Life with Nat - EP210: Nat's Chats #10 - a springtime chit chat

Episode Date: March 19, 2026

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Hello, you lot. How are you doing on this wonderful Thursday? It's actually Tuesday and I've just taken my car in for a service, right? All late as usual. Get a call. It keeps dinging up in the car. Service due, service due. Got no time for it. And then someone phones me from the garage last week. They say, Miss Cassidy, your car is due for a service. I said, oh yes, wonderful. Thank you there, Paul. Lovely Paul. He said, your MOT's running out at midnight.

I said, oh dear, don't know what's happened there then. Having had a reminder. He said, and your tax was due on the 1st of March. You haven't paid that yet. Now, listen, it's all sorted. I've done it. And fortunately, over the last few days, I haven't really been driving. I've been getting transport to work.

But those things, do not have got on top of me. I'm just not very good at it. No matter how hard I try. I need to write little dates in my diary. I've got my paper diary. Everyone thinks I'm really sad. You know I love a paper diary, don't you? My week is so busy this week

that it's been like challenge Anika to get up here and record for Thursday. But I can't let you down and you know you come first. So here we are. I've got a few lovely ladies to talk to. But where did I want to start? I wanted to start with the Oscars.

My lovely friend, Ellie. it was on the pod. He's cooked for the Oscars this year, once again, with Wolfgang Puck. It's all very, very posh. But it's lovely when I look at Instagram and I see a friend on there doing so well. The reason I wanted to mention that is I think it's really important that when we do go online and we do look at things, we do wish people well. So I think there's a lot of bitterness, bit of jealousy. And I do think that we should, I don't know, just give out of a bit of kindness when we can. So yes, I saw Elliot doing really well and I thought, oh, that's amazing to be cooking over there, pictures with all the actors and, yeah, super duper really.

So anyway, I was in this service this morning, sat down, I said, I've got a meeting at about 11. Do you think it'd be done by then? Bear any mind I got there at 10 past 8. I had to get childcare because Mark's car went in this morning as well. I mean, who does that? I mean, it's my fault, actually. It's not Mark's. He's booked in before me. But what are the chances that the only day we can both get our car serviced are on the same day? So anyway, carless, sorted out kids, blah, blah, blah. Get myself a cup of tea in the old Mercedes garage, very nice. I say, right, okay.

Shame I couldn't get courtesy car, isn't it? They said, yes, I know we do not ensure people from the entertainment industry or sports people. I said, but for a courtesy car, aren't it going to be a couple of hours? It just means I could have nipped about and done a few things. They said, no, unfortunately, our insurance doesn't cover at the entertainment industry. Why is that? I'm not a wild driver. I've been driving for a super long time now.

Never had touchwood. Never claimed. No insurance claims. I drive slowly. I'm a sensible driver. Why am I penalised for being in the entertainment industry? I would love to know, if anyone knows. I mean, is it because they think Brad Pitt's going to be in the...

car and Anthony Hopkins and I don't know, David Schwimmer and they're all going to be in the car with me having fun and then if something happens and we're able to crash, you've lost quite a lot of people. Or do they just think we're reckless? Anyway, that was a shame that I couldn't get a courtesy car. So on we go, nine o'clock, half past nine, doing a few emails. Started my book. Not sure if I can get into it, but I'm going to persevere. This is what a book club is about. You're not going to enjoy everything. But no, just started it. And there were quite a lot of people in there.

And then I turned around, and there was a young girl in there, I think with her boyfriend, I don't think any older than 19. And I could hear her with one of the people, managers, car salesman. And she was saying, yes, I'd like to get this car. And I haven't really got a lot of money. I'd like to get this car, which was quite expensive. and I thought, goodness, me, she's going to be in debt.

So that worried me. I do worry about youngsters putting everything on finance. When it isn't necessary is what I'm saying, these cars are really expensive cars that I'm talking about. It's not necessary, is it? We're living in a very materialistic world. And I am a Tory and I do like material things. I like the odd designer bag.

I like a nice pair of jeans Oh, talking of jeans I got a new pair of jeans on I've sort of been had again from the Tintanet Very unlike me I kept seeing these good American jeans People putting them on

comfortable or whatever Anyway, I've bought myself a pair because I haven't got a good pair of jeans And I must say I'm quite pleased with them They're quite nice Anyway, not on advert They're doing enough of those online Which made me buy them

But anyway, quite nice, comfortable. And they're meant to sort of fit any shape between a, I don't know, size 10 to 16 or something. So on my fat days, I should feel all right as well. So happy days. I really don't know if I'm on my arse or elbow today. I've been rushing around like a lunatic. But I do feel like I've ticked everything off so far. So then I had a meeting, right?

10 o'clock comes called a past 10 I say excuse me sweetheart lovely lady receptionist in Mercedes always have a good nag to her I said how's that car coming along because I've got a meeting at 11 she says I don't think it'll be ready

I tell you what we do we'll stick you in one of those offices I said is that all right to your mind so I did feel a little bit of a dick but yeah I went and sat in shut the door did my Zoom call for 45 minutes I had to explain that

I was in a fluorescently lit office because I was waiting for a car to be serviced. A little bit embarrassing, but they did laugh, so that was okay. But the pace of life at the moment does feel 120 miles an hour. I got home, I had a lovely shower. Didn't do that this morning. Couldn't be bothered. And tonight, me and Ro Ro, Ro, Mark, we are going to see Titanic with Tom Allen in it,

which is going to be super duper. I was going to say, oh, my friend Tom Allen, and that always makes me feel a bit awkward because I always, I think, is he actually my friend? And I would go as far to say he is, we get on well, I get on with his partner, we have a bit of a laugh, we text each other sometimes, but I would still sort of put that in the friendly acquaintance pile rather than busy mates. Anyway, going to go and see him tonight playing Ruth in Titanic And it's meant to be his campus Christmas So right up my street

So I'm really looking forward to that And I will let you know all about it Should be fab I'm going to go for a little bit of dinner beforehand Rowe's book something nice So a little night out with Mark I'm very much looking forward to it I was in London all day yesterday

And had this booked But do you ever do that where you have a look at the diary and you think, oh no, I've got a double London. One London's enough. A Monday and a Tuesday in London is a stretch for me. However, we're going to do it. Sunshining, little glass of Vino, watch Tom come home. All will be well.

I've got the last filming days of my BBC documentary this week, which I'm extremely excited about, and very nervous. because on Thursday, I go back to college and I'm going to find out if I passed or not. Now, I know lots of you have messaged me. Thank you so much. Have you passed? Good luck. I don't even know if I'm going to be able to tell you guys, because if it's in the program and they want to keep it a surprise, I might have to not say anything. So bear with me. It should be out by the end of May. But yes, it is a nerve-wracking week and I am looking forward to seeing all the students again and sort of mopping up the last of the filming.

So very, very excited for that. But yeah, all in all, a super busy week. Mark goes to Italy at the weekend for filming, as I mentioned on Monday. My Eliza goes skiing this week. First trip away for a week, sort of a big week in secondary school, feeling quite nervous because skiing can be dangerous, but she's very, very sensible. And I'm just going to have to be. have to be excited for her rather than worried. So yes, that's happening. It's all go. There's a lot going on. We've got leads on Sunday, 22nd at the wardrobe. If you haven't got your tickets yet and you live nearby, I'm sure there's a few left. Please go and find them. www. www.life with nat. Dot club. They're on there. Or you can go to Off the Curbs website and you can find them on there as

well. So yeah, a lot going on. Becky's back from holiday soon, the hairdresser. I'm as white as a sheet sitting here. I'd have about 82. Glenn Close, eat your heart out. So she needs to do my route Saturday. Otherwise, I don't know what I'm going to do with myself on Sunday for the live show. I could embrace it, I suppose, but no, not right now. Right, should we give some people a call? Let's have a look at the messages we've had in. Do do, do, do, do. Let's have a look. Winks are going well. The gerbil wheel of life and all that. Right, I've popped some into my folder, which is a folder with me and my own. It's quite lonely. It's not really quite like it. Oh, I just wanted to read this out from lovely Kirstein. Hi, Natt, absolutely love the pod. Really helped me

through the last few months. Threatened with homelessness, I'm so sorry, Christine, threatened with homelessness with our landlord selling up not being able to afford to rent privately. Just when I was feeling my lowest, the council offered me and my daughter a bungalow. My friends have helped me with our things and we are all decorating it at the weekend. Move in on the 27th of March. I'm so, so grateful. My 13-year-old even loves the podcast. We feel like you are our friends.

I am so happy that something good has come and that you've got yourself a little bungal. and you're going to decorate this weekend. The sun's out. How wonderful that your friends are helping you. Honestly, the start, a great spring, you know. As I've said before, spring is a new year, really. So for you, see this as a new start, absolutely fantastic. And thank you so much for listening.

Hi, Nat. It's Lou here from Kidderminster. I will send you a screenshot of what my life with Nat unplayed, section of my podcast app looks like now because I've completed you. I started listening in, I think it was October when you were on Sunday brunch and I've not stopped. So from October till March, I've got audible credits coming out of my ears, everything else has taken a backseat and I've just bloody loved listening. I just adore you. I'm a bit obsessed, a bit addicted, as everyone said. And one thing I must say is your positivity and your vibes overall and when you say about gratitude and just having that general what I give out, I get back thing, I've always really

been like that, but since listening to you, I feel like I'm doing it more and because of that, I'm getting more vibes. For example, I know you mentioned the Oasis tickets. You knew you were going to get them. Well, I was fuming that I couldn't get tickets to see the prodigy next month, and I've got them. And I genuinely believe I've manifested that. So yeah, by the way, 40 years old, Prodigy, I'm far too old for this now, but, you know, it's one night a year where I pretend that I'm still a teenager, so happy days. Anyway, I hope you're all good and everyone else is okay too. And I know I've spoken to you about this before, but I will be in touch in June. to remind you to start soaking your fruit, ready for your Christmas cake.

Speak to you soon, bye. Lady Lou, give her a round of applause. She's caught up from October, that's good going that is. It's over 200 episodes, Lou, you've done fantastic. I'm so pleased you're loving it. Yeah, you've got those tickets because you bloody wanted them. I have a fantastic time, you're never too old to go to a concert. Absolutely not.

Me and Eliza have got Olivia Dean coming up in me. May. So excited. But absolutely fantastic and I'm so pleased you're caught up because you can get right involved now with all the convos. So brilliant. When West Jet first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion. Inline skates were everywhere and two out of three women rocked the Rachel. While those things stayed in the 90s, one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when West Jet welcomes you on board. Here's to West Jetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us. at westjet.com slash 30 years.

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Hello. Hello. Hello. So sorry. Don't know what's going on with the old phone, technical issues. I don't know why the Bluetooth's not connecting to the roadcaster. I'll have to ask Lovely Mark to sort it out for me. Oh, yeah.

Get him on the case. Get him on the case. How are you today? Not too bad. Not too bad, she says. What's the matter? Oh, the arthritis in my knee and it's paying up a little bit, but it's all good. We're plodding along.

It's getting warmer. Will that help a little bit once it gets a bit warmer for the bones? I do hope so. Oh, bless you. How old are you? I am 48 now. Do you think that's hormonal, the arthritis in the knee? It could be.

My name had arthritis. My mum's got it in her hand, so it. It could be hereditary as well. It could be. I feel like I already, if I'm peeling potatoes on a Sunday and I'm doing that peeling, peeling, peeling, peeling, peeling, I feel my fingers and hands jam up a little bit. Oh, yeah, see, mine's just my knee and my hip, unfortunately, at the minute.

Oh, well, I'm sorry to hear that, Angel. That's all right. I'm plodding along. Are you an Elaine or an E-lane? Everybody says it differently. What do you like? I don't mind. I absolutely don't mind.

It's a really funny one that. Because my mum was Evelyn, so she could be an Evelyn or an Evelyn. Oh, yeah, I can think about that. Yeah. I'm used to a lot. A lot of people call me Elaine, Elaine. I was called my cousin, used to call me Lane,

when he was little. So I'm used to quite a lot. I think if I had a special Elaine in my life, I'd call her Laney. Yeah, I've had that one as well. Yeah, I quite like that one, Laney. It's quite nice, yeah. I used to work in a nursery,

so a lot of people used to, you know, call me Lane or E. Thank you for saying that you were free to have a little nata, because obviously it is a Tuesday afternoon, so it's quite nice to, you know, have a little chat with someone. How long you've been listening to the pod? Since day job. Have you? Yeah, 100%. I love it. Honestly, I walk around the house with my earphones on and have a chuckle to myself and my oldest came in the other day and he's like, he sort of looked at me, he's like,

what are you looking at? What are you listening to? And it was quite funny. It was there, when you were Mark were talking about getting married. Oh, yes, yes. Oh, I absolutely laughed my head off. I hope he didn't hear the bit about the, um, Tattoo. No, I had my headphones on, so he didn't hear any of it. Oh, good. He sort of looked at me funny as if I said, what are you listening to? Oh, brilliant, brilliant.

I love it. I'll put it on and just carry on what I'm doing. I love it. Have you been to any of our live shows yet? No, I was going to try and get to folks them, but it didn't eventually, unfortunately. Oh, well, you must get to one of them soon. Oh, yeah, I'm going to try. Yeah, you must.

You'll enjoy it. You'll enjoy it. I love it. I just love listening to you all, actually. especially with the nieces, it's absolutely hilarious to make me last all the time. Oh, good, I'm pleased. That's what we aim to do.

Going out with Roroa later, was just telling the listeners that we're off to see Titanic with Tom Allen in it. Oh, yes. I remember the conversation. Yes, so that should be a nice evening tonight. And we're up in Leeds on Sunday, so we're all together again.

But we had a lovely... Did you have a nice Mother's Day last weekend? Yeah, it wasn't too bad. I took my mum to... the crematorium because my nan passed four years ago. Yes. So we go up every sort of every anniversary and Mother's Day, which, you know, it's sad, but it's nice to sort of go up and see everybody's flowers in a way.

Yes. But yeah, have a nice day. Oh, good, I'm pleased. You know what? I'm going to be really honest here, and I don't think people are like this. Never spoke about this before. But my mum's grave, she's in a crematorium. I don't go there.

Oh, everybody's different now, aren't they? I know. And this year, honestly, this Sunday, I thought about it. And it's got to a point where because I was uncomfortable going and I don't like it because my dad's at home. My dad's in the living room. I love it. Yeah. But it's got to a point where I know I'm going to be so ashamed of what it looks like because I haven't kept it up.

And it's not just me. You know, I've got brothers. You know, there's a lot of us. But I want to really sort it out. I need to find someone who can do all the stone for me. I want to get it all cleaned up and I want to start going because it's really hard. It's impossible to get her out the ground because it's ashes. No, it is.

It's that consecrated ground. You'd have to go to St. Albarns and do like loads. So I've actually thought about it and I would like to do it all up properly and start going up there with the kids. Yeah. It's really difficult though, isn't it? Because everybody, like, it's time as well. Yes. You're so busy and it's not just on your head as you say you've got brothers and stuff.

Of course, of course. But I do think it's a little bit of time. But for me, it is a decision that I made. And I thought, well, I don't, I think about my mum whenever I want to. I've got my pictures of her next to my dad. And I feel like I do that. But at the same time, I don't want it to be going to rack and ruin up there, which it has done. And it looks like, oh, didn't it look terrible?

Natalie Cassidy hasn't looked after her mum's gravestone. Terrible. I think it's different. My mum's got a plaque from my grandadad and my nan on it. Yeah. And she's got her ashes at home. But we also got my name's as she's amazing to a necklace. Yeah, lovely.

So she's got it sort of, she wears it on special occasions and things. And then she's got her rose, but she's in her garden. I've got the same. I've got some roses in the garden. So yeah, so she's sort of, she's got her at home as well. Yeah, it's lovely. Yeah, that's very, very good. It is nice.

It's really nice. Talking of sort of grief and anniversaries, I will tell you a secret. I can't, I can't just, I've just had a message saying that we're hoping to do a live grief pod. Oh, wow, that'd be good. So as soon as I get the info, maybe that's something you could come to with your mum, because I think you'd really enjoy it. And again, it's not all doom and gloom. It's still going to be nice and fun and light, but I don't, I think some of us really do like to talk about those things.

and I think it needs a dedicated afternoon. Oh, it definitely does, yeah. It's a lot of, it's a big subject, isn't it? Huge. My mum struggles, I think, with the grief of my nan. She's not really grieved her properly, as I think. Oh, that's a show. She loved her days.

I mean, we went up at Christmas to a crematorium, and I cried my eyes out. Absolutely solved. I mean, not for no reason, but it's just a different time of year. It's a really strange while. I find myself crying just in weird situations. Do that make any sense?

Well, it does because, again, you can't control these things. So it could be my mum's birthday on the 9th of October, and I might feel absolutely happy as Larry, but I don't feel guilty about it because there'll be another time where I'm sat in the car and I'll hear a song, and it takes you back to that. It's a bit like I was saying to Mark the other day on Monday when a certain day feels like a certain day.

Yeah. I feel like that as well. You know, you get feelings. on certain days. There's nothing, you can't control that. It's, it's nostalgia. It's sort of built in memory. So I think if you want to have a cry, you can. And if you don't, you don't. But again, we'll save it all for the next grief pod I do with Linney on here. But hopefully we're going to be doing a live one, me and Lynne. So it should be, should be really lovely, really lovely. Have you got anything sort of you've got to look forward to this year? Anything that you've

planned that you're hoping to do or anything like that? Really? Nothing planned at the moment. No. Well, I want to try and get my living room flooring done, but that's, you know, hopefully seeing that will be done. I've still not done anything upstairs. I've got my bathrooms to do. Every time I think, oh, I can do something. I think every time I can decorate and have a tax bill comes in. I think, oh, there you go.

That's gone. Money's gone. No bathroom this year. But there you go. That's the way life is. It doesn't matter, does it? As long as we're all happy. Don't need everything perfect. Oh, 100%. I've got a craft group coming on Friday. Oh, lovely.

Me and two of my friends. They decided that we should get together once a month and do a craft, which we've started this year. And it's so nice just to get away from Monday life, as I said earlier. It's just nice to do different crafts. We want to try new things, and we've sort of done it. This is the third one. Oh, that's so lovely.

What a lovely thing to do, and it gets you together. You're doing something different. You can have your chat. It's really great. It is, yeah. It's really nice, really relaxing. Oh, that's lovely. I love a bit of craft.

What's your favourite crafting? I'm making different things. I've made costumes in the past. Have you? Yeah. I'll have to get you sewing up my Wicked Witch costume for the Panto. Not to that standard. I made a cat-in-a-hat costume for my youngest.

Oh, lovely. I've made an Elma costume, a SpongeBob, a clown costume, a Dalmatian costume. Quite a few. Lainey, it sounds like you're pretty good. I can't saw a fucking baton. It's done by hand stitch as well because a saw machine just, no, I don't want to do that. Right. Just hand stitching.

It sounds like you've got a bit of talent there. Well done, yeah. Very, very good. Well, listen. No more, though. No more, because the youngest is 13 now. He's 13, yeah, no, they grow up and you lose all that, don't you, the costumes, the fancy dress parties. I saw everybody's pictures for World Book Day and I was just like, oh, I really miss making them.

I love it. Maybe you need to hijack a neighbour's child. I don't know about that. Oh, dear. Well, listen, thank you so much for listening to us. You're welcome. I'm so pleased that you enjoy it. It was so lovely to have a little chat with you today.

Oh, I'm doing. All right, darling. Well, listen, I hope that arthritis eases up. Someone's on this way. Yes, fingers crossed. It's on its way. Absolutely, it is. All right, darling.

You take care. You take care. You too. Bye. Bye. Bye. Lovely Lainey. Is it all right to just phone people up and have a normal phone conversation?

Is that interesting to you guys? I just think it's lovely to have a little bit of idle chat sometimes when the world is in a very strange, mad place. If you want to listen to something that's a little bit more important, you can turn the news on, you can pop on your LBC, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But if you want something in your ears, which is a little bit mundane, it's us. It's me. Right. Oh, we've got a lovely message here from Kiara.

and Kiara says, Good morning, Natalie and the nieces. Happy St Patrick's Day from Ireland. Just wondering if you have any plans to come to Ireland to do a live show. Love the podcast and I've been listening since the start and just think you're all fabulous. Thank you so, so much.

Yes, it's St Patrick's Day today, as I record. I hope everybody has half a little Guinness or a little Guinnessero. Can I just say the best non-alcoholic version of itself is a Guinness zero. Absolutely can't tell the difference. Beautiful stuff.

So happy St Patrick's Day to everybody out there from a Cassidy, Donna Gawl, our ancestors. So we've all got a little bit of Irish somewhere. But with a name like Cassidy, I should certainly be having a Guinness later. This episode is brought to you by FedEx.

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A bit of a character, this one. Hello? Is that Laura? Is, hello. How are you? I'm all right, how are you, darling? I'm very well, thank you. I was just chatting to the listeners saying that I've heard from you quite a lot this week.

We've been in touch. We have. You've had a busy one. I love to be in touch. I have. I've been down to London and done a tour of the Marks and Spencer's Food Hall. I love it. Honestly, the one in Oxford Street, I couldn't believe it.

It's got a bougie rose wall. It's got a water wall. You can get a hot pizza. Reticeries? Little chickens? Honestly, my little mind was blown. I'm pleased you enjoyed yourself. I'm really lucky, Laura, because the one near me, it's about 15 minutes away, I'd say, but I have all the boozy stuff. It's quite a big one. And we've just found out, honestly, Christmas came early a week ago, that Harlow is having a brand new M&S built. It'll be, honest, it'll be seven minutes up the road. I can't believe it. Oh, fantastic. I know. So there we go. I can imagine that Christmas when you can go in and just on a whim and get all your little Christmas bits.

Oh, I can't wait. Let's not wish our lives away, but can't wait. I can't wait. And also, I need that this year. In fact, I don't think it will be done for this year, be next year. But I need something much closer this year, really, because of the Panto. I'm going to be busy, I know. Yeah, of course, yeah.

Yeah, which means you're not going to do a Christmas show this year, because I came to clapping and really enjoyed it. Oh, I'm so pleased you did. Now, I am hoping there are talks. and conversations going on in which we will do some sort of show but it might have to be a bit earlier so sort of the beginning of November

I'll clear the diary but I'm not being rude as soon as bonfire nights out the way who cares oh absolutely yeah for me bonfire night is the final rung on the ladder to Christmas absolutely right and that is why

you listen to the pod because you're my animal spirit Laura oh honestly sometimes when you're talking Natalie I'm like that could be me We are literally the same person How old are you, Laura? Me, I'm 39 Oh, 39, so we're close in age

But you're a spring chicken Well, an autumn chicken When are you 40? May Oh, May, when's your birthday? The 20th Stop this immediately, that makes you a Taurus Yep

Oh, we're the same On the cusp of a Gemini But still a Taurus Yeah, you can't beat them Honestly, we're the best. Yeah. May the 13th is mine. Yeah, so we're like a week apart. A week apart and I should be 43 this year.

Well, you don't look. A day over 27. I'll give you that tenor in the post. Thanks very much. Now I was just saying I had a lovely little chat with Lainey, one of the listeners, and we were having a little chat about bits and pieces and she said she started up a craft club with her friends, which sounds really lovely. But the question I asked was, are you looking forward?

to anything this year, or have you got anything you really want to do, especially in your 40th year? Well, so I am planning on doing something every single month. Okay. So I've started off slowly in January. I just, well, in January I played, so one of my friends is really into Dungeons and Dragons, which isn't my thing at all. But I gave it a go. I'm going to say it's still not my thing, but I tried something new. Can I ask what that entails, please, Laura? It's sort of like a fantasy game. It's very complicated with like...

Have you watched Stranger Things? No. Oh, okay. Well, they play it on there, so I think that was maybe the catalyst of me going, yeah, I'll have a go. Right. But still not for me.

It's like a fantasy game. It's very complicated with a lot of dice and stuff like that. But I tried it. You had a go. I had a go. And then didn't have a go since. But still... That's all right.

I tried it. So that was Jane. January, what did you do in Feb? January. February, we had a lovely little Galentine's night where we actually did some crafts. My friend bought some candles and glasses to decorate. Lovely.

I'm not very artistic, so I ended up just turning my candle into a hot dog, which I'll send you a photo of. Everybody else is just putting like little bows and hearts and things on it, and I was just like, no, I can't do it. A hot dog. I'll send you a picture. That's because you're a tourist as well. You've got no patience.

No, exactly right. No patience, no tolerance whatsoever. Everybody else was like, you know, taking ages over there, I just bobbed it on, sat down, a glass of wine, done. I mean, you say hot dog, is it in danger of looking like a turd? I'll ketchup and mustard on, so I think it's, for what it is, I think it's quite good. Oh, fine. Oh, no, please send me a picky, won't you, after this call? I will.

I will. Oh, good, good. Oh, and I thank you so much for listening to us. I mean that. Honestly, I've listened from day one. I absolutely love it because like everybody says, it is just literally like listening to your friends. Well, I did think, Laura, I have to say with this one,

I've been, I don't know my ass from my elbow today. I've been running around like a loony, and I know that Emma's away, our lovely Emma, the producer and editor, she's away at the weekend, right? I thought, fuck me, I've got to get a pod in for Thursday. And I thought, I'm just going to phone a few people and have a little chat. And then afterwards I thought, is this acceptable for a pod. But yes, it bloody is, actually.

Yeah, of course it is. It is. Because you've built such a community, Natalie, like you keep saying, we're all like-minded people. So I know people will be sitting there, you know, wondering what my hot dog looks like and wanting to recreate their own. Yeah, no, I agree with you. I'm pleased you've got faith in me, Laura. I needed that today. Absolutely.

Yeah, no, I love it. And you should just keep doing what you're doing. And I love it all. I love Tony. I love Mark. I love the nieces. Honestly, all of it. It's great.

Good. I'm so pleased. Well, keep listening, won't you? And keep passing on the word. Got to grow it up is what we need to do now. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, lovely. All right, darling.

Well, look, thank you so much for the chat. Please, you've come to London and experience the Bougie M&S Food Hall. I shall talk to you very soon. Yes, have a lovely rest of your day. And you, darling. Take care. All right. Love to everyone.

Bye. Bye. Oh, it was lovely when she started sending me the pickies of the food halls. And I don't advertise that shop on here, by the way. I promise you. It is completely natural. It's not my fault. That's what we just talk about.

It isn't my problem. In case you think I get paid to do that, I don't. I don't at all. Yes, I do a bit of work for them. You might have seen me on the odd video online, but I promise you, I can't help but talk about them because that's me. I've always loved them.

Can't help it. Something I wanted to mention before I phone my third and final friend of the pod some very, very sad news last week. Lisa Tarbuck is no more at Radio 2 on a Saturday night. Now I know some of you have commented. I don't know if you knew the show, but I think it's the first time in my life so far

where something that was a constant and I thought was going to be around forever has stopped. and with no warning really. Lovely Sean Keevney was sitting in for her for a few weeks. But she's not doing a goodbye one. So leisure and all. She's made a French exit, as she said. She slipped out the back door.

But it really made me sad to think that I'm not going to be able to stand in my kitchen on a Saturday night with a glass of wine, a bit of cooking with her beautiful playlist and her humour on. It really made me sad. I just want to go back and pretend that she's on.

I'm just going to listen to old ones. And I'm really hoping that she might be on somewhere else at some point maybe. But I would love to get her on this pod. She held up a bit of paper and wrote I Love Natalie fact on it to a producer that was with her on her show. And the producer knew that I loved Lisa and she took a picture of it. That was sort of the highlight of my Lisa story. but I think she's absolutely amazing. I think the way she talks to her audience

and the way she makes you feel like you are part of a private members club, as she said and put so beautifully, is something that is not easy to do. And I just think she's so marvellous. And whatever she does in the future, I shall follow. And I just think, for me, I listen to that and I want my listeners to feel a little bit of that. and some of the messages I get

they do show that you do feel like that with me a little bit even if it's 1% so it means the world to me it means the world to me when you message and say that you know you really love having me in your ears

with all the family and what we do for you and it's just fantastic so thank you can I also a little shout out to the Pod Squad please little shout out to Nao today I have mentioned the Pod Squad

but doing some cracking work around the live shows, really lots and lots of people have text me to say they've felt so at home, so welcome when they've come to a show on their own, get in touch with the Pod Squad. If you do go to a show on your own, and that is lovely Naomi who does the fan page, if you like, and she runs the unofficial fan page,

but she's a long-time listener, and she sorts out groups for different places and says where to meet and all that sort of stuff. And I just think that's a very, special thing to be able to do, to get people together. So thank you, as always. Right. Let's give Claire a ring. Hello, love. Hello, love. You're all right. I am very well. I've just had a nag to two lovely listeners. And then it got me second guessing, Claire. Because I'd say that you are kind of an OG listener, obviously, from the beginning and you message me a lot. Yeah.

obviously to the point where you are in out in my phone book as my pal. But I did think, oh, I've been rushing around on morning. I thought, shit, I've got to get a pod out for Thursday. Emma's away at the weekend, if you don't mind, how rude. And I thought, is it okay to just sit here, talk a load of waffle, and then just ring a few people up? Is that okay for a pod? Well, yeah, of course it is.

I know, that's what everyone else has said. It's absolutely fine. Why are you second-guessing yourself? I don't know. I just feel like it today. Honestly, I've been all over the place. Well, let me tell you about my day, right? Go on. So I was going to get up and potter and do a few things.

Yep, you said. And I've done a bit of potter and I've done a few things. Well, my son's turned up because he's not at work this afternoon. So it was like, mum, have you got any lunch? Mum, you're going to make me a coffee, mum. I'm going to watch tell you. Right, okay, fine. Yep, I'll sort you out, not seeing you for a while.

That's quite happy to do that. Then, you know, I've not had any hot water this weekend. Oh, I do think that calls for it. In fact, it is an emergency, by the way. Well, it is an emergency. It is. And so far, right, it was like, well, we can't get out to Tuesday. I've literally just had a phone call. We're sending an electrician to you now. Okay. Right. So thank God my son's here. I'm like, just can you go and make sure that they can get to your bedroom?

Because that is where the hot water tank is. And so he's not there. Now clear in a pass. I said, you're just going to have to sort that out. You are just going to have to wait for him to knock on the door and sort out the hot water. So, you know, my kind of, I'm having a bit of a potter in. I'll do a few bits days turned into everything's happening at once. Everything's going on.

Isn't it funny, though? It all does. It always piles on top. I mean, this weekend was meant to be quiet. I know that we're going to Leeds, I know that's not quiet. But I'm now, I've got to go off Sunday evening. I've got to stay somewhere because I've got a job on Monday. Mark's flying to Italy.

Eliza's off skiing. I'm like, oh my God, there's so much to organise before the weekend. I know it's only Tuesday, but I'm catastrophizing. Have you written a list? No. Have you written a list for Eliza? Has she got everything? She has a list.

She has got the list from school. Yes, that side of things is all good. It is okay. Good. As long as she's all right. I know. I know. You can sort himself out.

You'll be okay. She's very... She'll be up some stences somewhere if you forget your underwear. I know, that's true. But do you know something? Eliza is so last minute. I don't... Honestly, she doesn't get it from me.

I don't know where she gets it from. I'm sort of, come on, darling. Let's look at the list. Let's make sure you've got everything. She's like, yeah, yeah. I'm off to my friends tonight for dinner. I said, it's true. We've got a lot to do.

Got a lot to be doing. But that's the age, isn't it? What can you do? She's all right. Well, I don't think gets any, worth any better really because what Lewis is 24 and even now if you know he's away for work him like have you have you got this have you got pyjamas have you got pants have you got this he's like mum we don't do my checklist yet and even the day he's leaving and I'm taking him to

the airport he's still we get in the car oh I think I've forgotten that and he's still running in and getting stuff it's like how do you cope abroad for like that's on end oh it's lovely though that he's come to see his mum today having a bit of lunch yeah yeah He said, well, he bought the car back. He had the car today, so. Fair enough. He's bought that back. He's going to do a few bits here.

And it's nice just to have him around, really, because it doesn't matter what age they are. You know, you like to have time with them. Of course. And his life is probably busier than mine because, you know, I never know where he is from one day to one month to the next sometimes. But when things like, you know, the water goes

or there is something going on, there is no one else around. No, no, of course. But usually I put like, oh, Lewis, can you come and do this? Can you come and do that? And it's so difficult when he's not here, you know, and I have to do things myself now. What's all that about?

I mean, honestly, that's all we need. Doing things yourself. No, thank you. Get your feet up. Have a sandwich. Put the telly on. Oh, well, read a book. You know, I've got a couple of them to get through.

So have I, I've started our book club book for this month. Started it when my car was in for a service. You'll hear it on the pod. I'm not repeating myself again, the poor listener and stuff. I hate it. But yeah, I have started. So I'm not sure yet, but very, very early days. So, yeah, I need to get into it a little bit more.

I need to get myself some time to sit and get right into it. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm enjoying it. I mean, we'll save it for the book review. Absolutely. Yeah, that is one of the ones I'm reading. Good. Yeah, it's... But it's all go, Claire, isn't it?

It's one of them bitty days today, isn't it? Where it's, you know, just... Well, it is for me, where you just kind of think, well, you know, should I be doing this, should I be doing that? Shall I ring people, shall I not? Are they busy? are they not? And if I'm at home and I'm pottering, ring me, I don't mind. But, you know, you might

I was very pleased to hear, I was very pleased to hear that you were around, so thank you for taking your time to have a little nag with me today. That's okay. When am I seeing you next? Bristol. Bristol, yes. Bristol. There's a group of us. All the girls are going down.

Weekend, yeah. Excellent. Yeah, we're all very excited. And Camilla has written a list, so it's definitely happening. Oh, fine. Write it all down. So, no, we're really looking forward to it. We've got a nice weekend way booked.

Oh, it's lovely. You've come to see your show and everyone's going to catch up and it's going to be really nice. Oh, honestly, it makes me so happy. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Without your pod, I wouldn't have met these girls and they're just the best, you know. So thank you for that. Oh, no, it brings me so much joy.

It's fantastic. Oh, good. All right, my darling. Well, I hope the rest of your bitty day goes to plan. Yeah, well, I'm going to try and get some Colchettes out this afternoon. afternoon because they're all ready to be replanted. Oh, well done. Mark's down now. He's doing the seed trays now. Is it? He's out in the garden.

Oh, I might text him from some advice because I'm not sure, I'm not sure I'm on tomatoes, but the Colchette seemed to be doing all right. Well, we haven't even put the seeds in yet, so you're doing better than us, so well done. All right, okay. All right, I won't panic then. Don't panic. All right, lovely to speak to you. And you, talk to you soon. Yeah, take care. Bye, sweetheart. See you in Bristol. See you in Bristol. Bye, love. All right. See you later, love. Bye.

Isn't that fantastic that you make like-minded friends over the podcast? You have a good old natter. Whole group of ladies have got to know each other because of this pod and they're all having a weekend away. I love that so much. More stories on that, please. More stories, more voice notes of if you've made a friend because of the podcast or if you sort of knew someone but then you heard that they listened to the same podcast

as you, so it makes you feel a little bit more affiliated with them, a little bit more closer. I just think it's brilliant. And I do think it's true. If I used to, you know, I'd meet someone and if they listen to Lees at Tarbuck on a Saturday night at 5 o'clock, I sort of know I'm going to get on with that person. Oh, life's magic, isn't it? Absolute magic. I hope you all have the best weekend, whatever you're doing. If you're coming to Leeds, I will see you there. and that's all from me. That's all for today. I hope you enjoyed it. 0778-28-201919. I really, really can't wait to see you all at the weekend and beyond. Loads of love. Keep on listening. Love to everybody and I see you soon. See ya.