Life with Nat - EP154: Scraping the Barrel #28 - Salads, Shopping & Sylvia Plath's Husband

Episode Date: September 21, 2025

Nat & Marc are back at the microphones chatting through the politics of food shopping & cooking dinner, the challenges of contacting people all hours of the day (& night), and Marc's still eyeing up that days-old salad in the fridge... Enjoy! xx THE BIG CHRISTMAS LIVE SHOW 7th December ⁠⁠- claphamgrand.com/event/live-with-nat-at-christmas/ The tiny warm-up shows. Tickets available from 11am on the 22nd September 4th Nov - Dixon Studio, Palace Theatre, Southend - https://trafalgartickets.com/palace-theatre-southend/ 6th Nov - Hat Factory, Luton - https://www.culturetrust.com/whats-on 16th Nov - Hawth Studio, The Hawth Theatre, Crawley - https://www.parkwoodtheatres.co.uk/the-hawth/whats-on 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

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Finished? Yep. Because you started them last night. Yes. And then realized we ran out of icing sugar. Yeah. I thought you might have looked for the icing sugar because you were going shopping for ingredients, weren't you, yesterday? I was. Yeah, I think I thought we had a huge bag of icing sugar. Me and Joni had a little baking down a couple of weekends ago. Yeah, that's what it was. But yeah, so finished that tonight. Good.

Free marmalade cakes ready for the weekend. Lucky people, aren't they? Yeah, there's a special event at Barnard's Miniature Railway. 15? You're 15. 15 years old this year. Happy birthday. And because a very, well, a fan of the pod sadly passed away a couple of weeks ago. I know.

Who was a big fan of the marmalade cake. I thought it was nice to do three marmalade cakes so we can all have a slice and have a think about our dear departed friend, Dave. I'm so sorry. It's horrible when you lose somebody. You've had a tough couple of weeks, really, with news and loss and stuff.

Yeah, it's been a funny couple of weeks. You have. You've had a funny couple of weeks. It was two days within 48 hours. It's like two bits of very bad news. Mm-hmm. But still, onwards and upwards And it is lovely you've done those cakes

Everyone will be really chuffed When you get to the railway Yeah, that will be good It's really good Good, try and have a barbecue Yes So people will be laughing on a Monday now Thinking about Saturday

And how bad the weather was Sort of between the hours of 5pm and 6pm It actually looks all right tomorrow I'm not sure But we'll see You'll be all right anyway Fingers crossed, it'll be fun You've got cover, haven't you?

Yeah, be fine Under that bit Yeah, my steam in It's got a roof, which is always good. Well, you can't do the barbecue in Joan. I mean when I'm driving tomorrow. Oh, I thought you meant the barbecue. No, hopefully.

I have my little roof over my head. I thought that you were going to say you were going to do what they used to do with the jacket potatoes, like pop all the burgers in me. Yeah. Do you know what? A jacket potato, you just wrap it in foil. Yeah.

Pop it in the smoke box. I'll never forget the information. You've had one, haven't you? No, I don't think I have. I think you have. No. You pop a jacket. a potato. Do you know what? I might pack one. Have we got any potatoes?

No. Oh, we might have. We might have a couple in there. I'll tell you what we have got. Some lovely tiny baby news. Right. And the baby news, you could put into the tinfoil of a little bit of olive oil. Baby news. Baby new potatoes, little ones. But you could pop their morning tinfoil. I could. But it's a good tip, though. Anyone listening who has got a steam engine, Oh, yeah. Just get a potato, wrap it in foil, pop it in the smoke box, just leave it for maybe, I don't know, two, three hours.

Perfect, then, when you're ready, open the front door, pull it out, a bit of butter. Oh, I'll tell you what, we're going to have bundles of messages about that. Do you know what I'm putting that on what to do? Tomorrow I'll need to buy some potatoes. I'll tell you something, though. We're going to be inundated. Because, you know, oh, there's so many people at their railways this weekend.

There's two people who regularly message me. On my Instagram at camera mark. Yeah. Sorry, at camera underscore mark. Does someone want some more listeners? Followers. Oh yeah, followers. Not particularly, no.

And listeners, I'd like some more listeners. No, so far, I've done 21 posts on Instagram. It's a very small amount. Over about 10 years. Do you know how many I've done? Genuinely. Okay, 300. Posts I'm talking about.

300? I think it's a, hang on. because it is quite interesting the ratio, 601. Okay. 601 posts and over 500,000 followers. Okay, yeah. But I did do a little thing the other day, which didn't help it. I'm stuck at 532,000.

That wasn't me moaning, but I just find it odd how it's just stuck at a number. Well, I suppose for every one person that follows you, someone else goes away. No, that's true. It's exactly true. Probably true. No, no. It's absolutely right. I mean, I wouldn't complain.

No, I'm not complaining. Do you see a lot of people, don't you? With like millions. And I think, have you paid for you? Yeah, but you've got to be posting all the time. Yeah. All the time. I don't.

I don't really. Nope. Although, over the last week, I've posted quite a lot because our live show. Our live show is out for sale. Yeah. We had a brilliant pre-sale day. which was for all the listeners who had the code which went down brilliantly well

and now it's on general sale and I just want to thank everybody I know that I've posted about it and stuff but for people who haven't got Instagram or don't look at Facebook thank you so, so much for buying tickets I know that the 7th of December when I actually think about it

I mean if I wasn't in the show if someone else had a show on that day I'd be going it's a bit close to Christmas I don't know what I'm going to be doing that weekend very very busy time with the children oh what's up what's going on

so I feel blessed that people have booked it yeah but also it's worth mentioning because I know a lot of people have messaged you and said I can't do that day or I'm not in London or whatever it might be but you have explained

haven't you that the idea is yes this one's a Christmas one new for this year started doing the live shows but going forward obviously the plan is you'll do more and more of them absolutely

and there'll be in all sorts of different places I want them all round Ireland Devon Exactly wherever How about

Scotland Watergate Bay and Cornwall It'd be a good one That would be good Yeah Morgan Palf possibly Yeah maybe a padstone

Just a small Sort of Cornish tour St Ives in the open air theatre That would be nice We could talk to Theo We know who runs the theatre That would be great The Minerva, I believe

Yeah, that's right, yeah Yeah, perfect Yeah, Cornish Troy would be super York. We can talk to Jack Stein Yeah I can phone Jack and say Can you sort out of the food?

Perfect So yeah, but But no, in all seriousness We do want I absolutely am going to do more UK dates And to complicate things even further Today,

the pre-Crimbo Warmup shows have been announced Now, I don't know if I'm allowed to say this or not. I'm interested because I'm confused as to what they are. Okay. I was a bit confused, right? You were?

No, I was. Because everybody knows I'm a people's person. Mark's just pouring a drink. Hang on a minute. You can't be a brittle water filter. It is true, actually. And I'm so pleased you bought that new one. We did need one.

Now, the pre-Crimbo warm-up shows are shows that I'm going to be doing before the main event on the 7th of December in Clapham. Why didn't you tell us before you may shout and holler? Because that's not what you do. You see, the big show is the show that everybody wants to come to. And then, because I've never, ever done a theatre show of the pod, You need to go into a smaller space and work it out. So these next shows that I'm going to say are work-in-progress shows.

They're not a lot of money to come to, but you're not getting a full show. You will see me going, oh, should we do that bit? That don't work. Oh, it will be messy. Is it a little bit like when we went and saw that Ricky Jervais thing in St. Albans? It's a work-in-progress. Prior to his main thing. It's exactly that.

Oh, right. It's exactly that. It's work in progress. Well, it isn't exactly that because I'm not Wicked Jervais. No. But it's a work in progress. I've got you now. So they are going to be the 4th of November at the Dixon Studio,

and that's at the Palace Theatre, South End, at the Hat Factory, Luton, on the 6th of November, and the Hawth Studio, and that's the Hawth Theatre in Crawley on the 16th of November. Why are they all near London, you may say, or in London because it's a little tiny thing I'm doing all about London, all for the seventh. So please don't be cross.

I want to do more UK dates in the future, I promise you. Hang on. Yeah. Dixon Studio. Yeah. Palace Theatre is South End. Yeah.

Okay. Hat Factory is Luton. Correct. And the Hawth Theatre is in Crawley. Yeah. Is that Sussex? South London, isn't it? Right.

They're not London. No, but they're around London. Okay, but that's not, we're not talking in London suburbs. I know, but I'm not in Middlesbrough. No, I know that. So I'm just talking about all the people that aren't down this end. No. They're not South.

No, but still. This is a little South thing that's going on, but I haven't forgotten people, is what I'm saying. Fair enough. But you're spreading your wing slightly. A tiny bit. You know, you are in very much in the Paris. of the London boroughs. Anyway, I don't know what these work in progresses are going to be like,

but all I know is they are all working towards the big one, which is going to be a polished, lovely show. I say polished, bloody hell. Yeah, I don't think that's going to be the case. No night, I love you. No, night, darling, I love you. Good night, Eliza. Anyway, I can't thank people enough.

It's so exciting. The tickets are going really quickly. So please get your ticket booked for the 7th of December. Where do I get tickets from? The link is in my bio, but it's the Clapham Grand. So if you were to Google Clapham Grand Theatre. No, I want to go to one of these weird ones. Well, you just have to go to the theatres.

Okay. Oh, so they're available via the theatre. Yeah. Okay, cool. They are. But yeah, if you can't make the big one and you want to come and see us anyway, yeah, come and see us at these little ones. It'll be lovely.

Oh, we'll wait until next year. Or wait until next year. It might be a little bit more polished. Exactly. And you might prefer it and then come along next year. Yeah. When we're going to have a little tour. We could get Tim, couldn't me, to get like a little Heathside travel tour bus.

I would really, really. I was thinking, how weird you've said that. He could drive us around. I'm not joking. I was thinking of that. But we could get it all spray painted. Oh, we'd love that. Life with Nat colours.

Down Alfreds and get a few tins. That would be cracking though, wouldn't it? Just graffiti, one of his coaches with Life with Nat on the side. No, we do it all proper. Oh, okay. I don't think these days you get the spray cans out Or then maybe I need to get a VW I think they're wrapped

Maybe I need to get a VW And have a bottle green one With some labels on And maybe I have to travel around in it I am really thinking about it Nice And I'm not joking No, it'd be really good at that

I know Yeah I could have pink sofas inside With bottle green outside And why would you choose those two colours Because they're my colours Brilliant Yeah we can have a lovely trip

No, it would be really good Tax the doctor We have got A Vianetta update Said you haven't had one for a while So Camilla Has sent me a picture Spotted in a local spa

£2.65 That is a normal Vianetta Oh, that's pretty expensive I told you I took the price of stuff is No, no, no. Seriously, farm foods, you're still looking at like 199 max, 149 probably. Just saying, 265 in the spa. That's mad.

That's crazy, isn't it? Are you looking forward to the live show, darling? Because you're a big part of it. People are sort of come in and they want to see you and... No, I don't think people want to see me. I think you're fun, they will. I don't think they will. I think they want to see all the family.

Okay. I think they're there to see you. Yeah. I think the family are a bonus. No, don't think so. Can't wait for the messages to come pouring in. He's desperate for all the measurements. I don't want a message.

No, I don't want a message at all. Oh, 7-8, 2019, 19, 19. He sounds grumpy, miserable. No. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No. Are you going to play up to your part? Play up to it.

Yeah, you're going to be miserable in the show or you could come on in a sparkling suit. I don't, you wait. It'd be really elaborate. No, I've got it all sussed. Oh, really? Yes. Well, you haven't?

No. No. So I need to know your ideas because you're not going to ruin my vibe. No. No, I've got a few ideas with a little costume. Good. Special little suit.

Good, good. Yeah. What sort of suit? No, you went to see. I was WhatsApp in a little. Ro Ro and Elia earlier. And we're having a bit of a laugh. Right.

And genuinely, I took a picture first of me. Yeah. Like a selfie. Yeah, yeah. And then Maria took one and Elliot took one. Yeah. And we all looked exactly the same. And how much time was in between these selfies?

Like seconds, second, seconds, nothing. Right, yeah. We've all got the same hair band in and our hair is on the top of our heads. And we just laughed for about 20 minutes, even though we're not together. That is so special to have. I do feel very lucky to have that What are the chances I hate it's always like this time

In the evening A lot of the time I would have thought it was more likely But all three of you had rollers in That's not true I don't have rollers that much Not like them They have rollers a lot don't it

Yeah a lot yeah That I mean that was something Before I was with you That's something I'd never seen Only on sort of 1960s sitcoms Yes In sort of smoke-filled laundrettes Had I ever seen rollers

In a lady's hair Your family They just permanently have rollers in All the time That is just second nature What I can't believe is Yes I have them in very rarely But I know that I won't sleep all night

No I don't know how they They just have them in and go to sleep It's amazing It is amazing It's a skill Yeah It really is

Can I just mention your friend Matt Lovely Matt Payne He said listen to the pod His 50th birthday is it I'm not texting That's really bad Hang on While you're reading that out of texting

Well if I can get a word in Sorry Listen to the pod Tell Natalie thanks for the shout It will help massively With my speak up claim That will secure my future Am I allowed to read

that out. He's joking. Well, you've put it on the pod. Pod stuff. So I assume I could. Yeah, I think that's all right. He's joking. Yeah, he's always joking, isn't he?

He's just busy presenter to make it out of him and said he... Jolly old Matt, likes a laugh. He's good value, Matt. He's a good guy, good sport. Well, I've texted him, happy birthday. Is Matt coming to the live show? I hope he is. I would have thought he'd be in it, wouldn't he?

No, there's no room for Matt, but there is room... Not because he's... Oh, that's going to help his... That's going to really... Not because of his size. Right, that's brilliant. That's another court case, but we're going to lose. Not because of his size.

I'm just saying... He's not... Can I say something? He's not even rotund. No, do you know something really funny? I haven't seen him. Over the summer, I didn't do much work where I was working with Matt. And from when I first saw Matt...

Yeah. So I saw him like yesterday. Yeah, he's looking good. He said to me, I'm making a bit of an effort. He notices. I noticed. Brilliant. It doesn't matter what he looks like as long as he's happy

No, I know that But it's, you know Very good But yeah, I hope he's coming I'll tell you who is coming Old Timbo Timidi Timbo We had a long conversation last night in bed

Not together I was going to say, I don't remember that But then maybe I wasn't there Not together No, you were laying next to me But me and Tim had a lovely chat Right Over Instagram

He's definitely coming to the pod So that would be fantastic See, I was up for doing it Until I realised that half the audience I'd know And now it's turned into like a bit of a strange situation It's not going to be half the audience It's only a couple of people

Oh right, okay I mean I didn't want to do the podcast let alone I mean seriously Let's just talk about that for a second Yeah Right When you said I want to do a podcast And then you could be on it

And I said no absolutely no chance No way, no way Yeah Yeah all right A year later, okay, I was recording the sound of the rain and the, you know... The atmosphere of the cricket and the sort of thing. Adding a bit of production value, arguably, to the podcast. Yeah.

And yeah, okay, it's good fun. And to be honest, it's a rare occasion where I get to actually have a conversation with you. We haven't really spoke this week at all. But I didn't sign up to being on a stage. So how has that slipped by? All of a sudden, it's like, oh, by the way, On the seventh, you can't be working that day because you're going to be on stage.

How has that happened? Because you love me and you want to support me. You're there to support me. There's other ways of doing that. No, that you're there to support me. It's not my place to see these people and be on stage. People want to see you. No, they don't.

It'll be great. It's going to be fun. You know, and I know, when you are giving out a few little drinks and mince pies to the audience in your naked butler's outfit Shut up Absolutely I mean that's not going to go down by whatever is it

Can you imagine that? I'd be really popular I think it'd be a sellout Can I say that you're going to do that now And the tickets will just fly out of the door Shut up What a load of nonsense Seriously

I want to get Maria in a It's kind of like it's strange You're obsessed to put in your family members Yeah, I'd like to put Maria in costume Yeah, I'd like her to come out in a unicorn blot rubber ring She's not going to do that, she's not stupid I think she might No, she won't

No, and she listens which is annoying But she does skip them, she likes to listen to her own She said in the episode that came out yesterday Yeah I'm not wearing a unicorn outfit I know, but I think I could push her to it I do There is absolutely not a hope in hell

that Maria will wear a unicorn outfit. What are you talking about? Do you think I could get on to Lily in a French maid's outfit? It's a bit of cleaning around the theatre. Again, a bit weird. I do think you need to think about this. Tony could be sort of, like the old builder

that you could leave your head on. No, no, YMCA. No, YMCA, I'm talking. The YMCA builder's funny. No, bloody, what's it called? The Full Monty. Yeah, but the YMCA thing's funny. Anyway.

Very strange that you've going, I mean, I literally just said you were talking about your family members in weird outfits, and you've literally followed that on with talking about your brother. All I want to do is sell the tickets. Okay. Whatever gets me there. Okay. I have no shame. All right. It's no problem.

Okay. We're going to have fun, all of us together. It's going to be really good. I recommend, come and watch the show in about a year's time. By then, it might have settled down a bit and straightened itself out, and I won't be in it, and maybe it might be something you want to go and watch. We have got some great stuff up our sleeve. I have to shout out the Pod Squad,

the Life with Nat Pod Squad on Insta and Facebook. Naomi runs it. She's done a lot of work this week She's done a lot of reposting She's helping a lot of people People that are on their own That feel upset or scared That they're going to come on their own

She's linking people up She's helping me with some sheet music I won't go into it But there's a lot going on And I just want to give her a big shout out Thank you for the help and the support There is a lot There's something I want to say

Go on Because when I was listening to your podcast this morning Yes. Which was first those Nats' nieces. Yes. You made a point of saying that anyone who didn't have anyone to go with, you were going to get them to stand up. And I thought, hang on a minute.

That's the worst thing I could do. Yeah. And I was listening and thinking, right, okay, if I was going to go to a podcast show and I was going to go on my own, the last thing I want to hear is the host is going to ask me to stand up if I'm on my own. Because what on earth is going to happen there? No, all I want to do is get everyone together. Yeah.

And say, are you on your own? Yeah. Are you flying solo? Right. Let's hands up or stand up for me and say you are not on your own. We're all together here. It's a community people. I'm glad to clarify that because if I was on my own and hadn't heard you say that,

I think what are you going to get me to do? That's all, no, I just want to say big clap, big cheers. Well done for getting out, but you're not on your own. We're all together. Okay, fine. So there you go. Because my eyes pricked up when you said that. Did they?

Yeah, just my ears. We had a lovely message that took me back to our holiday mark from a lovely lady called Katie. And she said, Hi Nat and all. I'm on holiday in the Canaries with my lovely family. I say lovely. My seven-year-old is acting like seven-year-olds do from time to time

and my husband can't accept constructive feedback about driving on the other side of the road. Is yours like? that. No constructive criticism here. I've never driven abroad of you. Just in general. Anyway, reason for this gibberish is to confirm that not only is there an abundance of Maxibon action, I also found a mini vionetta for dessert at a local restaurant yesterday.

It's like Pod Bingo. Uno has of course been played. No son Serragette. The woman on the balcony next door popped. her head over to ask what I've been listening to as she's been enjoying it with me and wants it back home. I've inadvertently secured you at least one other listener. If Pod Bingo is to exist for next year's summer holes, that should also be one of the boxes to claim. There isn't a prize at the end, but satisfaction at winning counts for a lot. Also, the ads in your pod are

in Spanish which for unknown reasons given we are in Spain really surprised me keep up the cracking work katie what a lovely message it's a lovely message i'm a bit confused about the last bit the adverts in spanish she just was surprised she's in spain i know but i don't think people realise that if you are somewhere else abroad the adverts change to a different language. Fair enough. Which I think's fair enough, yeah. But I love that, Katie.

I love a little bit of pod bingo. I don't know if in the canaries you're going to get a sunset. I don't know if they do it. Let me know if you find a sunset out there, though. Oh, this is funny. Do you remember the salad talk? Yes. Salad in the fridge?

We had a lovely message here from Caitlin. Have a listen to this. Hi, just the quick one. I'm just listening to the latest pod and you're discussing the salad which was left in the fridge for like four days. I know like my husband would eat that but do you not think that like I don't know like I work in a kitchen so I'm like the stuff that we like say today we would leave in the fridge for tomorrow but after then it would have to be disposed what if the salad you got was made on the second day. That's technically like, what, five or six days old by the time that you would

eat it. I just don't think I could do that. I think that's a bit of risk. A bit of risk. Yeah, that was all I had to say. Bye. What do you think about that then? I think she's obviously correct. Makes sense, doesn't it? But also, I do think there's been one really good thing that has happened in the last couple of years. And that is the subject of best before and used by dates. And it's been brilliant because what has happened in supermarkets is they've started removing dates off of things.

Because people would just take them as verbatim. So you might have, I don't know, some carrots in a plastic bag and it says on the side, for whatever reason, there was a best before date five years ago now there might not be because it comes down to common sense so if the carrot is sprouting a load of stuff

and it looks like it's about to you know walk off you compost it hopefully or get rid of it but if it I mean look at think about our chilies when we've grown chilies and tomatoes there's no best before dates on our tomatoes you know why because we can look at them and go we can look at them but we don't know what they've not been sprayed with anything.

Yeah. We've grown them. Yes. We are picking them fresh. Yeah. Can you imagine how long things have been picked before we get them in a supermarket? If they're flown from somewhere. I'm not disagreeing with that.

But you can look at it and tell when you can't eat it anymore. Absolutely. I agree with veg. But we have a bit of a argument, don't we? We have a little, let's be honest. A little bit of an argument. The clues in the name. No.

Best before. No. When it's used by even. used by is different no you say oh it's not been opened that'll be alright for a couple of days

well there are times you can just tell it's common sense I can't eat something which says used by after the day it says used by it's just a little bit of ink

on a little stamp oh no I mean don't get me wrong there are times where you would take it seriously for example there was some milk in the fridge

the other day and I said to you about the milk and he said I forgot it was there and it said, you know, it was like two or three days and it was a used by date and I had no doubt in my mind it would just smell a bit whiffy and it did. Fair enough.

That's absolutely fine. But when it's veg No, I agree with you. Like fruit and veg, you can tell berries. But it's cutting back on those days now. It's a good thing. It is. Because we should look at stuff.

We're all, we're not stupid. No. We should look at. food products and go, oh, that looks a bit dodgy. We're not idiots. You're not going to eat something. You know, we're all human. I suppose it's more the ready stuff that's already made.

Yes, indeed. But still, we all know they put in a little buffer. Do they? Of course they do. No one's ever sued a supermarket because they've sold, you know, in a reduced art. So reduced art. You don't know that for sure.

Okay. Let's just. You've got a whole section. We're assuming. We're assuming. A whole section of the supermarket that sells stuff that is out of date. No, they don't. It's the day it's going off.

On the day it's going off. So they can eat that in the evening. Yeah. It's not out of date. Okay. The shopping thing's quite funny though. I'm not honestly. Because you went shopping tonight, didn't you?

Because you got your barbecue for the weekend. Yeah. And you do get very stressed food. shopping, darling. I do. I would say that you are quite fortunate. You don't do lots of big food shops do you? I regularly over the winter. Hang on. Hang on, no, let me finish.

There we go. This is funny. This is good. So if I'm not working, I've got a week, quite often happens over the winter, I've got a week I'm not working. What I traditionally do is drop off our eldest daughter at school And on the way back where there's a supermarket, I will pull in and I will buy ingredients for every single evening meal that week. Yep.

And I've done that before. And then you got home and taking our youngest child to primary school. I hope you're all listening to this because I tell you something, the Pride of Britain Awards are coming up soon. So if you want to send an email in, 07-7-820, 19, 19, or I think there's an email if someone gets an MBE or something. You can sort of nominate people just as an aside. Have you quite finished? I suppose what I'm saying is...

Hang on, I write a menu for the evening meals and put it on the fridge, but the kids love... That is true. You've never done it. No. And I go and buy every ingredient possible in about a 10-minute window and Vintako Youngest Talk to school. And you're sitting here telling me

I don't often go shopping Trust me, if I need to go shopping, I can Tonight, I went shopping in a Tesco's that I don't know Something's hit a nerve Yes, because this is nonsense Because I'm pretty good in a supermarket I tell you why, it's because you go shopping

For the things you need when you need them Whereas I have to go out and I I'm getting an array of things Snacks, bits Hold on a minute The last time you went shopping This is funny. The last time we went shopping, it was a nightmare.

When? You came back, loaded the fridge up with stuff, and you were like, oh, hang on. I don't, I don't, you couldn't even talk about what we're going to eat in the next day. Do you know what it was? Do you know what it was? Go on. I was so hungry when I went shopping. Right.

And you should never be. Please, I know everyone's going to be with me. If you go shopping when you're hungry, you just can't help it. There's a little gremlin in you, and all you want to do is pick up everything. And when you're in Marxist, seeing like a thousand things that are nice, I think, oh, I'll get them. Oh, that looks good. Oh, we can have that that night.

And what I find at the moment, and we did agree on this this week, didn't we? As much as people say doing a weekly shop is better, I feel for us as a family, things are changing, who fancies what, and then you buy four different dinners, and you get to Wednesday, and you'll go to me, aren't you? Mark will go, I really fancy our cherry tomato. Sorry, he's just brought up a menu. Let me take a photo. You look really cute though. Yeah, I mean, when I did my menu last... It is cute.

So, Monday, Carbonara, Tuesday, chicken nuggets for Joni. Avocado and salmon for mummy, daddy and Eliza. Yeah. Wednesday, curry. Thursday, meatballs. Friday, fish and chips, Eliza and Joni. that means you and me has something special that's not been written on the menu

Was it meatballs? Oh no no That was the 23rd of February 25 So a winter week Every single day that week was scheduled Scheduled Scheduled Purchased Monday morning Well done you

Well done you And it's reminded me I've not done a Carbonara In a long while You're very good at a Carbonara I love a Carbonara Really good Don't tell Linda D, Maria.

What have you been saying to old Linda? Like the old Carbonara. She's now listening to this, horrified, that you've just asked that question. Why? She's really disappointed. I can tell you now, you're going to get a message now. Why would I, why? Because when you started this podcast, at that point in time, we were regularly talking about a Carbonara.

What on the pod? No, me and Linda. you know about this Oh darling You're going back I'm telling you something She's sitting here now I don't think

I don't think you realize The year or two I've had Okay I'm going to remember a conversation Between you and Linda Text her now Just text her and say Mark has started talking

On the podcast recording About a Carbonara I've got no idea What he's talking about Please enlighten me And she will reply I cannot believe You don't know what he's talking about

Linda Darling I know we ain't spoke for ages I hope you're really well I'm doing a pod with Mark at the moment we're actually recording and he's brought up

you and him talking about Carbonaras and I was like what are you talking about and now he's gone I can't believe it Linda's going to be really annoyed but I genuinely can't remember he said I should know

but to be honest it's been a busy 18 months I can't remember anyway let me know what it is I love you and we will catch up soon as if she's going to care okay honestly

I think she's going to be surprised Right It's been an ongoing conversation For about four years Oh fair enough Do you know what else starts soon My book tour Yeah

Are you going to read it Before you're on the tour What are you thinking Shut up You're not funny I wish I could explain to you How many messages I've had this week From different people saying

How excited they are That they're coming on the live show day the stories are brilliant I just I just feel sorry for me I mean are you going to provide some sort of counselling service what for when they're bitterly disappointed or I mean

They are going to go home with smiles on their faces You've literally just said I've got no idea what we'd do No I've written the show I wrote it Okay It came to me It was like an epiphany Oh

I thought like C S Lewis or it's for 19th of September Ted Rogers or no not Ted Rogers Who's Ted Rogers Who is Ted Rogers? It's the 19th of September

Why is it 30 degrees in this podcast? I tell you what I didn't mean Ted Rogers He was a comedian, wouldn't he? I meant

I don't know who Ted Rogers Sylvia Plath and Ted He's dead Could you look up Sylvia Plath That's Ted Rogers Could you look up Sylvia Plath And Ted, what was his name?

Her husband Is that his own hair? Because she took her own life She was a poet Oh lovely Yeah I know But there's a great film about it Ted and Sylvia I believe

Which I've not watched yet But what was his name? Ted what? Sylvia Plath Hang on Ted Rogers One two three Dusty Bin he did didn't he?

Yes. Yes. Rob McDonnell talks about that all the time. Yes, one, two, three, dusty bin. That is so funny. Could you just look up that person for me? Because it's driving me mad. Why do he...

I'm trying to think why Rob used to talk to me about that. I don't remember. I'll look it up myself. He used to text me. I've got the BBC 2 logo. No, like the number 2. Oh, thank you. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes,

and they were married. And what I was going to say is I haven't got no idea what I'm doing I had an epiphany and I wrote the whole show within two hours when the pre-cell went out I had Christmas music playing and it just all came to me in my head

like a vision as poets get and it was fantastic actually and I'm very proud of myself I'm going to show you something I was just about to text Rob McDonald this photo let me show you this

you've got to look this is quite funny look I was going to send him that. Right. This is great for the pod this. It's a photo of Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin.

Yeah. I just went to my WhatsApp chat with him. Yeah. Genuinely, I'm not making this up. That is it. Brilliant. Which is basically. The same photo of Ted.

The last message he sent was a load of smiley faces, laughing faces. But the one before that was exactly the same photo. Linda's got back. Linda's got back. Hello, darling. We spoke about Carbonara. I don't use egg because my mum never did it with egg when I was young. So I never knew it was a thing.

I used cream. Bacon, mushrooms, some red onions fried, then pouring cream and a sprinkle of nutmeg. No, that's her recipe. She's Italian as well. I know. Love to you guys, miss you too, love you. You should ringer. That is nuts.

Yeah, that's a bit of a random recipe. Bacon, mushrooms, red onions and pouring cream. I gave her my recipe. about five years ago. Right. She's never made it. Well, ring her. She doesn't want to be phoned at 11 o'clock at night, darling.

She'll be right. She doesn't want to be phoned. Trust me. We've got some messages about dinosaurs that we were talking about. Last Epp. Have a little listen to this. Hi, no, it's Emma.

from Longfield, which is near Blue Water. And I also used to love dinosaurs. And I am pretty sure it was on on a Saturday evening. I came from a strict Catholic family. And if my dad was working on the Sunday, my mum would take us to Saturday night mass at about 6 o'clock. So we were going to miss dinosaurs. So it would get recorded on VHS.

I loved it. Love in the pod. So that is somebody who believes it was on a Saturday And then I got one from Vicky Vicky from Dartford Hello Vicky Very close to Longfield Hi Nat, just catching up with your last pod with Mark

You, capital letters, are totally right Dinosaurs was on Saturday evenings Around 6pm Followed by Gladiators We then switched over for Noel's house party in casualty Oh, the memories. How nostalgic is that? Scraping the barrel, nostalgic pod episode would be great. All the things we remember from growing up.

Thanks for keeping me company on my night feeds with the baby. Thank you, Vicky, so, so much. That, we'll do that. Not at all nostalgia. I'm going to get writing that. I love nostalgia. Mark doesn't really like nostalgia. Honestly.

I'm not a fan. Well, I'm going to stop talking now. I'm just going to start writing that episode, start logging things that need to be spoken about. There are so many things we could do a lovely nostalgia live show, me and you. Just a very small one, intimate one. Yeah, five, five people, ten people in the audience. Lottie said, hi, Annette. Hope your busy week is going okay and taking it one day at a time is working for you.

I have inattentive ADHD, so I sympathise and know exactly what you mean by overwhelming weeks. I take it one day at a time too. otherwise my head pops. Anywho, so funny you should mention the dinosaurs TV show as it really reminds me of being young, so nostalgic. While the other day, I loaded up the Disney channel the day before I listened to scraping the barrel. And all four series of the dinosaurs

is now all there to watch. No YouTube required. Result. So when you and Mark mentioned it, shouting at the pod in the car. Thank you. Keep up the laughs, Lottie. Can you believe this?

That is amazing. It's on the Disney Channel, darling. We could do the nostalgia pod in the antique shop in Hastings, you know, a really little one. We could just do it in there. Because we could probably get the whole... You can't swing a cat in there. Exactly.

Me and you can't fit in. The whole audience could be sat in there. Did you hear that? Yes. It's on the Disney channel All four series I sign up to that No

I'll pay for that No I've got Disney Plus Have you? For the Beatles stuff Yes Oh yeah Have we finished that yet No

What about the Crown No we haven't finished yet But that's not That's Netflix Only series you and I've watched This year Is The Traitors And Clarkson's Farm

And I'll tell you something Now Traters is on in a minute And I'm not going out And do you know when it's going to be on? Do you know how I was with today? I promise you it's going to be on the two weeks that I'm doing evenings for my book

I guarantee it Me and Joni will watch it But I guarantee you That's what's going to happen My very good friend to Mika Epson Empson I know she's a great friend of yours though Brilliant

Epson I said My baggy mouth got in the way And it made it sound like Epsom It's Empson Why I can't Can't we all be like Tamika Emson? Because we're all individuals, is what Anna Scher used to scream at us.

I shall let you know that your very good friend I have known since I was 10. Sorry, eight. Tomika Emson. Tomika Emson. Empson, thank you. Thank you. That's what I said. No, you didn't.

She was in the Traitors' Celebrity Special. Yes, she was. Very much looking forward to that. Can't wait. Can you imagine her wandering around fraternising with Stephen Frye? Yes. Absolutely, I can. It is going to be TV gold.

Herman Clare Boulding, having a coffee. I just can't wait. She may go red earlier. Oh, she does love her Marcus. It's funny, you should say. She does love her, Marcus. Someone came up to me today and said, Do you mind her called you Marcus?

Marcus? I said, no. Absolutely not. But there's only one person that could ever call me Marcus. And it's nice. Yeah. They're the only person that was Marcus. She's the best.

The best, the best, the best. I'd like her on the pod, actually. Yeah, you should get her. She'd be very good value. Well, I just would just do it, record it, and I wouldn't say a word. She could do a one woman show for an hour. She's amazing. Your mate, Oliver Prout.

been in touch, by the way. Oh, it's because you got distressed about the WKD that you were trying to smear all over our fridge. Well, he said that GT-85 is better than WD-40. What the hell is that? It's a WD-40, same thing. It's a different brand.

It's exactly the same product, but different brand. GT-85 is better? Yeah, I've got a tin. In fact, Joni goes in the garage gets it off the shelf and sprays her bike chain with it. Well, why haven't you put it on the first? fridge yet. Because WD40

is the same stuff. I think we should try it because Oliver's very, very knowing. He is, but it's for cleaning fridges, even Ollie would agree. Well, he says,

better than WD40 good on plastic and rubber. The best hack is carb cleaner in the oven. Yeah, I googled that and it said not to do it because of the chastardgians.

Actually, I think, hang on, it's quite important. Why? Because I googled the carb cleaner in the oven

and there was a whole article about the carcinogens that are released from doing that. Fine. So I would suggest to the listeners of our podcast not to use carb cleaner

for your oven. Sorry, Ollie. You can smash a bit of WKD though over the stainless steel see what happens. Enjoy yourself. I like the isopropyl

is it isopropan alcohol on a wasp that you put in that message? Ice propyl, ice propyl, I don't know how to say that Yeah, strong alcohol In a spray bottle We'll take a wasp out instantly mid-flight Yeah, very useful

And acetone will remove anything From a kitchen surface Sounds like he's got a very chemical Sort of kitchen cleaner stuff You're trying to go the other way I need to quickly talk about You know he spoke about Who was listening in what country

and stuff like that. Last episode. St. Lucia. Yes, St. Lucia. We've had two messages about St. Lucia. How did you know I was going to say that? Because we've got a WhatsApp group and you send all the messages. Oh, okay, fine.

We've got two lovely messages. Hi, Nat and Mark. Listening to your Ep 151, Sgraping the Barrel, and just wanted to say, when I was on holiday in St. Lucia last December, I listened to your podcast. I've been listening from Day One and Love It, wherever I am in the world on holiday.

I always listen. Love from Donna in Norwich. Thank you so much, Donna. So I think our one listener was Donna. However, then we had another one from St. Lucia that said, just catching up on episode 151 and I went to St. Lucia this year and listened to the podcast while I was there. We're not all listening to highbrow stuff. Thank you very much. That was a bit stereotypical of me, wasn't it? I do apologise. And then I got a message from a love lady called Sarah. And Sarah, it did really resonate with me. Hey now, I'm halfway through today's podcast. I can guarantee most of your 2,340 Australian listeners live in Perth. There's so many Brits here, so you should definitely come and do a show here. Just not between the 9th of Jan and 2nd of

Feb, as I've just booked flights to go back to the UK. Love Sarah. Well, Sarah, I'd love to hear there's loads of you there, because one of my mates, Sophie, has just moved to Perth. And I am missing her a lot. If you listen, really missing you actually. But I love you. And it's a seven hour gap. So every time I sort of go to message, I think, oh, God, it's 3 o'clock in the morning. Can't wake her up.

But we'll get used to it. We'll get used to it. We'll find our times. We're going to find our rhythm. But I do love you. And I miss you lots. Our last message. Okay.

This is a lovely one. Now, I just thought I'd send you a quick voice message to say, congratulations on the live show. I'm sure it's going to be amazing. I wish I could go, but I will be in Colorado with my eldest daughter, who is going to be 22 on the 6th of December. She's been out there since July last year, so just over a year. She's opairing for two twin boys who were just coming up 18 months.

And, yeah, I mean, that was a big thing to just, her to go. go off and live in America. So, yeah, just make the most of every single day you have with your kids when they're at home and little. Because one day they grow up and they go off. But yeah, hopefully she's coming back next May to come home again. But she's having a great time and living her best life. So just thought I'd ring and say, that's why I won't be at the live show. but I will definitely, definitely, if I'm not away somewhere,

be coming to the next one. Anyway, good luck with it, and it'll be amazing, and love you all. Bye. Sorry, it's Lisa from Shefford. Oh, thank you, Lisa. It's true. I grow up and leave. Well, let's not wish that away.

We've still got a little bit of time left, and actually, the one we've got, might moan, but I think she likes being there. Yeah, she likes to be in time We're fine She's 15 Thursday I know Double that

She's 30 Oh don't say that To me I remember being 15 And a friend Having just had a baby She was I don't know

12 Shut up 19 20 years old And I remember looking At this little baby Thinking When you're my age I'm going to be 30

Yeah This is what I mean You're a weird You just think Weird stuff No You do

You think of that. I think a lot about what age and I was 30 and she was 15. Time and nostalgia. Just live today. Nothing wrong with that. Live for today. No. People love a bit of nostalgia.

Yeah, I like looking at sort of old telly shows and that, but I don't go, oh, you know. Well, I've got to say, when I, when I mentioned on the pod about the pound coins in a little next. Yeah, people love it. Yeah. So I think you're in the minority. No, I just don't ever, I don't look at Amelia and go, oh my God, she's turning four. When she's 30, I'll be 80 to. Dead.

No, you don't do that. No, I don't. No. Anyway, there you go. We had a lovely little celebration for Amelia at the weekend. It was lovely seeing her for the birthday. Oh. Bless a little heart.

What a weekend come in? I like to try. It's not worked. It's not relevant. No, because at the beginning of a podcast, you said we're recording it on Friday night. All right. People are going, hang on a minute. This is confusing.

No, they don't remember. You've gone forward in time. They won't mind. mental. They don't mind. All right, tomorrow I'm going out for Amelia's birthday. Fingers crossed. We're going out for a bit.

Lovely. We're going to a trampoline park. Are you going to get on a trampoline? No, but Joanie, well. Fingers crossed, you don't break an arm. No, it should be right. What are you going to do? Watch them with a cup of coffee.

And have a nag to Ro Row Row earlier and Annalisa. Oh, right, okay. All good. No chance of you guys getting on the trampolines, don't? No. Okay. No, thank you. That's a shame.

Did you see? Because I burnt my arms. How have you done that? On the oven or a baking tray. How have you burnt both arms? It's got to be on the rack. Getting a thing out. When?

Last Sunday. You've now got burns on your arms from last Sunday. Definitely. Okay. It's got to be. Same place, look. You ever had any weird thing strapped to you today? I beg your pardon

Have you had any weird things strapped to you today? If only Sorry No, I haven't What does if only mean? Don't pull a face at me What are you talking about?

Don't look at me like that Talking from the All right I'll be the only thing that's erect Or whatever you said earlier No, I definitely didn't say that It's the only thing That's going to perk up

Didn't say that either Something like that Every single thing you've just said is crude The only thing is going to pop up Something you said Along those lines Didn't you? What I said was more subtle

Okay Yeah It all means the same Right okay fine It's bedtime now It is bedtime It is bedtime It is beddy bites

Yeah Let's go to bed I'm very tired Thank you everybody For listening to this mumbo Jumbo Yeah I mean Honestly

Why have you put yourself through listening to this. Seriously. Do you know why? Because we are real. We are real. We are chatting. We not.

People love it. And please, can everybody just tell people to listen? Because I was thinking, right? If we're going to be doing it in real time, tonight, Pete Wicks and Sam Thompson, right, are brilliant. They are absolutely brilliant. I know it's two famous people, so they've got like double followers. They've sold out the O2 tonight with their podcast. I've got 4,000 followers.

But they've sold out the O2. Yeah, I mean, that's never going to happen with me involved, is it? But that is mad. No. That is amazing. I know. But it's completely different. But what I'm saying is, that's, it is something.

It's completely different. It is an amazing thing. They just do a pod. They just chat. Yes. But you'll talk about two people, both of which are, oh, no. I'm just saying what a feat. I'd like to congratulate that tonight.

That's staying relevant. Selling out the O2, that is amazing. all I would love, do you know what my ambition is? And I don't care if it's five years, ten years, fifteen years, or what I'm even doing there. Be it at the pod, be it on my own, whatever. I would love to do a show at the Palladium. That would be my dream.

It's nice theatre that. That's my dream. It's quite little compared to the O2, but that is my dream. I have been on stage at the pladium. For fuck sake. Holding a camera. I mean, I was on the stage stage day. You were, you were.

I was genuinely on the stage, in front of royalty. Yep. It was you and Alfie Bow, wasn't it? And what's his face? What's his name? He's interviewed me on Radio 2. Lovely Michael Ball. Yeah, they were doing a routine.

Ball and Bow. Doing a little routine. Yeah. Great chaps. Right, on that note, should we go to bed? Yeah. All right. Goodbye, everybody.

Not good night, because you might be listening. to it in the morning. Sorry. Good morning. Have a lovely day. Thank you everybody. I speak to you on Thursday. Take care.