Life with Nat - EP22: A good old catch up

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

Nat and em talk about the weekend including Emma’s stand up debut, Joanie’s chicken pox and the euros. Enjoy! X Please subscribe, follow, and leave a review. xxx You can find us in all places here; https://podfollow.com/lifewithnat/view INSTA: @natcass1 A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [e-mail] SHOW INFO: Life with Nat - it’s me! Natalie Cassidy and I’ll be chatting away to family, friends and most importantly YOU. I want to pick people's brains on the subjects that I care about- whether that’s where all the odd socks go, weight and food or kids on phones. Each week I will be letting you into my life as i chat about my week, share my thoughts on the mundane happenings as well as the serious. I have grown up in the public eye and have never changed because of it. Life with Nat is the podcast for proper people. Come join the community. ♥️ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello everybody, welcome to Life with Nat on this lovely Thursday morning. How are you Em? I'm alright thanks, how are you? I'm fine, I'm going to get straight to the point here i'm really proud of emma right for all my listeners emma on sunday did her first stand-up gig in pubs it was an afternoon i'm gonna let you explain tell us yeah so it was terrifying I did this course that culminated in this mega overwhelming four gig evening with four different pubs full of audience. And it was intense and incredible and scary and lovely. And it was really fun. I am so proud because stand up is one of my favourite things, as you know, and I just can't think of anything more scary to do. So I just, how did you feel when you first went up?

Absolutely cacking it. It was, like, intense. Because we knew it was, you know, we were preparing for it and all this sort of stuff and working off what was going to be a five-minute set, kind of, you know, for weeks and weeks of working out what we wanted to say and how to make it funny and all this different stuff. And then, yeah, that first gig, oh, my God, my heart was like pounding.

I felt like I was just going to pass out. I was sort of just walking around going, oh, fuck, oh, fuck, fuck. I just can't, I genuinely can't imagine it. I know how I feel, as I've said before, with live telly and stuff, you know, maybe presenting it or when we've done an EastEnders live episode before, for instance. I've been very, very lucky with those because I've always had maybe a couple of lines but not a lot to do.

And I just, the feeling of having to do something and not being able to do it again I think I'm a bit brainwashed because of the way I've always worked on telly that I know that I can always do it again yeah to think about doing something and only having one go petrifies me well it's interesting I was talking to the group this course there was like 14 of us yeah for eight weeks and I was talking to people right at the end sort of saying because I worked in radio before podcasting but as a producer yeah with you is like my first proper like on mic thing yeah yeah but even the most professional practiced presenters I've you know ever worked with as soon as they had to pre-record something because it takes out some of that adrenaline got to go through it that's when

they made the most mistakes whereas when they were alive because you've just got to go through it like even if you sort of flub some words because you've got to carry on you don't have time to yeah hit every hurdle yeah i don't know you just keep get back on it yeah i mean your live tv stuff you've been doing i know but i'm not learning anything am i i can say what i want it's conversation you know you are you're you're you know every time you do that and you're you're building up that muscle where you know you can just do it you can do it i'd love to do stand up oh we'll get you you know if and when we ever do live shows of this we'll do it we'll do it that's true we'll get you on that's true because i'd have to have a chat with the audience and what have you and that's a bit like stand up i suppose that's like the deepest of stand up that's you know that's you emceeing that's you sort of doing crowd work that's all of it yeah it's improvising life isn't it isn't it exciting to think that one

day we could do a live show of this let us know your thoughts people would you come and see us if we did a live show 07788 2019 19 i'd want it to be a little bit different to what we do now because there's a lot of podcasts that go live and they're literally just recording their podcast. And for me, I think if someone's paid a lot of money for tickets, they've got a babysitter, you know, they're making the effort to come out for the evening, it should be you're getting something different for that money.

Do you know what I mean? Because otherwise you may as well just listen to it on your phone. Oh, they'll get all the goss and secrets oh yeah they'll be like the secrets oh 100% and we'll do

I mean in the same way that we read out messages here and play messages in you do that in the room oh I won't be reading them out I'll be getting them up oh that would be good getting them up on stage

yeah run around with a wireless microphone oh oh it would be great it could work it could if you fan work it could it could i'd love to yeah we'll see what happens lots of taking the piss out myself as usual you know yeah well i'm proud of you well done for sunday do you want to know about my sunday yeah what do do? Joni's had chicken pox, right? It happened at the worst time possible, Emma.

Seriously. So I get to school on... Well, I'll tell you the story. People are like this. This is no joke. It was Wednesday afternoon. I'd been really busy in the morning. So I lay on the sofa for a nap

because I'm picking her up at quarter past four from her after-school club. Get comfy on the sofa for a nap because I'm picking her up at quarter past four from her after school club. Get comfy on the sofa about quarter past two. Twenty past three I can hear my window bang, bang, bang, bang, bang frightening the life out of me.

Jumped up, dribble. It's my mate Rachel. Babe, the school are trying to get hold of you. She can't go to the after-school club she's got spots on her talk about mum guilt so i was having a lovely nap i had two missed calls from the school they'd called my nanny who was away in cornwall uh they'd called they'd called ellia who was in las vegas all the contacts. But luckily one of my best mates, Rachel, was up at the school. So yeah, I jumped up, ran to get her. She was absolutely fine,

but all these spots had come out throughout the day. And also the night before, I'm thinking, there were a couple of little marks on her, but I thought they were bites because it was hot. Yeah. So I just didn't realise. Anyway, she came home Wednesday and she's only just gone back to school today so she has been very very spotty very very itchy but driving me nuts because she's

actually been on form so she's been bored so we've been twinkle is one of the best things honestly it's a an app a website, if you like, where you can download loads and loads of work. Schools use it also. It's quite expensive for the year. I think it's anything between 60 to 80 pounds. So it's a lot of money, but I get a lot of use out of it because Joni just loves to learn. So we have rinsed the paper and the ink and she has been printing out worksheet after worksheet, loads of maths, loads of English. She's probably done more work at home in the last five days

than she would have at school. But she missed her... It couldn't have happened at a worse time. She missed her sports day. Oh, no. She missed her grade one piano exam oh that's annoying she missed her friend's birthday sleepover and the village festival on saturday oh chicken pox she was really really good about it really good about it she was very upset at the beginning but we've had a nice

time and i've been doing lots of things at home. A couple of things that are a secret, unfortunately, that I can't talk about at the moment. But I cannot wait to share it on the pod when I'm allowed. I know that's really annoying for everyone, but it's just the way it is. So I've had a slow few days. We've had a slow weekend. We've been at home.

Watched the football Sunday. Yeah. did you watch no you were out i mean it interrupted us basically it was uh it was a tricky old start because everyone was sort of still watched because it went into extra time and we were like oh please just get it done oh yes if it went into like you know any more time then we'd have uh i mean it was that was yeah that was pretty stressful but yeah i mean uh yeah i wasn't able to engage with it enough no absolutely well i sat down and watched it i always watch the games we usually go to the pub but obviously joni having her chicken pox joni and i stayed at home eliza

went over to the pub she's 13 nearly 14 and it's a village and i know everybody in the pub so i'm very comfortable with her at 5 p.m going over to watch it because she'll have mates over there etc so she went over mark joined her afterwards he's not a football fan but he went popped over there but I sat in the lounge and I thought I was going to have a heart attack yeah I thought I was going

and I've not felt that kind of passion or stress for a long time but I was screaming at that television and when Jude Bellingham did a bicycle kick

got that goal in 94th minute like the 4th minute of extra time it was ridiculous. It was a great game to watch. Poor at the beginning, poor at the beginning, but they know how to pull on our heartstrings.

I'm sure sometimes I think it's set up for the drama. Yeah. So that's Saturday, 5pm, England versus Switzerland. More stress, more beer. Might start watching these important ones I think you should start getting into it a little bit

listen it brings the nation together you haven't got to love football I leave I do leave it until it sort of starts to get

interesting more interesting for me I'm I'm not very good at following it all along I love watching games the football games

they're interesting to me. I just struggle with the kind of the drama around it. You haven't got to worry about it. Just five o'clock Saturday, put it on the telly. It's knockout stages now. So it's exciting. You have to win them. Otherwise you're out.

That's what's good. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It feels like it matters more. It matters. I feel like I can kind of understand the stress a bit more and the excitement. It matters. It matters.

So, yeah, that was really good. So watch that. Then we had a little cheeky barbecue Sunday evening, but it was a bit late due to the extra time, et cetera. But we had a little burger, a little sausage. And that was kind of our farewell to Mark because Mark has started wimbledon this week which means he goes out early and he's in late so we don't have a lot of

marky mark time for the next couple of weeks we're hoping he wins good luck wild card in the tournament well if anyone were to be able to get on and have a little go he's very broad-shouldered i was thinking with a racket though does that that's the bit that matters i think isn't it yeah i'm not sure he's not not overly sporty our mark he's out filming again isn't he lovely stuff he's on centre court for two weeks yeah yeah along with a lot of them. Exciting. But yeah, it's exciting, but it's tiring. But yeah, it's all very good. I've got a couple of messages regarding Mark, actually. Oh, yeah?

Oh, our phone line has gone mad about these shopping bags. Oh, yeah. And me not understanding the fact that Mark will put his shopping in the bag and then get to the till, unload it and put it in again. Yeah. Okay. Because he's not scanning and shopping. No. It's just instead of a basket.

Yeah. If I've got a trolley and I'm scanning and shopping, I put, of course, I scan, I put it in the bag. I get that. Yeah. Get it in your bag. I put it in. However, I'm sorry. I've had in the bag. I get that. Get it in your bag. I put it in. However, I'm sorry.

I've had so many messages. I still don't understand why you would put your shopping in the bag and then get it out again to put it back in. I'm sorry, I don't. As someone who worked at a supermarket, one of my first jobs, if we'd have seen someone putting stuff straight in their bag,

we'd have been on them with security immediately because that looks like stealing because people would then tuck it in and walk out you know i think so so i went into tesco's yesterday and i tried it yeah okay i went in with a bag i picked up two boxes of tonic water a bottle of wine some vegetable stock and a big chocolate bar good shop it's a random shop but I put it into the bag before paying for it and then I went to the self-checkout

and paid and I felt like a criminal and I did it I tried it it's not for me yeah I felt panicked it wasn't for me

anyway have a little listen to this Hi Nat it's Caroline from Wellingarden sorry to tell you but Mark's right I've got you shopping Anyway, have a little listen to this. Hi Nat, it's Caroline from Wedding Garden. Sorry to tell you, but Mark's right. Put your shopping in a shopping bag when you work from home. It's a done thing now.

I've worked for Waitrose for 40 years and recently retired. I could do a whole episode on it, believe me. But yeah, it's not a big deal, love. Other people need the trolley, other people need the basket. Yeah, you mark you know you're using less equipment but i'm sure you're gonna hate that response sorry have a great day all right caroline it's not a big deal love she said to me i'm gonna take that forward with me i'm sure it isn't a big deal and caroline worked for atros for a very long time so she should know get groceries delivered across the GTA from real Canadian superstore with PC express

shop online for super prices and super savings try it today and get up to 75 dollars in PC optimum points visit superstore.ca to get started. This is a really funny message from Joe from Swindon. Listen to this. Hi, Annette. It's Joe here from Swindon. Currently in the sunny Cotswolds doing a bit of gardening. Just been listening to your podcast, which I love,

and you were talking about shopping and maybe something funny that's happened to you um yeah something did happen to me it was more awkward than funny but funny now if you know what I mean so anyway shopping in Aldi at the checkout um went to pay the card the assistant said have a nice day after doing the card transaction and instead of saying thank you i said love you and just was mortified i should have said something else but i didn't i just stared at them dead in the eyes and then walked away what a knob so there you go. Love the podcast. Keep it going.

TTFN. Ta-ta. For now. Well, I'll tell you what, Jo. What's brilliant about that message is I end a lot of phone calls with love you. It's just what I do. Mark is always love you. Eliza, love you.

Elia, love you. Maria. Everyone, love you, see you soon, love you. I have done that on the phone. I can't tell you how many times. Telephone banking, insurance, car insurance. I've ended the call, love you. You love them all. I know what she means, you feel like a right knob talking of supermarket checkout do you know what else i did yesterday

because i've been because i've been holed up inside and we've just been kind of in our own little world me and joni she's been playing and there's been all her hair bands are out and all stuff like that. And she found the Christmas hair band, red velvet, white round it. So I was doing whatever. And I put that in my hair, put it in a ponytail yesterday, pottering around, what have you. Went to pick Eliza up from school. Joanie was in the car. And then I stopped at Tesco's, as I said to you, to jump out and grab some tonics in my view. I got to the checkout with this bag where I felt really anxious anyway, because it looks like I'm a thief. And I saw someone sort of looking at the back of my head

and I thought, oh, that's weird. And I've remembered that I had the Christmas hairband in. Oh, anyway, I think I got away with it because it could have looked like an England hairband in oh anyway I think I got away with it because it could have looked like an England hairband oh good yeah yeah yeah so although velvet the velvet element is quite Christmassy but for a minute I thought if England weren't playing and the Euros weren't on I looked like a raving lunatic luckily for you I bet people would have just presumed you were filming something Christmassy I don't think so or just a bit eccentric you know that's allowed she wishes it could be Christmas every day yeah I mean I love Christmas but you're not going out in June excuse me July with a red and white velvet Christmas scrunchie.

You are. I did. You did? I did. Listen to this. This is a brilliant. Hi, now. It's Emmy from Northampton. I've just been listening to your pod, Scraping the Barrel 3.

Lovely, lovely. Felt moved to call in. No, message. You know what I mean. I know what you mean. My husband, also a mark. Maybeelt moved to call in. No, message. You know what I mean? I know what you mean. My husband, also a Mark. Maybe it's a Mark thing. Drives me nuts leaving his socks everywhere.

We've been together just over a decade and his socks get left absolutely everywhere. It's at the point now where even the kids are putting their bloody socks everywhere. So do you know what I'm doing now, Nat? If I find his socks, I'm putting them in the bin because I don't care and I'm not fucking washing them. And they're rolled up and they go in the wash

and they come out and they're still rolled up and they don't even fucking wash properly because they're rolled up. So they just go in the bin and it's driving him nuts, but I don't care. Loving the pod. You're doing a great job. Take care.

Bye. See, the thing is, Emmy, with that, Mark's okay he puts his socks in the washing basket but they are all rolled up it is another two and a half minutes of my life i reckon five minutes a week in my life is spent unrolling socks to put in the washing machine i've got little clips get little clips that they deliver i just keep them on that while i'm not wearing them the little little clips that hold the socks together, they go in the washing machine with the clips on,

then they go straight from the... Because they can hang up like that with the little clip on, dry off, go straight into the drawer like that, with the little clip on. Whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on a moment. When you've taken off your dirty socks...

Yeah? Are you telling me you have the clip ready? Yeah. You unroll your sock, you put the clips on, put it in the washing basket. I'm not... I take the socks off. They're not rolled. They just exist there. I clip them on and put them into the basket. So when you take a sock off, you do it from the toe rather than the ankle?

Uh, yeah, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just pull it off. You're saying pull it off, but a lot of socks get rolled, don't they? In the process of taking them off. Oh, I'm not, yeah, I'm not doing from the ankle down. No. Yeah, toe, yeah. Off by the toe, I suppose. Off by the toe.

Okay, you're a toe kind of girl. No, I understand. So then we've got clips. So does this mean you don't... You clip them into the pair. Sorry, this is mind-blowing for me. Do you ever lose socks then? No.

Not so much anymore. No, yeah, I used to a lot. And it would take ages repairing them and all that i've got i've got like a a bag of the odd ones right and you need to send me a link to the clips what are they made from may i ask for the washing machine they're a little plastic thing but they're tiny and they clip and then but they've got a little hook that fits over an error like like rod or you can just sort of part your socks and straddle you know so they straddle the the washing line i'd like this i reckon i've got in my washing basket 52 normal socks and i know that's specific but i mean it there's a lot of

socks all odd they just need to go in the bin i've lost them i don't know where they go i was going to make a cartoon once i wanted to write a script for the socks and it's where all the lost socks live and there's all the different characters and all the lost socks there is a world in which they live what do you think do it a bit near to the shoe people oh i haven't seen the shoe people i beg your pardon i haven't seen the shoe people what's the shoe people go on youtube after this and have a little look at the shoe people please send you the clips please send me the clips that's fantastic but yeah i loved loved that uh and the clips are going to change my life so thank you emma this is why this pod's brilliant you never know what you're going to get it's

absolutely brilliant i've got a little message here from vicky everybody really enjoyed mine and linnie's pod on monday so thank you so much everybody got lots of cleaning messages lots of people saying that they enjoy keeping their house tidy but it's not the end of the world which is I think the best balance that we can have but let's listen to Vicky here good morning Nat I'm going to try and keep this short and sweet I'm just listening to your cleaning episode me and my partner went to a house viewing with our baby she's seven months now but I think she's about five months at the time I was wearing her in a baby carrier. Anyway, the estate agent was late.

It was all going a bit wrong. He then turns up and he's knocking on the door. The tenants weren't in there. The landlord wasn't there. The landlord wasn't answering the phone. It was already going wrong. We were like, maybe we should just leave. We've walked in.

The garden was in absolute state. It absolutely stunk already from the outside. Anyway, can't even believe it. These two tenants have turned up strolling in they didn't know anything about the viewing they said oh just give us five minutes thinking oh you know they're going to do a quick spruce up no they didn't i think they just went in and got their next vaping left me and my partner have walked in as i said i'm holding a five month old baby vick i'm gonna leave it there because you said you'd keep it short and it was 1 minute 43 seconds but I get the gist and the

reason I wanted to play that when I bought my last house I went for a viewing and Elia was with me actually she tells it very well but she's not here to tell it I walked into this house and on the fireplace in the lounge, there was a can of beans. There was an old McDonald's box. There was a baby bottle. There was a pair of knickers. I mean, I'm not joking. Along the fireplace, this was. It was absolutely filthy, this house. But what I would say, Vicky, I had to play

that because I remember walking into the house of my dreams and seeing through it. So you can see through what other people leave. That's what I'd say to anybody. Don't be put off if you go to a house viewing and it's absolutely rank because it won't be rank once you've got it. And you sort it out. That's my advice. I mean, I looked out in the garden and we didn't realise there was another half of the garden because it was so overgrown. And then once it all got chopped back, there was a shed that I didn't know about. Like, Matt, it was mad.

Secret garden. It's a secret garden, yeah. Vicky didn't let us know, by the way, if she'd moved into this house or not. And I've stopped it there. You said you were going to keep it short, but it was one minute and 43, Vic, so there's not a lot I can do about that.

Yeah, have you had any, because you've been looking at houses and things, haven't you, lately, have you had any sort of murders where you walk in and you think, goodness me. Yeah, there are there are you know you've got to remember you're not buying their life and if it's tenants and they've got no it doesn't mean anything to them if it sells or not like a lot of the time i've been you know i've been a tenant on this side of it

the landlord will be selling up when the tenants would happily want to stay and they get the ones they're getting turfed out and so they've got the right and they don't want to go and they're still you know they're probably not getting the notifications or they might be but like they don't you know it's not it's not for them they don't care like they're the ones getting kicked out for the sake of the sale so you know you get it I get it

I don't get living in filth but hey ho there you go well you don't have to if you don't want to no I choose to

and that's my that's my right well listen behind you there looks very neat and tidy it's chaos but it's organised chaos

organised chaos you know nothing wrong with it here's a little message from gabby and i really wanted to say to everybody i really like these little scenarios so if you've got any funny little scenarios like this one where we can answer a question have a little chat on it please send them in this is about petrol stations and we can have a little chat em about this message hi nat hope you're okay um it's gabby i'm just i've got to put this out here i've got to ask this question because um i'm surprised

at the saint louis petrol station again and i. Louis? I did crawl in on fumes. Anyway, I've just witnessed something. So there's a lady, she's filling up, she's on pump number four. And then this guy who's behind me, and it's busy today, he goes in front of me, well, he whips behind me, sorry, he comes behind me,

and then he goes into pump number two, which is in front of pump number four. Okay. Which is all well and good because obviously he's thinking, I just want to get my car filled up. I want to get in there and pay. Yeah. But this poor woman who was at pump number four has now gone in to pay. And she is going to be stuck there now because he's going to be in the queue.

For me, I just don't think it's cricket i just don't think it's good petrol station etiquette to go to an empty pump that is in front of somebody that's already filling up i don't know i mean maybe maybe that's the norm maybe that's what lots of people do i don't know maybe maybe it's a marmite thing maybe some people do some people don't i don't know but i'm in the camp of i think it's bad petrol station etiquette to um jump ahead i don't know let me know let me know your thoughts on this i feel like you'd have an opinion on this well you're right gabby i have got an opinion if nobody went round a car at a petrol station and we all queued up behind, say, the middle pump. Say you've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

It's a big four call. You've got to go in front to fill up. You've got to do that because there'll be queues and queues and queues. Like, there ain't a load of queues already. Don't you think, Em? Yeah, I get it. already don't you think him yeah i get it i don't get it it but there's usually enough space to get around or if you are the back one you can back out and then get round the space i don't think it's as i don't think you have to wait for the person

in front of you to go to get out also sometimes you do on small ones you do yeah however yeah you're not waiting that long are you no do you know what i mean if you can't get out it's another what three minutes unless it's one of the super mini supermarket petrol stations where people do a full shop that annoys me they park up they get their petrol and then they go in and they're buying dinner for two days yeah i think get your petrol you've got to then park up at the station and then do the shopping because you're taking the piss because you're there for 20 minutes there's usually enough space to get round and if not yeah you can back out and find get around the site there's there's always a route through for the people not needing petrol to just pull up

next to the the shop bit isn't there usually it is one of my worst jobs actually filling up the car with petrol yeah i don't like it i got to the bottom bar of my petrol tank the other day for the first time ever since seven eight yeah yeah and i got to the bottom you know it's got one of these electronic little meters that say eight bars got down to the final bar and i was like you know still an eighth of a tank great yeah yeah but it starts flashing at me and i'm like oh no i can't this is this is stressful and everyone's like but I was talking to people about this. And they said, you know, usually that's still 50 miles or whatever. Yeah, about 50, yeah.

But I was like, am I going to survive this 10-minute drive to the petrol station? Or am I going to break down here? Too much for you. It's silly, but yeah. I understand. It starts flashing at you. I'm like, what do you want me to do? I'm going, I'm going'm going no i do get it and also can i say the prices of petrol is ridiculous i'm not talking

about where it is because it's never come down after that mad few days we had where everyone was coming for petrol but one minute it's £1.56 then it's £1.48, then another one I drive past is £1. I'm really confused at how they can be all different. The supermarkets tend to be the cheapest. They are cheaper. Because they don't need to make their profit from the petrol. They use it as an incentive to get you into the shop. Whereas the little four quads, it's their livelihood, isn't it?

So they add a bit more to it. It's their full income. Yeah. So a lot of the big supermarkets will price it pretty much as they're buying it or only a little bit over. So there's a race to be the cheapest to encourage you to go to a big supermarket. Do your shopping, get your petrol. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

No, no, it's a good one. Thank you, Gabby. I enjoyed that. But I am of the school of thought. You have to just go to whatever pumps there and wait for people if need be. But thanks for that, Gabby. And we've had loads of lovely texts as well. Can I read some out to you?

Oh, yeah, go on. I just absolutely love these. And I hope you don't mind this episode. It is a bit of correspondence but I do feel you know it's my job to let you know that I'm listening to these and I want to get back to you and I want you to hear them because then that will give you the incentive to keep sending them to me so it's really important to me that we're building this community and I'm forever grateful as you know listen to to this, Em. Nat, oh my God, you've changed my life.

Never before have I listened to a pod, but I'm hooked. I was jet washing at the weekend and listening to you made me forget what I was doing. Thanks a million, Helen. 48 and she lives in Edinburgh from South Manchester. So thank you so, so much. That lovely. Oh, podcast virgin. I love a pod virgin.

You know me. This is lovely from Tia. Dear Natalie, I just wanted to take a moment to tell you how much I enjoy listening to your podcast. Your insightful interviews and thoughtful discussions always leave me feeling inspired, educated and happy. Your ability to tackle tough topics with grace and intelligence is truly admirable. Keep up the amazing work. I can't wait to hear more from you i think tears message the wrong person oh no you are you're great see listeners mean the world to me and lovely debs you know debs who was on the grief

pod with me and linny yeah debs isbs is coming back guys. Yeah. Not long now. Me, Emma and Debs are going to sit down. We're going to have a lovely chat. Debs has worked in a school for a long time and she's just a really interesting lady. I might get her opinion on people taking their kids out of school

to go on holiday because the prices are extortionate and then we'll just talk about loads of other stuff. But I love Debs. Absolutely brilliant. And I do want more of you on to chat too. It's just getting round to thinking of stuff and doing it all. And I have been super busy, but thank you for all your messages.

It's brilliant. So do get in touch, please. 07788 20 1919. Send me a message. Send us a voice note. Send me some photos. Whatever you want. I have got the most

exciting message, Emma, here. Yeah. Do you remember our lovely Sean from Australia? Oh, who wanted to take you up the pier? Absolutely. Listen to this. Hello, lovely Nat. The day has come.

We are now officially Leon C residents. Oh, Lee's lovely. Tonight we are celebrating our one year wedding anniversary at a lovely seafood restaurant and we can already smell the cockles from here. Cheeky. Now we can't wait for our summer chips on the pier sometime. All our love, Sean and Chris. Aww.

So we are on our way, I promise you. We're going to get a date in. We're going to come and see you. I promise, I promise this summer we are definitely doing that. So pleased. I hope you've had a lovely move over. I can't wait to catch up with you. Message from Nicola here.

Yes, Nat, make the podwags episode happen. I would love that. I'm not sure how to sort of get that one going, Em. Any ideas? Don't say message Romesh. No, we've got to message Rob Beckett to message Romesh, haven't we? We've got to go through his PA. Well, yeah.

What's up, group? I'm kind of hoping Lisa will be on a run and hear it message me yeah you never know do you be lovely though wouldn't it to get all of the pod wag wives on hey yeah lisa rose when she isn't away. Lou. Petra. Naomi. A gaggle of women that keep the men alive. That's what I'd call it. And then we need to then work to make more pod hubs, husbands and boyfriends, because there's not enough women at the top here with the...

I completely agree need some more females up here guys some more females mind you you say that i'm quite happy being up here yeah yeah i'm i can be up here on my own mark is your you've got lovely Fern. You've got Lovely Fern Cotton. You've got Luanna. You've got... I don't really listen to any female ones. Is that really bad? Elizabeth Day, How to Fail. Giovanna Fletcher, Happy Mum, Happy Baby. See?

Oh, yeah, and her husband and boyfriend, the hab of that one is Tom. Tom. Off of... McFly. McFly, innit? So, yeah, we could have a... her husband and boyfriend the hab of that one is uh tom tom off of uh mcfly mcfly isn't it so yeah we could have a yeah husband's and boyfriend's episode it would be mark your mark tom from a fly i don't know the idea i don't know who the other ones are let's start with the wags let's get talking of mark i cannot tell you how much i loved the last scraping the barrel episode love the relationship you have with Mark.

Can we set up a Mark fan club? No, we can't. Oh, I was going to say yes. No, honestly, he will not be able to fit through that door soon. I'm telling you, we've got to keep his feet on the ground. I'm a very grounded person. It don't matter what happens to me. But I tell you what, too much attention for these people

that aren't used to it, they'll change. I'm telling you, Emma. Yeah, they'll be doing comedy on a pub tour, you know, before you know it. They'll just be... That's what I mean. They'll be off. Getting off to Wimbledon, trying their chances, you know,

sent to court, you know. Don't empower them. Emma, we've got so many messages regarding online shopping, shopping. I've got to do another Scraping the Barrel remark. We've got to unpack the shopping episode. Pack it all into the same bag, then unpack it, then repack it, then unpack it, then repack it. Absolutely. Listen to this lovely message from Immy.

Hi, Natalie. Just listened to episode one of Life with Nat and I loved it. I have just finished my GCSEs and I sit in the evening while my parents watch Love Island, knitting my first cardigan and listening to your podcast. Immy. Wow. I love that they're hobbies. The hobbies swap.

How lovely. the parents are watching love island but immy has just finished her gcc she sat knitting a cardigan listening to me love it what a delightful young lady in fact i think we should message her try and get her on massive news Vionetta £1.50 in Tesco's ooh lovely photo just in winner Vionetta dinner do you think we'll get some free Vionettas at some point Em?

save ourselves that £1.50 anyone from Walls listening who wants to send us some Vionettas it would be much appreciated we don't get paid for plugging Vionetta for anyone thinking we do we should but we don't Zoe paid for plugging Vionetta for anyone thinking we do. We should, but we don't. Zoe from Brampton, Cambridgeshire, said, Hello, I sent this message to you on Instagram, but I thought I'd better send on here too.

It's lovely, isn't it? Doing a double message. It means she, you know, she really wants to get in touch. You look so well and healthy. Would you please be able to share on Stories Pod your daily, weekly routine of skincare, supplements, what you eat, exercise? There's so much conflicting advice out there. It would be great to know what you swear by. Love the pod, by the way.

You've easily overtaken my usual favourites. So, Emma, going into that a little bit, I think she commented on Instagram yesterday, just at a post I'd done, and she said I look really well and healthy. So thank you, Zoe, for that. My last few weeks, I've done zero exercise. I've probably had three to four alcohol units per evening I've not really been doing anything to my skin whatsoever

and I haven't really eaten very well So that's the recommendation? I've got to be, listen, you know I'm honest I don't know what to say You know, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I do a load of stuff I haven't taken vitamins for ages I do take load of stuff. I haven't taken vitamins for ages.

I do take me collagen powder. That goes in me coffee. But apart from that, I really haven't done anything. I felt so guilty recently. No exercise. I've not been on a walk with a friend. I've not done anything. Although I am running around the house,

doing tidying up cleaning etc I think maybe sometimes you just look and feel well depending on everybody around you so I look and feel well I think when I know that my family unit's happy you know people are feeling good your work life balance is good you know your friends are all right. I think it's a lot to do with not just what you're putting in your body or thinking about your body all the time, it's mentally how you feel and that shines out and I think that's really important to remember. Yeah, and genetics. And genetics.

What is that pussy doing now? It just came and head-butted me and then head-butted the mic and then walked off. I don't know. They want attention. They want attention. He's angry today. It's because I was away overnight, wasn't I? On Sunday.

Oh, not forgiving you yet. This is why I haven't got pets. Apart from my rabbits. You've got kids. That's closer. Well, that's why. I haven't got pets. Apart from my rabbits. You've got kids. That's close to that. Well, that's why. I've got two children. I could not have another child.

And it would end up being like a child. Cat, dog. It would. Just more worry. More expense. Couldn't do it, honestly. Well, I'll tell you something, then. We haven't stopped talking.

We've been going quite a while. It's amazing, really, isn't it? You get on and you think, well, I hope this will be all right. But it is a gentle little natter. But I do like these ones. Yeah. They're sort of my favourites. Aww, that's your chat.

Nice chat. Well done for Sunday again. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much to everybody for all your messages, all your voice notes. I hope I've eased you into your Thursday and I shall see you on Monday. And I hope you have a fantastic weekend. Good luck to England. Come on, boys, you can do it for us.

You take care. See ya. Hi, this is Chris McCausland. And this is Diane Boswell. And we've got a new podcast, haven't we, Di? We do. What's it called?

Winning. Isn't. Everything. Every week, me and Diane, we're going to be having a little catch-up on the back of Strictly, aren't we, Di? We are. I've missed you, Chris. I've missed you too. We're going to talk some a little catch-up on the back of Strictly, aren't we, Di? We are. I've missed you, Chris.

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