So Jane, we are meeting again during our week to record this little bit. Hello, by the way.

Hello. This little bit of extra welcome welcome before we head into the

fortunately podcast because we recorded what you're about to hear earlier in the week,

obviously, before the Queen had died. So we need to mark a very different tone, I think, don't we?

We do. And actually, whilst we totally understand that not everybody is sad or in any way

overwhelmed, there are many of us who actually have been slightly taken by surprise by how we are

feeling. And in my case, it's just sort of gentle, discombobulational, perhaps a bit more than that.

I don't know. What about you? Exactly the same. So when I went to bed last night, I thought,

gosh, she's lived an extraordinary life and actually to be in one of your favorite places in

the world with your family nearby when you die at the age of 96 is quite a blessing in many ways.

So I didn't feel kind of overwhelmed with a sadness, but when I woke up this morning,

I did feel a bit discombobulated. There's a sense of such enormous change. So no matter, so she

has just framed our lives and it doesn't really almost doesn't matter to stay how far away you

might feel you were from that frame. It was still a frame to our lives, wasn't it? So it is a strange

day full of, I think, lots of different thoughts really. Yes, lots of different thoughts. And we welcome

your thoughts too. And it's something that we really hope to revisit in more detail in next week's

edition. Yes, we know that you can contact us and tell us, perhaps how you heard the news or how

the news made you feel. And also, I'm acutely aware that other people will have lost somebody

dear to them perhaps yesterday. So that will be really very strange and they'll have their own

very personal and very important suffering to endure. And then people who'll just be reminded

of other people who've died who are close to them. So just a just an absolute so many different

emotions and so many different views of what's happened and how we think about what's happened.

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