{"id":99433,"date":"2020-09-11T08:14:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T07:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=99433"},"modified":"2020-09-11T08:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T07:14:39","slug":"wild-west-wales-with-lolly-plus-sneaky-peeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/presenters\/debbie-flint\/wild-west-wales-with-lolly-plus-sneaky-peeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild west Wales with Lolly plus sneaky peeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a fabulous time I have had this week with my lovely girl and family in her beautiful countryside home in west Wales. They live about half an hour past Carmarthen, nearer the coast. I just love visiting them.<\/p>\n

We had one gorgeously sunny day, which was beautiful. I stayed once again in their little shepherd’s hut, which has power and is perfect (complete with portaloo ha ha) and slightly away from the main house\u2026 So I can sing and stay up and be loud watching TV while they are all asleep!<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Little Phoebe is absolutely adorable and so damn clever! She is speaking quite whole sentences now, although she is only two-years-old next month. Very astute, very dexterous, and eager to learn. I said to her “daddy is building your new home”, and she repeated it more or less straight away. In the picture of me and Lolly, you can see the de-tiled roof of the dilapidated barn that they are converting gradually into their new house.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

I do love being a nanny. I wheeled my adorable nearly 2-year-old granddaughter along in the wheelbarrow for a little while, then she\u2019d had enough and I said “okay, my turn!” She actually tried really hard to push me as well \ud83d\ude42 bless her little heart! Lol.<\/p>\n

So lovely to spend so much time with them. Can\u2019t wait for them to come down again next month and see me\u2026 Hopefully in my new flat!<\/p>\n

Flat update<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the reasons I was there this week is because I had earmarked this time to move into my new flat… which obviously has not happened. However, at time of writing I have a completion date of Friday 18th\u2026 So this time next week, hopefully, I will be the proud owner of my own place in Surrey for when I work at QVC on the weekends. Watch this space\u2026<\/p>\n

Snippets<\/strong><\/p>\n

Poggy love<\/strong><\/p>\n\"\"\n

It was lovely to spend time with Lauren’s spaniels Baloo (brown) and Luna again, of course. Baloo loves finding the afternoon sun on the carpet – here she was posing for me just as Luna photobombed! They were thinking about breeding Luna, but I talked Lauren out of it considering how hard work puppies are and they\u2019ve got enough on their plate with converting the old barn! Maybe one day though.<\/p>\n

Children\u2019s BBC #BroomCupboard35!<\/strong><\/p>\n\"\"\n

I had several pings on my phone this week to tell me that the BBC were remembering me! It was when I was tagged in lots of posts on Wednesday, as CBeebies (originally Children\u2019s BBC,) announced the 35th anniversary of one of my early jobs – hosting children\u2019s programs in the afternoons on BBC One – with a picture of 20 past presenters. Lots of people said “who is number two”! I was the first girl in the BBC broom cupboard introducing afternoon children\u2019s programs and reading out cards, but I was only there for a few months in 1986, then I went off to have my baby.<\/p>\n

I told my friend, Andy Crane from Picadilly Radio, that there was a job going, and the rest is ‘his-story’!! I am sometimes asked what would have happened if I had stayed. Well, I know a strong children\u2019s presenter career would have happened because I had offers from agents, but I\u2019m happy I had Bradley. Plus it led to lots of other things – presenting a show called Open Air with Eamonn Holmes in the early days of his BBC One career (I was pregnant so did the BBC London based reporting) and I went off to do 10 years with children\u2019s SVC television, from 1985 to 1995 (for the forces\u2019 kids TV, beamed to army bases abroad, before satellite took over). But I do love reminiscing when things like this happen! Which CBBC era were you? Or your kids?<\/p>\n

T-shirt<\/strong><\/p>\n\"\"\n

Thank you so much to my lovely Facebook friend Pauline Houghton,for this T-shirt. She is one of my regulars on my Thursday night Facebook live (see below). She just sent this in to say ‘thank you’ for doing 100 nights of sing-a-long during lockdown – how lucky am I to have friends like this. \ud83d\ude42 (Hope you can read it backwards, writing always comes out this way in a selfie!)<\/p>\n

Watch<\/strong><\/p>\n

I got Lolly Pop into watching the first three series of Strike! Don\u2019t miss it on BBC iPlayer. (See last week’s recommendation.)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m currently enjoying the return of all the politics programs. Some of you may know, I work for an association down in Devon on a voluntary basis, doing fundraising et cetera and I\u2019m deputy chairman – so thank goodness for Zoom meetings. I do what I can and it\u2019s great fun. I used to want to be a politician when I grew up, but now I will settle for just joining in from the sidelines. :-). But I must say, I have enjoyed the return of Andrew Neil to online TV with the advent of spectator television. What a brilliant laser shop brain he has. Watch out for it online.<\/p>\n

Or in the cinema, given the Oscars have been in the news this week, I\u2019m looking forward one day to seeing Tenet. My local cinema down in Okehampton announced that they are back up and running, with social distancing et cetera, and some of the screens there have massive gaps between the seats so that was going to be easy – for them at least. This film is really appealing to me, as regulars will know I love things to do with second chances\/time travel\/doing things again. So the notion of an action adventure film that involves reversing time is very exciting to me. When you fire the gun, you\u2019re not firing the bullet, you\u2019re catching it\u2026 Look out for it and attend your cinemas if you get the chance, they need you!<\/p>\n

Blooper\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charlie had a bit of an incident on air this week – lucky he was presenting a Centigrade<\/strong> <\/a>show full of jackets!<\/p>\n