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Facing Summer Challenges
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Facing Summer Challenges

This section covers how the speaker plans and adjusts to seasonal challenges, highlighting the importance of family time, particularly with their grandchildren. Despite a retired lifestyle, the speaker stays occupied with local screenings and ad-hoc engagements, demonstrating the importance of family support and personal motivation.

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Perfect. All right. Second question. We all face challenges and, you know, there'll be challenges in summer as well as challenges in spring and other seasons. How do you, how do you motivate yourself? What tricks do you use? What motivates you to face the challenges that you might be coming up events in summer? I suppose I like to plan in advance. I like to have a schedule. So, you know, when I get phone calls from people at the back end of a week, if they want me to help them out on a Monday morning, say, I know whether I can I can fit them in or whether the Well, when's the best time for me to fit in? I've got two sons, one who lives in Manchester and one who lives only about eight miles down the road from me in a place called Guiseley. The one in Manchester, I've now got a grandson who's going to be one next year, sorry, next month. My other son has a granddaughter who's eight. So my son was, well, he never married the woman who fathered the child. So she's there every weekend, every fortnight. So I go over there and take her to the park and we go to the swings to set up challenges and whatever. And occasionally, well, obviously not quite so often, often I go over to Charlton in Manchester to see my son, daughter-in-law and Mason, my grandchild. So yeah, it's pretty pedestrian and you know, there's not an awful lot happens, not an awful lot of challenges apart from, as I say, when I get something from somebody I'm working with who wants me to join a meeting or read something or do something. I mean, I'm in the the local screening program MDT. So I go to their monthly meeting. So a lot, well, no, not a lot. That's scheduled, and something I'm doing with the University of Leeds is scheduled for a Teams meeting every first Friday of the month. So they're the only things that are scheduled. And then as I say, I've got Adlib things that are coming up and whatever. So focusing more on the, you know, the stuff that motivates you, I got the impression that family and going to meet family and meet your grandchildren. Could you elaborate a bit on that? Oh, yeah. Well, obviously, I love spending time. I mean, Mason, who's, what, 11 months now. I mean, his mother's excellent. I get, he's been going to nursery and sensory classes and whatever. I get frequent WhatsApp messages and videos showing his progress. I got one on Saturdays showing him crawling all over the place and I had to have a conversation with his mom and dad yesterday because he's now starting to get himself into cupboards and poor playstations of cabinets and whatever. So we had a discussion about getting some of those clips you can put on the inside of cupboards so they can't open it. So there's always something with his development that goes on. Bo, my granddaughter, as I say, she's eight and a half. She's great, but she's not very communicative. She talks more about her dolls in her camper van that daddy bought her on Saturday. But it's interesting to see her development and you know I'll help her with her homework. I was asked if I would babysit for them at the end of July, yeah 1st of July. So you know it's just normal sort of things that I'm interested in making sure that they're all doing okay, they're healthy, you know, there's not too many things worrying them all.

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