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Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Yeah.
And just as I said that, there's something I need to do. I need to move this microphone out of the way. I need to stretch over here.
My mobile phone. Okay. So before I start, I just want to read out some messages.
Some messages. Let's have a look. Come on.
Come on. Okay. First message is from Molly.
I've not replied yet. This was yesterday. So it was half 10 in the evening or something.
So because I'm a good boy, I go to bed early. I'm not up late. I was but it says, Hey, Jason, did you go to your course? Do you mind sharing some pictures from the photo album you were given? Also, how is your friend with the dog going? Ooh, and can I see the dog? Ooh, ooh, and can I see the dog? Could I ask any more questions? No, I think you've asked quite a few.
Hope you're well thinking of you. Thank you, Molly. Thank you, Molly.
I'm going to answer your questions on here. No, no, no, no, no. And I've got other questions.
I've got Ben sent me a message saying, Hi, mate. How's things with you? See you being a bit quiet this week. I hope everything's okay.
And Marlene. I didn't see that one. Marlene says, How are you doing? Thanks, Molly.
I'm cool. I had. Oh, yeah, I had a message by email.
That's it. That's why I couldn't see it. This is from Mary.
Just a message to wish you the best on your course. I know you're a bit nervous, but you're more than capable, Mary. So I did reply.
Thank you very much, Mary. And just see if there's any others. It's going very slow.
I don't know why. It's not opening up for some reason. Okay.
Well, I'll ignore that then. Yeah, I think that's this. There might be some other messages.
Because I haven't made a recording for I think it's a week, maybe something like that. Something like that. I don't know.
Right. Okay. I did get a message from someone asking for help with I can't remember the exact wording, but it was this the person said that they this is on Facebook, she said, or he said that I had issues with had a problem with a member, I think like a supervisor at work.
And is there anything I could do to help? And so I'm going to send him a gun. No, I'm gonna. I'm going to do a recording, actually, not right now.
But I will do a recording that may be useful. So to first of all, ask Ben. Hi, Ben.
Yes, I'm fine. Being a bit quiet. I kind of been getting myself prepared for the weekend.
Might be a little bit strange. But yeah, I was just trying to get myself ready trying to get myself kind of motivated. Just prepared, you know, I did a bit of reading, just trying to get ready so that I was able to get up early in the morning, because I don't generally do that.
I do sometimes but I don't do it. To go out, you know, my wake up early in the morning, I just watch telly, have my breakfast and maybe go back to bed. But to get up and then travel to a train station, then travel to London, and then travel to the destination, the venue, and be there all day and then travel back to the train station, then travel back by train from London to my train station, the one I personally own, of course, the local one, and then get in another bus or taxi home.
And to do that two days in a row. It was exhausting, but I did it. So I managed to do it all together.
There's a hero, if you look inside your heart. And hey, Jason, so Molly says, Did you do your course? Yeah, I did my course. I will talk about it during this recording.
And by the way, those that are watching or those that are listening, I am, although for both basically, I'm making this as my podcast, but I'm filming myself making a podcast. So this will, the video will be on YouTube. And if you're watching on YouTube, you can listen to this on the podcast.
And there's other variations of the same recording. So there's the length of the recording, you know, sort of an hour, whatever, 50 minutes, hour, there's a version with music, background music for the duration of the recording, there's a five hour version, which has got the recording and then there's with music and then there's background music with some other like counting down, me talking, basically, affirmations, things like that. Then there's a 10 hour version with music.
The 10 hour versions are the most popular ones on the podcast. And so you know, you get a little bit more on the podcast where you get a lot more on the podcast than you do on a YouTube channel. But the YouTube video, you get to see my funny face.
So you get to laugh at me. So that's good. Do you mind sharing pictures from the photo album you were given? I suppose I could.
It would be a case of showing you the picture on camera. It only really be can only really show pictures of myself. It's not not fair to show pictures of me and my brothers, because I don't have contact with them.
So I can't really ask them permission. And so it's, but there's a few of me on my own. And so I can do that.
But I can't really can't really show. Personally, I don't care. I mean, I'd show pictures of me with my family, whatever.
But yeah, I need to kind of does that make sense? I need to ask their permission. My dad would say no, he wouldn't want me showing pictures of him on YouTube on the internet full stop. And so yeah, I can show pictures of myself.
So the only I suppose you just get to see what I look like when I was younger. Although, on my YouTube channel, there's videos of me from 2000. Probably, yeah, at least 2009 2010 onwards.
So you can go back 10 1214 years and see how incredibly good I look for my age. 72. And the next question from Molly.
So also, how's your friend with a dog doing again? I never go into details about people in my life. But yeah, my friend is cool. His dog is it's actually his birthday today.
His dog. I do have a picture I can actually send you Molly. Of the dog.
So I've got a couple of pictures on my phone. So I'll send you a couple of pictures of him. There's one where he's laying on his back, and his legs are just basically, I don't know how to explain it, but kind of just open his front, his hands, his arms and his legs just open is like, like just really blissed out.
And I think that would have been after he'd had some biscuits. He's usually quite happy after he's had some biscuits. He loves coming up here.
But just for the biscuits. That's why he associates my flat with biscuits. I'm pretty sure I don't think he wants to be here for any other reason.
So you can see the dog, I'll send you a picture. There is a picture on Facebook, I think of him. There's a picture of him and Andre, with Andre on my lap, or I'm holding Andre and the dog is sort of sitting right next to my knee or something.
So there is a picture on Facebook, I'm pretty sure. Hope you all could ask any more. You can ask any question you want Molly, as can anyone else.
You're welcome to ask me questions. I will answer if I can. And I hope you understand about the photographs.
It's not. See, I show photographs of me and my Nan and I always have done online. I didn't ask her permission.
And so I mean, she's she's been dead since 2000. It was December in December 2014. So I had pictures of me and my Nan on my Facebook page for years before that.
But I don't know, I did. I never asked her permission, but I don't think she'd care. And I just did it anyway.
But I've never posted pictures of anyone else. There's not many, I don't have many pictures really of me. I don't take pictures really.
Other people take pictures. You know, like birthdays, stuff like that. And that's less and less.
I mean, it's been practically non existent the last couple of years. Sort of get togethers. Last time I, the last family event that I've been to was my stepmum's birthday.
It was her 60th and yeah, I'm nearly 52. So I think she's 12 years older than me. And that was the last time.
And that was back in, I think 2019. August, I think. Pretty sure.
Yeah, 12. Yeah, that makes sense, doesn't it? Yeah, I'm 51. And she's be 60.
63 now, I guess. Yeah, 60, 62. Oh, no.
Anyway. Yeah, so that's those questions answered. If there's any other questions, or if anyone sent me messages that I've not answered, sometimes I get messages on the different Facebook pages.
And I don't always get alerted to them. Although now, you can add me on. What's it called? What's crap? You can add me on what's crap.
And I am on there, I kind of have to be on there now. Just because there's a couple of groups that I need to be I need to be on there for those two groups. And I don't like WhatsApp, but I'm going to start using it because it's it's just there.
And I have to be on there and I have to check it pretty much every day now. Do you know one of the reasons I got an issue with WhatsApp is one of the issues, okay? I met a lady and she was volunteering at the children's charity that I was counselling at. And I was working there as well, as a receptionist, as a job as well for a while.
Back in 2000. And anyone? 2011? 2011? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, 2011.
Because that was the wedding wasn't it? Royal wedding. I know there's been more than one Royal wedding, but the the big, the biggest Royal wedding pretty much since Prince Charles was Prince William. And that was a big old deal, wasn't it? I remember that.
I think I watched it on telly. Anyway, yeah, so 2011. Because there's two things that happened.
I just remember like, not world events, but UK events. Two of the biggest events of kind of a generation in a sense, kind of two big things. Nice things, you know, I mean, okay, forgetting the birth of babies and stuff.
But still like big social events, or political or whatever. So there was the the Royal wedding, William and Kate, isn't it? Kate. And then there was the Olympic Games in London in 2012.
And that was huge here. I mean, probably imagine anywhere, any country that has the Olympic Games, it's just the most biggest thing that they've done, you know, it's even bigger than having a World Cup. Not for football fans, obviously.
So having a World Cup in England is like huge. So it's the biggest thing for well for football fans. But the Olympic Games spreads wider, doesn't it than football? It kind of there's a larger audience.
Although football is huge here. It's the top, it's the most important sport in this country is football. Now a boxing fan, boxing is way down.
It's I'd say boxing is not even as popular as tennis. In fact, snooker is possibly more popular than than boxing. I'd say boxing is more more more popular than darts.
But you see where I'm going, it's not the most popular sport out of all of them. Like football, rugby, tennis, we don't have when we do have basketball, but generally it's netball, women play that game. So and the same with baseball, we call it rounders.
It's basically a children's game. And in this country, it's not an adult game. It's for little children play.
Oh, imagine all the baseball fans. It's no children's game. Yeah, it's a it's a little it's a little child's game.
It's I'm not it's not there. I'm just saying here. It's done with like a little softball.
So the child doesn't get hurt. So it doesn't, you know, they're only bashing into them and giving them a bruise or anything. And there's no hot dogs.
And the weird thing about it. Personally, out of all the sports I played at school, rounders was the best, it was the most fun. And it was the most equal of all games, because you didn't need any kind of physical ability, really just a bit of coordination, eye to hand coordination.
Obviously, the person that hit the ball the furthest, not farthest, furthest, furthest is going to be able to run around more times and, you know, get a higher score. But even people, you know, I used to like to hit it behind me. So you know, it's just it didn't matter, like you just you can participate in rounders, baseball.
And it was fun. And I think if there was any sport that I could have done apart from dodgeball, dodgeball, I was really good at. I was very good at that.
I think I don't know why I was just good at avoiding getting hit. There's something I just, I didn't want to be hit by the ball. So I knew that anyone who chucked the ball at me, they were trying to hurt me.
So I just avoided it. I was very good. But I'm much larger target these days, but I was tiny little thing and I could do somersaults.
Naturally, I was very, very good at avoiding being hit by balls. That sounds weird. Why am I talking about baseball and softball? And why am I talking about that? Oh, yeah, football.
That's it. Yeah. So football, baseball.
Anyway, 2010, 2011, I started, so I started volunteering as a counsellor in 2010. Well, no, it was 2009, December, because I qualified as a person centred counsellor in July of 2009. And then I managed to and I've been on the lady who's in charge of the counselling team at that children's charity.
I got to know a little bit and I was just on a case just like just a reminder, I want to come and volunteer your place as soon as I'm qualified. Because I went in there, just as I started my course in 2007. Wanting to volunteer, because also I needed a placement.
I thought maybe because I wanted to work with kids, I wanted to volunteer there and have her not her have that charity as my placement as a counsellor, but they wouldn't have anyone there unless they were qualified. It was part of their policy. So I ended up waiting until I was qualified and then straight away knocking on the door.
And because that was the most important place that I wanted to be. That's where I wanted to go. And I did it.
So I started in December 2009. And then January 2011. I worked on the reception part time and still continued to be a counsellor for about six hours a week, something like that.
Oh, yeah, so there was a volunteer, they had volunteers working there. And there was a lady who I really liked. And I got on really well with her and I said, well, we should keep in contact.
And she said, add me on. On. On.
What's crap. And I said, boss, what's what's crap? She said, well, it's just it's an app. It's just this is a way.
It's just like I everyone use it. Well, I don't. And I think some people use WhatsApp rather than give their Facebook page because then you can't find anything out about them.
It's very kind of arm's length communication. Oh. But I think you do get their telephone number from it.
Pretty sure it shows it, but might not. It does if you're in groups shows a telephone number if you're in a group with someone. So anyway, I purchased the app for 10 pounds or 999.
And then I find out it's free. It's a free app. I paid for it and it's a free app.
I added her. She stopped volunteering. So I think that's why we sort of said let's keep in contact.
Didn't answer. Didn't answer text messages, nothing. And I was so annoyed just that I spent 10 pounds.
I didn't need to spend for no reason for an app that I was never going to use again. Like just, oh, oh, and it was rejection as well, because, you know, I was trying to I thought that I was prepared to have her babies for her, but no. So that was it.
So and then my dad decided, oh, let's have a family group on WhatsApp. Sorry, WhatsApp. And I just, I just don't like it.
I don't think it's a very good. It's all right for sending messages for people that you don't know very well, that you don't perhaps want to have your telephone number or, you know, just. Keep the communication online, I suppose, less personal in a way than Facebook, because, you know, people can look at your photographs and whatever.
I'm not bothered about Facebook. I just anyone can join my Facebook pages. But what my dad started to do, I'm not slagging him off, I'm just sort of saying the fact is he loves WhatsApp to the point where he won't even send messages to me anymore on my phone.
He sends them on WhatsApp. And because I don't go on WhatsApp, I hardly ever go on there. So I don't see the messages.
But one was, oh, we've had COVID. Yeah, we recovered from COVID, you know, after a couple of weeks. So I didn't get that message till probably about a month later.
So I don't go on there. I just don't. It's not something I've got so many internet things that I have to kind of check on.
The WhatsApp's not like really in my priority, or it hasn't been, it's going to have to be soon. Because my college they've now done a WhatsApp group. So I'm gonna have to keep track of that as well.
Yeah. So basically, I mean, my dad even phones me on there uses what it's like my phone, I said to him, phone me on my phone, text me on my phone. He said, No, I'm doing on WhatsApp.
Just like that. No WhatsApp. If it's important, if you want to speak to me, call me on my phone.
No WhatsApp. Like a baby. It's like a like a little child.
And then I think I might be like a child because I'm doing the opposite. No, you phone me. No WhatsApp.
Phone me. WhatsApp. My phone, WhatsApp, text me.
No WhatsApp. It's just, it's, it's like two little kids arguing, wanting to have the last word maybe I don't know. Coca Cola.
So, okay. Let's talk about I've got a food delivery coming soon. So if I get a knock at the door, you know what it is.
It's a food delivery. And I've got I got dizziness come back again. Vertigo, I can never remember the word vertigo.
I have to think of the film. You know, Alfred Hitchcock film, Vertigo. I've got vertigo.
I've had vertigo now, pretty much since October when I had COVID. I know I did have, even though the little test said no, I had COVID. I was proper ill.
My hearing went, I was, I'm not going to go into details, but my, just, I've talked about it before, but I woke up. I had earache the day before. In one ear.
The day before that I had earache in another ear for a couple of hours and it went. And the third day I woke up and I couldn't hear hardly anything out of my left ear. All I could hear was an echo of what was being said on the telly.
Literally, there was a delay and there was an echo. Very strange, very strange. And then the next day, the echo stopped, which is good.
But the hearing went, I lost probably at least 50% of the hearing in my left ear and my right ear went the same way. So it was like talking underwater, you know, when you've got your head under, your ears underwater, your eyes, ass, you know, your ears, head. And you can't really, it wasn't as bad as that.
I could hear, but it was really probably 50, maybe 60% less than normal. And that lasted for a couple of weeks. And I think the third week, it eventually started to come back.
And it's one of those things like with chronic pain, or, you know, with a, with a broken bone or something is you start to heal, you're always healing. And the pain is reducing all the time, to the point where you forget. You just forget that the pain was ever there.
And then you realize, oh, it's not there anymore. So it's a bit like that on my hearing is back. Oh, that's nice.
I kept trying to yawn to try and clear it, you know, when sometimes you, you wake up, or your ears go a bit weird, and you will yawn, and it just clears. That's what I was waiting for. And I had vertigo during that period.
And then afterwards, I had vertigo. And I've had it three or four times now. Yeah, a few.
I think it was last year, it might have been January. But I went to the hospital because everything was spinning. And yeah, that's it.
I didn't have it during that. I didn't have vertigo during that time. Just the earache and the ears were weird.
And it was either December or January, I woke up and got up and I was spinning. And it happened. It kept happening.
I was looking up. I didn't know what it was. I didn't understand.
I knew what it felt like. It felt like how I felt when I perforated one of my ears. I had a perforated eardrum in 2011.
And it was the same feeling. But I didn't have a perforated eardrum. So like, how can I have this feeling when there's nothing wrong with me.
And so I went to the hospital and I actually phoned up 911, not 911. Not in America, 911. That's it 111, which is a telephone number in the UK, which you can call to get medical advice, you can sort of say, do I need to go to the hospital? Do I need to go to the doctors? And they told me I needed to go to the hospital to get checked out.
And I went and they did lots of basic checking for neurological issues to make sure that it was just my ears rather than my neurology because and they did all these tests and stuff and I was fine. They said, so it's your ears. I said, okay.
What do I do? I don't know. Oh, okay. So to take these tablets, it should help.
And then if it continues, go and see your doctor. I took the tablets, it did help. And it did stop.
But I didn't, you know, so I've had now had it recur about three times. And this and I noticed that I didn't have any more. And it was so nice.
It's basically when I lay down on one side or lay down on the other side or get up or look up or look down, which is a problem because I'm about to get my food delivery and I have to keep bending down. And I spin out when I bend down when I've got vertigo. The other day, I think it was Friday, the night before I did my course on Saturday, I washed my hair and I was bending over over the bath.
And I nearly collapsed. Because it was first time because I really bent my head down low in the hope of not spreading water all over the floor, you know, and I nearly fell in the bath. I've fallen out of the bath in the past and broke my wrist, never fallen into a bath.
So weird. In fact, what I might do is knock on my neighbor's door and see if they can help me. Depending how there's not a lot of items actually, so should be right.
I might just pull this stuff on the floor. Just tip it out of the out of the basket. Yeah.
Yeah, the frozen stuff comes out doesn't it? The frozen stuff comes in bags. And there's probably 30 40% is frozen stuff. So that should be that's fairly easy.
The supermarket doesn't deliver normal stuff in bags anymore. It's I know. I know the reason behind it, but it's still annoying.
Oh, yeah, this is not really connected. But I'm just thinking about annoying results of environmentalism. Yeah, cardboard straws.
I went into a place, we had lunch on. Yeah, both the Saturday and Sunday we had lunch out in a restaurant. And close by because we're in Trafalgar Square area.
St. Paul's Cathedral, St. Paul's area. For those that know London, Trafalgar Square is the central it literally is one of the most central points of London, I think. Yeah, this is this recording not long enough for me to tell you about what happened.
Seriously. Anyway, I had a I had a coke both days for lunch. We went in a just a little glass of coke, didn't drink much of it.
But at a straw and eat both. And the straws were okay. There weren't cardboard crappy straws that McDonald's has.
They I don't know if they're made of resin or some kind of I don't know, but they were okay. They weren't plastic. But they were okay.
Oh, so there are some recyclable straws that aren't horrible. But I wonder whether or not they reuse them. Because it might be those kind of straws.
So I don't I'm not I'm not sure. I'd really don't know. I mean, they might reuse them.
I mean, if they had metal straws, they'd be reusing them because they wouldn't be chucking them out, would they? So maybe these are reusable straws. Which is something I don't really want to think about. It's bad enough that cutlery is you is you reusable knowing that someone's put that fork in wherever orifice they put it in, you know, it's like, that's just me maybe.
So yeah, anyway, Saturday morning. Here's what happened on Friday, I went to bed at 1010 o'clock in the evening, knowing I had to get up at five. And I had to leave my home at six to catch the 649 train.
And because I also had to get there and get the tickets, there might be a queue, you know, who knows. So I just gave myself to get there by half past and then to have myself 15 minutes to get the tickets if needed. Allow myself that time.
Well, I didn't leave till after six, so it's probably five, six minutes past six. But I did leave, I did get up. I went to bed at 10.
I listened to the radio. Sounds like a song. Went to bed at 10.
Listen to the radio. That'd be a really rubbish song, wouldn't it? No, it doesn't sound like a song at all. Anyway, I went to bed at 10, woke up at two in the morning, or 2.30 in the morning.
And I was awake. And I had my alarm set for five. So I knew, you know, it's going to give me seven hours.
Is that seven hours sleep, isn't it? Ten to five. So like seven hours is enough. I'd slept during the day as well, which perhaps was a mistake.
But I thought I'd get as much sleep as possible. And then had a few lots, like three or four early nights before, to prepare myself. Well, I ended up staying up.
I thought, well, I'll stay up till three. Then I go back to bed. No, because I looked at the clock, it was four.
There's no point going back to bed at five for an hour. But then I did go back to bed. Because I decided, I decided to leave it in the hands of fate.
And I'm going to go to bed. And if I wake up, then I'll go to the course. If I don't wake up, it means that I'm supposed to be here.
Because my brain wasn't working very well, obviously. I just didn't want to go out, it's freezing cold, proper cold. And like the cold, we've gone from really nice weather to really cold.
And that was the coldest day. I'd say probably one of the coldest days of the year on Saturday. And it got colder as the day went on.
I thought it was cold in the morning, but it was nothing compared to what it was when I got to London, and how cold it was during the day and in the evening. Wow. And then when I got back here, it wasn't that cold.
So I think it was a London thing. It's a London thing, have different weather. 66 miles or something away from where I live.
Completely different weather. Anyway, because it snowed on Thursday, Thursday and Friday, Thursday snowed beautiful. And then Friday, it snowed a little bit as well.
But Thursday snowed for about 20 minutes. I just pulled the curtains open. And I looked at it and I thought, Oh, that's nice.
It's snowing. And I just looked at it. I love snow.
I just love the snow. Gives me a feeling nothing else gives me. I would marry it.
I would marry snow if I could. And I eventually got up and I left the house. I didn't have a proper breakfast.
I just had these like, you know, those crappy little boxes, cereal you get in the packs, like maybe you get 12 packs, 12 in a pack. And they're not really big enough for, they're big enough for like maybe a four year old child to eat. So I've had a few of those packs, and I always leave the ones I don't like.
Well, that's what was left in the cupboard and I ate them for my breakfast. So I had a couple of boxes or three boxes of those. As I was getting ready, you know, it was I left everything to the last minute.
So I left, walked, and I was crunching on ice or little bits, it looks like it snowed. And the snow had settled or it hailed and the hail had just stayed on the ground and I was crunching on it as I was walking. Got to the train station.
There was someone working behind the counter. They always seem to be a bit put out to actually have to get up out of the chair and do something. I don't know why that is.
It's like they expect everyone to use the machine outside. They don't, they don't like to do, they don't like to actually get off their bum and actually do what their job is, or part of their job. I mean, I'm sure there's other other things they have to do.
But serving the customers is part of their job. And they really be put, they look put out. The woman on Saturday really looked at me like I was, it's almost like she knew that I was going to fart.
You know, she knew beforehand, she was giving me that look. I know what you're going to do. Really seemed quite angry at me.
Anyway, she served me, I bought tickets both for Saturday and for Sunday. So I didn't have to sort of worry about the day after. All sorted.
And I spoke to the bloke on a Sunday just to check the train. And he got up, but he didn't seem to want to get up. But he did.
I don't know, maybe the chairs have got glue on them or something. And it's, you know, I don't know. Maybe they've got magnets.
Maybe they only employ people. They've got metal buttocks. And there's a magnet on the chair.
And I don't know, maybe it's some kind of practical joke within the train industry. I don't know. So I got on the train on Saturday, got there.
I went to McDonald's, Liverpool Street, had a, what's it, egg McMuffin thing. A little bit worried because they normally go right through me. You know, it's kind of, I eat it and then I've got five minutes to get to the nearest toilet.
But didn't do it this time. And then I thought I'm going to find the bus, get the bus to Trafalgar Square from Liverpool Street station. I walked past a taxi rank.
I could not see where the bus stop was. And then I thought, I'll get a taxi. So I did.
So I just got in the black cab. And it was part of the road, part of the area was closed off. I don't know why.
A lot of building work going on in London. And it came to about £6.15 for the taxi journey. But it took me right to where I was going.
I got there but I was early. So I was there about half past eight. Didn't need to be there till nine.
So I went to the cafe. There's the buildings like a palace. The room we were in was just a room with a big table and not a lot of room really to manoeuvre.
But the actual building was huge. And there's a hotel connected to it as well. So there's a lot of staff and the what I went in there.
I couldn't get in. I couldn't I went to push the spiral door because a big spiral door couldn't open it. And then someone came out.
So I went in the way they came at like another door that was locked from the inside. Locked from the outside but they could come out. And I went and I spoke to the manager.
I guess he looked like a manager and I said the door's locked. And he came out. He said no it shouldn't be.
And he pushed it and it was open. It just and I thought wow I really really need to get back to the gym. Because you know he wasn't a big bloke.
He just pushed it with his finger and I couldn't push it at all. Well I found out on Sunday afternoon that it was locked because they apologised to me. They said no it shouldn't have been locked.
Someone had locked it. No one knows well they probably do know why but they didn't tell me why. And they said no it was locked you were right.
But it's not normally. It's someone locked it for some reason. I said okay.
Not particularly entertaining story but very factual. I hope you appreciate that. And so it did the course.
Turned up. I'll go into a bit more detail in our in future recordings probably. Met my new fellow students.
There was five of us all together. Only five. Very small amount.
And there was the teacher and a teacher's assistant who was I think training to be one of the tutors. So she's like one of the supervisors at the moment. Previously had done that course years ago and qualified hypnotherapist and clinical hypnotherapist.
Because that's what the course is. It's clinical hypnotherapy. I just I want to point out as I just just in case you think oh he's training hypnosis now.
I do still have qualifications and I still do have many years of experience in hypnosis. This is just my aim is to improve. And the only way to really improve other than experience is knowledge.
You know to get more education. And I can read book after book. And I've got probably one of the best hypnosis book libraries that you could get.
I've got lots of hypnosis books. And I've been collecting hypnosis books since what 1998. I've got a big collection and I've read a lot of them.
But it's something you know getting experience from getting knowledge from someone that does it for a living. Which I don't. I don't see people one on one as a hypnotherapist.
And to train as that and to learn from those people and to. Yeah it's just it's something that I've not done for a long time. And when I've done this course I'm probably going to do another one next year.
And then another one the year after that. I'll just keep learning more so that I can improve my hypnosis recordings. See that's the idea.
That's the plan. Dan. So I did that.
I'll just I'll skip through now. I did the Saturday. Got home eventually.
Saturday evening by about eight in the evening. I got taxi home both days. No I didn't.
I got taxi home the Saturday night. Sunday I managed to get the bus home which is good. And Sunday was more difficult because I got there.
The good thing about Sunday is everything's late later. So trains didn't start till seven or something. I ended up getting the I think half past seven train.
Or was it you know the eight o'clock train. I think it was. Which got there or ten to eight.
So it's a lot earlier. It's an hour earlier isn't it. So then ten to seven.
And I got there at five past nine. And I got a taxi. But it couldn't go to the actual venue to the because there was a half marathon in London yesterday.
So a lot of London was cordoned off. They dropped me off in an area and he said just walk straight down there and that'll lead you and you'll end up in Trafalgar Square. So I did.
I got into the classroom about three minutes late. So it's not too bad. Literally the half nine.
So about yeah about three minutes late. I could have probably got there on time if I'd walked human speed. But I like to walk slowly.
And then yesterday was okay. Did the course. Did the day.
Did quite a bit of practice both days. So in and out of trance. Learn and relearn stuff that I've perhaps known before in a different way.
That's another thing. Learning things differently. Learning things, seeing other people's perspective of something.
And it's so different from reading. I love reading. I love studying and reading and learning new things from books.
But it's something very different from the experiential or from the learning from other people's experience like in the flesh you know. So I got to, there was five of us. I think one person's not coming back.
Which means there's going to be four students for the rest of the year. And the course finishes in January with the exam in January. And there's 10 weekends before the January exam.
And so I've got one weekend done. So there's nine left. And yeah it's a very intimate group.
It's very, very small. And so there's benefits and there's downfalls to both I guess. The benefits is I suppose get more one-on-one interaction with the tutor and with the the other person, the assistant.
So they could watch and get more feedback than perhaps I would if there was 30 of us there. Because you'd have, they'd have to keep moving around. They can actually sit and watch us do the whole thing instead of just a couple of minutes worth.
So the feedback's more intensive. So I guess that's a really good thing I suppose. I don't know about next month with the traveling.
I don't know. It's doable unless there's a train replacement service. But anyway.
But I'm going to go for now. You take care. My delivery's here I think.
So I'm going to go. So remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy. Lots of love.
Bye.
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