That lovely ASMR noise that you can hear is the rain on our V-luxes and very lovely it is too. Good morning, Esther. Morning. How did you sleep? Well, you actually don't know. I don't know. I've got no idea. I slept fine. Well done. How about you? Yeah, slept really well, thank you. Did you actually think really well? Yeah, I actually did, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Do you want to tell the listeners why I don't know how you slept?

Because. you? Yes, slept really well, thank you. Did you actually think really well? Yeah, it actually did, yeah, yeah. Do you want to tell the listeners why I don't know how you slept?

Because we have finally, finally, after 17 years, decided that we can no longer sleep in the same room.

Have we decided that?

No, I decided that.

Because Esther's never started the podcast with such a big smile on her face.

You have always sometimes snored.

Okay, always sometimes snort, fine.

Always sometimes. It's an always sometimes. It wasn't all the time, it was sometimes.

And also, I have historically been an incredibly heavy sleeper.

So I just go to start. I nut out very easily and don't really wet. And I

remember I used to have these dreams when I was younger about trains, chainsaws, thunderstorms and

stuff. And then I'd sort of briefly wake up and realize that it was because you were snoring.

Really? Yes. I know, I know you're in complete denial about it. I understand it's difficult. It's a

difficult thing to accept.

So I would wait.

I would give you a poke and you'd turn over and then I'd go back to sleep and everything was fine.

In the last couple of months, it has become intolerable for two reasons.

One, because you now snore every single night.

No, I didn't snore the other night. You said I didn't last week. You said you were quiet as a mouse. That was an anomaly. Just pointing out,

fine, just pointing out. That was an anomaly. There was one, there was one night in the last,

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