Rambling in the Countryside 🏡 (feat. my daughter) [998]
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What housekeeping updates does Luke give at the start of the episode?
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Hello listeners, welcome back to Luke's English Podcast. How are you doing today? I hope you're doing fine. I think this is episode number 998, nearly episode 1000. I'll be talking about that later on in the episode, my plans for episode 1000. But this one I think is number 999, I can't count. I think it's episode number 998. And it's a kind of rambling episode in which I'm going to be talking to you and doing various bits of podcast housekeeping. I've got just some stuff that I need to deal with, stuff I need to manage. But I'm also going to be describing, well, the situation I'm in at this point. A few updates, a few podcast updates. I'd like to talk a little bit about the World Cup, but not at great length.
I know this is not a World Cup football rambling episode. But nevertheless, I think it would be good to talk about it a little bit. So this one, I think, again, I think I've decided to call this one Rambling in the Countryside. Because, yes, I am in a different location to record this episode. I'm in the French countryside. And, well, I'll tell you all about that in due course. I'm not alone. Sitting opposite me is my daughter. You can speak now. Permission to speak granted.
Hello, so I am Olivia.
Olivia, you're Olivia today, are you? Okay. So, she's sitting opposite me. What are you doing?
I'm colouring... You need to speak into the microphone. I'm colouring a doll. You're covering a... you're colouring... I'm colouring a doll. A doll.
A doll. It's not a doll, though. It's a picture of a girl. Yeah. And you're colouring it in. Yes. Where did you get that?
From the supermarket. Okay.
Okay. What you mean is that I generously bought it for you. It's the sort of thing your daughter, who is eight years old, if you've got an eight-year-old daughter, it's the sort of thing that she sees in the supermarket and instantly wants. And there was a little bit of negotiation, but she successfully negotiated the purchase of this notepad, which has pictures of girls in it. And you have to color in the pictures and they all have different outfits. One of them is completely stark naked and you have to, most of them are stark naked and you have to kind of like put their clothes on and design the way they look and stuff. It's just the stuff that my daughter absolutely loves. You want to say something else?
Oh, she wants me to point out that also it comes with this clever little set of paints and you put water on them. You put water on them and put a brush into the paint and then you can do little simple watercolour paints. So I'm in the countryside currently with my daughter. It's just the two of us this week. But yes, if you're listening to the audio version, it may sound slightly different. I'm in a room with lots of glass in it. There's loads of windows all around. And so the sound is probably bouncing around a little bit. If you're watching the video version, you will see that there's lots of greenery behind me, lots of trees and bushes and things like that. And I look a little bit different because I'm wearing a cap today.
Because often when I'm on holiday in the countryside, I will just put a cap on. For example, to go outside, to go cycling or something like that, I might put my cap on. I'm wearing a cap. It's the only cap that actually suits me. The only cap in the world that I think actually suits me. And I've owned this cap for a long time. Can you guess how long I've actually owned this cap? How old do you think this is?
Like, oh, I know. It's... Wait.
By the way, listeners, Olivia is not on camera because, well, it's just general child safeguarding. I don't think it's wise at this stage yet to put my daughter on video. I'd like to keep her identity anonymous.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What housekeeping updates does Luke give at the start of the episode?
0:00–6:16
2
Why is Luke recording from the French countryside and who is with him?
6:16–24:36
3
How did the family decide to rent a long-term house in the countryside?
24:36–31:04
4
What child-friendly countryside activities and surprises does Olivia describe?
31:04–59:16
Speakers
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