A considerate lover?
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther leave their kitchen to skim through this week's papers for a column idea; from Liz Truss U-turns and Emily Thornberry speeding, to being attractive over 50 and Meghan Markle's truth. Giles shows a worrying level of forgetfulness and Esther is concerned her son is manipulating her at dinnertime.
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| 0:00.0 | Waitrose have added more of your favourites to their new lower prices. |
| 0:03.6 | Or is it new, new, lower prices, or newer, new, lower prices? |
| 0:07.9 | Well, they've added more, so it could be more, newer, new, lower prices. |
| 0:11.6 | Or even the newest of new, lower prices on more. |
| 0:14.2 | Ernie, who? Waitrose have new, new, lower prices on hundreds of your favourites, |
| 0:19.4 | like apples, chicken, and those cheeky ginger nuts. Waitrose. |
| 0:23.0 | Food to feel good about. |
| 0:24.9 | Selected stores, subjects to availability, prices may vary in a little Waitrose channel islands and concessions. |
| 0:30.8 | Morning, Giles. Morning. |
| 0:33.8 | What is different about podcasts today? |
| 0:35.8 | The podcast today is going to be shit. |
| 0:36.8 | Oh, no, that's the same. That's different. |
| 0:38.8 | The different thing is that we have come to my office in North Soho, |
| 0:43.8 | Fashionable Pits of Lodia, where I come three or four times a week to work |
| 0:48.8 | and it's sort of shared office space and... |
| 0:50.8 | Why are we here? |
| 0:51.8 | It's largely because we've decided to put a door in a particular place |
| 0:57.8 | from our new bedroom into our new bathroom. |
| 1:00.8 | And the place we want to put the door, when they took the wall away, |
| 1:03.8 | they found that all the pipes in the house containing the hot water, |
| 1:06.8 | the cold water, the heating, and the gas, all ran down. |
| 1:09.8 | So they are diverting seven pipes in a sort of L-shape around the space |
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