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Hello, Gary.

Hello, Guy. I've just got back from tennis. I have taken up tennis.

I am actually a man who could be retired. So obviously I'm not retired, you know, but I have one of those passes.

I have one of those passes that gets me onto tubes at any time of the day. Yeah. What do you call

those? I forgot them. Freedom pass, I have a freedom pass. So isn't it what retired people do?

They go and learn to play tennis. So I'm finally doing that. Because you've actually done your entire life back to front now, haven't you? Because, see, what happens is you pick up a tennis racket and you go and stand in the mirror. Yeah. And then you're going to get tasked. Whereas what you've done is you've just had an entire lifetime as a musician, and now you've picked up the tennis racket. Well, because I come from a proper working class background, we never had tennis rackets lying around in the house. That's something I always found a bit suspicious. That always, that's what always got it. I used to do that as a line in my stand-up show. There's that thing that people always said about standing in front of the mirror with a tennis racket. A tennis racket, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But what I did,

I went to a grammar school and we played hockey. Of course, I was rubbish, right? And I do remember

vividly daydreaming with the hockey stick as a guitar standing near the edge of the pitch,

doing telegram Sam and a furious sort of, you know, PE teacher. Pete teacher, who are always sadists. It was a bit like that guy in Kess. You know the film Kess? Oh, yes, yes, yes. I forgot what that actor's name is. He's brilliant. He thinks he's Bobby Charlton, doesn't he? That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, very similar to that. Kemp, what are you doing?

Anyway, you got one of those, it's the same as mine.

I mean, admittedly, mine is the best ever.

It's those names, those surnames, which is just made, manner from heaven for teachers.

Pratt!

Pratt!

Don't know, sir.

And, but you can spot me. You can spot me over this. Because I'm just learning, right? I've got an instructor. Where are you? He's patient. He's patient. And you can spot me. I've got me K-Swiss. You know, I've got me, me LaCost socks, you know.

You've worked backwards from the outfit, haven't you?

I've got me Wilson, you know.

I've got all the gear, and I'm killing low-flying birds, you know.

Do you know what?

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