67: Red Light Masks, Drill Bits and Chitting Potatoes

Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

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Society & Culture, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting, Home & Garden, Personal Journals

4.6 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Dig It Spa, where Jo and Zoe go full red-light-mask mode and chat beauty tweakments, teary days, puffy eyes and the gadgets that genuinely help. Then it’s power tools time with Charis Williams (aka Salvage Sister) for a confidence-boosting DIY masterclass, plus chitting potatoes with Ish. Watch or listen now.

Salvage Sister (Charis Williams)
Get confident with tools and upcycle with Charis — the real Salvage Sister teaches beginners how to use power tools, make furniture and love DIY at any age.
👉 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealsalvagesister/

Today in the Garden with Ish
Get simple, joyful gardening tips from Ish — from chitting potatoes to seasonal jobs, his Today in the Garden channel makes growing things feel easy and fun.
👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Today-In-The-Garden

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CREDITS
Exec Producer: Jonathan O’Sullivan
Producer: Samantha Psyk
Assistant Producer: Eve Jones
Technical Producer: Oliver Geraghty
Video Editors: Danny Pape and Jack Whiteside

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0:00.0	Coming up on Digit. I woke up this morning. I had a day of crying. I don't know if anybody else
0:03.9	does this. You have a day where you just can't stop crying. I have really felt emotional for the last
0:08.7	five, six days. Is it the weather or of my hormones gone squiffy again? Sometimes if you ask a man
0:15.4	to teach you how to do something, they often can be, A, have no patience, or B, be like, oh, I'll just do it.
0:24.5	They just want to take it off your hands.
0:25.9	Yeah.
0:26.5	A couple of girls came up this. It's an eye wand. It looks like a tiny vibrator, if I'm going to be
0:31.0	honest with you.
0:31.6	When you held it up, I did think, oh, it's called what?
0:35.0	All of that right after this.
0:43.4	Yeah. Oh, it's called what? All of that right after this. This episode of Digger is sponsored by Sofology.
0:46.2	So what makes a good sofa for you?
0:47.8	Oh, good sofa.
0:48.7	It's got to be massive.
0:49.6	There's a load of us.
0:50.6	And it's got to be nice and deep and seriously comfortable.
0:53.8	I also, I always agonise over the fabric and the colour as well. So it's got to be nice and deep and seriously comfortable. I also, I always agonise over
0:55.7	the fabric and the colour as well because it's obviously, it's like the centrepiece of your home. It's one of the most important decisions that you make when you're coming to decorate a room, I think. You don't just sit on it. You live on it. I mean, we do. You eat on it. I mean, not actually, but you talk on it, you watch telly on it, you fall asleep on it quite often.
1:13.0	It's basically, it's like a member of the family. You eat on it. I mean, not actually, but you talk on it, you watch telly on it, you fall asleep on it quite often.
1:13.0	It's basically, it's like a member of the family.
1:15.0	It really is. I think people can rush it. I'm guilty of that. They panic by a sofa because they need one quickly.
1:20.9	And then six months later, you're sitting there thinking, this is actually really not very comfortable. What have we done?
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