This is Steve Allen's A Little Bit Extra, leading Britain's conversation. You're listening to our podcast of Steve Allen.

Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today, Wednesday. Wait for it. Pinch and a punch for the first day of the month.

Because you've now got 25 days to get the shopping done, the tree up, order the turkey, all to the vegetables, and then it'll be over in about a few hours.

Because we're now into December, which is very nice. Went out yesterday. Nice, long drive down the motorway.

The trouble is in my car, it's actually quite nice to long drive. You kind of get the full benefit.

The trouble is it's so easy to put your foot down. It's very comfy ride, very comfy. It's like sitting in an armchair, but the trouble is, you know,

you look down at the speedo and you go, oh my God, I'm doing

83 miles an hour.

You have to sort of, because it just, it just

glides, it really does. So I was

intrigued when I picked up the papers this morning

just to see what everybody was talking about,

people are talking about Christmas and buying trees. And we went to a garden centre for lunch, which turned out to be breakfast.

We had breakfast instead of lunch, which was quite nice.

Admittedly, I do hate it when garden centres put on a breakfast and quite clearly it's been microwaved.

You can tell what they do is they put all the stuff on the plate, stick in the microwave, it's hot,

and of course beans dry up immediately.

And it just looked a bit sad and tired.

But, you know, there you go.

Anyway, a Boxing Day premiere.

And Leanne Pinnock turns up, narrowly avoiding, although, to be honest with you,

I think the press were a bit naughty.

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