Life with Nat - EP193: Tony talks #17 - Cheerful tricks

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

Nat's got Tony's back in the hot seat. We're chatting the tricks you deploy when you need a mood lift. What are your favourite films & albums? What’s the show Tony’s going on about? And is there any way they'd legally be able to continue their holiday if that happened on the boat? Cold water swimmers and shower’ers… convince us that it's not awful! Enjoy!! xx Find more from Danny here - ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thedannybeard⁠ Including details about their show "Homecoming" Hoxton Hall, London 7th May O2 Academy, Liverpool 30th May And OBVIOUSLY go and see them full in their Demi-god role - ⁠https://www.instagram.com/percyjacksononstage/⁠ 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 Marc's insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@camera_marc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Niece's insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@natsnieces⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Tony's insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tonycass68⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Linny's insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@auntielinny.lwn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ MORE LIVE SHOWS! 07/02/2026 Brighton, The Forge ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TICKETS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 08/02/2026 Newcastle upon Tyne, The Stand ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TICKETS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 25/02/2026 Folkestone, Quarterhouse ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TICKETS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 28/02/2026 Colchester, Arts Centre ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TICKETS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 07/03/2026 Manchester, Fairfield Social Club ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TICKETS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 22/03/2026 Leeds, The Wardrobe ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TICKETS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 29/03/2026 Bristol, The Gaffe - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TICKETS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Book Club: January's Book - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Wintering by Katherine May⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Nat’s solo chats - any rants always welcome. We're talking big career changes, the constant comparisons with others on social media... and the audacity of teenagers! Scraping the Barrel - SCAN AND SHOP VIRGIN NO LONGER! Bonce vs list! - Are you a list maker? Always collecting for Nostalgia Fest! What’s brewing with the Nieces - AGEING & non-negotiables Things we’re nagging with Linny about - More lateness stories and some cleaning questions, please! The Tony talks chatter - Keep your DIY questions coming. What are your favourite films & albums? What’s the show Tony’s going on about? And is there any way they'd legally be able to continue their holiday if that happened on the boat? Cold water swimmers and shower’ers… convince us A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Life with Nat on the 457th of January. Oh, isn't it? Long-tone. Oh, it's murder, on it? Drag? Oh, terrible. I feel like this has been the longest one. Yeah, I just... Gloomy, rainy. Rainy, cold.

It's been mild for last week or so, isn't it? But the day's been awful. It's been really bad. It's been a filthy day, is what I would say. It's just wet and everything's dirty and there's, I'm treading mud and crapping everywhere. Are you inside or outside at the moment? Well, to be honest, today we were supposed to have people outside. So the bricklayers couldn't come to work.

They've stayed at home or done what they've done. And then two of our other bloke, we've had to find other stuff from them to do. Right. Because they just, they were supposed to be doing stuff, like doing some outside stuff and they just couldn't. It's just ridiculous, isn't it? Yeah. Well, I went into London today. Oh, did you?

Yeah. and got the train to... Right central. Well, Liverpool Street, then, to Bethanyl Green on the central line. Oh, Bethlehembourg, right. Yeah, yeah. An easy trip. But even that, the rain, when it's a gloomy day like that.

Yeah. You know, the trains are all horrible? Do you know what is? They're damp and they're hot. Yeah. It's all steamy, horrible on it? And to top it off, right? Really busy train.

And there's a spare seat next to a gentleman. So is this the overground or the undergris? This is Harlow to live? Liverpool Street, so over. Overground, right. So anyway, sort of, he looks up and I sort of sit down. But I was sort of one buttock on the chair, half hanging off into the aisle. Yeah.

And he proceeded not to move, had his laptop out, elbows out, just taking up all the space for the whole journey. Didn't look up, didn't. And I just think it just pissed me off. It's just ignorant, isn't it? I just think it's a little bit selfish. Very ignorant. Thank God you wasn't on a nine-hour flight next to him. Can you imagine that?

Oh, don't. Yeah, when you get one of them, when they want to take over the middle armrest. Yeah, yeah. Or the same in the theatre, I find. Yeah, yeah, that's right, yeah. It's like the armrest, sort of, you're fencing, aren't you?

You're fencing with your elbow, see who's going to take the armrest, or whether you're going to actually sort of, without saying it, you're both going to agree to just stay on your half of the armrest. Yeah, or if you go up or down. Up or down, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, armrest etiquette.

Armrest etiquette. I had a message from a lady who said, the worst for her, because I posted it on Instagram today, that I was really annoyed about it. And she said, the worst for her is when there's a table and there's four seats.

Yes, yeah, yeah. And someone proceeds to get on the train, sit on one seat, and then fill up the three seats with their staff. All their crap, yeah. And then wonder why people are looking at them saying. Like they're entitled. Excuse me.

Do you mind getting all that shit off there so I can sit down? Yeah. The thing that really does me on the, I don't go on trains, that much now, thank God, backpacks and rucksacks on the underground. In what manner? People keep them on. Yes.

And they feel that they've got a right to walk onto a train that's busy and sort of turn around and smash you in the back and the face with their rucksack. Honest, I have rucksack rage. I just can't believe it. Again, just ignorant, self-entitlement. I do what I want, I don't care. It's that sort of just the way we've never been brought up. No.

We're just not brought up like that. We're brought up sort of to be, we were always taught to be a little bit considerate to other people. Yeah, very much. And it's just not much of that that goes on. But the rucksack thing does my head in it, it really does. I see someone get on with this massive. God knows what they put in them.

I think they've got babies in them or something. They're massive. They're like this and about that wide, about that deep. And then they don't take them off. That's the thing. You know, if it would me, I'll take my rucksack off. If I had one, stick it down in between the feet. Yes.

When it's busy. That's the right foot. I would not stand on a pack train with it off. taking up nine people's spaces. Yeah, it's so true. So true. So, yeah, if anyone out there wears a rucksack on the underground,

you're on my list. Beware, everyone. When the time comes, you're on my list. In my little book, rucksack wearer. Tony's book of rage. Tony's book of rage, yeah. So, yeah, so that was my day.

But, yeah, I've banged on a lot about January booze. But I did ask people today and we've got loads of responses, as always. So thank you so much. So nice. As soon as I put a message up, people could be bothered to messages. It's amazing. So lovely.

Because you were sending them through to me. Yeah. A few and then a few more. And I didn't actually look at my phone until about, I don't know, about 4 o'clock, I think it was. And I went through them all. It was some really, there's some real nice stuff there. Some nice ones that we're going to get into in a minute. But what would you say on a gloomy day or afternoon, cheers you up?

I think it depends on your demeanour on the day, really. Because we all have moods and we all, you know, I mean, some people are dead level, aren't they? Some people just like that all the time. But us and our family, we're all up and down a bit, aren't we? So I think it depends. If it's a day during the week, what cheers me up is that everyone's working. And I've got bloke sitting in van sort of saying,

can't work because it's pouring a rain. So if everyone's working and we've managed to keep everyone working on that day because it's pouring the rain. I think if it's weekend or it's an evening, I honestly, for me, it's just be grateful for what you've got. Yeah. So you've got this filthy, disgusting night, and you're sitting indoors,

and you've got the telly on, and you've got the heating on, and you're with your family. And I think just that is just that just simple, that simple thing is, you could just be very grateful for what you've got, and you think about these poor people that are sleeping on the streets,

You think about people, you know, in accommodation, it's freezing cold or, you know, people that haven't got anything and they're struggling to put the heating on. And you just, I think just, I'm just grateful for the simple things. Yeah. Yeah. And when the kids were small, if we had a Saturday or a Sunday when it was like this, we used to have a pyjama day, but we'd have a Disney day.

Yeah. So we put all the cushions on the floor, and we'd all lay there and sit there and lay there and we'd watch Disney for it. the old ones, not the newer ones, but... No. So it would be Robin Hood. I love Robin Hood. The original 101 Dalmatians.

Yes. Which if people, if you haven't seen it, if anyone listening, if you haven't seen the original, I think it was 1960, I think it was a year I was born, is a fantastic... It is a great film. Walt Disney animation. The old ones are the best. Yeah, and the Sword in the Stone.

Oh! James's favourite. It's great. The Sword in the Stone. Yeah, we used to take the DVDs to Portugal and he'd watch them on the plane and watch and the sword in the stone as well. So we'd have a little, you know, we'd sort of have that little Disney sort of afternoon

where we just all watch films in our pajamas and whatever. And that's, I think that's nice. Yeah, that's lovely. That's lovely. I think when it's really a daylight to day where it's really gloomy, having something to do is good for me. Yeah. Because there can be days where I'm not at work as such

or not, you know, I haven't got something on. Yeah. So I was really grateful today that I had to, get up, get ready, get on the train. I had somewhere to be, a little bit of motivation. Yeah, it's very easy. I found it over Christmas, like, really easy just to slip. In no time, just slip into that.

Can't be bothered. Very, very easy. Can't be bothered to get out of bed. You know, that's not me at all, but, you know. No, I hear you. I really do. I thought I'd have, I've had a mad year. I'd not had a lot of time off, really,

and been working seven days a week with the house and everything. So it was, you know, have a rest of it. at Christmas. You know, don't get up at 7 o'clock every day. So I sort of did that. And then before you know it, I can't be bothered to put my pants on.

Like, I can't be bothered. Like, it's 11 o'clock. What shall I do? I can't bother to put my trousers on. Just lay here. Honestly. So you need that.

You need that. I think you do need that purpose. I'm terrible. I am for a laying. Really? Terrible. If I can get one and Marks around. And I genuinely,

it's not me wallowing. in bed, I can sleep. You know, I can wake up 11 after 11. I think, I can't believe that I've slept so long. No, I've not, last, I can't remember last time I did that. No, it's terrible. Probably when I was out till 5 o'clock in the morning, I would say, which was a long time ago.

Yeah. Yeah, but I think, yeah, on a gloomy day, it's good to have things to do. Yeah, see, the thing is for you, like you say, you can have, you can potentially have days where you've not got a lot. I'm always busy. Yes. So I don't really feel it. I mean, the problem is, Tony, I've always got things to do, be it on the phone or ideas.

But again, a lot of it is self-motivation. And that could be really, really hard. Massively tough. Especially when it's days like this in January. Massively tough. Honestly, I take it from me. For the last 20 or years, I've had to be self-motivated. You've got to get up and you've got to get on with it.

And there's times when you don't want to do it. And it's a real, in the end, it's sort of what you've got to do is not even think about consequences, not even think about what ifs, you just got to get up and do and do. Yes. That's it. Yeah. You know, not, well, I'll get up and then, no, if that happens,

and what should I do about that? And, you know, I don't really fancy that. Yeah, by the time you've done that for half an hour, the day's over. Days over. You're finished. Yeah, it's so true. So you've just got to get up and do basically. And that's the only way.

But being self-motivated is very, very, very difficult. It really is. And it's not for everybody. No. It's not. You know, some people need, they need structure and someone telling them. Yeah. Yeah, they need someone to tell them so you've got to come.

I need you here. I need you to do that. Yeah. We need you to do this today. Yeah, I think I am a bit like that. But I have been going to the gym, going swimming. Yeah. I've really enjoyed that.

I did laugh at the clip with the girls the other day, sorry, with the changing room. Oh, yeah. I was noticing myself laughing at that. true, though, isn't it? Well, I don't know. I don't go in ladies' chains. No, well, I don't know if the men's are the same. Well, I suppose...

I think if there's some blokes who are, you know, obviously very buff or whatever they call it, and they're, you know, they've been, they're in the gym and, you know, they've got quite a large thing of me jiggy, and they tend to sort of, they tend to stroll around. I'm there in my little towel in the corner like that, trying to put my pants on under the towel. Yeah. Well, when I did go, I mean, I'm not doing it at the moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, it has, again, does lift the mood.

Yeah, definitely. Lifts the mood, a little bit of exercise, get your blood pumping. Yeah. Just gets a bit of positivity in you. So that's been good. That's been good. Let's have a little listen to what people have been saying. Hi, Nat.

It's Elaine from Kent. What makes me happening on a gloomy day? Listening to Life with Nat, of course. Also, listening to music while doing the housework, obviously, because what's better than getting the housework done with some music because it's so boring. Also, old clothes. I have a Chinese dress that my mum brought from China

when she went years and years and years and years ago. We had a photo shoot done in 2009. I've still got it in the wardrobe. Can't fit into it, but it's beautiful, and I can't get rid of it. Have a great day. Bye. Oh, thank you, Elaine. We're going to have to get on to old clothes before we do.

got to have a bit of music on. Do you know what? It's really funny because I sort of lost music for probably 20 years. I'd listen to the radio, but you know, like the music you used to love. Yes. I didn't listen to The Wall by Pink Floyd, which is one of my favourite albums. Not for everyone, it's a bit gloomy. But I love the musicality and I love the way it's structured and all the rest of it and the story and whatnot.

And I probably didn't listen to that for 20 years. Yes, mad. And then out of the blue last, not the Christmas just gone, but the Christmas before, just before it, I sort of got Spotify and thought, oh, we're going to start listening to a bit of music. And again, on the certain days when music will definitely change your mood or it just makes life a little bit more bearable

than just listening to, you know, the nose or your LBC or whatever. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. And I think, yeah, music. is now quite a large part of me because I just, I've basically re-found it. You know, albums I haven't listened to for a long, long time and I'm now re-listening to him

and I'm remembering why I listened to him in the first place. It's really, really good. It's very, very special. Yeah. What are your top five albums? Oh, I couldn't tell you. Well, I'd have to have a little thing. We have to have a thing.

I mean, that's probably another. It's a pod in itself. You could do films as well we need to do, I think. Yeah, see. I'm up for doing films but I am not a massive film watcher but I do have my favourites I'm not but let's do it

we'll do that another time Remember this people Get yourself a little You've got to open your notes now on your phone Because we're asking you loads of questions We want favourite films Favorite albums Top five albums

Top five albums would be great Yeah That would be a really good one And that can actually go across all pods And I can ask everybody So please send them in That'd be great Be brilliant

Definitely So the reason Elaine mentioned old clothes then is I received this this morning from Elia and as usual she did make me laugh Well that's rude because I was ringing you back But never mind I was laying in bed last night And my feet were really cold

And it got me thinking I have this one pair of socks That I think I think they might have even been Maria don't know how I've got them. They are pink and black striped fluffy socks. I think I've probably had them for circa coming up to 20 years. It's my birthday in two days, 34, probably, yeah, I'd say sort of between 18 and 20 years.

And when my feet are cold, which isn't very often, that's, I only, I only, I'll only, I'll, put them on. I don't want to buy a new pair. I've got no interest in any others when I go out and I see them. You know that some people love buying like a new pair of fluffy socks. Not interested. I love wearing them. And I've realized that actually I'm like that with quite a lot of things. I get quite attached to old items of clothing. So yeah, just wondered what your thoughts were We're on that. I've got a black t-shirt dress just to sort of carry on with the theme that was once yours. Notice the theme that anything I keep is actually not anything I bought myself, but it was yours. And again, I think you probably gave that to me about 14 years ago, 12 years ago.

And I love it so much. And I will chuck it on, like if I've just got out the shower and I'm getting ready or I'm just pottering around. And I absolutely love it. It's got a very large hole now in the sort of three quarter length sleeve and it's got a hole in the elbow. But I'm not throwing it away and I will continue to wear it because I absolutely love it. There you go. So I thought that was a very, another brilliant subject. Yeah.

Of clothes that you keep. It's mad because when she sent me that, I thought, I've got a striped t-shirt. it's got holes in the front little holes it's from John Lewis probably about 15 years ago and I will not throw it away it's got dye where I've had my air done

a little bit of dye on the back but for home it's my favourite t-shirt and it's not going anywhere yeah so I've got one again this is I didn't know we were going to talk about this so when I went on my first boys holiday

to Rhodes when I was 16 I bought a It's sort of a purple long-sleeved granddad sort of shirt thing very much of its time you know the 80s and really good if you're sort of in clubs

and you're soaking wet because it was cotton and stuff like that and it looked quite nice at the time and I thought I'd lost it I actually thought I accused Sharon to chucking it out which I apologise for Sharon sorry now

I re-found it about five years ago we were just sorting through some stuff and it was there and believe it or not so when I was 17 I probably weighed about a lot less than I do now

of a 32 inch waist I could get 32 inch Levi's on I think I'll get 30 inch Levi's on so I was wearing this thing and then I put it on and it still fits me so God knows what it looked like when I was 17 but was that sort of the new romantic sort of baggy shirt

everything was baggy so used to wear oversized t-shirts like everything was big and baggy even though I was very skinny or whatever and I've still got it now. And I actually now wear it. If it's cold, I stick it underneath my t-shirt as an undergarment sort of thing. Do you?

Yeah. To still wear it. And it's now got some paint and stuff and some waterproof on it, I think. So I've never, but I've still got it. Yeah. And it's 41 years old. Brilliant. It's 41 years old. And it still washes up.

Yeah. I think I've got it from, was it Cecil G or something like that, or Reese. I can't remember now. It was one of those sort of, I think it was some, it was a brand that was big in the is now gone. Yes, yeah. But it still washes. I don't think it's got,

it might have one or two little holes in it, but it's still, and I still sort of wear it at time. Not out, but yeah, no, no. It's funny, isn't it? But mostly other stuff you get rid of, because you just, you know, put weight on and you just can't get into it anyway,

so what's the point? I don't see the point in keeping stuff. No, no. I think it's really difficult going through wardrobes and stuff because I find it quite difficult when things have cost a lot of money and you think,

oh, I don't want to chuck them away, and I know people do vinted and that's all, you know, bits and pieces, it's really good. But for me, I am a bit, I can be quite heartless as well. I can sort of look and go, I'm not going to wear that again. There's a rule, isn't there? They say if you, if you haven't worn something for about six months. Or if you haven't used something for six months. You should get rid of it.

Get rid of it. Get rid of it. Yes, right. It's a hard one. Unless it's a nugget of gold worth about 300 grand or a platinum ring or something that you don't, you know, or a Rolex, you don't. I don't think you should chuck things like that out. No, no.

But general tour, I try to be like that as well. And what we do now is we actually box up, Sharon boxes up the summer stuff and we stick it up in the loft. Yes. So we've got our winter stuff. And then when the summer comes around, we box the winter stuff up. So you're not, you're not, we haven't got loads of woldrobes based. So you're not, you know, you've got wardrobes crammed full of stuff

you're not wearing at that time. Well, I've done that. Which is quite a good tip, I've done it. And also with the summer stuff, it's all under the bed. Yeah. When it comes out. it's almost like you've got some new clothes. You rediscover things and you don't get as bored,

which again I think's good for not wasting and buying things that you don't need. And for the sake of it, that's right, yeah. So it is very good. I've also got a pair of tracksuit bottoms on now, about 10 years old. I just, I love old, I do, comfort clothes. But if it's comfortable, then you're going to, you know, you're going to wear it.

You're going to wear those comfortable things of a night. or, you know. Nothing better, is there, than stoutary stuff? No, I'm getting into your comforts. Oh, definitely. It's lovely. It's lovely.

Talking about that, Evie's boyfriend, Toby, sort of never, they never did do comforts in his house. Yes. So they'll wear their jeans

until they go to bed and things like that. And he was quite taken aback when we all sort of said we're getting into our comforts and he sort of didn't know what we were talking about. That's interesting,

isn't it? Yeah, he just, what's that? And it's, it's, I said, I said, I said, Toby, it's when you let yourself

go and you, you know, and your belt is cutting into you so much that you're going to die, that's when you get your comforts on. Yeah. Perfect. Because he's like that, obviously. Yeah, yeah. And now he's bought, he's got some comforts and comes around. And he now sees the value.

That is very, very good. Yeah. I'd say I am 50-50. Right. Because I can stay in jeans and shirt and sit downstairs, be busy, have me dinner, and then sit on the sofa in jeans. I can, that does have. happen quite regularly.

Yeah, I don't really understand that. No, it can happen. So there's a little bit of both going on. Yeah. But preferably, comfort's all the way. Yeah. Yeah. We're doing this.

Obviously, you can only see the top half, can't you? Well, that's it. Yeah. I've got no trousers on. I'm just in pants. I know. Yeah. And I don't mind because I'm your sister.

Yeah. But thank goodness we are midshot. Oh, God, yes. Yeah, you won't want to see that past there, really. Well, I'm sure people won't. But, you know. I think someone once said that, I'm sure they said that Trevor McDonough used to, sorry, Trevor, no, not just.

Trevor McDonough? As Tiz, wasn't it? Trevor, yeah. Trevor McDonough, sorry, I've got me McDonald's. So I'm sure someone said that Trevor, Sir Trevor, used to, no, maybe it wasn't him. There was a news reader that used to basically sort of read the news in his pants because he wasn't comfortable in his, in his trousers. Let's hope it wasn't.

Trevor McDonough. No. Hugh. Oh, my God. Don't go down that coldy set. Well, just saying. Can, worms. Woo-hoo!

I'm not even going to say the surname. No, I'm not. People all know. I don't know what you're talking about. There we go. It's nothing to do with me, his solicitors. Got no idea. Hi now.

This is Alex. I'm from Warwickshire. I've been a long time listener of the show. I hadn't actually missed one yet. I've never sent a voice note before, so I feel very out of my depth. and out of my comfort zone, but I just saw your message about things that cheer you up on a gloomy day. I've got three kids. They're all under nine. Very, very challenging, trying to run a house,

and my husband's out at work a lot. So I use your pod as company during the work days. And also, I have to run the house on my own. And it just gets quite lonely. So, yeah, I consider you to be a friend, which is really odd, I suppose, from your perspective, but very comforting from my own. So thank you for all your pods. Anyway, things that cheer me up on a gloomy day, heavy days parenting, having got the kids out of the house. Just really simple, a cup of tea and a nice little cuddle with my ginger kitten, who is called Buddy.

He's nine weeks old. And I believe in the power of animals really, really strongly. We've also got a Cocker Spaniel called Daisy and two rabbits, Hansa and some fish. So we're a bit animal mad. But there is something magic in animals that people don't possess, I believe. And, yeah, just go and hang out with animals and see if your day feels better. But, yeah, feeling really silly and this is going on a bit.

So thank you again. Thanks, bye. Not silly, Alex, at all. Thank you for your first voice note. It was absolutely brilliant. She sounded lovely, didn't she? Didn't she? Didn't she sound lovely?

Really nice. And it's hard. Three children under nine, running the home. Oh, yeah. She's on your own a lot because your husband's out to work. It can be lonely. Things can get overwhelming and on top of you. Yeah, especially, I mean, we don't know if you've not got family near as well.

That's another thing. Absolutely. Sort of some people who haven't got family close to them. No. They haven't got a mum and dad and someone that can pop in and help her and take the weight off and whatever. Yeah. Yeah, really, really difficult. But I'm sure you feel like that as well with Nelly.

Yes. Make sure you up. What she said is absolutely right, it's unconditional love. Totally unconditional. You know, you just come in and it doesn't matter what mood you're in or whatever 80 days, and she just goes like a maniac and you've got to, you know, let her slobber all over you and whatever. And so it is nice, yeah, it's really nice. I mean, we were never ever dog people, to be honest.

No, no, no, I know. And we got, Evie was, you know, going on and on and on and on. So we ended up getting nearly. And, yeah, sort of, it's a life changer. Really is. And I now understand, I understand people, you know, with dogs and why they have them. and for all good reasons. It gets you out.

You know, you've got to get up and walk them and you've got to make sure, you know, there's times when you don't want to go out in the cold and the rain or whatever, but you do it. I don't. I mean, Sharon does it and Evie does it and whatever. But it's good for them as well because they get out. It means you've got to get out of the house when otherwise you wouldn't,

you wouldn't be getting out of the house, you know. Yeah, it crosses my mind. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Meet lovely people on dog walks and stuff. But they are quite restrictive as well. You've got to be careful. really, really careful. People get them and think you can just go to work

and live the life you normally live and not worry about this little thing that you've got and they're like little people and that sounds ridiculous. No, it doesn't. They're like little people and they've got their own... You know, if we go out for too long, she ignores us. She won't talk to us.

We come in and she'll ignore us. If we've left her too long, can't do it. It's terrible. How long does she ignore you for? It can be a few hours. Really? Yeah. Yeah, where she just...

sits there with the amp because we've left her. That is funny. Yeah. Yeah. That is brilliant. But honestly, Alex, that was such a lovely message. It was a brilliant message. It wasn't silly at all. No, it was really lovely. Carry on and keep sending them in, please.

Yeah, definitely. Sarah from Worcester says, Hi, hi Nat and Tony. On a gloomy day, I think it's lovely to get all your work and jobs done. Then when you get home, put your lamps and candles on, make sure the house is all clean and tidy and cozy if you can be asked. and then put some fleece pyse py and chips or spag bowl, shut the curtains, watch the telly where your phone switched off.

Just being at home, warm, clean and fed is one of life's luxuries. Love the pod nap, keep being you and doing what you do. That's exactly what you said. Yeah. Isn't it? Yeah, simple things in life are really important sometimes. Very much. One here, fitness training helps brighten your mood,

but also the fact that we can now see the mornings and evenings getting lighter. I'm definitely a summer sunshine girl. Love to everyone from Jane, Bedfordshire. I have to say that kind of school run, when I go and get Eliza, it's about sort of 4.30-ish. It's really nice now that it's not pitch black. Yes. You can see the night's getting longer.

Yeah. And that's really nice. Well, because we've been mild recently. Yes. And it has been quite mild. Yes. I mean, we've been in 10s, 11s and whatever. And the mornings have not been freezing, freezing cold.

I've had the birds singing, which is my favourite. I've woke up a couple of times thinking, oh, it sounds like spring. It's not, it's middle of January. Yes. I've had all the birds out here. Yeah, brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Even I've gone out, like, I'll go out down to the, we've got a little office down in the back of the garage and whatever,

where my work stuff is and Evie does her bits and pieces for college and that. And I just opened the door the other night, and it was probably 8 o'clock, and I could hear the bird singing, which is really unusual in January. Yeah, very much so. But because it was quite mild and whatever. So that always cheats me up. Birds song. Oh, massive.

Amazing. We've got one here, a game from Jane in Bedfordshire, about the old clothes. I still have my school hat and blazer. I left high school in 1978. Auntie Linney would have a fit. When I was about 13, my dad took me and my sister to Petticoat Lane and bought us both sheepskin-like bomber jackets with big furry collared and cuffs. Still got that as well, it's immaculate. My prize possession is my nana's suede box jacket. kit. She died when I was about seven. She was a larger lady, so I'd struggle to wear it, but I'd never part with that either. I think the coats are at dads from when I was doing my house renovations, but I'll send a pick at the weekend if I can find them. So thank you, Jane.

Well, Jane, I bet I know the place she went to to get her sheepskin jacket, her jacket with her sheepskin. Petticoat Lane. The big red building on pettico. Like, there used to be a, like a really well-known advert. It was on capital, like when we were, this is when we was kids, so capital radio or whatever you were. Yeah, yeah. It used to listen to back then, not now.

There was this jingle. It was something like, I can't remember, it was something like something coat, sheepskin, leather, the big red building on Pettercoat. And there was this big, great big, big, red brick building, Petit Coat Lane.

And it had all the stuff? It was basically leather, suede and sheepskin. I bought something in there. That is brilliant. Jane, please let us know. It must, I'm sure, it might not be. I mean, the Petter Coat Lane had loads of stuff down there. Yes.

But there was this one place where if you wanted, if you wanted a bit of John Motson, a bit of fur, a bit of Del Boy, a bit of fur, bit of leather, you know, you went down to the big red building in Petter Coat Lane. Oh, Jane, let us know. That is fantastic. Have you got anything, can you,

have you got anything from your childhood, clothes-wise? Don't, I don't think so, no. I gave you a little name badge, didn't I? Which were sewn into your uniforms? Yes, that's right. Which mummy used to sew in. Well, you used to have them made in John Lewis and you used to sew them into all your uniforms

and your school kit and stuff. Yeah, Tony Cassidy. Might have that somewhere. I've got no clothes from me when I was little. I don't think so. I mean, I'd be honest with you, I hated school. So on the last day of school, I burnt my blazer. Did you?

Yeah. Well, I didn't have a blazer. I think I burnt my tie my shirt and walked home half naked. Really? Yeah. I hate school. So I wasn't going to keep anything from school, that's for sure. No.

No, definitely not. So I don't think so. I'm not, do you know what, I'm not that sort of person? I'm not sort of... Overly nostalgic about it. No, not really. I sort of, things I remember. You know, you think back and remember stuff.

Don't mean that, but I don't want boxes and boxes are crap. No, I'm the same really. When I was little or whatever, I just don't see the point. Yeah, I like the odd, I do. I do love a photo and that sort of thing. I tend to not stew in the past. I can think of good things, but then I'm on to the next thing. Exactly. You've got to look for the next...

On to the next thing. Not challenge, but the next, you know... Chapter, whatever you want to say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hi, nah, me again. It's Jess from sunny old Derbyshire. I've just seen your message about what makes you feel better on a gloomy day. I'm going to be brutally honest.

I am so British. I'm so Derbyshire, throwing through that today is, it is grim, is dark, it's miserable, it's raining, it's not stop raining, there's literally no sunlight, and I can't feel any better. I literally come alive in this weather, I love it,

I love the dark, I love the gloom, I love, so I own a wedding dress shop and like today, I'm inside, the lights around, it's nice and bright, the heating's on, I'm warm, I'm snuggly, I've just had a hot chocolate, I'm currently steaming dresses that have just come in,

one of our new collections have just arrived, So I'm steaming those dresses. And in the summer when it's hot and bright, I don't want to be doing that. I don't want to do it. I don't want to be in the shop because it's too hot. It's sweaty.

No one wants that. So for me, give me this weather. Give me the bloom. Give me the grumpy, the miserable. I'm never been happier. I know that sounds really sad,

but honestly, I'm like a stick of rocks. Snap me in half and I just say Darbyshire. I am terrible. But do you know what? Go and get yourself. a nice big hot chocolate or a nice big brew, sit down and just be thankful that you're in a nice warm house

and sooner or later you'll realise that the gloom, the grim is not actually that bad because we're safe and tucked up inside. I hope you have a lovely Wednesday, I think it is today. Wednesday, January, 564th, isn't it? It's a long month. Yes. I hope you have a love a day. Teodles.

Oh, that was such a lovely message. Thank you. Honest. Very honest. And also, I am very much, I've realised, and I say it every year, you're all going to laugh at me. And I go, I love it. I love the night's drawing in. I do purely for Christmas.

It's all about Christmas. Yeah, yeah. I really, this year especially have realised I don't love the winter. And I certainly don't like January at all. Yeah. But again, running theme tone, exactly what you said. Yes. You're warm.

You've got light. Yeah. You can put a light on. Yeah. Or a nice handle. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You know, make yourself a lovely cup of tea or pull yourself a drink.

Hmm. It ain't that bad, is it? It's not. At all. It's not that bad, really, no. And I do feel now with, because we're sort of halfway two thirds through January, we're on the downslope to spring now. End of the month is a month.

big one for me because I have to pay my bills and do some invoice in and see whether we're still going to be traded next week. Not quite as bad as that, but... I love the joy you bring, you know. I know, yeah, it's brilliant, isn't it? The positivity, yeah, the life of a self-employed builder. But so for me, I'll get to the end of January and think, right, that's good, that's that difficult month out of the way.

And then you're hoping you've got February, which can be a bit of a bark, it really can, and March can as well. But you're hoping... Like, Feb shawl, get that, get that done. We might be really lucky and have a sort of temperate early spring, and then we've got seven months of niceness until Christmas. And I'll just hang on to that. Yeah.

There's a part of me that does say, don't wish it away, though. It worries me, wishing time away. Yeah, I know what you mean. I know what you mean. And then I think, oh, I'm moaning and groaning, but the children, you know, it's lovely at the moment. I'm at home. Again, there's loads going on there.

But, you know, there's always two sides of everything. I feel like we're always contradicting ourselves in some manner. So, you know, we want spring to come, but also I don't want to wish it away. Or the house is covered in toys and I'm fed up with it. But in two years' time, they'll all be gone. So enjoy it. I feel like there's a permanent kind of struggle between things you might want, but things you're going to miss as well.

Yeah, but that's life, isn't it? I think life is a contradictory thing. Yes. Just is. I'm the same, you know, I'm getting on, you know, I'm 58 this year. Yeah. Can't believe it. But I am.

And I'm not, you know, you don't want to keep getting older and whatever else. It's inevitable. I know it is. So you don't want to wish your life away because you end up being older and you don't want to get there. By the same token, there's certain things I just don't like about cold, wet, nasty, horrible days like today. And you are wishing him away. And I am wishing it away for that reason because I don't like them. You know?

Yeah. It's a funny old thing, in it, life? It really is a funny old thing. Talking of that just for a minute, I have to mention, I've got to, before we carry on with these. I'll have to, I'm sorry, I've got to mention the Beckham's. Why? Because I'm not sure if you've seen it, but last week.

I've seen murmurings on the telly. Last week, it all kicked off. Tuesday night, right? It's all completely kicked off that Brooklyn, I'm not even going to repeat it, everyone knows, right? He's done a load of statements

saying he don't want anything to do with his mum and dad, saying she danced inappropriately and all this stuff, right? I don't want to talk about it. It's not my business. They're a family. Each side to their own.

You're never going to know. You're never going to know the truth anyway. So it doesn't really matter. What I can't believe is my phone has been filled my social media, filled with just that. I've never seen it filled with one thing as much. And it just made me realise,

I suppose firstly how famous and sort of how big they are. But I'd say more than the Harry and Megan stuff, my phone's been filled with it. Now maybe that's an algorithm because they're English. Well, it is, because if you go looking for it, then it comes up on your phone, doesn't it? But I haven't looked at it. What I'm saying is I'm not looking for it.

It's everybody doing videos, telling me their opinions. People, it is crazy. Yeah, I don't really understand it personally. It's just like, I know they're rich and they're famous, and Victoria was a spice girl, and David had a decent right foot. I know that. But they're a family that have fallen out. Yeah.

And I think it's quite sad that it's all being played out in public and whatnot. It just is, you know, it's not nice, is it? It can't be nice. I think it's very sad for all of it. I just don't, it's really, really sad. And I think it's just the world we live in is that people, you know, at the moment, there's stuff going on in Iran that is not being even been reported. Yes.

You know, genocide and struggle and it's not even on the news. It's like, oh, we're not one about that. But that was on the news? Yeah, but David of Victoria have had a right row of Brooklyn, you know, and we'll put that on the news. I don't get it. No. People wonder why, you know, people growing up with this celebrity culture

and this facile way that they look at life, and it's all about who's famous and who's rich. And there's stuff going on in the world where you don't even hear about it. Yeah. But I just think it's, honestly, I just think it's sad. I wouldn't want it, if we were having a row, I wouldn't, I wouldn't want it made public. No, no. And you've got people sticking there, you know, the reporter sticking their thing,

David's face going, what do you think about, Brooklyn and, you know, what do you think about your son and what he said and what? It's not nice, isn't it? It's disrespectful, isn't it? Yeah. It's horrible, really. No, I do feel sorry for them and everyone can say, oh, but they're a brand and this. They are, they are. They're still people.

But they've worked really hard to get to where they've got to, and they are still people. So I do. My thoughts goes out to them, I have to say. But, yeah, I did just think, I can't believe how big it is, sort of royal family big, you know? I think it's even big. You know, it's almost like someone's declared. World War III. It's sort of, isn't it?

The coverage is that, I mean, I try and stay away from it, don't get me wrong. Yeah, yeah. Best I can. Yeah, it's crazy. The other reason I brought it up, I think it is because

we're in the 500th of January and everyone's gloomy and it's quite a dormant time and it's just something for people to grab old of. little bit. I think if this would have happened when the World Cup's on in July and everyone's in the pub and the sunshine.

No, I want to take any notice. I don't think this would have happened. No, no. So it's sort of slow, it's not really slow news at the minute. I mean, there's lots going on. But in terms of what it is celebrity. Celebrity culture, isn't it? And people love celebrity, don't they?

And they love, people know who's he, aren't they? They want to know the ins and outs. Yes. They want to know if that one said that and went on. And I'm not, I'm guilty of it. I'm saying it's terrible, but I've sat and laughed at a couple of memes where they've had sort of Victoria dancing or whatever. And I'm guilty of it and I'm having a laugh.

And then I think, oh, shouldn't be laughing at that. No, no. But, you know, human nature sometimes. Human nature, isn't it? We're all like it. Oh, it's terrible what it is. Hiya. I've fully related and loved your Natch Chats podcast.

January can be really gloomy and can get you down, but I try to use it as a month to meal prep. Lots of casseroles, pies and soups, so we can just have to defrost it and heat it up, which means we can light a candle and watch a good film or a box set. Love all the pods, Tara from Suffolk. Well, that's fantastic Tara from Suffolk, but I've got freezer envy now,

because she must have a really big freezer. Right? Go on. And I've just put an integrated fridge freezer in my new kitchen. Yeah. And the freezer is about as big as a shoebox. It's useless. What can you get in there?

Bag of ice. Yeah. A bit of frozen dog food and a packet of peas. Virtually. Not quite as bad as that, but it is tiny. Did you freeze stuff? I can't imagine you being great big freezers. I might be wrong.

Not. Sometimes. Yeah. Sometimes. Like an example. Yep. So Sharon made some really lovely. Greek, fresh Greek meatballs

the other night and they gave terrible indigestion they gave me but they were lovely garlic, loads of garlic what it is, it was raw garlic when you cook garlic and put it in stuff

like a curry or whatever or a bolognese or whatever it might be and it cooks really cooks I don't get it but this you make these basically you make the mix up all the bits and pieces in it

and then she rolls them up and puts a little bit of flour around them and you cook them for five minutes So basically a lot of the stuff that's in it isn't cooked as such The meat is but the herbs are not Which that's what gives it the flavour And they were really nice But God, you know

It was one of those where I'll just Pinetagas gone night Yeah that sort of night yeah But so she did it for the first time And it and made it as it said But it makes 36 Right Fair enough

So we didn't need 36 meatballs No Right So she did half which we ate and then she froze the other half of the mix and tonight her and Eve you're having meatballs tonight with the frozen mix. Not frozen, she's unfrozen.

Yes, yeah, yeah. Frozen meatballs is not great. So we do, you know, sometimes we do, but if you haven't got the space, then you can't. No, that's right. So I'm now working out where I'm going to put a chest freezer. I've got a workout. I might have to build a little structure in the garden

and put a freezer in it or something like that. I think you could do that. Yeah, yeah. Or get a bigger shed. Yeah. So I could end up spending, Eight grand on putting a freezer in or whatever it might be. I don't know.

Can't you just put a freezer out there and, like you say, can't you buy one of those sort of large plastic things to put it in? That was my thoughts. Yeah. I might have to. People put their bins in them, don't they? And so we get rid of stuff. Yeah, yeah.

But I've definitely got freezer envy. Because, yeah, if anyone's doing their kitchen, don't get an integrated freezer. They're rubbish. But we didn't have room for, I would like to one like yours. Double doors. We just didn't have the room. No.

Of course. We had to put it in a unit, you know. So, yeah, a bit of a shame. But the fridge is lovely. Good. So what we do now is we're just very careful and not, you know, you just don't over buy stuff and don't buy. We don't eat lots of frozen stuff.

I mean, I'm very, very lucky that Sharon cooks virtually from scratch most nights. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that's just what she does. And so I'm really, really lucky. We haven't got loads of frozen meals and microwave stuff in there because we don't tend to eat it. And I'm not saying anyone that does that's wrong. No.

I'm very, very fortunate. Very, very fortunate that I've got a lovely person at home that cooked from scratch most night. Yeah, absolutely. I find having, I do have a lot of stuff in the freezer, though, even because I have the room. It's like anything, isn't it? Yeah, if you've got the room, you'll fill it up. Yeah, that's right. So I'll buy bagels, for instance.

Yeah. And instead, because it drives me mad, you've got five bagels in a packet. Yeah, and four of them get chucked away. Or, you know, there's always two left that get chucked. So I will now split a packet and put a couple in the freezer. Just because I'm throwing, I hate to throw it. It's just wasteful, yeah, it's awful. So I do find that there is quite a lot in the freezer.

I've overdone the old stuffing and pigs in blankets again Christmas. So there's a few of those in the freezer. Like six dozen. I'll have to get them out for a Sunday roast. We'll have to start eating it. Because I know what'll happen. Just have a stuffing and pigs in blanket night. Well, I know what'll happen.

The same that happened this year. What's that? Which is I get to November and go. go through and I chuckle the sausage and pigs in blankets away. Yeah, because I've been in there too long. So I don't want to waste them. You're going to have to cook them. I was thinking I could get the pigs in blankets out though, right?

Yeah, yeah, you could. And I can make a toad in a hole. Yes. For the kids. Yes, you could do that. And put them all in. Put them all in. Yeah, definitely.

That would work. Would, wouldn't it? Yeah, not traditional because you've got a bit of bacon in there. It's right. It'd be nice. It'd be nice, wouldn't it? And the stuffing just chuck it because it's horrible. I don't like stuff.

You don't like it? Yeah. That gives you indigestion, isn't it? Yes. My God. That is... What is in it? That's A and E grade indigestion.

It is. Even I get indigestion with stuffing. If I eat stuffing, I'm literally, I've got to go to hospital. Honestly. God knows what they... God, I don't know what they put in it. What is it? I don't know whether it's the breadcrums, with the herbs.

What is it? They put something in there that's like an indigestion bomb. No, I know, but I make my own and you probably would get the same. Yeah. Yeah. Sage? Is it sage? Maybe it's sage. I bet it's sage.

You're not a devil, I yeah? Might be. You want to know, would you? You want to know, would you? Could be sitting here. You wouldn't have a clue. I wouldn't have a clue. Exactly.

That's why I don't like stuff. No, I just, I think it might be sage. I don't know. It just literally, I look at it, it makes me bilious. And it's funny. But give me a chick in Vindaloo. No problem at all. And is that true?

Do you not get any indigestion when you have a curry? I've got to be careful if I don't have too much bread if I don't have gna and stuff like that because I'm gluten in basically I'm not very good with bread and stuff and pizzas and stuff like that I eat it but it just turns me over in me

so normally if I stick to you know just something with rice and some mushrooms and what else and not too much bread I'm normally okay but the Vindaloo doesn't it kill you no next morning it does

yeah yeah yeah but what I do now is I'll be honest with you because I can't face I would probably wake up with really bad indigestion one in four times after a curry, but I can't face that thought. So what I do, when I'm going for a curry tomorrow night with Johnny and the fishing land,

I'll take a couple of tablets, a mazaprol, whatever they're called. Oh, yes. The little capsules. Yeah, it is. A mesopral, I can't remember. They used to be called something else, didn't they? I can't remember what they was called.

But now you can buy them. They used to be really expensive when they was on life, they had their own license or whatever, but now they're a generic thing, they're cheap. And tomorrow I'll take a couple of those before I go out knowing that I'm not going to get woken up in the middle of night.

As a precaution. As a precaution. So you can have your baking hot curry. I can have my big old hot curry and my chili and garlic none, which I shouldn't really eat, but I can't help it. Can't help it.

You know when, when I come around the table? No, we're the same. No, when I come around the table, and you're going, I go, chili and garlic none. And I think, what have you done that? I just can't help myself.

It's like a moth to the flame. I'm the same with loads of stuff. Moth to the flame, chili and garlic none. If it's not there, I'm alright. Yeah. But I'll do a garlic bread, say, with a chili. Yeah. Didn't do it tonight, funny enough.

Mark's done the chili, but I didn't even buy bread. No. But buy the bread, and I think I'm having any bread. They can all eat bread. They can all eat bread. Half the bread I eat. Yeah, six slices late, you're thinking. Why did I do that?

Love it? You've got to take it away, haven't you? You've got to take that. If it's not there, you can't have it. That's right. That's what you need to do. Yeah. You have to take away the temptation, I'm afraid.

This made me laugh. My PJs and some chocolate and a midsummer murders from Laura, 39, not 85. I had a fellow working for me. He was a bit older than me, and that was his midsummer murders. He just loved it. It's great, isn't it? I've never watched it. Daddy loved it.

He's only loved it. I watched bits of it. It's all right. I thought it was all right when Bergerac was in it. John Nettles, he was in it. But it's all changed now, isn't it? But I haven't really seen a lot of it. This fellow that worked for me, he loved it. Oh, it's on tonight, midsummer murders.

So have you not ever wondered why there's this little village in somewhere and like they've had 25,000 murders in the last 10 years? Would there not be a national inquiry? There would be. Yeah, of course there would. You know, you'd have sort of criminologist descending on it saying, Why is everyone murdering everyone in this little village? It's the same with all dramas, though, isn't it?

Yeah, of all those sorts of things. Yeah, I like the one on the boat. Oh, what's that? Go on. With Shane Wald from Corey, the Irish. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Did he win singing competition?

Pop-Idle or something, yeah. And the other girl from Corey Tild, is it? Catherine. Catherine? What, it's on a boat? I don't know this one. Yeah, murder. I don't know what it's called.

We're going to have 55 messages now telling us. That's what it's called. Okay. So let's wait for it. Right. We should do that. O'Double 7, double 8, 20, 1919.

What's Tony talking about? What drama? Well, whatever the drama is, someone gets murdered on the ship. Okay. And then what they do is they carry on sailing around with this murdered dead body on it and they solve the case themselves.

Okay. And I'm sure according to maritime law, if someone dies on a ship and is murdered, I don't think you just carry on a two-week holiday. No. And then, like, chuck the body off at the end. of it and then congratulate each other because she found a bloke that murdered them. No, I don't think.

I don't. I don't. So stretching the point a bit. Again, if we've got any maritime criminologist listening, put me right. Yeah. Put me right. Oh, dear. Oh, don't.

Maria sent one in about old clothes. Okay. She said, as for old clothes, I have a dress that I wore to a cocktail party. It is about 30 years old, a size 14, and I'm an 18. It's on the back of the door because I keep thinking one day I'll get into it, think I'm dreaming after all these years.

You might not be. No, never say never. Never say never. Keep it hanging there. Yeah. It might happen. I've got a couple of quite nice blazers that I bought probably,

I think a war one when we used to go to the, no, we used to go to the dues at the Savoy and that, you know, the pro-celebrity, whatever it was, where we was on a table and then you had people paying for charity and stuff. Yeah. And I had a couple of nice blazers for that type of thing.

And I put them on now, I can't go on and I'm thinking one day, one day, one day they're going to go on. I've got the most beautiful dress that I wore to an award ceremony. And I really treated myself. But it was after I ran the first marathon. So I was at my smallest. And my back must have been with the running and everything. It's not just small. It's like, how did that?

ever, it's a different shape to what I am now. Yeah. You've morphed into a completely different person. It's just, and it's, it's a, it's beautiful, but I shan't get, I'm hoping one of the girls can wear it one day. It's a beautiful dress. Yeah. Well, Sharon had a beautiful cocktail dress that she bought for a work do for mine years ago. It was sort of a metallicy brown.

Oh, and she did look gorgeous in it. And it fits Evie. She kept it, and I think Eve's worn it. There you go. There you go. So that's lovely. Which is really nice that she's, yeah. It's lovely to do that.

If she didn't wear it, I think she tried it on and said, oh, it is lovely. But for whatever reason she didn't wear it. But we've still got that. Yes. But it might, at some point, it might feel like wearing that, you know. It's a really lovely thing to do. It is nice, yeah. It's lovely.

Yeah. It's unbelievable tonight, the messages. I have to finish up soon because we're nearly on an hour. I know. But let's try and squeeze a couple more in because people are so great. Hi, Nat. This is Rose from Burton on Trent. Just seeing your message and thought it would be nice to just reminisce slightly

because one of my favourite times on a gloomy day, whether it was wet, snowy or whatever, was when my boys were preschool age and we watched Daddy go down the road, slip sliding away on his bike. And we could just shut ourselves away, have the fire on. play games, do whatever we wanted to do, and stay nice, warm and cozy. And I very often think about that once I, even now, and I'm 70 now and they're very grown up. But nowadays, I do the same sort of thing, but with my husband and we knuckle down, we have a nice bit of lunch, some warming soup, sit in front of the fire, watch the telly, do a bit of reading,

A bit of nothingness really makes me feel happy. Anyway, just want to say, absolutely love all of the pods. Wish I could get to you for one of the lives, but you're a bit far away from me at the moment, but you never know my look. Thank you, bye. Oh, what a lovely message. Yeah, smashing.

I think doing nothing, if you can train your brain to do so, is very good for you. A small amount. I do agree. I mean, I'm terrible. I can't stop. You know, and then if I do stop, it was like Christmas, where I can't be, I just can't bother to have a wash.

No, I think we are quite alike. We're very alike in that sense. But because of the book club, we've got book club going on. I know, I've seen it. And that is making me sit down. Yeah. Because I have to read it. Because I want to get to a point.

Again, you've got a purpose. I have to have that deadline. Yeah. That's what I've seen. Yeah. That's what I'm learning more and more. No difference to when I had my exam. No.

I left it all last minute, crammed it all in. It's just the way I work, obviously. Maybe we need to have a, when are you going to finish your kitchen club? So people can keep asking me, so I finally get it finished, maybe. I'm sure you will soon. Don't feel like it. You will. I know you will.

Proudier. Thank you very much. And you are going to feel such a sense of achievement when you step back and go that is done. I'm going to be relieved. I know that. You will. Last but not least. Lovely Fee said, Natalie, on a gloomy day,

I love to go for a cold water swim somewhere outdoors, followed by a sauna. It makes you feel so good for the rest of the day and you sleep like a baby. Sounds lovely. Yeah. But I'm too much of a wuss for that. The cold water thing don't really, I mean, I know people do it and they say it's unbelievable, but it's just not for me, I don't think. In the same way, cold showers.

I know Chris is mad on the money, Chris Evans. Oh, does he? Oh, he does all, though, didn't he? Yeah. and all that. And I just, I think myself, we're human beings, right? Yeah. And we spent hundreds and millions of years evoluting

or whatever the name is to get to the point where we learn how to warm water up and pour it over ourselves. All right? So this evolution has taken hundreds of thousand years to give us the know-how, the brains, the technology, to be able to stand under a lovely warm shower and really enjoy it. why on earth would you want a cold one?

I don't understand. I just, but then I am a bit, I'm not really a cold water person. I am a wuss. I did it for, I'm a wuss. Yeah, I'm a wuss. I did it for the Channel 4 documentary I made. They lowered me into some cold water.

Yeah. On a chair and it was at their, you know, it wasn't dunking myself in. No, no, no. It was at a slow pace going in. Yeah, so they lowered you in, yeah. It was fucking horrible. Yeah, yeah.

Really horrible. Horrible. Didn't enjoy it. Yeah. I did feel quite invigorated when I come out, but I think that's because you know, you've not had a heart attack. Yeah.

Yeah, you've not died. I think getting in a swimming pool outside that was a little bit warm might be all right. In terms of getting in to sea, people do it Christmas Day, don't they? They get in, I think it's amazing. And there's a lot of older people that say their health benefits

for your bones, for all your circulation, but I'm sorry, I don't like being cold at the best of times. No, I mean, it's bad enough for me when I'm sitting in a pissing rain and I'm fishing in minus one or whatever.

That gets cold. But the thought of doing it with a pair of swimming trunks on, sorry. Go the whole hog, yeah. Just jump in. Rod out. Rod out. Paddle? Or Rod wouldn't be out, would it?

Rod will be right in. Oh. So cold. Sorry, for now, for now. Bit of double entendre. Why not? Oh, missus. Oh, matron.

Maitron. All that has gone by and it has flown. Thank you so much. That's all right. That was really nice. It's a bit of blast. It won't be long and we'll be in Newcastle. Oh, yes.

You and I? I'm not sure who else is joining us, but yeah, we've got Newcastle on the 8th. Sorry, Newcastle, you've lumbered with us. No, it'll be fantastic and we're going to come up and have a good chingrag. So that is Sunday the 8th of February. Please look it all up. There's a new little page, and it's www. life with nat.

dot club and that's got all of the live tour shows and the links for ticket buying. So have a little look at that for me. You can also get the latest episode on there. So I did want to mention this because if you've got somebody who doesn't really know how to do podcasts

but they don't mind, you know, getting on the internet and they look up stuff, let them know to go to www. lifewithnat. dot club and they can find the latest episode on there. And that might be easier for them just to click on.

Well, it will be. Because a lot of people have not got subscription, streaming services, all that sort of stuff. Yes. So they can go on, just go on the web, go on the website, job done. And it's there. Yeah. So let me know.

I didn't even know about you. Don't tell me anything, do you? To be honest, to be it. Lovely Emma. Lovely Emma. I bought, I've got the Lifewithnet. Dot club because of the merchandise and the shop.

Yes. So I've got dot shop. Dot shop. So I bought dot club. And then lovely Emma said Oh, shall I just put something together? So again, it's very, very basic, it's very very simple, just like me. But, you know, you've got, it does what it says on the tin.

Yeah. It's got my colours. It's got my picture. You've got a latest episode and all the links if you would like to buy a ticket to a live show and where they are. Brilliant. So there we go. Nice and easy. There you are.

077, 08, 20, 191919. Please let me know if you let anybody know about the website. I'd really like to hear if you can get some people to listen and what they think of it and whether they like it let's get some opinions of new listeners that would be fantastic as well thank you so much for listening I will talk to you on Thursday

Tom thanks so much It's been a pleasure lovely brilliant really enjoyed it Good old Netter Yeah great missed you I missed you Yeah it's terrible isn't it Should do it more often maybe

Absolutely See you everyone Bye See you see you Bye.