ARE WE ROMANTICISING AGRICULTURE ON SOCIAL MEDIA?

🎙️ This week on The FarmHer Files: ARE WE ROMANTICISING AGRICULTURE ON SOCIAL MEDIA? 🌾📱

In this episode, we’re asking the uncomfortable question: are we showing the reality of agriculture, or creating a version that’s easier to consume?

📚 Sponsored by Rusty Strikes Back

A lightly probing and captivating children’s book that highlights the importance of British farming and explores the negative effects of the family farm tax while raising awareness in a way that’s accessible for younger audiences.

🛒 Buy now:
👉 https://amzn.eu/d/0iPOrpiV

🎧 New episodes every week — subscribe so you don’t miss out.

🌾 Follow The FarmHer Files:
Instagram: @TheFarmHerFiles
Facebook: @TheFarmHerFiles
TikTok: @TheFarmHerFiles
YouTube: @TheFarmHerFiles

📩 Got thoughts on this topic or want to be part of a future episode?
contact@thefarmherfiles.com

🤍 Like, comment, share & leave a review to support the podcast.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Farma Files with your hosts, Abby and Maria. Welcome back to another episode. Fifth one's gonna be a really good one. You can tell when we like bulk do it in three. I prefer our last one is like absolute carnage. I prefer these ones. Well, because we've had a load of sugar. Actually, this is the first time we've had snacks. You're like shaking with sugar. She has like a kid on crack. Can I say that? Don't I don't know. Crackley rice krispies. Yeah, that's what she meant. That's what I meant. Yes. Darn it, that's it. Why didn't I think of that before? Yeah. Maria's lost the plot anyway. Abby never had it. No, I never did. Like my morals. That was so psychopathic then. No, I never did. Like my morals, I don't have them. I don't have a lot of things. Morals is one of them. I don't have them. Right, shall we announce today's episode? Today is my birthday. That's Christmas Day, honey. Um today is my birthday is. Yes. On the day you were born. Which is. I want to say June. I want to say sixth, but it's not because that's rock or more, and that's really important to me. Tenth. Sixteenth. Is it June? Twenty. No, I think that I was just testing. Third. It's in the first part of June. It's not on any of the raw cornal dates that usually are, is it? So we'll just scope that out straight away. Sixteenth. It's not in the teens we've already established. Yeah, I know, I was thinking that. Eighth. Ninth. Seventh. Sixth. Five. Four. Yeah. It's on a real corn date. Independence day. That's July the fourth. So that's my mum's birthday, I think. Welcome to Independence Day, June the fourth. What planet are you on? This one. I'm out of this world. Anyway, today's episode is. Are we romantic you go on then? I've got this under control. Ready? Are we romanticising farming online? Correct. Thank you. She got it. Eventually. So we're gonna start off with the sponsor today before we actually get into this, because otherwise we'll jibber jabble on and we won't start with the sponsor, which is very linked in with today, is showing the realities with farming. So today's episode is sponsored by a book called Rusty Strikes Back. Oh my god, do we find it? Show us sandwiches. Do you want to read the back? Yes. Right. So I'm gonna read the it's the blib. Blib. Blib blib. Blib. That's what it's called, isn't it? The back of the book, the blib, I think so. Yeah. Rusty Strikes Back is a beautiful and captivating childhood book, children's book, written and designed by a farmer's daughter and her son to show their endless love and support for the farming community. It highlights the importance of British farming and the negative effects of the family farm tax, making a bold and powerful statement through the eyes of a farm child. A portion of the money raised to the book will go to the chosen charity supporting mental health and well-being within the farming community. And I believe they're in aid of FCN, Farming Community Network, and McMillan. McMillan. I believe it's McMillan. Um so like I said, you can see here is Rusty Strikes back. You can see the combine in the back. Um so I, if you're happy for me to, I am going to read the first page of the book. Are you happy for me to do that? Yeah, please go for it. All right. Down on the farm on a cold and crisp winter's morning, the frost sparkled and glistened as the sun rose behind the barns. The cockel crowed while carefully perched on the old crumpling brick wall that wrapped around the old farmhouse as the sun pushed through the gaps in the tall pine trees. You're going to sleep? The sleepy farm began to stir. Yes, that's just what I needed to get me to nap. Finley was fast asleep, aka Maria. Tucked up tight in his bed, snuggled into his foxy. Um, I'm actually not gonna go further than that because I'm not gonna read you out the book. You're gonna have to get the book. If you want the book, buy the book. And support the chosen charities. Right, this blanket's really hot. I know it is quite warm in here today. So um, talking of blankets, do you want to go on to one of the mottos that they're having going on with this? Or yeah, I don't know what it's called. What is it? What uh one of the book bags? Yeah. You talk us through. So Rusty Strikes back. The author has decided that she is going to have a move book around, basically. So you can buy the book for yourself on Amazon. Um, you can also follow them on Rusty Strikes underscore back on Instagram, um, where you can find more details. And the authors decided to get out a few book bags which include a few little goodies and the book itself that are going to be passed around. So if you are lucky enough to receive one, I don't know how many are there going around? Not many. I think there's a small handful that are going out. So these are the book bags in question. I feel like a little kid with my book. They make a good little show and tell. I know. Actually, that would be quite a good. Like, did you ever have like a bear for the week? You actually put a little story. Yeah. Um, so in the book bag, there will be the book, a blanket, I believe there's seeds, feeds. I don't know if they I don't know if you don't want to. But I don't know how to pass it on. Yeah. So what do you plant one? We're gonna have to sewing season. I don't know. We're gonna have to investigate that one for you, actually. I didn't think that's right. Yeah, there are a few little bits that get passed around um along with the book and the bag. Um but you may see that along your travels. Yeah, if you're lucky enough to see it, make sure you share it online um and just pass the message along that goes with all of it. You'll find out more over on that Instagram page. Um, but if you cannot wait for the potential to receive it. Pass Donna book and a bag, you can head over to Amazon and grab yourself a copy. Which obviously, again, supports those charities. Which is two charities that very close to hearts. Yes, absolutely. Do you think it's romanticised? Hell yeah. The only reason Abby's done this episode today is because she fancies me. Yeah, I just romanticised Maria. It's getting a bit peculiar now. I didn't give it to her. I believe I gave you my number. Yeah. So I could block your number. And now she's made an episode talking about how much she romanticises me. You came to my house. You stalked me to make sure you didn't know where I lived. You stalked me. You gave me your address. I've got my location. No, you've got my location. Have you not got mine? I have not got your location. I don't go out the house anyway. I know I know where you are at all times. Oh, Abby's not replying. She must have left her phone by the back of the sofa. Yes. Um, anyway, what what we're really going on today is the reality of are we posting all these lovely content creations, these lovely romanticised videos of a beautiful morning on the farm milking and nothing going wrong. When actually, matter of fact, is the mental health of some of these farmers are down the train and we're pretending like it's all hunky-dory. Do you want to know my honest opinion and then we break it apart? Go on. Right, I'll just go full bore and tell you my whole honest opinion.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

2020 2019, 2020 time. Yes, I think we over-romanticised it so much. We only put out the good. Yeah, we were very nitty-gritty with what we put out there. And I think that's because at that point, don't get me wrong, social media had been around for a while, but social media wasn't big until then. And TikTok was a very easy platform to grow on because it gave you that potential, and it also had a very small number of creators. Yes. So when a video did well, you didn't have the competition of how many other videos. Yeah, absolutely. Um, so in that day and age, yes, we definitely made it to sparkly. Yeah. Now I strongly believe the consumer wants reality. So back in the day, the consumer was happy with sparkly, happy people. Yeah. Nowadays we've kind of reached this area of social media where okay, the exciting part of it being big and new is kind of coming down, down, and now it's like, but now I want to feel like the people I'm watching relate to me on not just uh incredible, their life is amazing, I aspire to be half of what they are one day, but also a level where you like yeah, you want to go on there and feel nicely humbled because that creator's had a really shockingly shit day, or something's going really wrong, and they make you realise that you're not alone in it, like it's somewhere you want to go to have a friendship through your screen, yeah. So I think nowadays we're doing a lot better at being honest as a whole, but I still do believe there's a lot left to share, yeah. Cuz I think people do obviously share like their TB test a bit more and what have you. Like, if there has been a bad week on the farm, you might just like note it. Yes. Um I'm very cautious on mine that I don't share too much happy, and I don't mean that in a sense that I'm a oh, today's been a horrendous day, and like a Debbie Downer about it, but I don't want to go and brag that we've been clear for TV for seven years. Yeah. On a thing, like you sounded like Father Christmas had just let his elves out. When I said that. Um, but you know what I mean? I don't want to go and potentially look like I'm bragging because I know that then has an impact on my viewer that's maybe been down eight years running. Yeah. And I know there are people like that. Like, don't get me wrong, that's not the actual amount of years, and that was just an example, but I don't want to be that person that makes someone else think, why have I got it so rough? And then it's also nice for the reality. Not that it's nice to see anyone go down with TB.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

But it's nice to see it a bit more like no matter how good your farm standard is, blah blah blah, like TB, there's no I'll happily share if we have a reactor or a um IR because it's reality, and part of why I do social media is for the mental health of people within our industry. So if I'm sharing that we've had something go wrong, I know that that's making someone else feel less alone. I also really do appreciate the content creators who teach. Yes. I'm not I'm not one of those people. I struggle to teach, I love watching people teach, but the patience that they have. Um I find we do this a lot. Like, don't take my word for it, blah blah blah. Because you can say something that might have worked for us, doesn't mean it's gonna work for everyone. So you're sort of taking the brunt of that by teaching people, which obviously is great because I love that sort of content, and Christ, I don't know where I'd be with half of that. Like, without half of that content, I probably wouldn't know the things I do today. And moment to put farmer Lel on a stool right now. Oh my god, that woman. We've seen all your hacks, we live by them. I think me and her have quite similar content, different styles, similar type, wholesome content. Yeah, but I do like her like very different styles, yeah. Lambing, and she films everything at Lambing, and I'm like, how do you do that woman? That is something I have not done this year, and I am very sorry. I was gonna say there's been a lack of content on Lambing. Yeah, I've been very overstimulated. We're honest on here. I have been so overstimulated lately. How many, how far are you into your commercial lambing? Almost done. Almost done. That is how overstimulated we've been. That's not bad because it started 14th of Feb. Yep. And when we're filming this, it is the 14th of March. Yeah. A lot has happened. We had one day where we had almost 20% of the flock lamb. Yeah. And it's all been like this the last two weeks has been like manic. So that means like you're getting so you decided to start a job. You decided to start a full-time job with two kids and lambing in the middle of lambing. Yeah. And your pedigree sheep.

unknown 15:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

Overstimulated. That was really nice of you to do for me for your family. They don't mind. Challenge accepted. And where were you when the 20% was happening? Were you hoping that happened? Yeah. Thank God for that. Could you imagine that being like your first day at work? I I saw the um I'm more of the night shifter. It's quite sure up anyway, yeah. Yeah. Um, so my mum does the early shifts like five o'clock in the morning, and I'll do the ones that go into the next day. Yeah. Quite happily. See, because I'm the only one lambing, I just got to do it all. Got to do it all. I've got to get up at the night. I've got to do the night. I've got to do the day. I've got to do the that's really sad. I know. Whose sheep are they? My oh, that's sad. But Scott's washing. It's Scott's washing. Doesn't mean he fucking does it. If Scott lived in my house, Scott would do his fucking washing. You can teach him tonight how to use the washing machine. I think me and Scott need to know each other a bit better before I drag him by his ear to the washing machine. Might like it. No, I'm joking. That's gonna end up on the boys' group chat now. Um no, all joking aside, Matthew's always been quite good at doing his washing. Like I've never really had to ask too much. If I'm overstimulated, he kind of just helps anyway. Just to clarify as well, I feel like I should say Matthew's always been quite good at doing his washing. Or like our washing, like we tend to share things 50-50. Well I guess incomes 50-50 to a certain like Well, what am I doing here?

unknown 17:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

Someone please explain where I went wrong. No, but I think it's slightly different because your main job keeps you within the house. What about when I'm lying? Yeah, well then he should help. I don't believe house chores should be pink jobs and blue jobs because I prefer the phone. That's a blue job. What is the one blue job that is definitely a blue job? I think housework should go to the person who's home most. No matter what sex. For God's sake. Doing has the most free time. So now you've got a job. Does that mean Matthew will do most of the housework?

unknown 18:28

No.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

Because I'll just out just as much as you, yeah. Yeah. I mean, spare time is more of a. So basically, you're gonna take you're gonna take on some overtime, just so you don't have to do it. Oh, now that is a gusty idea. Wow! Stay an extra hour at work. Oh Matthew, can I just tidy up while I'm working late? Because you're so good at doing the washing. Can you help me do this? No, he's pretty good. Is he a good cook? Yeah, he does cook. Wow. Wow. Is he looking for a second wife? Yeah, sure. For a fiver, you can share him. Too steep. Is he worth that? Whoa! I don't wanna know. Oh, for fuck's sake. That's gotta be left in. You have to cut that out. I'll scream. I will send you a voice note every morning with me screaming. I just won't open it up. I'll send it in between some really important information. In between my bank details or something. I don't need your bank details. Enjoy the debt, baby. There's no debt on that. Right, stop. We need to cut that bit out. If you had your dream idyllic world on social media, say there was a content creator that when you literally thought of what you needed, or what have you, or your dream content, what would it be on reality-wise? Do you want your core reality or do you want great stuff that makes you feel aspired to be amazing? Or what would be your Are you saying I'm not amazing? No. Um I did I when did you last post learning content? When did you last post inspirational content? Never have. What is in like what do you I want to consume or what do you like? Yeah, consume. Yeah, consume learning. Just learning. My podcasts I listen to are learning, my everything. It depends what mood I'm in.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Right now, in this mood, I don't want to learn learn a thing. You just want happy and jolly. Yeah. I just want something. Do you just want calm and soothing? No, I think I'm more in like a mood. I'm gonna post this on in three weeks' time, and you're gonna absolutely regret this episode. You think I'm gonna regret this? I think you I think I would regret this a lot less than what I would regret. I don't really want to be here. That vibe. You want to be here with me? Yeah. I feel like we've got a connection, you know? We're not. No one's gonna mistake us for a lesbian in a minute. Nothing wrong with lesbians, just that is she's married to a man. I can have a mistress. Aren't they meant to be younger? They're meant to be younger. Do you watch Bridgeton? No. Oh my good god, I'm gonna ash you. I don't know whether you've got time for it yet. Have you got much time for TV at the minute? Yeah, quite a bit. Without Matthew. Without Matthew. Or does he like reality TV? I don't really like TV. Oh fuck up! But there is some I can, right. As a whole, I'd prefer a cheesy film, but please put it to me. I'm Married at First Sight Australia. I'll give it a go. I can't knock it until I've tried it. Honestly, like the more weeks it goes in, the more dramatic it gets. If you if I watch Married at First Sight Australia, you have to watch Bridgerton. Okay. Alright, I'll meet you back in three weeks' time. Okay. It only started Monday, but it's on every night. New episode of Bridgettone only came out like 27 of February. Okay. It's only three seasons or four. Three.

unknown 22:57

Three.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

Three. Um sad. Okay. Great reality. To be fair, I'm gonna get shit for this, but I don't really care. Um so I sort it starts now, this time of year, and obviously once it dries up, Scott will start getting busy. So that's my evening TV when he's not at home. If he's at home, I'll watch it in the day, the next day. So that's fine, but often there might be a wet evening or what have you, and I sort of say to Scott, I need to know what happens tonight. There's some drama going down, like I've gotta watch it. And he does get a little bit into it. He is like, what the hell is going on here? Because it is so dramatic. It's great. Like the bit of gosse. Yeah, it's like an affair or two, or yeah. Yeah, they like go for each other's like partners. It's oh to be fair. I'm like a love island. I've only ever watched one Love Island. I think was it the first one that Molly Mae was on? No, she was like season. That's the first and last one I've watched. I think that was the height of Love Island. Yeah, um, no, this is much better, much more dramatic. Is it? Yeah, and it's Australian. There's a farmer on there, is there? Like I said, I am listening to this like one week in to Maths, Australia. So where is that? It's a short one. Yeah. M-A-F. Maths S. Um, so by the time that they're like three, four weeks in when this comes out, God knows where we'll be. Interesting. Okay, well, I will consult you.

unknown 24:37

Perfect.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

Can I have a picture of when you start? What do you want a picture of? The TV. God's sake. Anyway, again, could you imagine reality TV of farmers? Like young farmers. Like, not like Jeremy Clarkson. Like, I'm talking like reality TV. Then they go both young farmers in the club or as in young farmers or farms. They'll be like going about their day, like reality TV does, like made in Chelsea, and then they all go on a piss up at night on a Saturday night, one fish club. To the club, and then they'll have a barn party. Um, yeah, I'm coming for you. ITV. Hit me up for that one. ITV hit up me. Like Oh, what happened to no likey? No likey. Um, that went down the pan. I did it. Yeah, so I'm going like only ways Essex, Made in Chelsea, Geordie Shaw, but for farmers. So yeah, they film you doing like your work and what have you, few like tense moments, a bit like ice road truckers. Will they make it? Will they not? And then big piss up. Yeah, I'd fucking watch that. Ooh. I would watch that though. That would be you. You could be the commentator. You don't have commentators for reality TV. Come Diamond Me does. Anyway, then you'd have that one slack that goes about sleeping with everyone, and then you find out all our gossip, and then they all find out, and they all find out they're sleeping with the same person. Dun dun dun! Then they'll go to the pub, young farmer's night, they'll go for a track door. Pint of cider, bish bash bosh, yummy, yummy, big event, southwest area, or we can go to AGM. Take your pick. Southwest area is more my jam. Which one did you go to last? Nukey next, isn't it? Waymus, so it'll be new key next. Yeah. Yes. Have ours new key from you? I went to I think I went to Nukey was my last one. Yeah. Have ours newkey for you. Within the hour. An hour? Within the hour. Peace, peace, peace. Should we go next year? We could interview people for the podcast. Fucking carnish. Hi guys. Can you say a few words? Lulla the elephant. I used to hate that song. What? I just couldn't see the hype in it. I can see it now though. What's another one? Sweet line. Boom, boom, boom. Right, so Abby thinks we're gonna be brave enough to go to South Waster and interview people. I don't know where this has gone off track again. But what I'm saying is I do feel Jeremy Clarkson did Lee Squat, Clarkson's Farm. There's a lot of gaps. I feel making it six episodes. Is it six episodes? Eight episodes? Is it eight episodes? Is it four then four? I think something like that. Um there's more to a year than eight hours worth. Maybe we're not watchable. Oh, there's gotta be. Think about how long you're in the tractor just staring there, going oh uh that advert earlier. Yep, radio's on that one again. Nope. I can't guess that sound. Well, I don't think they like record like the shouting. Do you not think? Maybe that is a punish. If they wanted to record some shouting, right, I need an opinion. Can you get me a pen of cows? Need your opinion. Scott truly peed me off the other day. Iconic seems to be hates peas. Yes. Um he did an awful job of trying to herd uh the sheep into a trailer and it ended up with um me shouting at him. You did not shout, Abby. You don't shout, do you Abby? You don't shout. I just shout, what the effie do you think you're doing, mate? I can't imagine you shouting. Well I will show you the clip and you tell me what you think. I love this because everything that happens to that shed is recorded. So you can see we're trying to get him in the trailer and he just lets one go by and then lets the whole lot rest go. What does he see back? Can I turn the sound up? There's no sound on it. He's laughing, so I'm shouting, calling him mate. Because this this boy just lets the sheep go past. We're herding them up, and he just yeah, lets all the sheep go. I'm gonna insert the clip here so everyone else can see. I wonder if he done that because he doesn't like sheep. We still had to herd up the sheep regardless of whether we like the sheep or not. So it just took Yeah. Maybe he loves them and he wanted to spend more time with them. I don't want you eating my girls. So like I feel like comedy acts like that. Like, and reality shows you can't hide things. So maybe a reality TV show.

unknown 30:48

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 30:49

Tell you who I do like shows of reality. Fletcher's Farm. I've not watched it. I follow them. I've not watched it. Oh come on. ITV. ITV. I watch it on YouTube though. Because I'm bougie and pay for premium YouTube. Sorry, what? That's premium YouTube. So you don't have to pay watch ads? Oh. So I watch it on YouTube because I then don't have to watch the ads. That is quite clever. Cheaper than a TV licence, probably. Yes. Actually, you don't have to if you've got ITV, you don't need a TV license. Because like if you watch it on catch up, it's only BBC Player, you need a TV license for it. To have it on the TV, you need TV license. But you watch it on catch up. No, so I do find the reality and then kids as well, on top of that, they show quite a lot of it, which is nice. And I haven't watched recent series, but that farming life? No, she's not watching. You're not very up to date, are you? Do you watch Country File? No, stopped watching that years ago. So we've uh me and Scott were shocked it was still on the other day when we said something. We were like, Christ, is that still on? Yeah, I don't really watch much TV. I tend to go to like the likes of Netflix now. Maybe we could do a reality TV on Netflix. Yes, and I only tend to watch the shows that come up as top-rated, which you would think means that I'm up to date with things, but obviously it doesn't. No. No. We're watching Let me use my brain. Something king. Tulsa King. Oh my god, did you see that? Massaging my temples helped. Scott's watched that. Does he like it? I have watched it. Did you like it? It's my kind of movie. Yeah, but you got into all the um Landman. Yeah. Yeah, haven't finished that. What? Haven't finished it yet. Why? Because you found Tulsa King. Oh. And it came out on 2nd of March, but we're not watching it until we finish our current season. The new series with Casey from With the Ranch. Yellowstone. I've got to be aware of that. Casey from What? You like I've been told the first episode you have to just grit your teeth with. And then after that it gets better. You have to watch it, but you need full concentration. So much goes in on in one episode. Okay. Let me watch Tulsa King and Landman first. And what's the other one I need to watch? Married at First Sight Australia. Maths. I'll probably go down more of the route of. Probably go down the route of Yellowstone. No, Yellowstone's probably the one that you need to see. Focus on. Right. So you want me to do my homework on Yellowstone? Yeah.

unknown 33:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 33:55

Can't believe you've not watched that. And I can only watch one slot of series at the time. I hyperfixate on it. Yeah, Yellowstone is quite busy, so you do need full just that. Yeah. Might finish it in two years. We are. Right. Who else do you think is romanticising agriculture? I think you are with your titties. Yeah, because who actually is posing half naked on a tractor in the middle of the winter? I don't do it in the middle of the winter. I post the pictures in the middle of the winter. I bulk take pictures in the winter like the summer. Exactly. Romanticising. Like you've not posted a picture from previous months. Yeah, I do it all the time. Exactly. Exactly. I've realised I wouldn't do that, but I can't anymore. Because look at the roots. All my nice pictures of me are bright blonde. Look at this.

SPEAKER_01 34:52

Oh, because I haven't been able to get my hair done.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

Do you want me to box dye? You can box dye mine back. No, I'm I'm getting mine done hopefully on Monday. Well, you've really missed an opportunity. I am a renowned hairdresser. Really? No. I was gonna say who who has given you a good review? Eva has actually twice. What colour did you dye her hair? Ginger. I think that says it for itself, actually. You didn't ask what colour it was meant to be. What colour was it meant to be? I didn't want you to ask. It's meant to be blonde. Yeah, it definitely wasn't meant to be just blessed. Platinum or no, I actually lie. I actually have done a hair blonde before and it went blonde, and she done mine and it went blonde too. No, I lie. Mine didn't go blonde. Maybe it did. So I do your hair. Yeah, I'll happily let you. I'm not precious about my hair. As long as you're not dying it in an unnatural colour. Some caramel highlights. I love a bit of caramel. Caramel. Right. Do you want to read another a page? We just as well, because we've not really talked about romanticising agriculture. No. We do that, but you guys already know that. I feel we did our um opinion. We do this thing where you both obvious we we all know that me and Abby have a few things wrong with us. Um a few. A multitude of things wrong with us, and no one knows what they are. And we just kind of talk about it for five minutes and then just talk about whatever we want. But you already knew that. And that's why you're still here. I just don't know how people listen to our shit. There's a badger. A badger. There's a badger. A badger. Do you have many badgers up your way? Not that I see many we love. I don't really go out in the night. I got chased by one when I was younger, not very I'm not very well. I hit one back in my A1 once. Bet your A1 was absolutely wrote off. No, I don't know how it was fine. I was going down some little farm lane when I was caring for somebody. Bang! I was like We weren't just going down it, were you? You were coosing down it. Here comes Abby round the corner. Our favourite little F1 driver coming round. Zoom! She's gone. Couldn't even get the cameras to keep up with her. Like that. Just like that. Which page do you want me to read? Um pick any random page and just pick a paragraph. Hold on. Go for this page. Because I don't want you guys to like have the whole story read out to you, because otherwise you won't want to buy it. Right, are we all sitting comfortable? It's story time. Pockets the rat made his way through the streets of London to the big mound of food that had been donated by the trailer load. Pockets rubbed his tummy and his eyes lit up, growing to the size of saucers at the sight of all that fresh farm produce. Pockets was so hungry that he took a handful of food and woofed it down while loading his bag full of the remaining produce, not leaving an ounce behind. What happens next? Dunno, go find the book if you want to find out. Hooray! Woohoo! So, like we said, if you want to grab one, if you want to buy one for yourself, it's Amazon. If not, look out for the red book bags because they will be coming around shortly. I don't know how many are going around, but hopefully they might make it to you before you know it. These guys, there's a lot going on in the illustrations too, so I can't see that anyone's gonna get bored looking at those. Like the kids will pick up on things that we probably won't even notice. Yeah, that there's a lot going on. It looks really good. I know. I like there's flying cows. Who has flying cows in books? It's one of those books you could be like the da-da-da. Yeah. Find little things. I'd definitely say it's more of an older child's book. There's a lot of writing in there. Yeah. Uh unless they're being read too. Yes, yeah. It's either but like if I were when Samuel was a bit younger, maybe he would have preferred a shorter book. Yeah. Or you do a page or night. Yeah. Oh, I used to love it when my parents did that. This is a perfect book for a page of night. Perfect. Well, you can go back and read it to Samuel tonight. We've already read it actually, quite enjoyed it. Oh.

unknown 39:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:51

He was quite a fan. Right. On that note, we're gonna see you all next week. For us it'll be in three weeks. Yeah, it will be. We'll be. And who knows how many lambs Maria will have by then? Who knows? Ciao for now. Bye for now.

SPEAKER_01 40:12

Bye.