Full Transcript for Inside the Château: From Twits to Roadblocks

up who it is, but you'll know who you are 83 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:17.279 if you're listening. And as a result, I went to 84 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:23.519 look it up and apparently Eleanor Roosevelt used this expression, 85 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:29.199 but it actually dates back quite a long way to 86 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:41.000 a Greek philosopher called okay, big titles, titles, don't. 87 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:44.639 Go into any of your your romans. 88 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:53.480 And you said I wasn't good anyway, So epic Tetus 89 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:59.920 wrote that, you know, epic Tetus is like epic head. 90 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.399 I pick head, big, big head, big end. Okay, well 91 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:05.920 recording big edu. It's not easy to say, is it. 92 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:12.160 So big Head from a Greek philosopher basically in essence 93 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:18.199 wrote control what you can, but ignore what you can't control, 94 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:21.959 which includes a number of things that he listed, and 95 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:25.240 you know, one of which is really is what people 96 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:29.639 say about you. You can't control that. So it's you know, 97 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:33.279 he's right, you know he's right. It's none of our business. 98 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:39.920 If you don't like us, then okay, if you like us, fantastic, yeah. 99 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:40.000 You know. 100 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:46.000 And so we're going to adopt a big tenuous who 101 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:50.720 shall from now and be known as big end. Neither 102 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:53.120 of us. Well, I did Latin for about five minutes 103 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:56.600 at school. But you didn't do Latin. Okay, we won't 104 00:05:56.600 --> 00:06:02.000 be Latin. Great. It was definitely ancient Greek, did you? 105 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:02.839 Did you enough? 106 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:05.319 At my school they didn't offer ancient Greek, did they not? 107 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:06.240 It was not an option. 108 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:09.879 No, no, not in. 109 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:12.480 The curriculum met my yes, not so good school. It 110 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:15.879 was ancient Greek. Nothing. I got to be late from 111 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:19.680 my ancient Greek class bother bother. 112 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:22.839 So yeah, so I thought that was really that was 113 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:30.800 really interesting. And I've also decided that any I don't 114 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:32.759 really like the name trolls. I will say that I 115 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:37.279 find it sort of unfair on Scandinavians. 116 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:39.360 Like the trolls, you know, the trolls with like the 117 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:40.040 bright pink hair. 118 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:43.319 Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah did you I had 119 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:45.759 a few of them people you spoke in their cars? 120 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:46.680 Yeah they did. 121 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.480 Yeah. And then it's sort of like the heir it 122 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:55.160 would be good straight back and yeah they're a bit scary. 123 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:57.839 I've never really understood that, why would you put a 124 00:06:57.879 --> 00:06:58.800 trolling in a car like that? 125 00:06:59.439 --> 00:06:59.800 Why not? 126 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:05.720 As no an answer? So no, don't I think, you know, 127 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:08.920 I think controls belong to the Scandinavians, sort of. 128 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:14.079 What would you call it, storytelling tradition, storytelling. 129 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:16.360 That's a good one, yeah, storytee. And so I think 130 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:20.439 it's unfortunately miss you so, but I feel that the 131 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.839 correct description of these people because we should not be 132 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:26.399 giving a weight to their opinions, should we not? We 133 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:27.879 should not, because it's none. 134 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.560 Of our business, none of our business. 135 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.759 So from now on, we are going to call them 136 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:38.720 the twits, okay, and we shall ignore the twits. We 137 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:41.720 should ignore the twits and all of that. You know, 138 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:45.560 it's associated with you know, one of my favorite authors, 139 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:48.439 Roll Dull and you know, because you have the twits. 140 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:49.480 To me, yeah, what was that? 141 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:52.240 There was something in that about if you are if 142 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:54.279 you have beautiful thoughts, that will shine out through your 143 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:55.480 face and you will look beautiful. 144 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:57.920 And if you have ugly thoughts, then it makes you ugly. 145 00:07:58.480 --> 00:07:58.680 Yeah. 146 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:00.920 I think that's where the twits were ugly, because they're 147 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:01.600 ugly people. 148 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.519 I never really read his well, I read with some 149 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:07.759 of his children's stuff to my kids when they were little, 150 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:13.560 but I was really into his short stories and novels 151 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:15.120 and stuff. You know that we're. 152 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:21.279 We are ignoring the. 153 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:26.240 Twits, the twits, I'd like to I'd like, I would 154 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:28.959 be really grateful if we could all use that terminology 155 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.079 from now on. So I think not only does it 156 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.600 bring us smart to our faces, but it means that 157 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:35.279 we can ignore the twits. 158 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:36.360 We ignore the

twits. 159 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:40.600 Yeah, so moving on from the twits, who shall no 160 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:41.759 longer be mentioned anymore? 161 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:47.120 Oh I got shouted at in French. 162 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:53.639 At the weekend, Oh dead. We had really really nice 163 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:58.159 time with everybody, absolutely charming and delightful on the wall. 164 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.720 So on Saturday we were doing this the wrong way around, 165 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:02.039 aren't we? 166 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:05.320 So on Saturday we had what do you mean you're doing? 167 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:07.559 Yeah, I'm doing the wrong way. So I wrote my 168 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:08.639 notes down in the wrong order. 169 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:12.159 Sorry. 170 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:15.919 So on Saturday we had a walk come through the 171 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.279 ground to the Shadow. So we had about a hundred 172 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:20.879 people turn up and they walked down the sort of 173 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:23.759 like the grassy avenue towards the chateau and then out 174 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:26.200 through the main gates, and when they got to the 175 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:28.559 front of the shadow, they were met by the local 176 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:30.320 group playing the hunting horns. 177 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:32.600 And it was really really nice. 178 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:34.279 It was such a nice day, and we had a 179 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.679 lovely evening and it was beautiful weather and everybody was 180 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:40.159 happy and Smiley, and it was just it went really 181 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:40.919 really well. 182 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:47.080 Which is just quickly. It's called the so and you did. 183 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.240 You had an excellent attempt at playing the horn as well. 184 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:52.720 Well, if you haven't seen the video, you need to 185 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:54.240 see the video. I'm not going I'm not going to 186 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:55.960 do a spoiler because something it really is. 187 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:57.919 I can go and get it now if you want to. 188 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:00.559 I don't think that was fair, and they shouldn't do 189 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:02.440 that on the podcast. If somebody's got headphones on their 190 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:07.039 listening because they didn't start, well define them. 191 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:09.720 Well you went here thing because I can't play the things. 192 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:13.480 So anyway, what you here is me desperately blowing through 193 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.679 this thing. That's the impression. 194 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.159 So we had that lovely, lovely day. We'll talk more 195 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:21.759 about it in a bit. 196 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:24.919 But then on Sunday morning, I popped out just go 197 00:10:24.960 -->

00:10:28.519 to supermarket, just to no, not supermarket, vegetable shop, Supermarks 198 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:31.080 and not hoping on a Sunday, don't be silly. And 199 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:34.559 I got what I've told you this, But I got 200 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:35.720 to the end of the road and there was a 201 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:37.639 little barricade across the end of our road, and I 202 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:40.000 just assumed that that was left over from the walk 203 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:42.559 the night before. I just assume they hadn't been around 204 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:45.320 to pick up their stuff yet, because they hadn't. But 205 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:47.840 I squeezed past the barrier and started driving down the road. 206 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:50.399 Bear in mind, this road is our only access to here. 207 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:51.759 There's no other way in or out. 208 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:52.440 That's it. 209 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:54.960 And so I started going down the road towards the 210 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.200 village and there were quite a few cyclists around in 211 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.360 their lycra but we do normally see quite. 212 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:01.879 A lot of cyclist on a Sunday morning, and it 213 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:02.320 was nice. 214 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:04.559 So I just looked, honest, I do like the like 215 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:09.039 they are all doing the all. 216 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:12.440 The time at all times, and they are in competitive mode. 217 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:15.559 And then yeah, I got to the turning to go 218 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:17.960 into the village and there was some barricades and some 219 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.320 very angry frenchmen shouting at me a lot and telling 220 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:23.759 me I was in the wrong place and what was 221 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:24.240 I doing there? 222 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:25.039 And I had to get out. 223 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:28.039 So I started trying to talk to the main chap 224 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:30.799 and he was just shouting at me in French, and 225 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:32.039 I was trying to shout. 226 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:34.240 Actually shouted, was actually shouting at me. 227 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:38.279 So I was trying to like stand my ground and explain, no, 228 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:40.960 I live in the chateau. I've just come out. You've 229 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:43.039 closed the road. I didn't know the road was closed. 230 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:45.200 I just want to go to the shop, you know, 231 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:49.360 don't shout at me. And then he just this was 232 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:51.279 all in French. Then he just like stormed off in 233 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:53.559 a half going, oh, she's English, I can't understand her, 234 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.879 and just like huffed off, even though I thought I 235 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:00.480 was doing quite a good job of explaining myself in French. 236 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:02.159 In French, yes, thank you very much. 237 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:05.840 And then somebody else came over who spoke English, and 238 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:08.200 then he was quite angry with me, and then another guy. 239 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:09.200 When you say. 240 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.159 Angry, what do you mean angry? 241 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:16.399 Like proper shouting, like like, well, okay, so i'm you. 242 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:18.679 I can't shout. I can't shout and I can't remember 243 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:19.360 put the words. 244 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:21.399 For because it was all no, no, no, but the tone right, 245 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:22.559 so i'm you in the car? 246 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:26.200 Yeah, no, the tone was really angry, really really angry, yeah, 247 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:27.559 really really aggressive. 248 00:12:27.639 --> 00:12:28.840 What are you doing here? 249 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:33.440 So you're not a loud here like that? Yeah, right 250 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:37.200 in my face through the car window, really really on 251 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:38.639 a Sunday, on a Sunday morning. 252 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:40.320 And then so yeah, so the other guy came over 253 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:42.759 he spoke English, and again the whole you can't be here. 254 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:44.679 I was like, well, I know, but you've closed my road. 255 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:47.919 How else am I supposed to leave my house? So 256 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.240 all of that, and then then somebody else came over 257 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:52.080 on a motorbike and said I had to follow him 258 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.360 out and I'm going to have to drive very fast. Ridiculous. 259 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:59.320 So we drove out, you know, not very fast at all. 260 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:01.559 And then and he just escorted me to a bit 261 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:03.720 where I could golf down a side road. So I 262 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:05.320 went to the shop and I came back. I came 263 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:07.159 back the other way, the other end of the road, 264 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:10.200 which is still the only access, and had to basically 265 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:13.200 beg in French to be allowed through. And this was 266 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.960 nine thirty in the morning, and they were saying, oh, 267 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:18.600 it's the road's going to be placed till two and 268 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:21.679 you won't be allowed through. But how can you close 269 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:24.679 the road that's the only access to my house with 270 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.759 no warning. You must have had this race booked for weeks. 271 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.000 How can we not know that the road will be closed? 272 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:36.440 It's mad, they I mean, it's extraordinary. Really.

Apparently in 273 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:38.480 order to be able to do things slightly is they 274 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:43.039 get authorization from the municipality. 275 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:45.279 Yeah, he said it was like a municipal closing. 276 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:50.320 But so ordinarily you would think that if they were 277 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:52.799 going to close and this is you know, this is 278 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:55.639 not like a little back road, this is the main 279 00:13:55.759 --> 00:14:01.480 road that any houses along would have received a letter 280 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:08.120 or an email or signs would have been put up. Nothing. 281 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:10.200 I think it's part of the thing that we've been 282 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:13.200 told before is that actually a lot of people don't 283 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:16.240 know the shadows here because we're at the end of 284 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:17.399 a long side road. 285 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:21.000 I think people just unaware that anybody lives down here, 286 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:22.799 just like. 287 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:26.679 I don't know. Yes, but if you're closing a road, 288 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:28.519 you look at the map and you see their houses 289 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:30.480 either side, and you tell them that you're going to 290 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:33.080 close the road from this time at this time, you know, 291 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:38.159 and you are very very you know, at least you 292 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.799 tell them about it. But you would think that if 293 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:45.799 it was a sort of a municipal decision, that it 294 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.799 would be published online somewhere. 295 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:50.120 You would have thought so. 296 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:52.600 So it's just part of the fun of French life 297 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:56.799 is the unexpected road closures. But I feel like they 298 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.279 should give me my French language difficult now and just 299 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:01.039 give it to me because I've managed an argument. 300 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:03.320 I think. 301 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:07.919 So when you go for your for your test. Yeah, no, 302 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.399 you've got your two nights, you've got to You've got 303 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:11.120 to scream at me. 304 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:14.039 They go, no, no, we witnessed you having an argument 305 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:15.639 in French. You don't need to see the test here. 306 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:17.600 Did you record it on video? You should have recorded 307 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:18.480 on video. 308 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:19.440 Should have done, should have done? 309 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:21.840 But have been great or a missed opportunities. 310 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:22.320 I did. 311 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:24.600 Actually on the way back, I had my phone out 312

00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:26.799 ready to film just in case it went bad again, 313 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:28.360 because I was like, right, I'm going to film this 314 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:30.240 because I want proof of this. 315 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:32.759 We have a YouTube channel. You have to record everything, 316 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:33.960 you know what I mean. 317 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:36.440 I was ready to record and the first. 318 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:40.240 Time you should have won't stop just a minute. 319 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:44.600 Okay, from the beginning, I just reversed. 320 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:47.360 Then I come to I think that probably would have 321 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:49.600 calt them down. That would have really really worried that 322 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:53.440 have thought it's going on so much. You know this 323 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:56.320 new phane called technology. You're pointing at me, Why are 324 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:01.639 you so? Yeah? 325 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:07.120 So Paul Claire came back and she was quite flustered, flustered. 326 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:09.360 It's very proud of myself didn't burst into tears. 327 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.840 Well that's very very good, indeed, Yeah, absolutely, But. 328 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:16.440 The event itself on the Saturday evening was really nice, 329 00:16:16.600 --> 00:16:18.840 and it was so nice to sort of like welcome 330 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:21.679 people in so of the first thing we've done. I mean, 331 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:23.919 you were here for the marathon last summer. 332 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:29.120 But yeah, charming all absolutely lovely, you know, but I 333 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:34.639 just like to say, now, those three chaps right, unless 334 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:40.279 they can sort out their manners, not welcome. I have 335 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:44.440 to learn tests. Please, Thank you very much. 336 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:47.120 But it made us think by having that event, it's 337 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.759 made us think about having other events here. 338 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:52.879 Well, we've been talking a lot over the years that 339 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:55.480 we've been here. We've talked a lot about this. And 340 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:01.159 there is a jazz festival near us, a big I 341 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:04.200 suppose it's a city, isn't it, in Yor and they 342 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:10.720 have a jazz weekend and we went to one of 343 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:13.839 them and it had basically one of our favorite artists, 344 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:17.720 the American singer Gregory Porter, who we both think is 345 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:19.240 utterly I've. 346 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:20.680 Seen him live a few times in London. 347 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:25.480 Yeah. I met him, yeah, yeah, in the Pizza Express 348 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:28.400 in Soho when he was still not very well known. 349 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:33.079 And we didn't see Gregory Bort live at Nyor and 350 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:36.200 we were literally sort of like two meters away from 351 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:39.680 him the most extraordinary live event, and walked out that 352 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:42.279 it was and it was really smaller, probably you know, 353 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:47.839 only about two thousand people in there. Yeah, and came. 354 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:50.680 Back and thought, oh, yeah, we could do that because 355 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:52.960 it's just it's held in the park in your it's 356 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:55.119 not a particularly big space. 357 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:55.839 It wasn't a big set. 358 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.200 They have a couple of stages which I don't think 359 00:17:58.240 --> 00:17:59.680 we'd have room for that, but only have room for 360 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:02.559 one to but yeah. 361 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:04.039 But it's put us it. 362 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:07.759 It's made us think about all the actual logistics of this, 363 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.400 which is very boring, but it's part of it because 364 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:11.480 a lot of people have said. 365 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:12.920 Oh, why don't you do this? Why don't you do that? 366 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:15.240 And we get people getting in touch and saying, oh, 367 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:17.480 I'm a musician, can I come and play something? 368 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:20.680 Can I come and do a thing? And you go, okay, yeah, great. 369 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:22.839 Are you going to organize the toilets and are you 370 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:27.319 going to organize the parking and insurance and all that 371 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:28.000 kind of stuff? 372 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:31.680 You think there's so much it needs to be sorted 373 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:35.839 because okay, so you probably you know in your first 374 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:38.160 effict you probably wouldn't end up with cheap thousand people. 375 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:41.880 But if you ended up with two hundred and three 376 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:47.039 hundred people, they will, I guess, come by car. Where 377 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:47.880 are they going to park? 378 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:49.519 Where are they going to park? They have to borrow 379 00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:50.920 one of the fields next door. 380 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:53.240 And then if it rains, you can't put them in 381 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:54.759 a field because it would just turned to mud. 382 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.599 And the road to us, so the road from us 383 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:00.759 to the main road where the Black Race was is 384 00:19:01.039 --> 00:19:03.680 sort of like a single track, so and they could 385 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:06.960 park on the verges, yeah, but then then there would 386 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:08.759 be stuck for people getting in and out. If somebody

387 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:10.200 was trying to come in when somebody else was trying 388 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:12.519 to get out, that wouldn't work. You'd need traffic control 389 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:14.960 because of otherwise that would get completely rounded because you 390 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:18.160 couldn't have two cars parking if anyone's parked on the side. 391 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:21.079 Well no, you no, you could have somebody parked on them. 392 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.480 You can have them all parked down one side, and 393 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:27.720 then they could get in a nap anyway, you know. 394 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:30.920 But there you go. You see there's the beginning of 395 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:35.720 the conversations that are required, and then and then you've 396 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:39.640 got a stage, and then you need electricity, so you 397 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:43.799 need to be able to power it, and you certainly 398 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:47.920 can't power it from our electrical system, resulting would probably 399 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:49.680 explode our electrical system. 400 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:51.799 You can't have because we've got an electric car. You 401 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:54.519 can't have the car plugged in and the oven at 402 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:56.400 the same time. Otherwise everything fast. 403 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:03.119 All the dish washer, the iron, boil, the kettle. Yeah. Yeah, 404 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:05.279 we definitely do not have enough power to the You 405 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:10.440 need you need proper, proper power, and and then yeah, 406 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:15.039 you need security. You know. I don't know what they do. 407 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:19.680 I know that a lot of UK events have Sint 408 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:24.599 John's Ambulance, don't they who are volunteers? I don't know 409 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:27.599 if they are anymore, but I mean, you know, what 410 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:29.640 do you do here? Somebody becomes ill? 411 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.440 Here to be something similar, they must be sort of 412 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:33.680 like a. 413 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:36.240 First age Yeah, probably something. 414 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:39.960 So you know, there's so many aspects of it, I know. 415 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:41.920 And it goes from the lovely like oh, who could 416 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:43.599 we get to come and play like? 417 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:50.640 And then when you start reading up about getting you know, 418 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:56.240 like what you call them real musicians, professional musicians, well 419 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:59.960 known musicians, you know, and then you start looking at 420 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:04.200 actually how much it costs, not only for their fee, 421 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:09.880 but everything all their requirements. So they normally they would 422 00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:13.119 supply I've got it was called now the rider, the rider, 423 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:16.000 that was it. Yes, they supply with the rider, which 424 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:23.240 is their fee, their requirements, food, dirt, the sound, the lighting. 425 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:24.960 Yeah, it's not just the M and ms with all 426 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:29.039 the brown ones removed or whatever. It was. It their 427 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:31.480 specifications for what equipment they have to have and what 428 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:34.039 standard and microphones and speakers and all. 429 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:37.759 This kind of like ah, they go, oh, good grief, 430 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:41.519 you know, and then it becomes you know, because I 431 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:46.240 looked at what the potential rider would be for Greg 432 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:53.039 reporter and it was for memory. It was in excess 433 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:58.279 of a quarter of a million euros. Yeah, and so 434 00:21:58.319 --> 00:22:01.279 he's done thinking, well, okay, are we going to make 435 00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:01.960 money out of this? 436 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:06.079 I'm happy not make money. I'm quite happy just cover 437 00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:08.480 all the costs and have a great I want to 438 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:10.640 make money, thanks, I'm not. 439 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:12.240 I wouldn't have thought that we'd make much of a 440 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:13.960 profit out of it, but it would be a. 441 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:14.599 Fun thing to do. 442 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:17.279 Oh no, I don't want to do it for fun. 443 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:23.839 Okay, if the rolling stones knock on the door and 444 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:28.480 go knocking, okay, okay, point taken. 445 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:33.640 You imagine what the rider is for them? Oh lord God, 446 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.319 before you even open the gate, you're probably down about 447 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:38.799 five five or six mil. Yeah, I would have thought, 448 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:43.039 if not more, probably goodness gracious me. 449 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:45.519 But we've talked about that before, haven't we? Ad our 450 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:47.240 dream line up and doing something here? 451 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:50.000 But you'd have to have line I like sort of 452 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:53.119 zimmer frames lined up to the stage for the Stones, 453 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:57.799 aren't you No? I love the Stones. I'm sorry it 454 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:00.319 was a joking port taste. I'm sorry, Mick. 455 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:03.480 He's a big fan. Yeah, they're both big fans. They 456 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:04.079 watch it. 457 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:10.440 Behave have we said this? 458 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:12.880 I don't know, Stop me if you've heard this one before. 459 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:18.039 But when we had our studio, they're all silent. We

460 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:21.759 had our photographic studio in Clapham in South London, posh 461 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:26.759 a bit of London. We found out like the day 462 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:29.599 after so opposite our studio, just around the corner from 463 00:23:29.640 --> 00:23:33.319 our studio with a sort of oh thanks so like 464 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:39.000 a warehousey space where they sometimes do music rehearsals. And 465 00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:41.519 one day the Rolling Stones were using it as rehearsal 466 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:45.240 space and they had their security guard outside and when 467 00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:48.680 people were stopping and hearing the Rolling Stones, and then 468 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:50.559 the security guard was saying, oh no, it's. 469 00:23:50.359 --> 00:23:53.079 Just a tribute band. It's just what they call it. 470 00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:55.759 Yeah, there's a there is a well known Rolling Stones 471 00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:57.440 tribute band. So he was saying, oh no, no, it's 472 00:23:57.480 --> 00:23:59.640 just them. It's nothing to you know, don't get excited. 473 00:23:59.640 --> 00:24:03.160 It's just tribute bands always have security, don't they. 474 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:07.839 Exactly right, it's literally like one hundred meters walk from 475 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:11.319 our studio where the Rolling Stones were, so apparently there 476 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:13.880 were a few people just standing around the road who 477 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:17.000 knew you could hear. I went, no, no, no, that 478 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:19.200 is not the tribute act. That is the real thing. 479 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:22.559 And we didn't know about this until after the. 480 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:26.279 Day after Annoyd, you wouldn't have seen me for dust. 481 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:28.160 You would have canceled all your point, all those kids 482 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:28.920 waiting for their PI. 483 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:31.359 No go wait, no, no, I don't know a thing 484 00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:33.240 about photography. No go wait. I'm just going to go 485 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:34.839 and stand on the street corner over there. 486 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:44.759 Listen, can you do for the cry? Please, dear me, 487 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:46.720 brown sugar? Please? 488 00:24:46.759 --> 00:24:48.799 That would be good. 489 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:51.559 Really, after rehearse that, surely they know them by now. 490 00:24:54.200 --> 00:25:01.039 What is it to talk about? Oh yes, yeah, blowing 491 00:25:01.119 --> 00:25:02.640 up that bloody flamingo. 492 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:04.119 Thank you for my flamingo. 493 00:25:05.640 --> 00:25:06.559 You love your flamingo. 494 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:10.200 Do people have been smitting names very kindly? 495 00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:13.480 I think I quite like to go with Mingo the Flamingo. 496 00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:14.519 I like mingo. 497 00:25:14.839

--> 00:25:15.359 I like mingo. 498 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:17.680 Lots of people suggested Flow the Flamingo, which is a 499 00:25:17.680 --> 00:25:18.559 fantastic name. 500 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:20.440 It is a fantastic except. 501 00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:23.279 That Vinyl's middle daughter is called Flow. So that wouldn't work. 502 00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:25.880 It would be it would be a bit problematic, a 503 00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:29.960 bit weird. Not not enormously problematic, but I mean, especially 504 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:32.799 with you know, she's gonna she's coming this summer with 505 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:37.279 her husband and my granddaughter Siena, and and you know, 506 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:41.960 if we go, should we get Flow the flamingo out Flow? Yeah? 507 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:47.839 That so I think Mingo the Flamingo, Mingo, Lingo, Mingo. 508 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:51.119 It is good Lingo the Flamingo, isn't it? Because it 509 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:56.160 rolls off the tunnel. I like I've increased my lung 510 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:58.079 capacity quite considerably. 511 00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:02.759 Since blowing that thing up. It was feeling really dizzy 512 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:05.720 doing that, you know, Yeah, and then and then get 513 00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:07.440 used to it, and. 514 00:26:07.359 --> 00:26:08.279 It was hot as well. 515 00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:09.200 It was hot. 516 00:26:09.960 --> 00:26:15.880 What way you go on? Disappeared for a while, And so. 517 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:18.519 I've applied for a job now as a pearl diver 518 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:21.359 because I think I can hold my breath for over 519 00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:23.440 a minute and a half. Now come back with a 520 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:26.160 handful of pearls, no problem. 521 00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:29.680 Unfortunately I haven't had the chance to test out mingo. 522 00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:31.839 Yeah, yeah, it's good weathers. 523 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:36.400 Yeah, I've got pool ready and now the weather's rubbish 524 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:38.119 nice next week. 525 00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:40.920 Thing it is, it's going to get hot again next week, 526 00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:43.400 so it's going to end up being that thirty eight 527 00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:46.039 again next week, whichould be great. So I have the 528 00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:51.759 pool perfect and as a special guest what would she 529 00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:53.839 call it, but you know, you know, like in TV 530 00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:59.039 series guest star. Yes, so guest star will be my stepdad. 531 00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:01.319 David is coming for a couple of weeks, so he 532 00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:02.599 will be our guest staff. 533 00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:03.000 For a couple of weeks. 534 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:05.599 And he has lots of great navy stories that I'm 535 00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:07.119 sure he can recount yep. 536 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:09.359 And he's very keen to do lots of jobs and 537 00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:12.000 help out with lots of stuff, which is great. So 538 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:14.720 yeah we'll keep him to see he can occupy. 539 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:17.440 So hopefully the pool will be ready by then. It 540 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:21.599 will be pool. If anybody suggests you that it's a 541 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:26.200 good idea to own a swimming pool. Just put them 542 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:30.359 in our direction. Yeah, I will set them right unless. 543 00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:32.000 They are incredibly wealthy and you can just afford for 544 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:34.839 somebody to come and deal with it for you. But 545 00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:37.720 if you're having to fiddle about it with it yourself, 546 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:42.680 then I do not recommend. I remember hearing that, Like, 547 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:46.160 certainly in the UK, if a house is for sale 548 00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:48.519 with a swimming pool, lots of people say that the 549 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:52.440 devalues the house and I could never understand that before 550 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:56.480 it was like swimming pool fancy, you know that, it's amazing, 551 00:27:57.279 --> 00:28:00.000 and now we understand it, especially in the UK, becau 552 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:02.400 because think how little use you get out of the 553 00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:05.920 pool in certain areas of the UK unless you're really hardy. 554 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:09.000 Yeah, it's true. I saw it statistical the other day 555 00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:13.000 and it said that the UK own more convertible cars 556 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:15.119 than almost anywhere in Europe. 557 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:16.759 Yeah, but we were talking about this the other day 558 00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:19.359 as well when it was really hot. There's no point 559 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:22.160 owning a convertible car because you can't drive around with 560 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:24.200 the roof down during the day because you will just 561 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:27.240 to a crisp. 562 00:28:27.640 --> 00:28:28.799 And you need the air conditioning. 563 00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:31.640 So actually you can only have the top down first 564 00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:32.960 thing in the morning or in the evening. 565 00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:39.319 So point so, the UK is the perfect actually the 566 00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:44.559 perfect place really because it rarely gets that hot, so 567 00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:46.599 you can use it a lot more than you can here. 568 00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:49.680 For example, I remember when we got that that convertible 569 00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:52.880 on loan when we had accident. 570 00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:53.799 Yeah, so this was. 571 00:28:53.759 --> 00:28:55.759 When we were living in London and we were living 572 00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:57.319 in Devon. But the studio is in London and we're 573 00:28:57.359

--> 00:28:59.759 up and down the motorway all the time. And one 574 00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:02.640 that evening we were going back down to Devon and 575 00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:05.319 somebody drove back into the back of us on the motorway. 576 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:09.720 Whilst he was on his phone. Genius. 577 00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:12.880 So he smashed up the back of the car and 578 00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:16.319 gave us a whiplash, proper whiplash, which was rather unpleasant. 579 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:19.680 But whilst Carl was being fixed, we've been given a 580 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:23.240 loan car and it was a convertible, four seater convertible 581 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:25.240 and like we said, the next time we went out 582 00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:28.480 to London and we took Memi with us. Was in 583 00:29:28.519 --> 00:29:31.000 the back of the convertible with her little seat belt on, 584 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:32.319 her little harney. 585 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:34.160 With her little lis going. 586 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:39.400 This is wo. 587 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:44.200 She had such a lovely time. She absolutely loved it, 588 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:46.440 just her little nose slipping all the sniffs going. 589 00:29:46.319 --> 00:29:51.599 Down the motorways. But it wasn't that sunny, so it 590 00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:52.240 was all right. 591 00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:56.200 She did have her hardness on, Yes she did, Yes, 592 00:29:57.680 --> 00:29:59.599 which track as usual? 593 00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:02.359 Well we do, don't we. Yeah, it's part of the fun, surely, 594 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:09.319 isn't it. Well else, I have a question for everybody, 595 00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:17.319 and that is shower controls. You know what really we're 596 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:23.480 really like changing subjects here. Shower controls. Right, So when 597 00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:27.640 you get into a shower. My experience of you get 598 00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:32.559 into a shower in a hotel room anywhere in the world, 599 00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:37.960 and you look at the shower controls and you have 600 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:42.400 no idea what they do, and then you turn one 601 00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:47.960 on and then inevitably it controls, you know, the mobile 602 00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:50.759 shower head, and the mobile shower is pointing towards you. 603 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:53.519 It is just so you get soaking wet, and then 604 00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:55.880 and then and you go okay, but it's not that long. 605 00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:58.319 You turn it the other way and then do you 606 00:30:58.599 --> 00:31:02.799 know which way to turn the temperature? Gage? 607 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:08.400 No, so scold yourself, yeah exactly, or freeze. 608 00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.839 So I'd like to start a campaign. Well, I'd like 609 00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:16.759 to know first if anybody is a specialist in showers, 610 00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:22.400 and if they know that there is an international global 611 00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:24.279 code for shower controls. 612 00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:27.400 It's even more annoying when it's got the little symbols 613 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:29.279 on it and they've installed it the wrong way around. 614 00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:31.319 So even if you think you're doing the right thing, 615 00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:32.000 you get the wrong thing. 616 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:34.839 Oh it's ridiculous. I mean, it's absolutely I always. 617 00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:36.480 Make you go first in a shower in a hotel, 618 00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:38.079 you always go first, and then I go in, how 619 00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:38.720 does it work? 620 00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:43.279 All right, darling? And I've just said it the right temperature. 621 00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:47.920 Just turn that one and then you'll be fine. But 622 00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:51.359 it's crazy, isn't it. I mean, it's just absolutely crazy, 623 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:53.079 you know. I mean, when you have a hot and 624 00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:57.039 a cold, you go yeah, and you know what you're doing. 625 00:31:57.039 --> 00:31:59.880 But when you've got these sort of like with icon 626 00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:04.279 on them, and because they'supposed to be international. 627 00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:09.160 So when we do our tower power shower, say the. 628 00:32:09.079 --> 00:32:12.279 Word wower, thank you. That's not my you do. 629 00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:12.799 That, I know. 630 00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:17.799 So when we do the Tower Shower Hour, you're going 631 00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:20.319 to have to do some serious research into the controls 632 00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:23.119 and getting exactly what you want. 633 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:26.680 I'm going to do an instructional video for people before 634 00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:27.960 they get in the shower. 635 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:30.119 But what would be even better is if the controllers 636 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:32.319 are just outside the shower so you can turn it. 637 00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:32.720 On and off. 638 00:32:33.160 --> 00:32:36.279 We've had that, yeah, but we've had that before. We 639 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:38.519 did that in peck Up. Yeah, so we give you. 640 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:40.960 What you do is you know is your your shower 641 00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:43.480 is the shower head is over there, but the control 642 00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:46.079 is here. So you open the shower door if you 643 00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:48.160 have a shower door, and then you turn it on 644 00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:49.839 and then just put your hand in to make sure 645 00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:52.480 it's spright heat. But you don't have to get soaky 646 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:57.400 we have to Why why? Why? Why is it that 647 00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:02.119 I have to design that? Why do shower right? Because 648 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:04.039 I

remember it was complicated, wasn't it. 649 00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:06.640 Why are you laughing at me because you're getting so 650 00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:08.240 worked up about showers? 651 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:11.720 Well, showers are really important to me. They've always been 652 00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:16.519 incredibly important to me. I've designed some brilliant showers in 653 00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:16.960 my time. 654 00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:18.799 So where was your nickname? Shower dodger? 655 00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:28.079 Oh? That came from the deep dark depths, didn't it. 656 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:30.400 You shouldn't tell me these things. They get stuck in 657 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.440 my head. Maybe they get regogitated. 658 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:37.839 They do. Shower dodger? What do you think showered dodger means? 659 00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:41.640 And why was I called shower dodger? Eh? Because I'm French. 660 00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:47.680 French and the bricks think the French don't shower. And 661 00:33:48.039 --> 00:33:51.839 my nickname when I was a royal photographer was showered dodger, 662 00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:56.240 which turned into dodger. Yeah, and there there you go. 663 00:33:56.400 --> 00:34:00.720 Now everybody can call you dodger. Yeah, not as in 664 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:02.680 the artful dodger, but it's in the shower dodger. 665 00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:04.960 Yes, but you know, and I'm sure that I'll go 666 00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:07.880 and treat with all our French viewers, you know, because 667 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:10.559 I know that the French do shower at least once 668 00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:10.960 a month. 669 00:34:16.119 --> 00:34:18.400 I'm going to get showered at by more French people. Yes, 670 00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:26.159 you are about your husband. This is fun, isn't it. 671 00:34:26.599 --> 00:34:27.719 Thanks for bringing that one up. 672 00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:34.679 Done quite all right, I'll speak to you later. Yeah. 673 00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:38.400 So international shower controls, if you are aware of any 674 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:43.480 international code of shower controls, I'd be very interested to 675 00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:46.760 hear about them. I should maybe have done a bit 676 00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:49.239 of research before doing this this bit, but I mean, 677 00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:52.159 I don't think it exists. I think they just do 678 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:55.440 what they want, just do what they like, which have 679 00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:57.559 the cheapest way of doing it they do it, you know, well. 680 00:34:57.440 --> 00:34:59.000 We will put a lot of thought into ours. 681 00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:05.679 What else we I know what we were talking about the 682 00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:07.519 other day, which was quite interesting. It was sort of 683 00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:13.840 so when we how did this cover you? We were 684 00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:16.320 trying to say, I know, I'm going to tell you. 685 00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:20.159 I'm not psyching. I think you are a. 686 00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:23.239 Little bit yeah, a little bit. Yeah. We were talking 687 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:29.400 about how we want each other always to have like 688 00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:30.199 the best thing. 689 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:31.199 Yeah. 690 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:36.000 And so if i'm if I'm sort of like preparing 691 00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:39.639 a meal, I've got two plates and I'm serving putting 692 00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:42.599 some food on the plate, the one the plate that 693 00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:46.480 is the most attractive or has the most food because 694 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:50.199 I'm not very good at your rubbish abortion portions is trivial, 695 00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:55.360 and but you'll always get the one that looks the best, 696 00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:56.920 you know. Like if you've got a piece of salmon 697 00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:59.400 you cooks, and and one of them remains whole as 698 00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:01.000 you put it on the plate, the other one breaks, 699 00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:02.679 I'll have the one. I'll give myself the one and 700 00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:03.840 the broker bit of salmon. 701 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:05.320 But I do exactly the same thing. 702 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:08.400 I was cooking burgers yesterday and one of them just 703 00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:10.400 fell apart in the pan completely, So I gave you 704 00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:14.199 the good one and I kept the broken one. Oh 705 00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:16.480 and like if there's I don't know, if one of 706 00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:18.159 the knives is a bit dirty or something like that, 707 00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:19.480 I'll always give you the better one. 708 00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:21.440 So I would always want you to have the nicer, 709 00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:22.960 the nicer thing. 710 00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:26.199 Yeah, it's it's nice. 711 00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:28.440 And that's funny, isn't it. In twenty years we've only 712 00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:32.079 just had this conversation. We like this week we both 713 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:32.480 do it. 714 00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:35.679 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is extraordinary, isn't it? 715 00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:36.519 Even at night? 716 00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:40.079 Like if you're if you're fast asleep and I want 717 00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:43.159 more duvet, I won't wake you up to get more duvet. 718 00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:44.360 I'd rather than not wake you. 719 00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:50.880 Oh no, I don't have that problem at all. Oh sorry, 720 00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:57.239 I wont you up, dary flying No, but I actually 721 00:36:57.280 --> 00:36:59.239 don't have that problem because I let you. You never 722 00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:05.039 lit the douve, So then call it a dove in 723 00:37:05.079 --> 00:37:08.559 America today I called it somebody else comforter. I

think 724 00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:15.920 it's comforter. Don't seem babies, isn't it. That's big warm 725 00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:20.519 blanket thing, big one blanket. The exactly that is you 726 00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:24.760 know that was originated in Scandinavia, like trolls. 727 00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:28.440 Okay, yeah, but in Scandinavian countries they have one each, 728 00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:31.519 don't they They don't have a double, Oh they do. 729 00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:36.400 And you wanted to introduce this because apparently I steal 730 00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:38.840 the do mat you but she doesn't want to wake 731 00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:41.440 me up to get the do Ma back. But Claire 732 00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:44.519 would like it's for used to have individual You see, 733 00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:48.159 we have actually worked this all out from the very beginning, 734 00:37:48.199 --> 00:37:50.199 and it just can't makes full circle. 735 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:53.920 It's just because when it is really cold, you wrap 736 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:55.480 yourself up like a little sausage roll. 737 00:37:55.920 --> 00:37:56.800 Do you want me? You do? 738 00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:59.280 You like tuck the douvet like underneath you with your 739 00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:02.360 elbows do? Yeah, you really do, and then like hold 740 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:06.760 onto it like there's no way of. 741 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:09.519 Your bloody cold in winter. 742 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:10.360 Believe me. 743 00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:18.159 I know, I'm sorry, I know. I wrapped myself up 744 00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:22.039 like the sage troll. You know you don't do because 745 00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:22.519 you're asleep. 746 00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:24.440 You're asleep, but you're obviously just instinctive. 747 00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:27.039 So I don't wrap myself up before I fall asleep. 748 00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.760 I must do it whilst asleep. How you do that? 749 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:31.679 How do you do that? Though? 750 00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:32.840 I'll have to set up the camera. 751 00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:41.199 Oh god, I'm not that's not going youtubel wrapping himself 752 00:38:41.239 --> 00:38:47.199 up like a sausage rolls but doesn't wake him up. 753 00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:52.119 Never let meet me in the bedroom. Pay you could 754 00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:57.199 come and be my whole You did get me? 755 00:38:58.679 --> 00:38:59.760 What else? Sort of? 756 00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:03.239 I think we're coming towards the end of our nutterings 757 00:39:03.280 --> 00:39:03.960 for today. 758 00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:04.360 Do you think so? 759 00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:05.639 Yeah? 760 00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:07.440 Really, I think so. 761 00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:11.159 I think we've talked a lot. I've got to go 762 00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:11.800 to I've got. 763 00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:13.519 Quite a lot more to talk about here. I've got 764 00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:15.679 loads We've only got on my list. I've only got 765 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:18.920 about halfway through, goodness, so maybe we should keep it 766 00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:19.519 for the next one. 767 00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:22.519 Save that for the next one. Yeah, more hot topics 768 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:23.639 like shower controls. 769 00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:26.199 You know, I'm not sure we can take too much 770 00:39:26.239 --> 00:39:27.480 excitement in one gay. 771 00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:34.760 Come on, but there's the oh yeah, can we just 772 00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:39.880 do one more? Yeah? Because this, I'm sure a lot 773 00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:44.679 of people feel this, and I don't really know. But 774 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:48.360 when I was following the rules, I traveled a lot 775 00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:53.559 and went to many, many, many countries around the world 776 00:39:53.920 --> 00:40:01.119 and adored it. And since stopping traveling, there are occasions 777 00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:06.119 when I find myself walking into a room, you know, 778 00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:09.920 and it requires a lot of things to be happening, 779 00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:15.280 like air pressure, smell, of the air, the warmth of 780 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:19.559 the air, like the odor of a room or you 781 00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:23.159 know whatever. And the other day I walked where did 782 00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:25.199 I walk into? I wrote all of this down the 783 00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:31.159 other day I walked into the kitchen and it was 784 00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:36.000 a warm day and the sky was perfectly blue, not 785 00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:39.519 a cloud in the sky, and I felt like, I 786 00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:43.159 feel like I can feel the air pressure, difference in 787 00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:50.559 air pressure, and I felt like I was back in China. Yeah, 788 00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:53.599 and I can remember this feeling, and it was I 789 00:40:53.679 --> 00:40:58.960 was in Beijing, and it was it was a beautiful day, 790 00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:04.719 not partic hot, quite dusty, and the pressure was there 791 00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:07.000 was something very stresh about it, and there was a 792 00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:10.320 there was a sort of smell in the air, delightful 793 00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:15.199 smell in the air, and it was here. And I 794 00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:18.400 find it really really interesting these sort of like how 795 00:41:18.440 --> 00:41:23.159 you can associate these memories of smells and being in 796 00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:26.159 a place and then suddenly find yourself in France, in 797 00:41:26.199 --> 00:41:29.360 your home, and then suddenly that all comes flooding that 798 00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:31.559 to you. And I don't know if you had anything 799 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:31.960 like that. 800 00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:36.239 I've had it more, not as much like other countries, 801 00:41:36.320 -->

00:41:38.920 but yeah, like if I get a smell, a certain 802 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:43.639 smell of sort of linseed oil or white or white 803 00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:48.199 mixed with sort of like white spirits and warm wood. 804 00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:52.480 Then I am in my granddad's shed. Wow, like an 805 00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:58.880 exact combination that smells exactly, and I can see everything 806 00:41:58.920 --> 00:42:00.719 in there, all these little box of all these little 807 00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:04.039 bits and pieces, and it's just like instant transportation. 808 00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:06.360 How do you think you were that you were. 809 00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:10.199 Like tennish? 810 00:42:10.519 --> 00:42:10.719 Yeah? 811 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:15.079 I think, well, you know, it was there all through 812 00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:19.519 my growing up until gosh did you go? 813 00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:21.840 Yeah? Amazing, So when I was young. 814 00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:25.199 Yeah, that's extraordinary, is it? And you know, okay, So 815 00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:29.079 the last thing I'm gonna say. The last thing, I 816 00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:31.960 don't want to set you off, but after my mum 817 00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:41.960 passed away, I've smelt her perfume many occasions, and her 818 00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:48.719 perfume is it's quite rarely worn now because there's so 819 00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:55.000 much choice of perfume now, And it was caleesh by 820 00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:59.280 a Mess and it was a very very distinctive spell. 821 00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:02.719 And you know, you find yourself suddenly if you get 822 00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:04.119 this whish and not. 823 00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:06.519 In public, just in an empty room. 824 00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:11.280 Yeah, and I go, how can that be? You know, 825 00:43:11.559 --> 00:43:17.119 I do not have that perfume anywhere in the house 826 00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:22.000 on me, you know, and you get these, I find 827 00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:28.480 that it's very weird. Yeah, but but but nice, so yeah, 828 00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:34.119 lovely really really lovely. Anyway, Okay, I've got loads more 829 00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:34.760 things to talk about. 830 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:35.800 Well, yeah, we'll say. 831 00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:38.480 The next off down to the DIY shop to pick 832 00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:41.159 up my planks of wood. This would be my third 833 00:43:41.320 --> 00:43:43.559 visit to the IY shop this week, because I went 834 00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:45.480 on Monday to see if they had more of the 835 00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:48.280 wood that I need for the office and they didn't, 836 00:43:48.719 --> 00:43:49.559 and he said have. 837 00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:52.519 It in on Wednesday. So I go on Wednesday and 838 00:43:52.559 --> 00:43:54.480 the same guys there. So I ask him, I say, 839 00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:56.760 do you have it? And he goes, oh, no. 840 00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:00.400 I can either said that Laurie hasn't arrived yeah, or 841 00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:01.719 that they haven't unloaded it yet. 842 00:44:01.719 --> 00:44:02.920 I couldn't quite work it out. 843 00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:09.320 So I was like, so now I've just done. I've 844 00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:11.920 just realized you can do this like click and collect things. 845 00:44:11.960 --> 00:44:14.760 I've ordered it online and they've only got four bits less. 846 00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:17.920 I need the four bits, so I've ordered all four 847 00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:19.039 and I can go and pick it up. 848 00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:22.599 So wish me luck, We wish you luck. 849 00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:26.039 Mark. 850 00:44:26.519 --> 00:44:29.280 We We just hope that he doesn't shout at Claire. 851 00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:30.239 Please don't shout at me. 852 00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:34.440 Yeah, no, I can't hope for some bits of wood surely, 853 00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:37.199 or that they have searched my bags in that shop before, 854 00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:38.599 thinking that I'm stealing things. 855 00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:42.719 So well, since he walked out with that drill, isn't 856 00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:49.880 it Yeah? Yeah, need a drill help yourself. 857 00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:52.920 To point out he is lying? 858 00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:57.280 Is that a gun in your pocket? Just pleased to 859 00:44:57.320 --> 00:44:59.960 see me? That's all? 860 00:45:03.199 --> 00:45:07.119 Hello, all, I'm high idol in the podcast? 861 00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:07.480 Please? 862 00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:10.320 Yes, I think we could do one just YouTube one day. 863 00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:13.800 Yeah, somebody suggested the dogs. 864 00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:14.880 That would be great. 865 00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:16.639 I think what do you think? Should we do that? 866 00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:17.519 The dogs? 867 00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:18.360 Yeah, that would be great. 868 00:45:18.599 --> 00:45:20.519 I think they'd be better than us on YouTube, should 869 00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:23.239 think so? Yeah, I think they'd be very popular. 870 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:25.840 What do you think, Margo? That would be quite fun 871 00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:27.840 with me? Oh, I think it'd be great. Yet to 872 00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:31.079 pay his mind slammy and stuff. 873 00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:36.440 I saw a comment. It was very brave. 874 00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:39.320 I looked at the Facebook earlier and somebody had commented 875 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:43.480 that they love watching us and they have to remind 876 00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:45.559 themselves that it's not actually Margo talking. 877 00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:50.519 Oh, I haven't seen that. You're joking? Really? Oh you've 878 00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:54.480 got that's fantastic. Oh no, I've got to make We've 879 00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:59.000 got to make a print out. That's fantastic. Yeah, that's great. 880 00:45:59.199 --> 00:45:59.920 That was really lovely. 881 00:46:03.079 --> 00:46:06.480 Okay, okay, well, okay, enough already start bringing up new subjects. 882 00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:07.199 For goodness, s. 883 00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:09.039 Al write them down next. 884 00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:13.079 Anyway, thank you so much for joining us. There's been 885 00:46:13.079 --> 00:46:16.719 a joy as ever, and I hope you managed to 886 00:46:16.719 --> 00:46:19.039 finish watching up for cooking the roning and all the 887 00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:24.519 rest of it, and wherever you are driving to and next. 888 00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:30.000 In two weeks time, we're just going to talk about politics. No, 889 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:30.440 we're not. 890 00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:31.320 Promise we're not. 891 00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:33.039 We'll never talk about politics. 892 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:36.639 So take care, thank you very much and we'll talk 893 00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:39.440 to you soon much love bye,