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That's right, yes. Thanks Rosie. This has been really helpful.

Great, now can I do a poo? Think you started already, haven't you? Yes, I have.

And I want you to enjoy this, that's the plan.

Hey, how you doing, podcasts Adam Bucston here?

Reporting to you from the Blustery field in South Norfolk, UK.

Not far outside the fair city of Norwich, it's cold. Luckily I doubled up on fleas, but I didn't bring gloves.

Another reminder that I'm my own worst enemy. Why is it so cold? It's mid-march.

I want sunbathing weather now. Rosie's looking at me, what, what do you want?

When's it going to get warmer? I don't care. She's in all weather, all terrain, half-whip it, half-poodle-cross.

And she's doing very well, the black fox. She was poorly last month, but now she is back on top form.

Okay, look, it's too inclement for Amelie Swaffle.

So let me tell you a bit about my guest for podcast number 153, the British writer, Kazuo Ishiguro. Ishiguro facts.

Kazuo, currently aged 66, was born in Nagasaki, Japan, a decade after the atomic bomb was dropped on the city at the end of the Second World War.

His father, an oceanographer, was offered a job in the UK and moved his family over there at the end of the 50s, when Kazuo was five.

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