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Welcome along to your free podcast for today, Friday, September the 30th.

Now, I don't know if you got the thing through that I got.

Well, you might not have done.

It was basically from the gas board saying you need to today fill in the,

you know, the meter reading and you send it off. You should have had an email or a text or whatever

it was and then they said we will because these price increases coming from the first of October

which is tomorrow. Okay, because today's the 30th. And and I thought about it so this morning when I was

waiting for the car I'd already started doing it you just click on the link that they give you and it

takes you to your bit of the website you don't have to remember numbers or anything else are you

this person you put in your mobile phone number and then you put in the meter reading and then

just send it off that's it it. They will then calculate.

Well, as you know, I don't use gas. I have made my boiler redundant as you know.

And so what happens is, I just have to pay the standing charge, which I'm assuming will go up as well.

Everything's going to go up. There's no way that you can avoid it.

So I did that. I felt a bit better about life, actually.

I felt a lot better about life, much better. Eddie Redmayne, hacking on the PDA, which is

public display of affection with his glamorous wife, Hannah. They went to the BFI luminous fundraising

gala in London. I watched a great programme on telly last night and it was expensive properties

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