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The Welcome back to Nomad podcast. My name is Nick Thorley and with me is everybody's favourite apocalyptic poet, David Benjamin Blower.

Hello, Nick. How are you? I'm all right, thanks. I'm a bit hot. Yeah, it's hot, isn't it? It's hot everywhere.

There's a significant heat wave going on.

I keep flitting between thinking that I'm hot and bothered and then that my children are hot and bothered.

And the combination, because I think we're all hot and bothered, makes us even more hot and bothered.

So what kind of things happen amidst you when it gets hot?

I think it's just everything just becomes irritating.

Do you know what I mean?

Just it's all the normal stuff.

I'm only just like cooking tea, picking them up from school, all the rest of it.

All day to day, I'd to spend an hour going up and down the hill from my house to this

call because my daughter wasn't feeling very well.

She's got COVID.

It transpires.

And so I had to go down the hill to get her.

And then once she was settled, then go back down the hill to get my son who was playing

Rounders, an after school Rounders Club. Who'd have thought that Rounders, an after-school Rounders Club.

Who'd have thought that Rounders is still a thing these days?

Yeah, I remember playing that at school.

I didn't know that still happened.

I mean, I guess it's going to be there forever, isn't it?

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