Life with Nat - EP161: Nagging with Auntie Linny #16 - papped, late AND keeping a hairdresser waiting

Episode Date: October 12, 2025

Nat & Linny have made it back into the studio, better late than... well actually, lateness is the topic tonight! Being papped and getting locked out was our excuse, what's yours? Enjoy xx Please subscribe, follow, and leave a review. xxx You can find us in all places here; ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podfollow.com/lifewithnat/view⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ We're on Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/lifewithnatpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Nat's insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@natcass1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Neice's insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@natsnieces⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Tony's insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tonycass68⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Linny's insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@auntielinny.lwn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ THE BIG CHRISTMAS LIVE SHOW 7th December ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- claphamgrand.com/event/live-with-nat-at-christmas/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The tiny warm-up shows 4th Nov - Dixon Studio, Palace Theatre, Southend - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.trafalgartickets.com/palace-theatre-southend/en-GB/event/other/live-with-nat-work-in-progress-tickets⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 6th Nov - Hat Factory, Luton - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.culturetrust.com/whats-on/live-nat-work-progress⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 16th Nov - Hawth Studio, The Hawth Theatre, Crawley - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.parkwoodtheatres.co.uk/the-hawth/whats-on/live-with-nat-work-in-progress⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Book Club: October's Book is Happy Days by Natalie Cassidy (obvs we have to get behind our gal!!) ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/happy-days-natalie-cassidy⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get reading, all reviews welcome. We're also accepting suggestions for a Christmassy thriller fiction for November Nat’s solo chats - any rants always welcome!  Scraping the Barrel - SCAN AND SHOP VIRGIN NO LONGER! Marc’s still adamant that days old salad from a takeaway is an ideal packed lunch - what’s the maddest thing you’ve pack for lunch? Bonce vs list! - Are you a list maker? Always collecting for Nostalgia Fest! What’s brewing with the Nieces - are we all skipping the end of summer, all of autumn and going straight to Christmas - Nat’s door is! Group chat ettiquette & pranks. Nice Lorraines… get in touch! Things we’re nagging with Linny about - More lateness stories and some cleaning questions, please! The Tony talks chatter - Keep your DIY questions coming, also open to some saucy two paragraph stories for Tony to read out at the Southend show - think cheeky postcards (both in tone and length)! Can we make Tony an influencer and get him any freebies?  AOB - Housecoats… lets bring them back?!  Georgina’s Fact - What cat have you let out of the bag? Have you been scammed? TBC Cultural differences ep - inspired by Linny’s Mediterranean heritage and her & Ellia's Italian trip, we'd love to hear about the cutural differences you've noticed between the UK and basically ANYWHERE else!  A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Don't miss out. Free access ends August 24th. Visit Ancestry.ca for more details. Terms apply. Hello and welcome to Life with Nat. I hope you're all brilliant. I just want to thank you all for the support with the book and all the bits and pieces I've been doing,

your messages saying that you've liked me outfit. Thank you to Roro. And just enjoying all the bits I've been doing on the table. It really is lovely. Tonight I am joined by Aunty Linney. We haven't done a pod for ages, Lynne. How are you? I'm good.

I'm good. It has been ages. It's been over a month. Well, you've been out and about and all over the place. Well, I've been having lots of holidays for a change. Which is lovely because you're not one for holidays usually. But it's nice that you've done a few this year. Yeah.

I say holidays. One was a weekend in the 2K, which was friends of ours took us away because it was our anniversary. And then I went and have a day. had some quality time in Italy with Elia and Baby James and my family, which was just the best. I loved our little chat. We had a nice conversation. That was funny, wasn't it? Really nice.

And they do love you and love England anyway, Paul Stop. But it was just a lovely week with, it just was therapeutic. It was, but I think we're going to discuss all this on another pod, I think we should do a bit of a special on the way of life out there. the produce, the way they eat, the way they, the company they keep their timings, the way they treat children, the elderly. I just think it would be a really lovely, so much to talk about. First hand from you, I think it would be great. So much to talk about. And I'm sure there's many Mediterranean, be Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, wherever. Yeah.

That will be able to relate to it. And it's definitely a pod to do. Definitely. And I think because I feel quite Mediterranean in my way. And you are. just family and getting together and the food and the company. Yeah. So I think that pot will be lovely. So remember that people, 07-820, 1919, for Lynny and I and perhaps the girls as well earlier in Roero. If we're going to go Mediterranean for an episode, your stories behind it, or other cultures where, you know, it's about food and company and all of those lovely things. maybe your experience of going to visit family, all those things.

So we'll put them in a pot and we'll come up with an ep for you very soon. But yeah, it's been a bloody busy time for me, babe. Whenever I look at social media, you are there. Well, I don't know if you saw the one where I said, I'm sick of myself. Because I'm sick of myself. Wow. You are a busy girl, but... The thing is, what you find is everything's come at once.

Yeah, sood's law. And then you have, if you like homework, you have certain bullet points that you have to meet for certain things. So, you know, the book tour and tickets, you've got a post about where you are there. Then you've got a post about the book. Then you've got a post about something else.

And then you think, oh my God, I'm doing loads of it, which I do do do it, but usually in a very organic way, not factual, and I'm talking about rubbish, and I think people really like that. So it is coming back, I promise you. It's just that there's a lot going on all at the same time. But it happens. In anyone's life, whether it's a social thing, you find that with going out, don't you sometimes? You have nothing for weeks on end. And then all of a sudden,

the invite start flooding through and you're like, what? And usually there's three things on the same day. Yeah. So it's, but look, you just, you know, take each day, get through this month. Yeah. No, I'm very, very great for it all. And it's lovely. It's great stuff, isn't it? And just enjoy it. And I have to say, you've had a sneak preview. of the book. I have, guys. I couldn't put it down. And I've really enjoyed reading. That's so good. You've got to join the book club now. I've got to join the, I've just, yeah, I just don't want to put pressure on myself. But I have to say, I couldn't put the book down, Natalie. I started it in Italy. And obviously Italy, there was so much to do that it was difficult to find time, but I did

find time. And I've just enjoyed even at home, just curling up on the sofa for 20 minutes and having a read, I've loved it. It took me back. Oh my God, I've really enjoyed it. Good. Well done. Well done. Oh, thank you. No, it's good. And I hope everyone who's had it has enjoyed it. And if you haven't had it, get yourself one. So thank you. Talking of sort of things that have been going on and being really busy. I'm going to tell you a story now. And it's the reason I wanted to do a pod tonight about lateness. Because I've always felt quite stressed about lateness. I think I get it from my dad. Mm-hmm. Again, it's a think a bit of a Cassidy. I'd say it's a Cassidy thing. I'm the same. You are the same?

Yeah, I have definitely mellowed in old age. Okay. But as a young person, the lateness thing, the anxiety that it would give me, to give you an example without, sorry, jumping in. No, not too. I'll give you one example from a very young age. So I started working for Barclays at the age of 16. I used to commute to Finsbury Park

So it'd be an overground train And then two stops on the underground I still feel I can still get that sensation Of stress and anxiety that I would feel When I was on the train Or the train was delayed We didn't have mobiles then

No You couldn't ring work Or text your line manager You were just late Through no thought of your own Having left on time sitting on the platform and I always recall sitting there thinking please please please let there be someone else commuting to work that lives this way that's on this train so I'm not the only one

that's late and now believe me and my timekeeping was exemplary yes but and did they if you were late were they okay I'm Natalie I do it now I do it now I run a letting agency I've been doing it for 20 years I'm the operations director. My MD just lets me do, I run the business. Yeah, yeah. And if I'm running late in the morning, I feel myself going to 30 miles an hour, 40 miles and out, 50 miles and out, 50 miles. Because I lead by example, there's a lot to be said about that.

But ultimately, it doesn't matter if I'm late. But I still put myself under that pressure. Dave, your brother says it, sees me flapping around in the morning, rushing, I'm going to be late, I'm going to be late. He goes, what are you worried? about you're in charge isn't it mad so you're like it that's good to know because I

I don't know if it's a good thing though I think there's a balance there's a balance and we don't have the balance yeah Dave David's the same I don't have any balance because school run for instance we leave it at half seven for Eliza in the morning now it does depend

on circumstance if Joni is coming with us It's got to be half seven. If Joni isn't and Mark's at home and I'm just taking Eliza, we could easily leave at quarter to eight. She's going to get there on time. But I have got it in my head, this half seven. And that's it.

I know. If she ain't down the stairs and I'll get in the car and I can feel... Hyperventilating. I'm not going to be late for nothing. Why am I hyperventilating? But I want to instill it in the children. I can't abide lateness when I was at EastEnders. I'm not going to mention any names.

I don't think people would be very interested, but I couldn't, I couldn't fathom how someone can swan on to set 20 minutes late and think that's all right. No apology. For me, it's arrogance. Yeah, I'm just going to use the word arrogant. So this is the issue. I think it's one thing if you are late and you come rushing into a room, be it an office, be a restaurant, wherever, and you can see that that person, person is flustered. Absolutely.

Because they are... Because they care? Yes. But it's when they just walking without a care in the world and you've been sitting there for 40 minutes waiting to either start your scene or start a meeting

or have a meal. And that person is kind of not even noticed that they're 40 minutes late. Well, let's have a little look at what people think because I can't believe I might start a late pod. Oh, really?

I mean, honestly, we've been overwhelmed. Again, overwhelmed messages today and thank you for all the first-time messages. I love seeing first-timers who haven't messaged before and have just discovered the pod and are catching up and all of you. Honestly, thank you. So we've got one here. One of my favourites, actually, Julia, short and sweet, lateness, it's simple, early is on time, on time is late and late is unacceptable. I love it. And that is, it sums it up.

I mean, someone here said, oh, lateness, I'm a dog trainer and we had a client turn up 30 minutes late for a 45 minute class and apologise for being a bit late. I hate it. I'm the kind of person who's always early. I feel late if I'm not 10 minutes early. That's from Amy. But again, you're going to a class and you just waltz in and you've missed three quarters of it and you're not phased by it. It is strange. It is rude.

It's a bit like sort of helping your sister-in-law out with a job that she made you late for her hairdresser's appointment. When? Oh, leave off. Oh, you've forgotten of you. Leave off. That was so funny. No, it was like a Benny Hill sketch.

No, that was, we haven't. Oh, no. Oh, guys, this is how long it's been. We got papped, honey. Papped out of it. We were walking along. Right, me and Lynn did. For my BBC documentary that's coming out next year,

learning to care, which will be out in May, which I've been chatting to you about. Linda's in it. I've got little speckles of family, so it's lovely. It just adds that little bit of personalisation for me. So this one morning, I say to Lynne, can we do this day? And she says, yes, I can, but I've got to get my hair done,

which I completely understand she needs to make because she does it very rarely. So I'm like, absolutely, you'll be there at one. You'll be at, James is at one, no problem. Shout out to James, very good hairdresser. And, well, we do it, don't we? We go for the little walk, we film with a crew. We're walking back from this little bit of filming.

And I'm not joking. When I say the countryside, it is... Yeah, we're in the middle of nowhere. There's a path in the middle of the field. And I look up. And I see this geyser in sort of a track suit. and he's holding a black box and it is so strange

because I haven't been papped for so many years like a long time where I've seen paparazzi and as we're walking along I think the photos show it actually because there's one where we both

we've obviously just spotted him and we look a bit gormous I look and I go Lynn I think I feel we're being papped and you're like hey I said I think he's bird watching You did But I understand why

Anyway we get closer I bloody know him Yeah you spoke I said alright mate I haven't seen you for a long time Yeah yeah nice You look good You look good

Well the people on the daily mail Didn't think we look good Oh no we got annihilated Didn't we Although I had That lovely track suit you bought me I was sweating hot Because it was so hot that day

and to add insult to injury we were trying to avoid him knowing where Natalie lived but it was just a comedy of errors guys we've got to Natalie's we've run we've had to leg it so he doesn't know where she lives because she's sort of tucked away we get to Natalie's we can't get in the house because Natalie had given the camera crew her key she's then asked me to go run it no she's then found a spare key the spare key she can't open the side door because the key is inside from the inside in the lock. I've then got to run to where the camera crew are. They look really discreet knot with this massive camera over their shoulders. It was just a complete disaster. And by the

time this had all finished, I was about 25 minutes late for my, and I was going down and to be fair to James, because he phoned me to say, Linda, where are you? Because he knows I'm never late. And I'm like, Jamie, I'm driving as fast. I'm like, I'm on the 8-1-4. And he He was going, don't rush, it's fine. Just don't rush, don't rush. But again, see, I've got to be such a stay. I hate, I'm sorry, yeah, no, you're quite right. I did make you late.

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Find out more at RBC. www.com slash petro dash Canada. Conditions apply. Anyway, yeah, going back, I just want to say it was very odd. I just find it so, I still to this day find it odd, that there is me and you walking down the road and it's on the daily mail. Who cares?

Who cares? A few people did because there's a few comments. Let me tell you one thing about people that comment on the daily mail. No. I'm afraid they really are a breed of their own. Yeah. It's good. We've got broad shoulders. There were some nice comments too.

Like leave them alone. I don't believe the good and I do not believe the bad. And we were apparently the ugly. Oh, we were the ugly ducklings. We were called horsey and two fat ladies. 88, coming around up. I mean two fat ladies. Have a little look at Lynnie.

Oh, people are being. I'm infuriated by that. Anyway, there you go. But lateness, yeah. Exactly. So that was great. I forgot all about that. What a funny story that was. It was a funny story.

I've got another funny story about lightning. Oh, go on. So I'm going to share this. Yeah, go on. Funny enough, it's very incestuous around here, guys. So apologies. So we mentioned James A hairdresser. So James Aheadresser's dad is a very good friend of mine and Dave's.

Natalie knows him very well too. It's his birthday today. Oh, happy birthday, Joe. Anyway, he's got a place in Spain And he invites David and I To go over and spend a little bit of time out there with him So we thought lovely We get to, I don't, can't remember

I'm presuming it was Stansted Airport It may have not been So I've let them get on with it They look at the gate number They said, right, we need to be at gate Let's say hypothetically it's gate 418 Sorry, hang on You've let Joe and Dave do the gate.

That was stupid, wasn't it, in itself? No, I'm going to wait for it. One is a exceptional hairdresser. The other one is what at the time was a director of Barclays. So, yeah, stupidly, I've left them to their own devices. So I'm just following them. We've casually made our way to the gate. It was like no one there.

It was like a bit of a ghost town. We're looking at each other thinking, this is a bit odd. We can't be the only ones on the plane anyway. We are someone. They said, oh, we're flying to Malaga Airport. We're in the right place. They went, oh, no, no, no. You shouldn't be at gate 4-1-8.

You should be at gate 213 or something. It couldn't have been. Any further. Any further away. Oh, no. Than where we were. Anyway, make it this quick. We're now panicking.

We're like, oh, my God. We've been here for two hours and we're actually going to miss our flight. Yeah. So, anyway, Joe being Joe, he collars some poor bloke. He says, here, mate. Do you know where his gate is? He goes, yeah, that's like miles away. You better get a wiggle on because you're going to miss your flight.

And Joe went, well, what we're going to do? Can't miss my flight, mate. Can you help? Can you help? Anyway, this chap, no, it was comical. Oh, we didn't get one of those vehicles out. No, it was better than that. Go on. He's taking us through, like, all these back doors.

Oh, like, what is going on here? Where is he actually taking us? It was very odd. Anyway, it's taken us through all, like, private exit. Yes, yeah. The next thing, Natalie, we're outside. He's put us in a black Mercedes with tinted windows, I could you know. And he's driven us to the plane.

That is brilliant. We walked up the steps and everyone was probably expecting like a couple of celebrities. Yeah, yeah. And then me, Dave and Joe rocked up. Oh, it was fun. Lovely of the bloke to do that. What, cracking. I have to say, absolute play the blinder.

That isn't an example of being late, but... No, but these things can happen. Yeah, what pressure then you put yourself under. I know, but you've got to know what gate you're at. Yeah, they misread an eight for a three or three for an eight. There you go. So you were in a two and eight, that's for sure. So let me tell you about my little One Show appearance.

It's like competition. Oh, isn't it? Well, on The One Show last week. Love The One Show. I've been on lots of times. Always enjoyable. I like to get to The One Show about, are past five

live at five past seven seven o'clock I like to get there have a cup of tea sort myself out just nice isn't it to relax for a minute cars coming at

430 yeah 430 comes I'm all done up I've got Sophie here to do my hair and make up just get it done early nice and I like her

doing me now I feel like she knows me so I use her when I So I'm all ready Lovely And I'll go Here we go They can't find me

Because I'm tucked away So I go out to the drive Usually they're just in the high street Or what have you No one Looking up and down Phone The people are looking after me for the book

I said there's no car here Oh let me get onto it 20 to 5 10 to 5 So now I wander over to the local pub I say On our message I say

This is much easier to find You can't miss it Just whenever they come Just tell them I'm there And I'll be waiting by the window I'll see them in the car park Because then they're not finding me By this point I'm getting a bit of stressed

I then look at Google Maps It says an hour and 40 minutes So the traffic is heavy as well Yeah well that time and I So I'm thinking oh that's heavy now We're talking 10 to 6 6 o'clock What time?

7 starts at 7 o'clock Oh, I ain't going to be. Right. Five o'clock, ten past five. It turns out that someone mentioning no name, I don't know who it is, someone has bought my car on the wrong day. I said, excuse me?

I said, so there's no car coming. It's now 25 past five. I'm in the pub with my mates and they're going, you're on a telly at seven. If I went having a drink, I'd drive you there. Oh, no. Oh, no.

I end up, I end up in an Uber. Did you? I ended up in an Uber, which was booked quickly for me. But that was 20 minutes away. Oh, Natalie. I arrived at 1858. Stop it. 1858.

Oh, Natta. I haven't watched it. I need to watch this then. I was. Did you have like? No, no, I was sweating. And I thought, your upper lip goes a bit. No, no, no, I just thought, I just thought there's nothing I can do.

Oh, gosh. This is not my fault. Oh, dear. And if I'm late, but the problem is, it's live. Yeah. So, I'm going to look late. It doesn't matter what's happened. I look like I'm late.

Anyway, thank goodness they ran a VT, a little film. Yeah. I was there. I literally, in, mic, on, done. But those couple of hours... Oh, the stress of it. I just hate letting people down. And it takes the pleasure out of what you're doing.

There was no pleasure in it. One show was lovely. Yeah. So they'd booked... I don't know. The cab for the wrong day, apparently. Or not booked it at all. I don't know.

But I was fuming. But I thought, I'm not going to... There's no point. There's no one to blame. No one's, who knows. what's happened, but there's nothing I can do. What would have happened if you hadn't got there on time then? I don't know.

What do they do? I thought, if I'm in this cab and it's pitch black, I haven't even got a light where they can do a video call. Oh, and then my battery was really low because I'd been continuously on the phone, maps messaging people. My battery was low. I thought I'm not even going to be able to do a Zoom thing or. And I thought, and the traffic was terrible.

It was all types of strange. The driver weren't great. It was a bit dangerous. I thought, I can't cope with this. Oh, that's really bad. So, yeah. How do you address this going forward? You use Elio.

Yeah, use your own driver. You use your own driver who knows where you are. Yeah. And you book it all yourself. Yeah. Can't you do that? Sometimes, sometimes not. But I am a bit of a control freak.

And now I know why. Because I like to know where I am and what's going on. Just because you can't seem to rely on people. Do you remember that happened to us as well? When we were going to see, and the irony of that was Gillian. Yeah. tailforth, she's actually driven past my road, my house, with her driver. And we could have just jumped in with her.

And we went to see an audience with Donnie and Marie Osmond. I do remember. Cab didn't turn up, driver didn't turn up. That's right. And we're just pacing the hallway. That's right. Until eventually you just booked a cab. I think I had just put to go.

And it was, and we were late. And then because we were late, they had people sitting in our seats. That's right. And we had to sleep in. I mean. Yeah. But why I want to talk about it, Lynn, is people do this. this for a fan. People just are late. And that is what I can't believe. I'm going to read some more

messages because it's a crazy world. Oh, here's a nice voice note for us. Hi, Nat. It's Tamzin. Lateness. I absolutely hate being late or just lateness in general. And generally, I find it's often not the person. It's often the traffic. And before it used to really stress me out, I'd be late picking my daughter up from the after-school club because I got stuck in traffic and it seemed like no matter what extra time I allowed and leaving work early, you know, there was just so many things that could go wrong on my journey home. We've since relocated to this little sleepy village in Wales and now I'm able to work more from home. I can walk to the school in a few minutes and my God, mentally, I just feel so much less stressed in my life. It's been definitely a change for the better.

So I'm living by the sea now, which is always a bit of a bonus. But, yeah, we've gone from living in a very busy town to just, yeah, the complete opposite. Cannot wait for your book. I've got it on pre-order. I've been loving all the build-up to the book, listening to the extra pods and things you've been doing. Best of luck with it, and I can't wait to read it. Bye. Oh, thank you so, so much.

But, yeah, I understand. How lovely, it's that pace of life. And the thing is, roads are now so much busier. gone of the days where you can just literally say well it takes me 10 minutes I'm just going to poop long round It doesn't happen It takes me 25 minutes to get to you

So that adds to your stress levels It's horrible And again I've noticed that Just coming from Italy Like obviously I come from really small village The roads are not overwhelmed Orbe it's got busier But my goodness there

You can just say let's pop here Let's pop there let's do this Let's do that 10 minutes It's 5 minutes Especially with that A414 and that the road works i mean i don't know when it said august 2025 when i'm ever so sorry i'm not sure if you've got a calendar but it's october now guys oh you pop to sainsbury's no forget it it's an hour yes it's horrible isn't it 10 minutes used to whizz up there in 12 minutes an hour

not to get but you know the round trip is now not popping in for a yoghurt but i guess right So this is something, again, which I found with certain people, you know when they'll say, I'm late because the traffic's bad and it's taken me an extra 10 minutes to get to wherever, then the following day they'll say the same. But then sooner or later, sooner or later, the penny's got to drop. It's not taking you 20 minutes to get to where your destination. It's clearly now taking 30 minutes, so you've just got to leave 30 minutes earlier.

But you become a bit set in your ways, don't you? But people at work used to say that. Oh, it's traffic's bad. No, I know. So you don't leave at half seven. If you've got a call time for half past eight, you need to leave at six o'clock. And if you're in a job, say like what you used to do,

where someone being late was holding up other people. Oh, it's the whole team. That is so disrespectful. The whole team. I'm not saying it up and loads and loads before a paper gets hold of my pod and says that I'm slagging everybody off of being late. You know, I'm not saying that, but I'm saying on the occasion, like you say, even it doesn't really matter what it is.

I even find it, this is bad and all. And again, I'm not having to go at anyone. But when I see people late for school, I think, don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are people, things happen, don't they in the morning, it's chaotic, or you can't find something. But if you're organised and everything's in place, you sort of know it's a lot. 845 start, don't you? Yeah.

So why don't you try and get there a bit earlier? It's different people are in scenarios and situations where they may have children with special needs or whatever. You know what I'm saying. It happens to me. I had to pick the kids, when early days of picking Alfie up from school when he first started school. Yes.

So I had two granddaughters in a double buggy who at the time were probably, I don't know, two years old, whatever. And I had to go and pick Alfie up from school I'd only been there. I'd only walk there once before. Oh, I remember this. Oh, my God. You went the wrong way, didn't you?

Oh, no. It makes me all thinking about it. I need this, like, crying. I've got a double buggy. I'm trying to walk from Maria. It was raining, is well, did it? No, frankly, it was not raining, but it may as well have done. It's still a bit of a walk from Maria's.

A double buggy, which is blimming hard work. I'm walking, I'm walking, I'm walking. It was actually quite a warm day. I'm walking. I'm walking, I'm walking, I'm thinking, where on earth am I? I don't remember it taking this long anyway. Somehow I've taken a wrong turning. Yes.

And I've phoned Maria, I'm distressed. I'm like, I don't, I've nearly reached the 8-10. I've gone wrong. So you've done that fork? So I've done, yeah. Instead of going like that, you've gone like that. Yeah, I've taken the wrong, Natalie. I've nearly reached the 8-10.

But not only have I done an unnecessarily long walk with a double. buggy I don't know how to get to the school I'm getting more and more tired and I know

all my distress I shouldn't laugh no because it's awful I can feel it I can feel the feeling and I'm just thinking Alfie's going to be standing there

thinking who's picking me up oh my God it was so bad anyway they've calmed me down on the phone and I can't do anything but run with this double buggy which was a job in itself

I get to the school I get to the class I'm like I'm so sorry I got lost and the poor teacher went it's okay it's okay

I went where is he she went no he's in the office now we've had to take him to the office I'm like where's the office

she said I'll walk you don't worry don't worry it's okay she goes I've got twins I know what it's like

I'm thinking oh god honestly and was he good as gold no he was a bit tearful to be fair

he was like no no no I thought no no it's the worst I hate it it's horrible

That is a, listen, that is such a, it's a true mistake. Yeah, but again, someone else might not have been so stressed. I thought, do you know what? What's the worst that can happen? Oh, no, I would have been. They've just got to sit with him and wait for me. No, I would have been. Yeah, we get ourselves in a state over it, and it's not, that's not good either.

I've got a funny story talking about Alfie sitting on his own, which is awful. When I had Joni, do you remember Eliza used to go to Mayhem's dance? And I think Joanie was about two weeks old. and I parked up and I've gone into Mayhams and Eliza's gone in the class and I've sat down on the seat and Julia

who I met at Mayhemes one of my bestest friends and we were just getting to each other then sat down and she went oh you're all right I said yes she said where's the baby you're left her in the car where I was fucking hell she's in the car

You forgot Joanie in the car I mean she was in the car in the car pot and I thought this is it and I got her in and she went waved, she went into the class for her little bag and her water and I sat down and I thought oh shit I have Joan in the car

but you do get a bit adult when you just had a baby up here. It's a lot but that makes me love. Poor Joan. Little Joan, she was all right and there's lots of people around it wasn't a car park when you walked but yeah it's crazy stuff but even I have recollections of

us going for dinner and we're going around someone's house we're not going to a restaurant and Dave like driving and getting all like anxious and I'm like what are you doing and he's like we're going to be late we're going to be late

Yeah we've definitely got it in us It's terrible I go Dave it's not the end of the world We'll just go around their house We're probably not eating for another hour I know but it doesn't matter We're going to have pre-dinner drink But yeah he'd get like so worked up

It's in us It's in you isn't it It's either there or not I think However we did have a message Shah said Depends what it is And who it is, I think So maybe it's not in you or not

I'm very upset with this Shah I mean I'm always late Only by a couple of minutes However things like interviews, appointments And the important stuff I'm always early So Shah Is on time for what she thinks she needs to be on time for

And everything else And she's relaxed And I kind of get it. Shah, you're going to live a lot longer than we're going to live. And that's a good one, Shah, interviews. You can never be late for an interview. However, my Barclay's interview, I got driven by a family member.

At the time, mum was in hospital, my mum was in hospital poorly, and Dad didn't dry. So a friend of ours, and they didn't want me to go on my own on a train. I'd never left Hodgidston. Yeah. It was only 16.

Yeah. And we got a flat tire. Oh, we got a puncher. Oh, no. So I was late for my interview at Barclays. Still got the job, though, guys. But again, mortified.

Oh, I bet you went in there. I was, well. But were you all right once you got in? I was mortified. But because I was late, I kind of thought, oh, well, I haven't got the job. So you calms. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the nerve sort of went because you thought you'd fucked it anyway.

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streaming October 15th on Disney Plus Hi Nat, lateness. My friends have nicknamed me five hours because I'm always late. My husband goes wild. But I don't do it on purpose. Over the last year or two, I've come to realize that I may have an ADHD brain. And time blindness is a thing. So now I put alarms on my phone and talk to myself when I feel myself getting distracted. Now I'm either early, which I hate, don't like waiting around, or I'm bang on time. My friend. Friends are amazed, Andrea. There you go. Yeah. Well, actually, I've just had a thought whilst you were reading that out. I've got a way I could cure you. Go and have a week in Italy with my family members.

Yes, please. I know, I've got to get her out there. It's really bad. Just spend a little bit of time with my cousin, Pedro. Why, is he chilled? Do you know the Italians? I thought they'd be bang on time, like, really like bang, bang, bang. No, it's quite incredible stuff.

Really? It's quite impressive, actually. It's the way they do it as well. It's just, and it's the men more than the women. Right. So one of our last day, we were going to a beach club. So the night before, we got the whole lecture. We're going to be in the car by nine. We've got a set off.

We're going to get there early. Yeah. It opens at 10. We want to be the first one's there. We want to maximise the day. The weather's going to be amazing. I think I've got a photo about 1 o'clock. Yeah.

And it's federal. He's just at his own pace. It's all very chilled. Yeah, see, my problem is, like you say, it isn't for me. Now, Mark, I've mentioned it before. He's on time. But everything, it's to the last second. The doors being shut.

He's grabbing things. He's grabbing coats. He's locking doors. Guys, you can't see the facial expressions I'm looking at now. We'll have some videos, sir. But he's He's on time But it's all about

In a relaxed way He's relaxed But I'm rushed And it'll be Nearly in the car Isn't it He's in He's in

No no no He's got to go back And I'm sweating I'm sweating And lies are the same Out she comes I think Oh she's coming

She's come No Rewind Oh I've forgotten something Again Up the stairs She goes This morning

This morning Mummy can we Stop at the shop I just want To get some Turing gum Why Because I left it in my room

and I couldn't go back because you kill me. It's just funny. Yeah, this is the... But then I think I make people a bundle of nerves, so they're forgetting things. Yeah, because they're rushing. Because they're thinking if I'm in the car. So again, it is a knock-on effect.

I don't think it's good for people to have me on their back. I really, really don't. I'm Hadley here. Just been cleaning my mum's house for her as she's had a fall and broken your own. Do a cleaning up. And she's struggling. And I've had a bit of a rubbish week with my best friend passing away very suddenly.

Just went out in the garden. And husband went out to look for her 10 minutes later and found her. And she'd already passed away, just sitting on the step in the garden. So that was a huge shot. Mum had a fall, broke her arm. A bit made redundant from my little cleaning job at the doctors. I'm a hairdresser as well. So I'm hoping to pick up a few more haircuts.

Just feel like the weight of the world is on me at the moment. But listening to your pod with Lucy in the Mental Health Week while I was cleaning my mum's shower, just sort of made me think, yeah, we all need to make time for ourselves instead of rushing around. Life's too short and reach out to your friends, like you said, when you're sort of like feeling down, just pick up the phone, give one of your friends a call and come around for a cup of tea. I'm very lucky. I've got a fantastic support network of friends and family and hope everybody else has too. Thank you so much for that pod. means a lot. Love what you're doing. Bye. Thank you so much. And unfortunately, when you started your blooming voice note,

your name is cut out. So please voice note me again, because I'd love to know your name, and I will take this opportunity to say that everyone loved the Mental Health Pod last week. So please, Lucy's a really lovely listener, very nice lady. And we're going to try and come up with, again, something for next year, a little Fred, just to remind everyone about that stuff, like myself and Linny do grief every now and again. There's certain little things, not so little things actually,

the important topics that I do think are worth revisiting every now and again. But I've had lovely messages from people saying that that pod has really helped them. They filled down, they have picked up the phone, they have checked in on someone. So thank you so much. Yeah, it's true, it does.

It just gives you that little nudge. I've got a dear friend. who's going through Torrey time with her brother. Not had any contact with her because she's got a lot on her plate, but I just leave a little voice note. That's it. Just to remind them that we're here. Yeah.

They need us. And I'm sure it gives them a little bit of comfort. I think so. And it's so simple. It takes all of, you know, 30 seconds. Absolutely. And, yeah, we all need to remember to reach out to people that sometimes just need a little pick-me-up. We really, really do.

And you get caught up, don't you? in your own life. But it really doesn't take a lot, does it? No, it doesn't. It really doesn't. Can I say that tonight we're recording this, and I haven't been to wear yet for the book Q&A, but I know when this is out, I would have done that,

and we would have seen a lot of listeners there. Yeah, so look forward to meeting. So I look forward to seeing you all, giving you all a hug. It's such a shame it's retrospectively. It's not, it's sort of, I wish I'd, I was doing a pod after the event tomorrow, but I just want to say thank you for everybody.

Thank you so much for everyone who comes along. Because it's special. It's really, really special. And it's on your mum's birthday. How lovely. I know. Yeah. So good.

Yeah. Special for lots of reasons. Lots and lots. I look forward to meeting a lot of our listeners there. It'll be lovely. Hi Nat. Hope you are well. And you too, Auntie Linney.

I listen to your podcast week in and week out. And thought I'd add to the what do I think to people be late? Are you ready for this? I cannot stand late people. Honestly, I've said it. I have just said it. I cannot deal with lateness. And I guess some people have a legit excuse, but just leave earlier. Just be early. Just be better. Oh, no, it doesn't bother me too much, but deep down, my best friend, we are the two polar opposites. I'm always very on time, not early, on time. She's always extremely late. And we clash. I'm sure you can imagine. Anyway, I hope you both have a lovely rest of your week and I look forward to hearing

this podcast soon. Jannels. Oh, that's lovely. Thank you. You do care. You started off raging and thought I've got to pull this back. I've got to rain this in. But, yeah, I think most people don't like being late. And again, again, do you not think it's sort of based on culture as well? You know, the Brits are very, you know, you have an appointment. Stiff up a lip. Turn up on time.

You queue. Oh, yeah. I mean, in Italy, I had to be rescued. I went to get some water from like a pop-up shop Yeah And Natalie, I'm not slow in coming forward But even I didn't know what I thought, how long do I stand here for before someone actually serves me

My cousin come along, she went what on earth are you doing She just went straight to the front and said, right, we need a bottle of water Because everyone's just walking in front of me They don't do queuing, I'm standing there sort of trying to queue Politely, yeah Same with the toilet scenario I went to the toilet three times to try and get to the toilet But I just couldn't get in

No, because I'm queuing You just don't care I think it is cultures as well Isn't it? Oh it's brilliant But we are very much As Brits we are very much We're very polite and we wait for people

Respectful and drive on the right side of the road On the whole Yeah On the whole Message here from Helen from plumbing Who is Tony talks to it all the time So hello Helen

I believe Helen's coming to where as well Oh man I'm always late We'll never late to meet friends or catch a train or appointments, but always late for work. I was the same at school, so much so that my form teacher always used to mark me in as she knew I was on my way, as I always made it to assembly. Of course, she was good, Helen. My son has never been late for school.

I make sure he's always on time. I don't want to pass on my bad habits, and my husband is a stickler for timekeeping. I'm lucky my work just accept that I get there when I get there. It's only ever five or ten minutes, but I just can't seem to make it on time. It's not something I'm proud of And I really try But I think I try and fit too much in And just forget how long things actually take

And yes, I was late for my wedding Oh, Helen That is brilliant That's brilliant Well let's hope Natalie Yeah Nobody's late tomorrow night For the book launch

No, where Hope not Expect everyone to be on time Including us And especially you Fingers crossed I've got live telly to do for Ireland at six.

When? Tomorrow night. So I'm going to do that. Be ready. Bang. I'm there. There you go. Got to be organised.

Yeah. Got to be organised in life. And on that note, what a lovely pod. We weren't late tonight, will we now? We were not late. In fact...

This is early for us. Very early. And do you know what's on now, don't you? Celebrity Traitors. I've never watched Traders, but I'm going to watch this. Are you joking?

I've never watched it. You're in for a. a time of your life. Yeah, you love it. And Tamika's on it. Is she? Tamika's on it. No, I'm definitely watching it.

You've got to watch. Yeah, I'm recording it. But again, we can talk all about that once we've seen one or two of them because we'll do a right, good old natter about the traitors because I know we're all excited to watch it. Amazing. Have a fabulous rest of your week, whatever you're doing. Keep happy. Do lots of lovely things and don't be late.

Lim, thank you so much. Oh, it's been lovely. And we're going to do a grief pod soon. We're going to do a little special because we get messages all the time I'm going to slip it in on a day which isn't a normal pod just so people can listen to it if they want to

or skip it if they don't but you're not missing your regular fix so yeah thank you for everything and love you lots 07-8-201919 tell all your friends about us give us a follow and give us a little

review every little helps and I'll speak to you very soon soon. We'll do. See you later. Bye. Bye. Hi Emma. It's only me. Could you shove this at the back and the bottom and the end of the podcast for tomorrow with Auntie Linney? It's very ironic really that the pod we do

is about lateness because I am on my way back from Lakeside after a Waterstone's book signing where I was about an hour, if not over an hour late and there were a queue of beautiful people including lots and lots of pod listeners Claire from Swanley for one Nanny Cock like loads of beautiful people

Debbie Tracy all of our regular listeners and when I got there they were all in very high spirits but when they came to the table instead of me signing where I should have they'd put a post-it note

on page 37 where I speak about I hate being late so it was very funny but I was devastated and also it ain't my fault I came off of Sunday brunch at 1pm and the book people had booked me to be at Lakeside for two it's impossible and with a bit of traffic that turned into a very late arrival

as you can imagine it was a very stressful time for me. But we did it. I got to see everybody. It was amazing. I've got loads of gifts to go through. Thank you to Amelia for your beautiful picture. And I'll catch up with everyone soon and go for all the gifts. But chat this at the end. Thank you all. Love you all. And I'm going to organise every bit of travel and every single time in future. Speak to you later. Bye.