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Speaker 1: Welcome to your Diary episode. Here's the thing. I'm a

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Speaker 1: bit of a nomad, so these episodes come to you

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Speaker 1: so I'll share with you what's going on in my world,

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Speaker 1: from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals, nature adventures, health

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Speaker 1: discoveries to swimming in hidden Byron Bay beaches. Come with

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Speaker 1: me as I share my adventures with you. Hello, this

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Speaker 1: is your Friday Diary episode, so your Monday episode. We've

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Speaker 1: kind of basically pushed interview episodes by a week so

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Speaker 1: that the Monday that just came out was actually the

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Speaker 1: Boss and I are talking about what's going on with

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Speaker 1: New South Wales floods. We live in the hinterland of

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Speaker 1: Byron Bay and so many surrounding areas have been so affected,

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Speaker 1: so we just want to share, honestly what was going

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Speaker 1: on on the ground. From our perspective, our place is

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Speaker 1: pretty much fine. We've just had no internet or reception

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Speaker 1: for days. Like I think we're on day eleven or

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Speaker 1: which is fine. Like I mean, it's frustrating, but it's

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Speaker 1: fine in comparison, like we've got a roof over our heads.

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Speaker 1: Our house didn't get damaged water wise, there was just

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Speaker 1: like Matt was saying that I was stuck in Sydney.

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Speaker 1: It took me nine flights to get out, and Matt

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Speaker 1: was just saying it was more like there was a

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Speaker 1: I got in, Boss said to me, he goes, I

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Speaker 1: really want to volunteer art. It's really important to me,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, cool. So the next morning

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Speaker 1: which is where we live, and we just helped with

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Speaker 1: So that's why we kind of pushed the Monday episode.

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Speaker 1: This Friday episode is going to probably still have a

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Speaker 1: flood tone because that's what we've been doing all week.

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Speaker 1: And then your next Monday episode. I did push everything.

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Speaker 1: I'm such a virgo. I have all the guests planned

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Speaker 1: out for three months in advance, and I have pushed.

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Speaker 1: The plan was to release the incredible Lorna Jane Clarkson

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Speaker 1: on Monday, but I'm just going to push out one

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Speaker 1: more week because I want to do an episode with B,

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Speaker 1: the director and owner of the Ol and Pussycat Fun

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Speaker 1: Animal Sanctuary that got ripped apart by the floods and

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Speaker 1: they lost like all their feed, they lost their barns,

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Speaker 1: They've lost three cars, their their own home in South

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Speaker 1: Golden Beach has been heavily effed up as well. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: when I recorded the podcast with B, she showed me

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Speaker 1: so I've just kind of pushed that by a week. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: like I don't really like I want to share what's

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Speaker 1: because I think that I just want to be honest

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Speaker 1: was like, Okay, I've got a booking with my therapist

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Speaker 1: the show notes of last Monday's episode, but also the

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Speaker 1: In fact, the interesting thing is Byron Town isn't wasn't

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Speaker 1: So what we get is like actual necessities. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: go fund me page and they literally kind of do

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Speaker 1: need to buy chainsaws, where they need to buy gum boots, gloves,

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Speaker 1: mosquito repellent. The massies around the water are really bad

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Speaker 1: So it's basically it's very date and time dependent, and

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