Hello today is a Saturday episode now I haven't done them for a couple of weeks and I do

apologize for that I apologize not only to you but to the people who run this

podcast the agency that is the ad agency because I didn't tell them and I just sort of,

just, it just, it just, it just, there just wasn't time and they get all the ads ready and then it wasn't an episode.

I've got a dog now.

I'm a person of dogness.

I have one.

I grew up with a dog as well. I was a when I was a baby we got a miniature

a long-haired miniature duxent. It was like a black one with a sort of you know they've got sort of lighter brown on their sort of, is it their chins?

I can't even remember now, but I know there's a big mixture of sort of black and brown or whatever.

And I didn't want to get the same dog but we did get the same dog except this one is

cream it's a cream miniatures and called Niocke and she basically looks like a

piece of Niocke I mean she's just this little

fluff ball who is on my lap as we speak. She's been I said the other no I haven't

said I haven't done this one yet because this comes out before Monday's one.

But in the intro to the episode of Alex Phillips, I talk about,

she's been a bit sad the last couple days.

But you're gonna hear all about that on Monday. She's been, well, no, what, you're going to hear about it now, because she came

here last week, she's 10 weeks old and she was causing all sorts of havoc and it was wonderful.

It was a lot of work and I haven't I've hardly slept for days.

By the way this is going to be a normal episode about things to do with the culture wars and all of those things.

And the last couple of days she suddenly just looked really lethargic, looks miserable, she just

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