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Hi everyone, welcome to a new episode of

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Easy English. So, today is a windy but

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beautiful day at Brighton Beach and I

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thought I'd head down to this undercliff

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behind me and interview the people

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making their daily walks. So, the people

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making their walks at this time of the

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day are mostly retired people. So, I

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thought I'd ask the questions, what do

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people used [music] to do for work, what

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are they enjoying about retired life,

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and do they have any advice for us

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people still working? Let's get to it

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before I get blown away.

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>> [music]

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>> Hi. Hi.

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>> [laughter]

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>> How are you doing? I'm good, thank you.

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>> Hi. Hi. Hi. How are you doing today? Uh

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not too bad. It's a lovely day.

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Weather's great, so yeah. Yeah.

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>> Enjoying that. Enjoying the sunshine.

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Nice breeze. Hi. Hi.

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>> [laughter]

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>> How's it going? Good, thank you. Uh what

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are you up to with your day?

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>> I'm walking my dog.

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What's your dog's name?

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>> My dog's name is Scout.

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>> Scout. Yeah, are you going for walkies?

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Yes. [laughter]

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Hi. Hello. How are you going? Yeah, not

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bad, thank you very much. Hi. Hi. Hi.

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>> [laughter]

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>> How are all three of you? Yeah, we're

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good. Yeah. It's a nice day. It is a

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really nice day today. And what what are

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you three up to on this nice day?

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>> Right.

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>> Retired, recently retired. We decided

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it.

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And uh we meet up every few months for a

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walk and a chat and a catch-up and to

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talk about and celebrate the fact that

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we don't work anymore. Yeah,

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congratulations.

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Yeah. Hi. Hello. Hi. [laughter]

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Nice to see you. Uh

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how are you doing today? Yeah, we're

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we're really good, aren't we? Yes, we

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are.

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We're just having a walk along the

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seafront. The usual walk. Yeah, it's a

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lovely bright day, but it's very windy,

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but very fresh. So

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>> When you say usual walk, how often are

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you doing this walk?

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>> Every day. Every day?

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>> Every day, at least 1 hour. Wow, good

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for the health, isn't it? That's sure.

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Very That's what it is about. Yeah.

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>> Our health. How are you two doing today?

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Fine, thank you. You look good. Yeah,

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I'm okay. Okay, what What you up to at

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the moment? You about to go for a swim?

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No, I'm not today, but Christine is.

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Yeah, nice. This is a just a normal

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regular

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Monday for you, is it? Monday? So it's

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not Monday, is it? So

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is it Today is Thursday today.

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Yeah.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Yeah, that shows you where I'm at in my

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mind.

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>> Yeah, well, we all used to all go in

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regularly every day, but the sea's been

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so dirty lately, we have to wait until

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we think it's okay. What are you up to

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today?

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Well, I'm just waiting to and I'm

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meeting a friend who goes sea swimming

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uh quite often, even at this time of the

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year.

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And I'm going to wait for her and we

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might go and get a drink first before we

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go to the end beach where she will

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go into the sea. Wow.

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>> And I will watch her today because it's

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a little bit too chilly for me.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Yeah. I've been unwell. I've got a very

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stiff neck and uh

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so I've been indoors for the last uh

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couple of days and I've just come out

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today to try and uh get have a bit of

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exercise. Yeah.

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>> And cuz it's starting to get a bit

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better.

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Yeah. I was supposed to be sailing to

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France tonight

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>> No. on my yacht, yeah. No. But because

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of the neck, I've had to pull out, yeah.

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Yeah. Wow, you have a yacht in the at

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the marina?

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So, are you the most recent one to have

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retired? Is that right?

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>> Yeah. You are. I was the first.

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You are.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Yeah, you started, didn't

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Yeah, I went there.

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Okay. And that's really lovely that

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you've all decided to sort of keep on

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meeting up.

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>> Yeah, it's good. That's nice. And what

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did you all three of you do together?

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>> We worked in social work. We were all

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social work managers. Are you retired?

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Yes. You are retired. And what did you

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used to do for a job?

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>> I was I was a nurse. You were a nurse,

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really? Yep. For the NHS?

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>> Yep. And was that your job?

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Or is that your job?

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>> no. I was a I'm a teacher. I was a

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teacher. I'm retired a teacher. And I

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taught um

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secondary schools and and sixth form

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colleges uh sciences, biology and

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physics. Are you working? Are you not

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working?

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>> I'm retired now. You are retired, okay.

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>> Yeah, I used to work for the post

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office. Oh, really? You are a postman?

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>> No, I worked at Gatwick close to do the

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figures for them at the Gatwick mail

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center. We are both retired, recently

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retired.

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>> Oh, congratulations.

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>> you. Are you happy about retiring?

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>> Very happy now.

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>> [laughter]

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>> We we started working a long time, but

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we think it's the time now. Yeah, nice.

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And what did you both used to do for

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Well,

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it's a variety. Most recently we had a

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property business where we rented uh

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properties to students for Brighton

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University in Sussex. All right, great.

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Yeah. And what did you both used to do

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for work then? Oh, I used to work in a

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in a club. In a club, really?

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>> Yeah. Like night club or It is police

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club actually. A police club?

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>> Yeah.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Okay. Are you recently retired or

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retired for some time?

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>> Uh

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4 years ago. 4 years ago, okay.

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>> Yeah. Uh can you give any advice to

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people who are

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younger than you, let's say?

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Um Do you have any advice? Additional

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advice for a teacher would be don't go

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into teaching.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Uh well,

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let's try not pick a cliche.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Um Have you ever given anything like

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that to anyone? Uh not really. I always

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say live today, worry about tomorrow

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tomorrow. That's [laughter] my uh

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That's a good one.

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>> you know, you

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you never know how long you're here.

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That's great. I like that. It's not a

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rehearsal, is it?

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>> Think about tomorrow, tomorrow. Yeah.

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>> [laughter]

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>> I only worry about today. Tomorrow will

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sort itself out.

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>> That's great. I love that.

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>> And we've just been talking. We can't

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understand people that want to still

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work past our age. Yeah.

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>> [laughter]

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>> cuz when they don't have to.

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Interesting. So, then that's my next

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question. What advice would you have to

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people? Do you have any general advice

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you have?

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>> Retire while you're strong and fit and

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healthy. And you've got the money to

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enjoy life. Love that. That's really

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>> But work hard to get the money in the

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first place. You need to save the money

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for your pension so that you can have a

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nice life. Lovely. Nice bit of advice.

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What's what's that bit of life advice

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you you'd give? Like from a standpoint,

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the thing you'd say to someone.

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Just make the most of every day.

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Just really try and make the most of

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every day.

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And just be

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be kind to people. Anyway, You don't

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know what their

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life story is.

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Looking back, do you have any advice for

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people? Do you ever have give any

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general or life advice? Well, I think

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the life advice, um, I used to have a

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full-on job that I worked probably 14

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hours every day before the property

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business. My my advice would be or more,

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um, would be don't spend all your time

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working. Make sure you have time for

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your leisure. Get that work-life

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balance. Right, cuz you you sort of

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struggled with that, did you? Yeah, you

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can short you can, uh, not pay enough

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attention to your family, maybe. You

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have to have projects, I think. You have

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to have things to

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a goals to achieve, you know? You I

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think what In retirement, you were

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saying about advice, I'd say you don't

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want to just drift, you know? You've got

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to

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cuz if you've been working and you've

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got a routine and there there's obvious

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goals are set by other people often, but

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you've still got goals to achieve. Um,

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it's very difficult to just sort of

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switch off. If you switch off from that

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completely and have nothing, it, um,

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I think that could be really depressing.

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Shel Silverstein, I've got a little, uh,

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sticker on my thing which says

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anything can happen child, any

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anything can be. Think something like

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that. And what does that mean?

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>> Just that anything is possible, right?

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So

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you you might you we all have

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limitations. We but they're

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self-imposed.

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In actual fact there are no limits to

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what you can do and you can make you can

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make the life you want.

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And my advice would be to make sure that

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you have time for your five

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grandchildren. Oh, okay. Cuz [laughter]

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we've got beautiful five grandchildren.

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They love us, we love them and we want

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to have a lot of time for them. I bet

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that you require a lot of time also.

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>> They indeed they do. They keep us fit.

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And a lot of energy, yes. Nice, yeah. I

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bet they do keep you fit. Okay, well,

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I'll let you get back on your way. Sure,

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okay. Enjoy the rest of your walk. Will

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do. See you around. Cheers. All right.

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Bye.

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Okay, it's a lovely to meet you there.

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And you.

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>> [laughter]

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>> Have a nice rest of your day in the sun.

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Yeah, oh, it is glorious. Okay, I'll let

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you get back on with your walk and enjoy

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it. Nice to speak to you. Nice to speak

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to you, too. Thank you. Bye.

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All right, I'll send you on your way.

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Yeah, nice to meet you, too.

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Oh, you're going that way now?

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>> [laughter]

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>> Okay, see you later. Brilliant, well,

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it's really lovely to meet you. Nice to

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meet you, too. Okay.

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