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Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and yay!

We've got Arthur back this week.

How lovely is that?

Arthur Parkinson is joining me.

He's been busy writing and drawing and illustrating his lovely new books, which we're going to do a whole episode on them, a little bit later in the summer. But Arthur,

hello, it's lovely to have you back. Hello, I know, it's so long, and I've not actually

seen you physically, so this is lovely. I know they can't see, we can see each other, so it's

nice. Exactly. It's really, really nice. And just tell us a little bit. you physically so this is lovely i know they can't see but we can see each other so it's nice

exactly it's really really nice and just tell us a little bit about what you've been up to

um a lot of time on trains going from various places launching your book yeah yeah car yeah

well like you with your your wonderful veg book really. Yeah, and it goes on and on,

doesn't it, a little bit? And, you know, you look at the diary and think, oh, God, no, I'm not,

I'm not off next week because I've got to be at the end of the country. Yeah. But it's been

amazing and meeting so many people at all the talks who love, love the podcast, so it's been lovely. Yeah, oh good.

So what Arthur and I thought we would have a catch-up about today is kind of the new things that we've learned in the garden this year and just so keep it really general and just

the things that have come sort of uppermost in our mind and just chat for about half an hour

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