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The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. I'm Anna Robinson and today we have Joy Brooks. Hello Joy. Hello. How are you doing today? Pretty good. It's one of those beautiful crisp autumn mornings here in the Midlands. So I'm absolutely loving it. There's, it's spider season, isn't it? And as I look out my window, I can see one of the many spider webs with a spider hanging in the middle. And I have just loved watching them all spinning their webs in the garden and then just hanging out in the sunshine. Oh, I love spiders outside. Somebody told me that spiders all come in. It's spider season. They all come in the house.

And they're all coming in to have sex, apparently. Yes. I think the ones you see in the house are the fellas, and they're searching for the ladies who are hiding away somewhere. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I never knew that fact. And now I know it. It's kind of a bit like, oh, okay. put some different spin on the whole thing.

Yeah, you Randy Bilesids.

Yeah, okay. Put some different spin on the whole thing.

Yeah, you Randy Biles. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's nice and sunny here in Cornwall as well, actually. It's been absolutely pouring with rain or very showers, sun, showers, sun, like that kind of vibe. But today we've got a nice sunshine, so I'm hopefully going to mow the lawn. My next door neighbour very kindly mowed the front bit of our grass, and there's a bit of front in between the, this is really boring. It's really boring, but you know when you come, jive back, and he's got a decent mower, like a non-plug-in m. So it mows it really evenly and really nicely. And he always, he goes the extra mile and does halber it as well. It just always feels really nice. You know, and you're like, oh, that's so kind. Yeah. Because I have to go out with my wire, which doesn't really stretch. And I'm sort of, it's not very elegant looking.

It's a nice, neighboury thing.

Yes. The equivalent in the city is bringing each other's wheelie bins back in after the bin men have been round, so which isn't quite as nice sounding.

The smell isn't as good anyway.

And have you been up to anything exciting since I chatted to you last?

I've found it very exciting as my household has gone back down from five to three people.

And so the rhythm is really so much gentler now, which is nice.

I love the energy and activity of everyone being home.

And then I love the settling.

But yesterday, a friend had won tickets to a barefoot shoe expo over in Birmingham and

she drove me over there and we had just a lovely time trying it because I love barefoot

shoes.

Since I've been wearing them, I refused to put my feet into anything else really anymore.

I can't believe I used to cram them into like tight

horrible shoes. So yeah, that was a lot of fun doing that together. I don't know if that counts is exciting, but I enjoyed it. It is exciting to me. I don't know about other listeners, but I know about barefoot shoes because I listened to Dr. Ronan Chatterjee in his podcast and he He advertises barefoot shoes.

Does he?

And he always, he just eulogizes about them.

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