Ella Risbridger

Monica, and of course, her brother, Ross.

I think it's important when you do any kind of performing or entertaining for a living to just know when you're not entertaining anyone.

We weren't entertaining ourselves and we certainly weren't entertaining the listeners.

So this is take two.

And let me tell you, it's a lot more promising for these reasons.

We are on Zoom, which I wanted to avoid because we haven't recorded on Zoom since the deep days of the pandemic when we did our best books we've ever read, which is such a funny idea for a miniseries.

Just books we like, I guess.

Yeah, no theme, just we like them.

So the reason here, I will enunciate the reasons that this podcast is better than the last one.

One, I have some very nice champagne that my dad brought to our house.

So excellent.

I have a fancy little mince pie from the bakery near Caroline's house in London.

And sorry to say, this card is really delicious.

My Christmas tree is up.

I'm covered in velvet.

And I've just posted 60 Christmas cards, some of them with airmail stickers on.

And let me tell you, there is nothing more festive than sticking a little blue airmail sticker on a card.

You know...

Cars winging their way across Europe to New York.

I felt so continental and festive.