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Hello and welcome to podcast number eight. With today a couple of things I want to talk

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about the most important one personally for me is the MS Society walk that was Saturday

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and I've previously mentioned that that was that was coming up but yeah I really want

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to talk about that. Also the other thing I really want to talk about today is that I'm

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actually recording from somewhere slightly different. Normally I'm sat at mid dinner

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table. Today I'm actually out in what is going to be my my new recording studio. We've in

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our back garden we've got two brick sheds one of them is still a shed and the other

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side we a couple years ago now we sort of created it into a bit of a utility room where

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we put the dryer but we're going to change that now actually with what we're looking

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to do is move the dryer back indoors and make it a little bit more accessible because middle

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of winter when it's pouring down it's not easy actually to come out into the garden

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in the rain get wet to come put the dryer on and the other thing being out here the

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dryer does get a bit cold so potentially it could be a problem for it so we're looking

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to bring that back indoors and create new space for it which would be nice and Lisa

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bless her she come up with this idea that I make that brick shed my recording studio

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which naturally I've gratefully accepted because it would be nice actually to have

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somewhere dedicated for me to come and sit and talk to you all because in all fairness

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sitting at the dinner table is absolutely fantastic but at times it's not fair to everyone

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else in the house because I then need the space so at some point in the relatively midterm

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future I'm going to come out and I'm going to sound proof the walls and yeah I'll use

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this as my recording space as I say I'm sat out here now and the sun's kind of shining

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there's a bit of cloud in the sky a bit of wind about but that's okay out here to be

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honest with you yeah I kind of feel like I've been locked in the naughty house but yeah

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I'd say that's that's where that is in terms of my issues with the MS at the moment I will

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say I'm struggling along with some pretty nasty pains my left calf I'm getting a lot

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pain in my left calf feels like it's on fire to be honest with you even while I'm sat here

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again today especially I've been very very weak on my legs walking around knees are buckling

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all over the place and to be honest with you I'm wobbling just about everywhere which yeah

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it's not nice it really isn't nice and yeah I'm struggling I'll be totally honest I'm

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not not gonna hide it I'm actually really struggling with it but I'm doing the best

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I can to carry on because really that's all I can do is is the best I can to to carry

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on and just be me I do try to be quite a fun person and that's that's where I am with it

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so the MS yeah as I've said in the past it can throw what it wants at me but I'll catch

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it and I'll do the best I can to carry on so moving on to the MS Society Walk what a

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day genuinely what a day myself my brother Richard my dad we we traveled down to London

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what I will say before I go any further on that is a massive massive thank you to both

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Richard and my dad for coming down with me it was massively appreciated I couldn't manage

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to do a lot of actual walking that day must have spent 95% of the day I would say in the

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DeLorean which is my wheelchair and the pair of them no quibbles just everything they could

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do to keep me moving around and and help massively appreciate thank you both of you massive thank

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you but yeah so we got down we got into Embankment Gardens MS Society's staff down there were

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absolutely fantastic they really were what I will say is when we was getting things like

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the safety briefing absolutely hilarious it really was it was funny as well as informative

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massively enjoyed it I'll be honest with you did laugh quite a bit even to the point they

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put signposts all around so that everyone on the different walks you had a 20k a 10k

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a 5k and a 1k we did the five it was made very very clear if you misread the signpost

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and you went the wrong direction they would absolutely come and help you they would come

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and get you and take you back not a problem externally they'd be really worried for you

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internally they'd be laughing as we all would it was brilliant honestly very very funny

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and doing the warm-up again I'm not one for warming up don't do that but listening to

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the warm-up watching it being done brilliant really funny everything they could possibly

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do to keep people as entertained and safe as they could absolutely different class altogether

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a real real incredible bit of work I'd made myself a promise for the walk that no matter

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what I would be starting that walk on my feet I did that I made sure to start on my feet

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part of our route we went down through the gates to the city of London again I've taken

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lots of pictures they're all on my social media accounts which at the end I will again

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promote them so that you can go across if you want to see any of the pictures or the

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videos so yeah we went through those gates absolutely fantastic brilliant you know right

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by the river really nice walk we carried on down absolutely fantastic and the one thing

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I will say it was a very scenic walk really did enjoy that one of the other things that

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I think was incredible to be totally honest with you St Paul's Cathedral now as was coming

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up to it you could hear the bells ringing absolutely fantastic it really was we actually

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managed to get right up close with the bells still ringing and I actually did a video which

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is on my YouTube which again I'll give you the YouTube details at the end but yeah I'll

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be honest with you absolutely fantastic managed to record it and I've done my recording done

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my video and by the time I click to stop the video the bells stopped within a few seconds

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after so actually we got really very lucky that I managed to get that recording very

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very pleased with it I'll be honest it has come out fantastic one of the other things

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that had to be done I mean it would have been against the law if I didn't he came past a

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coffee house I don't know if I'm supposed to give the name out but I'm going to Costa

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and I do like a Costa I quite fancied a chocolate frappe and they actually put a double shot

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of coffee in it oh it was gorgeous absolutely beautiful really enjoyed it normally there's

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only a little bit of coffee put in it when I have it where we live and it's really nice

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don't get me wrong very very nice but that double shot in it was beautiful I actually

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kind of fancy another one right now I'll be honest with you but yeah I mean we had that

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while drinking that we come up to the Millennium Bridge which I've been across pretty much

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every bridge in London throughout throughout my days and I promised myself again Millennium

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Bridge I wanted to walk across it because I've never done that before so we finished

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our drinks and I stood and I walked across the Millennium Bridge and while we was coming

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across there we actually bumped into some some other walkers from another charity which

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was Mind again fantastic charity really is but the camaraderie between everyone was absolutely

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fantastic I've got to say it you know they were clapping us and cheering us and again

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at the time there's lots of other people dressed in the bright orange from the MS Society and

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everyone was just so so nice and supportive to each other it was an absolute pleasure

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I've got to be honest it really was an absolute pleasure so if anyone from the mind charity

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is listening absolutely brilliant well done really well done so yeah I mean there was

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that walked across Millennium Bridge as we were south of the river we actually came along

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and we came to the the eye the London Eye which personally I've never been that close

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to actually previously so it was nice to get right underneath it and see just how big it

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is I took a few pictures of that and again that's on my social media accounts yeah it

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was massive it really was massive as we come along there we then come to Westminster Bridge

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which was it was nice I've come across there previously no problem so yeah we come up I

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took a few quite a few pictures of Big Ben and yeah you know there's some some really

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good pictures taken the houses of parliament all of it they say it's a really really nice

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walk very very nice walk be honest with you I can't compliment it any higher we were so

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lucky with the weather it was beautiful it really was nice weather for the day this time

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of year it could have been a bit a bit wet it wasn't the sun was out it was warm but

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not hot so it was nice we we come again around the corner back towards the start finish point

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and again I've made myself that promise that no matter what I was going to walk across

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the finish line and I did I actually went live on the Instagram to finish the walk on

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my feet now as we're sort of coming up to the finish line again we're being cheered

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even members of the public that were walking past were sort of clapping and you know telling

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you well done it was absolutely fantastic I'll go be honest with you really really fantastic

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and yeah walking across that finish line and getting that medal put over my over my head

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and around my neck honest the level of pride was was massive and yeah okay we were raised

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a reasonable amount of money not a massive amount but personally you say my team we raised

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a reasonable amount of money but actually to me every pound is going to help some level

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so yeah everyone that that did donate to myself and my team massive thank you really is appreciated

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but yeah I mean that was it we come to the end of the walk so medal around my neck massive

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amount of pride it's not really a great deal more I can say apart from to the MS Society

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thank you for putting on an incredible event and thank you for for raising so much money

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to try and help everyone with this condition it's it's appreciated by I think just about

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everyone so thank you to the MS Society well that will do for today as I say well what

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I would like to do is give you my my details for my social medias and it is the same for

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absolutely everything I'll be honest with you it's Mike's underscore MS underscore

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journey and that is TikTok it's Instagram on YouTube jump across some on Twitter as

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well with the same handle jump across come and say hello and let me know how you're doing

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well that would do for today thank you all very much for listening and I look forward

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to talking to you all again soon have a good day bye bye