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today we're in recovery mode uh we're

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gonna go to a pub dog friendly Pub maybe

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uh get some bag of chips and what do you

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plan to do after you finish recording uh

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finish making a photo sorry

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I'm gonna go through compliance

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it's quite important just to take time

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out even if it's to just open the window

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and breathe some fresh air or to go

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downstairs have a cup of tea you have to

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take some time or reset and come back

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into the day I settled in South Wales

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so very um

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for a woman different to that one and

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how are you liking Brighton so far uh

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it's quite windy

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hiya welcome to easy English so I'm down

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on the Undercliff during the Easter

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break and I want to find out what are

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people doing today before we start this

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like the video below here we go uh we've

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just had all the family for for Easter

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we've had five grandchildren and family

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but today we're in recovery mode

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today

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um it's my working day but I've just

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taken an hour off to walk in my neighbor

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to get the fresh air and to enjoy the

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sunshine what are you doing today we are

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trying to catch a bit of fresh air and

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give the dogs a uh a stretch of their

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legs before the year before the weather

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turns this afternoon hopefully

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I hope eat some thika we're from Sweden

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so we want to like go to a cafe and eat

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some sweet stuff or something like that

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and just look at the city just walk

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along seafront maybe uh get some bag of

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chips you know that sort of thing today

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we are

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um

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Brighton how you doing today so we're

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walking from Peacehaven to Brighton with

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the dog we've got a few days off in

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between work shifts I thought we'd come

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down to Sussex and see the seaside what

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is it that uh you two are doing today so

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we're doing a photo shoot for her dance

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product we had Easter eggs from our

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grandchildren so we are going to eat

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those as well

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you're having like a big hangover day of

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like uh like a conversational hangover

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day oh something like that yeah do you

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do this most days I do because I've been

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working for myself now for about seven

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years and the main reason I did that was

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to have the flexibility of a relaxed

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lifestyle where I can balance my mental

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health with my working days trying to

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get a work-life balance achievement and

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who's we is it your friends or family so

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there is we're a family of four there's

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me my wife my two children and our two

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dogs okay so you've just heard saying

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hello to another dog you're from Sweden

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and you're in England looking for

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Swedish food not really Swedish food but

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thing can be

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can be as long as there's something

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sweet

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IE and then a pastry is just what you

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need and it's just something we do like

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almost every day like go in the

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afternoon it's like afternoon tea I

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would say but like we just call it the

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Gap okay and what do you do after the

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chips

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well just go home and then get dinner

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ready

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from one meal to the next well that's it

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really sort of you know that's life and

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what do you have planned for later

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tonight

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um we don't have any plans yet no not

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really it's going to rain so we just

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wanted to enjoy the sun while it lasted

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but we don't have any plans we'll just

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see what made the most of the hundreds

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of pubs probably at night time if it

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rains it's gonna rain later what's the

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plan for tonight uh we're gonna go to a

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pub dog friendly Pub watch the Champions

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League Chelsea Real Madrid and sit there

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with a drink in the dog and uh just just

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sit in the pub nice and um how did you

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come about to get connected to do this

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together I mean we've grown up with each

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other so it was kind of easy to decide

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really and you're on your way to doing

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it or you've already done it done a few

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things

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cool what kind of dance stuff do you do

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I do

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today that's right uh retired quiet Life

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starts again today

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but we feel shouted so it's all my own

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experience of burnout and stress and

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working with class with burnout and

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stress I've come to recognize that

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timeout is quite important to reset to

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start to work again okay this is your

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self-prescribed yes yeah it's quite

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important just to take time out even if

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it's to just open the window and breathe

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some fresh air or to go downstairs have

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a cup of tea you have to take some time

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or reset and come back into the day

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we've come down from South Wales

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um so we've just we've popped down for

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for a few days for a change of scenery

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and hopefully some better weather

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yeah yeah and uh then a random side

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question uh are you Welsh

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I'm not no I'm from no so I grew up in

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Sheffield

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I left Sheffield to go to university at

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18.

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um and I haven't really returned but I

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settled in South Wales for a um

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for a woman who different to that one

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but it's halfway as I stayed and then uh

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what did you say you do later on after

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your fika what do you call it yeah and

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what'd you do after your feet curve uh I

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think we're going to take the bus home

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because it's supposed to rain and then

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maybe go to the cinema or something like

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that because doing something indoors

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yeah it's a good idea yeah and what do

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you plan to do after you finish

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recording uh finish making photos sorry

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I will edit them I'm gonna go to a

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compliance

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episode let

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us blow what you've been getting up to

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on the Easter break and as always we'll

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see you next week

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