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Original Podcast. Welcome.

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Back deals to the bonus episode

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the Life Hack episode which well

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I hope you love. We love

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doing because we love to. As

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referenced on Monday, we do like

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to be a public service broadcasting

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situation. We love to impart useful

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information. do we not? Mr. Won't.

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Talk to people. And

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in. It you can be a

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situation To Sue Just said

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we do like to be

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bugaboo or situation the yeah

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I've never thought to myself

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line sabotage eyes. I just

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want a one day. Maybe

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I'm just hoping for to manage

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by one day. I might be

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a situation. Just. Let you know

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you're sending a little bit like Dickey D who

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last night pulled mount not just on grammar but

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also and syntax which are still have looked up

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and because of course I did say to him

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i love Dickey Day. And it

1:04

was his eightieth birthday site. Thought. Don't

1:06

want to be mean to him. But. I did

1:08

have to point out when he pulled. Me up on

1:10

my grammar, my syntax. I

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said yes, I did not benefit from

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an Oxford education. Was you read English

1:16

literature? At. Oxford University.

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So. All the seal going to be all over syntax

1:21

and grammar. I. Did not have that.

1:23

It was his eightieth birthday. Me: I'm a

1:26

you've mentioned that twice but one thing I

1:28

don't think it be very pleased about his

1:30

you telling people how old is. Can I

1:32

just a classless an act or yes. Okay.

1:35

It was his seventieth birthday. And

1:37

he's like that actress that. Dorothy.

1:39

Lamar. Uma yeah that story yeah. Who?

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when I said to work as I

1:44

couldn't believe that cheap I mean she

1:46

look to hundred at the asshole or

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not paint dry workers I'd expect she

1:51

was on his ravishing woman. and yeah

1:53

and she was in fact in early

1:55

ninety's. A larger think she was. Actually, I let.

1:58

Let up there than all ages. Eminem

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as is well. late seventies? Okay

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this is very classic. Michael This

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on dancing have very high and

2:06

having to be reined writing on

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the Truth. I. Said you look

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amazing Dorothy Absolutely fabulous and she

2:12

said all thank you so much

2:14

documents that is so kind of

2:16

you and I said thank you

2:18

Know I just said is be

2:20

kind and said it because I

2:22

really think you are. An. I'd

2:25

already gone to my mind. I

2:27

knew there was a bit the

2:29

casting coming up playing Miss Havisham

2:31

and yeah, of in them. Or

2:34

is expected that the old lady

2:36

who was of them still in

2:38

a brides language brands crawling all

2:40

over the the wedding cake and

2:43

will I guess who bestowed upon

2:45

the old several? Ah yes sir

2:47

I was looking at I'm thinking

2:49

Miss Havisham yeah she said yes

2:52

darling under my playing age is

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has stay. Alive

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home. What does that

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mean? My playing age

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is fifty when you're

3:03

seventy. And Llewellyn I,

3:05

a savages as there any

3:08

relevance want you saying you're

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playing ages? And of course

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it wasn't. And see

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didn't claim is how Ma'am and.

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The thing is that you were doing what you've been. Told.

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To do have caused by a pulse which

3:21

was too and I love this some it's

3:23

worth the required to me I'm extending all

3:25

classes now. Yeah. I'm

3:27

going to crack on with the email now,

3:29

which is completely irrelevant. To Da Silva

3:31

more Mri unless of course she

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loved a budget busting. Recipe which

3:36

is the theme of today's life that.

3:39

Although I reckon that Dorothy Lamour probably

3:41

did quite like a budget busting this

3:43

process Same, she's not here to benefit.

3:45

From. Movie. stars

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at all about and passed

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away i hate the word

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pass such a we were

3:53

ah no idea why can't

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people san mrs i mean

3:57

for your benefit particularly the

3:59

other Hilary Weitel,

4:03

formerly known as Hilary Gish, although

4:06

real name Hilary Isbister. But also

4:08

my children, because my old email

4:10

address was HilaryGish at hotmail.com, if

4:12

they wanted to grab

4:14

my attention because I was ignoring them, which

4:17

was quite frequent. There

4:19

we go. HilaryGish at hotmail.com. I

4:21

like it, yeah. Those

4:23

for the day. Those for the day. But

4:26

what I was going to say, what

4:29

was I going to say? Just to let

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you know, Dials, that email is now defunct,

4:33

so please don't bother to email into that because

4:35

I won't get it. No one will

4:37

get it. It'll go into the ether and disappear.

4:40

You were going to say, for my benefit,

4:43

was it about Dorothy Lamore? Maybe

4:46

it'll come to you whilst you sit there. You were going through

4:48

my name. I don't even remember what we

4:50

were talking about. We were

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talking about Dorothy Lamore. That

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was before. Then you're

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welcoming everybody... To the

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budget-busting episode. To the budget-busting recipe.

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Then I think you mentioned

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Dorothy Lamore. I did.

5:08

No, I can't. Then I

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got a nugget going. And

5:13

then you interrupted me. The nugget

5:15

is now lost. It may come

5:17

back. And it was presumably to

5:19

do with Dorothy Lamore. Indeed. Or

5:22

Bob Hope. Bob Hope. Could have been

5:24

a Bob Hope story. Well,

5:26

we'll never know because it's gone. It

5:29

may come back on another occasion. The

5:31

reason I'm doing a budget-busting recipe, Dials,

5:34

is because, as I referenced on Monday,

5:36

the bedroom floor is literally covered in

5:38

receipts because I'm still trying to wade

5:40

through the horror of

5:42

the expense of Christmas. Remember

5:44

that? Yes! Why is

5:47

it that you always end up spending far too

5:49

much money, usually on the day before Christmas Eve

5:51

and Christmas Eve because you're in a panic, thinking,

5:54

I've got enough stuff for everybody. The

5:57

reason I'm having to go through the Christmas...

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receipts is because we work in VAC

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quarters and we're coming to the end of a quarter. I

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know we're in March, but I'm still in Christmas

6:07

in my head and we've been

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on an economy drive for all of this bloomin'

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winter because of Christmas. So budget

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busting recipe incoming, even

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though the DAFs are beginning to come out and

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it's March. Yes, we've got through the winter. And

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this email actually comes from an old friend

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of the Wittering White Metals, who we have

6:27

referenced many times because it comes from

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Josh the Quilter, who we love,

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who the other day sent me a little

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bum bag to use when

6:38

I'm walking filly made out of some

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old time material and other bits of

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material. He loves a bit of time

6:44

material. Anyway, he's emailed in. I

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will read his email. Dear Hilary and

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Michael, greetings from your DDLs in sunny

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Chicago. We greatly

6:54

enjoy the podcast, especially some of the

6:56

references to Michael's early years during and

6:59

after the war. We imagine those were

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years of scarcity and some hardship and

7:03

that his family had to get by

7:05

on the creative reuse of leftovers from

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time to time. Aside from

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your well-documented obsession with a winter marmalade,

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could you share with us some of

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your favorite kitchen hacks that reuse a

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prior meal or dare we say a

7:18

doggy bag from a restaurant? As

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a down payment on your creative input, here

7:23

is one of Chef Julie's leftover specials.

7:25

Well, I'm glad he's mentioned Chef

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Julie because he's married to a

7:30

chef, Julie, who is amazing.

7:33

She does what she says on the

7:35

tin. She's a chef and she's called

7:37

Julie. Michael's

7:40

not at all over

7:43

there. Hello, Michael.

7:45

Hello. Sorry. Anyway,

7:47

I'm going to read you Chef Julie. I thought he

7:50

was a banker. I mean, he had us. He

7:52

wasn't a banker. He was definitely in

7:54

sort of branding finance. Yes, he went

7:56

off to an office and was a big...

7:58

He did. He's retired. You're

8:01

making him sound like some little

8:03

old man making quilts. We've

8:06

had this discussion before. He's

8:08

retired now. It is his hobby. He

8:12

loves the sewing machine, which is how we

8:14

got down Sewing Machine Gate on an

8:16

episode. If he was on

8:18

a sort of game show, it would be, and ladies and

8:20

gentlemen, the quilter, Josh

8:23

the Quilter from Chicago. That's

8:26

probably what it would say, Michael. Right,

8:30

here is Chef Julie's Everything Frittata,

8:32

because I love a frittata. I

8:34

think, again, we did that on an episode

8:37

once when Michael really got bored, because I

8:39

said, no, you questioned

8:41

because I suggested somebody made it for their packed lunches,

8:43

and you said you couldn't think of anything worse than

8:46

a cold frittata. I don't even know.

8:48

I've forgotten what they are. Right, here

8:50

we go. This is a bonus budget-busting

8:52

recipe for you here. Do you like

8:55

to have another run at that? I'll

8:58

get the teeth in. Teeth are

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in. This is a bonus

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budget-busting recipe. Bonus budget-busting

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recipe. Oh, he's

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on fire today. This is

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the Everything Frittata. Preheat

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oven to 375 Fahrenheit, which I

9:14

think is probably about 180 in

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Celsius. Not sure, but that's what I'd

9:18

heat my oven to, because, of course,

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Americans deal in Fahrenheit. In

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medium mixing bowl, combine eight eggs, salt and

9:25

pepper to taste, and a half cup of

9:28

grated leftover cheese. In

9:30

oven-proof skillet, heat one tablespoon olive oil

9:32

and saute chopped leftover vegetables,

9:35

proteins, and the like. Proteins

9:37

being, you know, meat, fish, whatever. Pour

9:40

in egg mixture and stir to combine well, then

9:42

put skillet in oven and let bake

9:45

for 15 minutes, or until golden and

9:47

puffed. Remove from oven and serve, ideally

9:49

with a green salad. Basically, you

9:51

can whack anything into a frittata that you've got in the

9:53

fridge. Any vegetables, any protein,

9:56

load of eggs. I might

9:58

input some leftover herbs. in as well salt

10:00

and pepper good to go bit of nutmeg

10:03

if you've got it. Are

10:06

you still doing that recipe? I've done

10:08

that recipe I'm now going to do my budget

10:10

busting recipe because the other day we

10:13

had for supper because

10:15

again on a budget it's

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a good fish to have and it's very health giving.

10:20

Mackerel you love mackerel. Yeah I like mackerel.

10:22

Do you remember those mackerel we had the other day?

10:25

I like mackerel pate too. Oh yes

10:27

nice. Mackerel pate. It's meant to be

10:29

good for you mackerel. It's very good

10:31

for the brain because it's full of

10:33

omega oils which are very very good

10:35

for the brain. It's a good for

10:37

the memory. Very good for the memory.

10:39

Omega oils essential and you can get

10:42

you can only get them from certain

10:44

foods. Is it good for the memory

10:46

then? You're

10:49

so ridiculous. I

10:51

see what you did there Michael I am

10:53

not stupid. Do

11:08

you remember those mackerel we had the other day? They were

11:10

literally the size of a small dolphin.

11:12

They were huge. I don't know

11:15

what a small dolphin looks like size

11:18

wise. It's big. Okay

11:20

it's about they big. Yay big.

11:22

I'm holding my hands about three

11:24

foot apart deals. They

11:27

were big big mackerel. I'd actually gone into waitrose

11:29

for other things but I saw them and I

11:31

thought all right we're having those because they're

11:33

actually quite a reasonably priced mackerel.

11:36

So I cooked them and we ended up eating

11:38

one between the two of us because it was

11:40

so big. So I then had a

11:42

cooked mackerel left and I thought what shall I

11:45

do with this? Here comes whole

11:47

audience eats the budget busting recipe.

11:50

I had some leftover mashed

11:52

potato. I had some

11:54

leftover cooked mackerel. I

11:57

had some herbs in the fridge. dill

12:00

and chives and I

12:03

had a rather manky looking spring onion which

12:05

I chopped up. That all

12:07

went into a bowl, was

12:09

mixed together, put

12:11

into, I rolled it into actual

12:14

balls. Michael is nodded off

12:16

yet again. I don't know why

12:18

you're nodding off because you loved these fish

12:20

cakes. You loved them the other day. I

12:22

did. I'm just not particularly interested

12:25

in how you make them. But you

12:27

should be because, supposing I'm incapacitated at

12:29

some stage, this is a dish you could

12:31

make. It's very easy. Why

12:33

are you going to be incapacitated? In

12:36

capacitated. Well

12:39

I am contemplating. Apart from drink. I

12:42

am contemplating having some surgery in

12:44

a minute. I am? I

12:46

am. What? Brain surgery? No.

12:48

Eye surgery. Just

12:51

saying. You yourself are about to

12:53

go. You're looking down the gun barrel of eye

12:55

surgery as well. We're all eye surgeryed after this.

12:57

We're making it sound very dramatic.

13:00

We're going in as an outpatient to

13:03

a very small hospital and they've told

13:05

us to not make any other arrangements

13:07

for the next half an hour after

13:09

we leave. Well you can't drive after

13:12

you've had it done. Anyway,

13:14

you're having cataract surgery. I'm

13:18

going to get back to this. I'm doing this

13:20

budget busting recipe if it's the last thing I

13:22

do on this podcast. Which the way Mr. White's

13:24

was behaving it may well be. I

13:26

then roll them into balls. You then chill them.

13:29

You then get them out a couple of hours

13:31

later. You roll

13:33

them in flour. You roll them in egg. And

13:36

then you press them down into breadcrumbs. And then you

13:38

put them back in the fridge. And

13:41

then you fry them in olive

13:43

oil when you are ready

13:45

to eat. You fry them in olive oil till they're

13:47

browned. And then you whack them in the

13:49

oven for 10 minutes. And you

13:51

loved it the other night. You said it

13:54

was the nicest fish cake you'd ever had.

13:56

Otherwise that leftover mackerel would have ended up in the

13:58

dog which I felt was a waste of time. waste,

14:00

although she needs all the help she can get

14:02

in the brain department. Do you know what happened

14:04

this morning? I took the

14:06

dog for a walk and this happens every

14:08

single time I take her to the park

14:10

up the road, which is why I'm trying to

14:12

get her off into the hinterland of the towpath

14:15

of Putney Common. Because when I

14:17

take her to the park, what happens

14:19

is I walk around the park doing

14:21

my steps and she sits on

14:24

the grass watching me. It's

14:26

ridiculous! She sits there

14:28

watching me walk around and I think, okay, who

14:30

am I doing this for? Am I doing it

14:32

for my steps or the benefit of the dog?

14:35

Clearly my steps. Anyway, I

14:37

have digressed, Michael White. Actually, if I'm going

14:39

to digress, I know it's a bonus episode.

14:42

Just want to say, we never got

14:44

onto Joss Sticks on Monday. Going

14:47

back to incense, you had

14:49

an obsession with Joss Sticks at one stage. Do

14:51

you remember that? I don't have no

14:53

memory of that at all. I think

14:55

you've heard that. There was a period...

14:57

I like scented candles. I

15:00

like that. What was that one we had last

15:03

night? No, that was an LV

15:06

or something. Not LV. Yeah,

15:08

I don't know. It's incredibly expensive.

15:10

Somebody gave it to us and

15:12

it was really, really nice. But

15:15

I mean, I couldn't possibly afford

15:17

that. I mean, Deptique, I like

15:19

candles. But not... what are

15:21

they called? Joss Sticks? Sorry, it was very...

15:23

There was a time when you were in

15:25

your... It

15:29

was when I had that long hair and the long

15:31

eyeballs. No, I was about to get into what you

15:33

were in. It was when you were...

15:35

Remember when I had those eyeballs down sort of just

15:37

below my lips. It was...

15:39

No, I'm going to tell you when it was,

15:41

Michael. And huge hair with a plait in

15:44

the bag. I'm

15:47

going to tell you when it was. Okay. Yeah. It

15:49

was when you were in your mid-late 60s.

15:51

Yes. Okay. You

15:55

just suddenly decided you went through a phase of

15:57

wearing suits with a t-shirt.

16:00

which was quite alarming and

16:03

you had... That's t-shirt! Are you

16:06

sure? Yes! Well I

16:08

honestly was having worries about turning 60. I

16:10

think actually to be fair, yes, you were in

16:12

your late 50s, you suddenly

16:14

wore suit. I'm gonna get some photographic evidence

16:16

after this. Okay, yeah, no I did. With

16:18

a white t-shirt which was quite alarming. I

16:20

know what that was all about. You looked like

16:22

you worked for an advertising agency. I know

16:24

what that was all about. It was all

16:26

about to do with my due

16:29

lap. Because I've

16:31

still got the due lap but I don't worry

16:34

about it like I did. The

16:36

due lap if you don't know

16:38

what a due lap is, is

16:40

a huge chunk of flesh hanging

16:42

out the bottom of your chin.

16:48

I thought about having cut off and

16:50

then I thought it would be horrible.

16:52

And also you were very unsupportive. Well

16:55

if you are having it cut off, give it

16:57

to me because I could run it up or

16:59

something. I don't know. On

17:02

toast. On toast. On

17:04

toast. Anyway I didn't

17:07

do anything about it but

17:09

that's why I wore the

17:11

t-shirt. I wasn't all struggling

17:14

in this area. Can I just say? But

17:16

now I'm not interested in my looks.

17:19

It was suits. You

17:21

had different glasses as well. White t-shirt.

17:24

You got very interjustics and

17:26

I seem to remember at the time that

17:29

you had a very young and very

17:31

voluptuous, good looking secretary. I

17:34

wondered whether she'd had anything. Whether that had

17:36

slightly turned your head. Possibly.

17:39

She was very keen

17:42

on me. She

17:44

was very keen on me and I did everything I

17:46

could to avoid her

17:50

and avoid any kind of... I

17:53

think the change of wardrobe was perhaps you

17:55

were thinking you need a younger vibe in

17:57

the office. was

18:00

anything to do with that. Anyway,

18:02

it didn't work out well in

18:04

the end, but I don't want to go into that

18:06

story. But the Josh sticks,

18:08

I did manage to nip that in the

18:11

bud. Anyway, we've come right

18:13

off topic from Josh's lovely email. Thank you

18:15

very much, Josh, for emailing in. We've

18:17

done two budget busting recipes for you

18:20

there, the Everything Frittata and

18:22

the leftover mackerel fish

18:24

cake I can thoroughly recommend.

18:27

And of course, you can bulk make them because

18:29

you can freeze them. Once

18:31

you've made them, just put a layer of greaseproof

18:34

paper between them and freeze them in a bag

18:36

and then you've got them whenever you

18:38

need them because they're a handy thing

18:40

for supper. On

18:42

that note, I'm going to get back to the VAT

18:45

quarter and upstairs

18:48

and the receipts. I hope

18:50

you've got more interesting things to do with DLs.

18:52

We'll be back on Monday with the full fat

18:54

episode. Until then, please

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rate, please review, please subscribe, please share,

18:59

please share with your friends, please listen,

19:02

basically. Basically

19:04

listen and please keep

19:06

the emails coming. I

19:08

will say, get some mackerel and

19:11

farewell. Goodbye.