not

821
01:13:26.319 --> 01:13:30.119
to go. And by that time it was Boxing day

822
01:13:30.399 --> 01:13:34.520
by the time I finished, and my Auntie did something

823
01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:38.680
that I've never done before, or she sort of introduced

824
01:13:38.680 --> 01:13:43.960
a new, a new Christmas Eve thing. So she went

825
01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:46.640
and she got some presents off the tree and gave

826
01:13:46.680 --> 01:13:49.279
me a present Christmas Eve.

827
01:13:49.840 --> 01:13:54.359
I said, but Auntie, it's Christmas Eve. It's not time

828
01:13:54.399 --> 01:13:59.840
for presents. That's supposed to be on Christmas Day. Sure,

829
01:14:00.880 --> 01:14:04.119
she said, no, we give presents Christmas Eve. It's just

830
01:14:04.199 --> 01:14:07.399
one present off the tree. It's just something we do

831
01:14:07.479 --> 01:14:11.159
every year. But how's father Christmas delivered him?

832
01:14:11.159 --> 01:14:14.600
If he hasn't been yet, She said, you're thirty four

833
01:14:14.680 --> 01:14:18.079
years old. Shut up, Like, Wow, it's a bit harsh,

834
01:14:18.119 --> 01:14:27.880
isn't it. So it was just sweets, basically. It was

835
01:14:28.039 --> 01:14:31.239
like candy you would call it maybe if you call

836
01:14:31.279 --> 01:14:36.279
it that in your country. But the thing is I

837
01:14:36.319 --> 01:14:45.279
hadn't had any chocolate since the summer, so I'd lost

838
01:14:45.520 --> 01:14:49.680
a lot of weight on purpose because I kind of

839
01:14:49.920 --> 01:14:53.479
I needed to get fitter. So during the Dune two

840
01:14:53.520 --> 01:14:55.880
thousand and four, I kind of got myself nice and

841
01:14:55.920 --> 01:15:00.399
physically fit. I was working on the mental fitness as well.

842
01:15:02.199 --> 01:15:09.760
And I hadn't had any chocolate since the summer. So

843
01:15:09.800 --> 01:15:13.800
we're talking what July, August, September, October, November for at

844
01:15:13.880 --> 01:15:18.840
least four or five months. So Christmas Eve, I'm here

845
01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:23.600
with these and it was one of those chocolate things

846
01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:29.560
that sparkle on your tongue and I was just it

847
01:15:29.600 --> 01:15:34.359
was heavenly. It was a pleasure that I just didn't

848
01:15:34.399 --> 01:15:44.399
realize I needed. It was so nice. Oh and it

849
01:15:44.079 --> 01:15:46.840
was like being a kid again. It was just really

850
01:15:50.079 --> 01:15:52.800
because I remember good. I'll tell you one of the

851
01:15:52.840 --> 01:15:59.119
benefits of being of my childhood is a lot of

852
01:15:59.159 --> 01:16:02.000
the nice stuff happened when I was I know, it's

853
01:16:02.039 --> 01:16:04.199
good to have nice stuff happen when you're young, when

854
01:16:04.199 --> 01:16:07.079
you're really young. But one of the benefits of it

855
01:16:07.159 --> 01:16:09.640
happened when it happens for the first time when you're

856
01:16:09.680 --> 01:16:13.239
kind of seven or eight, is I can still remember

857
01:16:13.239 --> 01:16:17.560
it now. So certain things like chocolate that I'd never

858
01:16:17.600 --> 01:16:22.840
eaten before, or riding my first bike. You know, a

859
01:16:22.880 --> 01:16:25.000
lot of kids had their first bike when they'd I'd

860
01:16:25.039 --> 01:16:28.680
had two, three, four, you know, so my first bike

861
01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:32.119
was when I was just four as what seven I

862
01:16:32.119 --> 01:16:36.319
think I was, Yeah, I was seven, So I remember that.

863
01:16:36.720 --> 01:16:41.840
So it's quite nice to have those little memories. Now.

864
01:16:41.880 --> 01:16:45.119
I wasn't four in two thousand and four or seven

865
01:16:45.159 --> 01:16:49.439
in two thousand and four, but it was a little

866
01:16:49.439 --> 01:16:51.920
bit like that. It's like, Okay, this is nice, this

867
01:16:52.000 --> 01:16:55.239
is like a It's not that I'd never had it before.

868
01:16:55.399 --> 01:16:59.359
It it was almost like for the first time because

869
01:16:59.359 --> 01:17:04.760
I'd gone five months about any chocolate, and trust me,

870
01:17:05.000 --> 01:17:08.159
that was a long time for me back then to

871
01:17:08.239 --> 01:17:10.520
go about chocolate. I've always been a little bit of

872
01:17:10.520 --> 01:17:17.199
a chocolate e person. It's part of the culture in

873
01:17:17.199 --> 01:17:21.880
this country eating chocolate, sugar, all that stuff is part

874
01:17:22.000 --> 01:17:30.600
of the national pastime, part of my national identity. Stuff

875
01:17:30.720 --> 01:17:42.000
myself full of sugar. Mmm. So yeah, that was just

876
01:17:42.039 --> 01:17:45.319
a really that was a nice Christmas. Actually, so I

877
01:17:45.399 --> 01:17:47.520
got to see my nan, got to see me uncle,

878
01:17:47.520 --> 01:17:50.479
an aunt, got to see me dad and that side

879
01:17:50.520 --> 01:17:53.479
of the family because I went there for Christmas dinner

880
01:17:54.720 --> 01:17:57.119
and then went back to my NaN's in the evening

881
01:17:57.880 --> 01:18:01.920
and then had Boxing Day with my nan and Christmas

882
01:18:01.960 --> 01:18:05.800
dinner and Boxing Day dinner. So yeah, it was cool.

883
01:18:07.079 --> 01:18:09.600
That was a nice Christmas. I mean, it's not the

884
01:18:09.600 --> 01:18:13.319
only Christmas I spent at my nun's, but is the

885
01:18:13.359 --> 01:18:18.560
most memorable one. Yeah, there was another Christmas I spent

886
01:18:18.640 --> 01:18:24.199
there in My NaN's brother was there, Uncle Antony, and

887
01:18:25.039 --> 01:18:29.000
he was I think he was a little bit younger

888
01:18:29.039 --> 01:18:32.359
than her. He was a younger brother by probably about

889
01:18:32.399 --> 01:18:41.439
four years, three or four years and maybe maybe older brother.

890
01:18:41.479 --> 01:18:44.960
I don't know. I think younger brother. I think I

891
01:18:45.039 --> 01:18:50.399
might be wrong, but marginally younger. I think she had

892
01:18:50.439 --> 01:18:59.000
about twelve brothers and sisters my name, and he it

893
01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:02.399
was funny. It was not funny funny, but he'd watched

894
01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:05.760
the TV downstairs and he'd had it on so loud.

895
01:19:07.199 --> 01:19:10.960
I literally like was just there all night try I

896
01:19:11.000 --> 01:19:15.479
struggled to sleep because the TV was blaring out because

897
01:19:15.520 --> 01:19:18.279
he couldn't hear it. It's as simple as that wasn't

898
01:19:18.640 --> 01:19:21.560
what he wasn't being inconsiderate. He just couldn't hear the TV,

899
01:19:22.680 --> 01:19:25.119
so he had to turn it up in order to

900
01:19:25.159 --> 01:19:28.640
hear it. And I think my men went down there

901
01:19:28.680 --> 01:19:34.000
and told him off because she was concerned about the neighbors,

902
01:19:34.039 --> 01:19:38.680
because she always had a really good relationship with the

903
01:19:38.720 --> 01:19:43.880
next door neighbor, him and his family, or the couple

904
01:19:43.920 --> 01:19:46.199
and their family. And it was still it was the

905
01:19:46.199 --> 01:19:49.399
same next door neighbor they had that we had when

906
01:19:49.439 --> 01:19:53.600
we lived there before they moved in, and we kept

907
01:19:54.039 --> 01:19:58.359
I say we, I and my family was still in

908
01:19:58.439 --> 01:20:03.600
contact with that next door I mean I was still

909
01:20:03.600 --> 01:20:10.279
in contact with that family. I was still visiting going

910
01:20:10.279 --> 01:20:16.479
around there in nineteen ninety. In fact, no, I was

911
01:20:16.479 --> 01:20:20.159
still going around there. Wow, I was still going around

912
01:20:20.159 --> 01:20:22.800
there in the early nineties. When I visit, I still

913
01:20:22.800 --> 01:20:25.960
go in there because I was friends with a boy

914
01:20:26.760 --> 01:20:28.680
and I really liked the girl. I was friends with

915
01:20:28.760 --> 01:20:32.199
her as well, and I got on well with the

916
01:20:32.279 --> 01:20:34.920
parents because I've known her since I was seven or

917
01:20:34.960 --> 01:20:39.520
eight years old, seven and a half eight, so they'd

918
01:20:39.560 --> 01:20:42.640
known me kind of almost all my life in a way.

919
01:20:43.319 --> 01:20:50.960
You think from seven and a half to twenty twenty one,

920
01:20:51.159 --> 01:20:57.079
twenty two whatever, that's a long time. And they lived

921
01:20:57.079 --> 01:21:01.159
there and they loved my well, I love my nan

922
01:21:01.239 --> 01:21:03.479
and granddad, but you know, they looked out for my

923
01:21:03.600 --> 01:21:10.960
name when she lived there on her own, and really

924
01:21:11.079 --> 01:21:15.880
nice people. It's weird. It's like, I don't want to

925
01:21:15.880 --> 01:21:19.319
sort of say too much, but I don't even know

926
01:21:19.520 --> 01:21:23.239
what this situation is anymore. But the lady that lived

927
01:21:23.279 --> 01:21:27.920
there was a nurse. I'm not sure what a husband did.

928
01:21:27.960 --> 01:21:32.720
I think he might have worked on the docks. And

929
01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:37.000
I was at school with both the kids. So I

930
01:21:37.039 --> 01:21:40.039
was at school with the boy who was the same

931
01:21:40.079 --> 01:21:45.239
age as my brother, my first older brother, and then

932
01:21:45.359 --> 01:21:56.880
his sister, who was probably two years younger than me,

933
01:21:57.560 --> 01:22:03.319
maybe three years two years probably, I don't know. I

934
01:22:03.439 --> 01:22:07.319
kind of noticed her when I was twenty. I knew,

935
01:22:07.560 --> 01:22:11.079
but I kind of like, suddenly it was weird because

936
01:22:11.119 --> 01:22:17.199
she was very beautiful, that's not the weird part. But

937
01:22:17.319 --> 01:22:24.600
she had a birthmark on her face, which did not

938
01:22:24.720 --> 01:22:26.439
take away her beauty, you know what I mean. She

939
01:22:26.520 --> 01:22:31.640
was a very beautiful face. And I always liked the

940
01:22:31.760 --> 01:22:33.600
rifle when I was a kid because she's, you know,

941
01:22:34.039 --> 01:22:37.520
only marginally younger than me. So I always liked her

942
01:22:39.199 --> 01:22:41.279
as a because when I was don't know, when I

943
01:22:41.319 --> 01:22:44.960
was ten, she was eight, you know, but she had

944
01:22:44.960 --> 01:22:48.319
it removed. She had the birthmark removed, and it was

945
01:22:48.359 --> 01:22:54.960
just like a brown birthmark or something. It changed her personality.

946
01:22:58.079 --> 01:23:02.840
So I'm not saying she's being sweet, because she was

947
01:23:02.840 --> 01:23:06.920
a very sweet girl. She she was still sweet in

948
01:23:06.960 --> 01:23:15.359
her own way, but she became very confident and she

949
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:20.079
enjoyed all the attention that she was getting from the boys,

950
01:23:20.680 --> 01:23:24.840
which is natural. But to me, she didn't look any

951
01:23:24.880 --> 01:23:31.199
different really. I mean, it's only because she told me

952
01:23:31.239 --> 01:23:35.840
that she'd had it removed that I really noticed it, because,

953
01:23:35.880 --> 01:23:37.399
you know, I said, I've known her for a long

954
01:23:37.479 --> 01:23:43.039
long time, a long long time, and It's weird because

955
01:23:43.079 --> 01:23:49.079
I remember her because there was like four years between

956
01:23:49.119 --> 01:23:54.359
her and her oldest brother. She'd her oldest her oldest

957
01:23:54.359 --> 01:24:00.640
brother's friends would come around, and I remember her saying, oh,

958
01:24:00.640 --> 01:24:03.079
can I come with you? Because they'd all go out,

959
01:24:03.119 --> 01:24:05.600
and she said, no, go away because they didn't want

960
01:24:05.640 --> 01:24:10.239
this little girl coming around. He didn't want her pestuing them.

961
01:24:10.680 --> 01:24:13.319
And the other his friends would say go away, go away.

962
01:24:13.439 --> 01:24:18.079
They didn't want a pest in them. And then when

963
01:24:18.079 --> 01:24:24.039
she was about fifteen sixteen, they didn't seem to mind

964
01:24:24.039 --> 01:24:30.880
her hanging around anymore. And I remember when I think

965
01:24:30.920 --> 01:24:37.079
she's about seventeen or eighteen, and there was literally a

966
01:24:37.279 --> 01:24:42.319
cue of men or boys trying to win her heart.

967
01:24:42.960 --> 01:24:48.680
It was seriously like knocking on the door and following

968
01:24:48.680 --> 01:24:54.960
her around like little puppies. It was very funny and

969
01:24:56.199 --> 01:24:58.640
that boost of confidence. I mean, that would have been

970
01:24:58.680 --> 01:25:10.319
happening any way. But I guess the that personality change

971
01:25:11.439 --> 01:25:20.720
just from having one like Mark removed. One thing changed

972
01:25:21.600 --> 01:25:27.560
which made her feel different. And there's a whole book

973
01:25:27.640 --> 01:25:33.399
called Cybernetics. It's Cybernetics. It's a very famous book about

974
01:25:33.439 --> 01:25:39.000
a plastic surgeon and it's written by a plastic surgeon,

975
01:25:39.039 --> 01:25:43.520
and he noticed that the personality changes in people that

976
01:25:43.720 --> 01:25:49.359
had work done, and how it was. He couldn't believe

977
01:25:52.760 --> 01:25:57.640
the transformation. It could have not on someone's appearance, because

978
01:25:57.680 --> 01:25:59.800
that wouldn't surprise him because that's what he did for.

979
01:26:00.720 --> 01:26:06.239
But he was surprised at the transformation and personality, and

980
01:26:06.439 --> 01:26:10.079
he wrote a whole book about it, Cybernetics, and I

981
01:26:10.159 --> 01:26:12.319
used to have it. I've read it a few times,

982
01:26:13.439 --> 01:26:16.840
and it's quite a big book in self help like

983
01:26:17.760 --> 01:26:26.640
literature library thing. It's cybernetics, cyber cybernetics, something like that. Yeah,

984
01:26:26.760 --> 01:26:31.000
it's a good book. It's very interesting. I mean, it

985
01:26:31.079 --> 01:26:35.760
kind of makes sense. But at the same time, it's like, really,

986
01:26:40.680 --> 01:26:45.359
maybe maybe that's why I should have done. Maybe if

987
01:26:45.359 --> 01:26:49.000
I had a bit of surgery, I could increase my confidence,

988
01:26:54.439 --> 01:26:57.439
have it shortened or something. You know, it's just too

989
01:26:57.479 --> 01:27:02.119
big and I don't know, just to have my nose. Yeah,

990
01:27:02.159 --> 01:27:12.800
but I don't know. Maybe I don't know what i'd have.

991
01:27:13.159 --> 01:27:20.399
There's a few things I could probably do. In fact,

992
01:27:20.399 --> 01:27:22.439
I'm pretty sure if I went to a plastic surgeon

993
01:27:24.039 --> 01:27:29.319
and said, just list all the things that I need doing,

994
01:27:31.479 --> 01:27:36.720
we'ld be there for a while. You'd have to cancel

995
01:27:36.760 --> 01:27:39.359
all his clients for about a week just so he

996
01:27:39.439 --> 01:27:42.279
could list off all the things that I needed doing. Probably,

997
01:27:46.920 --> 01:27:50.119
but I won't be having anything. I don't think i'll

998
01:27:50.119 --> 01:28:00.279
have anything done in the future. I don't know I

999
01:28:00.319 --> 01:28:02.720
could have done in the past if I wanted to,

1000
01:28:02.840 --> 01:28:06.960
didn't really. I guess the way I see it is

1001
01:28:08.720 --> 01:28:13.359
take me for what I am, take me for how

1002
01:28:13.399 --> 01:28:19.560
I am. And I'm not going to wear, you know,

1003
01:28:20.520 --> 01:28:24.199
tall shoes to make myself look taller. I'm not going

1004
01:28:24.239 --> 01:28:28.840
to dye my hair to pretend that I'm not going gray.

1005
01:28:30.399 --> 01:28:34.439
I'm not going to get a hair transplant in my

1006
01:28:34.600 --> 01:28:37.720
bald spots. Not there's anything wrong with doing any of

1007
01:28:37.760 --> 01:28:39.600
those things, but I'm just not going to do any

1008
01:28:39.640 --> 01:28:44.319
of that stuff. And I'm not going to pretend I'm

1009
01:28:44.359 --> 01:28:53.600
a different age. Things I can do, I suppose practical

1010
01:28:53.800 --> 01:28:59.760
logical things is take better care of myself, eat a

1011
01:28:59.800 --> 01:29:11.680
better diet, exercise bare Yeah, those kinds of things. Basic stuff, really,

1012
01:29:11.680 --> 01:29:21.000
isn't it. But I found that one way it's shortcut

1013
01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:28.159
with dieting. Wear bigger clothes. Seriously, if you wear bigger tops,

1014
01:29:28.279 --> 01:29:33.520
really like large tops, extra extra extra large, almost looks

1015
01:29:33.600 --> 01:29:37.840
like you've lost weight. It works. I do it. I

1016
01:29:37.920 --> 01:29:43.039
literally do that now, although some of my tops are

1017
01:29:43.119 --> 01:29:46.239
just a bit bagger, because I have actually lost weight,

1018
01:29:47.840 --> 01:29:50.199
not recently, but last year I did. I lost a

1019
01:29:50.279 --> 01:29:54.720
stone and I haven't put it back on because I

1020
01:29:54.720 --> 01:29:58.239
stopped having sugar in my tea and I cut down.

1021
01:29:58.239 --> 01:30:01.560
I stopped having I didn't don't drink hope anymore. And

1022
01:30:03.000 --> 01:30:08.159
I have minimum minimum amount chocolate. I used to eat

1023
01:30:08.199 --> 01:30:18.720
chocolate every single day. So yeah, and that I do

1024
01:30:18.880 --> 01:30:27.960
believe laddies and gentlemen is the end of this recording.

1025
01:30:29.039 --> 01:30:33.880
Me Me, Me, Me me, So thank you for listening.

1026
01:30:34.119 --> 01:30:39.000
Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve

1027
01:30:39.159 --> 01:30:45.119
to be happy and be gentle of yourself. You deserve

1028
01:30:45.279 --> 01:30:52.159
to feel safe. Lots of love, Bye,