Aug. 17, 2025

(no music) Latest Update | LMBYTS #1412 | Jason Newland | 17th August 2025

(no music) Latest Update | LMBYTS #1412 | Jason Newland | 17th August 2025
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In this “Latest Update” episode of Let Me Bore You To Sleep (#1412), Jason Newland rambles through the everyday happenings in his life with his trademark mix of humor and laid-back storytelling. From noisy neighbors and barking dogs to memories of beaches, travel dreams, and reflections on Sunday traditions, Jason meanders through thoughts and anecdotes that drift gently from one subject to the next. As always, his conversational style is designed not to excite but to soothe—helping you relax, switch off, and drift into peaceful sleep while listening to stories that don’t demand attention.

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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name is

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Jason Newland and this is let me pull you to sleep.

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Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

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Blah blah blah. So yeah, it's Sunday, the seventeenth of

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August two thousand and twenty five. Yeah, it's been I mean,

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technically it's been quite a busy week, but really just

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because of all the recordings I made, but I only

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made like since Monday, I've only made to let me

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buoy you to sleep recordings. I didn't do a Q

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and A Friday this week because or last week where

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you want to call it, you know, this previous Friday,

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because I got one question. I know, perhaps I left

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it a little bit late to post on the Facebook group,

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you know, any questions. But maybe I should just stop

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doing the Q and A Friday if no one's if

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there's no more questions, then there's no more answers. I

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can't answer questions that are not asked. So yeah, if

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you want me to continue to do the Q and

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A Friday, then please, I mean, you can send a

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question in via my website if you want, and I'll

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just add it to a list of questions. Just let

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me know it's for this coming Q and A Friday,

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and I'll add it because there's a contact form on

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my website, or you can you know, when I post

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any Q and A questions for Q and A Friday

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on my Facebook group, which is Jason Newland's Bording group,

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you can maybe leave a question there as well, or

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instead of you know whatever. But yeah, I can't. I'm

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not going to do it if there's no questions, because

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it seems a little bit I mean, there was one question.

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I mean, in all fairness, I probably could have made

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that one question last for about an hour, but the

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question really was whether or not I preferred personal questions

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or non personal questions? And has there been any times

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that I haven't answered a question because it was too personal?

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So I can kind of answer that here in a

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sense of generally, I'm open to most questions. If it's

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a question that I don't really want to answer, then

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I will be purposefully vague, I suppose, or I will

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distract myself and move on to something else. I don't know,

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it's I'm not I'm not great with family questions because

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that is personal. But also I don't really have much

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in a way of family to talk about. Really, Yeah,

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as long as it's about me, it's fine. I'm okay.

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You know, I talk about myself. That's the only thing

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I've really got any right to talk about, really, isn't

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it in a sense? I mean, you know, I've done

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a few done some podcasts about step moms and stuff,

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but that was all nice things that I talked about.

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So yeah, generally, if it's about me, that's kind of

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what the the Q and a Friday's for. But it

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can be about you as well. It can be like

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you could ask me my opinion on something. You could

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ask me because I've been a life for so long.

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You can ask me about world events maybe that's happened

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during my lifetime. Asked me about English culture. If you

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live in another country, you could ask me jobs, places

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I've lived, girlfriends, hobbies, interests, TV programs that I liked, music,

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movies I've seen boom. Yeah. Really, it's I think sometimes

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I'm better at some of the older stuff because if

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something because let's say, if I went to someone slamming

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the doors downstairs like constantly, and I really don't know why,

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I've been doing it for about twenty minutes, just slamming it, well,

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letting it slam over and over and over again, which

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is very sure. I never got a dog dog barking.

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That's why these recordings are so much better than hypnosis recordings,

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because I can't I have to stop talking if a

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dog barks in the background. With these recordings, all sounds

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are fine. I mean, maybe not for you, but generally

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it's in a distance, it's in the background, and it's

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either make a recording or don't make a recording. Can

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you hear that? Now? One of the things that starts

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that dog off, and also starts Vinni off, and also

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starts another dog around the corner off or across the

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road off is this cat. So this lady that lives

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in a building opposite, she's put bells on her cat's collars. Now,

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I thought she did it just to annoy the dogs,

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but she didn't. She did it to warn birds. So

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actually she's done it for a really nice reason. But

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the side effect of this particular medication is dogs hear it.

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I mean he can hear it in the middle of

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the night, and he starts barking sometimes or growling, and

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I don't know what I look out the window, I

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can just make out the cat, and the cat's just

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standing in the garden staring up at the window. Proper

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wind up merchant that one. So it's weird, isn't it.

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It's what she's doing is a really good thing to have,

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because I really love birds. But there's always there's a

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it seems to be a what do they call that thing?

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Not a brush off, a playoff the downside, I don't know. Yeah,

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it's not a win win situation. It's a win win

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situation for the birds, which I'm really pleased about. It's

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not a win win situation for the cat. So the

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cat doesn't get to catch birds, which is good, But

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a cat does get to get some pleasure from annoying

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the dogs, which I imagine is quite pleasant for it. Now,

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it's not a win situation for the dogs, unless, of course,

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of dogs getting excited. So Vinnie might actually be enjoying

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barking when he hears the cat. It's more excitement than

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anger or anything, so bless him. Yeah, So Uncle's Sausages

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funeral has been changed. It was on the toy It's

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supposed to be on the twenty first of August, but

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they haven't got the birth the death certificate yet, so

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it's been put off till another week. So that was

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that's weird. The had to get the counseling for the

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mouse exterminator people. I'm not sure what you call them,

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animal prevention unit. I don't know, vermin control, something like that,

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and they came in last Friday and they put down bait,

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and they came back this Friday and said that there's

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nothing in there. There's no They put stuff in the

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into the lofts and everything, and there's nothing, no sign,

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not a single sausage, excuse the pun. And it's all

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the the residue, all the leftovers from the previous mister there.

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So it's not Yeah, it's old historic, he said, which

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is good. It's not good in a sense, but it's

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good obviously for the rest of the building because we

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don't want those things running around. But it's not it's

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like he was living with all that stuff around and

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you didn't even know it. So the I'm thinking that

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the counts that are going to come in and start

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emptying his place probably in the next week or so,

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so I've still got his key to let them in,

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and then that'll be the whole process coming and empty

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in it and painting and all that stuff and getting

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a place ready for the next tenant, and a a

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new adventure begins, hopefully a quiet adventure, but we'll see.

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Yeah I could, really, I really don't need a new

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neighbor opposite me. You know. It's the noisy ones, the

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ones downstairs, and then there's a couple. Well one's moved

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out now, but there was a couple that slammed the

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door continuously downstairs. Now it shakes the building. It's really loud,

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echoes through the hallway and stuff. And it's one thing downstairs,

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but here, if I had the same thing happening opposite me,

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it's going to be I think it will be disturbable, disturbable,

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disturbably loud, and I don't Yeah, I'm not looking forward

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to that because there seems to be two types of

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people in this world, those that know how to close

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doors and those that don't know how to close doors.

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I didn't think it'd be too complicated, you know, and

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so considerate people and inconsiderate people. But I also realized

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as I got older, that inconsiderate people aren't actually quite

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often doing it two be harmful to other people. They're

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just not thinking. They're just they're just going about their business,

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going about their life. They're not even noticing that the

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doors slamming when they leave, and perhaps not noticing they've

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got loud music at night, or you know, they're just

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they're not doing it purposefully to cause problems. I think

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some people just they're just not aware of that, or

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not aware, but not aware that other people are around

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they can hear. Maybe they assume that they're everything they

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can hear is just for their ears and no one

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else can hear it. Have you ever seen someone on

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public transport talking about someone else and they're literally like

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ten foot away, but that person can hear you.

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I can hear you, and I'm in the next town.

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It seems to Yes, it's kind of weird. One no

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one can hear me. Yeah, they can hear you, you know,

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when we're not not everybody. But so that would be interesting.

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I mean, I hope it will take a while before

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they get anyone in there, and I hope when they do,

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it's not going to be you know, it's going to

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be a yeah, well, I hope it's going to be

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a nice person, that's all. Someone that's idea is someone

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that's older, someone that's maybe, but I don't think it

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really matters about ages. That they're nice, nice and quiet.

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That'd be nice, Yeah, nice and quiet.

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How many people have I had lived here, not in

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my flat, but live in this building since I've been

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here for ten years, ten and a half years now. Oh,

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so when I moved in, we had her him him, him,

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So there was someone when I moved in, there was

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Uncle's Sausages. He's been here the whole he was here

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the whole time until recently. And then next to him

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there was someone that was there for a while and

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then he moved out, and then someone else moved in.

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I didn't realize it was a different person, but he's

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been in there for a long time, and I'll get

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on really well with him as well, So he's cool.

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He's about eighty. And then so this has kind of

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been the same for a long time, the last probably

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eight years. This has pretty much been the same upstairs

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until now. Downstairs there's someone that's been there the whole

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time as well as she was here when I moved in,

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not below me, but one of the flats downstairs, and

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then in the other flat next to the one I

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was just talking about. Downstairs. That was where my friend

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Luke lived, and he was I think he's been there

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for like two, two or three years before I moved in,

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at least a couple of years before I moved in,

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so and he was here until what month is it now, August, September, October, November,

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so it will be two years in November that he left.

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Let me talk, shut up. I do wonder if she

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just the owner of that doctor's prods it to make

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it bark because it's too quiet and we need noise. Bark.

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That's good. I'n't got to think now, just make lot noise.

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We need noise. So when he left, the counsel came,

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did their thing and all that stuff. But it did

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take quite a long time before anyone moved in, so

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it was a good I don't know if I just

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got a feeling it was last summer, but maybe kind

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of April May time, so December, January, February and March April,

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so at least five or six months before someone moved

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in there. Yeah, so it wasn't it might have been

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March April. It was all I know. It's very very sunny,

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so maybe four five months, so it's quite that's quite

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a long time. I mean, the longer the better. The

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longer it takes, the better, I think. Not for people

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that are waiting for housing, obviously, it's not good for them,

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just for the tenants, you know, just have that little

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break that's I don't know, selfish, isn't it. I suppose. Sorry,

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I give myself permission to be selfish once a day,

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and that was my little selfish moment. So and then

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so soone moved in there into to Luke's flat about

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I don't know. I'm sure it's about May, but there

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might have been earlier. And then she's moved out already,

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as far as I know, she's moved out a couple

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of weeks ago. So that tenant's gone. So there's now

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another flat empty, but the council haven't come in to

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refurbish it. So I'm not sure what's going on. All

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I know is she moved I've been told that she's

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moved out. And then downstairs, so we've got two flats

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empty at the moment, but both kind of just been

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lived in it as it were, you know, so they

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need to be what the counse would normally do you know,

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if there's stuff in there, like there was still some

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stuff in there with Luke, they come in and they

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take all the stuff out and they put it to

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the back of a like a lorry van thing, you know,

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those cage vans. And I don't know obviously where you live,

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I'm not sure what it's like, but they kind of

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they use quite often for cutting, like you know, the

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grass cutters are doing parks and stuff, and they chuck

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stuff in the back there. So it's got a cage.

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it's got a cage at the side, so then it

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doesn't you know, they can open it at the back

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and put stuff on and wheel stuff into it. I mean,

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it's probably used in building sites that kind of things. Well,

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I don't know, but I imagine, well they use that's

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what they generally seem to use, so they chuck stuff

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on there. Then there's a while because I guess the

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process depends well how quick the process is depends on

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how many flats need to be done, because they've got

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limited workers to do it, I imagine, So you know,

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if suddenly one hundred flats become available. A hundred properties

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become available in one month. They're going to struggle to

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do that many. It's gonna take a while, I guess,

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but there I don't be honest, I don't really know

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what the council actually do to the property. I mean

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once they take everything out, which they I know, they

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take the carpet out as well. The only way you

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get to have a carpet is if you do a

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council swap with someone else. So, for example, I'd love

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to live in Talkie. It's a long way away, but

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I just think it's beautiful place or maybe something like

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Cornwall or you know, somewhere that's just nice visually nice

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with a beach. And yeah, I'm not I'm not. I mean,

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this is okay as a base, but it's not. I'm

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very secluded here and I do like beaches, and I've

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lived on a well, I've lived in towns with beaches

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three times, including Buttlings. I mean technically, well it's not.

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Technically there was a beach there, but I think I

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only went to it twice and it was winter, so

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it wasn't really I'm pretty sure the beach was. I

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think that part of the beach might have been private

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just for no, it wouldn't have been private with it.

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I don't know anyway. I remember I did go there

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a couple of times at late at night and it

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was very windy, very cold, very rainy. Yeah, I do

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quite like beaches. I lived in South End when I

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was a little kid, and back then South End was

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a very popular place for holiday goes. And I mean

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it probably I think Blackpool was always the most popular.

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I think yeah, but I think what happened and I

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might be I'm partly making this up. Is depending on

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where you lived in the country, when it came to

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a holiday, you'd go to the popular place that's in

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that part of the country. So if you lived in

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I suppose Liverpool or Manchester and stuff like that, you

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perhaps travel to Blackpool. If you lived in London, perhaps

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you travel to South End or to Clacton. And if

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you're in Essex, maybe Clacton or South End because both

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of those are in South End. So and it's probably

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the same in other places, you know, where you'd go

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to a place where there's I was trying to think

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the East coast Yarmouth. Yarmouth was a very popular place

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Yarmouth Beach is one of the nicest beaches I ever

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went to in this country. It was a long time ago.

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I went on a school trip. Was this a school trip? Wow?

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Why's my voice gone squeaky? Why did I go to Yarmouth?

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I went on a trip with someone, but I don't

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know why I went. Maybe it was with the see Cadets,

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or maybe it was a school trip. Might be the

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school trip, might been the Cecredets. But I've got a

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memory of it, and I think one of the blokes,

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one of the kids, met a girl while he was there,

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and he was not in the Cecredets, So I think

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it was just a school trip and we went to

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Yarmouth for some reason for the day and stuff like

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that is brilliant, and yeah, probably that's what's the memory

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I forgot about. Yeah, I remember running on the beach

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and just like the sea coming up and I'm kissing

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my girlfriend and she's like, we're upset because she's going back.

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She's on holidays. She was going back to Australia and

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I to go back to school. I wait a minute,

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as speakinning of Greece, No, but there was definitely a

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beach there was a beach. I'll tell you another beach,

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really lovely, really lowerest offt So the East coast. If

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you ever do come to it's if you live up north,

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or you live in Scotland or Wales, or the middle

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of the country Norwige. I mean if you if you

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live in the South area, you're probably going to know

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about the East Coast. But there's some really nice beaches here. Now.

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I don't think anyone's going to come from Wales to

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go visiting beaches other parts of the UK, because Wales

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has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

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I think I covered myself there. Good. Does Scotland have beaches?

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It's gonna say, does Scotland have Wales? See, I have

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been to Scotland, but I was a tiny kid. I

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think I lived there for a while. I'd like to go. Well,

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do I say Scotland, I'd like to go to Scotland.

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I'd like to It's one of those places like I've

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been to Wales multiple times over the years, I've been

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to England. I live in England, but I've been to

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lots and lots of places in England. I lived in Newcastle,

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lived in South End, lived in East Anglia, lived in Essex,

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lived in London. Yes, I lived in the northeast. In

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the south, I've been to you know, a lot of

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the places I've been to Nottingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Bolton and

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most of the towns in this on the East coast area,

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you know, all those different like Beccles and Lowest Staffed, Yarmouth,

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all those places at Norfolk as well. I've been to

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lots of places in Norfolk over the years in the past,

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not recently, and I just haven't really as an adult

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or as a like a because when I was there,

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I was too young to really know where I was.

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When I was in Scotland, that is so my oldest

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brother said. We lived in Scotland for a while, but

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I don't recollect it. I don't remember it because I

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was I might have even been a baby, not a baby,

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but like two years old or something, which is still

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a baby, isn't it really And hmm, I'd like to

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go to Scotland just to visit and because I would

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be a tourist like my dad is literally not literally

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because there was a while back, but Protty about two

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months ago for sus yeah, putty about two months ago

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he was in Scotland on holiday and he did a

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little tour of Scotland. And I'm not sure where he

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went because I've got family and well, my ancestry or

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don forty eight percent Irish. I am about two percent

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Scottish or four percent Scottish, so you know my Celtic

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percentage is quite high Irish and Scottish. And I don't

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notice any or whales in me now, just god, we

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have visual would you want to weal or whal and you?

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But yeah, I don't know if I've got any. We're

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all mixed and we ultimately there is The idea is

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that there's a pure breed human out there. Shut up,

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shut up, doesn't exist, you silly, silly person. I'm pure me.

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No you're not. Maybe pure of mind, Ma'm a pure breed. No,

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there's no such thing. There's not even such thing as

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a pure breed dog, because most dogs have just created.

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You know, you've got a dog and then you say, okay,

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well I like this. I like this little mixture we've got.

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Let's make more of just this mixture, and we'll call

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it a pure breed, even though the original wasn't a

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pure breed. It was just a mixture. No, that's not

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how it works. Something besides saying, oh is it Jack Russell?

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And he was the bloke that tried to sell selling

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Veny to me. He's a pure breed, you know, I said, okay,

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and I did a bit of research. Now, Jack Russell's

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were created on purpose by mixing a bunch of dogs

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together to create hunters. So it's nothing pure about hair.

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It's like, you know, it's weird. There's definitely no pure

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breed humans.

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Is that controversal?

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No, but it's true. Ah. Yeah, So Scotland, I reckon

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it would be quite a nice place to visit. Wales.

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I'd like to go back to Wales and visit again. Yeah,

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I'd like to see the beaches again, just to see

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if they are what I remember. I'm going to be

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smaller than I remember, because I was tiny when I

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went there, you know, because we used to go camping

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in Wales every year for quite a few years, and

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I didn't like camping. I'll be honest with you. I

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didn't like it. It's just not my I mean, you

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haven't got to be an adult to know what you

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do and don't like, have you? I mean, I knew

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from the very first time that I was standing there

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in the rain putting a tent up, that I didn't

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enjoy the process, and that I didn't really want to

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do it again. I would say. The only nice thing

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and this is going to be weird. Actually there's two things.

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The only I didn't mind sleeping in a tent, but

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I didn't like it, however, weird that is, that's what

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I liked, is laying down in the tent. And because

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we're in Wales, there's the obligatory rain has to occur.

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I mean this was in the peak of the season,

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peak of the summer. Beautiful for beautiful, beautiful weather, but

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also you know, some rain as well now and then,

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which is why it's such a luscious country. And that

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sound of the rain on the lid of the tent

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was just so nice. It was I mean, I don't personally,

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I probably did get tingles. It was maybe that's my

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ASMR thing. I just found it very relaxing. But being

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inside the tent when it was happening, I've always enjoyed

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hearing rain unless I have to go out in it,

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then I don't enjoy it. And wind and weather I

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like weather. I'm kind of used to it. If you

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ever lived, if you lived in this country, all we

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have is weather.

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It's just continuous. Yes, So I don't know.

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I think, yeah, laying down, I don't know where everyone

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was because there was like what one, two, three, four,

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five and myself there was six of us, way too

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many people to spend time together. But we did, and

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you know, it was, it was what it was. Can't

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change it now. Yeah, parts of it were lovely. Is

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I liked the the sandy beaches. And because in Wales,

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like I'm like a tourist guy, don't I If you've

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never been to Wales, and if you thought about all,

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go or not, I'd recommend going. Maybe be prepared to

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travel around because you know, it's not that Wales is

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a huge area. I mean it's not tiny, but it's

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still it's there's you know, there's still quite a lot.

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There's quite a few beautiful beaches. You've got Snowdonia the mountain,

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and I went up there twice, I think maybe three times.

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I think it's twice. Went up by train once and

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went up like walked up to the top. So did

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the journey. I think it was twice train's a lot quicker,

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so I wouldn't try and not in a not even

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in a no, I wouldn't try and walk up it now.

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I mean, there are parts of it that he kind

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of it's an up hill walk, but it's not steep

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the whole way. There's parts of it that feel almost flat,

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and then it sort of gradually, you know, you end

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up and I think you kind of walk around the thing.

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I think, but in my memory it might not be true.

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But yeah, not really, not really for me anymore. I

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would go up by it. I probably. I don't know

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if i'd even bother going up by train, because I've

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done it. I did it years ago, I did it

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when I was a kid. Wouldn't be that bothered to

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do it again. But if you haven't done it, it's

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definitely worth it, I would say, because I mean, I

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don't know about your life, but how often do you

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get to stand at the top of a mountain? I

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mean some people would, I guess every day if you

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live on a mountain, obviously, but I yeah, it's quite

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not yeah, it's quite. Maybe I would do it again.

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I'd go by train, and the trains were old, really

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made of wood kind of proper old trains. It's like that,

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And my dad saying to me, Jason, can you stop that?

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I said, but it makes fun. It makes it more

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fun if I had some sound effects. But yeah, I

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quite liked it. Yeah, that was all right. Also went

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to some slate places, so basically just old minds where

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they used to dig for slate. We did also go

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to a couple of coal mines, old coal mines, and

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I think what really surprised me. I don't know why

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I was surprised, but how big they are like underneath really,

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I mean, I do kind of think that if you're

462
00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:47.639
going to build a hole like that, you're going to

463
00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:51.119
dig a hole. When you finish, you need to fill

464
00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:56.119
the hole in. That seems to be the obvious thing.

465
00:42:56.519 --> 00:43:00.960
You don't leave a big, massive whole all in the ground.

466
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:08.599
I'm not talking about the entrance or the exit. Maybe

467
00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:12.400
u classes the entrance or the exits, probably both, isn't it,

468
00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:21.559
but all of the space inside because that's going sideways,

469
00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:26.039
and you know there's a lot of ground that's basically

470
00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:31.519
underneath the place where people are walking. This big, massive

471
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:41.880
gap of empty space sort of made sense. I don't

472
00:43:41.880 --> 00:43:49.760
know to me, do something with that space. I don't

473
00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:58.840
know what build build like a shelter or some kind

474
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:05.639
of I don't know it. You know it just so

475
00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:10.280
it's supported. So it's really really well supported for the ground.

476
00:44:11.559 --> 00:44:13.880
And you can tell I know, I know nothing about

477
00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:17.880
what I'm talking about, but doesn't that since stopped me before,

478
00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:22.440
so why should it stop me now? Hey? Why there's

479
00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:35.079
no mauson? So yeah, I'd like to go to Scotland.

480
00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:39.920
I'm not sure where though, because I do I'd like

481
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:45.760
to go to Ireland again as well. I mean, I'm

482
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:51.000
a sole traveler generally, but if I went to Ireland,

483
00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:55.239
it's I could visit a couple of people that I know, well,

484
00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:59.079
three people that I know on the whole of the island,

485
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:07.760
including northern Ireland, and that with Scotland, i'd quite like

486
00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:18.639
to go to. Trying to think of Scottish place they've got.

487
00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:22.360
They've got towns in Scotland, haven't they. Do you have

488
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:30.559
houses there? Yeah? I don't know. I just I just

489
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:35.400
like to visit and just have a look around. Really,

490
00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:46.280
there's no specific place necessarily. I mean, i'd like to

491
00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:50.280
go to Edinburgh, but i'd like to go during the

492
00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:58.840
Edinburgh Festival so that would be cool. Glasgow is another

493
00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:06.519
place I'd like to visit. Yeah, outside of that, I

494
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:17.519
can't think of any other places. Edinburgh Glasgow, hmm, that probably.

495
00:46:17.679 --> 00:46:20.920
I'm not saying that's that's all, but that I guess

496
00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:24.559
that there are two of the main places. Glasgow. Just

497
00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:29.119
I don't know is somewhere that I wanted to visit

498
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:34.760
for a long time, Edinburgh, solely because of the Edinburgh Festival,

499
00:46:35.960 --> 00:46:40.119
the Fringe Festival. So where the comedy and stuff is

500
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:44.199
on a I think it's in August. I think it's now.

501
00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:58.760
Actually probably I've not been to the Isle of Wight. Now.

502
00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:01.599
I have family on the Eye of White, not that

503
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:05.000
I know. I just I've got like distant relatives that

504
00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:07.360
live there, as I do on the Isle of Man.

505
00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:15.920
And well, one of my close relatives, my auntie, used

506
00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:18.440
to live on the Isle of Man. She doesn't anymore,

507
00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:21.480
so that's that's not a distant relative that she's my auntie,

508
00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:27.519
but she's my daddy's sister or she's my granny's daughter,

509
00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:31.920
so her and her daughter lived on the Isle of Man.

510
00:47:33.239 --> 00:47:38.639
The isl of Wit is more distant, distant distant relations

511
00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:47.079
sort of my NaN's relatives relatives, and I'd like to

512
00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:50.159
visit the Isle of White. I think it's best to

513
00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:52.559
be quite a decent place to go, quite a nice place,

514
00:47:53.639 --> 00:47:57.440
So maybe go there because these are more like closer places,

515
00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:05.159
aren't they, rather than traveling across the world. What about here?

516
00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:09.599
About all the places that there are to visit here?

517
00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:16.800
That I could visit here? Yeah, I don't know. Just

518
00:48:17.079 --> 00:48:22.840
maybe maybe could go and have a look around, have

519
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:30.400
a little wonder. But then you've got lots of islands,

520
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:36.320
haven't you around the local islands like Bergerac you're there,

521
00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:43.199
and is love Sheppy is it? There's some Scottish islands

522
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:50.000
that I could visit. And I think there's like one

523
00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:54.480
hundred and twenty one different little islands around the UK.

524
00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:58.119
There's a few, anyway, I don't know if there's that many.

525
00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:02.280
I made that up, but there's a few. There's definitely

526
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:08.800
a few islands with small amounts of people, you know,

527
00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:13.519
So I think it'd be quite cool to visit some

528
00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:17.599
of those places. And again it's just a ferry, isn't it,

529
00:49:18.679 --> 00:49:23.119
And maybe another boat to take me to the island,

530
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:26.599
as long as I don't have to get in the water,

531
00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:32.519
you know, if it's a small boat, like from a

532
00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:36.320
ferry or a ship, and then a small boat. There

533
00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.320
needs to be at least a jetty, you know, and

534
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:43.039
someone to help me off the boat. I don't want

535
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:47.199
to be like having to jump in the sea and

536
00:49:47.719 --> 00:49:51.880
walk up and get all wet. No, I don't no,

537
00:49:53.239 --> 00:50:02.199
stop asking me to do that. I don't want to. So, yeah,

538
00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:04.920
so there's lots of places i'd quite like to visit

539
00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:15.920
in the foreseeable kind of surroundings, I suppose, you know,

540
00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:22.400
because none of this is particularly far away. It's a

541
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:26.800
few hours. A few hours, I mean, the Isle of

542
00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:28.800
Man is quite on the Isle of Wight is a

543
00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:33.599
fair distance because I don't know about the Isle of White.

544
00:50:33.599 --> 00:50:36.440
But with the Isle of Man, i'd have to go

545
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:41.199
to Liverpool, I think, to get the ferry from there

546
00:50:41.840 --> 00:50:45.480
to the Isle of Man. So Liverpool. To get from

547
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:50.079
here to Liverpool is probably about five hours on a train,

548
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:56.639
if not more, five hours, maybe less, maybe more, maybe

549
00:50:56.679 --> 00:51:02.599
six hours, and then the ferry over. If I've got

550
00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:05.039
a nighttime one's going to take all night to get there.

551
00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:12.559
Daytime daytimes usually travel quicker, don't they, But at nighttime,

552
00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:18.679
and I do like a nighttime journey A nighttime ferry,

553
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:26.159
but I like a daytime fairy as well. I think

554
00:51:26.199 --> 00:51:28.679
there's the benefits of a daytime as you can see,

555
00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:30.559
you can go out on the deck and you can

556
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:35.960
see stuff. At night, you can't really see that much,

557
00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:43.760
but it is more slow and more relaxed, and there's

558
00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:48.280
less people the nighttime. In my experience, I've done a

559
00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:54.039
few nighttime firies over the years and it's just less

560
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:57.880
people around and the nighttime I think the I guess

561
00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:01.400
in the majority of people prefer to travel during the day,

562
00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:09.159
especially when it comes to or in the past, going

563
00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:17.519
to Belgium, there was a very popular past time for

564
00:52:18.079 --> 00:52:22.880
people and they would travel from England to Belgium, or

565
00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:30.719
England to France and basically get off the ferry, go

566
00:52:31.039 --> 00:52:39.440
to the duty duty free place, buy lots of alcohol

567
00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:42.119
and cigarettes and then get on the next ferry, back

568
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:45.519
load their lorry, not the lorry, load their van or

569
00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:52.039
their car with stuff and pretend that it was for

570
00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:55.519
personal use and then get back and sell it in

571
00:52:55.559 --> 00:53:00.280
the pubs. Now, that was something that people would did

572
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:04.360
for years and years and years, And I mean there

573
00:53:04.440 --> 00:53:06.599
was a time we didn't even need a passport to

574
00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:10.079
go to to go abroad, you could get like a

575
00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:13.639
little part like a day a day passport, a day

576
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:21.480
pass and because I didn't have my I went abroad.

577
00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:25.360
I didn't get my first passport until nineteen ninety four,

578
00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:33.840
and so before that time, I traveled to Belgium multiple times,

579
00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:42.760
to France, and I flew to Spain and I didn't

580
00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:48.039
have a passport, just got a like a I was

581
00:53:48.039 --> 00:53:52.639
just allowed to go, which is a bit weird because

582
00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:54.920
everywhere I've been since then, I've alway asked to see

583
00:53:54.920 --> 00:54:01.079
my passport and this is you know, this is I've well, yeah,

584
00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:04.440
I don't think I've left. Have I left the country

585
00:54:04.519 --> 00:54:12.599
since Yeah, it's not to do with us leaving Europe

586
00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:23.840
because a few years back we we basically put our

587
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:26.360
little sales up and we moved away from Europe. We

588
00:54:26.440 --> 00:54:31.719
moved the whole country away, floated away. We did. It's weird,

589
00:54:32.559 --> 00:54:37.400
very strange. We can actually see the sun moving to

590
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:41.320
the side as we moved. So yeah, so if you

591
00:54:41.400 --> 00:54:45.320
do travel to England, just be aware that we're not

592
00:54:45.320 --> 00:54:48.440
in the same place he was. They haven't changed all

593
00:54:48.480 --> 00:54:53.760
the maps because the take ages and it's expensive. So

594
00:54:54.760 --> 00:54:58.519
plus England is such a dot on the map anyway,

595
00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:03.920
you almost miss if it was the scale. So it

596
00:55:03.920 --> 00:55:05.679
doesn't really matter the fact that we've moved a few

597
00:55:05.719 --> 00:55:14.320
thousand miles. So yeah, well now in China, you didn't

598
00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:19.400
know that. No, you didn't know it nowhere near Hong Kong. Yeah,

599
00:55:20.199 --> 00:55:22.960
so we moved out of Europe a few years ago

600
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:31.280
and the weather's changed. It's a lot warmer now. Yeah.

601
00:55:31.800 --> 00:55:35.679
The thing is the problem is I didn't They didn't

602
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:38.840
plan it very well because they managed to get it set,

603
00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:43.800
but anchorage there wasn't enough. Anchorage didn't have enough anchors.

604
00:55:44.480 --> 00:55:46.679
So we keep kind of just you wake up. You

605
00:55:46.760 --> 00:55:48.480
never know when you where you could have end up.

606
00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:52.079
The other day, I was in Spain, woke up, looked

607
00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:58.639
out Spain. Three weeks ago, I was in Somalia. You don't,

608
00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:08.400
I don't know. So yeah, and so this is my

609
00:56:08.639 --> 00:56:18.199
Sunday afternoon. Sunday afternoon. There was a time in England

610
00:56:18.719 --> 00:56:24.079
where everything was closed on a Sunday. I'm talking everything.

611
00:56:26.559 --> 00:56:29.320
The only thing opened. Two things are opened as far

612
00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:35.039
as for public okay, other than you know, going out

613
00:56:35.079 --> 00:56:38.159
and stuff. You know, there was still amusements and all

614
00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:40.920
those kinds of things were open on the weekends for

615
00:56:41.880 --> 00:56:50.639
people and maybe a Sunday market, but newsagents opened on

616
00:56:50.679 --> 00:56:59.360
a Sunday morning and then on a Sunday lunchtime off

617
00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:02.079
license could open for about an hour and a half,

618
00:57:03.239 --> 00:57:05.480
then they closed, and then they'd open up. I think

619
00:57:05.519 --> 00:57:07.559
they were allowed to open up in the evening for

620
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:11.960
about an hour and a half then they close, not

621
00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:16.039
one hundred percent sure that's true. And pubs would be

622
00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:18.760
allowed to open up for a short period of time,

623
00:57:18.840 --> 00:57:23.039
probably being between eleven and one or eleven and two.

624
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:27.760
The pubs would open and then they'd open again in

625
00:57:27.800 --> 00:57:34.039
the evening for about seven till ten or six till ten.

626
00:57:35.480 --> 00:57:40.199
They closed. They close at ten o'clock. That's what that's honestly,

627
00:57:40.199 --> 00:57:42.960
that's what Sundays used to be like in this country.

628
00:57:43.440 --> 00:57:51.840
No supermarkets, no anything walking around is just not everyone

629
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:57.599
to be at home apart from those that weren't. And

630
00:57:57.679 --> 00:57:59.760
it was kind of like an official day. I mean,

631
00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:06.079
and it's not official, it was that's the reason, wasn't

632
00:58:06.079 --> 00:58:07.880
it so that people call have the day off working,

633
00:58:10.239 --> 00:58:14.000
So probably the majority of people in the country wouldn't

634
00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:23.400
work on a Sunday. Yeah, a lot different back then,

635
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:38.920
and it still was like that when I'm pretty sure.

636
00:58:39.159 --> 00:58:42.920
I'm not sure how relaxed things got, but I'm pretty

637
00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:46.800
sure it was still like that when I when I

638
00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:50.280
moved to London, because I lived in a small town

639
00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:58.719
at that time. Then I moved to London and things

640
00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:05.119
were different because shops were open. Some shops were open

641
00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:11.800
all the time, like all the time, and I've never

642
00:59:11.840 --> 00:59:15.239
seen that before. Like you could just get stuff whenever

643
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:20.440
you wanted, any time of the day or night. Not everywhere,

644
00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:27.840
but there were places you could get stuff. And there

645
00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:30.320
was this when I lived in forest Gate. There was

646
00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:36.360
this little shop right on the corner. Worst shop in

647
00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:40.679
the world. It was on the corner and you had

648
00:59:40.719 --> 00:59:43.440
to ring the doorbell for them to let you in.

649
00:59:44.440 --> 00:59:48.639
So it's basically it's almost like they'd converted their front room,

650
00:59:49.119 --> 00:59:57.400
their living room into a shop and it sold groceries, suits,

651
00:59:57.440 --> 01:00:02.360
just bits like that. Yeah, everything was behind the counter,

652
01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:06.360
so you couldn't just take what you wanted and put

653
01:00:06.360 --> 01:00:11.239
it on. They had to get it for you and

654
01:00:11.239 --> 01:00:14.559
you had to ring their doorbell and they would come

655
01:00:14.599 --> 01:00:21.920
and open the door. To me, that was someone that

656
01:00:22.039 --> 01:00:25.599
did not want my money. They did not want to work,

657
01:00:25.719 --> 01:00:29.800
they didn't want to be open. So I just I

658
01:00:29.800 --> 01:00:32.880
wouldn't go there. I'd walk, I'd walk two miles away

659
01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:35.719
to get stuff. I just refused to go in there.

660
01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:40.280
I was very young, I was very I was very

661
01:00:40.280 --> 01:00:44.920
political back then. I was very stupid back then. I

662
01:00:45.039 --> 01:00:47.920
just it annoyed me because a couple of times I

663
01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:49.360
did try and get in there and they just wouldn't

664
01:00:49.360 --> 01:00:55.079
answer the door. We're busy, Come on, I just want

665
01:00:55.079 --> 01:01:00.280
to can of coke. We're busy. Couldn't you just come

666
01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:01.960
I just want one can of coke?

667
01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:04.400
We're in bed.

668
01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:09.559
Really, can't you just get me a can of coke?

669
01:01:10.320 --> 01:01:12.679
It's four in the morning. We're going to call the

670
01:01:12.719 --> 01:01:14.960
police if you don't go away.

671
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:21.760
We know where you live, Okay, fair enough? So yeah,

672
01:01:21.960 --> 01:01:23.880
I understand they didn't want to open the door four

673
01:01:23.920 --> 01:01:31.760
in the morning. But it's I remember when seven eleven opened. Now,

674
01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:40.320
that changed the world in this country because suddenly or

675
01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:45.119
they were open, because everything, even during the week everything

676
01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:48.440
was closed, you know. I think the pubs had to

677
01:01:48.480 --> 01:01:55.039
be closed by eleven or half ten. I think maybe

678
01:01:55.079 --> 01:01:58.039
they could open a bit later at the weekends. But

679
01:01:58.159 --> 01:02:01.519
the whole kind of being open late late didn't happen

680
01:02:01.679 --> 01:02:10.840
till late nineties. I think maybe two thousands. Yeah, wow,

681
01:02:12.519 --> 01:02:16.679
a lot of changes, a lot of changes over the years.

682
01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:21.159
But seven eleven that was so good, and I don't

683
01:02:21.199 --> 01:02:24.440
know why it didn't. I mean it might still be

684
01:02:24.519 --> 01:02:31.599
around parts of the country, I don't know, probably maybe

685
01:02:31.719 --> 01:02:35.599
in London, if they're all cities, maybe, but it didn't

686
01:02:35.679 --> 01:02:39.159
last very long there. And I never understood it because

687
01:02:39.199 --> 01:02:43.559
it was the perfect place. They had everything. Everything you

688
01:02:43.559 --> 01:02:46.840
could possibly want in it of an evening. I mean,

689
01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:50.840
unless you wanted to buy some underpants or something, then

690
01:02:51.039 --> 01:02:53.840
they didn't have that. If you wanted to buy a gate,

691
01:02:53.920 --> 01:02:57.000
you know, a game of chess, they didn't have that either,

692
01:02:59.039 --> 01:03:03.199
you know, a packet of screws. No, I didn't have that.

693
01:03:03.559 --> 01:03:11.800
But they had like basic things like biscuits, cakes, drinks, alcohol, cigarettes,

694
01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:22.239
and chocolates. I suppose, like basic. I think they might

695
01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:26.000
have had a few basic groceries also, yeah, they probably did. Yeah,

696
01:03:26.039 --> 01:03:29.119
they did have basic groceries, so like tins of beans

697
01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:32.679
and coffee tea, you know, the kind of stuff that

698
01:03:32.719 --> 01:03:36.480
you'd probably find in in any seven eleven around the world,

699
01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:44.840
because there's lots of them. It was brilliant. I loved

700
01:03:44.840 --> 01:03:49.840
it now. I used to go when it first started.

701
01:03:50.480 --> 01:03:52.440
I'd go in there when it first opened. I mean,

702
01:03:52.760 --> 01:03:57.199
i'd say what time you're closing? They'd say eleven. I mean,

703
01:03:57.239 --> 01:04:00.440
to start with, it was like, oh, eleven o'clock. After

704
01:04:00.480 --> 01:04:03.440
the fifteenth time of going in there, like every day

705
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:10.480
in a row, they said, it's still eleven o'clock. Then

706
01:04:10.519 --> 01:04:13.119
after about three weeks of doing it, they took me

707
01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:19.840
outside and pointed to the sign and what I think

708
01:04:19.880 --> 01:04:22.639
they thought I was making fun of them, but it wasn't,

709
01:04:22.679 --> 01:04:28.559
because I really I drew up seeing everything close early,

710
01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:32.159
like my whole life up to the age of sixteen,

711
01:04:32.760 --> 01:04:38.360
seventeen whatever. It was, everything closed early in the evening

712
01:04:39.119 --> 01:04:44.800
on a Sunday, everything, And I just couldn't believe that

713
01:04:44.880 --> 01:04:49.880
something was open late till eleven at night. It was

714
01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:57.440
unheard of. And I kind of because of the because

715
01:04:57.440 --> 01:04:59.159
I was working in a chip shop at the time,

716
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:04.280
and I didn't finish work till probably ten half ten

717
01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:06.559
sometimes if it was a really busy lot to do

718
01:05:06.679 --> 01:05:10.320
and stuff ten o'clock, I don't know, and I'd go

719
01:05:10.360 --> 01:05:12.920
and check in that because I wanted to make sure

720
01:05:12.920 --> 01:05:16.239
I could go in and get myself maybe some drinks

721
01:05:16.400 --> 01:05:20.199
or some chocolate bars or something so I'd go in,

722
01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:24.800
you know, like earlier in the day, what time you closing?

723
01:05:25.960 --> 01:05:29.239
I'd i'd try and get like a different member of staff.

724
01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:35.519
I'll always get the same answer, eleven o'clock Jason. And

725
01:05:35.559 --> 01:05:37.360
so I thought, well, I'm going to start doing is

726
01:05:37.400 --> 01:05:42.400
phoning them. So I phoned them up. Now, if you

727
01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:49.079
go somewhere regularly and then you start to phone them,

728
01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:52.679
it's a good idea to put on a different voice

729
01:05:52.719 --> 01:05:54.800
if you can, because they just knew it as me

730
01:05:54.920 --> 01:06:00.159
straight away, because I said to Hi, it's Jason from

731
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:04.239
the chip shop. What time have you closed today? Eleven o'clock?

732
01:06:05.960 --> 01:06:11.159
Like every other day, it's eleven o'clock, seven eleven. It

733
01:06:11.239 --> 01:06:16.280
means seven in the morning to eleven at night, you know,

734
01:06:16.320 --> 01:06:17.880
and seem to want to know what time we open.

735
01:06:20.519 --> 01:06:25.639
We open at seven. The clues in the sign, the

736
01:06:25.719 --> 01:06:33.599
clues in the name. Thank you for calling Jason. Now

737
01:06:33.840 --> 01:06:35.880
my problem is I should have put on a different voice.

738
01:06:37.679 --> 01:06:42.159
Clearly, Hi, it's Jason from the chip shop. What time

739
01:06:42.239 --> 01:06:43.360
you closing today?

740
01:06:45.639 --> 01:06:50.280
See, I just didn't think on my feet it would

741
01:06:50.320 --> 01:06:54.440
be a lot easier, but I just thought it out first,

742
01:06:56.320 --> 01:06:59.679
like could do with these recordings. I mean, you wouldn't

743
01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:03.199
believe Eve that I spend probably six seven hours a day,

744
01:07:04.079 --> 01:07:06.559
you know, putting on his script together what I'm going

745
01:07:06.639 --> 01:07:11.679
to say, and you know, practice in for a good

746
01:07:11.920 --> 01:07:16.480
two hours before I start the recording, and then it

747
01:07:16.679 --> 01:07:24.639
sounds so natural. Wow. Can you imagine if I did that? Well, yeah,

748
01:07:24.679 --> 01:07:28.360
you can imagine, because it'd probably be really well presented

749
01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:33.519
instead of this whatever it is that I do. But

750
01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:39.280
this is what you get. This is me. My name's

751
01:07:39.400 --> 01:07:48.440
chasing La La la la la l l L. So yeah,

752
01:07:48.840 --> 01:07:51.280
that's it. Really, it's me talking about Sundays and what

753
01:07:51.400 --> 01:07:57.639
I had did. Church used to be open on a

754
01:07:57.679 --> 01:08:01.840
Sunday evening, I think it did. I know it used

755
01:08:01.840 --> 01:08:06.719
to be opening on a Sunday morning because I would

756
01:08:06.719 --> 01:08:09.920
often go to church with my nan, more often but

757
01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:12.880
quite a fair few times. I'd go to church for

758
01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:19.079
my nan when I was a teenager sort of six fifteen, sixteen,

759
01:08:19.239 --> 01:08:26.479
seventeen or whatever. And then we'd go and because there'd be

760
01:08:26.520 --> 01:08:28.920
a coffee place, so there'd be a place you could

761
01:08:28.920 --> 01:08:31.640
get some coffee or was that during the week. That

762
01:08:31.760 --> 01:08:36.119
might have been on a Wednesday. Maybe she went to

763
01:08:36.239 --> 01:08:38.279
church on a Wednesday, and I'd go to church with her.

764
01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:48.800
Then maybe it was a Sunday. I'm not sure. Maybe

765
01:08:48.800 --> 01:08:51.479
it was a Sunday. We'd go and get a cup

766
01:08:51.520 --> 01:08:57.479
of tea and a cake, and then I think we'd

767
01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:01.239
walk back. There wasn't a cute, huge walker. This is

768
01:09:01.279 --> 01:09:05.880
a fair distance, but it wasn't a huge walk. Or

769
01:09:05.960 --> 01:09:08.159
maybe my dad would come and pick her up. I

770
01:09:08.199 --> 01:09:15.159
don't know. I don't remember exactly how much of this

771
01:09:15.319 --> 01:09:25.239
is true. I did used to go to quite yeah,

772
01:09:25.319 --> 01:09:27.439
quite a few times. I went to midnight Mass with

773
01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:32.640
her at midnight, but then they also had an early

774
01:09:32.760 --> 01:09:35.920
midnight mass for people that couldn't get there, you know,

775
01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:42.319
for midnight, which makes sense. It doesn't make sense the

776
01:09:42.359 --> 01:09:47.159
way I said it, but some people it wasn't you know,

777
01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:53.479
walking around at midnight wasn't really ideal. So they did

778
01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:55.680
like an early one at about seven or eight in

779
01:09:55.680 --> 01:10:01.479
the evening, and once one day got a bit older,

780
01:10:03.960 --> 01:10:13.079
i'd probably say from yeah, the last twenty years, No,

781
01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:18.680
the last two thousand and four, two four, wow, the

782
01:10:18.760 --> 01:10:28.680
last ten years. No, because that's the thing, because after

783
01:10:28.720 --> 01:10:32.600
two thousand and four, because I went to midnight mess

784
01:10:32.640 --> 01:10:35.199
with her, but it was early one. It was about

785
01:10:35.239 --> 01:10:41.760
eight o'clock I know my Auntie was there and she

786
01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:45.000
wanted to go to her church because she my name's

787
01:10:45.000 --> 01:10:48.039
a Catholic and she had her own church that she

788
01:10:48.159 --> 01:10:50.399
wanted to go to, So I'm not sure what it

789
01:10:50.479 --> 01:10:54.600
was that she went to, and she wanted to go

790
01:10:54.680 --> 01:10:58.840
to there as well to do the actual midnight service.

791
01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:05.600
And it's still one of my favorite Christmases as an adult.

792
01:11:06.239 --> 01:11:10.560
Two thousand and four. It's weird, but there's something special

793
01:11:10.560 --> 01:11:16.439
about it to me. And I was staying at my

794
01:11:16.520 --> 01:11:19.920
nun's house in the spare room, the room that I

795
01:11:20.000 --> 01:11:24.159
used to have for myself when I was eight years old.

796
01:11:24.760 --> 01:11:27.439
I'm my own bedroom. It was brilliant, and I was

797
01:11:27.479 --> 01:11:32.720
back sleeping in there. My aunt and uncle were in

798
01:11:32.760 --> 01:11:36.520
the other room, which was that's where my two brothers

799
01:11:36.600 --> 01:11:42.199
used to sleep in bunk beds. And in my nun's

800
01:11:42.239 --> 01:11:46.560
bedroom was where my parents used to sleep and that's

801
01:11:46.600 --> 01:11:50.800
where her and her husband, my granddad, that was their

802
01:11:50.880 --> 01:12:00.479
room from nineteen seventy nine, you know, onwards. So I

803
01:12:00.520 --> 01:12:03.439
had that room for about a year, my little room,

804
01:12:03.680 --> 01:12:05.600
but I wasn't there for a year in two thousand

805
01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:08.960
and four, just there for one night, probably two or

806
01:12:08.960 --> 01:12:12.640
three nights, so because I was living in a different town.

807
01:12:12.680 --> 01:12:19.680
So I come over probably Christmas Eve because I was working. Yeah,

808
01:12:19.680 --> 01:12:24.319
I was working, So I come over Christmas Eve. I

809
01:12:24.439 --> 01:12:31.560
go out to go out to church to midnight Mass,

810
01:12:31.560 --> 01:12:34.600
but it's early with my nan because she couldn't have

811
01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:36.840
said she couldn't go to the late one. It was

812
01:12:36.840 --> 01:12:41.399
too late for by that time because she was you know,

813
01:12:41.520 --> 01:12:47.319
she had like a disability because of her hip and stuff,

814
01:12:48.079 --> 01:12:51.439
so she needed a walk and stick and stuff, so

815
01:12:51.560 --> 01:12:54.720
you know, walking around at night wasn't really ideal. Although

816
01:12:54.760 --> 01:12:58.800
she would have got a lift, you know. And then

817
01:13:04.239 --> 01:13:06.199
I say she would have got She did get a lift,

818
01:13:06.279 --> 01:13:07.680
but she would have got a lift back if it

819
01:13:07.720 --> 01:13:11.279
was late anyway, So she got a lift anyway. So

820
01:13:11.319 --> 01:13:16.399
we went up with my aunt and uncle, and then

821
01:13:16.439 --> 01:13:19.279
we came back and my aunt and uncle my Auntie

822
01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:22.000
wanted to go to the other thing, but I don't

823
01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:24.039
think they went in the end because they spent too

824
01:13:24.119 --> 01:13:26.239
much time talking about it and discussed with were not

825
01:13:26.319 --> 01:13:30.119
to go, and by that time it was Boxing day

826
01:13:30.399 --> 01:13:34.520
by the time I finished, and my Auntie did something

827
01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:38.680
that I've never done before, or she sort of introduced

828
01:13:38.680 --> 01:13:43.960
a new, a new Christmas Eve thing so she went

829
01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:46.640
and she got some presents off the tree and gave

830
01:13:46.680 --> 01:13:49.279
me a present Christmas Eve.

831
01:13:49.800 --> 01:13:54.359
I said, but Auntie, it's Christmas Eve. It's not time

832
01:13:54.399 --> 01:13:58.720
for presents. That's supposed to be on Christmas Day.

833
01:13:59.520 --> 01:14:04.000
Sure, she said, no, we give presents Christmas Eve. It's

834
01:14:04.039 --> 01:14:07.199
just one present off the tree. It's just something we

835
01:14:07.319 --> 01:14:07.960
do every year.

836
01:14:09.119 --> 01:14:12.520
But how's father Christmas delivered him if he hasn't been yet?

837
01:14:13.239 --> 01:14:17.199
She said, you're thirty four years old. Shut up, Like, Wow,

838
01:14:17.279 --> 01:14:26.199
it's a bit harsh, isn't it. So she's it was

839
01:14:26.239 --> 01:14:29.840
just sweets. Basically, it was like candy you would call

840
01:14:29.920 --> 01:14:33.479
it maybe if you call it that in your country.

841
01:14:33.520 --> 01:14:39.560
But the thing is, I hadn't had any chocolate since

842
01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:47.600
the summer, so I'd lost a lot of weight on

843
01:14:47.720 --> 01:14:51.079
purpose because I kind of I needed to get fitter.

844
01:14:51.199 --> 01:14:54.760
So during the Dune two thousand and four, I kind

845
01:14:54.800 --> 01:14:58.960
of got myself nice and physically fit. I was working

846
01:14:59.000 --> 01:15:05.840
on the mental fitness as well, and I hadn't had

847
01:15:05.880 --> 01:15:12.880
any chocolate since the summer. So we're talking what July, August, September, October,

848
01:15:12.920 --> 01:15:18.079
November for at least four or five months. So Christmas Eve,

849
01:15:18.279 --> 01:15:21.319
I'm here with these and it was one of those

850
01:15:21.520 --> 01:15:28.319
chocolate things that sparkle on your tongue, and I was

851
01:15:28.880 --> 01:15:33.520
just it was heavenly. It was a pleasure that I

852
01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:42.279
just didn't realize I needed. It was so nice. Oh

853
01:15:43.800 --> 01:15:46.199
and it was like being a kid again. It was

854
01:15:46.239 --> 01:15:52.680
just really because I remember. I'll tell you one of

855
01:15:52.720 --> 01:15:59.000
the benefits of being of my childhood is a lot

856
01:15:59.039 --> 01:16:01.119
of the nice stuff happened when I was I know,

857
01:16:01.159 --> 01:16:03.960
it's good to have nice stuff happen when you're young,

858
01:16:04.039 --> 01:16:06.960
when you're really young. But one of the benefits of

859
01:16:07.000 --> 01:16:09.439
it happened when it happens for the first time when

860
01:16:09.479 --> 01:16:12.880
you're kind of seven or eight, is I can still

861
01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:17.399
remember it now, so certain things like chocolate that I'd

862
01:16:17.399 --> 01:16:22.560
never eaten before, or riding my first bike. You know,

863
01:16:22.800 --> 01:16:24.600
a lot of kids had their first bike when they

864
01:16:24.640 --> 01:16:28.720
had two, three, four, you know, So my first bike

865
01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:32.000
was when I was just four. I was what seven?

866
01:16:32.039 --> 01:16:35.640
I think I was, Yeah, I was seven, So I

867
01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:41.840
remember that. So it's quite nice to have those little memories. Now.

868
01:16:41.880 --> 01:16:45.119
I wasn't four in two thousand and four or seven

869
01:16:45.159 --> 01:16:49.399
in two thousand and four, but it was a little

870
01:16:49.439 --> 01:16:51.920
bit like that. It's like, Okay, this is nice. This

871
01:16:52.000 --> 01:16:55.279
is like a It's not that I'd never had it before.

872
01:16:55.399 --> 01:16:59.359
It it was almost like for the first time because

873
01:16:59.359 --> 01:17:04.760
I'd gone five months about any chocolate. And trust me,

874
01:17:05.000 --> 01:17:08.159
that was a long time for me back then to

875
01:17:08.239 --> 01:17:10.520
go about chocolate. I've always been a little bit of

876
01:17:10.520 --> 01:17:17.199
a chocolate e person. It's part of the culture in

877
01:17:17.239 --> 01:17:21.880
this country, eating chocolate, sugar, all that stuff. It's part

878
01:17:22.000 --> 01:17:30.640
of the national pastime, part of my national identity. Stuffed

879
01:17:30.720 --> 01:17:42.000
myself full of sugar mmmmmmmm. So yeah, that was just

880
01:17:42.039 --> 01:17:45.319
a really that was a nice Christmas. Actually, so I

881
01:17:45.399 --> 01:17:47.520
got to see my nan, got to see me Uncle

882
01:17:47.520 --> 01:17:50.479
an ant got to see me Dad and that side

883
01:17:50.520 --> 01:17:53.479
of the family because I went there for Christmas dinner

884
01:17:54.720 --> 01:17:57.119
and then went back to my NaN's in the evening

885
01:17:57.880 --> 01:18:01.920
and then had Boxing Day with my nan and Christmas

886
01:18:01.960 --> 01:18:05.800
dinner and Boxing Day dinner. So yeah, it was cool.

887
01:18:07.079 --> 01:18:09.600
That was a nice Christmas. I mean, it's not the

888
01:18:09.600 --> 01:18:13.319
only Christmas I spent at my nun's, but is the

889
01:18:13.359 --> 01:18:18.600
most memorable one. Yeah, there was another Christmas I spent

890
01:18:18.640 --> 01:18:24.199
there in My NaN's brother was there, Uncle Antony, and

891
01:18:25.039 --> 01:18:29.000
he was I think he was a little bit younger

892
01:18:29.039 --> 01:18:32.359
than her. He was a younger brother by probably about

893
01:18:32.399 --> 01:18:41.439
four years, three or four years, and maybe maybe older brother.

894
01:18:41.479 --> 01:18:44.960
I don't know. I think younger brother. I think I

895
01:18:45.039 --> 01:18:50.399
might be wrong, but marginally younger. I think she had

896
01:18:50.439 --> 01:18:59.000
about twelve brothers and sisters my name, and he it

897
01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:02.399
was funny. It was not funny funny, but he'd watched

898
01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:05.760
the TV downstairs and he'd have it on so loud.

899
01:19:07.239 --> 01:19:10.960
I literally, I was just there all night try I

900
01:19:11.000 --> 01:19:15.479
struggled to sleep because the TV was blaring out because

901
01:19:15.520 --> 01:19:18.279
he couldn't hear it. It's as simple as that wasn't

902
01:19:18.640 --> 01:19:21.560
what he wasn't being inconsiderate. He just couldn't hear the TV,

903
01:19:22.680 --> 01:19:25.119
so he had to turn it up in order to

904
01:19:25.159 --> 01:19:28.640
hear it. And I think my men went down there

905
01:19:28.680 --> 01:19:33.960
and told him off because she was concerned about the neighbors,

906
01:19:34.039 --> 01:19:38.680
because she always had a really good relationship with the

907
01:19:38.720 --> 01:19:43.880
next door neighbor, him and his family or the couple

908
01:19:43.920 --> 01:19:46.199
and their family, and it was still it was the

909
01:19:46.199 --> 01:19:49.199
same next door neighbor that they had that we had

910
01:19:49.239 --> 01:19:53.079
when we lived there before they moved in, and we

911
01:19:53.279 --> 01:19:58.199
kept I say we, I and my family was still

912
01:19:58.239 --> 01:20:03.319
in contact with that next door I mean I was

913
01:20:03.359 --> 01:20:09.920
still in contact with that family. I was still visiting,

914
01:20:10.039 --> 01:20:16.359
going around there in nineteen ninety. In fact, no, I

915
01:20:16.399 --> 01:20:19.840
was still going around there. Wow, I was still going

916
01:20:19.880 --> 01:20:22.800
around in the early nineties. When i'd visit. I still

917
01:20:22.800 --> 01:20:25.960
go in there because I was friends with a boy

918
01:20:26.760 --> 01:20:28.720
and I really liked the girl. I was friends with

919
01:20:28.760 --> 01:20:32.199
her as well, and I got on well with the

920
01:20:32.279 --> 01:20:34.920
parents because I've known her since I was seven or

921
01:20:34.960 --> 01:20:39.520
eight years old, seven and a half eight, so they'd

922
01:20:39.560 --> 01:20:43.079
known me kind of almost all my life in a way,

923
01:20:43.319 --> 01:20:50.960
you think, from seven and a half to twenty twenty one,

924
01:20:51.159 --> 01:20:57.000
twenty two whatever, that's a long time. And they lived

925
01:20:57.079 --> 01:21:01.800
there and they loved my well, I love my nanny granddad,

926
01:21:01.840 --> 01:21:04.560
but you know, they looked out for my nan when

927
01:21:04.560 --> 01:21:11.800
she lived there on her own, and really nice people.

928
01:21:13.479 --> 01:21:16.079
And it's weird. It's like, I don't want to sort

929
01:21:16.079 --> 01:21:19.720
of say too much, but I don't even know what

930
01:21:19.760 --> 01:21:23.399
this situation is anymore. But the lady that lived there

931
01:21:23.439 --> 01:21:27.920
was a nurse. I'm not sure what a husband did.

932
01:21:27.960 --> 01:21:32.720
I think he might have worked on the docks. And

933
01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:37.000
I was at school with both the kids. So I

934
01:21:37.039 --> 01:21:40.039
was at school with the boy who was the same

935
01:21:40.079 --> 01:21:45.239
age as my brother, my first older brother, and then

936
01:21:45.359 --> 01:21:56.880
his sister, who was probably two years younger than me,

937
01:21:57.560 --> 01:22:03.319
maybe three years, two years probably, I don't know. I

938
01:22:03.439 --> 01:22:07.520
kind of noticed her when I was twenty. I knew her,

939
01:22:07.560 --> 01:22:11.079
but I kind of like, suddenly it was weird because

940
01:22:11.119 --> 01:22:17.199
she was very beautiful, that's not the weird part. But

941
01:22:17.319 --> 01:22:24.600
she had a birthmark on her face, which did not

942
01:22:24.720 --> 01:22:26.439
take away her beauty, you know what I mean. She

943
01:22:26.520 --> 01:22:31.680
was a very beautiful face. And I always liked her

944
01:22:31.720 --> 01:22:33.560
write from when I was a kid, because she's, you know,

945
01:22:34.039 --> 01:22:37.520
only marginally younger than me. So I always liked her

946
01:22:39.199 --> 01:22:41.199
as a because when I was I don't know, when

947
01:22:41.199 --> 01:22:44.640
I was ten, she was eight, you know. But she

948
01:22:44.760 --> 01:22:47.520
had it removed. She had the birthmark removed, and it

949
01:22:47.560 --> 01:22:53.920
was just like a brown birthmark or something. It changed

950
01:22:53.920 --> 01:23:02.600
her personality. So I'm not saying she's being sweet, because

951
01:23:02.640 --> 01:23:06.199
she was a very sweet girl. She she was still

952
01:23:06.319 --> 01:23:10.880
sweet in her own way, but she became very confident

953
01:23:13.239 --> 01:23:18.640
and she enjoyed all the attention that she was getting

954
01:23:18.640 --> 01:23:24.199
from the boys, which is natural. But to me, she

955
01:23:24.199 --> 01:23:30.640
didn't look any different really, I mean, it's only because

956
01:23:30.640 --> 01:23:32.600
she told me that she'd had it removed that I

957
01:23:33.520 --> 01:23:36.760
really noticed it because you know, I said, I've known

958
01:23:36.760 --> 01:23:39.119
her for a long long time, a long long time.

959
01:23:41.880 --> 01:23:47.800
And it's weird because I remember her because there was

960
01:23:47.840 --> 01:23:52.079
like four years between her and her oldest brother. She

961
01:23:52.840 --> 01:23:57.239
her oldest her oldest brother's friends would come round and

962
01:23:58.479 --> 01:24:01.479
I remember her saying, oh, can I come with you?

963
01:24:02.119 --> 01:24:04.399
Because they'd all go out, and she said, no, go away,

964
01:24:04.840 --> 01:24:07.720
because I didn't want this little girl coming around. He

965
01:24:07.760 --> 01:24:11.840
didn't want her pestuing them. And the other his friends

966
01:24:11.840 --> 01:24:14.239
would say go away, go away. They didn't want a

967
01:24:14.239 --> 01:24:19.960
pest in them. And then when she was about fifteen sixteen,

968
01:24:22.880 --> 01:24:26.880
they didn't seem to mind her hanging around anymore. And

969
01:24:30.079 --> 01:24:34.159
I remember when I think she's about seventeen or eighteen,

970
01:24:34.359 --> 01:24:38.960
and there was literally a cue of men or boys

971
01:24:41.000 --> 01:24:46.359
trying to win her heart. It was seriously like knocking

972
01:24:46.399 --> 01:24:50.199
on the door and following her around like little puppies.

973
01:24:51.680 --> 01:24:58.079
It was very funny, and that boost of confidence. I mean,

974
01:24:58.119 --> 01:25:05.359
that would have been happening any way. But I guess

975
01:25:05.600 --> 01:25:17.800
the that personality change just from having one like Mark removed.

976
01:25:18.079 --> 01:25:27.039
One thing changed which made her feel different. And there's

977
01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:31.720
a whole book called Cybernetics. It's Cybernetics. It's a very

978
01:25:31.760 --> 01:25:38.039
famous book about a plastic surgeon, and it's written by

979
01:25:38.079 --> 01:25:42.439
a plastic surgeon, and he noticed that the personality changes

980
01:25:42.479 --> 01:25:46.960
in people that had work done, and how it was.

981
01:25:48.560 --> 01:25:55.920
He couldn't believe the transformation. It could have not on

982
01:25:55.960 --> 01:25:59.520
someone's appearance, because that wouldn't surprise him because that's what

983
01:25:59.520 --> 01:26:01.800
he did for a lot. But he was surprised at

984
01:26:01.840 --> 01:26:07.279
the transformation and personality, and he wrote a whole book

985
01:26:07.319 --> 01:26:10.960
about it, Cybernetics, and I used to have it. I've

986
01:26:11.239 --> 01:26:14.640
read it a few times, and it's quite a big

987
01:26:14.720 --> 01:26:22.159
book in the self help like literature library thing. It's cybernetics,

988
01:26:22.239 --> 01:26:27.640
cyber cybernetics, something like that. Yeah, it's a good book.

989
01:26:29.000 --> 01:26:32.039
It's very interesting. I mean, it kind of makes sense.

990
01:26:32.119 --> 01:26:42.079
But at the same time, it's like, really, maybe maybe

991
01:26:42.079 --> 01:26:45.560
that's what I should have done. Maybe if I had

992
01:26:45.560 --> 01:26:54.520
a bit of surgery, I could increase my confidence, have

993
01:26:54.640 --> 01:26:57.680
it shortened or something. You know, it's just too big.

994
01:26:58.159 --> 01:27:02.239
I don't know, just to have my nose. Yeah, but

995
01:27:02.279 --> 01:27:12.720
I don't know. Maybe I don't know what i'd have

996
01:27:12.800 --> 01:27:14.720
to as there's a few things I could probably do.

997
01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:21.520
In fact, I'm pretty sure if I went to a

998
01:27:21.560 --> 01:27:28.560
plastic surgeon and said, just list all the things that

999
01:27:28.640 --> 01:27:36.000
I need doing, would be there for a while. You'd

1000
01:27:36.039 --> 01:27:38.439
have to cancel all his clients for about a week

1001
01:27:39.079 --> 01:27:40.840
just so he could list off all the things that

1002
01:27:40.880 --> 01:27:48.159
I needed doing. Probably, but I won't be having anything.

1003
01:27:49.279 --> 01:27:51.520
I don't think i'll have anything done in the future.

1004
01:27:55.640 --> 01:28:01.600
I don't know. Yeah, I could have done in the

1005
01:28:01.640 --> 01:28:05.920
past if I wanted to, didn't really. I guess the

1006
01:28:05.960 --> 01:28:11.439
way I see it is take me for what I am,

1007
01:28:12.119 --> 01:28:17.640
take me for how I am. And I'm not going

1008
01:28:17.680 --> 01:28:22.880
to wear, you know, tall shoes to make myself look taller.

1009
01:28:23.720 --> 01:28:27.720
I'm not going to dye my hair to pretend that

1010
01:28:27.800 --> 01:28:31.319
I'm not going gray. I'm not going to get a

1011
01:28:31.399 --> 01:28:37.199
hair transplant in my bald spots. Not there's anything wrong

1012
01:28:37.199 --> 01:28:38.960
with doing any of those things, but I'm just not

1013
01:28:39.000 --> 01:28:43.399
going to do any of that stuff. And I'm not

1014
01:28:43.439 --> 01:28:50.039
going to pretend I'm a different age. Things I can do,

1015
01:28:50.680 --> 01:28:58.720
I suppose practical logical things is take better care of myself,

1016
01:28:59.520 --> 01:29:08.880
eat a better diet, exercise more. Yeah, those kinds of things.

1017
01:29:10.439 --> 01:29:19.279
Basic stuff, really, isn't it. But I found that one way,

1018
01:29:19.800 --> 01:29:27.039
it's a shortcut with dieting, wear bigger clothes. Seriously, if

1019
01:29:27.039 --> 01:29:30.600
you wear bigger tops, really like large tops, extra extra

1020
01:29:30.680 --> 01:29:35.680
extra large, almost looks like you've lost weight. It works.

1021
01:29:37.319 --> 01:29:42.239
I do it. I literally do that now, although some

1022
01:29:42.319 --> 01:29:44.960
of my tops are just a bit bagger, because I

1023
01:29:45.000 --> 01:29:49.680
have actually lost weight, not recently, but last year I did.

1024
01:29:49.760 --> 01:29:53.600
I lost a stone and I haven't put it back

1025
01:29:53.640 --> 01:29:57.439
on because I stopped having sugar in my tea and

1026
01:29:57.600 --> 01:29:59.960
I cut down. I stopped having I didn't don't drink

1027
01:30:00.079 --> 01:30:07.680
hook anymore, and I have minimum minimum amount chocolate. I

1028
01:30:07.760 --> 01:30:16.680
used to eat chocolate every single day. So yeah, and

1029
01:30:16.760 --> 01:30:25.199
that I do believe laddies and gentlemen is the end

1030
01:30:25.439 --> 01:30:33.159
of this recording. Me me, me, me me, So thank

1031
01:30:33.159 --> 01:30:38.039
you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because

1032
01:30:38.079 --> 01:30:42.720
you do deserve to be happy and be gentle of yourself.

1033
01:30:44.479 --> 01:30:52.159
You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love, Bye,