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Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan.

And today we're talking about inspiration.

What is it?

Where does it come from? Should you wait for it? Do you have to make it? We'll just dive into that whole topic.

Before we get into that though, Alice, what have you been up to this week?

Because we didn't speak to each other last week it felt like a little bit of a gap. I know. Did you miss me? A little bit. How much should I admit to? Well I was like oh I wanted to I wanted to tell you some things and now I remember what they were.

I know, I know exactly the same. So I had a, guess what, I had a week living life basically. Oh what's that like? It's quite fun actually which means we left the house we got in the car, we drove to a different place and my daughter said on the way she said can we just stop off somewhere like anyway you know so she's 16 so you can imagine can't you that like going to visit a

National Trust property is probably not top of the list for like most 16 year old wish lists she's like

anywhere I'll just go anywhere that we haven't been somewhere new. So we had a little

stop off that had to be booked on the way and then we had a trip that we went to the sea and we did one of those we did one of those high rope walkway things you know where you have to do zip wires and step out and you're like

40 foot up in the trees and the last time we did it was probably six seven eight years ago I don't know so she was quite little she might have been nine something like that And I remember there being quite a hairy patch where you're stuck, you can't go back, you can't go forward,

you've just got to take this step out.

And I actually thought on the way doing it, this is quite good good these kind of things that push you out of your comfort zone

physically your heart and you have to do it it'll be good for me too

I don't know whether it was a lot easier or whether things have just

changed in me but it felt like a real sense. It was really easy. Oh that's funny.

It was good but it was good it was really it was fun to go out and do things. So we had lovely time away from home. The weather in Dartmouth can be misty and rainy, but we had four days of lovely sunshine came back with a

pigeon stuck in the chimney so I spent two days trying to encourage a pigeon to fly

out of a chimney and all it did was just flap and just brush soup

sat down the chimney all over my bedroom.

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