More Rosebud - Gyles's Diary episode 50
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Why does September feel like a new beginning for Giles and many listeners?
Mm-hmm.
Welcome to the world of rosebud. It's a Tuesday when this is dropping, which means that this is more rosebud. We don't mind when you listen. We're just thrilled that you are listening. I say we because well with more rosebud, it isn't just me, Giles Brandruth, it's my friend, colleague, producer, Harriet Jane. Harriet, how are you today? Oh
fine, thanks, Giles.
How is 'cause this we're putting this out in September twenty twenty six, whenever you listen to it, that's when we're putting it out. How is September for you as a month?
Oh, that's a big question. Um it definitely Never goes away, does it, the September feeling?
That's interesting. Because I've been thinking about it because we're going on already today with my diaries. And my diaries are beginning a new decade as well as a new year.
They're
going to be starting on the first of january, nineteen eighty, in a moment. But I've been reflecting this September. that the year for me still, even though I don't have I'm not at school anymore, university, neither are my children or even well, my grandchildren are. But I still feel that the year sort of begins in September.
Yeah. I think a lot of people do, and I think I do.
And I have September collywobbles.
Yeah.
I have a sense of apprehension, anxiety, anticipation, some of it's quite exhilarating. Oh, we're gonna get this done, that done. I began September in almost a a manic state and then at that week when I think a lot of the schools did go back, and certainly I was very conscious of it because I had grandchildren going back to school, going back to university, and one of them Starting his first job. A gra
is exciting.
Well, it's amazing. He's a a graduate and he got a job.
That is amazing. I mean
genuinely, people have told me in this world and his parents and other people said, Take the job. Whatever it is, take the job. At least you've got a job. And I saw him the day before and he was getting his hair cut
and
he'd worked out he should wear a suit. Uh and he should wear a white shirt and take a pocket uh take a a tie in his pocket. You know, and he thought he was going to go by tube and then take a bicycle and then he thought, Well, yeah, I don't want to arrive sweaty on the first day, so he'd take a tube to a and all that. But the the company were very decent because they said, Come all everybody come at eight AM and all had breakfast together.
The new
recruits. So the twenty of them joining the company on the same day. All getting so but that all that also added to my sense of
new term
beginnings. New beginnings. Yeah are you a bit like that in September?
Oh, definitely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean Can I say something? A bit depressing.
Of course. It is I
hope people I know, I know, sorry guys, listeners. I don't mean to bring the mood down. I think I'm quite a jolly person, but also, as you know, in my past there's tragedy. Yeah. My mum took her own life in September, on the twenty ninth of September. And I remember someone saying to me That sometimes people do that. At times of hope. and n and newness and renewal because they think I don't have that feeling or they feel unable or un unable to meet it or to to yeah. And I I often think of September as being a difficult time for people. I mean yeah, for s if you've got that sense of excitement and things to do and get on with, then it's a good time 'cause you feel like you do, productive and hooray, I'm getting gonna pack my satchel and get my new school uniform on and, you know, it that's fun.
Put all my pencils in colour coded order. Um And if you're the sort of person that really enjoys all of that, then I think September's a good time. But I think if for whatever reason you feel your life isn't quite going as you'd like to, then it it's a it's a time of reckoning and of reassessment and And possibly for someone like my mum she just thought, Oh, my life really isn't where I w want it to be
How did Giles’s grandson’s first job and the company breakfast shape his view of new beginnings?
But sorry, can I say this on a podcast? It feels I don't know there are
No.
Oh no, I feel terrible about m I don't know, I don't want to Well, the reason I I don't want to make people think really dismal thoughts at this time of year because I think September is essentially a great time and a time of potential and of getting things.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why does September feel like a new beginning for Giles and many listeners?
0:14–4:30
2
How did Giles’s grandson’s first job and the company breakfast shape his view of new beginnings?
4:30–9:06
3
What impact did the tragic loss of Giles’s mother in September have on his diary reflections?
9:06–22:55
4
How does Giles describe Margaret Thatcher’s influence on 1980‑era Britain and his business ambitions?
22:55–32:59
5
What memories does Giles share about the Sooty & Sweep show and the introduction of the character Sue?
32:59–36:26
6
How did the 1980 book‑packaging venture with Beatrix Potter titles launch Giles’s publishing career?
36:26–40:09