[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 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 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 going to hear from me this week So Enjoy
[00:02:25] Make the most of it If you can So I charge them up Put them into the So 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 A few different things
[00:03:01] In order for me to film And get audio At the same time Decent audio I probably got Five Maybe a week's worth So probably ten recordings Which is pretty good I suppose Got about ten A week's worth Like ten Yeah, so ten Ten different recordings Out of the Batteries Before they Shut down The weird thing about it is I got four In thing
[00:03:39] So I got four So I got four I took them all out Used two 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
[00:04:05] do i mean i'll be honest i don't even know 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 yeah i should have done that completely forgot
[00:04:35] just a little you know a little backpack up so i put them in overnight took hours for them to both all four of them to recharge the ones that i hadn't used got recharged quicker but they were still in
[00:04:58] there for a few hours 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
[00:05:21] way to get them in and out unless you've got like long talons it's they don't come out very easily it's like really trying because i've got i've got short fingernails 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
[00:05:47] you know i have so i will continue 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
[00:06:09] be both this is by far the most 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
[00:06:34] to his flat so vinnie might start barking which means this video will be in lots of different 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
[00:07:03] i was with my neighbor i was just talking to him he lives opposite me and he was talking to me 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 what do you mean send it to me so it'll be on your door camera
[00:07:59] i said oh it will be won't 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 and maybe i don't show people not show people but
[00:08:21] no i was not 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 top of the doorway because i'm not particularly tall
[00:08:50] but the rest it wasn't you know like it's such a shame because i was looking forward to having it just it's a funny moment in it so it's a memorable experience maybe the most memorable experience of the year
[00:09:12] so what's finney doing he's doing uh oh he's waiting he's waiting for something to so i've ordered some food today on the soup from the supermarket all healthy food
[00:09:39] 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 its fruit but generally i'm gonna have to cook it i'm gonna repeat myself all healthy now i don't have necessarily
[00:10:10] probably not necessarily not particularly not honestly the most healthy diet at the moment 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
[00:10:40] vegetarian 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
[00:11:02] it's ridiculous and now a little bit different from that so i remember roughly what the diet was back
[00:11:15] then i used to have like gammon for breakfast a gammon steak a couple of boiled eggs not boiled egg like
[00:11:35] 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 either chicken or fish quite easy so i'd have that with
[00:12:03] not with chips oh i had 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 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
[00:12:30] 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
[00:12:54] in the evening it became 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
[00:13:18] i was 15 16 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 little teenagers and early 20s and stuff
[00:13:36] i feel i have not quite reached my peak yet i'm edging into it edging and 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
[00:14:00] 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 and 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
[00:14:29] 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 like an omelette or something um yeah egg eggs raw eggs and milk this is before there was any problems
[00:14:58] 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 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
[00:15:25] 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 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
[00:15:54] dean 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 basically if you come out my house where i used to live when i was a
[00:16:16] 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 and 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 and on that
[00:16:43] 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
[00:17:02] there or was it a video shop was it a video shop no i can't remember anyway so there was this lorry or big
[00:17:24] 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 what what we might just stop so what you're doing
[00:17:47] just out of interest what was going on and he said oh it's a new gym started got a new gym there was a basement downstairs there was a there was going to be a jacuzzi not 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 cool
[00:18:16] and i think i don't even 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
[00:18:44] that day and i might have gone back to help with some of the machine some of the machinery machinery some of the equipment i mean not yeah not the heavy stuff but i guess about 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
[00:19:10] hours and i don't know it might have been half an hour might be 10 minutes but i'm pretty sure it's a few hours six months it took no i don't know might gone back to help with the machines the next day or something i don't know um i know i was in there in and out before the place opened and got on really well with
[00:19:36] the bloke and the yeah when it opened i became a free member i was the first member of that gym other than i guess the man who owned it and his wife but technically they own it so don't need to be members so i was the first member my friend also got membership but he never used it
[00:20:04] so yeah i was the first i guess equal first me and the other my friend but because he never used that i don't think he ever got i didn't need a card because i just hello i use my face as my passport and so i was a member of that gym up to the age of about 17
[00:20:32] so i was going into that gym from 14 15 16 for about three years i think once i got to once they left school started charging me i think but while i was at school didn't charge me or he didn't charge me for a year something like that i can't remember it wasn't a lifetime membership
[00:20:55] 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's quite long bit of girth and i'd like to go there just
[00:21:17] to see it 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 realize it's
[00:21:39] only like two foot wide or something no it's like so but i remember it being a big garden yeah there was it was it was girth as well as length i love that word girth i don't know why um and there was this
[00:22:01] big it's almost like um 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 so is the it was the it was
[00:22:23] the length of the girth if that makes sense of the back of the garden there was a um pathway going up to it it had a toilet i think it had heat in 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 and you know all that stuff
[00:22:49] it's a big big space the other part of it was mainly for his gear like um because he wouldn't leave his gear in the van overnight like all because he's electrician so all the cables all the stuff uh 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 used to get a hand and take it down 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 14 so i say 14 between i lose a little
[00:23:39] bit of tracks and maybe 13 yes i might mean 13 actually when i joined 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's like a kit bag
[00:24:06] so he got that first and he filled it full of wood cuttings yeah he filled it full of wood cuttings it was heavy it's a heavy bag 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
[00:24:37] and i can't remember which was which if i'm honest with you but i bought my own like bag as well my own um so that i had one of each and he put this screwy thing in where the punch bag could be attached and it just turn around so it would never get tangled and because the height of the building of this uh poor cabin thing wasn't very
[00:25:07] high i could reach it so it was kind of i don't know you know so it wasn't a high high and i'd have to kind of hold it up with the heavy one but that was cool it's like wow and what i did is i started getting some weights and putting them down there as well
[00:25:33] 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'd be nice to go somewhere else and you know it's i don't know it's just nice to be part of something else and i had a weight bench i had
[00:25:58] barbells dumbbells i had one dumbbell i had one barbell so i had 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 back around because i mean now i probably just got a taxi but it's literally around the corner
[00:26:23] i mean if you come out 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 my house cross the road you know look first obviously cross the road or maybe walk up a little bit so turn right walk a little bit up and cross the road
[00:26:52] 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 you 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
[00:27:41] word and i was writing her poems writing songs for her sending her flowers and because i was working part-time so i had enough to sort of do that and sending 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 neighbor opposite i kept seeing her
[00:28:06] and you say yeah but you're looking out someone else's window i said yeah i mean i couldn't see from my bedroom because my bedroom faced 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
[00:28:27] into the the big house um i lived i actually my bedroom was the biggest bedroom out of all of ours actually maybe not but it was a fairly big size room with big windows loads of light and i think the
[00:28:51] walls were blue i'm sure they were yellow at one point but blue but i lived there i stayed in that 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 living in the
[00:29:15] same beds bedroom as my my dad and his wife and then he had the the little room that was his bedroom and then eventually when he got to about three uh three when do we move in there 19 a 1979
[00:29:41] 1978 1978 1978 by me so 1978 we moved in there maybe 1979 actually yeah maybe late 78 early 79 and which meant i was nine i was eight i was eight when
[00:30:04] moved in there blind that doesn't seem right does it wow and then i lived upstairs i did live in another room for a bit uh lived keep saying lived i'm so used to living in rooms i lived i stayed i had my bedroom in a different room for a little while but only for probably six months or so but that was
[00:30:33] temporary yeah so i was upstairs to the age of 15 probably from the age of 12 maybe 11 12 no def
[00:31:02] 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 um 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
[00:31:30] far as the snooker goes but we managed around it it's just you know have 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 some chairs to sit i think they've had a sofa in there to sit down and so that
[00:31:55] was our 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 i 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 years older and one eight years younger
[00:32:24] he lived in another room like on the top floor as well but it was had more of a curved ceiling with a skylight and some big storage area at the back like in the cupboard thing that was um blocked off not blocked off but had a door or something i think there was i don't know what it was kept in there just bits
[00:32:45] and bobs and then we had stairs that went down so i'm starting at the top of the house to give you a kind of a description of it so you had i didn't like the carpet in the playroom didn't like the carpet at all it's very spiky very i don't know how this thing i don't know if it was a fashionable
[00:33:12] thing back then had these tiled carpets tiles and they you couldn't you wouldn't walk on them without feet not feet without shoes you wouldn't walk them on them with your feet just your feet it was uncomfortable and i mean i wore slippers most of the time anyway so it wasn't really an issue
[00:33:39] but coming out of that room anyway what i was gonna say about that room the window in that room looked over the other side of the road 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
[00:34:07] and see if she was there and just so i could love her from a distance i know ah romance anyway 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
[00:34:34] so i didn't mind that but he was yeah very moody it was um 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 little brother's room there was later turned into uh like a little exercise room there was an exercise bike and a
[00:35:05] is it solarium you know the the sun things that you could lay down in one of them that my step-mom had and then turn left or if you turn left straight this that was my the parents room that also had a window looked out over 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
[00:35:30] 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
[00:35:47] first moved into that house so i like that i like that room because it was big i mean there was a time and i had a telescope and it was big enough for me to have a telescope just there and never got knocked
[00:36:10] over apart from when it did and yeah it was 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 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-mom's mother
[00:36:36] my step granny would if she stayed that's where she would sleep or if they had visitors other family members or whatever that's where they would sleep so there's a double bed in there also the airing cupboard was in there as well i stayed in there 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
[00:37:06] 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 one 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
[00:37:35] the other bedroom you could i'm wondering if it had more than one that's philly drinking by the way i wonder if they have more than one window in that room but i know it could overlook and it could overlook the other garden a little bit on the left and you could also see part of the right hand garden
[00:38:02] and because it was quite because we're fairly high up and you could kind of see so you could kind of get a gauge of a different part of the garden and then downstairs you walk down the stairs and straight ahead is the um the front door and i think i'm pretty sure there was a cabinet
[00:38:30] 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 there was two doors originally there was two different rooms so there was the front room the living room which you go in the top door which if you was going to come into the front door the first door on the right hand side go in there and it was the front
[00:39:00] room so and it was a what do you call that when the window's out i forget so we had quite a big sofa because a lot of us was there was my dad my step mum my oldest brother my other brother older than me
[00:39:27] me me and my little brother is that right four foot so six of us the whole time you know for quite a long period of time and but it's also there's also all but there'd also be visitors like my other grandparents or my step nan aunties uncles cousins whatever so other people and yeah i mean i think the
[00:39:57] i remember the seti was brown like patchy brown not patchy as in being soiled but but like dark brown light brown um sort of like vineyard just you know wiping himself everywhere wasn't like that
[00:40:20] that's my pillow um 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
[00:40:42] he can't watch a movie or television or anything without falling asleep it's just that he's he falls asleep so easily in that situation and he always has even as a young man well i don't know how 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
[00:41:12] i think so or 24 24 or 25 when i was born
[00:41:22] so when i was let's say 10 he was 10 11 12 30 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 30
[00:41:52] 4 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
[00:42:19] 1936 1980 so 1946 56 66 76 86 no 56 6 46 46 46 56 66 76 so that's 34 years so yeah so he's 24 years older than me
[00:42:51] and 24 24 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
[00:43:21] i've known him from the ages 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 nine 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
[00:43:50] because i think i only went to the cinema with him once that was to see et i remember sitting there determined not to cry because everyone was like oh you're gonna cry but no i'm not yeah you are you're gonna cry so i'm not gonna cry and um yeah i did cry
[00:44:14] it was emotional it was it's an emotional emotional movie especially that that bit where he's hiding in the cupboard and there's always other like animals and toys and he's like that
[00:44:35] i had to cry i couldn't stop but crying when he's riding on the bicycle was it et well i think
[00:45:07] it was star wars no it was it yeah it was et i think that's the only movie i ever went to with my dad we went as a family but i don't think i ever went to and i went to see superman 2 with my oldest
[00:45:30] brother and that was what 79 78 something like that 70 something yeah so i remember he took me there i actually had dreams about the superman movie before i went to watch it that night before and
[00:45:55] i mean it was advertised a lot and that was when um zod was on there wasn't he and zod and um like the the super arch villains were in it and it's love it's probably my favorite one out of the three but there's four shush don't mention the fourth it's my favorite one out of the three but they're all
[00:46:23] 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 starts to get humorous once he moves to to become a once he becomes Clark Kent
[00:46:53] 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
[00:47:13] i mean i'm sorry i don't want to spoil the movie too soon i don't know um you 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's worried that he might destroy her by accident i guess that's the
[00:47:41] you know i mean super powers imagine if he got over excited so 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 favorite part of the first
[00:48:04] one is or is it the second one the first one is when he flies around the planet to turn back time because there's an earthquake isn't there and Lewis Lane um crashes a car and stuff that's the first one
[00:48:28] the second one see i love 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 star in the world for a while and early 80s he was massive so i didn't even realize he did stand
[00:48:54] up comedy until probably my late my uh my late yeah my late teens so when i was about 17 i found 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
[00:49:15] that's when i discovered that he was arguably then and still is for a lot of people classed as the greatest stand-up that ever lived you know is 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
[00:49:45] it's all dependent upon taste isn't it yeah no one's the best singer i mean i'd say there's very few singers in a world that could match bouncy and beyonce but others might say well actually i prefer
[00:50:09] the bloke from the pokes but then i'm a huge fan of bob dylan's voice and i would say my one of my favorite voices of any female singer is um dolores from the cranberries but it's a different style of
[00:50:36] 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 because it's almost the same hairstyle looks similar same kinds of voices
[00:51:02] is yeah i think uncanny they never did manage to do a duet together which was planned they were going to put an album together because they both have the similar voice tone it's a heartache nothing but a heartache everybody goes hey i am saving i am saving
[00:51:29] all the 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 sort of been around so much but
[00:51:50] she was an icon and i loved bonnie tyler totally lips to the heart there's a hero no that's 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 um not tiffany
[00:52:15] um i can never remember her name tina turner 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 right we need a hero
[00:52:34] oh so that's three songs of the word hero in it um so that's the living room now what happened is if you come out of the living room turn right and you know again just go down there was another room
[00:52:57] 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's also doors to the outside and there's a patio so outside doors there there's a piano in
[00:53:26] there one again against the wall because my um my step-mom was really brilliant on the piano great great great great um pianist pianist and i used to love listening to her i did actually i used
[00:53:46] to sort of sometimes just listen i don't know what other way to say it she used to be such a used to play so well and it's all quite classical stuff she didn't play anything from like the 90s or anything because well we were still in the 80s but she i think she played some more contemporary stuff
[00:54:16] that was contemporary at the time like a bit of lana ritchie and stuff but 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
[00:54:41] but it's clicky and it's like you can hear the clicks as it and it just doesn't 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
[00:55:11] so that was that room so eventually though what my dad done was he knocked a hole in the wall 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 so well we've got the living room we've got a dining room we should give
[00:55:39] the hole a name and my other brother said no i think my name said it's glorious what a glorious hole glory hole and i said glory hole we should call it glory hole and my dad said no he said beside it's
[00:56:00] 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 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
[00:56:28] year and he's lived there for about 100 years now but he's he just decided to to break to go through to the other room and what's weird about it is it just feels wrong it's after like i don't know where i am now it just sort of i've only been i think i've been there once since i've done it and it's
[00:56:56] disorientating and that room looks tiny like that gap is almost is a is a space for some a settee and it doesn't seem to be any room for anything else and it just seems weird but that seemed like
[00:57:15] a much bigger room before but when they did the room in the big house it's the rooms still seem the same size but of course like bigger now because they're connected ah 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
[00:57:46] so we stopped using the the first door on the right hand side as you go into the front door and the settee and sofa was in front of that i think it was probably locked so we never used that door anymore didn't seal it just didn't use it used the other door to go in and yeah it's just what we did
[00:58:10] so turn right out there go up a bit there was there was a cupboard under the stairs that's where the hoover was kept uh maybe some carrier bags things like that i don't know what else i can't remember and then just go down we'll close the door first obviously because you don't people tripping it over
[00:58:34] it and um go back down on the right hand side there was a toilet so we actually had three toilets in the in the building inside which was handy because there was six of us so it's quite nice at least
[00:58:56] if six of us if three of us could go to toilet at the same time if if needed and then and that was just a basic toilet it was a little bit of a storage room as well to be fair it was never that tidy in there you get used to just put stuff in there like a junk room a junk room where you
[00:59:20] could poo basically and then and a sink of course so you come out of that turn right which led to another dining room which had a table and chairs and stuff where we always used to sit we'd sit in there during the week i remember sitting there on a saturday and burger and chips it was nice
[00:59:46] but it was this table but these chairs are all connected like one big bench on either side with a back on it and my dad had that in his new home as well when he moved in 86 87 yeah mate no maybe yeah 86 i don't know 87 probably and there was a cabinet on the left hand side
[01:00:16] i think or was it further up maybe the other side and it was i think my dad's got that as well in his house it's one of those like dark brown cabinets with space for stuff up plates and um cutlery drawers things like you know for the nice cutlery and then
[01:00:44] go through there was a kitchen so originally the kitchen it's not it's not a bad size kitchen wasn't huge but it was it was a good size and the kitchen like the units were cordoned off so that was the way out of the house the back way into the
[01:01:07] garden so there was away from the kitchen part so door was on the right hand side going out and in about 2013 maybe 2014
[01:01:28] my dad put a new kitchen in and i think before that because we had a toilet outside an outside toilet which i think originally was a coal bunker to be fair i think that's what it was originally
[01:01:49] and then someone put a toilet in there you know 10 20 years ago whatever because we didn't didn't need coal anymore so my dad took that out and knocked through the kitchen
[01:02:10] into that bit where the toilet was and put a big best um built a kitchen like almost what i see an area for us to eat a little bit of a squash but we all got around it with 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 we put in a new kitchen
[01:02:47] yeah he put a big patio in the back way i remember he put a driveway on the front i helped him do it i don't know how helpful i was if i'm honest i don't know but i i turned i was there i was there i also did some pointing i thought i he taught me how to point
[01:03:14] and if you're gonna say oh you go like that you know no i don't mean point as in pointing to people um it's basically where you you take out the in my memory you take out the it's you know with a not petrol you know the the cement in between the bricks of a building you just take out a little bit of that and then you put some more in
[01:03:40] and it just i've 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've got no idea why i did it i was told to do it i just did it
[01:04:06] and i quite like doing it actually 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
[01:04:32] everything i mean just i mean first of all i don't like plums anyway but if there's enough sugar plums are nice i've you know for me i found like a plum crumble plum pie if it's got enough sugar in it to make it sweet plum jam if it's got enough sugar in it to make it sweet as long as it's sweet i was
[01:04:58] all right plums on their own no i've never liked i never particularly liked the plum in my mouth i'll be honest just don't like just the taste so and also there was the aftermath of the plums
[01:05:21] so they'd be falling on the ground and then the the wasps will arrive and they'd be eating the plums and they would be drunk which i always find a bit of a weird concept so yeah they i didn't like the plums i think we had an apple tree we might have even had a pear tree
[01:05:46] as well not 100 sure but we had grass there was a mess we had two hills it sounds like a house is really massive okay a pile of dirt you know not a hill as in like you know it was just a big mound of dirt and we could just kiss this before the the building at the bottom of the garden the poor cabin
[01:06:14] thing was put there we just moved that big pile of mud which was taller than me big old pile moving from one part of garden to next with no apparent reason i never really understood why we were doing it but it seemed important to other people through it to be done and lots of flowers on the sides of the
[01:06:44] 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 think my step-mum might have been doing that as well i think she was quite into we had hanging baskets outside yeah we did i'm pretty sure we did
[01:07:08] someone did i'm pretty sure we did and they were maybe outside the front as well as outside the back big old fence at the back which did have a lock on it on the inside i think and it's one of those
[01:07:30] push down things to get it open like one of those locks those um those openings on the on the wooden gate but it was a dark alley and it's quite long well it was the the girth the length of the girth of the no the length yeah the length of the uh house from the back to the front so you go out you go into
[01:07:57] the back entrance and i guess it's the front entrance when you go in the front bit there was no gate at the front you just walked in but there's a gate at the back so there's definitely there was uh 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
[01:08:20] the front but because that fit and sometimes to be fair because it was locked i wasn't very good at like reaching either because i wasn't very tall but there wasn't much there and i think we sometimes we'd lose stuff you know bikes and that in the alleyway and that but you know it wasn't a big
[01:08:49] there wasn't a massive gap between the houses i mean i'm thinking about it i don't think it could have been even my my arm length between the two but i might be making that up yeah there wasn't a big big gap between the two because our house was semi-detached but the good thing about it is
[01:09:19] the part that was 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 the kitchen probably
[01:09:47] downstairs that was it everything else was the other side where it was detached upstairs would be part of my little brother's room right that that would have been connected to the other side and part of the other room that i sometimes that i stayed in for a little while at the back of the
[01:10:10] house that was kind of um a guest room so that was the only two rooms that were connected to next door the rest of it was just the stairs you know and that wall and then upstairs on my floor where i ended
[01:10:27] up living uh yeah probably my both my brother's rooms so my brother's room my older but not not oldest brother his room would i suppose 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
[01:10:55] i literally the whole whole time i lived there apart from for six months when i lived in the spare room i didn't share a room 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're sharing that that wall
[01:11:23] and i was sharing yeah i was sharing the wall with my other brother because he yeah he had the big room when we was at the top so i did share you know i guess 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
[01:11:52] 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 he wasn't doing much so i yeah used to annoy me i should let it go shouldn't i it's only been 50 years
[01:12:20] um what else so the gym but the way i got my weights from was you go down the road come out turn left to the high street and it was just there was i don't think it was right on the corner or a lot of
[01:12:45] there might have been but i'm pretty sure there was a charity shop and then the sports shop and that's where i got all of the also got a curl bar a curl bar which is like a bit like that shape so you could do that and one of those ones for the um makes you know what i want to do um it's kind of it's just
[01:13:13] another way of doing this i've got like three different bars i don't know if that's a tricep bar should i do one more time not on me head so yeah i was i didn't know i was going to do a tour of my
[01:13:32] childhood home but it seems i have it was quite dark in the living room though i don't know why it's it's almost because we had to have a big because there were big houses like three stories high so across the road was exactly the same three stories high which meant when you're at the bottom
[01:14:01] you go across the road there was no way for the sun to come in because it was blocked off from i mean you get sun if you was at the top of the building but the other building was blocking the sun from really getting into the into the window so yeah that was a bit weird good for the tv
[01:14:25] you know because there's no sun shining on tv and no light distraction as such yeah but my friends yeah he says trousers fell down that's that's i don't know how i got talking about doing a house tour the house tour that's i guess that's that's but it's what what i'm going to call
[01:14:54] this recording house tour childhood house tour yeah i had no clue that was going to happen so i'm going to go thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself be gentle with yourself lots of love
