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Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. It's Monday. It's June the 20th.

It's very exciting, actually. We like it. And the good news, well, I say the good news or the bad news saturday i was expecting you know sunny weather so i drove down to essex to go and see my my godchildren

two of whom were on holiday well i say two of my godchildren one of my godchildren and their their partners

are on holiday and um and it was a bit nippy there was a bit of a wind in the air and all the rest of it. And then we sort of checked. We went out to do a little bit of shopping. Went to a garden centre and bought some roses and stuff like that, which was all very nice. And I remember sort of thinking, God, it's nippy. And then it rained a little bit. But unfortunately, it didn't just rain, rain, did it? It was that blooming sandback again.

We've got the sandback, so I had to take the car into the car wash yesterday

because I was going out to this Marlabone day out.

Oh, I'll tell you what.

This is where they take over Marilabone High Street,

and they've got lots of stalls,

and they're selling, I mean, basically, I mean, Chorus, you know, those sort of, seven quid, seven quid for a little tub, which, sorry, let me just turn my little headphones up a bit.

And I remember thinking, I mean, most of the stuff I thought was overpriced beyond belief.

For example, they had some market traders there flogging strawberries and cherries and

pomegranates.

But the pomegranates that I saw looked a bit ropy, so we didn't touch those.

I didn't touch any of it, actually.

And what he'd done is he'd taken some strawberries, cut them and put them into a plastic

cup, and you've got probably about eight strawberries in there.

Seven quid they were charging.

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