Hello and welcome to the first for the many podcast of 2020.

Jackie is in her home. I'm in my home. Happy new year. Happy new year to you, Ian. Have you had a lovely Christmas break?

I've had a very restful break. Um, back to work on Monday, but effectively that will be 17 days off,

which I think is the longest I've had off in ages. And I feel completely rested. My cough seems to

have disappeared, which is good. And looking forward to

getting back into the fray. I haven't really done anything apart from write the book and watch

box sets. That's just, that's rather typical, I haven't really done anything. Oh, apart from I've

written the book. I have actually written quite a lot.

I think at the beginning of the Christmas break, I was on 77,000 words and I've now

on 115.

So I have actually been quite a busy beaver.

No, no, no.

You can't insert beaver into the...

That doesn't even work, much as I like a beaver.

I've visited my sister's beaver yesterday.

Which for the new listeners,

is her, the name of her house.

Just to make that quite clear.

I had to go to my auntie's funeral.

Which, so I saw a lot of family.

Oh my God. It was quite embarrassing because do you remember,

I don't even if we talked about this on the podcast,

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