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Morning everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast for today, Wednesday, December the 14th.

Ten days time. We'll all be getting ready, clearing the chimney out,

because you don't want to light the fire, do it. Well, in fact, you have to light the fire.

God, it was cold yesterday. Oh, my goodness me. It was, it was Chili Bonn. And I get, I go to, oh, sorry,

stifling a yawn there, and it just started the program. But anyway, I go to Costco to pick up some mince pies, which are very nice.

I've had one already, as you can tell.

And I bump into a couple

in the lift on the way down, because we both got trolley.

Not very many items in our trolleys.

And the lady was pushing the rock.

I said, no, no.

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