40ish - Unfiltered - Zebras, Unicorns and Phone Calls

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

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What's your midlife meltdown this week? My midlife meltdown. I actually think this is very, very, very middle-aged. Okay. When people call me unannounced. Actually phone you up? Phone me up unannounced. What do you mean unannounced? Like they're not telling me that they're going to phone me. I don't mean you or like a close

friend. Just checking. No, I speak to you most days. Yeah. Right. Although we haven't spoken that much in the last week. Have you noticed that? No, you haven't noticed. You don't notice these things. You just forget about me these days. I really don't. I don't speak to you all weekend. We often don't speak at weekends. I purposefully, I actually had a lot to tell you at the weekend. Did you? And I didn't. Why? Because I sometimes think you want to be left alone I wasn't really home

this weekend it was sometimes it's very quiet sometimes it's very busy and this one was very busy but next one's very quiet so feel free mine's also very quiet feel free phone me anytime I feel like you don't want me to phone you that's not true you've just made that up in your head have I yeah you swear swear you swear down swear down also you don't need to like give me a heads up that you're going to phone me. Also do you want to tell you, before I get to my middle, I know it is about phone calls. Right. I feel like I phone you much, much more than you phone me. Would you, have you picked up on that? Because sometimes when I phone you, I think, oh no, don't phone her. You phoned her like so many times. And are you going to annoy her? I would say that is probably true, but I don't mind that. But why?

Why do I phone you more? Because maybe because you're phoning me more, I don't need to phone you, because we've already spoken. Like if I don't phone you in the morning, Yeah. And we're not seeing each other that day, Yeah. Then I won't speak to you.

Is there a hole in your life? But that's not true because you know that we'll WhatsApp many a time. There isn't a hole in my life. I wouldn't say there's a hole in my life, but you would be someone that on my dog walk I would call in the morning, but I stop myself. If you're not seeing me? I hold back because I feel like I drive you a bit mad. You don't need to. You don't need to. Okay. Well then in that case, could you phone me more? Okay. Right. So who is in the category of people who call you unannounced that this is not okay? People that I don't speak to very often. Okay. Okay. Because you're just going to phone me, right? If I haven't spoken to you in like

four months, or let's say the contact that we have is over WhatsApp or over text, I mean, I don't really text anyone, but if it's only over WhatsApp and then suddenly you call me, I'm not here for that. I feel like that's quite millennial because I think our generation, I mean, I don't think that's a midlife, Mane. I feel like that's a young person, Mane, because they're all socially anxious, whereas we grew up on the telephone and also meeting people in real life. I don't think it's social anxiety because I'm not socially anxious. No, I know you're not. But I think that's a millennial thing is like, you know, you find people on apps,

date people on apps, you do everything online. But in our day, you did everything IRL. Everything. IRL? Yeah. Get you. OK, so must be the new tropics you're drinking. Oh, it must be. So, so the other day it happened. Yeah. I think were you there? Someone was there with me and I could see this, this phone call flashing up at like three o'clock on a Tuesday or something. And I just thought, is someone dead? Like, why is that? Why? Why are you calling me?

So I didn't answer. But then I thought, oh, well, they'll message or they'll leave a voicemail. Yeah. And there will, then I will be more informed as to why that phone call was coming in. And then I can decide how best to respond. Okay. I text back back? Do I phone back? Like what is needed? Yeah. No voicemail. No WhatsApp. No text message. No email. Did they phone again? No messenger on Facebook. No DM. No nothing. No. They didn't phone again. Ever. No. Did you phone them back? No. Oh my god, but now you don't know why they were calling. No, no. So I messaged them. Oh right. Say did phone them back? No. Oh my God. But now you don't know why they were calling. No, no. So I messaged them. Oh, right. Say, did you call me? Yeah. Was it a pocket dial? Did you? Yeah. Yeah. Did you mean to call me? Yeah. Anyway, they responded and they

were just phoning for a really, really lovely reason. I know. And then I felt like a total bitch because it was like, I got confused by it. I got a bit concerned. Well, that wasn't necessary. No, actually, the reason they were calling was just gorgeous. I think this is a sad thing in general that we don't like people calling us. I think it's sad. Well, because I think it's nice to chat as we've just established. Yeah, I like it when you call me. Yeah, but you don't call me enough. Okay, so you like it, but do you have people who you have more of a phone relationship with

than a WhatsApp relationship with and vice versa? So my friend Hayley and I were talking about this the other day, I WhatsApp her, because it's always like, right, you're free for a dog walk, what you're doing, it's just more of a like, when am I gonna see you? We live very near each other. So I'll say, are you walking? And she'll always phone me back. Okay. And I said to her, you don't need to phone me back. Yeah. What's that? Yes or no? Yeah. She's like, no, I like to talk

to you and I like to connect. If I'm about to see you for a dog walk, we don't need to have a whole chat on the phone. Right. So I said, you never ever WhatsApp me back because I don't really like WhatsApping. I like talking. There you go. That's her mode of communication. She's a middle-aged woman. But I speak to Hayley all the time. So that's okay. Yeah. It's when I don't speak to you all the time. It's not okay. Okay. Not okay. I do see that. I do see it. And I have my people that I speak to a lot. Yeah. My friend Sarah, I speak to her every single morning. Yeah. We'll check in with each other. Yeah. So if she or we'll, no, we will speak most days. Okay. So she doesn't need to WhatsApp me. She can call me. Okay. I mean, it's a bit of a fine line.

I know. And then like my friend Jude, for example, who's also a really close friend of mine, we WhatsApp. That's how we communicate. If she phoned me, I would think, oh, I need to pick that up. Oh, okay. I mean, you're never really going to know what side you sit. I'm just saying no one ever is. And I'm not sure who sits where. I just only know how I react when the call comes in. I just feel very like free about either phoning you or WhatsApping you. I don't overthink that. I feel fine about both. I feel comfortable with both modes. Good. I do feel comfortable. Oh, that's good. Phoning you. FYI, I'm just aware that I phoned you a lot more. You might not feel comfortable phoning me after

my midlife moan. Come on. Is it about me? Well, it is actually. Yeah. Oh my God. No, I moan about you. You don't normally moan about me. I'd like you to share with the nation your, your how to boil, how to do a soft boiled egg in an air fryer recipe that you told me. What are we talking about? I don't have a recipe. How do you make? I don't. I put it in boiling water. What do you mean a recipe for an air fried egg? You told me that

you haven't put an egg in boiling water for years since you got an air fryer. I did not tell you that. You did? No, I didn't because that's not true. You bloody did. I bloody didn't. I probably said, you know, you can boil an egg in the air fryer. For how long? And on what degrees? I remember what you told me. You told me six minutes, six minutes at 180. You said, and you will get the perfect soft boiled egg. You don't need to boil water. You just put it in the air fryer. I was like, no, that can't be a thing. Can't be. You were like, I'm telling you, because I've done it for years. No, I haven't done it for years. I've done it a few times, but I have resorted back to boiling water, you know, classic, classic egg boiling. What's

going on? My friend came over for lunch last week. She wanted eggs. Oh no. Soft-boiled eggs. No. And I was like, right. No, no, no. And I was like, right. No. Okay. Nicole's given me this tip. I'm gonna try it out. I said, I'm a bit scared because, you know, I've never done it in an air fryer

and it sounds mental to soft-boil an egg in an air fryer, but let's do it. Now, can we just say that I may not have many skills in life, but in the kitchen I am queen of the domestic sphere. You are. I don't fuck up food. It's not in my remit. My friend knows this. She's very confident. She's like great let's do it. So we do it. Put the eggs in there. I put mine in a little egg cup. Lucky she knows you. Lucky. Crack it open. She could have thought all sorts of things. Lovely sourdough toast all buttered sprinkling of salt

crack it open raw raw. I was like okay okay. The whole thing's raw. It's like cervical mucus whites and raw yolk. Why have you got to use the word cervical? White snotty whites, sloppy uncooked whites. You put it in for six minutes. That was what you told me. So I did as I was told. Another two minutes. I mean it doesn't happen in the mega zone. It just doesn't happen with a ninja. I see. You've got a you've got like a very basic bitch of an air fryer. I do. No I do. I do. You do. So put it in for another two minutes. Take it out. This is the other egg. Crack it open. Fucking raw. Right. Okay. Now I'm, now I'm pissed off. With me. Am I? Yeah. And my friend's like, is that why you haven't phoned me? Yeah, that's why. And my friend was

like, you know that in the eight minutes that that's been in the air fryer, we could have boiled them. I said, I know, but I'm determined to do this. So we put her two back in because she hasn't opened hers because mine were the test ones. We put her two back in. We got to 10 minutes. Right. So we're doing an extra two minutes. That is the most almighty bang. We both jump out of our skin, open the air fryer. It's exploded. It's taken the shell off for us. That's nice. There you go. And'm fine about that. And it was still cervical mucus. Too hard. Too hard. Overcooked. So it would seem that nine minutes is the perfect. I mean, what's the problem here? I, you know what? Just it's a no from me. I'm just going back to the

boiling water. I don't use it. You were the one who told me. I don't think I was. I'm denying all liability. Who else would tell me that they hard build their eggs in an air fryer? Just no one else would do that. It's just not a thing. What do you mean no one else would do that? What do you mean no one else? I'm telling you people do that. People do put their eggs. They do. They put their eggs in their air fryers. Telling you. It doesn't work in my house. Doesn't work. I haven't done it in a long, long time because what happens is the shell goes a bit black. I don't love that.

Oh no, that didn't happen. It exploded off. There was no shell. Clean off. Yeah. Clean. Yeah. Nice. Weird. Listen, that's your midlife mode. Yeah.

That you can't boil an egg in an air fryer. Yeah. But even if you could, there's no way you would ever do it again. At a principle. Yeah. Why? Because it doesn't feel right and Delia wouldn't do it. Delia wouldn't do it. You don't know what Delia would do. I'm telling you, listen, airfryer, we talked about this on the main show, airfryers are here to stay. Okay. So you just have to accept them, work with them. It's like chat GPT. You're still very, very, very skeptical, skeptical and unsure of chat

GPT. AI is not going anywhere. Well, it's that case of if you can't beat them, join them. Yeah. What is the deal with the air fryers and AI? I think when the kids move out, I'm going to move out the air fry with them and be like, enjoy yourself, take the air fryers and AI. I think when the kids move out, I'm going to move out the air fryer with them and be like, enjoy yourself, take the air fryer with you. Good night. God bless. I think they'll need a new air fryer. Okay. I'll get rid of mine and get them a new one. So you do use it. Do I? Yeah. You do use it. Very unhappy about this egg situation. I'm very unhappy. When you need to heat something up quickly. Like what? I don't know. Well use the microwave for that. I don't need the air fryer. You see I have not used my microwave in forever. I use it probably every day. So you'd prefer to use a microwave than an air fryer. How would you heat up like a bowl of baked beans in an air fryer?

I wouldn't. Right microwave. Yeah I don't eat baked beans. Something else, pick something else that needs reheating. That isn't liquidy. I did it this morning when I made lunch. What did you have? We had barbecue at the weekend and there were some cold meats left over in the fridge. So I bunged it in the air fryer for like four minutes and then it was hot, piping hot and crispy again. It was delicious. What would you have done? Just stuck it in the oven? Your oven takes about a year to heat up. I wouldn't have put it in the oven I probably would have. What would you have done put it in the microwave it's gross that's gross that is gross all right that is gross. I'm not really a meat reheater so. Okay there's other

things you can reheat there are other things that you must reheat. All right, let's say it's like a bolognese sauce. No, I said not liquidy. I don't feel like I reheat solids, okay? Well then you're listing out. Let me tell you something, with the air fryer you can. So I said you can't reheat a piece of chicken in the microwave, that's disgusting. Maybe I need like air fryer tutorial. I think you do. Maybe that's okay. Or a new air fryer. Let's get to some feedback. You ready? I mean, it's there. We're getting some long, long messages these days. We are on 40ish and Self Care Club, I've noticed. This is from Vicky. Okay, hi Vicky.

Hi Vicky, I love the show. Thank you Vicky. Firstly, how do I review when I'm not an Apple user? I do have an Apple account, but it's from an iPod, it's from the iPod years and I've forgotten the password. And yes, I do see the irony as a listener that I'm asking fellow 40ish women how I do this. I haven't got a clue, my love. I don't know. Yes, I do see the irony as a listener that I'm asking fellow 40ish women how I do this.

I haven't got a clue, my love. I don't know. I think you can review on Spotify. Why are you answering? Well, I don't know. You're actually right. You can review on Spotify. I don't know. Well, I don't know. I can't help you Vicky on that one. Secondly, I'm from a fairly open family and I wanted to say that my dad, who's 80, is from a strict Baptist family and he was circumcised as a baby. He says it was the trend for boys back then. My boys, 22 and 19, are not circumcised, so basically I agree it's not a thing in the

UK unless it's done for faith reasons. My point is that it used to be a thing. Okay, because that's like breastfeeding. Yeah. It comes in and out of fashion. Yeah. Doesn't it? Yeah. And advised. It just changes all the time. Swaddle, don't swaddle, breastfeed, don't breastfeed. By the way, she's not just giving us that information for no reason. She's going back to the show that we were, we were talking about where the man contacted me to ask me if circumcision was normal in the UK or not. And you got into a whole foreskin debate. Yeah. And you thought that was okay. I told Ollie about that last week. He did not think it was okay. I am not surprised. What did he say? He was like, that is fucking weird. You shouldn't be replying

to those messages. And you were like, I was like, it was fine. I was like, it was so PG. It was very respectful and it was fine. Thirdly, she says, how would you feel if he was doing that about a woman's boobs? Not good. I don't think he's a boob professional I'm just saying. He hasn't been in the boob business. You're also not a penis professional. No that is true but I do have three professional. You're correct. That is accurate. By the way, he also has three sons. Oh yeah, he does. And a penis. So he's more of a penis professional than me. He can also say, well, I've been married for a long time, so I could be a boob expert.

Okay. Okay, yeah. Point taken. Thirdly, she says, the husband that discusses their sex life. This was the... Oh, that was terrible. The wife who was writing in because her husband had gone to the pub and told all his mates in explicit detail what they did in the bedroom. It sounds like he was a notch on the bedpost type that just hasn't realized that he no longer has anything to prove for his wife, although it goes against her boundaries and he definitely needs to respect them in the future. I wonder if there's any way that she can see it as

his admittedly twisted way of showing off about her. I think it's just absolutely, and I love that perspective Vicki, it's very generous of you but I just think it is blatant disrespect. Agree. That was a long message she says. You may or may not have wanted my input but I'm out dog walking and I have no one else here to share my thoughts with. And I will have forgotten all the subjects by the time I see anyone today. We absolutely want your feedback.

Yes. Please keep your feedback coming in. We love it. Yes, we do. Okay. Here's another one. Hi, Lauren and Nicole. I'm writing because your most recent episode really made my day. Oh that's so sweet, so thank you. I have been cranky all week my sleep is messed up I've

been sensitive I've had brain fog feeling under the weather my work's been chaotic and extra demanding everyone around me is also in a state of overwhelm so I've been absorbing that too. I was this close to having a breakdown and Spotify alerted me that YouTube put out a new episode and let me tell you it was my saving grace this week. Even though I am 32, I actually like your 40ish podcast because it's been helping me mentally to prepare myself for things as I get older and signs to look for regarding menopause. Like what? Obsession with airfires and not letting people phone you? Yeah, that is, that is, no. I've been talking openly about HRT. You have. I also like how much more open and raunchier this podcast is compared to Self Care Club. Not that I don't like Self Care Club. I just find 40ish funnier, especially the recent

episode about the play. Now this is where it gets very interesting. This is about the throuples. This is about the play Unicorn that I went to see which is about a throuple. As a bisexual millennial myself I am all too familiar with the term unicorn. It does exist and there are also unicorn hunters, usually men, who seek out bisexual women to have threesomes with. I burst out laughing at my desk when you two mentioned if you had a third person who would it be and the annoyances that would come along with it. I personally think relationships like that only work if both people are a bit gay and polyamorous. I've thought about it myself and honestly it would just be awkward for my husband and

me. Like would this person become the third wheel? I just wouldn't have the same connection with them even though I've been with men and women in the past. I've also seen horror stories online of people who bring in another person and someone ends up getting hurt. Either way the conversation reminded me of my youth and the wild talks I'd have with my friends and it gave me nostalgic happiness in a time when I've been beaten down in every way. I know you're probably both reading this thinking you're young but life lately has been robbing me of that and this sparked a bit of it back. So thank you for making my day a little brighter. Hope you have a lovely weekend. What's her name?

I'm not going to say her full name. I'm just going to say the initial A in case she doesn't want all that info out there. Okay. Well, thank you so much for that detailed email. And I'm sorry, I'm really sorry lies from beating you down. I really get that. And you know what you should invest in some self care because it really helps. She's already listening to the other show. So she's got all the tips she needs. Yeah. Yeah. Well use it. I would say let's go to a break. Okay. And then we'll come back with some more feedback. And have we got listeners meltdown this week? We do. Lovely. Oh, by the way, you know, I said to you a couple of weeks ago when you said we've got lots of 26 year olds listening to our show and I said, no,

we don't. Someone wrote in who was 26 and that was it. And then you just run with it and we've had so many people emailing us and DMing us, DMing us mainly to tell us that they are in their twenties, mid twenties, and Lauren is right and they are listening and they are loving it. Here's another one. Hi Lauren and Nicole. I'm writing this while listening to 40ish Unfiltered. And I just like to say Lauren is completely right. I'm 21 and I love listening to the show. I started with Self Care Club and I am now loving 40ish sometimes even more than Self Care Club. I just thought I'd

confirm that even a 21 year old can relate to being 40ish. Well tell that to my son because I don't know if he relates. Well he's also a boy and he's also mine and you're also his mum. That's true. And that's not cool to be relating to eggs in air fryers. True. You know, and dreamy trips to John Lewis. Yeah, that's true. I've just realised we've got two Listener Meltdowns this week. Are they going to compete with each other and with ours? Or are we saving one for next week? I think save one for next week. Okay. I'm going to go in fairness then for the one that came in first. Okay. Ladies, I need to rant. You are in good company. I mean,

Laura's ranting about boiled eggs for fuck's sake. So hit us with it. I have made birth and raised three children. Yeah, like Lauren. Yeah. They are now 10, 12, 15 and they are the cause of all my grey hairs and I think at least 72% of my forehead wrinkles. 72%, right. I expect very little in return for my bespoke services providing 24x7, 365 day a year, Butler's show show for chef chambermaid duties but I always remain hopeful that a tiny bit of gratitude may be shown on Mother's Day. Just a homemade card and a bunch of dafts would be fine. Yeah. On Mothering Sunday I was presented with an envelope. Oh god. My husband, on behalf of our offspring, had adopted me as Zebra from London Zoo.

I don't want to seem ungrateful. Did she say she's got three sons? She doesn't say what sex, just says three children. I don't want to seem ungrateful, but I have zero interest in Zebras. I have never been interested in Zebras. In fact, I don't think I've even mentioned them in my life. We also live three hours away from London, so it's not like I'm going to go and visit the bloody thing. I smiled and I thanked them, but later that night I did think of last week's episode,

and when my husband asked me if I was okay, and I said, I'm I'm fine. PS, I was not fine. We all knew that. Every single female listening to this show knew that you were not fine. Oh wow. God bless you. God bless you. The problem with that is that they're actually being thoughtful. Yeah. But it's so thoughtless. Yeah. It's like, I get there's, there is so much good intention behind it, but what a fuck up.

Yeah. But also how sweet, but also how annoying. Yeah. Because basically what you've got is an envelope saying you have adopted a zebra along with how many tens of thousands of people who've also adopted the zebra. So all that's happening is your husband's just got money coming out of his account every month and you have got nothing to show for it. Maybe a picture on the fridge. I mean, does the zebra write you letters? No connection between her and the zebra. No, that is weird. Zero. That is what she's got to drive three hours

to go and see the bloody thing. How do you even know which one? In the herd! Oh there he is, Brian! Over there! That's my zebra! Oh, you know, my Mother's Day was actually really lovely and Adam made a barbecue and it was gorgeous and he has learnt to, he's learnt over many, many, many Mother's days where I've been so disappointed. But on Saturday night at like 5.30, I heard all whispering in the hallway and I was in the living room. And I'm like, what's going on? They're like, nothing, nothing. And it was between my eldest and Adam. Next thing I know, Daisy's like, I'm popping out, I'm popping out.

She runs out the house and I thought, okay, so she's running down the road to get me a card and whatever. Comes in and I knew exactly what she'd done. She'd been to the, there's like a Tesco's express, like open all hours kind of thing. And so she has me these bunch of flowers in the morning, right? And they're very nice, but I'm going to sound so ungrateful, but I'm just going to say it. Okay. She bought me a bunch of flowers from Tesco's express. Okay. And the card from Tesco's express at five 30 on the Saturday before mother's day. I mean, that is not exactly, but, and then I have to say, Oh, thank you so much.

I'm so grateful. I do absolutely every single solitary thing in my entire life is for you. Thank you so much for the shit flowers from Tesco. I mean. So when she saw that my face wasn't like delighted beyond belief, I'm so touched. Yeah. On this amazing moment between mother and daughter.

She was like, you're always moaning. I'm like, I actually didn't say anything. She goes, no, but I could tell them like, well, really sorry, but they are from Tesco and there is a lovely florist next door Tesco. She goes, well, it was shut. Right. Right. Okay. Yeah. Oh dear. So it's like this battle between actually I'm really grateful that she got me a bunch of flowers and yet, you know, it was all done very last minute. Son one sent me a personalized moon pig card and he'd put a picture of me and him on the front of it. He'd sent that from the university.

Very happy with that. I would be so happy. Yeah, very cute. Son two got a card, bought me flowers, nice flowers, waitrose. You got one up from me. Waitrose. And like a Lindor little bar of chocolate orange. I love chocolate orange. Well done. He was very anxious about the flowers. He was like, I went in, I was overwhelmed. I didn't know what color. I didn't know which type to pick. I don't know the names of any flowers. So I just went with these. Now it was a multicolored bunch. Now if I'm going to be fussy, I do like a singular color bunch. I do. I prefer

that just one color of one type of flower, but they were very pretty, very colorful. They go really well in my kitchen and they were in a vase and he was like, Oh, they look so nice in the vase. I was like, Zach, you've done so well. Like that is so thoughtful. Amazing. Like thank you. Are you going to make all the people that don't feel like they've been some three. Yeah. Thank you. Come on. Some three, some three, the 12 year old told his father, I'm going to make mommy a mother's day breakfast his father, I'm going to make mummy a mother's day breakfast. Well, I was taking my mum out for breakfast, so I didn't want

breakfast. Okay, I'm going to make mummy a mother's day tea. Well, then he had a tennis tournament so there was no tea. All day long, there's no card. There's nothing. There's not even a happy mother's day. There's sweet fuck all. Monday morning, I'm tidying up his bedroom. He's in his bedroom whilst he's watching me tidy it. I said, what's that on your desk, Josh? Is that my mother's day card from yesterday? Cause it says mother on the front. Yeah. I said, were you planning on giving it to me or not?

Are you going to give it to someone else? Giving it to me or... So I just opened it and you know, it was a nice message, but it was 24 hours late. I had exactly the same with daughter number two. Yeah. We all sat down for lunch. Yeah. I'm feeling ever so grateful for my Tesco's flowers and I've been told that I have to be grateful for Tesco's flowers by everybody. Yeah. And she sits down and I said, I swear that you went out. I knew she'd gone to get flowers for me. And she's like, oh yeah, I did. I got you flowers.

I'm like, where are they? She said, they're in the office. I'm like, well, what they're doing in the office? She goes, daddy told me to put them there yesterday. I'm like, no, but you can take them out now and you can give them to me. She goes, oh, okay. So she goes inside, she brings me the flowers.

They're exactly the same flowers, exactly the same flowers exactly the same flowers As the one that daughter won right? So maybe that's all that was left in Tesco Express at 530 on a Saturday night when everyone panicked She went to a different Tesco. Oh, okay, but I think it was probably around the same sort of time. Okay Anyway, so actually together I have to say That she looked gorgeous and then the next day again, I was in her they make a nice bouquet. They actually did. They actually look gorgeous. And then the next day, again, I was in her room Monday morning and the card was sat there.

So I'm like, is this for me? She's like, yeah. I'm like, you're supposed to give it to me. Oh, okay. Well, it's there now. I mean, listen, it is all a load of... It's not amazing. It's a load of commercialized bollocks. It's fine. I took my mom out for breakfast. She was like, it's so lovely of you to take me out for breakfast, although this is all a load of commercialized bollocks. I was like, it is mum, but I'm still taking out for breakfast and I'm still getting your card. You know what? I actually think if you're lucky enough to have a mum, Yeah.

and you're lucky enough to have a good relationship with your mom, Yeah. then celebrate your mom. That's what I thought. You get one mum. That's what I thought. I said to her, I only have you. Yeah. You're my mum.

Yeah. So we'll go out for breakfast. Yeah. You get one mum. Oh, I never go out for breakfast. I'm like, well only have you, you're my mum. So we'll go out for breakfast. You get one mum. Oh, I never go out for breakfast. I'm like, well, today you are. Yeah. There you go.

I bet your mum felt grateful. My mum, let me just tell you, Jackie texted me that night. I'm so lucky to have a daughter like you. I love you. That's how you do it. That's how you do it. My mum also, she got made a barbecue and me and my sister called her a facial. That is lovely. That's so thoughtful.

She was so happy and then she said, oh, but I just had one last week. Okay, mum, you can keep it for the next few weeks. Right. I actually think between the air frying egg. Yeah. It's not really a middle life, middle aged meltdown. Is it? No, it's not. It's not specific to middle age. It's just my moan of the week. Was air fryer, air fryer moaning because you like to do an air fryer moan. Yeah, I do. And what was mine? Forgotten. Oh, people phoning you. Unannounced. And the zebra. I think the zebra wins it. The zebra is an absolute winner. Because it's such an exquisite disappointment and yet you can only say thank you. Yeah, yeah. But I do fill you with the Tesco flowers.

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