Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast.

This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast world.

My name is Brooke McCallory.

My name is Ben McCallory and welcome to episode seven of the season five.

This is the penultimate episode of the season.

Next week we'll have a hopeful, hopeful. That's what we need. We need a hopeful hostful.

We do, don't we? Yeah, I think everyone needs a hopeful, hostful. Now, through the magic of,

we're sort of revealing, we're sort of peering behind the curtain of the slow your home podcast.

This is the first time we've been behind the microphone since the pandemic crisis.

Yes.

Yes.

Which is sort of escrow.

Everything before this has been recorded.

I don't know.

Was it January?

It might have been February.

So really before coronavirus was called a pandemic, it was obviously already affecting

parts of the world, but certainly not here. Yeah. No, you know what? Actually might have been

January. So it's probably been six weeks. Been all long. Since we've recorded, I think it's been a very long

time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the world is, is very different place to that, which it was when we recorded the majority of this season

and we've sort of been in a bit of a conundrum or a pickle almost to figure out how to kind of go about

talking about it because i don't know about you but i have consumed a huge amount of information over the last few weeks,

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