Last minute party, what will I bring them something unexpected?

Let's play scratch cards.

Trying to find something a bit different.

Why not add some play to Christmas with scratch cards from the National Lottery?

Pick them up in store now.

Please gift responsibly. Rules and procedures apply.

Players and gifters must be 18 or over.

Hello and welcome to When Diplomacy Fails Podcast. Thanks very much for stopping by. And if this is your first time listening to this podcast, I hope you'll listen to the other episodes in the Franco-Dutch War and that you'll familiarize yourself with the era and place what you're about to hear in more context.

Everyone else, thanks again for putting your faith in me to cover a conflict as sprawling

and as widely ranging as the Franco-Dutch War. And thanks also for talking about me and

spreading the word across the various channels.

I really, really appreciated.

And to be honest, I couldn't get this podcast out to as wide an audience as it reaches,

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quarter or so. I haven't really figured this all out yet, but when I do, I'll be the first to let you

know. As I record this, I am also working on a very important other special that you'll only really

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