Cozying up with Monty Don & Slow Media | Season 30
58 min
🌿 WHAT WOULD MONTY DO? Slow media, intentional nostalgia & being bothered 🍂 Monty Don has aired his last Gardener's World, and we're not okay. (Angela's fake eyelash isn't either.) We were already crying 12 seconds into the pre-chat, so we're grabbing the tissues and talking about why Monty means so much to two homemakers who spent years gardening as if he might roll up the driveway. From hacking down a hated juniper to staring at the wall for 45 minutes, slow-form shows like River Cottage and Wartime Farm, and building nostalgia on purpose for your kids this holiday season, this one is heart-cozy. Grab a cup of something warm and join us. ☕✨ 🍂 IN THIS EPISODE A shout-out to a listener who FaceTimed in while canning tomatoes, and Angela's blue vest solution to our color-matching cameras 💙 Monty has aired his last Gardener's World, and why we're taking it so hard 🌱 Monty Don vs. Montague: the difference between the person on camera and the person at home 🎬 Espresso machine fires, live classes & hitting record anyway 🔥 Gardener's World as comfort through a hard winter, and gardening as a remedy 🛏️ "Don't be precious about it" & "What would Monty do?" as a pruning philosophy ✂️ Shaye's juniper: if you hate it, rip it out (and change it today) 🌲 Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Gill Meller, Alex Langlands & the British men Stu worries about 😂 Family nights watching River Cottage, Edwardian Farm, Victorian Farm & Wartime Farm 📺 Staring at the wall for 45 minutes, and what happens when you let your mind wander 🧠 Slow-form media: five-second shots, four days of charcoal & a trip to the lime kilns ⏳ Angela's morning ritual of no phone, no agenda & just sitting with her coffee ☕ One-sided friendships, Elisabeth Elliot's voice & how people we've never met shape our lives 💛 Intentional nostalgia: handmade ornaments, travel ornaments & a tree full of pacifiers 🎄 Old cookbooks as family albums, plus goose egg custard & fighting geese with tennis rackets 🪿 Five yea...
