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A very good afternoon to you.

I hope you are feeling good today.

What a surprise.

I know what you're going to say. You're going to say, Mr.

Duncan, we didn't know you were doing a live stream today.

Well, guess what?

Here I am doing a live stream today.

Can you believe it?

I was sitting in my studio this morning and I was thinking about all sorts of things

and, you know, over the past few days, things have not been great here.

That's all I'm saying.

And I was thinking,

I really want to do a live stream.

Maybe it will cheer me up and make me feel good.

So here I am doing it right now.

It's just after 2:30 on a Tuesday.

I know I don't normally do live streams on Tuesday,

but here I am anyway, doing it just for you.

And I hope you are feeling good today.

And I hope you are surprised.

I hope it's a pleasant surprise as well, because I am here.

First of all, I suppose I should do what I always do.

I have to check to make sure that you can hear me.

Can you hear me? Clearly?

Am I nice and clear?

And then I. I'll.

Can you also tell me if I'm loud as well

so you don't have to turn your volume up?

If you can hear me, you can hear me.

So thank you very much for joining me today.

And I think

it would be a good chance

to catch up with each other, because I have been a little bit distant

over the past few days, unfortunately.

So I have been slightly

I want to say neglectful,

but it's not on purpose, to be honest.

It is not on purpose.

Your voice is not loud. Okay.

I will turn it up a little bit more.

Is that better? Can you hear me now?

You might also be able to hear the birds singing in the distance.

Because I'm surrounded by nature at the moment.

All of the animals around here are getting rather excited

because spring is now coming.

You can see behind me there are lots of daffodils in the garden.

Everything is starting to come back to life.

That's one of the reasons why I love this time of year.

I really do like springtime because it is a time

when everything wakes up, everything comes to life,

and that's the reason why I'm in the garden at the moment.

We've had a lot of rain over the past few days,

so I couldn't resist taking the opportunity

between the showers to come outside and say hello to you.

Hello.

Also, I suppose I should say hello to the live chat as well.

Hello, Live chat.

It's nice to see you here.

Hello, Vitesse.

Hello. Also Jemmy from Hong Kong.

Hello to you as well.

Hello also to such

not one sash, but two sashes.

Hello, Sash.

I hope you're okay as well.

Claudia is here.

I wonder what you are cooking today.

Claudia, What's cooking?

Claudia, what have you got in your pocket?

What's cooking?

Claudia Is it something spicy and hot?

Is it something salty or not?

Oh, Claudia, what is cooking in your pot today?

I wonder.

Regina is here.

Regina Gomes, Nice to see you back as well.

Of course.

I was with you on Sunday with Mr. Steve.

And I know lots of people are going to ask, where is Mr.

Steve?

Mr. Steve is busy in the house.

He has another concert coming up very soon,

so he's doing some practising there.

Can I say hello also to Mohsen, also Gesu.

Hello Gesu, thank you for joining me today.

Also, who else is here?

We also have oh,

we also have Ana and Beskar Ro Denis.

I like your name, by the way.

I'm turning my microphone up slightly louder.

I hope you can hear me clearly.

That is one of the problems you see when you are doing this.

You can't hear yourself.

So I have no idea how loud my microphone actually is.

Even if I do a test before I go on,

it is still not a good way of working out today.

Claudia has in her part, Oh,

I have some meat in the oven with potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkin.

Can I just say I think I've only in my whole life.

So your voice is very low.

Oh, I don't know why. Okay, I will turn it up a bit more.

Is that better?

Can you hear me now?

Is it louder now?

If I keep turning it up, it might start to distort pumpkins.

I think in my life I've only eaten pumpkins twice.

It's not the sort of thing we normally eat here.

Sometimes we.

We have pumpkins and we mashed them

in potatoes.

So we take potatoes and we take pumpkins

and then we mash them together.

And it makes a very nice side dish.

But no, I've never really eaten pumpkin on its own, to be honest.

Maybe from time to time, but.

But never, never really as

as a main meal on its own.

Hello Also to come I say hello to she Kim.

Hello, Chie.

Kim, Nice to see you here.

Where are you watching at the moment?

I wonder where you are, perhaps?

I'm not sure.

Perhaps you are in Vietnam.

And if you are in Vietnam, can I say thank you for watching?

Because I know I have a lot of people watching in Vietnam.

I know that for a fact. In fact,

I can hear you precise sleep, Mr.

Duncan.

A lot of people asking, of course, about the weather.

It is not cold.

I will be honest.

It's around about 12 or 13 Celsius, which is quite mild.

It's very pleasant on the skin, to be honest,

although we have had a lot of

the dreaded rain and apparently we have lots

more rain coming

later in the week as well.

In fact, the weather forecast last night

said there was going to be rain every single day, including tomorrow

and every day following it for the next few days.

So we are going to have quite a lot of rain

over the next few days.

My father has problems.

Oh, okay, then.

Thank you, Claudia, for that information about your father.

Apparently, he has difficulty

evacuating his bowels.

So pumpkin is a very good way

of loosening that problem and helping that problem.

I must suggest that to Mr.

Steve one day, because, you know, Mr.

Steve, sometimes

he's obsessed with those sorts of things, to be honest.

Just behind me.

By the way, can I show you the view behind me or

in front of me behind the camera?

We have some lovely

Henri Blossom.

Can you see the cherry blossom on the tree?

Looking very nice today.

So all of the cherry blossom is now coming out.

And did you know that in Japan

they have their own special festival

when the cherry blossom comes out?

Look at that.

It's very nice.

And you can see that it is rather windy today here in England.

We are having a little bit of wind, but enough about Mr.

Steve Stimac.

Can I also say hello to

anyone who has come this way to say hello?

Tejas, Tejas Be good.

If you can't be good, be careful.

If you can't be careful,

name it after me.

Oh well, sometimes as a joke we will say to someone,

If you can't be good, be careful.

And that is a way of saying, look, if you are going to do something

that it might be a little naughty,

make sure that you do it carefully.

So it's a little bit of a joke, really.

Hello. Also two.

Oh, hello to

The Adventures of Danny Isa, who is watching in Uruguay.

Hello to Uruguay.

Welcome to my little garden here in Much Wenlock in Shropshire

in England on a Tuesday afternoon.

And I'm just here for a few moments because I wanted

to spend some time with you.

Why do you use the phrase colour?

Me Surprised?

Well, I suppose it's a way of saying, look at the expression on my face.

You are referring to something that has surprised you so often.

It is used as a little bit of a joke colour.

Me surprised.

Another one we can say is if someone mentions a party

that is going on and maybe you want to go to it, you could say colour me there

because you are saying that you are very eager,

you are very excited to go there.

Quartette.

Hello Qual, I hope I pronounce your name right.

I have a feeling that you are also watching in Vietnam.

I know we have a lot of people watching in Vietnam,

so hello to everyone there as well.

Who else is on the live chat?

Because I will.

I always get told off there is a young man called Paolo

and he likes to play his guitar, but sometimes

he gets a bit angry with me because sometimes I don't say hello to him.

So Paolo, if you are there, I am definitely saying hello to you

now, so please don't get angry with me.

Hello to Chicken.

Oh, nice to meet you,

says Chee Kim, who I believe

is also watching in Viet Nam.

I'm feeling a bit excited, of course, as we come towards the end of March as we approach

the month of April.

I'm a bit excited because of course we have

Easter coming up, a religious festival.

I'm not a religious person, as you probably know, but I do like Easter

because we have a chance to eat lots of chocolates

and also lots of Easter eggs as well.

It is a festival that marks,

I believe it marks the end of Lent,

and it is a time when everyone

starts eating again.

Normally during Lent, a lot of people will give up things

that they think are unhealthy.

So maybe for a few weeks, maybe for three or four weeks, people will give something up.

They will give up smoking or drinking.

And for a few weeks

I don't know what they do afterwards.

I have a feeling that they just get drunk every night afterwards.

Your grass is very green.

Yes, it does look rather nice at the moment.

Steve is feeling very pleased

with his lawn because it's looking rather healthy and green.

And you can see there are lots of daffodils as well.

This year we seem to have more daffodils this year.

I don't know why

I am in the countryside.

For those who have never watched before, I do live in the countryside

and I have lots of nice views around here.

As you can see behind me, there is lots of lovely landscape

all around, so I do feel rather lucky to be living here.

You might hear the birds singing as well.

Oh yes.

Hello t.j. Otero Oettinger.

Hello.

Yes, there is a proverb in English

The grass is always greener

on the other side of the fence.

A lot of people believe that another person,

or maybe their neighbour, or maybe another person they know in their life,

they always think that that person is having a good life

or maybe their life is better

than your life, and quite often it is not true.

So we have the proverb The grass always seems greener

on the other side of the fence, and that's because we often

look at other people as having a better life than us.

But in reality their life is just the same as yours.

We often feel jealous of other people as well, maybe people who we are jealous of.

We feel that they are having a better life.

Or maybe they have better things than you.

We often think that the grass is greener

on the other side of the fence.

Who else is here today?

Oh, we have Ahmed.

Hello, Ahmed.

What do we mean when we say lowering the bar?

If you lower the bar, it means you reduce

or lower the standard of something you made.

Maybe you make something easier for people to do.

Can you say I bought my daughter a bottle of water on Tuesday?

I bought.

Well, if you buy something, you have bought it.

The past tense of buy is bought.

So yes, if you buy something from the shops,

you can say that you bought something from the shops.

A lot of people, of course, get confused between the words

bought and brought.

They are different things.

So bought is the past tense of buy

brought is the past tense of bring

you bring something you brought something.

Maybe you carried something from one place to another.

According to Curry,

it is the first day of the green season.

Do you mean springtime?

I wonder if you mean spring.

I think you do.

I think you do.

Who else is here today?

The one problem with doing this is the writing on

the screen is very small, and that is the reason

why I always wear my reading glasses

when I'm doing a live stream on my mobile phone

because the writing is very small and my eyesight is not very good.

To be honest.

What is the difference between at the moment and in the moment?

Well, at the moment means now.

At the moment I am standing in the garden talking to you

live on YouTube to be in the moment

means you are experiencing something vividly.

Clearly you are in the moment.

If you are in the moment, it means you are really living that moment of time.

So you could have been in the moment

during the performance of a piece of music.

You were feeling so involved.

You were in the moment

when we say at the moment we mean right now.

At the moment I am here

talking to you.

All I see

apparently

most Mohsin is having a birthday tomorrow.

Hello, Mohsin.

Is it really your birthday tomorrow?

Happy birthday for tomorrow.

I suppose I should say

thank you for your comments about the garden.

Yes, the garden is looking lovely at the moment, and that's because it's springtime

and everything is starting to come to life.

Nature is reawakening.

It is waking up again after sleeping

during the winter months.

I wish I could sleep during the winter months.

I really do a lot of animals are very lucky because they can sleep during the winter months.

They hibernate, they go to sleep.

I only wish that people could do that.

It would be very nice indeed if people could also do that.

It is now 10 to 10 at night in Vietnam.

Well, I hope you've had a good day in Vietnam.

I know you are probably getting ready to go to sleep,

so I hope you have some sweet dreams as well.

Is it really your birthday tomorrow, Mohsin?

I wonder if Mohsin is going to tell us how old he will be tomorrow.

How old will you be tomorrow?

Mohsin, Please tell us.

I want to know.

I'm very nosey.

You are never supposed to ask

a woman her age because she will get angry.

But I think men are okay.

I don't think men really care.

A lot of people ask me, Mr.

Duncan, how old are you? 37.

Really? Is the whole.

Wow, Mossad, you are so young.

That's all I can say.

Mohsin, you are young.

I wish I was 37. Okay?

It would be so nice.

I wish I could be 37 years old again.

Unfortunately, I'm not.

But thanks for telling us Anyway.

Thank you very much for telling us.

That's very nice of you.

Hello to India.

We have India watching at the moment.

Hello, Selman.

Hello to you.

Nice to see you here.

We have Myanmar also here

we have cool Cat three.

I hope I can answer your name right.

Sometimes I try to read the names,

but sometimes I also get it wrong.

Why do we need synonyms or synonymous words when they all mean the same?

Doesn't make learning a language more difficult?

Pranav Well, yes, I suppose it's true,

but you have to remember the English language is not just one language.

It is lots of languages that have been taken and adapted

and then absorbed into the English language,

which is one of the reasons, one of the strange reasons

why we have so many synonyms for certain words.

So some English words have been adapted

or adopted from other languages,

and that is the reason why quite often you will find synonyms for one word.

There might be many, many other words you can use.

There are many synonyms that go with it.

So the English language has evolved quite a lot from,

I would say, from the mid 16th century.

English evolved quite quickly.

Lots of new words were adapted

and adopted as well.

You might even call it middle English.

Middle English.

A lot of people feel that middle English was the big turning point for the English language.

It is when many of the words that we use now

that have been adopted from other languages

started to be used.

I hope that's interesting to you.

It might be interesting to someone

out there in YouTube land.

Tomek Hello, Tomek Nice to see you here as well.

By the way, if Christina is here.

Hello, Christina If you are there.

I did receive your email the other day.

Thank you very much Christina, for sending me the message

concerning the trip to Paris.

There is someone chopping wood for the fire behind me.

I think that's what's going on there.

Yes, we will be going to Paris, hopefully

if there is anything left of it, because I have been closely following the news

of all of the problems that are going on

at the moment in Paris and other parts of France.

So people are a little bit angry at the moment.

But I'm hoping when June comes, I'm hoping

that everything will be

back to normal in June when we are having the big meet up.

We are all joining together in June

for a big meet up and already

we have quite a few people interested.

So if you want to join in, please contact me

at my email address.

Wise verses Intelligent

and smart wise, of course,

comes from lessons that you have learnt in life.

So we often look at wisdom as things you have learnt,

maybe lessons in life, things that you need to know for survival.

So we often look at wisdom as things you have learnt to,

to survive in this crazy thing called life.

Intelligence tends to be things

that we are knowledgeable of subjects, information, things

that we have stored up here in our lovely little brain.

Where is wisdom tends to be things

we have learnt from life as you get older

and I think I am an expert on this right now,

I am an expert on getting older

because there is a good chance that I am older than you.

I think so.

So I would say that yes, as I've got older

I've learnt more things and I have become

wiser.

We often call that thing wisdom.

You have wisdom as you get older,

you learn all of the lessons of

how to survive life.

Where is Mr. Steve?

Steve at the moment is busy rehearsing.

He's in the house, but he he's he's doing a lot of things

in preparation for a show that he's in.

So that's what Mr. Steve is doing.

So there is a good chance we will not see Mr.

Steve today.

Unfortunately,

I suppose now is a good opportunity

to tell you that I am with you every Sunday.

Every Sunday I am

with you every Sunday from 2 p.m.

UK time.

That is when I am with you.

That is when I am back with you

live every Sunday from 2 p.m.

UK. Time is when I'm with you.

And of course Steve will be joining us next Sunday.

By the way, we have a very interesting subject to talk about next Sunday.

It is all about the future of me

and a lot of people like me who teach English.

I'm talking about the

the rise of artificial intelligence

next Sunday.

That's what we're talking about.

A lot of people these days are talking all about

artificial intelligence and AI, as they call it.

Computers are becoming smarter, but this apparently

anyway,

I will be going in a moment as we come up to half an hour.

I suppose half an hour is long enough.

Is it?

I can also feel that there are spots of rain falling around me,

so maybe it is about to rain.

So I think this is a good time to to end this live stream.

I hope it's been useful. I hope you've enjoyed it.

I hope it has been beneficial in some way

and I hope

you've enjoyed having a little luck in the garden

because it's been a long time since I've done anything outside.

The last time I did a live stream outside was was last

Christmas, So it's been maybe three or four months

since I last did a live stream outside.

I will see you on Sunday, Sunday 2 p.m.

UK Time is when I'm back with you.

You can watch this live stream again if you've missed it.

And later on there will be captions as well.

There will be subtitles as well.

Thank you very much for watching and I'll see you on Sunday 2 p.m.

UK time.

And of course, until the next time we meet here, you know what's coming next?

Yes, you do

Take care of yourself.

Stay happy, Keep that smile

on your face and I will see you soon.

ta ta for now