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Hi everyone and welcome to this week's edition of Catherine Norma's Guide to Life Podcast.
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How are you guys all doing?
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How's it all going?
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Okay.
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Just wait for the minute, the music to finish there.
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So I'm really good, thank you.
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Right, what have I been up to this week?
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So um, it's quite exciting, actually.
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I've done my first author interview on video.
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Um so you've head over to my YouTube channel, um, you can go and have um a listen to the interview I did with a lady called Catherine Jensen.
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Um, and she has got like um, she's not written like an autobiography.
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Um she's also she's like an amazing person, right?
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She's also written like two and self-published on Amazon two children's books, okay.
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And we talk a little bit about what the process is around that.
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Um she's also been um posting like comedy videos about her dog Bailey for the past sort of seven years to make people laugh.
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Right?
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Instagram, it's Life of Bailey the Golden, and then there's she's also on TikTok and Facebook as well.
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Um the actual links I um to to all the social media accounts, she talks about it.
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Um she tells me what they are uh in the actual YouTube interview, and you'll also see um a bit of social media going out because she's got to sell 18 more copies.
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Well, it's 17 because I've just bought one, but um yeah, eight 18 more copies, okay, uh of her pre-ordered uh 18 more copies of her book so that the publisher will go ahead and publish that.
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And it sounds like such a fantastic story that we've got to go and do this, guys, we've got to go and buy the book um and get out there and support her because and honestly, it's an amazing story, and it's like basically about the you know, the stories behind the smiles and on social media and like she's had problems with like hate and stuff like that.
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And I think it's really important that we do like discuss these things and address these issues.
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Um, and she does have a chronic health condition as well, yet she's still gone out and achieved all of these things.
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And honestly, I I spoke to her last night, um, and that just I it was late at night.
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I did a late because I thought, well, you know, we want to get this done because she's you know, get this out there because she's only got like a week to do it.
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So I kind of after work, eight o'clock at night, often went to my parents' house and said, Oh, I'm just don't mind doing the rifle I can record a um a podcast, uh video podcast.
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Um it wasn't set up, I'd forgotten my microphone, completely rubbish, and my stand.
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So I was holding it for 20 minutes, my phone, and you can see it kind of dropping below the screen.
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But anyway, do you want um everything every day is a learning day, isn't it?
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Um I've got another one coming up very shortly as well with another author.
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Uh so uh that's that's coming up quite quickly.
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Uh so I kind of wanted to uh yeah, but put that out there.
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Uh but it so there's a few things that I can improve.
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I mean, she looked fantastic, and I'm thinking, oh my god, it looked terrible.
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But then I, you know, I had just finished work.
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Um, but no, sorry, I don't see she's a great person.
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Um yeah, I was driving home with this massive smile on my face, and I've spent about four hours editing the video this morning, and I'm just like really happy.
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And I'm just like, do you know what?
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If I ever feel a bit down, I'm just gonna give you a call.
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I'm gonna give you a video call.
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Um, because she know what you kind of think I need you in my life because she was just and she reminds me of me about 20 years ago.
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And she it's really inspired me.
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I was like, right, I've got three half-written books.
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She's like, Well, you need to get them finished.
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And I said, right, okay, so I'm gonna give myself to Christmas to finish one of them.
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Um and I'm thinking about how can I change my life so I can fit them in?
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And then also she's done like um children's uh children's book and illustrated it and not being able to draw.
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And I thought, well, I can actually paint, I can do that.
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So why can I not do my own children's book next year?
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Okay, why can I not go in and do that?
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That's the next thing, because you and she's like that that's the next thing for her.
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And I'm like, God, you're you're so me.
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And there's like it's like it was like looking in the mirror about 20 years ago, and she's really giving me my mojo back.
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I'm really excited about what it is I'm gonna go and do next.
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Um, which you know, and and that's why it's important that we do engage with people and listen to really inspiring true stories about about people.
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Um, right, uh so JB update.
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Uh well, unfortunately, um obviously following on from my social media files, as is the case, um, a couple of people that I work with think I'm now a complete raving lunatic and go for actually no.
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So I basically had to sit down with HR and my manager um for about an hour uh this week.
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And to sum it all up, I have had to agree not to comment on any of his posts, not to even look at any of his posts, not to do anything whatsoever.
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There you go.
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I can't do anything because and I can't afford to lose my job, so you know I can't I can't do anything.
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I've and I've been really good day one, okay.
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Yesterday, no, didn't look at anything, didn't comment on anything, not allowed to.
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I'm officially not allowed to, okay.
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I've been told by my HR manager, don't do it.
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So I won't do it.
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No, not allowed to.
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There we go.
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So that's it.
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But I will say one thing, okay.
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Um, you will notice uh last last time we put out he um he put it out the day after my birthday.
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This time he's put it out 6th of November, the day after Bonfire Night.
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So that's after.
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Um, and also uh on his tweet book, he told me he followed me home on the thalloween.
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Okay.
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So Halloween, what happens on Halloween?
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Um people come back from the dead, don't they?
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The after life.
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So I'm just gonna leave that there.
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That's all I can say about it.
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I'm no longer allowed to say anything else and do anything else about this whole thing uh because I don't want to lose my job.
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Uh so there we are.
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That is life.
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Uh, you know, that is life when you, you know, you you need money to kind of like live.
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Uh so what have I been up to?
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So I went up to Portugal, okay, this week.
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Um and I uh yeah, I went off to Portugal and let me see what we did.
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I had a fantastic time.
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Uh it was great.
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I haven't even written about what I did the rest of the week.
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You know, I'm sure there was more than than Portugal going on.
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I'm sure I did more stuff last week.
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Um, I really can't remember.
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It was just, it was such a it was a great week anyway.
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Um yeah, so went off for the weekend.
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I think this, I think we're on Friday, aren't we?
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I'm not even sure where we are.
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It's been it's been uh it's been so great.
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Uh so that's right.
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So we went off on Friday, okay.
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Um uh it was, you know, it was it was great.
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It was a nice trip there.
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Um we got there really early on Friday morning.
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Um, say, um and we did really, really arrive really, really early, and it was just as well we did because there was obviously these horrible storms.
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We managed to get there ahead of everything and was weren't really kind of like bothered by it.
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Um, Porte is lovely if you haven't been.
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I think I've shoved some um pictures up.
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There's lots of pictures of food up there.
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Um John did point out that some of them were his.
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I know they weren't, I didn't eat all of it.
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It was like and uh we kind of there's like a really nice river, and I'm sorry, I'm still a little bit hoarse.
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Um, I might have to pause to cough.
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Yeah, still a little bit hoarse, but I am a lot better than I was.
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Uh yeah, so we kind of like um we have there's like Porto's by the by the river.
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Um it's um near the is it the I can't remember, I can't remember.
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I'm trying to remember the area.
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It begins with D, Duru region.
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That's it where they produce all of the kind of port, and yes, we needed to buy a bottle to bring back.
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And uh yeah, so we had uh it was it was great.
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The weather was fantastic.
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Um we you know there's loads of like art galleries and shops and stuff like that to look around.
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Um and it was it was just great, it was just really relaxing.
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Uh so um, you know, there's loads of so I had loads of great food to eat, go and have a look at social media.
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It should be, I think I'd shoved it on, yeah, I think it's on Instagram, and um I went up to have a like at a sort of we went up like this Catholic church as well to have a look at that.
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Um and it was great because there's like loads of like secretive back passages where they can kind of sneak from one end of the thing to the other, and there's also a tower, um, and the tower is just absolutely amazing, it's got an absolutely fantastic view.
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So we climbed up all these steps, and I did post these pictures, I'm sure I did, and I'm kind of like at the top, um, and I managed to walk all the way around the second, the first bit, which so did John, and then we got to the top bit, and John's like, no, I don't think I can walk around that, but I did.
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I went around and took some pictures over, and it was absolutely fantastic view.
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I mean, obviously, I wouldn't have gone out if it'd been windy, we wouldn't want to go up there if it was windy, but it was just it was say great.
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Um one thing that I did notice about the Catholic churches, um, as opposed to Church of England churches, um they've they've got they're a bit more ornate um inside.
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Uh they've got a bit more kind of like you know, decorative and colour and like gold leaf and all that sort of stuff, whereas um Church of England may be a little bit kind of you know more modest is probably the best word to say.
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Um, and then uh yeah, then we saw some tanks, okay, because it was Army Week, and they'd chosen um Army Week to be in Porto this year.
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Um Portuguese had so that was fantastic.
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So we went off and had a look around the old tanks.
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We got to go in a tank, and there's a picture of me with a helmet on, and there's one of John as well.
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Um so we got to go in go in this tank thing.
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And I got in and I was like, this is so basic.
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It was like met just metal inside, not very there's none of your kind of like comforts or anything like that.
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Uh and it kind of it reminded me um my parents used to have a Series 2a Land Rover, okay, and it was like this great big heavy metal thing, really, really basic inside, and it was just like that, really basic, no creature comforts or anything like that.
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So, you know, if you're travelling any long distance or anything like that, it's it's not particularly comfy to kind of have to go in anywhere, and they must cram people into it, you know.
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I was quite surprised actually at how many people you could probably cram into it.
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Um, and also the different sizes, there's like loads of them.
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I thought like tanks were just you know the same sort of size.
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No, there's like so many different sizes, it was unbelievable.
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Uh so then we we we headed off to went to um Taylor's port winery, which is up on the hill, just because it was recommended to me from somebody.
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Um and we kind of went and and sampled uh different ports.
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If you don't know, you can get like a white port, which is kind of like a dry wine.
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I wasn't really particularly keen on that one.
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Um you can pair them as well.
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I didn't know this.
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They have like a pairing menu and we you pair the uh dry white, we've had some olives with it, they they went quite well, and also the LB L V B okay late vintage bottled, I think it is, or is it late bottled vintage?
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I think it's L V B anyway.
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Uh and that that goes really, really, really well with brownies.
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So we had a brownie with that.
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And then we so we went on the tour, and we and then we had uh the ruby and the tawny port as well.
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Now, apparently the English like the ruby, but when I was trying that, it was really kind of rough, no, not really um and the tawny port was um a lot smoother um and and much nicer and it yeah, it was really nice.
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It was a fantastic little location, and obviously, you know, it's all the English people that have gone out and they've created all these kind of like port wineries over there, and it was evident when we were sat in the garden because it was like an English traditional English country house, and they had English country garden with like tr you know traditional kind of box hedging and roses and stuff, um, and a peacock walking around.
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You know, it was definitely it was like a little bit of England, you know, in Portugal, because obviously they they kind of thought we know I miss the kind of you know English uh and uh everything, so they've they kind of brought it over with them and they've recreated it over there, and it was it was really lovely, it was a fantastic place to sit, and it's a complete contrast to the last one that I went to because the last one I went to it was you know, you kind of guide showed you around, then we all sat on tables and then we all just drank the port, whereas this one was like no, we have individual tables in this absolutely beautiful English country garden in Portugal um and enjoying the port.
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And it was yeah, it was a really good experience.
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So if you haven't been, that's definitely a thing to do.
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Um, and then we did a river cruise.
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Now I did that last time, we did it in the daytime, but I was like, no, let's go for the sunset cruise, let's go for the very last one.
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And I'm so glad we did because we we we did it at 6.30 and it was before the clocks went back, so I think it got dark about sort of like maybe 6.50, something like that.
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And it wasn't well, maybe it was seven, but it was only about a 40-minute cruise anyway.
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So we managed to go up and down in the kind of light, so you could you know get the great view of everything going on, and then of course it went dark and all the lights came on, so then we got like up and down and we saw all the lights, and you know, you kind of you got lights on both sides, and it was just absolutely fantastic, you know, because everything looks lovely, doesn't it, at night?
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You know, it's all kind of twinkly, and you know, it's just it was it was a fantastic experience.
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But the the crazy thing is the boat was like half empty because people obviously think, oh, you know, we're gonna see it in the sunshine, but actually it was even nicer at night, you know, really just like sparkly lights, and yeah, it was great.
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Um, so what do we do food-wise?
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What do we have food-wise?
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I can't remember what we had food-wise.
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I'm gonna have to drink.
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Oh, actually, I had a really nice kind of like beefy, beefy thing on the uh on the on the Friday night.
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Had far too many nice desserts, although um, much to John's um uh happiness, I couldn't eat them, so I just ate half of them and gave the rest to him.
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Yeah, it was like a white chocolate torte or something like that on the first night.
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Uh second night we had some fantastic like tapas.
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Oh, we had mainly fish.
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It was like oh the prawns were just absolutely amazing, uh, squid and oh it was just lovely.
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And then this fantastic chocolate mousse of which I ate half of and get it, I think the rest gave it to John.
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Um because I thought I could you know, I couldn't, I just couldn't kind of like uh drink it.
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Um and we actually had um a really nice bottle of red as well from the Douro region, which was fantastic as well.
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It was great.
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It was a really, really nice kind of like um, you know, because it's nice to treat yourself, isn't it?
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Sometimes, you know, you save up your money um or you get birthday money from your mother and you're able to spend it on going away.
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So that was really good.
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Uh so Sunday did uh souvenir shopping, okay.
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Um like fridge magnets and we got another little cool little rubber duck.
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So we got a rubber duck from Edinburgh, now we've got another rubber duck with like um it's got loads of pork barrels on it.
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I'm pretty sure on social media, it's really cool actually.
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It's quite a nice little rubber duck.
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Um and there's this really cool fries place.
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I don't know if I I might have put a picture of the I think I put a picture of the fries, so but it was such a great idea, okay, and it was really, really busy.
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So if anybody is thinking about doing like a foodie business starting up in the UK, this would work really, really well.
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Okay, in like a towny Londony maybe location or a busy town location.
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So basically they have like potatoes and they must have just been pushing them through so to automatically peel with the skins on, okay.
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They were pushing them through this thing, and then they were just frying them up, okay, and then you could literally have like a like large, medium, small portion of fries, like with the with the potato skins on.
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Um, and they were quite thin as well, and then you had um different toppings on, like I think I I had like guacamola and um cheese and maybe sour cream, I can't even remember what it was, but it was it was really, really nice.
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And John had something else, but there's like several different toppings, and I thought that's a great idea, and honestly, it was really, really busy.
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It was so busy for people just kind of wanting like a little snacky lunch.
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Um, and I thought rather than you know, you stodgy fish and chips that we have over here, you know, you kind of have like your you kind of like healthy, sort of healthy-ish potatoes, um, with you know, some kind of like different toppings on.
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I just thought that's a really, really great idea.
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Fantastic idea.
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Um, and then so what else do we do?
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Oh yeah, um so there was uh a cool place as well that did um Greek yogurt, okay?
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Um and you have loads of different toppings on.
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And I went for the is it caramel de douche or something like that?
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I don't know.
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You know the caramel, the really unhealthy caramel thing, and then some like cinnamony type flakes on top of that, or biscotti flakes on top of that.
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Oh, it was frozen yogurt, it was, it was absolutely gorgeous.
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Um then uh and then we decided that um we'd we'd you know, we kind of like the idea of sampling um port and brownie.
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So we we went off and found some chocolate fudge cake and some and sat and drank quite a bit of port.
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Um, well, with me sneezing and stuff um all the way through it.
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Because obviously, you know, I was a bit of John did say, Oh, you're a bit of a trooper, you've just kind of like marched through that, haven't you?
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You've really not been very well at all, but you've just pushed on, not let you know that that I really wasn't very well spoil my weekend at all.
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Um because you know, you you can't, and that's you know part of life, isn't it?
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You just have to kind of keep putting one foot in front of the other um and getting on with it.
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And then so in the evening had a fantastic sea bass.
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Okay, we had um lemon rice and a seriously rich dessert.
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I'm trying to remember desperately what it was.
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Um oh that's right.
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So it was like um, it's like an ice cream, chocolate ice cream thing, which they then put like really hot caramel sauce on that melts it all.
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And the guy did so when you order it, he said, uh, you'll be sharing that.
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I was like, and he's like, no, trust me, you'll be sharing that.
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And I well, I I had I didn't even, I'm not even sure I had half.
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And John's like, I'm not you know, John was like, okay.
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And he did eat it, but it was like it was it was a struggle even for him.
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And I couldn't even manage really, I had a little bit of his because you know, sometimes you redo the swapping thing, and I'll have half of his and he'll have half of mine.
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I thought, I can't eat any more of this, I'm just too full.
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I had a little bit, um, but that was you know, it was uh it was just fantastic.
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Um, and then say birthday day, you know, how was I gonna sort of celebrate my birthday?
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Um, so we did champagne breakfast because they'd left like a bottle of Portugal brute, Portuguese brute in the fridge for us.
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Um we had oh, this amazing Airbnb.
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Um it's like a luxury apartment.
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I haven't shoved it on social media, but um because it's like basically I'm I've done like a little video of it, and then I've worked out um through um I've discovered the mothership, okay, which is an Instagram account, and basically I can do picture myself doing stuff and then I can shove myself in this in this kind of like um location.
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Um so I'm gonna have a go at doing that, but as as you know, I'm just it's like it's time really, isn't it?
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It's also coming up with some ideas as well.
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Um, and like I say, I've been really busy.
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I spent all morning.
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Um I rode rode the pony, I was up at uh half six, even though I don't work in this morning.
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Up at half six, rode the pony.
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Um well John very kindly walked the dogs, and then um I say I did I've been editing um this this video because it's really it was really important that I get it right because she's just so lovely.
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Um and I've shoved it up on YouTube and I'll get her to check it later on because not many people look on YouTube first of all, so it'll be fine.
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Um and then I'll I will probably do it as an audio one as well um at some point, but I'll I won't I won't have time um to do that tomorrow because I'm doing something else tomorrow which is quite exciting.
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Um so in fact when you're listening to this podcast, yeah, I'll be doing something else.
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Right, completely different, right?
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So I'll I'll talk about that next week.
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And this is where I have to kind of like um, you know, have to kind of kind of like start writing everything down um about what it is that I'm actually doing because I've I've shut my weekend stuff down.
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I'm thinking, yeah, what else have I done this week?
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This week has been just crazily busy.
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I mean, we got back on Monday.
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Oh to do right, it's probably because I've not been well.
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Actually, to be fair, I I know I was off on Tuesday and I did actually ride the pony, but I didn't really do anything else because you know, when you're not very well, you don't really you feel like doing much, do you?
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You know, you kind of want to sort of take care of yourself a little bit.
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Okay, but I I kind of like did want to touch though on um the whole thing that's going around about preparing for an emergency.
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Okay, so this is something that I've talked about in my podcast before.
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You know, I've like I've lived in a couple of rural properties, okay.
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Basically, when the water's frozen, um electrics would go off.
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Um, and I also had a property, you know, when the Combi boilers all they all realised they didn't work in like minus 10.
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Yeah, I was one of the people that worked that out on Christmas Day one year.
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So, you know, I got leg log buns put in every single house so that if if electric or anything like that went off, you wouldn't get cold.
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Um, so the government wanted to prepare for emergencies, and you can do this in a few simple simple ways.
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And I've got them so money and documentation.
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So if systems go down, you're gonna need cash to buy things, you've got to have some emergency cash um for three days in the house for an emergency, right?
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Don't have any of those.
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Uh so I'm not doing very well on this front.
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Um, get paper copies of passports and drive and licenses to prove who you are.
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Yeah, um, I need to do that.
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I haven't done that either.
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It says write important telephone numbers down, but if you won't be able to call people anyway, because your landlines don't work anymore, what does it matter?
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But then we I suppose we don't know people's telephone numbers anymore, do we?
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You know, we don't know.
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I struggle to remember my own mobile number, let alone anybody else's.
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Um I used to know my parents' landline, but I don't know that anymore, and they've changed it, it doesn't exist anymore, so it's a bit of a struggle.
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Um, and as I say, but but I thought, do you know what it's only gonna take 15 minutes to write down all of this information?
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So I need to do that.
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I'll maybe try and get that done this weekend so that if you know, if if the Holocaust happens, I've got a piece of paper somewhere amongst everything burning around us to say I need to phone X, but I haven't got a phone to phone them on.
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So how can I do that?
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But anyway, on we go.
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Communication.
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Um, so yeah, if things go down, you're gonna need a battery, battery-powered radio to listen to the communication.
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Now, this is so important because actually um things are often communicated on the radio that you maybe you you're kind of maybe not aware of, um, but they are.
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There's so many communications that go out via the radio, and it's really important source.
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And if you think about what happened in the war, um and people sat around and they listened to their wireless radios, didn't they?
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Um and they that's how they knew that everything was was happening around them because they had connection.
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Um because at the moment we're so reliant on the internet, aren't we?
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And um, you know, and telephones and mobiles that, you know, people who had have grown up in a world where they haven't had one would probably struggle.
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Because I I kind of got to thinking about this.
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And I thought to myself, oh you know, do I probably need to speak to this my parents about this and you know make sure they're okay.
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Then I sat back and I thought, well, do you know what they've got a boat in their garden that's got it's heated by calogas.
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They could just get in the boat and heat that and they could cook on the little gas stove they've got out there.
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And I'm thinking, well actually they spend like you know a few months you know or certainly a few weeks um on this little boat in the middle of nowhere surviving quite happily and I'm thinking do you know what actually they'd be okay you know they'd be absolutely fine because they they kind of grew up in the war era at post-war era where people didn't really have much or anything like that and they you know they coped on very little and but nowadays people you know expect a lot or have been used to coping on a lot and we don't know how they'd actually cope if they didn't really have anything.
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Um and as I say um I'd have stuff to read as well that isn't mentioned but because I think that's actually important because especially if you're kind of a person you know there'd be no television would there?
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There'd be no television and let's face it most people aren't going to go out and get a battery radio but there'd be one person in the street that has one.
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So you'd be talking to your neighbours a little bit more.
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I mean me I'd be off riding the pony okay and and John would be walking the dogs and we'd still be able to play golf so it you know you'd just have to book it in manually so it probably wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't change a massive amount.
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COVID didn't really change a massive amount really for me when that hit um but as I say you'd be get quite stressed wouldn't you obviously stressed and anxious so you'd so that would be a time she'd either do two things you'd start writing okay in an exercise book or something like that um start journaling that would be a really good thing to do or you'd start reading wouldn't you so make sure you've got books in to read um because you know a book book isn't electronic your Kindle would be no good it'd be alright for a bit but you wouldn't much charge it up would you but then I don't know how it works.
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Do you download stuff into your Kindle would it still be there if you know it all goes horribly wrong I don't know.
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Medical and hygiene so uh simple first aid kit uh hand sanitizer and wet wipes oh we're probably okay on that front I think John's probably got everything covered so that'd be okay if we were in my house um yeah you might I might struggle so I might have to go and get all these things.
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So light and warmth okay so how would you keep warm?
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Supposing we lost all power and it was freezing cold um how would you cope with that?
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Or you know how would we eat?
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So I kind of was like thinking to myself well John's okay he's got a gas barbecue in the garden we could cook stuff on that.
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Keep him warm he's got like a fire so it'd be okay but you'd be better if you had a log burner but he suggested that we just go round to uh his neighbours who've got a really nice log burner so I think we'll probably do that with a bottle of wine.
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So obviously that's not on the list but bought lots of bottles of whatever it is that you drink would probably be right useful as well to get everyone through it.
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Battery powered torches okay we need those as well we've got those surprisingly enough um also candles you know but obviously be a bit careful and matches you know or lighters or something like that uh loads of blankets and duvets sleeping bags to keep you warm um you know and also keep like food supplies stocked up and like and because you've got to think you know if you can't if you because if you haven't like got a gas barbecue or anything like that then how are you going to cook food?
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How's that gonna happen?
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How's it going to work?
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You'd have to have enough to last for a few days um as I say we've got the outside barbecue that'll be okay but then um you'd need stuff that maybe doesn't need cooking uh like tin meat and fish uh veggies like peppered and salad stuff because they can all be eating raw fruit and nuts and chocolate which you kind of you're gonna let's face it we're all gonna need chocolate aren't we um because we'll be a bit stressed chocolate and alcohol are going to be the things that we they kind of get us by um dairy products as well in the winter you'd be alright in your good so you can just shove them outside if it's really cold can't you um so take them out the fridge and put them in the garden because it'd be fine.
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Eggs as well they keep for a bit don't they?
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And if you obviously if you don't know just in case you don't know how to tell if an egg has gone funny what you do anyone anyone right you you pour a cup of water I did it to this week actually because we had some eggs that are out of date and um poured the water in all the way up to the top and shoved an egg in and it went to the bottom.
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If it floats to the top don't eat it um also uh and things like like logically as well like you know anything like that so for example I I made myself a nice omelette this week um which you could do outside in a gas barbecue couldn't you yeah you could do it in like a frying pan it'd be right could get over that uh and you could you know ham and stuff that would be okay although it so we had a thing this week oh did you did um where's that did you manage to uh give the dogs the uh the the uh out of date ham and I was like it was one day out of date it hadn't gone green I just shoved it in my omelet you know it's like much to the dog's annoyance it was I'm like it's fine just because it's got a date on it if it's you know it it doesn't mean it has to be used by that date it just means that that's their best before date but you know as long as it hasn't gone mould or green or anything like that it's absolutely fine to eat it but we're a bit obsessed aren't we you know about dates and stuff like that and it and it's a waste of food really because there's nothing wrong with half these things that we're chucking out um anyway so water uh make sure you've got some we've got some water in we haven't got a massive amount in um and again if you want a hot cup of coffee or tea you're gonna need some sort of kettle and that you can maybe use on a stove you could either put one on a log burner stove I used to do that um and uh or you could no we could put one on the outside barbecue obviously don't put barbecues inside because you get like carbon nox on poisoning that is not a good idea um or you could use like a camp stove and I did actually see that some guy um had had said um that his his um his sort of like sales have gone up 60% since this government advice went out with people stocking up on things in case of an emergency you know which is it's quite good I'm I'm gonna go and do it.
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I'm gonna go and stuck stock my little house in Wales out um in case of an emergency.
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Yeah so going back to the water apparently you need to have enough for three litres a day for three days well realistically do you because actually you can survive um three days without any water so I wouldn't you know so I don't think you actually need to have three litres a day I mean you could manage with more than that yeah okay no so you wouldn't be able to have a bit of a wash or you might you know have to kind of like wash in the washing up water or something like that.
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But you'd have to make do.
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I mean I remember like um I used to stay in a I stayed in a little cottage in Bran Rig but they didn't have anything and we had to wash in the stream.
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So I'm you know I'm sure there's a few I'm not sure I'd want to would I really really want to have a wash though down down in um whatever it is the river the sea bit down where we are knowing that's a bit dodgy but I'm sure we could find some sort of streaming whales to wash in it'd be absolutely fine.
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So so that's my thoughts on on what's been going on this week and say please please please go and go and listen to my um interview with Katherine Jensen.
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You know she honestly I can't just just you know she's just fantastic.
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She's just such an amazing person um and if you could support you know get if even if one of you listens to this goes and buys a copy of a book um I'd certainly go and check out her social media of a dog because there's some really cool stuff on there.
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Okay then so hope you have a fantastic next week and I'll catch you next time
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Hi everyone and welcome to this week's edition of Catherine Norma's Guide to Life Podcast.
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How are you guys all doing?
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How's it all going?
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Okay.
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Just wait for the minute, the music to finish there.
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So I'm really good, thank you.
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Right, what have I been up to this week?
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So um, it's quite exciting, actually.
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I've done my first author interview on video.
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Um so you've head over to my YouTube channel, um, you can go and have um a listen to the interview I did with a lady called Catherine Jensen.
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Um, and she has got like um, she's not written like an autobiography.
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Um she's also she's like an amazing person, right?
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She's also written like two and self-published on Amazon two children's books, okay.
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And we talk a little bit about what the process is around that.
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Um she's also been um posting like comedy videos about her dog Bailey for the past sort of seven years to make people laugh.
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Right?
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Instagram, it's Life of Bailey the Golden, and then there's she's also on TikTok and Facebook as well.
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Um the actual links I um to to all the social media accounts, she talks about it.
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Um she tells me what they are uh in the actual YouTube interview, and you'll also see um a bit of social media going out because she's got to sell 18 more copies.
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Well, it's 17 because I've just bought one, but um yeah, eight 18 more copies, okay, uh of her pre-ordered uh 18 more copies of her book so that the publisher will go ahead and publish that.
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And it sounds like such a fantastic story that we've got to go and do this, guys, we've got to go and buy the book um and get out there and support her because and honestly, it's an amazing story, and it's like basically about the you know, the stories behind the smiles and on social media and like she's had problems with like hate and stuff like that.
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And I think it's really important that we do like discuss these things and address these issues.
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Um, and she does have a chronic health condition as well, yet she's still gone out and achieved all of these things.
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And honestly, I I spoke to her last night, um, and that just I it was late at night.
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I did a late because I thought, well, you know, we want to get this done because she's you know, get this out there because she's only got like a week to do it.
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So I kind of after work, eight o'clock at night, often went to my parents' house and said, Oh, I'm just don't mind doing the rifle I can record a um a podcast, uh video podcast.
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Um it wasn't set up, I'd forgotten my microphone, completely rubbish, and my stand.
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So I was holding it for 20 minutes, my phone, and you can see it kind of dropping below the screen.
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But anyway, do you want um everything every day is a learning day, isn't it?
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Um I've got another one coming up very shortly as well with another author.
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Uh so uh that's that's coming up quite quickly.
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Uh so I kind of wanted to uh yeah, but put that out there.
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Uh but it so there's a few things that I can improve.
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I mean, she looked fantastic, and I'm thinking, oh my god, it looked terrible.
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But then I, you know, I had just finished work.
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Um, but no, sorry, I don't see she's a great person.
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Um yeah, I was driving home with this massive smile on my face, and I've spent about four hours editing the video this morning, and I'm just like really happy.
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And I'm just like, do you know what?
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If I ever feel a bit down, I'm just gonna give you a call.
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I'm gonna give you a video call.
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Um, because she know what you kind of think I need you in my life because she was just and she reminds me of me about 20 years ago.
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And she it's really inspired me.
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I was like, right, I've got three half-written books.
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She's like, Well, you need to get them finished.
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And I said, right, okay, so I'm gonna give myself to Christmas to finish one of them.
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Um and I'm thinking about how can I change my life so I can fit them in?
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And then also she's done like um children's uh children's book and illustrated it and not being able to draw.
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And I thought, well, I can actually paint, I can do that.
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So why can I not do my own children's book next year?
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Okay, why can I not go in and do that?
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That's the next thing, because you and she's like that that's the next thing for her.
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And I'm like, God, you're you're so me.
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And there's like it's like it was like looking in the mirror about 20 years ago, and she's really giving me my mojo back.
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I'm really excited about what it is I'm gonna go and do next.
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Um, which you know, and and that's why it's important that we do engage with people and listen to really inspiring true stories about about people.
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Um, right, uh so JB update.
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Uh well, unfortunately, um obviously following on from my social media files, as is the case, um, a couple of people that I work with think I'm now a complete raving lunatic and go for actually no.
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So I basically had to sit down with HR and my manager um for about an hour uh this week.
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And to sum it all up, I have had to agree not to comment on any of his posts, not to even look at any of his posts, not to do anything whatsoever.
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There you go.
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I can't do anything because and I can't afford to lose my job, so you know I can't I can't do anything.
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I've and I've been really good day one, okay.
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Yesterday, no, didn't look at anything, didn't comment on anything, not allowed to.
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I'm officially not allowed to, okay.
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I've been told by my HR manager, don't do it.
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So I won't do it.
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No, not allowed to.
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There we go.
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So that's it.
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But I will say one thing, okay.
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Um, you will notice uh last last time we put out he um he put it out the day after my birthday.
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This time he's put it out 6th of November, the day after Bonfire Night.
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So that's after.
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Um, and also uh on his tweet book, he told me he followed me home on the thalloween.
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Okay.
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So Halloween, what happens on Halloween?
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Um people come back from the dead, don't they?
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The after life.
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So I'm just gonna leave that there.
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That's all I can say about it.
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I'm no longer allowed to say anything else and do anything else about this whole thing uh because I don't want to lose my job.
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Uh so there we are.
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That is life.
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Uh, you know, that is life when you, you know, you you need money to kind of like live.
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Uh so what have I been up to?
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So I went up to Portugal, okay, this week.
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Um and I uh yeah, I went off to Portugal and let me see what we did.
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I had a fantastic time.
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Uh it was great.
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I haven't even written about what I did the rest of the week.
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You know, I'm sure there was more than than Portugal going on.
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I'm sure I did more stuff last week.
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Um, I really can't remember.
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It was just, it was such a it was a great week anyway.
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Um yeah, so went off for the weekend.
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I think this, I think we're on Friday, aren't we?
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I'm not even sure where we are.
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It's been it's been uh it's been so great.
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Uh so that's right.
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So we went off on Friday, okay.
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Um uh it was, you know, it was it was great.
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It was a nice trip there.
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Um we got there really early on Friday morning.
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Um, say, um and we did really, really arrive really, really early, and it was just as well we did because there was obviously these horrible storms.
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We managed to get there ahead of everything and was weren't really kind of like bothered by it.
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Um, Porte is lovely if you haven't been.
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I think I've shoved some um pictures up.
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There's lots of pictures of food up there.
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Um John did point out that some of them were his.
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I know they weren't, I didn't eat all of it.
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It was like and uh we kind of there's like a really nice river, and I'm sorry, I'm still a little bit hoarse.
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Um, I might have to pause to cough.
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Yeah, still a little bit hoarse, but I am a lot better than I was.
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Uh yeah, so we kind of like um we have there's like Porto's by the by the river.
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Um it's um near the is it the I can't remember, I can't remember.
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I'm trying to remember the area.
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It begins with D, Duru region.
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That's it where they produce all of the kind of port, and yes, we needed to buy a bottle to bring back.
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And uh yeah, so we had uh it was it was great.
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The weather was fantastic.
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Um we you know there's loads of like art galleries and shops and stuff like that to look around.
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Um and it was it was just great, it was just really relaxing.
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Uh so um, you know, there's loads of so I had loads of great food to eat, go and have a look at social media.
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It should be, I think I'd shoved it on, yeah, I think it's on Instagram, and um I went up to have a like at a sort of we went up like this Catholic church as well to have a look at that.
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Um and it was great because there's like loads of like secretive back passages where they can kind of sneak from one end of the thing to the other, and there's also a tower, um, and the tower is just absolutely amazing, it's got an absolutely fantastic view.
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So we climbed up all these steps, and I did post these pictures, I'm sure I did, and I'm kind of like at the top, um, and I managed to walk all the way around the second, the first bit, which so did John, and then we got to the top bit, and John's like, no, I don't think I can walk around that, but I did.
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I went around and took some pictures over, and it was absolutely fantastic view.
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I mean, obviously, I wouldn't have gone out if it'd been windy, we wouldn't want to go up there if it was windy, but it was just it was say great.
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Um one thing that I did notice about the Catholic churches, um, as opposed to Church of England churches, um they've they've got they're a bit more ornate um inside.
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Uh they've got a bit more kind of like you know, decorative and colour and like gold leaf and all that sort of stuff, whereas um Church of England may be a little bit kind of you know more modest is probably the best word to say.
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Um, and then uh yeah, then we saw some tanks, okay, because it was Army Week, and they'd chosen um Army Week to be in Porto this year.
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Um Portuguese had so that was fantastic.
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So we went off and had a look around the old tanks.
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We got to go in a tank, and there's a picture of me with a helmet on, and there's one of John as well.
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Um so we got to go in go in this tank thing.
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And I got in and I was like, this is so basic.
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It was like met just metal inside, not very there's none of your kind of like comforts or anything like that.
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Uh and it kind of it reminded me um my parents used to have a Series 2a Land Rover, okay, and it was like this great big heavy metal thing, really, really basic inside, and it was just like that, really basic, no creature comforts or anything like that.
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So, you know, if you're travelling any long distance or anything like that, it's it's not particularly comfy to kind of have to go in anywhere, and they must cram people into it, you know.
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I was quite surprised actually at how many people you could probably cram into it.
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Um, and also the different sizes, there's like loads of them.
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I thought like tanks were just you know the same sort of size.
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No, there's like so many different sizes, it was unbelievable.
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Uh so then we we we headed off to went to um Taylor's port winery, which is up on the hill, just because it was recommended to me from somebody.
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Um and we kind of went and and sampled uh different ports.
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If you don't know, you can get like a white port, which is kind of like a dry wine.
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I wasn't really particularly keen on that one.
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Um you can pair them as well.
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I didn't know this.
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They have like a pairing menu and we you pair the uh dry white, we've had some olives with it, they they went quite well, and also the LB L V B okay late vintage bottled, I think it is, or is it late bottled vintage?
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I think it's L V B anyway.
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Uh and that that goes really, really, really well with brownies.
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So we had a brownie with that.
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And then we so we went on the tour, and we and then we had uh the ruby and the tawny port as well.
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Now, apparently the English like the ruby, but when I was trying that, it was really kind of rough, no, not really um and the tawny port was um a lot smoother um and and much nicer and it yeah, it was really nice.
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It was a fantastic little location, and obviously, you know, it's all the English people that have gone out and they've created all these kind of like port wineries over there, and it was evident when we were sat in the garden because it was like an English traditional English country house, and they had English country garden with like tr you know traditional kind of box hedging and roses and stuff, um, and a peacock walking around.
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You know, it was definitely it was like a little bit of England, you know, in Portugal, because obviously they they kind of thought we know I miss the kind of you know English uh and uh everything, so they've they kind of brought it over with them and they've recreated it over there, and it was it was really lovely, it was a fantastic place to sit, and it's a complete contrast to the last one that I went to because the last one I went to it was you know, you kind of guide showed you around, then we all sat on tables and then we all just drank the port, whereas this one was like no, we have individual tables in this absolutely beautiful English country garden in Portugal um and enjoying the port.
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And it was yeah, it was a really good experience.
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So if you haven't been, that's definitely a thing to do.
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Um, and then we did a river cruise.
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Now I did that last time, we did it in the daytime, but I was like, no, let's go for the sunset cruise, let's go for the very last one.
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And I'm so glad we did because we we we did it at 6.30 and it was before the clocks went back, so I think it got dark about sort of like maybe 6.50, something like that.
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And it wasn't well, maybe it was seven, but it was only about a 40-minute cruise anyway.
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So we managed to go up and down in the kind of light, so you could you know get the great view of everything going on, and then of course it went dark and all the lights came on, so then we got like up and down and we saw all the lights, and you know, you kind of you got lights on both sides, and it was just absolutely fantastic, you know, because everything looks lovely, doesn't it, at night?
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You know, it's all kind of twinkly, and you know, it's just it was it was a fantastic experience.
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But the the crazy thing is the boat was like half empty because people obviously think, oh, you know, we're gonna see it in the sunshine, but actually it was even nicer at night, you know, really just like sparkly lights, and yeah, it was great.
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Um, so what do we do food-wise?
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What do we have food-wise?
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I can't remember what we had food-wise.
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I'm gonna have to drink.
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Oh, actually, I had a really nice kind of like beefy, beefy thing on the uh on the on the Friday night.
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Had far too many nice desserts, although um, much to John's um uh happiness, I couldn't eat them, so I just ate half of them and gave the rest to him.
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Yeah, it was like a white chocolate torte or something like that on the first night.
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Uh second night we had some fantastic like tapas.
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Oh, we had mainly fish.
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It was like oh the prawns were just absolutely amazing, uh, squid and oh it was just lovely.
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And then this fantastic chocolate mousse of which I ate half of and get it, I think the rest gave it to John.
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Um because I thought I could you know, I couldn't, I just couldn't kind of like uh drink it.
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Um and we actually had um a really nice bottle of red as well from the Douro region, which was fantastic as well.
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It was great.
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It was a really, really nice kind of like um, you know, because it's nice to treat yourself, isn't it?
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Sometimes, you know, you save up your money um or you get birthday money from your mother and you're able to spend it on going away.
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So that was really good.
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Uh so Sunday did uh souvenir shopping, okay.
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Um like fridge magnets and we got another little cool little rubber duck.
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So we got a rubber duck from Edinburgh, now we've got another rubber duck with like um it's got loads of pork barrels on it.
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I'm pretty sure on social media, it's really cool actually.
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It's quite a nice little rubber duck.
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Um and there's this really cool fries place.
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I don't know if I I might have put a picture of the I think I put a picture of the fries, so but it was such a great idea, okay, and it was really, really busy.
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So if anybody is thinking about doing like a foodie business starting up in the UK, this would work really, really well.
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Okay, in like a towny Londony maybe location or a busy town location.
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So basically they have like potatoes and they must have just been pushing them through so to automatically peel with the skins on, okay.
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They were pushing them through this thing, and then they were just frying them up, okay, and then you could literally have like a like large, medium, small portion of fries, like with the with the potato skins on.
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Um, and they were quite thin as well, and then you had um different toppings on, like I think I I had like guacamola and um cheese and maybe sour cream, I can't even remember what it was, but it was it was really, really nice.
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And John had something else, but there's like several different toppings, and I thought that's a great idea, and honestly, it was really, really busy.
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It was so busy for people just kind of wanting like a little snacky lunch.
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Um, and I thought rather than you know, you stodgy fish and chips that we have over here, you know, you kind of have like your you kind of like healthy, sort of healthy-ish potatoes, um, with you know, some kind of like different toppings on.
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I just thought that's a really, really great idea.
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Fantastic idea.
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Um, and then so what else do we do?
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Oh yeah, um so there was uh a cool place as well that did um Greek yogurt, okay?
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Um and you have loads of different toppings on.
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And I went for the is it caramel de douche or something like that?
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I don't know.
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You know the caramel, the really unhealthy caramel thing, and then some like cinnamony type flakes on top of that, or biscotti flakes on top of that.
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Oh, it was frozen yogurt, it was, it was absolutely gorgeous.
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Um then uh and then we decided that um we'd we'd you know, we kind of like the idea of sampling um port and brownie.
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So we we went off and found some chocolate fudge cake and some and sat and drank quite a bit of port.
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Um, well, with me sneezing and stuff um all the way through it.
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Because obviously, you know, I was a bit of John did say, Oh, you're a bit of a trooper, you've just kind of like marched through that, haven't you?
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You've really not been very well at all, but you've just pushed on, not let you know that that I really wasn't very well spoil my weekend at all.
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Um because you know, you you can't, and that's you know part of life, isn't it?
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You just have to kind of keep putting one foot in front of the other um and getting on with it.
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And then so in the evening had a fantastic sea bass.
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Okay, we had um lemon rice and a seriously rich dessert.
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I'm trying to remember desperately what it was.
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Um oh that's right.
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So it was like um, it's like an ice cream, chocolate ice cream thing, which they then put like really hot caramel sauce on that melts it all.
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And the guy did so when you order it, he said, uh, you'll be sharing that.
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I was like, and he's like, no, trust me, you'll be sharing that.
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And I well, I I had I didn't even, I'm not even sure I had half.
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And John's like, I'm not you know, John was like, okay.
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And he did eat it, but it was like it was it was a struggle even for him.
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And I couldn't even manage really, I had a little bit of his because you know, sometimes you redo the swapping thing, and I'll have half of his and he'll have half of mine.
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I thought, I can't eat any more of this, I'm just too full.
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I had a little bit, um, but that was you know, it was uh it was just fantastic.
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Um, and then say birthday day, you know, how was I gonna sort of celebrate my birthday?
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Um, so we did champagne breakfast because they'd left like a bottle of Portugal brute, Portuguese brute in the fridge for us.
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Um we had oh, this amazing Airbnb.
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Um it's like a luxury apartment.
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I haven't shoved it on social media, but um because it's like basically I'm I've done like a little video of it, and then I've worked out um through um I've discovered the mothership, okay, which is an Instagram account, and basically I can do picture myself doing stuff and then I can shove myself in this in this kind of like um location.
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Um so I'm gonna have a go at doing that, but as as you know, I'm just it's like it's time really, isn't it?
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It's also coming up with some ideas as well.
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Um, and like I say, I've been really busy.
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I spent all morning.
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Um I rode rode the pony, I was up at uh half six, even though I don't work in this morning.
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Up at half six, rode the pony.
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Um well John very kindly walked the dogs, and then um I say I did I've been editing um this this video because it's really it was really important that I get it right because she's just so lovely.
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Um and I've shoved it up on YouTube and I'll get her to check it later on because not many people look on YouTube first of all, so it'll be fine.
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Um and then I'll I will probably do it as an audio one as well um at some point, but I'll I won't I won't have time um to do that tomorrow because I'm doing something else tomorrow which is quite exciting.
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Um so in fact when you're listening to this podcast, yeah, I'll be doing something else.
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Right, completely different, right?
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So I'll I'll talk about that next week.
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And this is where I have to kind of like um, you know, have to kind of kind of like start writing everything down um about what it is that I'm actually doing because I've I've shut my weekend stuff down.
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I'm thinking, yeah, what else have I done this week?
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This week has been just crazily busy.
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I mean, we got back on Monday.
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Oh to do right, it's probably because I've not been well.
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Actually, to be fair, I I know I was off on Tuesday and I did actually ride the pony, but I didn't really do anything else because you know, when you're not very well, you don't really you feel like doing much, do you?
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You know, you kind of want to sort of take care of yourself a little bit.
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Okay, but I I kind of like did want to touch though on um the whole thing that's going around about preparing for an emergency.
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Okay, so this is something that I've talked about in my podcast before.
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You know, I've like I've lived in a couple of rural properties, okay.
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Basically, when the water's frozen, um electrics would go off.
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Um, and I also had a property, you know, when the Combi boilers all they all realised they didn't work in like minus 10.
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Yeah, I was one of the people that worked that out on Christmas Day one year.
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So, you know, I got leg log buns put in every single house so that if if electric or anything like that went off, you wouldn't get cold.
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Um, so the government wanted to prepare for emergencies, and you can do this in a few simple simple ways.
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And I've got them so money and documentation.
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So if systems go down, you're gonna need cash to buy things, you've got to have some emergency cash um for three days in the house for an emergency, right?
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Don't have any of those.
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Uh so I'm not doing very well on this front.
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Um, get paper copies of passports and drive and licenses to prove who you are.
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Yeah, um, I need to do that.
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I haven't done that either.
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It says write important telephone numbers down, but if you won't be able to call people anyway, because your landlines don't work anymore, what does it matter?
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But then we I suppose we don't know people's telephone numbers anymore, do we?
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You know, we don't know.
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I struggle to remember my own mobile number, let alone anybody else's.
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Um I used to know my parents' landline, but I don't know that anymore, and they've changed it, it doesn't exist anymore, so it's a bit of a struggle.
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Um, and as I say, but but I thought, do you know what it's only gonna take 15 minutes to write down all of this information?
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So I need to do that.
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I'll maybe try and get that done this weekend so that if you know, if if the Holocaust happens, I've got a piece of paper somewhere amongst everything burning around us to say I need to phone X, but I haven't got a phone to phone them on.
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So how can I do that?
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But anyway, on we go.
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Communication.
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Um, so yeah, if things go down, you're gonna need a battery, battery-powered radio to listen to the communication.
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Now, this is so important because actually um things are often communicated on the radio that you maybe you you're kind of maybe not aware of, um, but they are.
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There's so many communications that go out via the radio, and it's really important source.
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And if you think about what happened in the war, um and people sat around and they listened to their wireless radios, didn't they?
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Um and they that's how they knew that everything was was happening around them because they had connection.
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Um because at the moment we're so reliant on the internet, aren't we?
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And um, you know, and telephones and mobiles that, you know, people who had have grown up in a world where they haven't had one would probably struggle.
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Because I I kind of got to thinking about this.
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And I thought to myself, oh you know, do I probably need to speak to this my parents about this and you know make sure they're okay.
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Then I sat back and I thought, well, do you know what they've got a boat in their garden that's got it's heated by calogas.
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They could just get in the boat and heat that and they could cook on the little gas stove they've got out there.
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And I'm thinking, well actually they spend like you know a few months you know or certainly a few weeks um on this little boat in the middle of nowhere surviving quite happily and I'm thinking do you know what actually they'd be okay you know they'd be absolutely fine because they they kind of grew up in the war era at post-war era where people didn't really have much or anything like that and they you know they coped on very little and but nowadays people you know expect a lot or have been used to coping on a lot and we don't know how they'd actually cope if they didn't really have anything.
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Um and as I say um I'd have stuff to read as well that isn't mentioned but because I think that's actually important because especially if you're kind of a person you know there'd be no television would there?
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There'd be no television and let's face it most people aren't going to go out and get a battery radio but there'd be one person in the street that has one.
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So you'd be talking to your neighbours a little bit more.
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I mean me I'd be off riding the pony okay and and John would be walking the dogs and we'd still be able to play golf so it you know you'd just have to book it in manually so it probably wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't change a massive amount.
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COVID didn't really change a massive amount really for me when that hit um but as I say you'd be get quite stressed wouldn't you obviously stressed and anxious so you'd so that would be a time she'd either do two things you'd start writing okay in an exercise book or something like that um start journaling that would be a really good thing to do or you'd start reading wouldn't you so make sure you've got books in to read um because you know a book book isn't electronic your Kindle would be no good it'd be alright for a bit but you wouldn't much charge it up would you but then I don't know how it works.
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Do you download stuff into your Kindle would it still be there if you know it all goes horribly wrong I don't know.
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Medical and hygiene so uh simple first aid kit uh hand sanitizer and wet wipes oh we're probably okay on that front I think John's probably got everything covered so that'd be okay if we were in my house um yeah you might I might struggle so I might have to go and get all these things.
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So light and warmth okay so how would you keep warm?
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Supposing we lost all power and it was freezing cold um how would you cope with that?
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Or you know how would we eat?
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So I kind of was like thinking to myself well John's okay he's got a gas barbecue in the garden we could cook stuff on that.
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Keep him warm he's got like a fire so it'd be okay but you'd be better if you had a log burner but he suggested that we just go round to uh his neighbours who've got a really nice log burner so I think we'll probably do that with a bottle of wine.
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So obviously that's not on the list but bought lots of bottles of whatever it is that you drink would probably be right useful as well to get everyone through it.
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Battery powered torches okay we need those as well we've got those surprisingly enough um also candles you know but obviously be a bit careful and matches you know or lighters or something like that uh loads of blankets and duvets sleeping bags to keep you warm um you know and also keep like food supplies stocked up and like and because you've got to think you know if you can't if you because if you haven't like got a gas barbecue or anything like that then how are you going to cook food?
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How's that gonna happen?
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How's it going to work?
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You'd have to have enough to last for a few days um as I say we've got the outside barbecue that'll be okay but then um you'd need stuff that maybe doesn't need cooking uh like tin meat and fish uh veggies like peppered and salad stuff because they can all be eating raw fruit and nuts and chocolate which you kind of you're gonna let's face it we're all gonna need chocolate aren't we um because we'll be a bit stressed chocolate and alcohol are going to be the things that we they kind of get us by um dairy products as well in the winter you'd be alright in your good so you can just shove them outside if it's really cold can't you um so take them out the fridge and put them in the garden because it'd be fine.
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Eggs as well they keep for a bit don't they?
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And if you obviously if you don't know just in case you don't know how to tell if an egg has gone funny what you do anyone anyone right you you pour a cup of water I did it to this week actually because we had some eggs that are out of date and um poured the water in all the way up to the top and shoved an egg in and it went to the bottom.
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If it floats to the top don't eat it um also uh and things like like logically as well like you know anything like that so for example I I made myself a nice omelette this week um which you could do outside in a gas barbecue couldn't you yeah you could do it in like a frying pan it'd be right could get over that uh and you could you know ham and stuff that would be okay although it so we had a thing this week oh did you did um where's that did you manage to uh give the dogs the uh the the uh out of date ham and I was like it was one day out of date it hadn't gone green I just shoved it in my omelet you know it's like much to the dog's annoyance it was I'm like it's fine just because it's got a date on it if it's you know it it doesn't mean it has to be used by that date it just means that that's their best before date but you know as long as it hasn't gone mould or green or anything like that it's absolutely fine to eat it but we're a bit obsessed aren't we you know about dates and stuff like that and it and it's a waste of food really because there's nothing wrong with half these things that we're chucking out um anyway so water uh make sure you've got some we've got some water in we haven't got a massive amount in um and again if you want a hot cup of coffee or tea you're gonna need some sort of kettle and that you can maybe use on a stove you could either put one on a log burner stove I used to do that um and uh or you could no we could put one on the outside barbecue obviously don't put barbecues inside because you get like carbon nox on poisoning that is not a good idea um or you could use like a camp stove and I did actually see that some guy um had had said um that his his um his sort of like sales have gone up 60% since this government advice went out with people stocking up on things in case of an emergency you know which is it's quite good I'm I'm gonna go and do it.
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I'm gonna go and stuck stock my little house in Wales out um in case of an emergency.
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Yeah so going back to the water apparently you need to have enough for three litres a day for three days well realistically do you because actually you can survive um three days without any water so I wouldn't you know so I don't think you actually need to have three litres a day I mean you could manage with more than that yeah okay no so you wouldn't be able to have a bit of a wash or you might you know have to kind of like wash in the washing up water or something like that.
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But you'd have to make do.
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I mean I remember like um I used to stay in a I stayed in a little cottage in Bran Rig but they didn't have anything and we had to wash in the stream.
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So I'm you know I'm sure there's a few I'm not sure I'd want to would I really really want to have a wash though down down in um whatever it is the river the sea bit down where we are knowing that's a bit dodgy but I'm sure we could find some sort of streaming whales to wash in it'd be absolutely fine.
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So so that's my thoughts on on what's been going on this week and say please please please go and go and listen to my um interview with Katherine Jensen.
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You know she honestly I can't just just you know she's just fantastic.
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She's just such an amazing person um and if you could support you know get if even if one of you listens to this goes and buys a copy of a book um I'd certainly go and check out her social media of a dog because there's some really cool stuff on there.
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Okay then so hope you have a fantastic next week and I'll catch you next time
