Hello and welcome to another episode of Happy Mum, Happy Baby, the podcast.

Today's guest is the children's laureate and children's author of How to Train Your Dragon

and the Emily Brown series, which we are absolutely loving at home at the moment.

She's a mother of three as well. It's Chris Acau!

Hello! So lovely to come on the program.

And I know I very, very well, apart from the fact that I fell off a wall two weeks ago.

I think I cracked some red. So you must try and not make me laugh, which will be impossible.

Oh no! Honestly, I feel so bad. So you obviously told me today, you know, don't worry,

the rib is cracked, but I'm fine to do it. And I was like, no, no, no, because I know

you were being on the phone and my dad, who's broken ribs multiple times and falling off bikes and stuff.

It is painful when people make you laugh. So painful, it really is painful.

But obviously at the moment, isn't the moment to be going into casualty?

It's been so...

They can't really do anything for a broken rib, by the way.

No, I find that out on the internet. They can't really know.

Now you see, that's what extreme gardening does for you.

That's me right.

Shouldn't it be climbing on the wall?

Do you always do extreme gardening, or is it just a lockdown thing?

I do quite like a bit of extreme gardening.

If I see... This is actually trying to climb up onto my writing shed, trying to cut the...

And my son got up there, you see, and he was cutting them off, but I tried to follow and I'm afraid.

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