Hi guys hope you've been having a good week now as some of you know it was my birthday this Monday the 21st of March

Thank you to those of you who got in touch and to those of you who didn't for keeping me grounded the world can't come to a halt because of my

birthday and I can be a bit precious about it so you know I've actually been down

with COVID so it's been a rubbish birthday. I had to cancel my plans to go back to

London and see my family they were all upset

and then they've been calling to check how I am and I don't want to talk because I'm

in pain I'm still in pain I thought I was impervious somehow to COVID, been waiting two years for those two red lines to pop up on the test.

And when it did, it felt like affirmation, you know, like I'd finally advanced to the next level of being or something.

Of course I know it's a serious illness that nobody would really want and it's sort of

knocked me and wholly my girlfriend for six.

We've just been, you know, that by the way the way is a Britishism to be knocked for six.

It comes from cricket.

Just means you've been, you know, I don't know, sort of sort of flabbergasted by something.

Anyway, I had to cancel and postpone two interviews unfortunately, but luckily I'm far enough ahead that it won't affect things for you guys.

I spent that time sort of knocked out in bed and I was bad I was bad but I spent it productively I

signed up to an online course to learn how to make a better YouTube channel for example that

one's that's going well now and I decided to start a free newsletter called The Weekly Edge.

Now that's the news I wanted to tell you about today.

It's going to come out on Monday mornings and Mondays will never be the same.

Well I mean you get the podcast anyway on Mondays as

well as Thursdays now but now you're gonna have an accompaniment like cheese

with wine if I knew more about that stuff I would have said a specific cheese and wine that go together well, but I don't have that kind of cultural

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