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to discover even more. Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I am super happy to say that we have got Arthur Parkinson back. I know he has been doing a little bit more recently, but I just wanted to say how

lovely it is to have a co-host. He's not going to do every single one because Josie, the

head gardener here and Gary and Tom, our head of horticulture, we're all going to sort of contribute

a bit. But Arthur's going to be the other mainstay for the whole

of 2024. So that's really lovely for me. And welcome back properly, Arthur. Hello, how lovely.

I can't wait to get started. I love the fact that the podcast has become like an abacious border,

really, with all these lovely other people. It's a lovely medley.

Oh, good, good.

Well, what I planned for us to chat about today is what Arthur and I are doing for our own Christmases at home.

So it's sort of, you know, away from demonstrating, away from showing people.

It's literally, I mean, Arthur's, well, he'll talk about his Christmas,

I'll talk about mine, and what literally we're going to do for the few days before,

and then the actual Christmas day, and how to make our houses look as lovely as they possibly can.

So do you want to kick off, Arthur?

Yeah, my Christmas sort of involves

two places here in the cottage where I live most of the time, but also for Christmas I'm with my

Grandma Sheila in her little bungalow. Yeah. And what's quite fun here is Sheila insists on her

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