The Ins & Outs - Mid Summer Catch Up

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

We're back for a quick and dirty mid-summer catch up!Polly talks us through her new house hype, while Jojo makes a big decision for her home renovation!We chat boobies, burying your knickers, vibratin...g chairs, and one of Polly's chickens has a lucky escape.This episode is sponsored by plant-based, natural cleaning brand Purdy & Figg. Visit purdyandfigg.com and use code INSANDOUTS10 to get a free Bottle for Life and cloth and an extra 10% off!InstagramPodcast - @the_insandouts_Jojo - @houseninedesignPolly - @pollyanna_wilkinsonProducer Andy - @andy_rowe_WebsitesJojo - https://www.housenine.co.uk/Polly - https://www.pollyannawilkinson.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Green, the color of true elation, pine on the summer's day, see, I've been waiting for you, waiting for you. Hello, in these and outies, and welcome to this week's Inns and Outs with myself Jojo Bar and the other so lovely Pollyanna Wilkinson. This week, this special, super special summer episode of the Insonance is sponsored by our friends at Purdy and Figg. Now, if you haven't heard of Purdy and Fick, they are a natural. cleaning brand and they make beautiful cleaning products all with essential oils and no nasties.
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Starting point is 00:01:15 and an extra 10% off. Thank you, Purdy and Fig. We love you. We have hopped back in for a little quick and dirty catch-up where we talk about the hype around Polly's new house reveal. and what Polly really thinks about it. One of her chickens has a lucky escape. I taught pelvic floor and vibrating chairs, an update on my home, Renault. We deep dive on boobies and whether they should be in or out
Starting point is 00:01:40 and why you should bury your knickers in the flower bed. And excuse the crap sound my end, my recorder packed up and will be sorted by next season. Hello. Hello to you. Hello, you old sort. What are we doing here in the middle of the summer? What are we doing? Do you know what? We just missed you guys? And we thought we had so much to talk to you about following, well, really, Paul, it was basically following the, um, lifting the lid on your house, wasn't it? And it was so, just got such a buzz. It was such a buzz. The big unveil. The big unveil of your beautiful house.
Starting point is 00:02:17 The lifting of the proverbial skirt. Indeed. That lovely green skirt. So we are now showing the frolly knickers. We thought we'd just pop on and have a little catch-up with you guys because there has been loads going on. And obviously, after we, yeah, we've sort of unveiled Polly's house, we just thought it would be so fun to come and talk about it and talk about what we've been up to. And just a really quick hello and we'll be seeing you. We've actually decided on a date, haven't we?
Starting point is 00:02:46 We're coming back, Paul. We'll be back. Middle September, once you've booted those spawn back into school and we're all back in the rhythm of life, we'll be back. Yeah, we thought you don't really. really need us right now. You know, you need us when the kids are, not that everybody has kids. Not that everybody has kids, but you know, for the ones that do, solid, no, well done you. So you're listening to this on a sun lounger. This is what we hope, on a sun lounger,
Starting point is 00:03:11 with a spicy marg. But anyway, let's get into it. Not on a high top bus traveling through London at 7 in the morning on your way to work. That could potentially be an option as well also possible wherever you are so pal how are you what's been going down oh what's been going down um well i've been trying to cram in loads and loads of work because we're going away next week with the boys we're going to grease um first family holidays as a blended family of five the blended family yeah blended lots of boys boys and you lots of boys so there will be three boys me and Colin so that's how will that go I don't know how will it go but we've gone all inclusive because I just want to not cook or clean for a week yeah I feel you I feel
Starting point is 00:04:00 you I've got a pile of books almost as tall as Colin and I intend to just plow my way through that with spice margaritas do you get really involved with the boys on holiday what do the boys do while you're lying on your lounge air I hate getting in the swimming pool I don't like Do you know why it's I don't like a wet crutch afterwards You know when you've got in the pool
Starting point is 00:04:24 Got in the sea And then you come out to someday I hate sitting in wet A wet cosy I hate the feeling Wow Gosh that's That's quite niche
Starting point is 00:04:32 I know I know A wet gusset No one likes a wet gusset I hate sitting in the wet cosy I hate the feeling I don't much like being wet Don't like swimming pools
Starting point is 00:04:43 Doesn't the gusset dry off Quite quickly in the heat Wow Just It was just more, I don't, I don't, I don't enjoy it. So Polly doesn't like a soggy gusset. No. And that's why she doesn't like swimming with her boys.
Starting point is 00:05:00 Look, we play loads of Uno and I'll muck around with him on the beach. But we've chosen somewhere which has got like a football camp thing, which I just cannot believe this is what my life is now. But I actually chose somewhere based on it having enough sports to keep them busy because they can't sit on a sun lounger for two seconds. So that'll be fun, but then at home, oh my God, Josie, just the trauma, the trauma this week. Tell me. Beatrix was attacked.
Starting point is 00:05:25 Oh, God, I heard. And Colin saved her. My hero. Tell us. Tell us everything. Let me paint you a picture, Saturday morning, chilling in bed, reading the paper. And suddenly, I hear squawking. And it's squawking like squawking I haven't heard before.
Starting point is 00:05:41 I thought something's not right. This is either a declaration of the first egg. spoiler still no fucking eggs or something's a miss so in true Polly style I send Colin down to have a look and he races down to find a fox with
Starting point is 00:05:57 Beatrix pinned down he chases her way I think it might have been with a corgette one of the round ones which we can use like a sort of cannonball but I can't promise you that that's the case but let's imagine it was let's make up that story I'm visaging us now envisaging it this is it
Starting point is 00:06:13 she's saved from the jaws of death by Colin the hero I think she's all right we had a bit of an examine quite hard to tell how did the fox how did the fox get in well we were giving them all haircuts the day before because our boogie chickens can't see and I think potentially one or other of us no finger pointing here didn't securely latch the door oh so they they didn't get in Undor because they can't with the ugly. No, no, no, not anywhere, can they. They'd have, well, maybe they can, but they haven't. I, it's the only thing I can think the door was mildly ajar.
Starting point is 00:06:52 So unless the fox is particularly dexterous and undid the door, then it must have been out. If one of the foxes were to catch the chicken and kill it, kill it, would you have roast chicken for dinner? Waste not or whatnot? That's a good question. Do you not think it might be a bit like infected with the nasty fox nurse? Rabies could have chicken rabies.
Starting point is 00:07:20 Also, I don't know how one prepares a chicken from like death to table. Pluck it. I think it's more than that, though, isn't it? What about all the jiblets? Colin could do that. Colin could do that. Is there anything Colin can't do? Very little.
Starting point is 00:07:39 No, no, exactly. Get into just small spaces. No, very, very low doors. Okay, so that's, that's funny. So I'm pleased we haven't lost to chickens, that's good. But still, can we just understand why they've not produced any eggs? We're used to as chickens. I honestly don't know.
Starting point is 00:07:55 Quite a few people did ask from the photo shoot, whether those sort of white eggs that were on display that we used to dress your kitchen with were from the bottoms of your chicken. And actually, no, negative. No, they were not. Your chickens didn't lay any eggs for us for the shoot. I have eight eggless chickens. I also had this.
Starting point is 00:08:12 lovely vision of of chickens running around Polly's house and that we could use them in the photo sheet but that was not an option either was it well they're not quite tame yet so they still run away so the risk of it literally flying around the kitchen shitting
Starting point is 00:08:28 on everything and you've specified some very nice linens that I'd rather not have chicken shit on no squirting chicken shit everywhere we don't want that no no over our fresh nice sofas but we we had a lot of fun at your photo shoot, didn't we? What a nice day that was.
Starting point is 00:08:45 And super styling to within an inch of its life. Oh, it was amazing to see you at work. There's a lot of zuching involved in a photo shoot, isn't there? So much zshing and sort of seeing, my God, the number of cushions you put on my bed. Staggering. Yeah, well, I bring in, I always bring extra. It's all about extra for the photo shoot. And then we can always pair back at the end.
Starting point is 00:09:08 But what you might think looks lovely by, you know, when you sort of walk in and see it, sometimes you just got to have that little bit extra in a photo shoot, you know? And then, oh, yeah, it's all about the extra. The highlight for me was when you were sat on the bonkette instructing your team how to style things while you sat there. I suddenly realized that I don't need to be on my feet for 17 hours moving pots and then walking back across the other side of the room and then realizing it's the wrong way. And then I have to go back to the pot and then turn it around a little bit more and then walk back and then walk back again. I realize I've done like 20,000 steps, so I thought I'm just going to sit. over here. It was a very hot day. It was a very hot day. And I'd had a very exhausting week.
Starting point is 00:09:46 And I'd already done one photo shoot that week. So I said, do you know, I might just sit here and ask, George is very kindly, no, it wasn't, it was Lucy to very kindly jose the shelves whilst I sort of sat back and pointed, which was really quite nice. I love it. Might get myself a laser next time, you know, like a little laser pointer, like that pot there. Yeah, that could work. I love that. Well, so it's great fun to see you at work. Great fun to see that. Thank you, my darling.
Starting point is 00:10:15 And I'm just, I think also you, so that there is something I, and I have this sometimes with clients, and Paul, I hope you can confirm this. When I always, the dream is always when we renovate a house for a client, is that they don't move in until every shelf is dressed and they're walking in and getting the full experience. Now, I fully understand that it's not always possible due to, you know, budget constraints. And, you know, you've got to move back in and it could be the dates. that just, you know, you've got to move back in and the contractors are still working on various things
Starting point is 00:10:43 or perhaps the snagging's still going on. What happens if you don't do a complete house is that you dress a few rooms and they look perfect, but then the client moves in and they love it, but then they get fatigue. And the fatigue comes when you've still got contractors coming in and out every day, snagging, moving all the things that were dressed really nicely
Starting point is 00:11:05 to somewhere like the corner of the room and then they get put back and they're not how we dressed it. And then you start to get the best. get a bit fed up with things and you get a bit crabby don't you get a bit crabby get a bit patient yeah you get a bit sort of you know fed up and then you start to get fatigue where your eyes not even fatigue it's almost like you you get so used to seeing things a certain way and they're not perfect that you don't you forget what good looks like get too close to it as well like the photos that you that we shared uh people were so lovely about it but i can't see it now it's my house
Starting point is 00:11:39 And I've lived in it and I know where the cracks are that I need to fill and I need to get a coffee table for that area and all of these sorts of bits like the list of to-does. It's exactly the same in the garden
Starting point is 00:11:50 actually. People say you're happy with the garden I'm like, I know what needs to be done. You've still got stuff to do haven't you? But it's all that, you know, most of us, 95% of us don't have the budget to fully finish your house completely top to bottom and then we do.
Starting point is 00:12:04 So you are going to get that hit that point. But it was funny when obviously we got the feedback from you all and it was so lovely. It was so lovely because both of us are designers criticalised and we could always do things better. But it's so nice to hear such glowing reports of your lovely house poll. And it was so nice because it feels what I love about your house is it's your personality. It is literally you. It's the colours are you. It's the inside out, isn't it? It's the perfect blend of inside out, you know, exactly what we're trying to teach here on our pod. It's just very weird.
Starting point is 00:12:39 pictures of your personal space online. I did it. I've never appreciated it in your line of work before, but there's something about being like, here's where I live. You can all pass judgment that feels a bit strange. Well, lucky for you. Everyone loved it, so. Well, yes, indeed. Anyway, quite enough about me. What about you? Well, I've got a question for you. Oh, it's a very, very serious question. Can you jump up and down on a trampoline without peeing yourself? I can. I love lot of my friends can't but no that's perhaps just because one came through the sunroof oh right you had one out the sunroof yeah so i don't know whether that meant the pelvic floor survived unscathed but no that's not that's not a problem for me can you yeah both mine came
Starting point is 00:13:25 out of the boot and um and as a result and as a result stiff breeze it's literally like i think might have mentioned this before it's obviously a real sticking point for me but If I so much as sort of go for a sort of a run, just, I'll pee my pants. Okay. So, um, so black leggings for me only. But genuinely, there is a chair. Have you, there is actually a chair that's been designed. Right.
Starting point is 00:13:55 It's a sort of, it's a non-invasive treatment. And it's uses this clever technology that safely strengthens and tightens your pelvic floor to improve bladder control. And it's a chair. And wait, intimate, satisfaction. Well, I imagine it does have intimate satisfaction. How does it work? So the patient sits on the chair, fully clothed, for 30 minutes, and it does this like, is a vibrating chair?
Starting point is 00:14:23 Sort of vibrating, and it feels quite thrilling. I must tell you. Have you been on one? I tested one out. Does it have anything on it, or is it a flat chair? Like, it doesn't have a protrusion, so to speak. It's literally a flat chair, and you sit on it for 30 minutes, and it basically, vibrates and in doing so
Starting point is 00:14:41 I suppose it's like, you know those, back, I remember these things, everything around for ages. Is it like the app thing that you stick on your apps? Exactly, like exactly like that, but basically on a plastic chair and you sit on this thing and it tightened your pelvic floor. Anyway, I'm going to sign myself up
Starting point is 00:14:55 to go and get this done because Joey, my amazing photographer, she went on it and she said it was amazing. And she said she is now. She can now go on a trampoline. She can now jump up and down on a trampoline with her. her boys and I want to do that. And is this a chair you buy and bring home or is this you go
Starting point is 00:15:14 like you get your Botox and then you sit on your vibrating chair? No you have to go and get your Botox go and get your treatments done and sit on the vibrating chair. But you could just go read your book. Sit on it and read your book. Listen to a podcast. Listen to the ins and outs and sit on your pelvic floor chair. I'm delighted that's a thing. Where does one get this done in a I mean Google that shit. It's called pelvic pelvic floor chair. right on. How many sessions do you need to have before you back up and running? The cleaners are in there. It's an awful lot of noise going on. The, the, I think I don't know how many sessions you need. I don't know. I don't know. Probably about six or something. But it's,
Starting point is 00:15:53 I love that this is your news. Okay. So you've sat on a vibrating chair and your pelvic floor is getting tight. Anything else? It's getting toyed. Well, other, other exciting news. I feel like a broken I appreciate. I am a broken record. One day I will have something way more fun to tell you, but we're finally renovating the garage. It's finally happening. We're moved. I don't know what happened. I was suddenly like, I went through this real wobble. I had a major life wobble a couple of weeks ago. And I thought, I think we need to move house. And I think we need to just go further out. I need to go further out into the country. And I don't know what it was. I don't know whether it's maybe. Maybe, so something really odd happened when I lost dad. I feel like my, I feel slightly unbalanced in that suddenly I haven't got this person who's sort of, yes, Jojo, that's the right thing to do. You know, it's almost like I'm sort of, of course, there's Brad, you know, my amazing husband. But it's almost like we just, I just feel something like, I just think maybe rudderless. And so I started questioning everything and thought maybe I need to move further out into like the Cotswolds and, you know, now's the time to do.
Starting point is 00:17:07 do it when the kids are little and then got an agent around to look at the house and he looked at the plans that I had for the house and he in that instant was just totally changed my mind he was like what the plans that you've got together for the house are amazing it's an amazing spot you know don't move now because the market's crap no one's really moving and I thought you know what I feel like I'd be doing myself such a disservice and the house in not following through with doing what we're supposed to be doing to it and so I suddenly it was like this penny drop was like, what the hell are you waiting for? Just get the bloody hell on with it.
Starting point is 00:17:39 So I'm really on like a serious, that's it now. It's almost like, you know, obviously everything that was going on with dad and everything. It's now that's all past. I feel like I can, I've almost got like a totally clear sort of clear space. No more excuses. Just bloody get on with it, Joanie, and stop talking about it. Maybe it's to be expected to question it though, because everyone says don't move. Don't do anything drastic in the first year after losing a loved one, don't they?
Starting point is 00:18:04 They just don't do. Not the time to be selling it. Just wobbles happen. You get these funnier wobbles. I tell you, little wobbles here and there. So, yeah, anyway, so we're cracking on, and we've even got an amazing gardener round to sort of sort of the garden out and get it looking,
Starting point is 00:18:21 you know, get its ship shape because that's one place of, yeah, I know that's coming later, but I can't bear to look at it anymore like it is. It's just so many things that are wrong with it that just need to just need to crack on now. So, yeah, it's all happening. It's all going to suddenly ramp up. Maybe, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:38 This is so exciting. So, exciting. So what else is going on with you, my love? Tell me. I want to talk to you about boobs. Oh, my God, I love boobs. Well, we're both love boobs. I really appreciate boobs.
Starting point is 00:18:49 Well, I think we both do, but it's something is, it's on my list of things to discuss with you on my, on my notes. Because I've noticed. No, I'm not. But I sort of noticed boobs, the fashion. And I don't know. Okay, I'm going to go on a bit of a feminist rant here I'm worried that boobs are becoming unfashionable Because can you notice like most things are kind of like high neck now
Starting point is 00:19:13 Like cleavage is not cool, is it? No, of course, no. I'm worried that that's a slightly insidious Is that just a way of like enforcing modesty on women Or is it just fashion? I don't know, maybe boobs have never been cool If we look at like Kate Marston, the kind of I think they are with a younger generation
Starting point is 00:19:30 Like in the 90s, you remember, we'd all have like those low-cut but what was it called Bay Trading Tops? Yeah, it was all about the cleavage and a nice top and a pair of jeans on a night out. And the girls would be like, here are the girls. It's very not cool. Is it an age thing? Well, I genuinely feel like if I've got my boobs, I'd never squash my boobs together anyway. But if I had my boobs out and I was sort of walking down the street, I'd be very aware that my boobs went on show.
Starting point is 00:19:57 So I don't know whether it's an age thing. If you can see the cleavage, like the full on line of the girls squished together, I would for, a really self-conscious now in a way that I never would have done. Is it age? Is it age or is it fashion? I don't know if it's like, I think it's fashion. But is it a way of kind of suppressing female nurse? I think it's more that we've maybe become a little bit.
Starting point is 00:20:23 Women, there is a certain feminism. We don't feel the need to use our sexuality to get jobs. No, but is there not something in the reverse? you're not, there almost seems like you're not allowed to show cleavage. That would be frowned upon and that sort of, that seems a great shame if you've got a cracking rack, doesn't it? Well, it does, but then what if you don't have a cracking rack? Well, then that's fine.
Starting point is 00:20:48 That's, it's, it's, you'd feel sort of, I don't know, I think also women are very conscious of other women. You know, I work in a, you know, mainly women, female, um, dominated industry. And I wouldn't feel comfortable turning up to a media. meeting with other women with my rack out. No, I'm not suggesting you get the cleavage out for work, for God's sake. But it's more like, do you know, if I have dinner with friends or something, everyone's got sort of high necks on and no one, no one's showing any cleave.
Starting point is 00:21:17 And I just thought, oh gosh, I hope, I hope women aren't being suppressed into hiding it if they don't want to. Oh, that's an interesting, yeah, interesting. That's what's been sort of head scratching me is sort of like, why has this happened? Is it fashion? Is it a sense of modesty that's coming into our culture? that we didn't notice until it was too late. I don't know. Interesting, very interesting topic, Paul. I'll give you that. I feel like there's many
Starting point is 00:21:41 different facets to this one. I'll be honest. I think the reason, well, you would have your own reason for why you don't, which would be what? What's your reason for not getting your boots out? I'd feel really like his old tits McGee. But would you be worried about what other people were thinking? Well, I think probably some of that is part of it. Or would it be because of the boys? You're worried about blokes looking at you? No. Maybe. maybe it is just a fashion thing if i had my boobs out and i walked onto a building site oh my god as if you would well but that but why wouldn't i if it's a really hot day the lads have all got the tops off if i'm wearing a vest top with sort of you know nice bra on it's obviously going to
Starting point is 00:22:21 share a bit of cleavage not intentionally but we've all got you know boobs right yeah um but i'm i'm interesting i wear t-shirt bras and my nips can be seen and i just like because i don't like big thick padded bras I like just wearing a comfortable t-shirt bra and occasionally the nips just have a little you know pop out don't they say hi but that's almost that's almost as that's almost as that's almost as a luring as having a cleavage I think I think there's a lot to unpick here and it's just I wonder where's the cleavage gone is the question where is the cleavage basically should the boobies be iny or outy innies or outies I don't know it's just something I've been noodling as a cultural movement do you know what
Starting point is 00:23:02 If anyone doesn't follow Ashley James, the lovely Ashley James has a brilliant Instagram account. She's a beautiful girl. She's a presenter. She used to be on The Maiden Chelsea. And she's a real feminist activist. And she stands up for women's rights. And she's absolutely brilliant. And I'm going to give her a shout out here right now because she talks about this subject a lot. She's very voluptuous. She's got beautiful, beautiful big boobs. And she's got, you know, great figure. But she shares a lot about this exact subject where she feels like, why should be a lot? Shouldn't she just be able to wear a really sexy dress on a night out with her husband or friends with her boobs on show without appearing like she's slutty and people that either be writing comments to her like, you look really slutty or you're asking for it. That's one. You know, you're asking for it. Yeah. So, but why? Why is she asking for it? Because she's chosen to wear a lovely dress and show off her beautiful figure. That to me is wild. So you're right, Paul. It is. But go and check out, Ashley, because she's amazing. And I agree wholeheartedly with most things that she says. So do you know what?
Starting point is 00:24:02 I've noticed a lot now lately. I had the pleasure of going to Wimbledon with Sipsmith's gin, which is such a joy. Can I tell you something funny that happened, though? So I got my plus one along with me, which was my sexy husband. And sexy husband turned up, it was absolutely, boy. I mean, I'm not joking when I say, I think it was about 38 degrees that day. It was the hottest day on record. But it was Wimbledon, and it was just such a pleasure to be there.
Starting point is 00:24:26 And we were invited by Sixthameth, so we sort of collapsed into the hospitality, into hospitality lounge with this delicious AC and Brad Brad was like they were like oh would you know would you like
Starting point is 00:24:38 to try one of our gin cocktails and he's like no I don't really like gin can I have a beer? Oh Brad no baby no no darling darling darling darling darling darling darling we've been invited
Starting point is 00:24:50 by Sipsmith's gin and the chap here that's literally saying hello to as the owner of Sipsmith So I was like I'm just so sorry And anyways anyways So he actually, give them his due.
Starting point is 00:25:01 He tried one of their cocktails and it was made from the grass seeds from Royal Wimbledon. And that's, I tell you what, it was absolutely freaking delicious. So thank you, Soap Smith, for having us. Because we had the best day and Brad is the biggest Wimbledon tennis convert. God, I love tennis. Wimbledon tennis was so bloody brilliant. I would literally like, I'd love to just take two full weeks off and just camp out outside of Wimbledon every day. It was brilliant.
Starting point is 00:25:26 You do not share my love for tennis. You do not share my love for tennis. You do not share my love for tennis. I don't share your love for any sport whatsoever, my friend. If I had to go and watch one, it would be Wimbledon just for the booze and strawberries. Oh, it's so good. They had these lovely little fans, they gave us, these little sort of paper fans. And the paper fans, of course, Sipswis fans, had little wildflower seeds sewn into them.
Starting point is 00:25:51 And I feel like everyone is doing this. All these little greetings cards now, you can buy cards in card shops that are made from recycle this amazing decoven postable paper, which has got little wild seeds in it. So once you've got your card, you can then go and bury it in the flower bed and next spring you'll have a little pop-up of amazing little wildflowers. Isn't that just the loveliest idea?
Starting point is 00:26:13 That's amazing. Just whoever came out of that idea, well done you. That's just brilliant. That's awesome. That's amazing. I love that. I mean, we're saying more and more of that at the moment. I actually, I got sent some knickers the other day.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Oh. To be fact, it's from a brand. already wear. Stripe and stare. Have you heard of them? I have heard of stripe and stay, yeah. So that's where I get all my pants. You heard it here first. But they sent me some more the other day. They're made of trees. Trees make paper. Don't they dissolve? They're made from beechwood trees
Starting point is 00:26:43 and they are apparently three times softer than cotton. This isn't an advert, guys. Obviously, it's made from trees. It's very exciting to have pants made from trees. I'm just looking at their website now. It says, the fabric is scientifically proven to be three times softer than cotton and as breathable as fresh air in a forest of responsibly planted trees well played blinded so striped and straight designed in London grown in a forest and composted in your garden you are meant to bury your knickers aren't you i'm blown away i just don't understand what i'm looking at hold on the sec so can we just i can we just take a rewind
Starting point is 00:27:20 you bury your pants in a garden after you finish with them well i mean i don't. But there is a movement to bury your pants because you can test your soil health by burying a pair of cotton pants and waiting six weeks and checking what's left after that. What? What's meant to happen to them? Do they be eaten by the worms? Because there's a whole movement called plant your pants. Do you clean your pants first before you bury them? Oh, I think I would for my own dignity. And also because if an urban fox dug them up, wouldn't want your mucky knickers on the lawn. In the next door neighbors, in the next door neighbor's garden.
Starting point is 00:28:01 Oh, God, sorry. Those are mine. They're striped and stare. We know those are pollies. She's talked about it. It's, okay, okay, here we go. If you bury your cotton pants, what happens? We'll tell you how healthy your soil is.
Starting point is 00:28:13 If you've got healthy soil, they'll fall apart and be full of holes within that six weeks. Okay, guys, we all need to go and do this. Take a pair of cotton pants. How deep do we bury them? It doesn't say. Just cover them in. soil. Put your undies in a hole, cover with soil, wait two months and dig them up. You should see that some of your pants have been eaten or have fallen apart. The more they've fallen apart, the
Starting point is 00:28:35 healthier your soil is. Don't forget to leave a little marker, or you'll never find them. Well, you will, when it comes to bulb season. Spoiler alert, that's coming soon, lads. And if they don't, then it'll be poking up with a daffodle underneath it, with your pants on top. Let's do what soon and what's out then? You don't have either, pal. Do you have any? I've got what's in. Okay.
Starting point is 00:29:02 What is in is cottage core. Do you know what this is? Is that like sort of shabby shake but cottaging? Cottage core is a lifestyle and aesthetic trend that's all about romanticising simple, rural life. I love that. Think cosy cottages in the country, home baking, knitting, gardening, flowing dresses, vintage china
Starting point is 00:29:25 it's giving me very it's giving me Megan Markle vibes pastel tones soft flora's natural textures which is me isn't it apart from maybe not a flowing vintage drone
Starting point is 00:29:38 no it's not me lots of life is slower tea is hotter and everything smells like lavender it's basically living your best Jane Austen fantasy so that's like a new thing apparently cottage core
Starting point is 00:29:48 never heard of it sure sold so in for me is frilly edged bedding so anything that's got frilly edge cottage court meets just had a shag love it basically yeah okay fine that's my inn and you're out yeah my out is scandy minimalism
Starting point is 00:30:11 sorry I just don't I just see pictures of it and it just leaves me cold it's giving me rental flat vibes rental sort of rental flat Oslo in Oslo vibes yeah okay you know what I mean so really just really strip back scandy minimalism i just don't know how you could live like that certainly not if you've got kids no do you know what i mean by scandy minimism like super super scandy like just really paired back minimal yeah yeah yeah but that that's not your style anyway is it i feel like i want to go in and just throw down loads of textual like shirling rugs and cushions and maybe that's just my vibe make it cozier make it cozy
Starting point is 00:30:52 make it lived in, yeah, just, yeah, that's what I'm about. Well, listen, my love, have an amazing holiday. Thanks. Jammy little bugger. Oh, yes, please send us questions for next season. Please do. Send them to the ins and outs. We're going to create a big bank of them and work our way through.
Starting point is 00:31:11 Big old bank. Lots of subjects. We've got some really fun ideas for next season, actually. So watch this space. And we love you all. Thanks for tuning in. Bye. Bye, guys.
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