Hi, Ian.

Hello.

I have had a rather frustrating train trip.

And if this was with my train cancelled halfway through

if this was a normal for the many we would now as one of my close contacts described it the other

day drivel on about that for quite a long time but we're doing it slightly differently tonight

aren't we? Because frankly,

me being delayed on a train is flipping nothing compared to what we've seen this week.

No, we are going to be a bit more serious than usual, but because the circumstances dictate it.

And we are this time going to be much shorter than usual, aren't we?

We are going to discipline ourselves, not least, because you have gadding plans.

Well, I need to, yes, I need to get a bit of joy in my life.

It's quite.

So, we are recording this at 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon.

And it's quite difficult to judge whether this has got, the invasion of Ukraine has gone as the Russians expected it to.

My feeling is that it hasn't and that they are encountering more resistance.

They will prevail.

That's quite clear. But if you look at the numbers of casualties, Russian soldiers that have been killed, the tanks that have been destroyed,

all that sort of thing, I think that that has gone worse for them than they thought. I think they

thought they would be in the middle of Kiev by now and they're not.

That seems to be, I haven't followed much of the news since about this morning.

But even this morning, the suggestion was that the, as you say, the military attack had not gone quite as planned, although there are now troops, I think, on the outskirts of Keith, aren't there, was the suggestion.

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