Hello and welcome to the Blind By Podcast, you juvenile hola hands.

It is the first day of April and I gotta say yesterday I really really enjoyed yesterday

because the clocks went back at the weekend so the evening was longer and it properly felt

like spring there was warmth in the sun, genuine warmth in the sun, t-shirt warmth and there

was the promise of that smell of new growth.

It's probably my favorite smell of the year, now it hasn't kicked in yet, it tends to

kick in end of April.

The general smell in the air when every single plant is just putting out those growth hormones

and are sprouting new leaves, it's a floral smell but it's not flowers, it's like flowers

causing.

So I got a little bang of that and I had it the warmth of the sun and the length of the

evening and it was like a fucking tonic.

It really gave me a lovely sense of optimism and an appreciation for the present moment

and I'm just so fucking grateful, I'm really grateful for nature to just give me a little

hug and a pat in the back because I needed it because winter's tough going sometimes,

there's beauty in winter, there is beauty in winter but sometimes it's tough going and

I needed something and the sun gave me a loving headbutt.

So for this week's podcast I have a chat, I'm gonna give you a little chat that I did

very recently with someone who was previously a guest on this podcast, Emma Dabbery who

she's an academic and an author and I had her on the podcast back in 2018 or 2019 to

speak about the, so I had her on the podcast about two years ago and she just written a book

called Don't Touch My Hair which was like a history and discourse on African hair because

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