Colman Noctor

And, you know, my dad used to say about seven o'clock every Christmas or Christmas Day, he'd go, that's it done now, you know, or was it all worth that while?

And for some reason, I associate that time with a kind of a slump, do you know what I mean?

And because there's no running around to do and I've been running around up to that day and, you know, the whole having a whisper for your breakfast and the lack of structure and, you know, and the same for summer holidays, do you know what I mean?

Like it's like...

I would be a nightmare to bring on a sun holiday from the point of view of the agitation.

And it's a restlessness in that.

The other side, I mean, but again, that's one thing in isolation that would be nothing.

It's your capacity to organise thoughts in your head around what to do.

So if you were sent upstairs and said, come and go up there and get a towel, the black hairbrush, a toothbrush and toothpaste.

I would go up there and by the time I got halfway up, I would say there was a toothbrush in there, but the rest is gone.

So I would be back downstairs and I would try and...

rack my brain and think, because I really wanted to remember when you were telling me, like, and asked me to do that.

I want, like, I want to not disappoint you, but it's gone by the time I've gotten up there.

And it's not necessarily that something else has jumped into my head or anything like it.

I just, I can't make that recall, you know.

And again, it's not like a dementia thing.

I know that I've been asked to get something, but I just can't remember what that was.

Yeah, yeah.

My mother, I genuinely think the reason I don't, I didn't realise I had it was because she was on my shoulder the whole time.

Do you know what I mean?