Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball - 100: DIG IN: Zoe’s ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ Journey

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

After Zoe’s appearance on ‘Who Do You Think You Are’, she gives us the inside track on how this amazing series is made. Jo brings Goose along to the podcast recording…and lives to regret it. ...Plus, your questions and comments on appropriate wedding presents, embarrassing parental moments, and why no one seems to know how to use a food waste bin.Subscribe to our substack for free: https://digitpod.substack.com/ GET IN TOUCH📧 Email us: questions@digitpod.co.uk📱 Text or Voice Note: 07477 038795💬 Or tap here to send a voice note or message on WhatsApp:⁠ ⁠https://wa.me/447477038795SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORSThis episode is brought to you by EE and Sainsbury’s📱 EE Get the edge with 5G+ on EE, the UK’s best network – search EE Best Network to find out more and check availability in your area.🍅 Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference — Summer dinners don’t need to be complicated when the ingredients are doing all the hard work. Whether it’s a quick midweek supper or friends in the garden, a few great ingredients can transform the whole meal. Available in selected stores and online.CREDITSExec Producer: Jonathan O’SullivanProducers:  Harriet Thurley & Samantha PsykAssistant Producer: Eve JonesTechnical Producer: Oliver GeraghtyVideo Editors: Cameron Laird and Jack Whiteside 

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Coming up on Digits. They brought out this document, which was when she, it was her death certificate. And then I saw my mum's signature on the death certificate. And I broke down and had such a sob. And after we finished filming, I looked up and all the crew had been crying. Because it was such a moving story. Oh, my Lord. It's not something I would do.
Starting point is 00:00:23 I think as a wedding present, I don't know. I think if I was his wife, I'd be like, what is she saying? I'm going to release Goose. I'm going to release the hound from the room because he's biting my toes and I can't talk. All I can see is this tail running around. It's sort of like craggle rock. All of that right after this. Happy Monday, Joe. Hi, Zoe. And hi diggers. Happy Monday. Hello, Goose. I thought it would be a really good idea to start the episode with Goose and showing everybody how he's come on and how he's given you all. But now he's big kiss. As soon as you put him on your lap, he just wants to eat your ear. I don't know if this is the thing all puppies do but it's just like have you got earrings?
Starting point is 00:01:14 Can I chew them? Can I chew them? I'll lick your earlobes. Here he is and now he just wants to eat the microphone. So scrumptious though. Look at him and his paws. He's getting bigger though, isn't he?
Starting point is 00:01:23 He's getting much bigger. He is. Is he going to eat that microphone? Any minute now. I just thought people might like to see what he looks like now. So he's just over three months old and yeah, he's teething like crazy
Starting point is 00:01:34 so he just wants to chew absolutely everything including my earpiece and my ears. I'm going to put him on the ground and hopefully he'll just fall asleep by my feet. And then it's going to end up like that episode of Blue Peter where the elephant poo's on the floor and it will be goose. But let's see how we go. It's very lovely. If you're not watching the diggers, you could always watch on YouTube because you can just sort of see his tail past the screen every now and again as he licks the crumbs off Joe's toast plate.
Starting point is 00:02:02 Yeah. He's so, so gorgeous. Yeah. Here's our puppy though. I dig it, dig it puppy. So I just wanted him to be involved in the podcast. So hopefully I'll stick around. Happy Monday.
Starting point is 00:02:12 Happy Monday. And all our diggers. Yeah. Hope everyone had good weekends. I manage finally to catch up on who do you think you are, which I, it's always been one of my favourite ever programmes. I love it so much. And you were the first one that launched this series, Zoe.
Starting point is 00:02:27 So now you can tell us what it's like to actually be the subject and how it was for you. When did you do it? Do you know what? I've had such, so many messages about it. That show is so popular. And they do such an incredible job. They've got some amazing people coming up on the series as well. Adele actor, the actor, I love Toby Jones.
Starting point is 00:02:46 Amy Dowden is on this series. Well, they'd asked me a couple of years ago to do it. And it was when mum was still here. And she had been loving the whole, you know, digging through, finding photographs, trying to find some links. And she couldn't, she wasn't allowed to tell me anything that she had told people and they'd, their team, Kat, who's amazing producer director. and the whole team, they work so hard digging into people's past and they work with incredible
Starting point is 00:03:16 historians. It's such, it's a real privilege to have, to feature on the show. And then mum got really poorly and we were supposed to film it around that time. So after mum died, I did say to them, do you know what, I'd really love to still make the program and find out about her family and my dad's family and, you know, our auntie. ancestors. So we were able to pick it up last year. And we shot it. I think it was in sort of last January, February. And it was an incredible experience. You go into it knowing very little because they want you to find these things out as the viewer finds them out. And it's the genuine surprise. So you've got no idea. And before we went to do the filming, I was thinking, I wonder if they're
Starting point is 00:04:05 pirates. Were we pirates? We definitely weren't pirates. But Lots of wonderful things I found out that, for example, the Ball family originally came from McMenemies. So we had Scottish roots up in Scotland and all my lovely friends from Glasgow are like, I've always known you're a Ouija. I always liked you. So that was just amazing to discover that, you know, the Mememones were hardworking people. They endured great poverty. Just to survive families back then, you know, it was so tough. There was a lot of loss. It was a lot of family members who died very, very young, kids that just didn't make it because, you know, families were living in the most terrible conditions. But to find out that, yeah, my lovely granddad, all, my
Starting point is 00:04:55 dad's dad was the youngest of seven kids and his family were coal miners and they were hardworking people and they and most of the family will have moved around as many families did in those days they moved to work so that's how a lot of his family will have moved from Glasgow because they'll have moved to the mills uh to the mills or the mines in bolton and that's how my family ended up in bolton so that was the ball side and then my mum's family they went really far back back to James Temby, who was my great-grandfather three times, I think, back. And he, what a life he had because his mother, he was an illegitimate child. And she was in prison for bashing someone.
Starting point is 00:05:47 So she was in Bodmin jail, which was a reform prison. And he would have been two years old living in a reform prison with his mom. So can you even imagine? I stayed the night because Bodmin jail is now a hotel and you can go and do the tour. There are ghost tours. I mean, it's terrifying. It's amazing. I've had so many people who were either mintoes or tembis get in touch now saying, I was watching the program with my grandma and I've realized that we are distantly related to you.
Starting point is 00:06:18 So all these different folk who are these amazing distant cousins that I've got out there. But I think the most amazing thing for me was I never knew my grandma Peg, who was my mom's mom. And I knew the stories that she had been in and out of institutions because she'd struggled with her mental health. But they had managed to find her whole history. And so the most gentle, kind historian taught me through her incredible medical notes. And effectively she would have had what today we would call bipolar. And she would have. And she would have. And she would have. And she. had, you know, psychosis and psychotic episodes and she would go in for treatment. But the amazing thing was that the treatment would work and she would be able to come back out and spend time with her family and she would go back in every now and again. And then to see her whole life story and then they brought out this document, which was when she, it was her death certificate. And then I saw my mum's signature on the death certificate and I broke down and had such a sob. And I must say the crew were so gentle with me that day
Starting point is 00:07:26 and so kind and the incredible historian and after we finished filming I looked up and all the crew had been crying because it was such a moving story but I have to say they handle those things so beautifully they are so supportive, the team
Starting point is 00:07:42 and I'm so grateful to Kat and the whole team for putting together this program and you know my mom would be so thrilled to have learned all those stories And just to see my grandma Peg's whole story. For her story to be told.
Starting point is 00:07:58 Yeah, that was so important to your mum. And lots of other families have got in touch with me saying that they've had relatives who, you know, had similar treatment in that era. And, you know, it's shining a light on the treatment of mental health. And it's amazing history and how far we've come and how far we need to go with looking after people with mental health issues. Yeah. So thank you to the whole team. And I'm loving all the people getting in touch. Yeah. And the next day after it had gone out, I had so many messages. And the next day I was at this spa, which I was talking about the other day. And I ran into Kat who had directed the whole program. I was like, how funny to see you. So yeah, thank you so much for having us on. We really, really appreciated it. It's amazing. I'm really looking forward to watching Toby and Adils and Amy's programs as they go out. Yeah. Who do you think you are? You can watch all the programs on the IPlayer, BBC I player. And you can go way back. Because if you've never seen Danny Dyer's episode,
Starting point is 00:08:53 That is quite something. Everyone in the world should see Danny Dyer's episode at some point in their lives. It's so funny. If you're loving Digit so far, hit follow or subscribe. And that way you'll get brand new episodes as soon as they're out. Coco actually took it upon herself to research our family history a few years ago now. Because my dad has never known his family. His mum left him when he was very, very young.
Starting point is 00:09:23 He was brought by his dad who died really young. so he was brought up by a family friend and his story, his whole life has been very, very tragic. And he never knew who his mum was or where she was or whether he had any siblings. And Coco managed to find out
Starting point is 00:09:36 that he'd got a sister and his sister was still alive. And so we did this whole pilgrimage a couple of years ago and went met, Auntie Sue, who didn't live too far away from us. Just like long-lost family. And so he got to, yeah,
Starting point is 00:09:49 it was a bit like long-lost family. So he got to meet his sister. That must have been so emotional. Yeah. Well, it was. I was so proud of Coco for doing all the research. And it was really lovely for us to meet her. But also the most important thing was for her to answer questions about that my dad has always been dealing with.
Starting point is 00:10:07 You know, why did my mum abandon me when I was like three or something? It was so painful of the questions that he had. And she was able to answer those questions that their mum was obviously very, very troubled. And she wasn't this kind of lovely woman, this lovely maternal figure that he had hoped she might possibly be. And it kind of helped him to accept that she was obviously troubled and she'd left him. She wasn't very affectionate either to his sister. And I think it helped him come to terms with it a little bit. I think it did. But yeah, it was really fascinating, really, really fascinating process. And she was lovely. She's really nice. She's still around. So hello, Auntie Sue or any of our other
Starting point is 00:10:46 relatives who might be watching at the moment. But I think it was a bit too late for my dad to kind of form any bond. He's too late in his life for it to really go anywhere. So it wasn't like, Because when I was thinking, oh, it's going to be like long-lost family with Nikki Campbell and Davina and there's going to be loads of tears and it will be really moving and we'll all have this lovely life together afterwards. And that hasn't happened. So I'm guessing it probably doesn't happen for everybody always either. For everyone. Yeah. It was just a bit like, oh, where do we go from here? I don't know quite where to take this now. Well, it's quite heartbreaking, isn't it? Sometimes people want to, if they've been adopted or, you know, sometimes people want to find their families. And it doesn't always work out. No. Sometimes you can't. I mean, you see it on long-loss families. Sometimes you can't find them or sometimes people have died or the records aren't there anymore because sometimes records have been destroyed, you know, for various reasons. And often sometimes it, you know, some families don't want to be found or, you know, there's too much pain there. I think that's it. You don't get the closure that you think you might. Yeah. So I think you have to approach these things really gently, don't you? Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, with real care. Yeah. Also, I know lots of families who have. have discovered they have a whole other family because someone in the family has had a secret life. And that's quite a lot. Yeah. I'm wondering if our diggers have found incredible relatives way back or great stories in their families that you would like to share with us.
Starting point is 00:12:11 You know, perhaps you found out that your great, great, great, great grandfather did something really rather epic. like one of my great, one of my friends, great, great, great grandfathers designed the lions in Trafalgar Square. That's so cool. So yeah, diggers, if you have any, if you've made any great discoveries while digging up about your family, do let us know if you've got any good stories. Yeah, but there are some things that you just never find out,
Starting point is 00:12:35 things that you're going to get, the hopes to get answers for, and you never find out. We've got this genetic fault in our family, and it would have been so helpful to know my dad's history. You know, he had a sister who died when she was a baby, and we just don't know the story behind that. There were various other relatives that we heard about and it would be really, really useful now to know,
Starting point is 00:12:55 but we never will. So sometimes you just have to come to a level of acceptance and then move on, which is what we'll do right now. So we've got questions from our diggers. I'm going to release goose. I'm going to release the hound from the room because he's biting my toes and I can't talk properly because he's hurting too much.
Starting point is 00:13:11 The best thing is all I can see is this tail running around. It's sort of like craggle rock. It's like Sprocket and Fraggle Rock is just sort of below the screen and just this tail moving around. It's so cute. Okay, back now. I'm sorry, that did not work out the way I was planning it. In my head, Goose is going to sit on my lap and just or be at my feet and he'd be the podcast puppy, but he's badly behaved. So the question, first question from Michelle is this.
Starting point is 00:13:48 My son is getting married this summer and I'm considering buying him and his wife to be couples counseling gift vouchers. So this is your son who's getting married. Okay, Michelle. I found a company that offers them online. It feels like a good idea, especially when so many marriages end in divorce these days. While I think it's a smart investment, my best friend thinks I'm treading dangerous ground and it will be totally taken the wrong way. Am I mad to even consider it or would they thank me in the long run? This is from Michelle. Oh, my Lord. It's not something I would do. I think as a wedding present, that seems slightly passive aggressive. I don't. know. I think if I was his wife, I'd be like, what is she saying that we're not happy?
Starting point is 00:14:31 I think maybe that it's a great idea if they get into trouble down the line and if they feel that they need it. But a lot of people don't need therapy together because it's, you know, they'll be okay. I think maybe for a wedding present, that's a bit much. I think it's planting a seed for a problem that isn't there at the moment. So don't plant that seed just kind of hold back and just be joy just be happy yeah just be really pleased that they're getting married and hopefully there won't be any obstacles but if there are when that time comes then you can offer the advice or then do that the gift voucher but i i don't think you need to i wouldn't be giving that as a wedding present no i think no i mean i always joke with my kids don't worry i've saved some money
Starting point is 00:15:17 for your therapy later um and you know i think it's it's great to know for our kids that they can talk to someone about issues and things that come up. You know, I try to encourage my kids to talk to me. The thing is, we know how difficult relationships can be, but some people need to have therapy and some relationships might not work out, but a lot of people do talk to each other about stuff and they don't need therapy. I've got lots of friends who are really happy and have got it right and just make it work. And I think that's something they'll discover further down the line. And maybe Michelle one day if you see them having struggles later, maybe that's the time to say to your son, do you want me to get you some cup of cereal? But I think to give that as a gift, I don't think
Starting point is 00:16:04 that's a great message. You'll just get, mum, that's what you'll get. Like, major, mom, what are you thinking of? And don't alienate your new daughter-in-law. Yeah, don't do that. Don't do that. I just think it's dangerous. I think just steer clear, have a really lovely day and just just observe from a distance. Just be happy for them and be happy with them and have a great laugh. I think, Michelle, you might be doing it in humorous, in a humorous and practical way, but I think that could be taken very much the wrong way. Yeah, the wrong way. And what should be a happy day?
Starting point is 00:16:35 And the good thing to know, Michelle, is that you can tell your son, if you ever need help, down the line, I will happily buy you guys some counselling sessions. But yeah, maybe not as a wedding present. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. No, I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm with you. Kay's been in touch about embarrassing parental moments.
Starting point is 00:16:54 Excellent. Warning, this does contain Joe's least favorite word. Oh God, that's a few. Hi, Zoe. Hi, Joe. It's Kay from Oztle to Whistle. My favourite old-time,
Starting point is 00:17:05 embarrassing story of parenthood is when myself and my husband and my two sons, one was two and one was four, they're now in the 20s, caught an early morning flight to Spain. I had the youngest led across me on my lap
Starting point is 00:17:20 and my youngest son was sat next to the window and my husband was sat across the other side, the aisle and I had really bad stomach ache like you do on a flight where I got quite a bit of trapped wind. I couldn't get up to go to the toilet because my son was fast asleep so I just thought I'll just I'll just fart, I'll have a fart. Nobody'll know. Anyway, I fought and it absolutely stunk and my husband looked across the aisle and most of me, is that you? And I said, no, it's not, no. And he was like, oh. And my son, who sat next to the window, I said, is that you, mummy? And I said, yes it is but don't tell anybody and he said oh mommy i won't just within a couple of seconds later
Starting point is 00:17:58 a bloke that was sat behind me shouted which smelly-ass bastards done that to which my four-year-old son stood up on the seat and leaned over the back and said don't talk about my mum like that so that is my best story of our parenthood being shamed by your children but it was done in a nice way because he was actually protecting me. So I had to then get off the plane. And I stood next to the block and just laughed all the way while he was waiting for his suitcase to go off the carousel at the luggage collection. So yes.
Starting point is 00:18:33 So there we are. Anyway, I love your podcast. I think you do a brilliant job. So thank you very much. Bye-bye. Oh, my God. That's a great story well told, Kay. That was incredible.
Starting point is 00:18:43 That is so good. And how gorgeous that her four-year-old son was defending her honor. Oh, that's so brilliant. And I can imagine a fella going. How rude of that guy to say that? Because obviously someone who's done it didn't want to do it on a plane, didn't intend to do that. So then to really draw attention to it and talk about it in a very loud voice,
Starting point is 00:19:04 I think that's rude. There is something, though, about gassy air on a plane because it's trapped, isn't it? It's nowhere for it to go. And you think about all those bodies in that plane, especially on a long haul, there's so much wind going about. And you just have to put your blanket or your jumper over your face, don't you, and hold your nose down. And yeah, because sometimes if you're travelling with people you know and love, sometimes you recognise their smells, you're like, that's you, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:19:31 I love the fact she denied it to her husband and is, it's given away by her son. But he was defending her honour, even at four years old. That's cute. Go on, lad. Windies are the best invention, aren't they? I don't know. Do they stop farting? They don't say that word.
Starting point is 00:19:47 Stop the wind in your belly, don't they? Don't say that word. Fart. Don't say it. You and the F word. I can't believe that you can't or can't say. How do you want me to say pop off? Trump.
Starting point is 00:19:59 What do you want to say? Slow release of gas. Yeah, that would do. No, I like the technical side. No, I don't like using that word ever for all the reasons. I'd rather say fart than that. Yeah. Anyway, windies are really good because I think they can just kind of make it dispel
Starting point is 00:20:15 as opposed to kind of be an explosive smelly thing. It's got to go somewhere, though, isn't it? Yeah, but it doesn't it kind of silently and without fragrance, I think, is what they do. I think someone told me. Anyway, on the subject of – Brilliant story. Moving on the subject of songs that you lost your virginity to, which is something we discussed, we've had some excellent, excellent replies.
Starting point is 00:20:39 A strong start from Kara who says, I lost my virginity to staying alive by Entrance in the back of a red Ford escort. I mean, everything in that story is so good in the back of a red Ford escort. Also the detail there, Cara, I am loving that. So, so good. This one came through on WhatsApp from Anonymous. I heard you talk about Paul Weller. Joe, obviously, interviewed Paul recently about his time in the style council. It brought back the memory of my first time, which was to You're the best thing by the The Style Council. In fact, I think the whole album was on now. That is a classy tune to lose your virginity too. Oh, how lovely. Very lovely.
Starting point is 00:21:28 Got another comment now, and this is from Anna on that subject on Instagram. I can't believe that I'm admitting this. But I lost my virginity to the BBC 10 o'clock news. You imagine the bongs. I wonder what era. Was it Kenneth Kendall or was it Sue Lawley? was it I don't know
Starting point is 00:21:48 who were some of the greatest on the 10 o'clock news yeah did they have the bongs in those days or obviously quite a squeamish family because when I was we were all having breakfast the other day
Starting point is 00:21:58 and we were out at the fabulous 10 hands and the Instagram clip popped up on my phone and I was looking at it and it was just talking about losing your virginity and India looked over at me
Starting point is 00:22:09 and she was like ooh mum what is what are you talking oh no and the whole all the table all the kids were just like no stop. They were so horrified that we were discussing that. They were mortified. Anyway,
Starting point is 00:22:21 you should just blame Harry Stiles, Joe, because this is why this whole subject came up, because at the Ivers, he was giving an award to Tom York and he confessed that he had lost his virginity to talk show host, to least the beginning of it. And so he started this conversation, so I blame him. And radiohead. Yeah, funnily enough, the kids don't want to hear that stuff about us, do they? No. No child wants to ever discuss the fact that their parents ever, ever have had anything sexual go on. No. It's like you don't want to walk in on your parents. You don't want to hear your parents having sex. No, nor should they. And you definitely don't want them to talk about it. No. That kind of thing is not something that parents do ever, ever, ever. We also had this voice
Starting point is 00:23:02 note from another anonymous digger. Hello, Joe and Zoe. I absolutely love your podcast with this wonderful wide range of topics. True. In answer to your question, Zoe, What did you lose your virginity to or rather what music was playing? Honestly, it was, Ian Dury, hit me with your rhythm stick. And it always brings back a memory. Not that rhythm stick. Whenever I hear that song played. It was at a disco, not in the disco, at a disco, in the field, I think, outside.
Starting point is 00:23:37 Very classy. Fabulous. As I recall, good fun. And I'm going to keep this anonymous. Thanks so much. That is brilliant. It's lovely to hear that, as I remember, good fun. Because not everyone's first experience is particularly fun.
Starting point is 00:23:54 Some people are like, oh, okay. Or some people look like, oh, it's terrible. I'd rather forget it. So good to hear, Anonymous. Oh, you can sort of see the scene, can't you? It's a lovely summer night. Yeah. That in jewelry paying in the background, you know,
Starting point is 00:24:08 you've been taken by the hand out into the field behind the scout hut or whatever it is. That sounds fabulous. Okay, moving on, and Gina's been in touch, and this is about a unique day out. Hi, Joe and Zoe, I've just been to the most amazing scarecrow festival in Urchfront in Wiltshire with my sister Anna. The theme was music legends. I thought you might like to have a look at some of the familiar faces. I love a scarecrow festival. Let's see.
Starting point is 00:24:35 Bring it on. Who do we have? Yeah, we used to have it in ditching. Oh, is that Liam Gallagher? Yeah. That is so good. Look at the stance of him. And the Anorak.
Starting point is 00:24:45 Oh, I love it. It's spot on. That's okay. All right, Galligan. Shiny. Shiny happy playlist. Who is that? Is that all the Beatles?
Starting point is 00:24:57 I don't know. They're doing that jangly thing. I might come out in hives. Oh, yeah. It's the jangly era. They've got mop tops, aren't they? There's go go with mop tops and jangly guitars. Excellent work.
Starting point is 00:25:08 And another one. Who is this? Running up that hill? Cape Bush. I don't know if that is. Because that looks like a pair of trainers running up a hill. At the bottom of a big hill. Is that right?
Starting point is 00:25:22 Yeah. And then by the side of her. And is that the hill? There's a bush. There's a bush. Sorry, I think it must be Cape Bush. And she's got all the hair. That must be Katebush.
Starting point is 00:25:32 These are so good. It's like a quiz. Well done. And also a nice awning over time. Oh, my Lord. It's Daff Punk. Is that Daff Punk? Yeah, I thought it's Pet Shop Boys to start off with.
Starting point is 00:25:44 Oh, there you go. It could be any electro duo. I feel like it could be Daff Punk there. I'm going to have to put my glasses on. And the gold helmet and the silver helmet. It's Duff Punk. Is that Duff Punk? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:57 Look at the set they've built around it. This is definitely worth watching on YouTube. This is a labour of love. A labour of love. It's the fat boy. Oh, Normsky. I've got to take a picture of that because I need to send that to Norm. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:26:13 The police trade mark shirts. We have to finish early. That's even his writing because he always writes on his record sleeves and holds it up to the camera so people can see the messages. He's definitely his shirt. I mean, the likeness there is uncanny. He will be deeply honoured. People of, what was it, Urchfont. Urchfront, I think it was.
Starting point is 00:26:35 Yeah. So he's behind the decks. He's got his flowery shirt on and his arm in the air. That's so good. The people of Urchfant, you have very high standards of your scarecrow competition. I very much look forward to the theme next year. Gina, thank you so much for those amazing pictures.
Starting point is 00:26:51 Absolutely sensational. So the rant hotline is open and this is for anybody who needs to just offload, share all the things that are really, really driving you mad at the moment. We want to hear because I guarantee they'll probably be driving us mad as well. So everybody will be empathising, left, right and centre
Starting point is 00:27:12 and you'll feel much better when you've got it off your chest. Here we go. Just following on from the lady renting about teenagers and bins, mine's hubspins and the food waste bin. We've had it a week and I said to my husband, that needs emptying. Oh, it's fine, there's loads
Starting point is 00:27:27 of room and I said, no, it needs emptying now because the bags aren't very thick and they're compostable so they'll start to biodegrade. I thought he's done it. No, I've just gone to it and it's absolutely full and I've
Starting point is 00:27:44 lifted the bag and the bottom's gone and all the rotten food waste from last week has just driveled all over my kitchen worktops, all over the chopping board, husbands and food waste bins. It's just a bins issue, isn't it? What drives me mad is when people fill the food waste bag bin. And then they know that it's too full, but they're just going to squeeze in their plate and they scoop off like the Ratatouille or the tomato soup or something.
Starting point is 00:28:15 Then they ram the lid down really tight. And so obviously then the lid is just congealed food waste as well. And then you have to take that off and wash it. If you have room, what you need. Because obviously we have the food waste bins here in Brighton now. They're really good. So you can put pretty much everything in there. But you have got to get in the habit of putting it in the little decomposable bag
Starting point is 00:28:33 and then taking it out and not letting it be too full. Or you can get these brilliant compost machines for your own garden where you can put most of your food waste in. I think there are rules. There's certain things you can't put in. I've actually got one that I bought. probably six months ago, it's still in the box and the whole way. And everyone keeps falling over it going, so when are you going to use your compost bin?
Starting point is 00:28:53 If anyone wants one, apparently it's really good because I've not set it up yet. And then, of course, we got the ones in the street. So I need to get around to that. Yeah. But there's just generally a bin issue, isn't there, with families. No one does the bins when they're supposed to do the bins.
Starting point is 00:29:08 I wonder if anyone's actually got divorced, you know, based on, you know, when they've had to cite their reasons. Close thing. It might happen. Unreasonable bin behavior was the reason for a divorce. I wouldn't be surprised. Great rant about bins. We love a bin rant. If you would like to drop us a line to the rant hotline, if you've got something, you want to get off your chest. And if you're struggling to remember that phone number, well, here's the jingle that was made for us from Melanie. 0747703-8-7-9-5 I love it Melanie's sexy jingle singing
Starting point is 00:29:45 If anyone else wants to have a go If you've got a Bon Tempe keyboard Or a cassio or something rather than you fancy doing us A kind of Frank Sidebottom styley Do send it You can get in touch of the show by reading the show notes Joe what are you up to for the rest of the week For the rest of the week
Starting point is 00:30:07 Lots of radio stuff going on I think talking to Lenny Henry, which would be really nice, really lovely. Oh, it's always gorgeous. Then there's another skip to fill as ever with lots of stuff that has skip day. I just kind of mounted up over the past few months or so. So yeah, I'm going to be doing that all week. Fill in my skip. What about you?
Starting point is 00:30:27 Filling your skip. I'm going to be emptying my skip, so to speak, by going on a juice retreat. Oh. So I'll be doing something very different. So when I get back, you won't recognize me because I will be all fresh-faced. and still flight. In fact, I think I will be joining you from my juice retreat at some point for the podcast. So I'll let you know how it's going.
Starting point is 00:30:49 Oh, okay, that'll be exciting. All right, we will see you there. Don't starve. All right, darling. Have a terrific week. Bye. Bye. Digit is a Persephonicah production.

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