Okay Tim, good to go when you are.

Cue the music. right into Dear Lovejoy Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast and it's a mailbag special.

Woohoo!

There's always a must warn you that I will be giving advice on this podcast

and I must also remind you that I'm not trained at finance, medicine or any form of therapy.

So if you do take advice

off me, you'll take advice off a TV presenter. Whatever way you dress that up, that is a horrible,

terrible, terrible, terrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible idea. Mark is here. You can hear him

there to keep me in check. How are you, Mark? Hi, Tim. Hi, everyone. How are you, Tim? I'm all right. Well, I've got a few things to talk to you about.

But first of all, 2018, how was it for you?

Was it a good one?

Yeah, I mean, I think it was sort of as mediocre as all the other years in my life, I would say.

It wasn't particularly high, I wasn't particularly low. and I still think 2012 was the best year of my life. That's the problem.

It will be, there will be a year.

It's probably, for most people, it'll be, probably,

there'll be summer in your late teens, which is unbelievable.

Yeah, like 96, 97, 98 for me when it was Oasis and football and all that.

Getting drunk, you know, meeting a partner, all that stuff. and then there'll be one probably in your 20s

and then the rest especially when you've got kids and stuff I'm not being down here no no no the rest sort of all just going yeah it's just a sort of long stretch of mediocrity which is fine but you have to judge things on your little achievements um what achievements have I Well, I had a backup and I've recovered from that.

When did you?

Yeah, I never talked about it.

You should have talked about that in the podcast.

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