It starts in November.

Christmas catch up. Let's do diaries.

Oh, that clashes with my work, do.

That's the day of the nativity.

We're booked to see Santa.

We're out picking a tree.

There's in-laws to visit, pantomimes to see.

I've got to write a thousand Christmas cards.

Until, somehow, we're here.

Four friends, having our Costa Christmas catch-up.

We should do this more often.

Get together this Christmas around the festive nutcracker range at Costa.

Costa Coffee.

The Bert Show.

As I understand it, with any healthy relationship, they are built on compromise.

One person's compromise, the other one's happy, then it goes back and forth like that, right?

So what if the compromise means that one person in the relationship pretty much has to give up their life for the other person's dream?

Now you got problems.

That's what our email is about here.

Dear Bird Show, I need your help. I have my dream job, my career job in the palm of my hands.

My dream job is to be in law enforcement. The job that I am currently at pays decent. But in order

to make the move to my dream job, some sacrifices have to be made. My wife would have to quit her job to stay at home to be with the kids.

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