Longtime Ago People
In a world where family connections shape us, stories bridge generations. Many of us carry cherished memories of those who touched our lives, which I think deserve to be shared.
Each episode I hope will feature guests recounting touching, funny, and inspiring memories, celebrating the impact these individuals had on their lives. I aim to beautifully remember loved ones, offering listeners nostalgia, warmth, and connection.
I am looking for people to reflect on the impact of these relationships.
Longtime Ago People
Time Capsule: Bembridge & Old Friends Pick Up Where They Left Off
Bembridge School - Bas & Miles 1964
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There’s something quietly remarkable about friendships that endure across decades. I recently sat down with my old school friend Bas—now living in Sydney—for a conversation that spanned forty years yet felt like no time had passed at all.
We found ourselves transported back to Bembridge School on the Isle of Wight, where we spent our formative years in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Boarding school life then had a curious blend of austerity and enchantment—freezing dormitories with ice on the inside of the windows, the five "houses", and house ties that marked your allegiance. It was, in hindsight, a kind of Hogwarts before Rowling imagined hers.
Our chat meandered through the odd rituals that shaped us: nicknames so entrenched that real names were practically forgotten, the infamous “Island Walk”—a 30-mile overnight trek through darkness—and ghost stories that haunted us in the best possible way. These shared rites stitched us together, forging bonds that have somehow survived time and geography.
Music was a lifeline. Bas credits ABBA with getting him through boarding school, while I remember The Jam as the soundtrack to our adolescence. Those songs weren’t just background—they were emotional anchors.
What struck me most was our shared sense of what Bembridge gave us. “It taught you respect,” Bas said, and I agreed. Independence, resilience, and a kind of emotional literacy that’s hard to quantify but easy to recognise. Though the school itself now stands empty, its legacy lives on in us.
This conversation wasn’t just nostalgic—it was affirming. Proof that the past isn’t lost, just waiting to be revisited with someone who remembers it too.
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a little footnote before we start off today. So, baz aiden basnet I have not spoken to him really in decades, apart from the office facebook conversations that we've had over the years. But it's also been 40 years plus since we were at bainbridge school together, which, again, I think is incredible, because we literally just pick up from where we left off all those decades ago, which I think is um, it's an incredible thing to be able to just do that. I think that's quite marvelous, that friends can do this, and it just proves what a deep friendship we had when we were obviously at school together, listening to miles, and this is long time ago, people. Today I am sitting in arundel and I'm talking on zoom to a good friend of mine who is where are you, baz? I'm in Sydney Australia, sydney Australia. He has got a slight twang that he's developed the last 40 years. So, first of all, how did you get to Australia.
Speaker 2:I was working in Qantas in London in 1988. My future wife, she, was Australian. She was posted to London from Sydney. She was coming over to london for six months to train. We obviously went out. We got married in the uk and then, the more I was coming out to australia, I thought I like it here. And then, 1993, I decided to emigrate. Okay, well, what?
Speaker 1:was it? Was it a massive change? I mean like even things like the seasons and stuff like that was it probably the space it wasn there was no language barrier.
Speaker 2:But because I sort of spent a lot of my childhood in Africa, I mean I like the space over here. I mean you never forget your roots, but the space over here I really like. That's probably what did it, and the lifestyle as well, do you?
Speaker 1:see yourself as Australian or still very much British.
Speaker 2:You never forget your roots. Maybe regard myself more of an Aussie now, but you never forget your roots.
Speaker 1:You definitely sound like an Aussie now, which I think is kind of cute. Really it suits you. We're going to talk about something different today. We're going to talk about the school that we both went to, which is Benbridge School on the Isle of Wight. So if you don't know where the Isle of Wight is, it's right at the bottom of the south of England. There's a diamond-shaped island at the bottom. Baz and I went to school there Now. I went there from 1976 to 1982. What about yourself? 77 to 82. If I said, what's the first thing you think about? If I said Benbridge School, what do you think about?
Speaker 2:What's the very first thing, you think about the location. We had, like you know, sitting in the classroom, looking out to the ocean and the open of the place and, looking back, making long-life friendships, which we still have.
Speaker 1:I think the grounds for me were beautiful, weren't they? I mean, tell me a little bit about the grounds from your perspective the grounds when you look at it today.
Speaker 2:Your heart breaks when you see it now. But those grounds were kept immaculate. John Andrew was one of the maintenance guys and there was Jason, I think, and his dog. He used to keep those grounds absolutely immaculate.
Speaker 1:Your memory is great, which is why I'm talking to you. I'm going to come on to some names later on. For sure, I think the location was great and yeah, we do. I mean, although we don't see each other very often, everybody's still sort of in contact. So you've got some really close friends that you made from Benrish School.
Speaker 2:Tell me made from bembridge school, tell me a little bit about well, this yourself of course I still keep in touch with. Would you limit your hedges? Of course mark would be to my close friend in malaysia, disney and bangkok. But yeah, it's just. Yeah, probably about about 10 good friends I've sort of kept in touch with.
Speaker 1:If we uh, if we then talk about the boarding houses so you and I were in a boarding house my kids think of benry school as like harry potter and hogwarts houses it is. It was exactly like that. So if I look at um, you and I were in old houses, or as we used to call it, old before they moved us in the last couple years towards a new building called kilgaran. Tell me a little bit about old house that was.
Speaker 2:I mean, looking back, that was a classic building, the wooden floorboardsboards, freezing in the winter, what a character that place had Like, why it hasn't been turned into a hotel now. I mean the views we used to have from that place and the winds which used to howl in the winter and the ice inside the windows and the dormitories and the cold bathrooms.
Speaker 1:I remember one time breaking the ice in the toilet, but it was Hogwarts.
Speaker 2:Looking back, it was Hogwarts. Every time I look at that first harry potter movie, that's us going back to boarding school, the 220 train from waterloo train and then the ferry. And when I look at that first harry potter movie when they go on the train and the boat out to the castle, that's like you know, the train in the boat and another train.
Speaker 1:That's right, yeah that's my childhood, so in in holdouts we're two houses in there. Do you remember both their?
Speaker 2:names yeah, I was in and the other one was macefield.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so in was sort of like we had a black tie, didn't we? You went in as well I was in, yeah, yeah, definitely, and then we had obviously macefield, which was a red tie do you remember the other houses names?
Speaker 2:uh, new house, nevinson and school, was it? I understood the white's called school.
Speaker 1:But uh, there's obviously a reason. It's off, off-site down the and that was nansen, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, I always thought it was quite strange because it wasn't as you said, it was off-site, so they had an extra journey into school going back to old house. I always remember it. I mean it was. You're right, it should be a hotel, because it was literally on the edge of a cliff, almost as it hasn't fallen into the sea. I was convinced it was going to fall into the sea. That'll be there for years. But you're right, it had a lovely long drive. It was a beautiful-looking school. Let's just talk about I don't know food and the refectory. Have you got any?
Speaker 2:memories of that at all? Oh, when we used to have to go and collect it from the hatch, the loaf of bread. Yeah, there was breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast you used, toipped the food from the hatch, clipped the loaf of bread. You had four slices of bread each, or with chips, with everything which was soggy, and then the afternoon tea as well yeah, it was like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like tea and biscuit, but that was it. If you look at that period of your life, is there anything in there that you think shaped the way you?
Speaker 2:you think now, probably, I probably think very independent, you have to sort of think on your own, and I probably am a bit. Yeah, probably you sort of have to think things through yourself. You, you're very independent and for me, right, it was quite hard to show emotions. Yeah, I have mixed feelings about that, but I think, to this day, when I look how I, how I handle things now, it's my upbringing at the school which has taught me to be a bit, not reserved, but a bit I I hold things in it's very hard to explain about brems school unless you sort of like know it, but it was as you said.
Speaker 1:It was right out on the east side of the isle of wight and it was quite exposed to the elements and just walking around from the various houses to the refectory, which the food hall, was a bit of a challenge sometimes, and sports was a bit of a challenge, well, but I do very clearly remember various sports days and the school fight was really good. I remember something to do with you and and a very prominent politician at times. Tell me a little bit about that. I was the headmaster.
Speaker 2:I did. We had house entertainments, I think the year before and I was an impersonator and I did frank spencer. I impersonated the headmaster. He asked me to do that and I did Mrs Thatcher as well.
Speaker 1:I remember Mrs Thatcher. I don't remember Frank Spencer. Now you mentioned it.
Speaker 2:And then the headmaster then wanted me to open the school, say as Mrs Thatcher which I tend to cringe when I look back now. Apparently people were the fate had opened, but when they heard me speaking, apparently some people thought it was her and they dropped the stuff buying to come over. That's, that's what, apparently what happened. You were fully dressed up as her and everything. One of the parents, father, had a black rose voice, joe faulkner and I came up the school drive in the black rose voice, but it's something like it was funny back at the time, but I sort of cringed back and then I'll look back at it now it was funny and it was good and I've got a fond memory of it in my head.
Speaker 1:Now you've mentioned I've forgotten about the frank spender thing, but I do.
Speaker 2:I do remember, yeah, so I came in on roller skates and crashed into the stage and then the headmaster I had somebody threw something at the stage and I got up and told them off. And then I impersonated what bob whitby said about when we had cheese and biscuits we had to keep our knives and second course was cheese and biscuits. I remember that. Any other memories? I wrote a ghost story and it was about the three headmasters walking around in chains at night, published in one of the school newspapers. I haven't got that anymore. And mudflow jumping. Do you remember that? No, I don't. The beach path.
Speaker 2:Oh, the beach path, I definitely remember the beach path, get stuck on the cliffs, on the clay. Yeah, that happened all the time, didn't it? Me and Duncan Clark? He got his wellies lost, but that mudflow jumping, that's what that was called. The one thing I do remember you were Stuart Webb in the Far Escape. Were you there then? No, remind me.
Speaker 1:I might have been.
Speaker 2:In cold dormitory. We did dares, yeah, and it was summer, and we dared him to put a jockstrap on and run, run down to the um definitely ringing the bell and run down to the holiday park and scratch it with a one of the cow brands to make sure he didn't. He did. He said, god, we won't get caught. And he got a jock strap and he ran down the escape over, came back. This was coming up. As he was coming up the staircases, eight walked into the dormitory that was the best story. And Ape went where's Webb? And I said we don't know, sir. And the next thing, webb opened the window. Remember the windows? Yes, I remember the windows very clearly. And he caught in the window and his jock. We used to open the windows in the winter to let some heat in. Yeah, that was a good story. And he got caught.
Speaker 1:I remember being in fifth form when we were all in bed and the sixth form had been out and they'd seen the film the Warriors and they'd come in and they'd lampposted us the whole dormitory. They'd just pick the end of the beds up, we were all asleep and just and then put them up. I remember being I was asleep and the next minute I'm upside down in my bed. And there's another thing that was quite popular. It was called apple pieing, where you apple pie sheets. They couldn't get into the sheets when you put your foot in it. Again, we've already said it's it was very, very much like portrayed in in um, in harry potter, um for sure. So just a funny thing that my kids always laugh, laugh at me about. They've said to me dad, you seem to have nicknames for everybody. You, you always do. That's right. And I said, I said, well, I don't know. I I don't know whether it's a generational thing or whether it's a bembridge school thing, but anyway, let me. Let me just throw some at you now, because when I left school, when people used to call me miles, I sometimes didn't even hear. Everyone calls me miles now, when I was at school, I was just called mods, that was it. So I was just called mods and that was it. So I was just called Mods and that was it. So that was my name. To this day, adam Dom, my brother, adam, still calls me. He still calls me Mods.
Speaker 1:It's quite funny, because he's probably the only one that still actually calls me it, unless I bump into someone like Joe Whitby. As I know him, mark Whitby I've never called him Mark, ever. I I've always called him Joe and I think it came from like Joe Call or whatever, but anyway. So obviously you were called Baz, which it's in with your name, which is good. But then we had things like we had Terry Tank or just Tank. We had DK um, which was, I think, was his initials. Slim was um, was Tim Millichap's name and he, he was called Slim because he wasn't Slim. That was quite funny. But the one that always gets me was was Reg Moore, because I thought his name was reg more. It wasn't until years later that I he came up on facebook as alex more and I thought who's alex more? He just called reg to me, which is really weird. Dusty was dusty's name really dusty.
Speaker 2:No, rossman is his name. He got it from the dusty bin. Remember the dusty bin advert.
Speaker 1:That's how rossman's his real name because he calls himself dusty benbridge now, which I think is really cool. I'll say this one really quickly, dongle, but we'll move on from that one, because that was a funny name there's another one called um uh flaps and we'll move on for that one as well.
Speaker 1:But you got like words, if you remember, words um pills, which was obviously just just in woman's see, uh toffer. Again, topper eels used to make me laugh because that was probably elston. Elston eels. We used to say because of the, the hymn uh, that was smutley, that was duncan smith smutley, smutley, duncan smith.
Speaker 1:There was max wall. His name is reed simon joe, as I've already said, but it didn't anybody else you can think of off the top of your head Eric, eric Shaw, eric, who else? It is quite funny that we all had the, everyone had a nickname. And then, if we move on to the teachers, we had sort of like Banda. We had Flea, who, I must say, was my favourite teacher of all time, mr Lee, he was lovely. I Jasper, our housemaster. Yeah, wally Betts and again, I love Mr Wally Betts. He meant quite a lot to me as well, I think. Yeah, obviously, taffy Jones, smelly, george, we'll just leave that one. Yao. Do you remember Yao? I don't even know where these names all came from.
Speaker 2:That was how I used to. I'll hate Yao. Remember that.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's where it came from he would at you as well. If it was a benbridge school thing, would it obviously was, when you think about it.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of schools had nicknames for teachers, but there are some classics there. What was, what was left? What was lieutenant commander? Did he have one too?
Speaker 1:chilling, wasn't it just commanded. He used to make me laugh as well, because if you were ever less than he would just open the door and just say 215, which was detention, and shut the door. You didn't get in, it just seems. It just seems that everybody all had nicknames, which is uh, I'm sure there's some that will come into our, our head later on, but again, I mean, there's probably hundreds of stories and there's people I mean it is. I mean there's been been recently been a reunion.
Speaker 1:I didn't go, but it was interesting to see that people are still going to bembridge and you know, and uh, and they've got fond memories of it, although it was a very, very different time than now. But we we do have, you know, we do, we do have memories of it and I do think it shaped me into the person I am today, because I think when I went there at 12 it was a bit of an eye-opener for me, but it helped me understand that I can control my life and which I think is uh, was good about it and it taught you respect.
Speaker 2:That was the big thing. Like you respect you, yeah, and you look, you look now and I think, oh my god, I'd never yet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, respect, you know yeah, and I think that was um kind of key. I mean it's not. It's a shame it's not there, but I mean I know that it eventually got bought out by ride school and and now it looks like it's going to be sold off. But hopefully somebody will do something with it and uh, stop it from being um, looking a little. It's looking a bit derelict a bit now, isn't it?
Speaker 2:all right. Yeah, it's sad to see those.
Speaker 1:Well, as I think I mentioned a few comments on that facebook like it used to be immaculate, yeah I mean, I was immaculate, it was definitely immaculate, so that's good, so it's good, um, so, so what was it? I mean, did your dad have any stories of it, did he?
Speaker 2:did he have? He used to enjoy coming down to foundation day and that he used to tell me things when he used to sit in trees and do his swatting. And he didn't tell me too much about the school, but he used to just love coming back and reminiscing of what he did. But I can't seem to remember him telling me specific stories like we had, because it was more strict in his day. Maybe it must be interesting. So what years was he there? 35 to 1940. Amazing, isn't it really? Absolutely. Yeah, I did a photograph of him and Robin Day there once at the school, but I've lost it. I don't know where it's somewhere on the internet.
Speaker 1:I've tried googling it, but there is a photograph of him and robin day at the school somewhere all good stuff, so anything else we can think about, about benry school, the monument run, you know, right, god? Yeah, that was a tough run because it's all up, wasn't it? It was all just straight up down the beach path past the beach cafe, that was a good place. As down the beach path past the beach cafe, that was a good place as well the beach cafe.
Speaker 2:Here's my pathway and catch people smoking. Remember that yeah, yeah, smoking when you're supposed to be on a run. I'll never forget the Island Walk.
Speaker 1:Island Walk was fantastic. And I mean again, there's a thing called Walk the White now, which I've done. I did the Island Walk at Benwick School. I did it eight times. So I did it the first time the first year I was there, which would have been 1977 by the time it came around. So I did it literally every year I was there. So that was six years I did, and then I came back twice after I'd left the school and then did it. So that was eight times then.
Speaker 1:And then the Mountbatten Trust on the Isle of Wight, which is a hospice doing this thing called Walk the Wight. It's in reverse. So the Isle of Wight was overnight yeah, and it's bizarre that this would even happen this day that they dropped us off at quarter to nine at night in Allen Bay and we had to walk right across the Isle of Wight, which is some nearly 30-odd miles in the dark, following these little white strips of knotted dots that were put on various points along the way, which caused no one would ever think of moving. I wouldn't, that wouldn't pop into anyone's head.
Speaker 1:And, um, I remember there was this rumor going around that, yeah, the bells of whitecroft. Yeah, you know it. Yeah, you would panic and it meant that someone had escaped. And, of course, what they didn't tell us is that every hour, every half an hour, the bells went anyway. So at some point you were walking past whitecroft, which was, I mean, it's a very, very nice living quarters now it's been all converted, but at the time it was, uh, obviously, uh, home for people with mental problems. So any if the bell went, that meant someone escaped. So you were like 12 years old, 13, 14 years old, and you hear this bell and you just go into panic.
Speaker 2:Headless Horseman, that was another rumour, yeah.
Speaker 1:Berry School was like. There was lots of little ghost-type stories. There was one that on midsummer's night that someone would roll a cricket board I don't even remember this one across the dormitory.
Speaker 2:Dunhoward White House. Yeah, yeah, it was the Ouija board. We were involved in the Ouija board.
Speaker 1:We were already, but we just frightened ourselves to death, didn't we? Yeah, another nickname there, Butch Wilkins. But yeah, no, I remember that. I remember that very, very well. We all got scared and run back to our beds in the end, didn't we? But the cricket ball thing was quite funny, because one year we rolled a cricket ball ourselves across the dormitory. But no fond memories. Yeah, going back to Walt the White, they do it now the other way round and they start in the morning, but they start at Bembridge and finish at Allen Bay, and I've done that about eight times as well. Yeah, I've walked across the Isle of Wight many a times, but maybe we should all reenact it. Joe Whitby said to me we should get a load of us together and do it one year, which I think would be kind of cool. It's still quite a long way. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2:This is Warren Betts coming through the bath. I'm going, I'm coming through. Remember that. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1:I remember that as well, so she'd always warn before she walked through the shower. Bit, didn't she?
Speaker 2:This is Warren Betts, our house matron my dad was always amazed at how I can remember things. When I was about four, I like I don't and dama why she's always amazed at how much I remember. I was just saying to my daughter today, talking about you. I said miles used to shout at me across the dorms you're going best, best, I have a new single. I have a new single opening of gimme, gimme, gimme. That's what it was.
Speaker 1:I've got very clear memory and I hope I got it right, but I do remember up in that dormitory above, yeah, above pines, or was it pines, I can't remember now yeah, pines, it was voulay vu, I think, yeah, and we'd woke up really hurt, really early to hear it. It's first time. I don't know whether it was razia, luxembourg or something, I don't know I that would have been july 79, I think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were all. I think you ever sat dormitory above pines. I can't remember.
Speaker 1:That was swallows yeah, I think it was. It's amazing what you remember, what you don't remember. I know you came over and you saw the Abba voyage thing and you know, and you had the match in the room, didn't you? And you came. But I've seen that twice now. Twice I went once and um with my wife and and daughter and then I went again with my wife and son because my son hadn't seen it. Honestly, I felt like I was there. I felt like I was seeing them in 1979 at their baby.
Speaker 2:It's weird. When we were there I said to my mum I don't know about this, this is weird. But after two songs I said oh my.
Speaker 1:God, it's them. I know I was just in because I'd never seen them.
Speaker 2:I feel like I've seen them now and I know that's probably not true. Well, I think I told you we were at the opening night and they were in the audience behind us. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, because somebody said oh, there they are. And I looked back and they were sitting separately but they were laughing. You could see Frigga laughing at herself. They were loving it.
Speaker 1:Imagine what it must have been like for them to look at themselves that young and the best version of them, all of them, wasn't it? Lots of good memories there, so I don't know whether it's because we were in that environment, but music meant so much to us. I think, you know, we can, maybe it's just a whole lot of guys together and we had that in common, but we were at a time at the end of the 70s, beginning of the 80s, where music was just exploding.
Speaker 2:I think it got me through my boarding school years because I sent an article off to their magazine and the songs used to just pump out. And I can remember in 82, when they were splitting, I was lying down on the floor in my bedroom writing and I said, okay, they're finishing. Although they didn't really split up, this music's going to come back one day and all this music's come back and it's lasted. But I did write an article about why, why I like them. I set out there. They got me through my boarding school years and I wrote other things as well it's not just.
Speaker 1:They're not just a soundtrack of our life. There's soundtracks, my daughter's life, I mean. If you look what abBA has achieved, from even the Mamma Mia musical, mamma Mia film set, abba Voyage, to just the soundtrack and the people that have been involved in their music, and they are just as big as they are today, as they were back then. You can go anywhere. You can go to the middle of America, miles from anywhere, and people will know that music yeah.
Speaker 2:And they're so humble about it too. It hasn't affected them. It's like freda goes to voyage about what.
Speaker 1:Every couple of months she goes back yeah, see, that's an amazing thing to do, isn't it really? Um again, I was still going about it. Must be hard to see themselves on the stage like that, but they looked fantastic. That that blew me away that night. That absolutely blew me away, because I'm like you, I didn't know what to expect and I came out of there just I'll go back tomorrow and see it again. I mean, I'll see it twice, but I'll go back tomorrow. The whole event was just um was just so, so good, yeah, and that was good. Now, I think you know we, we were at a, we were at a special place at bremsh school, at a special time as far as music was concerned. The music, I think, meant a lot to us because that's what we listened to in our I mean obviously long before I mean again coming back to the fifth form common room, where we were all together and we would listen to music.
Speaker 2:Um, we had the sixth form bar as long as you hear like we are the champions, like we're not. That reminds me walking down past Mr Harrison's stationary office, and one of the prefects, chum Thongdee, had it blasting out of his, out of his thing, and every time I hear we're in, I think that image comes to me you've you've sparked one off in my mind.
Speaker 1:I remember very, very clearly this is very clearly the first thing I ever heard on a walkman. So someone bought a walkman in school and bear in mind we hadn't seen them and I borrowed it and I walked down the school drive and I was listening to Ultravox's Vienna First thing I ever heard in a Walkman. It blew me away. The second thing I ever heard in a Walkman is I borrowed the same Walkman and I went down to watch a game of rugby. I had the Boontown Rats like clockwork playing and it was almost in sync with the actual rugby game in front of me. And I remember those two memories of both those songs very, very clearly game in front of me. And I remember those two memories of both those songs very, very clearly and I link that, associate that to the walkman. And I also remember like when I first heard the jam, that was, someone was playing in new house. They had the windows open, a new house, and the jam was like layering out, which was, you know, quite amazing.
Speaker 2:I can still remember you and the john john lennon death. When you came, we were in the lower sixth common room and you came and it was just been announced and you went John Lennon's dead, and I always think of you when you came and said that yeah it was making me tear up thinking about it.
Speaker 1:The John Lennon thing really hit me. It was my JFA moment, I suppose. Yeah, I remember that, sure. But and again, he died at 40. Just unbelievable.
Speaker 2:And you playing. What was it? Was it English Rose at chapel? It was your chapel.
Speaker 1:No, that was weird. Again, we did. We had that. I don't know who's interviewing who here, but yeah, yeah, no, they had a crazy idea that on Wednesday morning we had a chapel service at the start of every day and someone said, well, let's just let the, let's just let the kids take control of a Wednesday morning one. And then I did play the jam English Rose and Mr Dearden walked out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:Mr Dearden, yeah, god, he probably had a nickname as well, but I can't remember for life what that was. Dandy, dearden, dandy, that's right, because he was very dandy, wasn't he? The way he dressed with his socks and his pedal pushers Good time.
Speaker 2:Well, good time, well, it's been good talking to you, so thank you very much for your time today. You're coming out in in october. Then, yeah, we're coming up. We're in stratford-on-avon that's where my mom is, because she's five in october, but she's like mrs bouquet, you never know, she's 95, she's amazing, their generation.
Speaker 1:That's amazing. I mean, the first two people that I interviewed in in this little podcast thing was my aunt and my mom. Uh, yeah, they're both. I mean the expression the great generation is just spot on. They are remarkable women. They just get on. They just get on with their lives, which is incredible, despite what illnesses or whatever happens. Nothing phases and they're they're just, they're just an amazing generation. They definitely deserve the name the the great generation for sure. Anyway, good stuff, baz. Thank you very much. Enjoy your. What's okay. What do you call it out there? Supper tea or dinner.
Speaker 2:What's that? Probably tea. What we're having for tea, yeah, Bye.
