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Hello, I'm Claire Venice from Gardner's World magazine. It's a delight to welcome you here to the Autumn Fair. And it has, quite frankly, felt a little bit autumnly this morning, hasn't it? We're all a bit soggy, but it's brightening up. It's looking lovely, it's going to be a great afternoon. It's lovely to see so many people here, so thank you very much for coming. We're going to be talking about plot to plate. Ah, that's good. We're talking about plot to plate. Something that hopefully, Adam. That's good. That's good. You know a little bit about that. So we should be okay. You like growing and you like cooking. Yeah, I do. Which came first? Growing because obviously grandparents, you know, tidy nans, scruffy nann, allotment. Actually, to be fair, that wasn't even cooking then because, you know, my granddad would create these amazing veggies my nan would come

and collect them at like lunchtime when we were up the allotment take them home and she'd spend

the rest of the afternoon boiling and to the death you know it was out you know it was like that

then he did have microwaves did you know and my poor old granddad bless him we'd always have to

get back to do the pools so about up past four we'd come back along the lane and and there was quite a big sort of social housing rectangular lawn you know that sort of gone but the kitchen window was really big and the moment you got to the back gate, the kitchen window was always steamed up.

And his shoulders would just go.

And then we'd go in like, you know, and he would never win the pools.

So he couldn't leave me nan.

And then he would have to have like, after this dinner,

all tasted the same. She might as well have made smoothies, to be fair. Oh, bless her. Yeah, all afternoon it would be, you'd hear the plates rattling, you know, on top where they're keeping it warm. Yeah, yeah, I just, I bless. I've got fun memories of that as well. Maybe many of of us do you know growing up with that and how things have changed

what are going in the back door though

do you remember those strips

are plastic and used to keep the flies out

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