I'd like to apologise on behalf of Miss Jackie Smith for the munching sounds that you can no doubt here.

She's had a very busy day and she's stuffing her face with her lunch as I speak. She's slowly masticating.

Which, as I'm in my office, excuse me talking with my mouthful. Just a minute.

She's in her office at the University of Birmingham Hospital's Trust, sitting on her throne with all her servants at her feet.

As it happens, I am sitting, you were right, I am in my office, because I couldn't get home in time.

I don't want people to think that I'm using

hospital time for making the podcast. What has happened is I couldn't get home in time

because of all the meetings I've had today to do the podcast at home. So I'm stuck here to do it.

You've been all the very important high-level meetings you've had today.

Ops, mate.

OBS.

And when you talk about Throne, what I'm actually sitting on is a slightly dodgy old office chair, which, you know those chairs that go up and down?

Well, essentially, this one only goes down.

So it sort of deflates during the course of the day.

So I have to keep standing up and pulling the little lever, so comes back up again and I do not have lots of servants but I have some

a fabulous PA and a couple of other PAs who are in the same office who are equally fabulous

I just said to them I'm going to record the podcast so think of a question I came back from

getting my sandwiches head we can't really think of anything. Charming. Yeah, so I said, well,

I can't say anything nice about you. I bet they have better staff in East London.

Oh, stop. And better office furniture, too. You could say that I am D-Mob happy. Here I am eating my sandwich in my office,

just doing my podcast because they can't fire me because I'm on the way anyway.

I mean, no one would I think there was a pandemic on, would there?

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