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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 of me. But I've come to
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realize that that's possibly not going to be the case.
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And I looked at all his books, all the things
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that he's collected over well, there's a lifetime, I guess,
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all being chucked out, everything nothing, nothing being kept. It's
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like all his belongings gone, every bit of clothing. Unfortunately
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it can't be recycled as it were, can't be given
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to the second end shop. But everything that meant something
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to him material wise, it's gone. He's going to be
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chucked out. But you're taken by the council now. A
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lot of it is because it's of the mice and
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it's unhealthy, you know what I mean. This stuff has
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to be backed up. I went in there with gloves
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on and just trying to kind of sort it out
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because the council asked me to do it. And then
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the council has said they didn't need me to do it,
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they were going to come and do it themselves. And
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they were going to come and get the mice people
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into sought out the vermin, and they came today because
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I've had a key to his flat, so they came in.
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They let them in, and they went and did what
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they needed to do, and and they're coming back in
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a week's time to sort of check out a situation.
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He was taking photographs and he was looking and he said, well,
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it's pretty bad, but he did say he seems worse.
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It's basically hoarders. It's a horder situation because people and
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I'm he was a hoarder. But at the same time,
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a hoarder is just someone that's clicks things. You know,
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if you get into the big hoarder blah blah blah.
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You know those those TV programs always show the very
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very most extreme cases. Now, you know, where someone literally
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they've got everything stacked up nearly to the ceiling, and
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it's interesting to watch because it's almost unbelievable that anyone
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could live like that. I saw his flat one that
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was halfway through being emptied back before Christmas because he
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was a hoarder, and it was quite high, but it
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wasn't as high as a ceiling, but it was you know,
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up to his knees maybe yeah, yeah, up to his
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knees pretty much higher in some places you couldn't. I
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didn't even know he had a sofa until they had finished.
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I don't think he even knew he had a bed.
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I said, why do you sleep in your chair? He said,
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I don't know. I was meaning to get myself a bed,
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and then I made that bit up. Although he did
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sleep in the inner setting and on the sofa, there
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is a chair. Actually he didn't sleep in bed. But
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it's just someone that gets out of hand, that's all
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it is with I think with the collecting, and I
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can't see he didn't like having someone coming in and
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taking his stuff, but he didn't have any choice. The
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counsel came in and basically told him they had to
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sort it out because of being a health hazard, of
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fire hazard and all that stuff. And this is you
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know about November time. But it was very distressing for
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him because he didn't have enough time to sort through
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his own stuff to choose what he wanted to keep.
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So what he did is he made sure that they
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didn't go into any of his drawers or any of
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his cupboards, which are also full of stuff. I found
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newspapers from nineteen ninety nine. I helped him move all
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the stuff the kitchen just before he's this is I
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think it's the start of the year. He had a
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new kitchen put in. It might have been the end
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of last year. I lose track of time, but he
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had a new kitchen put in. So the week and
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before they came to do the kitchen, I helped him
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to move everything out of the kitchen into his bedroom.
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And we were going through the drawers and I couldn't
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believe stuff we were finding. Therese carrier bags that had
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been in there so long they're disintegrated, and it was
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kind of there was one that was so bad as
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like I said to m Uncle sausages, You're going to
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have to deal with this. This I'm not I'm not
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touching that draw You can deal without yourself. But you know,
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to try and help him out a little bit if
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I could. But the people from the council when they
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did what was the subcontracted when they did it, they
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didn't no surfaces were cleared from the looks of it,
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you know, nothing was no cupboards were looked in all
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the stuff where I don't know. Basically, I think he
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needed to have been put into a hotel or go
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and stay somewhere for a week while the whole place
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was just emptied and bearing in mind his age, and
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he wasn't really so much able to look after himself.
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It was independent, but there were certain aspects that he
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wasn't doing great with maybe doing really well compared to
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a lot of people his age, but he wasn't. He wasn't.
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He needed help, but he didn't ask for any help
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other than from me, And most of that was just
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helping with bills and talking to people on the phone
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and getting his front door sorted out and help him
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get his kitchen cleared and help him with bits and
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bobs like that and ordering stuff online, you know, things
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that he sort of didn't enjoy doing, but he it's
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just really weird. I went in there again today and
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showed the the mice men around and I said, I
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know it's really it's a bit grotty in these two rooms,
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but the kitchen in the bathroom are fine. The kitchens.
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I said, I think there's like rat droppings in the
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kitchen and he said, no, it's not rat droppings. They're
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like these beetle shelfings like rat droppings, but they're not
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and the bathroom perfect. Uncle Sausages hadn't hadn't even seen
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the finished article of his bathroom because it was in
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the process of being rebuilt, refurbished or whatever while he was.
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He was still there when they started it, so they
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were there for the first week. He was there for
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the first week of them doing it from Tuesday to Friday,
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and on Friday night he went in Tosspital. So they
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hadn't I don't think they put the bath in yet.
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They hadn't put in and put the toilet in, but
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they hadn't put in I can't remember. I'm pretty sure
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they asked me even what kind of tiles did he want?
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And I just said they were asking me, like, I
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don't know, but the because i' let them in every day,
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So you know, there was like the plumber, then there
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was the electrician, then there was the plaster, then there
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was the painter and all the different kind of trades
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people that came in. And he never got to see it.
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He never got to see the end result. And he's down,
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he's waiting, well, he was waiting later in the year,
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I don't know when, but this year sometime in the
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next few months he's going to have all new windows
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in there as well, so practically a whole new flat
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other than the living room and the bedroom, although that
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will now be all cleared out. And I mean they
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don't the council don't refurbish the flat when you don't
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like the living room in the bedroom. They they'll strip
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the place, get everything out of there in this kind
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of situation. They did the same with my friend Luke
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downstairs and Trina who also lived downstairs that did the
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same there as well, who she passed away as well.
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So this is a third third person who I've lived
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in this block with that's passed away in the last
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five years. It's crazy, really. Yeah, Trina was the first. First, Yeah,
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it was beginning of twenty twenty and Luke ended twenty
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twenty three November, and now Uncle Sausages. It's kind of weird.
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It's just just weird. But anyway, I don't want to
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keep talking about that. But lthough, I am I'm starting
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to wonder though this is. I know this isn't really
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anything to do with Q and A Friday, but you know,
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this to let me boy to sleep is it's kind
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of like a I don't know, like a journal or
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a diary, a verbal you know, vlog, blog, whatever you
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want to call it. And so I do talk about
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my life. I talk about what's gone on and how
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I'm feeling. I try to keep it light, and you know,
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I don't talk about things like this when it's not happening.
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You know, it's like like I'm constantly talking about bereavement
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and things like that because I'm not. I don't. If
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you listen regularly, you know that I do try and
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keep it quite light. And I'm trying to keep this
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light as well. It's just a little bit hard because
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there's also the reality, or at least my reality, of
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the situation, and it just seems like he's if I
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don't talk about him, he's forgotten. Now it's not going
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to be forgotten or remembered by anyone listening, because no
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one listening knows him, you know, in a sense of
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I don't know, just like Luke or anyone else sort
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of in my life. You don't know these people, but
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it kind of keeps I feel like it keeps them alive,
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keeps as long as the memory is alive, it keeps
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them alive, Like you know, really famous people that live on,
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like Charles 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
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might be I mean, for me, the reason I love
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Elvis is because my oldest brother, who was obsessed with Elvis.
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So I spent years of my childhood listening to Elvis