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Morning everybody, welcome along, Shaw, Little Bit Extra podcast for today, Thursday, April the 14th, as we get ever nearer the bank holiday weekend. That's what people think it is. They don't think it's got any religious connotation. They just go, it's holiday time. So people book, they go away. It's like we buy

Easter eggs. I don't think anybody thinks about what goes on in church or anything like that. That's

been long forgotten, long forgotten. Whether you get away or not, I have no idea. I hope so. I hope so. But I know that there's going to be loads of flights cancelled.

There's pictures in the paper of a few of these mindless idiots being carried away because they've been boycotting the filling stations and stuff like that.

They all look a bit like, you know, they've got a few screws loose. And so we sort of look at them with pity, really.

But it's so interesting to sort of see them

all they spend their life doing is sitting on their fat bums

doing nothing at all you know complaining about this that and the other

and you think you're not going to get anything you certainly don't get any sympathy from the public

the public hate them absolutely hate them and they all look as they've got let's just call it

issues much safer to call them issues isn't't it? But no, every will be at the garden centres this weekend. It's going to be a busy time.

This is where, you know, the people rush out and buy plants. We're going to fill up all the pots on Saturday.

So a couple of friends and me will fill that. We've got about 30 to fill up. We've got the earth. In fact, I might actually have to go and get some more earth today.

But we've got all the earth to do it, fill them all up,

and then pop some little plants in, which is sort of coming along quite nicely.

And then hopefully if we get some decent weather for the next few weeks,

which would be nice.

I don't mind the rain.

The rain doesn't bother me in the slightest.

But a little bit of sunshine. And I'm just, I'm delighting

in ordering plants by post. I can't believe it. It's so exciting. I mean, I bought some stuff

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