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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and various different guests, along with Arthur Parkinson, my great friend, gardening colleague, I don't know what else to call him, and co-hosts the podcast when we started.

So Arthur's back today. He's been off writing books, doing lots of his illustrations,

which hope he'll talk to us about. But welcome, Arthur. It's lovely to have you here.

Morning, Sarah. You're very kind. I've not written any books since we've spoken, sadly.

I wish I could say I have.

Well, you've got various books out, but anyway. But you are doing lots of illustrations, which I hope we'll come on to. But what Arthur and I thought we'd talk about this morning,

you know, early March, everyone's planning their gardens, the weather's cheering up a bit, the hours of

daylight is certainly increasing, the clocks are going to change quite soon, yay, hey!

And so I thought I would just ask Arthur what he was up to in his beautiful, admittedly tiny

but absolutely lovely little flower yard that he has in Gloucestershire and he's still

very much involved with his mum's flower yard in Nottinghamshire so in Hucknell so Arthur first of all

tell us what you're up to well garden wise it's it's really interesting before we started this podcast

recording this morning I was just looking out of the garden

and already we've got a little pair of robins that have paired up, and I can tell they're

paired up because they're very happy with each other, just skipping about the pots.

Yeah.

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