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for the price of 11. Terms apply. So my day if you want to know started in the garden when I got up quite late actually. We went for dinner

with some friends on just about 20 minute walk up the road last night, absolutely lovely dinner,

got back. I was exhausted, went straight to bed and slept for

very nearly nine hours.

That's a long for you.

Very long for anyone, really.

Very long for me. So it's almost 9 o'clock when I woke up, which was late, quite late. Yeah. But I was pretty relaxed. The sun was shining. I made a cup of tea because I like tea in the mornings, not coffee.

And I took my mug of tea out to the garden where I like to sit with the cats and just slowly wake up and I did that, rubbed my eyes a bit, sat around,

listen to the aeroplanes approaching he throw and the birds tweeting in the

trees and all that sort of thing. Watch the cats fighting.

Just generally chilled and all that sort of thing.

Fire up my phone because unfortunately it's 2024

and that's what people do. Just check to see what was going on in the world and saw lots of World Tour teams saying,

off we go!

Stage 5 of the Dauphine is up and running.

I looked at my watch, it's like 930.

And I went, that's unusual. What's going on? And only then did I realize that today's

stage was supposed to finish two hours before it's normally supposed to finish

which is a big surprise and I got straight on the old what's up to you yeah and I was

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