A Lot On Your Plate - S5 Ep14: Hypnobirthing, Michelin Star Restaurants & Party Season Outfits

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

This week on ALOYP we have a big fat catch up on what we've been up to and what we've got coming up. We also discuss where you should be looking for your party season outfits (in our humble opinion) and Jess tells us all about her first hypnobirthing experience! Enjoy🫶🏻Outfit inspo:MurciWanderdoll Odd MuseHouse of CBMistress RocksClub LMeshkiRiver Island Frasers Glasgow Michelin Star restaurants:L'Enclume Andrew Fairlie Cabin:Kip & Nook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Happy Tuesday! I hope you had all a gorgeous week. We gave you a compliment. Thanks. Yeah. Zoe stressed me out because she's, if you listened to the Burliss last week, she says that, oh, can everyone tell us what you find annoying about us? Don't wonder if people find annoying when we say happy Tuesday.

So now I'm like, well, I'm like, what do I say? Morning. Morning, fuckers. How are you? I just think it's good to get constructive criticism. I completely disagree. When it's, when you're asking for it. No one's going to do it anyway.

People like us too much. I'm sure on that one. one right anyway happy Tuesday um who had a wonderful week we have been busy event planning in fact it's being non-stop the events are still not happened in our life it's definitely happened in your life so we really hope you had a wonderful time but we are still stressed planning for that although we feel extremely organized now i would say i think we're organized the only thing probably to sort is just the remaining things to be delivered and i guess maybe us

our outfits and shit. The things that I don't feel organised about, there's nothing you can do about until you're there anyway. Yeah. We haven't been back to the venue to see the full set up and you're never going to see the full set with everyone there until you're there on the day. Exactly. Yeah. You can only

be so organised. And what day were together this week when we were planning the party? Because that was successful. A great day. Wednesday night. Yeah. We've got some few little surprises of the bottle of leave. they will have seen them well you've seen them hopefully they were good

and you were surprised but the prizes were unbelievable unreal we gave away a current body LED mask I think that is brilliant

you were meant to list off more from that no I know I was chat processing it was improvisation we had a VVV bundle we had a voucher for

Kresma in Glasgow for a lymphatic drainage massage and a facial. Mm-hmm. We had... Oh, what else did we have? Forget? Oh, a space NK bundle worth 250 pounds. You'd fucking honours a shit? Would I cut your own Christmas tree experience with duff trees?

That's cute for the family. That's very cute. The sister method gave us a whole organisation, like, decluttering experience. Like, what the fuck? I think that's so good. When I mess with them to ask, they were like, yeah, absolutely. I was like, fucking... Yes, people will love this.

I think that's a great price. A hundred pound voucher for Rialta, jewellery. Oh my God, there was just so many. So many gifts, and we hope you all loved it if you won. And it went to a great cause. We will announce how much we raised next week for our two charities. Cash for Kids and Glasgow City Mission. Right.

So let's get into the episode. We'll do a little bit about what we've been up to. What's been a warning of please? Because we did catch up last week. We hope you all got your Christmas gifts. at a bargain price and hopefully managed to snap up some Black Friday deals because we sure did.

I hope I did. Yeah, well I've already bought my Black Friday deals, so. I hope my future self did. Oh my God, talking about Black Friday deals, can I talk about, I've bought a pram? Tales all. Guys, I've bought a pram. And I'd beep.

Scrored. It's like, find a new car. I feel like this is a momentous. occasion in the baby journey I haven't felt organised whatsoever and getting me and Richard together at the moment where we just go and just do a spontaneous shopping trip is like really difficult

I think most women find that difficult to get a man to agree to go shopping with you yeah he actually wanted to go to M&S because he said Ian Wright who he loves so much has brought out a hat range with Marks and Spencers and he loves the little foldover hats Does he get one?

No, they didn't have them in store. So he went all the way to the 40s. I'm going, I couldn't see them. So they might have been an online exclusive. But if anyone else's boyfriend's like Ian Wright and they watch whatever that really popular podcast is on Sky that all the men seem to watch, the hats that Ian wears, they're like that, basically.

Anyway, went in, it wasn't there. So I was like, why don't we just nip into mamas and papas? Because I'm pretty certain in the midst of all the craziness of people sending me, places to go for shit a few people have said go to mamas and papas have got some great deals

so I thought you know what I've never really went in there except with you that time it's such a luxurious baby store is it yeah and I never realised

it's like top market sort of stuff the Gucci yeah maybe not the Gucci but it's got really nice brands in there the Gucci of it's just very good service I would say it's the marks

and sparks of baby shops Wow. You know what I mean? Anyway, so I went in and thankfully it was quite quiet because it was a weekday. I have heard the Pram Centre, which is all over the UK, but that is like the centre of Prams in East School Bride or Glasgow is chaos. Oh, we don't want that. Especially on a weekend.

So I thought Richard Tate's patience is that thin. We'll go somewhere else. What's in? I thought, let's just try it. Then obviously someone comes up to us like, when are you due? And I was like, February, she went, oh, not long then. I thought, oh, fucking out. That's quite alarming.

And then I was like, listen to the woman, anything that you say to me right now, don't think it's silly, because I have no idea what you're talking about. I was like, we are complete beginners to prams. So she showed us, the one that was on display, it was the Mamas and Pappas Akaro Pram. I think that's how you pronounce it.

It's like their branded pram. And I said, I'm most interested in the Silver Cross, which is like, again, like a Gucci of Pram, been around for years. She went, this is the most similar. We don't stock Silver Cross. And this is our bestseller.

I was like, perfect. So she said to me, showed us all how we use it. It looks so easy. I feel like they just flop up and down these days. She was like, clip, boom, in your car. This comes off like that. Coffee cup holder, which was like, perfect sold. You can put like 20-k-G shopping underneath it.

Perfect. Excuse me, how does the pram benefit the mother? Does it look cute? Yes. Has it got a phone holder, perhaps, belt and speaker? Imagine? But Bluetooth.

And so I had a little push around and Richard, again, I felt like a twat. Pushing it around and Rich was looking at me piss and I went, does it suit me? It was like, you look so good, babe. So I was like, shut up. And then, yeah, we basically, just typical being rich, were like, that's the one.

We didn't even bother trying any of the other brands. But if it did the job and you liked it, why not? Yeah. And the reviews were great. But the perk of it, by the way, guys, is so if anyone else is on the lookout for a pram or this is something that they want to do in the future to revert back to,

going to Mamas and Pappas, so they give you this really nice experience. It's got a bottle of water. And they price match at any point up until you deliver. So let's say you bought that pram six months in advance. In that time, because they can deliver up to 28 days before your due date,

they will price match whatever it goes down to a fluctuates between that time. they also gave us back £150 pounds in vouchers because it was Black Friday and the Pram was 40% off That's well good by the way And the thing that sold it to me was Because I've done a little bit of research about car seats

Sybex is a brand of pram and car seats It's a German brand And the legal requirements in Germany are a lot higher than they are in the UK Right, safety wise Yeah So I guess German do a lot of great things Like German cars are the best as well

Yeah, I was going to say that So their car seat, it's like an isophix base, and the Sybex car seat is included in the bundle of that pram. Because you could get a Sybex pram as well, and that was the best because mammas and papas don't do a car seat. Right, okay. So they get this. So they've kind of partnered with. Exactly. So I was like, this is perfect.

This is brilliant. That's ideal. Does the car sheet thing spin? Car seat is 360 and it reclines. Anyway, that was that. And I thought it was a really brilliant deal. But we're one step ahead, that's all that matters here. And they'll deliver it to my house a few weeks before I give birth,

so it's not clogging up any space. Yeah, it's not hitting a corner somewhere, just I've been annoying. Yeah. That's the bit that I thought was good when you were like, tell me about it. Yeah. I thought that's quite good. And you can do Klarna as well. I do.

Uh-huh. It's because of big expense for people. I know. It's not really an option. I know you don't need to get an expensive, but they're all expensive. My friend told me she got her pram off Facebook Marketplace for free. I went for graphite. Is that kind of off grey or something?

Yeah, it's like a dark grey. That one in the cream was the only two on offer. And then the more seasonal colours, like the pink, the sage green. How can you really do that? Those people don't know what you have as well. Yeah, but they were about £500 more. I thought, I don't give a thought. Oh, so they'll get dirty?

Yeah. I think you'd made the right decision. Yeah, I do. Sheik. Yeah, and then you look at all the brands like Bugaboo and Eye Candy, which must be amazing parameters. You can tell the quality. look like a bit more looks but I just don't like those sort of prams like champagne

colours with rose gold brown leather handles like it looks cute but I don't know I just I want a black pram done and you not think about it like oh much gets grubby and all that so at least that's done and sorted that's one thing off the list yeah started my hypnabre thing that was brilliant guys cannot recommend that enough I've not actually spoke to you about it I've spoken to richard about it but not you have you yeah did you tell you what you said What, that it was brilliant? Oh no, that's cute. Did he say that?

Yeah, I feel it was amazing. Aw. See, that's really good. He said he was quite shocked at how good it was, yeah, helpful it was for him as well. Two and a half hours, I thought that's going to be a long time to make him sit down. But, God, it went like that, and he loved it. So, explain what happened.

So her name's Lindsay. She came, I chose the one-to-one option, so she come to her house. Right. And, yeah, she just said to sat us down, and she was like, so what do you think hypnobirthing means? And which she goes, um, something to do with water?

I was like, do you think that she's come here to try and train me for a water bath? He was like, yeah. But something about that makes me think it too. Why is that though? I was thinking more like hypnotise. Oh, I don't know.

But I don't know what you mean, but they have similar sort of meanings in terms of water, but yeah, so she was, we were obviously pissing herself. I was like, no, darling. And he was like, oh, okay,

What is it then? And she sent me, she told me a really good way of saying it, but it's basically just prepping you, empowering you and making you feel positive about your birthing experience. Like you can do this sort of shit? Yeah. It's more about positive mindset, making you understand that women are meant to do this.

The pain is meant to happen. You can control the pain when your mindset's right and in a good way. And if you positively think of the wonderful experience at the end or the reward that you get, you can successfully have a vaginal birth pregnancy all to

basically with your breath. Right. Gas and air or you can have an epidural, whatever you choose. But if your breathing techniques are right, it will help. Yeah, it makes it more manageable. Right. And I'll be honest with you, I haven't thought of any, I'm not sat there and be like, I want my birth to be this,

this, this is because you cannot plan a birth. Everybody's birth is beautiful and unique to them. And I think you're better not having your mindset on something anyway. Exactly, because I'll be let down. Yeah. In an ideal situation, I would like a water berth, and I would like the room to be calm with light candles and all that. Joey, they do that.

I'll be not going to the window. Like, can you just light those candles that make her feel better? No, Zoe, this is what you have. Can you do that? You can't have flames, but you have the flicker lights, yeah? Fairy lights in, music, people make playlists. I've heard people doing playlists before. Nice sprays in the room.

Get all that shit in a bag. Yeah. I will be. That's my ideal situation. Yeah. But when I went for my 4D scan last night, she, first thing she went on was, ooh, you got a big baby.

It's like, no shit. Of course I have. I know. I must say I'm not shocked by that, but I don't know why. She said roughly your baby weighs 2.2 pounds at the moment. Oh, so that's still quite light then. That's interesting considering I've put on one and a half stone.

Yay. Buzzin. It's just a weird and wonderful thing, isn't it? So the hypnobirthing, she just basically sat there with us and she has an iPad and she talks you through all the wonderful things that your body can do. And I kid you not, she made me write down three words that instantly came into my head when I think of birth, put them in an envelope, which she did the same. And then our fourth session together, which is our fourth and final one,

we write the same three words that come to our head when we think about birth and we compare it. She says more so than likely, well, always, after a second. with her. They're far more positive than the art to start. Yeah, they're different. Mm-hmm. That's nice. Even when she left, I felt so good.

Better about it. Yeah, I felt somewhat empowered, but I definitely felt calm and I thought, you know what, I can do this, regardless of what happens. Absolutely, you can. Yeah. 4D scan was nice as well, saw the little baby's face. Can't believe it looks exactly the same as me. Weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life. It does look like you.

It is the exact same nose. I need to know what. they've got down there immediately oh yeah my friend knows guys she saw because she went oh look away now I'm just going to check the um something down that area and then she was like um and I could see her smirk and like you can see can't you she was like no you can you can she went maybe I have just seen yeah I was like fuck I wish I could ask you but no we've got this far now I know you've got this far I feel like there's no going back now no that you could also just know if you wanted to.

I know. I said to her, I'll give you my two names, my boy, your name and a girl name, and then you can get me something personalised. So that's cute then. I've got something. Yeah, because I always see people have,

like, the first picture of the baby is the big jumper with the name. And I feel like that's quite a new thing for people to be so set on the one name. Do you know what I mean? I've read some people's Q&A's when they do stuff like that, and they say they have two things done, a boy and a girl.

And then they just signed at the time. But even one name for the one sex is quite, used to be quite uncommon. You'd have to have a few in the ether. I was telling Zoe about the app that a few people have mentioned to us. It's like Tinder but for baby names. So I'm going to download that with Rich Ty.

I've never heard of that. Well, you both basically swiping your own time on names and then at the end of it you look at your agreed list of names. Alan, do you know the name of that app? No, sorry. I thought you seem to know of stuff like that. Anyway, so there's that. That's the baby update.

I don't think I've got anything else to tell you. Pram, hypnoburthing, 4D scan. That's it. I had a brilliant yoga class at House of Yoga in Hamilton the other day. It was so good. I was still going to my one at reset as well. But I would say that's definitely more hypniburthing yoga. Where she's very much about positive affirmations

and, again, talking you through how wonderful you are. us basically but with Laura she's just had a baby four months ago and it was just proper yoga where she was just more safe with the position of the actual body and I felt amazing and I felt so fucking good after it because I'm stiff I'm really struggling to sleep at the moment as well this week you're maybe on that uncomfortable stage yeah it's happening it's happening how many weeks have you got left if you went on your date 12 I know but This is a period of time, isn't it, where the year goes really quick? No, I know I was going to say that.

Before you know it's Christmas and then you're always saying to your friends, bloody out, it was just Christmas yesterday and you're in February the first. Before you know, it is going to be January, that is true. And then February is a really short month all the time, so then you're like, fuck me. I'm going to be in the edge of my seat every day around that period. I know, I know, I know. So I don't think I've got anything else to update you guys on that one,

on that sense what's next on the list that you need any other things you need to go and see and do well I sent you my list to send to people for the baby shower John Lewis vouchers and mamas and papa's vouchers will do me absolutely fine

yeah I think I'll get lots from that and baby moon I'm sure people want to know a baby moon oh I looked up the meaning of it yeah I was questioning the meaning of baby moon yeah I was just saying that Why is a honeymoon after the wedding,

but people go do a baby moon before the baby? Anyway, I looked up what the word honeymoon actually means. Okay. There's a few meanings here. Yeah, interesting. So you've got, like, the vacation. So a trip taken by a newly married couple to celebrate their marriage. Or you've got the early period of a relationship, you know,

and people, like, they're in the honeymoon stage. And then you've got a pleasant period after the start of something. But what does the honey? And the moon part mean. And the sweetness of a new union. Nice. So the pleasant period after the start of something makes sense because it's the start of your baby journey, isn't it?

Or the sweetness of a new union. But it's before. I know, but your style, the journey's started. Yeah. So I'm not having a baby moon, guys, is the real on end all of that one? What? I'm not going on a baby moon. I'm not going on the typical baby moon.

I'm not going abroad. Doesn't need to be abroad. No, but usually it is. Just whatever holiday you make it though. If you said to someone I'm going on a baby moon, they would suspect you're going abroad 100%. Really? Yeah, I'm going down south to a cabin.

I could just be going down south in a cabin, mate. Yeah, but you just call it what you want to call it. Yeah, okay. I'm going down south in a cabin on my baby moon. I think you say baby moon. Yeah, anyway, yeah. So I'm not fully booked it yet, but I want to go to a place called Kipp and Nook down in Newcastle Way, you said.

How much are you tempted to say? Nip and tuck when you say that? Nip and tuck, yeah. Kip and Nook. Yeah, it's down Newcastleway. Definitely is that way. Looks gorgeous. Guys, buying your own house and flat can be so stressful.

So stressful. And I feel like as adults were just supposed to know all this stuff. Did you know that it's considered one of the most stressful things you can ever do in your life. I can believe that, by the way, all the paperwork, lawyers and all that. It's too much. It's a total minefield. Well, don't worry, I have a solution that will make everything feel easier.

Just let our sponsors, Watermans, handle it all. Well, they pack my boxes too. Not quite, Lizzie. They'll definitely take care of everything else. Perfect. And I really, really desperately want to get into this Mitchelan Star Restaurant that's being top of my list. forever.

You might have heard of it at one, number one restaurant in the whole entire world. That's wild. World, guys. It's in the Lake District and it's got three Michelin Star.

Again, something that's not really something that I want to do. I don't want to tick off Mitch and Star restaurants off my name. Yeah, that's not the prime region you want to go there. No, not at all, but I have heard amazing things.

My friend Rebecca's been twice now for the lunch menu and it's very incredible and the reviews are insane. So I gave them a quick call the day because basically I'd booked to go in May this year. But I had to book it the year before. It was just when they announced actually the award. Right. I was like, right, I need to book it now before everyone else does. Six-month waiting list. Bear in mind, I want to potentially go on this baby moon in like a couple of weeks. I rang them for a Tuesday dinner reservation. There was absolutely one there. Woman was

lovely on the phone. And she was like, yeah, so it's a three and a half dining experience, 15 courses, I was like, gulp, £250 per head. I was like, okay. I went, oh well, okay, well I'll have to have a think about it, and you know, basically I need to look at staying in around that way, because Kipp and Nook is not

near it. She said, oh, we've got rooms. I was like, perfect, how much when we've got a package deal? It's like, amazing, how much? Seven grand at Grain Eagle? No, not far off. She's like, it's £850 pounds for our smallest room and you get the meal each

and the room I was like woo wow bargain mate bargain let me so yeah that's rain checking on that one because I think I've got more important things to do but if you see me there mind your fucking business so

undecided if we see you ignore this part of the pod try I can just put it to back your mind put you out Marie edit the pod oh I think fair thoughts I'd be spending my baby, my baby shout vouchers, like, yeah, fuck off. Can we actually get a voucher to like, district and sense? God, that makes more sense.

Give the mother something. You don't need to ask me twice, I think, absolutely. That's good. So, yeah. Look, I think if there's ever a time to do it, it's going to be before baby. Well, that's what I did think. And I said to on the phone, do you cater to for, you know, pregnancy. And she was like, yeah, we cater to for everything.

I thought, well, of course she was. You're free much in his direction. I know, but it's good to check. But yeah. Because after baby, you're never going to be like, yay, let's go spend $500 a meal. You've got a kid to pay for? That's what, Zoe, I thought the exact same thing.

My priorities are going to completely change. You think I'm going to get out to that restaurant anytime soon, probably not. I think you should go for it. I've given you permission. Bad influence. Do you know what it is, Zoe? I actually don't have that disposable income at the moment to just do something like that. I know.

It's definitely. We could dress it up for something. We're a business expense. We're old chappen. Yeah. And honestly, Rich is just one of those people. If I told him something, I actually tried to book

the Rich in Star Restaurant here in Glasgow for my birthday last year. Yeah. Cale Bruch. And that was around $2.80 per person and he shat himself like,

cancel that book in now. Well, it'd be hard to cancel because we were going to email. Yeah, I did, yeah, because we were going to Amsterdam. Yeah. But he was like, no chance. I won't enjoy that.

A bit of flipping smoke salmon with some froth on top. I was like, yeah, it's so true to me, bet. I know. It's definitely not my thing. I don't think that sort of menu. But it's more the experience. And I have heard the one in the late district is really cool. Yeah.

Really, really, really cool. It's not stuffy. It's not like that. We went to, did we speak about this in the pod? I think we did mention we were going up to Glen Eagles when we were talking about the price and the Christmas for you to film. I did that on the bonus. I think. Well we went up to Glen Eagles to film some content with Jess for Alwick Bartlett.

Would that be out by now or not? It's coming. The first one's coming this week actually. Exciting. So keep an ice-peeled. We were up in Glen Eagles filming with Stevie McLaughlin, who is the chef of Mitchinsaw restaurant Andrew Furley. Andrew Fairley? Fairly. My accent says that weird. I can't do it the same, can we? Anyway, it was such a good day once we were rock around that place, I've fucking owned it. We actually were. It was more so... It was more because we were having to go to different parts.

You see in the videos when they came out. But we wanted to do some filming like outside and then at the cozy fire and all that. So we were just cutting about with like her wee light and her tripod and the jackets were coming on and off and all that. Spinning in the flipping turtire thing. Like laughing and everything. Meanwhile you've got like everyone walking in with our Louis Vuitton cases

and all that to check in and we're all like... Pulling up in there big... light. You were running up the fucking corridor doing those jumps kink your feet together and all that. It was chaos. Anyway, that was such a fun day actually

but it was long, weren't it? Yeah, it was very dull. I thought if I'm tired, you must feel even tired. But we got to meet all the chefs in the kitchen and how nice were they all? There was such a lovely, lovely team of young aspiring chefs and

I just thought to one of them, your partners, if you've got one, are lucky, lucky people. I know, by the because they all had some skills like I've never seen before. Well, that's a too much on the star. So it is, yeah. Restaurant Andrew Fairlight and that's not that sort of cold and clinical, like, scary way either. No.

It's very nicely decorated, sort of like bookly couches and chairs. It's small. Like quite casual dining even though the food's not. And edgy paintings on the wall. Yeah, like artwork and nice wee decor on the table. Yeah. I was quite pleasantly surprised by the kind of visual of that. But even the menu, like, it was obviously,

we didn't eat from the menu, like we weren't eating there, but we had a good look at it and kind of picked what we would pick if we were there. And it wasn't, like, scarily fancy either. It was just really nice, but it was really nice options. Yeah. So maybe we'll go there one day. We'll try on our best to try and get in the door, but no look. I asked him a million times why he still hadn't invited us and we'd been there for four hours. He wouldn't.

He doesn't need to. You can come into the kitchen when you come in. I was like, whatever, Stevie. We'll see you there. He's an amazing guy, by the way. Flipping love him so much. Yeah, he's plenty of work with. He's very, like, dry and...

So he loves him. He's got a Popper-Glas region accent. Yeah, he's just a good Scottish man, I think. That was a fun day out with Quim Management and JGF, wasn't it? That was a lovely experience. But we are terrible at documenting it together. Oh, no. We are.

I mean, it's not about me, but we should document it together just for the mems. Yeah, we should. The only thing exciting happening in my life this weekend is it's my grand's birthday. So all the family are going to my grands for the night on Saturday. It's your dad's mum, right? My dad's mum. It's an 86, but we're just having a wee celebration. And my wee sister's in London right now. So I'm flying her up, personally on my private jet. So you are.

No, I text her and I was like, do you want to come home for the night to come to my grand. All the family are going. I thought she was going to be like, no, fuck off, because she loves being away. Yeah. But she was like, yeah, if you want, I'll have a look at Pricey's not. And I was like, I'll get you a flight up or a train, whatever you want. I'll get it for you and you can come up for the night. And I'll get you from the airport or whatever. And no one will know until we walk into Grands.

And we'll be like, surprise. And probably nobody cares. But we're doing that list because we're quite excited about. But like her, well, our dad and her mom don't know. That she's coming. And Amanda, her mom just. to clarify, we'll be buzzing. Because she'll be missing

her wee girl, do you know what I mean? Yeah, when was the last time she saw her then? A few weeks ago. Um, I think about six weeks ago. Yeah, but she's only 19, so that's quite a long time. Yeah, I know it is. To be away from home.

My mum would be buzzing to see me every single day. No, I know. So, we're doing that. This became, which is quite fun. But my dad texts me last night saying, like, how you get into Grands and I thought he's going to ask me for a lift. Yeah, I can't do that, Dad, sorry.

Because people, everyone will be drinking, but I'm just not bothered, I'll just drive and then I've got the events and all that, you know what I mean? I could just let a drink and then I thought if I'm taking Ruby and her boyfriend know she's coming so he'll come and see her obviously and come with us but I thought oh no I'm going to need to take my dad

and Amanda and Daniel over and then be like oh I forgot something yeah but anyway it's resolved it's resolved it's only Amanda's going to drive them over and then when Daniel gets unsettled she'll take Daniel home and my dad just was making sure he could get a lift home with me

yeah so it's fine not to worry but I'm quite excited about that I'm not even told Adam that she's coming up either have you know no keep it to myself it's been difficult so I want to tell everyone but I thought that'd be quite cute and it means you can come home and see her man for a couple nights as well you know I think he's going to go down and see her in a couple of weeks as well and then she'll be home for Christmas and then she'll go back try to get a job is she no look with the job yet well she's been going to loads of like dancing classes and stuff which is good because you're obviously mingling of people. I don't know about additions

if there's really been many recently but she is working down there waitressing at a hotel or at a uni or something like that that her uncle lives. Yeah because she's not actually in central London is she in the room? She's in Oxford. That's right. Lovely around there. Yeah. She's been going into London probably

about once a week though and doing like some dance classes and workshops and things. Networking. Yeah. But I keep saying that you need to post on social media. Yeah, she does. Like you need to be posting this stuff. Is that problem though with this generation It's not cool to post on there anymore. But she's got a separate page.

She has posted a couple things on like months ago. But I'm like, see when you're at these classes, sit your phone down, literally get 15 minutes of you're dancing and stick it up as a video. Yeah. You need to do that on TikTok. That's how people see you as well, aren't they? Exactly.

I'm fed up telling her. Fid up telling her. But we're just not cool big sisters, Zoe. I really thought I'd be the cool big sister. So did that. Sometimes I think it's there. And in other times, like, I'll see her and I'm like, you look so much color of me. Yeah.

I do think my sister really looks up to me, though. She definitely admires me in her own way, but if I comment on her photo on Instagram, that's deleted. Is it? Loser. Yeah, but she doesn't mind leaving all these random freaks on her. Why did she delete it? But have you got all these emojis and all that? that?

No. You're quite passionate in your comments? No. To be fair, I maybe did say something like, you didn't know like that yesterday. No, I would more imagine you've been like, my gorgeous, stunning little sister, can't wait to see you next time you've grown into a wonderful...

But that's what everybody's writing on her post. Really? They are so obsessed with each other. Is that our past, her a pap? No, strangers. Strangers. Slay Queen, absolutely gorgeous. Oh my God, Zara, you look unbelievable.

babes and I said to her when I see her like have you got many friends she's like no she's literally got one friend one friend that she's with all the time and like who all these people were so I don't know I speak to on Snapchat or Instagram Snapchat scares me yeah why are we still using Snapchat? Listen we were the same when we were kids but things weren't the same when we were kids as they are now I know no I know it's a lot more terrifying but yeah she just and she absolutely pops the fuck off on Instagram as well she looks hot as hell

so I'm like you're all 16 yeah like we're attracted the wrong crowd did I tell you when I went to London with her we went to wireless didn't I and I said she sent that in the pod but the moment I met her at Houston train station she had these like low rise

juicy cature style tracksuit bottoms where it had some encrusted thing on the cross the bomb she's got a humongous bum as well she gets it from my mother definitely not her father's side and she basically was walking out she had tan she's got like really dark black hair fake eyelashes everyone was staring at her all the old pervy men

and I was like the big big beast of a sister behind like she's not fucking looking at most of the stuff and she's just walking like completely oblivious to it and I was jaw on the floor like I cannot believe this is my sis I always think she's older than she's I know she does she does come across that way to be fair

Because I always put her on age bracket with Ruby, but she's actually aged bracket with my wee brother Ben. Yeah, that's right. Because he's 16 in April. Yep. She's just turned six. No, sorry, she's 16 in December. Yeah.

Shit. And I texted. I was like, oh, Zava. What do you want for your birthday or Christmas? And she was like, I'm not to be funny. No, High Queen. Not to be funny, but I don't want anything. I'm like, I genuinely wanted so much stuff when I was a teenager.

But this is the exact same thing. I would have sent you a list of 20 things She wants for nothing Nothing We've just got a spit or swallow Dropped in by Admin Allen Adam and Alan just went to the shop and thought

This looks interesting It is the Limited Edition Oreo Oro Coca Cola Zero We love a coat zero I'm not heard of this Is this a thing?

Yeah Do you know if you tap the top of a can Before you open it It won't fizz up I just wonder why People tap the nails on it That's why I thought they were just trying to be annoying

You know that they The face creams. Oh like ASMR? You want the glass of the can? Oh, I'm going to have a can. Right? Please. You're going to have to open another one because you weren't like my lips.

No. Don't say anything until I've tried it. Interesting. I can't decide if I like that. It's got quite anything. When you first taste it, I think Nona and it's got a nice after-taste. Definitely can taste the Oreo. I would say it's a similar vibe to like vanilla Coke. Yeah.

I like that. Is it a little bit like Dr Peppery? No. It's got a taste though and it's not Dr Pepper but it's something else. I know what it is. Fandelion and Burdock? No, cream soda. Cream soda.

Remember that? I used to like that. It is that. It's like a Coke float. Do you remember? Yeah, when there's ice cream in it. Is that not how it was originally meant to be served? Coke.

I like that. That's strangely addictive, guys. I like that as well. I would recommend you try that. Do you know, I won't say I love these thin cans of Coke. So da. They're chic. Sheik-a-deek.

They're like those thin fags that you used to smoke. Well, I did. Vogue. What a comparison. No, I like that a lot. Phizzy cookie-flavored. Spit or swallow. I'm swallowing that. I'm swallowing. There's no spitting here.

Oh no, dirty bitch. No spitting over here, absolutely not. Do you want to give us, if you got a wee list you were wanting to share of places people can get some Christmas party outfits? Oh, yeah, I do. I forgot about that. So, party outfits. We saw some lovely places, apart from the obvious,

ASOS, Zara, H&M. Yeah. Odd Muse Lovely Which by the way If you're in and around Edinburgh Harvey next to Odd Muse So they do

So you can maybe go in and see if you've got what you want Try it on Yes Because if not it's just online unless you need a pop-up in London or shut up in it Do you know what else talking about Harvey Nix Other places to definitely all check out We might have said this last year But Fraser's

People forget about how good Some of the brands are upstairs to the section where there's like Jacques Mew and all that up there. Yeah. There's so many other more contemporary style brands up there. Never fully dressed. Pretty lavish is in there. Yeah.

There's loads of places like that. Especially if you're looking for she just like a slip dress or maybe like a Sequin Maxi or something. They always do stuff like that. Well mine was more when I was looking for bridesmaid's dress because you remember. Yeah. This is amazing.

Nothing looked good on me, to be fair, but that's a me problem. But yeah. It was a very good shop to come in. Mercy, M-U-R-C-I I got my burgundy, velvety, like, barrow dress. E-line sort of shape. Yeah. Everyone sort of, like, loved it last year.

Yeah. I got it off deep up, to be fair. I've got a really nice one out this year. It's my voice, okay. And it's so nice. It's just... With the gems on it? Yeah, black.

We're like, we... Like, not a lot of gems, just spaced out all over it. It's a bit... Coloured stone in. really nice definitely check them out wonder doll oh yeah they do some nice bits lovely house of CB I feel like we're going away from the milk the milkmaid style a little bit more this year and it's going more towards victorian corsets and maxies like tight maxis again yes a bit of lace going on I really love house of CB when I see it on people but it's not it's not boob friendly it's very booby brand

They do do larger cups, though, don't they? I know, but it's still accentuating the breasts. It's not going to be booby. Yeah, it's not going to cover them. No, you are correct there. Yeah. Mistress Rocks, which is the sister brand of House of CB, they do a bit more affordable stuff.

But what I will say about House of CB, Mistress Rocks, because I am someone that does this exact same thing, is it's so expensive. People seem to wear them sort of once or twice and then pop them on Vinted or Deepop. Yeah. And you can get them for half the price. Meshki

is really nice but also I've been because I'm having targeted ads at the moment I'm noticing so much comment for maternity so if anyone's got a big bump

I've been noticing that Meschki and Club L have bump friendly categories on their website so that's really helpful it shows you the stretchy of materials the knitted dresses and stuff and last but not at least

I actually went into River Island yesterday late before and they had some really good stuff I was like what the hell you do sometimes find the odd piece from there there was loads I was walking in like wow really nice

so it's expensive like they had some so much beautiful knitwear but it was all like 69 quid for like a jump front of I thought Jesus and they've kind of cut back on the embellishments and the tragicness that they seem to always stick onto a perfectly decent item I like the wee R-I

Yeah Yeah The big Diamante I know that's sort of like Their USP and stuff But They had really nice tailoring in there

Lots of nice fur Loads of glitter Sequin stuff Party outfits Feathers It's really nice And a few plain bits And barbers

But the material with River Island I think is always good quality Yeah I do think When it comes to weddings Or Party outfits You can kind of go back

to those sort of like old classics that used to shop in years ago because they kind of stay in that sort of like slightly tacky but you kind of want that with your patting. True. Do you know what I mean? A bit of glitz. Yeah. Yeah.

I actually need to get myself to the shops because I don't have an outfit to wear for events. You do. What are your trousers that you like? Yeah, but I don't have any top to wear so hopefully my outfit was absolutely sleigh, sleigh, sleigh, the night away. It will be slay, sleigh, sleigh.

I always say this, guys, if you have a sleigh face makeup of slay hair but to be fair I'd say face more over hair and assessorise a nice wee golden tan your little fucking class

slay slay slay the air away yeah snatched makeup I think you can wear a piece of shit and you'd look good to be honest I think when it's like through our events I've got a lot in my mind because I'm like if we're going to be sitting down

I want to feel comfy sitting down. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? It's like, where to see if you're going a night out, I'm kind of like, oh, we're standing all nights as long as it's fine. So it's more just thinking that way for me, but anyway. Anyway, I've got a secret to tell you all over on Patreon. So if you want to join us over there, a big, big secret.

And I'm also going to tell you another thing as well about... What the fuck's your secret, Dan, I know? Yeah, I'll tell you over on Patreon. And also, I want to tell you something about... a pram, the pram situation that I forgot to mention but I'll mention it on Patreon Guys, what the hell

if it's a secret I'm thinking of That's cheeky from you I don't know you're going to do that I'll tell the biggies Well I hope that was a nice We catch-up episode for you all Yes And by the way it's December

Happy Christmas Happy fucking Christmas And we're staying with you for a longer period of time We're not going anywhere just yet As long as this stays in the very You're fine. I want to it. Let's get it.

No, but then they have to stop. You probably wouldn't be bothered about that. Anyway, love you. Bye, guys.