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Morning everybody.

Welcome along to your free podcast for today, Tuesday, the 7th of December.

Actually, it's a good day today.

It's a very, very good day.

In fact, it's an even exceptional day today.

I was checking because I've got all these bills coming up at the end of January

and I wanted to make sure that I've got all the right money in the right accounts.

And you know, surprisingly, I have.

I have. I've got a tax bill to pay at the end of January, got the money there.

I've got a mortgage shortfall to pay.

Money's all there.

And we haven't even been paid for Christmas yet.

Goodness sake, honestly, is there any end to the excitement and then the next day driving out somewhere else. We'll be, we'll be using up a good tank of petrol quite easily, I should imagine.

Meanwhile, over in the wonderful world of show business,

from the ring to the rink, that can only mean ice skating.

People love ice-assette.

I'm really not big into it.

I have done it, but I'm not, you you know I'm all right just going in a straight line

but I can't turn corners so I can go straight ahead cling onto the barrier turn myself around and then go off in another direction because you can't do it any other way just it just does not work and I've tried to do it and then the worst thing is when you take the skates off if you've been on them for more than an hour and you take your skates off, you can barely stand up. Because all

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