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A wasale, a wasale, a wasale. The problem of that is that that's a Christmas joke.

No, it's a New Year joke. What sailing?

Well it means, oh, I thought it, it means be a be of good cheer. But don't people go was sailing? Yeah I think it's a new year thing. We can just about if I can say happy new year to Eleanor Oldroyd as I did. Yeah, no, no, no, it's not that that I'm thinking but that's that's perfectly fine. But I thought was sailing was going around singing was

was like caroling the real I tell you the reason I think that yes and here is you

know it was so quiet you could hear a name drop.

The reason I think that is because Ken Russell used to insist every year that we all went a was-sailing.

And then we never did, and it's one of the great regrets.

Is that like Rod Stewart said?

Yes, we are, was sailing, we are was sailing home again.

But who's the idea of was sailing round East Burley was something that sounded,

you know, it's a sort of thing you should do with a you

know with a long stick with a lantern on the end of it and a hearty beard yeah I think it's I never did do it he did wrap at my party once.

Traditionally the Wasale is celebrated on 12th night.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

So we're a couple of days out.

Ah.

That's what I'm saying.

But I didn't say it for our New Year's Day edition of the show because you haven't thought of the joke at that point.

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