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Good morning, Joan. I understand we've got a little treat in store for our listeners today.

We absolutely have. We're going to share with you today an episode that we recorded on a rather

lovely evening we spent with Alan Bucksdon who has his own port of canisters. Yes, apparently he

does, which is reasonably popular, I understand. And we recorded it, of course, Joan, didn't we?

The wonderful ENO English National Opera for those of you that don't know the Coliseums,

wonderful, wonderful building, very beautiful. And of course, you won't be able to see that in this

business episode you're about to hear, but you can. If you go on to the fame website and

purchase yourself a weed ticket, you can see us visually in the flesh in all our glory.

So, you should probably do both if I would say. Yeah, so I mean, obviously some of you are going

to be perhaps, I don't want to use the word stingy, but perhaps a bit tight with your purse strings.

Most people are using lockdown as an excuse for that when actually they're sitting around doing

nothing. So I don't know what I'm saying. I've got, I've had texts from the number of people who

said, oh, we're not, I'm not doing Christmas presents this year, not sending any gifts or, I think,

well, why are there? There's absolutely no excuse. I mean, I know you do, you never send gifts.

I don't send my Joe. No, I can't. It's against my principles. You don't want to be seen as one of

those sort of nitpicky types who sort of pouring over a bill after dinner going, well, I didn't have that

and I didn't have that. No, it's very tedious. I mean, you know, I mean, all right, yes, one does have

to go through it and make sure that you haven't paid for too many bottles of VNO and too many. But you

do it so nicely with your calculator and everything. You do, you know, it's quite subtle. You'll find

that kind of menu and then just go through it. Yeah, I'm very, very good at maths as you know,

Jones. So actually I do it all mentally and then I just double check it on the calculator and

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