July 2, 2025

(no music) Whisper Wednesday | LMBYTS #1387 | Jason Newland | 2nd July 2025

(no music) Whisper Wednesday | LMBYTS #1387 | Jason Newland | 2nd July 2025
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Hello, and welcome to jasonnew Land dot com. My name

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is Jason new Land. This is Whisper Wednesday. Let me

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boy to sleep, and Vinnie has just awoken at seven

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in the morning on I think Wednesday, the second of

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July two thousand and twenty five. I've just heard him.

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I've heard his ears flap. However, he's not coming here yet.

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I don't know. I just flushed the toilets. Maybe that

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disrupted his sleep. Anyway, Only listen when you can safely

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close your eyes. It's quite warm already. It's supposed to

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be well according to people that told me, there should

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be some rain today, but it looks like it's going

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to be. If it does rain, it's going to be

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a warm, rainy day. So I'm off to see Uncle

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Sausages again. I'm a neighbor. Uncle Sausages, That's what Vinnie

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calls him. I saw him Monday Tuesday, because I'm seeing

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him today and I'll probably see him tomorrow and Friday

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as well. I was hoping to try and just see

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him on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, but kind of needs me

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to visit a bit more often, so I'll continue to

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do that with the hope of that, maybe he'll be

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able to go home or come home so he lives

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opposite me. But I really don't know. I genuinely have

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a zero idea if he'll be allowed to come home.

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When I say aloud, of course he can do what

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he wants. He's mobile, so he can physically leave if

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he wanted to. But that possibly wouldn't be a good idea.

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I don't know if you can hear that. Hinnie's just

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climbed onto the sofa with me after after chasing a

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fly for a little bit. Now Vinnie is going to

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stay with a neighbor, So quarter to nine I'm going

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to take him to a neighbor for him to stay

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there for the day, well for a few hours, and

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then I've got a taxi book four between nine and

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nine point fifteen to go to the hospital. And Uncle's

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Sausages has got making weird noises. Uncle Sausages is having scared.

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He's having a doctor come around to tell him, hopefully

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some kind of treatment plan, cause he's he's in limbo

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at the moment. He's not really sure what's going on this.

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He's been in there since Friday last week or the

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week before last, so Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Juesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,

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and Wednesday. So this is the thirteenth day he's been there.

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And other than giving him medication to reduce the ammonia

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in his blood to stop him from being so yellow

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or cerebulu, cerebellum or where they call it, it's I

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don't think he's on any other medication. And he said

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he stopped having that drink as well, so he's not

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stopped having that medication constantly getting monitored, constant blood tests.

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He's not He's not wired up to any kind of

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machine or anything to check his vitals. So you know,

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they do come around and do his blood pressure and

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stuff like that. He was on a drip for a

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short while before his full body scan because he was

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kneel by mouth so it's so hot. They had to

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get liquid into his body. Hey, don't be parking, many,

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don't be barking. It's too early. There's someone in the garden.

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I hope that's not the builders. That's way too early

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for them to be coming here and climbing on the roof.

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Seven in the morning. Oh, yesterday, I heard one of

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the builders that basically the scaffolding outside by well outside

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my windows, which leads to the roof. I didn't realize

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until I got home yesterday afternoon. I can't open my windows.

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The scaffoldings so close to my windows. I can't actually

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open them. I can put them on a latch, you know,

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so they're open kind of a crack. I can't open

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them up to let any air in wrong time of

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the year for that. Wow, So it's a bit of

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a sweat box in here. In the bedroom, I can

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open the top window, so I don't know how they

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managed to do it, but the living room can't open

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any of the windows. So I'm hoping that they'll be

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finished fairly greatly because I don't know. Just I don't

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want to be sitting in here not being able to

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open the windows. I open the windows in the winter

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all year round. My windows are open, and now I

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can't open them. I think I might have talked enough

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about not being able to open my windows. I'm not

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really sure what else do I add? And b B so, yeah,

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I thin he's gonna stay with a neighbor, and then

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I'm I'll head up to the hospital and taxis. I

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got that booked. I couldn't get an earlier taxi because

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there's is the school run is, so there's no no

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taxis between pretty much seven and nine. And there was

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no reason I couldn't go there too early because I've

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been waiting around for hours and hours and getting there

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at seven. It's a little bit too early because they

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were all getting ready and the nurses are going around

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and I'm kind of in the way a little bit

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and having their breakfast, and yeah, I think the I

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have got there around eight, just after eight before that

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was a one off time, and that was a bit

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too early, but that was just because one of my

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neighbors gave me a left and he left half seven,

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dropped off his daughter at school and his wife at work,

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and then dropped me off at the hospital. So by

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the time I got to the ward, it was about

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quarter past eight, maybe a little bit later, but it

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was still a bit too early. I think anything before

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nine is a little bit, you know, plus plus plus

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plus plus plus. There is the visiting hours of eleven

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o'clock onwards in that ward, so I shouldn't really even

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be in there before eleven o'clock. But no one says

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anything to me. I think.

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That was a weird.

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I think I just spoke through my nose then I

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could hear my knees or cavity.

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It's weird.

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I think in a ward like that, visiting ours don't

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really seem to apply so much. You know, if it

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was a ward for people with broken bones or people

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are that their appendix out things like that basic quite simple.

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I don't know, you know, normal operations where the person

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is going to be fine and recover normally, like you know,

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then I suppose the visiting hours a bit more strict.

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But here in the Carn ward the Uncle Sausages is in.

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It's they're more flexible. I feel like I've got to

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know some of the staff now because I've been in

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there nearly every day since he got in Friday, Saturday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

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So there's will be the eleventh day that I've gone

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in there. I did have the weekend off last weekend. Fridayday,

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Saturday and Sunday Sunday is pretty much a no go

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unless I can taxi, I can't get in there, and

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I have tried to get the buses when I can,

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and might attempt to get the bus back. You know,

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two Texas a day is way too expensive, although I

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have asked. I called up Universal Credit yesterday to see

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about getting an advanced payment and they said what's it for?

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I said, taxis, Baby, it's for taxis and she said

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what do you mean? I said, okay, it's stay kind

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of like they take you to places, phone them up

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and they come and click picked you up. I know

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what taxis means, but what would you why why you can?

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Why why are you get so many taxis? And I

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said it's because of Uncle sausages. She said, oh okay,

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and then the phone cut off and I thought, oh,

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you've got me back. She didn't, didn't call me back.

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And the reason I didn't phone back is because firstly,

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I'd already been on a phone for way too long waiting,

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you know. Secondly, the chance to me getting the same

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person is propectically non existent, so I'd have to go

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for the whole thing again. So what I did is

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I went online and I left her. They call it

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like a journal entry, where I just typed in that

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I spoke to someone They hadn't left a note or

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anything on the system, which is I don't know if

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that's just the way are but I was always taught

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when I worked in a call center, I should pay

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sixty was what were they doing? Isn't it when you

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when you work in a call center and a customer

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phones up? But now why are they called? When they called?

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Why they called and what the outcome of the call was?

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You know, even if it's a case of our customer

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card wanted to speak to renewals, transferred them to renewals. Yeah,

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just something like that, just to keep a track. It's

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just good, good customer service. I would argue. I wouldn't argue,

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but I would say, but I don't know if they're

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going to respond. It seemed really weird because it says

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if you want an advanced payment, click unaclicked, and it's big,

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a big writing came on a screen saying no way,

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go away, you're not having nothing. They center. There was

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like a drop down list of things, and not one

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of them was advanced payments. I think the way they

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work it out if you do get one is you

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pay ten percent back over the year, so for ten months.

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So if you borrow, I guess three hundred pounds, you

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pay thirty pounds a month back for ten months, so

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just see. I don't know if they're going to get

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back to me, but I kind of need to plan

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ahead a bit now because I don't know how long

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Uncle Sausages is going to be in there, and of

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what he gone through, my life's savings getting backward and

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forward over the last ten days, So now kind of

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have to be a bit strategic. So yeah, that's my

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planned day to day I get there, hopefully I can

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sit with him while the doctor talks to him and

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tells him how they're hoping to proceed medically, and that

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way I can have more of an understanding and perhaps

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I can explain it better to Uncle's Sausages because he

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doesn't always. And this is not criticism, I don't think

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he understands always what they're selling and saying to him.

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And I think part of that is overwhelmed, A huge

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part of it. He's overwhelmed. And you can't blame him.

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You know, he's never been in hospital before, never been

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unwell before in his life, doesn't even have a doctor.

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He's not registered with a doctor's surgery. He's seventy eight

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years nearly and he's been tip top health, so this

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is I don't think he is. I don't think anyone

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in that situation could really fully grasp what's going on.

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It's a confused, very confusing time. I find it confusing,

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is yeah, one you I find a lot of things confusing.

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I can't think of anything offhand, but they're surely are

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some stuff. So that's my plan. Yesterday I went. I

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wasn't gonna go. Actually I went Monday. I told him

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that I was gonna visit Wednesday, but i'd give him

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a call Tuesday. He called him and he said he'd

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seen a doctor and he wasn't very happy. And I said,

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you want me to come, but you want me to

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come in? And he said that's something only you can decide.

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So I thought that was a yes, wasn't it. Also

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he was a bit he felt a bit low because

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his his neighbor, the man in the bed next to him,

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had left. So it's spent spent a week with this man.

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They got to know each other quite well, and suddenly

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he had no one to talk to. So it's kind

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of a little bit. I think he felt a little

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bit lonely. Although he does have Dennis on the TV now,

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so that's that's bright. Has perked him up a little bit.

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For the first week, he didn't watch any television, and

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I kept saying, what don't you stick the TV on,

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just have it in the background, don't even have to

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have the sound up. So there's plenty of sports on

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normal TV, especially on the weekend, but he said no, no, no,

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no no. And when I did eventually just turn it

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on a couple of days ago, I think Monday, he

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was really surprised at how good the picture was and

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Wimbledon had just started the way that's tennis just started

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on Monday, and I think it's I think it's a

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pleasant distraction. So when I visited him yesterday he was

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half asleep. He was listening to because I think I

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got to him probably abound. I lived to hear at midday,

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so I got there probably twenty to one. After twenty

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to one, he was half asleep, but he was listening

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to the to the tennis. So I think for him

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listening to sport or some kind of sporting activity, whether

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it's football, rugby, cricket, Dennis, it relaxes him and it

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feels nice and I just I just stood there and

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steared him for a while, made him jump when he

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looked up. It was worth it. I think he was

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surprised to see me, even though I did sellimos on

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my way. He seems to be talking a lot quieter

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as well, and slower. I don't know quite why that is.

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He didn't want to go out yesterday, so that's the

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first time that he didn't want to go out for

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a walk and that, you know, come out into the sunshine.

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Although I did manage to get him what he's been

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craving for a few days. That's ice. When I say ice,

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I'm talking about ice. Ice, not not ice as in

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removing people that have lived here in their whole lives.

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I'm talking about ice as in frozen water. So he

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was on about get some some water cocka some water,

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frozen frozen water. I said, you mean ice. He said, yeah,

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frozen water. And I said, well, I can get you

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some of that. He said, we need to get a

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flask of flowers. I said why. He said that keep

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the ice frozen for longer. I thought to myself, well,

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I don't have a flask. I can't be trusted with flasks.

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That sounds strange. Doesn't it. But I don't think I've

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ever had a flask where I didn't break it. I

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don't know why. I just have a habit of dropping

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flasks and breaking the inside bit which did you or

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the glass bit inside. Although it's been a little while.

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I think the last time I had a flask was

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two thousand and five, probably two thousand and four, two

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thousand and five, Yeah, maybe later. Maybe it's been a while.

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So what I did is I said to you know,

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you can just get a cold drink from Costa. I'll

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get you a bottle of coke and it will be

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colder being a fridge. So I did that the day

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before and then he said if I want some ice.

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I was just pleased and stop saying frozen water. So

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you want some ice? He said, yeah, I want some ice.

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So what I did is I went downstairs got him

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another bottle of coke from Costa. Him from the big

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because there's a big cost well, a larger Costa with seeds,

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and there's a smaller cost which is closer to his ward.

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We have no seats. It's just a takeaway. So I

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go into the larger Costa. I get myself a bottle

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of Van get him a bottle of coke, and I

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get myself a chocolate brownie because I'm worth it. And

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I then walk up to the other costa and there's

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a customer there at the till and the man serving

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as back to me, and he was doing I don't

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make in a coffee, I suppose, so I'm kind of

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hofering behind the lady who's being served. And then another

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lady comes in and he says, there is like a

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place where you queue, and she said, are you being

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served or you queueing? I said, I am not being served,

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but I'm not really cueing. But I am queuing, but

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I'm not really culling. And she said to me, what

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you mean. I said, well, if I get in a

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queue there, the man who's got his back face to

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us might think that I'm that I've just got the

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items out of the fridge and try and charge me

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for this stuff. But I've already bought it at the

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other costa. And she said, it's okay, why are you

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waiting it? And I said, I'm going to see if

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I can get some ice. She said, I see, I said, yeah, ice.

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I thought she might correct me by saying frozen water,

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because she didn't, so that was good frozen broken water.

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So I personally don't drink ice. I never have ice

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ever because ice it's tap water and I don't drink tapwater.

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So I don't never have ice in anything apart from

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when I do. But generally, no, I'm not saying I've

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never had eyes, because I have. And if I reckon

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in this weather, I probably would have ice if I

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was if I was sitting outside a pub, for example,

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I might have ice in the glass because of the heat.

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But generally I don't have ice. But the ice wasn't

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for me anyway. And the man turns around. He finishes

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serving the lady that was already there, so it's just

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me and the other lady who's waiting in a queue.

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So I'm standing in the queue now. And he said

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anything else and I said no, no, wait, wait, wait wait.

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He said, what do you mean wait? I said, wait

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a second, I need to just explain. He said, no

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you wait. I said wow. He said, I don't know.

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I'm not really sure what's going on. I said, it's fine.

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These two bottles, the Fanta and the coke. I already

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purchased them from the other Costa up there. He said, okay.

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He looked very confused. He said, what about the chocolate brownie?

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I said, that's in my pocket. You can't even see it.

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He said, oh, fair enough, And he said, well, how

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can I help? I said, I was wondering, just wondering.

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Say no if you like. He said, I will say

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no if I like. I've got complete control of what

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I say. I said, okay, okay, shirty. He just you know,

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I'm just asking, is there any chance I can get

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some ice in a cup? And he looked at me

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and I said that's the end of the sentence. There

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was nothing else that was it. Can I get some

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ice in a cup? Please? I don't know what else

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he expected me to say. Did he expect a song,

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I don't know, pull out a piece of paper and

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start reciting poetry. I don't know what he expected. And

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he said sure, So he went and got some eyes

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and I said, it's it's for it's for a patient.

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I think I said it's for a customer. Then I

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realized that hospitals don't they call them patients, not customers,

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don't they I suppose customers would be a private hospital,

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wouldn't it they call them customers? And he said, fine,

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And isn't it Do you think it's weird? Right? Do

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you know when you see someone every day but you

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don't know them, you don't know anything about them. And

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that's what is going on with this bloke in the coster.

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I've seen him nearly every day for the last two weeks, nearly,

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well yeah, it's nearly getting onto two weeks, and I

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feel like I know him a little bit. I don't.

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I don't know anything about him, but just it's weird,

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and it's a little bit like people in the street

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I've seen for years and years heading towards work, walking

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through the park, getting ready in their bathroom. I mean, okay,

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obviously that involves climbing a tree, but I can't. I

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just see people doing things that are normal, and I kind

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of feel like I know them a bit, but I don't.

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I don't know who they are, don't know anything about them.

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I noticed that one there, I was going to work

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on a bus and I started to nod to people

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because it was the same people the same time every day.

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Almost felt like I knew them. And I remember saying

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to someone once, like after about six months of doing this,

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I said to her you know, I feel like I

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know you now seeing you every day on the bus.

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She said, yeah, you should do. I work at your place,

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literally sit opposite you on the desk. I said, oh,

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for you look familiar. She just looked different. You look

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different when you're at the desk and what you do

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when you're outside. She said, I know because I'm wearing

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a coat now. And she is kind of strange without

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being rude. She used to wear a kin costume of work.

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No one knew why, but it didn't seem. It didn't

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seem to affect her work because she was on the

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phones so no one could see her when the management

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came around, you know, from the head office. She was

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just like all the weird people that dressed a bit strange,

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were like or acted a bit weird, were put into

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it like a room, just hidden away. I looked forward

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to those days because it was a nice break from working.

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Me and those other people would just sit around chatting.

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And never got around to asking her about the Kim costume.

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But the blood dressed as a a pirate. He was,

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he was interested, he was he was just a big

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fan of pirate movies. He said, he's always wanted to

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be Kirk Douglas, and I said, Okay, it's hard to

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follow that up, really, isn't it if someone just comes

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out without all In case anyone's wondering the reason why

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I wear a pirate costume to work, Actually, he's a

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pirate uniform. The reason I wearing this pirate uniform is

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because I'm a big fan of Kirk Douglas when he

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was in pirate movies in the nineteen fifties. It's hard

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to have a follow up question, what's your favorite dessert?

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He just doesn't fit, does it? Oh? Dessert? Oh? Was

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that dessert that doesn't people don't eat anymore? Angel delight?

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There was this dessert. I don't know if it's it

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might still get sold, but it was one of my

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favorite desserts. So it's kind of like, see it looked like, yeah,

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it looked like custard. It wasn't custard, because I cannot

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stand custard. It wasn't custard, but it was cold strawberry chocolate,

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banana flavored. There might have been different flavors, but they're

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the ones that I remember. And it was this powder

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which you put in and I don't know if you

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mix it with milk and just user like a what

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do they call it, a mixing thing, which makes it

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all fluffy, not drill a whisk whisk, So yeah, and

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it makes it all fluffy and bubbly and all yum

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yum yum yum. And my stepmom used to make nikko

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boka glories. Be careful how quickly you say that word,

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nika boka glory, which is if you don't know what

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it is, it's in a big, long, quite a high

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glass dish. I think it's basically did they use the

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same the same thing for Sundays as well, not on Sundays,

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but like a long dish. I don't know anyway. So

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what she used to do is she'd put in different

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levels of stuff, so there'd be some ice cream, there'd

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be some fruit, there'd be some angel delight, maybe some

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whipped cream at the top, there'd be some what those

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those fingers they're not bread, but oh wow, I can't

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even remember what they record. I usedill love them because

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they would melt in your mouth. Wow. What what was

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it called? I'm sure it's something fingers And they were

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kind of pastry ish, and they had a bit of

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sugar on top, and I think what she used to

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do is if just stick them in so they melted

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or crumbled them up and made little toppings kind of

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bread crumbs as well. And yeah, it was sugar and

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it was lovely, amazing, possibly a flake at the top. Oh,

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it was glorious. And then his big long spoons of

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a tiny little a tiny little kind of spoon thing

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at the end. So big long handle probably quite could

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for help him with constipation, I imagine, but there's not

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a focus on that. So with very long handles you

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can really get into the hard to reach places, which

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is like I was found right at the bottom of

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the dish. There was one bit that seemed to just

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be very hard to get to, and then maybe be

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a bit of ice cream or a bit of chocolate

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or something just right in there. And I dig in,

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really dig from different angles until I got to it.

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I never quit when it comes to chocolate, I never quit.

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Oh yeah, yum, yum, yum, yum yum. And also trifles,

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we didn't have custard on our trifles. We had angel

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did I The reason for that is because custard is horrible.

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I didn't like custard. I would not eat, I would

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never ever eat custard ever, not gonna happen. And that's

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just not gonna happen ever, So this is one of

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those things I don't like. So we used to have

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I think because I was so anti custard. Maybe my

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brother's also didn't mind custard, so my stepmom would just

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figure a way around it. So we used angured Delight

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instead on top and some cream lovely. It was oh

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yum yum, yum, yum, yum, yum yum. So I'm thinking,

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why am I talking about angeled Delight. I don't know why,

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but I'm not sure if they sell it anymore in

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the shops. I think it's one of those things that

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possibly wasn't nutritionally the most beneficial edible product in the world,

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but it was yummy, so yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy yummy.

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Another thing I used to like to eat is Vanetta

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ice cream. Again, I don't know if he's still around.

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And another I didn't understand why it's not the most

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popular ice cream in the world because it's layered again,

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kind of like a lasagna or a trifle. A trifle,

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it is just that tis a version of a lasagna,

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isn't it and I learned to make lasagnas, and I did.

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I learned when I was at school, but I learned

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on a more industrial level when I worked the canteen

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in a bakery, so there's hundreds of people being served,

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and I made this massive lasagnas. And my boss, who

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is the chef, he was doing all that stuff, and

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I said, why don't you teach me how you do it?

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You know, because it's very different making a little lasagna

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to making a massive lasagna. It's just a little bit,

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I don't know, it's a different kind of process. So

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in the end he taught me to do it so

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he didn't have to do it. I just thought that

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made sense. It gave me something to do a bit

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more interesting, and so he got me. When it was

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a lazagna day, I would always do the lasagna. I

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00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:53.760
do the whole thing, maybe two or three of them,

467
00:42:54.519 --> 00:43:00.360
and he could just stand jill out. I think I

468
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:04.039
felt quite proud because they did come out nice, and

469
00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:06.960
he went because he was a trained chef, he went

470
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:09.599
through the whole thing with me and stepped by step.

471
00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:16.440
I felt quite accomplished. Actually, because people liked the lasagnas.

472
00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:23.000
They were popular, and I think we did a vegetarian

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00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:32.000
version as well as Yeah, because there was I think

474
00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:35.079
there was the problem. There was a lot of people there.

475
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:40.880
It wasn't so much that they were vegetarian, but they

476
00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:48.199
could only eat meat like hellal me and stuff like that,

477
00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:53.920
which the kitchen didn't provide, the canteen didn't provide. So

478
00:43:55.199 --> 00:43:58.760
what they would do instead is maybe have vegetarian version.

479
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:05.079
So they were quite popular as well. What I did, though,

480
00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:14.079
is to make the lisaignes taste a bit nicer I

481
00:44:14.119 --> 00:44:17.360
with the vegetarian ones. I just sprink a little bit

482
00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:19.719
of meat in there as well, just to add a

483
00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:23.719
little bit of taste, a little bit of pork. So

484
00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:31.119
I think that was they were popular. I didn't I do.

485
00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:37.719
I really didn't. Well, even now, thirty four years later,

486
00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:43.119
I still wouldn't. I was still gonna say I was joking.

487
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:46.719
I would not ever do that. Wow, No, no, no,

488
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:54.679
you fed them park and they didn't think they were

489
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eating any meat or don't. I'm not sure there was

490
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:09.599
even one vegetarian lair at all, like vegetarian vegetarian, but

491
00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:14.519
the vegetarian or meat or the vegetarian meals were a

492
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:22.199
substitute for because of religious issues or religious beliefs or whatever.

493
00:45:27.119 --> 00:45:31.239
Those pork grindings really went down the tree. It just

494
00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:38.400
shows you if you don't know. I still find in fact,

495
00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:41.320
I didn't do that bottom. I'm just joking. I still

496
00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:46.880
find it funny though, the amount of people, not even

497
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:52.800
necessary religious of any persuasion, we say, don't eat pork.

498
00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:59.440
It's a dirty animal. Name a clean one. Where is

499
00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:04.360
there a clean animal? Just name one. I mean, my

500
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.440
little the love of my life right now. If Anny,

501
00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:13.960
he's a dirty little back up, you know humans are dirty.

502
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:18.840
He was just there's no clean animal. I'm technically clean

503
00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:22.800
for maybe five minutes after I've had a shower, and

504
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:33.519
then I fought you know, it's oh, dear, oh, that's

505
00:46:33.559 --> 00:46:37.519
a bit of activity downstairs. So I'm just waiting to

506
00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:43.880
see if Finnie's gonna start barking or not. It's called

507
00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:51.280
at eight in the morning. I've got one hour until

508
00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:56.320
I need to take Finnie over to see the neighbors.

509
00:46:57.559 --> 00:46:59.760
And they've got a little dog there till about me,

510
00:47:01.400 --> 00:47:03.400
so he's going to be happy running around with the

511
00:47:03.440 --> 00:47:12.039
other dog who he likes. And then I'm hoping I

512
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:22.840
can get back by two o'clock at the latest. Yeah, yeah,

513
00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:27.840
ideally there's a lot of shouting outside. That's weird. It's

514
00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:32.400
a bit early for that. I just heard someone go, right,

515
00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:37.199
what's that about?

516
00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:48.519
I don't know, Oh, yeah, the.

517
00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:58.559
I just love Angel Delight. I used to teut the

518
00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:06.039
what was that ice cream? I was talking about? It

519
00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:11.320
was basically will They did a mint version and possibly yeah,

520
00:48:11.400 --> 00:48:14.559
different versions, but the one I liked was just vanilla

521
00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:25.679
ice cream with it was bits of chocolate, like I

522
00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:28.199
don't know how to explain it, Vonetta or ice cream.

523
00:48:28.280 --> 00:48:31.760
And for those who don't know, it's like a a

524
00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:37.480
a big, long, oblong kind of block that came on

525
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:42.960
a tray, a brown tray, I think, wrapped in plastic

526
00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:47.480
but white, you know, just like ice cream, you know,

527
00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:54.320
frozen gul and plastic and then inside a box with

528
00:48:54.559 --> 00:49:01.360
Vonetta on the side and a picture of it. And

529
00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:04.519
I really liked it as a kid and I used

530
00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:08.159
to eat it. I've had it as an adult. I

531
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:11.280
don't know if it's still produced because I've not had

532
00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:18.360
any for a while. I just liked the layer chocolate

533
00:49:18.480 --> 00:49:26.800
ice cream, then chocolate and it's like these little not flakes.

534
00:49:29.559 --> 00:49:33.599
I don't know how to explain it, but it's nice Anyway.

535
00:49:34.039 --> 00:49:37.199
There was a time when I was about sixteen, living

536
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:40.360
in a flat up of the chip shop, and I

537
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:46.239
had such little money. I would sometimes spend all my money,

538
00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:52.800
which would be maybe a pound, on some ice cream,

539
00:49:53.079 --> 00:50:03.760
Vineta or ice cream and possibly thinking about it, possibly

540
00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:12.960
a what would I have with it? What was that?

541
00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:21.519
What they called like the non syrup maybe syrup, not sponges,

542
00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:27.840
but like pie, oh canting what they call it. It's

543
00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:32.679
like pastry, and then there's sort of syrupy stuff at

544
00:50:32.719 --> 00:50:38.760
the top which is very sticky and thick. Oh, the

545
00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:41.400
name of it has gone out of my head. I

546
00:50:41.559 --> 00:50:44.320
used to heat that up and then have that with

547
00:50:44.360 --> 00:50:48.159
the ice cream, and that was my dinner. That was

548
00:50:48.239 --> 00:50:54.639
my lunch, and I feel so full, but not in

549
00:50:54.679 --> 00:51:00.320
a good way because I needed food, proper food, not

550
00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:16.360
just sugar. Probably wasn't my best decision ever. And there

551
00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:19.480
was a time when I used to have. Yeah, when

552
00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:21.480
I was in the chip shop, I got a part

553
00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:26.039
time job cleaning before work. I needed to try and

554
00:51:26.039 --> 00:51:31.840
get some money, and I used to get home. I

555
00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:35.599
used to work from six point thirty to eight thirty,

556
00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:40.360
and then i'd start work at nine, so i'd go

557
00:51:40.440 --> 00:51:45.119
home it's ONNY A five minute walk, get home, have

558
00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:48.440
some corn flakes, have a can of coke.

559
00:51:48.719 --> 00:51:49.480
Would you believe?

560
00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:54.679
I mean, I've not done that since that time. I

561
00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:58.800
cann and coke with my cornflakes. It's a weird mix.

562
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:04.719
And I'd watch breakfast TV for like fifteen minutes. Then

563
00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:14.039
I'd go downstairs and start working. And I think my

564
00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:19.639
boss told me I had to quit my morning job

565
00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:25.519
because I was working too many hours. It made me

566
00:52:25.559 --> 00:52:31.840
too tired. It was like, yeah, but I need the money. Maybe,

567
00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:38.400
I mean, it wasn't much. It's probably fifteen pounds a

568
00:52:38.440 --> 00:52:47.599
week maybe, I mean probably what two four, six, eight, ten,

569
00:52:50.280 --> 00:53:07.119
twelve twelve hours from Monday to Saturday. Twelve hours a week. Yeah,

570
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:18.159
maybe fifteen two one pound fifteen hour probably so twenty

571
00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:24.360
pounds a week, maybe eighteen pound a week, which would

572
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:31.599
really make a difference to my lifestyle. But it was

573
00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:41.320
quite diring, you know, waking up at six in the morning. Yeah.

574
00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:47.239
Back then, I wasn't a big fan of early starts.

575
00:53:48.360 --> 00:53:54.000
I really really really really wasn't. I mean really, I

576
00:53:54.159 --> 00:53:57.719
was not a big fan of starting at getting up early.

577
00:53:59.400 --> 00:54:06.719
It was there was a constant struggle for me. And

578
00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:09.679
now I wake up at four or five every day

579
00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:19.679
in the morning. I don't know why that noise is

580
00:54:19.199 --> 00:54:24.360
someone making noise in the garden. So I'm going to go.

581
00:54:25.599 --> 00:54:28.519
Thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself

582
00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:32.360
because you do deserve to be happy, and be gentle

583
00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:40.239
with his arm. He deserved to feel safe. Lots of love, Bye,