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Friday, April the 15th.

It's Good Friday, although to be honest, if you look back in history, it wasn't that great.

It's just that we now celebrate it because we go, oh, good Friday. It's a holiday.

We don't think about anything else at all. We think about the Easter eggs, which actually,

if you leave them till Monday, they'll be much cheaper.

You know, and if the kids go, oh, it's like Christmas presents.

You know, the kid goes, oh, I want this present. And then you just have to say, I'm sorry, Father Christmas has run out of those. You know, you can have it in the new year, okay, when they're cheaper.

Because everything goes up in price. It's quite ridiculous.

Anyway, it's nice to have your company. I trust that if you are going off on holiday today,

your flight takes off. You don't have to stand there for hours at the airport,

but I was sneaking feeling there's going to be hundreds of flights which are going to be cancelled. They just don't have the staff. British Airways, I was

told the other day, I read it, were offering £1,000 per, what was it, per person to work

on board the planes from other airlines. They were looking to poach people. And so they were

offering £500 straight away.

And then the other spread over a period of months because they're looking for people to come and

work the planes because they can't do it. They don't have enough staff because they lost staff.

And then other people were sort of suffering during the pandemic. And it's never quite recovered.

You know, I think today there was supposed to be 9,000 flights taking off from airports,

9,000 flights. How many will actually make it? I've got no idea.

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