Across the UK, across continental North America, at around the world on the internet by webcast

and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

I hope everything is going well for you, the temperature has nose-dived in London as I'm

recording this.

I'm looking out at a very grey sky and there are four casts for the coming weekend where

I'm recording this, of sleet and snow.

Woopie, you know how much I love all of that and how much I look forward and it's almost

like a kid with an advent calendar counting off the days to the spring.

I just wanted to be over and they're talking about new variants of Covid and all sorts of

other stuff.

So, there's a lot to be wanting to escape from it all for, I think and I'm hoping that

the unexplained is one of those things that allows you at times to be able to look elsewhere

and maybe have a look at the big picture.

I know the overall picture of life, not just today, this week, next month, next year but

you know, cosmicly, if that's the word.

I don't know, you can tell me.

Thank you very much for some lovely supportive emails that have come in recently.

This has not been a good time.

I've been doing the setup on the podcast myself and my radio producer has left to write

a book so I'm having to get even more involved in the setting up of that.

It's been a stressor.

But I won't trouble you with all of that cos a lot of people have much deeper and more

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