189: A package with a piccy for Porky

Planet Porky

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3.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones bounce back into your ears for another exciting episode of Planet Porky the podcast.

Today's topics include: Snow in April, skiing holidays, the wall-to-wall coverage of the death of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the future of the Royal Family, chasing Royal stories, Rachael Blackmore's pioneering Grand National win, what's behind the violence in Northern Ireland, shops reopening after lockdown, sciatica, Porky's racy home delivery story, high profile people who cheat on their partners, Wally the Walrus, Tenby, why there are different watches for men and women, not flaunting your assets in public, washing your shopping, Mormons, LAJ's return to church, and ironing your clothes while you're already wearing them. It's a steamy one...it's Life on Planet Porky!

Follow the show on Twitter: @PlanetPorky or Mike is: @MikeParry8 while you can find Lesley-Ann: @LAJwriter.

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest episode, the latest chapter, the latest
0:27.0	great chronicle of life on planet Borky, with myself, of course, the Porkmeister, and
0:33.8	the rock chick or writer extraordinaire, Ms. Leslie Ann Jones.
0:39.3	And Ms. Jones, as I speak to you, I am not joking, there are snowflakes piling up on my V-Lix windows above me.
0:47.0	And I cannot believe it.
0:48.2	It's nearly the middle of April.
0:50.0	The latest I remember snow happening was at the Cheltenham Festival, which is usually the middle of March, March the 15th or something like that.
0:58.5	And I remember it snowing heavily there and thought that was late in the year.
1:01.8	But I simply can't believe what I'm seeing here.
1:04.3	It's unbelievable.
1:06.3	Four mornings, the last four mornings, my bird baths in the garden have been frozen solid,
1:12.8	not just a bit of ice on the top, but frozen solid. Extraordinary climate.
1:18.2	Oh, well, you have a very short memory then, Michael, because this is a classic April dump,
1:24.3	as it's known. We very often get this kind of weather during April, and it's known as the April dump, as it's known. We very often get this kind of weather during April.
1:29.5	And it's known as the April dump,
1:31.3	because if you happen to be in the Alps for your Easter holidays,
1:34.6	as we often used to be when the kids were little and we'd go skiing,
1:39.0	you know, you could always guarantee a massive snowfall,
1:43.1	you could pretty much guarantee it.
1:45.7	And you'd also have nice blue skies and fine weather as well.
1:50.2	So you have that great combination.
1:52.1	There's nothing worse than going skiing when it's a whiteout.
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