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So you've had an email from Ken. Yes.

Should we row back just a tiny bit? Well, I don't know how we would do.

Do you know what we had a really funny email from someone who's six-year-old daughter

was made to listen to this at the kitchen table while doing some crafting?

What was the horrible hurtful thing I should say?

These two women don't make any sense at all, mummy,

packed up her craft stuff and left. Well, job done.

The BBC is proud to bring you, fortunately, with fee and gin.

Another collection of the random and unrelated from fee-lover and gin-garvey.

No, handily available in podcast form.

I'm going to sum this up in brief as if we were heading towards the news.

It's been like the news. Yes, it is.

So you could lightly hum a theme tune, like the five live news theme tune in the background

because then I know that in a Pavlovian response, I have to stop before the cadence.

But you've got that slightly awkward 17 seconds to talk now, so have a back.

Here we go. A very kind listener called Nick Johnston noticed on an auction website

for Ukraine that a lunch with Ken Follett at the Ritz was being offered.

So I bid for it on your... Well, to gift to you, actually.

So somebody else quite rightly bid for it.

And I thought, OK, well, that's going to be it.

It would have been nice, but it wasn't going to come to fruition.

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