Aug. 11, 2025

(music) SHOES | Mondays Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1410 | Jason Newland | 11th August 2025

(music) SHOES | Mondays Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1410 | Jason Newland | 11th August 2025
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Hello, and welcome to jasondewland dot com. My name is

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Jason new Land. This is let me buoy you to sleep.

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Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

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And this is Monday's boy in Objects. Yeah. So, while

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I try and think of a subject or an object

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to be boring about, what's the latest in my life?

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Oh itchy had a really weird dreaming last night, and

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I woke up extra early. What I did go to

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bed extra early as well, but I woke up and

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I thought I'm just gonna stay up, so I did.

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And then this morning, because I think last night I

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was working out what was I yeah, I think it

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might have been. Last night I was working out what

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hypnosis recording to do next, and I decided on doing

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a recording for bruxism, which is grinding teeth usually when

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people are asleep. And this morning I start doing a recording.

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I'm sitting here doing it. Twenty minutes in. It's going

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pretty well, I feel and I realize I've not pressed

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the record button and I go back to bed. I'm furious.

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So what I did this afternoon, I gave it another attempt.

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At this time I completed it and I couldn't believe

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it was not nearly two hours long. I think it's

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an hour and fifty five minutes. So it took it's

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a very thorough recording, and it took quite a long

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time to edit and to process and all that. So

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I feel like it's sort of taken up most of

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the day. Really, that's okay. I'm quite pleased with it

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kind of. It's just I mean, I'll ask for a

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favor here from anyone that's listening if I do a

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recording that, let's say, a hypnosis recording that fits in

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with something that you would use. For example, I did

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a loop as one the other day. I've done I've

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done a few different ones recently, and if you remember

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what would maybe share it on your Facebook page. And

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also if you're a member of a group on Facebook

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or some other social network site, perhaps you could share

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that recording because it's quite hard for me to share

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it myself because a lot of groups class that has spam.

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If I start sharing my own stuff, no matter how

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good intentioned or maybe useful it might be. So you

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have something to think about. Maybe, if it's possible, it

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would definitely help. Other than that, I've been out a

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couple of times. Today, had a showered as morning. Exciting stuff.

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It's been quite a warm day and I got my

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window open and the soundproof and curtains are not completely

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covering the window, so you might hear some background sounds

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a little bit, although even with the soundproofing there was

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still background sounds as well earlier. But for some reason,

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it was a relatively quiet day in the garden today,

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which was nice. Normally I have to wait for the

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winter for that to happen. I feeling quite tired. Actually,

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I'm nearly ready for bed. I mean it's only half

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past seven. Oh the sound has started. I'm not going

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to block it out. I'm just going to leave it

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as it is because it's too warm to have the

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window closed. So yeah, that's it. Really, there's not not

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much left. Not really else happened. Oh. I got a

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letter from the the doctor's surgery a few days ago

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telling me I needed to make an appointment to get

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a mental health review, my anal mental health review and

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if I didn't contact them, as basically, if I didn't

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attend the appointment, my medication would be reduced to once

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a week, so I'd have to collect it once a

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week instead of once a month, which seems a little

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bit heavy handed. I'd kind not quite sure why they

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were threatening that. I've never had a problem with them before.

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And they had a telephone number to call, so I

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called the number. I think it maybe it's like a

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specialized number, but it wasn't. It was just a doctor's surgery.

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And I got through and it said click here for appointments.

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So I'll click the number for appointments, and it said

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you have to go online. You can't do appointments on

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the phone anymore. We don't take appointments. No. I'm like, okay,

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that's that's just I mean, I suppose I am fairly

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internet savvy to a degree. I do think about people

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that aren't and how this whole digital only, internet only

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kind of service does not It doesn't serve a large

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well not a maybe you're not not a big percentage,

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but it's still a hard population of people in this country,

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millions that it can struggle with that all they want

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to do is make an appointment. Phone a number and

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make an appointment. But no, you've got to go online.

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You've got to do this is and you've got to

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do that. I don't know. I just don't think it's

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going in the right direction. To be fair, I'm just

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moaning for the sake of moaning. Yeah, I don't really

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like it either. I want to be able to just

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phone up speak to a human. I'm the same when

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it comes to shops as well. I won't use the

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self service unless I really have to, although I don't

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you know, I don't go out that often, but the

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previous couple of months I have been going to the

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whole hospital and using the shops in the hospital, wh Smith's,

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Marks and Spencers and Cost to Coffee, those sort of

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three places that I went into. Cost to Coffee, it's

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fine you deal with human, don you and just pay

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card or cash. Wh Smith's have a self service, but

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they also have a till with a human as well

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in that place, so I do get the impression of

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the staff. It's a bit of an inconvenience for the

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staff member. When you go and stand waiting to pay

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at the till, It's like, who are you doing that for?

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You can go and pay over there on the robot

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machine thing. I don't want to, So yeah, that's and

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also Marks and Spencer's in there. I think there's like

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four machines, maybe more. Actually, yeah, they did have a

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little till, a tiny little till area with a human

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and I queued up for that. I just yeah, I

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just it's always been a little just a slight annoyance

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to me right from the start, right from you. However,

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many years, twenty years maybe longer, since self service machines

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started out, and there was you know, even though it's

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a naughty and I did try them out, but I

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just found them to be not very good either. What

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did they used to say a lot? Oh can you

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move your stuff out of the carrier bag section? Or

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I don't know. So, yeah, it's never really I'm not

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a big fan of the old self service. McDonald's have

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self service now, but you can also order it the

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till as well. I suppose the only self service that

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I've ever really kind of embraced was cashpoint machines, because

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that's a self service, isn't it? Self service? Banking till

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It's almost like a banking window, self service, isn't it.

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I mean, there was a time. I don't think they

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do it now, but they might still do it. I

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don't know. I've not tried about thirty odd years ago.

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Used to be able to put money into the machine.

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It's true. It wasn't just taking money out. You could

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put money in, money in. It's true. Yeah, it's been

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a while since that happened for me anyway, I've not

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attempted to do it, but maybe it's still available. I

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don't think it is, but it could be. I don't know.

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I'm not sure. I've been thinking about Uncle's Sausages and

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whether we're not to try and get up to Northern

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Ireland to because basically he's having his cremation here near

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the end of the month and then it's probably about

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a week and a half actually, no, yeah, like about

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about two weeks, and his actually has been sent to

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Northern Ireland and there's going to be a ceremony there

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for him. With the Boy's Brigade, which is uncle Sausage

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used to be in a Boy's Brigade. I think he

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might have been in it as well when he's a kid,

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but he also is in it as an adult running it.

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Helped to run it. He's one of the I don't

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know soldiers or officers or whatever. So he's very passionate

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about that, and I did think about maybe trying to

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get up there for that, and then maybe moving from

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Northern Ireland into Ireland and visiting a couple of friends

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that live in Ireland, and also making a bit of

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a is it a homage, I don't know, a visit

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to Andre, my original friend Andre, to his grave, who

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was my friend in the nineties. He's who are named Andre,

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Andre after you know, little Andre the ferret because they

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used to call him no legs. That used to be

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his nickname at work, Andre, which is weird because I mean,

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he was trying to make out that he was sure,

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but he was probably taller than me. He was probably

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five eight five nine. He wasn't tall, but he was

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still you know, It's like they called him. Everyone had

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nicknames except me, which makes me wonder what my nickname

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was because no one told me. Although in the canteen

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at one of my jobs, I used to get called

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professor because I was wearing glasses. It shows the level

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of the level of where I was working. Although saying

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that they were really nice, both the ladies that worked there,

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I really liked them a lot. They were good. They

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knew my name as well. They just decided to professor

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was a better name. Plus I worked there for years

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and years, on and off. I dreamt about being there

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the other day, being back there. I don't know if

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it was last night or if it was the night before,

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but it was another weird dream. And went back to Yeah,

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trying to figure out where I lived where, you know,

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maybe living in three different places. And I remember asking

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someone to knock on someone's door a previous place I lived,

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and asked him if I still lived there or not.

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I couldn't remember if I still had some of my

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belongings there, which makes me think, what should I talk

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about today? Have I talked about all the different places

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I've lived? I think I have. I've talked about the

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jobs I've had. I've talked about girlfriends I've had. I've

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talked about, talked about my nan talked about step mummies,

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talked about karate, talked about boxing, talked about Taekwondu martial arts, bodybuilding.

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Last week, Yeah, and that was the subject. I think

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it was last week. It was last week or the

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week before. I talked about my book collection, although my

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book collection is now much sparser than it was. The

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main pretty much the only books, but not the only books,

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but most of the books I've got now are just

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hypnosis books, because that's now what I'm focusing on, as

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well as doing this to let me boys a sleep.

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I'm going to continue doing this because this is the

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most fun. But I'm going to continue and really, I

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think put more effort into making hypnosis recordings for issues, problems,

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medical conditions, things like that that perhaps I haven't done before.

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So instead of just focusing on paying relief, relaxation or sleep,

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I'm gonna I'm starting to broaden out, which I have

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done before. I mean, it's not the first time I've

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done lots of different recordings over the years, lots lots,

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but this is the first time I've really kind of

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started to expand on expand something other than my waistline, really,

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because I've done quite a few different recordings, very different

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types of recordings the last week or so. I intend

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to continue with that because it takes a lot of work,

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a lot of energy, a lot of concentration, but I

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think at the end of it, it's worth it. Yeah,

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that's what I'm thinking. At least I hope, so at

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least I hope so at least the hopes I have

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what's that three three times Okay, one more time at least,

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I hope. So what other things? What haven't I talked about? Toenails?

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Can I do a whole hour about toe nails? I

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mean if I could, I probably could, but just see wrong,

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it seems immoral. Underpants. Yeah, perhaps I won't do that. Shoes, shoes,

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I'm going to talk about shoes. That's boring. That's boring.

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I've never talked about shoes before. The different shoes that

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I've had over the years. Wow, it's quite hard to

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remember too far back because shoes is not something. I've

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never really been a fan of shoes. I mean, they're handy,

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but I don't think I've ever generally bore a pair

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of shoes and been super excited about it generally. I

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mean maybe there has been a couple of times, but

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not really. I can't really remember shoes I had as

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a kid, like a little kid, but I'm pretty sure

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I had sandals and it probably wasn't the right thing

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to do, but they used to be called Jesus sandals

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in the UK back in the seventies, like latest middle

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to late seventies, and they were just sandals with the toes.

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You could see the toes and whatever, and so I

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had them. Not something I would have now. I mean,

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I think my toes do not. My toes are not

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for public viewing. Yeah, I think not for public scrutiny.

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And then flip flop. That's something I used to wear

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when I was a kid, and I'd always disliked them

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so impractical, and flip flop is probably the best, the

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best name for anything ever because they literally did go

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flip flop, flip flop. They sound silly, they felt silly,

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they looked silly. I just didn't like them. Never liked

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flip flops, and although I do, I'm quite enjoying saying

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the word flip flop though for some reason. It's just

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as a little kid, I used to like running around

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and you can't run around with those things because they

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keep falling off sandals. I found much more to my

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like him because they did stay on because I had

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straps and stuff. Although I found them a little bit cumbersome,

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which is a word I used a lot when I

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was seven years old. Cumbersome, cumbersome? What's it was a dinner? Okay, Jason,

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Yeah it was cumbersome. Thanks? And what was your Christmas? Like?

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Very cumbersome. So yeah, I was flip flops. Wellies Wellington boots.

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Used to have a pair of them, which is kind

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of needed in this country because of the rain and

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the weather and stuff. So I had wellies, which was

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a very popular thing for pretty much everyone to wear

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in the late seventies and in the eighties. Don't see

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young people walking around in wellies anymore, but used to

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see it a lot when I was a kid. When

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I say young people, I mean like teenagers and stuff.

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I used to wear wellies when I was a teenager.

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To be fair, I probably was the only one. I

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was never up to date with fashion. Oh I really wasn't.

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I was always so slow. I mean I remember when

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I got my first BMX. I bought a BMX bike

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from the catalog and I paid for it myself from

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my pocket money. And I might know my pocket money

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from my news paper round money. And I went next

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door to ask them to help me learn some tricks

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because they had BMX bikes, but they were in they

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were in line with fashion. So I was about two

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years too late. And they said, well, moved on from that.

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We don't ride BMX bikes anymore. We don't do tricks anymore?

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Did you not notice? I said, here, and I said,

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can you teach me some breakdancing moves on the liner?

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And they said no, we haven't done that for probably

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five years, four years because there was little There were

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certain things that were really popular in the eighties when

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I was at school. Breakdancing was one. BMX bikes was another.

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Possibly skate skate skateboarding possibly, but I think I know

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definitely BMX bikes and breakdancing the two things. I didn't

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even attempt breakdancing, which is kind of weird because I

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possibly it may have been quite good at that because

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I was quite nimble as a kid, but I didn't

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like the idea of people watching me. And it was

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always the kids that did the breakdancing were always like

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a group of kids, the popular kids and the ones

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that were kind of in a gang, kind of like

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not a gangang but a gang bangang, but you know,

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kind of the popular kids or getting together and stuff.

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And I was never part of any kind of popular group,

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popular gang. I just had individual friends who almost liked

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school colleagues. Really, so I knew different kids at school

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that I talked to, but it was only really like

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had close friendship with a couple. So and my next

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door neighbors, a couple of kids there. One was a

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year younger than me, when was two years younger than me,

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and I were both cool. But they literally they were cool.

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They was the cool kids. Always had the latest clothing,

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the latest. They were just on the ball with that stuff.

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And they were really popular as well. And I wasn't

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in their friendship group, even though they went to school

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with me, and I used to say low to them.

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But they were my next door neighbors, so I'd known

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them for well from seventy nine to eighty six, so

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I've known them for a long time, you know. So

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it's just almost like they were just there and we

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were there. But I never really I mean I think

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I sometimes went around their house, but generally not much.

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I don't think.

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So.

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I think they probably did because I know that their dad,

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my dad or friends here, because you know what, let's say,

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good neighbors become good friends. What am I talking about? Shoes? Yeah,

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so Wellington boots. I had those. I remember when I

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was about seven or eight. Yeah. We moved into this

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council house, which then became my nono granddad's house after

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when I'm We moved out when I was about nine,

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just before I was nine. We moved into a different house,

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but we lived there for a year or so, a

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year and a half maybe. I liked that house. That

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was my favorite family time in that council house. And

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I was seven, so it was the first time I'd

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ever had my own bedroom on my own and it's

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the first time that we kind of had the first

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time I had a family really since the age of

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six months or whatever. So the first time like all

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the family were together, like my three brother me and

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my two brothers and my dad and you know, his

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new wife. But it was the first time I kind

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of been in a family unit. So, and I was

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the little baby of the family. And I used to

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ride on my dad's shoulders when he was walking. I'd

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be go gidy up, gidy up, stuff like that, slapping

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him on the head, brilliant. When we was in the car,

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I'd be on my step moms, so I used to

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call a mum on her lap, cuddling up to her.

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It was absolutely brilliant. Honestly, it was great times for me,

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and there was there was a lot of nice memories

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from that time. I can remember some of them. But

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because it was a new build there was still there's

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still houses being built when we moved in, and the

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ground hadn't settled properly, so the garden outside it wasn't

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a garden, it was just mud. And we all went

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into the mud with our Wellington boots on and I

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got stuck. My dad had to pick me up out

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of the mud, out of the Wellington boots. My Wellington

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boots were still in there, they're probably still there now

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because I just literally could not move. I didn't have

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the strength, the physical strength because the mud was so deep.

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It was kind of like quicksand it wasn't, but it

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was like my version of Quicksand in my mind after

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having seen I mean, there was a lot of Quicksand

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on movies and TV back then, all the Tarsan movies.

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Quicksand was in quite a lot of those, some of

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the seventies eighties, that seventies TV shows Quicksand I'm trying

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to say Quicksand without whistling Quicksand. So that was fun.

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And I remember we got there was a blizzard in

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the winter, and I'm guessing that was probably nineteen seventy

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eight and we got blocked in. We woke cup, couldn't

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get out the back, and it was literally just solid snow,

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you know. I was like six foot high solid just

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out of the back, and then at the front it

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was all solid. It was like really up against it.

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But I think my dad, I think the door opened

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from the inside. I think the front door. I loved

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that house because my nan and Grant had stayed there.

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My nan stayed there, you know, on her own, from

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ninety one all the way till about two thousand and hm,

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I don't know, eleven, maybe twenty ten, eleven, twenty twelve, two,

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that's one of them. So she stayed there for a

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long time on her own. And it's weird because it

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had the same feeling. There was a feeling that that

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was for me, that was the family home. That was

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a place where I had my happiest memories as a kid,

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even though I wasn't there for long. But also, you know,

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throughout my life visited my nand you know, as an adult,

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as a kid and as a teenager and as an

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adult all the way up till you know, ten years ago.

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And yes, it's quite a nice, fuzzy little feeling around

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my left knee. I'm hoping it will spread, but that's

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where it is at the moment. It's not I don't

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know why I said that. That's weird, wasn't it. The

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good thing about this is we've got the day off though,

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because that's now no school. No school, yes, result, And

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my dad cleared the front out, you know, he got

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rid of He cleared the pathway out, the front left,

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he left the back because he just had to wait

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for it to kind of dissolve a little bit because

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it was so full on. So we just left that.

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He waited a while, and then then I think we

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all kind of got involved and kind of moved it off.

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Because I built an igloo. I did generally, I bought.

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I built an iglu, and do I say bought. I

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built an iglu, and I used a mixture of mud

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and ice as cement. It's still there today. It was

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that good. Actually, I think I might have just been mud. No,

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it was. There was definitely some ic invold because I

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actually because I was quite specific and I I cut

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the ice into bits and made proper bricks and did

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it that way. So yeah, I didn't mess around. I

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did it properly. I thought and I made really and

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hours and hours and hours doing this thing. It's very,

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very pleased with it. But I remember the snow is

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so deep. It was it was up to my waist

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I think in parts. But at the same time, I

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was or eight years old and I was probably about

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three foot tall, so it probably wasn't that deep apart

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from the bits that got blown into a heap, but

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it was deep enough for everything to be closed. Brilliant day.

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That was a really good day. I'm not sure if

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it's the only day. It might have been more than one,

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but I remember my dad taking me and my two

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brothers behind the house and there was this slope which

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was just directly behind the house, and there was a

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motorway running across, so this slope, him and my two

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brothers were kind of sliding on a sled. I just

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watched because I didn't want anything to do with it.

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I wasn't really much of a risk taker. And I

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like my oldest brother. He was four years old than me,

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so he was like eleven twelve or whatever, I don't know,

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eight nine, ten, eleven twelve, so he was just having fun.

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He wasn't really scared and stuff like that. My other

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brother the younger than him, so he was two years

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older than me. He wasn't scared of nothing ever, you know,

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he'd jumped out of a plane with a parachute at

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that age, it wouldn't have scared, and he just fearless.

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I was a little bit different. I just for me.

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I couldn't see the point in sliding down on a

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sled made a plastic heading towards a fence, Like, how's

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it going to stop? How am I going to stop this thing?

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And then my two brothers at the bottom saying will

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stop you? Like, yeah, okay, yeah, you know I'd spent

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eight years in my life with these two blokes, these

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two older lads, I knew not to trust them. By

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them say that they'd stopped me from going headfirst into

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the fence meant that I was probably going to end

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up going headfirst into the fence, and if I didn't

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reach the fence, they'd probably put push me into the fence.

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So yeah, because I was the youngest, I got a

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bit of the brunt of that at that time. But

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you know what, here's something that is an acknowledgment that well,

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they won't get to the ears that it's needed i'll

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say it out loud anyway, my oldest brother four years

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older than me. For a period of my life, he

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was like a father figure, however ridiculous that might sound.

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So when I was really little, he used to be

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put in charge of looking after me and my other brother.

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So let's say I was four, my other brother was sick,

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and my oldest brother was eight. We'd be left for

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days and my brother would be looking after us, make

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sure we'd be eight, make sure we were safe. And

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it was eight years old. I saw him as an adult.

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And also the fact that he was always much much

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taller than me, Like, I know, he's four years older,

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but he's like six' four or something And i'm five.

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EIGHT i wasn't. Then i'd have loved to be in

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five eight WHEN i was four years. Old, wow i'd

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be an absolute giant by now. Anyway, Yeah SO i

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didn't appreciate him at that, time AND i don't think

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it's ever been appreciated what he. Did how much was

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put on his little. Shoulders this eight year old looking

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after two younger brothers for long periods of time on

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his own Is, yeah it's. Weird so he was even

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when he was in a children. Home he was the father.

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Figure even THEN i listened to him what he said

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when you, KNOW i did what he told. Me and

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then when we all moved to live with my. Dad

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so he was eleven at this, point WHEN i was,

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seven my other brother was, nine and my oldest brother was.

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Eleven he went from being in charge to being a little.

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Kid AND i don't think he knew how to handle

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being a little kid because he'd never been a little

470
00:42:56.519 --> 00:43:03.159
kid before for a long long, time not since he

471
00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:13.960
was four or, five, yeah, four four and a half, five,

472
00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:18.280
SIX i don't, know, six it was, Six so we'd

473
00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:21.360
had six years or five years of being like an,

474
00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:26.039
adult and then suddenly he was a. Kid SO i

475
00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:29.559
think that was a bit of a, yeah a bit

476
00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:39.159
of a shock to his. System, yeah, anyway it's not

477
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:41.159
really got anything to do his, shoes is it just

478
00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:52.400
a bit of personal. REFLECTION i GUESS i used to. Have,

479
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:55.400
SEE i didn't really, OKAY i. DID i did get

480
00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:57.119
a choice of what SHOES i had WHEN i was at,

481
00:43:57.119 --> 00:44:00.920
school but it really was a case of these or,

482
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:05.320
these you, KNOW i had to every year BEFORE i

483
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:07.559
started the new, Year i'd go and get some new

484
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:12.519
shoes new school, uniform and BECAUSE i normally would have

485
00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:22.039
grown a little. Bit sometimes if i'd grown a, bit you,

486
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:23.960
know if my feet had grown a bit too, much

487
00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:28.840
or the fit shoes had falling apart, HERE i might

488
00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:33.840
get some new shoes halfway through the. Year SO i,

489
00:44:33.880 --> 00:44:38.639
WENT i, REMEMBER i think it was in the fourth

490
00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:43.480
yearth high, school maybe the third, year AND i bought these,

491
00:44:43.519 --> 00:44:46.159
shoes AND i thought it would be a good idea

492
00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:51.840
to buy ones with, okay not a high. Heel there

493
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:56.159
weren't high heel, shoes but they had a heel on,

494
00:44:56.239 --> 00:45:02.360
them or they had a fair bit of sponge at

495
00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:05.760
the bottom of, them which added a good inch to,

496
00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:07.760
me and as we all, know in inches a hell

497
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:13.280
of a. Lot, NOW i was pleased with these. Shoes

498
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:19.599
but they were quite, big they were quite. Bulky they're

499
00:45:19.639 --> 00:45:28.079
a little Bit herman. Monstery AND i, THOUGHT i just

500
00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:30.840
walk into. SCHOOL i, mean it's, LIKE i don't know

501
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:36.039
how many hundreds of kids were in that, school maybe

502
00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:38.719
maybe even a. THOUSAND i don't know however many kids

503
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:43.840
were in that, school at least five, hundred possibly maybe,

504
00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:49.119
more maybe a. THOUSAND i don't. Know why would anyone

505
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:52.480
take any notice of my shoes was my kind of.

506
00:45:52.599 --> 00:46:03.840
Theory in my, EXPERIENCE i found that people have a

507
00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:10.400
tendency of focus on the wrong, thing you, know on

508
00:46:10.519 --> 00:46:17.760
the wrong. Thing so going to school Thinking i'm not

509
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:22.280
really thinking anything of. It maybe people might notice That

510
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:29.920
i've grown an extra inch. Overnight it's, possible but, no

511
00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:38.320
it is like within minutes of me walking into the,

512
00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:48.960
classroom my new nickname was Beatle crushes because of my,

513
00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:53.039
shoes because they were so. BIG i was wearing beetle.

514
00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:56.440
Crushes that's what they were. Saying that's my new, name beatle.

515
00:46:56.519 --> 00:47:07.199
Crushes you nicknames at School New Zealand, lamb beetle, Crushes

516
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:13.320
specky WHEN i got my. Glasses it's very. Original the

517
00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:15.920
other Thing i've talked about this before when this was

518
00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:23.239
During Grange, chill there was an event where this late

519
00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:28.920
this girl kept Saying, Roland, ROLAND i care about You,

520
00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:33.440
rowland Because roland was one of the characters and this

521
00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:36.280
girl was something in love with him or SOMETHING i

522
00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:42.519
care about You. Rowland and there was this particular episode

523
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:46.320
that she kept saying, it and the next Day i'm

524
00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:50.039
coming to school and ALL i got all day was New,

525
00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:56.960
land New, LAND i care about you New. Land i'm

526
00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:59.920
not even, joking and went on and on and. On

527
00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:09.000
it's and sometimes you've got so BAD i just had

528
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:11.840
to rurilate, myself just sort of start giving me a different,

529
00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:20.639
name you. Know, Anyway SO i had various pairs of.

530
00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:24.679
Trainers if you might live in a country where they're

531
00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:29.960
wrongly called, sneakers but trainers is the correct. WORD i

532
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:33.639
never understood why are they called sneakers because you can

533
00:48:33.719 --> 00:48:37.760
sneak around in them without anyone hearing. You that's a bit,

534
00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:41.119
dodgy isn't. It that's a bit that's a bit. Wrong

535
00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:48.679
it's a bit. Criminal. Criminal so SO i used to

536
00:48:48.679 --> 00:48:54.079
wear trainers all football boots at, school you, know for.

537
00:48:54.159 --> 00:49:00.239
Football HAD i had, those had trainers for the other

538
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:07.760
STUFF i. DID i used to ohd wow talking about

539
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:13.320
boots or talking about food bo, boobs not, boobs boots or.

540
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:15.719
Well.

541
00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:20.800
Footwear, really WHEN i was in THE Ci, CADETS i

542
00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:25.679
had these. Boots and part of the if you don't

543
00:49:25.719 --> 00:49:29.679
if you know anything about THE Cic, cadets or The

544
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:36.599
Army cadets or probably The Rawal Air Force cadets there

545
00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:39.840
or there used to be a big thing about making

546
00:49:41.719 --> 00:49:48.320
the fronts of the boots really, shiny like almost like.

547
00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:52.480
Mirrors AND i used to do this with my brother

548
00:49:52.559 --> 00:50:00.960
because he was in The what was he? In he

549
00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:03.519
was in THE. Raf he was in The Air, cadets

550
00:50:03.519 --> 00:50:06.719
not The Aria, acadet The air. Cadets so my older

551
00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:09.639
brother was in The air. CADETS i was in The.

552
00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:19.960
ARMY i was in The Navy sea. Cadets BlimE, me

553
00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:22.320
SO i. Was he was in The air. CADETS i

554
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:26.679
was in The sea. Cadets what do they just call?

555
00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:31.880
Them THE raf cadets and The navy. CADETS i don't.

556
00:50:31.920 --> 00:50:35.559
Know so, anyway we used to do our boots, together

557
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:41.360
and part of the thing was to put polish, on

558
00:50:41.840 --> 00:50:46.800
melt the polish with a, lighter and then have a

559
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:50.559
little bowls of water in and a cloth and then

560
00:50:50.679 --> 00:50:57.599
just basically do circles in. It we'd spend hours doing.

561
00:50:57.639 --> 00:51:02.880
That what a waste of time it really. Was and

562
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:05.000
THEN i get to The Sea cadets on A tuesday

563
00:51:05.079 --> 00:51:11.079
Or thursday night And i'd do, it and sometimes the

564
00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:14.320
one of the officers would, say, oh that's not done good,

565
00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:19.400
enough and it'd literally stand on my shoe And i'd

566
00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:25.960
spent maybe four hours shining. Them sometimes other cadets would

567
00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:32.519
do it just as a. Joke, YEAH i didn't go

568
00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:39.440
down well with, me BUT i managed to do. IT

569
00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:41.880
i managed to sort. OF i even got the. Smell

570
00:51:42.119 --> 00:51:45.559
it's kind of stuck in my, head that smell of

571
00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:55.079
polish and like burning polish and damp. Cloth and, yeah

572
00:51:55.559 --> 00:52:01.239
it was there's a degree of satisfaction doing, it but

573
00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:06.719
it was also a percentage of absolute pointlessness doing it as.

574
00:52:06.760 --> 00:52:14.760
Well so IT'S i guess back THEN i didn't realize

575
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:22.320
how valuable time, was but it. IS i, MEAN i

576
00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:25.239
don't think it taught me, anything you. KNOW i think

577
00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:33.599
it's supposed to teach discipline and self respect stuff like,

578
00:52:33.679 --> 00:52:37.039
that AND i don't know any of, that any of that.

579
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:45.239
Stuff i've never had any self respect or, pride hasn't

580
00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:50.440
really hasn't really raised its head my voice About. Kroggy

581
00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:54.239
it's probably BECAUSE i spent two hours making a recording,

582
00:52:54.280 --> 00:52:59.920
earlier and also Because i'm sitting. Here we got that crutched.

583
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:07.960
Over i'll, Know, vinnie sorry as you're DID i wake you?

584
00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:13.840
Up and so that's another bit of footwear THAT i

585
00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:16.719
probably spent the most of the amount of time doing

586
00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:19.519
and he's looking at me, like, oh what are you, doing?

587
00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:27.039
Daddy what are you? Doing and then WHEN i left,

588
00:53:27.079 --> 00:53:29.519
school he keeps looking back at. Me what is It

589
00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:32.360
you want me to just tickle your? Nose do you

590
00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:35.559
to tickle your? Nose do you like? That do you like? That,

591
00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:46.679
okay just stroking his. Nose he's liking. That so WHEN

592
00:53:46.679 --> 00:53:52.320
i left, SCHOOL i suddenly had a bit more options

593
00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:56.159
in a sense THAT i was getting. PAID i had

594
00:53:56.199 --> 00:54:05.559
money coming. In, HOWEVER i went between wearing absolute grotty

595
00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:13.159
clothes WHERE i was, working including horrible and trainers that

596
00:54:13.199 --> 00:54:15.880
were wearing away and they were getting wet every TIME

597
00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:19.440
i was working in, them and he just did a

598
00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:25.559
little growl at. Me but during that period WHEN i

599
00:54:25.599 --> 00:54:28.960
first started working, THERE i was buying myself some nice

600
00:54:28.960 --> 00:54:34.000
clothes to wear WHEN i wasn't at. Work and because

601
00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:36.920
one of the just in his name was he was

602
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:39.519
still at, school so he was like a year younger than.

603
00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:44.039
Me so, yeah he was still at school and he

604
00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:49.119
was part time working in the chip, shop and he

605
00:54:49.199 --> 00:54:55.000
took me shopping because he was super, fashionable a bit

606
00:54:55.079 --> 00:54:57.639
like my next door neighbors were as. Well he was

607
00:54:57.719 --> 00:55:01.079
like he had the thing at the time was trousers

608
00:55:01.119 --> 00:55:07.320
and everything about him was A. Maculi his, haircut all his.

609
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:12.679
Clothing he was so like that was his. Thing so

610
00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:15.599
he kind of tried to tidy me up a little,

611
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:18.760
bit and it took To he took me to a

612
00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:22.239
couple of his secret shops that he went. TO i

613
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:24.760
mean there weren't, secret but they were places that were

614
00:55:24.800 --> 00:55:27.960
a little bit off the off the beaten, track as it,

615
00:55:28.039 --> 00:55:33.119
were in a different. Town and so instead of going

616
00:55:33.199 --> 00:55:38.239
to next or to some of the more, frank you,

617
00:55:38.280 --> 00:55:42.239
know the the shops in the TOWN i was, living

618
00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:45.159
he took me to a different place where you'd get something.

619
00:55:45.199 --> 00:55:56.800
Different SO i got these boots from this, shop and

620
00:55:56.840 --> 00:56:03.079
they were like cowboy cowboy, Boots it's. True and they

621
00:56:03.159 --> 00:56:07.159
clicked WHEN i. Walked they clicked WHEN i, walked AND

622
00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:12.639
i loved. THEM i loved my. Boots at this, Time,

623
00:56:12.760 --> 00:56:15.039
YEAH i was still fifteen at this, POINT i, think,

624
00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:20.679
YEAH i would have been still, fifteen AND i loved my.

625
00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:27.360
Boots this is probably the, summertime AND i was just

626
00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:34.440
clicking along AND i was wearing nice. Clothes but then

627
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:37.239
WHEN i went to, WORK i put on these horrible

628
00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:43.199
jeans that were just caked in. Better and WHEN i say,

629
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:49.320
BETTER i mean like fish and chip. Better AND i

630
00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:54.559
just stunk stunk of fish and all kinds of stuff

631
00:56:54.559 --> 00:56:57.199
BECAUSE i. WAS i mean IF i, was IF i,

632
00:56:57.280 --> 00:56:59.519
was IF i you, know IF i didn't do it,

633
00:56:59.559 --> 00:57:05.360
AGAIN i do. OVER i do things. Differently but WOULD

634
00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:08.880
i Because i'd be that person, again WOULDN'T. I it

635
00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:14.320
wouldn't be. ME i definitely wouldn't do that again BECAUSE

636
00:57:14.760 --> 00:57:17.559
i didn't do my feet any flavors wearing those old

637
00:57:18.639 --> 00:57:21.639
smelly trainers that were falling, apart and they were wet

638
00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:30.840
all day. Long and THEN i THINK i might have

639
00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:34.199
walred well into boots part of it as, well but

640
00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:37.280
my feet was still getting wet WHILE i was going

641
00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:41.440
in and out of the kitchen and. Stuff it needs

642
00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:49.480
a bit. Restless SO i liked them boots though they were.

643
00:57:49.559 --> 00:58:00.199
Nice and then NINETEEN i had a feuderal to go

644
00:58:00.280 --> 00:58:06.280
to in nineteen eighty, SEVEN i think it, was AND

645
00:58:06.360 --> 00:58:09.760
i bought some clothes AND i bought some like a.

646
00:58:09.880 --> 00:58:20.320
SUIT i bought some new, shoes and then during the

647
00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:23.880
late EIGHTIES i used to BUY i think most of

648
00:58:23.920 --> 00:58:31.320
my clothes THAT i got was from next Or marks And,

649
00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:36.000
spencers you know places like, that just being h Or.

650
00:58:36.079 --> 00:58:41.400
Debenhams SO i didn't spend much money on clothes because

651
00:58:41.400 --> 00:58:45.199
WHEN i did buy, something it lasted a long. Time

652
00:58:47.079 --> 00:58:50.760
so let's SAY i spent ten pounds on a pair

653
00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:56.199
of five h one jeans that you, know that would

654
00:58:56.239 --> 00:59:01.079
be the only Pair i'd buy for a. Year MAYBE

655
00:59:01.880 --> 00:59:05.119
i didn't HAVE i never had a small amount of.

656
00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:11.519
CLOTHES i still. Do, really it's just the way that

657
00:59:11.960 --> 00:59:15.880
Because i've been almost like a bit of a, traveler you,

658
00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:18.760
know moving from place to. Place we know what traveling.

659
00:59:18.920 --> 00:59:23.719
IS i know WHAT i mean is not really. TRAVELING i,

660
00:59:23.719 --> 00:59:28.519
mean As i've traveled a few, distances but it's just

661
00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:32.119
apart from the last ten, Years i've kind of been

662
00:59:32.159 --> 00:59:36.800
on the move a. Lot AND i Think i've moved

663
00:59:36.840 --> 00:59:40.719
about fifty times SINCE i left, school something silly like.

664
00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:46.280
That SO i realized that the more STUFF i, had

665
00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:50.159
the harder it was to. Move the MORE i had to,

666
00:59:50.199 --> 00:59:53.320
carry the MORE i had to you. Know it just

667
00:59:54.800 --> 00:59:56.599
that's why for a lot of the TIME i just

668
00:59:56.679 --> 01:00:05.840
kept things to a. Minimum and THEN i don't remember

669
01:00:06.159 --> 01:00:09.679
what kind of SHOES i had in the late, EIGHTIES

670
01:00:11.159 --> 01:00:24.320
i really don't, remember or early. NINETIES i kind of can't.

671
01:00:24.360 --> 01:00:28.639
Remember this is. TERRIBLE i can't remember any SHOES i

672
01:00:28.760 --> 01:00:33.039
had throughout a whole. Decade it was that unimportant to.

673
01:00:33.119 --> 01:00:37.320
Me but in the late NINETIES i probably had some nice,

674
01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:44.960
shoes not like super, nice but you, know, pleasant, okay okay.

675
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:57.079
SHOES i mean two, THOUSANDS i started wearing proper shoes

676
01:00:57.760 --> 01:01:02.119
for working in, offices So i'd have black, shoes just

677
01:01:02.360 --> 01:01:10.760
standard boring office, shoes So i'd have that throughout the two.

678
01:01:10.840 --> 01:01:16.400
Thousands in two thousand and, FOUR i went through a

679
01:01:16.519 --> 01:01:23.199
period WHEN i was wearing quite nice. Clothes, no not

680
01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:25.480
two thousand and, four two maybe two thousand and, four

681
01:01:25.559 --> 01:01:29.360
bit two thousand and, five two thousand and. Six, DEFINITELY

682
01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:34.079
i was wearing a lot of white. Stuff don't ask me,

683
01:01:34.119 --> 01:01:38.039
why BUT i was wearing white, trousers white, TOPS i

684
01:01:38.079 --> 01:01:43.239
was wearing white, shoes AND i was shaving my, head

685
01:01:43.400 --> 01:01:49.480
SO i don't know WHAT i look. Like but, yeah

686
01:01:49.559 --> 01:01:52.679
it was just a little THINK i went, through AND

687
01:01:53.599 --> 01:02:02.679
i had generally during that, period probably throughout the whole

688
01:02:02.679 --> 01:02:07.039
of the two, thousands my shoes were quite. NICE i

689
01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:11.159
generally had to decent, shoes and IF i needed new,

690
01:02:11.159 --> 01:02:14.000
ONES i just bought, them so it's just not really

691
01:02:14.079 --> 01:02:17.039
a big. Issue AND i always had at least one

692
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:20.599
like two sets of, shoes one for work and one

693
01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:24.679
for at, home maybe two for a, home depending on

694
01:02:24.719 --> 01:02:37.840
what you know it's or. Casuals then in two thousand and,

695
01:02:38.079 --> 01:02:43.159
SEVEN i was wearing Hush. Puppies and the REASON i

696
01:02:43.280 --> 01:02:45.960
liked Hush puppies BECAUSE i could just put them on

697
01:02:47.639 --> 01:02:51.239
and they didn't, slip they didn't cause. Blisters, No they're

698
01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:57.440
just the ones THAT i got. Perfect absolutely loved, them

699
01:02:57.559 --> 01:03:00.159
AND i THINK i might have got THEM i think

700
01:03:00.159 --> 01:03:02.760
about two thousand and, seven AND i got a new

701
01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:07.559
pair nearly every year exactly the same pair for about

702
01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:11.960
four years in a, row and the SHOP i was

703
01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:16.360
getting them from stop doing, them SO i had to

704
01:03:16.480 --> 01:03:24.719
change over to something. Else by this, TIME i wasn't

705
01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:30.000
NEEDING i didn't need to wear anything in an office

706
01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:34.199
BECAUSE i was like self employed, counseling having been to,

707
01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:38.920
university SO i didn't need to wear black shoes and

708
01:03:39.039 --> 01:03:43.559
stuff like that or you know office. ATTIRE i STILL

709
01:03:43.679 --> 01:03:47.360
i was, smart but didn't necessarily need to wear ALTHOUGH

710
01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:56.199
i possibly did wear, shoes AND i REMEMBER i bought

711
01:03:56.239 --> 01:04:05.679
some shoes for my name's a goodbye, event AND i got.

712
01:04:06.119 --> 01:04:08.519
Blistered i've still got the shoes, now ten years, later

713
01:04:08.880 --> 01:04:12.440
AND i got such bad blisters that. Day it was.

714
01:04:12.559 --> 01:04:20.039
Ridiculous they were just too. TIGHT i mean they weren't

715
01:04:20.039 --> 01:04:22.400
too tight in the, feet they were just too tight

716
01:04:22.440 --> 01:04:29.079
in the. Heel But i've still got, THEM i, think

717
01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:38.159
and I'S i chucked them. Away and then the last few,

718
01:04:38.239 --> 01:04:41.719
years or the last ten, YEARS i SUPPOSE i JUST

719
01:04:43.519 --> 01:04:50.800
i was GETTING i like to get stretched what they called, stretchers.

720
01:04:52.679 --> 01:04:58.199
Stretches that's not the right, word is, it. SKETCHES i

721
01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:04.239
was buying sketches for the last few. Years and also

722
01:05:04.320 --> 01:05:07.079
a few years, AGO i bought these boots that were

723
01:05:07.159 --> 01:05:14.519
kind of really, big really nice boots that are perfect

724
01:05:14.559 --> 01:05:18.559
for all it's raining or anything like, THAT i mean. Mountaineering,

725
01:05:18.679 --> 01:05:23.519
REALLY i could wear them for probably or, hillwalking BUT

726
01:05:23.559 --> 01:05:30.119
i don't wear them very. OFTEN i mean NOWADAYS i

727
01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:33.079
pretty WELL i wear. These i've got some new shoes,

728
01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:38.320
recently well a few months, ago probably because my other

729
01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:44.960
ones had holes in, them and they just slip ons.

730
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:49.360
Casual they seem to do the, job but there are

731
01:05:49.400 --> 01:05:53.280
bits they're a bit big for. Me ALTHOUGH i don't

732
01:05:53.320 --> 01:05:56.559
wear any, socks so IF i wore socks that probably

733
01:05:56.599 --> 01:06:01.639
fit a bit, better SO i couldn't really go. Running

734
01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:03.679
not THAT i would go, running BUT i. COULDN'T i

735
01:06:03.679 --> 01:06:07.719
couldn't run in them because it would Be, yeah they'd fall,

736
01:06:07.760 --> 01:06:12.800
off they'd. Slip, Yeah i'd lose them in the hedge or.

737
01:06:12.880 --> 01:06:26.599
SOMETHING i did have some, trainers BUT i don't know

738
01:06:26.639 --> 01:06:28.679
If i've still got, THEM i might chuck them. AWAY

739
01:06:29.880 --> 01:06:36.800
i can't remember all. Footwear i'll tell You i've got.

740
01:06:37.119 --> 01:06:43.599
Her WHEN i Had, Andre i've not talked about all

741
01:06:43.639 --> 01:06:47.320
the Slippers i've. Had that'd be a different. Story but

742
01:06:47.400 --> 01:06:51.920
WHEN i moved in, HERE i had, slippers And andre

743
01:06:52.320 --> 01:06:57.960
destroyed two pairs of my, slippers one one after. Another

744
01:07:00.159 --> 01:07:02.199
kept buying them and pulling them WHEN i was wearing,

745
01:07:02.239 --> 01:07:05.480
them and you, know WHEN i wasn't, around it'd do

746
01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:10.239
all kinds of things to. Them SO i bought, crocs

747
01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:16.719
some blue, crocs And andre he loved them as well

748
01:07:16.760 --> 01:07:20.159
because he could pull on them and bite. Them but he.

749
01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:25.079
Couldn't you, know in some ways he probably liked them

750
01:07:25.119 --> 01:07:28.599
just as. MUCH i, mean he still had my old

751
01:07:28.639 --> 01:07:30.480
slippers to do what he wanted to do with. Them

752
01:07:30.559 --> 01:07:33.280
and let's just let's not go into, that but he

753
01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:39.559
did exactly what he. Wanted but the crocs kind of you,

754
01:07:39.599 --> 01:07:46.159
know they were quite. Useful and THEN i think the they,

755
01:07:46.280 --> 01:07:51.000
broke they started falling, apart AND i ordered some more.

756
01:07:51.079 --> 01:07:53.760
Crocs but this TIME i thought it'd be. Funny i'd

757
01:07:53.800 --> 01:07:57.719
get some pink. Ones JUST i thought it'd make my friend.

758
01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:02.639
Laugh so, Yeah i've got some pink crocks and that's

759
01:08:02.639 --> 01:08:06.440
WHERE i. Wear. Now you might, think, well WHY i

760
01:08:06.440 --> 01:08:11.239
wouldn't make any difference what color they, are but people

761
01:08:11.360 --> 01:08:17.960
notice and people do. COMMENT i think it's because that

762
01:08:18.119 --> 01:08:24.079
make me look so so super. SEXY i think it

763
01:08:24.159 --> 01:08:24.760
must be what it.

764
01:08:24.840 --> 01:08:35.960
Is, YEAH i think what up to?

765
01:08:36.039 --> 01:08:43.000
DATE i think that's all my bearing in. Mind i've

766
01:08:43.159 --> 01:08:46.640
been around for so. Long there's going to be so

767
01:08:46.720 --> 01:08:52.600
many pairs of shoes That i've forgotten all. About but

768
01:08:52.680 --> 01:08:58.079
because of MY i want to say lack of, fashion

769
01:08:58.199 --> 01:09:03.119
but that's the correct. TERM i. Don't i've never really

770
01:09:03.159 --> 01:09:12.319
put a lot of energy into, shoes although PERHAPS i

771
01:09:12.319 --> 01:09:15.640
would have been better off IF i. Had it just

772
01:09:15.720 --> 01:09:20.039
never really interested me AND i didn't, know, like why

773
01:09:20.039 --> 01:09:24.439
would anyone look at my? Shoes BUT i know sometimes

774
01:09:24.479 --> 01:09:28.119
people do look at people's Shoes i've just never looked

775
01:09:28.159 --> 01:09:31.760
at anyone's. SHOES i don't see it of any. Relevance,

776
01:09:38.880 --> 01:09:52.760
yeah so that's, me that's, me so. Shoes this is

777
01:09:52.840 --> 01:09:57.680
my that's my boring subject of the. Day AND i

778
01:09:57.720 --> 01:10:04.880
hope it was smartly my ounly. Boring so thank you for.

779
01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:09.560
Listening remember to be kind to yourself because you do

780
01:10:09.800 --> 01:10:18.680
deserve to be. Happy be gentle with. Yourself you deserve

781
01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:27.399
to feel. Safe lots of, Love, bye