A Lot On Your Plate - S5 Ep11: One decision that could change your life

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

Happy Tuesday!! This week we share what's been a lot on our plate with an unfortunate realisation from Jess, which she was made aware of by Richard. We also chat through some of our lovely listeners dilemmas and take a deep dive into your life changing decisions. Enjoy💖 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I can't watch, keep watching myself. I know it's constant. Our voices, our faces. Murray's sick of us. But anyway, the vlog was actually really fun and it was about, what's it, 25 minutes. It was quite long. I was quite good at vlogging there. Yeah, you were. It was mostly your content, which was fantastic. I'm quite natural. So yeah, we have an audience today, guys. We have our sponsors, Watermans in with us. Can give them a round of applause. Yay for Watermans. Lots of gorgeous girlies staring at us and Becky's here with us as well and Murray of course so yeah we've got a little bit of an audience

so if you need any legal advice on anything then please contact Watermans you are really good at that I think it's the accent it is it's got to be but see I'm the DJ voice as well

on the mic I know as DJ Zoe but as an English person do you not feel the same because I feel like I can't say things because of my accent do not really have that struggle. No. Never. But I don't feel like you'd feel that way either. Maybe it's all in your heads. But that's what I mean. I think Scottish people have that voice in their head like doesn't

sound right in your voice. You don't seem to have that. No, I feel the opposite. I actually love the Scottish accent. I think everything sounds better in your accent. But I couldn't say like Watermans, you know what I mean? Yeah, I know, but you'd say it in your accent and it sounds fine. It's a Scottish company. Watermans. Watermans. Anyway, what's on today's ep? I feel like this is my bit. Yeah, go on.

I'm quite good at this, right? Ready? On today's it, we've got. Just you. Right. What we've been up to? An exciting update from Zoe, me. A couple of listener dilemmas, funny dating story.

Just keeping them involved as that's what you want. And life-changing decisions. And we have so many of them that we're going to carry some of those over onto Friday's episode as well because there's so many, so much good stuff, uplifting shit, I love it. Just get you in your good feels, do you know what I mean? It does. I love, I love it. Encouragement, motivation. Mm-hmm.

I just like hearing people making that one crazy decision and how it's brought them to where they are. So I was saying to Zoe on the way in, I was like, if I never technically added Richard on Instagram, I wouldn't be sat here right now. I wouldn't. And I know that, you can say that about literally anything in life, couldn't you? But I wouldn't, my whole life completely changed because of one thing that I decided to do. Is he a bit of me?

Is he not? Yeah, go on then. Follow. I got brave. I did the first move. Okay, so, what's been a lot on your plate? Me first. All right, well, okay.

Okay, do it. Right, so my update, my exciting update from Zoe is that I'm starting my Invisaline journey. Can you believe it? So exciting. Which, that's too sarcastic. Which what I will say is I know that my teeth are straight. Your teeth are perfect.

No. Enough of that. I know that they're straight but I don't have good jaw alignment. All right. Okay? And that can cause issues for me down the line. Because basically my bottom teeth when my mouth touched the roof of my mouth. Right.

Because I've got such an overbite. Okay. that could start to wear away my teeth at the front because they could like... Mm-hmm. Does that feel horrible? Is that because of your bonding that you had previously then or not? No, I've just got an overbite. That's just the shape of my jaw.

Jaw. I don't know if that's like... And have you ever had braces before when you were a kid? Have you not? No, no braces, so this is the first time. Okay. But anyway, I decided to go with advanced dentistry. Where's that?

In Highland. Is that that Andrew Guy's dentist? dentist. His stuff looks amazing by the way. I'm going to Dr. Andrew. Nice. So he's the chosen one. Anyway, I'll probably have him for about six to nine months which is longer than I thought. That is longer than you thought yeah. But I think it's because obviously my teeth don't need straightened as such but the side ones at the back need brought out. They need to be widened out. So it sort of fills your mouth a bit more. And the bottom teeth need pushed in to my gum more so that there's then a bigger gap

between my bottom and top teeth when my mouth shut. It's a lot of like mouth logistics going on. But anyway, I'm quite excited about that. Because you thought you were just going to get some bonding, build it out. Yeah. He was like, no, if we're going to do this properly, we're going to get you invisaline. Because I could fix my bite with bonding, right? You could add it to like my back teeth so that they touch sooner than they do now. Yeah. But I I would then have like bulks and bulks of bonding on my back teeth and that can wear away and chip.

So like that's not really a good thing. It's also just a mask in a problem, isn't it? Yeah. Because your teeth do move so much when you get older. I mean, we're still two years on from the very first day we did the podcast where I had the braces in my mouth for the first time and they're still very much there. They were meant to be on for six months.

Do you even still have that anymore? Don't know, that way. I've got the clips on my teeth. I've got, it was meant to be six months. We're now two and a half years later. They've moved straight back. I can't put them in my mouth anymore because it's like a massacre

because of this pregnancy with my gums so I've just fucked it basically yeah and it's a shame because I really notice it when I look back I notice my little well that one looks bigger than it is because it's got the clip on it do you know what I mean

are they how do they feel I'm used to it now I hated it at the first you're going to hate it at the start by the way but you get used to it I promise I'm not starting it until December which I thought was quite good like events out the way

all the Christmas foods I wouldn't you have them on when I'm doing this? Yeah, you will, and you'll whistle when you talk. Andrew said to me, I'll be watching and make sure you get them in. Oh, shit. I needed someone to do that to me. I'm nervous about that. I actually almost forget now.

Maybe when you have them in, though, that'll be good for me because it'll encourage me to wear mine. Yeah. I went back a year later and it actually, Johnny was like, you need to start a whole thing again. That's so ridiculous. I know, I'm a twat. That's always.

Anyway, that's my update. Love it. Can't wait for the journey. Yeah, I'll keep you all updated on that. Quite a few people will ask us about Envisaline as well. So that's good place to go to. So that's that. Next, I was out at the weekend.

You were actually out for not an occasion as well. I was out on a night out. Tell us all about it. Like out and the town. On the street. Is night life dying? Nightlife couldn't be more of life. Fucking love it.

It was buzz and its tets off. Was it? And was it young demographic? I'll tell you exactly what happened right My cousin Talia was up from Nottingham That's where she lives

She's from there With her pal Troy So I met them in the address Because that's where they were staying for the night The address The address will tell And I thought we'll go over to the Devils of Brooklyn Yeah

Couldn't get in Too full That's a shame She was like I'm going to ask if I can pay to get in I was like we don't do that here And I started to get that way I was like Talia there's quite a disconnect between like the English and Scottish. Sometimes on like you just kind of accept your fate and like just leave it at that.

She was like no I'm going I want to go in there it looks good well you're not going in if you're paying you have a good night. I hate to get in Devils of Brooklyn. Can I pay to get in? I did imagine the bounce you'd be like fuck off love or maybe you have a little snippet of a back pocket. True. Anyway it went to Varoni's instead for one the wine bar. Oh, is that owned by the same people as Mallow?

I actually don't know. I think it is. The one that's next. And Ralph Bins. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is. Could be wrong. I think it is. Interesting.

So we went there for one wee apparel. Nice. I was on the booze as well, by the way. Not bad. A lot at once. And then we went to Kong rooftop. Dodge. Heaving.

Sitting outside in? Outside. Cold? No, the heaters could warm up empty. Right. Right. Talley, just a wee waistcoat on. Because listen to this, right?

I turn up to the hotel. I've got my coat in my hand. Big winter coat. A nice coat. Yeah. Not a fucking puffer jacket. Yeah. A brawley.

Well, it's kind of raining. In my bag, obviously, right? A nice bag. She was like, are you really taking that coat out? I was like, you're in Scotland like it's cold and also we're sitting on a rooftop. She was like, you can't go around my coat on an umbrella. I love her. So then I just felt so uncool and I was like, you're literally four years older than me.

Yeah. And I feel so uncool. She went out with just like a waistcoat on. Fairforks. Because I did also have a blazer on. Right. You can tell you not been out in a while. I just don't want to be cold though.

No, I get that. Also, I think a long coat on, it's quite chic in a night out. But when you're going into Kong and that and did you go Wonderbar? No, I didn't need that. but I went home at that point. Yeah. So anyway, we're in Kong, and it was kind of raining off and on, so we just went inside, outside, like a bit of both.

But it was absolutely packed. And I would say there was a few groups of younger people, but I didn't feel old in there. Okay, that's good. It's a bonus. Yeah. Some people were dressed up, some not. Of course, yeah, harrowy.

So that was fine as well, because we weren't. But I would recommend. Men? Loads of men. Buzing. Loads of men just in groups of men. So like not out with couples, and I would say they were kind of older. Because Talley is single, so I was trying to let any men in here for you, but there wasn't really for her.

Yeah. But no, I would recommend Kong rooftop, honestly, I think that's where it's at. Yeah. I've always liked it, that's nice. And I think even if it is cold, obviously, in this season of the year, the outside bit is still really nice because the heaters are warm, but just definitely wear a coat. We said this last year That this time of year Going out in your home city is the absolute best

Yeah From October onwards until literally New Year It is the best time to go out Because it's I feel like everybody's born around now All the Christmas shags have been born So everyone's born around September October So everyone's celebrating their birthday

Then you've got all the work parties And everyone trying to get in their Christmas dues In November before the madness of December It's just the past season And glamour come out because of all the fashion and that changes in the shops. It's a great time to go out. Festive cheer, you know?

It is. I really enjoyed it, actually. Hmm. I feel like I was kind of like, oh, I could do this again. Really? In a couple months. Can we do it in Feb?

Yeah, well, we'll have a big celebration there. When everyone's done with the dry jam? Yeah. Okay. But then they weren't finished the night, and I was thinking, I'm just going to stick to my guns and go home. Yeah.

Like I want to go home now It's half 12 That's just me So they went to Wonderbur City Centre Yeah Right Until three in the morning

Had the best night ever Said that's the best place I've ever been And didn't they say They're coming back up They said they're working back Before Christmas She at Glasgow is the best night out ever

Yeah Honestly Honestly when it's buzzy like that It is Everyone sounds as well Because the people are good It was good music staff are nice yeah and everything's quite close in Glasgow as well whereas I think you

forget other places there's maybe like the odd place but they're not necessarily together and also she's from where I'm from as well so Nottingham Lester it's just not many options no to her and to me like Glasgow really is a superior city from where we're from down south yeah and like if you go to London there's not many places that you could just walk into that you would need to book or get the tube too. Yeah, true. I did walk around like two Wonderbar with them

to then go like opposite way for a taxi and the queue was like nearly on Buchanan Street but they didn't wait in that she... So what did she do? She went up to the door and thank God I wasn't in presence by the way because this just wouldn't have happened. Went up to the door and said

got a table with Ben and the guy said we've not got a table with a guy called Ben. She was like, well, Well, Ben's told me to come here and said he's got a table and said, ask the guy in the door with a grey jumper on. The guy obviously has a grey jumper on. And he was like, well, I'm telling you, I don't have a table of Ben. She was, I'm from England and I've came all the way up here.

And I need to get in and spend time with my friends. It's a table with Ben. The guy just looked at his thing for a while and was like, right, on you go then. Brilliant. Made up. She made that up. On the spot. We all need to be more like Talia.

And then tonight we're out. We are. I mean, not that level. out but we're still out on a Wednesday night. We're going off one of our hit lists from the new openings that you guys seem to love by the way. Margo. Yeah, we're going to Margo

which is on Miller Street. Same owners as Ox and Finch Capow. So we're going there for some a bite to eat before we go to the theatre. The theatre? To see Footloose with your mother. I knew it was coming. I could see it coming on your chest. That's one of those songs you don't know the words too.

apart from that but you just need you do like the noise sun dance shoes sunday shoes it's like na na na na la la fool loose but you guys yeah really love that segment of the podcast last week or the week before whatever however we have been creating the list again because there is so many new openings and i just fucking love that where are they all coming from i'm just buzzing my tits off i know there's a lot of places small businesses that are closing down as well which we're not forgetting, but I do love seeing new businesses open as well. I just think it's so good. So we're definitely going to keep doing that.

Zoe's best friend messager, like she loved that segment because she's somebody that doesn't really stay in the loop with it, doesn't go out much. So for her, it was really insightful. It was good for people down south as well that didn't know about places that we've mentioned. So, yeah, if you hear of anything, do let us know and we will add it to the list, but we've created enough now to speak about it next week. So we'll definitely continue that every week, every month. Sorry. Yeah, so, and we'll share it on our stories. We saved it to a highlight called New Opening. So if you're interested, go and have a look on there as well, if you missed out.

Lovely. Well, what's been on your plate? It's over to you. So are we doing food now or emotional? Better both. All right, I'll start off with the Christmas dinner dilemma of last week. So I shared with you all lists of places that you could go for Christmas Day. Could I get in anywhere? No. Every single person I rang was like, yeah, we've been booked since Feb. I feel that there's going to be people less and less thinking Yeah, no shit But this is the first time I've done this though And it also didn't occur to me either

That it would be so busy And I also forgot, to be fair That it was November already I was like, shit, of course it's going to be full It's November But I was looking at it in September It's just typical me Anyway, so I rang up the places

I can tell you now where I really wanted to go I really wanted to go to the buttery It used to be called Two Fat Ladies and it's now called the Buttery. I looked at their menu and that for me was the one that looked the most traditional,

really nice, cozy vibe in there and a good price. They said they've been booked since February 8 and I said, oh can I go to the wait list? They were lovely as well

and they were like, yeah, you can but there's 30 groups on there than it's tiny restaurants I was like, okay, maybe not. Then I rang, who was the next one? I rang, oh, the body.

Again, good price. It's a little bit more expensive than the butter, I think. Not as good of a menu as that one. They were fully booked. She was, again, lovely to me. It was like, really sorry. And then I rang Dakota. No.

Did you try both Dakotas? I asked them on the phone. She gave me the email for the restaurant. And I says, before I do this, can you just let me know? Oh, yeah, if it's Christmas Day, we're booked out. Anyway, so I'm going to have it at home. I thought you've got the choice I haven't got the choice

and it's fine I just text Richard like listen I'm going to be 34 weeks pregnant how far gone will I be yeah 34 weeks pregnant yeah you know

we say maybe you need a wee bit of help and he was like oh yeah no problem so Christmas dinner might be by I think you'd just get your feet up yeah my big swollen monster bunch of feet up so that's what I'm going to be doing

Christmas Day now which is fantastic Which I don't mind actually. I do not find making a Sunday roast element styled in like Christmas dinner difficult because I enjoy it so much. I'm so used to doing it, I really enjoy it. And if I'm only cooking for two people, it's really not that stressful. I'll just get a turkey crown and make, you know, everything just a lot small it fits into the oven. Yeah. So you can also do it like when you want.

Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Exactly. You know, other people sit and waiting for their dinner. I can prep. Yeah, true. So that was that. still don't have the results back for Owen.

A few people have messaged me about that. It's been over four weeks now, and we've rang the vets every day, and there's no results back, which is really pissing me off. It just doesn't need to take that long. I just want to emotionally just not necessarily put it to bed, but you know what I mean? I just need to, it's in the back of my mind constantly. Like, I keep getting upset about it still.

I'm just like, I need to just know what, like, it was out of my control. Even though I know it was, do you know what I mean? You know, you just need to know something. Absolutely. So that's that. And aside from that, me and you have just been so, so busy, haven't we? It's been non-stop. I'm exhausted.

With lots of exciting things coming up. So we're not complaining, but it's just non-stop, isn't it? Which is, whoa. And then this weekend I had my niece, so Richard's niece over. She stayed. She's six. So that's quite interesting. How was that for practice?

Well, she was on her best behaviour. Right. So I do feel like we were told that she's being a little bit of, naughty recently so i was thinking oh god but i don't know any parents out there but i think i would prefer a child to be a brat to me and be on their best behavior around other people's houses because she was so polite she was lovely that she was no bother at all so when they asked like how was she was like yeah she was sad but then that would also annoy you i think and like a roundabout way because you get no i get that because then you're just like you're obviously just acting up for us

but you obviously wouldn't want them to be a brat no i know people so Anyway, we took her to, we went to the fort because she wanted to go to, is it Smiths? Yeah. I never knew that was there. I never really go to that side of the fort. You know, at the right side. Yeah, there's nothing else really up there. By the way, massive prime mark is done.

December. It's open December the 4th, I'm sure. That's going to be chaos. Parking there at the fort anyway is chaos. I know. How are you getting a space to go into that premark? Also, what's there to go into town for now? Well, I suppose we've got all the nice new shops on the Canaan Street and stuff.

True, but it definitely is going to take away from that, I think. Potentially. Anyway. It's the ease of it as well. I don't necessarily go into Primark in town that much anyway, to be fair. No, I'm never down that. Anyway, so we went into Smith's, and it's her birthday in a couple of weeks. So it was more of a, let's have a look what you can put on Santa's list.

Lull. And then we can also see what you want for your birthday. If anybody's interested in what to get their six-year-old niece or whatever, she's really into Magic Mixies, Stitch, Lilo and Stitch, but particularly Stitch. Is Lilo and Stitch having a comeback? Yeah, it was everywhere. Yeah, there's like, Primark.

I've got loads of jammies and that, but, like, adult ones. And, you know, I quite like a jammie. But Lilo and Stitch. When I went on to Netflix that night to put on something for her to watch because she was painting like a stitch thing that we bought her. There was about 10 films, 10 of them, like of Lilo and Angel is the female Stitch. There's quite a good song in Lelon's stitch, I'm sure.

Of course you know it. No, it's not coming to. And then she also likes, there's this pet dog that you can get now. There's also pet rabbit, whatever, and it's called, is it pets with a Z? I can't remember. But they come in like little cages,

like when you take them to the vet, and they move and blink and shit. like really advanced and then again she likes Barbie but she wants a traditional Barbie from the movie Barbie Right

Things are coming back There's a Tamagotchi there for Okay You know things are coming back around Is babyborn still a thing? Baby all gone Baby born Oh I don't know

Baby born baby born Oh yeah of course No I'm sure on that one And then Pokemon Again I loved that I said to her do you play it on a game boy She went

What's a Game Boy? And I thought, all right. So we bought her all this magic flipping genie thing that smoked up. It was just crazy. So we were doing that all night trying to work that out. But I did think to myself, like, I was watching Richard interact. And I thought, you're going to be a fantastic dad. He will be a good idea dead.

And I really did buckle. I sat back and was like, you deal with that. Well, I mean. It was perfect. And I thought, this is a great setup. Best with work for me. But what I was going to say was when we went to the fore, I popped into M&S.

We need to discuss Marks and Spencers. I know we talk about it every single episode regarding the food hall because it's just incredible. But the clothes and I've seen it a lot on TikTok. I've seen it all around. People talking about how amazing

the fashion is in M&S. But when I went in there, I genuinely could have bought every single thing in sight. It was, I just thought, we were speaking to the Waterman Gellies before we started this episode saying like, are we actually just coming of age

where it's got to the point M&S is so good or genuinely is the fashion better. My nan had to pay me 50p to walk into that shop when I was a kid to bribe me in there because ceilings were too low. You know I am before that? I was like, it's too low and I still feel the same way about it. They actually are a little. Too low.

It was just really horrendous setup. But when I'm in there now, I'm like, I like it. My mom used to like thrive off Peruna, like she bought everything Peruna when I was a kid. And I just feel like I like Peruna now. I can't really saying that. How do you say it? That is how you say it, but it's just a lot of emphasis going on. Peruna.

Peruna. Oh, fucking pissing. So anyway, my coat that I'm wearing today in my duffel coat, which you can probably barely see because it's so large than life, is... Gorgeous, like inside suede. Is that Pruna? No, it's not. Not Peruna, no. It's just the normal.

Just thereminus. The coats, I saw the fur coat that you've gone and bought yourself. was well in there, gorgeous. Obviously it was sold out. There was like a size of 24 left. But it looked nice. No, as lovely. I just don't know if the fur jacket things for me.

I want to like it, but I don't know if I feel too... Yeah. I do feel like it's a statement piece, isn't it? A fur jacket is very much... But I just want like a cropped one to wear like bag of jeans and trainer style, like more like the casual side of it. Yeah. But I just don't know if that.

That one's maybe too large looking. It's hard for us as well when we've got big boobs. Not only the fur big, you just feel like... You don't get the good ratio of possession of the fur. But everything in there, even the beauty part, I know, I've known that for a while, but the beauty part of M&S have got loads of nice stuff in there. Christmas decorations were gorgeous. Of course, the food, the food at Christmas at M&S is the best.

Can we talk about the cookies, by the way? Have you seen there's a big thing about the fresh cookies in M&S now? and they're so hard to get. No. So you know how the actual bakery bit? Yeah. Where you got the pastries. Yeah.

They do cookies there. So like milk chocolate, white chocolate, double chocolate. Yeah, they've always done that. I know, but on TikTok, now it's blown up. Cool. You can't get them anymore. Right. The vegan chocolate chip cookies from M&S were always so good.

You would never have known. Perfect. But yeah, anyway, if you haven't been in M&S, I think the girls were saying that the trousers were good. Yeah. Jeans. Jeans, trousers. And the buyers are apparently from Topshop.

Top shop, yeah. Which makes a lot of sense. Yes, it makes so much sense. Yeah. So please keep it up Eminess because we're really liking it a lot. Thanks for less than Eminus. And then I also went, thanks for sponsoring this episode, Eminess. We wish.

So we also went to Wagabamas afterwards, which you said you were shocked about, but I'm really into. cat-na Wagammas. Why? Do you not like Wagamamas? Love it. So why would you think that about me? It's obvious reasons. Why? Do you think I'm some sort of food snob? Because I'm so confused.

It's not snobbiness. It's not that. Wagamamas is up there with one of the best. I know I say I don't love chain restaurants, which I still stand by. Don't like Nando's. I don't like it. Well, that's my reason. But Wagamamas is definitely one of the better ones because it's so fresh and the menu there is amazing I had these beef brisket

gaiosas which I definitely knew because they never used to have them I had the catsu the yasai catsu the veggie one mm-hmm really good not as good as it used to be though but it was good but my point was when I was that there there's a couple next minute a date night and they were ordering off the drinks menu to cocktail menu because usually I'd go in there and get one of those like green smoothie shit that they do they do loads of like healthy juices don't they in macamamas yeah they do actually like fresh pressed ones

And she ordered like a picante, like a spicy margarita, spicy rim, the red chili, and I was like, fucking slices. Like, what? By the way, you've just reminded me, we got them, not we as and me and you. Me, Molly and Heather got that in the airport. What? Before Nashville. Totally forgot. I couldn't believe it.

They've also got matches on there now using that jenky branded matcher, which is really good Japanese matcher. So I was like, this is so good. Honestly, have a look at the cocktail menu, espresso martinis. I'm sure this is maybe not loose to people that go there regularly. But I would, I just never really think about the alcoholic menu are Wagamamas. I would always go for the juices because they're so good. So I was like you're going on for a quick meal cake vibe to me.

Banana fritters, they do with the caramel sauce. And then there was this baby screaming in there, right? Nice. Screaming. God bless him, right? And I was fine. I was patient, more patient than I probably would have been. before my eyebrow was sort of twitching a little bit um and then i looked at rich i went

i'm not looking forward to that a year and he went no neither am i anyway that night i get a dm no from the mum like oh she was so sweet bless her she's like jess i just want to apologize i was the woman with the baby screaming trying to calm him down i said to my friend oh my god there's jess this is the last thing she's going to want to hear all it needed was a bit of fresh air but I promise you it's the best thing ever and he's such a good baby and I thought oh that's a shame because I did say to Rich

like I feel sorry for her that's what I was going to say I think when you get older and you've maybe got people around you with kids your view on it changes like I don't look at that now and think going to fucking take that way now like they're annoying me

yeah she wasn't looking around and trying to settle it but I look at it and think I feel sorry for the kid because obviously something's wrong yeah just cry for nothing and I feel sorry for the parents because they know that everyone's looking, thinking shut up. Yeah. I didn't even look.

I know, but you're aware of it and you're thinking that's annoying. She probably thought, oh no. And I did look at Rich and was like, oh, I'm not looking forward to this. No, I know, but no one's going to be looking forward to that, do you know what I mean? So it's fine to feel that way. Anyway, that's me. That's you? Yep.

That's all we've got. Oh, last one. I've always one thing. There's always one more. But this is worth it. Aldi Easy Peelers. right we've went from M&S we're working down what's next

fucking little no Aldi Easy Peeler season pops off every year there's no better ones than them and that's all I'm going to say on the matter they're even better

than especially selected ones from M&S which is you know it's tough nothing really rivals with them for me but Aldi easy peelers are worth the trip

worth that track all the way I'll be up the road to Aldi forever for me then it is M&S. Quick mention of Aldi, though. We'd had to go the other day. Yeah. And Jess experienced the bag situation.

Oh, I did. It was annoying. Waiting for someone to catch your attention to say, can I get a bag please? Why is he holding it with? Why is he holding the bags? That's what I mean. They're holding them hostage and it's annoying.

Because I couldn't quite get the thing that you were saying. I was like, and now you understand. He was walking around helping people, but holding the bags. I was like, hello? Could I just have a bag? And you're scanning all your stuff

and putting it down and you're still getting old bag and I need to re-pack it. Anyway, right, let's do some uplifting shit, shall we? Injected into my veins. Right, Zoe, I've got a scenario for you. You're in a car crash. It's not your fault.

Your car is in bits, and you're majorly stressed out. What are you going to do? Probably phone you. Great. Well, maybe don't do that, but the correct answer is to call our friends at Waterman's, obviously. What, so they can sort my car and everything? Yep, you don't even have to phone your insurance company.

Watermans will sort it all for you. What if I have to miss work and can't earn my money? Well, they'll get you that money back too. Sorted. Okay, I feel less embarrassed about being re-rended now. Right, so we'll go on to some list. There's messages. We've got a funny dating story, I believe.

Please keep sending us these in because I bloody love it. Right, having been listening to all the wild dating stories on your pod, I'm relieved to know I wasn't the only one with cringe-worthy encounters. So here's one for you to giggle over. Throw back to a night out when I was a very single girl, totally over men and their shenanigans. My friend dragged me out despite my not feeling it mood, but I went along anyway. Little did I know, it would turn into one of my most embarrassing moments ever. Turns out a rugby team were in town.

After a few drinks, I found myself chatting to a very attractive six-foot tall man. Not once pass up a good story, I figured, why not? and ended up going back to his place for a nightcap. Ooi,oy. Now, here's the kicker. In my half-hearted decision to go out that night, I completely skipped the whole everything shave routine as girls usually do for a night out just in case.

Good old days. So there we are, things heated up, and I suddenly remember I have a bush. Paniccan, I excuse myself, to the bathroom, hoping to find a disposable rome. razor in his wash bag. He's all been there. I'm pissing us. No look, this guy has only a full electric grooming kit. I debated for a second, then decide, screw it. I'll just go for it and pray it's quiet. Little did he know. I'm in there with one leg up on the toilet using his electric

razor to tackle my nun while trying not to piss myself, but no look, it was going vroom, Room, rum, rum. The thing sounded like a chainsaw. I quickly turn on the shower to drown it out, thinking it'll be okay. But then there's a knock on the door. Everything okay in there? No.

Mortified, I just managed to shake. Yep, all good. Honestly, I should have just embraced the bush. I walked out and he goes, you'd just use my razor, didn't you? Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! Dead! We've all been there. Honestly, I honestly.

I have had all sorts of shanagan's where the dry-shaven situation and I'm like, oh shit, I'm bleeding. And they're like, should you come on? I'm like, no. Not curious. Luckily, you know, we all hail laser hair removal, honestly. Although, although I'm not one to overshare, but when I was having Richard rubbeds oil into my belly most nights now, I didn't have a fucking clue where that was gone. So I hover over him like a big flipping telly to be over the bed and he sits and rubs the and he goes to me,

your funny's hairy. I can't see my vagina anymore. So I'm like trying to lean over like, what do you mean? I've got laser removal. And the jiv pants on that's point? No, I'm fully naked. Lying there, tits out, belly out. He just rubs it while he's on the bed.

And he's like, your funny's hairy. Obviously it's not been hairy for a long time. I'm like, what do you mean? No, it's not. But you know, hormones and that change of pregnancy, I've got hair back down there now. Everywhere or just the odd few. I don't know, I can't see.

You cannot feel it though. No. I need to really have a bit of an inspection in the mirror and have a little look where I can maybe try and like blind shave. Terrible. It's terrible, it's fine, but obviously I didn't, I would never have known.

I had a patchy vagina when I got to the blipping legs in stretch. legs and straps. I think that'll be the least to your worries hen. Maureen. Sorry, Murray. I'd like to say, we've said worse, I think. I'm quite impressed that you would be doing that with no pants on. I'm going to say this, I'm going to say it now. I've never felt more confident in my naked body than I do right now. No, I know. I understand that. I would never normally stand there with Richard like that ever. Well, I would, but not when he's lying in bed and like. that but honestly I don't know what it is I just you kind of embrace it I can't see it

either so I'm just to me all it is just a big belly no I know you don't care no but you look great with your belly I don't mean that I just mean I feel like see if I'm just out the shower or whatever the first thing that I'm really always trying to do is get pants on so when I'm in the bedroom out of the shower and I'm drying myself I'm about to go into my pajamas but because it's oil he's putting on my body I then have to put the trousers low I don't want to get oil all over my pajamas. No, that does make sense. So I just stand there naked. Bollico.

It's the one part that I don't like to be just like out and about usually. No, I do know what you mean. Yeah. So normally without the belly you wouldn't really know. I'm really doing it because I'm rubbing oil into me. Yeah. I mean, I know that they see it often enough. So I don't know why it's

I'm sure on that one. I don't know why it's weird but it's kind of like the mind the thing we were talking about naked but with socks on yes kind of that sort of vibe for me right I like pants on yeah that's fair I like pants on anyway right now let's go into a dilemma right okay I've been with my boyfriend for nearly five years now

I'm 23 he's 26 I'm in my last year at uni but when I graduate I will still need to continue studying a postgrad so it's about two years until I'll be earning a full-time wage he's been working for three years full-time and earns about three times as much as I do. He's been able to save a deposit for a house, which I obviously haven't been able to do as I shouldn't work in part-time.

He's been wanting to buy his own place and I fully support that and have viewed a few places with him. Although previously we discussed that I wouldn't live in the house with him and I would just stay over occasionally. I asked him the other day how he would feel if we moved in together

and took out a joint mortgage where we would each contribute proportionally. He was going to be paying for the at himself anyway. So if I were to contribute, it would just mean we would have our own place and he'd need to pay less every month. He flat out said no and said that I wouldn't be able to afford it because I'm still at uni and only work part-time. This isn't necessarily true as I already pay digs to my mum and I spend a lot of money on transport between driving a 40-mile round trip to spend time with him at his house, paying train fares into uni and also driving to work.

If I moved in with him, I'd be closer to Glasgow and all of these things so would save money in that respect as well. He's flat out said now that if he bought somewhere not be my flat and I'd be welcome to stay a couple nights a week. He said he wants to live by himself for a couple of years before I move in but by which point would be together for seven years and I've never lived together. This just doesn't seem ideal to me and I feel like it's a long-term relationship with no commitment. I know I'm still young but I don't want to waste any more time in a relationship where I'm not viewed as equal to someone. Please help. Any advice would be appreciated. It's a tough one.

Now you've read that out to me makes a little bit more sense to me now than it did initially, but I think where she said to him how about it was getting a joint mortgage out together on a property that he's buying. I think even I would be a bit like, I would need some sort of legal thing in place there. If she said can I move in and pay you rent, that makes a bit more sense to me in my head. Do you know what I'm saying? Because the property's still 100% yours Would she be able to get a mortgage out being a student as well? How would that work? If she's not got a job?

Well she's got a part-time job So it would depend on the salary I suppose But I think He's obviously just wanting to do this alone at this point What it boils down to is what he said right at the end now I live on my own for two years That doesn't sit right with me, I'd hate that Yeah, I know

If you're especially with each other for five years I'd be like, what the fuck? I think the worry you have, the no commitment is the worry I would also have. Yeah, like later down the line when those years were up. And I do kind of feel like her point of splitting the mortgage proportionally. So say, for example, each month he paid two thirds of it.

Why is he not up for that in a sense? Because he was going to buy it anyway. I see, yeah. So at one point he's... Probably doesn't want her on the moment. though I know well this is why I would then everything would be going back to commitment for me because I would be saying I'm wanting in on this it will literally save you money a month we're in a five-year relationship should we not

want to move in together and for him that saving him money each month because he was going to be paying it anyway he obviously doesn't want the commitment I don't think it's anything to do with the money because he probably doesn't necessarily need the money if he needed the money he might have said yes I know but that's what I mean I don't think it's about the money I think it's the commitment. However, I do agree with you on that one. Yeah, I do agree that there's definitely some issue going on there with the relationship.

I feel like I would, if I really wanted to move him with someone, I would say, yeah, let's go for it. Let's see how it works. However, I don't want to also, I like to be devil's advocate, I don't want to, I feel like he's still allowed to have that independence. He might have never lived on his own before. He might have lived with his parents, saved up, all this money, and then he moves out to house he's never experienced living on his own before like he's allowed to feel that way he's allowed to want that i know and i guess if he's so determined to buy it on his own as well he

probably does want to kind of what's the point you're buying on a place on your own and just saying yeah but you can just move in and pay some rent then it's kind of like well i'm not experienced living on my own then but i've saved all this money to do it he's worked hard to have this as his own independent property yeah but but i do think it boils down to him saying i want to live on my own for two years. Well, why two years? What's that all about? And you can pop over when you want a couple of times a week. I don't know. That just doesn't really sit right with me. Also, if I've never lived together before, he's probably thinking that's quite a scary movie. We've never tested the waters of how we live together in a situation. I'm then going to

put you on my mortgage. That's quite risky. Let's just test it for a bit. You come over a couple times. And then maybe in six months time, it's like, you know what? Actually, I'm going to add you on to my mortgage. That's still an option, isn't it? Yeah. I think if I'll was hurt, I would have the conversation about commitment and say, I'm just worried that I'm taking this the wrong way and it's making me feel like it's more about the commitment, not the money. Yeah, correct, yeah. And he will probably say, it's not that, yeah, I just want to do this, I'm ready and I don't want to be held back by you, which is fine. That money my friends was actually in that exact situation. So she moved out on her own, bought the flat on her own,

and within about a year her boyfriend moved in and now just contributes to the bills and everything. But it's like her flat still. Yeah. But from that, she's kind of got what she wanted because it's like you wanted to love your partner. You've got that and you've got the commitment and they're contributing so that things are a bit more equal now. I think it's more longer term.

You need to know if in two years' time, basically. Not to the date, but just... If it's worth it. What's going to happen then? I think you just need to voice your feelings on this one. Yeah. Because it could be either or. Mm-hmm.

Sadly. Thoughts? I totally agree. On that one. Perfect. Perfect. Right. Next dilemma, which goes in nicely to our topic of life-changing decisions.

Yep. I think I'm done with nursing. I'm 32 working my dream job in... Adverted comments. And it isn't dreamy at all. Can't imagine myself doing anything else in this industry. So short-staffed and overstretched, but no clue what else I would do. Have a mortgage and a baby, so need to be sensible, feeling so lost and overwhelmed.

So I think the responses that we've had from people on life changing decisions will be quite helpful in this. Quite inspiring for you. Maybe motivate you, see that it will all work out. Yeah. That sort of thing. I do think it's hard, isn't it, when you're in that situation where you have the mortgage and not happy? especially in the NHS as well when it is so stretched at the moment and things are changing all the time.

I bet you a lot of people feel that way at the moment. And just feeling sort of trapped, especially she says she doesn't know what else she's passionate about because she's not really necessarily had the time to go and explore that. Yeah. So it's a hard one, isn't it? But yeah, let's read some out and hopefully it helps. 17 and skint. My pals wanted to go out and I had zero money.

They all gave me a ten or each, thirty pounds, which you got a decent night out and Hope Bridge for them. That's cute isn't it? And we went out ran into someone from school who had chatted to on and off but had fell apart months prior. He also wasn't meant to be out as he finished work at 1130 and his friend gave him clothes to wear and persuaded

him half an hour before he shift ended. We finally spoke that night after months of avoiding each other and the rest is history as they say. We'll be together six years next month and I will always thank Hush, RIP, for bringing us back together. Oh, that is fate if I've ever heard.

it. It's hush not a thing anymore. Must not be. I don't know what that is. It's a club. A club. Club. Not sure if this is a big one, but for me, it definitely is the best decision I ever made. After graduating, I was accepted to study a post-grad in teaching. My dream job, since I was a little girl. It was absolutely not how I thought it would be, and I decided to leave, despite feeling like it was the completely wrong thing to do, as I'd worked so hard for it, and it just seemed like the right thing to stay and just complete it. I now have a full-time permanent role in the energy sector, something I never expected I'd do and I love it. I'm constantly learning and have an amazing work-life balance and have travelled with work, things I don't feel I'd truly

get had I stuck in as a teacher. It was hard realizing my dream job wasn't for me after so many years of wishing for it, but I thank myself every day for making the decision to leave as I truly don't believe I would be as happy and able to switch off as I am right now. P.S. Love the Pod. so much, gets me through my journeys to and from work and lunchtime walks. Aw. Love that. That is one of the things, isn't it, when you dream something from such a young age, and it's like, I can't give up now, or I've worked so hard to get to this point,

you're almost scared to ever make that change because you're risking it all. It's like, what if I feel the same way about this in a few years' time? I do also think, in this, people are going to be, like, shut the fuck up, right? But I know a lot of people are going to relate. Do you just not enjoy working? fucking preach sister. Who the hell wants to work? No, but I do think

I do generally think some people like are never going to be like I love my job like I just do you know what I mean like I think some people might just be chasing

for that I wake up every morning and jump out of bed to my work you just don't love it we probably have jobs that people think self-employed

you've got more freedom blah blah blah you still don't wake up every single day and be like I love my life but you know what I mean though no I totally get what you mean

Like, I think people probably struggle to find the balance of, is it my job that I don't like, or is it just tired of working, feeling burnt out, you know? Well, it's a case of what she's saying here. She has a much better work-life balance. And when you put your all into work, constantly stressed, working all silly hours, you're never experiencing actual life. No, that's more.

It will make you more enjoy the job more. Yeah. This is why I feel like people in Sweden have it so right, this whole three day working working week thing they go in they work a little bit longer I know a lot of places are changing that here in the UK as well but you get a much more productive version of people when they're in for shorter amounts of time it just makes the most sense don't you think you're more productive in your day you always had that sort of slump mid-afternoon when you worked in an office yeah you chat to your mates for two hours you

should just be able to leave at 3pm you're only really doing about three days of work and five well realistic yeah when you're back and forth in to pointless calls meetings that you don't need to be in. Whereas if you've only got three or four days, you can't all in. I guess it depends on what work you're doing though. If it's more hands-on, that's completely different, like, labour, job or whatever. But I'm talking in terms of, like, more corporate roles. That definitely, yeah, I definitely feel like you could get more out of people

making their brains a little bit more stimulated, not just sat at the screen all day. I agree. Right. So here's the self-employed one. I sold my business to get myself back. converted a horsebox into a coffee shop and that did really well, ending up needing three staff at all times

in a tight space and it was so busy due to COVID. Then I managed and helped open a farm shop restaurant. In the end, I had 18 staff. Wow. I hear you guys talk a lot about being self-employed and I do miss it but selling up was my freedom.

I work 24-7. Now I'm working 9 to 5 from home in finance a life I never thought I'd like but I get to shut that laptop every and focus on me and my little life again. I might start a little venture again in the future but for now I'm happy. See? There's the flip.

Fee right there. I do miss those days of just shutting your laptop or walking out of retail store and we're like, see you never. I think that I shoot a lot in marketing for people as you're better a lot of the time you're better self-employed because you don't shut your laptop even in your 95.

You know what I mean? We do stuff like that. I do think what a joy to just shut that over and it's out your brain until you're there in the morning again. I am envious of that feeling. But I've almost forgot how that feels though now. I don't. So just have a completely shut off brain.

That doesn't exist for me. I've definitely not forgot. What, you want to go back to that? No, I wouldn't say want. I would just say it would be nice. No, that's what I mean. I agree, but I just, when I was, where was I? I was having my nails in yesterday and the girl was saying to me,

oh, when she leaves today, she's going home, She's going to put a film on and go in bed And part of me thought I really wish that I could leave here Go home in bed and put a movie on And really truly switch off I can't do it I cannot do it

There's always something that I feel like I should be doing Discussing, thinking about I feel almost guilty for having time to myself I can definitely do that But only if I've done everything I should be doing But don't you ever feel like there's the more you could be doing when it's self-employment

there's always something that you could be doing yeah there is but I kind of got a good balance of like but that's all I had to do today yeah like today's list is done tomorrow's a new day

and if I write a list for the next day that's tomorrow's problem so I can sometimes do that right now when you've got the events and all that no because you could just be keep doing stuff but without that then yeah I could do it sometimes

Not all the time, though. Not as much she should be able to. I agree. But also, I can't relate. You are an overdrive mind, though. No, I am. Like, I know it's an issue that I have. I can't help it.

It's just, it's horrible. It's horrible that you feel that way, that you can't ever just sit up. I think you also go about your sort of day and the day, and then at night, you're kind of, like, ready to sit down. Yeah, I'm very much at night. Where is it's kind of the opposite? for most people to you.

It's like my brain switches on at night. Yeah. So much so that it's like brain dumping into my phone. I'm like, oh my God. And it's not a bad thing. It's actually quite a, my most creative ideas come at night. Yeah. But then that's, before I know it, it's like 2 a.m.

Which is not often anymore, to be fair. I am in bed quite early these days because I'm knackered. But I genuinely do feel like I thrive in that environment. But that's probably why you can't go home at night and watch a film because Yeah. you've been doing your sort of potting about if you like because I do it to during the day

and if you do that during the day you then think fuck tonight needs to be my productive time because you've got the freedom to be like that whereas other people can do it because they've been productive and since fucking 9 aam I'm sat in a cafe

we're good when we go to a cafe yeah when I went to Starbucks yesterday then I'm fine I'm doing all this stuff I need to do it's when you're at home as well because you can easily do stuff at home yeah and you've got a to do list for your life as well and then I'll just think to myself how am I going to do this with a child? Unsure.

My God. Right, moving on, swiftly. Fell into working on accounts when I left school, which was fine, but I didn't love it. Always loved flowers, but never thought I was arty enough to be a florist. Took the plunge, booked on to Glasgow Flower School's one week career course, loved it from the first minute, found a job with a local florist, handed notice into my account's job,

and now, eight years later, had my own wee flower shop and designed flowers for all occasions every day, and it's the best decision I've ever made I do a job I love and it really feels like work That's lovely There is somebody that jumps up bed every day and says I love my job Fairfought Because giving it ends with us

Lily Bloom Isn't it? It's giving Lily Bloom Oh this is a good one I was supposed to go to a wedding as a plus one with my ex-boyfriend We were still pals But he was still in love with me But I decided against it last minute And went on a rash night out with pals instead

That night I met my current partner And it's been five years on Saturday since that night It's so much has changed in my life since then for the better at the butterfly effect. Lovely. That's really nice. Lovely. Decided to become cabin crew five years ago and moved away from home,

despite everyone telling me not to, especially my now ex-boyfriend. I got transfers to Edinburgh, we split up, and I met my now fiancée and we have a house and a little three-month-old baby. Don't let anyone sway you from the big decisions. They really can change your life. Cabin crew's got a lot to answer for people, by the way.

That does. That does change people's lives. That deba-bye life. Think of all the people you meet, though, on the planes and also when you go into all these countries and being an expat in a different country. Right, this one, I had been on Tinder for a few months and it wasn't working out between a string of bad dates and just not finding anyone I felt I had a connection with, so I came off the app. I was on a work tonight out and was speaking to a woman in my work. She said I should give it another go. That night, on the train home, I downloaded the app again and matched with a guy.

Fast forward five years, and we are engaged with our wedding booked into. 2026. If she never pushed me that night, then there's a chance I wouldn't have seen him on Tinder. And fun fact, it was also his first night on Tinder and his photo was taken on that night and his profile had zero information and just random emojis.

Aw. I think that just shows keep giving them a chance. Redownload those app now, girlies. Get them downloaded. Get them back. Do five swipes a night. Five swipes a night. I used to swipe on that shit for hours. I loved it. It was like a game.

I couldn't wait to get in bed and go on Tinder. Loved it. I've just never had that. Left to everyone. It was so good, Zoe. Wait, swipe left is reject. Yeah. There's no way you swipe left left to everyone.

You love everyone. I hated men at this point in my life. This is, remember there was a life before you. You do know that, right? No. You hate to admit. But I hated men so much. False information.

And I was obsessed with blonde men. La la la. Never happens. You only know me. And yeah, I hated men. I got a job in Inverness without ever visiting the Highlands. Oh, God bless Inverness. I was 23, had never moved out from my family home. I was in a new city with no one I knew, was figuring out living alone and all adulty things that come with renting. I am now 30. I married the love of my life, in bracket, sexy Highlander.

bought a house and have a daughter. Biggest thing I ever did. But without a doubt, the best decision I've ever made was taking that job. and the risk, p.s, love the pod. Everyone get yourself to Inverness. I love Inverness. And you'll meet a sexy Highlander. Right, last one then.

I hadn't spoken to my best friend from school for a wee while when we went to uni, but one night we bumped into each other in Sugarcube. If you know, you know, I know. She invited me to lunch the following week with a few friends and when I arrived they told me they were booking a one-way flight to Ayanapa for the season. I thought fuck it and booked to go with them.

on one of our first nights I met a guy from Essex and after a long holiday romance four years during long distance between Scotland and Essex he moved to Glasgow in 2017 and we just got married in September 11 years later and I still think about how different things could have been if I didn't reunite with my best friend and book those flights

Aw, that's lovely. I love that one A similar story happened to me when I went to Magalough one of my friend Melissa came with me she wasn't in my friendship group at the time that I went with but I asked her to come with me because we were really close and she stayed out there for 12 years. She only came home two years ago, moved to Essex with her now fiancé,

who she met years ago in Magaluf. But yeah, and I always thought to myself, like, if I never invited you on that holiday, no, I know. You, like, would you have ever done that? She was going to be a dancer, I'm sure. And she ended up being like a bar manager in Magaluf for years and loved living in Miyorka.

And she came back and is now, yeah, she's doing really well. But I just love it. met so many people, her whole life changed. She's got a gorgeous boyfriend, fiance. You need to experience life, people. I'm passionate about that. You do. Well, anyway, we've got a lot more,

and we're going to carry them over onto Petrione. We've got about, what, another two or three good ones that we want to read out to you over there. So join us on there, please. We love you very much for the support. And remember to enter our giveaway on Patreon. This month is to win an overnight house of gods. Worth over £250.

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