"Christmas time, Terry's Mayo and Wine..."
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther try and find their final column idea of the year from the week's papers; from chocolate mayonnaise and England Women's Football to online car sales and the nuances of the Greek alphabet. Giles is readying himself for the end of the year and Esther is on the look out for her early Christmas present to herself.
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| 0:00.0 | As I say quite often on this podcast, you know, because everything is so easy to buy |
| 0:04.2 | and usually just a box arrives from Amazon and you scroll on it, wrap this for me on the 23rd |
| 0:08.9 | and they never even know what was in it. You've literally bought yourself an automobile, |
| 0:12.8 | literally bought yourself a car on the 1st of December. |
| 0:14.9 | And I hesitated ever buying myself a car because we had friendly fiesta who we loved so much |
| 0:20.8 | and then Freddie, God rest his household, he was a freshly-fred definitely boy. |
| 0:26.7 | Oh, let's say good girl, look after my girl when I took her into the shop |
| 0:29.7 | but Freddie is a boy. It's complicated. |
| 0:31.3 | Okay, all right, fine, whatever. So Freddie, unfortunately, is now in the in the great car show |
| 0:36.6 | of In the Sky. Well, the kids literally cried when she was, she was taken away to be scrapped. |
| 0:42.5 | Then I bought my eye go up with some trepidation because you telling me of all the perils of |
| 0:48.4 | car ownership, oh my God, it's so terrible looking after a car. It's so awful. Everyone's out to |
| 0:53.2 | screw you. Then I successfully bought and maintained with zero hassle, my red Toyota |
| 1:00.7 | Igo which I totally, totally loved. I had a very small change in financial circumstances which |
| 1:06.2 | have allowed me to upgrade to a red Kia Picanto which I purchased hassle-free and it's about to be |
| 1:13.2 | delivered now. |
| 1:37.2 | Is there a car story we can peg into to sort of? A car story. It's a pegging a rude thing. |
| 1:43.2 | Pegging is a really rude thing, yes super rude. I actually only learnt what it was a few months ago. |
| 1:47.3 | As did you, I believe. You were. Not by doing it. No, I don't think you can. I don't think I do |
| 1:52.7 | know. Does it take more than two people? Can we tour the house? Okay, so I think, I think and I |
| 1:59.2 | think this is probably your colour, actually. There's my colour, we don't have to do any of the other |
| 2:02.8 | items. You can just do this and break for Christmas no more podcasts till when Ben, like June, |
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