That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful - Show n Tell with Victoria Smurfit

Episode Date: August 4, 2023

The wonderful actress Victoria Smurfit shares an object that brings her joy......and it's not what we were expecting her to pull out of her handbag to be completely honest! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So for our show and tell extra, we ask everybody to bring that little nugget of joy, something to surprise us. You have brought a pig. I've brought you a pig, a ceramic pig, with a little bit of a ear chopped off. Now I'm going to have a closer look. Yeah. Okay. So this is, it is, it's a slightly broken-eared ceramic pig with this. Tell me more.

Okay. So when you said to me bring something that brings me joy I was thinking there's so many things and then but I'm not a thing person it's I'm like things I'm always divested to myself

for things because I'm just one of the moments where that really honed in for me was having to clear my precious mum's house after she passed and I found the pig that I grew up with so this pig has been in my mum's kitchen since the 70s

and as long as I can remember, Piggy Whiggy has been there and I've put lipstick on him and he used to, I'd say, Mum, he's eating all the food and I'd actually give him it to the dog, whatever. And I remember breaking his ear and then having to pretend it was my brother.

So, I mean, you don't want me as a big sister. And so when I found the pig, I was looking through all mum's stuff, she loved stuff and she had an amazing eye for, interiors and she's just, she was incredible. And the one thing that I was drawn to was getting Piggy Wiggy back and making sure he stays in the family of all the things.

No, but I love that because it means something. It's not just, oh, I want that painting or I want that. No. It's something that meant something. Because behind Piggy in my head is my mum in her apron covered in flour. And so Piggy is now in my kitchen and has been for the year that, bless her, she's been gone. And so when I was thinking about, well, what gives me joy? And I have that and her bottle of perfume up by my, up by my spices and my flowers and stuff.

And so I see it 15 times a day. And every time I do, I'm like, oh, mum. And that gives me immense joy. Thank you.