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Sponsor, Standard Life. This is Steve Allen's A Little Bit Extra, leading Britain's conversation.

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Morning everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast for today, Wednesday, July the 20th.

All very, very exciting and now the weather's turned. Brilliant. Love it. Absolutely love it.

It's freezing cold. So now we're all going to catch pneumonia. So one minute we're all sweltering and trying to get sleep and then, you know, you can't sleep because you're sort of tossing and turning and you need a fan on in the bedroom and then everybody's going, but day. And so I watered the plants. I was out there

last night watering everything, thinking at least it will last a little bit longer when it's a bit

sort of like that. Today I've got a couple of bits and pieces to do. And meanwhile my brother

goes night fishing. My brother is doing four nights of night fishing. So he's sleeping during the

daytime and I don't get it

myself, but that's just the way it goes. And then the papers are full of another dreary picture of

the boring old beckhams. Dave apparently in a tiny pair of pink swimming trunks. Well, they're not.

They're just a little pair of shorts. And so, you know, Victoria has to sort of put a picture of him there. I'm not really sure why. Perhaps

they're so insecure they have to do that. They were out on their little tugboat the other day

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