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Women's Hour broadcasts live every Sunday at 7:00p.m. uk time.
In this episode of Women's Hour, we dive into a lively conversation with my co-host, Jo Wood. We start by discussing the nuances of our names and how they shape our identities. Jo shares her experiences with her name and the amusing family nicknames she has acquired over the years.
We then transition into a discussion about the impact of personal beliefs on professional life, particularly focusing on how my activism has influenced my photography business. We explore the idea of being labelled for one's beliefs and how it affects interactions with others.
Our conversation takes a turn towards health and wellness, where we delve into the world of gut health, supplements, and the impact of diet on overall well-being. Jo and I share our personal experiences with various health remedies and the importance of being proactive about one's health.
We also touch on the topic of nutrition and the lack of education around it in schools, discussing how essential it is to understand what fuels our bodies. Shelley shares her interest in possibly pursuing a course in nutrition.
As we chat, we also reminisce about childhood memories, favourite hymns, and the simple joys of life. We wrap up with a discussion about our upcoming trip to London to support a farmers' rally, sharing our excitement and preparations for the journey.
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Good evening to all the beautiful women out there and the occasional gentlemen that might be listening in too. You are listening to women's hour coming live from radiosoapbox.com. It's good to have your company. I'm also streaming on Rumble. Just hit Shelley Tasker, and you will find my channel. Today's date is Sunday, 17th November 2024, and we are joined with a wonderful cohost again this evening, miss young Jo Wood. Good evening, miss young Jo Wood.
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Hello, miss Shelley Tasker.
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Tasker. I love it. It's funny how people say that, is it? Because I'm Tasker. You're Tasker. Tasker. Tasker. But Darren says Tasker. Yeah. And I'll like, our mutual friend, Chan, he always says Tasker. I love saying Tasker.
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Yeah. It's it's sort of a bit like the potato, potato, tomato, tomato, that type of thing, isn't it? Tasco,
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Tasco or Tasker.
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Casher.
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I mean, it's funny thing, actually, isn't it, the old name? Because that's my married name from my second husband. There have been only 2, but I kept it. There's only been 2. Room for 4. There there is. I I don't think he's ever gonna ask me, though. But, when we broke up, because my business was Shelley Tasker Photography, I decided to keep that name. And now it would be really odd going back to Shelley Hart.
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Well, yeah. Because you're you're not Shelley Hart. You're Shelley Tasker. It's like, I look at you, and that name is just perfectly you,
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Shelley Tasker. Yeah. I know. It's funny your name's super you let your name is it's Saint Jude as well. It's probably a super thing to say. Mine's very much like
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in your face, isn't it? Jo Woods. It's like just very, very blunt.
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Jo. Yeah. But you'd me because I am. Yeah. You are blunt. I
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am. But you're Joanna, really, aren't you, or Joanne? I am. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I it sounds as if I'm precious about my name. Precious. I'm really not. I'm I'm really not. But what I struggle with, and I always have all my life, it's not a difficult name, is it? Joanna. But people go Joanne. And I'm like, it's not Joanne. It's not Joanne. It's Joanna. It's not difficult.
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You know? Or just Jo for easy sake. Yeah. I mean Yeah. Do your parents know Joanna?
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Periodically, my my dad does. Most of the time, I get called Joe or, a family nickname. But yeah.
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A family nickname? Come on enlighten us.
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They call me Mucker.
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Mucker?
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Mucker. It's a it's an old Cockney London name. They call me Mucker and my brother Herbert. Okay. Which is very odd. I know. So, yeah, more often than not, I get mucker. You alright, mucker? What you doing? Yeah.
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Yeah. And then Yeah. It's nothing to do with being sloppy, I hasten to add. No. No. But on your works badge at work, are you Joanna or Jo?
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I don't have a work badge. Do you not? That's not very professional. Well, no. The the the the position I hold, I can't identify myself straight away to people. True. True. People would be like, oh my god. It's her. It's that woman. It's her. You know, it's bad enough that they see me come in and they're like, oh my god. Quick. You know? Put away all the paraphernalia or whatever it is they're doing that they should be doing. So yeah. It's
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interesting, actually, isn't it? Because not that, I'm egotistical or anything like that, but I do think my name and someone said to me about this the other day at the toddler group. She's still everybody knows who you are, Shelley. And I'm like, for what reason, though? She says, well, your photography and your activism. Now I think I've lost a lot of work because of my activism and because of my beliefs over COVID times. I think people think, oh, I'm not gonna go and see her, the young gentleman lady.
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Which I I I I do struggle with that attitude of people. It's, you know, why can somebody not have a different belief system from yourself? They can, and they do. But are you really gonna let that stop you going to them for a service or going into a particular shop or you know? And I find that attitude quite strange. You know? You don't you you don't go to somebody for a service if they're not very good at it. You don't go into a shop to buy something if that shop isn't selling something you want or they're not good quality. I I think sort of, you know, the whole attitude of being labeled for whatever somebody's belief is is is disappointing, is is offensive, really. Yeah. I think I'm quite offended by it.
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You're offended? Offended? How dare you? What is it? Well, you have the right to choose to be offended. Yes. But, I don't know. This whole offensive everyone's offended in this day and age, aren't they? And this is why people don't say anything because it's like, oh, I might offend you. I might say something that you don't know. Yeah.
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I mean, I think it was last week. I was on the Farmers Movement page, and I posted something. And I dare to use the words, welcome to communist Britain. And people were losing their absolute minds over it. And I'm like but I'm telling you how it is. I've I've just given you this this example from, I think it was, the Telegraph maybe or The Guardian Newspaper that had said themselves, we are heading into a communistic state. So it's not like I've just flippantly thrown it out there, but people were very offended by that word communist.
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I never really understand all of these words like socialism, communism, and I bought a book actually a couple of months ago, another one just to add to my pile that I might flip through from time to time. Like a bookworm, aren't you? Oh, I love books. I do love books. Yeah. I just love them. Love them. Book voucher. Anytime, you know, anytime anybody's ever stuck and they think, oh, I wanna get Shelly a present. Get me a voucher for Amazon or something. But most of the books, they're always, like, self help books and learning about stuff. You know? But, yeah, I had to look at all the things, like because law, you know, when we've gone through all these court cases with COVID and stuff like that, it's just, like, so much to know about, isn't there? And I've said before, I don't retain information that well, but this book is really good, actually. I'll have to I was thinking, I mean, your knowledge and you you retain information really well, but for people like me, it's helpful. Helpful.
But I do tend to read a lot of stuff on Facebook. I think if it wasn't for these groups, you know, our ongoing health problems and things like that, I'm now in, like, the urine therapy group, the gut health group. Oh my gosh. How is that going? How is that going? How is that going? Haven't done any of that for a week.
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Good. Good. Because I'm convinced it has actually sort of made you, you know, quite poorly at times.
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I'm convinced of it. I know you are. I know. No. It's just that time of the year when everything's caught up. I've had the cough and the cold, blah blah blah blah. But, no. I mean, if I had something like cancer, I mean, that book, you you must read it. I will lend it to you. But when you've read these testimonials and things, you can't argue that it has helped people for whatever reason. I know it's a strange one. But and you do. As the day goes on, it's like I perhaps I I told you about my skin when I put it all on my face. And the next morning, my face was like, like I'd put on a, like, tight vermin mask
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or something. It really, really helped me. That. Yeah. Yeah. But no. You know? I think I I think I could do that. I just don't think I could do the I I know I I couldn't. I couldn't do the other bit. Just know. Well, I was getting pretty desperate.
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When you're uncomfortable, I think you will try anything. And it was actually Patrick who said to me that, you know, when he used to get horrendous heartburn, he would drink his urine, and it would disappear. So I have been that bad. Now this is day 2 that I feel that I'm on the up, interestingly. I've dropped all of my PPIs. I'm, like, popping 1 a day now, and I've been on a really yeah. I've been on a really high dose of these. Looking more and more into it, it appears that you're only ever supposed to be on them for 8 weeks or so. And then once you yeah. I know. But half the world is on Omeprazole, and I was on a really high dose of Omeprazole and fametidine.
So I I believe actually that in the end, they made things worse. Because since I've been coming off them, my symptoms have slowed down. And Wow. Yeah. So they reckon if you take them for a maximum of 8 weeks, during that 8 weeks, that's when your tummy gets time to heal from being, inflamed and stuff like that. But everybody just stays on them. And, of course, we just do what the doctor tells us, don't we? Of course, you're just suppressing the symptoms.
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And I'm Well, that's interesting. You should say that. I was watching a video this morning, and I did send it to myself to forward on to you. And it was all about sort of gut health and, you know, sort of the symptoms that you have been suffering yourself. And he was really big on, you know, doctors are just suppressing the symptoms. They're not dealing with the issue. And, really, for everything this guy was talking about, he said it's just all inflammation. Everything is inflammation, and it all stems from the gut.
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Yeah. Everything to do with that gut biome. And I'm just fascinated by it. I think at the moment, actually, part of me thinks, do you know what? I wonder
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it's never too late. Never too late. But to start a course or something in nutrition or something, I'm really interested in that. Too late. Never. Too late. Never. Too late.
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Nutrition or something, I'm really interested in that. Too late. Never too long. I think you're right. And I think when you really start thinking about how you want to heal yourself from various elements, you gotta start looking at what you're eating, what you're drinking, You know? And we have a really good diet. I was just saying to Darren tonight, actually, over dinner. We we don't eat yes. We do have the occasional treat because we do. Like, we'll have a biscuit. Darren has an ice cream every day. But this week, I've heavily started eating vegetables again because I realized that even though we're not meat eating much processed food, we don't seem to eat many vegetables. And you need the fiber to stop your gut.
If it hasn't got anything else to eat in there, then it's gonna eat your gut lining. Yeah. I think that I could almost be a teacher on this subject in 6 months or so.
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Oh, wow. If I could retain all the information a plane, isn't it? A a crash Well, oh, let's not use the word crash in planes. Like, an intense learning course to fly a plane. Let's do it. You become a a teacher in nutrition, and I will become a fully fledged pilot.
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Well, if I was rich, I would buy you one of those vouchers, the flying experience. And perhaps even go in with you, but I would be drugged right up on that as a can just so I could sit there and imagine? Shelley, could you press that? And I'll just be there with my eyes shut and just
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But, yeah, I think I think you should look into it. You know? I also saw another interest, in fact, the other day. And it's weird because probably back in my in my mid, yeah, my mid late twenties, maybe early thirties, I used it specifically as a mouthwash, and that was hydro, hydrogen peroxide, 3% to white and teeth. But I'd seen our friend Kate Shemerani, and she says that when she gets out of the shower, 3% hydrogen peroxide, she uses it almost as if it's a body oil. Obviously, it's liquid, but she rubs it all over her body. And when she said why, and I was like, oh my gosh. That is just so obvious. So hydrogen peroxide is basically, oops, basically a oxygen sort of whitener or it breathes it just it it it it's activated or it activates on a premise of oxygen. Yeah?
So when you rub it into your skin and your skin is your largest open organ on your body, you know, it's not like it's a wet suit. Anything that touches our skin within 7 seconds literally goes through to the bloodstream. 7
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seconds. That's horrendous. Wow. And that just goes to show, like, the damaging stuff of sunscreen and stuff, doesn't it? Yes. Yeah. Absolutely.
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So, you know, put in hydro, hydrogen peroxide 3% on your skin. Just go straight into your bloodstream and then helps oxygenate the blood. So, you know, you're you're you're sort of fully feeding those red blood cells with oxygen. And I thought, well, I'm going to get myself some.
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Another little tincture.
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Why not? Yes. I mean Yeah. I've been in How many how many supplements are you up to then?
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Well, the thing is you're supposed to take them for at least 4 weeks, aren't you, to start start seeing a difference? And I I admittedly don't. I'm like, oh, that's not working. I'll try something out. I went into that lovely shop in Red Roof, the natural food shop, and I'll tell you what, their information, that's the place I'd like to work. I was I was asking. I was like, have you got any jobs going here? How do you learn about all of this stuff? They're so helpful. So, she talked me through all of the sauerkraut stuff and what have you, and I couldn't decide whether I wanted to try it or not. So I cheated, and I was like, no. Let's let's go the whole probiotic thing. I need probiotics, okay, to get that good bacteria going. But ideally, if I was to eat fermented foods, raw milk, and stuff like that, I should be able to rebalance it myself.
So I got some of those, and I also got a magnesium supplement. I can't remember that. Oh, because, apparently, magnesium There's does so much, and it relaxes your esophagus to make that cold smaller.
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There's there's lots of different magnesiums. You've got magnesium, nitrate, glycerate, like, I think there's, like, 4, maybe 5 different types
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that are all for different elements for want of a better word. Yeah. Well, this is it. I I just want to learn all about, like, enzymes and things like that. I mean, I don't I don't know if we did that at school. It was probably on a day it wasn't there. No. Or probably wouldn't have been interested anyway. That's part of the problem, isn't it? That's why we've got such a nation that
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is more often than not a sick nation because you're not. You're not really taught about, you know, the good life. You're not taught how to look after your body or how to keep it healthy, what you should be filling your body with, like, you know, you don't go unless you're your dad. You don't go and put, like, you know, diesel in a petrol car or vice versa. You know, you've got to fuel your body with the right type of fuel, and you're not taught that at school. You're not. No. No. You may have a little home economics class, but that's about it.
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That is one of the things that they should be taught, I think, along with gardening and budgeting, financial planning. Yes. There's no life skills, is there? I mean, when I did, home economics at school, we made things like banana cakes and shit. Oops. Excuse my language. But I'm I'm not being funny. People would've would've benefited from learning how to boil an egg. You know? Yes. Simple things.
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Yep. Exactly. Exactly. You know? I was exactly the same. You know?
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Yeah. Yeah. But the supplement wise, those are the only 2 that I'm really taking. And then my daughter's going on to me about taking these digestive enzymes. Well, I started taking those a couple of weeks ago, but I've realized that every time I took one, they gave me really bad bellyache. And I was like, no. I'm not taking these because I did though. Yeah. I don't know why, but they just didn't suit me. But what's interesting at the moment is the whole problem before I had one of the reasons I kept going to the doctors was because of a chronic cough, which is like silent reflux. So now I've stopped more or less the PPIs.
The cough has come back, but I think I'd rather have the cough. I say that at the moment, but then there's nothing worse. Bear in mind, I am getting over a bad cold and cough from last weekend. But now I have to fight the cough rather than the burning sensation in my friends. It's like the lesser 2 of the evils. There's It is, and it's like sidetracking now. So I've gone back to where I was, like, 4 years ago, and that's how long I've been on these PPIs for. And they've probably done so much damage to my body, really, when you think up to 8 weeks, you should be taking them just to heal things, but everybody just stays on them. And then they're just suppressing everything that comes off.
So today
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Because people rely, don't they? People rely on doctors to know what they're doing. Yeah. Of course they do. Yeah. Clearly, they were just like, oh, no, love. You carry on taking them.
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Yeah. I mean, I was glad because I was kept going to the, GP, and I was given antibiotics and everything. And they were like, oh, antibiotics won't really work, but not for a cough. And you know what it's like when you're so desperate. Like, and at the time, I didn't realize what antibiotics did to you neither. I'd be like, yeah. Just give me some antibiotics. I don't care. And now I'm really like you know, when I've had tonsillitis before, it's like usually they're the only thing that they really clear it up. And I said to the doctor, what what do you think? And he said, well, can you do another few days feeling as you were? And I was miserable. And I was like, no. No. 2 young children I'm looking after. So Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to take the antibiotics, but then it's you've just killed so much of your good bacteria as well.
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Yeah. Well, I had also read last week somewhere, it takes approximately between 9 and 12 months for your gut biome to recover every time you take antibiotics. Oh my god. That's a long time. But I'm I'm with you. You know? I mean, I had my tonsils out as a as a late teenager, and, I still remember the pain of having tonsillitis like it was yesterday. There is absolutely no way on this earth I would have gone down a natural remedy to alleviate tonsillitis. Absolutely no way. And, you know, I I'm sure there's people out there that would say, oh, well, there are things. When you've got really, really bad tonsillitis, that you're running a fever, you just wanna kill yourself, you're gonna take antibiotics.
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Definitely. I've probably had them oh, god. I tried to think how many times I've had them in my life, actually. But now knowing what I know, unless it was but like you say, if you're in that much pain, then, you know, my friend, Paul, who runs this radio station, he's had, like, what do you call it? An abscess. He said on Wednesdays, I had this abscess. And he said I said, oh god. Go to doctors. Get some antibiotics. I think for things like that, what do you do? Exactly. And he said, oh, I'm trying to stay off the antibiotics. It's like, oh my god. You need some. So I said, actually, try urine therapy.
Oh my god. And then Patrick piped up and said it's it should be aged urine though. So No. Oh my god. Like, fermented. No. Yeah. Fermented urine.
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I would say maybe even well, crikey, you'd probably burnt skin, but maybe diluted hydrogen peroxide. You know? I'm just like, but again, what do you do? What do you do? Do you persevere, you know, and and hope that it's gonna clear up via the natural route? Or do you take antibiotics? Yeah. Answers on a postcard, please. Yeah. Listeners.
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Because there's some people that'd be like, no. Absolutely not. But, you know, if you've got bad infections and things, you do need to treat them. But I suppose, at least if you're aware and think, well, actually, do you know what? I've really gotta start taking some extra supplements now because of the antibiotics I've taken.
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But, Yeah. I think, you know, it it's very different. Well, it's a twofold situation. It's very different. 1, if you're in relatively good, okay health, you've kind of got a little bit of the luxury time on your side to go, okay, I can start building myself up with, you know, supplements. And if you are of that ilk, which you will soon be a fully fledged certified nutritionist, is if you know about these things and you know what to take and nip a problem in the budge straight away, then that's all well and good, but the majority of us don't.
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No. And it does it's crazy, isn't it? Because I'm going down this journey by myself. I say by myself. I share my weekly updates with you and the listeners. But, you know, I'm supposed to be seek speaking to the surgeon on the 2nd December. And the last thing I want really is to have invasive surgery to mess around with my stomach. You know? So if I can heal it and treat it myself, then I'm gonna do everything I can to do it. But you see, even the doctor really, he doesn't does he know if I've got high acid levels or low acid levels? So I've also ordered, I've ordered more supplements.
I ordered zinc last night because that's supposed to be very good for, GERD, reflux, and stuff. And I ordered some of those acid strips that you wheel. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. And I thought they they'll just show the levels of acidity in my urine. But, you know, it's just because I'm just trying to find answers out myself rather than have You're being very proactive. I am. I've watched YouTube things on it, but then it's also you know, whenever you've got a problem, people say, oh, you wanna try this? Oh, you wanna try this? It's like too much of it now, isn't there? When I had a frozen shoulder, the amount of people that said they could have fixed it, and I must have seen about 4 people. And, actually, knowing now that it was a it was either a frozen shoulder or a torn rotary cuff, it's just healing. You can't do anything about it.
Yeah. But it was just getting that diagnosis, and that is not I feel like my other arm is going the other way. I can't stretch too far. Bit of a bummer. But I just have to use my left arm. Joyful in the neck. I'm I am today,
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I am suffering with I don't know what it is. Almost like repetitive strain injury in my forearm Right. From from, using a a paint roller an awful lot in the last 24 hours. And I tell you what, I can really feel the ligament from my wrist on the inside of my arm, that real nice soft fleshy bit from my wrist right up to my elbow. And I'm like, how bad is that? You know, that I all I've done is use a paint roller and, admittedly, quite a lot in the last 24 hours. But I'm like, that's either a sign of old age or or I'm I'm unfit in my arms. So I have no strength. But
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I don't know. I know. I know. You say an arm injury. Yeah. What? You do have an arm injury?
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Yeah. Yeah. I from using a paintbrush. Alright. That's embarrassing.
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No. I get a bit like that. I do think we are getting older, and things start to pain us a little more a little more. And my argument is that I will start, like, trying to get fit when all my ailments are, like, corrected. I think I couldn't cope going and exercising now. I've got too many aches and pains, and I would love to lose weight. I feel like a ripe Chubba one at the moment. But I'm drinking things like pint of milk. Pint. Yes. Milk is good. Well, I'm drinking milk about a pint a day, but it's gotta be very full of calories.
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But I'm just, like, feeding my body at the moment, trying to restore it. Yeah. I mean, it's about listening to what your body is saying it wants or it needs, isn't it? So I am I am a huge believer in that that you just inherently know what your body needs. Yeah. You know? This sounds this this sounds very, very bizarre. But I know that if I don't eat at least this this sounds crazy. If I don't eat at least 2 carrots a day, I my my body is saying something to me. It's given me, like, little signs of I I just don't feel quite right today. You know? And I I I'm I'm convinced I'm not lacking in vitamin a because I've been eating carrots for the last 26 years,
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like, all the time and every day. You do like a raw carrot, don't you?
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I I love carrots. If I don't eat at least 2 for, like, 2 a day for I can get to, like, day 3, and I start feeling a little bit ill. And I don't know. I I I hope not. I hope that's not like some sort of withdrawal symptoms, you know, like cold turkey from carrots, for goodness sake, or whether my body is going, uh-oh. Uh-oh. We're we're getting low in something. You know? Send out the message that she better start eating carrots again.
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Yeah. And do you peel them?
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I do. But when I was pregnant, I tell you, if those carrots had dirt on, that was all the better as far as I was concerned. And I I literally had to have carrots that had just been pulled out of the ground, and I'd give them a little shake and dust off, and then I'd eat them. And I'd it would get me over the morning sickness, and I'd feel absolutely fine.
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Wow.
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Yeah. And I guess I've carried that on, really. So, you know, it's not like I am lacking in bitumen a because I've been eating them for nearly 26 years.
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So you should be you should have good eyesight then as well. That's an old wife's day. My eyesight is okay.
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You know? I think I think it's okay. Occasionally, if if I'm tired, I do wear glasses for long distance. But it's not that I can't see. When I wear them, it just makes everything a lot more sharp. But, yeah, I think for my age, I'm my eyes, I'm doing okay.
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You are. You are. Well, I mean, the little 84 year old lady that I used to look after, Princess Eve, she never worn glasses. It used to make me die every day reading that, you know, watching her read that newspaper, and I think, my god. Wow. I'm half your age. And I would need glasses. I you know, whenever we're out now, I'll be like, oh, Darren, can you read that? But I just always keep a cheap pair from the pound shop in my bag so I can read. You see, my my glasses
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aren't even that strength, which would be the lowest strength you would buy at the pound shop. I I can't even wear them because I put them on, and I'm like, oh my god. I feel dizzy. That's all blurry. That's horrible. So that lower strength is, like, way too strong for me.
[00:31:56] Unknown:
Right. And and the thing is you you can heal your eyesight apparently, can't you? You can do exercises and stuff.
[00:32:04] Unknown:
We we have we we know somebody that very recently had said to me, oh, I know how to better my eyesight. And I said, oh, I don't think I like the idea of what you're about to say. And it transpires that they have and they continue to use their own urine as an eye wash and they are absolutely convinced that their eyesight, by the day, is getting better. And I'm sure that it is because I did mention it to you, and you said, oh, yeah. I'm not surprised.
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Yeah. It's interesting, isn't it? Yeah. But I know other people, they say, like, as soon as you start wearing glasses, that's it. But, again, it's been lazy, isn't it? I haven't got time to read up what exercises, and how lazy must I be if, well, you can't just sit there and move your eyes around. No. I'm just I'm always for the easy option, I say, for most things. But regarding my health at the moment, not my eyesight, but my gut health, I am you know, I'm realising. It's like we went out for breakfast this morning, and, I had a small breakfast.
Fancy in Wetherspoons. I haven't been there for ages, but £2.25 for a small breakfast. You can't moan at that, can you? I was gonna say that's really good. Really good. Yeah. It was it was nice. It was a treat because we don't we used to eat a lot of cooked breakfasts and stuff. And I think the last couple of months, while I've been dealing with this, we've just been changing food. You know? I've started eating porridge this week because it's supposed to be full of fibre, but then I have to put, like, a tablespoon of sugar on it at the same time. But if that's what it takes, that's what it takes.
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You put sugar on your porridge. Yeah. Is that bad? Do you not find it sweet enough already?
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No. Not at all. It's just like, god, just like dried up mush.
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Tasteless. Well, it depends. Do you make it with water or milk? Milk. Full feet of milk. Oh, gosh. No. I couldn't put sugar on it. Oh my god. No. But I thought I might try honey.
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And what's the other natural sweetener? Maple syrup. That's the one. Yeah. Maple syrup. I thought I might try that,
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but I'm not keen on trying anything. Mortgage out. You have to take a mortgage out to buy maple syrup nowadays. A bit like olive oil. You know? Yeah. I bought a bottle of that today. Free mortgage. Yes. £7.99.
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That's more expensive than the wine I drink.
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That is that is crazy. The 500 meals, it's like just are you having a laugh? Yeah. It's yeah.
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But what was funny? Well, it wasn't funny. You know these flog it pages on Facebook and stuff? Yes. Well, there's, like, food banks 1 and stuff like that. Or ran I think it's very random that people, like, cook meals, and they say, I've just cooked way too much. Would anybody like this bowl of casserole? And the amount of people that jump on it but I'm that sort of person who be like, well, I don't know what your house is like. And, you know Exactly. But if you haven't got any money and you're starving, you can't be fussy, can you?
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But That is true.
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My point was that some is well, the point that I'm trying to make is that somebody put out and she didn't do an anonymously. Bless her. And she said, I use a food bank regularly, and I also work full time, but I cannot make ends meet. And she said, would it be too much to ask? And she said, it's rude, she said, but I'm gonna ask anyway. Perhaps some of you, when you donate food to the food bank, might include some things like olive oil and tomato puree and garlic. Because they're so expensive. They are. And then someone came back and had a right go at her and what have you. And then other people were like, well, just because I'm really poor doesn't mean that I don't wanna give my family the best food, really. And I get that. I get that because we've been lied. We've said before, and we've been lied about everything, all the good fats.
I I don't use any oil, any seed oil anymore. No. I use butter all the time, full milk. Yeah. But and lard. Lard is, like, one of the best things you can roast things in, but everything is the opposite. Lard. Love a bit of lard, a bit of dripping.
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Yeah. Dripping sandwiches.
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I mean, I'm sure you've heard your parents say, back in the day when we were hungry, if we wanted to snack, we'd have a dripping sandwich with
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rank. But now I go, oh, do you know what? I would imagine that'd be quite tasty and very good for you. Very, very good
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for you. Yeah. Yeah. The bread would be the worst part. But then they didn't have all sliced bread and processed bread then, did they? You used to, like, buy your bread from the bakery fresh. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So, I had an
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uncle. He died probably about 3, 4 years ago, but he died at age 98 and every day of his life without fail would have a fry up for breakfast. Now you tell me how he managed to survive fit and healthy at 98.
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Yeah. There's a lot to be said, isn't it? You know, like, my nan was 99 when she died earlier this year, and all of her life, though, would have had proper food. You know? Yes. No processed stuff. All real proper food. I say all the time, you know, the supermarkets, really, they only need 2 shelves open, don't they?
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Not 2 shelves. 2 aisles. Yeah. Yeah. They're they're killing us with all their processed rubbish, and we're all programmed to be going to buy it.
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Yeah. Yeah. I've gotta be very desperate these days. When I was poorly last week and, you know, Darren wasn't gonna cook, and I just said, oh, get one of those frozen no. Not frozen. A fresh Tesco Shepherd's pie. And I really enjoyed it, actually, but it's not often we do do that. You know? And I'm sure there's lots of them that are better off than others. But back in the day when, like, the Tesco value range came out, I can remember buying sausages for, like, 25 p a packet, and they had, like, 5% meat in them. If that as if you're lucky. Yeah.
Wow. We do eat rubbish. Yeah. Well, I don't, but the world does.
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The world does, and that's the problem, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.
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And, you know, Pyrenees, he's just a total chocoholic, and it infuriates me that because I'm on this mission as well, and I know that by him changing his diet could help with a lot of things. But what do you do? He's a fussy eater. You know? And everybody's, oh, I would do this. I would do this. But it's like, we've been there, done that, bought the t shirt T shirt. You know, it's going on. It's fine. He eats. I don't care anymore. But his friend came and called for him earlier, and they went to the shop. And his friend came back with a can of Coke. And I'm like, oh, oh, does your mom know you've got Coke?
And, you know, I used but I used to give my older children I used to buy bottles of Coke every week and lemonade at the supermarket. I didn't know any different. My daughter always says about that, and then she says, we never had any fruit in the house. I said, that's because nobody bloody ate it. Used to buy it, and it sits there and rots. You know? I wasn't that bad. Don't think
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I ever in actual fact, my daughter doesn't like fizzy drinks, so she never she never had them. Never had them. If she you know, as she became a teenager, if she was drinking alcohol and she had a mixer with it, oh my god. How bad do I sound as a parent? It's like, you know, your child just turned 16, and they're going out. And there I am with their friends, you know, mixing up a drink for her to take. But she would be like, you know, can you stir that lemonade around to make it go flat before you put it in with the vodka? Because she doesn't like fizzy drinks. So she would never drink fizzy drinks. She just drank a lot of water. Yeah. That's all pure and frank. Water. But but but again, how how how good or bad is that for you? I read a report last week that Southwest Water are planning to put fluoride in it. Yep.
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Yeah. Couple of people sent that to me, actually. Yes. It doesn't surprise me, but we've got our little water filters, Jo.
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We have indeed. So We have.
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You know, Darren always says, oh, it's a waste of money. I don't think it makes any difference. I'm like, well, I wanted one. We've got one.
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And it makes a huge difference. I just love it for the fact of, you know, it filters out 99.99% of parasites. That alone sold me. I'm like, yes. I will have that. Thank you very much.
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Definitely. Definitely. We're always taught, aren't we? Water is the drink of life, but when you actually know what you're drinking and stuff, no. It's not. No. It's not. No. It is not. It is not. Anyway, moving forward, gosh, where's the time gone? I've got a little song to play just because it's Sunday and, a little bit of a religious song. It's a song that Lovely. A little hymn from school. And, actually, I had this song randomly sung at my first wedding. God, lots of talk about previous weddings tonight. Yeah. I had some crazy songs in my first wedding, but, yeah, a bit different. Right. Here we are, people.
Here's a couple of minutes out to one more step along the world, I go.
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One more step along the world, I go. Round the corners of the world I turn, more and more about the world I learn. And the new things that I see, As I travel through the bad and good, keep me traveling the way I should,
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Oh, how lovely was that? It was beautiful. What is it about children singing? Oh, I hear children sing and I want to cry. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. Christmas time is coming, and I know that they'll just like, when they go to school, they'll sing a song, and I'll be like, oh my god. Oh my god.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. I miss those days.
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Yeah. Yeah. A nice little hymn. Have you got a favorite hymn? I mean, that's not my favorite. That's just one I like.
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Yeah. I like morning has broken. I was gonna say spoken, but morning's broken. Yeah. No. No. That's nice as well. Favorite ones. What would you have played at your funeral? Oh, I knew he'd That's a weird question, but, hymn wise,
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yeah, what would you have? Well, I always used to say one of my favorite songs is that jump around House of Pain. Jump around. Jump around. Jump up. Jump up and get down. When they bring the coffin in. Oh.
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Oh, no.
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I used to drive the kids to school with, roof off my car, and they would hate it. I'd have that song on full blast. Jump in the bird. Let me begin. Jump around. Yeah. Anyway, what about you? What would you have?
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I I don't know. Well, I do know why. This it reminds me of my dad a lot, and he isn't, by any stretch of the imagination, an Elton John fan. But I would have an Elton John song, and I don't know what it's called. And I'm not even going to attempt to give you the melody because I'm so tone deaf. Oh, but it goes, it's a little bit funny.
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It's a little bit funny.
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Yes. That one. I would have that one. And it isn't even a funeral related kind of thing, but it just always reminds me of my dad. Like, I could even hear it if I was in a coffin. But, you know, that's the song I would have.
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Oh, that is a beautiful song. I thought you was gonna say when makes me cry.
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It always makes me cry when I listen to it. And there is no hidden agenda behind that before anybody goes, oh, that's childhood trauma. No. It isn't. I just remember being in the car back in that era a lot with my dad, and that song would always be on the radio, and he'd always be singing along to it.
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Oh, lovely. And I think well, you can request, can't you? But I think your family choose a song as well. Anyway, we don't have to listen to that yet.
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Yeah. Yeah. Anyway I'd be telling them that is what I want. What I want. My this is my dying wish.
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Yeah. What was I gonna say? Right. Tell the listeners why what you've been painting for the last 24 hours.
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Well, yes. The reason why I've got repetitive arm injury is because I've been painting some very large boards for, farmers movement Cornwall rally, tractor rally with the farmers this Saturday, Truro, Victoria Square, 12:30. So I've gone out late this afternoon in the pouring rain, I hasten to add. And I've put up a whole load of boards everywhere. And the best thing is I mean, you know, it started with a really simple idea that I would have literally a stencil that I like, a sheet of plywood that would be stenciled, and I'd put it onto another piece of plywood. You know, I would just spray paint black writing, and that would be it. But you know me, Shelley. I don't do things by halves. Nope. So I was like, no. No.
I'll get all the boards that I need. First of all, I've gotta put a coat of any colored paint on it because, otherwise, what I spray onto it will just be sucked in to the raw wood. So I need to seal it. So naturally, of course, I had to paint the board with white emulsions, make sure there's no light brush marks. And when I'm doing this, I'm saying to myself, does it even matter, Joe? It's gonna be on the roadside. They're not gonna see blooming brush marks, but no. And then I got 2 cans of spray paint. 1 was yellow. 1 was black. And I had a little chocolate myself because the yellow paint is fluorescent, so it glows in the dark Great. Which I thought was fantastic.
So I I then sprayed the whole board's yellow, and then I put this stencil on top and then just sprayed the writing black. I then pre drilled the corners, four corners of every board so I could put cable ties in and, sort of put it to things for people to see. Did you do all of that? The drilling? I did. Yeah. Of course, I did. Wow. I did all of yeah. I did all of that. And then I was like, oh, but what happens if it rains? So out I went again, got myself some PVA glue, watered it down, and then I had to give both sides of 6 boards 3 coats of sealant to water protect it. Because I thought, you know what? After all of my painting, I am not having the right in blooming run that people can't see
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it. No. They look impressive. Why? You they look very impressive. They look very impressive. Well done. Yeah. You are committed. You are so committed.
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Like being. I really don't like I don't like being committed to anything. And that sounds quite bizarre, but I don't. But I am of that ilk of if I'm in, I'm all in, and I'm doing a proper job. You know? And that you do. That you do. But your determination
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and, you've got me going out on a bit of a joyride with you on Tuesday, haven't you? I have. What have I signed up for? Shelley, early morning. Signed up for?
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I know. Well
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well, you've signed up to be on Good Morning Britain live streaming from the coach.
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Are you serious about that? I know you put that in a message. Yes.
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Yes. There's there's, the reporter and 4 TV tech crews, so it streams live as we're driving along to Good Morning Britain so that, you know, the presenters can say, oh, okay. And over to Geraldine, who's now at Exeter service stations. We've got a quick update from the farmer's coach. Yeah. I'm not even kidding. No. Which is why which is why I said, oh, what what look are we are we doing the Oxford look? Are we doing the London look? What are we doing?
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She's talking about what we need to wear, guys. Our protest look. What do you wear? And I'm still I think I'm getting old, seriously, because I'm like, I've gotta be warm. I might even have to bring my earmuffs. Like, it's not just the case situation or which coat and hat to wear. What bag? Do we need a backpack? Well, yeah.
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It's like I had read your message, and you're going, oh, it's gonna be cold. And I thought, oh, gosh. Yeah. Momentarily, I did worry. And then I was like, no. No, Shelly. Have you forgotten? When you're actually pounding the pavement, you really don't feel how cold it is. You don't get cold. If anything, you get a bit hot. So I think the name of the game would be layers.
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Go with layers. Layers, but I was having this conversation with my daughter earlier. Like, I wear tights. But you know when you sit on certain seats when you wear tights, you just want to itch. Do you ever get that? Yeah. Yeah. What what if those seats are like that? So I think I'm gonna have to go for leggings or I carry leggings with me, but there's nothing worse. And then I also have moments with tights where the crotch area seems to be hanging down by my knee. And I'm Uncomfortable. Yeah. I think we're going leggings. But, yeah, we are off to London, listeners, to support our farmers in this massive rally on Tuesday, and the coaches leaving at 4 AM.
So,
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oh, most days, I've got my head around it. Tune in to Good Morning Britain. Yeah. You might see us. Because they they, they put it onto YouTube as well live. So you don't even actually have to watch it on TV. So if you're not in this country, you can just go on to YouTube, good morning Britain, and it'll be there.
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Wow. We'd have to share that link. Yeah. I'll do it for you, Shelley. I'll just speak to Jo, actually. It's it's her little things. She knows everything that's going on. Yeah. No. I am looking forward to it, actually, but it's just I'm not a big night driver because Darren was, like, telling me which way to go. And I said, Darren, I'm not going on the 8:30. I'll go the back roads because it's dark and the lights flashing and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's gonna be a anyway, I'm hyped. I am getting there and I've just got it in my mind. Tomorrow night, I'm gonna sleep on the couch. 10 o'clock lights off.
Really? Yeah. Because I'm gonna have to be up at half past 2.
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How? Why are you not gonna sleep in your bed, though?
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Because I'll disturb Darren when I get up, and he's gotta be up early in the morning.
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Okay.
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Yeah. I just,
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Okay.
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Yeah. I'll be ready to go. And, like, I'm only gonna have 1 or maybe 2, probably 2 2 glasses of wine in the evening. But I remember going on holiday and having to get up stupid o'clock, and I'll tell you what, I never felt so ill with my life at that airport. I was so hungover. Really? Yeah. Because if I drink, I need to sleep. That's where, like, you know, a hangover would come in. And so I don't wanna be on a coach journey for 6 hours feeling rough as. So just 2 pack of glasses. I did think I did think, oh, I'll pack us some, like, bacon
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you know, like a little breakfast.
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They'd be cold, though, won't they? We'll stop Saturday, won't we?
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Oh, yeah. We're stopping at, we're stopping at Exeter services for sure. Yeah. Maybe maybe just a little flask of tea to keep us going until then. Look at us. We sound like OAPs going on a lovely bus tour.
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I know. Because it's all like, you know, well, if you wear that dryrobe, I know there's the stigma with the whole dryrobe wankers, but it's like a blanket on the inside, you see, and I could use it as a blanket. But then I don't want a, like, a dryrobe wanker, you know, but it's gonna be on the news.
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Yes. It's it is getting very, very exciting. Very exciting.
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Yes. I can't believe we're going, actually. Because I did say after Oxford, never again. I can't do all that walk in, all the early starts. And here you are. You've talked me into it again.
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Talked you into it. Well, this one, there there isn't a lot of walking to do. So that's a bonus, but it is an early start, which perhaps is not so much of a bonus.
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But when you are up, you really appreciate it, don't you? I mean, I was up early today, like, half 7. But for me on a Sunday, that's early. You know, we were out the house at 20 to 9, and I was like, wow. That's early. I know. My grandson had a gym competition and stuff. And, yeah, but it was nice to be out and, like, watch as the day grows. You know? Like, the light comes up and everything. But, yeah, I was just not gonna do that. It had past 2 in the morning. But, oh, it's a bit exciting. I feel like we're going on holiday, actually.
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I know. It's very exciting. A little coach. Apparently, there's a lot of coaches going. A lot of people will be in London, sort of like in the tens of thousands of people. Loads. Like, just loads and loads and loads.
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So it's gonna be a good day. Good day. It will be. It will be a very good day. Yes.
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Are you thinking of taking your camera?
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I have thought about that, but then I thought, should I just use my phone? Oh, I don't too many things to think about, Jo. I don't want me carrying loads of stuff. I'll think about it, but I need I'll need a charger for my phone because my phone battery dies all the time. So It does so. Got one of those here, but I don't know. I might take my camera. I'll take my old one. But yeah. And then you make sure I've got there and my lipstick.
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Oh, yes. Yes. I don't I don't travel without any painkillers. That's all. And hand wipes. You know what I like with hand wipes? Be prepared. Yeah. Yes.
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Well Yes. Will have to pack the bag, won't I? I know. I'm gonna do that tomorrow. Then. Yep. A whole bag just for, like, a 24 hour round trip, but, yeah, it's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. Right. And with that, miss young Jo, we gotta go. It's been an hour. Okay. So I will speak to you probably in a minute to make final yeah. Right, dear listeners. I know you're right. Thank you for listening. If you've got any requests, please pop them along, our thing for music or anything like that, a little poem, anything, anything you'd like to chat about. So have an awesome week, and we'll be back and we'll fill you in same time next week.
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And,
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oh, Presto Street.
Good evening to all the beautiful women out there and the occasional gentlemen that might be listening in too. You are listening to women's hour coming live from radiosoapbox.com. It's good to have your company. I'm also streaming on Rumble. Just hit Shelley Tasker, and you will find my channel. Today's date is Sunday, 17th November 2024, and we are joined with a wonderful cohost again this evening, miss young Jo Wood. Good evening, miss young Jo Wood.
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Hello, miss Shelley Tasker.
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Tasker. I love it. It's funny how people say that, is it? Because I'm Tasker. You're Tasker. Tasker. Tasker. But Darren says Tasker. Yeah. And I'll like, our mutual friend, Chan, he always says Tasker. I love saying Tasker.
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Yeah. It's it's sort of a bit like the potato, potato, tomato, tomato, that type of thing, isn't it? Tasco,
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Tasco or Tasker.
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Casher.
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I mean, it's funny thing, actually, isn't it, the old name? Because that's my married name from my second husband. There have been only 2, but I kept it. There's only been 2. Room for 4. There there is. I I don't think he's ever gonna ask me, though. But, when we broke up, because my business was Shelley Tasker Photography, I decided to keep that name. And now it would be really odd going back to Shelley Hart.
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Well, yeah. Because you're you're not Shelley Hart. You're Shelley Tasker. It's like, I look at you, and that name is just perfectly you,
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Shelley Tasker. Yeah. I know. It's funny your name's super you let your name is it's Saint Jude as well. It's probably a super thing to say. Mine's very much like
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in your face, isn't it? Jo Woods. It's like just very, very blunt.
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Jo. Yeah. But you'd me because I am. Yeah. You are blunt. I
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am. But you're Joanna, really, aren't you, or Joanne? I am. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I it sounds as if I'm precious about my name. Precious. I'm really not. I'm I'm really not. But what I struggle with, and I always have all my life, it's not a difficult name, is it? Joanna. But people go Joanne. And I'm like, it's not Joanne. It's not Joanne. It's Joanna. It's not difficult.
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You know? Or just Jo for easy sake. Yeah. I mean Yeah. Do your parents know Joanna?
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Periodically, my my dad does. Most of the time, I get called Joe or, a family nickname. But yeah.
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A family nickname? Come on enlighten us.
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They call me Mucker.
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Mucker?
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Mucker. It's a it's an old Cockney London name. They call me Mucker and my brother Herbert. Okay. Which is very odd. I know. So, yeah, more often than not, I get mucker. You alright, mucker? What you doing? Yeah.
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Yeah. And then Yeah. It's nothing to do with being sloppy, I hasten to add. No. No. But on your works badge at work, are you Joanna or Jo?
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I don't have a work badge. Do you not? That's not very professional. Well, no. The the the the position I hold, I can't identify myself straight away to people. True. True. People would be like, oh my god. It's her. It's that woman. It's her. You know, it's bad enough that they see me come in and they're like, oh my god. Quick. You know? Put away all the paraphernalia or whatever it is they're doing that they should be doing. So yeah. It's
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interesting, actually, isn't it? Because not that, I'm egotistical or anything like that, but I do think my name and someone said to me about this the other day at the toddler group. She's still everybody knows who you are, Shelley. And I'm like, for what reason, though? She says, well, your photography and your activism. Now I think I've lost a lot of work because of my activism and because of my beliefs over COVID times. I think people think, oh, I'm not gonna go and see her, the young gentleman lady.
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Which I I I I do struggle with that attitude of people. It's, you know, why can somebody not have a different belief system from yourself? They can, and they do. But are you really gonna let that stop you going to them for a service or going into a particular shop or you know? And I find that attitude quite strange. You know? You don't you you don't go to somebody for a service if they're not very good at it. You don't go into a shop to buy something if that shop isn't selling something you want or they're not good quality. I I think sort of, you know, the whole attitude of being labeled for whatever somebody's belief is is is disappointing, is is offensive, really. Yeah. I think I'm quite offended by it.
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You're offended? Offended? How dare you? What is it? Well, you have the right to choose to be offended. Yes. But, I don't know. This whole offensive everyone's offended in this day and age, aren't they? And this is why people don't say anything because it's like, oh, I might offend you. I might say something that you don't know. Yeah.
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I mean, I think it was last week. I was on the Farmers Movement page, and I posted something. And I dare to use the words, welcome to communist Britain. And people were losing their absolute minds over it. And I'm like but I'm telling you how it is. I've I've just given you this this example from, I think it was, the Telegraph maybe or The Guardian Newspaper that had said themselves, we are heading into a communistic state. So it's not like I've just flippantly thrown it out there, but people were very offended by that word communist.
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I never really understand all of these words like socialism, communism, and I bought a book actually a couple of months ago, another one just to add to my pile that I might flip through from time to time. Like a bookworm, aren't you? Oh, I love books. I do love books. Yeah. I just love them. Love them. Book voucher. Anytime, you know, anytime anybody's ever stuck and they think, oh, I wanna get Shelly a present. Get me a voucher for Amazon or something. But most of the books, they're always, like, self help books and learning about stuff. You know? But, yeah, I had to look at all the things, like because law, you know, when we've gone through all these court cases with COVID and stuff like that, it's just, like, so much to know about, isn't there? And I've said before, I don't retain information that well, but this book is really good, actually. I'll have to I was thinking, I mean, your knowledge and you you retain information really well, but for people like me, it's helpful. Helpful.
But I do tend to read a lot of stuff on Facebook. I think if it wasn't for these groups, you know, our ongoing health problems and things like that, I'm now in, like, the urine therapy group, the gut health group. Oh my gosh. How is that going? How is that going? How is that going? Haven't done any of that for a week.
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Good. Good. Because I'm convinced it has actually sort of made you, you know, quite poorly at times.
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I'm convinced of it. I know you are. I know. No. It's just that time of the year when everything's caught up. I've had the cough and the cold, blah blah blah blah. But, no. I mean, if I had something like cancer, I mean, that book, you you must read it. I will lend it to you. But when you've read these testimonials and things, you can't argue that it has helped people for whatever reason. I know it's a strange one. But and you do. As the day goes on, it's like I perhaps I I told you about my skin when I put it all on my face. And the next morning, my face was like, like I'd put on a, like, tight vermin mask
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or something. It really, really helped me. That. Yeah. Yeah. But no. You know? I think I I think I could do that. I just don't think I could do the I I know I I couldn't. I couldn't do the other bit. Just know. Well, I was getting pretty desperate.
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When you're uncomfortable, I think you will try anything. And it was actually Patrick who said to me that, you know, when he used to get horrendous heartburn, he would drink his urine, and it would disappear. So I have been that bad. Now this is day 2 that I feel that I'm on the up, interestingly. I've dropped all of my PPIs. I'm, like, popping 1 a day now, and I've been on a really yeah. I've been on a really high dose of these. Looking more and more into it, it appears that you're only ever supposed to be on them for 8 weeks or so. And then once you yeah. I know. But half the world is on Omeprazole, and I was on a really high dose of Omeprazole and fametidine.
So I I believe actually that in the end, they made things worse. Because since I've been coming off them, my symptoms have slowed down. And Wow. Yeah. So they reckon if you take them for a maximum of 8 weeks, during that 8 weeks, that's when your tummy gets time to heal from being, inflamed and stuff like that. But everybody just stays on them. And, of course, we just do what the doctor tells us, don't we? Of course, you're just suppressing the symptoms.
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And I'm Well, that's interesting. You should say that. I was watching a video this morning, and I did send it to myself to forward on to you. And it was all about sort of gut health and, you know, sort of the symptoms that you have been suffering yourself. And he was really big on, you know, doctors are just suppressing the symptoms. They're not dealing with the issue. And, really, for everything this guy was talking about, he said it's just all inflammation. Everything is inflammation, and it all stems from the gut.
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Yeah. Everything to do with that gut biome. And I'm just fascinated by it. I think at the moment, actually, part of me thinks, do you know what? I wonder
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it's never too late. Never too late. But to start a course or something in nutrition or something, I'm really interested in that. Too late. Never. Too late. Never. Too late.
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Nutrition or something, I'm really interested in that. Too late. Never too long. I think you're right. And I think when you really start thinking about how you want to heal yourself from various elements, you gotta start looking at what you're eating, what you're drinking, You know? And we have a really good diet. I was just saying to Darren tonight, actually, over dinner. We we don't eat yes. We do have the occasional treat because we do. Like, we'll have a biscuit. Darren has an ice cream every day. But this week, I've heavily started eating vegetables again because I realized that even though we're not meat eating much processed food, we don't seem to eat many vegetables. And you need the fiber to stop your gut.
If it hasn't got anything else to eat in there, then it's gonna eat your gut lining. Yeah. I think that I could almost be a teacher on this subject in 6 months or so.
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Oh, wow. If I could retain all the information a plane, isn't it? A a crash Well, oh, let's not use the word crash in planes. Like, an intense learning course to fly a plane. Let's do it. You become a a teacher in nutrition, and I will become a fully fledged pilot.
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Well, if I was rich, I would buy you one of those vouchers, the flying experience. And perhaps even go in with you, but I would be drugged right up on that as a can just so I could sit there and imagine? Shelley, could you press that? And I'll just be there with my eyes shut and just
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But, yeah, I think I think you should look into it. You know? I also saw another interest, in fact, the other day. And it's weird because probably back in my in my mid, yeah, my mid late twenties, maybe early thirties, I used it specifically as a mouthwash, and that was hydro, hydrogen peroxide, 3% to white and teeth. But I'd seen our friend Kate Shemerani, and she says that when she gets out of the shower, 3% hydrogen peroxide, she uses it almost as if it's a body oil. Obviously, it's liquid, but she rubs it all over her body. And when she said why, and I was like, oh my gosh. That is just so obvious. So hydrogen peroxide is basically, oops, basically a oxygen sort of whitener or it breathes it just it it it it's activated or it activates on a premise of oxygen. Yeah?
So when you rub it into your skin and your skin is your largest open organ on your body, you know, it's not like it's a wet suit. Anything that touches our skin within 7 seconds literally goes through to the bloodstream. 7
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seconds. That's horrendous. Wow. And that just goes to show, like, the damaging stuff of sunscreen and stuff, doesn't it? Yes. Yeah. Absolutely.
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So, you know, put in hydro, hydrogen peroxide 3% on your skin. Just go straight into your bloodstream and then helps oxygenate the blood. So, you know, you're you're you're sort of fully feeding those red blood cells with oxygen. And I thought, well, I'm going to get myself some.
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Another little tincture.
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Why not? Yes. I mean Yeah. I've been in How many how many supplements are you up to then?
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Well, the thing is you're supposed to take them for at least 4 weeks, aren't you, to start start seeing a difference? And I I admittedly don't. I'm like, oh, that's not working. I'll try something out. I went into that lovely shop in Red Roof, the natural food shop, and I'll tell you what, their information, that's the place I'd like to work. I was I was asking. I was like, have you got any jobs going here? How do you learn about all of this stuff? They're so helpful. So, she talked me through all of the sauerkraut stuff and what have you, and I couldn't decide whether I wanted to try it or not. So I cheated, and I was like, no. Let's let's go the whole probiotic thing. I need probiotics, okay, to get that good bacteria going. But ideally, if I was to eat fermented foods, raw milk, and stuff like that, I should be able to rebalance it myself.
So I got some of those, and I also got a magnesium supplement. I can't remember that. Oh, because, apparently, magnesium There's does so much, and it relaxes your esophagus to make that cold smaller.
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There's there's lots of different magnesiums. You've got magnesium, nitrate, glycerate, like, I think there's, like, 4, maybe 5 different types
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that are all for different elements for want of a better word. Yeah. Well, this is it. I I just want to learn all about, like, enzymes and things like that. I mean, I don't I don't know if we did that at school. It was probably on a day it wasn't there. No. Or probably wouldn't have been interested anyway. That's part of the problem, isn't it? That's why we've got such a nation that
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is more often than not a sick nation because you're not. You're not really taught about, you know, the good life. You're not taught how to look after your body or how to keep it healthy, what you should be filling your body with, like, you know, you don't go unless you're your dad. You don't go and put, like, you know, diesel in a petrol car or vice versa. You know, you've got to fuel your body with the right type of fuel, and you're not taught that at school. You're not. No. No. You may have a little home economics class, but that's about it.
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That is one of the things that they should be taught, I think, along with gardening and budgeting, financial planning. Yes. There's no life skills, is there? I mean, when I did, home economics at school, we made things like banana cakes and shit. Oops. Excuse my language. But I'm I'm not being funny. People would've would've benefited from learning how to boil an egg. You know? Yes. Simple things.
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Yep. Exactly. Exactly. You know? I was exactly the same. You know?
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Yeah. Yeah. But the supplement wise, those are the only 2 that I'm really taking. And then my daughter's going on to me about taking these digestive enzymes. Well, I started taking those a couple of weeks ago, but I've realized that every time I took one, they gave me really bad bellyache. And I was like, no. I'm not taking these because I did though. Yeah. I don't know why, but they just didn't suit me. But what's interesting at the moment is the whole problem before I had one of the reasons I kept going to the doctors was because of a chronic cough, which is like silent reflux. So now I've stopped more or less the PPIs.
The cough has come back, but I think I'd rather have the cough. I say that at the moment, but then there's nothing worse. Bear in mind, I am getting over a bad cold and cough from last weekend. But now I have to fight the cough rather than the burning sensation in my friends. It's like the lesser 2 of the evils. There's It is, and it's like sidetracking now. So I've gone back to where I was, like, 4 years ago, and that's how long I've been on these PPIs for. And they've probably done so much damage to my body, really, when you think up to 8 weeks, you should be taking them just to heal things, but everybody just stays on them. And then they're just suppressing everything that comes off.
So today
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Because people rely, don't they? People rely on doctors to know what they're doing. Yeah. Of course they do. Yeah. Clearly, they were just like, oh, no, love. You carry on taking them.
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Yeah. I mean, I was glad because I was kept going to the, GP, and I was given antibiotics and everything. And they were like, oh, antibiotics won't really work, but not for a cough. And you know what it's like when you're so desperate. Like, and at the time, I didn't realize what antibiotics did to you neither. I'd be like, yeah. Just give me some antibiotics. I don't care. And now I'm really like you know, when I've had tonsillitis before, it's like usually they're the only thing that they really clear it up. And I said to the doctor, what what do you think? And he said, well, can you do another few days feeling as you were? And I was miserable. And I was like, no. No. 2 young children I'm looking after. So Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to take the antibiotics, but then it's you've just killed so much of your good bacteria as well.
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Yeah. Well, I had also read last week somewhere, it takes approximately between 9 and 12 months for your gut biome to recover every time you take antibiotics. Oh my god. That's a long time. But I'm I'm with you. You know? I mean, I had my tonsils out as a as a late teenager, and, I still remember the pain of having tonsillitis like it was yesterday. There is absolutely no way on this earth I would have gone down a natural remedy to alleviate tonsillitis. Absolutely no way. And, you know, I I'm sure there's people out there that would say, oh, well, there are things. When you've got really, really bad tonsillitis, that you're running a fever, you just wanna kill yourself, you're gonna take antibiotics.
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Definitely. I've probably had them oh, god. I tried to think how many times I've had them in my life, actually. But now knowing what I know, unless it was but like you say, if you're in that much pain, then, you know, my friend, Paul, who runs this radio station, he's had, like, what do you call it? An abscess. He said on Wednesdays, I had this abscess. And he said I said, oh god. Go to doctors. Get some antibiotics. I think for things like that, what do you do? Exactly. And he said, oh, I'm trying to stay off the antibiotics. It's like, oh my god. You need some. So I said, actually, try urine therapy.
Oh my god. And then Patrick piped up and said it's it should be aged urine though. So No. Oh my god. Like, fermented. No. Yeah. Fermented urine.
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I would say maybe even well, crikey, you'd probably burnt skin, but maybe diluted hydrogen peroxide. You know? I'm just like, but again, what do you do? What do you do? Do you persevere, you know, and and hope that it's gonna clear up via the natural route? Or do you take antibiotics? Yeah. Answers on a postcard, please. Yeah. Listeners.
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Because there's some people that'd be like, no. Absolutely not. But, you know, if you've got bad infections and things, you do need to treat them. But I suppose, at least if you're aware and think, well, actually, do you know what? I've really gotta start taking some extra supplements now because of the antibiotics I've taken.
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But, Yeah. I think, you know, it it's very different. Well, it's a twofold situation. It's very different. 1, if you're in relatively good, okay health, you've kind of got a little bit of the luxury time on your side to go, okay, I can start building myself up with, you know, supplements. And if you are of that ilk, which you will soon be a fully fledged certified nutritionist, is if you know about these things and you know what to take and nip a problem in the budge straight away, then that's all well and good, but the majority of us don't.
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No. And it does it's crazy, isn't it? Because I'm going down this journey by myself. I say by myself. I share my weekly updates with you and the listeners. But, you know, I'm supposed to be seek speaking to the surgeon on the 2nd December. And the last thing I want really is to have invasive surgery to mess around with my stomach. You know? So if I can heal it and treat it myself, then I'm gonna do everything I can to do it. But you see, even the doctor really, he doesn't does he know if I've got high acid levels or low acid levels? So I've also ordered, I've ordered more supplements.
I ordered zinc last night because that's supposed to be very good for, GERD, reflux, and stuff. And I ordered some of those acid strips that you wheel. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. And I thought they they'll just show the levels of acidity in my urine. But, you know, it's just because I'm just trying to find answers out myself rather than have You're being very proactive. I am. I've watched YouTube things on it, but then it's also you know, whenever you've got a problem, people say, oh, you wanna try this? Oh, you wanna try this? It's like too much of it now, isn't there? When I had a frozen shoulder, the amount of people that said they could have fixed it, and I must have seen about 4 people. And, actually, knowing now that it was a it was either a frozen shoulder or a torn rotary cuff, it's just healing. You can't do anything about it.
Yeah. But it was just getting that diagnosis, and that is not I feel like my other arm is going the other way. I can't stretch too far. Bit of a bummer. But I just have to use my left arm. Joyful in the neck. I'm I am today,
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I am suffering with I don't know what it is. Almost like repetitive strain injury in my forearm Right. From from, using a a paint roller an awful lot in the last 24 hours. And I tell you what, I can really feel the ligament from my wrist on the inside of my arm, that real nice soft fleshy bit from my wrist right up to my elbow. And I'm like, how bad is that? You know, that I all I've done is use a paint roller and, admittedly, quite a lot in the last 24 hours. But I'm like, that's either a sign of old age or or I'm I'm unfit in my arms. So I have no strength. But
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I don't know. I know. I know. You say an arm injury. Yeah. What? You do have an arm injury?
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Yeah. Yeah. I from using a paintbrush. Alright. That's embarrassing.
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No. I get a bit like that. I do think we are getting older, and things start to pain us a little more a little more. And my argument is that I will start, like, trying to get fit when all my ailments are, like, corrected. I think I couldn't cope going and exercising now. I've got too many aches and pains, and I would love to lose weight. I feel like a ripe Chubba one at the moment. But I'm drinking things like pint of milk. Pint. Yes. Milk is good. Well, I'm drinking milk about a pint a day, but it's gotta be very full of calories.
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But I'm just, like, feeding my body at the moment, trying to restore it. Yeah. I mean, it's about listening to what your body is saying it wants or it needs, isn't it? So I am I am a huge believer in that that you just inherently know what your body needs. Yeah. You know? This sounds this this sounds very, very bizarre. But I know that if I don't eat at least this this sounds crazy. If I don't eat at least 2 carrots a day, I my my body is saying something to me. It's given me, like, little signs of I I just don't feel quite right today. You know? And I I I'm I'm convinced I'm not lacking in vitamin a because I've been eating carrots for the last 26 years,
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like, all the time and every day. You do like a raw carrot, don't you?
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I I love carrots. If I don't eat at least 2 for, like, 2 a day for I can get to, like, day 3, and I start feeling a little bit ill. And I don't know. I I I hope not. I hope that's not like some sort of withdrawal symptoms, you know, like cold turkey from carrots, for goodness sake, or whether my body is going, uh-oh. Uh-oh. We're we're getting low in something. You know? Send out the message that she better start eating carrots again.
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Yeah. And do you peel them?
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I do. But when I was pregnant, I tell you, if those carrots had dirt on, that was all the better as far as I was concerned. And I I literally had to have carrots that had just been pulled out of the ground, and I'd give them a little shake and dust off, and then I'd eat them. And I'd it would get me over the morning sickness, and I'd feel absolutely fine.
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Wow.
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Yeah. And I guess I've carried that on, really. So, you know, it's not like I am lacking in bitumen a because I've been eating them for nearly 26 years.
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So you should be you should have good eyesight then as well. That's an old wife's day. My eyesight is okay.
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You know? I think I think it's okay. Occasionally, if if I'm tired, I do wear glasses for long distance. But it's not that I can't see. When I wear them, it just makes everything a lot more sharp. But, yeah, I think for my age, I'm my eyes, I'm doing okay.
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You are. You are. Well, I mean, the little 84 year old lady that I used to look after, Princess Eve, she never worn glasses. It used to make me die every day reading that, you know, watching her read that newspaper, and I think, my god. Wow. I'm half your age. And I would need glasses. I you know, whenever we're out now, I'll be like, oh, Darren, can you read that? But I just always keep a cheap pair from the pound shop in my bag so I can read. You see, my my glasses
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aren't even that strength, which would be the lowest strength you would buy at the pound shop. I I can't even wear them because I put them on, and I'm like, oh my god. I feel dizzy. That's all blurry. That's horrible. So that lower strength is, like, way too strong for me.
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Right. And and the thing is you you can heal your eyesight apparently, can't you? You can do exercises and stuff.
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We we have we we know somebody that very recently had said to me, oh, I know how to better my eyesight. And I said, oh, I don't think I like the idea of what you're about to say. And it transpires that they have and they continue to use their own urine as an eye wash and they are absolutely convinced that their eyesight, by the day, is getting better. And I'm sure that it is because I did mention it to you, and you said, oh, yeah. I'm not surprised.
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Yeah. It's interesting, isn't it? Yeah. But I know other people, they say, like, as soon as you start wearing glasses, that's it. But, again, it's been lazy, isn't it? I haven't got time to read up what exercises, and how lazy must I be if, well, you can't just sit there and move your eyes around. No. I'm just I'm always for the easy option, I say, for most things. But regarding my health at the moment, not my eyesight, but my gut health, I am you know, I'm realising. It's like we went out for breakfast this morning, and, I had a small breakfast.
Fancy in Wetherspoons. I haven't been there for ages, but £2.25 for a small breakfast. You can't moan at that, can you? I was gonna say that's really good. Really good. Yeah. It was it was nice. It was a treat because we don't we used to eat a lot of cooked breakfasts and stuff. And I think the last couple of months, while I've been dealing with this, we've just been changing food. You know? I've started eating porridge this week because it's supposed to be full of fibre, but then I have to put, like, a tablespoon of sugar on it at the same time. But if that's what it takes, that's what it takes.
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You put sugar on your porridge. Yeah. Is that bad? Do you not find it sweet enough already?
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No. Not at all. It's just like, god, just like dried up mush.
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Tasteless. Well, it depends. Do you make it with water or milk? Milk. Full feet of milk. Oh, gosh. No. I couldn't put sugar on it. Oh my god. No. But I thought I might try honey.
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And what's the other natural sweetener? Maple syrup. That's the one. Yeah. Maple syrup. I thought I might try that,
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but I'm not keen on trying anything. Mortgage out. You have to take a mortgage out to buy maple syrup nowadays. A bit like olive oil. You know? Yeah. I bought a bottle of that today. Free mortgage. Yes. £7.99.
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That's more expensive than the wine I drink.
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That is that is crazy. The 500 meals, it's like just are you having a laugh? Yeah. It's yeah.
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But what was funny? Well, it wasn't funny. You know these flog it pages on Facebook and stuff? Yes. Well, there's, like, food banks 1 and stuff like that. Or ran I think it's very random that people, like, cook meals, and they say, I've just cooked way too much. Would anybody like this bowl of casserole? And the amount of people that jump on it but I'm that sort of person who be like, well, I don't know what your house is like. And, you know Exactly. But if you haven't got any money and you're starving, you can't be fussy, can you?
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But That is true.
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My point was that some is well, the point that I'm trying to make is that somebody put out and she didn't do an anonymously. Bless her. And she said, I use a food bank regularly, and I also work full time, but I cannot make ends meet. And she said, would it be too much to ask? And she said, it's rude, she said, but I'm gonna ask anyway. Perhaps some of you, when you donate food to the food bank, might include some things like olive oil and tomato puree and garlic. Because they're so expensive. They are. And then someone came back and had a right go at her and what have you. And then other people were like, well, just because I'm really poor doesn't mean that I don't wanna give my family the best food, really. And I get that. I get that because we've been lied. We've said before, and we've been lied about everything, all the good fats.
I I don't use any oil, any seed oil anymore. No. I use butter all the time, full milk. Yeah. But and lard. Lard is, like, one of the best things you can roast things in, but everything is the opposite. Lard. Love a bit of lard, a bit of dripping.
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Yeah. Dripping sandwiches.
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I mean, I'm sure you've heard your parents say, back in the day when we were hungry, if we wanted to snack, we'd have a dripping sandwich with
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rank. But now I go, oh, do you know what? I would imagine that'd be quite tasty and very good for you. Very, very good
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for you. Yeah. Yeah. The bread would be the worst part. But then they didn't have all sliced bread and processed bread then, did they? You used to, like, buy your bread from the bakery fresh. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So, I had an
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uncle. He died probably about 3, 4 years ago, but he died at age 98 and every day of his life without fail would have a fry up for breakfast. Now you tell me how he managed to survive fit and healthy at 98.
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Yeah. There's a lot to be said, isn't it? You know, like, my nan was 99 when she died earlier this year, and all of her life, though, would have had proper food. You know? Yes. No processed stuff. All real proper food. I say all the time, you know, the supermarkets, really, they only need 2 shelves open, don't they?
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Not 2 shelves. 2 aisles. Yeah. Yeah. They're they're killing us with all their processed rubbish, and we're all programmed to be going to buy it.
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Yeah. Yeah. I've gotta be very desperate these days. When I was poorly last week and, you know, Darren wasn't gonna cook, and I just said, oh, get one of those frozen no. Not frozen. A fresh Tesco Shepherd's pie. And I really enjoyed it, actually, but it's not often we do do that. You know? And I'm sure there's lots of them that are better off than others. But back in the day when, like, the Tesco value range came out, I can remember buying sausages for, like, 25 p a packet, and they had, like, 5% meat in them. If that as if you're lucky. Yeah.
Wow. We do eat rubbish. Yeah. Well, I don't, but the world does.
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The world does, and that's the problem, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.
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And, you know, Pyrenees, he's just a total chocoholic, and it infuriates me that because I'm on this mission as well, and I know that by him changing his diet could help with a lot of things. But what do you do? He's a fussy eater. You know? And everybody's, oh, I would do this. I would do this. But it's like, we've been there, done that, bought the t shirt T shirt. You know, it's going on. It's fine. He eats. I don't care anymore. But his friend came and called for him earlier, and they went to the shop. And his friend came back with a can of Coke. And I'm like, oh, oh, does your mom know you've got Coke?
And, you know, I used but I used to give my older children I used to buy bottles of Coke every week and lemonade at the supermarket. I didn't know any different. My daughter always says about that, and then she says, we never had any fruit in the house. I said, that's because nobody bloody ate it. Used to buy it, and it sits there and rots. You know? I wasn't that bad. Don't think
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I ever in actual fact, my daughter doesn't like fizzy drinks, so she never she never had them. Never had them. If she you know, as she became a teenager, if she was drinking alcohol and she had a mixer with it, oh my god. How bad do I sound as a parent? It's like, you know, your child just turned 16, and they're going out. And there I am with their friends, you know, mixing up a drink for her to take. But she would be like, you know, can you stir that lemonade around to make it go flat before you put it in with the vodka? Because she doesn't like fizzy drinks. So she would never drink fizzy drinks. She just drank a lot of water. Yeah. That's all pure and frank. Water. But but but again, how how how good or bad is that for you? I read a report last week that Southwest Water are planning to put fluoride in it. Yep.
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Yeah. Couple of people sent that to me, actually. Yes. It doesn't surprise me, but we've got our little water filters, Jo.
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We have indeed. So We have.
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You know, Darren always says, oh, it's a waste of money. I don't think it makes any difference. I'm like, well, I wanted one. We've got one.
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And it makes a huge difference. I just love it for the fact of, you know, it filters out 99.99% of parasites. That alone sold me. I'm like, yes. I will have that. Thank you very much.
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Definitely. Definitely. We're always taught, aren't we? Water is the drink of life, but when you actually know what you're drinking and stuff, no. It's not. No. It's not. No. It is not. It is not. Anyway, moving forward, gosh, where's the time gone? I've got a little song to play just because it's Sunday and, a little bit of a religious song. It's a song that Lovely. A little hymn from school. And, actually, I had this song randomly sung at my first wedding. God, lots of talk about previous weddings tonight. Yeah. I had some crazy songs in my first wedding, but, yeah, a bit different. Right. Here we are, people.
Here's a couple of minutes out to one more step along the world, I go.
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One more step along the world, I go. Round the corners of the world I turn, more and more about the world I learn. And the new things that I see, As I travel through the bad and good, keep me traveling the way I should,
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Oh, how lovely was that? It was beautiful. What is it about children singing? Oh, I hear children sing and I want to cry. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. Christmas time is coming, and I know that they'll just like, when they go to school, they'll sing a song, and I'll be like, oh my god. Oh my god.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. I miss those days.
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Yeah. Yeah. A nice little hymn. Have you got a favorite hymn? I mean, that's not my favorite. That's just one I like.
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Yeah. I like morning has broken. I was gonna say spoken, but morning's broken. Yeah. No. No. That's nice as well. Favorite ones. What would you have played at your funeral? Oh, I knew he'd That's a weird question, but, hymn wise,
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yeah, what would you have? Well, I always used to say one of my favorite songs is that jump around House of Pain. Jump around. Jump around. Jump up. Jump up and get down. When they bring the coffin in. Oh.
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Oh, no.
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I used to drive the kids to school with, roof off my car, and they would hate it. I'd have that song on full blast. Jump in the bird. Let me begin. Jump around. Yeah. Anyway, what about you? What would you have?
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I I don't know. Well, I do know why. This it reminds me of my dad a lot, and he isn't, by any stretch of the imagination, an Elton John fan. But I would have an Elton John song, and I don't know what it's called. And I'm not even going to attempt to give you the melody because I'm so tone deaf. Oh, but it goes, it's a little bit funny.
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It's a little bit funny.
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Yes. That one. I would have that one. And it isn't even a funeral related kind of thing, but it just always reminds me of my dad. Like, I could even hear it if I was in a coffin. But, you know, that's the song I would have.
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Oh, that is a beautiful song. I thought you was gonna say when makes me cry.
[00:47:25] Unknown:
It always makes me cry when I listen to it. And there is no hidden agenda behind that before anybody goes, oh, that's childhood trauma. No. It isn't. I just remember being in the car back in that era a lot with my dad, and that song would always be on the radio, and he'd always be singing along to it.
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Oh, lovely. And I think well, you can request, can't you? But I think your family choose a song as well. Anyway, we don't have to listen to that yet.
[00:47:58] Unknown:
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway I'd be telling them that is what I want. What I want. My this is my dying wish.
[00:48:05] Unknown:
Yeah. What was I gonna say? Right. Tell the listeners why what you've been painting for the last 24 hours.
[00:48:15] Unknown:
Well, yes. The reason why I've got repetitive arm injury is because I've been painting some very large boards for, farmers movement Cornwall rally, tractor rally with the farmers this Saturday, Truro, Victoria Square, 12:30. So I've gone out late this afternoon in the pouring rain, I hasten to add. And I've put up a whole load of boards everywhere. And the best thing is I mean, you know, it started with a really simple idea that I would have literally a stencil that I like, a sheet of plywood that would be stenciled, and I'd put it onto another piece of plywood. You know, I would just spray paint black writing, and that would be it. But you know me, Shelley. I don't do things by halves. Nope. So I was like, no. No.
I'll get all the boards that I need. First of all, I've gotta put a coat of any colored paint on it because, otherwise, what I spray onto it will just be sucked in to the raw wood. So I need to seal it. So naturally, of course, I had to paint the board with white emulsions, make sure there's no light brush marks. And when I'm doing this, I'm saying to myself, does it even matter, Joe? It's gonna be on the roadside. They're not gonna see blooming brush marks, but no. And then I got 2 cans of spray paint. 1 was yellow. 1 was black. And I had a little chocolate myself because the yellow paint is fluorescent, so it glows in the dark Great. Which I thought was fantastic.
So I I then sprayed the whole board's yellow, and then I put this stencil on top and then just sprayed the writing black. I then pre drilled the corners, four corners of every board so I could put cable ties in and, sort of put it to things for people to see. Did you do all of that? The drilling? I did. Yeah. Of course, I did. Wow. I did all of yeah. I did all of that. And then I was like, oh, but what happens if it rains? So out I went again, got myself some PVA glue, watered it down, and then I had to give both sides of 6 boards 3 coats of sealant to water protect it. Because I thought, you know what? After all of my painting, I am not having the right in blooming run that people can't see
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it. No. They look impressive. Why? You they look very impressive. They look very impressive. Well done. Yeah. You are committed. You are so committed.
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Like being. I really don't like I don't like being committed to anything. And that sounds quite bizarre, but I don't. But I am of that ilk of if I'm in, I'm all in, and I'm doing a proper job. You know? And that you do. That you do. But your determination
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and, you've got me going out on a bit of a joyride with you on Tuesday, haven't you? I have. What have I signed up for? Shelley, early morning. Signed up for?
[00:51:59] Unknown:
I know. Well
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well, you've signed up to be on Good Morning Britain live streaming from the coach.
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Are you serious about that? I know you put that in a message. Yes.
[00:52:16] Unknown:
Yes. There's there's, the reporter and 4 TV tech crews, so it streams live as we're driving along to Good Morning Britain so that, you know, the presenters can say, oh, okay. And over to Geraldine, who's now at Exeter service stations. We've got a quick update from the farmer's coach. Yeah. I'm not even kidding. No. Which is why which is why I said, oh, what what look are we are we doing the Oxford look? Are we doing the London look? What are we doing?
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She's talking about what we need to wear, guys. Our protest look. What do you wear? And I'm still I think I'm getting old, seriously, because I'm like, I've gotta be warm. I might even have to bring my earmuffs. Like, it's not just the case situation or which coat and hat to wear. What bag? Do we need a backpack? Well, yeah.
[00:53:23] Unknown:
It's like I had read your message, and you're going, oh, it's gonna be cold. And I thought, oh, gosh. Yeah. Momentarily, I did worry. And then I was like, no. No, Shelly. Have you forgotten? When you're actually pounding the pavement, you really don't feel how cold it is. You don't get cold. If anything, you get a bit hot. So I think the name of the game would be layers.
[00:53:49] Unknown:
Go with layers. Layers, but I was having this conversation with my daughter earlier. Like, I wear tights. But you know when you sit on certain seats when you wear tights, you just want to itch. Do you ever get that? Yeah. Yeah. What what if those seats are like that? So I think I'm gonna have to go for leggings or I carry leggings with me, but there's nothing worse. And then I also have moments with tights where the crotch area seems to be hanging down by my knee. And I'm Uncomfortable. Yeah. I think we're going leggings. But, yeah, we are off to London, listeners, to support our farmers in this massive rally on Tuesday, and the coaches leaving at 4 AM.
So,
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oh, most days, I've got my head around it. Tune in to Good Morning Britain. Yeah. You might see us. Because they they, they put it onto YouTube as well live. So you don't even actually have to watch it on TV. So if you're not in this country, you can just go on to YouTube, good morning Britain, and it'll be there.
[00:54:55] Unknown:
Wow. We'd have to share that link. Yeah. I'll do it for you, Shelley. I'll just speak to Jo, actually. It's it's her little things. She knows everything that's going on. Yeah. No. I am looking forward to it, actually, but it's just I'm not a big night driver because Darren was, like, telling me which way to go. And I said, Darren, I'm not going on the 8:30. I'll go the back roads because it's dark and the lights flashing and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's gonna be a anyway, I'm hyped. I am getting there and I've just got it in my mind. Tomorrow night, I'm gonna sleep on the couch. 10 o'clock lights off.
Really? Yeah. Because I'm gonna have to be up at half past 2.
[00:55:35] Unknown:
How? Why are you not gonna sleep in your bed, though?
[00:55:39] Unknown:
Because I'll disturb Darren when I get up, and he's gotta be up early in the morning.
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Okay.
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Yeah. I just,
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Okay.
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Yeah. I'll be ready to go. And, like, I'm only gonna have 1 or maybe 2, probably 2 2 glasses of wine in the evening. But I remember going on holiday and having to get up stupid o'clock, and I'll tell you what, I never felt so ill with my life at that airport. I was so hungover. Really? Yeah. Because if I drink, I need to sleep. That's where, like, you know, a hangover would come in. And so I don't wanna be on a coach journey for 6 hours feeling rough as. So just 2 pack of glasses. I did think I did think, oh, I'll pack us some, like, bacon
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you know, like a little breakfast.
[00:56:25] Unknown:
They'd be cold, though, won't they? We'll stop Saturday, won't we?
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Oh, yeah. We're stopping at, we're stopping at Exeter services for sure. Yeah. Maybe maybe just a little flask of tea to keep us going until then. Look at us. We sound like OAPs going on a lovely bus tour.
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I know. Because it's all like, you know, well, if you wear that dryrobe, I know there's the stigma with the whole dryrobe wankers, but it's like a blanket on the inside, you see, and I could use it as a blanket. But then I don't want a, like, a dryrobe wanker, you know, but it's gonna be on the news.
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Yes. It's it is getting very, very exciting. Very exciting.
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Yes. I can't believe we're going, actually. Because I did say after Oxford, never again. I can't do all that walk in, all the early starts. And here you are. You've talked me into it again.
[00:57:23] Unknown:
Talked you into it. Well, this one, there there isn't a lot of walking to do. So that's a bonus, but it is an early start, which perhaps is not so much of a bonus.
[00:57:36] Unknown:
But when you are up, you really appreciate it, don't you? I mean, I was up early today, like, half 7. But for me on a Sunday, that's early. You know, we were out the house at 20 to 9, and I was like, wow. That's early. I know. My grandson had a gym competition and stuff. And, yeah, but it was nice to be out and, like, watch as the day grows. You know? Like, the light comes up and everything. But, yeah, I was just not gonna do that. It had past 2 in the morning. But, oh, it's a bit exciting. I feel like we're going on holiday, actually.
[00:58:05] Unknown:
I know. It's very exciting. A little coach. Apparently, there's a lot of coaches going. A lot of people will be in London, sort of like in the tens of thousands of people. Loads. Like, just loads and loads and loads.
[00:58:21] Unknown:
So it's gonna be a good day. Good day. It will be. It will be a very good day. Yes.
[00:58:27] Unknown:
Are you thinking of taking your camera?
[00:58:29] Unknown:
I have thought about that, but then I thought, should I just use my phone? Oh, I don't too many things to think about, Jo. I don't want me carrying loads of stuff. I'll think about it, but I need I'll need a charger for my phone because my phone battery dies all the time. So It does so. Got one of those here, but I don't know. I might take my camera. I'll take my old one. But yeah. And then you make sure I've got there and my lipstick.
[00:58:55] Unknown:
Oh, yes. Yes. I don't I don't travel without any painkillers. That's all. And hand wipes. You know what I like with hand wipes? Be prepared. Yeah. Yes.
[00:59:08] Unknown:
Well Yes. Will have to pack the bag, won't I? I know. I'm gonna do that tomorrow. Then. Yep. A whole bag just for, like, a 24 hour round trip, but, yeah, it's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. Right. And with that, miss young Jo, we gotta go. It's been an hour. Okay. So I will speak to you probably in a minute to make final yeah. Right, dear listeners. I know you're right. Thank you for listening. If you've got any requests, please pop them along, our thing for music or anything like that, a little poem, anything, anything you'd like to chat about. So have an awesome week, and we'll be back and we'll fill you in same time next week.
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And,
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