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Off Air with Jane & Fi

Eyes meeting across a dark room, at Finding Nemo

Off Air with Jane & Fi

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🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a plug for a miniature donkey? Please get in touch. Jane and Fi are off for the afternoon, so they’re feeling liberated. They chat barely-there pavements, Noel Edmonds’ farm, fox hay fever, spending sprees, and permission for raspberry trousers.


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0:00.0

And they just roam around outside her house and kind of over to the village green.

0:13.3

I just think that, I just think they're adorable.

0:16.5

I know.

0:17.1

You're not to.

0:18.2

Well, no, I just don't think I'm.

0:19.6

Sorry, what are we actually talking about to welcome to our

0:22.1

world welcome it's thursday still hot it is still hot which might be why we find ourselves talking about

0:28.1

where you would go to find a miniature donkey this is because eve spent the last weekend in the

0:36.7

vicinity of miniature donkeys.

0:38.3

I did, yes. My friend's mum has two miniature donkeys that she walks.

0:45.3

Right. I don't know where you'd acquire one, but I would like to find out I'm not sure how they do in Peckham.

0:53.3

No, or in East West Connecticut.

0:54.9

Well, this is the funny thing, though.

0:58.1

You think they thrive?

0:59.0

I think they would be absolutely fine.

1:01.5

So we're quite narrow-minded in the type of pets that we've allowed to become our domesticated favourites.

1:10.7

And, you know, people always think if you have a

1:12.9

little pig you're pretentious george cleanly got into a lot of bother didn't he he had a pet pig for a

1:18.3

while we haven't heard about that as it died i don't know he's moved on now he's a married man yeah he

1:23.3

has it was definitely it was ticking some kind of box. Quite what box.

1:28.8

But your friend with the miniature donkey, so when you say that she walks them,

1:32.5

she puts them on a lead and walks them around, like a dog.

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