[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 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
[00:01:05] here's a question so I've got these rechargeable batteries because the batteries I had seemed to be a bit on a 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
[00:01:42] I don't know however you want to say it and I thought yeah I'll get some rechargeable ones they're pretty cheap 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
[00:02:15] 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 make the most of it if you can
[00:02:28] so I'm I charged them up put them into the so it's it's a it's called an iRig so moves from the microphone through a condenser into an iRig into the camera so it's kind of a few different things in order for me to film and get audio
[00:03:05] at the same time decent 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 in thing
[00:03:39] so so 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 yeah I should have done that completely forgot just a little you know a little backpack up so I put them in overnight
[00:04:47] took hours for them to both or for them to recharge the ones that I hadn't used
[00:04:55] the ones that I hadn't used got recharged quicker but they were still in 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
[00:05:20] why is there no easy 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 got I got short fingered owls trying it's difficult I might 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
[00:05:49] so I will continue I'm just a little bit confused with it I don't understand it's like why if a battery is 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 important thing
[00:06:18] that's happened this year so far oh my neighbour did I tell you about my neighbour oh blimey so my neighbour'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 sections which is fine well it's not fine it's a bit
[00:06:47] 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 neighbour and I was just talking to him he lives opposite me and he was talking to me just a normal conversation
[00:07:16] 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 and I didn't know what to do it's like wow it's not something I would normally see yes you know it's just
[00:07:46] weird so I told someone I 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 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 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
[00:08:46] could see 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 isn't it it's a memorable experience maybe the most memorable experience of the year
[00:09:12] so what's Vinny 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 the supermarket all healthy food I mean all healthy
[00:09:40] like super fresh healthy food stuff that I'm going to have to cook well not all of it I mean some of it's fruit but generally I'm going to have to cook it I'm going to repeat myself all healthy now I don't have necessarily
[00:10:11] 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 so I used to there's been times when I've eaten healthily
[00:10:40] I've been a 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 it's ridiculous and now a little bit different from that
[00:11:11] so I remember roughly what the diet was back then I used to have I had gammon for breakfast a gammon steak a couple of boiled eggs not boiled eggs like um yeah boiled not hard boiled but boiled
[00:11:41] 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 not with chips I would have it with salad so I'd have have that with salad
[00:12:13] I even did this when I moved up into the flat above me above the chip shop for a little while because I had 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
[00:12:44] either chicken or fish again with rice and then maybe a snack in the evening again something like some I don't know a bit of fruit or something and I did that and the fact is I was healthy
[00:13:13] you know I was I was still around so I must have been pretty healthy when 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 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
[00:13:43] 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 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
[00:14:13] diet high huge calorie with someone that's working out twice a day and stuff it wasn't that kind of thing it was just 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
[00:14:43] within a different format like an omelette or something yeah 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 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 round the corner so basically
[00:16:13] if you come out of 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 but 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 what
[00:17:44] we might just stop and say what you're doing 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 oh 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 that day
[00:18:46] and I might have gone back to help with 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 was there a few hours and I don't know it might have been half an hour it might have been 10 minutes but I'm pretty sure it's a few hours
[00:19:18] six months it took no I don't know might have gone back to help with the machine the next day or something I don't know and I know I was in there in and out before the place opened and got on really well with a 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 that 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 15 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 there 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
[00:22:21] so it was the 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 so he had desks and you know all that stuff it's a big
[00:22:50] 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 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 the bottom of the garden and put it into there for storage
[00:23:20] 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 bit of track so maybe 13 yeah so I might have been 13 actually when I joined that gym so I started
[00:23:52] 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 yeah he filled it full of wood cuttings it was heavy it was a heavy bag
[00:24:21] 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 as well my own so that I had one of each and
[00:24:50] 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 and I'd have to kind of hold it up
[00:25:20] 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 be part of something else and
[00:25:51] I had a weight bench I had barbells dumbbells I had one dumbbell I had one barbell so I had one barbell with a bunch of weights which I bought from a sports shop around the corner I remember I bought this whole set of barbells weights dumbbells and I spent half the day carrying them back round because I mean now
[00:26:20] 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 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
[00:26:51] because just opposite me there was I had a friend of my dad's and there was a couple of girls that I knew from just from living opposite them and I was in love with one of their friends and Sarah Sarah I don't know I tell you it's weird do you want to know a weird story right Sarah I just you know I was a kid I was a kid
[00:27:20] 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 and I was writing her poems writing songs for her sending her flowers and because I was working part time
[00:27:50] so I had enough to sort of do that and send 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 her from my bedroom because my bedroom faced onto a brick wall can you believe that
[00:28:19] 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 big size room big windows
[00:28:49] 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 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 same bedroom as my my dad and his wife
[00:29:19] 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 19 8 1979 1978 1978 blimey so 1978 we moved in there
[00:29:47] maybe 1979 actually yeah maybe late 78 early 79 and which meant I was 9 I was 8 I was 8 when we moved in there blimey that doesn't seem right does it wow and then I lived upstairs
[00:30:17] I did live in another room for a bit 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 6 months or so but that was temporary yeah so I was upstairs to the age of 15
[00:30:48] probably from the age of 12 maybe 11 12 no 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
[00:31:18] had a 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
[00:31:48] music and stuff and I think there was some chairs to sit I think they had a sofa in there to sit down so that 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 that was next to that room and then my other brother the other older brother the less older
[00:32:17] so I had one two years older one four years older and one eight years younger he lived in another room right 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 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 and bobs
[00:32:47] and then 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 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 thing back then had these tiled carpets tiles and they
[00:33:18] you couldn't you wouldn't walk on them without feet not feet without shoes you wouldn't walk 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 but coming out of that room anyway what I was going to say about that room the window in that room looked over
[00:33:47] 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 see if she was there just so I could love her from a distance I know ah
[00:34:16] 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 so I didn't mind that but he was yeah very moody he was um so going downstairs
[00:34:46] 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 that was later turned into ah like a little exercise room there was an exercise by can they is it solarium you know the the sun things that you could lay down in one of them that my step mum had and then turn left or if you turn
[00:35:15] left straight 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 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 and
[00:35:45] next to that was a room that I had when I first moved into that house so I liked that I liked that room because it was big I mean there was a time when I had a 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
[00:36:15] 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 mum's mother my step granny would if she stayed that's where she would sleep or if they had visitors other family members or whatever
[00:36:45] that's where they would sleep so there's a double bed in there also the airing cupboard was in there as well and 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 there for a while so my bedroom that I was in when I first moved in that ended up being
[00:37:15] my little brother's bedroom overlooked the garden his bedroom well my bedroom 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
[00:37:46] that's finished drinking by the way I was wondering if it had 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 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
[00:38:16] walk down the stairs and straight ahead is the front door 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 there was two doors originally there was two different
[00:38:46] rooms so there was the front room the living room which you go in the 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 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 a lot of us there was
[00:39:15] my dad my step mum my oldest brother my other brother older than me me and my little brother is that right four so six of us the whole time you know for quite a long period of time and but there'd also be visitors
[00:39:45] like my other grandparents or my step nan aunties uncles cousins whatever so other people and yeah I mean I think the I remember the city was brown like patchy brown not patchy as in being soiled but but like dark brown light brown um
[00:40:15] sort of like vineyard just you know wiping himself everywhere it wasn't like that 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 he can't watch
[00:40:44] a movie or television or anything without falling asleep it's just that he 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
[00:41:15] so or 24 24 or 25 when I was born 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
[00:41:44] 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 so I guess he was around 35 ish when I was 10 give or take he's 79 this year yes
[00:42:15] he's born in 1946 we could work it out then so 1946 1980 so 1946 56 66 76 86 no 56 6 46 46 56 66 76 so that's 34 so that's so yeah
[00:42:44] so he's 24 years older than me and 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
[00:43:11] so 35 yeah so yeah but he's been falling asleep since then anyway ever since kind of I've known him from the ages I can't remember if he fell asleep when I was 7 or 8 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
[00:43:41] watched a whole movie all the way through at home he's been to the cinema so I don't know if he falls asleep at the cinema 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 no I'm not yeah you are you gonna cry I said I'm not gonna cry and
[00:44:11] yeah I did cry it was emotional it was it was an emotional emotional movie 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
[00:44:36] when he's riding on the bicycle was it ET
[00:45:06] well I think 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 I know I went to see Superman 2 with my oldest brother and that was what 79
[00:45:38] 78 something like that so 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 I mean it was advertised a lot and that was when Zod was on there wasn't he Zod and like the super
[00:46:08] arch villains were in it and it's loved it's probably my favourite one out of the three but there's 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
[00:46:38] 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 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
[00:47:08] 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 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 was worried that he might destroy her
[00:47:38] by accident I guess that's the you know I mean super powers imagine if he got overexcited 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 one is or is it the second one
[00:48:07] 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 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
[00:48:36] 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 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
[00:49:06] I think I discovered that he was I mean to be fair it's only a few years later so it's not a big time difference is it but 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
[00:49:35] 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 I mean I'd say there's very few singers in the world that could match bouncy and Beyonce but
[00:50:06] 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 I would say one of my favourite voices of any female singer is Dolores from the Cranberries voice but it's a different style of voice a different
[00:50:36] 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 same hairstyle looks similar same kinds of voices is yeah I think uncanny they never did manage to do
[00:51:06] 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 let everybody go say I am seething I am seething on a road sing each other's songs and get away plus
[00:51:40] 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 icon and I loved Bonnie Tyler totally clips of the heart there's a hero no that's not one
[00:52:10] no that's not Tiffany 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 led to the night we need a hero so that's three songs with the word hero in it
[00:52:45] 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 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
[00:53:15] and have our Sunday dinners in there and Christmas and stuff like that and it was also 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
[00:53:45] I did actually I used to sometimes just 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
[00:54:14] more contemporary stuff that was contemporary at the time a bit of Lionel Richie 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 but it's clicky
[00:54:46] and it's like you can hear the clicks 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 so that was that room so eventually though what my dad done was
[00:55:16] 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 he said well we've got the living room we've got a dining room we should give the hole a name and my brother said no I think my nan said it's glorious
[00:55:46] what a glorious hole and I said 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
[00:56:16] gap and 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 to break to go through to the other room and what's weird about it is it just feels wrong because after
[00:56:45] like I don't know where I am now it just I've only been I think I've been there once since I've done it and it's disorientating and that room looks tiny like that gap is almost is a space for some settee and it doesn't seem to be any room for anything else and it just seems weird it's like 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 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 first door on the right hand side as you go into the front door and set in so forth 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 so turn right out of there go up a bit there was there was a cupboard under the stairs
[00:58:15] that's where the hoover was kept maybe some carrier bags things like that I don't know what else I can't remember hmm and then just go down close the door first obviously because you don't want people tripping over it and go back down on the right hand side there was a toilet
[00:58:44] so we actually had three toilets in the building inside which was handy because there was six of us so it's quite nice at least if six of us 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 a storage room as well to be fair it was never that
[00:59:14] tidy in there you get used to just put stuff in there like a junk room a junk room where you 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 having a
[00:59:44] burger and chips it was nice 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 no yeah 86 I don't know 87 probably and there was a cabinet on
[01:00:14] 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 in his base for stuff or plates and cutlery drawers things like that you know for the nice cutlery
[01:00:43] and then go through there was a kitchen so originally the kitchen it's not 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 so there was away from the kitchen part
[01:01:13] so the door was on the right hand side going out and in about 2013 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 think
[01:01:43] originally was a coal bunker to be fair I think that's what it was originally and then someone put a toilet in there you know 10 20 years ago or whatever because we didn't didn't need coal anymore so my dad took that out and knocked through the kitchen into that bit where the toilet was
[01:02:12] and put a big built a kitchen almost well a seating area for us to eat a little bit of a squash but we all got around it with a 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
[01:02:44] and 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 turned I was there I was there I also did some pointing I felt he taught me how to point
[01:03:14] and if you're going to say I go like that no I don't mean point as in pointing to people it's basically where you you take out the in my memory you take out the it's you know the 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 and it just
[01:03:45] I've got no idea why why I don't know why it's called pointing and 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 and I quite like doing it actually and then there was the garden
[01:04:14] 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 mean just I mean I first of all I don't like plums anyway but if there's enough sugar plums are nice I've you know for me
[01:04:44] I found like a plum crumble um plum pie 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 was alright plums on their own nah I've never liked I've never particularly liked the plum in my mouth I'll be honest just don't like just the taste
[01:05:16] so and also there was the aftermath of the plums so they'd be fallen on the ground and then the the wasps would arrive and they'd be eating the plums and they would be drunk which I always find a bit a weird concept so yeah they I didn't like the plums I think we had an apple tree might have even had a pear
[01:05:45] tree as well not 100% sure but we had grass there was a mess we had two hills 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 just this was before the the building at the bottom of the garden the port cabin thing was put there
[01:06:15] we just moved that big pile of mud which was taller than me big old pile moved from one part of the garden to the 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 garden so
[01:06:45] 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 someone did I'm pretty sure we did and they were maybe outside the front as well as
[01:07:14] 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 push down things to get it open like one of those locks those openings on the wooden gate but it was a dark alley and it was quite
[01:07:44] long well it was the the girth the length of the girth of the no the length yeah the length of the house from the back to the front so you go out you go into the back entrance and so 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 was a gate at the back so there's definitely there was
[01:08:15] an obstacle when you were 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 sometimes to be fair because it was locked I wasn't very good at reaching it either because I wasn't very tall but there wasn't much there and I think sometimes we'd leave stuff bikes in the
[01:08:45] alleyway but there wasn't a massive gap but I might be making it up yeah there wasn't a big gap between the two because our house was semi detached but the
[01:09:14] good thing about it is 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
[01:09:44] part of the kitchen probably 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 would in for a little while at the back of the house that was kind of
[01:10:14] 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 up living yeah probably my both my brother's room so my brother's room my older but not oldest brother his
[01:10:44] 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 literally the whole time I
[01:11:14] because there was a wall there so I could yeah we were sharing that wall 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
[01:11:48] 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 he wasn't doing much so I yeah used to annoy
[01:12:31] so the gym where 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
[01:13:01] those ones for the um it's kind of it's just another way of doing this I got like three different bars I don't know if that's a tricep bar should do it one more time not on me head so yeah I was I didn't know I was going to
[01:13:31] a tour of my childhood home but it seems I have it was quite dark in the living room though I don't know why 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 window so yeah that was a bit weird good for the TV you know because there's no sun shining on TV and no light distraction
[01:14:31] 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 what I'm going to call this recording house tour childhood house tour
[01:15:03] 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
