Hello and welcome to Series 7 episode 5 of Out with Susie Ruffle.

Hello. First off I need to apologize. This episode is coming to you a little bit late

this week because look it's been a bank holiday weekend and I

forgot that it was Sunday that's the that's the honest truth we went to my

parents for a little Easter break which was very welcome and went and had ice creams on the beach and my mom cooked some lovely food it was great but it did mean that I totally lost my bearings and yesterday it's

bank holiday Monday now yesterday my producer Emma got in touch and said

Sus you haven't sent over the top and tail for this week's episode that you know the beginning in the end bit and the end bit and I said no I haven't because I thought

it was still Saturday even though it's very much not and I am not with my recording equipment so it didn't happen did it guys it didn't

happen but now it is five to eight on Monday morning Monday the 10th of

April 2023,

and I'm late, but I'm here.

Better like they never, right?

So I'm sorry that this is a little bit late

if you were planning on listening to it first thing in the morning.

My apologies. Here it is now.

So I've had loads of lovely emails about last week's episode of the podcast with David

Atherton. He's lovely isn't he? We had such a nice chat. Yeah, we just had a lovely time, it was really nice.

Thank you so, so much for your lovely emails. He was so honest and thoughtful and compassionate and interesting.

If you haven't listened to that one yet, I highly recommend it. and And I've had some lovely tour shows, thank you if you've been to one of them.

Oh, I'm having a blast on the road. It's so fun. This week I'm going to Bradford and Lester.

Very much looking forward to those two shows. So maybe if you're coming I'll see you there

And yeah we've announced another week at the so-ho theater if you didn't manage to come or if you

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