A Floral Balls Up

Something Rhymes with Purple

Sony Music

Comedy, Arts, Education

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Well it’s a new week Purple People, and we’re coming to you from a very rainy July in England. Despite the grey and shortening days (thanks for the reminder Gyles), we’re bringing you a seed of summer with a lovely chat about flowers. Susie reminds us of one of our favourite, most misleadingly named flowers - the Jerusalem Artichoke (do check out our other episode on Flowers called Edelweiss), explains why Poppies are poopy and an excellent symbol of the circle of life, and why orchids are a rather… ballsy flower. Gyles bestows and adopts a new nickname- one that his wife may disapprove of- and reveals that he loves sunflowers and green carnations… he and Susie have a love of Wilde flowers in common! Elsewhere we have more bollocks chat, answer your punny Purple post and, are treated to a poem from Gyles reminding us all to appreciate the rain in summer… Susie’s Trio: Paraph- flourish after a signature Peely wally- feeling ratjer “meh” or under the weather Kenspeckle- conspicuous or easily recognised To buy SRWP mugs and more head to.... https://kontraband.shop/collections/something-rhymes-with-purple A Somethin' Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.2	Hello and welcome to another episode of Something Rimes with Purple.
0:42.0	As we always say, the podcast, which is full of musings about language,
0:46.3	literature, famous people, not from me.
0:49.2	And just sort of wordy pensiveness, I would say.
0:54.3	I'm Susie Dent and with me as ever is Giles Brandruth in his basement again.
1:00.9	I'm in my book basement, The Book Bunker,
1:03.2	surrounded by books that I've either written or edited over the years.
1:08.0	And that's one of the reasons actually that I'm able to do the name dropping.
1:11.4	Because more many years ago when you were still at school,
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