United Kingdom Talk Sunday 10th August 2025

In tonight’s show :

Got any unwanted pet’s to donate ?
Accidental racism. Have you done that ?
A nice afternoon tea.
Downton Abbey Film.
More glasses.
Dreamies.
Matt in Canada calls into the show.
Listening to someone’s conversation, and commenting – but badly getting it wrong.
Cycling in Virginia Water.
More chips anyone ?
Eating out. Have you ever got food poisoning ?

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TEXT-In : 07451 287 337

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[Music] Evening gang and welcome to our little Sunday night chat show. It’s Sunday the 10th of August uh 2025. Welcome along to our little show boys and girls. What a lovely day today and yesterday and the day before and the day before that. What really nice weather at the moment we’re having. I managed um uh to get out on a long bike ride, the longest I’ve done on that new bike. Um about 20 miles all around all together down to Virginia Water uh this week. Short video of that coming up and also a short video of uh my afternoon tea with lovely Debs. Let’s see who the early people are with us on the show today. We’ve got Jason Vera from Vera’s Choice in the morning. Evening to you, darling. All right. Rachel Thieves. Not Rachel Thieves. Granny Freezer as in Rachel from accounts. I hope. Oh no, dear. We don’t want her here. We don’t want any members of the Labour Party here at all. Please go. You’re destroying everything, my dears. So, hello to Good evening to the lovely Shaniah. Sha is here for a reason tonight. You are the reason. Another depressing song as sung by certain members of the uh I say sung. Yeah, I use that term extremely loosely. Dear sung, you know, as sung by people. You are the reason. Evening to you. Evening to Mr. Mikey Mike. Hello to you, sir. Uh thank you, Rachel. She likes my shirt tonight. Look at that. There we are. Thank you very much. One of the um Orlando ones. evening to the delightful Tony Power in the chat box tonight. Someone who writes songs for the Eurovvision Song Contest, i.e. Tony P. You see, I know them all, dear. I may not be at the same level as them, but I know them all, dear. Probably next week, I expect Madonna might be in the chat box, although it won’t say Madonna. She’d be disguised under another name, you know, like Shirley Bassie. One of the pe Let me let you tell. One of the people here tonight is actually Shirley Bassie, but I can’t say what one. Thank you very much. That’s all right, Shania. I know, darling. To get a direct message to me, my darlings, uh, use the text message, please, up there. That’ll come straight into me, 07451-287337. Uh I I always say this now at the beginning of the show. It’s impossible to keep an eye on the chat box all the time and pull out the mute the messages that are for me mixed in with everyone else talking uh uh uh with their chatter. Okay. So please use that to send a message direct to me and that’ll come straight through there. And uh I’ve got to start cuz I promised Shaniah or should we wait till we get a few more people actually Shaniah? Should we give it another few minutes? Hey, we’ll give it another few minutes. Okay, my love. Um uh just for that little bit of chat that I promised you earlier. Okay. Um I got to go and have a second eye test. Yeah. Um it became obvious on Friday. These are my old glasses. Okay. So with my old glasses I’m reading right in front of me there is my stuff. You know my equipment. I have a screen either side. That one, news stories and what’s in the show. That one for music. Probably won’t use that today unless anyone sends a little tip. Then you’ll hear the cash register go on and your name mentioned. Uh, and right in front of me is a screen where I can see me and your chat and other bits and pieces uh connected to sending the show out to you. Okay. So, these are the glasses. These are my old glasses which I’ve got on and it’s okay. You know, things are very slightly blurred but I can get away with it, right? Um, similarly, you know, if I pick up a piece of paper with some writing on it. What should I Here we are. Let’s have a Tuesday features thing for the radio show which is already being worked on. Look at that. You know, I can look at that and yeah, you know, a slight blur, but it’s okay. You know, it’s okay. It’s okay. Well, um, couple of weeks ago, I had an eye test and on Monday, um, this week, just gone, uh, I picked up my new glasses in What? What color would you like, sir? What? Here is the old color for my the old color. What color would you like, sir? Green. Beautiful green color. Look at that. Don’t you like that green color uh for my um case? These are all I think these are all made out of recycled stuff now. You know, my mom used to go to Dolan and Hinson and you you always have a a a thing like this, wouldn’t you? You know, hard case, right? These are more like a I mean, they’re hard, but they’re soft. I would imagine they’re made out of some there’s sort of some recycling, you know, jumping on the green bandwagon or something like that. Anyway, so I had the eye test. He said, “Yeah, the eyes deteriorated uh more than that one. Um, so you’ll need new glasses.” Fine. Okay, that’s fine. Give me the prescription. Do you want to buy them now or should I just give it to No, no, I’ll I’m quite happy to buy them now. Um, so lady comes in from Specs Savers. Let me take you around to the glasses and um I said to her uh Oh, one thing that I he can see is the beginning of cataracts. The very beginning of cataracts apparently a norm add adding to the list of things that I’ve got now. Right. Um the very beginning of cataracts. So that’s okay. He said, “That’s a quite a normal thing for people of your age.” Oh, don’t you hate it when people say that, “Oh, it’s that’s you’re looking good for someone of your age.” Well, what do you mean? As opposed to what? Like dead, you know? Oh, for someone your age. I bleed Nate that. Anyway, so that’s fine. Nothing to worry about yet, apparently. All right. Um, so she comes out. She says, “Okay, I’ll take you around to the glasses.” Okay. um I’d like you to take me around to the really cheap ones, please. I said, I don’t see any point in spending hundreds of pounds on a pair of glasses. And she said put her hand on my shoulder. She said, you know what? Neither do I. You know, these people, I’m sure there’s some of you on here at the moment who have spent 100, 200, 300,400 on glasses. There was a bloke in the pub um I think it was Friday night or Saturday night. We talked about glasses. I just got these ones. He said, “Oh, you wouldn’t like to know the price of mine? Go on. £500. Why? Why oh why would you spend £500 on a pair of glasses? That’s a Jetu holiday. That’s a Jet 2 holiday. That is where you can save £50 per person. That’s over £200 for a family of four. That’s a Jetuology. Mind you, I say that about the Jetuologist. I came across an advert for Jet 2 the other day, right? I think it was on Tik Tok. different music. Now that ain’t going to work, is it? Why would you change something that’s working? You idiots. Idiots. It was all like a bit soft and a little bit British Airways. That one was a bit like that. No, I put comment. Where’s the original Jet 2 music? I won’t be buying anything. Well, I wouldn’t go on Jet 2 anyway. I It’s awful. All those young people, young lads in gray track suits getting a bit drunk and getting a little bit more easy. Anyway, uh yeah, and it it wasn’t that music, you know. Come on, hold my hands. Nothing beats it, wasn’t that? It was a bit mambby pami like watching BBC breakfast in the morning. Mambi Pami. They’re rowing, aren’t they? Naga and Charlie and their boss, they’re all rowing here. None of that here at the Mirable Studios in Raw Bit. The main reason for that being I’m the only bastard sitting here. Anyway, back to the glasses story. Right. So, she takes me round to the little board of uh glasses. And there they are. £15. £15. £30 45. No, too expensive now. Got to 45. No, we stopped there at 30. Thank you very much. Um, so I selected uh uh three four pairs uh three of these ones which are the plastic ones. Okay, lovely. Nothing wrong with these. Or is there nothing wrong certainly nothing wrong with a frame, right? And they don’t break because my older pair I have four pairs of the old um images old um prescription Three of those are plastic. They’re not broken yet after two years. Why would they break? And if they do, they’ll be going back to the shop. But they don’t. £15. Just crazy. Crazy. You people spending500 on a pair of Oh, but I really like I really like the frames. I mean, if you put them frame to frame, you know, you’re hard pushed to find much bloody difference between them, dear. These You’re off your heads. I’m sorry. you are off your edge paying £500 for a pair of glasses. Anyway, so that’s it. Right. So, these are the plastic ones. And I also have some metal ones like this, which I don’t have up here, but they’re very similar to that. They were the third I know. I splashed out and bought a pair for 30 quid. Can you believe that? I haven’t eaten for days. Send food parcels. Now, mind you, I say send food parcels. Do you know who gets a lot of food parcels? Any ideas? I’ll give I’m I’m going to give you a clue. Shaniah probably knows this as well. Who do you think Shaniah when I go and visit after mass? Endless food parcels come in for Father Danny. Little dear old ladies bringing in stuff. I can’t believe how much he must never go to the shops. Father Danny, he’s my parish priest. Wonderful, wonderful man. You couldn’t wish for a better very accepting of everyone. That is our priest should be very accepting of everyone. All these old deers come in and they got more and more food coming in. Uh this morning I observed an apple and blackberry crumble coming in from the delightful Dorothy who’s a lovely lady. She gave me a a heart magazine because she she had a heart attack a few years ago and when I mentioned to her I’ve got a bit of an issue there. Um, she bought me in this magazine and as I’m walking I said, “Oh, what’s that?” She said, “It’s not for you.” I said, “Go on, what is that then?” Apple and blackberry crumble. It’s for Father Danny. There’s a surprise. So, that went in and then some sort of cheese thing went in. And then, you come in and she’s got this huge box, massive, massive box. And I’m thinking, what’s in it? I am visited him uh because I wanted to have um uh this blessed. This was a gift uh from my niece recently. It’s nice, isn’t it? I think it was birthday gift. So, there’s a that’s a Mary there and a crucifix there. And I haven’t had this blessed. I said, “There you go.” I said, “Can you can you bless that for me?” And he blessed it and me and the giver of the gift, which I thought was a nice thing to do. Anyway, so I’m standing. So, we’re having this conversation, brother. I said, “It’s all right. Come in.” I said, “I’ll get out the way.” No, no, you stay there, Chris. Okay. This massive box come in and I think the lady’s I think she said her brother or her husband, one of the two, works for an airline, right? She opened this box and there must have been 30 chocolate mouses in little glass things in this box. I mean, he’s going to get done for receiving stolen goods, I reckon. But there were two trays of this stuff, so each one had about 25 or 30 chocolate mouses on it. He asked, “Chris, do you want to take some of those home?” I said, “Well, I can’t. I’ve come on the bike. They get crushed.” “Oh, well, put some of those in the fridge.” And I said, “Maybe you can give them cuz in the hotel next door they’ve got Afghan refugees.” And I said, “Maybe you can take them over there.” She said, “I wouldn’t be able to do that because they might have allergies, you know.” Oh, all this all this allergy stuff going on all the time. Yeah. You can’t give anyone. Oh, they might have an allergy. We never had any of this when we were kids. You just ate it. You just ate it. And if you had an allergy, unlucky. Now they worry. Allergy is allergies. So I don’t know what they did with the other tray of chocolate mouses. It’s endless this food coming into his office. Does your priest get this um Shaniah as a matter of interest. Anyway, so that’s Father Danny. There’s more church news in a moment which will amuse you. It will amuse you, I’m telling you. Okay, so we’re at the 15 rack. I’ve chosen three pairs of these with the plastic and one pair um with like metal rings which were £30 for those. So the total cost I think I get some free stuff there. The test or something else. The total cost and I had I paid extra I think £10 for some X-ray. I don’t know what it was some photo. Oh my god. I was blind for a moment. Couldn’t see a damn thing. I thought they’d killed me eyes and bright flash of light. And I have to say the puff test isn’t too bad now. You know that that’s not too bad now. They’ve got a new machine. Doesn’t hurt half as much. Um so uh so there we are. So we chosen the glasses. Put them in. Come back next Monday. Thank you very much. Bye-bye. And I got to say with Spec Savers, I’ve been going there years. Very, very efficient in there. Everything runs to time. I like that. I like things to run to I love things to run to. I hate things being late. You know, going back to church again, you know, I’m watching that clock and I’m waiting for the little bell to ring. Ding, ding. You know, 10:30 comes. Why hasn’t the bell rung yet? Never mind. I’ll start anyway. I’m I make them come out. I stop playing loud, right? And then they must be in there. Oh. Oh, look at the time. You know, you have to remind them. Anyway, um so I find them very efficient and very friendly. And I very much like uh a 10 out of 10 for Spec Savers over all these years I’ve been going there. I’m sure you’ve got a similar thing there. Let me just check me text messages. Don’t forget, do use that text message to get a text to us, boys and girls, and they drop straight into my little text message thing. And Patricia in Manchester is there. Hello, Patricia. Evening to my lovely Mark BS. Evening to you. Hello to you. And hello. Is he watching the um program or not at all? Mark, is your little boy there? SJ, right? SJ, hello to you. Half term. And he’s got him for the Is it just a day? Oh, the whole week. Oh, wow. Oh, fantastic. So, what little um trips are you going out for? And have you borrowed thousands of pounds to be able to do this? It’s dear to a it dear to go out anywhere. Where are you taking him this week as a matter of interest Martin? Send some photos if you want to and I’ll have a look. Oh, on on Facebook obviously. Evening to Big G. Now on the subject of glasses what we’re talking about at the moment. He says, “I have a terrible habit of breaking glasses at work. I know by prescription, so I get my work at glasses in Asda.£5 each.” Now I have a pair of those. I’ve got a pair of those here. Um they’re not quite as good as the ones I’ve got on. But they’re okay, you know. They certainly make a bit of an improvement from nothing, you know, but they’re not not quite as good as these. Although these are a little bit blurred, which is the reason for going there. All right. Um Oh, I’m sorry you keep breaking the bleeding. But do you Is it because you sit on them by any chance, Big G? Just saying. Maybe you should get one of those hard cast cases. Have to be made of solid lead, wouldn’t it? Your one. you sitting on the bleed and things breaking your glasses there. Uh Shaniah on the subject of the priest he gets bits and pieces normally when there’s a party in the church hall. Oh no it’s not when there’s a party Shania it’s like a constant incoming of all this food I’m sure we don’t spend any money on shopping you know endless food comes into the into the offices of St. Joseph’s in Braracknel. Anyway, so there we are. So I’ve ordered my glasses, come back next Monday. Thank you very much. And that indeed I did. So I went back Monday. Although I which was was that the same day as I had to go to the dentist this week. I’ve had to go. No, it wasn’t wasn’t Monday. I’ve had to go to the dentist this week because last Saturday I pulled out a filling somehow. Don’t ask me. Would the floss literally pulled it out anyway? Need a filling in there. Um, and uh, uh, so I goes into her and she’s a lovely lady. There’s another story there, so I’ll tell that in a bit. Back to the glasses. So I went back there Monday, four pairs of glasses already. An absolutely delightful young lady uh, served me and each pair she puts them on you, but can I just put my finger on you? Put you do whatever you like to mean, my darling. Won’t make me won’t make me do anything. Anyway, so she’s put puts her fingers behind there. Oh, they’re a little bit loose. Let me tighten that up. Yeah. And she takes that away. But yeah, that’s okay. Right. Let’s try the next pair. Oh no, that’s a bit loose. Third pair. Oh, no. They’re fine. Fourth pair. I’ll just make a little adjustment. I said, “Oh, I think I might see I think I can see a chip on here.” She just a moment. Let me get these checked for you. They’re very, very thorough in there. Spec savers. They’re really, really good in there. So, um, uh, that’s it. So, I came away with the glasses and I’ve been using them to do my show and stuff like that. You know, I do a little radio show in the morning which is there, okay? You can come and join us every morning if you want to. It’s a great laugh. I thoroughly enjoy doing that every morning. Reach onair.com. Okay. 9 till 10:00 uh, every morning, my darlings. All right. Um, uh, so yeah. So, I I’ve got the glasses, you know, and I I didn’t notice it at first, but I’ve got my new glasses, and I put the old ones in the blue box so I don’t get them confused. Although, you know, it would be pretty obvious if I’ve got the wrong ones on. So, there we go. Like that. Right. So, I got the new ones on. There we are. Reading my bits of paper. Fantastic. So clear. So very, very clear. Like there there all really clear better than the old ones. I Okay, like I say, these are okay. No, they definitely improve it, but they’re not quite unblurred. These wonderful unblurred fantastic. And then it was I think Thursday or Friday morning. I’m doing the show and I’m like the computer screens are blurred. I thought that’s strange. Anyway, so I’ve got another bit of paper. This is while the while the radio show was going on. I suddenly I thought, why is that blur? I thought I thought something would have happened to my eyes, you know, cuz you can have things happen all of a sudden, you know, heart attacks, cough to death, you know, things happen suddenly. You know, you can be going about your normal happy days, you know, 100% bang bang bang something happens and one of the things is your sight loss. You can have a if you ever um walking along and suddenly it looks like someone’s a curtain has dropped down in front of your eyes, your retina has become detached and you must go immediately without any foul straight to a hospital. Really important if that ever happens to you. So you can suddenly lose your sight. That’s just how it is. I thought, what on earth’s happened anyway? So I got my old glasses and I put them on. So as I’m looking at you now, that’s quite blurred. Yeah, it’s quite blurred. I can just about make stuff out or all your words and what have you. There we are. Um, put those on. Yeah, I can read that now. Slightly blurred, but I can read it so much easier. Put these on, right? and everything looks a bit bigger, but it’s actually just as blurry as without them on. And I thought, that’s weird. How has that happened? You know, because when I’ve gone and got glasses before, I’ve just bought one pair and everything’s worked. Right. So, after the show, I rang up the um estate uh I rung up the um uh the um the optics. I rung Oh, I rung up Spec Savers. I said, “Hello, sorry to trouble you. I’ve been with you for years and never had a problem, but I’ve just picked up some glasses and it’s a really weird thing. They’re really good at reading,” which is what they’re for, you know, reading. I said, “But when I’m looking at the computer,” I said, “They’re blurred.” I said, “In the past, you know, you’ve given me a pair of glasses and everything’s been fine afterwards, you know, for couple of years and then you go back again.” All right. She said, “Oh, yeah.” She said, “Um, what happens as you get older, you I think you’re going to need another pair just for your computer work.” Oh, right. Okay. She said, “Then there’s a few different options here.” So, she gives me these options. I said I said, “Well, that’s all right.” She said, “But you you you bought the cheap ones, and you said, £15.” I said, “Yeah.” I said, “That’s all right. I’ll just get some more more glasses for the computer.” I said, “Do you need to test again?” She said, “Yeah, we’ll test you again for that. Um there’d be no charge for the test because it would just be a quick test um to see how you get on, she says. Um but uh before you come in, could you bring your old I said she said, “What are the old glasses like?” I said, “But they’re not bad. They’re actually better than the new ones, right?” Um so she said, “Okay, if you could bring in your old glasses, we’ll test you with those and they may be all right.” So happy days. She said, “Also bring your new ones in.” And she said, “Can you measure the distance in centimeters between your computer screens and your glasses or and your head?” So I said, “Yes.” And I haven’t done this yet actually. So this is sitting next to me now. Let’s just measure the distance between. This will be fun, won’t it? Now I’m very good at cutting my Anyone cut their fingers on these measuring implements. Very painful, dear. Right. So if I if I just like So that’s going to be there, is it? So, so there’s the screen. That’s the longest one. Screen in front of me there. Right. Right. So, that’s going down there. Okay. 92 C 93 cm. That’s when I use it. Right. 93 cm. Then that is. So, it’s 93 cm between me and the screen. So, tomorrow I’ll go in with that piece of information and then I expect I’ll I’ll spend another I only want two pairs, one for funnily enough, the ones at work, I don’t have a problem with those. And they’re a new pair. I’m closer to the screen, that’s why I’m closer to the screen there. So, I just order another two pairs and be done with it. Funny, but I didn’t expect that, you know, cuz before I’ve just had the one pair. Don’t forget gang. Do if you want to message me directly, please use the text 07451-287337. Okay. Uh Mark says he was made up with that. Someone on TV said my name. I can say it again for you. SJ SJ SJ We could just say SJ for the next hour. SJ SJ SJ SJ SJ. Yes, I’m a friend of your dad. So hello to you. Um uh spending a fortune no doubt damn expensive. He thinks money grows on trees and garden. Well, so did the Labour Party, darling. They shake the magic money tree as Theresa May. Do you remember that? I always thought that was hilarious. Shake the magic money tree. It’s not one of these there. Don’t suppose you’re coming to Legoland, are you, Mark? Eh, cuz if you are, I can take a trip up there. Meet you in the all you can eat pizza buffet. Yes, please. Although they’ve taken the ice cream machine away. Oh, talking of ice cream machines, have you seen Ninja? Ninja. Ninja. Ninja. Ninja. I think it’s Ninja. They are now doing a soft scoop home ice cream machine. Yes. Yeah. SJ fancy one of those. You get your Pretend that’s an I know it doesn’t look like an ice cream cone. No. Yeah. Just Oh, sorry. Hang on. Hang on. Put the flakes in there. Yes, please. Ice creams for everyone. Absolute steal at just over £300. Mark, have you ordered one yet? There you go. You want your boy visiting more? Install a Mr. Whippy ice cream. Be around there every day, mate. I’m I’m thinking of getting one and setting it up at the pub, you know, selling ice creams £4 pound50 a time. Well, the bloke on the caravan site gets away with it. Not anymore. Not twice. Once bitt and twice shy, mate. £450. That that thieven get charged me for an ice cream. A small small tub. Ver um you should have your nose to measure the difference. Shut up. Shut up, Vera. Nothing wrong with my nose, darling. Look. [Laughter] Thank you, Rachel. Ninja swell. An absolute bargain. 349 quid. Would you like me to send you a link, Mark? [Music] He’s now sat watching, is he? That’s what you want. And tell your dad to get an ice cream machine, SJ. [Music] And you better get a box of flakes and sprinkles. Sprinkles. Hundreds of thousands. Yes. Yes. So once again, you know, you get your machine and don’t forget the flakes, too. And then sprinkles on top. Oh, and of course, you know, the other stuff, the chocolate stuff. Yes, please. All at home. You could have five ice creams a night at your dad’s house. Happy days. Happy days. Even Steven Petty. Um, hello to you, Stephen. All right. Um, good evening, Chris. Hope you’re well. Had a week off lorry driving. Oh, yeah. Have a rest from that. That must be a I would imagine quite a stressful thing. Lori driving. People don’t When I was on a coach a couple of years ago and I was um the trains were off and I had to meet my niece in um in oh god, where was it now? Belsides Park, I think it was Bells Park. Uh, we were going to Disney, so I had to do it another way, you know, no train. Didn’t want to drive there because that’s, you know, park there for a week, you know, sell a house to pay the parking fee. Do you know what I mean? And um I uh uh I I I I took uh coaches 7 hours. It was seven hours to get there. Bus, walk, coach, coach. Seven hours it took to get there. Tube. What a bleeding nightmare that was. Oh dear. Anyway, uh so and when I was on the coach, I was blatantly aware that no one lets coaches in. No one. He’s literally every time he wanted to get into a lane, he would have to push his way in. No one would let the coaches in. I assume it’s the same for you. Um, Steven says, “Had a week off from lorry driving. It’s been a lovely 25 degrees in Lincoln today. Me and Emily uh visited Chatzsworth House in Darbishshire uh during the week. It was lovely. Back to trucking next week. You ain’t got CB radio in there. No one has those anymore, do they?” Breaker 1414 for a copy. Come on. I was on that in the 80s. Matchbox was my handle there. There you go. Um, Vera says she thinks Father Danny is now the new Arthur Daily. It’s It’s a vision to see all this stuff coming in. Um, there you go. Hey, Dad. Come on, Mark. Ice cream machine. An absolute steal at £349. Have you ordered it yet? H. You’ll be able to pay terms if you use PayPal. Pay in three easy installments. I’m just going to pop in the chat box. Matthew Martin’s here. Hello to you. Is there any way for us Canadians to interact with you directly during the live shows since the text number does not accept international numbers? Um I do you know I was looking on YouTube for this only the other night. How do people send me a direct message and there’s no way to do it. There isn’t a way to do it. I don’t know how else to do it to be honest. you know, the chat box is pretty impossible because everyone’s chatting to each other. It’s it’s become a bit impossible. And it was it’s the same for the radio show that’s happened there as well. The more and the whole idea is that people chat to each other, but when when you’re looking for your messages coming out of that, it’s just impossible. Um, so I don’t think there is Matthew. Just stick it there and hope that I notice it, my darling. All right. Um, so thank you very much. He’s in Winnipeg in Canada. Hope the weather’s nice there. Being summer now, wouldn’t you in Canada? I keep looking at the um the train journey on the Rocky Mountains with a glass top. Oh, it looks like expensive though. Bit expensive, but you know, does look nice. Uh Joseph’s there. Good evening to Joseph. He’s going to see Panam at the two brewers. Oh, wonderful act. I wor with her so many times. An absolute scream. Um last time he saw her was 20 years ago. Gosh, it must be I don’t know when was the last time I did that. Rachel, do you get recognized in shops or supermarkets when you’re not broadcasting? Well, Rachel, no. Rather disappointingly. No, I don’t. How sad is that? My sister. Well, I mean, she says it. My sister and brother-in-law. Oh, sorry. Martin from Butler’s Empire. He doesn’t like to be called my brother-in-law. It’s Martin from Butler’s Empire. I mean, get a little badge if you want to, darling, as well. So, we all know, you know, they get it all the time. Or at least she says that. Oh, yeah. Ow. We got recognized today again in Sainsburries or wherever they are. She loves it. Nope. Doesn’t happen to me, Rachel, at all. There was one time about 15 years ago I was in a shop funnily enough in in Lincolnshshire possibly Debenhams and I was on an escalator and I heard someone it was and it was a small person was a SW Shut up Mark what why are you texting me when you should be on the Amazon purchasing your Ninja Swirl from an absolute bargain at just £349 pay over Three easy terms. So that would beund £115 over three times. Yes. You don’t need money to go down the pub and play darts. Love. Buy an ice cream machine for the boy. Anyway, um yeah. And I was I was all going all I heard was, “Mom, I think that’s Chris.” And I I looked down and there was this boy pointing at me. So, I think that was the only time. No, I don’t get recognized. And oh, it kills me, Rachel, to be honest. I sit here for hours on end talking to myself, as you can see from the numbers, but it, you know, no, it doesn’t matter because uh it’s fun. It’s fun. I do this for fun, not for numbers. Seriously, I do this for fun. I did try and do it for numbers. It depressed me terribly because I just didn’t come. Um, Vince is there. Good evening to Vince. Very popular karaoke Christmas there. Tony says, “You’ve made a spectacle of yourself.” Very good, Tony. Very good with the jokes tonight. Love. All right. Um, okay. We’ll go back down to the bottom. So, if you’ve got any messages above that, they won’t be seen. There we are. Matthew, thanks for confirming. I will post here and hope for the best. I know that Rocky Mountain train ride is expensive, but I promise you it’d be worth every pound spent. It’s truly magical. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I I I I would like to do that. Joel Allensby says, “I talk to myself all the time and other people.” You know, Debbie is there. Evening, Debbs. We’re going to be showing you a little film later on featuring Debs, my friend Debs, because we went to afternoon tea this week. That was really nice. And good evening to the lovely Robert Groen, who I went out with for a little while about 30 years ago. Rob, weren’t it? When I had my flat in Wanza. Hello, Rob. Hello, handsome. Correct. Sorry. I’m in one of those moods today. Hello, handsome. Another interesting shirt for us this evening. There’s loads of these. I want more. I want to get more, but I’m not willing to pay the prices here. So, next time I go away on Ology, um, I’ll have a look there. Tony went to the Wild Cat sanctuary a couple of weeks back in Kent. Was great to see the tigers, cheetahs, and lions. There’s a pet story coming up for you today. Isn’t it funny? All these messages and we’re connecting them to all the stories that we’ve got here. Um there we are. Was great to see the tigers that have been rescued uh from the Ukraine and Russian war. Yeah. Nobody um uh remembers those really, you know, little animals and that you people don’t mention those in war. War is terrible for all sides. All sides. Yeah. You can’t say, you know, all Russians are evil. You you can’t say that, you know, there are boys there fighting for their country who will be shot if they’re not fighting. Not that not all of their fault, you know, but probably out there terrified. They don’t want to be there. And some of them get killed as well. It’s terrible for both sides. Wars, whatever war is going on anywhere in the country, uh, anywhere in the world, I beg you pardon. There we are. All right. Okay. Um, here we are. As general info for those interested, if anyone is indeed wanting to visit Canada for the first time, best months are May to September where temperatures are between 15 and 30° centigrade. That’s kind of what we are here really, Canada. Because I have booked a little holiday actually, not to Canada. I’ve booked a holiday to future Ventura. Uh, that’s in January to get out of the cold weather here. My sister and brother, my sister and Martin from Butler’s Empire. My sister and Martin from Butler’s Empire have been three times now and they tell me I love it. So, I booked it. Booked it the other day. I I was on the phone to my sister and I said to her, I said, “Oh,” I said, “I’ve not booked it.” She said, “Have you booked? Have you booked a holiday yet?” Cuz she she talks like that. “You booked holiday yet, brav?” And I’m like, “No, not yet, sis. Why? Why haven’t you booked it yet?” And I’m like, well, because um, you know, with my couple of things going wrong inside me at the moment, you know, they might need to do a job. I might need to work or something. I might need to go in have a procedure or whatever. You keep an eye on her. Oh, don’t worry about that. Just go and book it. And I said, “All right, I will do.” Okay, then. She said, “I’ll ring you back in a while and I’ll be on the line with you.” Oh, right. Okay. Okay. So, I bring up and I I know it’s not always the cheapest way to do it, but I tend to do my holidays by booking directly through British Airways. I can’t be doing booking.com for that, book the plane there, do that, that no deal with one one people, you know, like going into a travel agent as we used to do years ago. used to walk into the travel agent and just um tell them where you want to go and the man sits there on his on his on his video display unit and thank you very much and then you get load of bits of paper telling you where to be and all that right it’s a bit like that booking online at British Airways although you’re kind of doing it yourself and I found a lovely hotel actually four-star hotel booked it for a week um halfway through January thank you very much flight as well flight as And I booked um the club class flight, the business class flight. The difference in price 200 quid. It’s not a lot, is it? And then you’ll get to use the really nice lounge. You can eat in the lounge, have a shower in the lounge, and when you get on the plane, you get a hot meal as well. And also, you’ll get you don’t get a bigger seat on those particular planes because they’re only short hall. But what you get is someone’s sitting there and then that seat is empty that’s kind of got a table on it and then your seat is there. So you do have more space although the seat isn’t isn’t any bigger and I like to fly like that so you know why not. There we are. All right. Um Okie do goes let me tell you about what happened in church today. Shia’s waiting there. She’s chewing her nails waiting to hear this piece of information. Aren’t you love? Um so what happened was I did eucharistic minister. This is um I class probably for me is the most important job that you could be asked to do in there and it involves giving uh the bread the body of Christ after it’s been bred. So uh we believe I am holding that. Yeah. or the wine, the blood of Christ to people as they come up assisting the priest in their function. So the priest will come there and any other highly religious people like a priest, a deacon perhaps. Uh today it was just father Danny. So there’s father Danny there and there’s I think six of us, six or seven of us, right? And you go to the altar and you are given what he wants you to have. So far, I have only received to give out the the hosts. So, like you can have a a little flat plate like that full of little bits of bread or you can have a chalice, which is also I had a chalice today. That’s what was given to me. Um, I haven’t done the wine yet. It’s a little bit more fiddly with the wine because as someone takes, you give them the cup, they have a little bit, you take it back, and then you wipe it before the next one comes up. Yeah. With the bread, you just hold it hold it up like that and give it in give it into someone’s hands. Some people like still like to have it on their tongue and put their tongue out like that. That hasn’t happened to me yet, but if that happens, I know what to do. Right? You say, “Body of Christ,” they say, “Amen.” And then if there’s little children, you just put your hand above their heads. You don’t touch the child. Just above their head like that and you say, “May like a blessing.” And it’s really up to you what you say. And I watched on YouTube um to find out how other people do it. Um one bloke was doing, you know, may God bless you. Amen. And the fact that you says amen gives you the opportunity uh gives them the indication that it’s finished now and they can walk off if you see what I mean. All right. So that’s how that works. And it’s a serious thing not to be mucked around with. I mean, sometimes I’m playing the organ and I’m mcking about a little bit with the choir to be honest, you know. Uh, but this is something not to be mucked about with anyway. So, that’s happens and it’s finished. Right. So, we then go up to the altar and clearing up happens. Now, I’m not 100% sure of what I’m doing at this point. So, I tend to put that down and then someone else will pick it up and deal with whatever has to actually happen there. I know at some point I’m going to have to do that. So, I’ve got to keep an eye and see what’s going on there. Anyway, so uh I’ve then got my back turned and there’s another lad up there who’s about 35 36 I would imagine. He’s really nice and he’s married to one of the ladies in there. He’s dressed similar to me actually. T-shirt and shorts on and he’s he’s quite ly. If he was in the street, you know, you all right, mate. All right, mate. How’s it going? And he just talked to you like that in there. Anyway, as I got my back turned, here it comes. I heard him say to someone, “Oh, congratulations. Yeah, well done.” At which point I said, I turned around. I thought, “Oh, it must be the first time she’s done it.” And I turned around, there’s a lady standing there and um I said, “Oh, well done. Is it your first one?” At which point he kind of almost collapsed into fits of laughter. And I thought, “Oh, what did I say?” And he’s laughing. I said, “What’s” Without Without really looking at the lady, I I couldn’t tell you who the lady was cuz I was kind of I glanced at her, but then the fact that he was laughing, I looked at him. I said, “What? What?” It’s Oh, you really shouldn’t have said that. And he walked off. Anyway, um so we’re turning around and it’s going through my mind. What on earth did I say wrong? All I said, you know, was is it your first time? Cuz I remember my first time. I’ve only done it three times now. I remember m and I was terrified. Terrified I was going to do something wrong because to me that is a very important thing. Right. Um and uh so I went down I sat next to my friend Dorothy. She’s lovely Dorothy. Lovely lovely lady. She’s the one that brought him in. Father Danny the uh the the the apple and blackberry crump or pie or crumble, whatever it was. Nothing for me. Nothing for me. All for father Donny. Nothing for me. Anyway, um so I sat down and at this point when it the whole thing is nearly finished now. The mass is nearly finished. So um I want to see Father Danny to get this blessed afterwards. You see which he’s done. And as I’m walking up there, the lad’s walking up. I said, “What were you laughing at earlier?” He said, “What you said.” I said, “What? you know, uh, is it your first time? Well, it’s the first time she’s done Eucharistic minister. He said, “No, that’s not what was congratulating.” I said, “What were you congratulating? She’s just got married.” And I said to her, “Is that your first one?” And we both collap. So, I’ve got to find out who that is now and and apologize cuz I can’t remember. I don’t know what she looks like or anything. I don’t think I really saw her. I just made the comment and the fact that he laughed kind of took all my um Anyway, that’s uh that’s what happened today. That’s what happened today. Who’s getting adverts? Oh, you’re not getting adverts, are you? Oh, um sorry. You shouldn’t be getting adverts. What? As in adverts that stop the show. Is it a bit like that? It’s not CV Rachel. No, dear. Catholic. Proper church love. Catholic. Right. Hang on a minute. Let me just see if I can stop these adverts coming. I’m sorry about that. You’re not supposed to be getting adverts. Um I thought I’ I’d changed all that. Anyway, what do you reckon on that one? Uh Shaniah. Hello, Santa Barbara Rooster. Santa Barbara rooster. Right, hang on. Let me have a look. Look here. Autogenerated. This is going to be analytic viewer activity. Edit. Let’s try edit. Monetization. Ah, here we go. Let’s turn them off. Turn off. Okay, that should stop the ads. That should stop the adverts. I’m sorry about that, gang. I um I I turned I I I thought I’d turned the ads off. You haven’t been getting them for a few weeks because I haven’t had any complaints. It must have must have defaulted to back on again. So, I’ve turned those off. You shouldn’t get any more ads. There you go. Mark, let me know. Love, what are you getting an ad for? A ninja swirl machine. Yeah, I know. Shaniah, it was a bit awkward. Was that your first Oh, dear. And then um is there any more to tell with that? No, the rest the rest I’ll tell you privately because there is another bit, but they won’t understand it. Yeah, you’ll understand it anyway. Uh check out the ads there, gang. All right, that stop. Matthew, do you anticipate putting together any little videos in January? Uh maybe, maybe, maybe not. I just can’t be bothered to be honest filming everything that guy run, you know, my brother Martin from Butler’s Empire. Martin from Butler’s Empire. The camera’s out all the time, you know. Um, that’s what he does. That’s fine. I just can’t be bothered. I can’t be bothered. It’s like when I buy stuff, I always say, “Oh, I’ll make an unboxing video today because actually, you know, my most viewed video is taking a bloody Ura out of a box.” It’s disappointing. It’s disappointing when you put all this effort into doing stuff like this and yet most people prefer to watch me taking a hoover out of a box, but I I just can’t be bothered doing it, you know. There we are. Uh Vera, that’s what happens when you earwig. Yeah, mind you, I’ve done the same in the hospital, in the clinic that I go to twice a year. I’ve gone there and the doctors come out. Actually, this is one of one of my really bad chest infections. Do you remember last year? Oh, oh, the coughing, coughing, coughing, the crack coming up. And I was in there and he come out and said, “Oh.” And he said something. I said, “Oh.” And then when he came back and talked to me, I sat in there and I said, “Um,” I said, “Oh, you’ve worried me now.” He said, “Why?” He said, “Well, I heard what you said there.” Oh, what did I say? So I said, “Oh, you said this bloke.” He you were saying D. He said, “Oh, no, that wasn’t about you. That was a bloke before you.” Doesn’t do any good to earwig, does it? I don’t purposely earwig. I don’t. Anyway, there we are. Big G says he was getting adverts uh through your news sponsor was Andrex. What tiss you use and what it is is for your business. Yeah, whatever. Tell me. Um you shouldn’t be getting any adverts now, people. I hope I’ve turned it off or you might have to wait till the ne Let me know if you’re getting any more adverts. Okay. Um, they are for were they for a blue pill? I’m sure you won’t need one of those, Mark. My guess my guess is that. All right, love. Um, okay. Now, I’m just going to bring up my my things now to talk about. Let’s have a look. Do you want a phone line? Does anyone want to call in tonight? Do you want a phone line open? I can do that. Is it open now? Oh, it’s open. There we go. Okay. out. Phone lines open. There we are. Okay. Now, here’s an idea for you, gang. Or do you want the phone number? Or should I put it up in a moment? No, we’ll do another couple of stories and then I’ll open it for you. Okay. Here’s an idea for you. Now, anyone got pets? See our Debs, are you still with us, love? Remember, I got two videos to show you as well tonight. So, maybe we’ll hold on to that phone number, actually. Um, here’s an idea. Now, anyone got any pets they don’t want? Fantastic idea. This is why waste an unwanted pet. I mean, we hear these nasty stories, people going and dumping their pets on on public commons and and forests and and then there’s the bags of in the lake. Oh, don’t makes me feel sad. There’s a tear in my eye. Seriously, it does actually. It does actually. But um you have no need to go and dump your puppies next to a roadside or outside, you know, about to see dogs. So you haven’t got to do that anymore because there’s a zoo in Denmark that can help you with unwanted pets. A zoo. Sounds good, doesn’t it? They look after animals. Of course they do. A zoo. The BBC website. Oh my god. Let’s bow down in their sanctimonious importance. BBC, how wonderful you were before you got rid of the globe. Then you got rid of the globe and it all went badly wrong, didn’t it? Woke. A zoo in Denmark has appealed to the public to donate their healthy unwanted pets as part of a unique effort to provide food for its predators. I kid you not. Ourborg zoo has asked for donations of live chickens, rabbits, and guinea pigs, which it says are gently euthanized by trained staff. The zoo also accepts donations of live horses with owners able to benefit from a potential tax break. No need to have an unwanted horse anymore. This zoo is happy to take you off it. take them off your hands. Posted on Instagram, the zoo explains it has a responsibility to imitate the natural food chain of the animals and smaller livestock make up an important part of the diet of our predators. Now, have we got any um uh any takers on this one, my darlings? Any takers? The zoo says the food provided in this way is reminiscent of what it would naturally hunt in the wild. And this is especially true true for the Eurasian links. Quietly going around. Meow. Meow. Quietly going around in it. Other predators being kept at the zoo include lions and tigers. They’ve got to eat deer. They’re not going to be happy with a with with a corn steak, are they? They’re not going to want chopped up bits of soya in some nice spicy food. No, they’re going to want a guinea pig. A little guinea pig. Stop it, Rachel. Stop it, you naughty girl. No. No. Stop it. The smaller animals can be donated on weekdays with more no more than four at a time without an appointment. On its website, underneath a picture of a tiger devouring a piece of meat, our Borg Zoo lays out the conditions for donating horses. To be allegible, they have to have a horse passport and cannot have been treated for an illness within the previous 30 days. If they are successful in handing over their animals, horse donors can then receive a tax deduction. This just gets better and better, doesn’t it? In a statement, the zoo’s deputy director said the zoo’s carnivores had been fed smaller livestock for many years. So, there you go. Um, no need to no need to um get rid of your pets by dumping them somewhere in a box for other people. Take them to the zoo in Denmark. Thank you very much. You can thank me later. No, thank me now. Please thank me now for that piece of information. All right. Patricia says she is Sue enjoys um the unboxing video. I loved you climbing that ladder, putting on a bouncy bird feeder, now biting and hilarious. How proud you were. It’s not up anymore, mate. I got fed up with the birds pooing all over the bleeding place. All down the windows and everywhere. Soon got rid of that bird feeder. Thank you very much. Why is there water marks on that window there? I’ve just noticed that. You know when the sun hits the window, you get all those bleeding water marks there, don’t you? And they look like How can there be scratches? I wonder if that’s my window cleaner done that cuz he don’t go up with a sponge and all that, you know? He’s got this long pole and a brush. Scrape, scrape, scrape. I think he’s damaging the windows. I might get a normal one. Um, I have Patricia says, “I have DIY jobs if you’re interested, but thanks for offering, but no.” Thanks for offering, but no. I ate DIY. Which reminds me, I must arrange to get my kitchen decorated. Do you know when I said I was going to do that? January. January, I was going to get that kitchen decorated. What did I have done? Was it my bedroom? I had my bedroom done this year, didn’t I? One room a year. I’m not not like my mate. His house is like a palace. Seriously, it’s like a blooming pants. He’s just had one of those toilets put in, you know, with the thing that comes up and fires water up your bum. It’s beautiful feeling. Actually, I was on there for hours. He was getting really annoyed banging on. Let me in. Let me in. You’ve been on there too long. Have you been on one of them toilets? that 500 quid he paid for that. Rachel said the penguins can have the dingies for free. Stop it, Rachel. You’re very naughty. Anyway, we’ll open the phone line. There you go. It’s as easy as that. There you go. If you want to call in, phone number’s open. 020814347. If you want to call in about anything we’re talking about or anything else at all, call in now. 02814347. Right, let me show you um a little bit of an afternoon tea I had with my friend Deb. There’s me and Debs. She’s in the chat box at this moment. Look at that beautiful uh uh outfit she got on that day. She look like she come from Greece in that. Ain’t it beautiful? Beautiful. That’s Coworth Park in Ascot. There’s another picture of us there. Okay. Right. And there is a short video. Here comes a video. Deb’s going down there. Food fountain. Beautiful. Look at this. Good afternoon. Welcome to Park in County Park. Here we are with our very very favorite resident DJ, Mr. Chris Reen. And we’ve actually come here to look at um wedding venues cuz we haven’t chosen anywhere yet, have we? You know, now don’t tell anyone cuz it’s our little secret. Someone said that to me. Anyway, it’s our little secret that we are now looking at wedding venues and De is particularly attractive to this due to the water. And also a lovely detail. You mustn’t if you’d like to follow me, my darling. Thank you. Oh, is that it? Is that it? Or is that repeating itself? I don’t know. Oh, no. That’s a bit more. Here we go. Sitting in the tree. K I S S I N T. Look at this wonderful romantic avenue of trees. Wouldn’t it be just glorious to walk down the aisle here? It was. And say I do to the one you love at the very end of it. Yeah. No, it’s been good. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Some days Some days are better than others, but Yeah. Same as all sorts of things. Yeah. It’s like any work you do. No, she’s horrible. Is she grumpy? She’s okay. But when when she’s on the floor, she’s sort of if someone’s turning over, you know, little bit submissive. Don’t really like it. No, she’s fine though. No. She’ll still kiss at you. I don’t know your if you’re in range of that bit of rope there. Definitely in range. Yeah. Yeah. He’s just a mister. In this windy weather saying what are you saying? He said, “Where’s my dinner?” That’s what he’s saying. He’s still hungry. He’s not been fed yet. What’s his name? Elmo. Elmo. Elmo. Beautiful. Beautiful. Ain’t you beautiful? I’ve never been this close. Beautiful bird like that bird. He’s lovely. [Music] All the time all the time. Hello boo. Hello. Hello boooo. Oh you [Music] struggle today. They’ll all struggle in this wind. Will they still go out though? And there we are. That was our little uh afternoon tea at Coorth Park. And while we were there, we were very lucky. Um as we were walking, I was walking around cuz I’ve been there several times now and Debs has never been there. So I was as show around a bit. And there was this bloke just um he had his birds of prey there and one of the parents because very very rich people, very rich people go and stay there for weeks, you know, for the holiday. And they they’d arranged, I think, um a bird display for one of their children. and they would have paid him hundreds of pounds to come in and do a display just for them which is uh wonderful and we just happened to be walking around and I said but is there any chance we come in? Oh yeah, no problem at all. Come over mate and um it’s very down to earth the bloke doing that and uh we were able to see the little little owls and things. I discovered I didn’t even know but owls can’t move their eyes. That’s why they move their heads all the way around you know. Can you do that? How how far can you go? I put me nick out in a minute, would I? Um, they can’t move their eyes. That’s why they are able to move their heads around. Little things are so pretty, aren’t they? Um, so there we are. That was me and Debb’s on our little day out. Uh, Patricia enjoyed that. She said, I the scratches on the inside. I don’t know on the I think they’re on the outside. I don’t know. I remember doing actually, funnily enough, talking to Windows and that. Anyway, that’s Coworth Park in Ascot. a highly recommended place uh for you to go at some point. Save a little bit of money up, go there, maybe save a lot of money up and stay there a night. You know, you can often get good deals on booking.com coworth park and the idea is you find what the deal is on co on write it down and then ring up the place direct okay and say you found the deal on will you will you do that offer and she will then check it out. they don’t take your word for it. Well, why should they, you know, and um, yeah, we we’ll match that deal for you and then then you’re booking direct with the hotel, which I always prefer to do anyway. Make sure you take some tips with you. Don’t be bleeding tight and not give people tips, you know, they’re not on good money. That’s the same with all hotel staff, you know, but, uh, staff are excellent at that place. So, that was our little outing there. Um, uh, what else have we got here? Yeah. Uh let’s open that phone line there. That is open now. So if you want to call in at any point, uh do so. It’s only one line. Okay. So if some if someone does call in, don’t forget gang, you can’t call in. No one else. I can’t take a second call. Okay. So if you do hear someone on there, um Downtown Abbey film. Who’s a fan of Downtown Abbey? I love it. Well, it’s all about to come to a complete ending. Of course, we lost uh the lovely Dame Maggie Smith um last year. Such a wonderful actress. So many fantastic films. I’ve discovered she did this nanny film where she play plays a mischievous nanny, which I haven’t seen that yet. Uh I particularly like The Lady in the Yellow Van, which I’ve watched three times. But Downtown Abbey, her oneliners on there are something else. Uh, of course she’s not going to be in the third film because she’s passed away now, but Downtown Abby number three. Very much looking forward to going to see that at the cinema in the radio times after first airing in 2010. So, it’s 25 years now, isn’t it? Um, Downtown Abbey quickly became a global phenomenon. Now, funnily enough, I didn’t watch it when it first came out. Um, my mother would have loved this program and she would have loved this program. Sadly, didn’t get a chance to see it because my mother died in uh uh 2000. But it says here, Downtown Abbey quickly became a global phenomenon phenomenon uh chronicling the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants at a grand Yorkshire estate. Across it six acclaimed seasons created and co-written by Julian Fellows, the series explored love, loss, war, scandal, and shifting class dynamics in the early 20th century of Britain before making a shift to the big screen. And the third film, Friday the 12th of September, 2025, I should be going to see that. I don’t go into London to see films. Very, very rarely. Very rarely. I can’t be bothered with your the price, honestly. Especially the the Leicester Square cinemas. Silly money. Silly money. You pray to go and see a film there, I tell you. Um, however, I will go and see it at our cinema here. Probably on a weekday afternoon where generally we get tickets for like 10 quid, something like that. You know, I’ve the amount of times I’ve been into a cinema like I don’t know on a Wednesday or Thursday afternoon, something like that. There’s been like five other people in there if anyone like that, you know. Um, but yeah, so it’s gonna be uh it comes out on Friday the 12th of September. So I’ll probably see it the week after some point. Oh, let me see what I’m doing that week. Very very busy. Oh, I’m in Scotland. I’m in Scotland the week after that. Yeah, we’ll be flying all over the world, dear. International. Very international. Flying all over the world, my loves. Um, maybe my niece then won’t come and see that with me and the kids. I don’t know if the kids will like it. I don’t think that’s for them. I might have to wait till the week after then. Gold a Scottish cinema. Is it any different instead of popcorn? What did I give you? Mini hagguses or something like that. Um, filming. Uh, the film was first announced in May 2024, so last year. filming began shortly after the announcement with much of the original cast returning to reprise their roles. The third installment marks the conclusion uh of the story. Um uh and uh that’s going to be it. The grand finale promises to be a fitting sendoff to the Crawley family and those who served them. So very much looking forward to that. I should be very very careful um not to read any reviews or anything like that, you know, uh before it actually starts. Right, we got a call coming in. Ooh, where are you? An international call. Who’s on the line, please? This is Matt from Canada. How are you? Oh, hello, Matt from Canada. You see, there is a way of communicating, Matt. Although, it’s going to cost you an arm and a leg. So, don’t don’t be there too long. This will be expensive for you. No, definitely. Yeah, definitely, man. I’ll keep the chat short. I just wanted to say, yeah, there is still a way for me to contact you directly. At least it’s through a phone call, right? Yeah. Yeah. Through a phone call, mate. How are you, man? And how’s your family? All right. Yeah, we’re doing well, everybody. The, you know, as everybody’s family is, the children are growing. I have Jacob now who is eight. I have Emma who is four. Yes. It’s just unbelievable how quickly they’re growing, but they’re doing fantastic. Jake is getting great grades in school. Emma joins school next year. So, it’s all it’s all happening very quickly. How old is Jake now? Uh, Jacob is eight now. Wow. See, I remember I mean I can remember the day that you were commenting when he was born. When he was just born. 12 years. Sorry. Eight years. Eight years. Years old. Yeah. Wow. Oh, it’s unbelievable. I’ve got a great niece who’s 13, a great nephew who’s 12. Wow. You know, I’ve got a You Do you know I’ve got a son, Matt? Yes. Yes. I I know about that. I know. But you have an ex-wife, right? Yeah. The whole connection thing didn’t really work out, unfortunately. So, I I don’t see him or anything, but he’s 41. Wow. Wow. That really puts things in perspective, doesn’t it? Yeah. Yeah, it really does, you know. Oh, it’s it’s lovely to hear from you. It really is. Have you ever I’m glad to hear that you’re going international, by the I mean, you know, you’ve always been pretty international in my mind. I I recall that the the trip international the trips to New York that you’ve done, you know, across America and now you’re going to be going to Spain. I mean, just lovely. Yeah. I’ve been to Well, I’ve been to America twice this year in California in uh June. I went and I I actually went Did you see the St. Monica church there? I went to visit. Yeah, that was lovely, mate. Just lovely. Yeah. And St. Uh the uh Christ Cathedral. The Crystal Cathedral. Did you see that? And how was that? Was that a good experience for you? I didn’t see that one. Oh, okay. Um look it up. It’s called Christ Cathedral, Los Angeles. Uh it was called the Crystal Cathedral. The Catholics didn’t build that. It was built by an American evangelist uh who died and his family, I don’t think they wanted it, so we bought it off them, you know, for knockown price to be. Although, you know, a lot of money, but a knockdown prize. Um, I think the Catholics spent twice as much doing it how they we wanted it, if you see what I mean. Yeah. Well, and it’s typically a Catholic thing, right? They they would like it a certain way. So, I guess to achieve that, they’re going to spend what it takes to to get to that status, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, that’s how that works. That makes sense. Tell me, have you ever been America made Sorry. Go. Go ahead. Go on. Oh, sorry. I was just going to ask mate. I uh I was thinking about you today uh when you were um at Denny’s. Well, I always think of you when I’m at Denny’s, but um did you hit at Denny’s more than once on your last trip, or or do you always only hit it one time per trip? Oh, no, no, no, no. Uh it was either three or four times. Uh when I was in Florida in January, I think me and my mate went there about three or four times. And when I was in California on my own, three or four times. The weird thing is um both hotels, you know, you crossed the road and there was Denny’s. Yeah. I don’t know how that worked out like that. Um but there was a it’s a divine connection that the Lord knew that you like Denny’s and Dennis with you. They do this they do this vegetarian omelette and it’s really nice. It’s got cheese in it and all this and Denny’s and I I think they’re blooming good value for money, Denny’s. I really do. And I do not understand someone who wants to go to McDonald’s and get a little little bleeding thing in the bum when you can sit there and have a proper breakfast with fruit and French toast and endless tea. Oh, don’t. My mouth is going now. My mouth is going, man. Lovely in there. But we have them in Canada and I’m sure thankful we do, man, because Denny’s is amazing. Yeah, but someone told me to try Norms, but the nearest Norms was two and a half miles away, so I didn’t bother with that. Have you heard of Norms? Right. Gotcha. No, I never actually heard of that. I’ll have to look into that the next time in the Los Angeles area and check that out. Apparently, they’re similar to Denny’s, but a lot better. So, I wouldn’t know cuz I haven’t been there, you know, but No. Well, you and I are biased at this point. I guess we both enjoy Denny’s. Good value for money. It really is. Is it when you go in there, it’s got that like 1950s American look to it, isn’t it? You know, that that you Yeah. And there’s something there’s something about that that’s just attractive. I mean, it feels like you’re at home somewhere, doesn’t it? Yeah. Like you would expect in in like if you was in the on the set of Greece or Mel’s Diner, which we we’ve seen in various Disney things, haven’t we? Mel’s Diner. Mel Mel’s Diner. Yeah. I’ve actually every time that I go to Hollywood, I go to to Mel’s Diner that they have there. It’s always lovely just to feel that that nostalgic experience. There’s something about it. Tell me, you say you go to Hollywood. What did you think of it there? Well, you know, I would I’ve been quite shocked every time that I’ve gone there and I find that the the amount of homelessness, Chris, is getting worse and worse every time. The the tent encampments everywhere. I mean, it was crazy. It was not what I expected. No. Same here. I I I took a day surely. You must have been shocked. I was I took a day trip there. site was I was quite far from the hotel. Um so I got an Uber there. Um and then where I was dropped off very near the little coach tour that I booked and I got out of this car and I thought, “Oh, I don’t like it here.” I thought it was a real dumb You get that feeling like something shocked. Shocked and lots of And I I don’t don’t dislike them. I feel sorry for so many people literally living on the street laying asleep. Yeah. Can I I next to the next to the little I understand why they’re there, mate. They’re next to the little pink stars with people’s names in them like Liza Manelli. They’re laying next to these stars in the street and then you get on this coach trip 2 minutes up a hill and there’s these massive mansions. It’s just the weirdest thing. Huge. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It’s so surreal, isn’t it? I mean, you you go literally from one degree to the complete opposite degree. It’s amazing. Yeah. No, it’s sad. But I mean, like I said, I understand why they’re there, mate, because I mean, the fact is that across North America, just like England, right, you have those winter months that are brutally cold. Well, the homeless people don’t want to be there. So, if they can be in California where you can be there in January, no different than Florida, Ventura in Spain, right? It’s going to be nice all year round. Oh, is it? I I don’t know. I know the temperature in Florida um generally mostly year round. You You want to avoid the summer in Florida. It’s painful. I’ve done it several times. It’s pain. You don’t want to be going to to Florida June, July, August, September, even May and October. Uh the last two times I’ve gone in January. You know, the first time I went was with my nephew Jimmy about 10 years ago. You may remember the videos of that. He’s now married. He’s now got two children. Frank, who’s I think there’s Frank, who’s three now, and there’s Ernie, who’s about six weeks old, something like that. Four to six weeks old. Right. Yeah. And I went with him and the weather was lovely where now I went with my mate January this year, so eight months ago and the first three days they had this really unusual cold weather. We are talking four or five degrees centigrade and we’re going on these we’re going in Disney with these great big coats on and it’s you couldn’t but then that it finished and very quickly it went back up to its normal temperature of about 20 20 25 you know something like that. Sorry am I speaking Fahrenheit and centigrade here? No. So I speaking centrade everything in Canada is centigrade. So as long as you’re talking centigrade we’re on the same page. go very quickly. It was it was like 4 5 8 15 20 25 and it jumped up very quickly after that. But they had snow in some parts of Florida and you couldn’t leave the state. It was that bad. And they ne these the the um the Fodians, I suppose you call them. They didn’t know what was happening. They thought it was the end of the world. Oh my goodness. Oh yeah. Wow. Yeah. Well, can you imagine what it was like in Canada at that time? I recall it during those days where it was cold in Florida. It was -45 – 47 here. It was just unbelievably cold. Rather you rather you than me, Matt. No, I don’t like the cold weather. And that was the whole point of booking future Ventura cuz at that point we will be getting towards our we’re generally coldest. Not in January. In February generally we’re coldest. February. Yeah. But January will be cold and just to get out of that for a week will be nice for me, you know. Oh, that’ll be nice. And I mean, according to to Martin’s videos there, it’s just lovely at that time of year. So, yeah, that’s going to be wonderful. That’s right. Yeah. All right, Martin. Well, have a lovely evening. Appreciate Appreciate you. Yeah, you as well. Thank you again for taking the call, Chris. I hope you have a blessed evening there. I appreciate you calling in. Cheerio, Martin. All right. Take care and good luck to your family. Bye-bye now. Bye-bye. There we are, Martin. Oh, how lovely to how lovely lovely for him to call in like that. Didn’t expect that this evening. Wonderful. Uh phone line’s open if you want to call in. 0814347. Uh Sharon Stoneser, hello Sharon. Very good friend of mine from years ago. Black cap uh customer there, aren’t you, my love? All right. Um what’s the time caught past? Oh, we’ve got plenty of time, haven’t we? Uh plenty of time. Uh told you about the glasses. Uh talking about pets and things earlier. If you wanted to get rid of your unwanted pets or anything like that, you know, there’s a there’s a zoo in Denmark. happily take them off of you. Why are these Can I just ask why are these so bleeding, dear? I have a couple of cats. That’s all right, Martin. I have a cats cats that visit me. There’s a ginger cat called Angel and now a little black and white cat and they’re both quite young. Angel has now taken to every morning sitting on top of one of my hedges. Now, there’s no platform there. Somehow she’s managed to balance herself on the hedge and wait for birds. And three times now she’s walked proudly past um my uh my living room window with a dead bird in her mouth. And it’s just awful. Really is. But it’s nature. So there we go. One of those things. Um anyway, I do like to keep some of these in the house. But I went to buy some of these the I can’t remember where I think was in Asda. I think it was in Asda in Roampton after I visited my mom and dad’s grave a few days ago. And I come across the Dreamies. These are over £3 for cat biscuits. What are they making these out of then? £3 for Dreamies. I can get a whole packet of chocolate biscuits from Audi for about 60 p. How are these £3? Shocking, isn’t it? Anyone else buy these for their cats? Is there a better alternative that are cheaper? I I remember buying them Audi. I mean, I I am an Audi shopper generally. That being said, today I bought a load of stuff from Marks and Spencers, but um there is there are a few things in Audi that are not always good. One is the blueberry blueberries. I have on many occasions bought blueberries and they very quickly turned moldy very quickly. So I try to avoid buying blueberries from there. onions. You know when you get like that three onions and they got like this plastic thing around them and many many times I cut into an Audi onion that I’ve only had a few days and it’s rotten inside or it’s going. So I try to avoid buying onions in there. The potatoes, they seem to be all right in there. Most stuff I’ve als I’ve even bought cat biscuits in there before. I think their own brands and it’s been moldy inside. So, and I’m What’s the other thing? Oh, it was you know the part baked bread. I’m not eating bread at the moment or not much anyway. And um I I always remember being in there once and I I picked up this part baked bread, you know, like the baguettes. It was green. I kid you not. This this ble was green. Awful. Uh there we are. Anyone calls just call in there. Um 020814347. Uh Richard’s there. Evening to Richard just chatting away on the phone having a very very sensible C conversation with my friend Richard a little bit later on. Uh and Richard says, “I found with blueberries they go bad quickly because the only shop that sells British blueberries is Waitros.” Well, you know, Richard, we can’t all afford to shop in Waitro. Lovey. I’d have to put my rents up. Where would we all be then, dear? Waitros are the only ones selling British. Wait, did you know that? Cuz I didn’t. All the others are from abroad. Foreign blueberries. We’re eating foreign blueberries. Oh my lord. Mommy. Cheer me. Do they come across in the rubber dingies as well? Do they they come off the dingies with their blueberries and go straight? You want to buy those, mate? Oh dear. Mark BS, stop winging and pay the damn money. Oh hello. Have you ordered the ice cream machine yet for SJ? He will be very disappointed if you haven’t. [Music] And don’t forget the box of flakes and the little thing of hundreds and thousands or the Americans call them sprinkles. Rachel says diabetic people can’t have them. Unlucky. Rachel. Patricia. Patricia volunteers for cat protections and meet cats living in many circumstances. Oh, you’re a good girl. Cuz I love I You know, I love cats. I love cats. Dreamies are a favorite. And yes, dreamies are so expensive. And I’ve yet to meet a cat yet that doesn’t like them. Oh yeah. You see, I’ve worked it out. I worked it out, Patricia. If there is a nervous cat and you want the cat to come to you, don’t you? When you are chosen by a cat, that is a very special thing. Father Danny has cats. I always like to give that little stroke. Lovely little cat. One of those with like a flat face. Beautiful cat. Anyway, um so I’ve worked out nervous cat, you know, you see it looking and you move forward and it goes to run back. stop and you it might not run. Then you go back inside. You get your packet of jeies and you shake it. That’s got your attention, hasn’t it? And then they’re looking and I put some in my hand and I just I get on the floor, kneel down, and I just hold my hand out. And slowly but surely, the cat comes towards you. And you must be very careful not to move. Just put your hand down and if you’re lucky it’ll come over or sometimes just put a few on the ground in front of you and then just wait and they come over. I suppose they’re like drugs to cats. Oh, God knows what’s in them. Are we drugging the cats up? They should be illegal that. Yeah, dreamers are expensive and I’ve used yet to meet a cat that doesn’t like them. They do. Richard, blueberries from Costco are very nice, but they come from Peru. Well, they’re not going to be as good, are they? Lovey. Got to be British blueberries. Absolutely. Thank you very much. Right, let’s show you my other little video today, boys and girls. Um, I got an electric bike some months ago now, and I’ve been intending to do the bike ride to Virginia Water. Uh, it’s lovely. It’s um a little bit further past Ascot. The actual journey itself is just under 11 miles. Uh for me it’s an electric bike that I’ve got. Really nice bike and you’ll see a picture of it in a moment or two. Okay. Um bright yellow thing little bit expensive. It’s not a bike you want to leave somewhere. It looks really good. Um I’ve had bikes for years and years and years. I don’t think I’ve ever actually had a bike that looks quite as good as this one. And you will see it I think at the end of the video. Anyway, so I decided this week, looked at the weather and I thought, you know, there’s a nice day. I’m gonna try and do the trip and I did it on Thursday and I made a little video of it as well, just for you. So, here we go. Have a look at Virginia Water. I’ll uh live talk over this for you. Okay. And that’s actually at Virginia Water. Look at these beautiful hydrangeas in Virginia water. [Music] Some beautiful swans there. Look at that. That was just the polo. I can’t remember if I spoke over that for you. That was a polo place uh just there. But that’s only part of Virginia Water. Look, it’s just so peaceful and relaxing there. Aren’t they graceful? Look at those. It’s just me standing in front of what you just saw there. And here’s an oblisk built in the early 1750s, King George II. And this is uh actually enormous, this thing. And uh we’ll see a picture of it or a video of it. And I’ll pull back and it gives you sort of an idea to just how tall this thing is. I had to keep looking behind me here. I was walking backwards. I got the Broadway. There’s actually quite a few people over there for a Thursday afternoon. Mind you, the kids were on holiday. Okay, that’s the top of it there. So, as you can see, really huge thing, that oblisk. And there’s my bike. I bought those two orange bags recently cuz I do my shopping and all that on there. I never get the car out to do shopping or anything like that. That was my little bike ride around Virginia Water. Very short video there. Okay. All right. Rachel said, “Electric bikes are not cheap.” Well, uh, there’s bikes and there’s bikes. I mean, you can get them for like 300 quid or you can get them for like 10,000, you know. Believe me, that wasn’t anywhere near 10,000, more at the sort of 300 pound end to be honest. Um, but yeah, and um it lovely ride and as I say, um, about 22 22 miles as a round trip. Um, it’s not your legs that ache, it’s your ass that starts aching on those saddles. Now, as a as an expense a more expensive bike, which is what that is. Um, I assume that my seat is feels comfortable when I get on it. It’s just after like an hour and a half, you start Oh, blime me. You know, you start moving your ass around like that, trying to get a little bit of a give it a bit of a rest from sitting over that thing. Why is this Oh, it’s just shaking in here. Just a minute. Let me do do that. That’s better. Um, so it does start aching a bit, but uh, nevertheless, uh, it was a lovely ride and a really, really nice morning out. I left here about half past 10, and I think I got back here about quart one. And I got, as you can see, I got off the bike and had a little look at things. The polo club looks nice. I bet that’s expensive to belong to a polo club, I would imagine. I’ll look shall I look that up? Polo club. Mark says he loves a good stroke. I expect I guess that SJ’s gone to bed, is he now? [Laughter] polo club uh for let’s see how much it is to join that foria water that’s it guards polo club that’s what it’s called membership membership let’s have a look social membership or pl what’s that then social membership I don’t know what that is let me click on that social membership Social membership includes a members annual pass plus free guest badges and car passes. Members will also receive coveted coco cover coveted invitations uh to exclusive members only events throughout the season. You see, I have no interest in really playing polo, but I just wonder how much it is. Does it say Oh, here we are. Oh, oneoff joining fee on acceptance £580. Oh, let’s go over to the teleprinter and we’ll start adding these things up for you. So, £580 uh as a one-off fee. Do you like this teleprinter? We we use this on my um on my um on my radio show every morning. The teleprinter. You want one, don’t you? Teleprinter. There we go. Right. Okay. So, teleprinter standing by. uh annual membership fee paid by direct debit. You will receive one members badge, three reusable guest passes, and one car pass. That’s 580 quid. So presumably in the first year, you have to pay two lots of 580 ft. Is that it? Oh yeah, that’s it. Okay, so for the first year 1,000 Hang on, let me just get that for you. There we are. That’s it. That’s it, is it? I think that’s it. Hang on. plus not equals. Is that it? Is that it? There we go. There we go. 1, um, 600 and uh, oh, that’s Oh, hang on. I’ve done this wrong now. 580 + 580. Well, the equals won’t work. Let’s just type divide by one. That’s not working now. Hang on. 580 + 580ide by 1. That’ll give us that give us a thing, right? How can that be 580? 580 + 580 / one. It’s all going wrong there, is it? 580 + 580 * 1. Well, it says 580. Well, that ain’t right, is it? Something’s gone wrong with a teleprint of Vera. Well, hang on. I’m concerned now. Hang on. I got to check it’s going to work for tomorrow. 2 + 3 + 9 + 5 + 4ide by 3 1.33. Oh, no. Well, that’s working. I don’t know why it won’t add up. Stupid bloody machine. Uh £1,160 the first year, I suppose, and then it’s £580 a year. What do you do for that then? Do you play? That’s not for playing, is it? I don’t know what that is. You just go and watch. What’s it say? Benefits at a glass. Here we go. So, if you’re a member, £580 a year. Experience the drama and passion of some 600 polo fixtures. I don’t think I’d be interested in that. Entertain guests in our iconic clubhouse and experience the very breast of private dining with our bespoke menus. Enjoy an exclusive calendar of social events throughout the year. Members only grand stands always ensuring the perfect view for most of the club’s main finals. I bet they’re right up their own asses there, don’t you? Uh, enjoy priority booking for fieldside parking and discounted grandstand tickets for the Cartier Queens Club final. Relax in the clubhouse garden while your children enjoy the adjacent play area. Keep up to date with regular newsletters and enjoy our annual yearbook and annual lifestyle magazine 10 goal. gain privileged access to some of the sport’s most famous clubs through our ex exclusive reciprocal scheme worldwide. So there you go. That’s what you get for that £580 a year. Not really doing it for me to be honest. Um but there are you know anyone done that I wonder Richard uh your ass should be used to being Thank you very much for that Richard. I shouldn’t be reading that comment out. very disappointed with a you respected me member of the Jewish community coming out with something like that. Dear, you know, you should come to church with me, I think, actually. Thank you, Patricia in Manchester. Um, love the swift way you found the use for the teleprinter. I want my jingle playing now. A minute. Jingle. Hang on a minute. single for uh what the stock in Waterman one. Do you want it? Do you want it? I can play that. There’s no copyright on that. Ready? Oh yes. On the radio show that I do every morning. Let’s advertise that again. There you go. 9010 reachonair.com. All the ways you can listen to it. Look at that. You can even watch it on Twitch if you want to. Tells you what to do. Download Twitch free of charge. is a bit like YouTube except we can’t do the radio show on YouTube because of copyright things. We can on Twitch though. Download Twitch completely free of charge. Set up your free account and then look for me Chris in the UK. You can join us for our radio show. We dance music in the morning. It’s nice and upbeat. Very, very upbeat. Okay. And we have jingles. We have wonderful jingles like this. [Music] watermelon. Do you like that one? Do you like that one? Do you want any another couple of my jingles that I use? We can do these because they’re not copyritten. Um, stock caking. Oh, we can’t do that one. Oh, we got dist. No copyright strike for that. No, I’m just trying to be careful. Even Mark BS sent me in a lovely little little noise. That’s Mark BS. He’s with us tonight. And shalom to you as well. Mark, are you Jewish, Mark? My friend Richard is Jewish. Are you Jewish, Mark? I don’t think you’re Jewish. Are you? Okay. Uh Paul and Lou have their own jingle cuz they never win anything, you see. So I had that made. [Laughter] Um what I think my favorite one pos is not with us tonight sometimes sends in a fact of the day which is a piece of interesting information that he’s come across and uh this is a jingle that I made this one uh see what you think of this. Now posting Carl he’s an alter server at a church right so I came up with this fact of the day by post twinkle [Music] of the day by twinkle [Music] and one more I’ll play you one more um again Paul and Lou they compile our chart art. We do a little thing every morning which involves playing a stock in Waterman song. Then people vote on it, give it a score out of 10, and then they compile a chart um of the songs of the past and where today’s song has come in that chart. And this is the jingle for that. Oh, no, we don’t want that. That’s a copyright one. Hang on. Here we go. [Music] in water table [Music] and then that goes into national lottery then which I can’t play you but you get the general idea and the show is full of little bits and pieces like that. So if you can join us you know it’s every morning reachonair.com uh between 9 and 10 o’clock. We also do a Tuesday night. Um, it’s not quite the same Tuesday night, but we still have a bit of a laugh. Uh, the music is more everything rather than just dance music. Uh, anything from rock and roll right up to today’s rap music. And that’s on Tuesday night between 9 and 11:00. All right. Uh, Vera says, “You’re bashing it too hard.” What do you mean, dear? What? My calculator? I don’t know. It won’t add up. It’s strange. it won’t add up and um it it it it will divi it will divide stuff. So 2 + 6 + 8 + 9 right and then divide. So that’s nine. It says it says is it 2 + 8 plus 9ide by two and that gives me an answer 4.5. Hang on to No, that’s not right either, is it? Hang on a minute. Is that is anything? Nothing’s working, dear. Hang on. 2 + 6 + 8 + 9. Then what do I do then? Divide. No, it said it wants to divide the nine. Something something seems to have gone a little bit wrong here. I don’t know what. Why? What’s that there? Now, you see when I’m hitting divide, it wants to divide the nine. Uh, it’s just 2 + 5 + 6 + 9. Oh, something’s gone wrong with the telephone. Oh, I’ll have to work on that now. You see? Oh, that might not be available tomorrow then. The teleprinter. Terrible. I wonder what’s gone wrong with that then. Have I moved a number or something on there? I don’t know. All right, so that’s annoying. Maybe turn it on and turn it back on again. Thank you very much. Oh dear. Um, Patricia’s highly amused by that. Love the read that Mark says he’s not gonna buy the um ice cream machine. SJ will be very disappointed by that. Very very disappointed indeed. Okay. Uh dreamers, what’s the time? All right. Um eating out. Have you ever got food poisoning gang? Oh, hello sis. What time are they on? Are they on it at 7 then or something? How dare you go across and watch your daughter instead of your brother doing her show? Very disappointed, sis. Anyone ever had food poisoning when eating out? I’ve done it myself actually. Um I very fool years ago, years and years and years and years ago, I very foolishly um had a freezer which I don’t know what happened. I took some burgers out. I thought they were a bit soft and I realized the freezer had gone off. I put it back on again. So everything refro and then I think I got some burgers out at some point and cooked some and ate them. Oh, I was so ill. So ill. DIY blooming. DIY um uh uh uh uh food poisoning. Anyone had food poisoning? I think fish and chicken in particular are bad, aren’t they? I You should never reheat rice, I believe. Although someone told me if you cook rice and then cool it down quickly and put it in the fridge then you can reheat it. But I wouldn’t risk it. I mean rice is so cheap anyway. Why take the risk? I must admit I cheat a little bit with with rice. I just suppose though packets you know from Audi 50 p or whatever they are. You tear a little bit and put them in the microwave for 3 minutes. Lovely wholemeal rice. I have um a story in the Daily Star. Some bloss. ate a halfcooked chicken at a four-star holiday hotel. He was in the Canary Islands. Funnily enough, uh actually that hotel I’m staying at is fully inclusive. I’ve I don’t think I’ve Have I done fully inclusive before? Yes, I have. Um St. Lucia, years ago, years ago, St. Lucia when we were kids, of course, we used to go to Pontins and that was fully included. You just pay the money and that that was everything. No additions or anything like that. only drink, you know, drink drink you had to pay for. There were no free drinks. Um but um all the food and that, you know, breakfast, lunch, dinner, all in a in a lovely dining hall place. It was great, great food that we had in there. But I think I’ve only been on one foreign or uh uh uh fully inclusive one, and that was in St. Lucia uh when I was best man at my mate’s wedding. Anyway, this bloke Leslie Green jed off to Canary Islands for a muchneeded break. His dream holidays soon turned into a nightmare as he was struck down after eating chicken. He died. He died after catching salmonella. Now, I don’t know about you, but you hear the word salmonella, you think it sounds like a little bit like a bit of a stomach bug. No, it can be deadly. Can be deadly. Bit like jellyfish. A lot of people certainly here in the UK, they go to Australia. Oh, don’t go in there. It’s jellyfish. Oh, I don’t want to get stung. No, you die. A jellyfish in Australia can kill you. It’s not a little sting. Same with salmonella. Very, very serious. Leslie Green died after catching salmonella from a half cooked chicken that he ate at the luxury hotel he was staying at. An inquest heard that Leslie, who’s 70, fell ill just days eating the food uh causing immense sorrow for his family who were there. Terrible. They stayed at the luxurious accidental Jandia Player Resort Hotel on the island of Future Ventura. Or it’s not the one I’m staying at, is it? No, I don’t think it is. I don’t know. It’s on the British Airways one cuz obviously not all hotels are on there. So, someone ain’t done their job properly. That’s uh that’s very scary. You see, now I’m thinking thinking I don’t want to be fully inclusive. Uh let’s have a look. Did I look at that one? It looks all he said looks all right. Accidental Jana. Oh, it’s terrible. Um, they shelled out heaps of money for their Spanish holiday, dropping a total of £2,300 for a twoe stint at the four-star hotel in October last year. In the second week of the holiday, he fell ill. He was rushed to hospital on the island. His condition gradually worsened, soon began to develop other complications and diseases, including sepsis and kidney failure. stayed in hospital four weeks fighting various health afflictions, but he died. Oh god. From multiple organ failure, food poisoning, partially cooked chicken. Shocking. I mean, I I don’t know, you know, as you know, I’m vegetarian. Um I don’t know if we’re any better off or not. Uh, for example, I’ve mentioned the rice. You know, you mustn’t eat I don’t think you can reheat rice to be honest. Um, yeah, Big G, you should never eat chicken that still that can still cross the road. Oh, shut up you idiot. Oh dear. Yeah, I honestly I don’t know if vegetarians are less likely to get food poison. I really don’t know. Um, Rachel had Armageddon diarrhea with a mucky curry. Matthew undercooked chicken one time hit me hard when visiting an Indian restaurant in North Dakota in the USA. Matthew Rachel reheated rice is poisonous. Yeah, I I thought that. Hello, Adam. Adam Blue, when you come to secondary again, love. Adam Blue got salmonella poisoning from eating a ch at a Chinese restaurant and ended up in hospital and had to report it to environmental health. Jason, you got to be really careful with seafood. I’ve heard that. Uh oh, Daniel’s not coming to the karaoke now. Why is that then? Oh, sorry, Daniel. I won’t sleep for a week now. Oh, they were going to come on Friday, I think, weren’t you? Evening to you, Daniel. Welcome. Uh, thank you. Rachel, eating fugu is not recommended. That’s puffer fish. Oh, no. Is that the one that looks really fat? They’re funny puffer fish, aren’t they? Like that. Some people look like that, don’t they? Hope there won’t be any of those in the gym later when I go. Anyway, there we are. Very, very bad indeed. Um, and it does does worry you. You know, I say, “Oh, maybe I shouldn’t have gone under fully inclusive.” I mean, these stories, thank God, are at least the ones we hear about are few and far between, aren’t they? Um, I don’t think I’ve got food poisoning before eating out. I don’t think so. I mean, I’ve had funny tummy sometimes after chips, but I just put that down to too much grease or something like that. Or oysters. Oh, no, Rachel. Not oysters, love. Oh god. Oh no. It must be like eating snot oysters. And what are those shrimps? Yeah, shrimps pulling them little legs off. Oh no. Or snails. A cocktail stick picking its thing out of its house. How would you like it if someone come around to your house with a bit with a sharp stick and picked you out of your house? Oh dear. Uh, talking of chips, Rachel said it is. It’s not eaten. It’s not. Sorry gang. I’ve got this pain here. Right. Chips. More chips. Anyone? How many portions do you have a week? I about one a week now. One a week. I’m pretty good on that. Pretty good on chips. Daily Mail. Eating just three portions of chips per week could trigger type 2 diabetes. Here we go. Another thing to worry you with. Scientists who track the diets of more than 200,000 adults found a 20% higher risk among those tucking into three weekly servers. Three portions of chips. type 2 diabetes. Tuck it into similar amounts of boiled, baked, or mashed potatoes had little impact on developing the condition, the study also revealed. Which is good news cuz today, I must admit, very bad. Pre-prepared potato I had today. Cole Cannon from Marks and Spencers. Serve two. Who do they think they’re kidding? Serves two. That’s a oneperson portion. Thank you very much. [Laughter] I had uh I bought a coal cannon, you know, and a little packet of vegetables and Mark and Spencer’s ve vegetable um uh vegetable uh casserole. Absolutely delicious. Delicious. Lovely. Anyway, um, eating chips five times a week pushed your chances of getting it up 30%. But like I say, boiled, baked, or mashed potatoes, little wag, you would think baked would be similar to chips, wouldn’t you? Because you put like oil or um fat over it. My mom used to do everything in um Oh, what’s that stuff called? You know, thing of lard. What’s the uh brand of that lard? I’m trying to think. Lard uh leading large brand. Where was it? I can’t I can’t think what one it was now. S was larger. Yeah, it was a lot of a thing like that. She used to chop up bits of that and put it on the potatoes. Absolutely delicious. Delicious. And then you get some some chips. Don’t you done in beef dripping and stuff like that. Um some Jason don’t like squid or crab. Oh no, no. Gary, I went into a restaurant 15 years ago with his ex and her dad. Uh we ordered food sitting down waiting. Next thing the table behind us got served smoked salmon. We had to move smoked salmon. That’s a really expensive thing, is it? Smoked salmon. He can’t stand fish. I I’m not keen on with a small cooking. Thank you, Sharon. Cooking. That’s my mama. I used to use that cooking. Cut cut a lump off and put it in with the potatoes. Delicious. my mom’s potato roast potatoes and she had this like metal tin thing. I always remember this like metal tin thing. It was all done in that and she’d do it in that and then she’d you you’d have your dinner and then she’d do you want any more potatoes? Yes, please, Mom. And she’d come into the living room with a tea towel holding this metal thing like a fish slice and she’d be scraping the potatoes off the bottom of this metal thing and of course that’s where all the crunchy bits are. Oh, sis, I think we we should bring back the cooking. What do you reckon sis? Hey Rachel dad had had octopus. I asked why it takes three hours to cook. They say every time we cook them they turn the gas off. Anyway, there we are. All right. Any more text? Very quickly with text cuz we’re about to disappear, gang. All right. About to disappear. So very quickly with the text. Uh we’ve done that. We done that. We done that. Listen to someone’s conversation. Let me just take that out of the summary. Dream is glasses. Lose weight. Oh, I do that another time. Uh oh, I Oh, that’s it. Accidental racism. I did that this week. I did accidental racism. Well, what it was is I told you I went to the dentist, didn’t I? And we got to have a fill in. And uh I was given three choices actually. the NHS fill it. But when I went in there, here’s the accidental racism. So, she says, “What’s your name?” Oh, who is it you usually see? Oh, I can’t remember. What she look like? Oh, I think it’s the Asian lady. And she she looks at her mate behind the counter. Why is it so boring in dentists? They don’t They used to have fishes, didn’t they? Fish fish tanks and dentists. They don’t have fish tanks anymore. It’s boring in dentists. I sit there dead quiet, don’t they? All serious. Have you noticed that? Dentist surgeries, no one, no one’s talking to each other. They all look so depressing. Now and again, I might say hello. Hello, love. You all right? Huh? Oh, hello. I don’t want to. It’s so serious in dentists, including the staff. The dentists themselves are usually quite chatty and nice people behind the Asian. What? What? Asian woman should or I can’t remember. Is it size? Oh no, she’s Canadian. I Oh god. Accidental racism. That is Well, that’s how she looked at me. Oh dear. So that was my example of accidental racism. And I went in to see the the lady who does my teeth and I said, “Well, I must apologize. I’ve just I’ve just mis miscounted you. She said, “What did you say?” I said, “I thought you was Asian.” Oh, that’s all right. She said, she’s laughing. Anyway, um so I went in there, she had a good look around. She quite a large filling. I said, she said, “It’s very pain.” I said, “No, oddly enough.” And she said, “Oh, you’re lucky then. That’s all right.” I said, “Will it get more painful?” She said, “It might or might not do. Can’t really tell you that.” Okay, fair enough. What’s the score then? She said, “I can do your normal NHS filling, £75.” She said, “It’d be a silver one.” Uh, she said, “But she said it’s quite a large filling.” She said, “I’m not sure it’s going to stick that well.” Okay, what else have we got? She said, “I can do a white composite filling. It will look better.” That doesn’t bother me to be honest cuz it’s right at the back. I mean, who sees those, right? Um, so it’s right at the back. She said, “I can do a white composite filling.” But unfortunately, that’s not on the NHS. It will stick better. Should I? We’ll definitely stick better than that. Plus, there’s a year’s guarantee if anything goes wrong. Okay. How much is that? 320 quid. You know, or you can have a crown. I said, “Okay.” She said, “Can you explain?” Yes. So, that’s a cap that goes across your teeth. And um I said, “Oh, is that Do you know know it’s in there?” She said, “You will at first, but you’ll very quickly get used to it.” Oh, I’m not going for that really. I’ll go for the second option. Okay. I said, “Will you do that now?” She said, “No, I can’t do that now because it’s a bit of a large filling.” She said, “You’ll have to make another appointment.” So, thank you very much. Anyway, so that was it. So, I’ve gone for that. And that’s in first week in September, I think. Yeah. Third of September. I’ll get that done. Um, but I I’m walking back, right? I’m not being funny. I’ve just bought four pairs of glasses for 80 quid. And you want to put a bit of white plastic in my tooth and charge me 300 bastard quid. Do you know what I mean? It’s just unbelievable the the money. The money. Anyway, there we are. John Dixon’s there. Hello, John. Mr. Bean at the dentist is entertaining. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It certainly is. All right. Time to go. Uh, let me do my texts. Any more texts? That’s it now. Is it Mark’s still there? I can’t believe Mark is still there. There we go. All right, gang. Uh, we’ll leave it there. Thank you very much for joining us on the show today. Don’t forget radio show tomorrow morning between 9 and 10 o’clock. You can watch that on Twitch, not on YouTube, I’m afraid. Or um uh just go on your computer or mobile phone, type in reach onair.com and click the listen button on there. If you’ve got an Amazon device, uh go into your Amazon device and enable the skill reach on air. go on to, you know, your Amazon um uh your Amazon app, the Alexa app on your phone. Go into that. Enable the skill uh reach on air. And on air is all one word. It’s actually misprinted up there. I’m going to change that poster. Uh on air is one word. So type it. Look for the skill called reach on air. Enable that. Close it. 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