#882 Ive returned to Thailand - Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (24th August 2022)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. Hi, excuse me, I'm using the microphone. I am sitting in a Thailand hotel room, sweating my bits off because I've turned the air conditioning off so that I can actually, well I can't record with that thing because it's all the way through. So I'm not sure how long I can continue without having to stop and pour cold water over myself.

So I'm doing this, hopefully you'll, if the sound isn't quite what it normally is, I hope that you can forgive me because I'm using a small microphone, a travelling one. Because last time I came here I bought a big mic and some of the equipment and it took up most of the bag room. This time I've bought a smaller microphone but I've also bought my iPad and my laptop, which means I can do editing without trying to do it all on my phone.

Because the phone is, it's just too small for my eyes, if you know what I mean. Makes sense to me. So I can record this, upload it to the internet.

I've got a SIM card for both my phone and my iPad. I got that in Bangkok airport. So it's unlimited data, 5G apparently.

And the laptop, I'm guessing I can use Hotspot from my phone to that or just plug that into Wi-Fi. But that's for more other stuff that I don't necessarily need the internet for. So all together this is looking okay.

I've got a little plan. And I only listen to this when you can safely close your eyes and this is let me bore you to sleep and relax. I'm sweating.

I just had a shower. I'm literally, I really should tell you in order what's happened but that's unlikely I'm going to do that, isn't it? Me sticking to a subject. Oh, no, no, no, no.

I hope it's not too echoey. Okay. I can probably improve the sound anyway.

So today is I think it's Wednesday. I think it's Wednesday. I think it's, or was it Tuesday? Tuesday.

Oh, man, I don't know. It's Wednesday. It's definitely Wednesday.

So on Sunday, or was it? I'm losing track. Honestly, I'm losing track of the days. But I think it was Sunday.

I just thought to myself, because I've been sleeping a lot. I've been in bed and I've just been at home that is and I'm just like, oh, can't be bothered to do anything. And I thought, well, I need to do something to get myself out of this funk.

F-U-N-K, funk. And I kept thinking about coming here. But this time I need to do it on the cheap.

I need to be careful and just, and, you know, I was like, oh, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? And then I thought, let's just have a look, go to Thai Airways, Thai Airlines or whatever it is, and just see if they've got any flights. And they did for the next day. And so I left at midday in Heathrow Airport, I think it was, yeah.

And it was a 12 hour flight or 11 and a half hour flight. But, you know, if you take into consideration how long we was on the plane before it took off and how long afterwards, it was about 13 hours on the plane, maybe 14 hours. It was a long, long old journey.

And maybe 13 hours, maybe 12, I don't know. But it was probably the longest 12 hours I've experienced in some while. It was very, very, very tedious.

And there was a bit of turbulence a couple of times. It was a little bit, a little bit. It's weird because they said, oh, everybody get back to your seats, put your seatbelts on, do not go to the toilet.

And then the plane's shaking around like on one of those horror movies. It's like, wait a minute, he's saying, don't go to the toilet. Do you mean in the lavatory or in my pants? I mean, I can't control that.

If you keep dipping so much, eventually it's all going to come out. And it was like, this is, this is, luckily, I don't know why, I've never been travel sick. I've always been okay with it.

Uh, ferries, I've been on really, really, really wavy seas, you know, in a ferry where it's dipping in and out, you know, really where people are being ill and never affected me. Um, car rides, anything like that, long distance coach drive, uh, stuff like nothing, never had a problem with traveling and it didn't even do it for me with the, um, with the plane, which I'm glad about. I'm really glad the person next to me didn't either because it's a bit of a domino effect, isn't it? If you know what I mean, I wouldn't want to be next to that.

There was someone, um, on the journey last time that was having a bit of a hard time. And I did suggest, cause I like, you know, I like to be helpful. I did suggest, um, there's no way, I asked the cabin crew, you can't chuck them off the plane.

She said, we're, we're 500 feet in the, up in the ground going at 585 miles an hour. I said, I don't need to know the logistics. You figure it out.

Just get rid of him, please. She said, no, can you sit down? I said, I don't want to sit down. I want that person off the plane, get them off now or I will.

No, I didn't say that. Otherwise I'd probably be in prison, wouldn't I? Hmm. Yes.

So, oh, it's getting hot now. I put my t-shirt, I put, this is a clean t-shirt and it looks like I've been wearing it for about a year. It's just damp.

Oh, I'm gonna have to change t-shirts. So I've come with nothing really, um, clothes wise, because there's no room for clothes. I had one pair of underpants in my bag, a pair of shorts, pair of socks and a shirt.

That was it. And a pair of shoes. So that was, that was all I had and whatever else I was wearing when I, when I travelled, because it doesn't matter where you're going in the world, no matter how hot it's going to be, you better wrap up for that flight because it's killed.

The old, uh, it's so funny seeing people thinking they're, I'm going on holiday, going on holiday. I'm living in a cold country. Now I'm going to a nice warm, hot country.

I'm going to put my, my socks, no socks and just a small t-shirt and some little shorts and they get onto the plane thinking and that's it, they've left the cold behind. And then 20 minutes in, they're colder than they were in their own country because it's killed. And also, if you're travelling, here's a bit of advice, it's up to you.

Get some, um, noise cancelling earphones, even if they're not playing music or anything. Once they're on, they cut out the noise and the planes are very loud. Very, very, I had my ear headphones on for eight or nine hours out of the 12.

They cut out after a while. I turned the music off after a little bit because I didn't want to use all the batteries up on my phone because I had my boarding pass on the phone. So I had to show that when I got to the airport.

So I didn't want to use the battery up otherwise I couldn't prove who I was. But then, um, so I just used the batteries of the, of the headphones, maybe I just turned that on and it cut off probably 80% of the noise, maybe 90%. And then when I took the headphones off, whoa, it was like a blast.

Whoa, honestly, it's really loud. And it's practically impossible to fall asleep with that kind of sound for me. In fact, I did fall asleep once, just fell asleep.

And then the airline decided to turn all the lights on, all the lights on, um, because it's time to feed us again. I was just falling asleep. I was literally, I was just getting into snoring mode and then suddenly all the lights on.

And also because most of the lights were turned off during the flight. Um, but some people had to have the light, they put their own light on. So it's blaring and it's more blary when it's dark because they wanted to do stuff on the plane.

So, and it's an overnight, it's an overnight flight and it's during a day flight. It's like both because I set off at midday London time and I got here at 6am Thai time, Thai time. So it was a completely weird kind of feeling really because I was tired.

I wanted to go to bed and I'm not going to bed in the morning, during the day, going to sleep during the day is not a new thing to me. But I did have jet lag. I did.

And it was just didn't really know where I was. And I knew I was tired. I knew that there's no getting away from that because I know what I'm like when I'm like proper tired.

I'm not the friendliest person to myself or to any, I'm not rude, but I just don't feel, yeah, I'm grumpy. Yeah, grumpy. That's a good word.

Grumpy. I'm a bit grumpy. And because I didn't have my, you know, doing that a lot.

And I didn't have my own space. I was like with someone sitting next to someone for 12 hours. And I didn't talk to him because it was a young female.

And I thought it looked like she was with her dad. And I thought, not that I wanted to really talk to her, but I would just like be a bit, a little bit friendly. And I didn't talk to her.

Which I did say hello to both of them when I got on, because I was on the aisle seat and they were both near the window and in the middle, she was in the middle, he was at the window and she was holding two boarding tickets. So I figured that she was holding the tickets for her and her dad or could be boyfriend. I don't know.

It's no way I've known. Or brother, you don't know. And so, but I kind of, she, then she wasn't talking to him hardly at all.

I couldn't really figure it out, but occasionally she would talk to him. So I just sat there, had me headphones on. And for most of the journey, I had, I had music.

So next time what I'll do, cause I've got two phones, I've got the old phone and that I've kept. So what I'll do is I'll make sure they're both charged up and I should get a good, what, five hours of music from each one. Hopefully I have to keep one with a boarding pass and stuff on because it's electrical, electronic boarding pass.

So I'll be able to get a little bit more music and stuff to keep me going on the way back. But unless I download the boarding pass, then I won't need the internet, will I? I don't know. We'll see.

I don't know. I'm not gonna bother worrying about that until it happens. I won't worry about it then either.

That's another thing I realised. Just don't worry about it. Everything comes together in the end, even if it's not how you want it to be.

Yeah. Oh man. The electronic stuff, I thought that was good.

I thought that was the way we was going in the world. The world, you know, online, I booked it online. Everything was just, there's no paper.

Everything was just emailed to me. I could open up the PDF file and show, you know, the tickets and the numbers and all that stuff. I booked in online, so I didn't even have to queue for that.

So I booked in and then I just went through security. Ah, it's much harder. They don't like it.

First of all, they couldn't scan the barcode. They were struggling. Well, they did because I'm here, but they struggled.

The lady struggled to scan the barcode from the phone. But the cards, you know, the boarding passes, they're easy. Just scan them and they're done.

So that was a bit of a kerfuffle. And then eventually I got through. After queuing in the wrong queue, waiting to get a boarding pass, which I didn't need to, I didn't need to check in.

So I was in a check-in queue for about 45 minutes. And then eventually I thought, all these people have got big bags. They've got like bags that they're handling in, handing in to go on a conveyor belt, you know that.

And all I've got is a little backpack. So I called some bloke over. I said, Oi mate, listen, you work for me, do you know who I am? I said, I don't know if I'm in the right queue.

He said, yeah, I put you in this queue. I said, I know you did, but I'm not sure if I'm in the right queue because I've only got a little bag. And he said, if you've got your boarding, you have to book in.

I said, well, I did everything online. I booked the tickets online and he said, which airway was it with? So I told him, he said, well, you're in the right place anyway. That's one good thing.

And he said, oh, have you not booked in then? I said, well, no, that's why I'm queuing here. He said, you can do it online. I said, really? He said, yeah.

Yeah, you can. Oh. So I thought, all right.

I said, well, I'm going to do it here. I still had, I was still in England. So I still had my mobile phone and my mobile data was all working fine.

So it was very, very slow. It was very slow. And I'm guessing that when you've got that many thousands of people all using their phones at the same time, that it slows down the network.

I'm guessing. I don't know. And possibly disturbance from the planes, maybe that disturbs the thing.

I'm just guessing. It's all guesswork. Anyway, anyway, I did.

Yeah. I went to, oh, I didn't realise, I went to booking. Yeah.

So I went to booking online and then it asked me for information that it didn't ask me for that. I didn't, I did wonder why they hadn't asked me because previously on my booking online, this is an online booking. They asked me for my passport number and next of kin and all kinds of stuff like that.

They started asking me that online on the phone and I'm in a queue and the queue is constantly moving like every few, I don't know, every 30 seconds it's moving along. So I'm trying to get my passport out of my bag, looking at it and trying to type in the passwords, the details of the passport onto the phone and then another one, then put more information in and the queue's moving. Luckily, the lady behind me, she knew what we was up to because she actually looked after my bag when I went up and spoke to the man and she was cool.

But it's like, oh, I'm trying to do, I struggle to do more than, I struggle to do one thing at once. I do. I can't, you know, I've got a friend, we were watching boxing at the weekend, that was the fridge.

We were watching boxing, Joshua against Yusek on Saturday night and he was, he could do, he can talk and watch and be on his phone and watch telly at the same time. I can't do that. If I'm actually, because with boxing, I watch it.

I don't, I can't half watch the boxing unless it's someone that I'm not particularly interested in watching, if that makes sense. If it's like an undercard and it's someone I don't know about and or maybe I started watching it and it's a bit slow and not getting my juices going, then I can do other things at the same time. But if it's an important fight to me, like a World Heavyweight Championship, for example, I'm watching every moment.

I'm listening to all the commentary. I'm listening, you know, I'm watching it. This is proper entertainment.

But some people can do like lots of things, juggling and I just don't, not really so much that. I mean, sometimes I do watch stuff and I, you know, as a reference is made and I'm thinking, who are they talking about? So I'll get my phone, if it's next to me and I'll just Google the name or, you know, if there's like, at the end of a TV show and it says, in memory of, and I'm thinking, is that one of the main actors? No. And so I'll Google it.

It's usually a writer or maybe, what was it called? From, I watched From TV show. It's very good. Watch it if you want to.

It's worth it. It's a very good show. I think it was on Amazon, I think, or was it on? No, it's From.

I think it's, I watched it on Now TV, which is Sky, but it should probably be available other places as well. But From, it's called. And at the end of the very last episode, it said in memory or something like that to, both the names looked familiar.

And I'm thinking, no, that's not the writer or the lead actors. They're, you know, tribute to like, oh, what? It turns out. Can you hear that? Oh, the toilets.

That's the ghost doing a wee. The toilet does its own wheeze. It's weird.

So I, I don't know what I'm talking about. D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D. What was I talking about? I was talking about something, horses. Yeah.

I haven't seen many horses. No, that's not it. Football, boxing, I was talking about boxing.

Oh yeah, From. The, the dedications was actually to the writer's father. I think if I remember, it was his father who passed away a year ago or something, or maybe earlier this year.

And the other dedication was to his mother-in-law who passed away a couple of years ago. And I thought, oh, it's lovely. But it got me worried because I'm thinking, if you know, if you watch a TV show and you know, there's more coming, there's more episodes, there's new series, seasons coming.

It's the very first, and it's really good. You know, it's like watching Walking Dead for the first time. Or let's think the Black Panther.

You know, watch that movie, love the movies. One of the most successful Marvel movies out of all of them, one of the most successful ones, one of the biggest movies of the year. And the lead character, the lead actor is no more.

And it was just, so how can it be the same without him? Because he was lovely. He was a great actor. And he was, you know, he was the lead star.

Although I liked his sister in it. She was funny, very funny. I think what they should have done, given her, make her the Black Panther and pass the mantle over to her because she was proper funny.

It'd be, you know, some good one-liners. Anyway, that's enough of that Marvel movies. Marvel movies? You don't watch Marvel movies, do you? You're an old man.

Yes, I do. I am an old man that likes Marvel movies. See, I'm the original generation, well not the original, but kind of the original generation of superhero movies.

Now, I know people that were around in the 50s and 60s could say, we had Flash Gordon, we had Superman, all that stuff. Yeah, you did. You had Batman in the 60s, TV show and TV films.

But the first, the very first proper special effects superhero movie was pretty much, I think, Superman. You know, the original Superman movie with Christopher Reeve. Before that, of course, they had special effects, but it was taken to a different level.

It was almost once Star Wars had happened and then Star Trek, the movie, you've got Superman, 2001, they really upped the ante and chucked everything at it, special effects-wise, which made it brilliant. I'd grown up watching the 60s stuff, even though I wasn't old enough to be around then, but that's what I watched. I used to love the old black and white TV shows and I loved the Batman shows as well from the 60s.

I always did, even in the 80s. I liked watching them because they were funny. And so I'm kind of the generation, because I was probably seven when Superman came out and then eight or nine or whatever.

And in 10, when the next two came out, Superman 2, Superman 3, Superman 2 had Zod and the naughty people from Kryptonite, Krypton rather, Krypton, wherever Superman's from. And then the third one had Richard Pryor in, which I loved because I loved Richard Pryor. It's weird though, because I loved Richard Pryor.

I loved his movies, Silver Streak, Stir Chicken. Stir Chicken? Stir Chicken, is it? It was Stir Chicken, isn't it? Chicken Stir, Stir Chicken, with Gene Wilder. And See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Silver Streak, yeah.

And then, what's it called, the one where he has to spend $10 million in order to make $100 million or something like that, I don't know. And he has to do it in 30 days. He has to spend $30 million in order to get 100, I forget, Brewster's millions, that's it.

John Candy's in that one, with Richard Pryor. But I used to like the toy, and there's a few other movies that Richard Pryor was in that I really liked. In fact, I've never seen a Richard Pryor movie I didn't like, even the ones that weren't particularly popular.

I just loved Richard Pryor. He made me laugh. It's funny, physically very funny.

And him and Gene Wilder, that was perfection. I'm not going to say the best double act, because there's been a few over the years. I think it's hard, maybe even unfair to say that one double act is better than the other.

And they weren't really double acts, but they worked together so well that it's almost like they'd spent their whole adult life together, but they hadn't. But Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, absolutely phenomenal together. That's just my personal opinion.

Did they do three movies or is it four? They did Stir Chicken or whatever. I might have got that wrong. They did See No Evil, Hear No Evil.

And they did Silver Streak. They might have done a fourth one. I can't remember.

I'd have to research that, but I don't have my laptop open. I'll just tell you something. Last night, I had a headache proper, because I got here at six in the morning, 6.30 in the morning, in Bangkok.

So in Bangkok airport, I got myself a couple of SIM cards. One for my iPad, one for my iPhone. I shouldn't be tired.

It's 4.30 in the afternoon. I've been up for about an hour and a half. Seriously.

The lady that cleans the rooms, she was waiting for me to come out. And she was whispering. It's like, it's not night time, what are you whispering for? But she's lovely.

I said, well, I don't think the room really needs cleaning. I only had five women up here last night. I think it's okay.

And she said, what? I said, I'm joking. There's a communication barrier, but I have that whoever I talk to, wherever they are in the world, it's fine. No one understands me.

So I take, because of my lower back arthritis, I take cocodermol at home. It's like, I take them at home. I can take them when I'm out as well.

But the thing is, cocodermol is illegal in Thailand. Am I going to get arrested if I bring cocodermol? And that's my prescription, my legal prescription in England. But I couldn't bring it into the country because I would get, especially if they didn't see it.

And then they decide, because that's the thing. If I don't declare it, if I declare it, they'd probably say, oh, no, you can't take that in. And a fine, that's probably what I would get.

Because it's got my name, it's a prescription and everything. I didn't know. But the thing is, I do know, so I can't really plead ignorance when I do know.

And if they saw that I was doing, basically it'd be like smuggling to them, bringing in a banned substance. Don't know why it's banned. Never asked.

I have no idea. But it is, but it is, is, is, is, is, is. So the problem with not, well, last time I came here, I reduced my cocodermol so that I'd be prepared to not have any for a couple of weeks.

But this time, because I didn't know I was going to come here, I just booked it on the spur at the moment. I always used to say spare at the moment, but apparently it's spur. Who cares? Doesn't matter, does it? No judgment here, my lady.

And I just thought, oh, so I didn't reduce it. So I had a stonker of a headache last night, actually all day, but it just, you know, and I thought, oh, so what did I, I found a chemist or a pharmacy. And that's one of the good things is that everywhere, 7-Elevens, pharmacies, is I've got more stuff around here than I have at home.

It really, you know, there's just from the distance between here and my local pharmacy, there's probably 10 7-Elevens and another five pharmacies just in that, you know, in that distance, walking distance. So I got myself some, I said I need some for a headache and she picked the lady in the pharmacy, she picked a packet up, but I didn't recognise it. And I'm a little bit, perhaps a little bit stuck in my ways.

I don't take stuff I don't know about. I don't know what it is, I don't like to take it. And I've been around a long enough, you know, in my country to know what things are when it comes to headaches or things for, you know, just general medical things.

So I chose the Nurofen, which is not what I normally take for headaches. I normally take headaches, Andrex, Dandruff, I don't know what it is, but like the one specifically for headaches. So what I did, I didn't take two of the Nurofen because I'd been drinking, not a lot, but I'd had about three, probably three drinks between five, four, four, four o'clock maybe and 11.

Yeah, between four and 11. No, that's a lie. I'd had some more after that.

So between four and one, I'd had about three, one, two, three, maybe four drinks, but I wasn't drunk. I don't, I never get drunk apart from at weddings. That's a, it's an obligation, I think, to get drunk when, when the alcohol is free.

I think it's just rude not to drink as much as you can. And I don't drink, I genuinely, genuinely, generally don't drink alcohol at all when I'm at home. And I don't go out, I don't have a social life, so I don't go out to the pubs, clubs or anything like that.

There's nothing really in my area and, because for my age group, there's not a huge amount, you know, socially to do. Yeah, go to the cinema, maybe go to a pub, but there's no local pub to where I am. Because if you go to a local pub and it's, you know, most of the people that go there are from your area, maybe your neighbours.

You get to meet people and get to know them and make friends, people that you'll see in the street, not just in the pub. But there's nothing like that near where I live. There was, there was a pub, well, there still is, but it's empty, it's derelict, kind of, thanks to the locals that have taken stuff from there.

But it was just across the road, so it was probably about a 10 minute walk from where I live and across a very busy road. And quite a good parking, I don't know why pubs have parking spaces, because, you know, drinking, driving. But then it's kind of out of the way, unless you lived on the estate, you're kind of going to drive, because how else are you going to get there, because it's in the middle of nowhere, really.

And I thought, this is all right. And a nice outside space in the summer, there's a play area for the kids, the actual building, you could fit three times the building on that space that they use for outside for parking and for sitting out and everything like that. Well, when I first moved there, I went in there and it was like walking into someone's living room.

It was tiny. Well, someone's very big living room. It was a big living room, but it was a tiny pub.

It couldn't have been room 12, 4, 8. I don't think there was even space for like 16 people to sit down. I might have got it wrong. There might be a back way as well, I don't know.

But from what I saw, I was like, I think I'm pretty sure when I walked in there and they looked at me and I just said, sorry, and walked out. I felt like I was intruding on someone's personal space. But then in the summer, when they had chairs outside, I went in there with my friend and we just ate and drunk outside.

So it was nice, nice food, nice drinks and everything. This was like 46 years ago and then they closed and that's it. Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone.

And I just remember because there was a van constantly parked outside that had the word Dick's on it. That was the name of his company. So I remember that and they were like, no, Tits.

No, it did have Tits on it. That was the abbreviation, I guess, for an acronym, whatever the name. That's it, not Dick Tits.

I don't know, it just used to make me inwardly happy for some reason. Easily pleased. And what else? Yeah.

So it's, yeah, it's just that I don't have, don't have this, don't have that. Keep talking about what you don't have. What do you have? Tell us about what you do have.

Okay. I have a sexy bum. Yeah.

You know, my friend, like I said, this is Sunday afternoon, so I'm going. I'm going to Thailand, that's it, tomorrow. And I said, you ain't got no shorts, I go.

He said, do you need some clothes? I said, uh-huh. I said, because he's a lot, he's slim and I'm not slim. But he used to be a lot bigger, so he's kind of got clothes that can fit me.

But not necessarily loose on, well, they're not loose on me. But I said, just thought, because he already gave me some shorts when I went to Cornwall last year. And I said, well, have you got some shorts? He said, yeah, loads of shorts.

I said, really? So he got a couple of pairs of shorts and I tried them on. None of them, only one pair could I get over my bum. Now, I didn't think I had a massive, huge bum.

I've got the biggest bum on the planet. Now, I've joked in the past saying that when I sit down, I'm actually taller than I am when I'm standing up. You know, I sit down, I bang my head on the ceiling because I've got such a big bum, but I didn't really believe it.

I didn't really believe that I had the biggest ass on the planet. I didn't think that. And, you know, I remember when everything started to get back to normal around the world, without saying the word, and I was thinking, why are people still keeping their six foot distance behind me? Now I know because I couldn't get any closer because of my bum.

So there you go. What are you going to do? No point complaining. Although it is fun, isn't it? It's so much fun.

I've survived the heat. I can't believe it. So no air conditioning.

40 minutes sitting here in the heat doing this. I am sweating. I'll admit that, but it's not not quite as stifling as I thought it was going to be.

And I realise I'm not proper close to the microphone because I've got, because if I was at home, I can, I can stack it on some books. You know, I can put loads of books up. So I've got lots of books and just talk into the microphone and have it near where I am.

But this, I've got this little, it's like a bedside, a dressing table thing with a window, um, mirror window, window glass, a mirror. And it's kind of, the bottom of it is probably my stomach, uh, level. So I've got a glass set up, Mr. Fridge.

Fridges are always after attention, aren't they? You notice that? I don't get enough attention. Must make a big loud click. Oh, now he's looking at me.

Missed you. So I've got a glass turned upside down and I've got a toilet roll on, balanced on top of the glass. And I've got the microphone balanced on top of it.

It's not really balanced, balanced. It's, it's unlikely to fall off. It's not, you know, not like a tight rope or anything, but it's, it's all right.

It's not ideal. I mean, normally I have microphone stands and stuff, you know, so it's a bit easier, but you know what? I kind of figured, well, this is better than nothing. It might not be much better than nothing, but hopefully it's a little bit better than nothing.

Nothing. Anyway, anyway, what I'll do is I'm going to bring this recording to an end. I know it's not a full hour, but it's about 45 minutes because I'm melting, but I'm pleased I could do this long.

I didn't think I'd be able to do this long. So what I'll do is I'll make another one tomorrow and I'll try and do one every day that I'm out here. And I'll tell you probably, I'll probably tell you more about the flight and, and probably not tell you about other things.

No, there's nothing, nothing. Yeah. So it's, the bed's okay.

It's quite firm, but I had the air conditioning on all night. And I did fall asleep. I did, but it was weird.

But to be in here about, I did turn it off for about an hour and I found myself starting to boil. I started smelling something like cooked, cooked food. And I thought, oh my God, that's my internal organs.

I better turn the, I'm basically frying myself. So I better put the, um, turn the air conditioning on. But then it's weird with the air conditioning on, I need to wear a top and even socks because it's cold.

Weird. It's basically, excuse me, it's basically like being on an airplane and then getting off the airplane. So every time I leave, every time I walk out that door and the warmest place in the whole of Thailand is that landing outside, no air conditioning, no windows open, nothing.

And it's stifling. And there's stairs, no lifts. I have to go down one, two, three, four, five, six sets of stairs, three normal sets.

And there's a couple of like three, like smaller sets. And, uh, oh, the good thing. Oh yeah.

I was in the chemist, the pharmacy had got the tablets and it was a weighing machine. Do you mean scales? Yes. Scales.

What does it do? It weighs. It's a machine that weighs. It's a weighing machine.

Scales. Okay. That just, just, just leave it.

Stop it. So I thought I want to weigh myself. Haven't weighed myself for quite some time and I'm lighter.

I've lost weight. Either that or I lost a lot of weight and now I'm putting it on, but I've not lost a lot of weight. So I'm normally around a hundred kilos, sometimes 102, having times gone down to 98, you know, fluctuates, but around a hundred like for years and I'm now 96 kilos.

It's a good drop. And unfortunately right now, looking in the mirror, I can't see where it's dropped from. I felt so good.

You know what? I was walking out of that pharmacy. I was singing and dancing and then I get home and I take my clothes off and there's a mirror there and I'm thinking, can't see it. Maybe at my weight, four kilos isn't a lot.

Maybe that's a couple of poos. I don't know, but it's a me. I really thought that I was sort of moving in the right direction.

I don't want to lose lots of weight. I don't want to lose lots of weight quickly because that's not healthy. I don't, not for me.

It wouldn't be healthy unless I had to do it. So I'm not hugely overweight. I don't think I need to lose some weight, but I'm not.

It's, you know, it's, I'm upper body. My legs, I've got slim legs and it's just more upper body and just need to just lose a bit of weight. That's all.

Maybe, uh, with all this sweating I'm going to be doing, maybe I'll lose a bit of weight here. You never know. It might happen.

Oh, you never know. It's possible. It is possible.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to end the recording. I'll do the editing later. So I'm going to go out for a walk.

Um, it's now nearly five and what I do is I do some editing and upload it later on today. So yeah, thank you for listening. And, uh, this has been a very emotional experience for all of us.

And I really look forward to speaking to you again. Ooh, and that's a wrap. Good night.