In which Jayne buys an expensive fur coat and Daniel asks no questions. The plate of biscuits gets a forensic examination. Sarah disrespects the Gingerbread man, Daniel bumps into a traffic warden and a man with a rear/wash wiper problem. Dressing for the seasonal weather. Daniel has to explain the heavy wear on his right thigh. Timelines are the new danger with too much tech tracking. Each person has a favourite season and looks good in the seasonal clothes eg being bundled up for winter. A good winter coat. Jayne has a fur coat which is taken to a mystery man for summer storage. Jayne avoids discussing the price of the coat in a seductive way. Expensive shoes and shoe revenge in a marriage. Daniel has a snug sheepskin and rabbit lined gloves. Realises he has a fur fetish. Sarah finds her singing voice and wins the song association game. Relationships going through the Seasons. The Winter of our Discontent and so much more.

Eccles cake vs Bakewell tarts. Food items named after the place of origin like Parma ham or Parmesan cheese. How wheels got on luggage. Wheel whine. AirBnB murders. Australia careening downhill without wheels. Daniel filing criminal reports on antisemites. Useful idiots discussed. Sarah discusses mixed race identity. Multi cultural vs multi ethnic. The need for common humanity. Eye level grilling of bacon. Meat and two veg vs ethnic food. Indian and Mexican treatment of vegetables discussed. Moneymaker tomatoes. Take away food on the 24th floor. Sarah goes into a swoon about buns. A magpie distracts by landing on the window ledge. Daniel has tits visiting his bird feeder. Children learning 2 or 3 languages at home. Sometimes you have to pick a side and not be too reasonable. Perpetual motion machines. Sperm banks. Identical and non identical twins. Sarah corrects Daniel and teaches him a biology lesson and so much more.

Show starts with a damp squib…a type of firework. Value for money with cakes. The M&S Eccles cake is a show stopper. Paying for brands. Still have to do your homework or check out “Which”. Sarah wants thick curtains. 15th Century paper making techniques. Navajo sheep. Navajo and military code in the War. Killers of the Flower Moon discussed involving the Osage tribe and oil rights. Estuarian accent replacing Queen’s English and BBC English. Hells Angels taking posh boys from Surrey. Sarah goes Hula dancing. Fireworks named. Catherine wheels and martyrs. Daniel had a terrifying firework story. Daniel explains basic optics as gateway to perception theories. Daniel leaves his inflated sex doll sticking out the bin and so much more.

Daniel returns from Israel with views on the state of humanity. Sarah orders six pairs of trainers and sees red. The next crop of young people are not employable. Protestors are spoiled brats and entitled lazy wastrels, Beliefs and actions and justifications. “Death of England” the new play by Roy Williams and Clint Dyer discussed. Cancel culture discussed. Being damned by association. Blame and anger. Milking anger. Feigned anger. Hamming up a story with fake embellishments. Daniel worries about making people angry. Betrayal in relationships. Revenge is different for women and men. Women use relational and reputational methods which plays well on social media. Laurence Fox gets in a fix over shagging. Sarah and Daniel discuss basic humanity and not losing it over causes you adopt. Toxic masculinity and femininity compared. Relations are polluted by pornography. Social media still at the Wild West stage and needs laws and taming. The dangers of the mob motivated by social media. Queers for Palestine is a great oxymoron and defies gravity. Losing friends over deep felt issues. Following the Roy Williams lead of taking an unflinching look at tough issues and so much more.

What it takes to make big moves in life. Daniel explains stereo sound. Importance of live music. Bringing back performers from the dead. Joyless people complaining about live music and the Blackheath tea hut. People being petty and nasty, probably to make up for some disappointment in their own lives. Getting revenge by spreading unhappiness. Fans (not onlyfans) discussed. Phones all looking the same. People unhappy with their life often shrink from big decisions. Getting stuck in a rut. Daniel struck by two songs: Thunder Road and Fast Car. Daniel and Sarah compare and contrast and mix up the songs to create a new hymn for trapped and stultified lives. Having nothing to lose. “What the hell effect” on decisions. Daniel and Sarah try out more accents. American girls voices carry further. Careful over the word “shrill”. What impetus do you need to move. Some people just stay where they were born. Others are restless souls. Fear of straying too far from the known. Others are adventurous spirits. The motivations to leave and a sense of last chance and desperation in the two songs. Eleanor Rigby discussed. Final judgement made on Fast Car and Thunder Road. Take a listen. The songs will be way more powerful for getting into our comparison and understanding the motivations for breaking away and making moves out of choice, desperation or boredom…and so much more.

The old ruse of asking neighbours for a cup of sugar. Inviting guests for dinner changes the dynamics of normal meals. Inviting lonely waifs and strays to Christmas lunch. Daniel buys a deck of 50 cards with love life advice picking random cards to discuss….Card 38 the importance of laughing together and telling jokes. Infectious laughter. Signature laugh. Embarrassed laughter. Dangers of laughing in bed. Card 15 be careful not to say something horrible in anger. Hot buttons in a relationship. Learning to take a step back. Daniel reads from “The Owl and the Nightingale”. Card 2 the importance of hugs especially in crowded places. Card 1 book a weekend away at home and stay in a local B&B. Hotel rooms force you to explore and break habits. Card 44 going to the movies, buying popcorn and holding hands. Holding hands and eating popcorn. Really? Choose a tear jerker and carry a freshly laundered handkerchief. Good for hanky panky. Sarah cries over “The secret life of bees”. Daniel choses 27. Do the household chores without making a fuss. A bit sexist but maybe it refers to the man. Daniel looks for praise for cleaning the loo. Sarah selects number 10. Have a half way birthday. Give half of a matching present. Daniel goes for 33. Go out on blind date with your partner. Daniel remembers doing exactly that while at university to great effect. Sarah chooses 20. Pamper your partner when they are sick. Daniel choses 45. Be on time for your partner. Daniel choses 5. Once a year plan to do something new. Daniel praises Sarah’s climbing skills. Sarah goes for 18. Write a love letter. Daniel goes all gooey over Sarah’s climbing prowess. Number 31. Taking a bath together. Daniel is drawn to be Kristin Scott Thomas in the bath scene from “The English Patient” and so much more. Photo from Daniel’s “132”studies of street scenes from fixed positions.

Sunrise or sunset: which is more you? Sarah starts singing from Fiddler on the Roof. Red sky in the morning and shepherds. Gathering for the magical viewing of the sunset over the Thames. Clouds and global warming. Daniel prefers sunset with a big G&T. Working from sun up to sun down in the outdoor film making world. Post production to flatten the weather. Weather forecasting and Robert Fitzroy the captain of the Beagle who spent years with Darwin. Global warming and cloud cover. Carbon dioxide is 4 parts per million. Gas stoves/hobs being banned. Dressing for the weather. Looking up. Appreciating evolving cloud formations. Daniel’s theories on making clouds by paper making. Seeding clouds to give up the rain. Categories of clouds. Looking down from an aeroplane at massive seductive soft beds of clouds. Climate change needs an end date. Otherwise we will never know. Counsel of despair needs to be replaced by innovation to solve climate change. Eclipses and primitive beliefs. Yom Kippur and waiting for the sun to go down before breaking the fast.

Changing addresses and redirecting mail. Unwanted attention from men. Daniel admits to scissor phobia. Struwwelpeter and Max Wall thumb snipper. Daniel is fasting on Yom Kippur watching Sarah eat a KitKat. Finding a religion to suit you. Practical jokes and April Fool tricks. Cream pies. Throwing milk shakes. The Dimbleby Spaghetti harvest. Egg on your face. Heckler&Koch guns discussed. Borat films. Top Gear practical jokes. Disappointing oversized presents. Stomachs get upset when you ignore them or over indulge them. Pole dancing and knowing your limits. Knock down ginger explained. Rude food. Sarah discusses vagina cakes. Joke shop item from whoopee cushions to fake injuries to parking tickets to car scratches. Losing and testing your sense of humour. Jokes backfiring. Joke winning scratch card. The true person revealed by a good targeted practical joke. Humiliation, embarrassment and shame from being tricked in public. Dangers of offending people in today’s world. Hate is the new offence. Front row of a stand up show. Being the butt of a joke. People making anonymous complaints rather than telling it to your face. Daniel has childhood slipper rage. Possible revenge for sibling rivalry. Needing to witness the result of your joke and the reaction. Preparing children to deal with pranks. Learning “come-backs”. Not being predictable and being noticed. Avoiding being the wallpaper. Taking the Mick the ultimate weapon in unsettling dictators. AI taking jokes to a new level and so much more.

Sarah goes on an American accent course. Daniel and Sarah experiment with accents. Talking dirty. Odd one out question. School discipline. Risk assessment and victim blaming. Daniel’s secrets to deep loo cleaning. Scouring non stick pans. Cast iron is better and how to re-season. Reference to Silence of the Lambs. Pancake pans and developing arm strength to flip. Daniel debunks non stick. Throwing things in the bin from a distance. Winning a goldfish at the fair. Techniques of throwing. Variables of weight and air resistance. Beer pong. Primitive hunters. Spears. Boomerangs. The joy of using skill and judgment to hit a target. Underarm and overarm. Belief in your ability. Your brain does so much of the work in hand eye coordination. Basketball discussed. The longer the throw the greater the joy. The bride’s bouquet thrown backwards. Throwing your life away. Jayne returns with her fur coat from storage and so much more.

Daniel starts ruminating. Danger of traps and the dangling lure. Tribal battle lines. The mob is always there, usually just indoors watching TV until rallied. Snakes and ladders discussed as a spiritual journey. Emotional development through games. Masterpiece teaches you to lie and cheat and control your emotions. Sarah plays a witch denunciation game for 7 hours. Board games as safe spaces for bad behaviour. Leakage from the reputation from playing the game to the real world….a bastard at monopoly. Liar’s poker an exercise in statistics and psychology. Games that bring out your personality. Duck a l’orange compared with frog a la peche. Emmental and Sherlock Holmes. All is fair in love and war. Ending the war in Ukraine by a no-holds barred fight between Putin and Zelensky. Being over-dressed or under-dressed. Margaret Thatcher at Balmoral. Daniel fesses up to defeating the cameras at Aldi Shop & Go and so much more.