Hello, sorry to bother you.

Can I ask you a slightly odd question?

I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a Bench

where essentially I talk to people I don't know on benches for 10 or 15 minutes.

Are you up for that? Do you want to give it a go? Do you have a favorite day of the week?

Not really because any day that turns out well is a good day, no matter what day it is.

I like that. Let's then pick any random day. What for you is a kind of day well lived in the world? What time are we getting up?

Let's say about seven, eight, nine. Then what happens after that? Are we straight out of bed? I'd say about 7, 8, 9.

Then what happens after that?

Are we straight out of bed?

I'm thinking about what I have to do for the day, prepare my breakfast.

What do you have for breakfast?

I'm a vegan.

So tofu with vegan sausages or maybe just even some herbal tea because sometimes I like to work out and I don't

want to full stomach. Fair. Do you have any tea rituals? Are we sitting any particular place in your

house? Yeah. My room exits to the garden so open the door and look outside with the birds and the

greenery and enjoy that.

Oh, fantastic. You're just looking straight out on the birds.

Yeah, it's mostly the small birds. I don't get a lot of pigeons, which is kind of cool.

You're not a fan of pigeons? Not really. I mean, I don't hate them, but I don't go up my way to like them either.

But I do feed them when... Oh, you do? Oh, you don't like pigeons, but I don't go up my way to like them either. But I do feed them. Oh, you don't like pigeons, but you feed them. Yeah, well, if they're there, I'll feed them. If I go to park and they're there, I'll feed them. Do you feed the birds in your garden? Yeah, I just put the food out there. Oh, amazing. Yeah. For how long have you been doing this? Do you remember feeding birds as a child?

Not really.

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