Life with Nat - EP131: Scraping the Barrel #22 - Ice creams and laughs

Episode Date: July 6, 2025

Nat and Marc are as busy as ever, but back on the mics to continue the ice cream saga, disect a bit of their Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown podcast recording experience, and get right to the left of the right vs left handedness. Enjoy! x Full ep of Pappy's with Nat featuring can be found here - https://shows.acast.com/pappysflatshare/episodes/ep-1522-pappys-flatshare-slamdown-with-natalie-cassidy-leah Please subscribe, follow, and leave a review. xxx You can find us in all places here; ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podfollow.com/lifewithnat/view⁠⁠⁠⁠ INSTA: @natcass1 We're also on Facebook too: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/lifewithnatpod⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, I sort of feel like I need an ice cream van. Welcome to Life with Nat everybody, it's Scrape in the Barrel and we've got some big news. It's scraping the barrel and we've got some big news. It's massive actually. Do you want to tell us all about the experience? What's happened? Hang on a second. I've literally just got off a train. I've, so actually I'm going to talk about

what I've just been doing. Okay. Okay. So I've had, I don't know, 10 hours at work. Midwives do 13 hours, but just saying. Yeah, but two hour commute, okay. Just saying. Right. I mean, I'm fully aware.

No, there's a lot of people who do a lot of hours. Okay. Well, I'm tired. I've finished work, run up a hill, run down the hill, got to Wimbledon station. What did Kate Bush think about that? I got, you lost me, go on. Running up that hill? Carry on. Well I don't know if I've got the time. So I've got to Wimbledon station,

yeah, then I've got a train from Wimbledon to Vauxhall. Can I ask, sorry to interrupt, because I look like, when you're at Wimbledonledon, do you ever think of the Wambles? No. Because when you sound at Wimbledon station, I go, Wimbledon, Wimbledon. I think of the song. Have you ever done that? No. Carry on.

It's all before my time really, that series. You're showing your age here. So yeah, then I get to Vauxhall. Then I have to go down to the tube and I get the tube to Tottenham Hale. Then from Tottenham Hale, I then get the train. Welcome to the TfL. Introducing. Yep. You're in a very strange mood.

Really odd mood, actually, today. Anyway, I then have to drive from the station to home and whatever. Then I got home and I did the bins. Oh, he's a hero. Then I had to move the paddling pool and sort that out. I did that, actually first thing this morning, I was emptying the paddling pool. So I went to scourge your grass, which it has done. And I put the sprinkler on the grass.

Right, I am going to interrupt and say something. And then put the bins out. No, this isn't, it's really important. Took out the bin from the kitchen. It's very important. Made some ice cubes. I'm itching to death. Please don't talk about the itching, it's so boring.

But it's why I can't go outside. You have not spoken about anything else. Anything else. Because if you were in the pain I was in, you would understand. Right. You've got no empathy for my bites. And I'm telling you now, I am frightened to go outside. Frightened to put the bin out. And I love putting a binge out. Anyway, so I've just got in. Can we do a podcast for Monday? Yeah, yeah, of course, because it's the first night that I've actually got home and it was still daylight. I know, yeah, we do a podcast. Lovely. Anyhow, back to the ice cream.

Well, go back to the ice cream. You love doing the pod. You were very excited about doing the pod. Interesting. This alter ego you have about I don't like the pod. It's not an alter ego. It is. Naomi got it bang on. I don't like it. I'm the last resort. Atmospheric music in Cornwall. Atmospheric sounds of the sea. Life with Mark coming next. And we're going to go into that later because Mark has actually been on his first live pod, but we're going to save it for you.

He doesn't like doing pods apparently, he's in the pub overshadowing me. We'll talk about it later. I want to talk about ice cream. Firstly- Well, it is exciting. We touched on it in the last episode. We did? Last Scrope in the Barrel episode, I should say.

There's a few questions before that. I just want to get out. OK. There's one from Kim here. Question for Mark. Re-ice cream. Does he have a designated ice cream drawer in the freezer? I do. Have you got my responses? Not this. Oh, okay. I do that so it saves me speaking.

Nope. Do you have a designated drawer? No, we've got a industrial sized freezer in the garage, which we put out our batch cooked food in and my ice creams. Oh, and your 25 fillets of plates we've never eaten. Skate. Skate, sorry. We're never eating them, so how would I know?

I went out for lunch today. Right. This is going to be a long episode. The guy came over and he said, I said, I think I'm going to just have the steak. I love the steak. I was with lovely Emma, actually, our editor. I think we'll have a steak.

He said, I just got to tell you about a special that we've got an offer. It's a skate wing with brown butter and capers. And it comes with a choco bond. And you said that's strange because that's exactly the meal we've got several versions of in the freezer. No, but Emma went brilliantly because she edits this. We ain't going to go for the skate are we? Because you've got a hundred of them in the freezer.

So it was, it was good. And let me guess the way to just looked at you blankly thinking what on earth are they talking about? Correct. And we went for the rib eye. Good. It was good. So we were speaking about Maxi Bonds and Choco Bonds. The reason we have to keep this going guys

because I am so thankful for the content that you share. We've had Heather from Australia and she sent us a picture here of a deep fried viennetta. It was a special treat in her restaurant that she likes to go to, Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Center. What do you think about that? I bet it's lovely. Deep fried viennetta. I bet it's really good. I can imagine it actually.

Listen, how do we keep the ice cream from melting? I don't know. In a deep fat fryer? I don't know. It must be so hot you must go bang! What is the dessert that's like that that we've had? I know. What is it though? It's um, This is another screaming out now. This is a, What is the thing I'm thinking of? It's an ice cream ball. Yes. With pastry around it. What is that?

It's a, This is, this is like my specialist subject. I don't even know. It's kind of an ice cream for a tartar. I know, I know. An ice cream, a fried ice cream ball type thing. What, what is it called? I mean, I should know this. 0778 2019, we need some help. We really need some help.

In more ways than one. Then I get a message everybody. You'll love this. It's a screenshot of Mark's notifications. And as you'll know from the last pod, and if you haven't listened, go back and please subscribe every little helps. New forest ice cream who house, what's it called? The pre-production you put into these is second to none. I mean, really, what's it called? I have no interest in the ice cream, babe.

I can't lie. I'm not going to sit here and go, it's amazing. Has this subject matter come as a surprise tonight? Just out of interest? No. No. I've had a really busy day actually. Mark's actually looking it up. He's having a go at me and he is looking it up as we speak. It's unbelievable stuff.

We spoke about this in the last episode. What's it called Mark? Obviously it's called the Maxi Choc from New Forest Ice Cream. And Tim sent me a video, we spoke about this, James from Moors Valley Railway, they sent me the video, they stocked them at Moors Valley Park. So we put a shout out on the pod, last scraping. And Mark said, if anyone knows anyone from New Forest Ice Cream get in touch. He sent me a notification. New Forest Ice Cream started following you. He screenshotted that to me. This is the shit

that I have to put up with. If someone follows at camera mark on Instagram, it's quite exciting because not many people do. So I was excited firstly to have a new follower. And what's more, it was New Forest Ice Cream. And then what happened? Tell us the story. I then got a lovely message from Frankie from New Forest Ice Cream. He said, and what's great about this

is it's like a bit of background going on that I was unaware of. Hi Mark, the team at Moors Valley brackets Lisa, that's my friend Tim's wife, not Tim's self, but this is going to get very confusing. There's two Tim's. Told me that you mentioned us. I'd say there's three Tim's because Tiny Tim is quite a famous Tim. Funnily enough, bit of geeky knowledge for those railway enthusiasts out there, but the railway we're talking about had a steam engine called Tiny Tim. Really?

How interesting. Only about four people are going to like the fact that I just mentioned that. I'd say four, I have to say four stretching it. No, I know for people oh so it will be for people okay I love a podcast and listen to the episode fancy and ice cream tasting episode of New Forest ice cream PS the maxi choc is as yummy as it looks thanks Frankie so I thought right this is brilliant I mean you have got your wish the The power of the pod. Yes. And then...

The power of the pod. And then... Read out the message you got to the WhatsApp. Hi Nat and Mark. My name's Frankie and I work for New Forest Ice Cream, marketing and design part of the company. I've messaged Mark on Insta but thought a WhatsApp might be easier. We'd love to team up and let you guys taste test. Hertfordshire is a little away from us but we might have a way to get to you. Love the podcast. I mean it's all happening very quickly. So the problem

we've got though, we've got a supplier for the ice cream. We have. But they're in a new forest. It's a way away. My brother lives there. Yeah but that doesn't help us. No. Dave, what's Dave gonna do? Well he could store it in the freezer for the next time we visit. Possibly. But that doesn't help for pod content really. So the day after the podcast was released, listener Tim Southby sent me a message saying, my new eight seat mini coach is fitted with one of these. It's a fridge and freezer. It goes down to minus 22. I mean, why does it need to go to minus 22 minus 22 degrees C?

Yeah. I've transport and I just need the ice cream for you now. Want me to make some inqu I just need the ice cream for you now. Want me to make some inquiries with New Forest Ice Cream? Maybe a shout out on the pod could land you with some freebies. Happy to ask. So Tim has very kindly said, well I can transport the ice creams. Correct.

So now I'm thinking hang on a minute I've got the lovely Frankie who's messaged me from New Forest ice cream you have She's willing to supply some. Yep, but the problem is we haven't got the transport logistics in place. We have now But then Tim's come forward so obviously I got you to message Frankie get a phone number and I phoned Frankie and then what did she say this is fucking riveting well she said I'm phoning Tim. We need to phone Tim and ask him. I can't cope anymore with this. Alright, okay. Good evening, Heathside Travel. Tim speaking. Timbo, Timmy Timmy, Timothy Timbo, Tim Tim Tim. Oh, good evening, Natalie.

How are you? Oh, listen. Listen, we have just done approximately 14 and a half minutes about getting these bloody ice creams over. I mean, I know it's good content, but we need to just sort it out. So it's scraping the barrel and you're ringing me and scraping beyond the barrel. Right. Okey dokey. Absolutely. You have promised what are we going to, firstly, we want to know, we had a little conversation why the freezer goes to minus 22. Because it does. Looking at it and the instructions,

it's one of these sort of like aftermarket fridges that have been put in our latest eight seat mini coach. And, uh, yeah, you'll either use it as a fridge or a freezer. So yeah, it goes down to minus 22. Fabulous. I mean, that's quite an extreme temperature, isn't it? Mine is quite extreme. Yeah. I'm a sexy, yes, it is quite extreme. That's right.

Um, no, it is quite extreme. Um, goodness knows what you're going to put in there. You can't fit a body in there, but minus 22. I mean, what's going to go off? I mean, minus 20. I think ice cream is minus 17, I think. So no, it won't be an issue. Are you available to come over? I can't listen to this man talk about how much he wants one of these ice creams anymore. I'm offering you stick them in the van, coach, sorry, mini coach, mini coach, mini coach, stick them in the mini coach, sorry Tim, stick them in, drive down, we do a pod together, we get a nice takeaway, we have a nice drink. You stay over, drive home in the morning.

If you're happy with that, I mean, I don't mind, I mean, driving is my living. So I don't mind coming down, dropping them and saying hello and going. But yeah, if you want to make an evening of it, that would be great. Thank you. It'd be rude not to Tim. We'll get an engine out on the garden railway. Oh yeah. I think what every listener needs to know is that you do know Tim personally,

because Tim is a fan of the pod. He's a pod fan. He's one of my faves. He messages about lots of different things. Yes. And we have a personal connection, which I think is quite important. I think that's been mentioned one or two times actually. Well, you know, just reiterating.

Yes. Well, I mean, I think, I mean, the thing you say one or two times in the last week, I think I'll be mentioned twice and all the rest of it, which is marvelous. And then here we are scraping beyond the barrel and you're ringing me. So, but yeah, no, we'll get the old mini coach sorted and yeah, we'll have a chat with New Friesd Ice Creams and Mark and the wonderful Lisa at Mourns Valley Rail is obviously started the ball rolling to get things moving, which is great of her. So, but yeah, no, we'll definitely fill it up and no, I can come up anytime. Not a problem.

That is fantastic. I can't wait for ice cream videos. It's quite an extreme. I mean, this is turned into quite an epic, hasn't it? It's not just a case of phoning up a company and saying, can you send me some ice creams? But obviously the logistics involved are quite complicated. Yes, got to stay refrigerated. Yes. But we know just the man. Yeah. Well, when listen to the pod and you said, oh, how do you get it? Can anyone else anyone come in this one?

I thought, hang on a minute. I'm sure there's a setting on this that puts it to a freezer. And, yeah, that's it. I just randomly listen. I think I was listening to the pod at about two o'clock in the morning. I think it was, on my way back from Heathrow thinking I'm gonna have to check this at the minute when I get back. This is interesting. And yeah, there you go.

It's fantastic. And also, if you do go to Heathrow for things, we're only around the corner. Considering the amount you drive. It's not far. I've got to say, Tim has... Oh Natalie, she's got her phone on again. My severe apologies. Unbelievable. No, it... It's a good job this isn't live again.

My apologies, my apologies. How many years in broadcasting? Phones on loud. Terrible. Off you go. I was going to say that it was only a couple of weeks ago that Tim text me and said, I'm actually driving past your way. I could pop in and say hello.

And I was at Ascot. Fine. I think I was at Ascot. Ah, fine. I think I was at Ascot. No, no, you were, no, you were at Epsom for the Derby. I forgot you were at Epsom. Fair enough. Four weeks ago. So we do have those conversations. Oh yeah. Well, Tim, you've got my personal number now. So the next time you're popping by, you can message me because if I'm at home, you can welcome to have a cup of tea.

Oh, well, that's very kind of you. Thank you very much. I'll make sure I haven't got triaxle 14 meter great big bastard of a coach to put on your driveway. I'll make sure it's something small. No, no, yeah. Try not to come up your driveway. Well, you know, nevermind. And I think also, Tim, you should you should make a little plug actually for your business. Absolutely.

Really? Of course. Well, we are a multi award winning Heathside Travel of Fern Down in Dorset offering 8, 19, 36, 42, 55 and ice cream transport services across the country. Fantastic. And even Frankie from New Forest Ice Cream, when I was messaging her, she sent me an email a few days ago and said, I'm going to get in contact with Tim. She, she even has used Tim's services. Yes. Heathside travel for a travel to, what was it? Ascot, wasn't it? Brilliant.

Ascot. Yeah. Yeah. No, one of our many corporate clients for Ascot, but obviously at the time I can't digress who we look after, I just agree with you and said that's nice. Oh absolutely, absolutely. I don't want to get into any legal arguments over this maxi choc. So Tim I'm going to leave it there. I'm going to say thank you so much. Oh you're very welcome. No, anytime. No and yeah we'll get it sorted. We'll get it sorted, we'll fix a date and I look forward to the next pod when you're actually in the room. Oh that'd be amazing. No thank you very much guys. You look after yourselves and, we'll fix a date and I look forward to the next pod when you're actually in the room. Oh, that'd be amazing. Thank you very much guys. You look after yourselves and yeah,

we'll speak very soon. We'll get these maxi chops up to you and yeah, we'll have a bit of a laugh and yeah, we can do a pod. No worries. Fantastic. Happy driving. Thank you very much. You take care guys. Take care Tim. See you soon. Bye bye bye. Bye. Oh, he's such a lovely bloke.

Lovely bloke. He reminds me of Mr. Tumble. You're not the first person to have said that. He just brings me such joy. Do you know who was it? Seriously? Go on. You are not going to believe who was in the Royal Box today. Go on. At Wimbledon. I would like to know a bit about the Royal Box at Wimbledon. Do you know what? I'm gonna show you. Go on. May I have a second? Show me, show me.

Show me, show me. I hope everyone's good by the way. And you've had a lovely weekend. Have a little scroll around this, but I ask you to investigate seats 12 and 11. Interesting. No, they were not. They were indeed. In the Royal Box on the Centre Court, Wednesday the 2nd of July, just so you know, Mr Tumble and Aunt Polly were there. That is one person though. Really?

Justin Fletcher plays Aunt Polly doesn't he? I don't know him well enough. I think you'll find that Justin Fletcher is Aunt Polly and Mr. Tumble. I might be wrong. Text in. 0778 20 1919. Send me a voice note on WhatsApp or a message

or Life With Nat Facebook. I'm gonna plug that again. It's getting some really good comments and stuff, but it is quite little. On Facebook, there is a Life with Nat podcast page and I post stuff on there and some people really enjoy using Facebook. So I just want you to know, please follow me. It's quite little at the moment and I would like to grow it. So that'd be lovely. Please. It's quite little at the moment and I would like to grow it so that would be lovely. Please. Now I'm going to move on to a couple of things we've got which I think are very funny.

We had a message from Zoe and Zoe thank you. Zoe's from Leicester and she said, just put my big girl pants on and decided to message. Good for you girl. Loving the pod. Started listening earlier this year and have just caught up. Love, love, love all the family pods, most of all Scraping the Barrel. I'm trying to figure out if Mark has mastered the art of comedy genius timing with some comments or is it completely oblivious? I've just finished listening to Scraping the Barrel 21 and I thought I'd share a picture of

what male holiday footwear shouldn't be. Oh, oh my god. It's a it's a it's a brogue with a sock. You could just show me the photo. It's a brogue with a sock. What's wrong with that? That is awful. It's quite a strong look. That I bet he's smart. Chino shorts. That is the you know, in

what's that comedy, the ghosts. Yeah. The politicians. Yes. That is what he'd be wearing yes were you on holiday in Fortia Ventura with someone like Nigel Farage, Kirstama you can't say that about Kirstama I'm just saying that the ghost bloke was a politician yeah he also was half dressed he died in an awful sex accident. Did he? Yeah.

Did he? Yeah, which is never, it's all sort of eluded around it, but yes, it's a politician that died. Oh, is that why he's wearing suspenders? He's not in suspenders. I think. No, there you go. It's about, yeah, it's very clever.

Very, very clever. No, there you go. It's about, yeah, it's very clever. Very, very clever. Anyway, Zoe, you sent me that Zoe. And I'm going to say that Mark said this. Nope, not oblivious. I've just mastered it. Yeah, I was taking the mic in.

Don't throw this shit together, Zoe. Yeah, emphasis on the shit. First time I've sworn on this podcast can I just say? Feel bad about that now, I shouldn't do that. My mum hates that. Do you know how many people tell me, oh yeah we like the podcast, it's a shame that list is swear all the time. I'm not sure about the language. Oh well. I mean it is unnecessary. Don't listen to it if you don't like it. Okay. No problem. I'm not going to change the way I speak. What was I saying during Glastonbury when the rap artists were on?

Why do they have to swear? I mean, seriously. It's just what they do. No, that is their way. That's an artistic performance. Anyway, I'm not talking about Glastonbury and what people decide to say. It's a slippery slope that. Geez.

For what it's worth, I quite like the backing singers at Rod had but he did unbelievable I've got to say that that Zoe talking about comedy timing and stuff. That's a hundred percent a fluke. There's no skill there. Okay. No, I'm just having a conversation with you like I ordinarily would do. All right then. I mean, it is absolutely typical that the first night I could actually have got in and sat and watched a telly with you or had an evening with you or spoken to you. You are very good at these. Why are you just putting a face in?

Because I'm trying to find a clip from Pappies. Right. Now Pappy's is a podcast. If you haven't listened to it, me and Mark starring it. Starring it would be a strong word from my perspective. I have to say. I think I said a sentence. But you were in it.

Yeah. Do you know what? Again, another good example. Oh, we've got a free evening tonight. Oh, what should we do? We've got a whole night where we can do whatever we want. Let's go and record a podcast. That's really out of order actually because we had a really nice time. I had a lovely time.

Yeah. And you piped up. I was doing a live podcast. Yeah. And you got the biggest laugh. I did not. Well, close to it. Nonsense. And everyone was like, oh, that was so funny.

Oh, that was brilliant. I thought he said fucking four words. Your comedy timing is good. It's not. Well, what the problem is. I mean, I'm not even trying to be funny. I know. I'm trying to find it. And unfortunately, I haven't got it on here.

Good timing. I have got some great clips from it that I shall play you. There was a couple of games that I think that you'll enjoy listening to, but if you want to hear Mark, you have got to go to the papi's pod and have a listen. It was out last Wednesday and I'm going to put a link at the bottom of this episode. You want to be careful about those sort of promises. Will you? Yes.

Will you? Yes! Will you really? Emma's going to do it for me, of course she's. Emma produces it. Oh, Emma's... Okay, well, Emma will do it. Emma will do it. No doubt about it.

But if you were doing it, highly unlike... Why are you talking like I don't do things? Because... I don't know. I really think about what you're saying now. Oh, okay. Go on. No, no, no.

No, please. Play the clip. Expand. No, expand. Go on. No, no, no. No, please. Play the clip. No, expand. Expand on? Why I'm not going to do something and fulfill a task that I say I'm going to do. Okay. Did you walk to the garden tonight? Did I say I was going to? Yes. No, I didn't. You did. Nope. No, no. OK. Not today. OK.

If I say I'm going to do something, I do it with gusto. OK. This is the sort of thing to expect from Pappy's. We had a lovely night. We've spoken about it a little bit on a pod before this, another scraping, but it is out and I would love you to listen to it. The boys are sensational. They're really brilliant and we had a really good time. They play games. So one of the games, it's sort of noises. So this is mine. That's noises.

We'll call it. You've got to get that considered to be a game or a nuisance because I'd verge of a nuisance, you have to guess the noises I'm, what I'm doing. So it's a, I did it every night. It's a person doing an action. What was it babe? I can't remember now. I didn't have to do it.

I've got no idea. You were drinking ale. Yes. Yeah. Talking to people. I was about five pints in by this. I've got no idea what you were doing. You're just making a load of noise.

Let's play the setup of the game. Hang on. Let's listen to Matthew. They'll like this. First round is called Unexpected Item in the Bugging Area. Now I'd like you to imagine I've bugged a hotel room and our players are going to recreate the sounds that our bugging device has picked up using only noises, no words, right? I'd like each player to communicate a person, an activity and a thing that I will give them.

It's up to their teammate to guess who that person is, what they're doing and with what thing they have with them. Sounds only. Somebody is already invested in the game. That's what I like to hear. That's what it was. Thank goodness somebody who knows what they're talking about just said that. Thank goodness. So I'm going to play my turn. These are my noises. I'm not going to tell

you what they are. 07788 2019 19. I want you to guess the noises. I'm basically nicking Papi's game by doing this, but then you need to go and listen to it to find out what they are. Have you asked them about this? Yeah, they love it. They're all into it. Here we go. Oh! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! That was really, really good by the way. That was genuinely. Answers on a postcard. I mean that was quite an uncomfortable thing to listen to. Well. Just saying. That was quite an uncomfortable thing to listen to. Well. Just saying. Thought it was a game. Okay.

Have you got the bit where I piped up? No. It's gonna be there. No, I've just said to you. They just can't be bothered. You got too many links. Yeah, yeah. Don't show me 12 different links.

Emma has sent me lots of things and I haven't got yours. Well, I'm not surprised because Emma's probably sent you the bits that are funny. No, she's missed a trick. No, she hasn't. A little trick. Not really. But they can go and listen to your bit.

No, I found it for real, everybody. Here we go. Here we go. What's new to live with? Well, I would like to lie. Please do. But I can't, unfortunately. I'm in the shit because my fiance's here. Right.

Oh, right. So I'm a fucking nightmare to live with. Where's fiance? Fiance? He's probably upstairs. He's left. He's left. Oh, he's over there.

There's Mark. Oh, there you are. There you are, fiance. Hello, Mark. You all right? I'm good. How are you? Yeah, good. What's Nat like to live with? Honestly, we've not got the time. Wow. This is unbelievable.

This is great. Available if you want me to come on another time. I don't want to be in the spotlight. That was very good. Natalie, I just said one thing. Oh, you got a big laugh. Yeah, but they've had one thing. Oh, you got a big laugh. Yeah, but they've had quite a warm up. You got a big laugh.

By three very funny people. Four and five, actually. Well, okay. You don't even just come on. This was my favourite part of the evening. And I promise you, it just came into my head, but I'm proud of it. You know I like comedy and I do get nervous about it, but I really felt I was in my element and I loved it.

And I came out with this. Previously sharing the toothbrushes. There were four toothbrushes. You got through two. Ross got through one. And he was on his second toothbrush. Sorry, is this a court case or the fucking 1% club? I don't think there's anything better than people laughing at you.

You'll be the best place to answer that. I'm just saying. Okay, good. I don't think there is a better feeling. Because to me laughter is the best thing in the world. The best thing. It's a shame really, being with somebody who's funny. You're funny to me.

Funny looking maybe, yeah, but nothing else really. Dry as a bone really. All right. In a good way. Dry I mean. All right. Yep. Brilliant.

Well, we've sorted out the ice creams. Yes. We've had a chat about Pappy's because it's a highlight. It's lovely. You should watch it. It was good. Have you watched any tennis? Not as much as I've hoped darling so far.

When does this go out? Monday. Monday. So when this comes out, it's the start of the second week. I see. I'm really busy at work and stuff. Well, I'm not even there on Monday today no no but the rest of the time you have been and I've really been wanting to you know to come and visit this week no no I haven't got any

time no okay charming also you said like it's easy to visit. It's like cutting your arm off to get a ticket. Okay. It was nice though when you came with my mum. Oh I loved it. It was a beautiful day. I'll never forget that actually. It's a really good memory for me. So good you don't want to do it again? No I'd really like to do it again. Okay. Hi Nat, it's Vicky. Laughing my head off, just been driving to do my food shop and you read out my message about being a lefty but doing everything with my right and I didn't realize

upon reflection how confusing my message was. Yeah, I can write with my right hand but like I said, if anyone, if it's legible that's anyone's game, you know, if they can read it yeah but yeah all I do with my left hand is right I'm a I work in a nursing general practice and and I can't even do bloods with my left hand you know when I was learning that everyone was like you are a weirdo anyway love the pod take care also, I live near the New Forest and yeah, New Forest Ice Creams. I'm going to find the Maxi Bon and I'll take a pic and send it. Take care. Bye. Well, thanks for clearing that up. All I can do with my left hand is write. I mean, that

as a sentence is brilliant. And I've got to be honest, I kind of get it. If I'm not really listening to it, it's a bit like Shakespeare. Yeah, you listen to Shakespeare. It's got a lovely, lovely tone about it. With Shakespeare, someone gave me a bit of advice. I wish I told you when I was at school. But they said with Shakespeare, the trick is don't really listen to it and you'll understand what's being said. Well, I think that message is similar.

I haven't really listened to it. And I kind of get the gist. I find it a bit rude. But when I listen to it, literally listen to it, I'm still as confused now. Second message, but I get it. We'll wait for the third. I get it.

I've got a question. Thank you for listening. Regarding left hands and right hands. Yeah. Okay. There we go. So your handwriting. What's your stronger hand? My right. For everything? I use my right hand for literally everything. Okay. What's wrong with my handwriting darling? Nothing. But have you ever out of interest tried writing with your right hand?

Yes. When I broke my arm at school, again, obviously a very prolific memory because I haven't got much of it left. Your arm or your memory? Memory. Right. But I remember doing a hundred word spelling test, sponsored spell, and I loved my spelling and I was so desperate and I said, please let me do it. And I did it all in my right hand. Would you say that it was as legible as your left?

Yeah. I've got a suspicion that you might not be left handed. Maybe. A little bit like the other people that have said that they can do, well, basically said they're right-handed but they write with their left hand, which I think is the gist of the message we just had. Maybe a more succinct way of putting it.

Maybe. Shall I do some practice with the right hand, see how it goes? I've got a good book. It's got like little dotted little sort of dashes where the letters go. You know, you write the letters. Yes. And the line at the top, the line at the bottom.

And you have to sort of write it so it doesn't go over the top line and the bottom line. Joni uses them. Don't know if you've seen them. You could give that a go. She doesn't use them now. She used them about five years ago. Well, yeah. So we've got some spare.

Yeah, they're whiteboard ones as well. So you can keep practicing. Well, you could have a go, couldn't you've got some spare. Yeah they're white bald ones as well so you can keep practicing. Well you could have a go couldn't you? Wipe clean books they're called. That's good. Should I have a go? Yes. I'll post a picture. Okay. Fantastic. Sounds like a good good idea. You might be pleasantly surprised. You might suddenly think hang on a, this handwriting looks quite good. Yeah. You might, I mean, who knows? No, I'm, I agree. I mean, I think my left hand is, my writing is good.

When I can be bothered, my writing is nice. It's artistic. Is it? Yeah. I think so. Okay. That's a good question. When did you last write something? I write every day in my diary. Do you? Yes. Dear diary. No, no, I just... We did a podcast late at night. No, no. I mean my planner. I always write in my planner.

Tonight, before doing this. You wrote? I wrote. Do podcast with Mark. It's getting late now guys. No, we do need to go though because I really just want to see you because you're back doing the tennis tomorrow. The moment this is over and you hit that record button to turn it off. Yes.

I'm going to bed. I know. Afraid. Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. Tomorrow morning. Yeah. What am I doing before I leave for work?

We've got a nice morning planned. Very exciting morning. Got Joanie's sports day. It's going to be good. Hopefully I can make an hour of it but you've hopefully can make some more. Are you gonna do the egg and spoon race? If I can. Okay what hand will you hold for spooning? Natalie gets out both hands. Left. As a left hand right okay. You sure about that? Yes. Again. No definitely. Left. Okay. It's definitely the strongest of the

two. I'll give you a tip. A little bit of blue tack under the egg. A little bit of blue tack. Great big cheater. A bit of blue tack. You can't go wrong. And even better, for safety's sake. A hard boiled egg, a bit heavier. Works a treat. Just saying. Not that I've ever done that. On that note, I think we should leave it there. I'm absolutely disgusted by your cheating antics in sports day. I've never I've never done that I'm just providing a suggestion. Maybe we can pick this up another time. What the egg? You won't need to because it's been attached by a bit of blu-tack to the spoon so it's not gonna fall off. No need to pick it up. I give up everybody. Have a lovely week and I'll talk to you on Thursday.

I love you. Are you talking to me or the listeners? Both. Very good. I love you too. See you everybody. Bye.