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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello groovers, Welcome to the four post of Bed. I
am back in my full post of bed after having
my grandson for so long, and I was just so
appreciative of it. So anyway, in view of everything that's
gone on, because communications have broken down and I am
no longer allowed to see my grandson, which is absolutely

(00:22):
fair enough. I do believe in the rights of the mother,
you know, in all things, and I don't believe in,
you know, plucking children away from mothers or choice away
from them either, so you know, morally, I can't really
say much about that. And I've always known, right at
the beginning, when all this was going on, when she

(00:44):
didn't feel able to look after him and all the
other things that happened, I always knew that I would
only be a temporary custodian. In the back of my mind,
I did and I prepared. I did prepare for inevtor,
and one of those inevitables was that, you know, things
would really break down. So I've been I've done all

(01:08):
the crying done, I've done all the sorrow, and I'm
actually coming out of the other side of a really
bleak week where you know, I was just kind of lost.
I suppose, And I don't think it was so much
the you know, the changes and suddenly going from being
a twenty four hour seven care of an autistic child

(01:31):
to just an old lady with a cat like I
was before. I think it was just that the last
six months of all this custody nonsense has been so
intense that there's a period of sort of after shock.
Do you see what I mean? So post drama, I
suppose almost, And I think, you know, you have to

(01:54):
accept that and just go with it and know that
you'll come out the other side. So I'm sort of
feeling today tap here then I've felt for a very
long time. I've made some changes though to the apartment.
So I'm getting rid of the double bed loft bed
because there's no I only got it so that I
could sleep in it when my grandson was here, and

(02:16):
if that happens again he has to come here again,
I will just buy another one. It doesn't mean I
have to live with it for the next you know,
five years or whatever. I mean. I theoretically, well, I
bought it for him, but because of his weight problems,
he was unable to get up the ladder, so I

(02:37):
ended up doing it. I'm quite live. I've discovered I
was up and down like a yo yo. Anyway, loads
of other stuff has been going on. So I went
to a family school reunion on Saturday, which was really lovely.
Mum always has an absolutely fantastic time and we always
meet people and have jolly good chat and you know,

(03:00):
you connect and you think, oh yeah, I remember you.
And that was funny getting the sort of lowdown of what,
you know, what people are doing, what happens in their lives.
I mean, I'm not that nosy, to be honest, so
I don't sort of go around saying what do you do?
But you know, when you start chatting someone for a

(03:22):
long time, it does come up in conversations. I would
say quite a lack of musicians. I haven't been finding
a lot of musicians. There lots of I mean, look,
they're all barking. I mean, Mum and I said, you
know yesterday when we were kind of dissecting things, they're
all bloody nuts. And they really are from my time

(03:46):
the seventies. The seventies were a time where we were
all an experiment for progressive education and it really shows.
And I suppose I'm one of them. One of those
barking people. And how are they barking? I would say

(04:07):
they don't really make quite so much sense when they're
chatting about things. Everything's very fluffy, and I would say
their imaginations have run riot since, you know, school, And
I mean, it's lovely, it is lovely, but I'm not

(04:29):
sure any of them are in the real world, am I?
Possibly not? Possibly not. Do you find out a lot
about yourself, don't you when you sort of mixed with
your peers, even if it's peers from many years ago,
and teachers, of course, we have lots of teachers there.
And it was a little bit like Blastonbury, a really

(04:50):
tiny version of Glastonbury. They had a big stage and
they had lots of acts on singers. Because mums had
skin cancer, we didn't go outside so we stayed in
the drawing room and that was really pleasant, other people
coming in, chatting, et cetera. So yeah, it was all
really good, really really lovely, and a very pleasant drive

(05:11):
actually to Friendship, really super up the A three, which
you know, they didn't have roadworks this time, thank god.
So I came back home and because I was I'd
been in this sort of lull, this post trauma lull.
I wanted to move the you know, all the furniture
around and do stuff and want to sell the bed.

(05:33):
So I moved the recording studio and the radio studio
into my bedroom. I'm looking at it now. It's a
pretty large bedroom, so I sort of kind of sectioned
a bit off, really and it looks really good. And
I look, I really liked this idea that, you know,
the microphone's there and the broadcast all the broadcast things there,

(05:53):
so I can just record, I can red a podcast,
or whenever I want, I can just you know, pop
the kettle on, bring it through on a t tray.
Always always a tea tray, folks, because if you knock
it over and you've got your you know, I mean,
I must have spent twenty thirty grand on all this equipment,
so one doesn't want to that. I bought these new

(06:14):
chairs as well from the auction last week, and they're beautiful.
They're they're kind of bent plywood. I mean, it's not
plywood anymore. They don't use it, do they. I think
they use sort of MDF and laminate or something. But
they're beautifully constructed chairs and they're they've got that kind
of sixties feel about them. I love them and I've

(06:36):
got those and yeah, it just looks really nice. And
the idea is that I'll be more tempted to do
my midnight radio show. And I was looking at it
last night around about midnight, and I thought, well, I
just do a quick show, and I thought no, no, no,
because it's not quite I haven't quite finished it. I've
still got a few more wires to plug in, which
I do today. So I'm going to get back to
the YouTube DJing, which is really really good for getting

(07:01):
my audience on side. And you know, I mean, if
nobody's going to my channel to see my videos about
my books, that's a big problem. So I'm going to
give them music, give the people the music they want
and desire. Also the pair along based stuff as we'll
be doing all that. So I do feel like I've

(07:21):
sort of got kind of getting back to normal, but
I still have don't forget, I didn't work for four weeks,
so I'm really out of sync. It's quite strange how
that happens. But guys, in other news, I have launched
a new character of a new book character, Ginny Greeves,
and with a ponch On for Gin and she's a

(07:44):
private eye. I wanted to call her private dick, but
I wasn't sure i'd get away with that. I don't know,
do you think I probably not. I'd probably get blocked
on Google and things. But didn't They used to call
private eyes private dicks. I'm sure they did, And I
thought private dick would look really good. Do you know

(08:05):
what I mean? It would? It would be a bit
tongue in cheek. But you know, we've got to kind
of go with the flow, haven't we. We don't want
to get blocked or banned or shut a band or
you know, any of these other things that Google do.
So I've just called it Jenny Greaves Private Eye, and
I've just written today's episode. I'm not going to do

(08:28):
an episode every day. I'm going to do one episode
from one of my books every day. So at the moment,
we've got Jenny Greaves, We've got the big one, the
Book of Immersion, which is going to take me quite
a long time to do one of those. I might
spend two days on those, but volume one's finished in
one to twenty up, which is really good. And then
my other character, who is my other character Mills and

(08:50):
Swoon not a character, rather a genre, and those are
love story. So I'll do one love story a week,
one Genie Grieves a week, and or maybe two, maybe two,
because I really like doing them. They're lovely. Now. I
have been using AI, as you know, so AI is

(09:11):
really useful if you're a writer, but it's not particular.
It's not a particularly good storyteller. Right, you might get
one out of it. And I've said this before about
poetry as well. You might get it might diss you
up one poem which which you think is you know,
kind of your style. You say, do it in my style.

(09:32):
But you normally, or at least I normally. I don't
know if other people do, but I normally have to
spend a good hour changing things around, sometimes longer. But
you know, there's usually one little gem within it that
I quite like. So it could be it could be
the language. But I still need to change the language
to fit my language, do you know what I mean?

(09:54):
So you know, it might say story and you might
want to say chair. I mean, it's fundamentally it's at
that sort of thing that you need to change. And
then also I've noticed what it does is it. It
gave me an outline of a crime story, but it
made so many mistakes. The crime solving wasn't successful. It

(10:18):
given the wrong clue and all these other things. You
have to be really, really careful. So my advice is
tread lightly my friends. Also, I think it's a really
good if you're a bit jumbled and you're not thinking
very clearly, you can write your list of ideas, your
essay plans or your story plan and then it will

(10:39):
write it for you, so it'll fatten it out, see
what I mean. So it's quite good at that. Or
if you've made any mistakes, you could ask it to
clean up your mistakes. So there are there are really
really good ways of utilizing it. And it's a bit
like having a sort of in house copy editor, I
would say, or in an inn house group of brain stormers.

(11:01):
I mean all the successful you know brands do that.
Now they have a bunch of people who sit down,
you know, soap opera writers, they don't have one. They
have a group of them and their brainstorm and they
evolve and develop as they're sort of going along. So

(11:21):
you know, really what AI is doing, I would say,
is taking over from the team. So therefore it's you know,
it's much much cheaper and much much quicker. I don't
need a team, for example, I do have. I mean,
sometimes there is talk and text about how AI is

(11:42):
going to fail miserably because it's just recycling all of
its own stuff, and because the internet is now flooded
with AI created material, it can no longer learn. Well,
it's learning, but it's not learning anything productive or useful.

(12:02):
Because of course, you know, we want productive, useful change.
We want it easily within a generation, and it's not
going to do that. We're living longer. Do we want
to go back to sort of you know, the nineteen
forties because we're now seventy. I'm not seventy, by the way,
I'm sixty two. I'm sixty three on Tuesday. Is that tomorrow?

(12:25):
I'm sixty three. Tomorrow. I've got an appointment tomorrow actually
with my MP Caroline Dinage. I'm just going to find
out if there are any local grants going for my
autism caravan idea. I might have to put it away
for a bit because it's not something I can do unfunded,

(12:48):
and funding comes along, you know, if you lay yourself
open to it and that's why that's why I'm going
to see her actually, because you know, then she'll know
and she can contact me at a later time if
something comes up or whatever. You know, she might mention
to somebody, et cetera, et cetera. And I think really

(13:09):
probably my best bet is going to be creating a
book with a character who's autistic. Of course, I've already
got one, which is The Rat Gang Crew, because the
human in the Rat Gang Crew is autistic, he has aspergers.
But I thought maybe a whole book, you know, with her.

(13:30):
It had to be her, because you know, I'm doing
my autistic tech tests and my daughters are autistic. I've
got an autistic son as well, but I know my
daughter's better. I think you have that sort of gender similarity,
an innate feminine understanding, because I'm feminine female. So yeah,

(13:54):
I was sort of thinking about a book now that
I mean, I want to do something because it's the mess, so,
isn't it. It's the message about why, what, who wear? How, integration, acceptance, curiosity, interest,
all of these things. It's about spreading the word, but
the right word and doing it correctly so I might

(14:18):
broadcast later. Because I got a lot to tell you,
because I haven't broadcast for a bit anyway, a bit
in a bit