That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful - Show n Tell with Greg Wise

Episode Date: October 26, 2023

For our extra nugget of joy this week, Greg Wise brings in a wooden deer...which is...by his own admission...quite hideous. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So we do an extra nugget. Yes. We have a little extra slice. We have a show and tell. You have something hidden up your shirt. I certainly do. Okay. It's a piercing.

So something that brings you joy. Please reveal all. Greg. Oh, it's a carving. It's a carving of a deer. It's beautiful. It's not beautiful. It is.

The whole point is. No, no, it is. That it's a tremendously. Bad piece of carving. It's very heavy. It's very heavy. Story is... It is lovely.

Look how smooth it is. It looks like the deer is vomiting. It is vomiting. We call it the vomiting deer. Our son, Tindi Abwa, who's Rwandan, when he was probably 17 or 18, went to see a mate in Dublin. And there was a market,

and there was obviously an African trader there. And Tins bought this. I think the first thing he probably ever bought and gave it to us as a Christmas present. And we were just, we were so touched, we were so delighted, we couldn't believe it. Oh God, things, that's just the, it's glorious. Oh, thank you so much. Oh, we're so beautiful.

La la la la. Within a few years, he realized, and again, it's very fascinating, people from a whole other place, realizing the nuances of the place they now found themselves living. that we were lying. Oh no! It is absolutely horrific. Sorry, just keep it still for a moment. I'm taking it in.

So this is a deer... This is a carved deer. Deer, and it's chewing the top of a plon. It's an African car. No, the reason it's chewing that is because I think the man who made it, or the lady who made it, thought that if there wasn't a very good heavy support here,

the legs would break. It's one piece of wood. Yes, it's one piece of wood. But look, it really does look like the deer's vomiting, doesn't it? No, actually, I quite like it. Okay, you quite like it. I quite like it. But the glory of it is that, okay, if were Dame Mrs. Wise to be here,

she would say he's a fool, it is gorgeous because Tindy gave it to her. And all of these reasons. But Tins found out a few years later that we just thought it was quite ghastly. as a result it was either smuggled into various pieces of luggage or photographs of it were smuggled into various pieces of luggage

because we'd travel a lot with our work for many years and it would always make us giggle we'd be unpacking it but I mean this is quite a heavy thing It is heavy! I think I probably only put it in one of M's bags when she was going to America you know, hold all bag and she did her of course top gag

and then after that it was just I think a Polaroid photograph of it would just be slipped into things. And of course, and you just giggle and you giggle. We will never, ever get rid of this. I'd always said it was going to go on the fire, but we will never get rid of this because it just is invested in so much.

It's about Tindy, it's about our ideas of what beauty is. It's about the great, about the politess. You're always going to say, anyone gives you something. Oh God, thank you. That's so lovely. But Tins now just giggles because he knows that we're being polite with it. But it also brings you joy because of the gags that it brought. It's been a top

I mean the life that this has had has been sensational so long made at last brings me great joy.