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Very, very exciting. I've got the new printer cartridge in. Brilliant. Very excited.

I haven't actually printed off yet. I'm going to be doing that today.

Because I suddenly realised because the person I have to hand my invoices to was here yesterday because I didn't do

them yesterday and she's in tomorrow. So I'll be doing them today so she can have them for tomorrow.

And of course tomorrow is another big day because we've got to find out what the audience figures

are. As I said before everybody in the radio industry,

goes basically through sort of panics. It's almost like, you know, driving your car down the

motorway and all of a sudden that blue flashing light comes on behind you.

Quicker than the best laxative you could ever buy, you know, that little blue light comes on.

And exactly the same for the audience figures. You know, I've actually got a fruit bowl to charm the bosses, so I've managed

to put all the Nardicots in the fruit bowl. Looks marvelous. Looks very impressive, actually. I think

it's just, you know, I'm thinking of setting out my stall with sort of sweets in a thing,

anything as long as it's not for Nick Abbott. We don't want to waste money on Nick Abbott. He's got loads of his own money.

So he keeps telling me.

But anyway, so all very exciting.

Well, it's all very exciting for a lot of people because they're sort of going, oh, it'll be

fine.

It'll be fine.

Then there's a load of other people going, oh, I don't know. I wonder what it's going to be like. Wonder what it's going to be like. And so we'll have to wait and see. Because of the pandemic, it, it sort of threw things into a bit

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