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Hello and I hope you don't mind as popping up in your feed like this. We're here on the wrong day.

Yeah, we're the unexpected guests. It's like when the Vicar Pop's round.

Yeah. Which never actually happens in real life. It used to happen 70s sitcoms.

Every episode of every sitcom, I feel. Terri and June.

Less fashionable these days. I mean, of course you've got the priest in Fleabag,

which is not quite the same thing, but maybe it's the evolution of it.

Yeah. Anyway, we're getting rather off-topic. We are getting off-topic.

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