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This is Steve Allen's A Little Bit Extra, leading Britain's conversation.

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Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today, Monday, January the 2nd.

I know it's so far. You have to remember when you're doing invoices or writing checks out or doing payments that of course we're now in the year 2023.

So you have to remember all these different little bits and pieces. And once you've mastered that bit, you should be absolutely fine.

But most of you will not be at work today because officially you get an extra day.

And I can't remember why it was actually.

But whatever it is, it means that you get the extra day and then you'll all be back at work tomorrow.

Which is lovely, isn't it?

And that's, I believe, when the train strikes are on.

So at the moment, you should be okay. I got home yesterday. In fact, I'm quite lucky actually, yes.

I got the bus. No, I didn't. I tell you lie. I got the train from embankment to Waterloo.

It's only one stop. And I was looking at all of looking at it sort of thing cancel it and then I saw

one redding and I thought all good and I was standing right in front of the right platform platform 17

and this was 24 minutes past 10 because I've been quite lucky to get there fairly quickly

and what time is it leaving?

26 minutes passed.

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