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Giles Coren Has No Idea

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Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Giles and Esther traverse the week’s top news stories; from John Bercow stepping down as Speaker of the House of Commons to James Bond increasing rural Italian tourism. Esther enforces a new Coren family discipline regime and Giles professes his love for Gary Lineker.


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0:00.0

Welcome to Giles Corrin has no idea. It's called this not because I literally know nothing,

0:10.7

but because it's all about the moment in the week when I have to sit down and write my column but have absolutely no idea what to write it about, which is where my wife Esther comes in, who, having read all the papers whilst I take the kids to school always has half a dozen ideas

0:23.4

picked out for me when I get back to be discussed at the kitchen table over a nice

0:27.1

cup of coffee.

0:31.1

I mean it's sort of I can you don't even know what I've just come down from upstairs and what

0:37.5

chat with Dan that lovely Boilerman result so basically yes no that this been, I find it difficult to work when

0:43.6

this stuff and bits of my house are falling down and so where were we? About a

0:47.8

week ago, a couple of weeks the boiler was making a bit of a noise. It was sort of

0:51.9

in the morning, it was sort of going clucker-a-clucker-a-clucker-a-tucker.

0:54.0

Boilers make noises and so that's probably okay and I looked at the pressure gauge and it was down to about half a bar.

1:00.0

What happened was the boiler was making funny noises, then the kept cutting out then we called an electrician the electrician came around couldn't really find a problem with anything and then the electrician came back because all the lights kept cutting out and he looked inside our boiler which has already been

1:13.2

changed once since I've been living in this house and I've been living this house for

1:15.7

10 years and he found the boiler the electric's panel of the boiler was just full of

1:20.6

water and he opened the front of the boiler and loads of water fell out.

1:23.0

And it's sort of not for the first time.

1:25.8

Last year the electrics all went out in the house and I called Billy,

1:29.8

my old boiler guy who came with the house house who I felt I should employ him because he's a

1:35.3

good independent boiler is a nice guy and over the years I've got to know him and all about his wife

1:38.8

and his kids and all that but last year he rewired the boiler and the water all just all the wires were underneath the boiler and the water dripped onto them and that I'm not even a plumber

1:48.6

Although my grandfather was so I've got it in the genes so you know you have you have knowledge that water dripping on

1:53.7

electrics is bad. Bizarrely I felt it in my I felt it in my bones and

1:57.5

whenever anything went wrong Billy would come round and service the boiler but the boiler would be fine but every September he'd come round and service the boiler.

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