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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: from wherever I'm living or traveling to at the time,

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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, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Boxing Day Crimbo Diary. Welcome to the pod.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: This is Noel Smith. Dad's a holding mic a pinch closer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah nice, it seems to be an annual event for

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Speaker 1: me jumping on. Well, yeah, I feel like it is.

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Speaker 1: So I just thought this is obviously a diary, so

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Speaker 1: it's a quick app But what were three highlights from

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Speaker 1: Christmas yesterday? Because you came to the Sofo family.

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Speaker 2: Did and it was a privilege to be invited and

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Speaker 2: to catch up with Matt's family. Again, I don't see

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Speaker 2: them very often, but it was a delight to enjoy

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Speaker 2: their hospitality. And Lucy goes to a lot of trouble.

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Speaker 1: So what were three were there? Three meals?

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Speaker 2: Well? I like mince pies, anyway, so it's the time

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Speaker 2: of the year for me to enjoy those. But the

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Speaker 2: prawns were beautiful, the pursudo was beautiful, the trifle and

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Speaker 2: the turkey vegtables. It was all good, no complaints, and

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Speaker 2: they can invite me next year.

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Speaker 1: Okay, great, great, And you got a presy from Santa too.

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Speaker 1: I did meet Santa.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I didn't sit on his lap, but almost.

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Speaker 1: I think he did the couple of years ago.

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Speaker 2: I think I might have here. No, I got a

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Speaker 2: health supplement which I'm looking forward to take. It's going

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Speaker 2: to rejuvenate me and keep me young.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you have to take some now o. Well,

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Speaker 1: thanks for coming. And Chet was our little reindeer as well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he had his ear peace on or hit peace on,

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Speaker 2: and all the kids got to enjoy his company. I

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Speaker 2: don't think they've got dogs, so there's a bit of

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Speaker 1: Having a little Chet. He was really good with him,

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Speaker 2: Initially I thought he was going to be overwhelmed, but

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Speaker 2: he accepted them really well, and in the end he

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Speaker 1: Yeah, played games and the kids loved him.

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Speaker 2: So it was nice that I brought him. It was

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Speaker 2: a long drive for him from Talkie to Cheltenham and

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Speaker 2: He know, he's a little bit saw in the back

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Speaker 2: this morning from running and jumping interesting and turning, but

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Speaker 2: that's quite common for him if he overdoes it.

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Speaker 1: And what's the plan today's boxing day here in talks

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Speaker 1: or in Malbs.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've already done a day's events.

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Speaker 1: Don't you think we've gone out from morning coffee. We've

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Speaker 1: gone for a little beach. Which beach did.

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Speaker 2: You take to the Talkie surf beach the main surf beach. Okay,

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Speaker 2: And there's a front beach and there's a surf beach

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Speaker 2: and it was pretty wild today. It was a southerly

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Speaker 1: Surfing day, but nice for looking.

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Speaker 2: Oh beautiful, beautiful outlook and you could look all along

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Speaker 2: the coast, the rugged coastline to jan Juck and also

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Speaker 2: but yeah, really enjoyable morning to get a bit of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we we hit the discount surf shopping the

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Speaker 1: outlets because it's Boxing day sales do so we did?

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Speaker 1: I did?

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Speaker 2: You did that? I just dropped you off.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you did, you did? Okay, so you're we're staying

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Speaker 1: with you for a little while. Have you got any

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Speaker 1: food requests for Matt?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, that's such a good chef and he's got

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Speaker 1: H I think it stakes tonight.

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Speaker 2: It's just seak tonight and fish tomorrow. Sounds good to me.

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Speaker 2: You know, I live on my own and you know

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Speaker 2: it's fairly simple. Yeah, meals for me. But when Matt's here,

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Speaker 1: I just said to you, like, do you like porridge?

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Speaker 1: And I go, yeah, I go, how do you make yours?

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Speaker 1: And you go, well, usually go out.

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Speaker 2: I must admit I'm guilty of eating out a lot,

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Speaker 2: mainly sort of breakfast brunch, breakfast brunch. I walked the

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Speaker 2: Or I might walk into a cafe on the beach

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's just easy.

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Speaker 2: Well it's easy. I mean I can make breakfast at

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Speaker 2: just recently had a group of veterinary friends, some from

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Speaker 2: to me, no, you've got the brief for retirement right,

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Speaker 2: you know, good colleague, and nature a lot to do

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Speaker 2: and you know, I'm a member of the local resort

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Speaker 1: I've seen videos of snakes on the seen once.

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Speaker 2: I've seen one. But there are signs out all the

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Speaker 2: time the snakes have been.

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Speaker 1: You've seen it on the golf course because they're the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I saw the snake. The snake I saw

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Speaker 2: was a little one last year crawling from the kids

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Speaker 2: playgreend across the road, but it was it was a

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Speaker 2: small one. But still it's the first one I've seen

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Speaker 2: on the estate here. Yeah, but yeah, they're well recognized

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Speaker 1: But it's a bit chilly, so I feel like they're

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they'd be out, you reckon. Yeah, it's funny,

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Speaker 2: they would be out. And you've got to be careful

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just for a bit of protection. Final question for

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Speaker 1: goal for twenty twenty six? You do always last year's

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Speaker 2: That's my perpetual.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a judgmental.

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Speaker 2: Well, I just I just sort of respecified myself that

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Speaker 2: I'm not to have one.

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Speaker 1: Got it as a reminder. It's a reminder anything specific

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Speaker 1: this year that you want to focus on for twenty

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Speaker 2: Well, it's been a bit of a renaissance for me.

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Speaker 2: This last twelve months because quite a bit's happened. I've

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Speaker 2: sold my residence in Melbourne and I've moved down here permanently,

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Speaker 2: so it's a sea change in some respects. I'll have

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Speaker 2: to think about my resolutions. Is still a bit early.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know I'm getting it. Ellie, you've got You've

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Speaker 1: got a few more days. Thanks for coming on the pod.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having a Chrissy with the sofos yesterday. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure I can say that you're always welcome there. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: well I look forward to We're spending news Eve together,

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Speaker 1: so I look for to sharing our plans and resolutions

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Speaker 1: and all the fun stuff for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: It's great that you matter here this year. Last year

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Speaker 2: I was over in La not at Christmas time, in

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Speaker 2: late November, and that was a great trip. We did

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Speaker 2: some really nice memorable things then, and hopefully we can

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Speaker 2: incorporate some memorable things in the next ten days here.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we will lots of nature, lots of beach.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, beach, which you don't get in La too much.

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Speaker 2: Do you go to Santa Monica much?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: No? And what's the other one? The beach next door?

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Speaker 2: Just Venice you know Malibu. Well I stayed in Meliboury.

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Speaker 2: H yeah, but the fires made a mess a bit,

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I want lots of just chill nature here,

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Speaker 1: I think. Thanks for jumping on the pod. Thanks. We

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Speaker 1: do a little Chrissy roundup and now we're about to

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Speaker 1: do it all over again at Elizabeth and Uncle Peter's.

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Speaker 2: Please my brother's residence today for a short time, for

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Speaker 2: a couple of hours, catch up with them. They're looking

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Speaker 2: forward to seeing you.

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Speaker 1: You've got I've got Elizabeth, Elvis, Presleys and how much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know she loves Elvis, so it's great

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Speaker 2: that you you and your mother went there this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're a fan, get to Graceland all right, Huru,

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Speaker 1: love you lots. And yeah we get to hang so

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Speaker 1: we get so much time now we can relax.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.