[00:00:00] Hello, welcome to Jason Newland.com My name is Jason Newland Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes This is Let Me Bore You to Sleep Yesterday, yesterday I did a Let Me Bore Your Pain Away It was an hour long
[00:00:44] and then after pretty much well when I when I came to upload it and edit it it cut off after half an hour and it turned out that the well as far as I'm aware the batteries had run out here's a question so I've got these rechargeable batteries because the batteries I had
[00:01:19] seemed to be a bit on the blink the volume was less it was still working but the volume was a lot quieter and so I got some rechargeable batteries I thought should I get some new batteries or some rechargeable ones or rechargeable ones or rechargeable ones I don't know however you want to say it and I thought yeah I'll get some rechargeable ones they're pretty cheap
[00:01:50] and as I do like one or two videos a day on average it probably would seem a good idea to do that well I got the rechargeable ones last week I charged them up now this might seem like a boring story but it's not it's the most exciting story you're gonna hear from me this week so enjoy
[00:02:25] make the most of it if you can so um I charged them up put them into the so it's it's a it's called an iRig so it moves from the microphone through a condenser into an iRig into the camera so it's kind of um a few different things
[00:03:01] in order for me to film and get audio at the same time decent audio now I probably got five maybe a week's worth so probably 10 recordings which is pretty good I suppose got about 10 10 a week's worth like 10 so 10 10 different recordings out of the batteries before they shut down the weird thing about it is I got four
[00:03:37] in thing so I got four I took them all out used to and I put them in a charger and the other two that I hadn't even used needed recharging how can a battery drain when it's not even being used is a question I have so I'm not sure what to do I mean I'll be honest I don't even know
[00:04:10] I don't even know if this is recording my voice which reminds me I was going to actually try and use something else to record my voice as a backup but I didn't and I haven't
[00:04:29] uh yeah I should have done that completely forgot just a little you know a little backpack up so I put them in overnight took hours for them to both or for them to recharge the ones that I hadn't used got recharged quicker but they were still in there for a few hours
[00:05:02] that I hadn't used that I hadn't used that were fully charged last week I'm I really don't know what to make of it and also why is there no after all these years of batteries why is there no easy way to get them in and out unless you've got like long talons
[00:05:28] it's it's they don't come out very easily it's like really trying because I got I got short finger nails trying it's difficult I mean I did get them out it wasn't impossible but I mean some would argue maybe it wasn't worth mentioning but you know I have so I will continue
[00:05:55] I'm just a little bit confused with it I don't understand it's like why why if a battery's charged it should be charged either it's charged or it's not charged it can't be both this is by far the most
[00:06:18] important thing that's happened this year so far oh my neighbor did I tell you about my neighbor oh blimey so my neighbor's got people builders or whatever coming in to his flat so Vinnie might start barking which means this video will be in lots of different
[00:06:42] sections which is fine well it's not fine it's a bit disturbing to be honest but because if he hears something that's what he has to do has to can't stop himself but I think it was last week I was with my neighbor I was just talking to him he lives opposite me and he was talking to me
[00:07:13] just a normal conversation his trousers fell down or his jeans they just fell down it wasn't on purpose it was an accident it was just so it was very funny
[00:07:32] and I didn't know what it's like wow it's not something I would normally see yes you know not it's just weird so I told someone told a friend and he said to me oh could you send it to me I said so
[00:07:54] what do you mean send it to me so it'll be on your door camera I said oh it will be on it but I'm not sending it I ain't saying it's just it's not it's not fair to do that because I could end up online and so I'm not definitely not sending it but I did want to see it again just have a little giggle
[00:08:17] and maybe I don't know show people not show people but no I wasn't going to show anyone I wasn't anyway unfortunately no matter how slim I feel that I am I take up a fair bit of the hallway and the camera didn't get past me they couldn't even see him the camera didn't see him could see the
[00:08:46] the top of the doorway because I'm not particularly tall but the rest it wasn't you know I it's such a shame because I was looking forward to having that just it's a funny moment in it so it's a
[00:09:01] memorable experience maybe the most memorable experience of the year so what's Finny doing he's doing a oh he's waiting he's waiting for something to so I've ordered some food today on the soup from
[00:09:30] the supermarket all healthy food I mean all healthy like super fresh healthy food stuff that I'm gonna have to cook well not all of it I mean some of it's fruit but generally I'm gonna have to cook it
[00:09:57] I'm gonna repeat myself all healthy now I don't have necessarily probably not necessarily not particularly not honestly the most healthy diet at the moment
[00:10:19] and it's all going to change tomorrow but I was thinking to myself okay I'll show you what I've done let's get this open now so I used to there's been times when I've eaten healthily I've been a vegetarian
[00:10:41] I've been a vegan I've had a bodybuilding diet and that was a long time ago that was when I was like 16 or something 15 16 and I was on a bodybuilding diet but I was trying to put weight on and I couldn't just couldn't didn't matter what I ate how much what quantity never put weight on it's ridiculous
[00:11:05] and now a little bit different from that so I remember roughly what the diet was back then I used to have gammon for breakfast a gammon steak a couple of
[00:11:30] boiled eggs not boiled egg like um yeah boiled not hard boiled but boiled and then I would have like an orange juice and a cup of coffee or something for lunch because I worked in a chip shop so I was able to get
[00:11:56] either chicken or fish quite easy so I'd have that with not with chips I'll have it with salad so I'd have have that with salad I even did this when I moved up into the flat above me above the chip shop for a little while
[00:12:18] because I had a little bit of money to do it with and then I kind of just didn't yeah I don't I'm not sure quite how that worked and then I think there was like a snack in between like a bag of nuts or some fruit or something like that and then in the evening I was having either chicken or fish again with rice and then maybe a snack in the evening
[00:12:55] and then it gained something like some I don't know a bit of fruit or something and I did that and the fact is I was healthy you know I was I was still around so I must have been pretty healthy when I was 15 16
[00:13:19] and I know most you know majority of people are probably I guess it's our peak some people's peak um of fitness and health is sort of when they're teenagers and early 20s and stuff I feel I have not quite reached my peak yet I'm edging into it edging and
[00:13:49] so I kind of and I used to I had this bodybuilding diet book that I was following back then and it was called the I think I was doing the optimal bodybuilding diet so it's the very basic it was for someone that was working out but not wasn't like some super super super diet um high huge calorie
[00:14:18] um with someone that's working out twice a day and stuff it wasn't that kind of thing it was just um very optimal I was also having raw eggs in milk as well which it no not for me it it's I mean it's doable if it's done within a different format
[00:14:44] like an omelette or something um yeah egg eggs raw eggs and milk this is before there was any problems because we had a few problems with raw eggs in the press you know in the I think the middle 90s or early 90s but there was it was a standard thing because I studied bodybuilding
[00:15:13] as far as a little bit like hypnosis I knew a lot about it but I was no good at it that's probably where I am with most things I've never been any good at anything but I have studied certain things like how to the whole bodybuilding process the the exercises the nutrition it's a long time ago I'm just pointing this out I don't remember a lot of it and
[00:15:43] you know I was going into a gym I have told this story before but it's there was a I was with my friend Dean I think one of my friends and we was just walking around the block I don't know where we'd been I don't think where we'd been is necessarily relevant to the story but it was around the corner so it's basically
[00:16:13] if you come out my house where I used to live when I was a kid turn right and turn right again now of course well I say of course you don't know there wasn't any way that was kind of a shortcut you could go down there but I never used to do that I just go to the end of the road turn right that road would lead you all the way down to another road
[00:16:42] and on that corner if you turn left there was a I don't know what it was originally but it was next door to a laundrette that I do know because the laundrette was still there for years I don't know if it's still there or was it a video shop
[00:17:15] was it a video shop no I can't remember anyway so there was this lorry or big van actually a big big big old lorry van thing and this bloke was moving stuff out of the van and he asked us for help and I said okay I said well
[00:17:44] we might have just stopped and said what you're doing just out of interest what was going on and he said oh it's a new gym he started got a new gym there was a basement downstairs there was a there was going to be a jacuzzi not a jacuzzi a sauna and gym upstairs gym downstairs and yeah so he was starting this new gym and it'll be open in about a week's time I said oh cool
[00:18:16] and I think I don't either he asked us for help or I offered to help to move to get the stuff off of the lorry but in return he'd give me a free membership to the gym and bearing in mind I was 14 at the time so it's like it wouldn't have cost me much anyway but so just give me free membership he said okay so we moved I think it was carpet that day
[00:18:46] and I might have gone back to help with some of the some of the machinery machinery some of the equipment I mean not yeah not the heavy stuff but I guess like the chairs and the tables and the benches and stuff like that and yeah so I don't know if we did it twice it was there a few hours and I don't know it might have been half an hour it might have been ten minutes but I'm pretty sure it was a few hours
[00:19:18] six months it took no I don't know might have gone back to help with the machines the next day or something I don't know I know I was in there in and out before the place opened and got on really well with the bloke and the yeah when it opened I became a free member I was the first member of that gym
[00:19:49] other than I guess the man who owned it and his wife but technically they own it so they don't need to be members so I was the first member ding ding ding my friend also got membership but he never used it so yeah I was the first I guess equal first me and the other my friend but because he never used it I don't think he ever got I didn't need a card because I just hello I used my face as my passport
[00:20:21] and so I was a member of that gym up to the age of about 17 so I was going into that gym from 14 to 15 to 16 for about 3 years I think once I got to once I left school he started charging me I think but while I was at school he didn't charge me or he didn't charge me for a year something like that I can't remember
[00:20:50] it wasn't a lifetime membership but I would go I'd go around there I also had weights in because my dad had a big workshop at the bottom of the garden so quite a large garden it was quite long bit of girth and I'd like to go there just to see it
[00:21:20] I mean I'm not really much bigger than I was when I last was there because I was 15 when I was last there and I'm not really much taller than I was when I was 15 so it's not like I was looking through little eyes you know being like two foot tall looking everything's so big and realise it's only like two foot wide or something no it's like so but I remember it being a big garden
[00:21:50] yeah there was it was girth as well as length I love that word girth I don't know why and and there was this big it's almost like I don't know how to explain it you know if you get like a summer a summer home thing at the bottom of your garden it was almost like a porter cabin
[00:22:17] so it was it was the it was the length of the girth if that makes sense of the back of the garden there was a pathway going up to it it had a toilet I think it had heating you know I don't know if it might maybe heaters anyway part of it was my dad's office because he was self-employed so he had desks
[00:22:47] and you know all that stuff it's a big big space the other part of it was mainly for his gear like because he wouldn't leave his gear in the van overnight like all because he was an electrician so all the cables all the stuff the tools because it was expensive he used to take it out of the van or he used to get we used to take it he used to get a hand and take it down at the bottom of the garden
[00:23:15] and put it into there for storage so and I just started doing karate so this was I don't know probably when I was 13 ish ish 13 40 so I say 14 between I lose a little bit of track so maybe 13 yeah so I might have been 13 actually when I joined
[00:23:45] that gym so I started yeah my when I started doing karate my dad got me two punch bags no I bought a punch bag but my dad got me a punch bag as well it was like a kit bag so he got that first and he filled it full of wood cuttings
[00:24:15] yeah he filled it full of wood cuttings it was heavy it was a heavy bag or was it a soft bag no one of them was heavy one of them was light so one was just full of rags and the other one was full of like sawdust so it was heavy heavy and I can't remember which was which if I'm honest with you but I bought my own like bag
[00:24:45] as well my own so that I had one of each and he put this screwy thing in where the punch bag could be attached and it would just turn around so it would never get tangled and because the height of the building of this porter cabin thing wasn't very high I could reach it so it was kind of I don't know you know so it wasn't a high high
[00:25:17] and I'd have to kind of hold it up with the heavy one but that was cool it was like wow and what I did is I started getting some weights and putting them down there as well so I'd as well as joining the gym so I think I had that first then I joined the gym because it thought it would be nice to go somewhere else and you know it's I don't know it's just nice to
[00:25:46] be part of something else and I had a weight bench I had barbells dumbbells I had one dumbbell I had one barbell sorry one barbell with a bunch of weights which I bought from the sports shop around the corner I remember I bought this whole set of barbells weights dumbbells and I spent half a day carrying them
[00:26:16] back round because I mean now I probably just got a taxi but it's literally around the corner I mean if you come out of my house turn right yeah turn right into the same road that I turned right before but this time you turn left so probably what I would do is come out of my house cross the road look first obviously cross the road or maybe walk up a little bit
[00:26:45] so turn right walk a little bit up and cross the road because just opposite me there was a friend of my dad's and there was a couple of girls that I knew just from living opposite them and I was in love with one of their friends and Sarah I don't know I tell this weird do you want to know a weird story right
[00:27:16] Sarah I just you know I was a kid I was a kid I was 14 I fell in love with her you can't help when you're 14 you fall in love with someone there's nothing you can do about it it's just there was no logic to it and I became a little bit obsessed a little bit infatuated really that's probably the best word and I was writing her poems
[00:27:44] writing songs for her sending her flowers because I was working part time so I had enough to do that and send in her gifts and in the end she told me to go away which I did but she kept because she was best friends with my neighbour opposite I kept seeing her and you could say yeah but you were looking out someone else's window I said yeah I mean I couldn't see it from my bedroom because my bedroom faced
[00:28:14] onto a brick wall can you believe that that's how much light I got into my bedroom at the top so when I was downstairs so when we moved into that building into the big house I lived I actually my bedroom was the biggest bedroom out of all of ours actually maybe not but it was a fairly
[00:28:44] big sized room big windows loads of light and I think the walls were blue I'm sure they were yellow at one point but blue but I lived there I stayed in that bedroom for a few years because my little brother was only about one years old even if that probably not even a year when we moved into that house so to start with he was
[00:29:13] living in the same bedroom as my dad and his wife and then he had the little room that was his bedroom and then eventually when he got to about three three when did we move in there nineteen eight nineteen seventy nine nineteen seventy eight nineteen seventy eight
[00:29:43] blimey so nineteen seventy eight we moved in there maybe nineteen seventy nine actually yeah maybe late seventy eight early seventy nine and which meant I was nine I was eight I was eight when we moved in there blind that doesn't seem right does it wow and then
[00:30:15] I lived upstairs I did live in another room for a bit I lived keep saying lived I'm so used to living in rooms I lived I stayed I had my bedroom was in a different room for a little while but only for probably six months or so but that was temporary yeah so I was upstairs to the age of 15 probably
[00:30:48] from the age of 12 maybe 11 12 no def no because we had a playroom upstairs so we had a playroom with a snooker table and I think a darts board the snooker table had a
[00:31:20] ping pong or table tennis table that could go over it so we used to I mean the room wasn't that big where you know it was a little bit restrictive as far as the snooker goes but we managed around it it's just you know had to be a little bit careful not hitting the walls and that but generally it's a fairly big room yeah and we had a music and stuff and I think there was
[00:31:50] some chairs to sit I think they had a sofa in there to sit down so that was where we used to hang out and play and stuff as a fact like kids my oldest brother was in the room that I ended up going moving into so that was next to that room and then my other brother the other older brother the less older so I had one two years older one four
[00:32:19] years older and one eight years younger he lived in another room right on the top floor as well but it had more of a curved ceiling with a skylight and some big storage area at the back like in the cupboard thing that was blocked off not blocked off but had a door or something I think I don't know what was kept in there just bits and bobs and then
[00:32:51] we had stairs that went down so I'm starting at the top of the house to give you kind of a description of it so I didn't like the carpet in the playroom didn't like the carpet at all it was very spiky very I don't know if it was a fashionable thing back then had these tiled carpets tiles and they you couldn't you wouldn't walk on them without
[00:33:20] feet not feet without shoes you wouldn't walk on them with your feet just your feet it was uncomfortable and I wore slippers most of the time anyway so it wasn't really an issue but coming out of that room anyway what I was going to say about that room the window in that room looked over the other side of the road
[00:33:51] apparently and so because I was in so much love bear in mind I was only three years old so it's fine and I used to kind of look forward to look out see if she was there just so I could love her from a distance I know romance anyway
[00:34:22] that ended up being my oldest brother's room when I moved upstairs into his room he played loud music but a lot of Elvis so I didn't mind that but he was yeah very moody he was so going downstairs a little room kind of straight ahead almost you know if you get down to the bottom of the stairs that was my
[00:34:52] little brother's room there was later turned into like a little exercise room there was an exercise bike and they is it solarium you know the sun things you could lay down in one of them that my step mum had and then turn left or if you turn left straight that was the parents room that also had a window that looked out over
[00:35:22] the other side of the road I didn't go in there I'm just saying it just and the little room did as well because that's just the way it was facing I didn't build the house I'm not responsible for where the windows faced and it's like well you shouldn't be looking for the windows that's literally what windows are for for looking through next to that was a room that I had when I first moved into that house
[00:35:55] so I like that I like that room because it was big I mean there was a time and there was telescope and it was big enough for me to have a telescope just there and never got knocked over apart from when it did and yeah it was a good nice room and then next to that room there was a toilet then next to the toilet there was a bathroom
[00:36:24] that also had a toilet in it then next to that is another room which was a bedroom but that was more a spare room for visitors so my step mum's mother my step granny would if she stayed that's where she would sleep or if they had visitors other family members that's where they would sleep so there was a double bed in there also the airing cupboard was in there as well I stayed in there
[00:36:54] for about six months once I can't remember why there was some movement I don't know if there was decorating being done but yeah I stayed in there for a while so my bedroom that I was in when I first moved in that ended up being my little brother's bedroom overlooked the garden his bedroom well my bedroom
[00:37:23] is like it had a more bigger view I think you could also see part of the yeah you could see more because it was further back the other bedroom you could I'm wondering if it had more than one that's finished drinking by the way I wonder if it had more than one window in that
[00:37:53] room but I know it could overlook the other garden a little bit on the left and you could stairs walk downstairs and straight ahead is the front door
[00:38:22] and I think I'm pretty sure there was a cabinet on the right hand side not right next to the stairs but I think where the phone was like a phone cabinet turning left there was two doors originally there was two different rooms so there was the front room the living room which
[00:38:51] if you were going to come into the front door the first door on the right hand side go in there and it was the front room so and it was a what do you call that when the windows are out I forget so we had quite a big sofa because there's
[00:39:24] a lot brother older than me me and my little brother is that right so six of us the whole time for quite a long period of time but there'd also be visitors like my other grandparents or my step nan aunties uncles cousins whatever so there'd be other people and
[00:39:53] yeah I mean I think the I remember the set he was brown like patchy brown not patchy as in being soiled but but like dark brown light brown um sort of like vini just you know wiping himself everywhere wasn't like that that's my pillow um
[00:40:23] so yeah he I think my dad had his own chair which he still does he's got a different chair now but he had his own chair and something that used to he still does it to this day he can't watch a movie or television or anything without falling asleep it's just that he
[00:40:52] falls asleep so easily in that situation and he always has even as a young man well I don't know how long he's been like that since I've known him and so since he was I mean he was 26 when I was born I think so or 24 24 or 25 when I was born
[00:41:24] so when I was let's say 10 he was 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 31 32 33 34 34
[00:41:55] 34 35 so I guess he was around 35 ish when I was 10 give or take he's 79 this year yes he's born in 1946 we could work it out then so 1946 1980 so 1946
[00:42:23] 56 66 76 86 no 56 6 46 46 56 66 76 so that's 34 years so yeah so he's 24 years older than me and 24
[00:42:53] so he was 20 when he had his first kid 22 when he had his second kid and 24 when he had his third kid which is me and then 32 when he had his final one yeah so 35 yeah so yeah but he's been falling asleep since then anyway ever since kind of I've known him from
[00:43:23] the age of I can't remember if he fell asleep when I was seven or eight I think I started to notice it more when I was about 10 11 9 maybe so yeah and he would just fall asleep I don't know if he's ever watched a whole movie all the way through at home he's been to the cinema so I don't know if he he falls asleep at the cinema because I think I only went to the cinema with him
[00:43:53] once that was to see E.T. I remember sitting there determined not to cry because everyone was like oh you're going to cry no I'm not yeah you are you're going to cry so I'm not going to cry and yeah I did cry it was emotional it was it was an emotional movie
[00:44:24] especially that bit where he's hiding in the cupboard and there's all these other like animals and toys and he's like that I had to cry I couldn't stop but crying when he's riding on the bicycle
[00:44:48] was it E.T.? I think it was Star Wars no it was E.T. I think that's the only movie I ever went
[00:45:18] to with my dad we went as a family but I don't think I ever went to I know I went to see Superman 2 with my oldest brother and that was what 79 78 something like that so I remember he took me there I actually had dreams about the
[00:45:47] Superman movie before I went to watch it that night before and I mean it was advertised a lot and that was when Zod was on there wasn't he Zod and like the the super archers villains were in it and it's loved it's probably my favourite one out of the three but there's
[00:46:17] four shush don't mention the fourth it's my favourite one out of the three but they're all I mean the first one is great but it went on it really went on a bit and I probably wouldn't want to watch it again because it it seemed to take itself a little bit too serious for a long time you know a lot of the movies very kind of serious and then it
[00:46:47] starts to get humorous once he moves to to become once he becomes Clark Kent the reporter and he meets Lewis Lane and there's funny bits but before that not so much not so much so but in the second one he's still got romance and stuff but the fact that he's got rid of his powers I mean I'm sorry don't want to spoil the movie
[00:47:17] too soon I don't know but he gives up his powers so he could be with Lewis Lane so that he could I think it's so that he could actually be with her intimately because he was worried that he might destroy her by accident I guess that's the you know I mean super powers imagine if he got overexcited so
[00:47:46] and then these arch villains turn up and he has to get his powers back again I'm sorry if I'm spoiled I think my favourite part of the first one is or is the second one the first one is when he flies around the planet to turn
[00:48:16] back time because there's an earthquake isn't there when Lewis Lane crashes a car and stuff that's the first one the second one see I loved the third one as well because Richard Pryor was in it and I was a big Richard Pryor fan in the 80s or well I guess late 70s early 80s but Richard Pryor was he was the biggest box office
[00:48:46] star in the world for a while early 80s he was massive so I didn't even realise he did stand up comedy until probably my late my late yeah my late teens when I was about 17 I think I discovered that he was I mean to be fair it's only a few years later it's not a big time difference is it but
[00:49:22] then and still is for a lot of people classed as the greatest stand up that ever lived you know he is at the top of every stand up comedian list even now I mean it's one of those things you can't you can't put anyone at number one because it's all dependent upon taste isn't it yeah no one's the best singer
[00:49:52] I mean I'd say there's very few singers in the world that could match bouncy and Beyonce but others might say well actually I prefer the bloke from the pokes but then I'm a huge fan of Bob Dylan's voice and
[00:50:22] I would say one of my favourite voices of any female singer is Dolores from the Cranberries but it's a different style of voice a different type of voice or Bonnie Tyler completely although to be fair Bonnie Tyler and Rod Stewart come on they must have been related somehow or must have been they must be related
[00:50:52] because it's almost same hairstyle looks similar same kinds of voices is yeah I think it's uncanny they never did manage to do a duet together which was planned they were going to put an album together because they both had the similar voice tone it's a heartache nothing but a heartache everybody
[00:51:21] goes say I am seething I am seething on a road on the door I mean they both could sing each other's songs and get away with it plus I think Rod Stewart can do whatever he wants and get away with it because he's a superstar as far as I'm concerned Bonnie Tyler is also a superstar but she hasn't been around so much but she was an
[00:51:51] icon and I loved Bonnie Tyler totally lips to the heart there's a hero no that's not one that's Mariah isn't it we don't need another hero we don't need another answer no that's not Tiffany I can never remember her name Tina Turner
[00:52:21] we need a hero I'm looking out for a hero to the end of the night you gotta be strong and you gotta be right and you gotta be led to the night we need a hero so that's three songs with the word hero in it so that's The Living Room now what happened
[00:52:50] is if you come out of the living room turn right again just go down there was another room which was like a dining room but it's weird because there was two dining rooms or maybe it would be classed as a reception room I don't know but we used to have a big table in there and have our Sunday dinners in there and Christmas and stuff like that and there was also
[00:53:20] doors to the outside and there was a patio so outside doors there there was a piano in there one against the wall because my step mum was really brilliant on the piano great great pianist and I used to love listening to her I did actually I used to sometimes just
[00:53:51] listen I don't know other way to say it she used to play so well and it's all quite classical stuff she didn't play anything from the 90s or anything because well we were still in the 80s but she I think she played some more contemporary stuff that was contemporary at the time like a bit of Lana Ritchie and stuff but
[00:54:20] this is really good really good I did like listening and I still do not not to her but I do like listening to classical music and piano but the problem I find with listening to piano music on I use Apple music but it's clicky and it's like you can hear the clicks and it doesn't
[00:54:50] sound so good and it's weird because I don't know why I want to hear the music but I don't want to hear the banging of the keys as it's being done maybe I'm being a bit fussy maybe and then so that was that room so eventually though what my dad done was he knocked a hole in the wall
[00:55:20] he had a hole put a hole in the wall and he said I think we were just talking I think my brother said we should give it a name what we've got the living room we've got a dining room we should give the hole a name and my brother said that's glorious what a glorious hole and I said
[00:55:50] glory hole we should call it glory hole and my dad said no he said beside it's too large I said what do you mean he said no never mind but it was actually it it was kind of it was big enough for probably two people to get through it was quite a large gap
[00:56:22] it pretty much didn't feel like two rooms anymore he's actually done the same in his own house now he did it last year and he's lived there for about 100 years now but he's he just decided to break to go through to the other room and what's weird about it is it just feels wrong I don't know where I am now I've only been I think I've been there
[00:56:54] once since I've done it and it's disorientating and that room looks tiny that gap is almost a space for a settee and there doesn't seem to be any room for anything else and it just seems weird but that seemed like a much bigger room before but when they did the room in the big house it's the
[00:57:24] rooms still seemed the same size but of course bigger now because they're connected and then coming out of there turn right out of that room so it got to the point where we didn't really need to use both doors so we stopped using the first door on the right hand side as you go into the front door and
[00:57:54] set in so it was in front of that I used the other door to go in and yeah it's just what we did so turn right out of there go up a bit there was there was a cupboard under the stairs that's where the hoover was kept maybe some carrier bags things like that I
[00:58:24] don't know what else I down on the right hand side there was a toilet so we actually had three toilets in the building inside which was handy because there was six of us
[00:58:53] so it's quite nice at least if three of us could go to the toilet at the same time if needed and then and that was just a basic toilet it was a little bit of storage room as well to be fair it was never that tidy in there you used to put stuff in there like a junk room where you could poo basically and then
[00:59:23] a sink of I have a table and was this table but these chairs are all connected like one big bench on either side with a back
[00:59:53] on it and my dad had that in his new home as well when he moved in 86 87 yeah no maybe yeah 86 I don't know 87 probably and there was a cabinet on the left hand side I think or was it further up maybe the other side and it was I think my dad's got that as well
[01:00:23] in his house it's one of those dark brown cabinets with space for stuff or plates and cutlery drawers things like that you know for the nice cutlery and then go through there was a kitchen so originally the kitchen it's not
[01:00:52] a bad sized kitchen it wasn't huge but it was a good size and the kitchen the units were cordoned off so that was the way out of the house the back way into the garden so there was away from the kitchen part so doors on the right hand side going out and in about 2013
[01:01:24] maybe 2014 my dad put a new kitchen in and I think before that because we had a toilet outside an outside toilet which I originally was a coal bunker to be fair I think that's what it was originally and then someone put a toilet in
[01:02:21] a little bit of squash but we all got around it at the table and we'd have our dinner there maybe we'd eat our breakfast in there and stuff like that so that was yeah I think he did that before he changed the kitchen or before he put in a new kitchen yeah he put a big patio in the back way
[01:02:51] I remember he put a driveway on the front I helped if I'm honest I don't know but I turned I was there I was there I also did some pointing he taught me
[01:03:33] bricks of a building you just take out a little bit of that and you put some more in and it just I got no idea why why I don't know why it's called pointing I don't know what the point of it is yeah I'm not even going to pretend to know why yeah I don't know yeah I got no idea why I did it I was told to it
[01:04:03] and then there was the garden we had a plum tree which is why I don't eat plums because every year when the plums arrived plums with everything everything I
[01:04:33] mean just I mean first of I don't like plums anyway but if there's enough sugar plums are nice I you know for if it's got enough sugar in it to make them sweet plum jam if it's got enough sugar in it to make it sweet as long as it's sweet I
[01:05:28] eating the plums and they would be drunk which I always find a bit of weird concept so yeah they I didn't like the plums I think we had an apple tree might have even had a pear tree as well not 100% sure but
[01:06:01] we not a hill as in like you know it was just a big mound of dirt and we just before the building at the bottom of the garden the port cabin thing was put there we just moved that big pile of mud which was taller than me big old pile moved from one part of the next with no apparent reason I never really
[01:06:31] understood why we were doing it but it seemed important to other people to be done and lots of flowers on the sides of the garden so outside there was grass but on each side like where the fence is between the grass and the fence there was lots of flowers all done and I
[01:07:03] outside yeah we did I'm pretty sure we did someone did I'm pretty sure we did and they were maybe outside the front as well as outside the back big old fence out the back which did have a lock on it on the inside I think and it's one of those push down things to get it open
[01:07:33] like one of those locks those opens on the wooden gate but it was a dark alley and it was quite long well it was the length of the length of the house from the back to the front so you go into the back entrance and I
[01:08:03] guess it's the front entrance when you go in the front bit there was no gate at the back so there was an obstacle when you're trying to go in the back where it was a little bit harder to get in the back than it is the front but because that fit and sometimes to be fair because it was locked I
[01:08:47] there wasn't a massive gap between the houses I don't think it could have been my arm length between the two but I might be making it up yeah there wasn't a big gap between the two because our
[01:09:23] connected to the other house hardly didn't affect us because it was the part where the stairs was if that makes sense so only the only rooms that were connected to the other house would have been part of kitchen probably downstairs that was it everything else was the other side where it was detached
[01:09:55] upstairs would be part of my little brother's room that would have been connected to the other side and part of the other room that I stayed in for a
[01:10:35] probably both my brother's room my brother's room my older but not oldest brother his room would be connected to the other room on the other side and my other brothers would be connected but my room wasn't where I slept so I literally the whole time I
[01:11:07] share a wall with another well that's not true I shared a room with my parents room because there was a wall there so I could yeah we were sharing that wall and I was sharing yeah I was sharing the
[01:11:40] other rooms but not and he was the noisiest one out of everyone because he used to play loud music he used to play Elvis although I do love Elvis but sometimes you know I was I wanted to go to sleep and I think there was a period of time when he didn't really do anything I think he was kind of going through a little he just left school and wasn't doing much so I
[01:12:10] yeah used to annoy me I should let it go shouldn't I it's only been 50 years and what else so the gym where I got my weights from was you go down the road come out turn left to the high street
[01:12:40] and it was just there was I don't think it was right on the corner there might have been but I pretty sure there was a charity the sports shop and that's where I got all of the curl bar which is a bit like that shape so you could do that and one of those ones for the
[01:13:10] it's kind of it's so yeah I didn't know I was going to do a tour of my childhood home but it seems I have it
[01:13:41] was quite dark in the living room though I for the sun to come in because it was blocked off from I mean you get sun if it was at the top of the building
[01:14:13] but the other building
[01:14:44] about doing a house tour the house tour that's what I'm going to call this recording house tour childhood house tour I had no clue that was going to happen so I'm going to go thank you for listening
[01:15:14] remember to be kind to yourself be gentle with yourself lots of love not
[01:15:51] just allow you to feel calmer throughout the time we spend together here just relaxed at the end of the recording when it's finished and you can enjoy that sense of comfort and peace but
[01:16:24] also I think it would be nice to have those feelings of relaxation continue for longer after the
[01:16:54] recording is ended so that you can still benefit from listening to my voice maybe in a few hours time perhaps tomorrow
[01:17:18] then by listening regularly especially if you find like some people do and myself as well sometimes I'll find one particular recording that really resonates with me and I'll just listen to it
[01:17:47] over and over again every morning every evening there was this recording from going back to about 1999 it was it wasn't hypnosis but it was a guided visualization so it kind of was hypnosis really
[01:18:15] I managed to find it again and it still has the same effect on me and part of it was the person's voice just felt so peaceful
[01:18:43] and I'd look forward to listening to her in the morning and in the evening before even pressing the play button that as soon as I've done that press the play button
[01:19:12] this was in the days of CD players press the play button in fact it might have even been a tape tape recorder I'd lie down on the bed and then even without necessarily
[01:19:42] listening to her words because memorised really it was as if my body exactly what to do the muscles just
[01:20:11] almost went into automatic relaxation remember my mind would slow down
[01:20:37] I was listening to this recording the early days of learning hypnosis and long before I ever made any videos or audio recordings myself because I
[01:21:07] didn't start doing that until 2006 helpful being able to just let go
[01:21:35] have that trust in the person that I'm listening to and that it's going to be just as relaxing if if not more so each time you hear my voice
[01:22:04] you may feel the same some people have been listening to me for over a decade if you're not solidly obviously
[01:22:34] not 24 hours a day maybe people come back some people maybe listen every day and something that I do which you may not realize these
[01:23:18] recordings but also the words said to you focus on your feet notice
[01:23:49] your feet relaxing I will be focusing on my feet noticing my feet relaxing let
[01:24:19] focus on your hands and maybe notice the difference between each hand and notice the air in the room temperature of the room backs of your hands
[01:24:42] you start to notice what almost feels like a very light breeze and though there may not be any type of breeze at all where you are right now
[01:25:07] do you become aware of also aware comes
[01:25:56] to potentially drifting off to sleep which may be the reason you're listening to these recordings also
[01:26:25] notice at times I've actually fallen asleep
[01:27:07] listen back to do the editing I hear snoring I don't remember snoring snoring or a pig turned up that's what I sound like when I snore
[01:27:45] experience you're feeling your feet
[01:28:30] noticed easier your breathing becomes
[01:29:00] it's almost like muscle relaxation this allows you
[01:29:38] necessarily focus in notice breathe
[01:30:23] so naturally so very easily tend
[01:31:38] to visualize it's fulfilled producing all life giving oxygen
[01:32:32] nothing out just taking some
[01:34:01] scenes to just because
[01:36:48] nothing has your attention enjoy physical
[01:37:17] sensations stress things
[01:40:03] in your arms and shoulders front of your body muscles
[01:42:09] in the front of your body
[01:42:13] your very
[01:43:16] core
[01:43:51] on your mind
[01:47:29] sending and receiving messages spreading
[01:49:08] those signals down your spine or core your shins and your calf muscles tips
[01:50:38] of your toes
[01:50:40] in the
[01:53:32] center the
[01:55:54] space
[01:55:54] in the
[02:00:09] center
[02:00:10] and you
[02:10:19] could start to notice that you are feeling more relaxed even though I've not purposely focused your mind upon that sense of physical comfort that is growing within you throughout your body
[02:10:52] starts to slow down almost in recognition of I guess my speech not being particularly fast
[02:11:11] just by listening to my voice you give yourself an opportunity to take a break from
[02:11:42] your life as it is and to give yourself a rest permission to take some time off and to allow your body to relax to allow your mind to slow which in turn
[02:12:14] releases the tension any stresses that you had in your body almost as if the parts of your body just open up and at the same time replacing
[02:12:44] that negativity with positive heat and fills your body up and your mind too also starts to appreciate those feelings of increasing confidence
[02:13:13] comes from
[02:13:46] just on yourself just rest almost
[02:14:16] reset to the settings of feelings of pleasure
[02:14:43] your body are
[02:15:15] positivity and calmness and it feels nice it really does feel nice that it has allowed yourself
[02:15:36] and as
[02:16:08] I focus heart of your body notice that just by focusing on it
[02:16:58] focused on or can get focused on let's
[02:17:37] start by focusing this
[02:18:11] isn't this isn't a sterile countryside sounds around focus on your forehead just notice how I
[02:18:44] focus feels so heavy
[02:19:14] yet so light at the same time muscles around your eyes relaxing
[02:20:05] just the sides of your face the
[02:22:19] side of your spine from the top of your
[02:22:53] muscles either side of your spine those muscles relax that sense of comfort starts to spread
[02:23:16] and as you scare
[02:24:01] also seem to just almost do things to be an extra special fits
[02:24:38] into your hips those muscles don't
[02:26:40] those muscles not
[02:27:43] just traveling down
[02:42:54] some steps in each step you
[02:43:24] walk down those steps to so starting with number 20
[02:43:40] that was
[03:16:32] a bit too quick expect me just to go
[03:17:06] try again I'm going a bit slower this time you focus on the whole of your body before we just
[03:19:26] notice how you feel generally how your body feels it's not necessarily even about it's that space
[03:19:56] space between physically or mentally to just sitting or lying down just being there not doing anything not saying anything not needing to
[03:20:26] think about anything so it opens up a space you know a bit of a space a gap so there's that gap of calmness
[03:20:57] relaxation it's a nice feeling stresses or discomforts physically or emotionally so
[03:21:40] I'm going to count again from 10 down to 1 and notice that it widens it's almost like the stress and tension falls into
[03:22:45] 7 you
[03:24:47] notice that you're feeling calm
[03:25:45] just going to start with focusing on the most exciting thing
[03:26:27] just focusing on the whole of your thighs the sides of your thighs thighs your outer thighs and basically the whole of your thigh that leads into your hip now
[03:27:05] this is a big area the strongest muscles in your body or in your thighs love
[03:28:43] shown thighs do for us it may sound a bit
[03:29:12] a tree or something don't
[03:29:56] necessarily I'll speak for myself here don't necessarily appreciate what knees do for me it's aching for some reason
[03:30:29] use my legs without good discomfort it's possibly not appreciated until as you focus on your knees
[03:30:59] regardless of how your knees feel you can still have that tension it is how your thighs feel
[03:32:17] slightest sprain of an it's kind of strange in a way when you think that logically our wrists are a lot thinner than the rest of
[03:33:00] and from and from a physics perspective or logical even it doesn't really make sense that all this weight would ultimately be resting on your ankles so
[03:33:36] much great work supports us supports our body for a lifetime to balance the
[03:34:05] calf muscles of course when I was younger I couldn't see the point in calf muscles didn't seem to do anything I walked around on tiptoes then my calf muscles get some work of course that's not true the calf muscles are being used
[03:34:29] on your shins to protect shaped in a way almost as a protector
[03:34:54] of course I'm going to focus on your feet or I'm just going to focus on the legs
[03:35:18] I've mentioned your feet you're probably focusing on them anyway so maybe I should focus on your feet a little bit the same as you have your thighs in your awareness focusing on your thighs for a few minutes
[03:35:47] focusing on your there's still that sensation of thighs
[03:36:19] hold lots of different sensations of course there's the muscles big strong muscles but the skin side of the thighs as in the outside of all of our body
[03:36:51] sensitive sensitive to the touch sensitive to temperature the muscle there's the blood vessels the arteries inside
[03:37:22] inside sometimes it'd be nice if you could actually put your fingers inside your thighs and massage you can massage on the outside to be able to get deep into the muscles to be able to just massage inside your thighs massaging the bones
[03:37:51] of your legs massaging those bones
[03:38:17] so it's very sensitive
[03:38:43] it's very nice when you stroke because it's an area that's not really touched very often it's almost like a hidden it's almost the sensitivity which is a little bit
[03:39:44] you can just massage with your fingertips muscle tissue
[03:40:24] inside massage in gently stroking
[03:41:00] because they deserve to be treated as the precious bones that they are legs are so precious as in all the other parts precious of any jewel
[03:41:18] you start to think about it in this way
[03:42:13] massage the muscles releasing to show
[03:42:28] I have relief
[03:44:15] when I sit down
[03:44:16] I said it's true
[03:45:19] they deserve not just respect
[03:45:36] they deserve to take some time
[03:45:55] because the legs
[03:46:36] are so a journey
[03:46:57] it feels it feels stretched even though I'm just sitting in a chair
[03:47:25] and there's no stretching as far as I'm aware it's almost as if the muscles are just relaxed so much that there is a natural stretch as the tension has reduced
[03:47:44] so I'm just going
[03:49:13] to count down and as I count down if you just focus on just the numbers and notice those numbers
[03:49:42] not just in your body but also just notice how you feel there's nothing there's nothing to say there's nothing to think of
[03:50:14] start in
[03:51:02] as you notice gradual they also begin to notice and be aware of how your mind is starting to slow down
[03:51:34] this is just a natural thing a special procedure it's just natural because as your body relaxes your mind also starts to relax and the more your mind relaxes the more your body relaxes it's just a continuous circle of relaxation
[03:52:01] and there's that calmness that comes from relative quietness you know even even if there's background sounds either your side or mine still going to be television on
[03:52:30] there's no music unless you're listening to the recorded with music of course you're very likely not going to be sitting in a room so no distractions
[03:52:55] and when you stop thinking about stuff relaxation automatically rises a sense of comfort starts to grow without
[03:53:27] trying to build it up into something fantastical this is just a natural process something that's easy and it's almost you know the sense of relaxing happens
[03:53:59] really when you put no effort into it it's not something that you can really force it's something that happens naturally the process of this recording and others is simply
[03:55:05] yet with the intention for yourself
[03:55:38] relaxing is majority of the process of falling asleep falling asleep part is
[03:55:51] you can also
[03:56:22] if you choose stay focused on my voice
[03:57:07] effortlessly just observing sensation see you next time Thank you.
