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This is Steve Allen's A Little Bit Extra, leading Britain's conversation. You're listening to our

podcast of Steve Allen. Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. We didn't have on yesterday.

And the reason was, of course, that the internet collapsed. I suddenly realized how much we rely on the

internet. You rely on your internet, your telephone, everything. Because one minute I was sitting

in the office watching another thing that was making me cry on YouTube. And the next minute, it just went, click. And I thought, oh, because one minute I was sitting in the office watching another thing that

was making me cry on YouTube, and the next minute it just went, click. And I thought,

oh, perhaps I've got the passwords wrong or something. But then we found out it was everybody.

The entire building was affected by it, but it's okay now. And across the country, but it was all

fine within half an hour, 40 minutes, something like that, two hours.

And then it came back on again, which was lovely.

Very nice indeed.

And yesterday I did my VAT, which I thought was very good of me.

I was very pleased about that.

So I then, because what I have to do, I have to sort of add it. If you do your own VAT, you'll know this.

And then I emailed the figure over to my accountant, and he then worked out how much the VAT was, because I'm on flat rate.

Whoopee.

And then he then sends me the figure back, which I knew anyway before I sent it over.

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