Life with Nat - EP29: Kids, Kart Wheels & Ice Cream

Episode Date: July 28, 2024

Nat speaks to the children about the family holiday and Marc’s obsession with ice creams. Plus plenty of correspondence. Enjoy! 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

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Visit BetterHelp.com today to get 10% off your first month. That's BetterHelp, H-E-L-P.com. Hello and welcome to Life with Nat on this lovely Monday morning. The last time you heard from me, I was having a chat with Elia about holidays. And I let you into the secret that Joni had broken her arm and we didn't know whether we were going to go on holiday or not. Well, the news is we're going tomorrow. Yippee! Oh, Emma, it's been a complete shambles the last few days.

Oh, sod's law. Sod's law. Absolute, the law of sod. You really couldn't make it up. You wonder why I stay in this country. Anyway, do you know what? I recorded a little bit with the girls for everybody to listen to to explain where we are so have a listen to this hello girls hello how you doing mate

are you gonna be a comedian today because i'll tell you something. What you've put me through for the last few days hasn't been funny. Don't look at me like that. Let's tell the listeners. Let's tell the listeners what happened. So on Wednesday, what happened at school? We were in the playground from PE, from times tables.

We did a lap around the field, and then I did a cartwheel because... Because why not? Why did you do a cartwheel? Because... No one told you to do a cartwheel, did they? I did a cartwheel Because everyone was doing cartwheels And he just

I don't know what I'm going to say I did one So you did a cartwheel And you fell over, didn't you? Yeah And you fell onto your arm Yeah And what did you hear when you fell?

I don't know anymore. Don't know. You told the doctor that you heard a big click. Oh, yeah. So, we ended up going to hospital Wednesday. Hallelujah, I wasn't there. Well, why would you be there? What do you mean?

I would have been at home till midnight well that's true because i went with so i phoned elia in the morning so i remember because daddy was like come on let's go out for lunch and i was like no i really can't bother i'm just gonna phone elia and see what she's doing so then i went with elia and we went to maria's to see the kids yeah and if elia hadn't picked me up because i'd say it was about an hour after we were in card factory trying to find a card for roro yeah and elliot went oh joni's just broken her arm i was like just going back to the cards terrible choice of cards by the way no no but i no no no but i didn't choose them with elliot i was with rora but no i know you didn't choose them with

elliot i'm just saying that i asked you to get me some cards because I was really busy and I was going to have no time. Would you know what? Next time, do it yourself or order it online. But I was in hospital. Well, get someone else with a good sense of card choosing to do it. Right, so let's not worry about you being at home on your own. Let's worry about Joni's broken arm. Yeah, let's just worry about Joni's arm.

Why? So we've gone into the fact that on the last pod, when I spoke to Elia, I was in a position where Joni was going to go into hospital and they were going to sort her arm out. We went into hospital. She had her operation. She went under general anesthetic, which is horrible. It's really, really horrible to watch your child go under general anesthetic. And I felt rather stressed. Mark came with me in the morning, but he was filming the proms. So he had to go off. And I sat there in the hospital.

It's meant to be roughly about an hour until they give you a call to say, go down and meet your daughter in recovery. Hour, hour and a half, hour and 45 minutes, two hours, two and a quarter for what is going on, what's happened. Then this lovely nurse called Carla, all the staff, by the way, in Harlow was so wonderful. Weren't they kind, Joni? quarter. I thought, what is going on? What's happened? Then this lovely nurse called Carla, all the staff, by the way, in Harlow was so wonderful. Weren't they kind, Joanie? Yeah. They were good, weren't they? Really kind. So then she came over, Carla. She said, there have been quite a long time. I'm going to ring down. You think, for goodness sake, if the nurse is worried, what's going on? So anyway, it was about two and a half hours. I went down to see Joni and they had to put two plates in your arm, didn't they? To hold the bones together because Joni had broken two bones.

So she's got two little plates in her arm. They've had to make some incisions. Cuts, Joni. Little cuts. Because her bones were too small. So her bones, cuts Because her bones were too small Yeah, her bones were too small Couldn't get the wires through And we weren't really sure

If we were going to be going on holiday Now, at this point How did you feel, Eliza? In thinking back now I was being quite selfish. But I was absolutely fuming. Furious. Love that word. Fuming.

I was absolutely gutted. But thinking back now, it was quite selfish of me. Because I was only thinking about the holiday but i think as a teenager yeah as a 13 year old girl he's been looking forward to this holiday for eight months it's obviously going to be a bit of a letdown when your mum says oh your sister's gone into hospital having an operation i was upset for her about that but i was also like come on i mean you couldn't have done this at a worse time yeah I know what you mean and I do think you have been looking forward to it we've all been looking forward to our holiday so I let you off for feeling upset and and you were stomping around

a bit which was quite stressful yeah sorry that's all right sorry about that I do forgive you yeah good the news is the big news is we're going on holiday, aren't we, darling? Yay! We are going on holiday. I just need to say, Mummy's gone mad about the clothes. My clothes. What do you mean mad about the clothes? Oh, yes.

Mummy bought loads and loads of clothes for Joanie. What loads and loads? No, but I mean, she'd gone through all her clothes well a lot of them were too small from last year tried them on some were small so then you ordered new bits and she can't wear any of it now because she can't get around through it so me and Laura went on a mad rush to Harlow we went to Primark, Asda we went absolutely everywhere and there was not no joke there wasn't one vest

in Primark not one children's vest it's funny isn't it how all the autumn clothes are coming in now and it was the weirdest thing

so you know you go into Primark in Westfield or what's it called Bluewater or something yeah and you go in there and it's like

oh there's a massive beach section. Let's go and look there. I mean, I remember when me and Elliot went to Westfield, there was literally rows

of bikinis and cover-ups. Yeah. I've gone in there, there was not, when I say not one bikini, I mean, the only one that was there was a gold,

like, metallic one. For you or for Joanie? For me. Did you buy it? No. Not one swimming costume. It's a metallic one. For you or for Joanie? For me. Did you buy it? No. Not one swimming costume. Fancy a gold one.

Not one swimming costume will cover up. I managed to get a massive shirt. Oh, yeah, lovely. Which was an extra large. Extra, extra large, I think. Yeah, but that's lovely. But it's comfortable. Really comfy.

But, I mean, the swimming costume situation was horrific for me. It's because we're coming towards... Usually, you see, the summer holidays hadn't even started at that point. No, I know. But what you find is if the weather's bad, they're changing stock all the time, aren't they? True.

Because we haven't had the best weather. That's why. Yeah. So, Joni, how are you feeling about going on holiday with your arm in plaster? Good. Do you feel okay about it? Because the other day you had a 20-minute scream-a-thon

telling us, well, telling me that no-one's allowed to get in a swimming pool when we go on holiday. She was probably still sedated at that point. No. Do you feel a little bit better about that now? No. You don't feel better about it?

I don't want Eliza to because she's going to jump in the pool. Well, she will jump in. I said I'll go in the pool, but I'm not going to be in there all the time because that's not fair on you. Well, that's really kind of you. Because if we were there together, I know we'd be in the pool, but I'm not going to be in there all the time because that's not fair on you. Well, that's really kind of you. Because if we were there together, I know we'd be in the pool all day for like seven hours straight. And sunbathing is hard for her. But there's a baby pool, so you should be able to walk around.

Now we've got that cover thing. We've got the cover. I've bought a cover off of Amazon. It's meant to be unbelievable. The reviews were so good. It's got about 6,000 reviews saying it's saved everyone's holiday, Joan. So we're going to try it, aren't we? But it hasn't saved ours yet, has it?

It hasn't saved ours yet. Be positive. But maybe it will. But I said to her we could still go on the beach, go on a pedalo. I'm not going on a pedalo. Why? I dreamt about it two days ago. Oh, yeah, you told me about that.

What was the pedalo dream? Tell us. about it two days ago oh yeah you told me about that what was the pedalo drain tell us it was funny because it's like i went on a pedalo with um daddy and but it was a big it wasn't that big it was just the size of this table oh okay not too big no and um but it all inflated and holes went through it, but it landed on the biggest humpback whale ever and then the water that goes up a whale squirted up. It was a bit funny, but then we drank. Hang on, were you on top of the squirty bit? Yeah.

Oh, okay. And then I fell off and I got loads of water in my eyes. Oh, right. I think that was the least of your worries, the water going in your eyes. Why? That's the bad bit. I mean, I remember going to Cornwall and pushing her in the pool and then she just screamed the pool down because she didn't have her goggles.

I need to adjust my goggles on my arm. You're the same. You don't like water in your eyes. I swim without goggles now. Now you do, but you didn't used to. No, I didn't used to, but... So why did you do it to me? I'm sorry.

I'm young. Sorry. I'm younger. Are you? Don't talk like this. Sorry. Sorry. Wow.

Wow. So what are you looking forward to most about the holiday? Because we're going to... Today. Today we're packing. I love dogs. Well, do you know what? I actually finished packing two days ago. Thank you, didn't I, Mummy?

Yeah, you've done very, very well. Well done, well done, madam. I'm going to... Are excited we're gonna have a lovely bath this is my day when we're there every single day wake up wash my face cold shower put my my glow lotion on my face go down to the pool get in the pool tan tan and oil sun cream go in the pool no like the tan enhancer you got me i saw you the other day in the garden yeah bottle of baby oil that was like two that was three months ago ridiculous thing to do though yeah i know i know that now okay well i've got all the sun creams in the bag i know but you bought me that

um it's like a sun cream but it enhances your tan at the same time the 50 yes you bought it for me a few weeks ago yeah that'll be good i just cannot wait to lay on the beach and read my vogue magazines that's all i want to do have my have georgia sm Smith playing in my ear, Vogue magazine, hot sand, beach, tan. That's what I want. Do you prefer the beach or the pool, Eliza? Beach. Do you prefer the beach or the pool, Joni? Can you say both?

Yeah. The beach attracts the sun more, that's why I prefer it. Oh, really? And then I also like going in the sea. What about getting all sand on you, though, when you put on your lotion? And then I like... No, actually, I like swimming in the pool more. You like swimming in the pool more?

Because it's nice and warm, and there's nice and nice seats, and you can go in the deep end and learn to swim. But when you go abroad, Joan, the sea's hot. Because it's so hot. Because the weather's so hot. When you go abroad, you don't need little chimpanzees and eyes that are talking in your face like you're doing now. How am I talking in your face?

I'm on the opposite side of the room to you. Still talking to me. So do you feel okay now about being on holiday and maybe having a little paddle and not maybe having as much fun as you would have had? Because we've had a good chat about it, haven't we? When did I say I wasn't? Well, I think you and I were speaking and you still have lots and lots of fun. It's better than being at home for a week, isn't it? Going somewhere new.

Yeah. Yeah? Maybe. If you think about it, when we go to Cornwall, we'll go to Newquay and we'll walk around the shops and you will be moaning because you're so bored. Then we get back to the hotel. First thing you want to do is go swimming.

So if we went to Cornwall now, you would only be able to walk around the shops and eat food. You couldn't swim. So do you see why going abroad is the easier option? Because there's more for you to do. But Cornwall's homely and it's got a nice beach. But what in cold? Joanie's a bit like me.

She's very happy to go to the same place all the time. Yeah, you see I'm not. Don't get me wrong i love cornwall i just think we need to go abroad this year we haven't been on the holidays since she was two i know we haven't been on a broad holiday that's why it's a bit of a shame i don't know if you count it last year for for Italy because we were there for three days and all of it was wedding, wedding, wedding. No, it was a wedding, but we had a wonderful time. Yeah, we did. It was so much fun.

But it wasn't a holiday. It wasn't like a full-on week and a half's worth of a holiday. No, absolutely not. Had a pool. It did have a pool. That was so good. Joni, I think you've been very, very brave over the last few days. You've been such a good girl.

She's pulling funny faces. But you've been really, really, really brave. Yeah. Okay. And I'm really, really looking forward to going on holiday with you both. I'm just happy you're brighter today, Joni. I mean, yesterday. No, was it yesterday?

No. Yeah, she was so grumpy. I mean, yesterday. No, was it yesterday? No. Yeah, she was so grumpy. I came in from a day out with Elia. And I went, hey, Jon. You look very pretty. And she went, go away. I don't want to speak to you. And then she just stood up, stormed out the room.

Then my friend came over so I could do her hair and make-up for her party. And she went hey joan you okay and she just went go away ronnie and walked away i think the general anesthetic was still inside her body because it can do funny things to you lots of medication but you're back you're back to yourself today tell everyone's story when she was in the hospital what she was saying when the doctor asked what his name was. Ah, can I say it? Yeah, so Joanie had to have some sedation. She was sedated because they wanted to try and manipulate her arm.

And there was a lovely porter called Peter, Peter the Porter, who was moving Joanie around on her bed to and from the X-ray room. And when Joanie came on her bed, to and from the x-ray room. And when Joanie came round from her sedation, he said, what's my name then? And what did you say? Um, Stephen Mulhern, Justin Beaver. Claudia Winkleson?

He's a good boy. You did call him Claudia Winkleson. No, a good boy. You did call him Claudia Winkleson. No, I didn't. I said aunt. You did. And you called him Steve McFadden. And Steve McFadden. You were coming out with lots of celebrities' names after your sedation on ketamine.

Very strange. Tom Grennan. Tom Grennan? Camila Grande. Milly Cyrus. Milly? Milly Cyrus. Milly Cyrus. I love your... Justin Beaver.

Milly Cyrus. Milly Cyrus. Claudia Winkleson. 07788 2019-19. Are any of your younger children funny with names? Have they got any funny things they say that you don't want to correct because it's so cute do you remember when she used to call magazine a mazakeen i do and then she it was it was it was mazakeen no it was a magazine no it wasn't it was mazakeen and

then when you were a real baby baby you'd go milk instead of milk it was milk and you actually only just got out of that i'd say about three years ago it's horrible when you see these little funny little cute things slip away are you looking forward to getting on the airplane tomorrow joni am i or am i not yes that's what I'm asking A bit Yeah? A bit Do you like the airport? It pops my ears

Oh no, but we can get some sucky sweets, can't we? Oh, Laura got these really good ones she was telling me about Yeah? Can we get them from the airport? Yeah, of course Eliza, do you like the airport? What do you mean? Can we get them from the airport? Yeah, of course. Eliza, do you like the airport? What do you mean?

Do you like going to the airport? Yeah. The best bit's duty free. Well, you don't really buy anything in duty free, do you? No, but I've never been

to an airport, really, at this age. Have I? What, have you got some money stashed away no no tell me you know all the sold in janeiro stuff like the body sprays and the body creams yeah they're like half price in the airport are they in duty free still a lot of money though what like 12 quid yes that's a lot of money yeah true Eliza If you have any money Give it to me

Because I'm money Money And also I want to get my You said I could get some Vogue magazines Because I'm not taking a book You can get some fashion magazines And then Why do you need them?

Yeah Because you're taking a book But I don't like reading books Why? I just don't enjoy it I prefer magazines reading about fashion what a killer stuff when i'm older i'm sure i will but just not now when you're older you'll be going to work having coffees meeting your friends out. True. And dropping me places where I'm making you go. Yeah, I can't wait till you're older and about my age and you start going to parties and I'll be that cool sister.

I'll do your hair and make-up and help you choose an outfit. And then I'll pick you up in my car and I'll take you everywhere. I'm really, really, really pleased this is documented. And I shall earmark what you've just said. And when you're older, you'll be regretting what you just said. No. You'll want me to do that when you're older, won't you? Yes.

Yeah. A bit. Not that much. Rude. Well, you may bicker, but you are getting closer. And Eliza may snitch on me you are you joking we're in we're in um where are we oxford street zara and we're stood in the middle of the shop and she has purposely tripped over my foot and pretended to fall on the floor and then mummy shouted at me

in the middle of zara and embarrassed me when everyone knew Hope, Eden, Julie they all saw her pretend and she went I'm going to fall over your foot now and get you in trouble and then she fell over my foot. Is that the truth?

I promise. Don't promise things. I told you. Even though your arm is in a plaster we are going to have a fantastic holiday. I am very, very proud of you. You've been very, very brave.

Thank you for joining me on the pod. Thank you. I love you. What do I say? What do I say? What about love you too, mummy? Love you too. You're such a comedian, aren't you?

What do I say then? Thanks. Thank you. Bye. What do I say then? Thanks. Thank you. Bye. What do I say now? Oh, my God. Bye. Oh, bless them.

Oh, mate, what a cartwheel of emotions you've been through. Quite, to put it lightly cracking time but you know what it was touch and go but now they're really excited and i think even though she's gonna have her arm in the sling and she's not gonna be jumping in and out the pool all day we just feel really happy we can get on a plane and go yeah let's just go now and have a bit of sunshine and eat loads of ice cream drink loads of wine and just chill out. So that's where we are, Em. Oh, well, that would be lovely.

I'm very, very excited for you. Very jealous, mainly. Oh, I know. I know. I feel very, very lucky that we're going abroad because I know that so many people can't. So, yeah, that's the main thing, really. So that would be good. How's your week been, anyway?

Yeah, all right. Thanks. It's all main thing, really. So that'd be good. How's your week been, anyway? Yeah, all right, thanks. It's all moving with the move. Went and visited again. Been signing documents and sending stuff around. So, yeah. Brilliant. Oh, so we're nearly there then. How exciting.

A bit scary. Went and visited again. I was like, oh, this all feels very real now. It was all very nice in kind of theory. But, oh, yeah, it'll be nice. It'll be great. It'll be lovely if I can get in before the summer because it's got a garden. Before the summer or in the summer?

Well, before the end of the summer. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, to actually enjoy some of it. Yeah. Oh, brilliant. Have a little bit of outside time. That would be great. Yeah. Oh, brilliant. Have a little bit of outside time. That would be great.

Yeah. Well, the summer sort of keeps half starting, half pretending it's going to happen. I think if you're, as long as you're in there by kind of beginning of September, I reckon you'll see some sunshine. I think there'll be a barbecue or two. Yes, please. Yes, please. How lovely. Well, my week has consisted, I did loose women on Monday.

Lovely stuff. Well done. Charlene White thought I said that I love a fanny wash when actually I said I like a flannel wash. Ah, yes. Slightly different words. Slightly. So fortunately, I didn't say I like a fanny wash. You can do a bit of both.

Well, not on loose women at half past twelve ITV daytime, Emma. No, no. She had a look of shock in her face as she was anchoring the programme. And I think that's what she thought I'd said. So that went down a storm. Went down quite well. Flannels, flannels everywhere. They were talking about B-days, actually,

and the fact that B-days are coming back into fashion. It's supposed to be much better for the environment or something because it's cleaner and less resources. You're not using as much toilet paper. I don't know. I don't think I've ever used one. I just think it's a lot of work. That's all I'm thinking.

But there you go. This chat ain't about bidets. I hope all my listeners have been very, very well. I'll tell you something, Em. There's a hell of a lot of people messaging in lately. Let's have a listen to Abby. Hi, Natalie. It's Abby here.

Hope you're well. I've seen you mention about having two ice creams in a row and I've got to say, I do this. When the first one is so good, you've just got to have another. Cornetto is definitely the one. Love a strawberry Cornetto. 100%. Nothing better on a sunny day. What would be your go-to ice cream? Well, Abby, I did put a message on Instagram, Emma, this week because Mark had two ice creams in a row.

And I do find that a ridiculous thing because I suppose because I don't really like ice cream, I think, God oh how sickly but I got bombarded with uh followers telling me loads of people have two ice creams in a row sometimes three one lady said she can do six magnums in a sitting like full-size ones not even the minis she didn't say minis. Yeah. Oh, wow. I mean, yeah, that's a lot. But, Abby, in answer to your question, I would go for a Solero.

Oh, yeah. If you're going more fruity, that's less sickly, I suppose. It's just basically orange squash. I mean, Mark's reasoning on your Instagram was that it just is liquid by the time you've eaten it. Like a drink, yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, Solero isn't far off having just some squash, just very cold. With a load of cream in it.

Oh, they are creamy, aren't they? Oh, I'm thinking of Calippos. Oh, you're thinking of a Calippo. Now, I'm still going for an ice cream, but with a fruity outside cover. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Nice. But yeah, I got absolutely annihilated again. So mark his flavour of the month, Emma. He really, really is. And his flavour is Solero?

No, his is Chocobon. His is Chocobon, is it? Yeah. We've got an outside freezer in the garage There are 33 boxes of chocobons in it Oh, no wonder he's getting through two at a time It's a lot, isn't it? You've got to get it done before the summer ends

He's done it because the maxibons Chocobons Went out of circulation And he couldn't find them anymore. So now he's found something he likes. He's petrified that they're going to disappear. Yeah. So he's stocking up.

Yeah. Don't think I've ever had a choco bond. So they're Aldi's version, are they? Yes. Yeah, that's right. Lovely. They're like the little sandwich wafer ones. Not for me.

Ice cream sandwich. No. No wafer ones. Not for me. Ice cream sandwich. No. No interest in it. More for Mark. How he's going to get through 215 or whatever he's got in there is beyond me. So I think there's six in a pack. I mean, there's quite a lot going on. I mean, when we go on a holiday, it's all inclusive.

Ooh. So that frightens me with the ice cream situation. Who knows how far he's going to push himself. Let you know when I'm home. Keep a tally of him. I'd like to mention lovely Helen Bishenden. Now, Helen has messaged me a few times, all in the space of one day,

which was yesterday. Hey, Natalie, i'm currently sweating it in cyprus bloody hell i now know where the british sun and heat has gone not complaining but we are literally sat on the sun anyway as all i could do is lay comatose on a sunbed i'm catching up with your pods the cleaning one made me laugh so loud the other holiday guests must think that I'm some sort of weird Brit. You talked about fridges. I wish freezers beeped when they were left open, as my hubby left one open in the garage.

After blaming each other and others living in the same house, we worked out it was him. Cue a whole freezer full of food to be chucked. We did save some things, though, so I had a full-on christmas dinner as i was not wasting a turkey wow yeah that's that's a nightmare isn't it having a freezer full of stuff that goes oh goes off we had that a few times in a in a house i was in the blame kept going around but it was just the vacuum on the door what had gone i know you mean the seal yeah

the seal so yeah yeah after losing a few freezers worse every now and then it was just like this is so annoying this is so annoying but we managed to get there they've got it replaced in the end but like oh yeah when you just got and it was just stuff just floating oh just floating about so you didn't find it in time to sort of cook it, save it. A couple of times I did. And you just end up having the weirdest, weirdest dinner of like fish fingers. Just random things together. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Everything. Cooked turkey. Didn't have turkey in a flat share. But yeah. I get it though. I'm with Helen. I wouldn't waste a turkey. No, I do. get it in the oven

absolutely although whether you'd make it into a christmas dinner rather than like just roast it up and use it in some kind of wrap nice turkey curry yeah yeah then i've got another one a bit later on in the day sorry helen again you'll be sick of me i'm blaming the holiday heat you say about pets worry and money bloody hell we almost didn't go away because we have a 13 year old chicken on her last days and then our house rabbit decided he wanted to visit the vets the day before we flew out on his fifth birthday talk about bloody selfish thank god for amazing guardian angel friend of ours who happens to be a veterinary nurse at our vets. And then she sent me another lovely picture of her pina colada. Cheers Nat, loving a pina colada while sat in the sun in Cyprus.

Loving the pods, what a great way to spend the day. So Helen literally spent the whole day listening to us. So thank you, Helen. And I hope you had a lovely day I hope you're still enjoying the lovely holiday isn't that nice really nice I hope she's keeping it warm for you that part of the world Greece Cyprus not far is it Cyprus yeah not far looks very hot yeah that'll be scorching 37 38 they know how to do air con though they're properly don't they so you can at least escape a little bit i don't want to escape i want to sit in it for seven days solid and that isn't like me it's really not like me because i'm a wintry person but i think because of the weather

we've had and what have you and how busy i've been i'm really really looking forward to having some sun on my skin I really am Louise said hi Nat I think you need to do an ep on caravan holidays in the UK I'm currently on holiday in Hemsby and we are super lucky with the weather which never happens to us nor me but between the frigging seagulls glaring light through our window and sun sodding watch that had an alarm set for 6 30 i'm sat very blurry eyed outside with a coffee at a far too early hour what's the feelings about caravan holidays this time last year we vowed never again but here we are back again kids will have a blast but we will go back skint a little broken and we'll be vacuuming sand out the car for months love the pod louise my memory of a caravan holiday

was my mum's friends genie and dick their best friends they had a caravan or maybe their mum had a caravan or something and i remember going down to stay there a couple of times and really enjoying it I I've never sort of fully done it but I know so many people who have the most wonderful memories and go on caravan holidays all the time yeah yeah and that part of the world's really lovely that's that's Norfolk Hemsby yeah yeah lovely this is a lovely message from Amy. Hi Nat, I just wanted to send a message to say a huge thank you for your recent episodes on cleaning and mum guilt. I'm a full-time working mum of two and juggling is hard.

Your episode on mum guilt had me laughing and crying, but most of all, it was comforting to know that we're all in it together. Thank you, thank you, thank you for creating this community. Keep being you you've bloody fab amy from northampton so that's really nice i had the most amazing message m solo cleaners support uk based it's a facebook group and someone has put on the group if you haven't listened to her pod yet you should it. It's a firm favourite for me now. Just love her and this is a really good episode.

So someone's pasted the cleaning episode onto this group. And then I just got this absolutely fantastic message that says, Nat, we think you're brilliant. We are in a group on Facebook of 3,000 cleaners in the UK and your pod has just been shared to all. We all think you're amazing. You get us through our cleaning days so normal and down to earth. Wish there was a pod every day.

Keep doing what you're doing. P.S. Live show? Yes, please. But isn't that lovely to be shared on a Facebook group? That's really nice. I mean, 3,000 of them, Em. Yeah, and so these are people working in cleaning

so they're out and about you know wanting stuff to listen to in the headphones oh yeah big up to all of you big up to all of you happy cleaning we've got our own facebook page now if we haven't mentioned oh yeah we haven't mentioned it have we no so facebook.com forward slash life with nat pod i will start putting proper posts up and things like that we've currently got eight followers because we haven't mentioned it anywhere people just managed to find it luckily out of nowhere which is very lovely but yeah so life with nat pod is on facebook you just search for it on facebook yeah yeah life with nat pod so if you want to join our Facebook page

I'm not going to be saying and promising you that I'm going to be on there all the time but what I'll do is share stuff from Instagram onto Facebook hopefully and I'll be able to do a few bits and write a few messages on there and Em's going to do some so again it's just a little place for us all to have a little chat a little community all together. So our lovely Emma come up with the idea of a Facebook page because my business, WhatsApp's obviously I can hear, but none of you can talk to each other. So we thought

this would be a lovely place for you to all get together and talk amongst yourselves about us, or about each other, or about Mark. Shopping, socks, queues, whatever you fancy. or about Mark? Shopping. Socks. Cues. Whatever you fancy. Hi Nat, it's Laura from Devon here.

I've just finished a run and just wanted to say that I was listening to Scraping the Barrel Part 3 and I agree with the listener who rang in and said your husband's got a lovely voice because I thought the same.

I think he sounds like Rafe Spall. But hey, that's just my opinion. I think he's got a great voice. Anyway, the same. I think he sounds like Rafe Spall. But hey, that's just my opinion. I think he's got a great voice. Anyway, love to you all. Hi, Laura. Happy running.

Another lady that thinks my man has a lovely voice. I'm lucky, aren't I, really? Yeah. Yeah. Take it as praise. Hands off. Yeah. Hands off. He's mine.

It's very, very nice very nice But I tell you what I told you I've said it I've said it before And I'll say it again Too many compliments Yeah Out grows big heads

We've got to We've got to drag him down We can do that though Can't we Yeah On the next scrape in the barrel We can Knock him down a peg or two.

Bully him lightly. Yeah. Massive news, Emma. Yes? Do you remember me talking about the fact that I've always wanted to eat Chinese out of a box? Oh, out of the sort of the American kind of little foldy... Yeah. ...crate thing?

Guess what? This week, new in the food hall at M&S, noodle boxes. Little tiny boxes like we're talking about. Oh, amazing. That's so cool. Can't wait to get some. Yeah. And then I can pretend I'm in Friends.

Oh, do that, thank you marks and spencer also talking to marks and spencers very quickly have you seen their genius advertising they have mark wright and spencer matthews oh so i've seen the parody which is uh matalan have come in with their own matt and alan oh so i haven't seen the original yet but i've seen matalan keeps popping up of like oh yeah you've got mark and spencer but we've got matt and alan who are just these people who work in the shop brilliant however it's genius is it i'll have to take it out. Yeah, it's very, very good. Very, very clever.

Mark and Spencer, yeah. You just need to rename yourself Mark or Spencer and then that could have been your gig. Oh, no, it could have been mine. I was thinking where could I go? In fact, I was thinking of Matalan because I thought we could do Natalan. We could do a play on words.

But yeah, very, very good. Sat chatting away. I'm Mark. And I'm Spencer. Very clever. Very clever. But anyway, they, very good. Sat chatting away. I'm Mark. And I'm Spencer. Very clever. Very clever. But anyway, they're doing noodle boxes, so I'm absolutely thrilled to pieces about that. Who is the most impressive Welsh person?

What's the best thing to wear on your feet? And what supermarket would Jesus shop at? Guestamators, the weekly interactive quiz show is back for a brand new series with me, Andy Bush, and our quiz master, Statman Matt. We've surveyed the nation and now we're grilling our celebrity guests to see if they can tap into the collective brains of Britain.

Past guests include Lloyd Griffith. If you're taking that into the shower, I mean, I know the NHS is stretched, but go and see your doctor. Mel Gedroych. I've never been asked to join a pub quiz team because I think people really detest the way I've become. Bryony Gordon.

Like, we just spent 15 minutes talking about how long the guest donation spends on the loo, you know? That's not normal. Matt Edmondson. Soup is a liquid. I guess so, yeah. Well, there's no guessing about it. And the legend that is Natalie Cassidy. No, I would not. No Edmondson. Soup is a liquid. I guess so, yeah. Well, there's no guessing about it.

And the legend that is Natalie Cassidy. No, I would not. No, thank you. What happens if you have a dodgy prawn? To listen to the show and play along at home, you know what to do. Go to guestamators.com. Hello, Nat. I just thought I would drop you a line to let you know that I'm listening from New Zealand. My name's Lucy and I moved from England 10 years ago. I bloody love a good podcast. Love them. My ultimate favourite is Rob and Josh, Parenting Hell. However, I now look on Spotify and I live for the little blue dot next to your podcast to let me know that there's one way in. So you're up there, love. You're my top two favourite podcasts. It just feels like I'm catching up with a mate. So well done, girls. Keep it up. Love it.

Oh, thank you so much, Lucy. I wonder what it's like to live in New Zealand. Do you ever think about that? Looks lovely. My mum spent some years living there as a kid. And yeah, it just sounded beautiful. Like it's very similar. She also spent some time in Wales and it sounds quite similar

because the landscape is just incredible. I bet that's great waking up there, do you? Yeah. Anyway, Lucy, thank you so much. I feel completely honoured to be up there with Parents in Hell. They're great boys. They're great boys. I'll tell you something you can do, Emma, for me, darling,

on this Facebook page of ours. Yeah? I've had quite a lot of messages wanting the link for the clips for the socks. Oh, okay. So could you get that up on the Facebook group? Should I set it up as an affiliate link so I get a penny every time? Could you do that? I think there's always a...

It doesn't matter. No, I'll just... Yeah, I'm happy to direct people. I just... If you just search sock clips, they do show up. They're just little plastic ones and they're all machine washable. But it has really changed the game. Life changer.

Well, there's a few people on here, so I think just chuck it up if you don't mind. Chuck the link up. That'll be fab. Stop clips. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. My lovely, lovely agent and friend Scott Mitchell

has had some amazing messages just saying how people have really enjoyed it. People are really up for a marathon episode, so I am going to do that soon. Definite, definite marathon episode with Scott and I talking about training, how I've not run it at all anymore. He's back into his running, which when you've done a marathon with somebody,

it makes you feel really guilty when they text and say, I've just come back from a run. You think, oh, it's sort of cringy. But I am going to try and start running again soon because it is really good for my brain and it is really good for my body so i'm gonna have a go but yes we are going to do a marathon episode absolutely in the next couple of months i will do one got loads of

running listeners i wonder how many of them are marathon training at the moment i know absolutely send in some messages tell us what your what your goal is and what you're aiming for absolutely yeah i've had a couple of people doing the 10k a few people doing you know different ones there's a half marathon in october i know because i was going to do it for gosh i'm not sure if i've got the time because if i set myself a task i want to do it properly and i'm not going into things half-heartedly and doing it rubbish so we'll'll have to see. But yeah, there's always races around the country, different mileage, you know what I mean? For different charities, it's brilliant.

So yeah, let us know what you're doing. Let us know where you are, how you're getting on. That'd be fab. Well, the last couple of episodes have been a bit kick, bollock, scramble, just because of the situation that I found myself in. But I'm now going to go and have a lovely rest amazing yeah enjoy it enjoy it have the best time also though I think it's

important for the listeners to know that obviously because you're going on holiday you have to record quite a few eps for when you're away yeah which I thought was going to be kind of quite easy to do. And then I found myself, yeah, with a child with a broken arm. So if these are a little bit, I don't know, not the same as you'd expect, don't judge me. It's just been a really hard week, people. A really hard week. I will speak to you on Thursdayursday have a lovely rest of the week

you take care of yourselves thank you for all of your messages as always i really really appreciate it we couldn't do the pub without you guys and yeah i'll see you again soon thanks a lot. See ya. We are finally on holiday as a family for the first time in six years. We've actually been here a few days and it's taken quite a while to wind down. But we're here. I've got a sparkling wine in my hand and it's lovely sitting by the pool the sun's out it's only quarter past 10 in the morning and you're drinking a sparkling wine i'm on holiday lovely i'm on my holidays and the whole time we've been here i think think this is the first time you've had anything pre... Anything alcoholic, I should say. Lunchtime.

Lunchtime, yeah. That's very good. What's that, Eliza, darling? Don't know. What do you want? The one thing I will say about the holiday, Mark, and that is absolutely beautiful. But have we been able to have a conversation for longer than about four minutes before one of the children say mummy or daddy? Um, not really. Mummy, mummy, daddy, daddy, mummy. We're at the pool. Can we go to the beach? We're at the beach, I'd like to go to the pool.

We're at the pool, can we go to the baby pool? Can we go to the splash park? Can we get an ice cream now? What are we having for lunch? Can I have a drink? Mummy? Pass me the iPad. Mummy? Mummy? Yeah, it's been slightly disruptive, hasn't it um and as you can probably hear you know the kids the kids have been fine but there's the odd little not bigger but they are really getting on actually

and joni's arm for everybody who sent me wonderful messages regarding the waterproof thing for the plaster cast it has been a lifesaver and i ordered it so thank you very much it's absolutely brilliant she's in and out of the water children are very adaptable she's currently floating around um on a lilo and she's got her arm sort of floating on the lilo very clever really so that's that takes the weight of it um and sort of smiling you know joanie paddling along in the sun as you say very adaptable it's amazing really yeah she's just demonstrating a nice turn on the lilo yeah it's very good really good yeah why don't you go for a little paddle over that way now

i'll keep paddling until you get to the greece the mainland she's in a pool for anyone who's concerned not out at sea no no me later on me and eliza might go for a kayak uh paddle mightn't we she loves it we've been out a couple of times already i've never known anyone to get in a canoe for 20 minutes and come back as if they've sailed the world who are you talking to me eliza the drama of it all oh dramatics when i say i don't want to go far out you go no it'll be fine it'll be okay and i'm like no i don't really want to go near the boys can we just anyway she's she's saying something about how she didn't enjoy doing it and oh sorry you just mentioned boys what do you you mean? No one said anything about any boys.

Shut up. The boys, the things bobbing about in the ocean. Yeah, I know what a boy is. Thank you. Just making sure we were talking about the correct type. Oh, here we go. Yes, darling. This is what we're talking about.

It's never ending. It's never ending. Something on a holiday that I will talk about. Just go jump in the pool for a second. Okay, alright. Something which I think is very important to talk about is just human behaviour. I just find it so funny that we're all like lemmings. And it's like breakfast, breakfast. And then everyone goes into the buffet.

We've all got our plates. Buffet, buffet. And then everyone's at the pole doing the same thing. I just find humans very interesting to watch. And you don't really get to do a lot of it at home. Because obviously we're always so busy, everyone. But the people watching is possibly one of my favorite things to do on holiday eliza we've had good people watching haven't we eliza's been very good at putting her phone away in fact we all have

mark's been the best at leaving his phone in the room and switching off i haven't been looking at my phone a lot but because of work and stuff i have had to be checking it a little bit because scott's been in touch and jobs are coming in and and i'm just very lucky for that so i'm not going to moan about doing a few emails a day or having a chat with people beautiful staff where we are absolutely fantastic staff i couldn't do enough for you they are absolutely brilliant so i'm giving them the odd tip here and there lovely young kids a lot of which are kind of you know on their summer from university studying etc polite really lovely and as i mentioned before i am in greece beautiful views i think there might be a little bit of a sewer problem. Not with me by the way,

not my pipes. I'm talking about just every now and again you get the odd whiff of the sewers, which isn't amazing, but you sort of get used to it. You're acclimatised to these things. Adds a bit of character. Yeah, it adds a bit of character. You know you're not at home, if you know what I mean. So that's quite good. What's been your favourite bit so far? Me?

Yeah. No, no. Good morning, Calimera. Calimera. I think my favourite bit so far... I really enjoyed the white party. What, where we had to wear white clothing and sort of dress up and go to the beach? Yeah, go to the beach and have a disco. I didn't see very much of that. No.

I got taken away by Joanie, who just wanted to go for a nice walk, which was lovely. But it was, again, you know, it's tricky, isn't it? Get torn between, you know, what everyone else wants to do. Yeah. I didn't see much of that party. Well, you and Eliza did. You had a lovely time.

Me and Eliza had a good old boogie. It was good, wasn't it, Eliza? Oh, God, hang on. For everybody listening to the pod, Eliza hasn't been murdered by a serial killer. There was a wasp near her back. And that is the sort of noise that she comes out with. Talk about embarrassing. Are you going to bully me? I'm and what have we told you about wasps

it's impossible for them to sting you unless they feel threatened it's impossible for a wasp to sting you unless they feel threatened by you i learned that on chris packham's uh sorry harry hill's podcast with chris packham amazing i love chris packham i must listen to that because i love harry hill and i love chris packham good podcast very good podcast is that harry hill's are we there yet yes i do hope everybody's had a nice weekend and the weather back home is half decent. Perhaps we'll bring some sun back. I've heard it's been a bit rainy. I miss my niece's birthday. Great niece Ruby's, but she seemed to have a lovely time. Did all her presents before coming here, so I was super organised.

And my lovely brother David turned 59 this week, and I am treating him and taking him out next week. As a little surprise, we're going to go and see Madness on Wednesday. So he's very excited about that, and I'm really looking forward to having the day with my brother David, so that'll be good. Before you go, I've got one question, Natalie. Yeah.

You're able to be super organised, as you say, and have your great-niece's presents done, and you're taking your brother away the week after you've got all that planned. Yeah. Yet when each night you go to the wardrobe to get dressed for dinner, you've not packed whatever it might be, or you've not packed this or not packed that. I'm not going into it. I can't pack.

But you're extremely organised. I'm so good for everyone else apart from myself. I mean, the clothes that I've not packed this and not packed that i'm absolutely i'm not going into it i can't pack you're extremely organized i'm so good for everyone else apart from myself i mean the clothes that i've brought on this holiday it's the most bizarre thing can i just say i did really well you have to admit that no you have you've done very well very very well and i didn't help you yeah you just basically put your whole wardrobe into a suitcase. It's not skilful. You needed like a lorry to deliver your... Are you having a giggle? No. I did very well for you. I've got my back out. No, I seem to have brought...

When I look at what I've brought, I've just not brought anything. No dresses, not really brought anything. It's quite bizarre what I've brought. Well, you've looked lovely every evening we've gone for dinner thank you that's after he's had six apparels getting ready in the room your beard goggles are on no i remember what you look like last night you wore a lovely um what did i wear it's a lovely uh last night what did i wear last night they all blend all the evenings blend into one what did i wear joni last night what did i wear last night all the evenings blend into one what did i wear

joni last night black leggings thank you darling it wasn't that was last night it wasn't black leggings darling they were really nice pair of palazzo pants is what they were i didn't wear leggings and a leopard print vest i'm not in benidorm now you know what i mean gotta keep up with the Joneses over here right let's go and get in the pool then come on

come on let's go see you later everybody bye au revoir bye bye Calimera cheerio

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