folding pocket. Welcome to another episode of the Rabbit Hole Detectives, a podcast where I, Professor Cat Jarmen, Richard Coles, and Charles Spencer, chase the provenance of historical objects both real and metaphorical.

Each episode we set one another the task of finding out as much as we can

about a particular subject to present a comprehensive understanding of the origin stories of

stuff. After all, everything has a history. It just depends on how far down the

rabbit hole you're prepared to go. And at the end of it all, our disembodied voice

pronounced as a winner. So hello again Rabbit

Holos. Hello cat. How are we all today?

exceptionally well. Enjoying well actually it's a bit hot for me really

it sounds pathetic to say that

beside the seaside in East Anglia but I'm not really good in extreme heat

unless it's a dry heat and then I'm all right. It's been very muggy here.

I'm exactly the same, Richard. I absolutely loathe a sort of prickly closeness. It's no good.

I was away recently, as I mentioned on one of the podcasts in My Yorker, and it was too hot at 10 at night to be outside,

and you just think, well, is this fun? I've now vowed if I ever go back to the med, which I love.

It'll be in June or September it won't be in July

in August no it's definitely gotten more unpredictable and worse hasn't that

really so there we go climate change for you I suppose I would add it's been very bad news for

pianos did you know that that because hotter and wetter and if those predictions are

right we are getting hotter and wet and this year we have been.

Pianos hate it.

So I have the piano tune around on Friday,

and he was rushed off his feet

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