Hello and welcome to this episode of Something Rimes with Purple, the podcast about words

and language and various musings from me, Susie Dent and my co-host, Jiles Brandres.

We've got some light relief today Jiles, haven't we?

You say light relief, we're going to be going into the world of pandemonium because I love

a pun, but first I do sense you're looking particularly chilled this morning.

There's a kind of pink, siffusion across your face, is that because my screen is playing

up as I look at you on Zoom?

Do you know I'm such a sucker for any cosmetic product that says it gives you a glow and

they never work.

So I've resorted to other means and you're right, I have got in front of me a Himalayan

salt lamp.

So this was a present from my sister and it's supposed to suffuse the room with calm, relaxing,

ionising, perhaps, little particles.

All the scientists listening will be banging their heads on the wall because I've described

that extremely badly, but if I start to nod off or if I enter a kind of state of complete

zen in the middle of this podcast, just keep talking.

I've got one of those and it drives me mad, it puts up the blood pressure because they

haven't worked out quite hard to make it work.

You've got to put little things into it, haven't you, to create the infusion?

Well, you just put these little rocks, these little Himalayan salt, the Himalayan salt

is basically incredibly healing in so many different ways.

But unfortunately, this has been sitting here for so long that I think the particles that

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