Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball - 104: A Clitoral Cock-Up

Episode Date: June 22, 2026

Zoe & Jo discuss the perils of fake-tanning if you live alone, how to style-it-out if you get windy during a Pilates class and whether a trapeze lesson is the ultimate birthday experience. Plus - a surprise dream analysis, and quite possibly the funniest word mix-up ever…!Here’s the Rant Hotline for all your pet peeves: 07477 038795Become a member of The Potting Shed for early & ad-free episodes! https://digit.supportingcast.fm/ For even more Dig It, subscribe to our Substack for free! https://digitpod.substack.com/ You can find out more about Dream Psychologist Ian Wallace who features in this episode at https://ianwallacedreams.com/ GET IN TOUCH📧 Email us: [e-mail]📱 Text or Voice Note: 07477 038795💬 Or tap here to send a voice note or message on WhatsApp:⁠ ⁠https://wa.me/447477038795Watch on YouTube - https://youtu.be/nDEoRw3dfA0 SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORSThis episode is brought to you by: 🍓 Belvoir Farm -  Made with real fruit juices, real flowers and natural ingredients, Belvoir Farm drinks contain no artificial sweeteners, flavourings or preservatives. Enjoy them chilled from the fridge for the freshest flavour. Available in major supermarkets nationwide.  https://belvoirfarm.co.uk/ 🛍️QVC — Summer gatherings always seem to end up in the garden, so why not make the space feel extra special? Explore My Garden Escape at www.qvcuk.com and use code QDIGIT for £10 off your first order. Minimum spend applies and full terms are on the QVC website.🩲 Stripe & Stare - Stripe & Stare’s super-soft knickers, sleepwear and everyday essentials are made from breathable natural fibres sourced from responsibly grown trees, with beautiful colours and styles designed for all-day comfort. Use code DIG20 at Stripe & Stare for 20% off your order. https://stripeandstare.com/CREDITSExec Producer: Jonathan O’SullivanProducer: Samantha Psyk & Harriet ThurleyAssistant Producer: Eve JonesTechnical Producer: Oliver GeraghtyVideo Editors: Cameron Laird & Lottie Steele

Coming up on Digit, before you leave the house, do some pat cow position. And some downward dogging. And then you can downward dogging. Sorry, I did not mean to say that. She won't say fart, ladies and gentlemen, but she'll say dogging. And I went straight to waitros and I got a rotissory chicken. I was like, come on, sit down. I had a big pile of rocket and a big load of cottage cheese.

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Welcome to another dig-in. How you doing, Zoe? I mean, I would love to know you've come back from your juicy retreat and it looked amazing. It looked so utterly beautiful. Do you feel cleansed? Do you feel purged? And what was your big meal when you first came back? What did you want to eat?

What were you desperate for? Oh, firstly, I had such a good time and shout out to all the gang that I met out there. I met some really amazing people from all different warts of life and made some really good friends, actually. So a big shout out to the whole crew who are at Juicy Escape. And well done to Jason. It's such an amazing place. I saw Callum Best is there this week, actually. Oh.

So they got loads of videos. And the mystery celebrity who was there last week that I didn't mention was Alicia Dixon. There was an amazing moment. I was watching pickleball, learning how to play pickleball. I thought, I recognized that laugh. and I looked over and there was Alicia. Her brother was there. It was a whole gang of them.

They were on such good form. And there was a girl, though, who was so beautiful. I kept thinking, my God, this girl is so beautiful. And then when I left over, I'd seen some posts and it was Louisa from X Factor. Louisa Johnson. Oh, my God, she is so beautiful. Oh, God, I don't know her. Yeah, she's got one of those figures, you know, when they did like tiny little waist and these beautiful.

Oh, she just looked fabulous. There's a lot of those at the gym that I go to at the moment. There's so much bun sculpting going on. I'm working out, looking at everyone, just going, how? Bums, absurd. My bum never look like that. I know. I know.

You know, when you look at those shorts and they wear the crop top. Yep. And then the shorts. Yeah. And you're like, how do you look like that? And then the tiny little waist, oh, God, I salute all of you. I've never looked like that. Never will.

No. Amazing. I never look like that. There's no hope in me looking like that now. Anyway, it was such a great thing to do. I absolutely loved. it. But I will admit that when I got home, well, when I got on the plane, I had a kick out with a cup of tea. I bought a salad, really lovely salad at the airport. I didn't have any

croissons. It didn't have like a hard called coffee or anything like that. But then I got a cup of tea on the plane and I just thought, oh God, I just want to kick. And I really enjoyed it. But I got home and I went straight to Waitrose and I got a rotissory chicken. And I brought it home and I was like, come on, sit down. I had a big day. pile of rocket and a big load of cottage cheese and I mean I shared the chicken with pretty much with the cat but I literally was like a prehistoric woman. Did you have a drink with it? I didn't. I have not had alcohols. I've not had a drink. That's good. No, I've not had a drink. I'm feeling like really kind of really good. I've eaten really healthy. I'm not eating as much

as I used to eat. I've had a juice for breakfast every day. Amazing. juice had it this morning. Beatroot, spinach, avocado, put the avocado in earlier because otherwise it lends us mush at the top. Apples, a bit of parsley. Wish that up. Absolutely delicious. It's almost like a meal. I've eaten quite a bit of cottage cheese since I got back. I really missed cottage cheese. There's nothing wrong with that. If you're loving Dig It So Far, hit follow or subscribe. That way you'll get brand new episodes as soon as they're out. I have a quick question for you. lie in the sun a lot because I get really bored and it's not really great for you and I don't tan particularly well. I like sitting in it for a bit but so I intend to fake tan. How if you live on

your own, do people fake tan their backs? Because I do the kind of right down and across and then I do that up and across but you end up with a gap in the middle of your back. You have like a diamond that you can't quite reach with some fingermarks. I don't know. Yeah. If anyone's got a tip on if you're on your own a lot. How to self-tan your back. It's a little bit like applying suntan lotion to yourself when you're on your own. Usually if there's something you go and are, you're like, can I ask someone to put cream on me? Is that weird? But anyway, if anyone's got any tips for self-tannying your back, please share with me. There's got to be some utensil, like a scrubbing brush, like back scratch a thing. There's got to be a tanning thing that reaches those parts that you

can't reach ordinarily. I'm loving James Reed's tan. I love it. Oh really? It's so good. If you look carefully you'll see my fingers are quite white and my palms are quite tanned but i do and i just put a tiny bit on my face and it's easy to do and i just think it's easy to do and just easier than lining the sun for hours on end i can't do it i can't do it i can't do you so do you line the sun i just can't get bored no no no i'm always you know me playing keep you upy with the ball or something like that as being in the swimming pool but i do like a tan yeah you like a tan but we all look a bit better don't we when we've been touched by the sun oh i look so pale at the moment yeah it's i'm I look terrible.

But also sunspots, I've really noticed, like, in the past couple of years, how they've just pot. And I spent forever just concealing my sunspots. Just like, oh, God, it's getting darker. And there's another one. And there's another one. And they all seem to be on this side of my face. So I don't know whether I'm always in the sun on this side, bizarre.

Or gardening as well. God, it's really important to use sun turn. Yeah, sun protection, basically. It is sun protection. Or a big hat. Paddle. So, Joe, firstly, I. I think you'd love juicy.

I know I would. Because the sport, but you could just go to a sport retreat. But you guys, because you all love your sport, there's volleyball, they do football, they do like ultra ball. But I have, I really want to learn paddle or I just want to play paddle in Brighton and Hove. So if anybody is rubbish at paddle and wants to learn and fancies game, let me know. Apparently there's a little app you can go on and you can find people who want to play. I'm usually on my own. Paddle partners. So I want to, you know, it's just someone who fancies, who's a total beginner.

I haven't quite grasped, well, I haven't grasped at all the fact that when it comes off the wall, it's so confusing because it comes off the wall. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, but you have to bounce. But anyway, I never thought I would say it, but paddle is so fun. The number of times I've hit the ball and it's gone off the glass wall and I'm like, literally leaping in there going, yes, I'm done.

I've done it. I've done it. And then see if we're like, no, you haven't. No, that was out. But I'm sure last time that counted? No, it didn't. So it is complicated. Are you all gang patient if like, because are you all quite good? I'm not that good. No, everyone's really tolerant. We're all different levels. Cass and Steve are really good. They're always brilliant to any kind of racket sport. They're so good. But Coco is powerful. India's powerful. So we just all, and they're very tolerant of me. That's what I'm saying. I'm the weak link. I'm definitely. the weak link. I can't grip the racket or the bat because of my fingers and my shoulder hurts and all that. But they're just so happy to have partners and to have people playing and I think

everyone just has really good fun. I think that's why Paddle is taken off because you don't have to be amazing. I think with tennis there's an element of skill involved or power and control. But paddle, you can just have a go. And you've got a partner. If you've got a good partner, they cover you quite easily as well.

Okay. Right. Should we go to our first question? This is from Anonymous who said, I'm in my 20s. and love listening to the show. I was reading an article about whether or not it's acceptable to Trump. Thank you for changing the word in the gym. For years, I didn't go to group yoga classes for fear of the word I don't say in at Downward Dog. Expelling air in Downward Dog.

Farting. Ladies and gentlemen. Whenever I didn't say, I would let rip when I went back to Plank. Recently, I've been invited some Pilates classes by a friend, but this fear still plagues me. What do you do if you feel you have to, Bel Air at the gym. Is there any way to style it out? I can't say the F word. You know that if you listen to dig it regularly. Have bodily functions ever stop you from doing something? Any advice appreciated from a gassy wannabe Pilates Daly? I wonder if you could sort of try and get some

out before you go into the studio. So if you, before you leave the house, do some cat cow, cat cow position. And some downward dog. That's always very good for moving wind. And then you can downward dogging. Sorry, I did not. I did. Not me to say that. That sounded so wrong. I mean, I know what you mean, but you just said the word dogging. But she won't say fart, ladies and gentlemen, but she'll say do dogging. No, but I'm wondering whether you can do a bit of massage before you even go in.

I sometimes have to do that when I get a bit trackwind. And it's like the massage, come on, come on. Let's move it along. Let's move it along. I wonder if you could do that before you go in. I mean, I'm thinking, I mean, people have farted in yoga classes I've been in. No one's farted in the Pilates. yet, but it just makes everyone giggled, isn't it? It just makes everybody laugh. I don't know. Oh,

I'd be mortified. I'd be mortified. Windies, I keep saying about Wendy's. Windies are like the best thing ever. I bulk by. Can they stop that though? No, but it kind of somehow it comes out more subtly and you take them and it's pretty instant. It just seems to dispel the gas instead of it all storing up and coming out in some massive trumpet. We definitely need. We definitely I feel like our diggers will have stories of unfortunate wind outlet moments when it happens. You can say the word, it's fine. I can say farting. I can say farting.

I'd rather say the other word, the T word. I don't want to say the T word. But if anyone's got any stories. Trumping, which is what I've always called it, by the way. Or what you do, because there is that terrible thing when you've got to, we've had this conversation because Steve, Disco, Steve bought you. Those pants, didn't he? The pants that Halt, kit trap the fart. Oh my God. Yeah, I'll say it now. The fart pants here. Very excitedly bought it for me for Christmas. The really sexy fart pants that keep your farts in when you're in a Pilates class. But you might have to wear baggy leggings rather than tight ones because you might just see the pants.

I think, oh, God, you just got to let it out sometimes, haven't you? And you can't control it? No. I think I remember yoga ones when you're in inverted positions, you know, and there's lots of legs opening and legs closing and there's all sorts of, you know, there's loads of fanny thought sounds across the studio and it's like mortifying, isn't it, if that happens to you? But it's not happened yet. I've never, I haven't really done very much yoga, so I've never heard anybody doing this at all. And I've done Pilates and that doesn't seem to have happened. But swimming is pretty good because I say this all the time, it's in the water. You can do anything you like and no one knows. So I do a lot of crying. lying in the water when I go swimming, if I'm feeling a bit emotional, it's a really good place to just, like, let your tears just flow into the water and nobody knows everyone's oblivious. And the same with letting off gas. You can do it to your heart's content and no one really knows. I don't think, unless the noise is going out over the swimming pool and I'm oblivious. Does it how sort of power you forward? Yeah, it propels you forward, yeah. Forward turn and Trump. Off you go. Yeah. Sarah's been in touch because obviously I have an issue with the F word. And she said, than using the F word, I was brought up to say purtel, which is a great word. Purtle.

That's a good way, have you done a little purple. I've just pertled. No idea why, but it's so much nicer. Oh, I like it. It reminds me of the flumps, perkin, posy and pertal. It was called Poutel, wasn't he, the little one? Oh, was he? Yeah, that's a gorgeous word.

Oh, by Joe. We've done a Purtle. That is very good. I like that word. We say pop off. Or she'd you say pop off. Popping. I think Steve's family said pop.

Popping. No, I think we just never ever discussed it or acknowledged it. No, I guess, yeah, one of those. The irony is that when we're with Francis, she does it all at the time, really loudly, in public, in cafes, in shops, on buses, everywhere. And because she's quite big, her bottom is quite big, they are explosive and they sound really, really noisy. And she just does it and doesn't that. it at all. She doesn't. She doesn't make you laugh. It makes everybody laugh. It really does. And she'll do it like when we're having a dinner. And everyone just goes, oh, Francis. And she just goes,

excuse me. It's great. I think it does break the ice, doesn't it? It does. Well, it's funny because my family have never really acknowledged it very much. It's all kind of stiff up a lip and etiquette and being polite and it's not a nice thing to do. The irony that Francis does it so loudly and so freely is quite funny. It kind of shows our uptightness. Yeah. It's like, oh. So yeah, maybe it's made us face up to it. Okay, so people do share lovely diggers. If you've got far, sort of terribly embarrassing farting moments, funny farting moments, words that you use instead in your family, if you've got words for different things that you'd like to share with us, we'd love to hear from you. And if you have any answers of what to do, if you can fill one brewing,

and you're in the middle of a Pilates class. Couldn't you just excuse yourself and go to the loo? I suppose you don't really know when they're coming sometimes, do you? That's the unfortunate thing. No, when it happens sometimes and people just go, oh, excuse me. I'm always like, it's fine, it's fine, let's just move on. Let's not talk about it. Don't acknowledge it.

Okay, let's take a quick break for some ads. But if you're keen to listen to these episodes early and ad-free, you can subscribe to the Potting Shed. Yearly subscriptions get a free Dig It Toebag and Father Gills, So and Tells, just click the link to subscribe in the show notes. Right, time for a break. Our next question is from Hannah. I was in the gym changing rooms the other day and I overheard two quite glamorous midlife ladies. Was it me and Joe? Discussing birthday plans. I don't

think it would be described like that. I was expecting them to be going for sophisticated cocktails or something like that. But instead, they decided to go trampolining together. I like these women, whoever they are. I absolutely love this as it was so unexpected. My birthday's coming up next month and I'm tempted to try something a bit different myself. Do you have any ideas? Have you ever done anything a bit wacky on your birthdays? I tend to get a bit down around my birthday so thought maybe something silly could cheer me up. Thanks. I'm sorry, Hannah. Love the pod. And that's from Hannah. Well, Hannah, firstly, happy birthday to you. Birthdays can be like that, can't they? It's, you know, it can be a lot of pressure, isn't there? A lot of pressure and

sometimes it's best to spend it doing what you like. I had a I had a hoe down once my birthday. That was a right laugh. We had a barn dance and everyone wore cowboy hats and we did the docy dough and that was really, really fun. I don't know. Are you into trampolining by the way, Joe? Are you any Good? We used to have a trampoline. We've got rid of it, God, maybe five or six years ago when the kids just lost interest. I obviously had a band dance last year, which was an amazing, amazing fun. So I really loved doing that. I was at Amy, my best friend's Amy's birthday party at the weekend and someone had bought her for a birthday present, an aerial trapeze lesson. And so I'm going to do it with, as long as she lets me. I'm going to do it with her. But that's a

really good thing to do. It's just something completely out of the blue. So trampolining would fall into that category, but also having a go at being a trapeze artist for a day on your birthday. Hannah, just an idea? So you and Amy are going to be like in leotards swinging. She better catch me. And then are you the catcher or the swinger? This is amazing. I guess you are you all right with heights? No, I'm not good with heights. But I think with that, That's why I would do it because you'd have a harness on.

I'm completely hijacking her birthday present here. But you'd have a harness on and there's like a net below you. So I think I'd feel relatively safe. So I could do that. I can't do heights at all. But I've always been obsessed with trapeze artists. When you go to the circus, it's the one thing I just spellbound by and I really want to watch. They are just stunning, aren't they?

That lovely feeling of swooping would be great. My only feeling with that now is, I mean, even if I go on a swing, Or I go on a fairground ride. It's like the, I feel like my belly is behind me. I mean, it literally physically is anyway, always slightly behind me as I'm going forward. It's like, what? There it goes. But that feeling of like, even when I'm on a swing now, I used to love swinging really high.

My belly's always a little bit behind me. You can have to be so brave. I can't wait for, can we have a video when you and Amy go and do this, please? Oh, if we do it. Yeah, yeah, when we do it. You've got to do it now. You've said. Now I've got to.

Damn it. Yeah, Hannah, think about the things you love. What do you love doing, Hannah? Escape rooms. How about, I always, the kids will just be howling if they hear this. But every year when it's their birthdays, I was like, we could always do an escape room. They're like, Mom, we've done so many escape rooms. No.

But I'd like to do an adult escape room or Crystal Mays. Anything that is like there's TV programs that you obsess and what the games. You love your games, don't you? I do love my games. I'd be hopeless at that. Although we are going to go and do the traitors. As a family, we're going to go, I mean, this would be brilliant, probably the end of our family. As a family, the balls, we're going to go and do a traitors.

Oh, are you? I think it is sort of like an immersive game. Yeah, I'm quite looking forward to that. So you'd like to do an escape room. That's my idea of hell being trapped in an escape room. Yeah, squid game. I'd do that. Squid game.

Yeah. Can you do an immersive squid game? I don't know. It gives me anxiety. the idea of that. Squid game. When I think of Squid Game and that's, you know, where they're all have their tied ankles together and they're half them and you've got to be the one to stack the cards and they're sweating. So stressful. Do you know what I really fancy doing? Watercolour painting. I was thinking that the other day. I think it's all the influence of thinking about

David Hockney and King, oh, do you know what? Maybe I'll get some watercolours and a couple of pads and just sit outside one day and do some painting. Anyway, suggestions for good birthday ideas, a little bit away from the norm, perhaps for Hannah. We had a Bob Ross party. So we watched, had Bob Ross on the TV, and we all had canvases and we had paints. And we just had to, we followed along and did what he was telling us to do.

And at the end, we, not that it was a competition, but we had a little competition to see who did the best painting. But there's another idea, Hannah. That was a lot of fun. Get some drinking, do some wild painting. And Bob will lead the way. Get everyone a Bob Ross hair like wig. Bob Ross wig.

And it's really lovely doing that. We went on a holiday once to Spain and it rained every day and we had really small kids. And we were running out of what we had a flamenco lesson. We had a little band come in. We were just like anything to entertain everyone. And we did that one day. We all painted. And we all did a still life bowl of fruit, I think.

And the pictures were amazing. Because it just, you know, everyone is so different and it didn't matter if people were really skilled or not skilled. I really loved something like that. Creating something. That's good. Oh, this is a good subject. Thanks, Hannah. It is, isn't it? We have a surprise now. So this has been launched on us. The team have asked a dream analyst to interpret the dreams that we were talking about last week. So we were saying about different things we dream about. And they were quite different, I think, the themes. So here is dream psychologist Ian Wallace analysing us.

Hi Zoe and Joe Thanks for sharing your dreams We will explore your dream first But before we do We always have to remember The dream doesn't happen to you You happen to the dream And you create everything you experience in the dream

Okay So when you're at that window Zoe bashing away Trying to get someone's attention The person whose attention you're really trying to get Is your own attention There's something that you really want to attend to

within yourself, it may be some need that you have, some need you have to articulate. And it suggests that you're often spending all your time running around after the needs of other people, rather than looking after your own needs. Right. And a window is how we see things. It's our perspective on the world. But it's also proven to be a bit of a barrier for you as well as you. Okay.

That makes sense. So rather than trying to attract someone's attention, then just think about what you would like to attend to and yourself. what needs you have that you may be find a bit challenging to articulate to people and let them help you. The children part of the dream, Zoe, we'll come back to that when we chat about Joe's dream as well. In your dream, Joe, the crashing airplane or the airplane that's almost crashing, it's the 16th most common dream. Lots and lots of people have this dream. And what an airplane symbolizes, it's a vehicle of the sky, the sky represents thoughts and ideas.

So it's about some project or plan or idea that you're trying to get off the ground. You're trying to influence it, to steer it to a successful outcome and land it successfully. And the fact that it's always just above the ground and never crashing suggests that you always get to where you need to get to. But sometimes you feel a bit challenged about it. And it's really just about your confidence. So the more confident you are that you will always get to outcomes, which you do, means it's, that you feel like a whole burden has been lifted. It's not a situation of such high gravity

that's pulling you down all the time. So you just need to be confident that you always get to the outcomes you need. And in both of your dreams, you spoke about children in jeopardy. It's a 17th most common dream. And what children symbolize are labels of love and often pressures creative gifts

that you're maybe neglecting a little bit, talents that you have, things that you would like to express and embody, And this dream is all about looking after those talents and skills that you have, those precious creative gifts that you both have, and making sure that you nurture them and develop them because they are labours of love like children, and they may take a while to develop into full maturity.

Oh, what a lovely voice. Ian, that's amazing. So that's your cookbook, Joe, and your new trapeze career. That's right, that's it, yeah. I've got to get those off the ground, be more confident that I can do them. Ian Wallace, how wonderful. Thank you. And thank you to the Diggette team for that. How fascinating. So you have had the 16th and 17th. 17th. Most common. Most pop common dream. Interesting him saying about your confidence there though, because you always, I always amazing because you're so brilliant at everything you do. And you are always, you know, sometimes I'm like you should be more confident in yourself. And, you know, it's so easy for all of us to say, isn't it, to someone else? But You do worry. I so thought it was about my children, though, because I'm always trying to protect the children

in my dream. It's always that I'm flying a plane and I'm trying to, yeah, we're literally skimming over the top of buildings and I'm trying to protect them and stop it from crashing and from, yeah, to just keep them safe. So that's interesting that it's not about them at all, really. There we go. Very weird. And yours is about the bashing at the window.

What did he say now? It was about not meeting my own needs. That's right. to meet my own needs. And I won't tell you what I was thinking about when I was listening to it, thinking, oh, yeah, maybe I should. Where my mind goes sometimes when I hear things, it's just seriously. And could you relate to that?

Yeah, I can relate to that. Yeah, I can relate to that. I definitely can. Wanting to be heard. It's just the last, you're the last person you sort of look after, aren't you? Sometimes you always sort of looking after. Although, having said to it, I haven't had a lot of people to look after recently. everybody's, you know, been doing their own things.

But yeah. On the subject of leaving behind the bucket list. So this is where you just accept that you've done what you want to do and there will still be some things that you want to do, but don't stress about it. Bessie said, I'm at that stage with books. I'll read what I want, not why I think I should. I'll never read war and peace and I'm okay with that. Yeah, that was the point.

Don't aspire to things that are impossible. Steve wrote, I realised in my 40s that I was never going to get back my career in music, which I'd put on hold in my 20s to bring up my girls. When my girls found my records and my press cuttings, they were proud of their dad, though, even if he didn't quite make the international pop star he once dreamt of becoming. I actually looked up Steve to see what he'd done if he was in a band that I knew. And I don't think I'm familiar with his band. But yes, it's just having that piece, isn't it, and just kind of going, it's fine.

It's fine. I'm happy with what I'm doing now. There are cuttings, though, so he must have been in a little. a band that kind of did all right for themselves. It's a delve deeper. Steve, tell us more. Charlie said, I'm never going to hike to Everest base camp. And that's okay. I know lots of people who've done it, Charlie, and it sounds amazing.

But yeah, that's okay. Other people have done it and they can tell you about it, Charlie. There's probably other loads of other things that you'd probably like to do, but you don't need to do that. Hannah said, I say chuck it in the fuck it bucket. all that's so satisfying to say chuck it in the fuckit bucket if it's never going to happen at this stage yeah fair enough don't need to do that don't need to be worrying about that oh we do love hearing from you diggers you always make a smile it's so good yeah and tasha's been in touch with an embarrassing story here she goes morning diggers i hope you're well hi joe morning

Zoe, loving your podcast. I've just got a story about my most embarrassing moment as a primary school teacher. I was teaching year two, so they were seven, and we had a lovely tank of chrysalises in the classroom. And it was the end of the day. And when you're teaching small children, you just talk all day. And I do get my words a little bit muddled up, and this is what happened. There are a few parents in the classroom. There were about 10 children. And one of the children said, oh, yes, Mrs. What's the, what are they called again, the things in the tank? And instead of saying Chrysalis, I said clitoris by accident, obviously. When I said this, one of the mothers spat her coffee across the classroom.

I said, no, no, no, children, not clitoris. I wrote that on the board, put a big cross through it, and then wrote chrysalis and asked the class to repeat the word chrysalis. a few times before we all got it right. So there we go. Words can get muddled up. And that was my big, big, big, cock up. That's so brilliant. Cock up, right.

Oh, God, Tusha, amazing. Cock up with the clitorists. Oh, that's so good. Oh, dear. No, I said chrysalis. That's so good. I love the way kids repeat when you say things. It's like you couldn't say so many things.

And I remember in the country, driving and saying wanker to someone and Woody just in his little car seat went wanker I said no mummy said monkey and he said no mommy said wanker wanker wanker wanker wanker wanker and it was just so adorable they just know don't they can you just imagine the kind of parrot fashion repetition of clitoris no chrysalis chrysalis oh tasha that's gorgeous I love that story Any more embarrassing stories, please let us have those. Just go to the show notes. It will tell you how to do that.

In the meantime, the rant hotline has been ringing off the hook, and here is this week's offering. I love, Louise, loving the podcast, which I look forward to each week. I also want to rant about people who walk past items, put on the stairs, clearly full upstairs, such as toothpaste and other toiletries that you've just bought. Surely you can see it's heading upstairs. So why walk past it or even worse, literally climb over it to get upstairs?

Yeah. Anyway, thank you for letting me get this stuff off my chest. Love Sarah in headset. I particularly enjoy when I put a pile of toilet rolls on the stairs and I literally make them into a pyramid so that it's so freaking obvious that you have to climb over it and they're supposed to be going upstairs to the other toilet. And they will mountaineer scale over the top of the toilet rolls and just, oh yeah, navigator those, missed those.

Off I go to the toilet and then they'll shout down, Mom, there's no toilet roll down up here. Can you throw one up? Like, no, you've literally just stepped over it. Like a coconut shy. Oh, yes. It is that thing, isn't it? That thing of, just take it with you.

Open your eyes. Yeah. And if you want to get it off your chest, go to the show notes and you'll find the rant hotline number. Oh, brilliant. Enjoy the rest of your week, Joe. Thank you, Andrew. We're going to speak to everybody on Wednesday, so we'll see you all then, Diggers. Take care. Bye, Zoe. Have a good week. Bye. Digit is a Persephonica production.