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Good morning. I was going to say happy birthday because it's the first anniversary of the podcast today. So happy birthday to us. And it was your birthday yesterday. It was Ian. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a rather difficult week for me. I will let our listeners know because my very lovely dad died earlier on in the week,

peacefully and at home probably as well as you could have expected,

but as you well know, Ian, something like that is sort of body blow,

not only to me but to my family.

So I haven't been wholly on top of the news this week.

No, it is, well, everyone who's gone through it knows what an awful experience it is.

And particularly, I lost my mum first about six years ago and then my dad about nearly two years ago now.

And you never quite know how to prepare for something like that because you can't really

because obviously they've been such an intrinsic part of your life and have done so much for you.

I mean, how do you, I think that it's difficult to cope initially, obviously.

There's a huge amount of shock, even if you kind of knew that it was coming.

But in the long term, and maybe I shouldn't say this, but things are never the same again.

I'm sure that's right, because we were close family and, you know, we do a lot of things together.

He'd been married to my mum for 56 years and so we'll always miss him, but we'll always be able to also have with us the sort of lovely memories that we have of him.

And when somebody's been ill for a while as well,

there's also, I think, a sense that you can stop thinking about them as the ill bit,

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