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it helped me bond with my dog

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that's great it gave us

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another area that was common to both of

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us that we could just crack on and have

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a laugh

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grow together you live somewhere like

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Brighton then you're just you know

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you're spit and you hit a creative

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where'd you do it

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um where do I do yeah

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anywhere yeah you listen to the music

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and you dance to the beach on my own

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mate in the rain in the snow oh

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dedicated yeah not like the rest of them

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do you have a cute dog can I get you

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yeah he's called the Domino he's nervous

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the mass participation of it is not

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really the thing I'm into Bailey's

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I've got a

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diverse portfolio of hobbies

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um including but not limited to uh

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writing uh

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burgeoning interest in music and uh

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a neglected uh aptitude for art

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um as a hobby I just um delved more into

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reading kind of um went back into

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existential questions because we were

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kind of um facing something quite

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um meaningful in terms of

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how we live together as a society and

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how we kind of um face death I suppose

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with um with covert kind of rearing it's

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um in the presence of nature what is

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your hobby my hobbies I like dancing

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okay reading what kind of dancing do you

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know the afrobeats there's a kind of

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person in Africa they call it Fuji dance

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so it's afro it's it's a funny kind of

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dance you cannot understand what's

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beautiful look it up what is your hobby

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uh drawing drawing drawing more mostly

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buildings what is your hobby uh probably

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walking the dog what is your hobby my

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hobby is badminton what is your hobby my

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hobby well my main hobby is photography

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which is also part of my business but my

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business side is I do portrait

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photography and wedding but my hobby is

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more uh sort of capturing people street

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photography just kind of trying to

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capture the moment of day-to-day life so

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that's my hobby hobby of the moment is

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running so I do that um at least four or

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five times a week

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um I think you live somewhere like

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Brighton then you're just you know you

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spit and you hit a creative so yeah yeah

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and yeah typically juxtaposed with

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Barista life

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can't get away so I took up writing oh

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really

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um creative writing especially just kind

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of um learning how to kind of get in

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touch with my my feelings and my

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thoughts but um the general busy

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Lifestyles we leave

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um haven't really allowed me to how

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often do you go

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oh how often do I go where yeah go

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dancing oh no I do it as an hobby so I

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do it very often just my break time at

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home anytime you can just yeah yeah you

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would do it today yeah who fought for

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you

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I'll buy a shell them off as well I do

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you have galleries I put them on um

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uh yeah and uh I'll put them online but

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uh my uh Facebook page is uh named after

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me band it's the James Hunter six so I I

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show them off up there when I do them

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this is just this is said Doug

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Bailey hello

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okay and how often uh do you do your

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hobby oh every day I've been playing

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badminton since I was a kid uh and a

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teenager and then returned to it more in

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my 30s and 40s and play all along at

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various clubs along the coast here Hove

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being the main one did you ever consider

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taking it up professionally yes I try to

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be a coach and um it turns out it's

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really hard and how often do you go out

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like the hobby side how often do you do

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like the hobby side of it maybe once

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every Fortnight I try to kind of go out

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and um get to photograph street

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photography have you ever considered

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doing like a charity half marathon or

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something I've done a few done a few but

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I don't like call them the mass

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participation of it is not really the

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thing I'm into all right okay A bit of

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solitude are yours is like a mindfulness

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kind of mainly yeah just a bit of time

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for yourself really and how often do you

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do it a week should you say I I'm out

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every day if I can oh really yeah wow if

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I've got no work on or it's nice sunny

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evening yeah you'll find us down here

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I'm writing a book

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um yeah uh novel whatever you want to

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call it

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um I won't divulge anything concerning

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that but yeah that's my primary interest

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it's more difficult now to keep us up

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yeah because it's um you know it seems

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that we we're having less and less time

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but um you know you still got time with

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my dog here yeah you have a cute dog can

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I get your dog

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he's nervous

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I have a lock down dog too really yeah

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absolutely and uh how often do you pay

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how could you draw sorry how often yeah

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not often enough really yeah I mean I

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should be writing songs so I sometimes

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I'll do that when I'm supposed to be

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doing that and uh would you say that

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your hobby is uh sort of a solo project

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or is it yeah because everyone else is

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too lazy to walk with me

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on my own mate in the rain in the snow

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oh dedicated yeah not like the rest of

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them and who'd you play with uh friends

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or there's a social there's a club where

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you can just turn up as you're just an

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individual and loads of individuals just

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turn up do you run with music or no

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music no music just the birds the wind

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the element the elements my dogs okay so

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then what do you what do you think about

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anything or are you just I try and clear

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my head actually yeah I've got a really

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busy day job so there's a lot it's

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full-on so it's nice to just have a few

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hours

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you know and during the week where you

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just literally not think of anything but

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ultimately things do pop back into your

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head again it helped me bond with my dog

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that's great it gave us

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another area that you've come to both of

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us that we could just crack on and have

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a laugh and

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grow together walking and thinking as a

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product of lockdown is kind of something

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that

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um he's learning he might not love it as

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much as I do but he's destined to do it

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for the rest of um I think our lives and

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how did you sort of discover running

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then I've always been a bit I've always

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been outdoorsy but um I guess I was I

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lived in London previously so

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trying to find any kind of space was was

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a was a hard thing to do but then you

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get to

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move down to Brighton there was this the

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Downs the beach so there's more space so

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I just kind of discovered it by walking

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first and then you know I need to get a

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bit fitter and been doing it for years

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now you get lost in it but you

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each part of being part of a group yeah

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like-minded Souls people call this Geeks

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yeah

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because they're into like by detail but

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it's it's just why don't you put that

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down and pick that up and have a go

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yeah can I never go okay thanks for

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watching this week's episode let us know

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in the comments below what hobbies you

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get up to in your time off and what

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hobbies you'd like to pick up in the

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future and as always we'll see you next

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