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The second of...

I can't you see.

Already we're on to the 2nd of December.

Already, it was only yesterday.

It was the first.

We're all going, oh, we've got loads of time.

And I've suddenly thought, we haven't we're going to be racing through

I mean this weekend will be the weekend for buying the Christmas tree hopefully it'll be the

weekend I mean they're all running adverts saying you know get your turkey frozen or crown

frozen or you can buy it fresh in certain supermarkets and then pop it into the freezer and then

you've got the food sorted because the whole idea, as I said the other day, about

having Christmas is to make it as stress free as possible.

Who the hell wants to be sort of rushing round at the last minute?

And I do see people on Christmas Eve staggering out of supermarkets with trolleys piled high,

like, you know, World War 7 has been declared or something and we're going to run out of supermarkets with trolleys piled high, like, you know, World War

Seven has been declared or something, and we're going to run out of food. And you think, no, wait

a minute, they'll all be open the day after tomorrow, so you don't need to worry about anything.

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