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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. So Friday I took part in

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Speaker 1: an iconic Australian program and it was such a kick

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Speaker 1: for me to do something that's been part of my

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Speaker 1: life for so long.

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Speaker 2: I was invited to read a story on play School.

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Speaker 1: Did you watch play School when you were a kid?

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Speaker 1: Everyone watched play School? My kids watched play School. I've

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Speaker 1: watched play School. It's a rich scene that runs through

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Speaker 1: every Australian kid's life, isn't it. And I love the

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Speaker 1: fact that even though we have cgi Star Wars and

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Speaker 1: kids cartoons and things are so creative now, the basics

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Speaker 1: of seeing someone build something and putting goggle eyes on

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Speaker 1: a milk carton will still hold children's attention. They still

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Speaker 1: crave this stuff. So I got to read a story.

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Speaker 1: And you know how you think a kid's story is

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Speaker 1: pretty short? We'll try reading one on television. My voice was.

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Speaker 2: Raw by the end of it.

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Speaker 3: How did you go with your voice?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's you have to read it exactly as it

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Speaker 1: is because they put the book up at the same

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Speaker 1: time and this is what teaches children to read, so

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Speaker 1: you can't add lib or when.

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Speaker 2: You've read it for the third time. Munch A couple

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Speaker 2: of You can't.

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Speaker 3: Scoo, I scuffy the tug bit. You say, well, there

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Speaker 3: he goes. He's sailing down the river and now he's

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Speaker 3: out to see good night.

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Speaker 2: You can't do what you do with your children at home.

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Speaker 2: That's quite right.

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Speaker 1: There were bits where I could add lib. I had

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Speaker 1: to wear big dinosaur slippers. The book was Max's Dinosaur Feet,

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Speaker 1: and I had to tiptoe on the dinosaur feet. I

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Speaker 1: had to do some acting.

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Speaker 3: Was this a book that was written by the Peter

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Speaker 3: Halley or Andy Lee?

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Speaker 2: No, it wasn't. They do exist, you know.

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Speaker 3: But there's such a thing as a kid's book that

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Speaker 3: hasn't been written by Andy Lee or Peter Heley.

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Speaker 2: Imagine. So it was great.

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Speaker 1: I got to sit on this on a chair with

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Speaker 1: wait for it, Big Ted and Scrap the Dog. I

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Speaker 1: was completely starstruck. When you walk in and you see

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Speaker 1: these icons and I got to sit next to them.

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Speaker 1: I got to cuddle Big Ted, amazing.

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Speaker 3: Has a big Big taed to behold school too. He wouldn'

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Speaker 3: understand you go, yeah, you're in sho Brendon.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to let you talk like that about

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Speaker 1: the play School Choice, Harris. No, I'm not letting you

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Speaker 1: talk about them like that. I'm not joining you on

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Speaker 1: this dark hands with big stop And then how's this?

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Speaker 1: I read the story, we did all of that. I

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Speaker 1: was invited and it's a rare treat apparently to go

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Speaker 1: to the play school prop room. And I walked in

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Speaker 1: and all the characters were sitting around at table.

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Speaker 2: It was like when you see your teachers in the

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Speaker 2: staff room.

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Speaker 1: Out of ours, they weren't smoking. There was Jemima, there

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Speaker 1: was Humpty, there was the other Teddy. They're all sitting around.

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Speaker 3: It is Humpty still the original Humpty from when I

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Speaker 3: was a kid.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think. I think they probably had to

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Speaker 2: upgrade the same Humpty. Well, they are all there.

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Speaker 3: Jemima would have had some work done, should have had

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Speaker 3: some stuff in.

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Speaker 2: A bulldog clip holding together at the back of the head.

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Speaker 1: So but when you go in there, I'm not very

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Speaker 1: good at craft because I'm left handed, but if you're

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Speaker 1: a craft person, even I, even I my heart was

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Speaker 1: beating fast.

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Speaker 2: It was so exciting.

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Speaker 1: But there's tub after tub of all the props, all

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Speaker 1: the knitted flowers, little bits of wooden food, the little dolls, houses,

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Speaker 1: all this incredible stuff, and they'd made little towns out

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Speaker 1: of tissue boxes. You know, it's so incredible and so creative,

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Speaker 1: and to be in the eye of that fabulous storm

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Speaker 1: was so I listened to you what oh yeah, this

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Speaker 1: was aspirational for me, and it just felt incredible to me.

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Speaker 3: Answer this question, how much Perkins paste did you eat?

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Speaker 2: Still looking it off my hand, I stayed there a

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Speaker 2: little too long.

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Speaker 3: See next to you. You'll get a LOGI for that. Well,

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you. Then we'll both be at the logies again.

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Speaker 3: We'll be back, baby, I see it.

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Speaker 1: It matters more to you than me. But I will

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Speaker 1: tell you when it's on so you can see my

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Speaker 1: reading efforts.