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today to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cook-Eater Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today the lovely Arthur Parkinson, my original co-host.

And we thought we would chat today about the thing that has become unbelievably trendy, ever more so actually,

which is pressing flowers, because Arthur has been doing this way, way, way before it was trendy.

I remember when I first met him when he was 17 or 18 and now I can tell you he's in his early

30s, he might not thank me for saying that.

But he gave me a pressed flower card,

and he also did collages, applique things, of cutting out flower pictures

from catalogues and magazines and making them into beautiful cards,

and then things like lampshades and stuff. So

beautiful. Welcome, Arthur. It's lovely to have you back. Hi, Sarah. Lovely to be here.

So, yeah, because Arthur is one of the originators, we just thought, not that he's taking a claim,

but it might be really nice to get him to chat about how you do it, what are the best things,

what works, what doesn't work, all that kind of stuff, because it is just such a, it's really

rewarding and it's very, it's a, as craft is rising and rising and rising and homegrown things,

it's so fashionable, it's very sustainable, it's got all the sort of

good things to it. So Arthur, tell us first of all how you got into it. I think it's just

what amazes me is when you think back to when people like your dad were botanising and we didn't

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