... and this is the end of your 20s.

Yes.

So I was 28 when that was the case.

So I'd just done my first solo show, and that was the sixth Edinburgh that I'd done after doing Lady Garden for years.

And it was a lot of money to do it, and it was a lot of effort, and I'd r- I'd worked really hard, and then suddenly everything I'd worked hard for I couldn't do anymore.

So all the auditions that were coming through, I had to say, "I can't do this because I've got to have a surgery.

You know, this is urgent surgery." So I secured my paid job, 'cause I was working at a advertising agency at the time, and then went off to have the surgery.

Yeah, no, there is