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Hi everyone and welcome to this week's edition of Catherine Lorema's Guide to Life Podcast, week 14.
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I'm a bit croaky.
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I do apologise.
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Because I do these week to week, um, depending on what's annoyed me in the press or um yeah, what's going on in my life um week to week.
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So I do apologize.
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I do have a cold.
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Um, if I knew I was gonna get a cold, I'd have done it at the beginning of the week, but it's happened, and here we are.
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So we just had to go with it.
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Um, so how's everyone been?
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I hope you've all had a good week.
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Um, obviously, I've put everything out there about Blunty and the newspapers.
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What have they done?
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Well, you know, they've found out that his name's really James Hillier Blount.
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Wow, you know, isn't that just marvellous?
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And that he's had a lavish lifestyle was all the sun came up with this week.
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And it just shows you how difficult it is.
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Because this is a real story.
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This has actually happened, okay, and he has actually been doing this.
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He he's told me himself, okay, but I can't prove that because there's no evidence, okay.
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Um, and it's just like, well, you know, what can I I can't do anything about it, which is so frustrating.
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I can't get the story out because I'm not rich and I'm not famous.
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Um, so people don't listen to me.
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Uh so I'm just, you know, but and and this is why you know, and it kind of it's got me wondering how many other things are out there that don't get reported because people think that they won't be believed.
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Okay.
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I mean, you've got the likes of Mohammed Al-Fayed.
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I mean, nobody mentioned anything while he was alive because people were just too scared of people of money and power.
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And that's just completely wrong, and it's just not how it should be.
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Um, I'm in a fortunate situation.
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I do have some connections at Virgin Radio.
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Um, so uh the likes of uh Chris Evans, and I've met him a couple of times.
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So I'm just gonna keep on with this, okay?
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And I'm just gonna uh make sure I copy Virgin Radio into everything until I can get this story to break.
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Um because I'm not giving up, you know, because we can't give up.
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We can't let people um with money and power win.
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They can't get away with behaving like this, you know.
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Because I actually got I I actually got a little bit upset um today when I was like when I saw his you know lavish lifestyle because I have I work 40 hours a week.
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I'm absolutely exhausted, to be honest with you.
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You know, I really, really just I don't want to be doing that, you know.
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Um I my plan originally was to retire at 55.
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Well and here I am working more than ever, trying to, you know, get through and get by.
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And then you see that he has, you know, been having this ridiculously extravagant lifestyle.
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He's been using me to write all of his music, and he's not given anything back to me whatsoever, you know, even uh it was you, and then I can go and do my own stuff, that would be really, really nice and helpful.
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But there's been absolutely nothing back whatsoever, and he has watched me struggle through life, struggle financially, you know, and he hasn't lifted a finger to help, and I think that's what really hurts the most.
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And you know what?
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You wouldn't you wouldn't do that to one of your worst enemies, would you?
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I certainly wouldn't.
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Anyway, I'm the person that always goes above and beyond to help other people.
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Anyway, um, if you if you do want a bit of a laugh, go and check out Miranda because I watched that.
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Um yeah, I watched that the I realised I don't think I'd seen it all the way through, so I watched the first episode and it made me laugh out loud.
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And go and have a look at um Instagram, Miranda Hart's Instagram.
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She does a great little thing where she says the shit from traitors followed me, and then if you have a look on the post, it says twat.
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So she's obviously got the message, and you know what?
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It was actually really nice um to have that support.
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I really, really appreciated it because although she can't come out and say, I believe you, um, she's just by purely by doing that, she you know, I just I really appreciate that, and it's great, and that's one of the reasons why we need to support each other as women, don't we?
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We need to kind of keep out there and keep on with this because you just you can't get away with this behaviour.
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Okay, so let's move on from this.
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I'll try and um I'll sniff.
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Uh it might if I do apologise if I do sniff, because you know what, I hate that.
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You know, when you hear someone, they're going, oh, and it really annoys me, so I promise I'll try not to sniff uh with my cold.
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Um, yeah, so what have I been up to this week?
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Uh so um I've done it, I haven't done much of this with Million this week, um, mainly because I haven't really felt very well.
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I was gonna go on a fun ride, but I just I felt really, really quite ill at the weekend, so I haven't done that.
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Um the last one's coming up on Sunday, but unfortunately I've got something else to go to in the afternoon.
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I'm sort of thinking, can I cram it all in, knowing full well that I really can't because I have to be in Chester by half past two.
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I'm not I'm not sure.
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I'm I might still do it.
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I don't know.
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I probably won't, to be fair.
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I'm trying to do a little bit less now, um, mainly because I am just really starting to kind of get extremely tired um and clearly a bit run down if I'm if I'm this poorly.
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Okay, so uh working where I work, um obviously I friend I meet up with friends, you know.
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I um you know, I check somebody in and I and uh and and I was just like I was still got the same no, and I was like, yeah, hi, you do remember we used to play together when we were little, when we were kids, and she was like, Oh, oh, how are you?
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you know, sort of thing.
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And um that was a great conversation.
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So that was one conversation one night this week.
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Um she'd broken something and was having it an X-ray.
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Um and uh and she kind of and she reminded me of uh of our childhood, okay, when we didn't have mobile phones.
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She uh she we we had a bit of a conversation.
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She sat down and she came back and desk, came back up to the desk and she said, Do you remember the starfish?
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Right?
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So, and I was like, Yeah, I did.
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So we went off to Shell Island, okay, um one uh one summer with um a couple of my cousins, and my aunt and uncle and mum and dad.
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And I was like, because I was only a child, I was bringing a friend, and I brought this friend, um, and she lived down the same road as me.
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So we came and um and I don't even know how it happened, but I just remember that she um her and my cousin um had a massive fight, like a proper fight, and it was like burglar girl boy fight over a starfish.
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It was crazy.
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Um, and then there was somebody there, he was stealing things from the tent, and um in and they stole a watch, my Casio, black Casio watch.
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It wasn't really particularly anything impressive, and they nicked it.
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Um and we kind of we we ran around and we were kind of having a look.
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Um, you know, we were kind of having a look uh for this person.
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I think we actually caught him.
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We were up and down the sand dunes, and I had we had my dog Fred with me, it was a Bassett cross, um, up and down the sand dunes chasing this person.
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I don't even know how we managed to decide that it was this person.
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Anyway, um it weird was we caught him, um, but that was all people kind of working together to catch this this guy.
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And um and I I could actually get my watch back, so that was it, she came up to that.
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But one thing she did um tell me um was that her daughter was living with her, um, and she'd been off to uni, okay, and she's got like a um a 60k uni debt coming out of university, which now down to compound interest, 92,000 pounds.
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Um, and I saw actually something on the BBC about the same thing, and I'm just like, that is absolutely ridiculous.
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How is somebody that has a 60 grand debt, okay, starting off life, you know, because um that's probably what my mortgage is about 70 now.
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Um, and I've got to I've probably got to work till I'm about 75 to pay it all off, and I've only got a little mortgage, it's not particularly big because I've got a little house.
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Um, you know, and it's just like, but how are they ever gonna get on the housing ladder with a 70, with a 60k debt right out of uni, let alone a 92,000 pound debt.
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I mean, that you know, and I just I felt so sorry for her, and I just thought, this is just completely wrong.
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Um, you know, and it's again, it's like, well, you know, if you if you've got money, then you're okay, aren't you?
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There are these people making decisions at the top, although obviously Andy Burnham's a different kettle of fish, thankfully.
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Then you've got people at the at the top who are making decisions and they don't really care the impact that it has on the people below them.
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It's as if you're kind of inconsequential and insignificant, which is wrong.
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You know, you can't be like leaving people with this amount of debt as they start off on their life.
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And do you know what it's like to have like a significant amount of debt on your shoulders and having like worrying, I know, all the time.
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You know, you're you know, I manage my finances on a spreadsheet.
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I've got little Monza pots and I'm kind of moving them around.
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You know, I have a shopping pot, I've got five pounds left.
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I mean, fortunately, I'm now sort of like squatting with with John and he pays for most of the shopping, you know, and I'm away that you know, aware that we know we're kind of going away this weekend, so um, and and you know, and I can just stick things on the post-it notes for him to order, and I don't eat a massive amount of food anyway.
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You know, banana, a bit of yogurt, some nuts and cereal, not even cereal, um, and uh a flatbread and some cheese is usually all I have in the in the week, um, and a couple of his ice creams, you know, and so I know I don't eat a massive amount because I can't afford to eat a massive amount of food, which probably isn't such a bad thing, because it means I don't put so much weight on.
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Um, but it's not you know, but that's not the point really, is it?
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It's just the fact that, you know, to actually people starting off on their life, you know, it's it's stressful as it is, um, you know, as you are now, you know, as I am, to be, you know, to be this financially kind of burdened.
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But as I say, I will say, and I've said it before, if I didn't have a Felpony, I wouldn't be quite as bad.
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Um, but that's a big hobby for me.
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So, and I accept that that's a a big cost, and you know, and we would just I just manage it, so it's fine, but it's part of my life and it keeps me active.
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Um, it also keeps me sane because I have to focus on him.
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So, like I have to go out in the morning and go and sort him out.
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Um, and and I say that, and that actually it does keep me sane.
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I have to go and ride him, I have to plan and think things through, I have to take care of him, I have to get shoes organised for him.
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He's gonna have shoes back on now.
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Um, he's had his front shoes on.
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Um, and I think I said last week that the various said you might have to put backs on him because you're riding him too much, which is great because this is what he's there for.
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Um, you know, and you know, I see him and his little face, and he gives me a whinny whenever he sees me and the yard and is like, well, he knows who his mummy is, doesn't he?
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He whinnies to me in the field.
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And you know, we've got this really fantastic little bond now, which we we I hadn't had previously.
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I had when I had him at home, and then when I had him on um full livery, I kind of lost it a bit, and now I've got it back, so that's really good.
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Um, and to have that kind of bond with potentially what it's kind of like a wild animal because he was a wild animal from the fells when I got him.
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Um, you know, and to have developed that uh relationship with your pony is absolutely fantastic because it means they'll do anything for you, and he's just an absolute superstar, he really is fantastic.
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He's like an overgrown Labrador, he's got lots of toys in his stable, he's got this big hayball that I bought him, uh, managed to get it stuck in his water bucket today, you know.
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Um he's stuck that in there.
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But yeah, no, so I just I feel so sorry for younger people nowadays to to actually be starting off on life with if they've got that significant amount of debt, you kind of will think, well, it and it's almost as if, well, you're saying you're sending the message out that actually unless you are rich and you can afford you know the student debt, then you know, you sh you know, you're better off, you know, doing something else, doing like an apprenticeship or something else.
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Um, because it just seems an absolutely uh ridiculous thing.
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And and this annoyed me as well.
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Um Chris Evans, I was listening to uh Virgin Radio this week, and he was talking about somebody who'd bought an bought a bottle of whiskey for a ridiculous amount of money.
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I think it was$2.8 million, and that's absolutely ridiculous to be spending that amount of money, okay, on a glass bottle with some liquid in it, which is essentially what it is.
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I mean, I just don't understand the concept, it's ridiculous.
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Surely you could have done much much more.
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You mean you could start up a charity with that kind of money, couldn't you?
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To actually help people who needed it, and you'd probably find that that was more fulfilling than having a bottle of whiskey in a warehouse somewhere that you can't actually drink, you can't even drink anything with it.
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What's the point of that?
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It just seems an absolutely ridiculous waste of money to me, completely ridiculous.
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Um, and I think when I was listening when I was listening to this story, okay, I was actually uh I was actually looking at um a patient who'd been diagnosed with cancer and was facing eviction from her house, and I just thought there's something seriously wrong with this world that you have the likes of people like that, okay, and then you have the likes of people who are really struggling in life, and there's no and and there's no kind of help back for them, is there?
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And it's just it's absolutely horrendous and really quite disgraceful, if I'm honest, um, you know, that that people are treated in this way.
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And we've got food banks now.
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Um, and I must admit, I need to I've I need to go and put some that's what I'm gonna do this week.
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Although I don't really have much money, um, I'm gonna donate to a food bank bank.
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And in fact, I've got to go and have a key cut.
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Um I'm gonna I'm gonna go and um do that when I as soon as I finish this podcast, I'm gonna have head off and go and do that.
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Right, so what else has been going on?
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Art.
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Okay, art class oh, the art, my art teacher has been away.
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She's been to Australia uh for a couple of months, which is because she's got a family over there, which is why I haven't had any art classes.
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Um Pilates, the same.
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Um, so they will be starting up um back shortly, and I've got um exciting um couple of exciting things planned coming up because you've got to have um things planned to look forward to.
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Obviously, it's my birthday coming up, isn't it?
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Yay! My birthday.
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Now at work, um, they always miss my birthday.
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I think was this when the evenings, I don't know.
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And I noticed on the birthday board, right, it said birthdays this month, and it was completely blank.
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So I've written, I've just put Catherine's birthday in the hope that they actually notice that it's my birthday.
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Because sometimes you have to remind people, don't you, with these things.
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Okay, and you can't just sit back and say, Oh, they don't remember my birthday if you don't actually tell them when it's your birthday.
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So I've told them it's my birthday.
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Um, because I'm always writing signing cards for everybody else.
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Um do you know what?
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I actually just want to uh hang on, this is for all of the colleagues I work with in the NHS, okay, um, in England, because um I have had countless people over the past two weeks coming up to me and saying, Are you okay?
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Are you alright?
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Are you sure you're alright?
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Okay, unbelievably supportive, unbelievably supportive.
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Even porters, right, who I've never spoken to before, security guards, are you okay?
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Are you sure you're okay?
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Unbelievable the amount of okay um of times that I've been asked, even you know, say people that I've never spoken to before, are you okay?
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Um, unbelievable.
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Um, and I just you know, shout out to anybody who works in the NHS because I'm so lucky to work in such a caring industry um at this particular time in my life, and I really, really appreciate it.
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Um, as I say, I can't really, you know, explain how much support I have had from my colleagues.
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They've been absolutely phenomenal.
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Uh and obviously I've been doing some comedy stuff, you know.
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I think I've had it, you know.
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Right, so I've kind of gone with it.
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This is what's been happening to me, okay?
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This is what he has been doing.
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Some of my little comedy sketches that I've been putting up, all true, all been happening.
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But of course, with a psychopath, a narcissist, they like to try and control you, but then you can't see, can you, that you're actually being controlled and that's actually happening to you.
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Um, because that's what they do and that's how they operate.
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But I'm not having it anymore.
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I've turned it all back on him.
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I'm just like, well, you know, if you have been doing this, then I'm gonna let people know that that's what you've been doing.
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So you if you so um, you know, and it's things like um the the kind of, you know, I don't know if he saw this week's one.
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Uh well, um, it was so a a tweet, you know, um, and and it's like, you know, he categorically lies.
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He says on his tweet, you know, um, obviously um about Blount and Blunt, they're pronounced in the same way.
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Well, no, they're not, don't be ridiculous.
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Blount and blunt are completely different pronunciations, aren't they?
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No, I don't know if he's uh you probably go and have a look at my social media if you haven't, it's everywhere.
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I did it last night, I was so fed up with it.
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Um I'm just gonna call him out on anything that he says, there's a complete lie.
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Um, so I was just like, Blount, blunt, yeah, they're really similar, aren't they?
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Blount count, yeah, that's fine.
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You know, count blunt, not the same pronunciation.
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Blunt, hang on, and I use the C word, which I hate, I hate using the C word and nodding my head because I was like, Yeah, because that's exactly what I think of you at this precise moment in time.
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Um and um and it's just like you know, it's just absolutely ridiculous that people and I and the reason I did it is because I actually saw somebody quoting get quoting going, yeah, the pronunciation's the same, and I'm like, no, it's not, don't be ridiculous.
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How how can you not see that it's not?
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And we believe things that celebrities tell us, don't we?
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Okay, because they're famous, so it must be true.
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Anyway, the good news is, thanks to well, I'm hopeful that in influenced by my ranting about the Tate brothers, somebody has finally had the sense to ban them from some of the social media this week.
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I mean, hallelujah, you know, moaning about prison conditions.
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Well, you should have maybe thought about that before you did all the stuff that you did, you know, just putting that out there.
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Um, so thankfully, because we just don't want those types of people influencing um the future generation, do we?
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No.
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And also I heard on the news today as well on Virgin Radio, I heard them saying that they're going to be teaching uh children some life schools, life skills in schools.
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Um, like for example, if someone stabs, what to do?
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So practical first aid stuff, which is what people need.
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I mean, I I don't know about you, but how often have you learned how do you have you used um the the French okay that you learnt in school that we all had to do a language?
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Okay, I was made to do French.
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Didn't want to do it, I wanted to do German, but um did a French.
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How you know how how often have you done it?
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Okay, I can go um we which is yes, a bonjour, uh, si vous play.
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Um that's probably uh about it.
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Um I'm not even sure I can order a glass of wine.
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Uh uh no, I don't even think I can order a glass of wine um in uh in French.
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No, I can't.
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I can do it in I can do beer in German.
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And truly gone.
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Um Zwei beer bitter.
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There you go.
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I know more German.
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It's like it's crazy.
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Oh, mainly because um I think I can't remember if I've told you this before, but people always think I'm German because I'm really tall, I've got blonde hair, I get on a flight, Lufthansa flight, and they just start speaking to me in German.
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I forgot, I'm really sorry, I'm English.
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I know I look like I might be German, but I'm not I'm English.
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And then they're like, oh, you oh, oh um, yeah, so yeah, and I do know more German than I do French.
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Um, so you know, we should be teaching kids life skills, okay, in school.
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Like, you know, how to manage finances is a massive one, isn't it?
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Okay, you know, teaching them life skills because not everybody or not every child, okay, is lucky enough to come from a home where the parents have been taught those life skills, okay.
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So if we're relying on parents to teach their kids life skills, okay, when they haven't been taught them themselves from the previous generation, it's not gonna work.
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So, in order to break that kind of a cycle, okay, we need to basically be able to start teaching the kids in schools these particular skills, okay, life skills, so that they can maybe educate their parents, but then more importantly, going forwards, they'll have them, and then they can educate their children, and that's how we bring about change in society.
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Because we've got a few issues in society, haven't we?
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Um, I think people are having a bit of a rant about people being on benefits.
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Well, what do you expect?
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It's because the parents have been on benefits, okay.
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So that's what they're used to, that's what they're seeing living, that's how they are taught to get through life.
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Unless you actually see or teach them a different way and show them a different way, other than just like English and maths and geography and whatever.
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You know, you need to inspire people to want to change.
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You need to inspire people and show them that actually they you know they can have a fulfilling life, that it's not just over.
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And, you know, you've got social media.
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Well, you know, you need to show them that actually you can social media can be used in a better way.
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And you should be Teaching them how to use social media as well.
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Like I think I mentioned lastly, didn't I, about the prank thing.
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I mean, that was a great way to use social media, brought loads of people together.
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We all had a bit of a prank, a laugh, and a prank about the whole thing.
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You know, and it was you know, and it was great.
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Um you know, get kids to to post things on social media, and also, you know, we should be teaching children how to cope with being bullied on social media in the classrooms.
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These are life skills that they're gonna need because you're gonna get bullied.
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I got bullied at school, you know, um, and it affected my confidence quite badly.
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Um, I I'm just like so teach children how to cope with it and what to do about it, rather than because they sit there and they think there's no help, no one's gonna believe me.
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Well, all they need to do is actually just go up to somebody and say, right, this is happening to me.
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And you maybe you should have like a dedicated, you know, really approachable teacher who who's like in charge of bullying, school bullying, okay?
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Maybe you could do that way, and so that if Joe Bloggs is being bullied by Bob Bloggs, Joe can just go up to Mr Mr.
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X and say, Hi, right, okay, I need some help, please.
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I am being bullied, I don't know what to do about it.
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Um I obviously don't want to upset this person anymore.
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I don't, you know, I don't know how to cope with it.
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And then they can sit down and they can form a plan, okay?
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Um, I know I don't know what that plan is.
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I have never been in a situation where I've been bullied on social media, although quite frankly, it's probably coming, isn't it?
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With all the stuff I'm putting out there.
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Um, but it's just but to be fair, I just tend to, yeah, I'm just kind of like actually to be fair, I've actually just had lots of supportive people, and I've had quite a lot of people that I know, um, including my ex-sister-in-law, suddenly start following me.
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And I think, well, she's quite senior in the NHS, and the fact that she's started just suddenly come out and followed me, that um, and you know, that says quite a lot, really.
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That's uh I really, really appreciate.
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I'm not gonna name her, um, but I really appreciate that support from her because just that one follow that I saw, it it was just a massive boost.
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I thought she she believes me, so that and that's great because she's an extremely intelligent woman, she's a very successful career woman.
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Um, um, and I yeah, I really appreciate that follow.
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So thank you.
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Shout out for her.
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Hang on.
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Massive shout out for her.
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Um, and it's and it's but it's just like, you know, so what do we do?
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You know, we need to, and as teachers, you know, we need to kind of sit down and think of a plan, how to cope with bullies.
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What's the what's the coping with bully strategy?
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Um, so that you know, if it does happen and make it easy for kids to kind of like be able to approach somebody about it, um and kind of deal with it that way.
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There are so many different things that we could be doing better.
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Um, in and we need to because we need to get to because at the moment we're all against each other in society, aren't we?
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We're all arguing and shouting and fighting on the whole, and it's usually only a few.
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Um, because actually in real life, it's not like that.
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But people get on, you know, people are really angry about things in their own world, so they take it out on other people on social media, but actually that's not the case.
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And like, do you know what?
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I got a really lovely um post.
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Um, and she might listen to this.
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I don't know if she does, if she does, hi.
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Um, I got like a little post, and then she told me that she she was recovering from cancer.
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Um, and I don't know, it's like a massive shout out to her that she's actually taken the time to read my my stuff when she's going through that whole journey herself.
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Um, and it is it here's to her.
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Okay, because she's awesome to be recovering from that journey.
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Um, and I really appreciated her support.
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And I, you know, and she's just great.
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And I go, I go now, I'm making an effort.
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I'm not very good at going back in um and making an effort to kind of like link up with people on social media.
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Um, it's a thing I have, it's it's just I find it quite difficult.
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Um, it's not that I don't want to, it's just I find it quite difficult coping with it all.
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Um, I find it quite stressful.
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So I am but I'm doing my best to kind of interact a little bit more with people on social media.
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But again, this is because I've not been taught how to do it.
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It's not been part of kind of life.
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Um, you know, I wasn't taught these skills.
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I'm having to pick them up as I go along and learn about what it is that you're supposed to do.
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Because I'm not from that generation.
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I'm from the is it the ex generation?
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I can't remember which generation it was on.
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They were talking about it on the radio the other day.
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Um, whatever generation it is.
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So, how Flash and uh Pippa?
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Well, both fine.
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We've had no incontinence issues whatsoever, which is great.
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And Flasher seems to be recovered from his injury, which is fantastic.
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So all is good there.
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Um, Mr.
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B has been playing a lot of golf.
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Um, so he's quite happy.
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He's uh currently off playing golf somewhere in Wales.
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Uh right, so he's doing that, so I won't see him until about five o'clock this evening.
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Um, so I'm actually off today.
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So we're having a date night.
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Okay, we're going out for dinner, going out for tea somewhere, which we never do because I have to work all of the time.
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Um, but it's great.
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I'd I'd I accumulated some toil, so I've taken it all um so I can go and do some nice things with it.
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And I was like, right, okay, well, let's go and do this.
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So we'll go and do this.
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Um okay, so that's gonna be I'm gonna wrap it up there, mainly because I'm losing the ability to breathe.
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Hopefully, I haven't sniffed too much.
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I've tried really, really hard not to.
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Um, and I'm really sorry about getting a bit emotional at the beginning.
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It's not like me, but sometimes these things do get to you.
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Um, but okay, if I if I wasn't getting upset about things, then hey, I wouldn't be human, would I?
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Okay, then so thanks very much for listening, and I'll catch you next time.
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Hi everyone and welcome to this week's edition of Catherine Lorema's Guide to Life Podcast, week 14.
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I'm a bit croaky.
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I do apologise.
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Because I do these week to week, um, depending on what's annoyed me in the press or um yeah, what's going on in my life um week to week.
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So I do apologize.
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I do have a cold.
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Um, if I knew I was gonna get a cold, I'd have done it at the beginning of the week, but it's happened, and here we are.
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So we just had to go with it.
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Um, so how's everyone been?
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I hope you've all had a good week.
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Um, obviously, I've put everything out there about Blunty and the newspapers.
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What have they done?
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Well, you know, they've found out that his name's really James Hillier Blount.
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Wow, you know, isn't that just marvellous?
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And that he's had a lavish lifestyle was all the sun came up with this week.
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And it just shows you how difficult it is.
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Because this is a real story.
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This has actually happened, okay, and he has actually been doing this.
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He he's told me himself, okay, but I can't prove that because there's no evidence, okay.
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Um, and it's just like, well, you know, what can I I can't do anything about it, which is so frustrating.
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I can't get the story out because I'm not rich and I'm not famous.
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Um, so people don't listen to me.
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Uh so I'm just, you know, but and and this is why you know, and it kind of it's got me wondering how many other things are out there that don't get reported because people think that they won't be believed.
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Okay.
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I mean, you've got the likes of Mohammed Al-Fayed.
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I mean, nobody mentioned anything while he was alive because people were just too scared of people of money and power.
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And that's just completely wrong, and it's just not how it should be.
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Um, I'm in a fortunate situation.
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I do have some connections at Virgin Radio.
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Um, so uh the likes of uh Chris Evans, and I've met him a couple of times.
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So I'm just gonna keep on with this, okay?
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And I'm just gonna uh make sure I copy Virgin Radio into everything until I can get this story to break.
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Um because I'm not giving up, you know, because we can't give up.
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We can't let people um with money and power win.
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They can't get away with behaving like this, you know.
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Because I actually got I I actually got a little bit upset um today when I was like when I saw his you know lavish lifestyle because I have I work 40 hours a week.
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I'm absolutely exhausted, to be honest with you.
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You know, I really, really just I don't want to be doing that, you know.
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Um I my plan originally was to retire at 55.
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Well and here I am working more than ever, trying to, you know, get through and get by.
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And then you see that he has, you know, been having this ridiculously extravagant lifestyle.
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He's been using me to write all of his music, and he's not given anything back to me whatsoever, you know, even uh it was you, and then I can go and do my own stuff, that would be really, really nice and helpful.
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But there's been absolutely nothing back whatsoever, and he has watched me struggle through life, struggle financially, you know, and he hasn't lifted a finger to help, and I think that's what really hurts the most.
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And you know what?
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You wouldn't you wouldn't do that to one of your worst enemies, would you?
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I certainly wouldn't.
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Anyway, I'm the person that always goes above and beyond to help other people.
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Anyway, um, if you if you do want a bit of a laugh, go and check out Miranda because I watched that.
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Um yeah, I watched that the I realised I don't think I'd seen it all the way through, so I watched the first episode and it made me laugh out loud.
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And go and have a look at um Instagram, Miranda Hart's Instagram.
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She does a great little thing where she says the shit from traitors followed me, and then if you have a look on the post, it says twat.
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So she's obviously got the message, and you know what?
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It was actually really nice um to have that support.
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I really, really appreciated it because although she can't come out and say, I believe you, um, she's just by purely by doing that, she you know, I just I really appreciate that, and it's great, and that's one of the reasons why we need to support each other as women, don't we?
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We need to kind of keep out there and keep on with this because you just you can't get away with this behaviour.
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Okay, so let's move on from this.
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I'll try and um I'll sniff.
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Uh it might if I do apologise if I do sniff, because you know what, I hate that.
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You know, when you hear someone, they're going, oh, and it really annoys me, so I promise I'll try not to sniff uh with my cold.
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Um, yeah, so what have I been up to this week?
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Uh so um I've done it, I haven't done much of this with Million this week, um, mainly because I haven't really felt very well.
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I was gonna go on a fun ride, but I just I felt really, really quite ill at the weekend, so I haven't done that.
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Um the last one's coming up on Sunday, but unfortunately I've got something else to go to in the afternoon.
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I'm sort of thinking, can I cram it all in, knowing full well that I really can't because I have to be in Chester by half past two.
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I'm not I'm not sure.
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I'm I might still do it.
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I don't know.
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I probably won't, to be fair.
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I'm trying to do a little bit less now, um, mainly because I am just really starting to kind of get extremely tired um and clearly a bit run down if I'm if I'm this poorly.
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Okay, so uh working where I work, um obviously I friend I meet up with friends, you know.
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I um you know, I check somebody in and I and uh and and I was just like I was still got the same no, and I was like, yeah, hi, you do remember we used to play together when we were little, when we were kids, and she was like, Oh, oh, how are you?
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you know, sort of thing.
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And um that was a great conversation.
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So that was one conversation one night this week.
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Um she'd broken something and was having it an X-ray.
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Um and uh and she kind of and she reminded me of uh of our childhood, okay, when we didn't have mobile phones.
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She uh she we we had a bit of a conversation.
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She sat down and she came back and desk, came back up to the desk and she said, Do you remember the starfish?
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Right?
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So, and I was like, Yeah, I did.
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So we went off to Shell Island, okay, um one uh one summer with um a couple of my cousins, and my aunt and uncle and mum and dad.
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And I was like, because I was only a child, I was bringing a friend, and I brought this friend, um, and she lived down the same road as me.
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So we came and um and I don't even know how it happened, but I just remember that she um her and my cousin um had a massive fight, like a proper fight, and it was like burglar girl boy fight over a starfish.
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It was crazy.
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Um, and then there was somebody there, he was stealing things from the tent, and um in and they stole a watch, my Casio, black Casio watch.
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It wasn't really particularly anything impressive, and they nicked it.
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Um and we kind of we we ran around and we were kind of having a look.
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Um, you know, we were kind of having a look uh for this person.
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I think we actually caught him.
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We were up and down the sand dunes, and I had we had my dog Fred with me, it was a Bassett cross, um, up and down the sand dunes chasing this person.
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I don't even know how we managed to decide that it was this person.
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Anyway, um it weird was we caught him, um, but that was all people kind of working together to catch this this guy.
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And um and I I could actually get my watch back, so that was it, she came up to that.
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But one thing she did um tell me um was that her daughter was living with her, um, and she'd been off to uni, okay, and she's got like a um a 60k uni debt coming out of university, which now down to compound interest, 92,000 pounds.
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Um, and I saw actually something on the BBC about the same thing, and I'm just like, that is absolutely ridiculous.
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How is somebody that has a 60 grand debt, okay, starting off life, you know, because um that's probably what my mortgage is about 70 now.
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Um, and I've got to I've probably got to work till I'm about 75 to pay it all off, and I've only got a little mortgage, it's not particularly big because I've got a little house.
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Um, you know, and it's just like, but how are they ever gonna get on the housing ladder with a 70, with a 60k debt right out of uni, let alone a 92,000 pound debt.
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I mean, that you know, and I just I felt so sorry for her, and I just thought, this is just completely wrong.
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Um, you know, and it's again, it's like, well, you know, if you if you've got money, then you're okay, aren't you?
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There are these people making decisions at the top, although obviously Andy Burnham's a different kettle of fish, thankfully.
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Then you've got people at the at the top who are making decisions and they don't really care the impact that it has on the people below them.
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It's as if you're kind of inconsequential and insignificant, which is wrong.
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You know, you can't be like leaving people with this amount of debt as they start off on their life.
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And do you know what it's like to have like a significant amount of debt on your shoulders and having like worrying, I know, all the time.
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You know, you're you know, I manage my finances on a spreadsheet.
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I've got little Monza pots and I'm kind of moving them around.
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You know, I have a shopping pot, I've got five pounds left.
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I mean, fortunately, I'm now sort of like squatting with with John and he pays for most of the shopping, you know, and I'm away that you know, aware that we know we're kind of going away this weekend, so um, and and you know, and I can just stick things on the post-it notes for him to order, and I don't eat a massive amount of food anyway.
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You know, banana, a bit of yogurt, some nuts and cereal, not even cereal, um, and uh a flatbread and some cheese is usually all I have in the in the week, um, and a couple of his ice creams, you know, and so I know I don't eat a massive amount because I can't afford to eat a massive amount of food, which probably isn't such a bad thing, because it means I don't put so much weight on.
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Um, but it's not you know, but that's not the point really, is it?
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It's just the fact that, you know, to actually people starting off on their life, you know, it's it's stressful as it is, um, you know, as you are now, you know, as I am, to be, you know, to be this financially kind of burdened.
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But as I say, I will say, and I've said it before, if I didn't have a Felpony, I wouldn't be quite as bad.
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Um, but that's a big hobby for me.
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So, and I accept that that's a a big cost, and you know, and we would just I just manage it, so it's fine, but it's part of my life and it keeps me active.
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Um, it also keeps me sane because I have to focus on him.
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So, like I have to go out in the morning and go and sort him out.
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Um, and and I say that, and that actually it does keep me sane.
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I have to go and ride him, I have to plan and think things through, I have to take care of him, I have to get shoes organised for him.
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He's gonna have shoes back on now.
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Um, he's had his front shoes on.
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Um, and I think I said last week that the various said you might have to put backs on him because you're riding him too much, which is great because this is what he's there for.
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Um, you know, and you know, I see him and his little face, and he gives me a whinny whenever he sees me and the yard and is like, well, he knows who his mummy is, doesn't he?
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He whinnies to me in the field.
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And you know, we've got this really fantastic little bond now, which we we I hadn't had previously.
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I had when I had him at home, and then when I had him on um full livery, I kind of lost it a bit, and now I've got it back, so that's really good.
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Um, and to have that kind of bond with potentially what it's kind of like a wild animal because he was a wild animal from the fells when I got him.
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Um, you know, and to have developed that uh relationship with your pony is absolutely fantastic because it means they'll do anything for you, and he's just an absolute superstar, he really is fantastic.
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He's like an overgrown Labrador, he's got lots of toys in his stable, he's got this big hayball that I bought him, uh, managed to get it stuck in his water bucket today, you know.
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Um he's stuck that in there.
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But yeah, no, so I just I feel so sorry for younger people nowadays to to actually be starting off on life with if they've got that significant amount of debt, you kind of will think, well, it and it's almost as if, well, you're saying you're sending the message out that actually unless you are rich and you can afford you know the student debt, then you know, you sh you know, you're better off, you know, doing something else, doing like an apprenticeship or something else.
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Um, because it just seems an absolutely uh ridiculous thing.
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And and this annoyed me as well.
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Um Chris Evans, I was listening to uh Virgin Radio this week, and he was talking about somebody who'd bought an bought a bottle of whiskey for a ridiculous amount of money.
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I think it was$2.8 million, and that's absolutely ridiculous to be spending that amount of money, okay, on a glass bottle with some liquid in it, which is essentially what it is.
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I mean, I just don't understand the concept, it's ridiculous.
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Surely you could have done much much more.
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You mean you could start up a charity with that kind of money, couldn't you?
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To actually help people who needed it, and you'd probably find that that was more fulfilling than having a bottle of whiskey in a warehouse somewhere that you can't actually drink, you can't even drink anything with it.
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What's the point of that?
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It just seems an absolutely ridiculous waste of money to me, completely ridiculous.
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Um, and I think when I was listening when I was listening to this story, okay, I was actually uh I was actually looking at um a patient who'd been diagnosed with cancer and was facing eviction from her house, and I just thought there's something seriously wrong with this world that you have the likes of people like that, okay, and then you have the likes of people who are really struggling in life, and there's no and and there's no kind of help back for them, is there?
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And it's just it's absolutely horrendous and really quite disgraceful, if I'm honest, um, you know, that that people are treated in this way.
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And we've got food banks now.
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Um, and I must admit, I need to I've I need to go and put some that's what I'm gonna do this week.
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Although I don't really have much money, um, I'm gonna donate to a food bank bank.
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And in fact, I've got to go and have a key cut.
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Um I'm gonna I'm gonna go and um do that when I as soon as I finish this podcast, I'm gonna have head off and go and do that.
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Right, so what else has been going on?
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Art.
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Okay, art class oh, the art, my art teacher has been away.
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She's been to Australia uh for a couple of months, which is because she's got a family over there, which is why I haven't had any art classes.
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Um Pilates, the same.
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Um, so they will be starting up um back shortly, and I've got um exciting um couple of exciting things planned coming up because you've got to have um things planned to look forward to.
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Obviously, it's my birthday coming up, isn't it?
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Yay! My birthday.
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Now at work, um, they always miss my birthday.
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I think was this when the evenings, I don't know.
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And I noticed on the birthday board, right, it said birthdays this month, and it was completely blank.
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So I've written, I've just put Catherine's birthday in the hope that they actually notice that it's my birthday.
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Because sometimes you have to remind people, don't you, with these things.
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Okay, and you can't just sit back and say, Oh, they don't remember my birthday if you don't actually tell them when it's your birthday.
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So I've told them it's my birthday.
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Um, because I'm always writing signing cards for everybody else.
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Um do you know what?
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I actually just want to uh hang on, this is for all of the colleagues I work with in the NHS, okay, um, in England, because um I have had countless people over the past two weeks coming up to me and saying, Are you okay?
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Are you alright?
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Are you sure you're alright?
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Okay, unbelievably supportive, unbelievably supportive.
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Even porters, right, who I've never spoken to before, security guards, are you okay?
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Are you sure you're okay?
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Unbelievable the amount of okay um of times that I've been asked, even you know, say people that I've never spoken to before, are you okay?
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Um, unbelievable.
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Um, and I just you know, shout out to anybody who works in the NHS because I'm so lucky to work in such a caring industry um at this particular time in my life, and I really, really appreciate it.
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Um, as I say, I can't really, you know, explain how much support I have had from my colleagues.
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They've been absolutely phenomenal.
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Uh and obviously I've been doing some comedy stuff, you know.
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I think I've had it, you know.
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Right, so I've kind of gone with it.
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This is what's been happening to me, okay?
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This is what he has been doing.
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Some of my little comedy sketches that I've been putting up, all true, all been happening.
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But of course, with a psychopath, a narcissist, they like to try and control you, but then you can't see, can you, that you're actually being controlled and that's actually happening to you.
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Um, because that's what they do and that's how they operate.
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But I'm not having it anymore.
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I've turned it all back on him.
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I'm just like, well, you know, if you have been doing this, then I'm gonna let people know that that's what you've been doing.
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So you if you so um, you know, and it's things like um the the kind of, you know, I don't know if he saw this week's one.
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Uh well, um, it was so a a tweet, you know, um, and and it's like, you know, he categorically lies.
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He says on his tweet, you know, um, obviously um about Blount and Blunt, they're pronounced in the same way.
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Well, no, they're not, don't be ridiculous.
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Blount and blunt are completely different pronunciations, aren't they?
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No, I don't know if he's uh you probably go and have a look at my social media if you haven't, it's everywhere.
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I did it last night, I was so fed up with it.
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Um I'm just gonna call him out on anything that he says, there's a complete lie.
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Um, so I was just like, Blount, blunt, yeah, they're really similar, aren't they?
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Blount count, yeah, that's fine.
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You know, count blunt, not the same pronunciation.
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Blunt, hang on, and I use the C word, which I hate, I hate using the C word and nodding my head because I was like, Yeah, because that's exactly what I think of you at this precise moment in time.
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Um and um and it's just like you know, it's just absolutely ridiculous that people and I and the reason I did it is because I actually saw somebody quoting get quoting going, yeah, the pronunciation's the same, and I'm like, no, it's not, don't be ridiculous.
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How how can you not see that it's not?
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And we believe things that celebrities tell us, don't we?
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Okay, because they're famous, so it must be true.
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Anyway, the good news is, thanks to well, I'm hopeful that in influenced by my ranting about the Tate brothers, somebody has finally had the sense to ban them from some of the social media this week.
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I mean, hallelujah, you know, moaning about prison conditions.
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Well, you should have maybe thought about that before you did all the stuff that you did, you know, just putting that out there.
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Um, so thankfully, because we just don't want those types of people influencing um the future generation, do we?
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No.
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And also I heard on the news today as well on Virgin Radio, I heard them saying that they're going to be teaching uh children some life schools, life skills in schools.
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Um, like for example, if someone stabs, what to do?
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So practical first aid stuff, which is what people need.
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I mean, I I don't know about you, but how often have you learned how do you have you used um the the French okay that you learnt in school that we all had to do a language?
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Okay, I was made to do French.
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Didn't want to do it, I wanted to do German, but um did a French.
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How you know how how often have you done it?
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Okay, I can go um we which is yes, a bonjour, uh, si vous play.
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Um that's probably uh about it.
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Um I'm not even sure I can order a glass of wine.
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Uh uh no, I don't even think I can order a glass of wine um in uh in French.
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No, I can't.
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I can do it in I can do beer in German.
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And truly gone.
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Um Zwei beer bitter.
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There you go.
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I know more German.
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It's like it's crazy.
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Oh, mainly because um I think I can't remember if I've told you this before, but people always think I'm German because I'm really tall, I've got blonde hair, I get on a flight, Lufthansa flight, and they just start speaking to me in German.
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I forgot, I'm really sorry, I'm English.
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I know I look like I might be German, but I'm not I'm English.
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And then they're like, oh, you oh, oh um, yeah, so yeah, and I do know more German than I do French.
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Um, so you know, we should be teaching kids life skills, okay, in school.
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Like, you know, how to manage finances is a massive one, isn't it?
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Okay, you know, teaching them life skills because not everybody or not every child, okay, is lucky enough to come from a home where the parents have been taught those life skills, okay.
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So if we're relying on parents to teach their kids life skills, okay, when they haven't been taught them themselves from the previous generation, it's not gonna work.
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So, in order to break that kind of a cycle, okay, we need to basically be able to start teaching the kids in schools these particular skills, okay, life skills, so that they can maybe educate their parents, but then more importantly, going forwards, they'll have them, and then they can educate their children, and that's how we bring about change in society.
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Because we've got a few issues in society, haven't we?
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Um, I think people are having a bit of a rant about people being on benefits.
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Well, what do you expect?
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It's because the parents have been on benefits, okay.
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So that's what they're used to, that's what they're seeing living, that's how they are taught to get through life.
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Unless you actually see or teach them a different way and show them a different way, other than just like English and maths and geography and whatever.
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You know, you need to inspire people to want to change.
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You need to inspire people and show them that actually they you know they can have a fulfilling life, that it's not just over.
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And, you know, you've got social media.
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Well, you know, you need to show them that actually you can social media can be used in a better way.
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And you should be Teaching them how to use social media as well.
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Like I think I mentioned lastly, didn't I, about the prank thing.
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I mean, that was a great way to use social media, brought loads of people together.
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We all had a bit of a prank, a laugh, and a prank about the whole thing.
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You know, and it was you know, and it was great.
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Um you know, get kids to to post things on social media, and also, you know, we should be teaching children how to cope with being bullied on social media in the classrooms.
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These are life skills that they're gonna need because you're gonna get bullied.
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I got bullied at school, you know, um, and it affected my confidence quite badly.
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Um, I I'm just like so teach children how to cope with it and what to do about it, rather than because they sit there and they think there's no help, no one's gonna believe me.
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Well, all they need to do is actually just go up to somebody and say, right, this is happening to me.
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And you maybe you should have like a dedicated, you know, really approachable teacher who who's like in charge of bullying, school bullying, okay?
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Maybe you could do that way, and so that if Joe Bloggs is being bullied by Bob Bloggs, Joe can just go up to Mr Mr.
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X and say, Hi, right, okay, I need some help, please.
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I am being bullied, I don't know what to do about it.
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Um I obviously don't want to upset this person anymore.
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I don't, you know, I don't know how to cope with it.
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And then they can sit down and they can form a plan, okay?
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Um, I know I don't know what that plan is.
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I have never been in a situation where I've been bullied on social media, although quite frankly, it's probably coming, isn't it?
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With all the stuff I'm putting out there.
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Um, but it's just but to be fair, I just tend to, yeah, I'm just kind of like actually to be fair, I've actually just had lots of supportive people, and I've had quite a lot of people that I know, um, including my ex-sister-in-law, suddenly start following me.
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And I think, well, she's quite senior in the NHS, and the fact that she's started just suddenly come out and followed me, that um, and you know, that says quite a lot, really.
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That's uh I really, really appreciate.
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I'm not gonna name her, um, but I really appreciate that support from her because just that one follow that I saw, it it was just a massive boost.
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I thought she she believes me, so that and that's great because she's an extremely intelligent woman, she's a very successful career woman.
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Um, um, and I yeah, I really appreciate that follow.
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So thank you.
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Shout out for her.
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Hang on.
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Massive shout out for her.
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Um, and it's and it's but it's just like, you know, so what do we do?
00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:37.359
You know, we need to, and as teachers, you know, we need to kind of sit down and think of a plan, how to cope with bullies.
00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:40.160
What's the what's the coping with bully strategy?
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Um, so that you know, if it does happen and make it easy for kids to kind of like be able to approach somebody about it, um and kind of deal with it that way.
00:24:49.359 --> 00:24:52.799
There are so many different things that we could be doing better.
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Um, in and we need to because we need to get to because at the moment we're all against each other in society, aren't we?
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We're all arguing and shouting and fighting on the whole, and it's usually only a few.
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Um, because actually in real life, it's not like that.
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But people get on, you know, people are really angry about things in their own world, so they take it out on other people on social media, but actually that's not the case.
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And like, do you know what?
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I got a really lovely um post.
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Um, and she might listen to this.
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I don't know if she does, if she does, hi.
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Um, I got like a little post, and then she told me that she she was recovering from cancer.
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Um, and I don't know, it's like a massive shout out to her that she's actually taken the time to read my my stuff when she's going through that whole journey herself.
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Um, and it is it here's to her.
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Okay, because she's awesome to be recovering from that journey.
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Um, and I really appreciated her support.
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And I, you know, and she's just great.
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And I go, I go now, I'm making an effort.
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I'm not very good at going back in um and making an effort to kind of like link up with people on social media.
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Um, it's a thing I have, it's it's just I find it quite difficult.
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Um, it's not that I don't want to, it's just I find it quite difficult coping with it all.
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Um, I find it quite stressful.
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So I am but I'm doing my best to kind of interact a little bit more with people on social media.
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But again, this is because I've not been taught how to do it.
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It's not been part of kind of life.
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Um, you know, I wasn't taught these skills.
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I'm having to pick them up as I go along and learn about what it is that you're supposed to do.
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Because I'm not from that generation.
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I'm from the is it the ex generation?
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I can't remember which generation it was on.
00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:31.359
They were talking about it on the radio the other day.
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Um, whatever generation it is.
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So, how Flash and uh Pippa?
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Well, both fine.
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We've had no incontinence issues whatsoever, which is great.
00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:43.519
And Flasher seems to be recovered from his injury, which is fantastic.
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So all is good there.
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Um, Mr.
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B has been playing a lot of golf.
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Um, so he's quite happy.
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He's uh currently off playing golf somewhere in Wales.
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Uh right, so he's doing that, so I won't see him until about five o'clock this evening.
00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:02.640
Um, so I'm actually off today.
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So we're having a date night.
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Okay, we're going out for dinner, going out for tea somewhere, which we never do because I have to work all of the time.
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Um, but it's great.
00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:15.119
I'd I'd I accumulated some toil, so I've taken it all um so I can go and do some nice things with it.
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And I was like, right, okay, well, let's go and do this.
00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:18.160
So we'll go and do this.
00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:23.359
Um okay, so that's gonna be I'm gonna wrap it up there, mainly because I'm losing the ability to breathe.
00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:25.119
Hopefully, I haven't sniffed too much.
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I've tried really, really hard not to.
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Um, and I'm really sorry about getting a bit emotional at the beginning.
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It's not like me, but sometimes these things do get to you.
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Um, but okay, if I if I wasn't getting upset about things, then hey, I wouldn't be human, would I?
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Okay, then so thanks very much for listening, and I'll catch you next time.
