HAPPY TWENTY TWENTY TWO / English Addict LIVE CHAT & Learning / Sunday 2nd JANUARY 2022 - Mr Duncan

happy new year everybody i hope you are having a  good one so far here we go then yes we are back  

together again nice to see you all here and  yes it is a brand new year look at the view  

out of the window at the moment it is  raining it is absolutely pouring with rain  

it's also very warm it does not  feel like the second of january  

i have to be honest with you it feels more  like late march or maybe even early april  

here we go then yes it's english addict live  once again and yes it is a brand new year

here we go oh my goodness it is now business  as usual even though we have a new year  

it is me once more and i hope you are feeling  good today as i make some slight adjustments  

you might notice behind me it is raining yes  we are having some incredibly wet weather  

today however yesterday we had a beautiful  day it was lovely yesterday sunny warm  

in fact we had the warmest new year's day ever 17  celsius the weather was yesterday here in the uk  

17 celsius and that's mid-winter it's really crazy  and today is warm but sadly it is also raining as  

you can see behind me the rain is really coming  down quite fast hi everybody this is mr duncan  

in england how are you today are you okay i hope  so are you feeling happy i hope you are feeling  

good today because we are here once more and yes  it's another english addict a new year but sadly  

the same old face i'm very sorry about that  so we have another 12 months of this to put  

up with for which i apologize right now well  i suppose i should say one thing straight away

what can i say really except happy new  year here we go again it's a new one

i hope your new year is going well so far

it feels very strange to be here i  will be honest i've had a busy few days  

we've had a special guest staying here with us  during the post-christmas period so not actually  

at christmas but post-christmas which means  of course after after christmas so we had a  

special guest staying here which meant of course  that my studio had to be completely taken apart  

and cleared away so it's never quite the same once  i rebuild my studio and put it all back together  

it's never quite the same it always feels slightly  different for some reason i don't know why  

so the rain is falling i can't do anything  about that we don't have a very interesting view  

out of the window today i'm afraid it's just wet  weather so how has your year been so far has it  

been a good one have you had a good year so far  has it been nice i know it's only the second day  

but i hope you've had a lovely day and a lovely  two days should i say because we we now have a  

new year so i can't quite believe it really i  will be honest with you i feel as if last year  

started slowly and then it started to get faster  and then it went slowly again and then suddenly  

the last three months of last year went  really fast or is it just my imagination  

i don't know here we go then yes happy new  year everyone there it is shining for you 2022  

we are now definitely in the future it  really does feel as if we are in the future  

no flying cars at the moment unfortunately  we're still working on that i'm sure elon musk  

will come up with his flying car in the next  couple of years but yes here we are in 2022 and we  

still don't have anything really that feels like  something from a science fiction film everything's  

still pretty boring to be honest isn't it  we're not really doing anything that feels like  

we're living in the future it does not feel  very sci-fi i have to be honest with you i  

hope you are having a good day yes we have the  live chat as well i'm not sure how many people  

will be here today because i'm sure some of  you are still enjoying the festivities i know  

that in some countries christmas is still waiting  to be celebrated so in some countries i think  

it's around the 6th is it the 6th of january some  people will be celebrating christmas so for those  

who have not yet celebrated christmas because  of the difference in the calendar and the way  

the festivals are observed i hope you have a super  duper christmas it seems very strange wishing  

happy christmas after christmas but yes some  people still are waiting to celebrate christmas  

and i suppose i should say also a big hello to  the live chat hello live chat it's nice to see  

you here back where you belong right here live  on youtube it's very nice to see you how was your  

christmas period was it nice was it relaxing did  you receive anything nice from father christmas i  

wonder and i suppose also we could mention your  plans for this year so we are now in a new year  

new plans new resolutions oh we are talking about  new year's resolutions today and we're doing  

something a little different today mr steve who  will be with us in around about 15 minutes time  

and myself we have decided to come up with  some new year's resolutions however we are  

doing something slightly different because we are  doing them for each other so i have written out  

some new year's resolutions that i want mr steve  to follow and of course mr steve has written some  

new year's resolutions for me to follow however  we we don't know what they are at the moment so  

at the moment they are sealed in these envelopes  so i don't know what mr steve has planned for me  

and mr steve doesn't know what i have planned  for him so we are going to reveal those a little  

bit later on so that should be interesting  maybe there will be a little bit of kicking  

screaming and maybe some scratching as well and  perhaps the occasional slap of the face who knows  

i don't know yet because we've only just  started you see that's the reason why  

hello to the live chat again oh very nice nice  to see you here today who was first um oh very  

interesting euphonium hello to euphonium guess  what you are first on the first live chat of 2022

thank you very much and  congratulations euphonium 88.

also we have mohsen hello mohsen you were second  

today also we have valentin  and marwah or should i say

with an echo some people like the echo  some people don't hello also to tomek  

hello tomec how was your christmas did you check  your tire pressure like mr steve mentioned last  

week have you checked it have you been  outside and given your tires a kick kick

have you kicked have you kicked anything else over  the past few days oh we also have louis mendes  

is here today on a very rainy day here in  england yes this is coming to you live from  

england for those wondering what is going on that  is what is happening hello beatrice hello also to  

christina oh we have a little surprise coming  later on by the way in fact it was a surprise  

for me as well i was very surprised by  what happened to be honest hello also to  

um oh we have rosa hello rosa  nice to see you here as well

so many people joining us on the live chat today  oh i can't keep up i really can't keep up you  

are so so fast on the live chat i'm having  difficulty keeping up with you so today we  

have new year's resolutions mr steve will be  suggesting some new year's resolutions to me  

and the opposite way round as well i  will be suggesting some to him also  

there it is the view outside right now and yes  it is a little bit gloomy it's wet it's raining  

although we are not having any snow unlike some  parts of the world that have had a lot of snow

japan i noticed on the news yesterday  japan has had quite a lot of snow  

there have been wildfires in the united states  

monsoons and tornadoes in other parts of  the world but here it is wet it is windy  

it is dull as you can see right now so that's  the state of things right now here in the uk  

i don't know what the weather is like  where you are because i'm not there you see  

i hope you've had a good rest did you get a chance  to have some rest and relaxation i hope you did  

i'm not sure if we did because we had a special  guest staying with us so we were very busy taking  

care of our very important person who was that i  wonder find out a little bit later on we also have  

oh hello to who else is here let's  have a look we have sandra we also have

marcia hello mr duncan hello my dear friends happy  new year happy new year i wonder how long it will  

take before that becomes a little bit tedious a  lot of people saying happy new year happy new year  

2022 has arrived all i can say is i'm very glad to  see that 2021 has disappeared although it wasn't  

as bad as 2020 if i if i had to choose between  those two years i think 2020 was much worse  

than 2021 from my point of view it remains to  be seen what 2022 will be like we will have to  

all wait and see hello zuzika nice to see  you here as well so many people joining in  

on today's live chat already thank you very  much yes this is english addict maybe it is  

your first time watching this maybe you've never  seen this before i like to talk about the english  

language but we do things a little differently  so there is no whiteboard there is no squeaky pen  

it is just myself and on sundays of course  we have mr steve joining in as well can i say  

a big special thank you i have received some  more lovely donations to my paypal fund thank  

you very much don't forget everything i do here  i do for free and i've been doing this for free  

for the past 15 years can you believe it i can't  thank you very much to dorothy jacob massimo  

crociati and also angela van der zanden  for your lovely donations dorothy  

massimo and angela thank you very much  for your lovely donations that i received  

as the new year started thank you very much i  was very very pleased and also touched moved  

to receive your lovely donations thank you very  much it's very kind of you i know i know things  

are not great at the moment for many people around  the world so i appreciate your donations even more  

than i usually do thank you very much i will  mention you again later on especially dorothy  

hello dorothy yes i have seen the thing that you  have sent to me as well we will be taking a look  

at that later on yes someone has been very busy  collecting some photographs of a certain youtube  

english teacher we will be having a look at those  a little bit later on so what about your new year  

has it been a good new year has it been a  bad new year i don't know i know we are only  

we're only on the second day but you you  never know you see there might be problems  

something might be going wrong i don't  know because i'm not there hello also to

oh who do we have here very diem dung hello dm  dung i believe if i'm not mistaken i think you  

are watching in vietnam can i say a happy new year  to vietnam and of course you have your special  

new year coming up in two or three weeks i  think as well it is the tech festival that  

happens in vietnam this special new year and i  believe also the chinese new year is approaching  

this year it is the tiger the year of the tiger in  the zodiac so a lot of things still happening even  

though we've had christmas and the new year  there are still lots of festivals coming up  

around the world which we will not forget about  so don't worry we won't forget them hello also

oh i see angela angela is actually now on  the live chat what are resolutions mr duncan  

if you have resolutions it means you have things  that you plan to do your resolutions are the  

things that you say the that you are going to  do you have plans for the future something you  

decide that you are going to do is a resolution  you have made a firm decision about something  

or maybe a firm decision to do something so  normally at this time of year lots of people make  

plans for the new year things that they want to  do things that they want to carry out maybe there  

are some changes that people want to make in their  lives they will often make resolutions sometimes  

they will make a list of things that they want  to do during the new year so that is what we  

mean when we say resolutions your resolutions  are the plans that you have for the future these  

things are the things that you are going to do or  you are going to try to do because as we all know

it's not easy keeping those resolutions  it's very hard to stick to your plans  

especially if the changes are big ones some  people make resolutions concerning their health  

maybe you have decided to do more exercise or  maybe to eat less food or maybe to be kinder  

to other people perhaps we will see what mr steve  has planned for me a little bit later on we have  

some guesses coming up now oh yes a lot of people  saying mr duncan we know who your special guest  

was we know who it was you might be right we  will have to wait and see uh mr steve will be  

explaining everything to us in a few moments  oh tomek says yes i checked the air pressure  

on my bike just before i set out  to a new year's party at my friends  

just for for your information we had lots of fun  well i'm glad you did parties are there for fun  

you're supposed to have a good time at it at a  party so i'm very pleased to hear tomek that you  

had a good time very nice hello also to claudia  oh hello claude here nice to see you as well

hello also to

bar ram hello bar ram i'm just reading some of  the comments on here i'm not sure if i can read  

some of them out because they might be a little  bit naughty you see hello valentina hello to you  

and apparently in the north of  italy it is a beautiful sunny warm  

day can i just say that i'm very jealous  i am quite jealous because you are having  

nice sunny weather in italy here  well as you can see behind me

it's not a great day we are having lots of rain  flower espoire says not everything that you plan  

can be done that is true so normally at the start  of a new year we will make some plans we will have  

some resolutions things that we want to try and do  but it doesn't mean we are going to be successful  

so that is something you always have to bear  in mind you always have to think about these  

things carefully when you plan your new year's  resolutions are they realistic are they hard to  

achieve or are they going to be easy to achieve  so quite often if you want to lose weight if you  

want to become more healthy to take more exercise  or maybe to be better in your job or nicer to the  

people around you all of these things take a  lot of effort i think you are right actually

christina hello christina i only make  resolutions from one hour to the next

i have a feeling that your resolutions don't last  very long that's what i'm taking from that comment  

to be honest so mr steve will be here in  a few moments and i am going to leave you  

for a few well about two or three or  maybe four or maybe five six or even  

seven minutes and then i will be back mr steve  will be here as well we are going to exchange  

our new year's resolutions mr steve  has some for me that i have to follow  

and i have some for mr steve but the thing is  neither of us know what they are don't go away

oh hello there here we are again  with another full english lesson  

coming to you from the  birthplace of all these people

oh my goodness that's a lot of people and  of course this is also the place where  

the english language was created that is of course  england so many words so many phrases and i hear  

you ask where is the best place to learn all of  those words and phrases right here on my youtube  

channel is my reply so stand by because another  full english lesson is going to start right

now i often receive questions and comments from  my students concerning the process of learning  

english for which i'm always happy to receive and  where possible answer one such question concerns  

the action of repeating things during the learning  process a common criticism is the tediousness of  

repetition the hard fact is that repeating  things is a large part of learning anything  

whatever it happens to be the action of repeating  something is there a baby must learn to walk by  

trying the same action again and again a learner  driver must undergo many training hours before  

getting it right this also involves a great deal  of repetition so what about english is it really  

necessary to keep repeating words and phrases  over and over the answer to that question is yes  

the most obvious benefit of repeating things comes  when you want to get a new word or phrase to stay  

in here repeating things again and again will  literally create new stored information in your  

brain yes it might seem boring and yes it will  take time to accomplish but in the long run you  

will learn to appreciate the power of repetition  whilst we are on the subject of repeating things  

it is also worth mentioning that you need to get  into the habit of learning new words and phrases  

every day don't shy away from absorbing new  information the secret is not to push yourself  

too far a little learned every day will lead  to a lot gained each month as i always say  

the important rules of learning english rely on  the most basic actions read listen repeat learn  

there it is again that magic  word repeat repeat repeat

here is something i haven't talked about for a  very long time the subject of opposite words is  

both fascinating and quite often confusing  a good example is the opposite of bend  

as a verb the opposite word is in fact  straighten then there is the action of clearing  

a misunderstanding which is also straighten you  can straighten something out with another person  

a conversation that allows those involved  to better understand each other's feelings  

is to straighten things out we need to talk about  what happened last night and straighten things out  

to distort or twist an event to make it  seem different is to bend the truth you can  

bend the rules which means to do something illegal  but not serious that goes against the law or set  

of instructions you are not supposed to be in  here but i'm willing to bend the rules this time  

as adjectives bent and straight refer to being  either good or bad a bent person is one involved  

in criminal activity a straight person is law  abiding and a good citizen an object that has  

been distorted out of shape has been bent the  action of doing this is bend a car accident can  

be described as a fender bender this expresses  the condition of a car after it has been damaged  

then as i said at the start of this subject  we have the opposite of bend which is stratum  

to make something level or without distortion  is to straighten are you still confused  

i hope that i have been able to straighten out  the confusion here so you won't be bent double  

trying to understand it as i always  try my best to be straight with you

well it looks as if we have come to the end  of another full english lesson but wait there  

apparently we still have a few moments left  so to fill that time here is a short poem

isn't it strange the way people change from  day to day isn't it queer whenever you hear  

the silly things people say isn't it sad when  you hear something bad it makes you want to cry  

but despite what you hear one thing is quite  clear to keep you from going mad say to yourself  

i am what i am whatever they say or do my life  is mine and whatever they say i won't give a damn

okay that is definitely all we have time for today  

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if you go to my main channel  you will see all of them  

and of course you can also find the playlists  underneath this actual video it is there  

happy new year here he is

happy new year happy new year mr duncan happy  new year to lovely friends across the world  

happy new year to everyone yes let's hope  it will be 2022. there's three twos in that  

yes the the only thing i feel sad  about is i will never get to see 22 22.  

yes that's the one see i wish i could be born a  little bit later a little bit further into the  

future so so i could actually see 22-22 so all of  the numerals will be the same but sadly i have a  

feeling unless there is a medical miracle on the  horizon which there isn't well maybe you know  

in the next 20 years we can freeze ourselves  successfully yes and then wake up in two two  

two one that's it and uh then you can have your  wish mr duncan yes they will they will thaw me out  

like a large turkey your thor out and there'll  be nothing there because the planet would have  

destroyed itself with global warming or  something so you'll wake up to nothing  

okay that's a happy start there we go well  i'm always an optimist as you know mr duncan  

what a happy and positive start to the new year  i'm a glass half empty kind of guy you are a glass  

empty and smashed on the floor yeah there's  nothing in it it's just empty yeah and smashed  

yes well we are going to be talking about are we  not mr duncan we have a lot to talk about today  

i will be honest we have new year's resolutions  yes steve has decided to give me some new year's  

resolutions that i have to follow no and i have  some that i'm giving to mr steve now it was your  

idea yes it's my idea it was your idea i wanted  it to sound like it was your idea it wasn't my  

idea i wanted it to be steve's idea because it  sounds like the sort of thing that he would do  

i thought let's run with it yeah because normally  you write out your own resolutions but maybe  

you know somebody else looking at you from the  outside can better give you advice on what would  

be the best type of resolutions that you should  be following yes for this year it's almost like  

polite complaining i think  you're complaining to someone  

but but in a polite way so so when you give  yourself new year's resolutions you are really  

complaining to yourself about your own behaviour  that's how i see it anyway in my strange break can  

i just say a quick hello to hamza hello hamza i am  trying to learn english but you are speaking fast  

i try to understand you hamza there are captions  now so if you are watching live you can press  

c the letter c on your keyboard or you can  activate you can turn on your captions and there  

are subtitles on the screen during the live stream  and also later on there will be captions as well  

after this has been recorded so yes hamza  there are captions if you want to follow them  

euphonium 888 says that their can of beer  is empty a can of beer not the only thing  

that's empty because i read earlier euphonium  you see when i'm waiting here i'm reading  

the comments in the live chat i believe your uh  your whiskey bottle is also completely empty what

new year's day beer and whiskey a whole bottle was  consumed do you have a headache probably is still  

there three days later or two days later i know  it was yesterday wasn't it new year's day yes yeah  

the year is already going too fast for me or too  slowly yes exactly oh we have our background back  

the background has returned because the rain has  stopped so you can enjoy the live view behind us  

happening right now so whatever happens behind  us it's completely live and we have no control  

over it just in case a naked person runs through  that field so if someone decides to take all their  

clothes off and run through that field completely  naked i have no control over that so keep watching  

so keep watching who knows you never  know what you're going to see behind me  

here in shropshire is it the year of the  tiger it is this year the chinese new year  

and the lunar new year in just a few weeks  so there is the big tech festival in vietnam  

and the chinese new year the lunar new year in  the luna zodiac this year it is the tiger so  

congratulations to all those who are tigers  what do you have to be born in a specific month  

uh yeah it's all based on years yes it's quite  good so for example i am a snake that makes sense

not a trouser snake not a trouser snake what

although i do like to worm my  way into certain things but

um what are you you are 60  

19 no 1961. i don't know what it is i'm sure  someone out there can tell mr steve what he is  

well we all know what steve is but what is  he in the chinese zodiac i think it would be  

nice if it was a horse specifically a mustang  oh okay wouldn't that be interesting if there  

was such a thing as a horse in the that calendar  i think there is uh i think there is a horse here  

then i could say i'm a mustang although maybe  in your case maybe an old donkey an old nag

or a big ass people are saying  so she says that i'm a dog  

somebody else says that i'm a cockerel so what is  1961 1961 if you were born in 1961 what is your  

chinese zodiac or lunar zodiac what is  it so i am a snake and no surprises there  

i think i'm just trying to remember  i'm sure somebody told me once  

sure i'm an ox or something like that i don't know  oh maybe you are a crab because you can be rather  

crabby sometimes that's true by the way the word  crabby means a person who often becomes irritated  

or annoyed or they become bad tempered a crabby  person crabby c-r-a-b-b-y crabby euphonium's a  

horse that's good but can somebody look up 1961  assuming that is you know when i was born i mean  

it can't be that that long ago surely but let's  assume it is trust me for the purposes of this

of this live stream uh yes glass half full or  glass half empty a few people have been referring  

to that um oh adi says yes you are you are an ox  am i yes that makes sense strong dependable and  

smelly and leaves large poops everywhere that's  it you see you can't you can't i i i'm ready  

there to either pull large pull people along  with me large weights what do oxes do they're  

they're sort of good at sort of pulling things in  fields they are they are slow lumbering lumbering  

creatures yes but they're very strong and sturdy  and steady slow lumbering they poop everywhere  

and and they they are often disobedient resilient  strong they can pull large bits of machinery  

see i have to pull you along with me that's  my mission in life i have to pull you along  

i i thought i was put i thought i was pushing you  to be honest so we have some fun and games we have  

a lot of things to talk about by the way steve i  can't i can't begin to tell you how many things  

we have to actually discuss today so i suppose the  first thing i should say once again is a big thank  

you can i say thank you once more to dorothy  jacob massimo krachati and also angela van der  

zanden for your lovely donations to my paypal fund  it's very nice but can i also say a special hello  

to dorothy who has also sent something else with  her donation some photographs photographs of a  

certain person from the internet can you guess  who it might be is it you oh okay it might be  

so apparently dorothy loves the moment that  happened two weeks ago when i took too many  

painkillers and as you can see now on the screen  there they are so these apparently dorothy says  

mr duncan i hope i hope you don't mind but i  thought this was very very funny when you were  

slightly high from having too many painkillers  so thank you dorothy for that but that's not the  

only photograph there's also this one as well  i'm starting to think that dorothy likes this  

maybe maybe this is what i should do every week  maybe every week i should appear on here high  

on painkillers or maybe not so here we go this  is another thing that's been sent by dorothy  

let me just move that down so we can see you can  move that way you know it's okay let me just see  

if i can get that right sometimes it doesn't do it  straight away there's that handsome fellow beside  

you so apparently what i'm saying i'm saying  it is for now and then i fall asleep apparently  

so that's the story so it's a little bit like  watching a film so i'm saying it is for now  

and then i go to sleep thank you dorothy i'm  i'm very flattered by all of the attention  

but i'm not too sure about this final photograph  steve ah here it is what what am i doing there  

steve you're dreaming of it looks like a sheep  with its tongue out yes i wonder what i'm thinking  

there about that sheep now as you know i do have  my favorite sheep although sadly she's not in  

the field at the moment she's she's vanished  but i'm not quite sure what's happening here  

what am i thinking of there i'm dreaming of sheep  and i think this is this might be lady woollington  

so this is from dorothy this is also from dorothy  who has been very busy cutting and pasting cutting  

and post pasting these copying and pasting these  amazing photographs so thank you very much dorothy  

you certainly looked from that photograph you  didn't look you didn't look unhappy no you looked  

in a state of bliss yes well i suppose i suppose  it depends what i'm dreaming about with the sheep  

you see so maybe i'm chasing her around the field  on a bright warm summer's day or maybe she she is  

chasing me more likely yes it sounds like my  look is in so thank you very much dorothy for  

those photographs i i was a little surprised at  first and then then i started laughing and then i  

started crying and then i had a sleep on the floor  for 20 minutes and then i woke up and now i feel  

all right so thank you very much the next day you  had constipation due to the strong painkillers yes  

yes don't i i suppose this is also a good warning  as well so if you are going to take painkillers  

something to ease the pain make sure that you  don't take too many i took two and it was too many  

i should have only took one of that particular  type of pain very strong you see yes and also i  

had a cup of coffee afterwards we know we know and  then i went into the garden and i vomited satorino  

says i don't believe in zodiacs there are too many  of them there's uh there's the western one the  

chinese one there's there's a lot you are right  there are lots of them there's horoscopes as well  

i think which one is right so they have they  say no the answer is probably none of them you  

have astrology so some people believe that the  stars in the sky or the way they're positioned  

they have some sort of influence don't know  that's true astrology so not to be confused with  

astronomy astronomy is the study of the stars  and the planets and everything else and astrology  

is the belief that all of those stars in the  sky have some sort of effect or power over us  

even though in reality uh you see when we look  up at the night sky of course we only see it  

we don't see it in three dimensions we only see  it in two so it appears that you can make patterns  

out of stars which you can like the great bear  aquarius things like that i like i like the big  

dipper i bet you do but of course in reality those  stars are are some of them are very close to us  

some of them are very far away so there is the  3d so you could have a star there a star there  

you know light years away from the other one and  it appears that they're all on on one plane of  

course they're not so it's just uh and not an  optical illusion it's just you know we are our  

minds like to draw lines between the stars and  turn them into shapes if there's one thing that  

human beings are good at it's making connections  where there are none we are very good at that  

and that's a good example of it and of course what  happens is sometimes it seems to be right because  

when they give advice to horoscopes it's always  a bit general so chances are every now and then  

whatever that person writes in there will probably  happen because they're writing all sorts of random  

things so you'll take that one thing and they all  oh look that's right that's right but of course  

what you'll do is you'll convenient conveniently  forget all the times when it was completely wrong  

and the danger that people make of course is  that they read these horoscopes and then they  

base their life around it which i think is quite  worrying some people might say religion is like  

that as well how you find coincidences in life  and you believe that they have a greater meaning  

than they really do so maybe you see a cloud  in the sky that looks a little bit like a dog  

and then you think oh that maybe that's  a message telling me that i have to buy  

a new dog but it isn't it's just a  random moment of time yes and you are

thinking zurshid says i don't believe in  astrology either but i find it entertaining  

yes that's how it should be looked at as  just entertainment yes something to look at  

something just to get get entertainment or  humour from i think most people do now if  

you were to follow that uh advice that would not  probably be very good but then on the other hand  

you know mr duncan's going to give me some  new year's resolutions well maybe that's  

maybe i shouldn't follow that well i think the  chances of you following my advice is zero to be  

honest well you never know we will you are right  about some things yes i i'm right more times  

than i'm wrong well there we go here's somebody  from uh probably vietnam saying in my country it  

is not new year yet because we follow the lunar  new year that's true so yes that's true so uh  

china would be another example wouldn't it but  i'm guessing duong there is maybe from the end yes

yes yes you are you are in vietnam so you have tet  

is the name of the new year  the lunar new year in vietnam

some people do believe in forecasting the  future i personally don't i don't think  

anyone can see the future however you  can try to make your future better  

and quite often that involves a lot  of hard work can i say thank you also  

we're moving on now steve we've got so much to get  through i i tell you now can i say thank you to  

oh this is amazing isn't it amazing steve i you  know you know i've been doing this for 15 years  

and and i always say that nothing can surprise  me i always say nothing can ever surprise me now  

because i've seen everything i've heard everything  i've been on youtube for since the beginning

nothing can surprise me well guess what  

a group of ladies have managed to give me a  very big surprise i received a lovely email and  

well i suppose i should just show the photograph  really because this is this is the photograph  

that tells you everything you need to know we  had a little reunion of some of our viewers  

four lovely ladies and i believe they've never  actually met before is that right they have never  

met each other ever so it's not really a reunion  well when i say reunion well a reunion as in  

they talk to each other but now they're getting  together so four people that watch you mr see  

that say that that might be one of mr steve's new  year resolutions not to be so fussy and pedantic  

so for people that watch you watch us  actually decided they would meet up yes  

and i think that's incredible mr duncan shall  we have a look yes here we go so here it is  

four lovely viewers decide to get together and  meet up face to face ah look at that would you  

like to know who is in the photograph steve yes  well i do know but please tell everybody else from  

left to right we have marcia claudia we also  have beatriz and sandra all meeting together uh  

something that was arranged last week apparently  it was last thursday and you knew nothing about  

it i knew nothing about it it was it was such a  big surprise we must stress yes it's you didn't  

arrange this no this was arranged actually who did  arrange it i think it was oh let me just think um  

i like it when mr steve asked me  questions i can't remember who actually  

initiated initiated starter thing i think it may  have been i want to say beatriz but i'm not sure

there is an email here let me just have a look  here steve sandra's on hello my dear teacher how  

are you this is a surprise marcia here we go yes  it was marcia marcia marcia came to buenos aires  

for christmas a new year and could organize an  encounter with claudia and also sandra it was a  

bit difficult because at the time of year because  of the time of year but today it was possible  

finally thank you my dear teacher thanks a lot we  were very happy we are very happy and grateful to  

you we have never seen each other in person before  it was amazing so thank you once again to marcia  

claudia beatriz sandra for your lovely picture i  can't get over that i'm going to be honest with  

you i there isn't much that can make me just gasp  with shock and they're all on right now they're  

all on live right at the moment oh really so yeah  so hello to marcia claudia belarusia beatrice and  

sandra yes and uh thank you for i can't believe  that you actually that wrote out that uh placard  

what would you call it mr duncan like that science  sign uh as well and where were you it looks like  

you were in a cafe or a restaurant yes it looks  like it looks like a coffee maybe a coffee shop or  

a small cafe but thank you very much i i literally  i am going to print that out i want to make a  

nice print of that and i'm going to put it in a  frame because you have made me almost not quite  

but almost cry and whereabouts did these lovely  ladies meet up was it i think it was buenos aires  

yes so i'm going to please tell us one of you  where where did you meet up i i only have some  

of the details i don't have all of them but thank  you very much to just even talking about it i'm  

i'm still in a state of shock i'll be honest  with you and it takes it takes a lot to shock me  

but it just shows you it just shows you one day  we're going to have to go to um south america  

and we're going to have to meet up with those  four lovely ladies and anybody else that wants  

to go i told you before we're going to have to  do a world tour yes we're going to go to paris  

we're going to go to all the cut we're going  to go to vietnam we're going to go everywhere  

i think france france will be first because it's  quite nearby and easy to get to and i know that we  

do have quite a few viewers watching in france  do we have anyone in france do we know anyone  

well yes of course i'm joking i'm joking  there are about five at least five people  

uh living in france across france who watches and  of course we have of course luis mendes in france  

so we might arrange something just to start  just to start everything off maybe this year to  

be honest with you can i have to do it can i just  love to do it we would love to do it this year but  

do i have to tell you that making arrangements  at the moment is almost impossible it's almost  

impossible to make any plans for anything it's  like your whole life is is in some sort of limbo  

it's not moving it's not going anywhere so making  plans is very hard especially if you want to  

travel abroad isn't that right steve exactly  at the moment it's a bit but then it might all  

you know this summer it all might fade away and  we might be able to go out and do what we want  

uh i mean if we started in europe  for example somewhere like paris  

maybe a lot of people watching us from different  countries within europe would want to come there  

as well yes i mean i suppose we could have  central spots we could have a european meetup  

yes we can't go to every city and then see what  happens just every continent well yes as i said  

i'm not you do realize that you have to get  on planes and planes can be very expensive  

to to book a seat on addy wants to come addy  wants to come with with uh with the girlfriend  

on the world tour with us uh we've got a lot of  people inviting us can we come to india mega yes  

well we'd love to come to india that's it we're  going to do a continent yeah every year maybe

look steve is saying this not me i'm not  promising anything i never make promises  

that i can't keep but i do like the sound  of meeting up in france because it's nearby  

and it's not because i'm lazy who said  that someone just said i'm lazy i i saw you  

you were going he's lazy that mr duncan  is lazy he just wants to go to france  

we'll start in france we'll give it a go i think  so we know it you see we'll try will try well  

we've got invites to italy we've got invites to  well we know we've got an invite to south america  

um we've had invites before to france yes uh let's  not give too much away you're starting to give  

all of the stuff away but we haven't organized  anything let's just let's just keep it let's just  

everyone just take a deep breath and calm down  we're not traveling anywhere at the moment we're  

not going anywhere but i do think it is a good  idea it's like it's like a little idea comes into  

your head and then you think um that's a good idea  i'm going to think about that but i i do like the  

sound of it no invite from the netherlands yet i'm  waiting for that one we've been to the netherlands  

we always get into trouble when we go to the  netherlands that's true that we do get into  

trouble we always get into trouble i i am amazed  that we haven't been blocked from going to the  

netherlands ever again because we always get into  trouble we were a bit naughty mind you that was  

25 years ago oh they never forget that's  true of course anyone watching from  

vienna i'd love to go to vienna oh yes did  anyone watch the wonderful new year's day  

uh the celebration of the new year's concert the  chris well new year oh yes good new year new year  

concert new year concert from vienna yes so it's a  tradition that's been going on for 80 to 82 years  

82 years every year they have this wonderful  celebration in austria and it's this beautiful  

hall where every year they put on an amazing  performance and it's a traditional performance  

that is broadcast to millions of people around  the world including here in the uk so we watched  

it yesterday we always enjoy a little bit of  strauss a little bit of strauss you can't beat  

a bit of strauss for getting everything pumping  if you want to get your heart pumping and your  

your lungs full of fresh  air put a bit of strauss on

it was yes i love to watch that i love to  sit down as it's live across the world at  

10 15 a.m every new year's day and it's just nice  to sit down and watch some culture yes and uh  

you have the lovely you have the orchestra uh  that beautiful gold hall okay uh and you've  

got dancers as well um do you like to look at  the dancers don't you miss i like to i like to  

watch the dancers i'm always interested in their  moves i like to keep an eye on their parda ders  

yes still no uh oh yes no we've got an  invite now to the netherlands oh okay  

although although we will have to find out  if we are still banned from going there  

that would apparently if we are troublemakers  we're more than welcome oh i see oh okay yes  

maybe they might even send us a first class  ticket i think we'd have a wild time if we went  

to the netherlands yes it sounds good i i i the  nether regions yes so yes did anybody else watch  

the uh the lovely music from vienna so the new new  year's day concert from vienna the the beautiful  

well austria is the most amazing country so and  and they always show some of the beautiful sights  

around that area austria a beautiful beautiful  place very scenic beautiful buildings  

of course they use the new year  concert to shamefully advertise uh  

the country uh because obviously that  encourages people to go and visit  

uh i mean why not if you can it looks like the  sort of most cultural place in the world yes what  

do you mean by cultural cultural sort of yes uh  the arts music dancing the higher things uh that  

hume that human beings are capable of doing um  they do say that that don't they that the arts is  

that it's the highest achievement of of evolution  as far as humans go uh so yes so music uh yes it's  

in it's in the blood i think of people there uh  but yes we would love to go there um one day we  

will but we'll start with maybe somewhere closer  to home yes good i'm glad we cleared that up uh  

but we we welcome any any invites and of course  uh you know tickets paid for us we'd love that

you know one of the first class of course  we're not we're not going economy one of the  

big problems at the moment with youtube and being  on here is lots of people tend to ask for things  

ask for things for free but so so we don't want  to get too much into that but if there is anyone  

out there who wants is really really really really  to come to them if you really want us if you want  

us can you imagine us coming to your door and  knocking on your door scary how scary is that

we will try to see how many countries we can  get deported from that will be our our aim  

so coming up in a few moments we have mr steve  and myself revealing our resolution okay but there  

will be resolutions that i have suggested to steve  and resolutions that steve has suggested to me and  

we don't know if we don't know what they are we've  written them separately i seal them in envelopes  

i feel slightly terrified of this to be honest  i don't know what i've done here but we will  

we will see what happens now one of the  things that happened on new year's eve  

people were out and about in  london and they were enjoying  

watching the firework display but also the famous  clock tower that is now being revealed again so  

they're starting to take all of the scaffolding  all of the supports and all of the coverings  

from the clock tower so once again you can  start seeing the clock tower are you talking  

about big ben big ben is the bell inside but  the clock tower is actually called the elizabeth  

the second clock tower yes so the actual structure  has a different name but big ben is the bell  

that is inside well apparently it's been  announced today i know if you've heard this steve  

but because they've they've had so much success  with with this so there it is there is big ben  

and the elizabeth clock tower and you  can see there is lots of scaffolding  

supporting it well apparently this year  as a way of commemorating the queen's  

70th year as the queen of england they're  actually going to renovate the queen  

okay they're going to get it look  there it is they've started already  

so they've put some scaffolding around the queen  and that over the next few months they're going  

to renovate the queen of england so she's going to  have a bit of a lift issue every various areas yes  

everything's going to be renovated they've got  the best builders they've got tons and tons of  

plaster and they're going to fill all of the  cracks they're going to to to add support  

in certain places they're going to make everything  look young and youthful again apparently so so  

this is what they're doing it this is actually now  this is a live photograph right okay mr duncan the  

queen of england being renovated so because they  did it so well with big ben like like this you see

see there it is and then next on the list the  queen of england i think that's going to be  

really successful i can't wait to see what  she looks like when all of that scaffolding  

is removed what about the face facial air well  they've only just started putting the scaffold  

so eventually it will cover all of her and they're  going to just do all sorts of renovations i  

think this will be great i can't wait because  this year of course the queen is celebrating  

her 70th year they're almost running out of metals  

most of it will be gold i'm sure no it's platinum  this year oh right when i say metals they they  

give each year a special metal so this year it  is her platinum anniversary of being the queen  

of england but i don't know what next what will  next be because they're running out of they're  

running out of minerals and materials what comes  after platinum i don't know um we're probably well  

i don't know is what's after platinum i don't know  i don't know that'll be 80 years won't it zinc

it's probably rusty old iron we're getting invites  from all over the world mr duncan uh we're going  

to have a very very busy year i think so we'll  have to do some crowd funding before we do it i  

was going to say there is one slight problem with  that having a world tour you have to sort of when  

you have to pay for it you see so so i'm not sure  if we will be doing that that's why i said friends  

yeah because we could we could literally  bike there we can start with france  

because all we have to do is just fly  over there it takes about 45 minutes  

to fly there so it's okay although it will take  two hours to get through customs because now  

we are a foreign nation since we left the  european union we can no longer go through

with the fast track well you see bogdan has  mentioned the fact that uh i asked have i done  

research on the electric uh remember that was  mentioned i'd last i'm going to guess you did  

you i haven't but you see we could look that up  and that's how we could get to france on a budget  

so if you're going somewhere or doing something  on a budget it means that you you've got a a fixed  

amount of money yes that you have to do that task  and it's probably not a very high amount of money  

it won't be i think we could probably get  some electric bikes or electric unicycles and  

uh that would be a very stylish way to go to  paris yes i think uh and it may take us a few days  

and we might be a bit exhausted when we get there  but we'd have saved all that how are we going to  

go there we're going to have to get a ferry across  aren't we well i don't think so i'm not taking a  

ferry can can we ride our bikes uh through the  tunnel well you can you can take your bikes on  

a train and just go under that's what we're  gonna do yes or just just get a train all the  

way to dover and just go from there can you go  fellas class on a train to paris yes you can oh  

interesting thing is you've got to get down  to where does it start from cali no in the uk  

i mean so it's uh around the south coast where  does it start in the uk the channel tunnel is it  

southampton come on you can do it uh it's  not dover is it well it starts from london  

i know but i mean you know when it starts  going under the sea i don't know but but

but you can get on you don't have to get on at  london do you can get on presumably you can get  

on before you're closer to the coast what's what's  your what's your impression of the channel tunnel  

do you think it's a separate entity that you have  to all get off and then get it does it start at  

london the train goes all the way to france yes i  know that mr duncan you don't have to do anything  

i know but where can you get on do you  have to get on at london or can you get on  

you know nearer to the coast just  to get on at london oh right okay  

i didn't know that i thought you could just hop on  on the beach but do you think there's a train just  

sitting on the beach that's waiting there like  a big platform but it's all just piles of sand  

and then people just get on uh god save ryanair  says tom rocks yes a cheap way to get to uh to fly  

to paris in fact you can get there for about  25 pounds can't you well uh and it's only a  

short flight so you could put up with the  sort of substandard seating and whatever  

uh you don't mind for an hour i don't think it's  even an hour is it i know it's about harris it's  

about 45 50 minutes but it's two hours after  you get off the plane to go through customs  

because because you can't just go through quickly  now because we left the european union well  

done everyone well done to those who voted for  brexit now you have to wait for two bloody hours  

when you get to charles de gaulle airport  instead of just going straight through  

great are you happy now are you happy now  you've got your brexit and your two hour wait

if you go first class do you still  have to is there a quick way through  

the customs i wonder i'm sure there  is you are obsessed with first class  

i'm not obsessed with it i'm just thinking  you know if you did could you bypass  

all the cues i'm sure that you could uh  because what would be the point otherwise um  

yes yeah okay yeah uh valentin suggests that uh  we we maybe go to north korea well have we got any  

viewers can people in north korea actually watch  us or are they blocked i don't think i don't think  

there is an internet connection to the outside  world in north korea so the chances of us being  

watched in north korea south korea yes yes north  korea that that's a big no i think i don't think  

we are being watched in north korea uh although  what's happened to king kim jong-un is is he is  

he on a diet he's definitely lost a lot of weight  he's lost about 10 years younger it's incredible  

kim jong-un i have to say i think he's been  on that exercise machine i think someone has  

bought an exercise machine for him because he  looks he looks amazing valentin says if we go  

to north korea maybe it'll be your last stop  on the worldwide trip yes we probably won't  

well we might laugh we might like it so much  we might love it there we might get to north  

korea and find out it's the most amazing place in  the world and everyone's just been making these  

stories up to stop people from going there  because it's so amazing so it might be great  

there might be everything free and if only yes  all of the bad stuff about north korea is just us  

making sure that no one goes there because it's  it's just too too good i don't think there is  

anyone watching from north korea but if there is  please tell us yes uh it would be well that would  

be a major moment in history full of channels  followed by the sound of someone being dragged  

out of the room yes they could be watching but  not revealing themselves yes it's probably best  

not to uh yes don't don't go don't don't tell me  if you are in north korea okay so that's probably  

a good idea i think that's a good tip if you  are in north korea please don't tell us you are  

just just don't tell us and enjoy the show i think  we'll probably fly i have been i have been on  

air france that was a very nice experience yes can  we go can we go by planes i used to know somebody  

that worked for air france okay uh and got me you  know a cheap flight i was very pleased at the time  

fascinating story tom says that  i'm posh today a wee bit posh  

you keep fidgeting well that's because my legs  are aching your poor legs why what have you  

done well i'm not used to standing up and i have  believe it or not mister mr mr duncan even though  

uh it is the uh second is it the second today  oh yeah second of uh yesterday was the first  

january i've actually been out gardening okay  for an hour i wanted to because it's so warm here  

all the weeds are growing yes so  i needed to weed a patch of ground  

remove plants that i didn't want and i  transplanted some out of the ground into pots  

okay that i want to move and put into a different  location viewing figures now spring going down uh  

they're going up mr tunnel we had a lovely walk  yesterday the weather was gorgeous apparently  

yesterday was the hottest day ever on new  year's day 17 degrees 17 celsius i always  

get told off about that mr duncan you don't save  17 degrees you say 17 celsius you stupid man okay  

17 celsius the highest temperature ever on  new year's day and it is supposed to be winter  

it's winter and yet you can go outside with  just a t-shirt and walk around it's it's amazing  

i've run out of water that's a shame when are we  going to do these new year resolutions well in  

a few moments there's no there's no actual  rush to be honest there's no rushes there  

are you in a hurry so what about you out there  first of all we are going to ask you about your  

new year's resolutions so we are doing it in  a certain type of order atomics already ruined  

what i was going to say about the best way  to uh write out your new year resolutions  

by mentioning the uh popular  sort of business planning acronym  

smart goals but i'll expect but yeah very very  good of you to do that hopefully everyone's  

forgotten and i can mention it again and make it  look as though it was my idea i've forgotten it  

already you've already just mentioned it but uh  but yes we were we'll sort of touch on what might  

be a good way to um construct a very good new year  resolution do you have any new year's resolutions  

yourself now can you say new year resolutions  yes or can you say new year's both both are fine  

it depends if you are using the possessive form  so the possessive form belongs to the year or  

you are just using it as a title in which  case you don't need to put the apostrophe  

so or the s for that matter you can  say new year resolutions or new year's  

resolutions but most people say new  year's resolutions i don't this is so  

so exhausting i will be honest with you  so do you have any new year's resolutions  

for 2022 what are you what about you do you have  any so please give us your new year's resolutions  

first of all do you have any plans for next for  this year not next year because next year is 2023  

so 2022 is this year i'm getting a headache where  are my painkillers i need my painkillers do you  

have any new year's resolutions for 2022 uh do you  still believe in writing out new year resolutions  

and if so what are they would like to know see i  think it's a good idea to have some sort of plan  

because it's a good reason to do it it's a good  excuse for those for those things that you keep  

complaining about things that you don't  like about yourself that you want to  

change or things you want to achieve in that  year yes um i must admit mr duncan i have  

for many years written out new year's  resolutions and i haven't really stuck to them  

uh in fact christina christina hello  uh earlier on uh made a reference to  

what i was about to say and that [ __ ]  that she makes resolutions hour by hour

and i find you see making all little goals  would be another way of doing it see at the  

start of the day or in the night before i  like to write out what i want to achieve on  

that particular on the next day um and then i  cross them off as i go through them it could be  

it could be anything it could be work related  things i want to contact so many customers or  

it could be i want to learn a particular bit  of music it could be it could be as simple as  

clean bathroom yes but i find if i write them down  i'm far more likely to do them if i don't as if i  

don't write them down and i get a lot of pleasure  from crossing things off so i think sometimes  

you need daily they're almost like daily  resolutions aren't yeah well i think i think  

those are just plans for the day or reminders  daily goals yes or maybe a reminder to do  

something but you need to have something that  that focuses more on the long term uh the next  

month or the next six months for example but  i think if things are too far in the future  

you you don't tend to stick to it no  um so if you say by june i will do  

this what tends to happen is that you don't really  do anything because june seems a long way away  

so i find that new year resolutions i very rarely  stick to those but sort of daily writing out goals  

for the day i do stick to those i don't know  what that shows maybe you feel the same way i'm  

sure there is a psychiatrist out there who could  decipher all of that uh there we go marwah says my  

biggest resolution for this year is to improve my  english ah that's a good one and yes you can you  

see as long as you watch my videos and all of my  new lessons and yes there will be some more new  

lessons coming during this year as well but what  has been established which is what um tomic has  

referenced in in an earlier post on the live chat  okay is that you're much more likely to stick to  

resolutions or goals you can think of new  year resolution as goals if you apply a set  

of principles to it i see what's coming here  you do so is this is this this the thing you  

were talking about just smart yes i'd already i'd  already written it out you see there's the proof  

because i was going to i'll leave it on there  that's so clear we can see that so clearly  

well you know people can manipulate the script  i'll read this out i can't read it anyway with  

your writing your writing is so atrocious smart  of course means clever and uh i don't know when  

this was first probably some time i think it  was some in the 1970s a businessman came up with  

with this this suggestion it's an acronym yes  really so you assign words to each one so the s  

so if you make your goals  or your resolutions specific  

they need to be made specific they need to  be measurable they need to be achievable  

they need to be relevant and they need to  be time bound or time related and if you do  

all those five things you're far more likely  to stick to it so what do i mean by specific  

so if you say for example i didn't know this  was going to be a powerpoint presentation my  

biggest resolution is to improve my english well  that's fine but it's not very specific if you were  

to say my big my resolution is to improve my  verbal english or to improve my spelling or to  

improve my think what's another thing you could  improve you can you can improve your oral yeah  

well that's okay yes oral english english  what's wrong with that if you just say  

english this is a very broad subject it's  like you say oh i want to i want to um  

buy a new car okay well that's not very specific  so if you make it specific you would say i want to  

buy i would say i want to buy a new ford mustang  when we say specific we mean exact exact so that  

actual thing so instead of talking generally  you were talking about something specific  

something that is absolutely precise the actual  thing your mind is more likely to focus down  

on that one task as opposed to say learning  i want to be learn better english and lots  

of people say this i'm not picking on anyone  in particular you want to learn better english  

that's that sentence itself i want to it shows  me my english i want to learn better english make  

it specific okay and then make it measurable so  then say so you've got to have a starting point  

and then at a period of time in the future you  can measure the difference between where you are  

now and where you are in say a month's time or six  months time okay and then you can see whether you  

are any better so you've got something that you  can measure it against is it achievable in other  

words can you do that thing so if i say i want  to buy a new rolls royce well that's not that's  

definitely not achievable well that's it it's not  achievable so your goal or your resolution should  

be something that you can could actually do yeah  as opposed to just something you wish you could  

do yes there is a big difference between wishing  wishing for something yes and trying to achieve  

something uh is that resolution or goal is it  relevant is it relevant to you is it something  

that you would normally do or you you think that  you would it would be something applicable to you  

so if you if for example i was to say oh i want to  learn how to speak chinese okay for example well

is it relevant what use would that  be to me because if it's not relevant  

then i'm going to soon give up doing it so do  you see what i mean so if i if i say i want  

to build an extension i understand that less now  i'm going to be started an extension on the house  

well that's not really relevant so i couldn't do  it okay steve steve this is this is turning into  

yes and and is it time bound so you've got  to say i've got to do it by a certain date  

because when you say that that that crystallizes  something in your mind and gives you uh um impetus  

okay there's a point where telling something or  talking about something it becomes rambling and  

you have you have recently you've recently crossed  the line from from being interesting to being just  

rambling so my new year's resolution says  bogdan is to cure covid you you are you  

are probably in a very long line of people  trying to do that although there is some some  

of course there is a glimmer of hope with this new  medicine that you can take now so it apparently  

has been approved here so the little tablet that  you pop in your mouth and apparently it makes the  

the uh i think it just relieves the symptoms i'm  not sure if it's a cure i think it stops the virus  

from working in your body so you might i think you  get it but you don't get all the horrible symptoms  

and the the coughing and the sneezing and the  having to lie down in a hospital for three months  

that's that's the only point i was making when you  write out a resolution just just add some specific  

things to it and give it you know give it some  focus please please please don't do that again  

he was boring me i even i almost clicked away from  the live stream it's used it's used a lot in sort  

of business environments yes um you know when  you're setting goals in your work environment  

okay often you can see but it works it works  okay you've just told us i know and now you're  

telling us again so are we going to share  our resolutions yes it might be a good idea  

so show the envelopes just do the envelopes okay  mr steve or envelopes you can pronounce that so we  

have we have two sets of lists we have new year's  resolutions for duncan and new year's resolutions  

for mr steve so but the interesting thing is we  have written the resolutions for each other so

those are for mr steve and these are for me  so we haven't seen these yet we haven't seen  

the list steve is trying to see the list no way no  i don't i have no idea what mr duncan has written  

in here it feels very thick yeah uh that's the  other thing about new year resolutions you don't  

want too many because otherwise you know it just  seems like it's all unachievable well i'm just  

going to say you can choose one or two of them  look i've had i've had a congratulations from  

tomic because atomic knows all about this sort  of thing and louis has has gone one stage further  

in terms of the the goal being specific in  saying not just a mustang but a red one so  

yes specify the more detail you can attach to  it the more real it becomes in your mind and the  

more likely you are to actually achieve it it's a  bit like having a 3d representation of something  

so if you are about to build  i don't know a new skyscraper  

quite often they will they will construct a  model first of all so you can physically see it  

even though it's very small and people can't  fit inside it but you get the idea of what  

it's going to be like it makes it more real  i think that's good steve so let's do these

let's uh lettersuka says my new year resolutions  would be disconnect gadget sooner so that i can  

sleep during the night yes so they say don't they  don't look at television screens or or your phone  

or your ipad an hour before you go to bed put it  down so that your your mind isn't over stimulated  

that's it right although although in steve's  case it's very hard for his mind to ever become  

overstimulated my mind is always at full  stimulation there is no part of you that's ever  

over stimulated i i just carry on till i'm  exhausted steve steve this might be one of the  

resolutions just get to the point here we go steve  so these are the new new year's resolutions for me  

that mr steve has written and those  are yours pick them up steve so who  

knows what's inside here so you have to open the  envelopes dude do you want me to open mine first  

do you open yours right okay we're going  to open them at the same time but are we  

going to read them at the same time well no  no because that'll just be a horrible noise  

so you're going to read the first one this is  what you think i should cut focus on for 2022.  

this is a list you see i've made a list i'm  wondering what this could be oh my goodness  

yes it's not it doesn't feel quite so much  shall i have a look mr duncan here we go  

oh okay yes interesting think i think  so so what is the first one steve  

okay so the first one that you  have suggested for me mr duncan  

be more patient towards technology yes okay steve  has right i think sometimes because you you do  

what nothing happened then you do you  do sometimes have very little patience  

with things especially technology i think these  days steve always expects technology to do things  

instantly but they they still don't and they  still can't for example when mr steve changes  

the channel on the television it takes a few  seconds for the new channel to actually appear  

it shouldn't though but it does because that's the  way technology works it has to process that thing  

tvs are just fairly basic household appliances so  that's there is so i want steve to be more patient  

towards technology when you're because  i think that's part of your stress  

your stress comes from your inability just  to wait when you press a button on your ipad  

you have to wait for it to do something and then  it does it but but you don't you press it you  

press the button and then you want it to do it  straight away and then you start pressing more  

buttons and then you thump the ipad and then you  throw it across the room so that is it you've got  

to be a bit more patient when you are using  technology sometimes it takes a few moments  

it's a bit like using google if you put a search  into google you don't get the answer straight away  

it's a few seconds and then it will  come up taking this on board mr duncan  

i think as well if i'm not relaxed if i'm stressed  anyway about some things it's huge it's work  

anyway and then uh if you're already in a state  of stress and then technology doesn't work as  

you expect it to work you lose your patience  more easily yes so that's what happened to me  

anyway we've got loads to get through okay number  two i'm doing my first one so you're doing one  

and i'm doing one okay you're doing one right i  did actually say that what did i put by the way oh  

uh oh okay then mr duncan's new year's  resolutions as written by mr steve  

number one take daily walks of the minimum  of 15 minutes well i think that's okay  

that's how we go i can't argue with that it's  specific it's measurable exact you can do it  

and it's time specific specific you've got to  do it every day yes so every day for at least 15  

minutes go for a walk down the road these are all  year by the way yes well that's that's normally  

that's normally why because you don't  mr duncan doesn't take enough exercise  

he's always here preparing lessons and things  sitting down you know he needs to take more  

exercise all right right goodness me let's so take  daily walks if the minimum of 15 minutes i think  

that's a good one i like that one steve good that  gets a thumbs up for me good okay so number two  

that you have suggested for me mr duncan is be a  better listener be a better listener yes you are  

you are not very good at listening when people are  talking steve done like that see do you see what i  

mean that's a good example did you say something  so when i'm talking to steve quite often i will  

give steve information about something i will  tell him something or give him some information  

and then he goes away and then a little bit later  on he's completely forgotten what i've said but  

it wasn't because he forgot it's just because when  i gave him the information he was not listening  

you are right i tend to be in a world of my  own it is true and uh people can talk to me  

i've got i've developed this i think it's  a skill actually i've developed this skill  

uh of people can just talk to me and i  they think i'm listening to everything  

they're saying because i'm i'm nodding in all  the right places and i'm making eye contact  

but in fact i'm not listening to anything i'm  thinking about something else but what does  

happen sometimes steve is we can be talking to  someone and then they change the subject so they  

they suddenly start talking about something  else and then you will suddenly say something  

that refers to the thing we were talking about  earlier and everyone just looks at you and thinks  

what what's why did he say that active listening  it's called is atomic and that is true you see  

you're supposed to i should develop the skill  with customers but uh anyway yes okay mr duncan  

i take that on board i will what i what up what  you could have said is that you know focus on the  

moment uh if you if i was to focus on the present  moment and practice how to focus all my attention  

on the present moment which is why i like doing  these live streams then uh i'm more likely to be  

in the moment here present and be more able  to listen to what mr duncan is saying to me  

because it could be important yes i think it's  more about being in the moment and feeling what is  

happening at that moment like yesterday we had a  lovely walk yesterday and we saw the most amazing  

thing that the strangest thing happened as we  were walking past a small bush there was a robin  

a little robin sitting in the bush but very  close to where we were and it didn't move it  

just looked at us so we stopped and we we actually  looked at the robin and the robin looked at us  

and it was singing to us it was very  bizarre it was so bizarre wasn't it  

i know in out in the middle of nowhere yes it was  a very strange moment of time so we had some bread  

in our bag and so we took some of the bread out  and put it on the ground well first of all i put  

it in my hand and i think the robin wanted to fly  and and take the bread from my hand but it didn't  

but it went onto the ground so we put some bread  on the ground and it was eating the bread wasn't  

it it started eating the bread we ought to mention  why we had bread on us well the reason is we'd  

been to the shop to buy some because we'd run  out because you know we don't normally carry  

bread around others don't think that adds much to  the story but but the robin was just transfixed  

and we were transfixed by the robin so  the robin was looking at us and eating  

it was very tame and tame is the word yes we were  just looking at the robin fearless we couldn't  

believe it it was it literally was that far away  from us at some points it totally it had no fear  

yes it kept popping around our feet but as you  say it was singing it was singing to us just  

there just you know literally just there it seems  happy i know and it took some of the bread and it  

was a lovely moment yes and at that point i  was totally absorbed in the moment and when  

i'm on the live streams i'm totally absorbed  in the present moment because you can't not be  

because otherwise you would all notice i was  drifting off yeah and this helps me to focus and  

be in the present moment yes so i think that is  one thing that that steve needs to work yes i can  

go on a walk or a run and i've been on that walk  i come back and i may as well have stayed at home  

because mentally i haven't been looking at the  lovely scenery and what's been going on i've been  

all these troubles and worries have  been and stresses have been going over  

my mind but anyway yes mr steve has suggested to  me that i should take a holiday with mr steve yes  

well i'm i'm definitely not going to argue about  that but we talked about this earlier of course  

traveling we would like to do a little bit  of traveling but as you may have noticed  

if you've been reading the news recently  that there is a slight problem with  

you see i've just realized uh that's not a  very good objective what i should have said  

if i was going to be more smart objective  i should have said where we're going to  

take the holiday yes and when that's it so you  should have said we are going to take a holiday  

in france in july yes and then that would make  it more real but i thought i would just leave it  

open a bit that one and we've got some very good  comments coming through here uh enaki says usually  

when people are talking to us we're thinking  of our own reply while they're talking to us  

and thinking about what subject we want to bring  up next and that is very true we all know people  

that we're having a conversa  having a conversation with  

and you know they're not listening to a word you  say because they either interrupt you before you  

come to the end of your sentence or they don't  make any comment about what you've just said  

so you might say uh you know something oh yes  i uh i went out the other day and i i sort of i  

you know i i saw this abominable snowman  walk by i saw i saw a ufo in the sky  

and it landed and three aliens got out but it  you know it but the person talking to you might  

if they don't make any comment about that  then you know they're not listening to you  

and we have these conversations with people don't  don't we and you know they're not listening and  

husbands and wives often uh have these con  and they're just not listening to each other  

and you know and i know sometimes i'm doing it  i'm not well i think i'm trained in my job to be  

quite a good listener uh but or to to actually  pretend to be a good listener yes i think that  

is more closer to the the actual event but  it is sad usually the bet we are thinking of  

what we're going to say next in a conversation  decluttering toxic thoughts in people is a good  

way to live in peace as flower yeah that's very  true well i can safely say in my life i have no  

toxic people people whose characteristics or  their manner can be destructive towards your own  

plans or even your own feeling of happiness  so i i i do not like people who start to  

add their poison to your life or to your  your your feelings i don't like that at all  

lewis is going bye lewis see you see you next  sunday louis we can talk about lewis now he's gone  

we won't we're only joking so right number three  on my list of new year resolutions that i suggest  

mr duncan uh does oh no that these are the  ones i think this is what you suggested i do  

i i can't even i can't understand what i'm  doing here right so mr duncan has suggested  

to me really interesting i think we'll cross that  one off stop complaining about mr duncan's snoring  

yes he's always complaining about me snoring even  when he's downstairs he says now i don't think  

this is true i think you are exaggerating when  you say this you say that you were downstairs  

and you can hear me snoring from downstairs and  you've said this quite a few times in the past  

and i don't think it's true i don't  think when i'm snoring or if i snore  

that you can hear it in another room i don't think  you can i don't think it's that loud it is yes it  

is so i think you should stop complaining about  it well the thing is mr duncan i'm losing sleep  

because of your loud snoring okay you know  i want to get a nice unbroken seven seven  

and a half hours sleep okay and i don't  because you are snoring away and i have to

give you a little dig in the ribs sometimes  he he will give me a nudge with his elbow or  

punch me in the face he gives  me a little punch in the face  

but surely you have partners who snore  and it is very annoying i'm not sure i  

can stick to that one mr duncan victoria  says mr duncan must be a loud snorer

he is he is and the main reason i think  is because you don't do enough exercise so  

number one on your list if you stick  to that one i think that will help

record it says tomic i will no bruno  says it as well bruno says it as well  

bruno and also tomic please record  the sound of mr duncan's snoring  

don't encourage him don't don't make him worse  we're trying to improve mr steve not make him  

worse so okay well i'm not sure mr i'm not sure  about that one oh okay because this is my health  

you're talking about if i don't get my sleep  you know what i'm like i'm crabby i'm moody yes  

i'm going to call him mr crabby from now on so  it's no longer mr steve instead it will be mr  

crabby with his crabby idiosyncrasies nobody can  believe it that's a good word by the way right  

so what's the third one on the list that i've  suggested you do as a new year's resolution oh  

this might be the most boring thing ever i can't  

think i don't know what i've written now  you must have been running out of ideas

i think you must have been running out of ideas  steve set up a monthly saving plan with an icer  

yes for goodness sake yes well  there are two things wrong with that

i have no interest in ices and also i  have no money to actually put into an icer  

everybody says they haven't got enough money to  save but i don't i i live on youtube trust me  

i don't have an isa yeah so what uh  just to give some sort of background uh  

oh no please please don't explain what an icer is  no i'm not going to explain that i'm just on about  

the concept of saving mr duncan the concept  of saving is alien to mr duncan all right  

this is this is just turning into pillory so what  you should do is you should put away a certain  

proportion of your meager income admittedly  all right yes i'm just every month i'm just  

from youtube i am just a poor little youtuber on  the net i'm just a little poor youtuber on the net  

please feel sorry for me right now maybe just  10 maybe just sort of i would like to say 20  

but you just put it away it comes out  of your bank every month mr duncan i've  

done this my entire life what's 20 of nothing  and then it just goes into a savings account  

i'm not going to suggest you put it in a bank  because the interest rate is zero i'm going to  

suggest uh um a sort of moderate fairly safe uh  savings plan that goes on in stocks and shares  

so much a month and then you  forget about it for 10 years  

and then you look at it and you've got this lovely  surprise of a nice little pot of money ten years  

that you can use to buy a present oh mr steve  i might be dead then i call it my mustang fund  

okay so you can put money aside your own money  for 10 years and then there'll be enough to  

buy me a ford mustang yes well which case by  which time they'll all be banned i can save up  

to have my body frozen so i can be thawed  out like a giant turkey like thanksgiving  

and i can i can see 22 22. so maybe that is that  maybe i could save some money even though i don't  

earn any at all or hardly and i could save up  to be frozen until you're famous on youtube  

the 23rd century and then i can see that the  wonderful year where every numeral is number two  

22 22. imagine that the thing the thing was say  mr duncan is mr duncan doesn't really think about  

saving ever but if you do it you know every month  year in year out and just forget about it then you  

will have a nice pot of money yeah you know in 10  20 30 years time start young save it i mean save  

at any age but always save some i think i think  you should uh what you can afford so i agree on  

a sum of money i would say 20 would be nice but  maybe that's a bit too high for mr duncan and then  

it's just and you just leave it you forget about  it and then it's there when you need money in an  

emergency okay steve it's the wizard that's it  no one is replying to any of this by the way no  

i think that's right okay so the fourth you it's  interesting we've both put four so we haven't got  

long yeah well well actually my original list was  50. i had 50. well that was a wish list but then  

but this looks more like a wish list to me mr  duncan well well that's what a resolution is it's  

things that you want to achieve and and things  you want to hold faults that you see in me that  

you want to correct i think that's what this is oh  yes i know well that's what resolutions tend to be  

okay so number four and the last one on  your list of resolutions you want me to do  

less micromanaging yes mr duncan so a good example  i am making a cup of tea for mr steve or a cup of  

coffee we will use coffee as an example and i'm  making the coffee and i'm putting the coffee  

the little powder into the cups but then steve  will will be standing nearby sort of watching sort  

of trying to see what i'm actually doing because  he at any moment he needs to say something or  

correct me and all i'm doing is a very simple task  so he's always around or nearby when i'm doing  

something maybe i'm putting some some washing  some laundry in the machine and he always checks  

or he has a little look to see how much not  always washing powder i use or he will ask  

he will ask how much washing powder do you put  in the washing machine when you're making you're  

doing the washing so he he often micromanages  so micromanagement is when a person is  

watching all of the small things that you are  doing small jobs or things that don't seem very  

important like making a cup of tea or or doing  the laundry yes but when you make a cup of tea

well one it takes you about half an hour  because you you you fill the kettle up  

and then leave it come back in 10  minutes then you put the kettle on  

bearing in mind you've put twice as  much water in the kettle that you need  

to make two cups of coffee you've put too  much water so that's a waste of energy to me  

you know why fill the kettle up when it only  has to be filled up enough for two cups yes

so sometimes mr duncan doesn't realize but i  sometimes pour some of it out well i know you do  

but i actually know you do i know you do because  i'm not can i just say if you if you ever get to  

know me well you will know that i never miss  anything my eyes i'm like a hawk yes i never  

miss anything steve does things sometimes and  he thinks i haven't noticed but i have for and  

a good example is he will pour some of the water  out of the kettle and i know it's gone down so  

normally it's there and then it's it's there and  the waste of electricity so i i know you do that  

and there's lots of other things i am a bit  of a micromanager yes and i know it's annoying  

tomic try not to tomac uses a good phrase neck  breathing so yes steve is always just behind me

breathing on my neck it's like a person is  just right behind when people do things and  

it's not the way you do it it's just irritating  yes he is his vita says that you are petty thanks  

petty that's a good one thank you v-test i like  that how much electricity is wasted every year  

when mr duncan fills the kettle right up i  bet it's about five pounds yes but that's  

you know there's lots to think of the  planet there's lots of other waste  

when you go upstairs for example at night and  you switch every light in every room upstairs  

and then leave them all on but he doesn't care  about that i turn all the lights off you leave  

the lights i only low energy anyway yes but but if  there's four or five of them it all it all becomes  

there's a lot of people on your side here there is  i think i think you are on a very you are on thin  

ice yeah but you you have to you know you need  to live with somebody to know what you know  

how annoying they can be anyway we've got number  four because we are now at four o'clock right okay  

number four oh dear this is i'm not sure if this  is a resolution or or one of my worst nightmares

it's just this i've had nightmares about this it's  not it's not it's not a resolution this is this is  

possibly the worst nightmare i wake up quite  often at night screaming and crying to myself  

mr steve has put enter into a civil partnership  with mr steve pardon yes well it's been 30 years  

why spoil something why ruin a good situation it's  purely for tax purposes mr duncan yes so so steve  

thinks he wants me to to to sign a piece of paper  that says that we are officially together well  

you know it's be we're vulnerable vulnerable mr  duncan i mean let's face it we've been together  

how is it 31 years nearly 32. yeah neither of  us are going anywhere else now it's been going  

on for too long no no one wants us so exactly so  we may as well stick together so the best thing  

to do is to you know i'm not saying marriage  because i don't think you know marriage is  

anyway civil partnership means that if anything  was to happen to one of us for example then uh you  

know it would everything would be easily passed  on inheritance that's that sort of thing so you're  

fine no one's gonna argue with where the money  goes so your family doesn't try to grab it at all  

exactly from you i think they would yes uh and uh  you know i can have all your youtube fortune yes  

i am going to leave you should be really pleased  

i'll be left i'll be in debt if anything  happened to mr duncan steve will get  

my youtube channel i'm going to leave it to you  in my will oh so you'll have all of this all this  

one day will be yours let me just to make a  few corrections to this i'm just trying to  

you know what i'm trying to do here i'm trying to  put mr steve off the idea so maybe he will change  

his mind anyway i'm just putting it out there we  have talked about it before and i think 2022 could  

do that could be the year to you know make  things official maybe we could do it in paris  

yes very romantic we could do it  at the top of the eiffel tower  

montmartre my tears will be falling my tears  will be falling a purely civil hundreds of feet  

a purely civil uh yeah whatever um can't think of  the word mr duncan i don't know what you're trying  

to say uh non-religious non-religious yes yes it  won't be religious wait most countries don't allow  

it anyway they don't allow well we don't want one  i mean we don't really we're not into all of that  

the marriage in the churches and things so  we we wouldn't do that anyway yes what is  

the difference between a civil partnership  and a marriage i looked it up before we came  

on today okay the only real difference is the  religious aspect that's the only real difference  

and it me the other the interest well in the uk  it might be different laws in different countries  

but it means if you want to divorce okay if  you want to divorce i was looking this up  

then um there are several reasons that you can  cite for wanting a divorce you you can have lived  

apart for two years uh unreasonable behaviour by  your partner but another one is adultery oh my god  

but if you i said but you can only cite  adultery as a reason for getting a divorce  

uh uh or an annulment of the partnership yeah if  it's a marriage you can't say you can't use that  

as an excuse if it's a civil partnership because  obviously adultery is has religious connotation  

so you definitely so so to to to stop the civil  partnership you just have to kill the other person  

well yeah but you can't use adultery as a  reason whereas you can if it's a marriage  

interesting that's practically the only difference  because legally and in terms of inheritance and  

tax they're all the same this is so boring so yeah  but i don't even know i'm just saying but that's  

the difference so you know that that's a personal  thing you just take the fun out of everything  

oh taking the fun out like a wedding or  or a civil partnership is often something  

that lots of people feel happy about but steve  still manages to turn it into something really  

dull and cold like like yesterday's mud so enter  into a civil partnership i'm not sure about that  

we will have to think about  that one maybe another 32 years

so that's it anyway i just thought you  know yeah we've talked about it for years  

never done anything i think these are great great  suggestions i think these are more of a wish list  

no no i think you wish i would be a better  listener yes you wish i would stop complaining  

about your snoring and you wish that i  would be less micro managing towards you  

yes highly unlikely that any of those will occur  into i'm joking i'm joking i will certainly try  

mr duncan i will not take daily walks i will not  take a holiday with mr steve i will not set up a  

monthly saving isa and i will definitely not an  isa by the way is a tax free savings oh package  

steve understood to stop it oh you're sucking the  life out of everything steve and i will definitely  

not enter into a civil partnership with mr steve  not after all this yeah well well as valentina  

says the energy bills are going to go up uh  they're all they've already gone up unfortunately  

when mr steve starts going out to his choir  practice i'm going to turn everything in the house  

i'm going to switch everything on the kettle the  the the dishwasher all of the lights everything  

the heating i'm going to put the heating up to  maximum well you do that anyway i do that that's  

the other thing i go out for the evening yes and  i come back and the house is like a like a like a  

like a hot house a hot house it's it's like  it's like being in a sauna sauna that's a better

you know i like to keep it at around 21. that's  the other thing i do i secretly turn the heating  

off when mr duncan isn't looking is that 21  Celsius or fahrenheit well celsius fahrenheit  

would be rather on the cold side yes well  that's my point that's the point i just made yes  

yes uh bogdan says accept each other as you are  well yes we're sort of joking in a way but we're  

not sort of joke i mean you obviously wrote yours  with things in mind that you want me to change  

and i have done the same to you so yes  uh but we do it you know i think perhaps  

okay steve steve that might be another  resolution know when to end your sentence

we could go to france we could go to france and  and maybe have a civil partnership in france  

if they do then have a very i think i  think yes i think that civil partnerships  

exist but i think you have to be french  i've just realized we've got to get  

it can't be marriage it's got to be civil  partnership because tomic has said that uh if  

you're into adultery you know where to find  me oh i said so obviously i could you know  

a liaison with tomek and you couldn't  divorce me because uh uh it would be a  

civil partnership and adultery it's not uh it's  not a reason for you to end the relationship  

don't worry you're welcome tomek you're welcome to  him uh i've made a riddle says ivan would you like  

to try it yes we would ivan has a riddle i had  one of those before i came on the live stream um

oh i have valentine's got another resolution  for you to gain more subscribers in the new year  

to keep on producing new videos well i think  you will be doing that i have been trying to  

do that for the past 15 years this year it will  be 16 years can you believe it can you stop doing  

that with your pen is are you micromanaging  me mr duncan he's fidgeting there we go he's  

sitting here he's standing here not the only  one that micromanages yes but i'm just kidding

live okay steve you've taken mr  duncan's taken the pen off me  

because i like to sort of fiddle around  with it thank you this is what steve he  

talks about me micromanaging look at  mr duncan evidence sapping the pen

stop it micromanaging that's hypocrisy mr duncan  hypocrisy so yes tomek if you want him i will  

leave him around the back next to the dustbin  next to all the garbage and i will put mr steve  

next to him next to it and then you can take it  away and mr steve you can take him with you okay  

so you're welcome no problem we will be back next  sunday because it's time to go can you believe it  

i can't believe how fast today's live stream has  gone but it has gone fast we've been on now for  

two hours and 10 minutes oh i don't know he likes  to he likes to give and he likes to take away

oh apparently tomic was referring i mean  yes atomic was referring to victoria not us  

well you know he knows how to make somebody  depressed and unhappy angela says do you always  

read the chat after the show mr duncan yes well  i do quite often i will put the live stream on  

later on and then i like to read the live chat  as if i am taking part in the live chat so i  

always like to read the live chat here we  go here's ivan's um rhyme um i shall read  

snap your fingers and i'll be there no need  to find me i'm everywhere where sometimes  

i don't stay for long if you want me again  just sing a song what am i one of mr steve's  

farts Pardon i don't know thank you for that and  with that i will go and put the kettle on we want  

the answer to the riddle that's not that's  oh the answer what oh what oh yes i see yes  

oh yes of course i'm starting  to think that mr steve fingers  

mr steve doesn't know what a riddle is no  need to find me i'm everywhere sometimes i  

don't stay for long if you want me again just  sing a song what am i oh and you said a fart

well that could be yeah stab  your fingers and i'll be there  

now what comes when you snap your fingers  stab your fingers and i'll be there i smell  

like mr steve's underwear yes it says  that there you find me i'm everywhere

if we go silent youtube starts to panic uh well  we don't know what that is i happen to know  

i have no idea please give us the answer  to the riddle that you set for us and then  

and then we can go what's the answer  ivan sound of course sounds sound

thank you that's a good one the sound  now i'm going to go make a cup of tea  

and i will fill the kettle up with precisely  the amount of water required for two cups of  

tea how boring thus only using up the energy  necessary to make a small amount of water  

uh and uh i will see you all hopefully next  sunday the end of the sentence is coming  

it's been great today um i hope you've  enjoyed it i've enjoyed it i think mr  

duncan has it's been all right so i will  say bye for now and have a lovely week  

your first week of the new year our first week of  the new year and uh well i'm back to work uh on  

tuesday because we've got a bank holiday tomorrow  yes we have a public holiday tomorrow we have a  

lovely day off tomorrow because christmas fell  on saturday which means we get an extra day off  

but that doesn't happen in in every country uh  so i'm not working tomorrow but i'm back to work  

tuesday so no doubt i'll be depressed by friday  yes no doubt if not if not by the end of today  

bye-bye thank you mr steve that's been lovely  having you here and we will see you next sunday

and there it was mr steve playing with  the little animals wasn't that lovely  

and yes it is almost time to say goodbye  mr steve wants to show something oh okay  

i want to show you mr duncan yes right that's  the level required for two cups of tea okay not  

here not here what about what do i hear not here  what about if the water is just flowing everywhere  

i i think i think i think i'll draw a line across  there i think i'm going to draw a line as well

i'm going to draw a line that says mr steve  can't keep coming on and disturbing me ah  

i will see you next sunday thank you very much for  your attention and also your participation today  

and can i say once again thank you very much for  the photograph and all of your lovely responses  

and replies and all your best wishes for the  new year thank you very much i do appreciate  

everything thank you very much to marcia  claudia beatrice and also sandra for sending  

that lovely photo you have made the end of  my year very special indeed thank you very  

much it's almost time to go it's almost time  to say goodbye but i will be back with you  

next sunday from 2 p.m uk time i hope you have  a good week and i hope the rest of your year  

will be super duper as well thanks for watching  see you very soon this is mr duncan in the  

birthplace of english saying thank you very  much for joining me today see you later and  

of course until the next time we meet here you  know what's coming next have a happy 2022 and

ta ta for now