Life with Nat - EP116: Nat's Nieces #18

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

The Nieces are back in the room on a lovely sunny day chatting food, faux pas & f***ing infuriating fellow train passengers. All the best! xx Please subscribe, follow, and leave a review. xxx You can find us in all places here; ⁠⁠https://podfollow.com/lifewithnat/view⁠⁠ INSTA: @natcass1 A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: ⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠ SHOW INFO: Life with Nat - it’s me! Natalie Cassidy and I’ll be chatting away to family, friends and most importantly YOU. I want to pick people's brains on the subjects that I care about- whether that’s where all the odd socks go, weight and food or kids on phones. Each week I will be letting you into my life as i chat about my week, share my thoughts on the mundane happenings as well as the serious. I have grown up in the public eye and have never changed because of it. Life with Nat is the podcast for proper people. Come join the community. ♥️ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Like she said today! I said today. And you made it. I can't hear myself. Great. It's not a bad thing. Sorry guys. You alright?

Hello. Ready to rumble? Ready to thing. Sorry guys. You all right? Hello. Hello. Ready to rumble? Ready to go. Oh no, what's happening? Mind you. Oh no.

Oh my God, she's broken the chair. Oh no, she's smashing the She's done it. The battery. Be careful, now. Oh, that was like a, um. I mean, it's a really strange place. What's it called?

That program, the laughing one. That's it, rub your boobs and let the mic. The laughing one? Marty, for boobs. The laughing one. What's it called? That program, the laughing one. That's it, rub your boobs and lift the mic. The laughing one? Marty, for boobs. The laughing one. What's it called? The laughing one. What about that Maria keeps calling the pod, Life is Nat?

No, that's strange, strange stuff. I can't hear anything. What do you mean? She's doing that with her... Wondering if it's her ears. Hello? Sounds very peculiar. Hello, hello. Sounds good to me. That's better. So what happened? What went wrong? I just turned the

volume down a bit. Perfect. It's very loud though now. Oh wow. Baby's being fed and watered. Up a little bit. Oh my god. Hello. There you go. Perfect. All good? Yep. Ready to ramble? Ready to ramble. I don't know what you mean by you use lentil curry. Oh, she's obsessed. What did you put in that? So you did? Lentil, spinach, coconut milk, a bit of turmeric. Any tomatoes? No.

Okay. I think I'm allergic to turmeric. Oh, really? So when I've made... Not allergic, intolerant. That's the one. So when I've made a homemade curry from scratch, what are the things?

Cardamom. Them, that's it. Cardamom pods. Yeah, them, I have chundered twice. Pretty satisfying, isn't it? Cardamom pods. Cardamom, cardamom. Cardamom.

Am I saying it right? No. Cardamom. If you say the same word over I think it sounds really weird. I was saying something the other day and I was like, that is so weird. I've got to go back to you doing the cooking. What about when Jack said, oh, yeah, you're so good at the cooking. You could do like a range, Elia's kitchen.

And we were like, no, there's already an Elia's kitchen. And he's like, yeah, yeah, that's how a boy does that. No, I don't think that would work. I think. What's another word for a kitchen? Elia's koojina. Yeah, yeah, that's how a boy does that. No, I don't think that would work. Thanks. What's another word for a kitchen? Elia's Cogina. He does always say that I'd love to have a restaurant and call it Elia's. And the more I think about it, that's a good name.

Let's do it. I'm just going to Elia's. Oh, that's cute. That's good, innit? Shall we do it? Maybe one day, guys. I tell you what, I'd love a restaurant. And we could all just cook random nights and people don't know what they're gonna get.

Like what we've just done this week. Well, let's talk about that. Oh, same dish, different internet stations. You need to do it again with all three in it, please. On Thursday, when this goes out a week, week's time. Yeah, okay. We're singing the sun's got his hat on, it'd probably be minus five.

It'll be, I'm singing in the room. Can I just say something though? Are you proud of the temperature of the room? I was going to say, why? Because I've been prepping. So as minute I open my eyes, I'm coming in, I'm opening both windows, keeping everything closed and shutting the door. Yeah, it's keeping it cool. Good for you.

And us. And us. Eyebrows look nice. They're lovely. You look like the guy out of... Hi, mate. What's his name? The Schmitz.

Is that the guy? I am Schmitz. What is it? Just left my tint on. Oh, that bit needs... I need to clean that. What is it, Natalie? The program.

Schmitz. What is it? Schitt's Creek. Oh, that's the one. Schmitz. What is wrong with you at the moment? I think I'm del clean that. What is it Natalie? The program? The Schmitz? What is it? Schitt's Creek? Oh that's the one. Schmitz. What is wrong with you at the moment? I think I'm delirious. The Schmitz. Have you been watching Schitt's Creek? I have started to watch it. Fun isn't it? Very funny. It is good. But the dad with the eyebrows. Oh yeah brilliant. That's what she looks like. I've left my tint on. Alright guys. I know but it's just a little bit all over the place. The tuna. Tuna. Tuna. over the place. The tuna. Tuna.

Tuna. Tuna stick. Tuna. Yeah, so it was my thing that me and Jack actually were having in Cyprus a few years ago for lunch. So when we got home, I started making it. And then I inspired Maria to make hers. Yeah, because I bought the tuna.

Oh, that's why I put it on Instagram because it was nine pound. Club card four pound fifty. I thought I'd have some of that. Yeah, next day. Ten pound. So not even nine pound. Ten pound. But what's wrong? Do they just make stuff up as they go along? I think Tesco do love to just throw in some wild cards. But I should have bought more. And go, how many mugs are going to buy that today? Oh, by the way, before you go today, I had the, I was just about to say the fisherman round, the fish van. Yes.

And I bought some king prawns, frozen, amazing, beautiful. And I've got skate wings, big skate wings. So I'd like you to take some. Oh, perfect, thank you. I love the skate wing. Because you have to bite in bulk. They're hard to cook. They're hard to cook.

They're hard to cook. I'll have the prawns, not the skate. Didn't we do that in lockdown, skate wings? And they are hard to cook. Yeah, I'm not interested. Oh, I am. I love them. You can oven bake them.

Yeah, but... If you fry them all with capers and butter. I want to give your mum a couple today. How much did you buy? There's like 20 in a pack. It's like 65 quid on skate. I felt sorry for the geezer. Oh is that it? What for 10 steaks? Probably more, but I don't know. I don't know, but not is that it? But if you were to buy that from a fishery.

Exactly, no, but even if you were to buy two, what I'm saying, Tesco. Yeah I think that's good. So he does tuna, he does the tuna steaks, but you have to buy quite a lot, like we used to do in lockdown with the butcher. Yeah, but if we were to do it and split it up. Absolutely. And the old meat man. How many prawns knocking about?

Quite a lot. I love a good prawn. Yeah, no, I'm gonna give them to you, but you've got to get home quick. But all frozen. Because it's the hottest day of the year and I want to give you the old frozen stuff to take home. Yeah, you can leave that for me for another day.

So if I bought the tuna at £4.50 yes could I have frozen that? Yes Maria. You can freeze pretty much anything. I know but I did just think is that okay? Is that yeah no it's fine. As long as you whack it straight in the freezer the minute you've bought it and then defrost it within the first three months. Do you know what we've just done because we're having people over this weekend we've cleared out the freezer and stuff in the garage. Three months in the freezer? Apparently so.

Three months. Oh wow. Three years. Well, we have just... There was a whole lasagna that I think was about a year old. From the baby? Oh no. Even older. Even older. I bet it's fine. No. Well, it's not now. But why?

Because it's left. And it's your lasagna. And it looks like a good one. I bet it's fine. No, well it's not now. But why? And it's your lasagna. And it looks like a good one. I would have eaten it. Oh, it's risky. Have you still got it? Garage freezer. I love it. I think we should do that.

I'll take a chance. Really? Yeah. Well it's defrosting in the garage. A whole lot. So I went in there this morning and Jack has just left it in the garage. I thought we were going to have mice. So I've put it in a plastic box because I can't have it in the house

because I think flies and... I'm sorry what are you doing why are you defrosting it? For the party if you don't mind. No! We're eating that on Sunday. Just throw the whole thing in the bin. No I want to keep my LaCruzée dish thank you. Oh! Is it defrosted now? No. Defrosted? It's cooked! It's ready to eat! No, it's going, it's gone, but that's bad, isn't it?

I reckon maybe even two years. I'm going to do something. I'm going to go home. I'm going to find the oldest thing I can in the fridge. I can do that. Freezer. I can easily do that. Yeah, let's do it.

Competition. I also chucked out some sea bass from October. Real shame. That would have been alright. I've got some, I mean that scared me. No, no listen, you know what I'm like, but I think things are frozen. Your dad cooks stuff. Yeah.

And it's fine. No, I know. And he goes over the three months at times. But there's certain things I don't mind, but fish, that scares me a lot. I'm really, really upset about a whole lasagna that is your lasagna. I'm gutted. I would have that. I can go and get it. I'm really upset about a whole lasagna that is your lasagna. I'm gutted I would have that. I can go and get it. I'm alright thanks. That's a shame, it's a real waste. Come on. We freeze to save. I'm devastated. But I think that's, there

we go, that's another thing isn't it? You freeze to save. The amount of stuff I put in the freezer. And don't use. You forget, you don't use it. Me and Mark are very good when he does the chillies, the curries, we're using them all. Yeah, see I'm not good. When in lockdown I was so good because I was at home. Of course. And it was in the morning. You take it out. Do you know what? Now I'm at home more with the baby, I should be more on it. I just need to go for everything we've got, which isn't a lot now because we've just thrown it all away.

So I've got a beef Wellingtonington from Christmas from the farm. Yep absolutely fine. Which is extortionate. Yep. I don't even think you're meant to freeze it but we froze it and that needs to be defrosted and eaten. Who's eating a beef wellington? That's what I mean.

It's sunny. Why don't you do it on Easter when you're shopping or when up the creek because she can defrost its creek. Because I got home at 10 o'clock at night and it wouldn't have been defrosted for the next day. Although you did say you were going to maybe do it. We had that conversation. I think you could do it at Christmas. It'll be fine. What? Saving it for what, a year?

No, I'll do it. When it's a bit of a miserable Sunday, you invite me over. I love your job. It's banging, isn't it? Really good. See what it's like. I've got some ground breaking news for you guys. I've got really itchy ear it? Really good. See what it's like. I've got some groundbreaking news for you guys. I've got really itchy ear hole, hold on.

Charming. I'm about to spoil the moment. Oh, go on. I listened to a pod today. I know, but that's a liberty. Well done, Elves. Thanks. I know she would be fuming.

Well done, well done. So rude. A pod or a particular pod? Oh. hang on. No, put that down. What are you doing? Hello? Oh, we could do a pod like this if you like. I'm trying to find the congratulations.

Hello? Hello? Turn up the noise. Oh. No. Useless. Sorry. Put it back in. Hello? Hello? So unorganised. Turn off your... Turn off... Oh. No. Useless.

Sorry. Congratulations. No, I just was interested to hear, because you know what, it's like talking to Dom. I've gone through it all with him, but I like to know his side of it. And? Yeah, no, it was good. It was excellent. It did well.

Very good. Yeah, it was a really good pod. It got me through my morning run, actually. Well done for running twice already this week. I feel quite jealous that you haven't run for ages and now you've run twice in a row. Do your legs not hurt? I'm a little bit achy now.

It's good that. I'll be doing it again tomorrow. But this is what I do. And then I just stop. I did it last time. do you remember? I do two on the bounce and then that was it. Stopped. See if she can make three on the bounce. Tomorrow and then I can't run at the weekend and then I'll try again on Monday. I think three times a week is perfect. Is it?

Yeah. Only 5k though. Certainly more than I'm doing. It's only 5k. That's amazing. 5k three times a week. It's only 5k though. It's only 5k. That's amazing. Yeah. 5k three times a week? Yeah. It's really good. No, it's good. I enjoy it. I do like it.

And yeah, if Dom can do a marathon, I can do 5k, surely. And you should do a marathon. Sign up with him. I'm going to, maybe not, it scares me. It's the mental thing with me. I'll just be crying the whole way around. We need to do a half marathon in October. That's what I'd like to do, yeah.

Prepare yourself. And then smash a marathon out in April. That's what I'd like to do. Prepare yourself and then smash a marathon out in April. Yeah, all right, we'll see. All the best. I'll be on my own at the back. If Dom tones it down, you two could, I think, run together. Maybe. I would like, once he can start running again, I said we'll try and do a few runs together and see how it goes. Good idea. But he's very fast. Yeah but I think he needs to. But I'm slow at the moment when I was running in Covid my fastest 5k was just under half hour. Yes mad to me. So it is doable but crazy stuff. Yeah I

don't know if I'd get to that now but yeah it's nice. I feel like I've achieved something. That's good. Considering I'm not doing anything else. I do feel like it brightens your mood. Yeah, it does set you up for the day. You're not so much sort of Eeyore-ish. I'm more Tigger-y today, aren't I? Yes. No, I think it's very good for you. Keep running, fucking hell. Just keep running, just keep, what's that?

Oh, no. Oh, she's smudged all her thing. Have I? Everywhere. I just feel like it could stay in the skin. Let me just pop off for a moment. You carry on. Okay Maybe wash it off You're such a div

Who leaves it on for like hours as well? Bizarre. Does that not stain the skin? Yes, it will. It's like hair dye, isn't it? That's what I'm thinking because mine's awful. It doesn't stain does it? Like with hair dye You shouldn't leave it on for too long. No. It makes all, it dries my scalp out. It's not good. I mean, you say that, I've had my eyebrows tattooed and they didn't take, so.

I'm holding my hand over my mouth in disgust. Top up? What's happening? Yeah, no, I need to get in touch with her. It's not her fault. I just think my skin's a bit funny. It's really odd. Anything I do is odd. Yeah. Nothing really takes. Things go wrong. It just doesn't really work.

I'd best off left. Just leave, leave me alone. Like a fossil. That's so weird. But yeah, so we're talking about the tuna, wasn't we? So yeah, so interesting. Same sort of recipe. Different interpretations. And just I like to see the way people cook things in the presentation. Yeah. So your attitude, I feel, was in between of Elia's and mine. Well, interestingly, I put button mushrooms.

Oh. I really fancy mushrooms. I get that sometimes. I did onion, button mushrooms, aubergine, courgette, tin tomatoes, balsamic vinegar with pomegranate molasses in it. See I couldn't find the pomegranate molasses. Well Eliza found the balsamic with pomegranate in it. Where was that? Sainsbury? No, Tesco's.

Where? Not in your one. No, I was looking and then he was like, I'm sure sure I got it in there. I'm asking the guys, they're looking at me, they're like, we don't know what that is. Oh, they look fantastic. It's beautiful. They look nice. Yeah, thank you.

I love it. My eyebrows tinted. Yeah, well, you're talking about presentation. It's a Tuesday night. I'm not bothered. No, sorry. I don't mean presentation as in displaying it on the plate. I mean, the ratatouille, even the way we've cooked it, all very different. Did you like mine? Because mine had a very dark tone to it. Mine was very dark.

I burnt it to fuck. I burnt it. I was up here doing my DBS check. Lovely lady phoned me at half six. You know, I had that call at half six. Still here at 7.40, pictures of passports, driving licenses, da da da, and I'd left it on the hob, thank goodness only on a five, but with the lid on.

Oh on a five, you're five. I was alright, no it wasn't too bad and I went down there, my hob's not like your hob, but I went down there and I scraped it all, got the burnt bits off and actually it was fine. It gave it some sort of good flavour. The pomegranate molasses makes it dark and yours would be the... I put a bit of balsamic in. Yeah.

No, the pomegranate does. It was very nice but you know what I did? But you did use tinned tomatoes. No. You just used fresh. But you should use tinned tomatoes. Any recipe is tinned. No.

I don't want to do it. Oh, don't do it then. But I feel it was very sludgy. Mine was lovely. I did my courgettes and my aubergines in circles. Yes. Really for you. I did mine in circles. Cube. Quarters. Yeah. Oh no just circles. Mine were cubes and quarters. Yeah. No mine were just thin circles. Okay. Do you know why? I'll tell you why. Because in my head, the vision I was thinking, you know in Ratatouille, when you see his Ratatouille. Yeah, but that isn't really a Ratatouille. But there are. But it is. The film Rat is Ratatouille. He's making Ratatouille.

No, but this is, you can have a Ratatouille more like baked. That's right up my street. You can have it chopped. There's sort of quite a few variations. I know, but I like that. The ratatouille in which I know, and in my head, is the M&S one. The microwaveable one. No, I've never seen it. Okay. Anyway, we should make it for each other, because we couldn't do the taste test. It was just visually.

But you know what I was really, really annoyed at myself with? Forgot the Greek yoghurt, didn't I? Oh wow. And I even texted you and said, where's the Greek yoghurt? And I've got the biggest pot of yoghurt now in the fridge. Oh and the Greek yogurt didn't I? Oh wow. And I even texted you and said where's the Greek yogurt? And I've got the biggest pot of yogurt now in the fridge and I forgot it. Oh and the Greek yogurt is good. You have to have it. It's like the glue I would imagine that sticks all together. It's the best bit for me. Did you put lemon on your tuna? No. Oh I did. You can but no. My tuna steaks were lovely, really nice but very thick. So what I found was it was quite hard to go all the way through.

I don't like tuna pink. Mine was too overdone, I was gutted. Mine was I found was it was quite hard to go all the way through. I don't like tuna pink. Mine was too overdone. I was gutted. Mine was just right. Mine was overdone. But I don't see how I could have got around that really. Just on a really low heat, no? No, I don't know. They were just really thick and small. Yeah.

It was okay. I'm not a fan of a tuna steak for me. They're so plain. You could do that with a piece of cod. Yeah. But it's plain, but that's why you have the Greek yoghurt and the ratatouille. I prefer a little bit of monkfish or... But yoghurt with fish, that's a bit weird, isn't it? But it's so good. No, it's good. Yeah, but I would never do that.

And then sometimes I do a Greek salad with it as well. Yeah, so you're going Greek, aren't you, with yours? Well, that's where it was from. Your ratatouille is French, isn't it? Oh it? I know but I had it in sight bro. Yeah fair enough. For lunch. Someone did tell on Instagram that it looked like someone had shit on the plate. Really? No they did. Yeah they did. It looked like poo on a plate. Oh wow, not a problem. Let me see your version hun.. No, it tastes lovely though. And then I whizzed it up for the baby and he loves it.

That's a good idea. But no, sorry Nat, you had Monge too, lovely. I thought about that. Yeah, had some Monge too. But I went to Sparrow's. No additional veg. You do no veg for yours. Well no, because you've got the...

No, I know, but like a little fresh green... Yeah, no, you could do. But sometimes I do the Greek salad. Yeah. Since coming back from holiday, I have overindulged whilst being on holiday. So I've tried to be really healthy for a while and I am feeling good about it. Healthy meals, less sort of potato-ish stuff. It's the weather as well, isn't it? It's so much easier, isn't it, to have a nice salad? This week we've had chicken on the barbecue with salad, new potatoes.

Yeah. Fine beans with garlic. Oh, it's lovely. Tonight I've got sea bass. Nice. And I'm going to do munch too. Nice and fresh. Yeah. I've got the chicken sizzlers tonight with the mango and the coconut. We had that last night. Mango and coconut chicken sizzlers. Where they from, Marxists? These are just Tescos. Oh yeah. They do them everywhere. I've got those with the new potatoes and I don't know, I might do peas. I know that's rather random but I love a pea. Do peas and onions. Maybe. I need to learn how to

use my barbecue. Just sit in there. Just ask me, I'm good at it. What do you want? She did a barbecue, she might as well have cooked just on hot coals. No, you just turned the thing on. Gas. I don't know if I've got gas. Oh yeah, yours is easy. I don't know if I've got gas. Oh I see, yeah you just need to get some. Nice ag in it. It'll be fine. Air, I see. Yeah, you just need to get some gas. It's ag, innit? It'll be fine. Yeah, air fryer now. Anywho, I think that we should do a dish every sort of fortnight the same, the same dinner. Yeah, that we can see what it comes out like. Because I think

that is quite good. Yeah, I love that. I enjoy that. It's a bit like lockdown when we did all our cooking, wasn't it? Yeah, let's do it. I'm up for it. I enjoy that. It's a bit like lockdown when we did all our cooking, aren't it? Yeah, let's do it. I'm up for it. I'm up for it. I'm happy to inspire. You've been busy with the merch,

haven't you Maria? Yeah, we've just done, sorted that out, haven't we? So we're not lying when we say it is on its way. We've doing a basic kind of range. It'd be nice to know what you guys would like. Oh yeah, but that's gonna throw a curve ball. That's fine fine we can take some curveballs but is there anything in particular you'd like to see or anything

yeah you'd in particular we've got obviously some ideas but if there's anything you guys can think of let us know and we'll see what we can do. I'm not saying it will happen immediately but it's just good to understand what people would like to see from it. Would you wear a hoodie or a sweatshirt because I like a hoodie. It's all personal stuff. Obviously it's summer, so we're going to make sure there's enough t-shirts. Yeah. And there'll be some other little bits and bobs.

It's exciting. Yeah. Really exciting. So that should be hopefully within the next sort of... Desperate for a trolley token. It's coming. It's on its way. It's good.

Yeah, I'll need one to be fair. Ag. Real ag. So yeah, that'll be handy. Tell you what is ag. That's good. Yeah, I'll need one to be fair. Ag. We'll ag. So yeah, that'll be handy. Tell you what is ag. What's that? When you get the train, not only are all the trains cancelled so we couldn't do this yesterday, so I'm sorry about that.

It's okay. But when you get on, when you're waiting outside of a train or tube. Outside to get on. To get on. Yeah. And you're kind of first or second within that queue mm-hmm which ends up being a bit of a bundle a group of people mm-hmm you're obviously kind and polite and letting people off of where

you've got to let them off of us you can't get on that's what bamboozles me but as they're getting off the people behind me are trying to get onto the train what's the rush so I could have I really really could have gone so I look at it from the other way because my experience more so is when I'm trying to get off yeah fucking tube yeah we have is packed you've got to get off if you don't let us off there's no room you ain't getting on but they don't let you off yes so they're trying to get and I literally say to people can you let me get off you need to let us get off yeah you can't get there's nowhere else to go mate you just why are you not

letting people off it's mental on Sunday I was trying to get off the tube when I say I mean you can imagine absolutely was packed, rammed, every platform that we stopped at, people couldn't get on. So we've pulled up to whatever stop, I think it was actually Liverpool Street. So, you know, most people were getting off at this point. I've turned, I'm facing the other way, I've seen West Dobbins, so I've turned to face the door. So you can, I've got Amelia, you know, you can clearly see the woman behind me when I tell you, I thought she was trying to steal from me because she was arched over me. I went, what are you doing? I said, I'm trying to get, she was trying to get off. But I'm like, wait a second, the doors hadn't

even opened. I thought, oh, was she trying to get in my bag? It was the weirdest thing. But that instant bit of rage, I thought I could knock you out. I was so annoyed. But it is. It's all the same. It's like you say, when you're, say you're standing nearer the door and there's people in between the chairs. I've had people, yeah, like barge me out the way and I'm like, I'm fucking getting off the train. Just give it a second. Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy. Tube life. But yeah, so there's just no patience. Do you remember in Covid and everyone said, oh, we're not going to do this.

No, that's right. We go back to normal. We're not going to get on packed trains and we have, haven't we? It's just, yeah. Yeah. And I just find human behaviour wild. It's so interesting to watch. Well, talking about trains, and obviously what you went through yesterday,

my friend, I'd let her know because she'd had a nightmare with the trains that morning or something. And she said that was 100% of trains for her this week that have been delayed or cancelled. Oh really? It's outrageous. Every single train she's written in, written into them. I don't blame her.

Because you're paying a lot of money. You're paying a lot of money. Every train she's got on and she's worked all week has been delayed or cancelled. But that's not good enough for the price people pay. Do you know what I must say like before when we used to go into the office five days a week and when that train would be cancelled or delayed the anxiety it would give me. Do you know what, I must say like, before, when we used to go into the office five days a week, and when that train would be cancelled or delayed, the anxiety it would give me, and that's the only beauty of having that flexibility of working from home.

It's not ideal sometimes when you've got meetings, but it just relieves that little bit of stress where you think, do you know what, fuck this, I'm not doing it, I'm not going to trek here, there and everywhere, I'm just going to go home and work, there's nothing I can do. But it's so stressful in the mornings. It really is. Well, I was, you know, I hate being late. And yesterday I was going to be 10, 15 minutes late for a place of work. But I let them know the night before I hadn't sorted childcare, blah, blah, blah.

So I had to drop Joni to school to then get the 9.32 which I made just but that traffic on the A414 is nearly half an hour to get to the train station from here in the morning and I won't cut in as you know so I got on the train I got to where I needed to be and a colleague of mine just strolled in at 11 o'clock an hour late. Yes wild. But some people just don't mind it. It's a hard one, isn't it? I guess if it's genuine reasons, it's tough. I know that we don't usually talk about celebrity things, but can we touch on the Traitors line up?

I haven't even seen it. I'm so excited. Get it up, El. I haven't seen it. Alright. Stephen Fry. When's it on? Jonathan Ross. Aye.

When's it on? Sandy. Tamika. Tamika's on it? Ah, she's going to be joked. She can't be a traitor. She's going to do this. Kate Garroway.

Okay. When's it on, please? We don't know yet, but I think it's being filmed because I've already noted Tamika. It is being filmed. At the moment. Yeah that's when we got the line up when they had all turned up. Sorry Nat, is it for a shorter period of time I can imagine?

Richard Osmond. Richard Osmond. Osmond, sorry. Not Donny's brother. No I know, I know who it is but I like him. But I've voice noted Tamika saying I really hope I get to talk to you before but you're amazing and I can't wait but yeah her I really hope I get to talk to you before, but you're amazing and I can't wait.

But yeah, her phone. She's going to be great. Yeah, so good. How long is it on usually? How long are they in there for? A couple of weeks, isn't it? Yeah, I think so. Well, it won't.

It'll be a week, won't it, or something? No, I think it'll be proper. Tom Daley. Sorry, stupid advert. Go on. Tom Daley would be great. It'd be knitting. Or diving.

Alan Carr. Oh, he's such a great guy. I like him. Stupid advert. Go on. Tom Daly would be great. It'd be knitting. Or diving. Alan Carr. Oh, it's such a good line up. Paloma Faith. Yep. She bullied me at school.

Who, Paloma? Yeah, she went to a certain green and was above me. I like her. Yeah, well, we've spoken about it. Oh, really? She has said sorry about that. That is. Yeah. I like her views on co-parenting.

Yeah, she's very good actually, but I don't really like her. No real reason. Claire Bauding. Oh, I love Claire Bauding. Love Claire. Do you remember when... Do you remember when... Does dad like Claire Bauding? Yes. Do you remember when I thought Claire Bauding was...

Oh, here we go. When you was in Strictly? I was quite intoxicated. And I went up to this one and I was like, my dad loves you, you're hilarious. And it was Miranda. You've got such a good memory earlier. And now I remember. It was Miranda and I thought- It was Claire Bauding. I mean, they couldn't be two different people. I don't know what happened, but I was obviously just got so excited

and I was going, oh, she was like, oh, that's lovely. And then I was telling them the next day, dad was like, not a clue who you're talking about. She's great, Claire Balding. She's so good at her job. Nick Mohammed. Yeah, excellent. Who's that?

He is an actor, comedian, brilliant. He's in Ted Lasso. Never watched Ted Lasso. Another great show. Charlotte Church. She'll be good. Cat Burns, I don't know who that is. Charlotte Church. She'll Be Good. Cat Burns. I don't know who that is. now I've got that strange noise in my ear roll. Yeah that's sort of the... David Olusoga. Who's that? Who's David? What's he do? He's a BAFTA winning filmmaker.

Oh wow. Oh my god we haven't touched on... Go. We haven't touched on the best one. Joe Wilkinson. No I can't believe it. Now Joe's gonna be very hard to read. He is going to be unbelievable. Ill the song go. That's what I said. Pack up your shit and go go go go. That's not what you said. You went no no I was doing the tune now. Mark Bonner. Who? Mark Bonner. Line of Duty. Oh yeah. Who's that? The bloke out of Line of Duty. She ain't got a back seat. She's such a dumbass. She just goes oh yeah, oh yeah. Anyway, really excited, can't wait. I want to go on it. It's so exciting. Yeah, buzzing. And I've just finished you last night. Oh. What was up till hotpoth 12? No spoilers. No, no spoilers but I couldn't. you last night. Oh. Oh, it was up to a hot-poth trial. No spoilers. So, no, no spoilers, but I couldn't.

It's so fucking good. My Apple Watch has told me that my week's average of sleep so far has been eight hours and 12 minutes every night. That's fantastic. That's the right for some, isn't it? Yeah, really good. With a baby. I've been going to bed early.

It's been nice. Yeah, it's lovely. I've got real problems with Apple. No, I don't want to hear it. I'm bored. She's texting me yesterday things. I did think that when I said what you're doing, she went, I'm going to the dentist and I need to go to the Apple shop because my phone is giving up on me. I just, I'm like, I can't. She's, what, this storage, that iCloud. I said I don't know and I don't care.

It's so confusing. Well, listen. I've now put no. Thank you. Thank you to everybody who sent us how to get onto the iCloud. We got lots and lots of messages. How? So thank you. I still don't understand.

Oh, alright. And I asked the lady in Apple and she just said, it's all on your phone. I said, I don't know what you're talking about. So I got home yesterday, I've signed up, £8.99 a month for two tea storage and it's taken a, apparently it's going to take 10 hours to update. Perfect. We had a lovely message about, lots of lovely messages about our brother. Yes. Really nice to see that he'd finished and people saying,

oh I've just had one cried about five times, honestly. The marathon videos are gone. It's a lot and it's too emotional. And then they add the music and I'm like nah. It's too, it is too much much especially Stand By Me. Yeah. I've had lots of well wishes, congratulations, lots of tears and one guy who really fancies our brother. Oh that is hilarious. I won't give any names just in case. Read the messages though, can you find it? he said, if he's happy for us to share his name, he can let us know after. He was going to voice note in. He said he was going

to voice note in. Oh. Well, unfortunately, our brother is married, so he's taken. But he said, I think I fancy him. And then said, I feel so starstruck to have got a response. Just catching up on the one year episode, I'll be sending a voice note, which I've literally been meaning to do since the first episode. Love you guys, but your brother a little bit more. Fantastic. So I hope you've enjoyed today's pod. I've got a couple of messages here. I'm going in random because we get so many. Let's see

what this one is. Good morning, that is Caroline from Wellingarden. Ordering from the menu when you get there or looking at the menu before. But to tell you, not only do I look at the menu, sorry I sound really breathless, I'm walking too out of here, it's early. Not only do I order, not only do I look at the menu to know what I'm going to order, I saw a brief clip of your pod on Insta before I listened to it and you said the restaurant you were going to. So not only do I order the restaurants that I'm going to, I went on the restaurant that you was going to

and picked my food what I was going to have there. So yeah. Um, love luck a breeze back in the old days. So, might go to the new one for our silver wedding anniversary which is in July this year. Thanks for that tip. Have a great weekend and keep down what you're doing. Well many congratulations on silver. Silver? Wow. 25? Don't know. Yeah, I believe so. Amazing.

I get that. Yeah, same. Like when you sent the menu, I was like, oh, if I was there, I would have had this. There it is. Yeah. Yeah. Your little imaginary meal. Lots and lots of people said that they look at the menu and that it's actually weird not

to look at the menu, which blows my mind. So I've learned something new. Mad. Madness. Really, really would have thought it would be the other way around. But our listeners look at the menu. Love it. Like-minded people, I suppose.

That's it. I've got a story that we haven't shared. Okay. So, and it was, I was thinking about it because of olive oil and, you know, the price. I bought a big olive oil the other day and it's, and it's annoying because it was on offer was on offer so I bought it massive one but it's in the cupboard, it's aggravating. I also did that with softener, more massive comfort and obviously some... Don't talk to me about comfort. Why?

Can't pour it in can you? Spills everywhere. Oh I haven't tried yet, I forgot about that. The Norse go right. You need to decant. You're a decant. And I also bought, because everyone said about the- did you see my pods? My melted pods. I did.

So I bought more pods. And I bought separate as well. No, like the liquid, not in the pods. Okay. But if I keep the pods in the cardboard box, do you think they will still melt? In this weather they will. So... It's all dependent.

Someone said put them in the fridge. One of our followers said she puts hers in the fridge. Have someone's... Yeah, not in... All room. I'm gonna have to. In glass, not in metal or something. Oooh, okay. Anyway, just don't use pods because they're really bad for your washing machine.

Oh great. They're not great for you. Just use liquid. Right. Carry on. So, we went to see Asha. Bob, Bob. really bad for your washing machine. Oh great. They're not great for you. So just use liquid. Right. Carry on. So we went to see Usher. Bop, bop.

And we thought, oh, let's buy some wine. Yes. So Elia thought, let's buy some wine. Not just some wine, lots of wine. A couple of, oh, you're in and out, you're in and out. I agree. So between a few of us, we got a couple of bottles. Yes. So we had cups, cups with ice, loads of ice,

ice with cups, wine, more ice, it was chaos. So we got handed the bottle, and I was like, we didn't take a photo, which is a real shame. I was like, that is a bottle. Then she's moaning, saying, this can't be a full bottle of wine, you're mugging us off, because of the shape of a bottle. Then she's moaning saying this can't be a full bottle of wine, you're mugging us off

because of the shape of the bottle. It was like, it was not round at all. It was thin and long. So it was like, imagine when you get like the olive. Limoncello? No, but like an olive oil but not as fat as, you know like the filo filo flat. It was just like a flat berrier. Yes.

It's sort of a rectangle bottle isn't it? Yeah. So imagine that but thinner. Like a squash bottle of wine. Like that. Yeah. Yeah. So we were like, oh, it looks like olive oil. That's what made me think of it. So we were trying to carry all the stuff. I was like, oh, it's great because you could just slip it in your pocket. Yeah. And then we, these two guys were next to us behind us. They were like, what is that? We were like, this is the wine maria went but it's brilliant i said this is why they've made it so it's not round so you can hold it under your arm yeah okay which which makes sense because it's sort of flat it was easy i'm getting there there's no lid on it bang under her arm bang wine over this poor guy all over him

no way because because obviously there's no lid. She's literally squashed it under her arm to carry it. Plastic and gone like that, no lid on. And he had like a Prada coat on. And it just went. I went, is this amazing? And it just got through. But she was so excited like, oh this is why they've done it. You can hold it under your arm. Bang. This guy's just covered in white wine. Oh bless him. Yeah, all over his lovely brand new, looked very brand new Prada cake. Oh dear.

Oh my god, it was so funny. Oh no, I'm talking of wines actually. I ordered six bottles of French Blume, which is a non-alcoholic rose sparkling sparkling, fermented green tea, all this really lovely. It looks really good. And I'll try not to drink as much in the week, whatever. So I thought this would be lovely on a nice summer's night. It's in a beautiful bottle, like a wine bottle, Prosecco bottle.

Turns up on the doorstep, in a rectangular box of six wines as you can imagine a square it's soaking wet and I can hear jingle jangle jingle jangle open it two of them are smashed to pieces soaking wet but what do you do about that? Did you contact them? Not yet. Oh she's never gonna do it. Did you send that fluffy piece of shit back? Not yet. That's not news. Not yet, not yet. Nah. All this other stuff.

What, Joanie's James? Yeah. Wow. I just haven't had time since being, I haven't. She's an embarrassment. I'm very good at- Oh, it's already over there, I could have done it for you. I'm very, very good at doing stuff.

Should we talk about Paris? No. We weren't there. I've got a funny story. Oh, you're so mean. Paris? It was amazing. Best weekend. I would like you to take me because my experiences in Paris have not been good.

Same. Okay, I'll take you. But anyway, so, obviously before I go away I have a blow dry, don't I? I wonder what you're going to say, yep. And as we're stepping off the Eurostar, one of my friends goes, Maria, you bought your hairdryer with you? Ha ha, piss off. I was like, I've had my hair done. Obviously, I'm not going to get my hair done, am I? The whole time I'm here, I don't do my hair. I don't need a hairdryer.

No. So anyway, have a lovely day that evening. Sorry, I know what's coming because you sent us a vid.. Well you don't. You don't. That's another step. No way. Go on. This is what I mean. It's fucked up. So I go to have a shower. First of all we were like oh should we shower? Have we showered in the morning? I said no I'm going to have a shower. It's a bit grim innit. it? So I get in the shower, lovely. And as I go to turn the shower off, I turn it too far.

And the one above me, Oh, I did that in Como a hundred times. It's the worst. I was so angry. It's the worst when you don't want to wash your hair. I was scared. I didn't know what to do. So I just, luckily there was a hairdryer in the hotel room

and I just stood, cause I had it clipped up, and I just stood with a hairdryer and just hoped that it would dry and I'll take it out. And it would be alright. Not quite. Anyway, luckily my other friend had straighteners, I managed to sort it out perfect. Okay. Go out that night, have a lovely evening. One of my other friends wanted to go for a drink, for you know, carry on the evening, so me and her tried to find somewhere and we just, we were just got unlucky. We couldn't get in somewhere, there was a lovely evening, one of my other friends wanted to go for a drink, carry on the evening, so me and her tried to find somewhere and we just got unlucky, we couldn't get in somewhere there was a private party, you know, it's just, it's not going your way, so it was like,

fuck this, let's just go home, it's one in the morning. Pull up to the hotel, when I tell you I step out of the taxi and I felt something bang on my head. Oh, that was at nine. I thought someone's thrown something at my head. So I'm looking round. I'm like, who's just thrown something at my head? And then I've touched it. When I tell you, it was the biggest bird shit I've ever seen in my life.

Have you posted the video yet? No I haven't. Excellent. Now that's meant to be lucky. Yes, I know. Well, my friend was rolling, laughing. The cab man was like, is everything okay? Are you okay?

The girl I was sharing the room with was already in bed asleep. I've gone in, I've had to wake her up. I'm like, you need to help me. You need to help me wash this out of my head. You've woken someone up. Yes. Just get in the shower and wash your hair. I'm not washing my hair. You've woken someone up. She is so dramatic. Just get in the shower and wash your hair.

I'm not washing my hair. Then what happens? Everyone listening, Maria doesn't really wash her hair unless she's getting a blow dry. Nor do I. You don't either. No.

Very occasionally. So no, hence why it's so greasy. What I'm saying is people are not going to understand. That's not a normal thing. No, but I'm sure a lot of people with long hair or extensions, it's not easy to just wash your hair. It isn't. And blow dry it.

0778 20 1919. Do you wash and style your own hair? No. With extensions or long hair, very thick. Yeah. I look forward to it. Anyway, it's stunk. The whole room stunk. I washed the top of it over the Yeah. I look forward to it. Anyway, it stunk. The whole room stunk.

I washed the top of it over the sink. My friend's got videos, it is hilarious. Oh, you've got to pop it on and stuff. But yeah, so that was... Was you crying? I was crying, laughing. Oh, what a drama queen. Imagine going away with this one.

Oh, a bit of a mouthful. Fuck my life. I did say why the good... No, I always get that wrong. I did say why the bad things happen to good people. And that's... it's lucky so... Oh yeah, my friend said when she left one of her jobs, the next day a bird shit on her. Really? Interesting.

A bird shit on me? Do you remember in Swanage? All up me, all on my... not in my head. What happened? Just cleaned it off. What happened? Not a lot. I know but can you but it's sliding doors if I just Stepped out the taxi five minutes before or after it would not have happened No, we're talking of a bit of bird shit though. It wasn't Elia. It was a massive shit No, but I get what you know is not even five minutes if you've got It could have happened to your friend Why is it hit me right on the head?

Because it was just meant to. It's the fact that I thought someone had lobbed something at my head. That's how heavy it was. Yes, it was bad. It was warm and it was all warm. Oh! But yeah, other than that, it was great. I'm pleased you had a good time. You deserved it. Thanks.

Sarah Fletcher says, Hi Natalie, just had to send a message after your discussion with your nieces about lasagna. I'm currently in Sorrento and have just eaten lasagna with boiled egg and I absolutely loved it. Whee! Where is Sorrento? Southern Italy. Yeah. I have to say mum prepared a beautiful big lasagna for us for Dom celebrations or post

marathon celebrations. Oh is that now in the freezer? No I took some and it was delicious. Where was mine? Well I'd got home from the marathon, had no dinner so I thought cracking I'll have some of that. I got home from Paris had no dinner. Really lovely.

Lovely. Honestly. Well you should have gone to mum's and got some. Oh James has gone to sleep. I know mum's just said. So today just so you know we are up in the pod room. Aunty Lynnie's downstairs having baby James and Dom's wife Annalise is coming soon with baby Frankie and I've made some really nice lunch hopefully and we're all going to sit in the garden because it's really lovely. So yeah, see ya! No, do you? I can't wait to get in the sun. Bye! It's so, I know, is it amazing though, the weather? Yeah, it's been really lovely. I don't know if anyone else feels this way but I get a real fear in me when it's like

this that I need to appreciate it. Yes, same Elves, I've done nothing all week. Okay. Being in this room, it's lovely while we're here. But I cannot believe I'm wasting. I know, I know it's not wasting. No, I get it. But I'm in it for an hour when I...

But then I'm out there and I'm hot. But it's just a pretty enjoying it. It's hard. Or like I've just had to have my lashes done. That is to me. Yeah, that's why I've done that. Yeah. Someone's like the nail shops today, if they're not dead, why are you in there on this day?

Because people need to get stuff done. I get it. But I would be raging. There are people in offices all day or working on ambulances in hospitals. No, no, I get that. But that's what I'm saying is you don't have that. You have to do that. Yes But when you're on maternity, so when it's you've got maybe a choice you could go a bit later

Yeah, I'm very much when it comes to the heat I really love the idea of it and I'm there for five minutes and I'm bored and I get bit and I just go in the kitchen Hmm. No, but it's not even just in the shade. I'm not saying I want to sit out and sunbathe, it's just enjoying it. But also this just feels a bit weird because our kids are all at school. That's weird. That's nice. I feel like it's summer holidays.

Well it is then. But it's not. No, and it's lovely that we're going to go down now. Well no, and you wouldn't normally be around, you'd be at work. Yeah, and it's also really lovely that they are at school so we can just actually sit down and have a chat for a change. No, yeah, no, it's fantastic. But then I've got to go and get them at free. I mean the day just goes, I don't get it. It does. Honestly you stay at home mums, it's a lot.

Gattie, she classed you as a stay at home mum. No she was talking to the audience. The audience that I listen to. Oh I'm ever so sorry, I was just talking to me and I thought well at the moment I'm on maternity. No but I cannot believe where the day goes. I know. I could get used to it. But I can't. We've also got a bit of planning to do because I think I might get married this year. Oh for fuck's sake.

Yeah no I've erm. Oh so it's not a surprise. Surprise! No I think I might do it. Yeah you say this about everything and you don't do it. Just don't say things. Just do it and then we'll be like wow! And that's what I said.

Yeah and I've already told her what to do. She just says stuff. How to do it. Just don't say things. Just do it and then we'll be like, wow. And that's what I said. I've already told her what to do. She just says stuff. How to do it. Well I'm not going to not tell her, am I? No, tell a million listeners. Someone's put, it was so hot Sunday and they've never seen so many people collapse by the 18 mile point. Well I don't know if you were following any stories on Instagram, but there were a lot of people. It was a really, really tough one. Yeah, but also you said it was like third record, it was recorded as the hottest. The hottest.

Yeah, that's what I read. Wow. It was recorded as the hottest marathon. It was 24 degrees in St. James' Park. I don't think I'd be able to do it. I'd be devastated. I wouldn't do it. So if we were doing the marathon and that was the weather, I'd just cry.

No, you wouldn't because you just would jog and you'd walk and you'd have to enjoy the day. It's the training that is the hard work. I don't think I could do it alone. You could do it. I don't, yeah, I'm sure this, oh, I'm ever so sorry. 2018 was 24.1, but I'm sure they said it was 24, so. Fair enough. We're talking maybe, I don't know what it's called. Can I tell you something else I did this week? Did you join my angel?

Which was really, really quite nerve-racking. Go on. Let me guess. I went to a college nearby, and I went in and I enrolled as a student. I've got a student badge. You can get a student discount. Oh my God, I can. That is so good. What perfect timing. I've got a student discount.

That's amazing. So I'm a student. I've got all my paperwork. I'm getting my laptop sorted and I am embarking on a level three NVQ which is half an A level in health and social care. Why half? Because of the time that I'm doing it in and stuff so I'm starting here. Amazing. But it's really weird and I met some of the teachers and it's really odd and I'm obviously

a mature student. Because you've never done that before. I've never been in a college in my life. That's crazy. And it's going to be really, really fulfilling. Although I'm doing it for television, I feel like I'm really excited about doing it. Really good. Well done.

Yeah. Lovely. It's going to be, honestly, although it's again filmed. You've got to do coursework and stuff. It is coursework. I'll have an exam in January. I hate that. I need to be assessed.

And there will be work that I need to do from home and stuff. So it is going to be interesting. Because it relies on your homework and coursework to give up. And also squeezing it all in. I'd love to know if anyone is, you know, working, got children and you're doing a course of some sort when you squeeze it in because I'm rather nervous about that. Is it a level three did you say? Yeah.

Yeah, I did a level three in childcare. You did you? Whilst on the job. I might need to do a course in something. Anything. You're very talented in many many ways. Thanks. Really? Yes. Okay. Big up. Big up. Bob Bob. Well thank you for listening we are going to go out in the sunshine we're all just looking endlessly out of the window yearning for the sunshine so we're gonna go and enjoy it. I hope you've enjoyed today because it's gonna be 13 degrees on Sunday. All the best. Is it?

Half. Half. How does that happen? I don't get it. Although... Sorry for interrupting off-line. I do need a bit of shit weather next week so I can get the old ironing done. Oh, the selfishness of it. I know but it's piling up. There's a lot to do in this heat the ironing. Agreed. Next week I can bash

it out and then do the old CV as well. All the best. Thank you for listening and I hope you have a really lovely weekend. I will be back on Monday and yeah thanks for listening as always. See you pals. Thanks, love you bye. Bye. Bye.