A Lot On Your Plate - Ep 4: Happiest When.....

Episode Date: August 23, 2022

WE ARE BACK! This week we talk all about our happiest moments. We also dive deep in to Zoes's 10 year dilemma that's finally getting resolved and how she managed to scam herself a trip to St Lucia claiming she's Serena Williams.Check out The Ibiza Key Concierge - @theibizakeyconcierge- - - - - - - - - - Follow us on IG @alotonyourplatepodYour HostsJess (@JustJessFood)Zoe (@ZoeQuinnnn)Produced ByCobalt Creative (@cobaltcreativeuk) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the chart topic, show, topic, the best podcast in the world. We're just kidding, just get it. Hello, hello, hello, happy Tuesday and welcome back to a lot on your plate podcast, whether you are on your hot girl summer walk, hot boy walk. or even the gym, a dog walk, or maybe you're cleaning your house. Thank you so much for joining us. It's a pleasure. And welcome back.

I am Jess and I'm with my lovely soft-spoken Scottish bonny lass, Zoe. Sorry. Sorry. I'm not that soft-spoken. You are. But anyway, welcome back and thanks so much for all the love. Oh, the love. Keep it coming.

We're loving it. So, let's start off how we always start off. What has been a lot on your plate this week? So I would really like to discuss something very close to my heart. Oh, she's going in deep straight away. Which is urine infections. Okay, you have big problems. I really want to discuss it because I have finally come to some sort of conclusion with it

after 10 years of solid pain and uncomfortableness. So I've always had a urine infection. It comes and goes every couple of days, which I know a lot of people can relate to. And it's like the urgency to go to the toilet, the pain, the uncomfortable. and through the NHS I got nowhere. It was just constant 3-day antibiotics. Can I just quickly say here when me and Zoe went to

St Andrews, we were walking around St Andrews and she had to stop every five minutes just to stand there and cross her legs because she simply couldn't walk. A moment long ago and that was when I think I realised how serious this infection was. Yeah, it was really serious. I honestly promise you if I uncrossed my legs in that moment

I would have fully peed myself. It's not just like Lil dribble like the way people do when they laugh. It would be like full And it never used to be that bad. It used to just be I could like stop for two settings and then I could go around my day again. It would kind of pass. But even recently I literally lived two minutes

from the train station. I've had to stop and cross my legs halfway walking home instead of... I couldn't even just run home. I'd need to stop and like tense and hold in. But anyway, I've always just got 3D antibiotics from the doctor and I've now went private

and what I've realised and I want everyone to know is the 3D antibiotics if you're prone to urine infections actually make it worse because all it's doing is kind of tricking your body into thinking that it's taking it away but if you're prone to it and you've got it lying there all the time

it doesn't clear it up fully so then it's always just going to keep coming back so now I have three month prescription so if I get to the end of the three months and it's gone then great and if it's not then they'll give me a further three months they can give you up to a year it's going to wreck your stomach that

I know but I feel really happy about it Okay, sorry, I am happy for you then, if that's the case. I'm like, I'll take it for now. You have been going back and forth to the doctors for quite some time on this. Yeah. And the problem is, they give you ultrasounds, all these different things, and nothing shows, and then they're just like, nope, nothing there. I'm like...

Because didn't they think it might have an endometriosis at one point, which is also a huge topic. Well, I did speak to a specialist about that, but because whatever question they asked me, and I said no to that, they were then like, right, okay, it's not that then. And they just do shut that off really quickly with endometriosis. But that's another huge topic that people talk about that isn't, like your kind of common doctor doesn't really ever talk about that.

They don't really know enough about it, do they, yeah. So all I want to say is if you struggle with hearing infections, keep fighting. Keep fighting, yeah. And a lot of people say it's to do with, like, when you've got your period or, like, having sex and all that kind of stuff. But it's actually, it can be, but mine is non-related to any of that. So if I wake up in the morning, I've got it, it's so difficult to, like, get ready for work.

And you have, like, sweat to back, don't you? Yeah, I get, like, the cold, like, sweaty chills. and getting ready for work so difficult because why would I want to sit in a bath I don't want to go out into the colds that's crapzos but anyway we're moving on we're getting there I'll keep you updated on my journey if anybody else feels

the same way as Zoe and you've got any tips and tricks please send it in so you can help her out because I'm sick of a moaning I'm sick of me moaning and I'm sick of standing in the street with my legs crossed and people just watching me as if is she all right that's terrible times anyway enough about me that was quite serious I need to take a deep breath

what's been on your plate then please Something like hearty, I hope. Yeah, I'm going to Ibitha this week. Woop-woo. And let me just say, you were invited to this one and you declined. Because I'm on holiday with someone else. Boyfriend Wanker.

So she's going away on holiday. I'm going to Ibitha with the girls, living it up. This actually is a holiday, even though the last one was work, but technically was great fun. But yeah, so I've got a full weekend planned. I actually plan my trip with a little plug-hub.

little shout out but Ibiza concierge company actually really great helping you book all your holidays trips they also don't just do Ibitha but that is the one that I use for this yeah all my restaurants and most of my nights out are already booked and planned so it's pretty stress-free you just kind of tell them what you want to do and then they will literally do it all for you and it's great so I really recommend I think now that Ibitha you need you book all the kind of places yeah you do like the beach clubs and all that's just so popular yeah so I'm going with six girls six of us me in total I'm actually gonna stay actually the first the first the first The first four days I'm staying in a hotel called Cubanito.

Looks really nice. Never heard of that. Is that a new one? Yeah, it's the same... Is it the same as Paradiso? Yeah. Looks a bit like Cuba, like the whole interior. And then the last two days, me and my friends have...

Me and my friend, sorry, Holly, have booked that Occo. I know, I'm so jealous. Oh my God. Anyone listen to this pod that doesn't know what it is? Give it a Google. There's one in... Is it Rhodes or Coz? Cause, yeah.

One in Coz, one in Ibitha. It is outstanding. I'll let you know obviously when I come back how good it was I would actually like to know how good it is to stay there because you do see so many people going and it is so expensive

so I'd love to know if it is worth the money or if you're going for like a couple of nights is enough just to experience it and then that's it I thought budget for the week no but two nights we can maybe stretch we might need a bit of an R&R after the weekend we've got plans so that is the plan

doesn't include breakfast which I'm fearing about you'll end up going out for breakfast anyway that's really I've got what got that going on really there's nothing in the shops at the moment It's like that weird stage in the, you know, when you go shopping where everything's even in the sale or it's kind of moving over into sort of autumn soon. So I think every year you forget how early the summer clothes go into the sale. I do anyway.

Literally, because I always go away August time. Yeah. And by that point, it's all sale stuff. And the sales are not for me. I don't have the patience. Same. Absolutely same. Hate it.

I'll never look through a sale. It's like TK. Max. Yeah. Disgusting. People find belters in there, but not me because I'm not looking. No. Same. Yeah, that's for me really, to be honest. Well, I'm going to block you off Instagram.

You're going on holiday with your boyfriend. You chose to do that. Yeah, but I'm still upset about it. Cancel it. I will still have formal. Yeah, you will. And if I could get a little boat trip over, I would, but it's too far. Too far. I'll actually not check, but maybe well. So, thank you so much for listening to last week's pub. We all spoke about our pet peeves.

So we thought now we're going to sort of switch it up, be a bit more positive, you know, practicing all my gratitude and affirmations and all that. have to be a bit more happier. So I was actually on plane to London a couple weeks ago when I was thinking about this. Same time I was thinking of the pet peeves actually. And I was looking at the window and I sat there just about to take off and I thought, I'm actually the happiest in this moment where my signal's about to go. You're on your own. Well, I was travelling on my own. I had my iPad and brown noise. For anyone that doesn't know what brown noise is, basically it's the similar thing to white noise. They say that if you struggle to

concentrate, you should listen to white noise. I don't like white noise. I like brown noise. So brown noise is airplane like an aircraft motion sound. That is my worst nightmare. Really? Like I put my earphones in anytime I'm on a plane, whether I'm with people or not, full blast. Music. Any noise of the plane, I think this is it. No. This is me dying in this moment right now. I hate turbulence. I hate everything to be flying. Well, okay, brown noise isn't the whole turbulence and the traumatic things going on in the flight. It is just the, the, the, general steady flying. Yes, that is it. And for anyone that is maybe have a scatterbrain like myself, try it. Honestly, it's amazing. There is Spotify, hundreds of hours and hours of brown noise

and it can just be ones for sleep. And I just literally, obviously I don't need to listen to it on the plane because I'm listening to the real thing. But I love it. And I'm so productive, Zoe. I wrote my whole Lanzarotti travel guide in a four hour journey on that plane back. Pretty much I had to change it a bit when I got back. In that four hours. Head in the zone. No distractions. fantastic. Come back from Paris in April and I've still, it's now August and I've still not have completed it because I'm just, I can't concentrate in this country. I think you should just fly. Like two places, not do anything there and then just fly back. Just you can actually get work done. I'm also very productive in the sunshine. I think I don't belong here. If it wasn't

for Scottish people, I wouldn't be here. I don't belong here. I don't belong here. I do think it's a shame because this country would be perfect if you got better weather in the summer. Like it really would. Not even just this country, even just the UK. In general, I think London's actually having a lovely time with the weather at the moment, isn't it? What I don't understand is, even anywhere in England, they do, a lot of the places do get a good summer and you are literally only two to five hour drive away from here, so why is it so different? It's so unfair. Imagine how nice it would be up in the Highlands. I know.

When it's the sun? Then you've got those bloody annoying midges all the time. So, again, we asked you, when are you the happiest? Of course, the majority of the answers were eating. Now, I agree. Eating makes me happy and I absolutely love it. But we need a bit more context with that, people. Like, I need to know either what it is that you're eating that makes you happy

or the situation that you are. Are you in a restaurant surrounded by your friends? You're like, where are you eating? Yeah. Are you in an airport eating a Frankie and Benis? Are you on a pool side eating lays and fancy lemon? No one is happy in the airport eating a Frankie and Benis. Do not annoy me.

Why are they not? Why is there still a Frankie and Benis in the airport? I don't know why it still exists. Listen, that's the only option you've got in Glasgow Airport. Do you know what they'll end up replacing it with? Which is just as bad. Tony Macaronies. What is that?

Another Frankie and Benis that people seem... That's a Scottish thing. There's like a scale of bad chain restaurants and it goes Frankie and Beny's at the bottom. Then you've got Tony Macaroni. Have you not heard the song? No. Tony Macaroni, Tony Max.

It's in my head all the time, it's always on the radio. Then you've got TGIs. Don't talk to me about their three restaurants. TGIs is not too bad. No, then you've got hard drop on top. Hard rock cafe. That's above TGIs. Like, go to the shop and get a rustler burger, you may as well.

In a rut of going to chain restaurants, you just don't know what you're missing. Yeah. Because authentic restaurants are just so much better. It's not even question. Me and Rich were walking down in Edinburgh, George Street. George, what is it, in Edinburgh? And there was lots of, because when the fringe was on, lots and lots of American tourists. And the queue, I am not kidding you, for Hard Rock on that street.

Oh, no. was huge and I just thought guys you're missing out on some unbelievable places here what a shame I feel like I'm going to target a lot of people here but stop buying the hard rock mugs hats and t-shirts please who does that a lot of people wear for Motherwell

not just in the world and then they collect them and it's like a thing that when they go to each destination on holiday they have to go and get merch from the hard rock and I'm just not having it sounds like CrossFit cult culture to me it is a cult thing. It's definitely a cult thing. Right. Less of your negative

attitude, Zoe. Let's get into it. Out for food, of course, is a lot of people's favourite thing, being fed. How do you feel when you're shopping alone? Yeah, I really enjoy that. Same. You're just there. You can wander as much as you want. But I actually don't spend a lot of time in shops. I do just kind of wander around. I'm not like in amongst all the rails. No. But I think when someone's there, they get impatient with you and I also don't like shopping with someone else when they're looking either because I get impatient with them.

Yeah, totally agree with everything you've just said. I'm glad we're aligned. Yeah, we are lying on that one. On holiday or on my couch, there is no between. Yeah, I relate to that. I'm quite unsociable these days, I feel. Like, see if I'm out kind of like, I'm not sure I'd be in my couch watching the telly. Or on holiday.

Like, I think that's common. Yeah, holiday. I don't like my sofa, so I'd rather not be on that, but I'd be in my bed. I know you need to sort that out because it's just, you send like a picture and you're in your bed at 3pm on a Tuesday and I'm like, do we need to have a crisis talk here? But I genuinely am loving life. Like, that is the most confused bed ever and I'm like, this is my sofa.

I know, but I just don't think that's healthy. It's not. No, I do agree. Like, see if you're really hung over or something when you lie in your bed, the next day I'm full of regret because I just think I'll lay in there all day and did nothing. I know you are doing stuff, so that is a difference. I am, yeah.

From an outside of point of view, it's quite concerning. Yeah, it is concerning. I do agree. But just to anyone listen, I do not like my living room anymore. It's too dark. I've got, I've got, happiest when in natural daylight and sunshine, that is me all over. Yeah. Do you think that's some sort of like disorder that I've got?

Like some sort of, like, is it a name that's somebody that has the fear of darkness? And I feel unproductive and I have to, I want a south-facing house. I have to be around the sun. Is that a disorder? Yeah, that is what it is, isn't it? Yeah. Because that's what a lot of people were getting all their life. in lockdown to try and really like...

Yeah, I got one to work. But, no, it is a disorder but I think it's also just quite common. See, I do like autumn and winter because I like being cosy and layering clothes and all that jazz, right? I hate going to work when it's dark and leaving work when it's dark

because I do think it's quite difficult to feel upbeat and happy when you're really seeing no sunlight. Like, it is definitely a thing, it's not uncommon. Do you know one that I honestly don't relate to and I think this would be quite a shot? Taking your brow off after a long day.

Bloody lovely. I don't relate to this. What? Because see when I have it off I feel a bit all over the place You gotta release the girls No, I like the girls being in place No

I like them being captured In the position they should be in People relate to this who have small, nice perky books You've went one size past a sea And you're not enjoying taking your brow off Because then they're just all over the shop And you lie on that couch And they're also touching the seat

They're bum sitting on I just don't relate I don't find it I do know what you mean I think I do feel a little bit and comfy because they are like they're quite low Sorry G

The nips are facing south And we don't want anyone to see I think it depends what you're then putting on See if I'm putting jammies on But it's like a vest top That's not good Because there's no hiding There's no support there

I know I'm just floating about the house with Jason he's seen it all but I still like to feel nice secure yeah okay that's fair you're the first person I've ever heard say that but I know and I've kept it to myself for quite a while because I know it's uncommon but there I've let it off my chest to all of your listeners so I have to say as well actually another thing that I truly love is and I'm really good with this taking my makeup off fully the whole skincare routine after a night out I know it's a boring when you get home you think I've got to do it but how fresh do you feel when you wake up in the morning, you've got a hangover,

but there is no mascara and stuff on the pillow. Yeah. No, I usually do the same as well. I think it's much better now because when I was younger and I didn't, I was trying to wear lashes and all that. So then you will cut me hard, like, the strips of, like, glue again. You've taken your lashes off, but you've not taken the mascara or the eye shadow or the glue around and off.

So then it's just like strips of glue and all that gunge around your eyes. But now you're lucky if I've got a wee bit of mascara on, so it's easy old. I don't wear much makeup, do you? Well, it's just the lashes. I simply wouldn't know how to put a lash on now. Oh, this is a good one. On holiday, floating on the side of a lilo,

so legs are dangling in the water, getting back getting tanned. Floating on the side of a lilo? Oh, I know what you mean, so you're like hooking onto it. Yeah, yeah. Love that. You kind of leaning on with your front.

Yeah. And that keeps you cool when you've got like one part of your body in the sea still. I like lying on it fully, but then like dangling, like on my front and like kind of dangling my arms in because that keeps my arm and you can kind of splash the water up.

I can't wait for that feeling. I've actually got something to speak about, actually. When I was on holiday in Ibiza, there was a girl that I met there. She was amazing, right? And she told me this honestly wonderful thing that she does. And I've been trying to do it as and where, I don't know if I've told you this before. No. We were on a, we're on the yacht on the Ibitha trip.

And she said to me, she says, for her to try and remain present, because in her job, she did social media. So she was like, obviously I try and my best to try and remain more present when I'm around friends, when around family. And when I'm in certain moments, she does this thing where, where she looks at some things. So let's say we're on this boat and we're looking at the water. She goes, what can I see? What can I smell?

What can I feel? What can I touch? And what can I taste? And she just stands there wherever she's in this certain moment and she just does it for 30 seconds, wherever she is, when she feels like it's a special moment

or when she's with people, she just takes that 30 minutes, 30 seconds and does all those five things with your senses. And she says that those five, doing those five key things makes her remember that moment so well. it's like a core memory created and then when she goes everywhere she absolutely remembers things so amazing and deep and it's funny because we sat there and we did it and when I think about

back to that whole day's worth of the yacht I think back to that moment that when I sat and did it I can see everything that I can see I can feel it I can just I'm in the moment I'm there that's actually really nice isn't it amazing do you say it out loud or is it just in your head it's just in your head but you can do it with friends that is one of these like manifest thing, journal things that I'll get on board with. Yeah, because I think it is, that is all what we all want to do, don't we? We want to be present, we want to be in a moment, we want to remember things.

And it's funny, because when I went to Landerotti and I told, I told Violet about it, and even this five-year-old loved it, and she, I picked up and she went to me, Jessie, she held my face, she went, what can you hear, what can you feel and what can you taste? I was like, that's so cute. Yeah, because she'll want to, like, say it out loud,

and then she'll want to ask everyone around her what they can feel, taste, smell. Isn't that nice thing? I think that's nice, because even I'm on holiday, I really every day try and think to myself, like I'm so glad I'm not, like at home with the bad weather or stuck in work or like you try and love each day

because you're not doing what you hate doing. I know that I hate being at work in any of these things, but disclaimer. So, yeah, next time you're in a moment, anyone, do, for 30 seconds, just take a time and to yourself and think those five things

and I bet you you remember that moment forever. that is absolutely stunning isn't it yep so other people are happiest when staring at pictures of my pets that's you I can relate I absolutely can relate being in my own company I think a lot of people feel that way

well some people don't but I genuinely love my being on my own yeah I do as well do you yep I think it's fair enough people don't if maybe they live on their own because that's their own time whereas if I have like a night in the flat on my own or whatever I just like watching what I want to watch sit my cup of tea and kind of just even though something's on kind of the silence of just being by

myself yeah I like doing things by myself well like we said shopping is great very productive I like a walk I like a walk on my own yeah listen to a podcast yeah what's your favourite favourite podcast nearly weds newly weds who's that with Jamie lang and Jamie lang and and Sophie abut honestly I find myself laughing on the train really or like when I'm out of walk or whatever. I'm fully laughing out loud and I'm like, I must look an absolute tit. Yeah. But it's just so funny. It's just her attitude like to him

and I feel like she's just so relatable. He'll say things. She's just like, you're such a pig. That's disgusting. Stop talking. And it's just funny because they obviously don't go away from it and say, going to stop telling people about like my toilet habits or whatever. They're bothered. No filter. They still come on it and still out each other on. Like they've talked about it when she's in holiday.

They were both away one time and she was like really, had a really bad stomach and they were on a beach and she was having to find like a private bit of the beach to literally go to the toilet but obviously she's like quite a known like reality star like she was obviously I've never heard of her before to be honest and she's so like she looks great and she's like dead put together and obviously they're quite posh with like they're truce the accents so it's just so funny that they out each other with such like crude stuff and she's like going to just stop telling people that stuff but they just do it every week love it I love it you should listen yeah I might listen to that I listen to a few I listen to my therapist goes to me which I think a lot

of people listen to. Yeah, listen to that as well. Love it. I saw Joam and Alley Live in Belfast. Brilliant. I got so pissed I had to leave though. I took Prosecco Express to a new level, that is the name of her comedian show. I also love podcasts when you, when people are interviewing others, more like deeper level ones. I think they're quite good to listen to when you're on your own walking. Yeah, I've been listening to Caller Daddy quite a lot. I've seen people post that, but I'm not sure. American girl. Yeah. I didn't listen to it for, yeah. didn't listen to it for ages and then I always listened to them religiously when they come out on the days that because I'm travelling to work so like Monday I do newlyweds Tuesday

right the day I don't have Tuesday I don't have anything but all you now do so yeah tune in Wednesday is Wednesdays we drink wine which is actually Sophie Haboo as well with her friend oh you're obsessed with her yeah and then but by the time I've got to Thursday I've listened to all my two ones that I love so then I started call her daddy to fill the and I actually quite enjoyed it. You've got my therapist Fridays. I do like them but I go off the bat. Yeah, I'm going on that a bit.

Yeah, Collar Daddy's quite good. I think because she interviews really well-known people, so she had like Christine Quinn from... Oh, did she? Selwyn-Sonset on. She had, like, Olivia Atwood. So it's quite good because they obviously, you know about them already,

so you kind of want to hear their thoughts or whatever they're talking about or, like, hear more about them. So it's quite interesting. She does videos quite a lot as well, so it's quite good to watch if you're... Okay. Like on the train or...

Oh, there you go, people. some podcast wrecks for you from our Zoe Quinn. Yeah, but don't listen to them if you're not listened to us religiously. Or else you're for it. Do you know what else I'm actually happiest? Because again, in my attention span, when I'm in the, we're going to the cinema and that's smell of the popcorn and you're sitting in,

you're ready to watch a really good film, you're going to switch off for two hours. I love that moment, actually. I think it's just so good because if you watch a film at home, you get distracted. You will go on your phone at some point. Like, you absolutely will.

But in the cinema, you can't. Well, you could, but you just wouldn't. No, you wouldn't, would you? If I was with some, So I'm going to pulled her phone out, I'd put that way. Pet peeve, people talking in the cinema. Mm-hmm. Are you, anything you've seen in the cinema recently?

The last thing I went to see... Elvis? I've still not seen that. Oh my God, it's brilliant. I can't believe I've not seen it. It's brilliant. I actually wanted to go for opening night and here I'm however many weeks later and I've still not seen it.

Yeah, you know what the problem is? I've been busy at weekends and see during the week, that's too much for a school night. Yeah. Three hours is too long. I would go home too late, I need my beauty sleep. Did you see Top Gun? Yeah, I think that...

No, actually that wasn't the last thing I've seen. The last thing was the Buzz Light Your film. Ooh. It was old as shit. I'm quite into just the... A Disney film comes out, I'll go see it, whether it's going to be good or not. I just like it.

But that was shit, but yeah, Top Gun was unbelievable. But I'm real. And I really want to go and see that new one, that's out. Let us know if you've seen this anyone. But the Cro-Dog sign of the book that I can't get into. Oh, yeah. That's out now.

Is that got... Is it like Brad Pitt or someone in it? I don't know. I don't know who's in it, but my friend went to see it last night. It's an emotional roller coaster. Okay, I'm into that. And obviously it's like the best-selling fiction book, isn't it of all time?

I don't know, I'm not good with the reading, but I really do want to try to get into reading, but it's just not for me. Not all time, but I think in the past like two, three years or something. Yeah, I have heard of it. Yeah. Another one, which is quite funny, is when your nose unblocks and you can finally breathe again.

Oh my God. I don't know the feelings, I'm allergic to my cats, but that would be great moment. Spending time with loved ones on on holiday, of course. Everyone's just a much better mood on holiday Yeah Everything's just good Baking simply cannot relate

The only thing I can bake is scones But I am good at that It's your recipe Is it? Yeah I hate baking Remember you did Was it not

Cranberry ones And then the cheese and chrived ones But it's the cranberry Just the fruit screen one Yeah the fruit ones Yeah I'm so good I've perfected it I'm so good at it

Wow Can't wait for bake off to come on again Because I like to do it With a cup of tea for that Wow That's got me in a move for us wee scone. A wee scone.

Yeah, no, with baking for me, so obviously I do love cooking, but I can't... Do you know what it is for me? It is the exact measurements. Yeah. I like to just throw things in and see how we go, and if it works, it works, if it doesn't. But with baking, you do have to be to the point. Precisely. Yeah, because any other time I've tried, even cookies, which you would assume is one of the easiest things, got it wrong.

Yeah. Cupcakes, got it wrong. Yeah. It's an art. It's an art. It's an art. So, whoever wrote that in, I mean, we're... We're absolutely hyping you up, but we just can't relate because we're not as good as you.

It's also such like, are we getting anything as well? Yeah. Like, my nana's baking, just unbelievable. And then you say, like, what's the recipe? She's like, I don't have one. I just chuck that in, chuck. But it's the same every time, so how? How do you get it so?

Perfect. She knows. Cleaning my ear with a cotton bud. Oh, iconic eargasm. Isn't it though? And you're not meant to do that, are you? You're not meant to do it. What would you do if you didn't do that?

Do you want to hear something disgusting, but also, you're not. Even better. Yeah. Have you seen the wee camera you can get through your ear? A camera? It's like a cotton bud with a little camera on the end of it, and it goes into your phone for Wi-Fi. You can see inside your ear as you're cleaning it.

Genuinely, blew my mind. Where do I get that from? Amazon. That was what Amazon, I mean. I need one. I'll love cleaning it every single day. We're going to link below. The first thing.

What is it? What's it called? A camera earbud. Fucking life-changing, gee. But why are you not supposed to do it? because it says it pushes it in the way rather than it cleans it out. Rubbish. It's definitely, that doesn't happen.

Also, if it does, I'm still going to do it, because I just love it so much. Yeah, same, aren't we all. I do love squeezing a spot, though. I'm not happiest when, but, you know, like a blackhead. I am never leaving a spot unsqueased. It's just simply not happening. And see if someone's walking around, I could actually, I need to stop myself from saying, can I squeeze that for you?

Yeah, it's bad. It is bad. Happiest when, I don't know if you've said this one already, but sleeping in fresh bed sheets I think that's an all-rounder we did say that's a bit of sweet job but I do feel really really happy when I've done like all my housework washing's all done

it's a Sunday afternoon I can relax and I just sit on the couch with a cup of tea and a biscuit and put the telly on and watch a chick flick yeah there's no bit of feelings it's just lovely that being distracted on your phone five minutes later yeah but I'm still happy because I'm still just I've just done what I need to do the shopping's in the fridge is full

for the week. Wow. That's definitely... Wish I was that organised. No, it's definitely happened once or twice in life. I've got to go home after this to a case still packed

from the weekend loads of washing that's been folded up to put away and I don't want to go back. To be honest. You're definitely not going to do that anyway. No, I know. Happiest when you see a dog

hanging out of the car window loving life and their tongue sticking out and they just go through the window. And it's like, what's the word? It's like blow out, the tongue's like blowing out the mouth and there's like slavers coming off. I think they're happiest then. A lot of people.

people have wrote in the sea like in the ocean in the sea taking a dip in the water near the water i bet you that's quite like you know you're saying about the brown noise yeah that's quite so much yeah the ocean noise and it's quite quiet and you're not with like whoever you're with still somebody then catch a tan you're in there no one's talking to you all you can hear is like the waves yeah very very therapeutic yeah that is nice but how do you also feel so me and rich went to me yorka and we went paddle board him and i am quite a bit of a thrill see because I went right out, really, really, really far out. And he then started saying to me, like, Jess, this is too much, this is too much,

he's got a fear of sharks. So are you happiest in the ocean when you're shallow or when you're deep in and, you know, you're being a little bit risky? Shallow for me. Yeah. I don't really like the sea that much. I would much rather be at the pool. I'll only do one or two beach days on holiday.

Because it's sand, isn't it? It's the sand, it's the mess. It's also can't cool down the same as you can. when you're next to the pool. I know the sea is cold, but you're, like, trotting away down to the sea. You're like, your ages away if you're not right at it because you're no one to lie right at it.

Then you know all the kids. But... Them things. I actually hated it until I went to the Caribbean one time. Mm-hmm. And the sea just looked so much clearer and nicer out there. And you could swim out onto just kind of, like, a raft thing. Okay.

And then you could just climb up. So then you were... That was, like, stuck to the ground. You couldn't go. That was never going to, like, float away. Right, right, right, yeah. So basically I just had... Everyone swam out to it, so I had to swim out and then that kind of got me used to the scene.

I don't mind it as much now, but I would never go that deep. I don't think I could go as far as not being able to touch the bottom. Okay. I've got a great question to ask you. And, G, I'm going to ask you this question as well. I want to know now, when is your happiest, it's probably one you need to think about. When was your happiest ever moment? Oh my God.

Can't ask me that. You need to say something. You need to say when you're at the aisle or when your son was born. Do you know, that was my exact thing. That's the number three in it when I get my... married and with my kid as well, that's easy. But was it actually? You felt like immense happiness and pride

and like, oh my God, this is the best moment of my entire life. Because I bet when you're like child arriving into the world you're also probably scared and worried and like that's probably like a mix of emotion. I think that must be the most mental moment ever. Seeing it just be a human being. I think that's all, like you say like all sorts of emotions. It's like, oh my God, you've just seen whoever you've gone with

in the labour room go through that traumatic experience but then you've got this amazing gift at the end and then you're like oh my god it belongs to me it's hard wow that's a bit overwhelming but just utter happiness yes it's not happiness there's absolute fear because there's a new child there that's you don't know if it's going to be okay or not yeah immense

pride of your wife or your partner for a giving birth yeah no I think that makes sense I really don't know what mine was like I would really need to think about it but recently a really happy moment I remember was watching Jason Wockey's sister down the aisle Oh, that's nice. Like, that's not the happiest moment on my life

because it's not... Yeah, but you felt like... I just remember feeling like this is so nice. Yeah. I'm so happy that I'm witnessing this and I'm involved in this situation. Yeah. But I wouldn't you have a good think about...

Yeah, you can come back on that one. What's yours? I would say reaching, touching the top of Kilimanjaro. Oh, yeah. But again, it wasn't... I wasn't bursting with happiness because I was basically half dead at that point. But I think I was like...

I think I couldn't, it was more proud of myself. Yeah. And I couldn't wait to go back and get a signal and tell people that I actually did it because I never thought I would do it. And being on the other end of that, we only hear from you every so often. Yeah, you didn't know, did you?

And throughout that, you were talking about, as soon as we could hear from you, it was someone else hasn't made it up or whatever. So until we knew you were back, we had no idea if you'd done it or not? Yeah, because the woman put a picture on Facebook, didn't she? And my mom was checking the Facebook, book and I was the only one not in the group

pick. Yeah, that's right actually. And they'd heard that no one, someone hadn't made it. And we thought it was you. We actually, I'd remember that. Yeah. That was so stressful. It was, honestly. I mean, more for you, but. But yeah, I'd say it was a happy happiest memories as well. Like I'll never get that

back. The whole experience is I feel like I've got a common theme here of like no phone, no distraction is my happiest moments. But actually living in a pure moment for Two weeks with strangers was amazing experience. Yeah.

Anyone thinking of doing it, climb that mountain because it changed your life. Might fuck it up a bit when you get back home. You might quit your job the moment you get back and realise. There's more to life. More to life, but yeah. I mean, I really have nothing to compare. Yeah, but that's a different kind of like,

like I said, it was more of a achievement happiness in myself. I couldn't believe I'd done it. I mean, my equivalent is pretending I could play tennis and go and being a tennis coach in the Caribbean for a month. to like underprivileged kids. Oh, you did, didn't you? And I actually had to Google tennis rules on the way. I can't believe you wangled that one.

On the Wi-Fi, on the plane. I had to Google. Me and my friend were actually Googling how to play tennis and tennis rules. And thankfully, obviously this is a shame. How was it again you went? St. Lucia. St. Lucia.

The kids obviously didn't know either because they were just like underprivileged. Like they were maybe weren't even at school. Like they were all different ages. So a lot of the time it was like, this is like just bouncing it on like the racket or whatever. It wasn't like full on matches.

But then the coach was like, like, come on, we'll give you a match. No. And at that point, they knew that we were at it. Because we just thought, like, how's a way of getting away for a month that isn't just you going and being on holiday for a month? Yeah. At that point, like, it was quite a last-minute decision. You would have to save loads of money.

And for that, you just paid, like, how to get there and then have a bit of spending money. But the house and everything you stayed in was just far from what we expected. Yeah. Was it worse than what you thought? Yeah. Yeah. You slept with, like, a net.

thing around you because of the mosquito things, yeah. The fridge was just obviously calm, you know, and it was stinking the whole time we were there, like, I mean unbearable smell. See, you would have your water in it overnight, obviously, so that it was like ice cold to take to your coaching. And in the morning

and the bottle would stink. But you ever had something in your fridge and then you realise it's actually starting to make things smell, you don't know what it is? We said every week, can we please clean out the fridge? There must be stuff in here that are people that are not even here anymore, like, because obviously and people did different months or whatever.

Say two days before we left, one of the girls who was one of the kind of coaches said, I'm going to clean the fridge because we were the last group. There was a full fish in it. I mean a full fish, eyes and everything that someone had caught. Shut up. And it brought back to, like, cook one night.

They had like a kind of outside barbecue thing. And it obviously didn't ever get touched. It was the back of the fridge. People were just piling their stuff in. And there was a full fish in that fridge. And I was basically drinking fish juice. That is my water. Zoe it was horrific and they thought we were like they caught it yeah they caught it and like wherever

they were like day trips and stuff like because we did amazing things everyone else that was there thought me and my friend sarah were kind of like there for a hot we were there for a holiday but like kind of like a bit glam for this and like we weren't there to get hands that you know of course we were like we did the same things as everyone else just because we like to like put a flowery top on at night and then because we were saying about cleaning everywhere and like everything was like megging and then I was like we've all been drinking fish juice that is me like we should have just bit into the fish

whilst we were out of it. It was horrendous but I probably had really happy moments on that trip because some of the wee kids were just like wee souls and like you just thought I'm so happy I'm here helping you play tennis. Yeah exactly giving back is always a nice feeling isn't it? That was a nice feeling I'd like to do more stuff like that. Definitely do feel grateful

but basically when we got back from Kilimanjaro and we had I decided it was a great idea to slide back down of the mountain on my ass and we were so tired I can't even, maybe we'll go into it in another episode of the actual experience that you have to do to get to the top to come back down

but basically you're awake for about 36 hours and you have to hike it at midnight so when you come back down you need to do it pretty quick so I was like I can't be bothered to climb down so I slid down fell asleep on our bum me and Jess and both got slept down on what?

Our bum but how can you fall asleep when you're on your bum Because we slid all the way down one of the biggest mountains in the world, right? It's just snow everywhere, but there's paths. So as we were sliding down on our bum, it's snow. Okay, so the summit night is all snow at that top top bit. Yeah. We know how I should explain it to you.

So we kind of lying down and you were just... Just skidding down on your bum. Yeah, okay. You had walking poles. So we were sliding down, we're going really fast at one point. And then we both stopped and we'll just like, have a rest. Because obviously we were so fast. fell asleep didn't we

got the worst frostbite the worst and I remember you say in the future Jess is so the next morning because obviously I use quite a lot of like acids and stuff on my face I never and I'm the biggest advocate for SPF we forgot to use it because obviously

you summit at midnight you were meant to put SPF 50 on because it's obviously the rays up there is a joke and the reflection off the snow got down, went to sleep that night I felt a bit burn wake in the morning Jess turned around to look at me her lips was stuck

to the pillow And I was like, Jess, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, and she went, what, what? And I was like, I think we need to go to the hospital. She was like, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? They were the biggest things I've ever seen in my entire life. She walked out, horrified. Other woman we were with in our group. Her face was sort of like lobsided. She'd had some sort of like weird thing. Altitude just did mad things to you. Got back down. But by the point, by the time we went to do the volunteering at the end of the trip to who we'd raise the money for, similar to your situation. We thought, we can't wait for this to see where all the money goes. at this point jess's lips had scabbed up so much they were like pussing yellow puss they looked awful blesser and my face was just peeling off i looked like i'd been in a fire and not an extreme but it was pretty bad when we're walking into this school all the kids were literally looking at as like yeah get away from me oh no it was like we've just raised all this money for you they're all just like i forgot you had to do that it's it's weird that you don't i know you kind of do that as like this is what we've just achieved for you.

But it's quite a big thing you do after doing the mountain. Yeah, it was intense. But you almost think you would do it first because it's the easier part of the two things. And it sort of like spurs you on a bit. Yeah. We just did it at the end of the trip. Three days.

It was really hard actually. And we just went around to see where all of the, we were basically raising money for the nasseotrist, which was like for waterborne disease. And it was the water level, I think it was like the kind of remember now. Is it the chlorine or something in the water? Oh, is it to like purify it?

saw that they could drink it. So we needed to get purified water. But it was rainfall water that we were collecting. So we'd build these big canisters in their villages. It would collect the rainfall over a certain amount of days or however many times it rained. And they were able to use it. But the problem was they weren't educated enough

to know to not go to the wells to take the water, which they would for ease. They'd just go and use the water from the wells for cooking, but they'd all have deformed bones. All had yellow teeth or no teeth at all, especially in the two villages we visited. So, yeah, it's actually mental how much we take for granted. pure water in Scotland.

Maybe we should do one of their trips it's like to Ghana. A lot on your plate takes Ghana. We can. That'll be us. That would be great. But yeah, it was wild to witness and like you say, I was happy feeling at the time, like I can't believe I've just done all this to help you,

but we were also fucking mangled. Our face was ruined. So yeah, they were looking at it's like, I think you feel a bit more sorry for you than you do us. Yeah. I'm really going to think about one moment I would say is my happiest and come back to you next time. Okay, yeah, I like that.

And if anybody else wants to, to write in and tell us their pure happiest moment. Yeah, more of like a proud achievement type happiness layer. Try and think out the box as well. I understand there probably a lot of people there have been married or had babies and we love to hear it, but if you have anything other than that... I actually think I know what mine might be. Can't tell me.

Okay, we'll tell you next time. Tell me next time. So yeah, let's round that up. I think that was everything. That was a lovely, very wholesome little chat, actually. Loved it. I enjoyed it. We were smiling the whole time.

We were. So we was going to end the pod with a little spit or swallow. Oh, no, I forgot about this. But I just need to go and get to my little assistant who is currently cooking. What? I did tell him we needed to come in here 45 minutes. But I'm going to go and grab that. What do you mean by cooking, sorry?

I'm not telling you, you just have to close your eyes and hope for the best. I have allergies, you need to tell me what else. I don't think you're allowed to just this. And I'm not actually. I don't say anything. Right. I'll be 30 seconds. Close your eyes.

How bad? I think the scale of one to ten. Well, I've just gave someone out there a try and they were like, oh, that's quite nice. Hold your nose as well for me. Right. What the hell is this? I don't need to smell it. Give it away.

Open wide. Eat the whole lot. It is. Take off. Chew. Open your nose. What is it? Peanut butter.

Yeah. And fish. What? No. Wait, wait. It's coming to me. My God, that's mad that you can't taste that. What is it?

It's scrambled egg and peanut butter? Yeah. How was it? You didn't, would you spit or swallow it? Swallow. Wow. I wouldn't choose to eat it, but it was fine. Yeah.

That was more bearable than gravy granules. I think it's the texture that you would, at first you're like, what the hell is that? Because yeah, that's what somebody... The texture what made me think it was maybe fish. Right. Yeah, somebody wrote in and said that's what they love to eat. I like eating scrambled eggs when I wasn't told I was allergic with Marmite. Love that.

I think that people find that a weird combination, but... I do like scrambled egg, it's like a common goat. I go off eggs in big chunks and then... This whole room's going to now smell of eggy fart. Well, I love that. I thought that you were going to vomit eating that. You get a whole dish there to take a bite. I can't. I can't. I can't eat egg, can I?

Oh, that's just an excuse. No, that is. But no, that was okay. Okay, love it. I'll do you next day. Yeah, you need to. But I want you to let me have a look through your page on the responses as well. Okay.

But please don't let you, please, please don't get. give me a mushroom. I won't. I wouldn't do that because if you did that to me, I would actually quit this podcast. You'd be on your own. On your own. On your own. Okay, well, thanks for listening. Thank you. I really enjoyed that one. And I know me too. That was nice. Yeah, it was lovely. And we'll see you next time. And yeah, hopefully actually, because I'm trying to think by the time this pod goes out, we should have our first guests. We've got two confirmed guests. So one of is coming up from London at the end of September so that should be out around then um and we'll hopefully have one before then one before then yeah so yeah keep tuning in to find out more yeah

it makes right good but yeah thank you so much for listening and hopefully i will see you next tuesday bye