Hello and welcome to contemplations and that is going to be the last time I ever say that because this is the end.

This is me talking about a retrospective of my series.

It's been, what, three years of my life that I've spent working on this series so

Obviously an immense amount of time and yes it's not that I'm necessarily going anywhere as far as I'm aware.

It's simply that within low-seaters I'm moving on to bigger and better things.

And so expect more polished work.

I can't quite spoil it yet I think Carl is the one

announcing what's going to be replacing it but look forward to it but I suppose it's

going to be me naval gazing talking about all the work that I've done giving

you some of the behind the scenes insight in the work that's gone into it and my sort of

thought processes so if you're interested as well as this being a sort of guide to

for years of my work you know is 170 episodes in total so this is going to be 171 I believe and yeah I hope you enjoy but I suppose

Before I start talking about the actual series itself I would like to I suppose talk about my feelings about

it ending and I suppose the way I feel about it and I've not written any notes just

so you know it's from the heart I don't want to be disingenuous obviously

yeah I'm immensely proud of the work I put out I've really tried my hardest

to communicate things as accurately as possible and you know sometimes it's not always

being as accurate as I would have liked but in the confines of working in this industry I feel like I did the best that I could with the resources I had

mostly in terms of time, because of course I had to make one every week and sometimes I had even

less time than that with sickness and holidays.

So I've really worked my hardest to make sure that I've put out the best work for you, the audience.

And, you know, when I initially started it was for my behalf I saw it as a means of being

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