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Hello, my lovely betwixters.

It's me, Kate Lister, you are listening to Bertwix the Sheets.

So I hope you are in the right place, strapped in, buckled up, ready to go.

But before we can go anywhere at all, I have to tell you,

this is an adult podcast

spoken by adults, to other adults about adulty things, and an adulty way covering a range of

adult subjects and you should be an adult too. Have you managed to tick all of those boxes?

If there is even one that you cannot cross off your list, then we don't want you here,

quite frankly, pack up your stuff and be off with you. For the rest of you, on with the show.

You might know this by now, but Twixters,

but I am a lover, a proficientado, if you will, of the scented world.

All right, fine, no one's ever called me that, but I call myself that.

I like perfumes.

I do, I'm a proper perfume, girly.

Ask anyone, they'll tell you that I smell amazing. And if they don't, I'll kick them in the shins. But perfumes and scents can connect

us to the past in a way that other sensory triggers just can't. Whether that's the smell

of freshly cooked grass taking you back to long summer days of your youth,

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