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Welcome to the Day-to-Day Podcast

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, calm Conversations

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with a Friend , by

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Jacquie Joy , and

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you are listening to Episode

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10 . You

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decide to check your messages . One

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new voicemail it's from one

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of your friends . You decide

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it's time to sit down , make

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yourself comfortable and have a listen

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. Hey

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! So nice to hear your latest message , but

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it wasn't good to hear about your most recent restaurant experience

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. That

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sounds super disappointing for what

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you would have expected for somewhere like that . I

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mean , you would have definitely been expecting this place to

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go above and beyond as far as the customer service and the food and even the surroundings of the

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restaurant . So

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how disappointing . Again . It's

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a shame you left a bit hungry , but it sounds like you had a lot of laughs with your

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friend and it's certainly going to be

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a night that you'll never forget . And

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next time you'll be choosing

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a lot more carefully and checking

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out all of the reviews , I imagine

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, even if the

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restaurant has been there for

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so many years and

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has an incredible

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reputation for great

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food and service

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. And

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, funnily enough , you

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know how . We planned to go to that

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special restaurant on

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the weekend , the

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one I had sent you

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the degustation

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menu for . Well

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, we didn't end

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up eating any of the

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food , because

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we had a

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similar , very poor

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customer experience

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and we

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were finally seated after

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about 15-20 minutes

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and by that time

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we just decided to leave

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. The problem

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certainly wasn't the restaurant

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itself as

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you can see from the photo , it was

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set in a gorgeous

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, lush surrounding of gardens

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but

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the problem was the

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main servile , the maitre d'

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I think the

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person that is supposed

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to welcome you into the

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restaurant . Well

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, he wasn't very welcoming

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at all . We

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actually had to wait 20

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minutes for our table , which

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was fine . We had arrived

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two minutes early apparently

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, which he didn't

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seem to like . There

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was a lovely waitress

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there who we did speak to before

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we left and just let

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her know that we

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were disappointed we couldn't stay

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as she seemed really

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nice . So

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we left and we had a few

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laughs . So we

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left and we had a few laughs and

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, interestingly , that lovely waitress we spoke to had spoken to the manager who called

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me yesterday and was

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very apologetic and

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even offered us a

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complimentary experience

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at the restaurant unlimited

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food and drinks . I

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was a little hesitant , but she said

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that that lovely waitress had

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offered to

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serve us and

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host us when we come back

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and host us when we come

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back . It was not the best experience

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because of one person , but

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the restaurant really

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did redeem themselves and

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we're looking forward to booking that up again and returning and

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hopefully eating the degustation

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menu next time . So

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I'll let you know when that happens . In

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response to your question

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, no , I still haven't

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tried the snail

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mucin cream , so I

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think I'll have a look at it . Right now I've

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got it in my hand . It's

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a 100ml bottle and

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you can see by turning

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it upside down , it

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looks fairly viscous , hopefully

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not too sticky . I

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can't smell anything

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at the moment , so

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it mustn't have a strong fragrance

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. And , okay , I'm going

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to test it now on the back of my hand

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. A few squeezes

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, yeah , okay

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. Well

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, it doesn't seem to have any smell

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, so that's a good start and

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it feels a little bit like . Well

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, it's very clear and it feels like

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the after sun gel

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that I use that has aloe

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vera in it , so

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it's actually quite pleasant to

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put on , okay

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, and it goes a long way . So

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I've got the trial patch on the back

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of one of my hands , so

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we'll see if there's a difference

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. Make sure that there's no skin

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reaction . And

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, look , I might try it on my neck

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next time . I'll

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just wait 24 hours first

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. It's

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actually mostly absorbed into

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my skin now , so it's so far , so good

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and it definitely doesn't

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feel as slimy

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as I thought it would at

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all , even

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though apparently it's

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96% snail

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mucin and

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I definitely don't want to even

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begin to think about what

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is in the mucin and

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how they collect the mucin . But

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people do seem

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to rate it and love it . Also

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, while we're talking about skin

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products , one of my

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other friends many

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months ago recommended

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me something called Serum

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of Plenty . She

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recommended it highly

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because it made

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her skin feel very hydrated

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after using it . It made

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her skin feel very hydrated after using it . Apparently it has

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very high quality

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vitamin C in

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the formula . It's

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actually well . It says it contains 15% vitamin C , so

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apparently that's supposed to help with a variety of things like any

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spots on your face , any dryness , any wrinkles

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, any redness . So

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I've ordered up some

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of that too , now that it's back

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in stock . If

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you're interested in seeing that , I will send you a link , but I'll let you know

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how that goes . I've never really been into skincare . I've

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always been very lucky to have good skin

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but I'm finding these

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products just make me feel

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really

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hydrated

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and feel good and

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glowing , which I love . I

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mean , your skin is

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amazing too . It always seems very

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radiant . But

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it's nice to know about these things

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. As I'm getting older

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, the main area I notice that

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is dry is my neck . That's

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probably where I'll try and use that

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, or maybe the

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snail mucin will do the trick

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. Obviously

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, the cheapest form of

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skincare is drinking

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a lot of water

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, so I

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got out the old bottle a

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friend gave me last year and

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cleaned it up , filled

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it up and have been

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using that twice a day

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. It has some special

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markings on it with

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the times of day , so

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it gives you a good idea of

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how much you should be drinking

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throughout the day , and

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I just keep it on my desk

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as a reminder , and

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I've found that that has really

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helped as well . Interestingly

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, the extra water in my system seems to have got rid of any

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bloating feeling I have , so

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that's

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an unexpected surprise

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, so I thought I'd let you know

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about that . Thanks

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for asking how Tilly is

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going . I did see

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her yesterday , so I passed

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on your hello and she

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said a big hi back and

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hoped you had a very Merry Christmas

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and Happy Holidays . When

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I went over there she asked

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me to taste test one

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of her brookie cookies , which

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was actually a very decent

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size homestyle chop

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chip cookie with

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a few walnuts added in there

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, and it looked like

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the type of cookie that your grandma

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would bake . It

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was super delicious and I

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had to slow myself down when eating

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it . I

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could have eaten two quite easily . This

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particular cookie was inspired

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by a biscuit she purchased

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from a place called the

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Brookie Bakehouse which is

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based here in Brisbane . You

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may have heard of it because

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it's been a hugely

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successful venture

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for Brook the owner and it's

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sort of turned into a cult phenomenon

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. And now apparently

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they also deliver the cookie dough

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to the US . And now apparently they also deliver the cookie

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dough to the US . They also can fly

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the cookies around the world

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, so I'm not sure how that works

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. She

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has become so popular after she started up some TikTok

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videos , which was about a day in the life of her as a baker

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. She has millions of followers now and if you actually go to the store

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in person you have to line up for at least half

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an hour to even get inside the door

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. Tilly has learnt

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a few secrets about her cookies after

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reading a bit more about them on Brookie's

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website . Apparently

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these include doubling the usual amount of choc chips

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for these particular cookies and

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using mostly dark

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chocolate instead of the milk chocolate

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. Apparently

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, using cold butter

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also reduces the amount

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of air incorporated

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into the dough , which

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helps slow down the baking

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process and apparently

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that allows the inside

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of the cookie to cook properly

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. So

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, interestingly , she recommends

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chilling the biscuit dough before

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cooking so they hold

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their shape . Another

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tip was to not overmix

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the cookie dough , which I

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do all the time . Tilly

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said another secret was to measure out each cookie ball or cookie exactly , so they

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would all take the same amount of time to cook , which

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makes sense . And

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I know when I've cooked cookies

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previously that

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I don't measure each one out

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and , as a result , some

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cookies are very

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overcooked and

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some are just right and

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some are very undercooked

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. So there

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are a few helpful tips , are

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a few helpful tips . So here's some ambience to set the scene for a yamber

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trip which I haven't spoken to you about yet . We spent about a week

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there and what

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you can hear there was the

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lapping of the waves in the lake

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, a few rosellas

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or lorikeets squawking

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away there in the background

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and also a little

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bit of wind . So

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we stay in a house on the foreshore

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and in the

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backyard between the house and

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the foreshore , and in the backyard between the house and the foreshore , there

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are maybe

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50 plus gum

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trees or eucalypt trees which

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are native to Australia , and

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it seems as though these rainbow

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lorikeets have

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made themselves at home in these

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trees . I

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took a recording of the birds one

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morning to show

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you . So here it is . They

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are so loud and there are

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I mean it sounds like hundreds

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of them , and

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each morning around 5

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, 6am they'd

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start up and welcome

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us into the new day . I

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don't know if you've seen a rainbow lorikeet

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. You would have had to have seen

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it while you were in Australia on one of your

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vacations here . They

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are native to Australia and

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they are certainly loved by tourists

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. There was a

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place called the Corumban

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Bird Sanctuary . I'm wondering

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if it's still open , but

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that was incredibly popular

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over the years and tourists

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would visit and these lorikeets

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would almost

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swarm the visitors sitting

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on their head and shoulders

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. And they're

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very , very friendly birds and

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they're great in photos because they

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are so brightly

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coloured . They have usually

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blue colouring on their head , their

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beaks are red , green

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wings and underbody

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is often a mixture

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of different colours . They look like

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rainbows , hence the name . Needless

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to say , it took us a few days to acclimatise

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to this and to be able to sleep

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through all

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of the loud noise . So

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Yamba is a

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small but getting more popular

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beach town . It's

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about an hour south of

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Byron Bay , which you would have most

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definitely probably heard

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of , I

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think Byron has its own TV

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series now and it

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certainly did become very

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popular with some of the big Hollywood

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stars very

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popular with some of the big Hollywood stars . Anyway , Yamba

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is definitely a popular

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but not so crazy

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busy tourist attraction

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. It

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actually initially became very popular for surf riders or surfboarders . Here

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. I

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discovered a park near the beach , so I'll read a little bit out to you , and

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it's entitled Yamber's

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First Surfboard Rider . Tommy

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Walker is recognized

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as a surfing pioneer , pioneer and

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legend , being the

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first Australian to ride

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waves at Manly Beach , Sydney

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and Main Beach , Yamba

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. At

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age 18 , Tommy became a

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seaman on the Sydney Wharves

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. He visited Hawaii

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in in 1908

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and had a

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14-foot Hawaiian

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redwood surfboard custom-built

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for him by the father

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of modern surfing , Duke

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Kahana moku . It

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was during the summer of 1911

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to 1912 that

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McLean photographer

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and Yamba Surf Club member , Osric

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Notley , captured Tommy

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in a stand-up position riding

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a wave . It

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is now established that Tommy

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was , in fact , the very

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first surfboard rider in

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Australia , so

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that's an interesting fact of

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this place , and the plaque

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also contains an

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interesting black and white

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photo , of course , of

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Tommy riding his surfboard

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, but he seems to be

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doing a handstand on it . So

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he was obviously one

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talented surfer dude

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, and

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it seems that the

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main beach at Yamba was one

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of his choice

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surfing destinations . I'll

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tell you a little bit more about

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the Yamba trip next message

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, but

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in the meantime , don't work

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too hard , and

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I hope you have a great rest of the week

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and we'll

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chat soon . Take

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care and

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bye for now .