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? First question for you. You ready?

Yeah, go on it.

What's your favourite day of the week?

I'm retired. I don't really have a favourite day of the week.

You're still allowed to have one.

Yeah. Just in feeling, just an emotion.

I don't really like Sundays because everybody's out.

I like it best when everyone's at work and I can move around and everything's open.

But I can't honestly say I have a favourite day. I never really

thought about it because every day's roughly the same for me. So what is, if every day is roughly the

same, what do your days look like now? This morning I've got up at four. I usually get up between

four and five. That's pretty early. Yeah, but I go to bed early.

And course it's the longest day, isn't it, in the shortest night?

So I went to bed at 10 o'clock as it got dark and I woke up at 4 o'clock as it got light.

But I get very excited about the dawn.

I mean, if you imagine everything that happened in your life, when you woke up

that morning, you never knew it was going to happen. So every morning is expectant, isn't it? You don't know

what's going to happen that day. Someone could change your life. One day I met a couple and they

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