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Hello, and welcome to Jason Newland dot com. My name
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is Jason Land. Hello. Helloa loa lolo he loolo. This
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is q and A Friday. Let me boy to sleep
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quna Friday. Yeah, so little Hinnie's here at my side
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like a good boy. Yes he is a you his
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little towls wagon waggon weggling, wiggling, warbling waglin wagling. Yes,
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it's Friday, the eighth of August two thousand and twenty five.
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Please only listen when you can safety close your eyes,
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if I have not already said that. Earlier on, I
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did do a recording five bromyalgia Relief Hypnosis. So that's
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something I've done today this week. What have I done
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this week?
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M M.
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So I've done a Monday's Boring Objects. I did a
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whistle Monday, so one, two, three, four, five, six seven.
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So this will be my eighth record in this week.
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And I still got two more days left, two more
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days of the week, that is. And I ordered a
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window cover to try and soundproof the window, and that
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should be getting delivered at some point today. Whilch would
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be interesting to see how that works out. It's all
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worth a try. Isn't it. It's worth a try, yes,
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you know. So the last few days I've been trying
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to work, we're trying to trying to tidy up this place.
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I had a bit of a I don't know if
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it's an extrastential stench extra stench eel moment lately, but
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having been over the last few weeks, I've been going
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through uncle's sausages stuff, partly because he asked me to.
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You know, I wasn't just having a little nose and
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he wanted me to find some things. And then when
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I told him about the magazines and there's a little
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bit of a mouse issue, he said, well, firstly, he
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didn't want to go back to the flat, and I
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said what about your magazines? And he said, well clear
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it out. So he asked me to clear the clear
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his flat out, get rid of the rubbish. So I
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did that and I did five bags to start with.
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And that was just stuff on the just stuff on
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the floor, biscuit wrappers and you stuff like that, which
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I'm not going to judge him because I'm similar myself.
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Sometimes I blame it on Vinnie, but it's not really
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all him. I mean, the bones that's Vinnie and then
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I started going through his books and the you know,
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the books had to be chucked out, and his magazines,
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and I found photographs, and I started putting stuff away,
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just like that he might want to be kept, or
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maybe someone might want. You know, it's like the passport
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of his mum, his mum's old passport, and his mum's
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been she's been gone for a long time, yeah, decades,
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So it was kind of, I don't know, a bit weird.
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There's baby pictures of him. Well, I'm guessing they're him.
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I mean they're black and white pictures of a baby boy.
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I don't know if it's a boy, but a baby.
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Some kind of figuring it might be him. I mean,
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he didn't. It's hard to tell, to be honest with you,
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I just imagine it was. He had these. They're kind
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of hidden away in this container that you wouldn't even
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know anything was in it. And it was just a
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bunch of photographs and you know, that's personal stuff. But
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no one wants it. No one wants it, no one
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just there's without seeming harsh. I don't want it either.
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It's of no, I don't. I don't really collect stuff
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from my own life. Or my own family, never mind
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someone else's. But I thought there'd be someone that would
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because of you know, a part of me would like
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to think that maybe when my time's up, that somebody
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would want a keepsake.
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Of me.
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But I've come to realize that that's possibly not going
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to be the case. And I looked at all his books,
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all the things that he's collected over well, there's a lifetime,
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I guess, all being chucked out, everything nothing, nothing being kept.
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It's like all his belongings gone, every bit of clothing.
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Unfortunately it can't be recycled as it were, can't be
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given to the second end shop. But everything that meant
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something to him material wise, it's gone. He's going to
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be chucked out. But you're taken by the council now.
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A lot of it is because it's of the mice
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and it's unhealthy, you know what I mean. This stuff
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has to be backed up. I went in there with
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gloves on and just trying to kind of sort it
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out because the council asked me to do it. And
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then the council has said they didn't need me to
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do it, they were going to come and do it themselves.
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And they were going to come and get the mice
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people into sought out the vermin, and they came today
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because I've had a key to his flat, so they
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came in. They let them in, and they went and
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did what they needed to do, and and they're coming
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back in a week's time to sort of check out
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a situation. He was taking photographs and he was looking
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and he said, well, it's pretty bad, but he did
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say he seems worse. It's basically hoarders. It's a horder
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situation because people and I'm he was a hoarder. But
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at the same time, a hoarder is just someone that's
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clicks things. You know, if you get into the big
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hoarder blah blah blah. You know those those TV programs
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always show the very very most extreme cases. Now, you know,
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where someone literally they've got everything stacked up nearly to
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the ceiling, and it's interesting to watch because it's almost
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unbelievable that anyone could live like that. I saw his
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flat one that was halfway through being emptied back before
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Christmas because he was a hoarder, and it was quite high,
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but it wasn't as high as a ceiling, but it
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was you know, up to his knees maybe yeah, yeah,
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up to his knees pretty much higher in some places
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you couldn't. I didn't even know he had a sofa
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until they had finished. I don't think he even knew
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he had a bed. I said, why do you sleep
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in your chair? He said, I don't know. I was
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meaning to get myself a bed, and then I made
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that bit up. Although he did sleep in the inner
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setting and on the sofa, there is a chair. Actually
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he didn't sleep in bed. But it's just someone that
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gets out of hand, that's all it is with I
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think with the collecting, and I can't see he didn't
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like having someone coming in and taking his stuff, but
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he didn't have any choice. The counsel came in and
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basically told him they had to sort it out because
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of being a health hazard, of fire hazard and all
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that stuff. And this is you know about November time.
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But it was very distressing for him because he didn't
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have enough time to sort through his own stuff to
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choose what he wanted to keep. So what he did
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is he made sure that they didn't go into any
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of his drawers or any of his cupboards, which are
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also full of stuff. I found newspapers from nineteen ninety nine.
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I helped him move all the stuff the kitchen just
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before he's this is I think it's the start of
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the year. He had a new kitchen put in. It
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might have been the end of last year. I lose
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track of time, but he had a new kitchen put in.
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So the week and before they came to do the kitchen,
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I helped him to move everything out of the kitchen
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into his bedroom. And we were going through the drawers
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and I couldn't believe stuff we were finding. Therese carrier
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bags that had been in there so long they're disintegrated,
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and it was kind of there was one that was
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so bad as like I said to m Uncle sausages,
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You're going to have to deal with this. This I'm
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not I'm not touching that draw You can deal without yourself.
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But you know, to try and help him out a
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little bit if I could. But the people from the
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council when they did what was the subcontracted when they
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did it, they didn't no surfaces were cleared from the
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looks of it, you know, nothing was no cupboards were
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looked in all the stuff where I don't know. Basically,
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I think he needed to have been put into a
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hotel or go and stay somewhere for a week while
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the whole place was just emptied and bearing in mind
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his age, and he wasn't really so much able to
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look after himself. It was independent, but there were certain
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aspects that he wasn't doing great with maybe doing really
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well compared to a lot of people his age, but
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he wasn't. He wasn't. He needed help, but he didn't
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ask for any help other than from me, And most
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of that was just helping with bills and talking to
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people on the phone and getting his front door sorted
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out and help him get his kitchen cleared and help
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him with bits and bobs like that and ordering stuff online,
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you know, things that he sort of didn't enjoy doing,
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but he it's just really weird. I went in there
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again today and showed the the mice men around and
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I said, I know it's really it's a bit grotty
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in these two rooms, but the kitchen in the bathroom
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are fine. The kitchens. I said, I think there's like
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rat droppings in the kitchen and he said, no, it's
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not rat droppings. They're like these beetle shelfings like rat droppings,
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but they're not and the bathroom perfect. Uncle Sausages hadn't
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hadn't even seen the finished article of his bathroom because
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it was in the process of being rebuilt, refurbished or
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whatever while he was. He was still there when they
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started it, so they were there for the first week.
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He was there for the first week of them doing
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it from Tuesday to Friday, and on Friday night he
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went in Tosspital. So they hadn't I don't think they
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put the bath in yet. They hadn't put in and
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put the toilet in, but they hadn't put in I
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can't remember. I'm pretty sure they asked me even what
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kind of tiles did he want? And I just said
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they were asking me, like, I don't know, but the
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because i' let them in every day, So you know,
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there was like the plumber, then there was the electrician,
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then there was the plaster, then there was the painter
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and all the different kind of trades people that came in.
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And he never got to see it. He never got
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to see the end result. And he's down, he's waiting, well,
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he was waiting later in the year, I don't know when,
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but this year sometime in the next few months he's
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going to have all new windows in there as well,
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so practically a whole new flat other than the living
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room and the bedroom, although that will now be all
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cleared out. And I mean they don't the council don't
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refurbish the flat when you don't like the living room
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in the bedroom. They they'll strip the place, get everything
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out of there in this kind of situation. They did
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the same with my friend Luke downstairs and Trina who
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also lived downstairs that did the same there as well,
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who she passed away as well. So this is a
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third third person who I've lived in this block with
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that's passed away in the last five years. It's crazy, really. Yeah,
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Trina was the first. First, Yeah, it was beginning of
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twenty twenty and Luke ended twenty twenty three November, and
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now Uncle Sausages. It's kind of weird. It's just just weird.
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But anyway, I don't want to keep talking about that.
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But lthough, I am I'm starting to wonder though this is.
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I know this isn't really anything to do with Q
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and A Friday, but you know, this to let me
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boy to sleep is it's kind of like a I
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don't know, like a journal or a diary, a verbal
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you know, vlog, blog, whatever you want to call it.
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And so I do talk about my life. I talk
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about what's gone on and how I'm feeling. I try
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to keep it light, and you know, I don't talk
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about things like this when it's not happening. You know,
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it's like like I'm constantly talking about bereavement and things
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like that because I'm not. I don't. If you listen regularly,
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you know that I do try and keep it quite light.
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And I'm trying to keep this light as well. It's
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just a little bit hard because there's also the reality,
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or at least my reality, of the situation.
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And.
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It just seems like he's if I don't talk about him,
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he's forgotten. Now it's not going to be forgotten or
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remembered by anyone listening, because no one listening knows him,
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you know, in a sense of I don't know, just
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like Luke or anyone else sort of in my life.
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You don't know these people, but it kind of keeps
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I feel like it keeps them alive, keeps as long
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as the memory is alive, it keeps them alive, Like
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you know, really famous people that live on, like Charles
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Dickens or Elvis Presley or you know famous musicians, composers, authors, actors,
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people like that that are kind of just gonna I mean,
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it doesn't seem like Elvis Presley is ever gonna be forgotten.
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I know there's millions and millions, maybe billions of people
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on the planet that have got no idea who he
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is or who he was. But every generation is going
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to find a new group of people that will fall
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in love with Elvis Prosley and his songs, and that