#238 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (14th October 2019)

Hello, welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland and this is I to me bore you to sleep. Please only listen to this once you can safely close your eyes because throughout this let me bore you to sleep recording at some point you may be bored to sleep. Right, I'm sitting in my garden shed in my bedroom which is a sentence you won't hear in very many places.

Not places that you can leave without permission probably, but I do have a shed in my bedroom, a garden shed. It's going to be my recording studio. In fact, it is my recording studio already, but I am going to, I'm going to do more to soundproof it, but you know what? It definitely has taken the edge off of background sounds because it doesn't really need to be completely silent, does it? I prefer it for myself.

I suppose in some ways it does, you know, make sense especially while it's a sleep session you don't really want a drum set in the background, but at the same time I know, I don't know, I quite like doing these recordings in the living room. I don't know why really. It's, maybe it's having Andre there.

It's quite nice, but then he does play up. He can be particularly naughty sometimes, but yeah, I tell you it's a weird one because it's half past seven or maybe eight o'clock in the morning and I've just got out of bed. I made a sleep hypnosis weekly recording at half seven because I was overdue by about 10 days to make those, to make one, so I'm going to be recording a new one every Monday and releasing it every Monday.

That's my new thing and with that podcast I do need as minimum background sounds as possible and I think the only real background sound during that particular recording was my tummy rumbling. It was, it was... I don't know how to explain it. Do you know, I don't know if you've ever been to a bakery, like a big bakery or any bakery really, they have those big metal bowls where the dough goes in and they have the twirling thing that goes around the mixes.

It's called a mixer isn't it? The mix the dough. It didn't really sound like that. I don't know what, I can't think what it did sound like.

So I used to work in a bakery. I've worked in two, three if you include one evening cleaning the bakery, but I actually had jobs at two different bakeries and when I worked for the biggest one, like this is, I'm not saying it's the biggest bakery in the world, but it was massive. Huge, huge, huge place and they were baking, you know, they were sending out lorries and lorries, loads and lorries load of bread every day.

So they were busy, 24 hour operation and I think they were delivering to all over the country as well, not just London where it was based and basically everything was bigger. So they had those metal bowls with the mixer, but it was, well it wasn't the size of a house, but it wasn't far off. You basically need a crane to carry it.

You couldn't carry it. You'd need, sometimes the thing broke and it, when it was, when it finished mixing and then all the dough was there, it would, they'd have to pull a lever to release it, but instead of tipping one way, it tipped the other way and it would fall on the floor and it was like the blob, it was, it was big. You could walk into it and hide, it was that big.

This big blob of dough yeah. I do recall one day breaking about a million eggs and I was excited because I'd learnt to break eggs when I worked at the co-op and I used to get them out of storage and put them on the shelves and broke most of them when I did that. Put them in people's bags, carry bags, broke them doing that.

Very good at breaking eggs. I learnt how to break eggs properly, like you know, into bowls for bread or cakes or whatever the eggs are being used for. When I worked in a bakery and when I was a teenager, I used to work in the bakehouse, it was called, and I learnt how to break one egg in each hand at the same time.

I could have said simultaneously, no, at the same time, without getting any shell in and I loved that skill. One of the, I think I entered the work world at the age of 15 with very few skills. I'm guessing a lot of people do actually, but a lot of people don't as well.

A lot of people might do, a lot of people won't. So yeah, I don't know, I thought that was a good skill to have. Now, when I worked in the chip shop, when I was 15 to 17, I worked there for two years, I used to break eggs.

Pretty sure, did I used to, when did I used to break eggs? Did the eggs have, do we have eggs for batter? Or is it, it might not be, I think, is it batter just milk and, not talcum powder, flour, is it? Is it just milk and flour? Or is it eggs as well? I forget. If there was any eggs involved in that job, or we had pickled eggs in a jar, but I wasn't responsible for those. And I wonder if they were made in the shop, or if they were just, I think they were, just put into vinegar.

I can't remember. But then I went to catering college during that period as well, and I was ever so cocky when it came to breaking eggs. I kept saying, you know what, I can break two eggs at the same time.

Or someone always said, do you mean simultaneously? I said, no, at the same time. And my teacher would practically always say something silly, some kind of put down like, we're studying health and safety at the moment, Jason, the egg story isn't really relevant. At the same time.

I always had the last word, even if it didn't make sense. But the thing is, when I did break some eggs at the catering college, when I was learning to be a chef, it was kind of pointless, the whole thing. I'm not being a chef, but I was on the YTS scheme, which was called the Youth Training Scheme, which gave employers an opportunity to take advantage of young people and get them to work for practically nothing.

And so that was a really good thing for employers and really good for young people if they were learning a trade, you know, like becoming a bricklayer or plumber or electrician. I mean, if they were learning something useful, where they would get paid a decent wage afterwards. So it was kind of like an apprenticeship that was always based upon the things that my dad's generation had when they left school.

They could go and become an apprentice and learn a trade, carpenter, boiler, not boiler, boiler, boiler maid, no boiler, heating, you know, a boiler fixer, heating engineer, that's it. Any heating engineer, lollipop man, no. But you know, I did wonder how, how do lollipop men and ladies learn their trade? Because it takes a lot of confidence, doesn't it? Just to stand in front of the traffic, dressed so ridiculously, and then holding up a stick in the shape of a lollipop.

And I don't know, just wonder where they learn. Maybe it's some kind of mantra, forget how I'm dressed. Forget that I'm holding a lollipop.

I demand respect. Why might maybe that's a mantra they say inside their head. So I was on the YTS, and I think it was every Tuesday, might have been actually Wednesday, I forget.

I think it was just one day a week. I went to college, and it was in the next town. And it started in September.

And I was there all day. And we had to learn health and safety, first aid, all that stuff. And the cooking.

Plus, and I don't know why it doesn't make sense to me. I learned about waiting as well. I learned how to be a waiter.

That's probably something that may surprise those that have been listening for a while. I learned how to properly be a waiter, like proper, you know, the kind of thing that you'd see in a top restaurant. I was trained to that level.

Can't remember the first thing about it. And in fact, I don't think I even turned up. No, I did turn up for the exam.

I remember actually, at the waiting part of the exam, because I had friends that were also at college. Some of them also doing the chef course. So my friend, Dean, he was actually, he wasn't doing the waiting.

I don't think he was just doing the chef. But he was doing it. I think he was there full time.

So his course was to become a chef. Mine was more probably the first part of becoming a chef. I don't know, I forget.

But all I know is I had to go. During my exam, the practical exam for waiting, I was so lucky, because I was all dressed up like a waiter. And the table that I was given was a table full of my friends, who made my life hell.

For that hour, wound me up, messed me about. I think they even complained about me. They did everything they could to cause problems for me.

And I think I ended up shouting at them. And when someone said, one of my friends was complaining about how the duck looked on the plate. And I think I said in so many words, you're going to make love to it or eat it.

And apparently that's frowned upon. There's not great etiquette, apparently. I'm not sure if I threw any food over anybody.

But that is the kind of thing that I would have done back then. You know, put the soup down on the table in such a way that part of it falls over the edge onto their lap. Hot soup.

There's different ways of getting your revenge when you're a waiter. And when I was waiting, I'll tell you how good I was at awaiting, that the chip shop I had, that I worked at, had a restaurant. I was never allowed to wait on the tables.

So he preferred to have schoolgirls come in and work part time. Or there was an old lady that used to come in as well and serve the lunchtimes rather than have me, who was being trained to be a professional waiter. That's quite funny, really, isn't it? You think about it.

But those skills did come in handy a little bit because in later life, I did do a bit of waiting, but not just a little bit of table service. You know, the various different jobs I had, but nothing like a proper restaurant. Because I'd find myself, because we used to practice every single week, I think, or every other week.

I think one week would be the waiting staff and the next week would be in the kitchen cooking. And we would be serving the real customers that came into the college. So, you know, if I'd be in the kitchen cooking food for them, I'd be waiting for the food to hand it out to them.

And I'm not sure which one I disliked most. I think cooking the food, you get to have a little nibble now and then. If you're cooking something nice, it's quite hot.

Waiting, almost a bit like having a spotlight on you. And you're walking around, like being on stage and someone just following you with a spotlight, like, go away. Just trying to mix in and do something else.

Go away, look at something else. Depending on what mood I was in, sometimes I didn't turn up, but Fawlty Towers did, or Basil Fawlty, and I'd start being rude to people. I just like it.

It's almost like Basil Fawlty took over my body. And so I would say something like, yeah, this fish is a bit cold. Like, okay, then, right, I'll take it back to the kitchen.

I'd just, you know, march off. And that wasn't a very good impression, but I enjoyed myself. I never really saw the point of waiters.

Not at the point of them, but in the sense of, just give me my food. You know, when it's ready, just, I always say thank you and everything. But when the food's cooked, either I'll wait at the counter for the food to be cooked, or you bring it to the table, bring it to the table, but don't turn it into some kind of big, dramatic scene.

It's just food on a plate. You've walked from there to here. You didn't put the food on the plate yourself.

That was done by the cooks or the chefs or the server, whoever does it. You didn't wash the plate, that was done by the kitchen porter. You didn't cook the food, that was done by the chefs and the, was it petty chefs? I don't know, whatever they're called.

You didn't grow the vegetables, that was the farmer. You didn't deliver the vegetables, that was the, that might've been the farmer as well, I don't know. The delivery driver.

So basically, you just carried the food from there to here. And I'm grateful, because it saved me a walk. But I won't be writing a song about it.

You know, it's not, I've done waiting, and the hardest part is the people. The awkward people. Taking the food out to the table, it's just carrying food on a plate or a tray, and just putting it on a table from a certain side.

You don't need to put it on from the right side or from the left side. I think it was one side or the other. I remember someone said to me once, a customer once, said, you know, you just served me from the wrong side.

I said, you think it's going to make any difference to the taste of the food? Never say that during an exam. But yes, I like to have the food delivered, but I don't, you know, tip in. Never really been a tipper.

We don't have a tipping culture in England. We try to, try to introduce it. I tried, really try.

But generally, it's not, it's not really important to the general public. Maybe to, in like nice restaurants. I haven't been in many nice restaurants.

I really am a bit of a caveman. But I think it's a, I think it's worth remembering that maybe if someone goes to a really nice restaurant with their partner, for example, they may have been saving up for that for a few weeks. And that meal may cost £180, which is a week's wages, for example.

And when you just spent a week's wages on something that you're going to poo out in a few hours, I don't know, I don't personally want to pay anything extra. Here's a tip. Thanks for, I don't know how to say this, but thanks for doing your job.

And thanks for carrying the plates, which is why I think they should get paid more. Because that's the thing. It's just, it's just as important, or it's not, is it? It's not as important as the person cooking the food.

You know, they're the most important people really, just for the fact that you want the food to be cooked. Why is, I think it should be a nicely paid job to be a waiter. Just put the price of the food up.

I'm not an expert, but I've worked in a few restaurants, and worked in clubs, worked in places where there was food being served. And I know it can be a really hard job. So I don't know why I'm making out that I'm ignorant to it.

Because it's very, very tough. At times, I've known a lot of waiting staff and seeing what they've had to do and the mix up with the food and getting a bill paid and different people ordering different things from the same table. And then saying they didn't order it and drinks being ordered from one person on that table and the bill comes up and then they say, well, I never ordered that.

So yeah, it's quite hard. But it's the same thing, isn't it? It's repeating what you've already done, generally. And I suppose that's like a lot of jobs.

If you're a maths professor, you've kind of learned it, haven't you? You've learned how to work stuff out. And if you're a history professor, a history teacher, generally history doesn't change. And we do get new information.

And unlike probably the rest of the population, I don't know if a history teacher would update their knowledge base. I know that the general way of dealing with facts that conflict with our knowledge is to ignore the facts and to still believe the old stuff, which is a bit ridiculous, really, isn't it? You think about it. Wow.

Wow. I went to this catering thing. I had to get up early in the morning.

So I had to be there for nine o'clock. And I think I started my job normally at nine. So I had to get up extra early, because there was at least an hour, I think about 45 minutes on the bus.

And then a walk from the bus station to the college. And a walk to the bus stop from where I lived. Not a long walk, to be fair, it's across the road.

So I'd be on the bus with people that I knew. So I had friends that would be on that bus. So we would mess around a bit.

And again, we were still teenagers, I was the youngest. But I was 16 by the time I went to college. So I was 15 when I started the chip shop job in April 1986.

But by September, I'd just turned 16. So when I went to college, I was 16. And what I remember about it is, I've been to that college twice.

Once since I went in 2003, where I did a holistic therapy course. But now the college is gone. And it's now been replaced by a university.

So I'm not sure if they knocked down the old building, but they built a lot of stuff around there. This basically is a university now. But that all happened.

It started to be done while I was living in that town. But then I moved away. It's a bit like Stratford.

I moved away from Stratford. Before I moved, they replaced the bus station and made it all fancy. And had these big kind of umbrella type things in the air.

And I didn't know why. I really didn't know why. I kind of wanted to.

But I didn't know who to ask. It was lovely. It was really, really nicely designed.

And they probably spent a lot of money doing it. Spent quite a long time doing it as well. It's just near the train station.

And then they started working on the underground while I was still in London. I spent a few years doing that. And they built, first of all, they built the Docklands railway.

But that was not... I mean, I used to travel on Docklands railway in 1996 when I was a security guard. Because I had a job in Canary Wharf. And the Docklands railway took me from Stratford to Canary Wharf.

And the thing was, if I'm correct, there was no driver. It was just operated automatically. And there was a, like a ticket inspector just pressed a button and just went and stopped.

It's really a weird train. But quite nice because it's quite classy. So you could see, not classy as in me, but classy as in something that's got a lot of window-y.

Window-y, that's probably a better word. And you could see both sides of the train and see it being built up. And that whole area, it's a massive hidden area of waste ground.

Massive area. Because I used to walk through there. And it's a shortcut to the train station from where I used to work.

And it would take about 20 minutes to walk through it. Big old area. And I did think to myself, because there used to be all these old trains and train tracks just rotting away there.

And I used to think, why don't they do something with this area? A massive area. And it's wildlife there as well. Little bunny rabbits running around.

And it's quiet, which you don't get a lot of in London, just to have a little quiet space. So it would be nice if they turned it into a park or something. It would be a lovely bit of park.

A lovely bit of park. And over the years, I think from probably... When I first moved to Stratford, going to the train station, the Tube, or the over... There's an overground and a Tube there at the time. It was basically two trains.

There was the overground and there was a Tube. That was it. And now there's... They built the Docklands and extended that and made that so that... And they were building Canary Wharf at the same time.

So that all got built up whilst I was living there. And again, that was just waste ground, parts of the Docklands. Because it used to be docks.

I mean, it used to be busy, busy docks. So I worked with a lot of people that were my... Well, you know, they were probably in their 50s. And they'd spent most of their adult life working on the docks.

But then it closed down and for whatever reason... I mean, Stratford, I saw an old picture of Stratford, which is where I lived. There used to be trams there. There used to be trams going through.

It was a busy area. It was, you know, with all the docks. And, you know, there was a lot of people working in that area.

It looked like quite a nice place, actually. Mind you, those old black and white pictures, they do look quite nice, don't they? They're almost snowy. You don't see a snowy picture with snow.

Snow's usually needed for it to be snowy. It just looks nice. It might be really smelly, but it just looks nice on the photograph.

And in Stratford, the tube station entrance, it was grimy. It was. There was two entrances.

You could get there through the supermarket or the shopping centre, which was... It was all right. I didn't know anything different. So there was... Yeah, it was quiet.

I mean, it wasn't big, but it was very packed. Very, you know, you'd be practically stuck to someone's back as you were walking through. Very busy.

Pickpocket's a wet dream, basically. I'd ever pickpocketed, even no matter how romantic, it came across in Oliver Twist. Never did it.

And that supermarket, that shopping centre was there the whole time, pretty much, that I was there. But it started to change. What was in there? As you walk in, as you walk down from... Yeah, because that led... You go all the way through the shopping centre and there were some steps that went down at the end, and that led to a tunnel, which walked down, which then led to the entrance to the tube station.

You just walked through, you know, it carried on. It was no... It's not as an entrance, but not really. It just continued.

You go in there. On the left-hand side, there's the ticket offices. On the right-hand side, there was machines.

I think they were red, but you could purchase your tickets on the machines. Now, as you walk down that tunnel towards the entrance to the tube station, on the right, there was some steps, or it might have just been a slope. I forget.

And that was the entrance that I usually used, because it was... I used to take a short cut, then that led down to the entrance. But if you wanted to, you could turn left before going into the entrance of the tube station, and that would lead to a car park behind, a little car park, where the taxis would be. And you could order a taxi and it would turn up, and sometimes there'd be taxis already waiting.

And it was very hit and miss, you know. So I spent many times there at 1 o'clock in the morning, sitting there, waiting for a taxi, or just sitting down for a rest, on a Friday evening, or Friday, Saturday morning, Friday morning, Sunday morning, 2 o'clock. Yeah.

The amount of times I got the last bus, or the last train, rather, to... I'm sure the last train was about half 12, or 1 o'clock, at the weekends, to Stratford. It was a central line, I used to need to get. Then you'd go in, through Stratford station, if you might already have your ticket.

There was no ticket barriers, or anything like that. And you'd just walk straight through. And then, it was basically, you could turn left, and there's some steps, or you could keep walking across, and then there were some other steps.

And it was basically, you were either side of the platform, if that makes sense. So, it depended which direction you wanted to go. So if you take the first left, as you walk through, go up the steps.

On the left-hand side was the tubes, the underground. And then, on the right-hand side, there was the overground train, which, that train would go to Liverpool Street. If you wanted to go to South End, you'd have to walk up to the other platform, and that would take you to South End.

Or, if you wanted to go to... Yeah, I think, if I remember rightly, the one on the left, the tube went to the direction towards Ealing, I think. I think Ealing was the last stop. And it would go via Mile End, Bank, Liverpool Street, Oxford Street, Oxford Circus, Tottenham Court Road, Holborn, all the various different stops.

But the other direction, pretty sure Grange Hill, and a right slip, maybe, was near the end of the tube, the central line. So when I came back, I'd be getting off of that platform, and then walking down the steps. See, I don't think they had slopes.

So I don't think wheeled people in wheelchairs had... Well, there were people in wheelchairs back then, because it was just all steps. That's weird, isn't it? I wonder if there was a lift. I just don't remember.

There must have been. There might have been a lift. I really don't recall.

And so that was what it was like. Then they started to transform the tube station and make it nice, make it groovy. This started in the late 90s.

And it was kind of a dodgy place to be sometimes. But then they started to make it nice and groovy. And they built a whole new platform, platforms, and a whole new connection from another line.

I don't know if it was the Piccadilly line. I'm not sure. But it just... And I don't know where the space came from, because suddenly, there was this huge area with different trains coming from different places.

And I had no idea where they are, where did they come from. But what's quite funny, it's funny, but if you go through Stratford, and say, if you go into Liverpool Street from, I'm guessing, pretty much anywhere on the overground, you go through Stratford, because that's the first, that is the last stop before Liverpool Street. And if you look, if you just look at the platform, and the trains, and once you go past, you might, it might stop, might keep going depending if it has to stop or not.

And you see people waiting for a train for the tube, the tube pulls up. That's the same image that you would have got in 1991. The only difference is the trains are a bit newer.

The people are probably different, because it's what, 29 years ago, 28 years ago, but it doesn't look any different, really. But then if you look up, you see this big shopping centre. And as you come into Stratford, I don't know if it's as you come in, or as you leave Stratford, but you see the stadium, you know, the Olympic Stadium, that's now the, I don't know what it is, it's now, I think it's West Ham football ground now.

And they transformed that whole area, just that area. It was, and that happened when I left. So between 2001 and 2012, they, it's not totally true, they had started doing a few bits, but the main thing they started doing was they started a train, an underground, like a new connection.

I thought that they were going to connect the Eurotunnel to Stratford, which they may have done, I don't know. But there was people working on that from, definitely in 2001, because a cafe opened specifically just for them. And I lived around the corner and I used to have a sausage sandwich on the way to work.

So, and that was busy, there was a lot of people working there. So the whole area, I don't know how many billions of pounds they had put into that, getting that area built, offices, just huge, you know, everything. They transformed that area just around the train station and the bus station.

But there's still stuff that's still there, that's old, that was there when I moved there. Like an old decrepit building is just still there, surrounded by these new fangled angle buildings, sparkly Barclays. And it's just, I think there's at least two hotels that sprouted up in Stratford, just not far from the train station.

I think there's a Holiday Inn and another one, I don't know what it is. I stayed in the Holiday Inn and it's kind of strange because it's this big, lovely building. Inside it's really nice, big reception and there's a bar and everything's, you know, it's just really, everything's new.

It's not new, but you know, everything looks good. And then you look out your window and it's Stratford. It's this one place I stayed and there was a school downstairs, like it was overlooking the school and people playing football, which I kind of wouldn't expect from a hotel room.

I'm not a snob, I am, but I'm just a very poor snob. And it's kind of weird how you've got these places and as you walk away, back towards where I used to live, you get to Mile End. It's another train station, not Mile End.

Oh, it went out of my head there. Not Mile End. Wow, the train station's gone out of my head.

But it was a, it was a train station, but it's between Forest Gate and Stratford and it just was never busy. It was just never busy. And every time I've gone past there on a train coming to Liverpool Street, it's, I've never seen more than about three people waiting for a train.

Forest Gate, that's it, Forest Gate. Not Forest Gate, I already said Forest Gate. Maryland.

Maryland? I think it's Maryland. I think that's the name of the station, Maryland. And then you turn left and walk down towards Leighton, which is Stratford, but you towards where I used to live, go down that way.

And there's a few buildings put up. But the closer you get to where I used to live, the more it starts to look exactly the same. Because they can put buildings up, but they can't, they don't do anything about the houses.

Not that the houses need anything doing to them, but I've travelled through, through Forest Gate, between Forest Gate and Stratford towards Liverpool Street. I've done that journey hundreds of times since the late 80s. And the houses that the train overlooks as you go past, there's a group of houses and they have always looked the same.

And as you drive, as the train goes into Liverpool Street, it's messy. There's graffiti everywhere. It's the same old, like little dungeon that it always was.

They made Liverpool Street station look lovely, but they did nothing for the entrance to Liverpool Street. As you travel inwards, just a little paint job would have been nice. I think that they might not know that people can see it.

Maybe they think that no, actually, I like it to stay the way it is. I think it's nice to have, it's nice to have that familiarity, isn't it? Something's just, I want some things to stay the same, but I want everything to change. That's why I, Stratford, occasionally, not very often, but occasionally I'll go and I'll have a little look.

I'll go for a little wander around the old haunting patches, revisit some of the places that I used to live. I can't do all of them in one day. And it's all down the street and it's the same, exactly the same as it was 20 years ago, 30 years ago.

I quite like that. Yeah, I do, quite like it. It doesn't excite me, but I do quite like it.

I don't think I'm going to write a book about it, but I do, I like the feeling of, maybe it is nostalgia, but in some ways, it makes the memories seem a bit more real. If I remember walking down there, turning left, and there was an off-license on the left and across the road, there was a laundrette and there was a postbox. Wow, I can't remember, remembering this.

There was a postbox outside the laundrette and there was a zebra crossing. And next to the laundrette, there was two pizza places. There was Domino's or it might have been Pizza Hut.

I can't remember, but I remember the other one. It was called Pizza Go-Go. And they were cheap and I loved them.

And I used to, I'd have like one pizza a week. I've never really been a regular kind of every night of the week kind of person to eat. I never had the money really to do that, but I'd treat myself.

But they were cheap. They were nearly half the price of the Pizza Hut. And on the corner, there was a newsagents.

And it was ram-packed full of stuff. Seriously, there was so much stuff in there. And there's so much stuff that is hard to have more than one customer in the shop at a time because of the amount of stuff that was in there that you could buy.

And I got on really well with the owner, the man that was there. He was fairly elderly really at that time. Must've been in his sixties, if not older.

And he was quite rude, which I liked. And quite grumpy, which I also liked. But kind of got to know him and we chatted and stuff and I'd go in there every day, buy a newspaper and whatever.

And I had this new girlfriend in 1996. And she was visiting me at my home in Stratford. And on the way out, I think the walk going to the train station, we needed to get something.

So we went into that newsagents. I think he said, hello Jason. I don't know if you ever knew my name.

And just asked what we wanted. I don't know what we're getting, a can of Coke or something. And he said, wait a second.

And he put from under the counter, he pulled out a dirty magazine full of naked people. He put it on the counter. He said, do you want to take this now or do you want to take it later? Now my girlfriend was standing right next to me.

He did it to embarrass me. It's very funny, but out of order. And I never bought dirty magazines from that shop.

It's like, well, maybe sometimes, I don't know. I can't remember everything I did, but it's like, what? Literally with this new girlfriend, that's only starting to get to know me. Go into a newsagents and newsagents who knows me clearly, says that my episode of Biggins is in.

Did I want to take it home with me now? Yeah, I'll read it now. Yeah. I suppose I can borrow your bathroom.

Can I? In fact, you just hold it open and I'll, you know, see. Yeah, it's, that was a weird one. That was.

He was a funny man though. So on that note, I'm going to go and upload this. So please remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy.

Lots of love. Bye.