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This is Love

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This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In June of 2020, a 72-year-old man in the UK named Gerald Stratford posted a photograph of himself in his garden on Twitter. He wrote, “Just giving my onions their daily inspection, a crucial time now for veg.” The tweet, like many of Gerald Stratford’s tweets, went viral. Gerald told us he never expected so many people to like his tweets about his garden, but that he just tries to be nice and polite and so far, people like it. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.0

In June of this year, a 72-year-old man in the UK named Gerald Stratford posted a photograph of himself in his garden on Twitter.

0:39.0

He wrote,

0:41.0

Just giving my onions their daily inspection, a crucial time now for veg.

0:48.0

The tweet, like many of Gerald Stratford's tweets, went viral. When was the first time you thought about Twitter or heard this thing Twitter?

0:58.0

Right. As an extra part of my hobby I like growing big vegetables to show in local

1:07.7

competitions mainly and in 2019, early 2019, one or two of my friends around the country said,

1:21.5

Gerald, we're on Twitter. And I said, what's Twitter? And they explained to me it's a forum,

1:29.0

similar to Facebook. And if you go on it they said you know we can send photographs to each other

1:37.7

talk and so I thought yes I think I'd do that.

1:44.0

He says his nephew Stephen helped him get all set up.

1:48.0

And so once a week I would just randomly take a photograph of what I'm doing, send it on Twitter and you know talk amongst my friends and then in May of 2020 I had a bucket of new potatoes in the greenhouse which were ready to harvest.

2:17.0

So I said, come on Liz, let's go out and see what we've got.

2:22.0

And we took a before and after photograph of harvesting this

2:28.3

bucket of potatoes and I've got just under 4 pound of spanking new shiny potatoes and I just put a comment on

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