Aug. 11, 2025

(no music) SHOES | Mondays Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1410 | Jason Newland | 11th August 2025

(no music) SHOES | Mondays Boring Objects | LMBYTS #1410 | Jason Newland | 11th August 2025
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Hello, and welcome to jasondewland dot com. My name is

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Jason new Land. This is let me Buoy to sleep.

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Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

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And this is ma Day's boy in Objects. Yeah, so

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will I try and think of a subject or an

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object to be boring about. What's the latest in my life?

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Oh itchy M had a really weird dream last night,

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and I woke up extra early. What I did go

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to bed extra early as well, but I woke up

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and I thought I'm just going to stay up, so

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I did. And then this morning because I think last

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night I was working out what was I yeah, I

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think it might have been. Last night I was working

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out what hypnosis recording to do next, and I decided

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on doing a recording for bruxism, which is grinding teeth

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usually when people were asleep. And this morning I start

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doing a recording. I'm sitting here doing it. Twenty minutes in.

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It's going pretty well, I feel and I realize I've

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not pressed a record button, and I go back to bed.

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I'm furious. So what I did this afternoon? I gave

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it another attempt. At this time I completed it and

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I couldn't believe it was not nearly two hours long.

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I think it's an hour and fifty five minutes. So

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it took it's a very thorough recording, and it took

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quite a long time to edit and to process and

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all that. So I feel like it's sort of taken

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up most of the day. Really, that's okay. I'm quite

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pleased with it kind of. It's just I mean, I'll

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ask for a favor here from anyone that's listening if

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I do a recording that, let's say hypnosis recording that

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fits in with something that you would use. For example,

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I did a loop as one the other day. I've

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done I've done a few different ones recently, and if

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you remember what would maybe share it on your Facebook page.

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And also if you're a member of a group on

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Facebook or some other social network site, perhaps you could

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share that recording because it's quite hard for me to

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share it myself because a lot of groups class that

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has spam if I start sharing my own stuff, no

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matter how good intentioned or maybe useful it might be.

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So you know, that's something to think about. Maybe if

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it's possible, it would definitely help. Other than that, I've

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been out a couple of times. Today had a showered

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as morning. Exciting stuff. It's been quite a warm day

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and I got my window open and the soundproof and

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curtains not completely covering the window, so you might hear

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some background sounds a little bit, although even with the

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soundproofing there was still background sounds as well earlier. But

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for some reason, it was a relatively quiet day in

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the garden today, which was nice. Normally I have to

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wait for the winter for that to happen. I feeling

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quite tired. Actually, I'm nearly ready for bed. I mean

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it's only half past seven. Oh the sound has started.

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I'm not going to block it out. I'm just gonna

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leave it as it is because it's too warm to

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have the window closed. So yeah, that's it. Really, there's

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not much left. Not really else happened to Oh. I

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got a letter from the the doctor's surgery a few

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days ago telling me I needed to make an appointment

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to get a mental health review, my anal mental health review,

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and if I didn't contact them, as basically, if I

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didn't attend the appointment, my medication would be reduced to

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once a week, so I'd have to collect it once

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a week instead of once a month, which seems a

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little bit heavy handed. I can't look quite sure why

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they were threatening that. I've never had a problem with

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them before. And they had a telephone number to call,

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so I called the number. I think it maybe it's

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like a specialized number, but it wasn't. It was just

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a doctor's surgery. And I got through and it said

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click here for appointments. So I'll click the number for appointments,

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and it said you have to go online. You can't

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do appointments on the phone anymore. We don't take appointments. No.

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I'm like, okay, that's that's just I mean, I suppose

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I am fairly internet savvy to a degree, but I

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do think about people that aren't and how this whole

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digital only, internet only kind of service does not It

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doesn't serve a large well not maybe you're not not

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a big percentage, but it's still a hard population of

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people in this country, millions that it can struggle with

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that all they want to do is make an appointment.

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Phone a number and make an appointment. But no, you've

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got to go online, and you've got to do this,

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and you've got to do that. I don't know, I

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just don't think it's going in the right direction. To

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be fair, I'm just moaning for the sake of moaning. Yeah,

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I don't really like it either. I want to be

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able to just phone up speak to a human. I'm

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the same when it comes to shops as well. I

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won't use the self service unless I really have to,

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although I don't you know, I don't go out that often,

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but the previous couple of months I have been going

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to the whole hospital and using the shops in the hospital,

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wh Smith's, Marks and Spencers and Cost to Coffee, those

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sort of three places that I went into. Costa Coffee,

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it's fine, you deal with human, don you and just

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pay card or cash. Wh Smith's have a self service,

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but they also have a till with a human as

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well in that place, so I do get the impression

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of the staff. It's a bit of an inconvenience for

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the staff member. When you go and stand waiting to

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pay at the till, It's like, who are you doing

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that for? You can go and pay over there on

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the robot machine thing. I don't want to, So yeah,

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that's and also Marks and Spencer's in there. I think

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there's like four machines, maybe more. Actually, yeah, they did

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have a little till, tiny little till area with a

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human and I queued up for that. I just yeah,

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I just it's always been a little just a slight

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annoyance to me right from the start, right from you. However,

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many years, twenty years maybe longer, since self service machines

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started out, and there was you know, even though it's

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a naughty and I did try them out, but I

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just found them to be not very good either. What

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did they used to say, Oh, can you move your

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stuff out of the carrier bag section or I don't know. So, yeah,

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it's never really not a big fan of the old

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self service. McDonald's have self service now, but you can

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also order it the till as well. I suppose the

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only self service that I've ever really kind of embraced

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was cashpoint machines, because that's a self service, isn't it

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self service? Banking till It's almost like a banking window,

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self service, isn't it. I mean, there was a time.

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I don't think they do it now, but they might

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still do it. I don't know. I've not tried. Thirty

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dd years ago. Used to be able to put money

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into the machine. It's true. It wasn't just taking money out.

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You could put money in, money in. It's true. Yeah,

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it's been a while since that happened for me anyway.

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I mean, I've not attempted to do it, but maybe

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it's still available. I don't think it is, but it

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could be. I don't know. I'm not sure. I've been

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thinking about Uncle's Sausages and whether or not to try

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and get up to Northern Ireland to because basically he's

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having his cremation here near the end of the month

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and then what's probably about a week and a half

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actually no, yeah, like about about two weeks and his

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actually has been sent to Northern Ireland and there's going

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to be a ceremony there for him. With the Boy's Brigade,

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which is uncle Sausages used to be in a Boy's Brigade.

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I think he might have been in it as well

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when he's a kid, but he also is in it

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as an adult running it. Helped to run it. He's

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one of the I don't know, soldiers or officers or whatever.

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So he's very passionate about that, and I did think

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about maybe trying to get up there for that and

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then maybe moving from Northern Ireland into Ireland and visiting

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a couple of friends that live in Ireland, and also

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making a bit of a is it homage, I don't know,

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a visit to Andre, my original friend Andre, to his grave,

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who was my friend in the nineties. He's who are

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named Andre, Andre after you know, little Andrea the ferret

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because they used to call him no legs. That used

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to be his nickname at work, Andre, which is weird

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because I mean, it was trying to make out that

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he was sure, but he was probably taller than me.

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He probably five eight five nine. He wasn't tall, but

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he was still you know what I mean. It's like

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they called him. Everyone had nicknames except me, which makes

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me wonder what my nickname was because no one told me.

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Although in the canteen at one of my jobs, I

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used to get called professor because I was wearing glasses.

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It shows the level of the level of where I

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was working. Although saying that they were really nice, both

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the ladies that worked there, I really liked them a lot.

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They were good. They knew my name as well. They

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just decided the professor was a better name. Plus I

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worked there for years and years, on and off. I

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dreamt about being there the other day, being back there.

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I don't know if it was last night or if

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it was the night before, but it was another weird dream.

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And went back to Yeah, trying to figure out where

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I lived where, you know, maybe living in three different places.

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And I remember asking someone to knock on someone's door

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a previous place I lived, and asked him if I

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still lived there or not. I couldn't remember if I

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still had some of my belongings there, which makes me think,

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what should I talk about today? Have I talked about

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all the different places I've lived? I think I have.

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I've talked about the jobs I've had. I've talked about

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girlfriends I've had. I've talked about talked about my nan

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talked about step mummies, talked about karate, talked about boxing,

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talked about Taekwondu martial arts, body building. Last week, Yeah,

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and that was the subject. I think it was last week.

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It was last week or the week before. I talked

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about my book collection, although my book collection is now

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much sparser than it was. The main pretty much the

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only books, but not the only books, but most of

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the books I've got now are just the hypnosis books,

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because that's now what I'm focusing on, as well as

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doing this to let me boys asleep. I'm going to

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continue doing this because this is the most fun. But

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I'm going to continue and really, I think put more

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effort into making hypnosis recordings for issues, problems, medical conditions,

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things like that that perhaps I haven't done before. So

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instead of just focusing on pay relief, relaxation or sleep,

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I'm going to I'm starting to broaden out, which I

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have done before. I mean, it's not the first time

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I've done lots of different recordings over the years, lots lots,

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but this is the first time I've really kind of

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started to expand on expand something other than my waistline, really,

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because I've done quite a few different recordings, very different

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types of recordings the last week or so. I intend

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to continue with that because it takes a lot of work,

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a lot of energy, a lot of concentration, but I

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think at the end of it, it's worth it. Yeah,

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that's what I'm thinking. At least, I hope so at

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least I hope so at least the hopes of what's

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that three three times? Okay, one more time? At least

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I hope. So what are the things? What haven't I

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talked about? To Enails? Can I do a whole hour

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about toe nails? I mean if I could, I probably could,

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but just see wrong, it seems immoral. Underpants, Yeah, perhaps

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I won't do that. Shoes, Shoes, Okay, I'm going to

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talk about shoes. That's boring. That's boring. I've never talked

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about shoes before. The different shoes that I've had over

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the years. Wow, it's quite hard to remember too far back,

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because shoes is not something. I've never really been a

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fan of shoes. I mean, they're handy, but I don't

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think I've ever generally bought a pair of shoes and

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been super excited about it generally. I mean maybe there

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has been a couple of times, but not really. I

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can't really remember shoes I had as a kid, like

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a little kid, but I'm pretty sure I had sandals,

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and it probably wasn't the right thing to do, but

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they used to be called Jesus sandals in the UK

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back in the seventies, like latest middle to late seventies,

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and they were just sandals with the toes. You could

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see the toes and whatever. And so I had them,

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not something I would have now. I mean, I think

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my toes do not. My toes are not for public viewing, Yeah,

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I think not for public scrutiny. And then flip flop.

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That's something I used to wear when I was a kid,

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and I'd always disliked them so impractical, and flip flop

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is probably the best, the best name for anything ever

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because they literally did go flip flop, flip flop. They

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sound silly, they felt silly, they looked silly. I just

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didn't like them. Never liked flip flops, and although I do,

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I'm quite enjoying saying the word flip flop though for

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some reason. It's just as a little kid, I used

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to like running around and you can't run around with

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those things because they keep falling off sandals. I found

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much more to my like him because they did stay

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on because I had straps and stuff. Although I found

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them a little bit cumbersome, which is a word I

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used a lot when I was seven years old. Cumbersome, cumbersome?

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What it was a dinner? Okay, Jason, Yeah it was cumbersome. Thanks,

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And what was your Christmas? Like? Very cumbersome? So yeah,

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I was flip flops. Wellies Wellington boots used to have

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a pair of them, which is kind of needed in

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this country because of the rain and the weather and stuff.

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So I had wellies, which was a very popular thing

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for pretty much everyone to wear in the late seventies

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and in the eighties. Don't see young people walking around

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in wellies anymore, but used to see it a lot

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when I was a kid. When I say young people,

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I mean like teenagers and stuff. I used to wear

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wellies when I was a teenager. To be fair, I

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probably was the only one. I was never up to

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date with fashion. Oh I really wasn't. I was always

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so slow. I mean I remember when I got my

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first BMX. I bought a BMX bike from the catalog,

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and I paid for it myself from my pocket money.

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And I might know my pocket money from my news

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paper round money. And I went next door to ask

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them to help me learn some tricks because they had

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BMX bikes, but they were in they were in line

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with fashion, so I was about two years too late.

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And they said, well, moved on from that. We don't

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ride BMX bikes anymore. We don't do tricks anymore. Did

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you not notice, I said, here, And I said, can

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you teach me some breakdancing moves on the liner? And

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they said, no, we haven't done that for probably five years,

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four years because there was little There were certain things

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that were really popular in the eighties when I was

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at school. Breakdancing was one. BMX bikes was another. Possibly

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skate skate skateboarding possibly, but I think I know definitely

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BMX bikes and breakdancing the two things. I didn't even

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attempt breakdancing, which is kind of weird because I possibly

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it may have been quite good at that because I

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was quite nimble as a kid, but I didn't like

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the idea of people watching me. And it was always

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the kids that did the breakdancing were always like a

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group of kids, the popular kids and the ones that

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were kind of in a gang, kind of like not

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a gangang but a gang bangang, but you know, kind

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of the popular kids or getting together and stuff. And

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I was never part of any kind of popular group,

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popular gang. I just had individual friends who almost liked

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school colleagues. Really, so I knew different kids at school

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that I'd talked to, but it was only really like

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have close friendship with a couple. So and my next

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door neighbors, A couple of kids there. One was a

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year younger than me, when was two years younger than

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me and I were both cool. But they like literally

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they were cool. They was the cool kids. Always had

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the latest clothing, the latest. They were just on the

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ball with that stuff. And they were really popular as well.

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And there wasn't I wasn't in their friendship group, even

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though they went to school with me, and I used

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to say low to them. But they were my next

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door neighbors, so I'd known them for well from seventy

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nine to eighty six, so I've known them for a

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long time, you know. So it's just almost like they

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were just there and we were there, but never really.

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I mean, I think I sometimes went around their house,

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but generally not much. I don't think so. I think

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they probably did because I know that their dad, my

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dad or friends. Yeah, because you know what I say,

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good neighbors become good friends. M hmm, what am I

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talking about? Shoes? Yeah, so Wellington boots. I had those.

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I remember when I was about seven or eight. Yeah.

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We moved into this council house, which then became my

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non and granddad's house. After when we moved out when

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I was about nine, just before I was nine, we

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moved into a different house, but we lived there for

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a year or so, a year and a half maybe.

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I liked that house. That was my favorite family time

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in that council house. And I was seven, so it

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was the first time I'd ever had my own bedroom

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on my own and it's the first time that we

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kind of had the first time I had a family

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really since the age of six months or whatever. So

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the first time like all the family were together, like

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my three brother me and my two brothers and my

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dad and you know, his new wife. But it was

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the first time I kind of been in a family unit.

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So and I was the little baby of the family.

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And I used to ride on my dad's shoulders when

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he was walking. I'd be go, giardy up, giardy up,

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stuff like that, slapping him on the head. Brilliant. We

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was in the car, I'd be on my step moms,

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so I used to call a mum on her lap,

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cuddling up to her. It was absolutely brilliant. Honestly, it

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was great times for me, and there was there was

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a lot of nice memories from that time. I can

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remember some of them. But because it was a new

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build there was still there's still houses being built when

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we moved in, and the ground hadn't settled properly, so

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the garden outside it wasn't a garden, it was just mud.

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And we all went into the mud with our Wellington

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boots on and I got stuck. My dad had to

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pick me up out of the mud, out of the

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Wellington boots. My Wellington boots were still in there, they're

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probably still there now because I just literally could not move.

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I didn't have the strength, the physical strength because the

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mud was so deep. It was kind of like quicksand

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it wasn't, but it was like my version of Quicksand

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in my mind after having seen I mean, there was

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a lot of Quicksand on movies and TV back then,

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all the Tarsan movies. Quicksand was in quite a lot

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of those, some of the seventies eighties, seventies TV shows

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Quicksand I'm trying to say Quicksand without whistling Quicksand. So

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that was fun. And I remember we got there was

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a blizzard in the winter, and I'm guessing that was

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probably nineteen seventy eight, and we got blocked in. We

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woke cup couldn't get out the back, and it was

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literally just solid snow, you know. I was like six

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foot high solid just out the back, and then at

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the front it was all solid. It was like really

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up against it. But I think my dad, I think

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the door opened from the inside. I think the front door.

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I loved that house because my nan and grand had

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stayed there. My nan stayed there, you know, on her own,

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from ninety one all the way to about two thousand

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and hmmm, I don't know, eleven, maybe twenty ten, eleven,

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twenty twelve, twos one of them. So she stayed there

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for a long time on her own. And it's weird

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because it had the same feeling. There was a feeling

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that that was for me, that was the family home.

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That was a place where I had my happiest memories

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as a kid, even though I wasn't there for long.

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But also, you know, throughout my life visiting my nand

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you know, as an adult, as a kid and as

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a teenager and as an adult all the way up

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till you know, ten years ago. And yes, it's quite

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a nice fuzzy little feeling around my left knee. I'm

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hoping it will spread. But that's where it is at

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the moment. It's not I don't know why I said.

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That's weird, wasn't it. The good thing about this is

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we've got the day off though, because that's no no school,

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no school. Yes, result, And my dad cleared the front out,

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you know, he got rid of He cleared the pathway out,

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the front left, he left the back because it just

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had to wait for it to kind of dissolve a

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little bit because it was so full on. So we

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just left that. He waited a while, and then then

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I think we all kind of got involved and kind

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of moved it off. Because I built an igloo. I

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did generally, I bought. I built an iglu, and do

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I say bought. I built an iglu, and I used

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a mixture of mud and ice as cement. It's still

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there today. It was that good. Actually, I think of

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what I've just been mud, No, it was. There was

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definitely some icing hold because I actually because I was

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quite specific and I I cut the ice into bits

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and made proper bricks and did it that way. So yeah,

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I didn't mess around. I did it properly, I thought,

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and I made really and hours and hours and hours

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doing this thing. It's very, very pleased with it. But

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I remember the snow is so deep. It was it

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was up to my waist I think in parts. But

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at the same time, I was or eight years old

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and I was probably about three foot tall, so it

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probably wasn't that deep apart from the bits that got

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blown into a heap, but it was deep enough for

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everything to be closed. Brilliant day. That was a really

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good day. I'm not sure if it's the only day.

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It might have been more than one, but I remember

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my dad taking me and my two brothers behind the

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house and there was this slope which was just directly

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behind the house, and there was a motorway running across,

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so this slope, him and my two brothers were kind

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of sliding on a sled. I just watched because I

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didn't want anything to do with it. I wasn't really

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much of a risk taker. And I like my oldest brother.

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He was four years older than me, so he was

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like eleven twelve or whatever, I don't know, eight nine, ten,

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eleven twelve, so he was just having fun. He wasn't

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really scared of stuff like that. My other brother, the

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younger than him. So he was two years older than me.

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He wasn't scared of nothing. Ever, you know, he'd jumped

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out of a plane with a parachute at that age.

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It wouldn't have scared him. He just fearless. I was

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a little bit different. I just for me. I couldn't

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see the point in sliding down on a sled made

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a plastic heading towards a fence, Like, how's it going

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to stop? How am I going to stop this thing?

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And then my two brothers at the bottom saying will

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stop you? Like, yeah, okay, yeah, you know I'd spent

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eight years in my life with these two blokes, these

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two older lads, I knew not to trust them. By

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them say that they'd stopped me from going headfirst into

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the fence meant that I was probably going to end

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up going headfirst into the fence, and if I didn't

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reach the fence, they'd probably put push me into the feds.

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So yeah, because I was the youngest, I got a

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bit of the brunt of that at that time. But

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you know what, here's something that is an acknowledgment that, well,

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they won't get to the ears that it's needed. I'll

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say it out loud anyway, my oldest brother four years

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older than me. For a period of my life, he

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was like a father figure, however ridiculous that might sound.

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So when I was really little, he used to be

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put in charge of looking after me and my other brother.

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So let's say I was four, my other brother was sick,

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and my oldest brother was eight. We'd be left for

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days and my brother would be looking after us, make

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sure it'd be eight, make sure we were safe. And

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he was eight years old. I saw him as an adult.

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And also the fact that he was always much much

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taller than me, Like, I know, he's four years older,

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but he's like six' four or, something And i'm five.

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EIGHT i wasn't. Then i'd have loved to be in

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five eight WHEN i was four years. Old, Wow i'd

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be an absolute giant by now. Anyway, Yeah SO i

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didn't appreciate him at that, time AND i don't think

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it's ever been appreciated what he. Did how much was

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put on his little, Shoulders this eight year old looking

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after two younger brothers for long periods of time on his.

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Own it's, yeah it's. Weird so he was even when

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he was in the children same he was the father.

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Figure even, THEN i listened to him what he said

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when you, KNOW i did what he told. Me and

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then when we all moved to live with my, Dad

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so he was eleven at this, point WHEN i was,

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Seven my other brother was, Nine my oldest brother was.

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Eleven he went from being in charge to being a little.

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Kid AND i don't think he knew how to handle

470
00:42:54.199 --> 00:42:56.440
being a little kid because he'd never been a little

471
00:42:56.519 --> 00:43:03.159
kid before for a long long, time not since he

472
00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:13.960
was four or, five, yeah, four four and a, half, five,

473
00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:18.280
SIX i don't, know, six it was, Six so we'd

474
00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:21.360
had six years or five years of being like an,

475
00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:26.039
adult and then suddenly he was a. Kid SO i

476
00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:29.599
think that was a bit of a, yeah a bit

477
00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:39.159
of a shock to his. System. Yeah, anyway it's not

478
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:41.159
really got anything to do with, shoes is it just

479
00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:52.400
a bit of personal. REFLECTION i GUESS i used to. Have,

480
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:55.400
SEE i didn't Really, OKAY i. DID i did get

481
00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:57.119
a choice of what SHOES i had WHEN i was at,

482
00:43:57.119 --> 00:44:00.920
school but it really was a case of these or,

483
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:05.320
these you, KNOW i had to every year BEFORE i

484
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:07.559
started the new, Year i'd go and get some new,

485
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:12.519
shoes new school, uniform and BECAUSE i normally would have

486
00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:22.079
grown a little. Bit sometimes if i'd grown a, bit you,

487
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:23.960
know if my feet had grown a bit too, much

488
00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:28.840
or the fit shoes are falling apart, HERE i might

489
00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:33.840
get some new shoes halfway through the. Year SO i,

490
00:44:33.880 --> 00:44:38.639
WENT i, REMEMBER i think it was in the fourth

491
00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:43.480
yearth high, school maybe the third, year AND i bought these,

492
00:44:43.519 --> 00:44:46.159
shoes AND i thought it would be a good idea

493
00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:51.840
to buy ones With, okay not a high. Heel there

494
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:56.199
weren't high heel, shoes but they had a heel on,

495
00:44:56.239 --> 00:45:02.360
them or they had a fair bit of sponge at

496
00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:05.760
the bottom of, them which added a good inch to,

497
00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:07.760
me and as we all, know an inches a hell

498
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:13.320
of a. Lot, NOW i was pleased with these. Shoes

499
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:19.599
but they were quite, big they were quite. Bulky they're

500
00:45:19.639 --> 00:45:28.079
a little Bit herman. Monstery AND i, THOUGHT i just

501
00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:30.840
walk into. SCHOOL i, mean it's, LIKE i don't know

502
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:35.119
how many hundreds of kids were in that, school maybe

503
00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:38.719
maybe even a. THOUSAND i don't know however many kids

504
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:43.840
were in that, school at least five, hundred possibly maybe,

505
00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:49.119
more maybe a. THOUSAND i don't. Know why would anyone

506
00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:52.480
take any notice of my? Shoes was my kind of.

507
00:45:52.599 --> 00:46:03.880
Theory in my, EXPERIENCE i found that people have a

508
00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:10.400
tendency of focus on the wrong, thing you, know on

509
00:46:10.519 --> 00:46:18.079
the wrong. Thing so going to school thinking not really

510
00:46:18.079 --> 00:46:22.559
thinking anything of. It maybe people might notice That i've

511
00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:33.440
grown an extra inch. Overnight it's, possible but, no it

512
00:46:33.519 --> 00:46:43.840
is like within minutes of me walking into the, classroom

513
00:46:44.119 --> 00:46:50.119
my new nickname was beatle crushes because of my, shoes

514
00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:53.639
because they were so. BIG i was wearing beetle. Crushes

515
00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:56.440
that's what they were. Saying that's my new, name Beatle.

516
00:46:56.519 --> 00:47:07.119
Crushes so nicknames at School New Zealand, lamb beetle, Crushes,

517
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:13.320
specky WHEN i got my, glasses it's very. Original the

518
00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:15.920
other Thing i've talked about this, before but this was

519
00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:23.239
during Grain. Chill there was an event where this late

520
00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:28.880
this girl kept Saying, Roland, ROLAND i care about You,

521
00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:33.440
rowland Because roland was one of the characters and this

522
00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:36.280
girl was something in love with him or, SOMETHING i

523
00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:42.519
care about You. Rowland and there was this particular episode

524
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:46.199
that she kept saying, it and the next DAY i

525
00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:50.039
coming to school and ALL i got all day was New,

526
00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:56.960
land New, LAND i care about you New. Land i'm

527
00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:59.920
not even joking and went on and on and. On

528
00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:09.599
it's sometimes you've got so BAD i just had to urilate,

529
00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:13.440
myself just sort of start giving me a different, name you. Know,

530
00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:22.639
Anyway SO i had various pairs of. Trainers if you

531
00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:26.119
might live in a country where they're wrongly called, sneakers

532
00:48:26.679 --> 00:48:30.920
but trainers is the correct. WORD i never understood why

533
00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:34.480
are they called sneakers because you can sneak around in

534
00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:38.519
them without anyone hearing. You that's a bit, dodgy isn't.

535
00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:43.239
It that's a bit that's a bit. Wrong it's a bit. Criminal.

536
00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:52.320
Criminal so SO i used to wear trainers or football

537
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:57.840
boots at, school you, know for. Football HAD i had,

538
00:48:57.880 --> 00:49:04.199
those had trainers for the other STUFF i. DID i

539
00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:10.199
used to oh, wow talking about boots or talking about food,

540
00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:18.719
boobs not, boobs boots or well. Footwear, really WHEN i

541
00:49:18.760 --> 00:49:23.239
was in THE Ci, CADETS i had these. Boots and

542
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:26.400
part of the if you don't if you know anything

543
00:49:26.440 --> 00:49:31.760
about THE Ci cadets or The Army, cadets or probably

544
00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:37.280
The Rawal Air Force cadets there or, there used to

545
00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:42.599
be a big thing about making the fronts of the

546
00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:51.440
boots really, shiny like almost like. Mirrors AND i used

547
00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:53.440
to do this with my brother because he was in

548
00:49:53.480 --> 00:50:02.079
The what was he? In he was in THE. Raf

549
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:04.440
he was in The Air, cadets not The aria, acadet

550
00:50:04.639 --> 00:50:07.760
The air. Cadets so my older brother was in The air.

551
00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:11.079
CADETS i was in The. ARMY i was in The

552
00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:21.360
Navy sea. Cadets BlimE, me SO i. Was he was

553
00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:24.079
in The air. CADETS i was in the sea. Cadets

554
00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:29.480
what do they just call? Them THE raf cadets and

555
00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:34.400
The navy. CADETS i don't. Know so, anyway we used

556
00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:37.679
to do our boots, together and part of the thing

557
00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:43.920
was to put polish, on melt the polish with a,

558
00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:48.360
lighter and then have a little bowls of water in

559
00:50:48.519 --> 00:50:54.760
and a cloth and then just basically do circles in.

560
00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:59.199
It we'd spend hours doing. That what a waste of

561
00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:03.599
time it really. Was and THEN i get to The

562
00:51:03.639 --> 00:51:07.119
Sea cadets on A tuesday Or thursday night And i'd do,

563
00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:13.400
it and sometimes the one of the officers would, say,

564
00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:16.039
oh that's not done good, enough and it'd literally stand

565
00:51:17.679 --> 00:51:22.679
on my shoe And i'd spent maybe four hours shining.

566
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:27.400
Them other, times sometimes other cadets would do it just

567
00:51:27.400 --> 00:51:33.800
as a. Joke, YEAH i didn't go down well with,

568
00:51:33.880 --> 00:51:40.360
me BUT i managed to do. IT i managed to sort.

569
00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:43.159
OF i even got the. Smell it's kind of stuck

570
00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:49.840
in my, head that smell of polish and like burning

571
00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:57.119
polish and damp. Cloth and, yeah it was there's a

572
00:51:57.199 --> 00:52:02.360
degree of satisfaction doing, it but it was also a

573
00:52:02.440 --> 00:52:10.039
percentage of absolute pointlessness doing it as. Well so IT'S

574
00:52:11.119 --> 00:52:16.599
i guess back THEN i didn't realize how valuable time,

575
00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:23.159
was but it. IS i, MEAN i don't think it

576
00:52:23.239 --> 00:52:26.400
taught me, anything you. KNOW i think it's supposed to teach,

577
00:52:29.239 --> 00:52:35.679
discipline self, respect stuff like, that AND i don't know

578
00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:39.920
any of that or any of that. Stuff i've never

579
00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:48.159
had any self respect or. Pride nh hasn't really hasn't

580
00:52:48.159 --> 00:52:52.039
really raised its head my voice About. Kroggy it's probably

581
00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:56.639
BECAUSE i spent two hours making a recording, earlier and

582
00:52:56.679 --> 00:53:05.679
also Because i'm sitting. Here we've got that crutched. OVER I,

583
00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:11.119
hinnie sorry you're DID i wake you? Up and so

584
00:53:11.239 --> 00:53:14.719
that's another bit of footwear THAT i probably spent the

585
00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:18.039
most of the amount of time doing. That he's looking

586
00:53:18.079 --> 00:53:20.880
at me, like, oh what are you, doing? Daddy what

587
00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:27.360
are you. Doing and then WHEN i left, school he

588
00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:29.960
keeps looking back at. Me what is it you want

589
00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:33.199
me to just tickle your? Nose do to tickle your?

590
00:53:33.239 --> 00:53:37.519
Nose do you like? That do you like? That, okay

591
00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:47.119
just stroking his. Nose he's liking. That so WHEN i left,

592
00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:53.880
SCHOOL i suddenly had a bit more options in a

593
00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:56.920
sense OF i was getting, PAID i had money coming. In,

594
00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:06.760
HOWEVER i went between wearing absolute grotty clothes WHERE i was,

595
00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:14.599
working including horrible and trainers that were wearing away and

596
00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:16.800
they were getting wet every TIME i was working in.

597
00:54:16.840 --> 00:54:20.360
Them then he just did a little growl at. Me

598
00:54:24.199 --> 00:54:27.159
but during that period WHEN i first started working, THERE

599
00:54:27.400 --> 00:54:30.559
i was buying myself some nice clothes to wear WHEN

600
00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:35.039
i wasn't at. Work and because one of the just

601
00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:38.119
in his name was he was still at, school so

602
00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:41.400
he was like a year younger than. Me so, yeah

603
00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:44.880
he was still at school and he was part time

604
00:54:44.960 --> 00:54:50.119
working in the chip, shop and he took me shopping

605
00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:55.639
because he was super, fashionable a bit like my next

606
00:54:55.639 --> 00:54:58.199
door neighbors were as. Well he was like he had

607
00:54:58.880 --> 00:55:03.320
the thing at the time was baggy trousers and everything

608
00:55:03.320 --> 00:55:07.800
about him was a. Maculate his haircut all his. Clothing

609
00:55:08.039 --> 00:55:12.679
he was just so like that was his. Thing so

610
00:55:13.119 --> 00:55:15.599
he kind of tried to tidy me up a little,

611
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:18.760
bit and it took To he took me to a

612
00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:22.199
couple of his secret shops that he went. TO i

613
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:24.760
mean there weren't, secret but they were places that were

614
00:55:24.800 --> 00:55:27.960
a little bit of the off the beaten, track as it,

615
00:55:28.039 --> 00:55:33.119
were in a different. Town and so instead of going

616
00:55:33.199 --> 00:55:38.239
to next or to some of the more, frank you,

617
00:55:38.280 --> 00:55:42.239
know the the shops in the TOWN i was, living

618
00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:45.159
he took me to a different place where you'd get something.

619
00:55:45.199 --> 00:55:56.800
Different SO i got these boots from this, shop and

620
00:55:56.840 --> 00:56:03.079
they were like cowboy cowboy, Boots it's. True and they

621
00:56:03.159 --> 00:56:07.159
clicked WHEN i. Walked they clicked WHEN i, walked AND

622
00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:12.639
i loved. THEM i loved my. Boots at this. Time,

623
00:56:12.760 --> 00:56:15.039
YEAH i was still fifteen at this, POINT i, think,

624
00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:20.679
YEAH i would have been still, fifteen AND i loved my.

625
00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:27.360
Boots this is probably the, summertime AND i was just

626
00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:34.440
clicking along AND i was wearing nice. Clothes but then

627
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:37.280
WHEN i went to, WORK i put on these horrible

628
00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:43.199
jeans that were just caked in. Better and WHEN i say,

629
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:49.559
BETTER i mean like fish and chip, better AND i just,

630
00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:55.000
stunk stunk of fish and all kinds of stuff BECAUSE i,

631
00:56:55.039 --> 00:56:57.599
WAS i, mean IF i, was IF i, was IF

632
00:56:57.639 --> 00:57:00.480
i you, know IF i didn't do it, AGAIN i do,

633
00:57:00.639 --> 00:57:06.320
OVER i do things. Differently but WOULD i Because i'd

634
00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:09.599
be that person, again WOULDN'T. I it wouldn't be. ME

635
00:57:11.360 --> 00:57:15.239
i definitely wouldn't do that again BECAUSE i didn't do

636
00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:19.760
my feet any favors wearing those old smelly trainers that

637
00:57:19.840 --> 00:57:22.519
were falling, apart and they were were wet all day.

638
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:31.239
Long and THEN i THINK i might have walred well

639
00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:34.639
in some boots part of it as, well but my

640
00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:37.320
feet was still getting wet WHILE i was going in

641
00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:41.639
and out of the kitchen and stuff. It he's a bit.

642
00:57:41.760 --> 00:57:49.800
Restless SO i liked them boots though they were. Nice

643
00:57:52.119 --> 00:58:00.320
and then NINETEEN i had a funeral to go to

644
00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:06.360
in nineteen eighty, SEVEN i think it, was AND i

645
00:58:06.519 --> 00:58:10.159
bought some, clothes AND i bought some like a, suit

646
00:58:10.280 --> 00:58:20.280
AND i bought some new. Shoes and then during the

647
00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:23.840
late EIGHTIES i used to BUY i think most of

648
00:58:23.920 --> 00:58:31.239
my clothes THAT i got was From next Or marks And,

649
00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:35.960
spencers you, know places like, that just being h Or,

650
00:58:36.079 --> 00:58:41.360
debenhams SO i didn't spend much money on clothes because

651
00:58:41.400 --> 00:58:45.119
WHEN i did buy, something it lasted a long. Time

652
00:58:47.079 --> 00:58:50.719
so let's SAY i spent ten pounds on a pair

653
00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:56.199
of five oh one jeans that you, know that would

654
00:58:56.239 --> 00:58:59.559
be the only Pair i'd buy for a. Year MAYBE

655
00:59:01.880 --> 00:59:05.039
i didn't HAVE i never had a small amount of.

656
00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:11.440
CLOTHES i still. Do, really it's just the way that

657
00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:15.840
Because i've been almost like a bit of a, traveler you,

658
00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:18.719
know moving from place to. Place we know what traveling.

659
00:59:18.920 --> 00:59:23.639
IS i know WHAT i mean is not really. TRAVELING i,

660
00:59:23.719 --> 00:59:28.480
mean As i've traveled a few, distances but it's just

661
00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:32.119
apart from the last ten, Years i've kind of been

662
00:59:32.159 --> 00:59:36.800
on the move a. Lot AND i Think i've moved

663
00:59:36.840 --> 00:59:40.679
about fifty times SINCE i left, school something silly like.

664
00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:45.880
That SO i realized that the more STUFF i, had

665
00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:50.000
the harder it was to. Move the MORE i had to,

666
00:59:50.199 --> 00:59:53.280
carry the MORE i had to you. Know it just

667
00:59:54.800 --> 00:59:56.559
that's why for a lot of the TIME i just

668
00:59:56.679 --> 01:00:05.800
kept things to a. Minimum and THEN i don't remember

669
01:00:06.159 --> 01:00:09.519
what kind of SHOES i had in the late, eighties

670
01:00:11.480 --> 01:00:24.280
really don't, remember or early. NINETIES i kind of can't.

671
01:00:24.360 --> 01:00:28.559
Remember this is. TERRIBLE i can't remember any SHOES i

672
01:00:28.760 --> 01:00:33.000
had throughout a whole. Decade it was that unimportant to.

673
01:00:33.119 --> 01:00:37.280
Me but in the late NINETIES i probably had some nice,

674
01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:44.880
shoes not like super, nice but you, know, pleasant, okay okay.

675
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:56.960
SHOES i mean two, THOUSANDS i started wearing proper shoes

676
01:00:57.800 --> 01:01:02.079
for working in, offices So i'd had black, shoes just

677
01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:10.679
standard boring office, shoes So i'd have that throughout the two.

678
01:01:10.840 --> 01:01:16.360
Thousands in two thousand and, FOUR i went through a

679
01:01:16.519 --> 01:01:23.159
period WHEN i was wearing quite nice. Clothes, no not

680
01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:25.440
two thousand and four, too maybe two thousand and, four

681
01:01:25.559 --> 01:01:29.280
bit two thousand and, five two thousand and, six, DEFINITELY

682
01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:34.039
i was wearing a lot of white. Stuff don't ask me,

683
01:01:34.119 --> 01:01:37.920
why BUT i was wearing white, trousers white, TOPS i

684
01:01:38.079 --> 01:01:43.199
was wearing white, shoes AND i was shaving my, head

685
01:01:43.400 --> 01:01:49.440
SO i don't know WHAT i look, like but, yeah

686
01:01:49.559 --> 01:01:52.480
it was just a little THINK i went. Through AND

687
01:01:53.559 --> 01:02:02.639
i had generally during that, period probably throughout the whole

688
01:02:02.679 --> 01:02:07.000
of the two, thousands my shoes were quite. NICE i

689
01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:11.400
generally had decent, shoes and IF i needed new, ONES

690
01:02:11.480 --> 01:02:14.280
i just bought. Them so it's just not really a big.

691
01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:18.280
Issue AND i always had at least one like two

692
01:02:18.400 --> 01:02:21.599
sets of, shoes one for work and one for at,

693
01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:25.000
home maybe two for at, home depending on what you,

694
01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:38.400
know it's or. Casuals then in two thousand and, SEVEN

695
01:02:39.360 --> 01:02:43.360
i was wearing Hush. Puppies and the REASON i liked

696
01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:47.639
Hush puppies BECAUSE i could just put them on and

697
01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:51.320
they didn't, slip they didn't cause. Blisters, No they're just

698
01:02:51.599 --> 01:02:57.599
the ones THAT i got. Perfect absolutely loved, them AND

699
01:02:57.920 --> 01:03:00.400
i THINK i might have got THEM i think about

700
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:03.039
two thousand and, seven AND i got a new pair

701
01:03:03.239 --> 01:03:08.159
nearly every year exactly the same pair for about four

702
01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:12.239
years in a row in the. SHOP i was getting

703
01:03:12.280 --> 01:03:16.760
them from stop doing, them SO i had to change

704
01:03:16.840 --> 01:03:25.360
over to something. Else by this, TIME i wasn't NEEDING

705
01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:30.320
i didn't need to wear anything in an office BECAUSE

706
01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:34.960
i was like self employed, counseling havn't been to, university

707
01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:39.360
SO i didn't need to wear black shoes and stuff

708
01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:43.960
like that or you know office. ATTIRE i STILL i was,

709
01:03:44.079 --> 01:03:47.400
smart BUT i didn't necessarily need to wear. ALL i

710
01:03:47.519 --> 01:03:56.880
possibly did wear, shoes AND i remember bought some shoes

711
01:03:57.480 --> 01:04:06.519
for My name's a goodbye event AND i got. Blistered

712
01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:08.920
i've still got the shoes now ten years, later AND

713
01:04:09.039 --> 01:04:13.159
i got such bad blisters that. Day it was. Ridiculous

714
01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:20.159
they were just too. TIGHT i mean they weren't too

715
01:04:20.280 --> 01:04:22.639
tight in the, feet they were just too tight in the.

716
01:04:22.800 --> 01:04:30.119
Heel But i've still got, THEM i, think and I'S

717
01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:38.480
i chucked them. Away and then the last few, years

718
01:04:38.599 --> 01:04:43.559
or the last ten, YEARS i SUPPOSE i JUST i

719
01:04:43.800 --> 01:04:50.800
was GETTING i like to get. Stretched what they're called, stretchers.

720
01:04:52.679 --> 01:04:58.159
Stretches that's not the right, word is, it. SKETCHES i

721
01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:04.199
was buying sketches for the last few. Years and also

722
01:05:04.280 --> 01:05:07.039
a few years, AGO i bought these boots that were

723
01:05:07.159 --> 01:05:14.480
kind of really, big really nice boots that are perfect

724
01:05:14.559 --> 01:05:17.760
for and it's raining or anything like, THAT i mean.

725
01:05:17.880 --> 01:05:21.440
Mountaineering REALLY i could wear them for probably or, hillwalking

726
01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:28.519
BUT i don't wear them very. OFTEN i mean NOWADAYS

727
01:05:30.079 --> 01:05:33.039
i pretty WELL i wear. These i've got some new shoes,

728
01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:38.280
recently well a few months, ago probably because my other

729
01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:44.679
ones had holes in, them and they just slip ons.

730
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:49.280
Casual they seem to do the, job but there are

731
01:05:49.400 --> 01:05:53.280
bits they're a bit big for. Me ALTHOUGH i don't

732
01:05:53.320 --> 01:05:56.559
wear any, socks so IF i wore, socks that probably

733
01:05:56.599 --> 01:06:01.559
fit a bit, better SO i couldn't really go. Running

734
01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:03.639
not THAT i would go, running BUT i. COULDN'T i

735
01:06:03.679 --> 01:06:07.679
couldn't run in them because it would Be, yeah they'd fall,

736
01:06:07.760 --> 01:06:12.800
off they'd. Slip, Yeah i'd lose them in the hedge or.

737
01:06:12.880 --> 01:06:26.599
SOMETHING i did have some, trainers BUT i don't know

738
01:06:26.639 --> 01:06:28.639
IF i still got, THEM i might chuck them. AWAY

739
01:06:29.880 --> 01:06:36.719
i can't remember all. Footwear i'll tell you i've got

740
01:06:38.920 --> 01:06:43.639
WHEN i Had. Andre i've not talked about all the

741
01:06:43.719 --> 01:06:47.559
Slippers i've. Had that'll be a different. Story but WHEN

742
01:06:47.559 --> 01:06:53.079
i moved in, HERE i had. Slippers And andre destroyed

743
01:06:53.760 --> 01:07:00.320
two pairs of my, slippers one one after. Another kept

744
01:07:00.360 --> 01:07:02.360
buying them and pulling them WHEN i was wearing, them

745
01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:05.679
and you, know WHEN i wasn't, around it'd do all

746
01:07:05.800 --> 01:07:11.280
kinds of things to. Them SO i bought, crocs some blue,

747
01:07:11.360 --> 01:07:17.079
crocs And andre he loved them as, well because he

748
01:07:17.159 --> 01:07:22.840
could pull on them and bite. Them but he. Couldn't you,

749
01:07:22.960 --> 01:07:25.360
know in some, ways he probably liked them just as.

750
01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:29.159
MUCH i, mean he still had my old slippers to

751
01:07:29.199 --> 01:07:30.920
do what he wanted to do with, them and let's

752
01:07:31.079 --> 01:07:34.679
just let's not go into. That but he did exactly

753
01:07:34.760 --> 01:07:39.639
what he, wanted but the crocs kind of you, know

754
01:07:41.679 --> 01:07:46.079
they were quite. Useful and THEN i think the they,

755
01:07:46.280 --> 01:07:50.960
broke they started falling, apart AND i ordered some more.

756
01:07:51.079 --> 01:07:53.760
Crocs but this TIME i thought it'd be. Funny i'd

757
01:07:53.800 --> 01:08:00.679
get some pink, ones just make my friend. Laugh so,

758
01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:03.119
Yeah i've got some pink crocks and that's WHAT i. Wear.

759
01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:07.400
Now you might, think, well why wouldn't make any difference

760
01:08:07.480 --> 01:08:12.280
what color they, Are but people notice and people do.

761
01:08:12.480 --> 01:08:18.760
COMMENT i think it's because that make me look so

762
01:08:22.359 --> 01:08:24.880
so super. SEXY i think it must be what it. Is,

763
01:08:29.119 --> 01:08:37.079
YEAH i think what up to, DATE i think that's

764
01:08:37.399 --> 01:08:44.239
all my bearing in. Mind i've been around for so.

765
01:08:44.640 --> 01:08:47.880
Long there's going to be so many pairs of shoes

766
01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:56.439
That i've forgotten all. About but because of MY i

767
01:08:56.640 --> 01:08:59.159
want to say lack of, fashion but that's the correct.

768
01:08:59.239 --> 01:09:03.920
TERM i. Don't i've never really put a lot of

769
01:09:04.439 --> 01:09:12.920
energy into, shoes although PERHAPS i would have been better

770
01:09:13.000 --> 01:09:17.680
off IF i. Had it just never really interested, me

771
01:09:17.800 --> 01:09:21.159
AND i didn't know why would anyone look at my?

772
01:09:21.319 --> 01:09:26.319
Shoes BUT i know sometimes people do look at people's.

773
01:09:26.359 --> 01:09:29.399
Shoes i've just never looked at anyone's. SHOES i don't

774
01:09:29.520 --> 01:09:46.399
see it of any. Relevance, yeah so that's. Me that's,

775
01:09:46.560 --> 01:09:55.239
me so. Shoes this is my that's my boring subject

776
01:09:55.319 --> 01:10:00.640
of the. Day AND i hope it was smartly mildly.

777
01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:08.159
Boring so thank you for. Listening remember to be kind

778
01:10:08.199 --> 01:10:13.680
to yourself because you do deserve to be. Happy be

779
01:10:13.920 --> 01:10:24.000
gentle with. Yourself you deserve to feel. Safe lots of, Love,

780
01:10:27.079 --> 01:10:27.319
bye