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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Guys, I am absolutely bushed, bushed, bushed, bushed. I've just
got in after a day at auction buying stuff for
my new shop. So if you follow my podcast and
my diaries, you'll know that my grandson has gone back
to his mother. Things have not ended well there. But
that's for another day, another day, talking about, you know,
(00:24):
the difficulties therein with family and a child who's on
the protection register and grandparents' rights. I'm not going to
do that now. Well I've got a separate rog for that.
But what I'm really really excited I'm not having my
grandson around, who's quite severe autistic. Has meant that for
a couple of days I was I had this kind
(00:45):
of chasm, this empty space, sort of empty nest. I
suppose he'd been here for weeks and I've been looking
after him. He's quite demanding. So it's twenty four to
seven thing. And it's very weird how you really do
get you still looking after people, and when they've gone
you're sort of twiddling your thumbs a little bit and
it's like, oh, what do I do now? And I think,
(01:08):
you know, giving love is such a human thing to
do that, you know, especially for women, I guess because
we're nurturer, as you know, by design, we're nurturer, as
we have children, we nurture, et cetera. But there is
this sort of sense when things end that what do
we do now? Anyway, Suddenly I had twenty four seven
(01:31):
hours free to call my own, and I must say
I was a little bit in shock for a few days,
and I was quite low. And I think the shock
of it all, the shock of change, the shock of
the new, really threw me for a bit, and I
wasn't very inspired, and I didn't know what I was
going to do with the eBay shop, because I knew
I didn't want to be in traditional retail, sort of
especially clothed, moving away from clothes. I'm going to do
(01:55):
one autism range with the emblem that I designed, but
I'm not doing anything else, Guys, I've just got I
can't be bothered with fashion. It's so so difficult to
compete with China. And I keep saying this, and I
don't even like vintage because it's you know, it's just
(02:16):
there are so many problems in it. So I've gone
for something which is really really good fun, which is antiques,
fine arts and antiques, vintage, contemporary but limited editions, that
sort of thing, signed to prints, et cetera, et cetera.
So really imagine an antique shop in London. You walk
in and you look around and you think, oh gosh,
(02:37):
this is really beautiful. So that's what I've been doing today.
I've been buying stock and I am a little bit guys,
I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little bit over the moon.
I had a bloody awesome day, spent loads of money,
which is one of my favorite pastimes because I'm decorating
the apartment as well the penthouse. No less, all this
(02:58):
stuff that I bought today, I can't wait to show
you and talk about it. All this stuff I bought
today is absolutely phenomenal, all of it. It looks great.
And I thought, right, if I'm going to start dealing
in antiques and collectibles, I need to be able to
live with them because they're going to be in my
home until I sell them. So that's my first rule.
(03:18):
Do I like to look at it and it's absolutely glorious.
Just to buy all this stuff and think I just
love that. I absolutely love it. So I've bought Caesar
reliefs and Roman wall plarques. I've just gone absolutely bloody mad.
I've got guilt candlesticks, huge guilt candlesticks. I've got bronzes.
(03:44):
I bought four bronzes. I'm overjoyed, absolutely overjoyed. The quality,
the workmanship, just beautiful. I'm sort of thinking I should
specialize in these bronzes, bronze composites and just utterly and
utterly divine, tilly, divine, and they're going to be really
really nice on top of the piano. It's good, good.
(04:05):
I'm very excited. I'm going to do YouTube, so I'm
gonna have my YouTube program show. Rather, I'm going to
do shorts. I'm gonna do longing to be talking about
art and talking about or just the wonderful things. I'm
also upscaling my chaise long and my cuddle chair, which
I'm going to televise, is going to be on my YouTube.
(04:26):
So I'm it's just so thrilling when you when you
find inspiration, especially after a fall, you know, the the
emotional plummet after all this business with the family problems,
you know, and the and the custody battles and all.
I don't want to be in that. I'm far too old.
(04:47):
I'm an old lady. I just want to be an
art dealer. That's that's what I felt this morning. That's
where I belong. I do not belong looking after somebody
because his mother is you know, high on drugs, and
there's a perfectly good father in the mix. And that's
what that's. You know, the father is now taking more
control and it's lovely. I'm not needed, but the mother's
(05:11):
you know, completely closed ranks anyway. So in a way
that my new baby is my business, and I'm going
to be a fully fledged antique dealer, which is do
you know what, It's not too far removed from, you know,
all the other things I've been doing. I mean, I've
gone from vintage clothes to antique dealer. I guess it's
(05:31):
a little bit different, but it's definitely more sustainable and
definitely more enjoyable. I had an absolutely gorgeous dome. You
meet lovely people. We went around the charity shops as well. Actually,
so I bought a couple of really lovely books. In
the charity shops. I bought some lovely fine art prints.
(05:52):
I can't remember what else I bought. I bought a
lovely map of Hampton Court, which I adore, and it
was just all the whole thing, just really pleasant, and
I thought, do you know what I want to enjoy
my life. I don't want to be upset. You know,
I've cried so much, so much in the last few weeks.
I've bulled my eyes out and you know, guys, life's
(06:15):
too short to be to be put in these you know,
these horrible positions where you know you seem to be
in the middle of things and you can't do anything.
You can't do anything right because other people aren't doing
anything right. And if you mix around, if you if
you spend your time with people who are effing up royally,
you can bet your bottom dollar it's going to rub
off on you. So yes, anyway, really really exciting. So
(06:38):
if you pop along to Facebook, I've just done our
Facebook page. De La Murray of Royal Clarence Antiques and
Fine Arts. Oh my mum just loves this whole idea.
There's nothing on there yet because I haven't listened anything
for sale. It's going to take me a fair while.
I'll start small tomorrow. I'm selling two cellos, I'm selling
(06:59):
a music extend, a ballet bar. I've got a lot
of musical equipment, so there is a music a music section, music,
musical instruments, and paraphernalia, musical paraphernalia because you know, that's
what I do, so there's always going to be a
lot of that. I'm going to start my YouTube show
(07:20):
as well playing music my final getting back onto that tomorrow.
So I just really feel we've got a lot of
really exciting things to do. Hello, Romeo, how are you feeling?
Romeo's coming to join us as per So, yes, do
you know what I feel like? I'm ten years younger.
(07:40):
And it was funny because at the start of the
week I felt ten years older. It's an amazing what
the mind and the hormones that are released when you're
enjoying things, when you get excited. And I'll tell you what.
I had rather too many coffees today, right, and I
was kind of a bit jittery, a bit shaky because
normally I drink when I'm at home, only have half
cups of coffee, and I was having whole cups at
(08:04):
costume what have you. So it's quite jittery. And we
went back to the auction. Oh god, guys, I've bought
an Italian chardonnaire. It's utterly gorgeous. I've got to go
and get it all tomorrow. I've got to pay and
I've got to go and pick it all up tomorrow
in the car. So I've got to take blankets to
wrap this chardenaire in. I don't want any breakages. It's
going to be really really upset if anything like that happens.
(08:29):
I forgot what I was going to say. I'm completely
forgotten because oh yes, jittery, right. And then so I
bought the chardonnaire, and then we went off and had
coffee and what have you, and did a bit of
walk around and I went back and I found myself
sort of shaking, my hands shaking like the DT's or something.
It was just too much caffeine. And then I found
as each because I was bidding on a lot of
(08:50):
different lots and most of them well no, but I
got about half and as my bid was, as my
item was coming round, I I got so much sort
of angst and adrenaline. It was thrilling. It's like being
in a war zone. It's absolutely bloody thrilling. I'm telling you,
will I get it, won't I who's bidding against me
(09:12):
looking around the room, do you know what I mean?
So I've bought four chairs, which I'm probably going to
sell two of them, and I'm not going to tell
you anything about them. I'm going to film them when
they're right. Well, I'll go and get this stuff tomorrow
and then i'll list everything, okay, and yeah, I mean
I want to keep everything, but of course, you know,
one can't. One has to, you know, otherwise i'd have
(09:37):
a ware I'd be living in an antique warehouse and
that's no good, is it. So so yeah, very exciting.
Going to set up not a new channel, eBay channel, sorry,
YouTube channel, but I will set up a playlist and
put all of my little films there because I'm going
(09:59):
to become I thought, I'm going to be really yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know, with the pieces of art and just get
really into them. Do you remember that nun who used
to she was an art commentator. I can't remember what
her name was. It was his sister, Agnes or something
like that, and I always thought she was amazing. And
the other one I always remember it was a sex therapist.
(10:20):
It wasn't art. Dr Ruth. And these ladies were both
quite old, relatively speaking compared to you know, the most
of the other women you tend to get on TV.
It's better now, some of the news readers are getting.
You know, it's much better than it used to be.
But I used to look at them when I was younger,
and I think I'd be really nice job to have
(10:41):
when you're older. So I'm hoping to channel those two
ladies I have. Obviously, I do have actually a qualification
in sex therapy. But the trouble with you know, sex
therapy is people just assume that you want sex and
saying as I haven't had sex for a very long
time in Celebrate for ten years or something, and I
(11:04):
have no intention of ever having sex again. It's quite
hard to get motivated and say to people, oh, you
must have sex, because actually what I want to say
is just forget it. Do something else. There are many
more interesting things. Sex is animal. You don't need to
be an animal. You need to be an intellectual superior
(11:25):
forget sex. So you can't really be a sex therapist
when you're you know, coming out with those sort of
that mantra. You know, you've got to be keen. You've
got to tell people that, yeah, they can have their
fantasies and they can do whatever they want. So yeah,
I think my time of being a sex therapist was
over after menopause. I did my studies before menopause, and
(11:50):
then realized after menopause, which was, you know, within a year,
because I had a very quick menopause, a medical india
us to menopause, and it was just suddenly my urges
to be a sex therapist had all gone. So there
(12:10):
we go. But an art dealer, yes, and an art
commentator and an art critic, yes, yes, yes, let's see
it now. I can see it now. So guys, that's
the update for today. I hope you enjoyed it. Do
follow the podcast for all things all antiquities, antiquarian old
(12:33):
books and old art prints and vintage things and just
going to be gorgeous here
Guys, I am absolutely bushed, bushed, bushed, bushed. I've just
got in after a day at auction buying stuff for
my new shop. So if you follow my podcast and
my diaries, you'll know that my grandson has gone back
to his mother. Things have not ended well there. But
that's for another day, another day, talking about, you know,
(00:24):
the difficulties therein with family and a child who's on
the protection register and grandparents' rights. I'm not going to
do that now. Well I've got a separate rog for that.
But what I'm really really excited I'm not having my
grandson around, who's quite severe autistic. Has meant that for
a couple of days I was I had this kind
(00:45):
of chasm, this empty space, sort of empty nest. I
suppose he'd been here for weeks and I've been looking
after him. He's quite demanding. So it's twenty four to
seven thing. And it's very weird how you really do
get you still looking after people, and when they've gone
you're sort of twiddling your thumbs a little bit and
it's like, oh, what do I do now? And I think,
(01:08):
you know, giving love is such a human thing to
do that, you know, especially for women, I guess because
we're nurturer, as you know, by design, we're nurturer, as
we have children, we nurture, et cetera. But there is
this sort of sense when things end that what do
we do now? Anyway, Suddenly I had twenty four seven
(01:31):
hours free to call my own, and I must say
I was a little bit in shock for a few days,
and I was quite low. And I think the shock
of it all, the shock of change, the shock of
the new, really threw me for a bit, and I
wasn't very inspired, and I didn't know what I was
going to do with the eBay shop, because I knew
I didn't want to be in traditional retail, sort of
especially clothed, moving away from clothes. I'm going to do
(01:55):
one autism range with the emblem that I designed, but
I'm not doing anything else, Guys, I've just got I
can't be bothered with fashion. It's so so difficult to
compete with China. And I keep saying this, and I
don't even like vintage because it's you know, it's just
(02:16):
there are so many problems in it. So I've gone
for something which is really really good fun, which is antiques,
fine arts and antiques, vintage, contemporary but limited editions, that
sort of thing, signed to prints, et cetera, et cetera.
So really imagine an antique shop in London. You walk
in and you look around and you think, oh gosh,
(02:37):
this is really beautiful. So that's what I've been doing today.
I've been buying stock and I am a little bit guys,
I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little bit over the moon.
I had a bloody awesome day, spent loads of money,
which is one of my favorite pastimes because I'm decorating
the apartment as well the penthouse. No less, all this
(02:58):
stuff that I bought today, I can't wait to show
you and talk about it. All this stuff I bought
today is absolutely phenomenal, all of it. It looks great.
And I thought, right, if I'm going to start dealing
in antiques and collectibles, I need to be able to
live with them because they're going to be in my
home until I sell them. So that's my first rule.
(03:18):
Do I like to look at it and it's absolutely glorious.
Just to buy all this stuff and think I just
love that. I absolutely love it. So I've bought Caesar
reliefs and Roman wall plarques. I've just gone absolutely bloody mad.
I've got guilt candlesticks, huge guilt candlesticks. I've got bronzes.
(03:44):
I bought four bronzes. I'm overjoyed, absolutely overjoyed. The quality,
the workmanship, just beautiful. I'm sort of thinking I should
specialize in these bronzes, bronze composites and just utterly and
utterly divine, tilly, divine, and they're going to be really
really nice on top of the piano. It's good, good.
(04:05):
I'm very excited. I'm going to do YouTube, so I'm
gonna have my YouTube program show. Rather, I'm going to
do shorts. I'm gonna do longing to be talking about
art and talking about or just the wonderful things. I'm
also upscaling my chaise long and my cuddle chair, which
I'm going to televise, is going to be on my YouTube.
(04:26):
So I'm it's just so thrilling when you when you
find inspiration, especially after a fall, you know, the the
emotional plummet after all this business with the family problems,
you know, and the and the custody battles and all.
I don't want to be in that. I'm far too old.
(04:47):
I'm an old lady. I just want to be an
art dealer. That's that's what I felt this morning. That's
where I belong. I do not belong looking after somebody
because his mother is you know, high on drugs, and
there's a perfectly good father in the mix. And that's
what that's. You know, the father is now taking more
control and it's lovely. I'm not needed, but the mother's
(05:11):
you know, completely closed ranks anyway. So in a way
that my new baby is my business, and I'm going
to be a fully fledged antique dealer, which is do
you know what, It's not too far removed from, you know,
all the other things I've been doing. I mean, I've
gone from vintage clothes to antique dealer. I guess it's
(05:31):
a little bit different, but it's definitely more sustainable and
definitely more enjoyable. I had an absolutely gorgeous dome. You
meet lovely people. We went around the charity shops as well. Actually,
so I bought a couple of really lovely books. In
the charity shops. I bought some lovely fine art prints.
(05:52):
I can't remember what else I bought. I bought a
lovely map of Hampton Court, which I adore, and it
was just all the whole thing, just really pleasant, and
I thought, do you know what I want to enjoy
my life. I don't want to be upset. You know,
I've cried so much, so much in the last few weeks.
I've bulled my eyes out and you know, guys, life's
(06:15):
too short to be to be put in these you know,
these horrible positions where you know you seem to be
in the middle of things and you can't do anything.
You can't do anything right because other people aren't doing
anything right. And if you mix around, if you if
you spend your time with people who are effing up royally,
you can bet your bottom dollar it's going to rub
off on you. So yes, anyway, really really exciting. So
(06:38):
if you pop along to Facebook, I've just done our
Facebook page. De La Murray of Royal Clarence Antiques and
Fine Arts. Oh my mum just loves this whole idea.
There's nothing on there yet because I haven't listened anything
for sale. It's going to take me a fair while.
I'll start small tomorrow. I'm selling two cellos, I'm selling
(06:59):
a music extend, a ballet bar. I've got a lot
of musical equipment, so there is a music a music section, music,
musical instruments, and paraphernalia, musical paraphernalia because you know, that's
what I do, so there's always going to be a
lot of that. I'm going to start my YouTube show
(07:20):
as well playing music my final getting back onto that tomorrow.
So I just really feel we've got a lot of
really exciting things to do. Hello, Romeo, how are you feeling?
Romeo's coming to join us as per So, yes, do
you know what I feel like? I'm ten years younger.
(07:40):
And it was funny because at the start of the
week I felt ten years older. It's an amazing what
the mind and the hormones that are released when you're
enjoying things, when you get excited. And I'll tell you what.
I had rather too many coffees today, right, and I
was kind of a bit jittery, a bit shaky because
normally I drink when I'm at home, only have half
cups of coffee, and I was having whole cups at
(08:04):
costume what have you. So it's quite jittery. And we
went back to the auction. Oh god, guys, I've bought
an Italian chardonnaire. It's utterly gorgeous. I've got to go
and get it all tomorrow. I've got to pay and
I've got to go and pick it all up tomorrow
in the car. So I've got to take blankets to
wrap this chardenaire in. I don't want any breakages. It's
going to be really really upset if anything like that happens.
(08:29):
I forgot what I was going to say. I'm completely
forgotten because oh yes, jittery, right. And then so I
bought the chardonnaire, and then we went off and had
coffee and what have you, and did a bit of
walk around and I went back and I found myself
sort of shaking, my hands shaking like the DT's or something.
It was just too much caffeine. And then I found
as each because I was bidding on a lot of
(08:50):
different lots and most of them well no, but I
got about half and as my bid was, as my
item was coming round, I I got so much sort
of angst and adrenaline. It was thrilling. It's like being
in a war zone. It's absolutely bloody thrilling. I'm telling you,
will I get it, won't I who's bidding against me
(09:12):
looking around the room, do you know what I mean?
So I've bought four chairs, which I'm probably going to
sell two of them, and I'm not going to tell
you anything about them. I'm going to film them when
they're right. Well, I'll go and get this stuff tomorrow
and then i'll list everything, okay, and yeah, I mean
I want to keep everything, but of course, you know,
one can't. One has to, you know, otherwise i'd have
(09:37):
a ware I'd be living in an antique warehouse and
that's no good, is it. So so yeah, very exciting.
Going to set up not a new channel, eBay channel, sorry,
YouTube channel, but I will set up a playlist and
put all of my little films there because I'm going
(09:59):
to become I thought, I'm going to be really yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know, with the pieces of art and just get
really into them. Do you remember that nun who used
to she was an art commentator. I can't remember what
her name was. It was his sister, Agnes or something
like that, and I always thought she was amazing. And
the other one I always remember it was a sex therapist.
(10:20):
It wasn't art. Dr Ruth. And these ladies were both
quite old, relatively speaking compared to you know, the most
of the other women you tend to get on TV.
It's better now, some of the news readers are getting.
You know, it's much better than it used to be.
But I used to look at them when I was younger,
and I think I'd be really nice job to have
(10:41):
when you're older. So I'm hoping to channel those two
ladies I have. Obviously, I do have actually a qualification
in sex therapy. But the trouble with you know, sex
therapy is people just assume that you want sex and
saying as I haven't had sex for a very long
time in Celebrate for ten years or something, and I
(11:04):
have no intention of ever having sex again. It's quite
hard to get motivated and say to people, oh, you
must have sex, because actually what I want to say
is just forget it. Do something else. There are many
more interesting things. Sex is animal. You don't need to
be an animal. You need to be an intellectual superior
(11:25):
forget sex. So you can't really be a sex therapist
when you're you know, coming out with those sort of
that mantra. You know, you've got to be keen. You've
got to tell people that, yeah, they can have their
fantasies and they can do whatever they want. So yeah,
I think my time of being a sex therapist was
over after menopause. I did my studies before menopause, and
(11:50):
then realized after menopause, which was, you know, within a year,
because I had a very quick menopause, a medical india
us to menopause, and it was just suddenly my urges
to be a sex therapist had all gone. So there
(12:10):
we go. But an art dealer, yes, and an art
commentator and an art critic, yes, yes, yes, let's see
it now. I can see it now. So guys, that's
the update for today. I hope you enjoyed it. Do
follow the podcast for all things all antiquities, antiquarian old
(12:33):
books and old art prints and vintage things and just
going to be gorgeous here
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