Hello, sorry.

Hi,

That's all right.

How are you?

How's everyone?

Okay, we're just tired and feeling a bit under the weather.

Yeah, that's why I was in the bath.

Terrible.

I've had a horrible, horrible cold.

Um, and my head's so bunged up, so I'm doing everything I can to try and clear it.

before I'm flying.

We go on the we travel down on the Tuesday we fly early Wednesday morning.

Okay.

So So can I say without sounding horrible, can we keep your assistant out of that family chat and just put basic information for now?

Oh yeah, no, that's not my assistant.

that's assistant just for family to organize things, to keep track of who's going, where and what flights they are.

He'll watch flight times, he'll check on accommodation,

Messages from Booking.com.

It's just to do with the journey.

But yeah, we can, I can turn it off.

Yeah, because I was interactive.

He doesn't need to be that proactive.

Yeah, if you can turn him down a bit, That's that's fine.

I wanted to say to Bijan, I'm arriving at this time.

You're arriving at that time.

Can he manage to work his shifts around that to pick us up?

Um, I didn't want to sort of bombard him.

with lots of.

So just for your flight screenshot of your flight journey or whatever flight is to the message.

So this is for me and Julie.

And then it'll, it should do that part for us and coordinate with everybody.

If that makes sense.

Yeah, it was just to sort of say to Beijing.

This is the time we need picking up.

Um, can you, can you make it?

Yeah.

And I was going to say to, you, that Anna would probably want to come and have a sleepover with me.

We've only got a one bedroom and a sofa bed, but she'd be very welcome to play one night.

She doesn't have to have sleep over.

No, but if you two wanted a night to yourselves, then, you know, that.

Yeah, she might want to sleep over Uncle B's and even.

Oh, she might indeed.

Yes.

Yeah.

He's got the two cats.

He's definitely going to have more more pull for.

her than than we have.

Uh so so yeah.

So I'm I'm happy to help out where I can.

Um I did ask him about I asked him about the bikes.

Um but he said he would look for shops um that rent because you can I had a quick look and you can rent them for a six year old.

So that might be something for your assistant to sort out.

Yeah, I'll ask him.

Just if you write the details on where you're staying and then always when we're arranging stuff, it can keep us reminded and up to date and updates calendar, internal calendar.

I mean, yeah.

It's a new way of going on holiday.

I know.

I know it is.

He's called Louis because he's a French French fan.

He can translate stuff.

He can do anything.

He can translate, yes.

That's good.

I haven't done my friends yet.

Um so what I did want to have a word with you about.

Um I've got all the money for Pam now and I'm needing to do an account.

We'll have a lovely holiday with it.

Yeah.

good.

I've got 97

Grand in my account.

I've got to get rid of it.

How much?

97. 97.

Yeah.

And that's all she had in the world.

But it's all right for the girls.

Yeah.

So I didn't particularly want it to go into an AI thing which is then like uploaded forever into LLMs and things.

It's nice.

on my server but yeah, fair enough.

So tell me what's the, how does it work?

So if I just,

I can, can I send you a, a numbers spreadsheet that I've done, just to check through, that I've all my workings out of correct and the money's going where it is.

I'm I'm quite confident that all the bills and the monies that I've received are right, but it's just to double check my bookkeeping.

As it is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'll have a look.

And then the other

Thing I wanted to ask you, I've got it in a savings account in in the nationwide at the moment.

Um and I'm going to have to send like 45 grand each to the girls.

Um yeah.

And there's like limits on how much you can send at a time, but doing it by chaps, it looks like I should be able to do it.

You can go to £100 million, I think, in one go.

Yeah.

So I just thought it would be easier if.

To their money to send his traps and deduct it from them.

It's an expense.

One payment to them and suggest.

So I was going to suggest that that will be the best way to do it because otherwise I'll only be able to send like 1010 grand each a day or something.

It will take me.

Yeah, $10,000 in total per day, so it might be, it took you twice.

It might, yeah, so it might be longer.

I was thinking it was 20, but it might only be ten a day.

I've not sent anything to them before, so I've been trying

Read through all the nationwide stuff to double check on that.

I think you can increase your limit as well, but it wouldn't work on the same day, I think.

Yeah.

Other banks do that.

So you can maybe see.

I've done that with NatWest before.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I, so that might be something later on tonight if your assistant can double check how I can manage to send 45,000.

Yeah, but you any out-of-pocket expenses come from farmers estate for £10.

Oh yes, yes it does.

Yeah, yeah, that's not a problem.

So I think so you with me then that chaps is the best way to do it.

It's only £15 per transaction.

Yeah, and I think I can maybe do it online.

You're not paying for it, they are, yeah.

Yeah,

Yeah, yeah.

It's more appropriate than sending 10,000 a day.

Well, that's it.

I don't think that because Christina was worrying before about money coming in.

Whereas if it's one lump sum that says, you know, your um inheritance from

Or that's that's a much better way of getting it and then it's all accounted for.

Um so I'll tell I'll tell her that's

What she's worried.

Just go and draw it out in cash and get it to time for her.

No I don't think she's quite that bad, but she is, she's sort of, will I ask where the money's come from and all this sort of stuff?

I said, no, because I've got, I'll have proper accounts.

You can have it.

It's fine.

It's all there and accounted for.

Yeah.

So I said I would send her a copy of the account and and sort that out.

So, so yeah, that that was what I was just wanting a second opinion and, um, and to make sure I was, I'd sort of work the amounts out correct before I sent it to them.

So, yeah.

Um, yeah.

Okay, good.

Thank you very much.

So you on your way home now, are you still at work?

No, I'm going to a customer.

I'll be home in an hour and a half ish.

All right, okay.

Are you all ready for your job?

No, not at all.

I haven't done any.

Well, I've had two, I've been in bed for two days, um, because it was that bad.

And then I was a bit better yesterday, but didn't do much, just sat about reading.

So today, I've, but then today I've been all day on, all day on the computer so I've got a lot to do.

I'll get it I'll get it sorted.

I don't know what to do.

I mean we have not done anything but we're just packed and

We we keep talking, Auntie Julie and I a little bit about what to take because have you got a suitcase in the halls then or?

Right, I thought you would.

20

Kilos.

Yeah, so you've got plenty of space to take things.

You're like, we're restricted to ten kilos.

When it's taking four pairs of shoes or something, I don't know.

Well, you can let her know that we'll we'll probably only take one pair of shoes, two pairs of trousers, one jacket and a few nice tops and that's it.

It's not going to be getting dressed up, dressed up.

Um, it's just a sticky brick type of thing and, and hanging out with family.

So, um, and even, like,

We go out to a restaurant or something else.

Yes,

But going out to a restaurant, the tended not well, there were really nice posh ones, but they were ridiculously expensive, so we tended not to go to those.

Um,

Right, Yeah.

So people are more relaxed.

Yeah.

Do you know what the weather's going to be like though?

Because it's a bit vague the forecast.

Not drastically.

Very vague.

It's it's going to be a bit warmer than here because it looks like it's only going to be about feels like 7 or 8 degrees here next week, whereas over there it's going to be 18 degrees, but it's not going to be really hot for me.

I think it'd be like we had this last week.

In my car.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it's this sort of weather probably.

A bit of sunshine, a bit of clouds, a bit of rain.

Not shorts and t shirts.

It's definitely not shorts and t shirt I wouldn't think.

Maybe maybe a lighter pair of trousers or something but not.

Yeah.

Not shorts.

Yeah.

And a t shirt but with a jumper to put over it.

So I think it gets out nice and happy.

Do we have to do a travel authorization?

Um.

What did you do?

I think that's live.

I think you just, no, we just, we just, um, arrived at the airport and the stamp, well, they didn't stamp until Julie's passport as we arrived at the airport.

I, I don't think, I think it's, changed, but I'll check on that.

I think, I know European visitors to UK, I think they've launched the ESTA or ETA or whatever they're called.

ETA is England, ESTA is America.

I'll check it out.

Yeah, I'll talk to you about that later on.

Um tonight or over the weekend then because it's something I should be.

Yeah.

Um letting Nancy Julie know about.

I thought it was just it all gone

Yeah, but you'd have to do it on an app or something, so you'll probably have to do it.

Tenerife.

Right.

But actually.

They brought me.

UK one.

Anyway, like European visits to Britain after register.

Before we went to France when we landed, they took our pictures and everything and I said, oh, I did this two months ago and he said, no, we have to do it every time you come.

in.

Yeah, but I think that was the crossover period.

Now I think you do it on an app.

You take your picture.

Right, okay.

And you get the equivalent of a visa and then you can go through as a city that like fly through then.

without a

Sign.

Right, yes, yeah, yes.

So then you've got your Schengen area clearance sort of thing.

Oh, sorry, travel authorization for for UK and Macedonians and so on.

kind of thing.

Right.

I think.

Okay.

So I'll try and have a look and talk with you about that later on tonight then if that's all right.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

So

Stop.

I'm sending.

I'll let you get on with work.

I'll I'll send you an email and just look at it later tonight.

Alright.

Will do.

Alright then.

I'll catch up with you later on.

Thank you.

Bye.