Despite the title, this is not a Valentine's Day special - it's all about three little words in the English language that can sometimes be a bit of a handful - this week's idiom is 'Sick as a parrot.'

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This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:

Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We've also used some sounds from Freesound:

Owls.wav by Benboncan

This work is licensed under the Attribution License.

Golf5.flac by acclivity

This work is licensed under the Attribution Noncommercial License.

...and this sound comes from Soundbible:

Sports Crowd by GoGo

Licensed under the Attribution licence 3.0