Okay folks, you are listening to Planet Porky, or should I say welcome to the latest edition of Planet Porky.

I am the Portmeister with me in the studio today.

Delighted to have with me, Leslie Ann Jones.

I'm delighted too.

Thank you.

Now, Leslie Ann, you mentioned a little bit about the state of my heart.

A couple of podcasts ago.

And as I said, I never talk about my health.

I don't like to mention it and all that kind of stuff.

However, that has prompted a few inquiries.

And so just to let everybody know I mean a brief resume

is that I had acute heart failure 15 years ago I was on the heart transplant list everybody knows this and eventually I took myself off because life had come to a standstill, took a bit of a risk.

But I've been very lucky and I've got through over these last 15 years.

Every now and then I get a dip because you have to be quite ruthless in your discipline

of your life.

Not supposed to drink alcohol at all. I do have the

odd sherbet because in the business we work in, it would be impossible not to. And sometimes my

exercise regime slips because I simply haven't got time to walk, you know, 20 or 25 miles a week,

which you have to do to keep in shape. And the other sort of

things, now that I've got diabetes, you have to watch sugar intake, all that kind of stuff.

So anyway, a bit of a dip at the moment. I'm going to put all that right. And I thought I'd just

let people know that things are changing all the time. For instance, I have a new consultant,

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