May 26, 2025

(no music) DOG WALKING | Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1360 | 26th May 2025

(no music) DOG WALKING | Monday’s Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1360 | 26th May 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's Jason Newland,

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and this is let me bore you to sleep. Today

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is Monday, the twenty sixth of May two thousand and

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twenty five.

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It's six point fifty five peb ooh.

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It's Monday's boring objects. And today I am going to

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discuss dog walking. Oh, yes, exciting. Did I say oh?

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Only listen when you can safely close your eyes. I'm

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not sure if I said that or not. I don't

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think I did. I have now anyway, check out my website,

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which is groovy. I'm just going to shut the top

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up my website. All the recordings are on there. There's playlists,

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there's podcasts, there's links to the different apps that my

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podcasts are on. There's a way to contact me whatever.

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Lots of different things on there. There's also a link

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to my Facebook group, which is Jason Newland's boring Group.

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There's a link to my YouTube channel which is at

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Jason Newland, which is now my podcast on YouTube. So

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exactly the same recordings as you get on Spotify or

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Apple or cast box or wherever. It's all on YouTube

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now as well, including the ten hour ones. With music,

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you know, all this all version or six versions I've

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got with a chroaky voice. I had a one day

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cold yesterday, which is weird. I still it's like a

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I think it's a weather change in reaction. It has

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gone from being warm to being cold to being damp.

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So the last couple of days it's been very damp

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and very damp. I guess that. Don't know another word

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to explain it really rainy instead of being dry. So yeah,

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a little bit under the weather the last couple of days,

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but feeling all right generally. Just keep coughing a little

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bit and then my voice is fine. Just takes a

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little bit of lubrication. It's weird, isn't it. So I'm

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going to start off. I've walked dogs for years and

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the first time I walked the dog, I was fourteen,

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and it was misty. The what was it Saint Bernard

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or you may call it a Saint Bernard. You may

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wrongly call it a Saint Bernard. It's a Saint Bernard,

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a huge dog. So there's been that one. There's been

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my other friend's dog who I lived with. Either was

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my cousin's dog that I lived with that was my

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other friend's dog I lived with. Then there was the

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other friend that friend's dog I lived with, and then

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it was Vinny, but also Logi downstairs. I was gonna

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say I never lived with Logi, but I did, didn't

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I for two months, but I used to see him

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very regularly for I don't know, six years, however long,

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however long he was living downstairs, stayed to take him

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for walks and spend a lot of time with him.

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Lovely dog, really lovely. Apart from with other dogs, it's

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the most gentle dog. Just ridiculous how gentle and floppy

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and soppy he was with humans. But with other dogs, Nope,

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apart from one dog, Hinny. Hinny was the only dog

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that he liked. Not totally true. There was a couple

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of I think he did. He had a girlfriend another

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dog that was similar to him, who get on with

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but generally did not like other dogs. Loved Vinnie Strange

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I say, I mean he did Vinnie once. Vinnie and

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him lived together up here for pretty much December. I

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think it might have been three months, December, January, February.

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It's either the end of January or the end of February,

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so it's either two or three months I had him

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living here, them two together, and they started fighting. They

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started arguing with each other, and I think a lot

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of it was Vinnie trying to boss him around. I mean,

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Vinnie could have comfortably fitted inside his mouth and gone

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to sleep. You know. The size difference was ridiculous. He

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really looked like a Gerbil next to me. So I

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don't know why. I guess this is Vinnie's home. But

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before that, he used to love Vinnie's to love him.

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I'm sure he still loves him, but he just used

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to absolutely adore him and gets so excited to see

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him and try and get into that flat every time

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he went downstairs and try and get in there to

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see Logi, and Logi tries to get up here to

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see Vinnie. And then it's weird, actually, because about a

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couple of months before my friend left, I say a

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couple of months, maybe a few months, but Logi went missing.

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He just escaped and he run off and he was

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gone for about two weeks. That whole time, Vinnie was

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pining for him. He was sitting at the front door

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just waiting, like really kind of pining, which was weird.

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But after living here, I mean he did. He got

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found at a hostel place or whatever and got brought

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back a rescue place. But when we after living together

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for a couple of months or three months, and Logi

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went and Fat got his new home, Finny didn't seem

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that bothered. It's weird. It seemed he wasn't celebrating. I mean,

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he wasn't like popping off streamers or anything, or dancing,

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but he was definitely.

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That.

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He seemed to be happy to have his home back.

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But what surprised me is I felt sad at the time.

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I couldn't really understand it. I suppose I understand it

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now because that was the last that was part of

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my friend, wasn't it. I'd lost him, but I didn't,

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So I didn't really connect him with Logi, even though

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there's an obvious connection. It was his dog. So once

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he was gone, all everything connected to my friend was

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pretty much gone, apart from the occasional contact with his dad.

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That's kind of it. So yeah, so I was piling.

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I'm the one that was sitting at the front door

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on the floor piling. Vinnie was in there thinking, oh

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what am I going to do about him? I need

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to distract him maybe if I get him some bones. Anyway,

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so dog's walking. I thought I talk about dog walking

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because I actually forgot it was Monday today because there

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was a bank holiday Monday. It really really feels like

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a Sunday. That really feels like a Sunday in a

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sense of I've known its bank holiday right from the

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beginning of the day, or before eveyone went to bed

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last night, and it still felt like a Sunday. Quite often,

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a bank holiday feels just like a Monday. It's like

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just another day. I don't know why it felt like

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a Sunday. Thinking about it, I was thinking if last

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night as being Saturday, that probably explains it as well,

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because I was thinking about what I did last night. Well,

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last night I watched the Boxing. No, I didn't. That

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was Saturday night last night. I got no idea what

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I did. I went to bed early pretty much. Yeah,

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so it's felt like a Sunday. But it's not. I mean,

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it's not a bad thing. I mean, I don't. I've

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got no issue with Sundays. It's a relaxing day. Some

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would argue all days are relaxing days for me, but

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you know, I like to think that I'm doing something

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with my time today. I actually found a way to

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stream my so I've got Kindle on my phone, so

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I opened it up and I found a way to

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play a book speaking out loud to me. But not

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only that, I mooved it onto the TV so I

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could read along at the same time. So the voice

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is a you know, it's very robotic, so it's not

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like a decent voice, but reading it, and because the

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screen's big on the TV, I could read it much

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EASi you're than reading a book. I just can't just

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prints too small now for books for me until I

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get my eyes tested and get them get better glasses.

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So the I think I spent about three hours reading

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a book, and occasionally I kind of closed my eyes

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and just listen to it. Then I go back and

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read it. And it's a book I've read before. It's

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a book I've already got on the shelf as well.

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But I also purchased it on Kindle about eleven years ago.

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It's a long time ago. And eleven years from now,

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what will I be. I will be sixty five. I'll

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be sixty five, I'll be two years off of retire. Wow,

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eleven years so thirteen years away, fourteen fifty six seven,

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I'll be nearing retirement age. No, no, even less so

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when I'm sixty five. I'll be fifty five in August,

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so twelve years from August I will be retired. I'll

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be retired age. Wow. I'll be thinking. And this isn't

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really related to dog walking, and probably most of the

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things I talk about during this recording will also not

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be related to dog walking. For some reason, but I

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started to have a little, a little feeling towards maybe

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it would be nice to have to be in a relationship,

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to have a girlfriend. I know, a girlfriend might not

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be the right term anymore, Partners probably the best, probably

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the correct term now, I don't know, but relationship, I'm

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just thinking maybe. And I kind of started to notice

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women a bit more just I don't know, I've not

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really had much interest in women for ages, not really,

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not really kind of just I don't know. Maybe it's

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the summer. Maybe maybe the sun's ignited some kind of

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testosterone in me. I don't know. Maybe maybe one of

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my hormones has regrown, because I think most of my

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hormones had gone, but maybe one's resurfaced. And I'm starting

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to I don't know, it's different. It's no desperation. I've

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been desperate in the past. BlimE me. It's a long

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time ago. But I used to be like really like

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a penting dog, like really just I don't know why

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I did that impression of a pening dog. We all

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know what a dog sounds like when it pens. I

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don't know why I did that. I wasn't literally walking

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around and going, what's your name, I'm Jason. I wasn't

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quite that bad. It wasn't much better than that. Though,

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never any good at chat up blinds. I just thought

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it was silly, you know. It's just thought, well, if

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you make someone laugh. They were like, you never found

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that to be the case. It's like, it makes someone laugh,

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then you're in the friend zone. It's like instantly, it's

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easy to be the friend zone by loads of female friends. Yeah. Anyway,

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So I've just been thinking about that, and I just

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noticed that I'm starting to maybe I don't know if

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I'm getting older and wrinklier and all those things that

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are starting to think hmm, you know, I know there's

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going to come a time when I look in the

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mirror and I will not recognize myself, or there was

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going to come a time when I don't even look

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in the mirror anymore. And you know, I don't know.

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I'm not sure that will happen, but I guess that

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possibly will happen. I've seen many people that seem to

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be in that situation where they just I don't want

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to be I want to kind of there's not much

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to work with, but I'd kind of do my best

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with what there is, you know, try and should I die?

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Should I die my not my pubes, my beard? Should

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I dye my beard? So die it gray? That'd be weird,

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wouldn't it? What weird thing to do? Because then someone

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could maybe I'll ask someone out and I think no

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because you're too old, and I say, no, I'm not,

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and I can just wipe it off, say look, I'm

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only partially gray. But then I don't know, y, that's

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not really die, is it? That would be coloring. I

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suppose perhaps chalk, like you know, blackboard chalk. I could

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like just push that into my beard and that look

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like I've got a white bit. And then I said,

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is it because I'm a bit old? Said yeah? Just

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I said, don't worry, and I pull out a what

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a wet wipe from my pants and just like, look,

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it's look, I'm not I'm not completely gray. And now

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I might say, well, you are actually still gray, so no,

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I'm not. It's chalk. And then I go home and

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I realize, okay, I was I'm already gray. Some part

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of me is not gray because I shaved my head

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and I shaved my I trimmed my beard the other

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day and there was clumps of dark hair there there was.

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There wasn't from me bum so it's definitely from my

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face on my head. So I did it. Oh, okay,

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let's forget Yeah, right, okay, let's move on. So I think, oh,

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I got caught. This is really bad. Okay, I'm not

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just gonna help it. I was talking to a lady

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today when I was walking with me, you know, then,

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and I think I got caught looking down the top.

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I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to

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get caught. I mean she didn't actually specifically say what

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you're doing looking down my top, but she did ask

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me why I was standing on the ladder, so it's

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kind of I don't know, it's hard to I mean,

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I don't know. It's hard to know because you can't

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just like question it. Oh did you catch me looking

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down your top? And she said no, but now I

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know you were. I said, no, you don't. I'm just saying, okay,

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you do, really don't you. Oh but of course I wasn't.

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I'm just making this up. Of course she was looking

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trying to look down my top, and I was offended, Like,

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leave my bosoms alone, they're mine. I think my chest

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is coming along. I think I've definitely I seem to

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be flattering the tummy now that I was. I say that,

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and I've just grabbed a big massive Yeah. Maybe when

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I lay down, I am when I lay down quite slim. Yeah.

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When I hang upside down, i'm taller. I mean it depends, well,

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you know, sort of do with gravity. I suppose, isn't

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it the dog walk in I remember saying to someone

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that's had this. I think I was sort of kind

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of semulating this lady. And so I'm just outside it's

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a sunny day, and she said, why are you looking

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at my top? I said, what do you mean? Said?

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You're staring at my top? Is it something on it?

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Like she's spilled ice cream? Or something. I said, I

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don't know, what do you mean. I'm not looking at

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your top. She said, I can see you're looking for

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it at my top. I said, you can't see me

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look at your top because I've got sunglasses. When they're

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not they're acting like normal glasses. I said, you cannot

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see my eyes through these. She said, yes, I can.

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I said you can't. Why are you but you can?

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You can't see where I'm looking because these are shades.

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When it's sunny, they're turning into shades. You cannot see

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my eyes. She said, I can see your eyes clearly.

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I can see exactly where you're looking. I said, no,

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you can't, So she she pulled a person, pulled off

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and pulled off. She pulled someone to the side. Another

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pedestrian said, can you tell me that you can see

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his eyes? Can't you know? And she said, yeah, you

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can see the way he's looking. Yeah, he's staring at

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your chest. I said, I'm not staring at staring at

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mine now, and I'm not I'm not staring at anyone's chair.

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You can't see my eyes. They've got I specifically bought

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them so that you can't see where I'm looking. And

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she said, I thought it was because of your eyesight.

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I said, yeah, it's because of my eyesight as well.

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And I didn't you know I won't wear glasses if

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I didn't need them, She said, but you said the

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actor light was because you've got the that macro degeneration

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in the fat and you have to be careful your

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eyes so that you know, you have to protect your

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eyes from the sun so that it doesn't progress any further,

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like with your dad and your nan and your other

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family members. And I said, yeah, yeah, that that is

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the reason. But at the same time, I actually was

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thinking that no one could see my eyes. She said, yeah,

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we can see your eyes. Someone else passed it, Yeah,

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I can see them. Stop looking at my chest and

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carried on walking like So it turns out and I

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start asking people that I know, can you see my

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eyes when I've got my glasses on and it's sunny. Yeah,

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I've asked everyone, and everyone can see my eyes. So

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for twelve years, twelve summers, twelve years, I've been walking

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around thinking people can't see where I'm looking, and they've

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all been able to see where I'm looking. My question

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is can I get a refund? Can I get my

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money back. I just when I get my new glasses,

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I may just actually buy some proper sunglasses with my

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prescription in them, because that's ridiculous. I should be able

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to have the freedom to I'm just.

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Yeah, anyway, So walking the first dog I walked was

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I made all up?

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Of course, the first dog I walked was? Did I

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have any friends with dogs at school? I don't think

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I did. I don't think I had any dogs, dog friends,

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friends with dogs, dogs that lived in a friend's house. No,

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I didn't. No, I had a friend that had two cats.

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And there were those board cats, the ones with no

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cut clothes on, you know, the ones that are just

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basically naked, And it looked like the kind of things

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that you see hanging up in a tie a tire market.

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I wasn't sure there were cats or bats, the lovely cats, govey.

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I looked like statues though, because they just used to

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sit there really still. And please don't shout out. We

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know what you mean by statues. Statues sit still. When

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people say it was like a statue, we know that

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that means it means it was very still, all right,

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BlimE me, Just because bank holiday don't have to be

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all frizzy with me, or frizzy and fuzzy and fizzy

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and blippy blippy blue blue. So I'm walking Misty. I

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talked about Misty the other day and she she used

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to drag me around. I could not control her. She

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was way too big, way too strong, no training, and

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it was such a shame because she's a beautiful dog,

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or dogs are beautiful, but she's she was lovely. She

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just couldn't. I was scared of her, to be fair,

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she was too big, twice my size. I mean, she's

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probably bigger than I am now. Maybe doesn't weigh as

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much as that way, but she she may well have done.

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She was a good twelve stone, maybe fourteen stone, maybe

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even more. Maybe you might even way more than I

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do now, because she was a big, big dog. And

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you can literally put her on the scales and just

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see the doll just moving slowly. You can see in

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real time, see her grow in real time. It was

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like watching the moon. You can see the moon move

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if you just watch it. I mean, technically, if you

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watch anything long enough, you can see it move, can't you.

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If you watch a mountain long enough, you can see

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the mountain dissolving and corroding. But you'd have to be

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a lie for sort of millions of years or thousands

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of years. But if you were alive for thousands of

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years or millions of years, it wouldn't be the best

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use of your time, would it. But then you might argue, yeah,

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but if you're going to live forever, what does a

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couple of million years mean? Suppose I did think that

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if I'd like to live forever, not for any other

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reason other than I just want to see everyone I

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care about die. No, wow, as a joke, I want

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to see I'd like to be able to read every book.

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Not every book, There's going to be a lot of

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really bad books. But I'd like to read every book

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that I want to read, see every movie that I

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want to see, do every study every subject that I

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want to study. So maybe if I wanted to go

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into I don't know, philosophy and just study everything and

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decide I'm going to spend the next fifty years or

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one hundred years study in philosophy, then in a hundred

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years time, I'm going to study everything to do with space,

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or I'm going to you know, it's like I'm really

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going to become good at one thing or something, because

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earlier today I was trying to think of something that

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I was good at and I couldn't think of anything.

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Meant just watching television class as a talent I didn't know,

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so so misty was Yeah, it was I couldn't take

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a dog. I couldn't take her for a walk, she

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was too big, couldn't do it. And the second dog

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I took for a walk would have been my friend

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who I lived with in London, and he would leave well,

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there was a time when I was at home and

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he was at work, and there's other times when he'd

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leave me looking after the dog while he went away.

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So when I had when I when I didn't have

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the dog, the dog was naughty. When he was there.

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He'd let the dog do anything he wants, and he

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was naughty when I had him for a week on

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my own, I trained him. I had him walking around

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the park with me, and he never ever bothered other dogs,

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didn't bark at them, nothing. As soon as his dad

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got back, he turned into a terror again. And I

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also realized that, you know, when I first met him,

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he was barking at me for about three hours after

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I moved in. I realized that he was a scaredy cat.

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He wasn't brave at all. He was not even a bully.

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He was just scared. And he didn't have Yeah, he

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didn't have any kind of he'd bark at other dogs,

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but he didn't. Me did some unfortunately. He was a

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bit bity as well. But he behaved himself with me.

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And you know, he used to sleep in the bed

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with me, and when his dad wasn't there, he slept

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in the bed with his dad. But when his dad

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wasn't there, he's sleeping the bed with me. And you know,

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I got on really well with him. And I had

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a girlfriend. It's hard to believe that I did, and

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he loved her. I thought he was going to eat

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her because she wanted to come back to my place.

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And I thought, there's a good chance he's going to

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really bite her and attack her, but at the same

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time might get some sex.

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It was like.

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I was out loud, No, I mean I kind of

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you know, it was like to come back to your place,

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so okay, but I'm thinking, is he going to go crazy?

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I mean, I could handle him, so I could get

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him into a different room and stuff. But We really

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thought he was going to go for her and maybe

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she'd be wouldn't want to come into the house because

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he was a proper barker. Like really it was like

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a little puppy with her, a little puppy. Instantly, as

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soon as she walked in, he was laying on his

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back so she could rub his tummy. He was cudding

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up to her. Never met her before, absolutely loved her.

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Wouldn't let me in the bed though he was in

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the bed with her, wouldn't let me anywhere near her.

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So that relationship didn't last long. Dane ended up getting

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married but had kids, I think fourteen. Honestly, he loved her.

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I didn't could not get my head around that. So

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what else? And she was ginger so I was him?

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And then the next one was my I moved into

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this house and there was a dog there. Oh, she

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was so cute. She was only a puppy when I

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moved in, so I used to take her for walks. No, No,

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she wasn't living there to start with. No, So the

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next one I lived with was my other friend. He

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had a dog and she always slept in a bed

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with him right under the covers, like never on top

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right under the cover, like really, and she she was

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she wouldn't leave him alone, so she did. Didn't really

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pay me much attention at all the whole time I

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was living there with him, because she just adored him.

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But I used to take her for walk sometimes and

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if I was looking, because sometimes he'd go, he'd go abroad,

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go to sea family, and I'd look after her for

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the weekend or for the week or whatever. So I'd

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have to take her out and stuff. And she was

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good as gold, really good, good dog. Used to lick

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my feet, which I like. That was nice. And then

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she was quite cuddly. She liked to cuddle as well.

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And then the third dog, no, the fourth dog was

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when I moved in to my cousins for the second time,

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and she had a puppy this time when I moved back,

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and I took the puppy for walks, long walks, and

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I needed that. I so needed something, you know, it's

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quite a difficult period. It was back in ninety seven,

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summer ninety seven, and she really helped this little dog

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help me. And the cat there was a cat there

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as well that it took to me like no other

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animal was really taken to me before that, she took

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to me. So she loved me. This cat. She scratched

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at my bedroom door to come in, and she'd climb

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crawl up and down my back and sometimes I say, well,

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let me lay down first, and she know it's a

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bit less less scratchy when I was lying down to

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be fair. But she's just so the peacefulness, the calmness

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of the purr, and and she just took to me.

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I don't know why she was a fully grown cat.

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It's not like she was a puppy or anything, but

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or a kit and mother BlimE me, but this this

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dog so cute when of this little and I kind

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of I lived there for four years and I didn't

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really take it out for many walks later on, but

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I did like early on, but it wasn't it wasn't

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my dog, so the.

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She was.

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It was a girl as well, So she was definitely

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a mummies girl, like she's waited for a mum to

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come home. So yeah, she was. She was. She was

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a lovely kid, lovely girl. And then then LOGI I

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suppose is the next one. He's the next dog, because

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I haven't had any other dogs live in in I'm

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trying to think of all the different places I've lived

468
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:19.440
since then, since London, since that house. That house, Yeah,

469
00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:36.119
that room that I lived in there, there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

470
00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:39.280
So this is the tenth place that I've lived in

471
00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:47.320
since there, and I left there in two thousand and one.

472
00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:51.119
So yeah, I've lived in ten places since two thousand

473
00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:57.320
and one, but I've been in this place for ten years.

474
00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:02.440
So I lived in nine different places from two thousand

475
00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:16.320
and one to twoy fourteen or twenty fifteen. Yeah, I

476
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:19.079
think I've got all the places. I lose track a

477
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:23.199
little bit, I try and remember I kind of roughly, yeah,

478
00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:29.800
got it mapped in my brain. So I guess Logi

479
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:35.079
was the first dog four since two thousand and one

480
00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:41.800
when I got evicted from that place. So Logi was

481
00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:46.960
probably i'd say six years ago, maybe even seven years ago,

482
00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:50.199
but it's hard to kind of really pinpoint the year.

483
00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:54.320
So my friend got LOGI moved in. I saw him

484
00:37:54.320 --> 00:38:00.920
nearly every day, lovely dog and apart from the other dog,

485
00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:04.559
but he was so excited. He'd come upstairs and they'd

486
00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:07.440
love coming in here, and he'd chuck stuff all around

487
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:15.559
the place like balls and bones, and it'd because Andre

488
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:20.079
lived here, so he get excited. But he didn't like Andre.

489
00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:23.400
He didn't dislike him as in being aggressive. He was

490
00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:27.519
scared of Andre because Andre used to come and bite him.

491
00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:35.079
It's true. And even though bear in mind the size

492
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:41.440
of Logi compared to Andre, who was tiny compared to Vinnie,

493
00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:49.079
you know, Logi was petrified of him, and Andre had

494
00:38:49.159 --> 00:38:53.719
no fear, like zero fear. He would start He would

495
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:57.159
start a fight with an elephant. Honestly, he didn't care.

496
00:38:57.360 --> 00:39:02.320
It wasn't scared of anything. And he kept trying to

497
00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:05.519
buy it Logi's balls. I'm not even joking he did.

498
00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:08.039
He just kept So Logi would be like all just

499
00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:13.320
lay on his back and and Andre would creep up.

500
00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:18.480
It's like I had to grab it and like stop

501
00:39:18.519 --> 00:39:25.519
it because there's I don't think there's probably a male

502
00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:28.480
on the planet that can watch that and not just

503
00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:32.559
like no, I'm kind of that. That's just no, leave

504
00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:36.119
that part of the body alone. Just just no, no

505
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:38.960
no buying, no punching, just no kicking, just just leave

506
00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:44.519
it alone. So leave it be, Andre, leave it be.

507
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:48.920
So I used to have to stop him, but Logi

508
00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:52.079
would hide, he'd run and hide, but at the same

509
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:54.480
time he'd run in looking for him because he loved him,

510
00:39:54.519 --> 00:39:56.239
but at the same time he was scared of him.

511
00:39:57.639 --> 00:39:59.559
So he liked to play, and they'd play like a

512
00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:03.480
run around and stuff. But as as soon as Andre

513
00:40:03.960 --> 00:40:09.119
got a little bit rough, Logan didn't like it. But

514
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:16.960
not once did Logi ever ever growl or show any

515
00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:21.559
kind of hostility towards Andrea. Ever, when he could have

516
00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:25.239
literally swallowed him by accident, you know, if he wanted to,

517
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:28.960
if he could have just accidentally eaten him, like maybe

518
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:33.400
he was just eating a I don't know, eating some

519
00:40:33.480 --> 00:40:36.199
bacon off the carpet. I don't know why bacon would

520
00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:38.840
be on a carpet and then just onre part and

521
00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:41.159
he just managed to eat him by accidents. But no,

522
00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:49.960
never happened. This was Andrea's. Andrea was the boss of

523
00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:53.719
this place in the same way that Vinni's the boss

524
00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:59.559
of this place. But I think in some ways Andrea

525
00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:03.800
was even all the boss. I do wonder how they

526
00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:07.960
would have got on them too, Vinie and Andre together.

527
00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:10.239
I know I'm never going to know him I, but

528
00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:17.599
it does make me wonder how would they have Because

529
00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:20.519
you've got Andre who was not scared of anything. But

530
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:23.199
you've also got a little dog that he has got

531
00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:31.000
that hunting instinct for little animals, and he also doesn't

532
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:35.320
back down, so it would be yeah, I don't know

533
00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:38.960
if it would be a particularly good match. I think

534
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:42.639
it would be fine if Vinnie was a puppy, because

535
00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:46.400
it would know no different. Andre had always been there

536
00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:52.039
and he'd love him. But coming in at ten months old,

537
00:41:53.239 --> 00:41:55.760
I don't know. I mean, he was still technically like

538
00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:58.360
a puppy, I guess, but ten months old, it's not

539
00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:02.079
really a puppy. Is that he's a toddler? I guess

540
00:42:02.119 --> 00:42:10.280
at that age. Turned three at the end of February.

541
00:42:11.480 --> 00:42:14.559
You believe it. I got him at ten months old.

542
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:20.239
Now he's three years three months old. I don't understand.

543
00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:29.440
It got so quick, so quick, I can't believe he's

544
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:37.280
now ninety five. So really, the most dog walking I

545
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:42.159
do is with Finny like im not obviously you say, well, yeah,

546
00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:45.119
he's a dog. I don't mean just now, but ever

547
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:51.559
I used to take I used to go to Nottingham

548
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:54.320
and my friend had a dog there. That's I forgot

549
00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:57.119
about this. My dog had a friend. My friend had

550
00:42:57.119 --> 00:43:01.159
a dog. Rather lovely dog and I should take him.

551
00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:04.119
I think he was a greyhound and I should take

552
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:14.400
him for walks. And that was cool, you know, he

553
00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:21.079
was a cool dog. But yeah, so I forgot about that.

554
00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:25.400
So he had a dog. Also also also also I

555
00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:27.480
did go on a holiday with a friend who also

556
00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:31.960
had a dog, and I used to take her for

557
00:43:31.960 --> 00:43:37.239
a little walks because we went to corn Wall, corn

558
00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:42.280
Wall during the lockdown. I think it was two thousand

559
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:51.679
and twenty two, twenty one maybe twenty one, yeah, twenty

560
00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:57.440
twenty one, and the everything was half closed. It was

561
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:00.639
still it wasn't in full lockdown, but there's so much

562
00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:06.119
stuff wasn't opening, including a pub that was closing at

563
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:09.599
six o'clock in the evening or seven o'clock. What pub

564
00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:13.519
closes at seven o'clock in the evening. And this was

565
00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:18.920
on a site full of holiday homes which weren't very

566
00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:25.559
busy for some reason. And so I took her for

567
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:28.800
some walks and stuff, which was nice. I think it

568
00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:33.519
was the first time I'd ever picked dog poo up. Never, never,

569
00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:38.440
never picked dog poo up before until I picked andres

570
00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:40.800
poo up in the past, but that dog poo never

571
00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:43.920
done dog poo before whenever I walked a dog in

572
00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:48.199
the past, I just and that it's wrong. But back

573
00:44:48.239 --> 00:44:50.000
then there was no. It wasn't a legal thing in

574
00:44:50.039 --> 00:44:54.599
a bay. It's a legal a legal requirement now, but

575
00:44:54.760 --> 00:45:00.519
you know, in the nineties and stuff, it wasn't. And

576
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:03.159
I just it's not my dog, not picking up, not

577
00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:07.119
to her. But yeah, I would wouldn't be like that

578
00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:14.480
now because I'm now technically an adult technically. And my

579
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:19.079
friend's dog ran ran away. She ran out of the

580
00:45:19.159 --> 00:45:23.320
house in this like holiday place. So my friend's screaming,

581
00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:28.920
come back, Daisy, Rosie days Daisy. So I'm like, I'm

582
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:32.599
running after her. It's a little dog. I'm like, I

583
00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:35.039
don't want it to run in the road. You know,

584
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:38.760
obviously she's a lovely dog. She's running. It's like, I

585
00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:42.320
think it's turned into a game because I'm chasing her.

586
00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:46.360
She's got this big, fat, wobbly thing running. Well, I'm

587
00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:48.679
going to use the word running very vaguely on this one.

588
00:45:49.559 --> 00:45:55.480
And I end up falling over and toppling and rolling

589
00:45:55.599 --> 00:46:01.920
and all over the place. And it's amazing how many

590
00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:06.320
people appear when you fall over in public. Suddenly there

591
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:09.639
was like all the neighbors were on their grass outside

592
00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:15.239
their holiday homes laughing. Even a dog stopped to have

593
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:20.000
a laugh. That's how she got caught, like you know,

594
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:22.920
her friend my friends who managed to get her because

595
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:27.559
she was rolling around laughing at me. Now I was

596
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:31.519
in pain. You know. This is when I was heavier

597
00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:35.960
than I am now, So I was you know, one

598
00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:39.199
hundred and two kilos or whatever, maybe a little bit

599
00:46:39.199 --> 00:46:42.800
more so i'd like proper when I fell over, I

600
00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:48.719
was bruising myself. I wasn't bruising myself as I was falling,

601
00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:53.559
but the fall bruised you know me, and you know,

602
00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:54.920
a little bit of a limp for the rest of

603
00:46:54.920 --> 00:47:00.400
the holiday. To be fair, it was a little bit

604
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:05.280
put on because laughing they laugh at her just annoyed

605
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:09.639
me a little bit. So you know, I'm hurt. I'm

606
00:47:09.719 --> 00:47:13.079
hurt here. I've hurt my leg. I've hurt my leg

607
00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:16.880
And she said you haven't, have you I said, yeah,

608
00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:20.079
I have. We'll stand up. Then I said I'm struggling

609
00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:23.800
to so can you still stop laughing? She said, no, no,

610
00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:27.039
that's fine, I can't help it. You have a look

611
00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:31.039
like we've mean, look at it's my leg. See it's there.

612
00:47:31.079 --> 00:47:34.840
It's my leg hasn't fallen off, it's still there. And

613
00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:39.239
he said, can you just walk? And can you? I said, yeah,

614
00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:43.719
but it hurts. She's still laughing, like, no, really, you

615
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:47.639
don't understand it. It hurts a lot. So I decided to limp,

616
00:47:48.519 --> 00:47:51.480
thinking that I might gain a little bit of sympathy.

617
00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:56.199
It didn't work, but it did quite down the laughter

618
00:47:56.239 --> 00:48:00.960
a little bit. So for the rest of the week,

619
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:06.079
I'm limping, but my leg's fine, but I kin'd of

620
00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:10.000
have to keep it going. It's a bit like, you know,

621
00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:14.840
when you pretend to be a vegetarian, or when I

622
00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:20.400
pretended to be interested in astronomy when I was a

623
00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:23.639
kid and end up sort of having six years worth

624
00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:29.400
of books and stuff every Christmas and every Birthday something

625
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:32.599
to do with astronomy. And I had no interest in astronomy.

626
00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:37.320
You know. All it was is I was just spying

627
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:41.679
on my next door neighbors sunbathing and through the binoculars,

628
00:48:41.760 --> 00:48:43.519
my dad's binoculars, and he said, what are you doing.

629
00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:46.639
I said, I'm trying to see the stars and he said, well,

630
00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:58.159
it's daytime. This is ridiculous. I said, I've always wanted

631
00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:01.320
to see I said, I can't see them. He said,

632
00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:03.760
you don't really look astically into the sun either, because

633
00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:08.000
that could really cause problems for your eyes. I said, oh, okay,

634
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:10.400
I'm glad you got him in time. You really are

635
00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:14.400
the best daddy. He said, okay. So, so you're interested

636
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:16.920
in stars, he said? He said yeah. He said, you

637
00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:19.400
sure you're not just looking at that the next door

638
00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:24.360
neighbor's sunbathing. I said, where who Oh? No, I didn't

639
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:28.679
didn't see her there rubbing oil. And no, I didn't

640
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.960
didn't see it. No, I had no idea. He said, okay,

641
00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:35.280
So if you were interested in the stars, why were

642
00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:38.960
you pointing towards the garden next door? I said, I

643
00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:44.000
was just just getting ready because the binoculars are so heavy,

644
00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:47.360
because I'm only little and you're so big and strong,

645
00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:49.880
and you know you can hold them with one hand,

646
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:52.480
but I'm struggling to hold them with two. I mean,

647
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:54.440
they were nearly as big as my head, to be fair,

648
00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:57.519
and I'm struggling to look up. You know, what I

649
00:49:57.559 --> 00:50:02.199
really need is a telescope. And he said, okay. He

650
00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:08.840
took the binoculars away. He said, I leave them, and

651
00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:11.440
he went to the next room. And I don't know

652
00:50:11.480 --> 00:50:13.440
what he was doing. But I heard some weird noises.

653
00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:21.320
But he got me a telescope. I really didn't think

654
00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:25.159
anything was coin of it got me a telescope. And

655
00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:30.239
then from then on, every Christmas, every Birthday, an atlas

656
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:35.519
of the stars, a big picture of the moon, the

657
00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:41.119
history of telescopes. Books that I couldn't even understand, Like

658
00:50:41.199 --> 00:50:43.360
every three words, I didn't know what the word meant.

659
00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:48.199
I mean that's pretty much most books, really, but especially

660
00:50:48.199 --> 00:50:56.639
dictionaries for Saurus, what a stupid name. So I really

661
00:50:58.440 --> 00:51:02.719
just like, you know, it's a little bit like it's

662
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:05.760
not really anything like this at all, but you know,

663
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:11.119
when you offer someone I did this today, right, This

664
00:51:11.159 --> 00:51:12.840
is what I was going to talk about with Vinnie.

665
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:19.199
He stole he stole a ball. I was talking to

666
00:51:19.239 --> 00:51:21.440
this neighbor. She's not like a neighbor neighbor. She's a

667
00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:24.639
dog walker, lives up the road. And she said, oh,

668
00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:27.599
I'm going to do that later, and she pulled it

669
00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:30.360
to the wall, so she had like a wall in

670
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:33.679
front of her driveway with I said, what you're going

671
00:51:33.719 --> 00:51:36.480
to do to it? She said, I'm going to dig

672
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:42.239
up the all the weeds. I said, what are you

673
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:44.119
going to use a streamer or something. She said, no,

674
00:51:44.199 --> 00:51:46.519
I'm just going to He's going to pull them up

675
00:51:46.519 --> 00:51:52.119
with my hands. I said, that hurt my back. He said,

676
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:54.559
how how's me pulling up with my hands going to

677
00:51:54.599 --> 00:51:57.199
hurt your back? I said, I mean if I was

678
00:51:57.239 --> 00:51:59.639
going to do it, it would hurt my back. She said,

679
00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:04.519
you are for him? I said, you want me to

680
00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:07.360
do it? Oh? Thank you. It's like, how the hell

681
00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:11.519
did that happen? And I said, look, I can't bend

682
00:52:11.559 --> 00:52:15.039
over and do it because I got my back. It's

683
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:18.440
just it's going to cause problems, so I can't. You know,

684
00:52:18.599 --> 00:52:21.840
But if you've got a streamer or a what do

685
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:26.599
you call it? Wherever those things where you can fly

686
00:52:26.800 --> 00:52:28.840
mo or whatever they're called. She said, yeah, I've got

687
00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:31.519
one in the garden. I said, if you really, She

688
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:34.000
said no. I said, why do you say you got

689
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:35.960
one in the garden? Fall Then she said, I thought

690
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:37.760
it be better for your story when you tell it

691
00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:41.960
on the podcast, because you know, not having one that's

692
00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:46.239
pretty much brings it to the end, doesn't it. I said, okay.

693
00:52:46.360 --> 00:52:47.840
She says she would just pretend that I do have

694
00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:52.920
one so we can make the story more interesting. I said, okay.

695
00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:55.400
So we went into a guard into the shed, got

696
00:52:55.400 --> 00:53:00.440
a fly MO hasn't been touched for years. I'm talking.

697
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:06.280
She didn't even know if it worked anymore. And you know,

698
00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:10.639
it needed batteries. That's how old it was. It had

699
00:53:10.679 --> 00:53:13.880
gray hairs. I don't know. That doesn't make sense, does it?

700
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:18.280
And I said, well, I kind of know how these

701
00:53:18.320 --> 00:53:20.960
things work. He said, how long is it since you

702
00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:25.639
use one? I said, oh, just I was trying to

703
00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:33.280
think back. So it's only about thirty years, that's all

704
00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:37.159
she said, is that all? I said? Yeah, that is

705
00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:41.159
a bit long, isn't it. She said, yep, especially when

706
00:53:41.199 --> 00:53:44.280
you're waiting in a queue, which is a bit weird

707
00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:49.880
thing to say. And I just said, well, we can

708
00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:53.400
trust we can test it out. I know roughly how

709
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:57.199
to get the bit of string plastic thing out and

710
00:53:57.239 --> 00:53:59.639
then we'll plug it in. She got an extension lead

711
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:03.320
and I ended up doing it. So it's one of

712
00:54:03.320 --> 00:54:08.239
those problems where this has happened to me before I

713
00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:14.639
made an empty offer. It happened years ago. You know,

714
00:54:14.760 --> 00:54:18.599
someone was saying I'm going to move. I said that

715
00:54:18.679 --> 00:54:23.400
what you're doing this weekend? We're moving home. Before I

716
00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:26.679
knew it the wrong part of my brain said do

717
00:54:26.719 --> 00:54:36.519
you need a hand? Oh, brilliant, thanks, And it wasn't

718
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:42.519
a genuine offer, it was just it was to be fair.

719
00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:45.320
They did help me move, so I can't really moan.

720
00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:52.519
But it was just like, so what I tell people

721
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:55.079
when if I offer something to someone and they said no,

722
00:54:55.440 --> 00:54:58.199
I said, well, it was an empty offer anyway. So

723
00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:02.360
I don't know. Have that makes me look a bit bad.

724
00:55:03.480 --> 00:55:07.119
Perhaps I need to rethink some of the things I've said,

725
00:55:08.599 --> 00:55:14.280
not just from this recording. Ooh. I did a recording

726
00:55:14.320 --> 00:55:17.360
earlier and at the part it was like a body scan.

727
00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:23.079
I ended up talking about astronauts. I'm not quite sure

728
00:55:23.079 --> 00:55:28.800
where my brain's going these days. It's weird. I don't know.

729
00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:32.760
It's almost like I'm not sure if I can't go

730
00:55:32.920 --> 00:55:38.079
back to doing serious recordings anymore, to being all serious

731
00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:42.840
and all like solemn, and I don't know what the

732
00:55:42.920 --> 00:55:48.559
right word is. It's like, yeah, I don't know if

733
00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:53.000
I can do that anymore. I'm not sure the last

734
00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:55.840
time I actually did anything that was like super serious.

735
00:55:56.880 --> 00:56:03.320
Well maybe I have, but hey, I mean, so I'm

736
00:56:03.360 --> 00:56:05.960
doing this this wall.

737
00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:19.719
Food hmm, and it.

738
00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:19.480
It's going quite well. I'm getting most of the wall

739
00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:23.360
done and then the thing breaks. You know, the thing

740
00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:25.920
snaps off, so I have to reput it on and

741
00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:28.760
it snaps again. Then it snaps again, and I think

742
00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:31.800
I change it or get it done about ten times

743
00:56:32.760 --> 00:56:39.400
and then the thing just falls apart. It actually banged

744
00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:48.639
against my leg, so m h, I p I ended

745
00:56:48.719 --> 00:56:52.039
up putting the sort of had to unplug it you

746
00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:53.599
and then put it back out. I just put it

747
00:56:53.599 --> 00:56:57.639
onto a in front of a porch, and after I

748
00:56:57.639 --> 00:57:02.320
stopped crying, that was and where it went to my ankle.

749
00:57:02.320 --> 00:57:04.480
Act we didn't go into my bit banged my ankle.

750
00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:09.519
I wonder if there's any mark there. I can't see

751
00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:18.679
in this light. But I was trying to get this stuff.

752
00:57:18.840 --> 00:57:20.559
She asked me if i'd look at this stuff, which

753
00:57:20.599 --> 00:57:23.199
is it was growing out of the concrete of the

754
00:57:23.239 --> 00:57:28.880
pavement and it just wasn't Yeah, it wasn't doing the job.

755
00:57:29.840 --> 00:57:34.760
I think I might have broken it because it might

756
00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:37.079
have been working before. It did seem to be working

757
00:57:37.079 --> 00:57:45.840
okay before. But at the same time, yeah, I was

758
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:50.280
a little bit concerned. I didn't want the because it

759
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:53.280
was when I was doing the pavement, bits of gravel

760
00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:56.119
were like flicking back at me and hitting me in

761
00:57:56.159 --> 00:57:59.280
the face. So that was probably a little clue that

762
00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:07.280
maybe it wasn't doing it correctly. And the seagull landed

763
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:11.239
on my head. Do you know what, the other day,

764
00:58:11.519 --> 00:58:17.760
this bird flew right at me and just missed me

765
00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:21.039
by an inch. I'm not even like making it up.

766
00:58:21.159 --> 00:58:24.320
I say, Okay, maybe not an inch, but an inch

767
00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:32.039
is quite a lot. Okay, maybe it was okay, maybe

768
00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:34.920
a foot, but you know, to me, I think of

769
00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:37.559
an inch, and I think of a foot, but maybe yeah,

770
00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:41.159
maybe a foot. But it missed me really close. It's

771
00:58:41.239 --> 00:58:48.079
like just turned and it was at my head. I

772
00:58:48.159 --> 00:58:53.480
was like, even a bird doesn't want to kiss me? No,

773
00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:56.239
I thought, wow, why would you? How first, how could

774
00:58:56.280 --> 00:59:01.679
you miss my head? And secondly, like birds are so

775
00:59:01.800 --> 00:59:05.920
good normally, I've never had a bird fly into me,

776
00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:11.840
even at my biggest, at my girthiest, I've never had

777
00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:18.880
a bird fly into me. I don't think. No, I

778
00:59:18.880 --> 00:59:33.239
haven't no, no, I haven't not even a pigeon, I

779
00:59:33.280 --> 00:59:39.880
don't think. So I'm just thinking maybe I have no No,

780
00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:45.960
I don't know. I don't think I have. So when

781
00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:50.440
I got Vinny, I started walking in straight away and

782
00:59:50.480 --> 00:59:56.840
it was weird because this was blurh. What year was it? Anyone?

783
00:59:57.159 --> 01:00:03.000
Anyone got an idea? What year? It was? Two thousand

784
01:00:03.239 --> 01:00:12.840
and then twenty two December? Yep, I think it was

785
01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:21.840
twoenty twenty two, and it was November twenty twenty three

786
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:28.719
that my friend left. And then we've gone for all

787
01:00:28.679 --> 01:00:31.719
the way through twenty twenty four. Now were in twenty

788
01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:37.840
twenty five, so I've had him a while now. The

789
01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:43.400
first week I got him, it was snowing, which started snowing,

790
01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:46.880
and you know, think I got him on a Saturday,

791
01:00:48.320 --> 01:00:54.599
started snowing on a Sunday something like that, but proper snow,

792
01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:59.000
like it's settled. It was really thick and everything. And

793
01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:05.480
I took him out and unless there was snow on

794
01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:07.480
the ground at the time, I don't think. There was

795
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:11.920
no snow all week, all till the next week, so

796
01:01:12.079 --> 01:01:14.519
snow on the ground. Then it turned to ice, of course,

797
01:01:14.679 --> 01:01:20.840
like it does. I was wearing boots. I didn't slip nothing,

798
01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:25.960
apart from once in the field. I did slip over

799
01:01:26.519 --> 01:01:28.639
some snow, but I didn't hurt myself because I fell

800
01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:31.000
in the snow, but that was because he led me

801
01:01:31.039 --> 01:01:45.119
down this ditch thing and I was like, I felt

802
01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:49.360
quite proud of myself because I hadn't fallen over, hadn't

803
01:01:49.480 --> 01:01:52.880
slipped really apart from that one thing, but that was fine.

804
01:01:53.639 --> 01:01:55.960
But I didn't slip over on the pavement. I was

805
01:01:55.960 --> 01:02:00.119
wearing these big boots that were quite good grips, and

806
01:02:00.199 --> 01:02:02.880
it's like, okay, And I was being really careful with

807
01:02:02.920 --> 01:02:06.239
my posture, even though he was trying to pull me

808
01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:10.719
each way and everywhere. And he was happy to be

809
01:02:10.760 --> 01:02:14.280
out in the snow, in the cold. He didn't care.

810
01:02:14.360 --> 01:02:18.440
He was just happy just to be out and we

811
01:02:18.440 --> 01:02:22.079
were bonding. He was a bit naughty. It took a

812
01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:25.039
while for me and him to sort of lay the

813
01:02:25.079 --> 01:02:29.440
ground rules a little bit, you know, and I tried

814
01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:33.960
to have him stay in here, but he just kept

815
01:02:34.639 --> 01:02:40.760
barking and stuff. And in the end, you know, I

816
01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:42.760
let him into the bedroom and he's been sleeping in

817
01:02:42.760 --> 01:02:48.159
the bed ever since. But you know, he didn't want to.

818
01:02:48.360 --> 01:02:50.159
I think when he first moved in, he didn't want

819
01:02:50.159 --> 01:02:53.119
to be here, which is understandable. He wanted to be

820
01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:56.400
where his home was, which was across the road. That's

821
01:02:56.400 --> 01:02:59.480
where it'd lived for the last three months, and it

822
01:02:59.519 --> 01:03:03.280
was only ten months old. So I was literally his

823
01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:06.360
fourth place that he'd lived. He lived in a place

824
01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:09.639
where he was born until he was old enough to

825
01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:13.960
move somewhere else. So he got his first home and

826
01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:15.840
he was there for I don't know how long, a

827
01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:21.679
couple of months or whatever, three months, and then she

828
01:03:21.880 --> 01:03:26.840
became unwell, had to give him back or phoned up

829
01:03:26.960 --> 01:03:30.440
the breeders that can can you take him back and

830
01:03:30.519 --> 01:03:34.199
find him a home, So they took him back. He

831
01:03:34.239 --> 01:03:39.480
then stayed with a family member of theirs for three

832
01:03:39.519 --> 01:03:44.159
months or two two or three months, and then they

833
01:03:44.199 --> 01:03:46.280
sold it to me, sold it, sold him to me.

834
01:03:48.400 --> 01:03:50.599
So I was the fourth home that he'd lived in.

835
01:03:51.400 --> 01:03:54.199
So I think he was a little bit over, you know,

836
01:03:54.239 --> 01:03:56.400
all over the place. I'm sure he loved every single

837
01:03:56.440 --> 01:04:00.840
person he was around, and he was around a females.

838
01:04:01.119 --> 01:04:06.480
So I was the first only male that he'd lived with.

839
01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:12.119
It lived. The first place he lived there was females

840
01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:14.920
and a man. The second place he lived there was

841
01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:17.280
just a female. The third place he lived there was

842
01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:19.480
just a female. And then he moved in with me.

843
01:04:20.119 --> 01:04:23.280
And he's got a real affection for females, he just has.

844
01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:26.920
He's he loves men as well, but he loves women.

845
01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:31.119
He's got a real yeah, there is, you consider more

846
01:04:31.119 --> 01:04:35.599
affection there for women than there are for men. But

847
01:04:35.639 --> 01:04:38.880
he's still got more affection for men than he has

848
01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:42.519
for dogs. Like he loves prefers humans. He's got a

849
01:04:42.519 --> 01:04:45.920
couple of friends that he absolutely adores. But the rest

850
01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:49.039
of the time, if he sees a dog, like with

851
01:04:49.159 --> 01:04:52.480
a human, he'll go up to the human. He goes

852
01:04:52.519 --> 01:04:54.079
so low to a human before he says a load.

853
01:04:55.079 --> 01:04:57.480
From before he says a load to the dog, he's

854
01:04:57.480 --> 01:05:01.840
say low to the human. So that's how he is,

855
01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:05.960
and it's weird. So we got through that whole period

856
01:05:05.960 --> 01:05:12.239
of snow ice nothing the day it rained. That day,

857
01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:15.000
I think it was a Wednesday or Tuesday. The following

858
01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:20.760
week it rained, all the ice was gone. My friend

859
01:05:21.199 --> 01:05:24.519
downstairs called up to bring him. Do you want to

860
01:05:24.559 --> 01:05:26.760
bring him out into the garden with LOGI? I said,

861
01:05:26.800 --> 01:05:29.840
all right. And this was like ten o'clock or something

862
01:05:29.920 --> 01:05:33.639
like that. Nine o'clock. So I go down with me crocs,

863
01:05:33.800 --> 01:05:35.760
not the pink ones I've got now, but the other ones,

864
01:05:37.360 --> 01:05:41.639
and I slip, so he's run down without the lead on,

865
01:05:41.840 --> 01:05:47.000
just run down into the garden. My friend standing not right,

866
01:05:47.000 --> 01:05:48.639
at the bottom of the stairs, but you know, so

867
01:05:48.760 --> 01:05:51.400
he could see me. He was just standing waiting for me,

868
01:05:51.480 --> 01:05:55.400
and I slipped probably three steps down the top, and

869
01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:57.920
then I slipped and I bounced all the way down

870
01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:03.039
to the bottom, and my friend was laughing, which I

871
01:06:03.039 --> 01:06:05.480
probably would have laughed as well, had to not fractured

872
01:06:05.519 --> 01:06:15.760
my back, but I hadn't. Luckily I had my coat on. Now,

873
01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:21.440
if I had not had my coat on, I could

874
01:06:21.440 --> 01:06:25.280
have really really hurt myself like it. But and this

875
01:06:25.400 --> 01:06:29.719
coat was quite padded, got like a winter coat. So

876
01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:35.519
I'm glad I did that. Yeah, so I slipped and

877
01:06:35.679 --> 01:06:40.599
bounced down the stairs. And that was the reason I

878
01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:46.719
mentioned this is because mentioned this is because the following

879
01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:51.840
after that day, for quite a few weeks, I'm still

880
01:06:51.920 --> 01:06:56.199
taking him for walks. I'm still having to bend down

881
01:06:56.280 --> 01:06:59.800
and pick up, you know, his poos and stuff. It

882
01:06:59.880 --> 01:07:11.239
was so hard. It was just really like almost impossible.

883
01:07:11.400 --> 01:07:14.119
In fact, I shouldn't have really been doing it. I

884
01:07:14.159 --> 01:07:16.320
don't think it was probably a good idea to be

885
01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:20.079
bending over with a fractured back. I had fractures in

886
01:07:20.079 --> 01:07:25.880
two places, and I don't think it's a problem walking around,

887
01:07:26.320 --> 01:07:30.159
but the bending over is. I'm not sure how helpful

888
01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:34.000
that was to the healing. Maybe it was useful. I

889
01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:36.840
don't know enough about fractures of the back to know

890
01:07:36.920 --> 01:07:43.119
about that, but it did heal. And that was just

891
01:07:43.159 --> 01:07:49.039
such a weird way to start my dog walking experience

892
01:07:50.559 --> 01:07:52.760
with my own dog, because he's the first time I've

893
01:07:52.760 --> 01:07:57.199
had my own dog. I've only I've had three for fourth,

894
01:07:57.960 --> 01:08:02.119
I had a couple of goldfish I had, I had

895
01:08:02.119 --> 01:08:10.400
a a budgy once and then I had a I

896
01:08:10.440 --> 01:08:14.400
had Andre, but he was my son and Vinnie's my son.

897
01:08:14.440 --> 01:08:18.680
But there's I need to, you know, kind of responsible

898
01:08:19.239 --> 01:08:23.720
situations I've been in, so that Vinnie was the first

899
01:08:23.760 --> 01:08:27.680
dog that I ever had to look after and to

900
01:08:27.920 --> 01:08:30.960
you know, to live with and to be in charge

901
01:08:31.159 --> 01:08:35.880
or to be responsible for. It was such a weird

902
01:08:36.039 --> 01:08:42.479
start to be literally limping. I was limping. I was

903
01:08:42.600 --> 01:08:50.920
using I was using because I had this what did

904
01:08:50.920 --> 01:09:01.479
I have? I had a what did I have? Had

905
01:09:01.479 --> 01:09:04.960
an umbrella, but it was it had a like a

906
01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:07.159
walking stick on the end of it, So I was

907
01:09:07.319 --> 01:09:10.000
using that to help me to get a loot to

908
01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:15.039
get around. It was weird, honestly, and I was starting

909
01:09:15.079 --> 01:09:17.560
to hold onto that while I bent over and so

910
01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:24.439
I didn't fall over. It was strange. And then when

911
01:09:24.439 --> 01:09:27.439
I first started taken him out for walks, we didn't

912
01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:33.079
really go into the field or to the parks. We

913
01:09:33.199 --> 01:09:39.680
started off walking around the pavement. And because I'd never

914
01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:43.479
really okay, I think it was because with Andrea, I

915
01:09:43.560 --> 01:09:46.680
used to take him walking around the estate, so I

916
01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:56.960
kind of it had been it had been a while

917
01:09:59.039 --> 01:10:07.479
to how long it had been, had it been? Yeah,

918
01:10:07.479 --> 01:10:10.359
it been a while year and a bit since Andre.

919
01:10:11.439 --> 01:10:16.079
So I automatically just took him the same route that

920
01:10:16.079 --> 01:10:18.760
I used to take Andre, or the Andre used to

921
01:10:18.760 --> 01:10:26.319
take me. And so we'd walk around the pavement around

922
01:10:26.359 --> 01:10:31.039
the estate and then go through the park. And I'll

923
01:10:31.079 --> 01:10:33.680
be taking him out late at night, early hours of

924
01:10:33.720 --> 01:10:42.000
the morning. And then then they changed the lights so

925
01:10:42.079 --> 01:10:44.600
the lights were a lot dimmer than they were previously.

926
01:10:45.560 --> 01:10:49.039
They changed all and like just couldn't see, couldn't see

927
01:10:49.039 --> 01:10:51.119
really where I was going. So I don't go out

928
01:10:51.199 --> 01:10:57.960
late at night anymore. It might just be my eyesight.

929
01:10:58.159 --> 01:11:04.840
I don't know. I'm nause sure. This has been strange

930
01:11:05.039 --> 01:11:09.600
taking him out because since I've had him, I stop

931
01:11:09.640 --> 01:11:15.039
at the pavement, I say, wait, wait, he does wait hmmm.

932
01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:19.600
He kind of palls as well, but he will wait sometimes.

933
01:11:19.640 --> 01:11:26.239
And what I say is slowly cross slowly one of

934
01:11:26.239 --> 01:11:29.840
the few things I say to him. And it's not

935
01:11:29.920 --> 01:11:36.800
a big request, is it, you know, just slowly. And

936
01:11:37.720 --> 01:11:40.000
I've been saying the same thing to him every time

937
01:11:40.039 --> 01:11:42.319
we cross the road since I've had him, and he

938
01:11:42.439 --> 01:11:49.800
still pulls, so I just yeah, but that's it. That's

939
01:11:50.439 --> 01:11:55.520
that's my history of dog walking. Got to know a

940
01:11:55.560 --> 01:11:58.920
few people over the years with Vinnie, which is good.

941
01:11:59.399 --> 01:12:03.640
And I was invited into someone's house today for the

942
01:12:03.680 --> 01:12:06.520
first time, well not the first time being invited, but

943
01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:11.279
the first time that I actually went inside, and one

944
01:12:11.279 --> 01:12:13.720
of the neighbors asked before wanted a cup of tea?

945
01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:17.479
I said no, and it's say no, I said no thanks,

946
01:12:17.479 --> 01:12:20.560
So because I was just going to come home, so

947
01:12:20.600 --> 01:12:22.279
I all, being a bit under the weather, I didn't.

948
01:12:22.800 --> 01:12:28.199
I was just taking him out just to get some

949
01:12:28.319 --> 01:12:31.319
air and have a nice a long walk and then

950
01:12:31.319 --> 01:12:37.880
come back. And you know, but he had an opportunity

951
01:12:38.039 --> 01:12:41.840
to have a sniff around her house and go into

952
01:12:41.880 --> 01:12:45.840
the garden and he loved it. And he gets on

953
01:12:45.960 --> 01:12:50.119
really well with with his friend. The other dog and

954
01:12:50.159 --> 01:12:53.600
they got on really well. And she she said, that's

955
01:12:53.640 --> 01:12:56.520
not always a case. Sometimes a dog walks when they say,

956
01:12:57.159 --> 01:13:02.800
when they're walking, but when they're together, like they don't

957
01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:04.960
always get on very well with the dog, not him

958
01:13:04.960 --> 01:13:08.880
and her, but you know sometimes the other dogs. Her

959
01:13:08.920 --> 01:13:11.319
dog doesn't like the other dog being in her house.

960
01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:20.239
But she's seemed fine with any So, yeah, it's I

961
01:13:20.279 --> 01:13:24.720
think there was a period once Andre was gone that

962
01:13:25.479 --> 01:13:28.680
I wasn't out. I wasn't going out because I was

963
01:13:29.039 --> 01:13:31.560
I didn't have to take Andre out for walks because

964
01:13:31.800 --> 01:13:35.000
you know, basically he didn't need to. I just took

965
01:13:35.079 --> 01:13:38.600
him out, firstly because I wanted to, and when he

966
01:13:38.680 --> 01:13:41.479
wanted to. So it was a mixture of both. He

967
01:13:41.560 --> 01:13:45.680
loved going out or weather, didn't care. I wasn't a

968
01:13:45.680 --> 01:13:50.239
big fan of the rain or the wind, but didn't

969
01:13:50.239 --> 01:13:54.000
care about snow, didn't care the heat. It did get

970
01:13:54.119 --> 01:13:57.479
very hot. But theig thing about it is if he

971
01:13:57.560 --> 01:14:00.760
got if he got tired, he just him up and

972
01:14:01.479 --> 01:14:04.199
he'd go into my jacket and just go to sleep.

973
01:14:05.439 --> 01:14:08.319
So what he would do, he'd walk. It'd walk me.

974
01:14:08.880 --> 01:14:11.960
This is Drea. He'd walk ahead of me and he'd

975
01:14:12.039 --> 01:14:15.119
lead me into the middle of nowhere, in the fields,

976
01:14:15.640 --> 01:14:19.640
as far away as he could get. And then he

977
01:14:19.760 --> 01:14:24.399
just claps on the floor and say, pick me up,

978
01:14:27.000 --> 01:14:30.239
so I'd pick him up. Or he'd just stop and

979
01:14:30.279 --> 01:14:33.319
put his put his hands against my legs for me

980
01:14:33.359 --> 01:14:36.319
to pick him up, and I'd pick him up. And

981
01:14:37.800 --> 01:14:39.600
I didn't have to ask him what he wanted because

982
01:14:39.640 --> 01:14:42.159
he would literally climb into the top of my jacket

983
01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:46.399
and that'll be it. Go to sleep. And a weird

984
01:14:46.399 --> 01:14:50.800
thing about it, right, guaranteed. I mean, there was no

985
01:14:50.880 --> 01:14:53.239
point in me caring on walking because it's going to

986
01:14:53.279 --> 01:14:57.560
take me an hour to walk back. Bless him. Why

987
01:14:57.560 --> 01:15:00.399
he didn't just let me walk back. He wouldn't. He

988
01:15:00.439 --> 01:15:05.079
had to go as far away as possible, guaranteed. Just

989
01:15:05.199 --> 01:15:08.680
before I got to the exit, you know, the original entrance.

990
01:15:08.720 --> 01:15:12.239
When I was back nearly home, his head will pop up,

991
01:15:12.560 --> 01:15:18.319
look around, and they want to get out. So when

992
01:15:18.359 --> 01:15:21.039
we were five minutes away from home, his head would

993
01:15:21.079 --> 01:15:30.279
pop up every single time. He's so funny, it's like

994
01:15:30.479 --> 01:15:40.359
he knew. He just knew strange. So I don't know,

995
01:15:40.439 --> 01:15:44.279
maybe like Liam Neeson in Taken two, he could count

996
01:15:44.319 --> 01:15:49.680
the steps, Maybe he knew the sounds from the different. Yeah.

997
01:15:49.960 --> 01:15:51.359
Do you remember that bit where he's in the back

998
01:15:51.399 --> 01:15:53.520
of the van or is it taken three I don't know,

999
01:15:53.880 --> 01:16:01.359
or taken nine. So yeah, So it's been I think

1000
01:16:01.399 --> 01:16:04.920
that period between having Andrea and having Vinnie, where I

1001
01:16:04.960 --> 01:16:09.439
wasn't going out. I started walking around the same route

1002
01:16:09.479 --> 01:16:11.600
that I used to take Andre sometimes, but it was

1003
01:16:13.600 --> 01:16:20.319
it wasn't the same being on my own. And then

1004
01:16:20.359 --> 01:16:25.239
when I got Vinnie, it's got me out of the house,

1005
01:16:27.039 --> 01:16:30.239
which is a good thing. I don't enjoy it a lot.

1006
01:16:30.279 --> 01:16:32.800
Sometimes I don't want to go out. I don't want

1007
01:16:32.800 --> 01:16:34.039
to get out of bed, and I don't want to

1008
01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:37.600
go out in the rain and stuff. But I think

1009
01:16:37.680 --> 01:16:45.880
ultimately it's it's been good for me to have that movement,

1010
01:16:46.079 --> 01:16:55.600
to have that those fleeting conversations with humans that you know,

1011
01:16:55.720 --> 01:17:00.199
those small bits of interaction. It's probably useful. Maybe I'm

1012
01:17:00.239 --> 01:17:09.000
not sure, but he loves being outside. I think he'd

1013
01:17:09.000 --> 01:17:13.239
spend his whole day out there if he could. Really,

1014
01:17:13.279 --> 01:17:15.199
I don't think he'd want to come in. He'd come

1015
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:17.159
in for a little sleep and then he'd go out again.

1016
01:17:17.720 --> 01:17:19.720
If I had a little cat flap which he could

1017
01:17:19.720 --> 01:17:23.960
fit through. I don't know. Maybe he'd need a little

1018
01:17:23.960 --> 01:17:27.199
bit bigger slightly. Yeah, he's probably a little bit too

1019
01:17:27.279 --> 01:17:31.560
big for a cat flap. I'm not sure. Actually, he

1020
01:17:31.600 --> 01:17:34.960
probably could fit through a big cat flap, but he would. Yeah,

1021
01:17:35.000 --> 01:17:37.479
he'd be in and out all day long. But also

1022
01:17:37.920 --> 01:17:42.600
if there was also dog flaps or cat flaps, vinnie

1023
01:17:42.600 --> 01:17:46.399
flaps in all the other doors in this building, he'd

1024
01:17:46.399 --> 01:17:48.319
be in and out of those doors, in and out

1025
01:17:48.319 --> 01:17:53.319
of those flats. And if you put them in all

1026
01:17:53.359 --> 01:17:57.680
the houses in the road, he'd be in and out

1027
01:17:57.760 --> 01:18:02.199
of all those houses. Seriously, everybody would know who he

1028
01:18:02.319 --> 01:18:05.000
is because it'd be in and out standing loads of

1029
01:18:05.039 --> 01:18:12.039
people begging for treats. It's a proper scrounger. And he

1030
01:18:12.079 --> 01:18:17.960
would be huge. He would be absolutely huge. And one

1031
01:18:18.039 --> 01:18:26.520
day he would get stuck in the cat flap. That's guaranteed. Ah.

1032
01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:33.319
I think I kind of stuck to the subject Monday's

1033
01:18:33.479 --> 01:18:39.720
boring objects dog walking, So I think I did so.

1034
01:18:39.840 --> 01:18:46.000
Right now it is, what's it call? Past eight pm?

1035
01:18:46.079 --> 01:18:50.960
I'm not sure if I'm going to edit this tonight.

1036
01:18:51.000 --> 01:18:53.880
I'll do it in the morning when I wake up.

1037
01:18:56.640 --> 01:18:59.119
I might do it tonight. I don't know. It's hard

1038
01:18:59.119 --> 01:19:08.079
to know. Isn't it hard to guess? Really really, so

1039
01:19:08.520 --> 01:19:11.479
thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself

1040
01:19:11.560 --> 01:19:16.720
because you do deserve to be happy, and be gentle

1041
01:19:16.720 --> 01:19:21.800
of yourself because you also deserve to feel safe. Lots

1042
01:19:21.840 --> 01:19:31.880
of love. Bye, little Flappy ears right at the end,

1043
01:19:32.039 --> 01:19:34.760
what was that? You always know when I finished the recording?

1044
01:19:34.840 --> 01:19:38.039
Don't you yes? Because you say goodbye.