Speaker 1: Christin o'connells Show podcast. Today we got three chopic Tuesday
Speaker 1: and I'm about to go around the team find out
Speaker 1: the song that sums up our long weekend. Patsy, what's
Speaker 1: it for you mate? What did he get up to?
Speaker 2: Yesterday? We very bravely made the pilgrimage to Bunnings. We're
Speaker 2: after a new outdoor setting because the dog destroyed the
Speaker 2: other one.
Speaker 1: So what do you mean the dog destroyed it?
Speaker 3: He chewed it?
Speaker 1: What through like words pine mahogany.
Speaker 2: It was aluminium and he managed to do the first
Speaker 2: night we went out without him.
Speaker 1: A honey batch has got the strongest bite, you know,
Speaker 1: they could probably do that, but a dog actually mashing
Speaker 1: up aluminium.
Speaker 2: Well, he got into the cushions. So we got home
Speaker 2: after a night out of leaving him for a few
Speaker 2: hours as a puppy for the first time, and it's like,
Speaker 2: I'll teach you to go out and leave me on
Speaker 2: my own for three hours cheot all the cushions up.
Speaker 1: Oh I see, but that was a year ago.
Speaker 3: If he was a puppy, yeah, I know, And.
Speaker 1: So slashed furniture out. There's a nice look.
Speaker 2: Well, we haven't been game to get anything new, because
Speaker 2: he's just such a wrecking ball. So we figure maybe
Speaker 2: now he served his apprenticeship and we're finally game enough
Speaker 2: to go looking for another outdoor setting for summer.
Speaker 1: Do you know what you can? We've got it for
Speaker 1: the puppy to stop the puppy sort of chewing up stuff.
Speaker 1: There's this spray. It's cool, it's called puppy Off. It
Speaker 1: is got horrible smell. It's like a mustard smell, and
Speaker 1: obviously it's that dog with the sharps with a big
Speaker 1: old snout. It's a horrible mustard thing where they go
Speaker 1: to cheer and they go, what is that mustard sprayed
Speaker 1: on that?
Speaker 3: But then the whole family has to put up with
Speaker 3: that smell as well.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, Yeah you might try that everything though,
Speaker 2: like we've tried eucalyptus oil and stuff and it just doesn't.
Speaker 1: But that's a nice I love the smell of eucalyptus oil.
Speaker 1: That just clear as sinus is out.
Speaker 2: Anyway, So we got to Bunnings and almost instantly regretted
Speaker 2: it because it was it was just heaving yesterday, long weekend.
Speaker 2: Everyone's out and about, even though it was a bit chilly,
Speaker 2: and they've got it's quite a good system. But you've
Speaker 2: got a que of course now like you forget, you're
Speaker 2: sort of stuck in your old ways, pre sort of
Speaker 2: COVID where you just turn up and rock in. But
Speaker 2: of course now you have to queue. So they've got
Speaker 2: this roped off section that like snakes its way through
Speaker 2: the car park. So Chris looked at me and he goes,
Speaker 2: how desperately do you really want to go to Bunnings today?
Speaker 2: And I said, well, look, we're here now, we'll do
Speaker 2: it anyway. So we lined up in mque and you know,
Speaker 2: you've got to stand on your yellow crosses in everything,
Speaker 2: and everyone's, oh, good morning, how are you. How's a
Speaker 2: long weekend? But it thrust me back to the nineties
Speaker 2: and my nightclub day is having to queue outside the nightclub.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's needs to be a Netflix show of
Speaker 1: Partcy's nightclub days. Just reminded me.
Speaker 2: It took me back when we're at Horsham. When I
Speaker 2: worked at Horsham, there was this local pub. It was
Speaker 2: the only discoing town, so it was the happening place.
Speaker 2: And when we first moved there, it's like, g you,
Speaker 2: that must be a really good joint, Like there's this
Speaker 2: cue you going around the corner down the main street.
Speaker 2: So anyway, first night we went out, we went there
Speaker 2: thinking this is going to be fantastic. Got inside and
Speaker 2: there's like half a dozen people in there, including the
Speaker 2: bar staff and the DJ. In this place was a dive.
Speaker 2: It had wall to wall carpet and as you walked
Speaker 2: across it, your feet would like stick to the carpet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a sort of a good venue. They used
Speaker 1: to be like that. I used to love those sticky
Speaker 1: floor venues. You knew you were somewhere good that never
Speaker 1: wanted to clean or mop the floor all month.
Speaker 3: I went to a nightclub in the Gold Coast once.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's still there. Sticky carpet floors.
Speaker 3: They and their theme was they had beds instead of chairs,
Speaker 3: so you sat on the beds and ordered. Someone would
Speaker 3: come to the beds and you would order a drink
Speaker 3: from there, and the host, the host would walk around
Speaker 3: with a spray bottle because it smelt so bad, the
Speaker 3: carpets and spraying ascent.
Speaker 1: From the Blues Brothers. That's rough. So how do you
Speaker 1: get on in Bunnings? Then? Did you get what you needed.
Speaker 2: No, we we might have had a bit of a
Speaker 2: disagreement in Aisle fifteen yesterday. So I want to get
Speaker 2: like this, you know, indestructible setting. I'm looking at cement
Speaker 2: or something like that.
Speaker 1: Cement a cement table for outside, carrying that back to
Speaker 1: the car.
Speaker 2: It's really nice to mid tables and bench bench settings
Speaker 2: now that you can get and they.
Speaker 3: Look quite them.
Speaker 1: I think yes in Chris isn't.
Speaker 2: A fan and he reckons we can't put it on
Speaker 2: the decking we've got.
Speaker 1: Or the car. The car would be like so it
Speaker 1: would be from a cartoon. It goes up in the air.
Speaker 3: Are you building an outdoor setting or escape park anyway?
Speaker 2: So there's a there's we've agreed to disagree on. We're
Speaker 2: no closer basically to getting the outdoor setting. We can't
Speaker 2: agree on what we want.
Speaker 1: So it's nothing worse than you go to all the
Speaker 1: effort and you don't leave with anything. It is no
Speaker 1: that you haven't settled it and you've only got to
Speaker 1: come back at some point and do it all again.
Speaker 3: And you have a whisper argument in the aisles, Well,
Speaker 3: I think there's a mentalill do just fine?
Speaker 1: How many how many iron arguments today. Of any places
Speaker 1: to have an ile argument, you think Bunnings have the more.
Speaker 1: You're not really kicking off in a in a supermarket,
Speaker 1: I line about the chips or what Marjarine brand to get.
Speaker 1: But in Bunnings, what does it amount of meltdowns I've
Speaker 1: had with other mind teenage daughters about stuff they're going
Speaker 1: or my wife rings. I wonder many people have actually
Speaker 1: just split up end of a relationship in an at
Speaker 1: Bunnings Christian Christian show shot, what do you go to
Speaker 1: this long weekend?
Speaker 3: Allow me to take you to the Croatian city of Dalmatia.
Speaker 3: Of course we all recognize this as the national anthem
Speaker 3: of Croatia, Unmistakable right. We did a thousand piece puzzle
Speaker 3: over the weekend of Croatia of the City of Dalmatia.
Speaker 3: Don't know how we chose Criati as the puzzle when
Speaker 3: we bought it, but it's been sitting in the cupboard
Speaker 3: for a few years now and we got it out
Speaker 3: to put it together over the long weekend.
Speaker 1: You and your wife, you're in your seventies now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's happened to you both over the weekend. It's a
Speaker 1: fine line between the lifestyle of the hipster and a
Speaker 1: very old person. That both of the similarities are very similar. Actually,
Speaker 1: you did a thousand piece chigsaw on a Croatian city.
Speaker 1: Have you been there?
Speaker 3: I've not been there.
Speaker 1: No. What was it like a port? Is it almost
Speaker 1: import Yeah? Yeah? Notice the jigsaw people they love a port,
Speaker 1: don't there With the boats and the harbor and stuff
Speaker 1: that it makes a nice vista for a jigsaw.
Speaker 3: And it was a beautiful vista by the time we finished.
Speaker 3: We put a lot of hours into it. I mean
Speaker 3: people would be doing a lot of puzzles over this
Speaker 3: isolation period.
Speaker 1: Care homes and places like that. Yeah, and the medical
Speaker 1: facilities and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a thousand piece puzzle is no easy. Feet took
Speaker 3: us many hours over the weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're going to erect a statue today. I
Speaker 1: mean the sacrifice you two put in to do this
Speaker 1: feet of enjoyance already. So when would you do it?
Speaker 1: Like in the evening?
Speaker 3: Oh no, in the days as well? Oh yeah, can't
Speaker 3: wait to time.
Speaker 1: You don't wait for nightfall to crank open another cuple
Speaker 1: of pieces of that port of dumb make sure in
Speaker 1: Croatia and there'd.
Speaker 2: Be lots of samey, samey pieces, wouldn't theyre Jack if
Speaker 2: it's support because Croatia's got all those beautiful stone sort
Speaker 2: of buildings and stuff.
Speaker 3: You're right, Patsy, you know your Croatia. Well, yes, the
Speaker 3: water was very difficult to complete. The sky was very
Speaker 3: difficult to complete. Yeah, we know. We were doing it
Speaker 3: all hours of the day. Work up, first thing in
Speaker 3: the morning, started the puzzle.
Speaker 1: This is my question of the scene. So it's on
Speaker 1: the coffee table, because you need a big thing to happen.
Speaker 3: Well, this is the thing. We used the dining table.
Speaker 3: So we had all our meals over the weekend at
Speaker 3: the TV and on the couch because the puzzle's taking
Speaker 3: up the dining table.
Speaker 1: The project the Sistine Chapel, that's are going on in
Speaker 1: the kitchen on the dining table.
Speaker 3: So then we finish it and I'm ready to break
Speaker 3: it up because we've already said goodbye to the dining
Speaker 3: table all weekend. And I said, all right, levelll, time
Speaker 3: to break it up. Looks great, well done, thumbs up.
Speaker 3: Banker said no, no, no, we put We've put so
Speaker 3: many hours into it. We have it has to stay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I get it. Michaelangrol didn't get a
Speaker 1: great big gold jet washer out.
Speaker 3: Just spray that.
Speaker 1: That's that done. What you're doing?
Speaker 3: Then, how long do we have to leave the puzzle
Speaker 3: on the dining tab?
Speaker 1: I mean how many hours? Just give me a guest,
Speaker 1: what do you think?
Speaker 3: Ten hours? Probably ten hours.
Speaker 1: You try to put ten hours. I want to get
Speaker 1: visitors to come and see it. She was just a
Speaker 1: tourist attraction. You put ten thousand, you're going to destroy it.
Speaker 3: But when you see I mean, you see a puzzle
Speaker 3: and it's just you're like, oh, yeah, you did a puzzle.
Speaker 3: You don't keep her on the dining room table, and
Speaker 3: we're definitely.
Speaker 1: A problem with what you've done. Essentially, you've arrived at
Speaker 1: what a great anti climax After all of that, you're gone,
Speaker 1: what do we do now? Exactly? That's the whole point
Speaker 1: of doing the jigsaw puzzle. It's it's the joy, I
Speaker 1: guess is actually the putting together. So what are you
Speaker 1: talking to each other going, I've got a bit of
Speaker 1: sea here, I've got a bit of sea here. What
Speaker 1: do you think yours is? Know?
Speaker 3: We we each wear our ear pods and listen to
Speaker 3: a separate podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh, Oh god, this is a lot Sader thought, Pats.
Speaker 1: Just imagine the scene. It's like a couple near the
Speaker 1: end of a relationship.
Speaker 3: It's not that.
Speaker 1: I walking past that house. So see you both with
Speaker 1: your headphones on doing some born old jigsaw of a
Speaker 1: port in Europe. I was thinking, oh, they're breaking up
Speaker 1: this weekend.
Speaker 3: A couple who is so deeply connected that they don't
Speaker 3: have to have a conversation all the time. Discussing in
Speaker 3: each other's presence is enough.
Speaker 2: I think that's lovely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's lovely. Christian Connell, Christian Podcast, Christians How Jack
Speaker 1: of Fearless Pain for the completed thousand piece jigsaw for me?
Speaker 1: Finished it. Take a photo. It's done for my father
Speaker 1: in law. He builds a frame, cuts glass, mounts them.
Speaker 1: This is like a idea. Well let it called Christine Hart.
Speaker 1: I've just shown this to Jack, a beautiful looking one
Speaker 1: of it's like the Atlas of the world, of the globe.
Speaker 1: It's an amazing black and white one that she said
Speaker 1: took her two weeks that they have mounted on wall
Speaker 1: that looks beautiful and trying to find out how many pieces.
Speaker 1: The song that sums up my weekend is this up
Speaker 1: on the roof, which is where I had to go
Speaker 1: yesterday to a neighbour's house. This kitt and we've got us.
Speaker 1: I think actually thinks it's a dog. It's just determined
Speaker 1: to it's a it's the breed of it. It's supposed
Speaker 1: to be one of these indoor cats. Some people have
Speaker 1: these things called indoor cats. I didn't know it was
Speaker 1: a concept. I had a cat when I was a
Speaker 1: teenager and he just would bugger off for a week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Around this cat. Larry the cat is apparently purposely bred
Speaker 1: to stay indoors. But I feel sorry for him, you know,
Speaker 1: it's to be out there. He sees the dog's going
Speaker 1: out there. He cries, He literally me ows. He just
Speaker 1: stairs to the day looking outside. It breaks my heart.
Speaker 1: Yesterday morning, I get out and feeding the dogs and
Speaker 1: the puppies, and it's like the ark at the moment
Speaker 1: around her ours and I see Larry the count and
Speaker 1: I think, oh, can it deal. I have a little
Speaker 1: wander around the deck. You know, I'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: on him. So I go indoors, make a hot drink
Speaker 1: for myself, sit there watching it on. I'm chatting to
Speaker 1: my fifteen or daughter, Ruby and it's it's her cat.
Speaker 1: She's getting a bit of angsty. So now you don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna run away. And I say it's a joke.
Speaker 1: Maybe today he's as big off and he's been waiting
Speaker 1: for this day. Seconds later, he literally shinnes up a tree,
Speaker 1: goes across the wall, jumps down the name of his garden.
Speaker 1: I leap up, go out to the garden and go Larry, Larry,
Speaker 1: Larry Larry. He doesn't even look round. Cats don't. He
Speaker 1: doesn't even look round a dog would look round. When
Speaker 1: he hit his name, He's gone. He is gone. He's
Speaker 1: into a neighbor's garden, right, some like ruby, We're gonna
Speaker 1: have to go around and wait the neighbors up. We've
Speaker 1: got these lovely, elderly neighbors. They're so friendly. But whenever
Speaker 1: I go around there, there's always some drama that I
Speaker 1: need helpful. So I'm not hammering on the doors. I've
Speaker 1: seven in the morning, you know, the long weekend, yesterday morning,
Speaker 1: and they open the door and I go, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: our cat is in your garden. Can I just get
Speaker 1: in the back there? They go, yeah, yeah, sure, come
Speaker 1: around the side. Obviously they're retired, they're still social distancing,
Speaker 1: so they stay indoors and I just go around the back. Right.
Speaker 1: They're now watching me and Ruby, the fifteen year old. Right.
Speaker 1: Larry is on their garacter sort of shed roof at
Speaker 1: the bottom of their garden. I'm looking at him, thinking
Speaker 1: how are we going to get him down now? So
Speaker 1: I tried to sort of shimmy up a pole and
Speaker 1: why it's got like a plastic drain bike. I'm going
Speaker 1: to pull this away and hurt myself. So I go
Speaker 1: if you've got a ladder, and I borrow a ladder.
Speaker 1: This is half seven yesterday morning. He has to come out.
Speaker 1: Now we're still social distance. He gets this extendable ladder out,
Speaker 1: hands it to me. I have to shove it in
Speaker 1: like his hedge, and they've got an immaculate garden. It
Speaker 1: must have been their pride and joy. It's wreck now
Speaker 1: I have to put this ladder as I get into it,
Speaker 1: sinking down in the said of their freshly dug sort
Speaker 1: of rose bed let up the side of this shed,
Speaker 1: and they've got a really high roof. Larry is about
Speaker 1: six foot. I got up there and Larry, he's just
Speaker 1: looking at me some bathing It's like Shawshank redemption, you know,
Speaker 1: when he puts that classical music on. Is this some
Speaker 1: joint his my, he's andy, he's out, he says some
Speaker 1: bathe in that beautiful sweet son on his cat face freedom,
Speaker 1: you know. And he's six feet from me and I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't get onto the roof because I'll go through
Speaker 1: it into the shed, right, and I go, Larry, Larry,
Speaker 1: He's not coming towards me. He's up. Screw you, I'm done.
Speaker 1: I'm out, so go and get cats. Only get motivated
Speaker 1: by one thing. Food. I won't go and get his bowl.
Speaker 1: She goes back indoors, feels up. His bold of food
Speaker 1: comes back right. The old couple's still back indoors now
Speaker 1: watching this whole drama. It's like some sort of theater show.
Speaker 1: Dad and the door driving a meltdown. I go up
Speaker 1: the ladder again now with his bowl. Larry starts to
Speaker 1: slowly come towards me. I'm doing you know, when you
Speaker 1: don't want to give away the glint in your eye,
Speaker 1: because I keep in my mind I'm practicing the grab.
Speaker 1: Do it slowly, like I'm gonna tickle him under the
Speaker 1: chin and then get that scruff OF's neck. I go, Harry.
Speaker 3: It's the same way they got Andrew to pray out
Speaker 3: and that morning's office in shawshake redemption.
Speaker 1: That's quite right, Yeah, Larry, come back here because he
Speaker 1: puts his head down and I've got him scruff's neck.
Speaker 1: And now I've got him, I'm like, I'm up this ladder.
Speaker 1: How do I get down the ladder? I can't use
Speaker 1: my hands. I'm wrestling him down like he's an on
Speaker 1: the run fugitive. He's reluctant. He doesn't want to come
Speaker 1: with me. He's doing that a couple of paws and
Speaker 1: trying to swing around like haymakers to try and get
Speaker 1: an eye out of my eyeball. And I now push
Speaker 1: him through a wrung then have to pass him over
Speaker 1: to my other hand. The teenagers now behind me going,
Speaker 1: don't hurt when he's okay? Like this there their mom
Speaker 1: does this when they're little kids. He's fine. We need
Speaker 1: to get him now. I passed him down to Ruby.
Speaker 1: Then the two of us have to walk down the streets.
Speaker 1: You know, a am with a cat who doesn't want
Speaker 1: to come with us, Like between, I'm not put my
Speaker 1: arms round her. She's got her arms around here and
Speaker 1: the of us and say thank you to the neighbors.
Speaker 1: They've got to put the ladder back. I forgot. I
Speaker 1: didn't go back with So that was our yesterday morning
Speaker 1: for half an hour to recapture Larry.
Speaker 3: So and now all doors locked at all times, he
Speaker 3: can't go outside.
Speaker 1: You might have this, Patsy, are you Are you at
Speaker 1: the age yet with already where you have to have
Speaker 1: a meeting, a family meeting. This is my wife's favorite things.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it's trouble is I wander into it. I
Speaker 1: don't realize we're having a meeting. I just think we're
Speaker 1: having a little chat. Oh, this is a meeting. I
Speaker 1: didn't know we were having a meeting. We've got a
Speaker 1: meeting tonight to decide what to do, letting Larry out, whether.
Speaker 3: He can be one that roams the straight, to whether
Speaker 3: he's stuck indoors.
Speaker 1: I quoted Sting I said, some times, if you love someone,
Speaker 1: you've got to set them free, you know, and the
Speaker 1: hope that they will come back. So we've got a
Speaker 1: big meeting tonight. So anyway, that's the song that sums
Speaker 1: up my weekend up on the roofs Connell Shoot