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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 discoveries,

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

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Speaker 1: as I share my adventures with you. Okay, okay, Weekly

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Speaker 1: diary episode, your last one from Byron Bay for about

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Speaker 1: six months. I'd say. So this comes out Friday, and

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Speaker 1: I fly to Los Angeles on Tuesday. But all the

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Speaker 1: is today for you guys listening Friday. I'm a virgo,

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Speaker 1: lightly very organized. Now I've just got a print off paperwork.

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Speaker 1: You've got to print off a fair bit of flight

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Speaker 1: paperwork to travel. At the moment, I realized I haven't

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Speaker 1: introduced this episode very well. This is the diary checking episode.

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Speaker 1: Monday's are interview based episode. So the Monday that's just gone,

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Speaker 1: you had the wonderful B from the Owl and Pussycat

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Speaker 1: just been like rebuilding and fixing fences and building goat

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Speaker 1: just so B came out on Monday. Next Monday coming out,

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Speaker 1: we have the incredible Lorna Jane Clarkson. What a legend.

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Speaker 1: I say this in the intro because we record all

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Speaker 1: the intros yesterday Boss and I ended up hanging out

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait for you here that episode. Such a positive, bubbly,

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Speaker 1: happy human being, really really cool. A lot of time

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Speaker 1: an Epic Human. So that's on Monday Tuesday, our fly

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Speaker 1: byseas So then I'll do your next hour episode or

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Speaker 1: hopefully be from somewhere in Los Angeles. I still don't

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Speaker 1: all these other rigmarole, I'm kind of waiting for that

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Speaker 1: I really wanted to volunteer this week, but there are

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Speaker 1: to continue to read while I'm away too. I might

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Speaker 1: have to pack another canvas Fox in my suitcase because

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Speaker 1: I just think she's the bomb. She's the best, all right,

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Speaker 1: Gangles make a love. Next time I do a diary episode,

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Speaker 1: I'll be potting to from the other side of the world,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully i'll have a roof over my head. At

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Speaker 1: the moment, I'm trying to get a I really kind

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Speaker 1: of want to go to Hawaii with this spare time

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Speaker 1: that I've got, but it's all looking really dear and expensive,

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Speaker 1: so I'm just trying to find my feet and get

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Speaker 1: a bit of a plan. Or I'm kind of waiting

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Speaker 1: for that native COVID test to pull some triggers. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: That's that's me oversharing as per USU lovey lots, big

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Speaker 1: big love, Stay safe, Stay happy. By