#895 Kids books - Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland) (25th September 2022)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore You to Sleep. Hello. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

Look at all this mess on this. You know what? If you observed my podcast yesterday, my Let Me Bore You to Sleep podcast, you would have been aware that I was looking through some books that I purchased a while back specifically for this podcast. Because you know sometimes I like to chat about my life, what's going on and other times you know it's nice to just dip into some books, some like factual kind of you know stuff.

Nothing too serious and just to have a look and to while away the hours. So you know I've got a bunch of books. I mean I literally 1, 2, I've got about 10 books, 15 books and literally I'm not even joking here.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, about 9 or 10 of them are children's books or for kids. National Geographic for kids. So I'm guessing what happened, what happened was this.

I was on Amazon. I put in you know searched for stuff, wacky information, facts, stuff like that. So they gave me a book and I looked at that and then maybe I purchased that book or stuck that in my cart, you know my shopping cart and then they chucked a bunch of other stuff that I might be interested in.

Not realizing that it was all from the same kind of place. I want to show, I'm not even joking, I'm not even joking here. National Geographic for kids, 5,000 awesome facts.

Now that doesn't take away the fact that they're good books. I'm not moaning about the book's quality or even the content necessarily. Around the world, National Geographic for kids, number two.

More than 250 things to find. Facts and photos. It's basically like a kid's book full of photos and stuff.

Another one, National Geographic kids, animals riddle book. 300 fun riddles and brain teasers. I do not like any part of me being teased.

What was that about? I don't know. Okay, whatever ones, whatever ones. Okay, here we go.

There's more. You think I'm messing about? I'm not messing about. I'm being serious.

National Geographic for kids. This is book number four. Puzzle book, deadly creatures.

Fun packed fun. No, fact packed fun. But it's for kids.

National Geographic for kids. Another one. Infopedia 2022.

500 incredible photos, which is of no use for this. I mean, it's useful for me to look at. Wow.

Whoa. God, look at those photos. But it's not any good for you, is it? Oh, now that's a photograph.

So, yeah, I like it. I quite like that book. Got lots of good photographs in it.

But okay, so what's next? What's next? What's next? Come on. Oh, big puzzle book. More than 250 puzzles.

Oh, wait a minute. I wonder if it's National Geographic kids. So that's one, two, three, four, five, six, six books so far.

And here's some pens. Oh, dear. So I've got this one.

Ripley's Believe It or Not 2022. So this isn't this. This isn't for kids.

So that's good. So I will dip into that at some point. What's the next book? Weird but true.

Wild and Wacky Facts and Photos 2022. Look. Oh, National Geographic kids.

Brilliant. What's the next one? Now, this is something that I was quite interested in. The 50s and 60s.

Best of times growing up and being young in Britain. Oh, so yeah, this is kind of just random stuff in the 50s and 60s. So that's fine.

This is good. This is what I want to be looking at. Next.

125 true stories of amazing animals. Inspiring tales of animals, friendships and four legged heroes, plus crazy animal antics. Now that looks good.

Oh, National Geographic kids. Oh, look. Believe it or not.

Ripley's Believe It or Not. This is from 2014. Dare to look.

It's got a little graphic thing on there. I don't know if you can see that. Anyway.

So that's good. That's that's that's not. That's not what more of those stuff.

The top 10 of everything 1991. This is what I want. So I can talk about that stuff in this.

Let me boil to sleep because you know, it's it's it's pointless. Well, it's kind of pointless information. But at the same time, it's sometimes interesting.

Sometimes it's really interesting. I can't help that. Sorry.

Did Jason, we don't like the way you make your voice or squeaky. Can you please stop doing it? No. Okay, why? See these books, these are good books, man.

These are fickle, fickle books over 1111. That's a bit weird thing. Over 1111 answers to everything.

Do you ever get the idea that maybe they run out of numbers and they just have ones? And why do animals play? Why were pyramids so popular in the ancient world? Why are American footballs called pigskins? I'm gonna guess that they were made out of pigskins originally. Why do I have thumbs? Why do I have anything? I mean, it's what I was born with. I mean, why are you asking me that for? Why do astronomers say the universe began with a bang? Because they all copy each other.

That's why I read it in a book somewhere. Why do I need to eat? See, this looks like quite a good book. Oh, National Geographic kids.

Brilliant. So this can't be anymore. It can't be anymore.

Because look, I've got 123456789 nine books. Nine, okay, nine books National Geographic for kids. Nine.

Nope, there's another one. National Geographic kids, little kids first big book of why? First big book of why? Why does soapy water make bubbles? Why do I have to eat vegetables? Why do balloons float? Why do eyeglasses work? Why are some animals so big and others so small? Why do donuts have holes? Why does my skin wrinkle in the tub? Why do seeds grow up? That looks like I think I'll be reading it on my own. I think it's some information that I could learn.

Why does grandma have winkles? Because she's old. Skin grows and stretches as skin grows and stretches as you grow from baby size to adult. When you've been an adult for a while, skin stops growing and stretching.

It gets a little tired and a little less elastic. The lines you make when you smile today are where your wrinkles will be when you are old. A lifetime of laughter helps your skin wrinkle very nicely.

Shut up. So yeah, the 10 books from the National Geographic kids. You know what? I bet you they they might have been like, oh, perhaps we won't make any more books.

Well, you know, book sectors going now and maybe we'll just have to just stick to, you know, ebooks or Kindle or stuff like that. And me, me, me, me, me. And then they got this order for all these books.

And they thought, maybe there is an audience out there for these National Geographic kids. Maybe kids aren't going to just watch stuff on the Internet. We should produce more.

Not realizing it was just one person, me ordering all this stuff. What was going through my head? I do have other stuff. I do have other books.

Oh, yeah. This is one of my favorite books, knots. An illustrated practical guide to the essential not types, not types and their uses.

So, you know, I've read out of this in the past. F in exams, the best test paper blunders. So there's a few little books that I've got.

It says a car company is one of the exams questions. A car company is having a sale. A car that was twenty five thousand pounds before the sale now has 50 percent off.

What is the new price? And someone's written still too expensive. This is that this is a visual joke, but is says expand to in practice X plus Y. And they're just basically written it down four times and made it bigger each time they've written it down, which is odd. If you can see that, it's quite funny.

Those are watching on video on YouTube can see these little visual things. If you listen on the podcast, don't worry, I'm not really missed anything. Simplify the following equation five.

I don't know. I don't understand that. OK.

Name the smaller rivers which run into the Nile, the juveniles. The name six animals which live specifically in the Arctic. Two polar bears.

Four seals. Originally, he said three and then he put four. Three.

I don't know the race of people known as Malayers, Malays come from which country? Malaria. What was the main industry in Persia? Cats. This apparently is a real the best test paper blunders.

I'm not sure if it's I mean, I don't know. Explain the meaning of the word magma. Japanese cartoons.

What is meant by a pool factor? This is geography. What is meant by a pool factor? A big red sports car. Name the area of calm at the center of a storm.

The pie in the sky. Again, this is geography. I'll be honest with you.

I don't like to be honest, but I will be honest with you. Not sure how much I absorbed from geography at school. Mm hmm.

I mean, there's there's an overlap, isn't there? Geography, science, history. There's a kind of. Well, I'm banging the microphones are moving around.

Sorry if it's distortion. I mean. So if if I remember, if I remember correctly.

And I probably don't. But if I remember. There was I finished.

I think this camera is a bit wonky, but it doesn't matter. It is going to know who's going to notice now. I've mentioned that you'll notice, but you might not have noticed it.

You might have done. Does it matter? It might do. It might do if you like things to be done correctly, but then you're in the wrong place because I don't do things correctly.

Not all the time. I do my version of things, whatever those things are might be. I do my version mean, mean, mean, mean, mean, mean, mean.

Geography, I had this memory of geography and then part of geography was focusing on and then a history. So history. And in science, and I've already said this, there's the overlap.

But in a sense of, let's say, fossils or gold or oil or stuff like that. So you've got the science of that. So we'd learn the science.

And then you've got the geography of that, like where the stuff is. But then there's the history, which would potentially involve the process of when oil was first discovered and minerals and all that stuff. But then the political aspect of things, which would be included in history.

I suppose you could say that sociology as well, but we never studied sociology at school. I never studied anything at school, but, you know, we did. I didn't know what sociology was.

It's an ology. It's an ology. Well done.

I have vague recollections of learning about flowers and pollination and things growing. And history, I think we've studied a bit about romance. Because, you know, in my country, we were all the chairs.

This chair is weird. Every now and then, I bet you now that I mention it, it's going to sink down. It keeps lowering itself.

Now I'm thinking that someone's messing with me, but there's no one else here. There's only moi, no one else here at all. So I don't know how it's happening, but the chair keeps lowering itself.

And this is a decent, well, it's supposed to be a decent chair, like a gamer's chair. And I thought, if I'm going to be sitting at the desk for hours on end, I might as well try and make myself as comfortable as possible. Well, this isn't a comfortable, well, it's okay.

It's quite comfortable, actually. If I sit back, it's quite comfortable. I quite like that.

I might go to sleep. Just talk amongst yourselves. Hmm, this is nice.

Because, you know, in this country, in my country, the one that I own, we were invaded a lot, like a lot. A lot. I mean, it happened quite regularly.

And, you know, I think the Romans were here for like something like 300 years or 400 years. You know, they didn't just pop in for a cup of tea and pop out. You know, they were here for a while, you know, like generations, generations upon generations.

They were people born, had kids, who had kids, who had kids, who had kids, who had kids, and they never knew anything other than Romans in this country. I mean, that's just, mind boggling, really, isn't it? If you're ready for your mind to be boggled, you know, if you're not, then perhaps it isn't. I mean, some people don't, I guess, we don't get boggled minds.

I have a constant boggled mind. All the time, all the time. I think.

So, I remember part of the learning about Romans. And then there was the Vikings. Then there was the Anglo-Saxons.

And we were just, just continually bombarded. You know, we just, it's amazing, really, that we ever managed to really accomplish anything in this country, considering how many times we were attacked and invaded. It's phenomenal, really, that we ever got to the point of being, I said, we're not self-contained.

I don't, there's not as many countries that are self-sufficient, which is a shame, because everywhere needs to be self-sufficient. As a, for an emergency situation, if you know what I mean, we all need to be self-sufficient. Not that I am, or I don't know how many people are.

I just, I sometimes wonder about that. I mean, we've got the amount, there is enough fields to grow enough food for everyone in this country. There is this, if you, anyone that gets on a plane and comes to this country, the one thing that you're going to notice is there's fields everywhere, everywhere.

And there's little bits where you can see, like from the air, I mean, I don't know how many feet, how many feet up, but I didn't have my, I can't, I don't know. But you can see as you're coming into the country, coming towards England, it's mainly country, it's mainly fields. You know, I don't know what percentage it is, but it's got to be like 70% fields, 80% fields, and little areas where there's living, people living.

And you've got a few bigger areas where there's towns, but even they're not that big, you know, compared to the countryside surrounding them. And then you've got London, London's the biggest, one of the biggest places, you know, as far as built up. I mean, there really is, there's parks, you can see the, the big parks, they don't look very big from the air.

But it's very, wow, the amount of buildings is ridiculous, you know, compared to everywhere else. I mean, if you travel all across England, you see just this just fields really is just fields, it's and with little, little areas of humans. And if there if there is 77 million people in the country, I don't know if that's England, or if that includes Scotland and Wales.

I imagine that's the UK includes the whole of the island. And 77 million. If it's true, I don't know who counts.

I can't count that high. Can you? I'd stop after about 32. So I'd have to go and have a cup of coffee or something like that.

Have a little break. And have a kebab. I don't.

Ah. I don't know. Because then 77 million.

There's arguments, but you know, about how many people are in London. But then what constitutes London? Because parts of Essex are also for me are the parts of London, like Ilford and Romford. That's London, but it's also Essex.

But it's it's definitely in London. It's minutes away from East London, Romford, Ilford and Romford. They're literally just minutes away.

I mean, the Romford Road is in Stratford. Yeah, which is East London. Now you keep going up the other way as it goes towards a mile end, which is the bow bells, bow bells, which is basically it's a it's a church.

I don't even know if it's operational, but it's a church and there's a bow flyover and there's this church. And the idea is if you're born within hearing distance of the bow bells, the bells from that church, then that means you're a proper Cockney. Now, I wasn't I was born in North London.

So but I lived, I still didn't live close enough to hear the bells from Bow Church, which is near Mile End. Actually, it's not even near Mile End train tube station. It's quite a distance actually quite a walking distance, I think, in my memory.

Now I've walked from Stratford to Mile End a few times over the years. It is a bus ride, it is really, but I've done I've done the walk. And it's not it's not a bad little walk, actually.

You know, it's basically two parts of the journey. One is to the to the bow flyover, and the other one is from the flyover to Mile End. I might do the journey one day I might go up there just to have a little have a little wander around.

Because I used to live in Stratford, which is some people would know, remember, well think of Stratford as kind of the place where the Olympic Games was held in 2012. Which is true that did happen. But it's been there for a long time.

Like Stratford is a very old part of London. Well, I guess they all every well apart from the new parts. Every every part of London's old except for the new parts.

It's a weird sentence, isn't it? But Stratford is where I lived for 12 years, pretty much. And so it was home to me for a long time. I moved around a bit around the area like East London.

But you know, Stratford was kind of my home for most of my time there. And the train station was a dump. It was underground.

It was a was underground train station. But there's also, it was just really grotty. It was like a dungeon, you go down the steps and it was horrible.

I didn't mind it. I didn't care. I mean, most of the tube stations were a bit grotty outside of Oxford Street.

And you know, the big, the big popular tube stations, a lot of the other tube stations weren't up to much. Because they were old, you know, they've been around for a long time, like Whitechapel, or Mile End. And they just they were just old, old, been around for 100 years or whatever.

So I didn't really much care if I was honest, how grubby they were. But there was this, I don't know, something changed. I think it was really with the Docklands, the Docklands changed East London, and then Stratford kind of followed along.

So it was weird, because you had Liverpool Street, so you got the West End for shops. And, you know, it's a very Soho, all the theatres, you know, kind of got the West End, Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Oxford Circus, Covent Garden, you know, got the like the touristy places and museums and stuff. And you got Liverpool Street.

Now, I didn't know, but literally, there is a place where all the newspapers called Fleet Street, all the newspaper places lived, you know, all the major newspapers printed their papers, they wrote the papers, as far as I know, everything was in this one street. And I never knew where it was. Because I thought, wow, this has got to be like some huge street.

I knew it was in London, I just didn't know where. What turns out is just around the corner from Liverpool Street, just literally around the corner. And I don't think it's everything works from there anymore is spread out now.

But used to be a real busy area, apparently. And so Liverpool Street was the main area for the city, that was the city, you know, the the square mile or whatever it was called, they used to call it. And then during, during the 90s, the early 90s, late 80s, early 90s, whatever, they started building on docklands.

And there was a docks, that was a whole area where they used to have docks, ships would come in, it was a busy, busy area, one of the biggest busiest docks in the country. And for some reason, they stopped using them. I guess they use the Thames River, and whatever rivers that connected and it was barges and all kinds.

It's funny. But and yeah, so that that was going on. And I met a lot, I worked with a lot of people that were quite older than me.

When I lived in Stratford, and they were always like 20. And a lot of them were in there. I'd say probably late 40s, 50s, early 50s, 40s, 50s.

And they used to work on the docks. Like 10 years before that, you know, that any used to be a really good job, really well paid, and there's always lots of perks. And they said it was a great job.

You know, and it was they missed it. They kind of they, they, some of them talked about it like it was almost a magical time to them, because it was perhaps it was, they really enjoyed that time. And I imagine if there was 1000s of people working together, the camaraderie, the friendships that people made and being outside and yeah, I imagine it was a quite a good life, maybe, for some.

So anyway, the I don't know the history behind why the docks closed down or anything like that. But the they started building the Docklands, they started building the area, and they put in the Docklands railway from Stratford to the Docklands and back it was basically a it's an un it's not unmanned, but it's not there's no driver on there. It's just there is always there's always someone on there, like a worker, railway worker that just checks and whatever, and presses the button go or whatever, I imagine, but there's no driver.

And it just, they built it and it was from Stratford to the Docklands. And then they added little stations along the way. And you know, it's, it's kind of just an automatic railway, kind of no driver.

I'm stressing the no driver, but there is someone that stands there. I never really work it out. But I do check the ticket.

Well, they used to check the tickets. So I guess that's why they're there to make sure people pay. So I didn't use the Docklands light railway.

DLR Yeah, by me. I didn't use it until 1996. I think was the first time.

And I used it for an excited job in the Docklands. So that was the first time I used it. And the Docklands was still being built.

I mean, they'd already they had built Canary Wharf that was built, because that's the building I worked in. And I remember seeing the light as it was being built, because they kept going on about how much it cost. And it was over budget by about a million billion zillion dollars.

And that was they I don't know when they started probably late 80s, they probably started building that thing. And the Docklands was being built as we you know, just through that period. So the Docklands kind of a lot of the financial aspect, the a lot of places from Fleet Street moved to the Docklands.

Maybe not the printing side of things, but the actual writers, the editors, all that the publishers. I know for a fact the Mirror Group did because I actually worked on that in that building. It was at Canary Wharf.

So the Mirror Group, so they had all the editors and their writers and all I say all of them, but a lot of them work in there. And I guess they just had stuff printed out somewhere else. So Fleet Street kind of moved a lot of Fleet Street seemed to move to Canary or to the Docklands.

And then other financial businesses, banks and stuff, moved to the Docklands. So they kind of moved away from Liverpool Street, or from the bank, you know, the centre of the financial world in this country. Liverpool Street still there and lots still, that's still thriving, I'm pretty sure.

But the Docklands kind of really opened it up and people moved. Now, something weird happened as well, because that happened there. And then, so that was like a derelict, crappy place.

Well, it's just an old docks, it was big area, but it was not being used for anything. And then they, you know, they built it. And now it's like something else.

It's just a big, big old place. Lots of huge buildings. So there's two other places that I so I never went to the Docklands.

But there were two other places that I went to in Stratford. One was in Stratford, one was in Shoreditch. Now the place I went to in Stratford is I used to walk from work to the train station, I took a shortcut, and there was this bridge.

So I'd go underneath, I go down the steps of the bridge, the side of the bridge. And there was nothing underneath the bridge, I don't even know, I guess it was just a, don't know, just a bridge for cars. But I used to go down and then walk through, which was basically a train graveyard, loads of empty old trains, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them.

This was a huge area, massive, massive area. And I used to walk through there as a shortcut, and it used to lead me directly to Stratford station, train station. Now, I didn't know.

I think it was once you got to the late 90s, they'd have security there. But back then, in the early 90s, nothing, you just walk around, do what you want. I didn't know they were preparing to transform that whole area into the Olympic stadium, and all the other things connected to Olympics, as well as building a huge shopping mall and all this other stuff that they did in Stratford.

So Stratford became really well to do. Gradually, in the late 90s, there was like Stratford village, all these new houses were built. They had a supermarket.

That was probably by about 94, 95. A big supermarket was not far from the train station. Like a big supermarket, proper size.

I say that because there was nothing there. There was nothing in Stratford, really. And then they made the, again, like, middle 90s, maybe 96.

Maybe a little bit earlier, maybe a little bit later. They, the bus station outside of Stratford, which was just outside of the train station, they redone it, put all these special big umbrella things up, and made it look really nice. They really redeveloped the whole of that area before it was just grungy.

And then they started redeveloping the train station in the 90s. As the night as the years went by, more and more railway tracks would come into Stratford. Overground, underground.

That's the Wombles song, isn't it? Wombles are we, the da da da Wimbledon. And it was just growing. It's like, where did all this space come from? And it was getting bigger and bigger.

And there was more lines, more train stations, overground stuff. It just grew and grew. So Stratford got bigger and bigger.

And then they started building what I thought was a link to the Channel Tunnel, although it never seemed to arrive. But that is a whole area that they were building. A cafe opened up specifically just to feed people that were working there.

And then at this point, there was no Olympic Games. It wasn't in stone. They didn't find out until, I don't know, five, four years before, maybe.

Or maybe a little bit earlier than that. But it wasn't until 2008, maybe 2007, that they knew that they had the Olympics in Stratford. Because cities all around the country were bidding to have that.

And yet they were already doing all this regeneration in Stratford, long before the Olympic Games was even mentioned. I didn't even know there was a possibility that it was going to be there. Had I known that, I might have stuck around.

I might have stayed there and tried to cash in on it somehow. I don't know, maybe become a long distance runner. I could have got a gold medal, man.

No. So I just remember that it's really weird, because really rubbish area. And suddenly it became nice.

And a lot of this happened after I left London, after I left. And it was like, wow, I went back and I could see it being built. It was like Fraggle Rock, it was gradually getting bigger and bigger.

And I was like, wow, what the heck? This is long before they even mentioned the Olympics. So they knew, they must have knew they had it in the bag. They must have done.

Someone knew something somewhere. Someone always knows something. So yeah, it was weird.

And then Shoreditch is another area that was absolutely horrible. I mean, it was right around the corner from Liverpool Street, literally round the corner. You walk, you come out of Liverpool Street Station, you turn left, you keep walking, leads you to Shoreditch.

You keep walking all the way around and then you get to the traffic lights and then that's Shoreditch High Street as you cross the traffic lights and you walk down there. And in those days, there was just rows of roads that were like alleyways. Dark, dingy alleyways.

And that whole area used to be industrial, used to be mills and things like that. And used to be very, very busy, very, very busy. And then, you know, for whatever reason, things stopped and they stopped being busy.

And there were empty buildings everywhere. It was completely just, it was kind of dangerous at night. I didn't really feel it, but a couple of times I noticed it.

Because I discovered Shoreditch because there was a comedy club there. And I started going to that comedy club in January 1991. And when I got there, I was surprised because it was literally, it was close to two very busy train stations.

Liverpool Street Station, you could just turn left at Liverpool Street Station, the main entrance, walk all the way around to the left and just keep walking down to Shoreditch High Street and then turn left before you got to Browns, the strip club, you know, which is on the, I said, you know, like you should know, but you know, it's very easy to get to if you kind of, I guess if you know it, but then another way to get to it is from, and it's gone out of my head. Why has it gone out of my head? Why has it gone out of my head? It's not bank. It's it's a tube station that I've used hundreds and hundreds of times.

And it's gone out of my head. It's just around the corner anyway. Not bank.

It's not bank because that's around the corner from something street. Not black street, not green street, blue street, green street. Anyway, that literally if you walk, because the comedy club was kind of near a one end near Shoreditch High Street.

But if you walk down all the way down that road, come out the other end, there's a few different parts of the road. Come out the very end. Oh, I can't remember the name of it.

Oh, it's something street. Come out the other end of it. I'm gonna try and imagine I can imagine the journey.

I can imagine walking there. I imagine because it's very busy, very busy roundabout. Very busy road system.

And because just up the road from there, there is the eye hospital. There's also City University was just up the road. And not good street.

I'll think about it. As soon as I've finished the recording, I'll think about it. It will come into me probably.

Proch Bridge, Borg, Nodge, Wodge, Lodge, Codge, Green, Ping, Wing, Wong. I don't know. It's gonna bug me now.

Good street, not good street. But anyway, there's also a Oh, there was there was a cab office, there was a chip shop on the corner as you crossed the road, walking round there was a cab office, there was also a place called the aquarium which was a nightclub that used to have, well people used to swim. I can't think of anything worse than being around drunk people in a swimming pool.

That just, that was like, I couldn't go. I was like well this this looks like it would be fun on for various kind of obvious reasons it could be a lot of fun but from another angle you know I don't swim and yeah I don't know so I never went. I mean I perhaps I should have just gone to just to watch and it was round the corner just literally round the corner from where I was so I would have been in it.

I'm trying to think of the name of the I can't even remember the entrance because there's a there was a couple of entrances there's a few actually because there's a big old roundabout. I'd go down walk down and then it'd be a couple of shops inside and yeah it was quite a big old entrance to get in there. There was a lot of people because it was still part of the city the other side of the city in a sense so you were no longer really in Shoreditch.

Shoreditch was kind of further up there was nothing happening in Shoreditch at that time but this other part was more like outskirts of the city because it wasn't far from it's not Bank wasn't far from Liverpool Street Station literally round the corner. What is it called I can't remember man I can't remember. Wow I mean it's not important but considering I went there so often like sometimes two or three times a week in the 90s sometimes more often than that but then I did favour Liverpool Street it was a further walk it was a longer walk but Liverpool Street I could just stay on one train you know from Stratford Central Line to Liverpool Street and it was like five stops or something.

If I wanted to go to whatever station it was I'd have to go to Bank so that'd be I'd need to go to I'd need to go off at Bank and then get on to the Northern Line which then took me to whatever train station underground it was and it's gone right out of me head. It's weird why has it gone out me head? Something so irrelevant really it's not even relevant enough to hide from me why is it hiding from me? I don't get it.

Not good street Bank anyway so that that is a place I used to go but Shoreditch went while I was in London Shoreditch started to grow a few pubs opened up a few pubs had been there for a long time started to become more popular a few more buildings were taken over so just I'd say between 91 and 97 things started to grow because you know in 91 there might be things during the day going on but at night there was nothing no one was there it was dark alleyways and no lighting you know it's

really quite grim to be honest and then things changed over time a lot more clubs opened especially late 90s early 2000s and as time went by the whole area became very popular it's been trendy for quite a long time now and I'm sure they had a shop that sold breakfast cereal like a cafe but with breakfast cereal and I'd love to be able to judge that but I quite like the idea of it if I'm honest I do like a nice bowl of breakfast I do nice bowl of cornflakes sometimes that would be more useful

to me as a like a little snack better than having a chocolate bar or an ice cream or a bag of crisps just like a nice bowl of rice krispies or wheat a bix or something like that I'd be quite nice maybe it's weird you're weird hmm call me weird still trying to figure that tube station I can't anyway that's that's that that is that street good Street big Street bang Street ding Street dong Street bing bang bong Street I can't remember yeah it was on the northern line anyway I think it was literally just

after I feel like one stop from bank green stores in Green Street ah oh well doesn't matter so that's three parts of London that have grown two of which I've seen Stratford because Olympic Games and then although they would they were working on that 10 years more than 10 years before about 15 years before they were working on Stratford so someone knew something somewhere and unless it was just a gamble that paid off paid off someone someone got paid off now I don't know so Shoreditch grew from nothing to this big popular like really popular

place for lots of people at night when they used to be nobody I mean it was very if you went there you went people who came to the comedy club came to Shoreditch to the comedy club because there was nothing else there other than a strip club strip club called Browns literally just across the road or up the end and across the road there wasn't much else going there on you know in the evening I mean as those pubs I suppose around dotted around but as far as pedestrian traffic there wasn't a lot of people

around so I can't think of that tube station that's gonna bug me now I'm not even gonna search it I'm gonna let it come sometimes good things just let things come naturally in their own time that's what I'm gonna do with that or I might just search online no I'm not gonna so I want to go thank you for listening thank you very much should do one more at this if it exactly blimey okay business studies okay explain the word wholesaler explain the word wholesaler this is under business studies someone who sells you whole items

example a whole cake that's it for me take care lots of love bye