On the first day of Christmas my true love said to me

Rip up the chariot

Forget about the telly

Let's play scratch cards

Coins out to scratching

Everybody laughing better not be cheating

And the chance to win a pound or three

Add some play to Christmas

With scratch cards from the National Lottery.

Please gift responsibly. Rules and procedures apply.

Players and gifters must be 18 or over.

And the chance to win a pound or three. Hello and welcome history friends, patrons, to episode 62 of the 30 Years' War.

Coming to you live from my old bedroom in Kilcuhl County Wick Wicklow because let's just say in the last week

things haven't gone exactly according to plan that whole 10th birthday thing yeah technology kind of got in the

way that basically my old laptop died after 12 long years of service and because i don't just have the money

lying around to drop it on a new laptop, I'm kindly

borrowing my sisters, the same sister who's responsible for doing so much good editing.

So thanks for that, Sarah.

And thanks to you for your patience, as always.

This brings me to a handy little reminder if you would like to support this podcast

monetarily.

Now would really be a great time to do so, considering the fact that I now have to drop money on basically

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