July 2, 2025

(music) Whisper Wednesday | LMBYTS #1387 | Jason Newland | 2nd July 2025

(music) Whisper Wednesday | LMBYTS #1387 | Jason Newland | 2nd July 2025
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Hello, and welcome to jasonnew Land dot com. My name's

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Jason new Land. This is Whisper Wednesday. Let me buy

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you to sleep. And Vinnie has just awoken at seven

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in the morning on I think Wednesday, the second of

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July two thousand and twenty five. I've just heard him.

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I've heard his ears flap. However, he's not coming here.

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I don't know. I just flushed the toilets. Maybe that

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disrupted his sleep. Anyway, Only listen when you can safely

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close your eyes. It's quite warm already. It's supposed to

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be well according to people that told me, there should

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be some raine today, but it looks like it's going

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to be. If it does rain, it's going to be

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a warm, rainy day. So I'm off to see Uncle

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Sausages again. I'm a neighbor. Uncle Sausages, that's what Viny

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calls them. I saw him Monday Tuesday, because I've seen

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him today, and I'll probably see him tomorrow and Friday

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as well. I was hoping to try and just see

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him on Monday, Wednesday. Friday kind of needs me to

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visit a bit more often, so I'll continue to do

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that with the hope. But that maybe he'll be able

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to go home or come home because he lives opposite me.

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But I really don't know. I genuinely have seo idea

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if he'll be allowed to come home when I say aloud,

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of course he can do what he wants. He's mobile,

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so he can physically leave if he wanted to. But

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that possibly wouldn't be a good idea. I don't know

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if you can hear that. Hni's just climbed onto the

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sofa with me after after chasing a fly for a

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little bit. Now Vinnie is going to stay with a neighbor,

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So quarter to nine, I'm going to take him to

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a neighbor rihim to stay there for the day, well

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for a few hours. And then I got a taxi

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book to four between nine and nine point fifteen to

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go to the hospital. And Uncle Sausages has gone. Did

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you hear him making weird noises of it? Uncle Sausages

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is having scared. He's having a doctor come around to

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tell him, hopefully some kind of dreamer plan, cause he's

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he's in limbo at the moment. He's not really sure

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what's going on. This has been in there since Friday

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last week or the week before last, so Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Juesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

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So this is the thirteenth day he's been there. And

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other than giving him medication to reduce the ammonia in

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his blood to stop him from being so yellow or

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cerebulum cerebellum or where they call it, it's I don't

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think he's on any other medication. And he said he

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stopped having that drink as well, so he's not stopped

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having that medication constantly getting monitored, constant blood tests. He's

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not He's not wired up to any kind of machine

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or anything to check his vitals. So you know, they

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do come around and do his blood pressure and stuff

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like that. He was on a drip for a short

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while before his full body scan because he was kneel

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by mouth, so it's so hard they had to get

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liquid into his body. He don't be parking. Many don't

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be barking. It's too early. There's someone in the garden.

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I hope that's not the builders. That's way too early

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for them to be coming here and climbing on the roof.

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Seven in the morning yesterday I heard one of the

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buildings that basically there's scaffolding outside by well outside my windows,

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which leads to the roof. I didn't realize until I

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got home yesterday afternoon. I can't open my windows. The

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scaffoldings so close to my windows, and I can't actually

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open them. I can put them on a latch, you know,

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so they're open kind of a crack. I can't open

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them up till at any air in wrong time of

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the year for that. Wow, So it's a bit of

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a sweat box in here. In the bedroom, I can

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open the top window, so I don't know how they

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managed to do it, but the living room can't open

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any of the windows. So I'm hoping that they'll be

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finished fairly greatly because I don't know, just that I

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don't want to be sitting in here not being able

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to open the windows. I open the windows in the

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winter all year round. My windows are open, and now

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I can't open them. I think I might have talked

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enough about not being able to open my windows. I'm

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not really sure what else to add and bad bet so, yeah,

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thin He's gonna stay with a neighbor and then I

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am I'll head up to the hospital and taxis. I

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got that Bood. I couldn't get an earlier taxi because

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there's the school runs, so there's no no taxis between

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pretty much seven and nine. And there was no reason

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I couldn't go there too early because I've been waiting

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around for hours and hours and get there at seven

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is a little bit too early because they were all

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getting ready and the nurses are going around and I'm

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kind of in the way a little bit and having

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their breakfast, and yeah, I think the I have got

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there around eight, just after eight before that was a

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one off time, and that was a bit too early,

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but that was just because one of my neighbors came here,

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left and he left half seven, dropped off his daughter

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at school and his wife at work, and then dropped

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me off at the hospital. So by the time I

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got to the ward, it was about quarter past eight,

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maybe a little bit later, but it was still a

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bit too early. I think anything before nine is a

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little bit, you know, plus plus plus plus plus plus.

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There is the visiting hours of eleven o'clock onwards in

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that board, so I shouldn't really even be in there

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before eleven o'clock. But no one says anything to me.

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I think that was a wind. I think I just

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spoke through my nose. Then I could hear my knees

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or kevity. It was weird. I think in a ward

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like that, visiting hours don't really seem to apply so much.

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You know, if it was award for people with broken

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bones or people are that their appendix out things like

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that basic quite simple. I don't know, you know, normal

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operations where the person is going to be fine and

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recover normally, like you know, then I suppose the visiting

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the hours a bit more strict. But here in the

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Carn ward the Uncle Sausages is in, it's they're more flexible.

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I feel like I've got to know some of the

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staff now cause I've been in there nearly every day

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since he got in Friday, Saturday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

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So there's will be the eleventh day that I've gone

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in there. I did have the weekend off last weekend.

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Friday and Surday, Saturday and Sunday. Sunday's pretty much a

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no goo. Unless I get a taxi, I can't get

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in there and I have tried to get the buses

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when I can a m attempt to get the bus back.

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You know, two Texas a day is way too expensive,

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although I have asked. I called Universal Credit yesterday to

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see about again in an advanced payment, and they said

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what's it for? I said, taxis? Maybe it's for taxis

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and she said what do you mean? I said, okay,

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it's stay kind of like they take you to places,

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phone them up and they come and click and picked

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you up. I know what taxis means, but what what

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do you Why why you again? Why why are you

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get so many taxes? And I said it's because of

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Uncle Sausages, and she said, oh okay, and then the

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phone cut off and I thought, oh, you call me back.

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She didn't. Didn't call me back. And the reason I

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didn't phone back is because firstly, I'd already been on

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a phone for way too long waiting, you know. Secondly,

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the chance to me getting the same person is pre

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practically non existent, so I'd have to go for the

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whole thing again. So what I did is I went

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online and I left her. They call it like a

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journal injury, where I just typed in that I spoke

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to someone, they hadn't left a note or anything on

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the system, which is I don't know if that's just

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the way are but I was always taught when I

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worked in a call center, whichould pay sixty was what

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were they doing in it? When you when you work

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in a call center and a customer phones up? But

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now why are they called? When they called? Why they

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called and what the outcome of the call was? You know,

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even if it's a case of old customer card wanted

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to speak to renewals, transferred them to renewals. Yeah, just

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something like that, just to keep a track. It's just good,

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good customer service. I would argue. I wouldn't argue, but

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I would say, but I don't know if they're going

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to respond. It seemed really weird because it says if

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you want an advanced payment, click unaclicked, and it's big,

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a big writing came on a screen saying no way,

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go away, you're not enough. And they said there was

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like a drop down list of things and not one

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of them was advance to payments. I think the way

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they're working out if you do get one is you

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pay ten percent back over the year, so for ten months.

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So if you borrow. I guess three hundred pounds. You

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pay thirty pounds a month back for ten months, so

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just see. I don't know if they're going to go

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back to me, but I kind of need to plan

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ahead a bit now because I don't know how long

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of course Sausages is going to be in there, and

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of what he called through my life's savings getting backward

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and forward over the last ten days, so now I

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kind of have to be a bit strategic. So yeah,

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that's my planned day to day I get there, hopefully

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I can sit with him while the doctor talks to

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him and tells him how they're hoping to proceed medically,

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and that way I can have more of an understanding

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and perhaps I can explain it better to Uncle Sausages

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because he doesn't always and it is not criticism. I

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don't think he understands always what they're selling and saying

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to it. And I think part of that is overwhelmed,

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A huge part of it. He's overwhelmed. And you can't

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blame him. You know, he's never been in hospital before,

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never been unwell before in his life, doesn't even have

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a doctor. He's not registered with a doctor's surgery he's

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seventy eight years nearly, and he's been tipp top health,

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so this is I don't think he is. I don't

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think anyone in that situation could really fully grasp what's

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going on. It's a confused, very confusing time. I find

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it confusing, is why I find a lot of things confusing.

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I can't think of anything off hand, but they're sure

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there are some stuff. So that's my plan. Yesterday I went.

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I wasn't gonna go. Actually I went Monday. I told

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him that I was gonna visit Wednesday, but i'd give

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him a call Tuesday. He called him and he said

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he'd seen a doctor and he wasn't very happy. And

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I said, you want me to come, but you want

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me to come in? And he said there's something only

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you can decide. So I thought that was a yes,

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wasn't it. Also he was a bit he felt a

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bit low because his his neighbor, the man in the

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bed next to him, had left, so it's spent They

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spent a week with this man. They got to know

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each other quite well, and suddenly he had no one

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to talk to. So it's kind of a little bit.

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I think he felt a little bit lonely, although he

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does have tennis on the TV now, so that's that's bright.

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That's perked him up a little bit. For the first week,

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he didn't watch any television, and I kept saying, why

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don't you stick the TV on, just have it in

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the background, don't even have to have the sound up,

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so there's plenty of sports on normal TV, especially the weekend,

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but he said no, no, no, no no. And when

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I did eventually just turn it on a couple of

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days ago, I think Monday, he was really surprised at

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how good the picture was and Whimbun had just started

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the way that's tennis just started on Monday, and I

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think it's I think it's a pleasant distraction. So when

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I visited him yesterday he was half asleep. He was

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listening to because I think I got to him probably abound.

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I lived here him midday, so I got there probably

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twenty to one. After twenty to one, he was half asleep,

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but he was listening to the to the tennis. So

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I think for him, listening to sport or some kind

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of sporting activity, whether it's football, rugby, cricket, tennis, he

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relaxes him and it feels nice and I just I

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just stood down and stared at him for a while,

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made him jump when he looked up. It was worth it.

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I think he was surprised to see me, even though

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I did sellimos on my way. He seems to be

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talking a lot quieter as well, and slower. I don't

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know quite why that is. He didn't want to go

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out yesterday, so that was the first time that he

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didn't want to go out for walking that you know,

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come out into the sunshine. Although I did manage to

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get him what he's been craving for a few days.

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That's ice. When I say ice, I'm talking about ice. Ice,

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not not ice as in removing people that have lived

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here in their whole lives. I'm talking about ices in

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frozen water. So he was on about get some get

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some water, Go get some water, frozen frozen water. I said,

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you mean ice. He said, yeah, frozen water. And I said, well,

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I can give you some of that. He said, we

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need to get a flersk of flowers. I said why,

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He said that keep the ice frozen for longer I've

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and I thought to myself, well, I don't have a flask.

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I can't be trusted with flasks. That sounds strange, doesn't it.

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But I don't think I've ever had a flask where

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I didn't break it. I don't know why. I just

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have a habit of dropping flasks and breaking the inside

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bit way did you know the glass bit inside? Although

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it's been a little while, I think the last time

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I had a flask was two thousand and five, probably

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two thousand and four, two thousand and five, Yeah, maybe later.

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Maybe it's been a while. So what I did is

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I said to you know, you can just get a

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cold drink from Costa. I'll get you a bottle of

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coke and it will be colder being a fridge. So

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I did that the day before and then he said

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I want some ice. I was just pleased and stop

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saying frozen water. So you want some ice? He said, yeah,

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I want some ice. So what I did is I

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went downstairs, got him and have a bottle of coke

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from Costa him from the pin because there's a big

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cost well, a larger costa with seeds, and it's a

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smaller cost which is closer to his ward. We have

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no seats, it's just a takeaway. So I go into

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the larger costa I get myself a bottle of venter,

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get him a bottle of coke, and I get myself

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a chocolate brownie because I'm worth it, And then walk

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up to the other costa and there's a customer there

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at the till, and the man serving hanswer back to me,

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and he was doing, I don't make in a coffee,

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I suppose, so I'm kind of offering behind the lady

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who's being served. And then another lady comes in and

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he says, there is like a place where you queue,

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and she said, are you being served or you queueing?

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I said, I am. I'm not being served, but I'm

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not really cueing. But I am queuing, but I'm not

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really killing. And she said to me, what you mean,

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I said, well, if I get in the queue there,

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the man who's got his back face to us might

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think that I'm that I've just got the items out

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of the fridge and try and charge me for this stuff.

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But I've already bought it at the other costa. And

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she said, it's okay, why are you waiting it? Then

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I said, I'm going to see if I can get

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some ice. She said, I see, I said, yeah, ice.

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I thought she might correct me by saying frozen water.

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But she didn't, so that was good frozen broken water.

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So I personally don't drink ice. I never have ice

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ever because ice it's tap water and I don't drink

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tap water, so I don't never have ice in anything

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apart from when I do. But generally, no, I'm not

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saying I've never had eyes, because I have, and if

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I reckon in this weather, I probably would have ice

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if I was if I was sitting outside a pub,

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for example, I might have ice in the glass because

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of the heat. But generally I don't have eyes. But

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the ice wasn't for me anyway. And the man turns around.

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He finishes serving the lady that was already there, so

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it's just me and the other lady who's waiting in

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the queue. So I'm standing in the queue now. And

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he said anything else, and I said no, no, wait

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wait wait wait, He said, what do you mean wait?

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I said, wait a second list, need to just explain.

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He said, no you wait, I said, well, he said,

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I don't know. I just I'm not really sure what's

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going on. I said, it's fine. These two bowls, the

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factor and the coke. I already purchased them from the

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other costa up there. He said, okay. He looked very confused.

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He said, what about the chocolate brownie. I said, that's

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in my pocket. You can't even see it. He said, oh,

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fair enough, and he said, well, how can I help?

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I said, I was wondering, just wondering. Say no if

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you like. He said, I will say no if I like.

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I've got complete control of what I say. I said, okay,

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thank you, shirty. He just you know, I'm just asking,

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is there any chance I can get some ice in

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a cup? And he looked at me and I said

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that's the end of the sentence. There was nothing else

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that was it, Can I get some ice in a cup? Please?

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I don't know what else he expected me to say.

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Did he expect a song? I don't know, put our

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piece of paper and start reciting poetry. I don't know

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what he expected. And he said sure. So he went

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got some eyes and I said, it's it's far. It's

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for a patient. I think. I said, it's for a customer.

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Then I realized that hospitals don't they call them patients,

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not customers, don't they I suppose customers would be a

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private hospital they call them customers. And he said, fine,

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isn't it. Do you think it's weird? Right? Do you

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know when you see someone every day but you don't

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know them, you don't know anything about them. And that's

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what is going on with this bloke in the coster.

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I've seen him nearly every day for the last two weeks, nearly,

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well yeah, it's nearly from the get onto two weeks,

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and I feel like I know him a little bit.

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I don't. I don't know anything about him, but just

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it's weird, and it's a little bit like people in

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the street that I've seen for years and years heading

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towards work, walking through the park, getting ready in their bathroom.

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I mean, okay, obviously he involves climbing a tree, but

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I can't. I just see people doing things that are normal,

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and I kind of feel like I know them a bit,

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but I I don't know who they are, don't know

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anything about them. I noticed that one there, I was

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going to work on a bus and I started to

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nod to people because it was the same people the

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same time every day, or mass felt like I knew them.

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And I remember saying to someone once like after about

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six months of doing this. I said to her, you know,

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I feel like I know you're now seeing you every

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down the bus. She said, yeah, we should do our

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work at your place, literally sit opposite it on the desk.

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I said, oh, for you look familiar. You just looked different.

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You look different when you're at the desk and what

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you do when you're outside. She said, I know, because

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I'm wearing a coat now. And she is kind of

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strange without being rude, she used to wear a Kim

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costume of work. No one knew why, but it didn't

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seem it didn't seem to affect her work because she

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was on the phone, so no I could see her

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when the management came around, you know, from the head office.

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She was just like all the weird people that dressed

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a bit strange, were like or acted a bit weird,

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or put into it like a room just hidden away.

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I looked forward to those days because it was a

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nice break from working. Me and those other people would

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just sit around chating. And never got around to asking

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her about the Kim costume. But the blood dressed as

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a pirate. He was interesting, he was he was just

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a big fan of pirate movies. He said, he's always

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wanted to be Coirk Douglas, and I said, Okay, it's

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hard to follow that up, retty, isn't it. Someone just

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comes out without all In case anyone's wondering the reason

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why I wear a pirate costume to work, Actually, he's

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a pirate uniform. The reason I wear this pirate uniform

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is because I'm a big fan of Kirk Douglas when

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he was in pirate movies in the nineteen fifties. It's

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hard to have a follow up, Christian, what's your favorite dessert?

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It just doesn't fit, does it? Oh dessert? Oh? Was

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that dessert that doesn't people don't eat anymore? Angel Delight?

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There was this dessert I I don't know if it's

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it might still get sold, but it was one of

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my favorite desserts. So it's kind of like they see

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it looked like yet looked like custard. It wasn't custard,

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cause I cannot stand custard. It wasn't custard, but it

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was cold strawberry chocolate, Banahna flavored. There might have been

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different flavors, but they're the ones that I remember. It

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was this powder which you put in and I don't

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know if you mix it with milk and just user

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like a what do they call it, a mixing thing,

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which makes it all fluffy, not drill a whisk a

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whisk so yeah, and it makes it all fluffy and

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bubbly and or yum yum yum yum. And my stepmom

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used to make niker boker glories. Be careful how quickly

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you say that word, nika boka glory, which is if

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you don't know what it is, it's in a big, long,

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quite a high glass dish. I think it's basically did

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I use the same the same thing for Sundays as well,

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not on Sundays, but like a long dish. I don't

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know anyway. So what she used to do is she'd

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put in different levels of stuff. So there'd be some

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ice cream, there'd be some fruit, there'd be some angel

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delight maybe somewhere dream at the top, there'd be some

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what those those fingers they're not bread, but oh wow,

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I can't even remember what they recalled. I used to

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love them because they would melt in your mouth. Wow.

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What what was it called? I'm sure there's something fingers

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And they were kind of pastry ish and they had

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a bit of sugar on top. And I think what

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she used to do is if just stick them in

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so they melted or crumbled them up and made little

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toppings kind of bread crumbs as well. And yeah, it

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was sugar and it was lovely, amazing, possibly a flake

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at the top. Oh, it was glorious. And then his

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big long spoons of a tiny, tiny little kind of

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spoon thing at the end. So big long handle probably

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quite good for helping with constipation, I imagine, but it's

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not a focus on that. So with very long handle,

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which you can really get into the hard to reach places,

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which is like I was found right at the bottom

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of the dish. There was one bit that seemed to

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just be very hard to get to and then maybe

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be a bit of ice cream or a bit of

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chocolate or something just right in there. And I dig it,

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really dig from different angles until I got to it.

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I never quit when it comes to chocolate, I never quit.

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Oh y. And also trifles, we didn't have custard. Of

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our trifles we had angel did I The reason for

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that is because custard is horrible. I didn't like custard.

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I would not eat I would never ever eat custard ever.

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Not gonna happen. And that's not gonna happen ever, So

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this is one of those things I don't like. So

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we used to have I think because I was so

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anti custard. Maybe my brothers also didn't mind custard, so

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my stepmom would just figure a way around it. So

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we used to angured de light instead on top and

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some cream. Lovely. It was oh yu. So I'm thinking,

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why am I talking about Angel of Delight. I don't

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know why, but I'm not sure if they sell it

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any mine in shops. I think it's one of those

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things that possibly wasn't nutritionally the most beneficial edible product

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in the world, but it was yummy, so yummy, yummy, yummy,

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yummy yummy. Another thing I used to like to eat

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is Vanetta ice cream. Again, I don't know if it's

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still around, and another understand but I didn't understand why

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it's not the most popular ice cream in the world

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because it's layered again, kind of like a lasagna or

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a trifle, spaceally a trifle. It's just that it's a

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version of a lasagnia, isn't it. And I learned to

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make lasagnas and I did I learned when I was

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at school, but I learned on a more industrial level

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when I worked a canteen in a bakery. So those

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hundreds of people being served, and I made this massive lasagnas.

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And my boss, who is the chef, he was doing

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all that stuff, and I said, why don't you teach

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me how you do it? You know, because it's very

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different making a little lasagna to make it a massive lasagna.

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It's just a little bit. I don't know, it's a

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different kind of process. So in the end he told

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me to do it so he didn't have to do it.

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I just thought that made sense. It gave me something

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to do a bit more interesting, and so he got me.

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When it was a lazagna day, I would always do

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the lasagna. I do the whole thing, maybe two or

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three of them, and they could just stand you out.

467
00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:02.440
I think I felt quite proud because they did come

468
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:05.840
out nice, and he went because he was a trained chef,

469
00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:08.960
he went through the whole thing with me and stepped

470
00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:15.639
by step. I felt quite accomplished. Actually, because people liked

471
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:21.639
the lasagnans. They were popular, and I think we did

472
00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:31.400
a vegetarian version as well as a yeah, because there

473
00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:34.119
was I think the problem there was a lot of

474
00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:38.960
people there. It wasn't so much that they were vegetarian,

475
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:47.000
but they could only eat me like hell heal me,

476
00:43:47.400 --> 00:43:52.880
stuff like that which the kitchen didn't provide, the captain

477
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:57.119
didn't provide. So what they would do instead is maybe

478
00:43:57.239 --> 00:44:02.559
a vegetarian version. So they were quite popular as well.

479
00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:09.199
What I did, though, is to make the designs taste

480
00:44:09.239 --> 00:44:16.519
a bit nicer. I with the vegetarian ones, I just

481
00:44:16.639 --> 00:44:18.519
brink a little bit of meat in there as well,

482
00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:21.800
just to add a little bit of taste, a little

483
00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:27.000
bit of pork. So I think that was they were popular.

484
00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:34.360
I didn't I do. I really didn't. Well, even now,

485
00:44:35.559 --> 00:44:41.760
thirty four years later, I still wouldn't. I was still

486
00:44:41.880 --> 00:44:46.639
gonna say I was joking. I would not ever do that. Wow, No, no, no,

487
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:54.599
you fed them pork and they didn't think they were

488
00:44:54.719 --> 00:45:02.400
eating any meat, or don't. I'm not sure there was

489
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:09.559
even one vegetarian lair at all, like vegetarian vegetarian, but

490
00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:14.480
the vegetarian aren't meat, or the vegetarian meals were a

491
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:22.159
substitute for Because of religious issues or religious beliefs or whatever,

492
00:45:27.119 --> 00:45:30.960
those of pork grindings really went down a tree. It

493
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:37.159
just shows you if you don't know. I was fine.

494
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:39.239
I still find in fact I didn't do that, by

495
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:42.159
the way, I'm just joking. I still find it funny though,

496
00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:50.800
the amount of people, not even necessary religious of any persuasion,

497
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:54.119
that were saying, don't eat pork. It's a dirty animal.

498
00:45:55.400 --> 00:46:00.400
Name a clean one. Where is there a clean animal?

499
00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:05.880
Just name one. I mean, my little the love of

500
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:09.599
my life right now. If Anny he's a dirty little

501
00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:14.360
back up, you know humans are day he was just

502
00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:20.719
there's no clean animal. I'm technically clean for maybe five

503
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:23.519
minutes after I've had a shower and then I fought,

504
00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:33.840
you know, it's oh dear, oh, that's a bit of

505
00:46:33.960 --> 00:46:38.360
activity downstairs. So I'm just waiting to see if Finnish

506
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:45.360
going to start barking or not. It's called eight in

507
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:52.800
the morning. I've got one hour until I need to

508
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:58.079
take Vinnie over to see the neighbors. And they've got

509
00:46:58.159 --> 00:47:01.800
a little dog there till about me day, so he's

510
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:04.400
gonna be happy running around with the other dog how

511
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:12.840
he likes. And then I'm hoping I can get back

512
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:25.440
by two o'clock at the latest. Yeah. Yeah, Ideally there's

513
00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:30.519
a lot of shouting outside. That's weird for that. I

514
00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:38.079
just heard someone go, right, what's that about. I don't know,

515
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:53.880
Oh yeah, the I just love Angel Delight. I used

516
00:47:53.880 --> 00:48:03.320
to tell them what was that ice cream I was

517
00:48:03.400 --> 00:48:09.159
talking about? It was basically what they did, a mint

518
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:13.280
version and possibly had different versions, but the one I

519
00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:21.480
liked was just vanilla ice cream with it was bits

520
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:26.920
of chocolate, like I don't know how to explain it,

521
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:30.440
Vonetta or ice cream. For those who don't know, it's

522
00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:36.840
like a a big, long, oblong kind of blog that

523
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:42.199
came on a tray, a brown tray, I think, wrapped

524
00:48:42.239 --> 00:48:46.800
in plastic but white, you know, just like ice cream,

525
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:52.199
you know, frozen kind of plastic, and then inside a

526
00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:58.400
box with Vonetta on the side and a picture of it.

527
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:04.239
And I really liked it as a kid and I

528
00:49:04.360 --> 00:49:07.440
used to eat it, and I've had it as an adult.

529
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:10.960
I don't know if it's still produced, cause I've not

530
00:49:11.079 --> 00:49:17.280
had any for a while. I just liked the layer

531
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:22.119
chocolate ice cream, then chocolate, and it's like these little

532
00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:30.960
not flakes. I don't know how to explain it, but

533
00:49:31.079 --> 00:49:35.360
it's nice anyway. There was a time when I was

534
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:38.880
about sixteen living in a flat above the chip shop,

535
00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:45.199
and I had such little money. I would sometimes spend

536
00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:49.599
all my money, which would be maybe a pound, on

537
00:49:50.079 --> 00:50:01.920
some ice cream, vinetta or ice cream, and possibly thinking

538
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:08.519
about it, possibly a what would I have with it?

539
00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:16.960
What would say? What they called like the non syrup

540
00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:26.519
maybe syrup, no sponges, but like pie. Oh, can't think

541
00:50:26.559 --> 00:50:30.079
what they call it. It's like pastry. And then there's

542
00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:33.679
at of syrupy stuff at the top which is very

543
00:50:33.880 --> 00:50:39.719
sticky and thick. Oh, the name of it is gone

544
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:42.239
out of my head. But I used to heat that

545
00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:45.840
up and then have that with the ice cream, and

546
00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:50.840
that was my dinner. That was my lunch, and I

547
00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:55.199
don't feel so full, but not in a good way

548
00:50:57.440 --> 00:51:08.159
because I needed food, proper food, not just sugar. Probably

549
00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:16.800
wasn't my best decision ever. And there was a time

550
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:19.800
when I used to have. Yeah, when I was in

551
00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:22.679
a chip shop, I got a part time job cleaning

552
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:26.719
before work. I needed to try and get some money,

553
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:32.679
and I used to get home. I used to work

554
00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:37.400
from six point thirty to eight thirty and then i'd

555
00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:41.519
start work at nine, so i'd go home. It's only

556
00:51:41.800 --> 00:51:46.119
a five minute walk, get home, have some corn flakes,

557
00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:51.159
have a can of coke? Would you believe at I mean,

558
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:55.199
I've not done that since that time. A cann of

559
00:51:55.320 --> 00:52:00.119
coke with my corn flakes. It's a weird mix. And

560
00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:04.719
I'd watch breakfast TV for like fifteen minutes and then

561
00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:14.039
I'd go downstairs and start working. And I think my

562
00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:19.599
boss told me I had to quit my morning job

563
00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:25.440
because I was working too many hours. It made me

564
00:52:25.559 --> 00:52:30.239
too tired. It was like, yeah, but I need the money.

565
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:39.280
Maybe it wasn't much. It's probably fifteen pounds a week. Maybe,

566
00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:50.679
I mean probably what two four, six, eight, ten, twelve

567
00:52:52.760 --> 00:53:07.079
twelve hours, so Monday to Saturday, twelve hours a week. Yeah,

568
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:18.119
maybe fifteen two one pound fifteen hour probably, so twenty

569
00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:24.320
pounds a week, maybe eighteen pound a week, which would

570
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:31.559
really make a difference to my lifestyle. But it was

571
00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:41.239
quite diring, you know, waking up at six in the morning. Yeah.

572
00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:47.119
Back then, I wasn't a big fan of early starts.

573
00:53:48.360 --> 00:53:53.920
I really, really, really really wasn't. I mean really, I

574
00:53:54.159 --> 00:53:57.719
was not a big fan of starting up getting up early.

575
00:53:59.400 --> 00:54:06.960
It was there's a constant struggle for me. And now

576
00:54:07.239 --> 00:54:10.320
I wake up at four or five every day in

577
00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:19.639
the morning. I don't know what that noise is. Someone's

578
00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:24.239
making noise in the garden. So I'm going to go.

579
00:54:25.599 --> 00:54:28.480
Thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself

580
00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:32.920
because you do deserve to be happy. Be gentle with yourself.

581
00:54:33.400 --> 00:54:40.159
You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love, bye,