Learn ENGLISH (almost) EVERY DAY #7 - L I V E - from England / Monday 11th APRIL 2022

Apparently

here we are.

Hello and welcome.

It is another live stream

after yesterday, which was rather eventful with Mr.

Steve.

Joining is because he was feeling unwell.

He has the dreaded.

You know what?

And guess what?

This morning I decided to test myself.

And now I have it as well, which is great.

So at the moment, I have a temperature.

I feel a little unwell, but I will spend some time

with you today, but not very long.

So make the most of it.

Here we go.

Hi, everybody.

This is Mr.

Duncan in England.

How are you today? Are you okay? I hope so.

Are you happy?

I hope you are feeling happy, and I hope you are enjoying the start of your week.

Well,

Isn't it strange how things turn out?

Yesterday, I was talking to Steve,

who is under the weather with Corona Virus.

And guess what?

I tested myself this morning, and guess what?

I have it now.

Now I have Corona virus, so that's great.

I woke up with a terrible temperature.

I couldn't stop coughing all morning.

And I spent most of the morning in bed.

To be honest, I got out of bed at about 11 a.m.,

and well, here I am.

Just for a few moments, though,

so this might be the shortest live stream I've ever done.

I have a temperature of about 115 which is good.

So you might actually be able to feel the heat

coming off me at the moment.

Did I just see Mr.

Steve behind me?

Mr. Steve is outside in the garden

getting some fresh air, and I think I just saw him.

Did I?

Did I just see Mr.

Steve walk behind me outside?

I think so. He's outside.

Just getting a little bit of fresh air

and I suppose I should say also that we are at the start of the week.

My voice is not great.

In fact, my whole body isn't too good today.

Unfortunately. So I hope you will bear with me.

I will be

with you for about half an hour and then I am going back to bed.

However, I suppose I should also say

that I will not be here tomorrow

and quite possibly for the rest of the week.

So please don't be surprised if I'm not here tomorrow.

In fact, I can safely say that I will not be here tomorrow live

and quite likely for the rest of the week.

So the next time you see me here will probably be Sunday.

Next Sunday.

I will be here next Sunday because it's Easter next Sunday.

So that's what I'm doing next

weekend, celebrating Easter with Mr. Steve.

And hopefully we will have some Easter eggs as well,

some chocolate Hmm.

Hello to the live chat.

Nice to see you here.

I am only here for a few moments till around

maybe 2:30, and then I will go back to bed.

I couldn't resist coming on because I felt a little bit bad

not telling you that I wasn't going to be here.

So that's the reason why I'm here now.

So I hope you will be okay

with that particular situation.

We have made it all the way to the beginning of the week.

As I said, it is Monday

and I'm not doing the high voice or the echo.

Well, okay, maybe a little bit of Echo debit.

Haven't ever there but I have an app there and I've been a bit of it.

It is Monday.

I hope your week is going better than mine so far.

Hello. Also to the live chat.

Oh, hello.

Live chat.

Nice to see you here as well.

I am only here for around about another 20 minutes, so if you want to say hello, you can

Hello, Vitus.

And also Beatriz Paolo.

We have

Luis Mendez is here today.

And my roots, Sarina.

So at Meeker,

you Youssef.

Nice to see you all here today.

I'm so sorry if I seem.

I don't sing great.

I apologise.

I do not want to bring my misery into your life.

I'm sure you have your own things to think about,

but I am going to be here for a few more moments.

What happened this morning, Bill?

Because Mr.

Steve has been ill for the last week, for the past few days.

He's been unwell

I thought I would test myself this morning just to make sure.

And also, when I woke up, I felt dreadful.

I have a headache.

The room was spinning around.

My throat was so.

And I thought, hmm.

I think maybe I have caught

the dreaded leg from Mr.

Steve. And guess what?

I have.

Unfortunately, I have caught COVID for Mr.

Steve, even though we've kept our distance from each other.

We've we've stayed very far away from each other.

And I suppose that shows just how easy it is

to to actually catch it.

And well, you can probably imagine my reaction.

It was a feeling of disappointment and also anger at the same time,

because I knew straight away that this will affect

my my work

for the rest of the week, and I think it will.

So I think it's fair to say that I will be off,

I won't be on, I will be off for the rest of the week.

So please make the most of these next few moments

because you won't be seeing me live until next Sunday.

It is a shame.

I know I was really looking forward to doing my almost every day livestreams.

Hopefully next week we'll be back to normal.

Hopefully next Monday.

So this time next week, I hope that I will be here.

Hello to you.

Oh, a lot of people here

Hello, Hilda.

Hilda.

Goo Guevarra.

Hello, Hilda.

Nice to see you here.

How are you?

Haven't seen you for a long time.

Nice to see you back.

Thank you.

Also to Christina.

Thank you, Rosa.

Oh, I didn't know that.

I didn't realise that Rosa is retired.

I know you've all retired.

That's interesting.

Thank you for your good wishes.

Thank you, Mika.

I hope you and Mr.

Steve get well soon.

Steve I think he is over the worst,

so I still have the worst to come,

because, obviously, this is just starting

I have a high temperature, very high.

I'm burning up at the moment. And

Steve at the

moment is is, I suppose you might say that he is okay.

Is he is much better than he was even yesterday.

He's improved a lot since yesterday.

Thank you, Anna.

Thank you.

Also to Guadeloupe. Hello, Guadeloupe.

Your health always comes first.

I think you're right. Yes.

Health comes above everything else, I suppose.

Family is is near the very top as well, I would imagine.

I think family is up there as well.

I feel

terrible.

That's all I can say.

I'm sure many of you out there watching have had COVID.

Maybe some of you haven't and maybe some of you have.

But I'm pretty sure a lot of people out there have already,

Palmira says, What does it mean?

Luigi?

Luigi means big virus, something that makes you feel sick.

So it is a general term, quite often used informally

to describe germs.

So if you catch

the Luigi,

it means you have contracted

some illness because of a virus.

So that's the reason why I describe

Corona virus as the Luigi

It is something we often use

to describe a virus or something that makes you unwell.

And you can see here the dreaded Luigi.

So if something is dreaded, it means something

that people don't want or people dislike.

The dreaded Luigi.

And that's what I have at the moment.

I have the dreaded look that has been making many people

miserable and unwell and worse than that.

Over the past two and a half years, I have to be honest with you,

Thank you.

100, Dobby.

That's very kind of you.

My it's okay.

I thought I was going to cough.

I don't want you to see me doing that. You see,

I have my emergency screen ready just in case.

Maybe I have to have my emergency screen ready.

This is my emergency screen.

So when you see that

you know something is going wrong,

And at the moment,

I'm already thinking this is not a good idea.

To thank you very much for your kind wishes.

And I didn't want to to just not come on to die.

I didn't want to just vanish because I know a lot of people worry when I do that.

So I won't be doing that today.

So I am here just to say I'm still alive.

Anyway, you can see I'm alive.

I don't feel alive.

I feel half asleep.

I feel as if I want to go back to bed, which is what I'm going to do.

Take a break and come back stronger than before.

Yes, I will.

I'm not looking for sympathy today, by the way.

I'm not looking for sympathy.

I'm here just to let you know I'm okay.

Because if I say I'm not here because I've got COVID, I think a lot of people will worry.

But I'm here to show you that I am alive and well ish.

Although I have a feeling over the next 24 hours,

I think things are going to get much worse.

I think so.

Hello, Claudia.

Nice to see you here as well.

I'm losing my voice now,

which is not very good.

One of the things I have noticed is

when you take those lateral flow tests, you have to put that thing right up your nose.

It's horrible, isn't it?

It's really horrible.

You have to take that little swab

and you have to

push it right up into your nose.

And I have to be honest with you,

it doesn't feel very good.

Normally when you are feeling okay, it is very unpleasant.

But when your nose is really sensitive and then you push that thing up into your nose,

it's even worse because the inside of your nose

has become very sensitive

Hello

to Florence

Robles, sir, who says, Please, Mr.

Duncan, go to bed.

I will be. Don't worry.

As soon as I finish this.

I'm going to go straight to bed.

I'm going to curl up under the duvet.

The nice warm duvet.

And that's what I'm going to do in a few minutes.

Hello also to you.

Oh, I wish I could see the writing on here.

Even with my

reading glasses, the writing is is out of focus.

Irene.

Irene, a scene.

Hello, Irene. Nice to see you here.

I would love to have something to talk about today, but I haven't prepared anything

Suffice it to say

when we say that, by the way, suffice it means short.

And so suffice it suffice it means brief to be brief about something.

So suffice means to shorten or to make something brief.

Suffice it to say,

I've had better days.

I think so.

The French election has been taking place at the weekend, and I have been.

I I've been watching it on the news.

I'm interested.

I don't know why.

I always feel a strange closeness

to France because I am, of course, partly descended

from from French stock as we say

But yes, the elections are taking place.

It looks as if it's going through to the next round

and people are becoming a little concerned

with the possible result,

which may or may not

bring in a very different government.

We'll see what happens there.

Talking of France.

Do you remember when I went to France with Mr.

Steve?

We had our free holiday courtesy of Mr.

Steve's company because Steve won a prise.

Who remembers the time that we went

to lovely romantic Paris

Oh, I could eat some creme brulee right now.

I don't know why.

Maybe it's the fever

I could really eat some creme brulee.

It sounds very nice, actually.

So there were some video clips,

some sequences from the time I went to Paris.

With Mr.

Steve, because Steve is so good at his job.

That he won a trip to Paris.

And we had a lovely time. A very nice time.

You probably remember

I was standing on the street corner in Paris talking

for for over 3 hours.

I I don't think I could do that

today if I was honest with you.

Hello to Moises.

Moises Martins. Hello,

I remember you you used to watch a long time ago.

I remember having watched your live stream last year

while suffering with coronavirus at that time.

You and Mr.

Steve raised me up, so I hope you recover soon.

Thank you.

Moises Martin thank you very much as very kind of you.

Thank you.

Beatriz remembers

the name of that piece of music Jazz in Paris.

And if you remember, during the lockdown

here in the UK, I did some special live streams, and I was in the garden,

and I actually did a little dance to that song.

I don't know if you remember it.

Most of my life streams have faded away.

Isn't it strange?

I've done hundreds of videos, hundreds of live streams,

and most of them now have faded away on YouTube.

They still exist

and they're still there on YouTube.

It's just that because there is so much content

and so many new videos, so many

young

vibrant,

attractive people now on YouTube,

all of my old videos and my live streams of all faded away

into the distance, which is sad, really.

Gulu says Yes.

The food looks very nice.

We were lucky to go into the the windmill.

Did you see that?

That very famous place and the painter Monet

He painted a very famous picture in that very place.

And yes, it was really nice.

Very expensive.

To eat in there.

But fortunately, Mr.

Steve's company was paying for it,

but very, very expensive.

That's one of the things I do remember about Paris.

Some of the places are quite expensive to eat at

Christina says, I remember when you were

when you were in the centre of Paris, and there was a lot of traffic.

There was there were cars, there were people shouting and screaming.

At each other because they were trying to to move by car and they couldn't.

It was quite chaotic.

But one of the reasons why it was so busy is

because there was a public holiday at that time as well.

So that's the reason why it was so busy.

Steve's company had decided to send us

to Paris during their big public holiday.

So many people were actually off at that time

and it was really busy.

I will be going in a moment.

My voice now is starting to wear out

You might notice my voice does not sound great today.

Sorry about that.

I can't do anything about it. Unfortunately,

Thank you very much for joining me for this short time.

I was dancing a lot to the song during the pandemic.

Thanks.

Thanks to you.

Thank you. Beatriz.

That's very kind of you to say.

I am going and I will see you hopefully on Sunday.

Next Sunday.

I hope to be with you

from 2 p.m.

UK time next Sunday.

I don't think I'm going to be with you during the week.

I would love to, but I don't think I'm going to be well enough.

This is only going to get worse

over the next 48 hours.

But at least now you know.

You know the reason why.

Thank you, Guadalupe.

Thank you, Mr. Duncan.

You always do your best.

This demonstrates the strong responsibility you feel.

Well, I always think that sometimes you have to be fair with people

and you spend a lot of your time watching me.

So I think it's.

It's only fair to do that.

Hello, Jemmy.

Jemmy from Hong Kong is here as well.

Hello, Jemmy. Nice to see you here.

I'm losing my voice.

I will see you on Sunday.

I think that is when I am going to be with you again on Sunday.

And hopefully Mr.

Steve will also be here on Sunday.

The this is the problem

when you have to use your voice

and then you become ill.

It does affect the way you work.

Quite a lot.

Thank you, Louis.

Thank you. Christina, that's very kind of you.

Steve is feeling much better, but I unfortunately, I'm now

starting my long road of suffering.

As ideal With the dreaded lucky

catch you later.

See you soon.

And enjoy the rest of your week.

I really hope you do have a good week.

Take care of yourselves, please.

Whatever you are doing, please take care.

And I will see you very soon.

I'm using all of my strength at the moment to stand up

so I don't fall to the ground.

I don't faint or pass out.

See you. See you next Sunday.

And, of course, you know what's coming next.

Yes, you do.

ta ta for now.

Thanks for watching.