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Five Lives, Rock the Union Weekly

It's seven a.m. and it's dark outside

Fill of patati, it's been folding the washing since 5 a.m.

Doing the washing now. Good morning!

You've been actually been doing that stay awake haven't you?

Yeah yeah, you're trying to get up really early on Fridays yet,

so then I can get to bed by about 7 p.m. Friday night for a call time of midnight

and then work through. It's commitment.

What about you? Such a pro isn't she?

I know, what have you been doing? Sleeping.

Sleeping until I need to get up, but you see,

Fillipat is very good, she's conditioning herself to make sure that she's up and ready to go.

Yeah, I'm also getting brownie points before I leave as well, which is crucial.

I see, I see, I see. Now Maggie, how many World Cups have you either played or worked out now?

I mean, it's not quite all of them.

So I've played in 315s, I've worked on World Cups, 1 7s, World Cups,

and I've worked on 5 World Cups, 1 7s, World Cups,

and 2 men's, World Cups.

Yeah, we did. But is this the worst time zone you've had to deal with?

Japan was quite similar actually when the men were out in Japan

and I was over here in England again early morning starts, but this is hard.

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