Rosie and Jessica's Day of Fun

In episode 138, Rosie and Jessica have…well, still not much, but a little! Rosie has moved house and got fully vaxxed and made chilli. Jessica has sown a lot of seeds. They also discover that some long-running mystery series are better than others and that your local library won’t have them all anyway. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Don’t Need Nothing by Aly & AJ, while Rosie went for Elizabeth Cotten and Brenda Evans’s Shake Sugaree. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s and Rosie‘s. Sewstine made a little dolly corset… …and Morgan Donner made an honest-to-goodness sail! Rosie and Jessica badges are now available in our shop! OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!

Let’s hop back to 2018 and episode 106 when Rosie and Jessica reviewed the multi-hyphenated revenge-comedy-drama-western The Dressmaker. There were plenty of recommendations in What Have We Seen This Week, all of which I have since forgotten so all seem new to me. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Wild West Hero by the Electric Light Orchestra, while Rosie went for Trouble by Natalia Kills. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s and Rosie‘s. Heard the one about the Superman, Wild Wild West and the giant mechanical spiders? It’s number three on this Cracked article and it’s WILD (Wild West.) Needle and FedRosie has finished her Sure, Jan sweater and is having a second go on the Scylla socks. There’s plenty on Netflix to keep you occupied! RuPaul’s Drag Race is back with its tenth season; all of the Great British Bake Off is available in the UK; your mileage with Nailed It! may vary; but everyone loves Queer Eye; and this is a programme about making dolly clothes. On knitting and mental health in The Pool. Also in The Pool, Rosie contributed to this article on chronic physical illness. At Buzzfeed, an investigation into politics in modern romance novels and also a list of thing’s we’re planning on doing when we’re rich old ladies. Also making us miss The Toast, this memo in the New Yorker to the staff of a magazine in a romcom. The New York Times visits the world of the remaining manual elevators of New York. Clean up any kind – and we mean any kind – of mess with Jolie Kerr. .@joliekerr This is Roxy, the Brownies’ bear. She takes it in turn to stay with a different girl each week and goes on days out, except during school holidays so I took her home with me for a “spa day”… pic.twitter.com/aYlWSjj0zC — Jessica (@ohsewjessica) March 28, 2018 Rosie and Jessica badges are now available in our shop! OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!

In episode 137, Rosie and Jessica have…watched television? It’s all gone – briefly – wrong for Rosie but Jessica’s been to her allotment and dared to start a series without telling Rosie first. As you might be able to guess, we really miss the outside world. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Creepin’ In by Norah Jones & Dolly Parton, while Rosie went for The Monkee’s Pleasant Valley Sunday. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s and Rosie‘s. Big Should Have Bought a Boat energy on this YouTube channel. Rosie and Jessica badges are now available in our shop! OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!

We’re stepping back into the podcast time machine this week and visiting 2015 which, quite frankly, sounds great. Back in Episode 51, Rosie and Jessica were celebrating three years of podcasting with their Top 5 Sisters (you see, Rosie and Jessica are sisters so it all makes sense.) Honestly I’m just reeling thinking about 2015. That’s forever ago! You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica asks us Oh What Have You Done by Twisted Wheel and Rosie answers, I Feel Love with Donna Summer. You can hear further discussion of Timmy Time in Episode 25: Cradock and Barrington. Needle and FedJessica is having a palaver with the Terrific Tea Cosy by Martin Storey. Unbelievable noises emanating from a human in this Les Mis blooper. You can now get to Sesame Street by following Big Bird (on Twitter.) A weasel riding a woodpecker. Rosie and Jessica badges are now available in our shop! OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!

In episode 136, Rosie and Jessica are united in the very same room in which they recorded their first episode (and some of the very same audio quality.) They take a listener question as an opportunity to go in deep on that best of meals, the tea tray. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Barrett’s Privateers by Stan Rogers, while Rosie went for The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s and Rosie‘s. Why the Buffy remasters suck. Relax with some filthy art (not like that.) Some more nice sewing ladies – Abby Cox, Sewstine & Lady Rebecca Fashions. Basically this YouTube channel about a couple turning a canal boat into a cafe is the best. Rosie and Jessica badges are now available in our shop! OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!

In episode 135, Rosie and Jessica see in the new(-ish) year with an overview of what they’ve been up to (little), what television they’ve been watching (lots) and how many lockdowns they’ve been in (as of writing, three.) You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Now or Never by Sunset Curve, while Rosie went for Gonzo’s I’m Going to Get Back There Someday. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s and Rosie‘s. Rosie and Jessica badges are now available in our shop! OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!

We’re scrolling through the archives this week back to 2015, when we brought you the best movies to watch on a gloomy autumnal afternoon. Also Rosie had cleaned her hoover filters which somehow made the first line of the intro back then. As ever, simpler times. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Sunrays and Saturdays by Vertical Horizon, while Rosie went for Detectorists by Johnny Flynn. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s and Rosie‘s. Needle and Fed Rosie is continuing with her Sheherazade shawl when she’s not knitting a not-so-mystery Mystery Knit-Along. Sloths! in! Spaaaaace! Rosie and Jessica badges are now available in our shop! OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!

In episode 134, Rosie and Jessica do a relatively timely review of the Netflix movie, Enola Holmes. Autumn has rolled in, birthdays are to be had, and caterpillars are eaten. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Tied to the 90s by Travis, while Rosie went for the McGarrigle and Wainwright family’s Proserpina. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s and Rosie‘s. Would you like to see a woman build her own pumpkin head? Or putting pockets in all her dresses? Showing there is some justice in the world, Amber Ruffin has got her own show. Sometimes musicals need explaining and when they do, there’s Musicalsplaining. Rosie and Jessica badges are now available in our shop! OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!

Jessica is on the home stretch of her Masters Dissertation this week (g’wannnn) so we’re hopping back into the archives, this time to 2018 and another week when the Pumpkin Spice Latte returned to British shores. Also, look at Peter Kavinsky, erstwhile Twitter boyfriend. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked You Don’t Mess Around With Jim by Jim Croce, while Rosie went for Cat People by David Bowie. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s and Rosie‘s. If you too are tired of the Hollywood Handshake and its hyperinflation, this is the article for you. Another agricultural YouTube recommendation! This time Roots and Refuge from Arkansas. The internet love To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before as much as we do! Here is some essential reading on how it became an instant classic, its many romcom pleasures and the romcom renaissance we are living through. We obviously adore its on point aesthetic so get caught up on how its costume designer chose the clothes, a deeper dive into its aesthetic and the essential guide to Lara Jean’s eyelashes. Teeny tiny Anna Kendrick sings Life Upon the Wicked Stage (with the girls of the Kit Kat club!) freeze frame on man running through bazaarJason Statham (VO): yeah. thass me. aladdin runnin frum the fuckin fuzz again — you have won a ham (@jon_snow_420) August 23, 2018 pic.twitter.com/jqwaGFiJQG — Kamalavathe (@kamalavathe) September 3, 2018 Rosie and Jessica badges are now available in our shop! OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!

We’re hopping back in the time machine this week to 2014, where in another early September, a man disrupted a nation by putting a baked alaska in a bin. Simpler times. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica has been playing Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd, while Rosie has been torturing her family with Them Heavy People by Kate Bush (not Alan Partridge.) The V&A’s Wedding Dresses 1775 – 2014 exhibition is on until March 2015. Top 5 BiscuitsJessica nominated Oreos, Bourbon Biscuits, Hob Nobs, Fig Rolls and Ms. Cupcake‘s Red Velvet Cookie Sandwich, while Rosie did strenuous research to decide on Viennese Whirls, Chocolate Caramel Digestives, Pink Wafers, Jammy Dodgers and her friend Heather’s gingerbread. Party Rings, Jaffa Cakes, shortbread and Peanut Cookies had to settle for being honourable mentions. Needle and FedRosie has finished her Rico V Neck Baby Cardigan, at long last. If you’ve missed out on an indie club night, please make use of Friend of the Show Izzi’s playlist. We love Chloe Giordano’s beautiful woodland embroidery. OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!

In episode 133, Rosie and Jessica may be succumbing to sweating sickness. I cannot tell you how much 100% bonko audio I cut. Rosie has too many potatoes. Jessica has a wall chart. A cotton romper had little ducky buttons. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Share Your Address by the Ben Platt, while Rosie went for Dua Lipa’s Boys Will Be Boys. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s and Rosie‘s. Rosie wrote a book! NB is now on Radio 1 and you don’t have to get up at 3:30am to hear it. Trixie Mattel and a marionette! Rosie and Jessica badges are now available in our shop! OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!

In episode 132, Rosie and Jessica discuss how to be a good guest (pineapples) and what is and what isn’t camp (pineapples – pretty camp.) There’s a mysterious model boat which sounds exactly like a plot point in an episode of Murder, She Wrote. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Kokomo by the Beach Boys, while Rosie went for Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s and Rosie‘s. Just shut the front door and put on a mask. The show Glow Up is good but this video of Trixie and Katya watching Glow Up is probably better. We’re persuaded by Lolly Adefope’s Bond audition.

In honour of the Hamilton movie hitting Disney+, we’re hopping back to 2016 for this week’s Yesterday of Fun for our Hamilton special which, my god, somehow manages to still have Flap My Jack mentioned. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. Sara Grant’s new book Chasing Danger is out now! We loved Pop Culture Happy Hour’s Hamilton special. Stephen Colbert gets schooled in walking like King George. Needle and FedAll the knitting! Obscene mittens! Antler hats! Squirrels! Socks! Princess Anna! Come on let’s go and play pic.twitter.com/HbzHLT5dfD — Rosie Fletcher (@rosieatlarge) April 8, 2016 Flap My Jack! I’m just Bruce Wayne…just Bruce Wayne. Powerpuff Yourself! 100% definitely real fake pop baby conspiracy theory. The Avengers/Hamilton fanfic you didn’t know you needed. OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!

In episode 131, Rosie and Jessica somehow get distracted from the goings-on in the world at large and instead talk about how to scam your way through a university-level Latin exam. That’s kind of it. All of our Patreon takings from June are being donated to Black Lives Matter UK. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Half Asleep from the Amélie Original Cast Recording, while Rosie went for Buddy Holly’s Everyday. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s and Rosie‘s. Sew through the centuries with Bernadette Banner. I want to take a holiday in the Hill House Vintage Instagram feed. a thread of black-owned cottagecore businesses and creators you should be supporting — ellie b (@elliebotoman) June 7, 2020 Learn about protest with Elmo. Hear what happens in The Room Next Door.

Jessica has some essay deadlines this week so we’re hopping back into the archive. As RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12 has just wrapped up, we’re looking back to 2018 and Episode 111, where we discussed the end of Season 10 and, some would say, predicted the post Drag Race career of one Vanessa Vanjie Matea. You can listen online or through all good podcatchers. This week’s songsJessica picked Layla by Derek & The Dominos, while Rosie went for Send Me On My Way by Rusted Root. Playlists of all our song choices are available on Spotify! Here are Jessica‘s and Rosie‘s. Girlguiding are taking a stand against period poverty. Needle and Fed Not a well bunny at all today but I did finally finish this little guy. pic.twitter.com/wE41ZwoqTb — Rosie Fletcher (@rosieatlarge) June 5, 2018 OUR FACES ON YOUR SHIRTS Support Your Local Podcast! Become a Patron!