Touching Me, Touching You
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Still at home, obviously. Giles has been awake since dawn. He has read and annotated the week's papers in search of stories to inspire his Times’ column. For Esther, the joys of homeschooling are palling. Eggs are a concern.
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| 0:00.0 | Isolation Tank Week 47. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, |
| 0:13.4 | oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello. Now you said a very interesting thing to me yes. Really? Yes and you said a very interesting thing to me. Really yes and he said an even more interesting thing to me this morning right |
| 0:38.0 | because you have been exceptionally bullish about our isolation lifestyle. |
| 0:44.8 | Marvelous wonderful, I love it. |
| 0:47.1 | You were really, really looking for what to it. |
| 0:49.2 | I don't have to go to any boring offices. I don't have to go to any boring offices I don't have to review any stupid |
| 0:54.3 | restaurants you don't have to go on an airplane I don't have to go and do stupid travel |
| 0:58.6 | shows that I hate I earn my salary anyway writing my columns and doing podcast and stuff like that. I get to teach the children in the |
| 1:06.4 | mornings we go to the heat in the afternoon we cook lovely meals from scratch. |
| 1:10.8 | Brilliant! And you have actually held very good to that to that optimism. |
| 1:18.0 | Held very good to that optimism. |
| 1:20.0 | Sorry you have actually kept up that optimistic momentum. |
| 1:25.0 | Until yesterday, when we were on our one daily state sanctioned walk of the day, |
| 1:31.0 | when you said to me, you looked to me and and you said I don't think I can have another |
| 1:35.1 | conversation with you I didn't say that you did you didn't say it in a mean way no it was |
| 1:41.5 | because we've gone for our walk on Hampstead Heath and I planned, we were going to walk to there and then play cricket with the kids like, and the kids stopped to climb a tree. |
| 1:49.0 | And I would, no, come on, Curric, keep on walking, keep on marching, that's not exercise, exercise I thought no weight that is and I just |
| 1:55.0 | thought I you said no it's fine it's fine we're gonna do for half an hour I can't talk to you again |
| 2:00.4 | I don't think I can have another conversation with you which is |
| 2:03.6 | absolutely unheard of all you want to do is it about and talk to me. It's not |
| 2:08.5 | about me it's about you. By not wanting to have a conversation with you I've |
| 2:11.6 | caught up to where you were in like July 2010 |
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