Life with Nat - EP30: Beige, Beige & Bacon

Episode Date: July 31, 2024

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Visit BetterHelp.com today to get 10% off your first month. That's BetterHelp, H-E-L-P.com. Hello, everybody. Welcome to Life with Nat. I hope you're doing really, really well. I hope you've had a lovely weekend. I'm back from my holly bobs and tonight I am joined by Emma. How are you darling? I'm alright thanks. It's been a busy old few days but when is it not? Well, we sort of rushed out the last couple. They were pandemonium, weren't they? What with Joni's arm and going on holiday and all of that. So I feel like we're just going to chill tonight and just relax.

We're recording this late. It's a late one because the children are at home and the kids are still on holiday hours. When I say kids, I mean Joni. But it's 9.15 and she doesn't want to go to bed. This is what happens. What's the Greece time zone change? Is it a couple of hours ahead?

Is there jet lag in that as well? A couple of hours. I don't think it's jet lag. I just think they've been up so late on holiday. Time doesn't apply. We're all up really really late so in Greece now it's 11 15 it'll be two hours later yes oh my my theory is wrong she's just excited she's just excited to be home Joni just feels entitled now to stay up very very late

because she's been on holiday and she's been up really late it doesn't matter where she's in the world she wants to be up but as soon as her head hit the pillow there it didn't take long for a little bit of mummy songs bit of stroking of the head and she's off so we're okay what's the mummy songs what you're singing her i have sung her a song since she was a baby which isn't really a song it's just something made up, and it goes a little like this. Close your eyes and go to sleep. Close your eyes, close your eyes. And that just repeats round in a loop. It's working very nicely.

I'm ready for sleep now. Thank you. That's all right. Pleasure. I hope everybody else is not falling asleep Listening to it Because I know that you're walking, you're running, you're working You're ironing, you're cleaning

Driving Oh dear I don't want any more sleepy drivers Thank you I don't want to see any more of them Petrified me when I saw that Yeah that was not It wasn't good for

anyone who didn't listen to this uh episode where i spoke about it i was parked up um in traffic on a road near me and i looked around and someone was fully asleep fully chair back having a nap it wasn't good it wasn't appropriate so i got back yesterday and this morning, Em, I thought I want to get these three cases, not four cases because Mark does his own. And he's shot straight off to work this morning, very early. Bless him. So he's away for the week. So he kind of did a massive suitcase turnaround that was very, very impressive and very quick. Dumped his dirty laundry on me, but it was good. But I can't stand suitcases not being emptied immediately. So the case got in, summer open last night, half 10 last night, in, in

the door, case is in. Cases open. Get all the toiletries out. Shoes can go away immediately. Let's get rid of it. Let's get rid of it. Put them in the wicker baskets. They're done. Sun hats.

We know where they go. They can go. You're looking at me with a very thin lip. I'm just no good at it. I'm the worst. It'll end up being stacked up for oh how long oh well considering i went i was working at a music festival we're doing a comedy podcast i work on yeah lovely which one pappy slasher slam down we were doing live amazing at latitude festival that was really fun uh considering that I, on Saturday afternoon,

when I needed to pack up, went, oh, where's the tent? It's still in the car from last year. Do you know what I'm going to say to you? Regarding your tent being in the car for a year. Yeah. You live in a flat, don't you? Yeah. So at the moment moment you have no outside space i've got a tiny balcony yeah it's not really storage space there no it's not there's not

so i would say when in a flat with not a lot of storage the boot is an extension of storage so i allow it good because the airbed was in there and the little fold-out chairs the fold-out chairs are more legitimate than everything else but i was like oh you know it's more use in my car than it is in the flat it sounds like heidi hi in your car are you are you a happy camper did you go go a lot? No, I haven't used it since last year. So I was like, I hope it's still a tent in there. But it was all good? No tears?

It was all good? All work fine? No, all good. All good. Dust and dirt and grass from last year. A little bit of that. Just shake it off and there you go. Oh, well done you.

Yeah, well, there you go. And the backpack that I took, that's still, that's being dealt with. Where's that? It's on the bed. I've separated out the dirty stuff. It's some of the clean stuff that needs to go back away. That's the next bit. But I only got back yesterday Midday So has the rucksack been on the bed

Since midday yesterday And you've gone to sleep with the rucksack on the bed No it's moved around the flat a bit To return certain bits To where they're supposed to be But I mean I have got back in with a suitcase And it's been sat there for a week or two Okay

Yeah it's not sat there for a week or two okay yeah it's not gonna happen here no can i bring it to you will you sort it for me of course i will don't mind at all i've done 10 loads of washing today am i flipping heck all the washing is done everybody's washing is done it's clean it's not iron not ironed, but it's clean. It's folded. It's in piles, ready to be ironed, ready to be put away. Now, I've had a lot of messages because I put a little picture on Instagram of my washing pile. And lots of people have been saying, wow, me too, snap. How are you going to get all that done today? 10 loads? How are you going to get all that done today 10 loads how are you going to do that I'll let you into a secret I'm not a wizard of washing but my dad's annex has a washing machine also

so I do have two washing machines two on the go I'm on the go and I really when i say 10 you know it's doubles it's five loads today so that's why that's happened it's still good going and it being an absolutely stunning day a different one in the dryer hay fever emma allergies yeah can't do it so i've got to put in the dry i had so many messages saying amazing day for it. It'll dry in five seconds. And they were quite right. But I can't put it out there. I can't put it out on my balcony.

It ends up smelling too much of urban pollution. It all just comes in grotty. Oh, talking of urban things, not saying that it's urban as such because I live out in a village. But it just reminds me of an urban fox. We've got a fox. Mark's discovered on the cameras that we have a little fox that pops his head around about three or four o'clock in the morning, rubs himself all over the doormat,

gives himself a good old scrub and rub and itch, and then he just nestles down and has a little kip. Aww. Mark said it is a beautiful looking fox, so I'm looking forward to seeing the videos. Yeah. We get a lot out on the sort of flat roof balconies around us and there's one that seems to pop up sort of on sunny days

in the afternoon, just lying out on a rooftop, like a flat rooftop within view. Lovely. I mean, that's probably not the best sign of a healthy fox being out in the daytime. No, but you know what I like about foxes? They can be quite brazen. Oh, yeah. They don't give a fuck.

No, because why should they? They're just great. They just wander about. Some of them look over at you as if to say, what are you looking at? Yeah. Quite a lot of attitude with them. It's the fox as well. We're just hanging about, innit?

Exactly. Yeah. So, yeah, no, I like that little discovery from Mark. Little tidbit this morning. Foxcam. Foxcam, yeah. If I get a little clip of it, if we've got a nice clip, I'll chuck it on Insta for everyone to have a look at.

Yeah. Foxwatch. Then maybe we can name him. Him or her. I keep saying him. Who knows? But we could name them, see what they fancy. You can have your own Springwatch spin-off.

Yeah. My friend Teresa, she put lots of little live cams out in the garden exactly like spring watch she absolutely loved it she said the stuff that she caught on camera throughout the night was fascinating nice really good I'll get her on actually yeah she's a very interesting lady and a very good friend of mine. So how was your holiday? My holiday was absolutely brilliant, Emma. Tell us, tell us, tell us.

Make us all so jealous. No, I don't like doing that really. Oh no. You know what I mean though? Let's live vicariously. It was absolutely divine. For someone who doesn't really like going abroad and thinks, oh, you're going to be in the same place every day. Is it worth it? All I had to think about was getting up early to get the right sunbeds, to get to breakfast, to see what I was going

to eat next. And then just lay at the pool, order drinks, order lunch, get ready for the evening, have a great big dinner, drink a bit more, play some games. It was absolutely exactly what the doctor ordered. Divine. Yeah. And I'm converted. To the all-inclusive or to the foreign holiday or both? I think to the foreign holiday, the all-inclusive was amazing.

Hmm. But it's very difficult to control yourself out there. Yeah, did you have a running tally of how many ice creams Mark managed to achieve in one day? It wasn't so much ice creams on holiday. I'd say he had one ice cream a day. Okay. It was more the dessert side of things emma gotta make the most of it why not it's quite astonishing how many desserts are lined up at a breakfast table and it's quite astonishing how many mark can get through before 9 a.m i think

he's doing us all proud i think that's the way to do it. He's amazing. He's a machine. When you look at breakfast in general, most of the cereals have a surprisingly high sugar amount anyway. 100%. Quaffs and everything. They're all desserts. It's all desserts. It's all dessert. It's all dessert.

He'd come over with a very beautiful chocolate-type cheesecake with black cherries in it. Oh. Then there'd be a couple of other things going on but he would make the point of saying i've cut this one in half he was really proud of himself for cutting it in half and then eating both halves no no he left one half he just cut cut they were very large believe me the half that come back was a cheesecake slice for us at home. But he loved it. He had a wonderful time. I had a wonderful time.

Let me talk to you about the tomatoes. Okay, yeah. Mediterranean. I have come home with a really big ulcer, which is actually, I don't know if I'm talking differently to usual but it's quite painful and i've realized why i've clocked why i have never eaten so many tomatoes in my life they're quite acidic aren't they you cannot beat the mediterranean tomato so for breakfast, they had huge beef tomatoes, obviously halved. They'd been roasted.

Yeah, the other half was cheesecake. Yeah, yeah. Covered in feta cheese, little bit of olive oil, little bit of salt. Unbelievable. So I was having one of those in the morning, along with some scrambled egg bacon, whatever. Then lunchtime would come, there'd be some tomatoes somewhere. And then dinnertime, they'd do another kind of roasted massive tomato with rice in it. I couldn't get enough of them. Yeah. But they are quite acidic. I find they're really bad for heartburn. I really struggle. I mean, I think it's better off getting an ulcerated mouth from a fruit rather than, I don't know.

They're so delicious. I just can't wait for my tomatoes to start now. There's some out there. Oh, do you know what I've forgotten to do? I've got to water the garden. Oh, no. I've got to do that after this because it's been a hot day today. Yeah. Oh, I've got to water the garden. Oh, no. I've got to do that after this because it's been a hot day today. Yeah.

Oh, I've got to do that as well. My little planters on the balcony looked a bit wilty. They won't take you long, Em. Get round here and do all the baskets and the pots and the tomatoes. It's going to take me an hour. I forget as well still, though. Yeah. It dries up too quickly.

It's really bad, though. It's really sad. We've got to keep on top of it but yeah tomatoes are on their way and i cannot wait i'm going to roast them and i'm going to chuck a load of feta on them and that is what i'm going to do with most of them because that was absolutely sublime but the hotel was lovely the The people were lovely. The staff were amazing. I had a few kind of people recognise me a little bit, but not too much. I think probably a lot of people did, but they didn't come over. Everyone was having their nice holidays.

We made some holiday friends. Lovely. You've got to make some holiday friends. Friends for life? Do you know something? I like Kim and i like mike eliza and lily got on really well they were the same age and they were lovely people so we'll see what happens but i did think they are lovely and they're quite local to us

and we had a real laugh but we sort of met them a few days into the holiday for four days in or whatever but uh they were a real laugh and we had a few drinks and played a few games it was good fun do you like holiday friends uh yeah i haven't been on holiday for a good long time i need to do that again i need to yeah it's it's a different context when you're, I mean, the last few holidays I've either gone with ex-boyfriend or uni friend. So you don't end up mingling in the same way. But as a kid, every holiday you'd pick up new pen pals and you'd write to them for about six months and it would drop off again. Yeah. Yeah, constantly like best friends forever.

I think with me, as you know, I quite like talking to people. Yes. So once someone sort of, I'll suss them out and I think they're all right, that's it. They can't get away from me then. So that's what happened with Kim. But it was lovely. It was a really, really nice holiday. Really lovely.

We had Caesar salads around the pool, quesadillas chips really nice and it wasn't just the food you're on holiday for well it wasn't but it's really nice to relax and not worry about anything and just really have a nice time how was the broken arm? Joanie's arm was fine. It worked out okay. The waterproof cover that everybody recommended, thank you so much, it was the blue one on Amazon. That's the only way I can describe it. If you put on waterproof cover, if anyone's broken anything, it's on Amazon. It's an absolute lifesaver. Tell you what I would recommend though, and I i know it's expensive but i don't know what came over me but i decided to buy two before going away and two days before we left i think they loosen a little bit at the top and because of my nails i split it and i thought thank god

there's another one in the room so buy it and then buy one again because it's it's amazing yeah i remember breaking my arm as a kid and we had to do some kind of he got it the technology wasn't nearly as good did you use a like a plastic bag yeah like well a thick thick it was like more of a purpose-built thing but then yeah you sort of had to tape it on and just have a shower and you're only in that for you're still putting your arm out the way and it still yeah just yeah isn't isn't ideal but yeah but i mean i'm just i was just nosing it yeah instagram again yeah she's fully fully in the sea there yeah in the sea i mean she wasn't submerging her arm in no although people you know when you read reviews, people said that theirs were jumping in and everything, water slides.

But we didn't go that far. But she was on a little flamingo for a lot of it with her arm up on it. Imagine her sort of within the flamingo with her arm up, just floating around the pool having a fantastic time. That's it. That's ideal. She was a very good girl. So it was perfect.

Hi, Nat. This is Maria from Colchester and just listen to your latest pod about the kit with the girls talking about their holiday and just wanted to say I love listening to the girls and I think you should have them on more often Joanie is just really funny and really cute and Eliza is very articulate and sounds very bright and just very interesting to listen to so I think we need more of the girls on the pod please have a brilliant holiday. Thank you so much for that.

It's really lovely to hear that people like hearing the girls. So lovely. The girls were great and the girls got on so well. I don't know about everybody else, but 07788 2019-19, I just find when life gets in the way and the kids can bicker, whereas after a day or two, they start bickering a little and then they sort of, we just all fall into place as a family and they want to play together and they want to have fun together. They're laughing and they're

ganging up on me and Mark, but it's just really nice to have that family unit and it is so special and I just wish we could do it more but you know what it was lovely to do and I'm really going to try and make time for a little bit more respite if I can deserved which is hard to do but it's hard it's important isn't it yeah but it is worth it because these are the kind of memories that they'll definitely keep forever and yeah yeah, same with you. You and Mark will always remember this trip to Greece now. Or the general anaesthetic three days before. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. And splitting the plastic protector thing and all these sort of silly little things that just call memory. No, it's good. It's very, very good. So now we're home. The washing's been done and i'm back to work super busy but i've got a little bit of news for you m whilst i was away uh it was announced

but i've got a new job what are you doing supermarket we were talking about you wanted the discounts at m&s is that what you're going for? Not yet. Still a possibility. No, you're doing some more telly. I am going to present a programme, or front, as people may say. It's called What's the Big Deal? And it's with Ricochet, the company. And they've confirmed that I am doing a consumer affairs show, if you please. She's having an affair with the consumers. Can you believe it? So I'm fronting this show and it's all about things we buy online and it's

going to be, are they worth buying or are they rubbish? Are we going to bin them? Are we going to buy them? Are we going to chat to scientists? Are we going to go around the country chatting to people, finding out about things? It's going to be really, really good fun. Amazing. Oh, I love it. But it starts super soon. Super, super soon. Yeah, across each episode, Natalie explores four talked about products from ice baths to teeth whiteners.

How exciting. Well done. Thanks, babe. What's the betting that they're going to get me in an ice bath? Oh, 100%. If you're checking out ice baths, you're in four different ones to test the most freezing one. Oh, really? Do you think I'm in more than one?

If you've got to compare and contrast the products. Yeah. Be a laugh. Be all right. Yeah. It'd be good fun. But yes, that is so lovely lovely so i'm doing that within my break from extenders which is great really worked out well timing couldn't be better

just gotta make time for the pod yes oh we can pod from your ice bath if you need to we'll figure it out we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. You know what I really love? Is when I hear people chatting away in different countries. I can't help it. It makes me so excited. It makes me feel quite glamorous. Oh, yeah.

Especially when you hear someone from California. don't even go there. Anyway, I'm absolutely dying. I was munching on peanuts when you started talking about the texture of the aloe vera. So that's pretty apropos, but oh my god, I'm dying. I'm always peeing myself because I'm 57 years old and don't have a strong splatter as I'm driving along thinking, oh my god, I've got to stop listening to this this is hilarious this is an absolutely hilarious episode i am sorry that mark didn't have the reaction that you expected but i will tell you i drank this tea called um it's from this yogi brand maybe you can get it in the uk it's called stomachies and it works for me with bloating every single time so So anyway, thanks for the laugh and the little tinkle this morning. Do you know what I mean, Em?

I just love the heat. I'm in California and I think it's hilarious. And I just feel like, wow, I've made it. International, baby. I don't care who she is, what she does. I've made it. Because she said I'm hilarious and she's American. Love it.

How has she found you? Get in touch. Tell us what's brought you here. Yeah, I'd love that. I'd love to find out. A 57-year-old lady going about her business, literally pissing herself to my podcast. Couldn't be better.

I want to know all about it. That's your target demographic. That's what you're aiming for and we've got you. That's what I want to know all about it That's your target demographic That's what you're aiming for And we've got you That's what I want Unbelievable Something else I did whilst on holiday I booked to go and see lovely Josh Whittacombe

In St Albans On Sunday But then realised I booked it for when I was on holiday So those tickets were wasted And Josh if you're listening or anybody who knows you is listening can I just come to one of your gigs now for free because I've already paid money to see you but didn't get to see you because I feel like that's quite fair yeah Rob Beckett's the one to sort us start tickets isn't he i think we've just got dm beckett

yeah no it's true he'll get you in don't you worry i was so gutted because it was st albans it was down the road i was really looking forward to it and then i completely forgot about it yeah i went to one of the st albans it's the comedy gardens they've got a bunch of them around the country i went to the st albans one a couple of years ago now it was really good fun really good lovely bugger it i saw beckett it was on the the one that i went to rosie jones beckett ed burn oh good yeah lovely all sort of outside in the was it verellium verellium park yes yes lovely oh yeah Oh, yeah. But go next year. Do go next year. No, I will. I will.

I'll book it up. But yeah, it was a bit of a piss of that. What really annoyed me, though, was the fact that I told him, I text him to say I'm going to come to this thing. And he said, oh, lovely. Thanks, mate, or whatever. Obviously, completely forgot. Because there wasn't a message on the day to say

hi mate you're around or I mean I know he's got a lot on I know he's performing but walk off the duck's back in it for Whittacombe just throwing it out there if I know someone if I've got an acquaintance that's somewhat you know that you know who's now sort of you know working with you even maybe because we you know we sort of work together with this keep it like family yeah and to not sort of remember that I was going to be there bit of a pisser. Anyway,

I'll tell you what a lot of people said today. Mind the tissues in the washing. Guess what, Emma? How many? Not a tissue. Not one tissue, people. Not one a tissue. No one's sneezing in Greece.

It's all tissue Greece. It's all tissue free. It's all gravy. It's humid. You're getting in the pool. You're not using tissues. How did your hay fever and stuff cope? Were you all fine? The hay fever was okay. Have you not seen my arms?

Oh, it's hard to tell now. I've got two arms Which are completely blistered I wish I could show you Oh yeah it's just difficult in the light Oh little splotches I can sort of tell

My whole heel is lumpy Oh like a proper heat rash I mean it just looked like tan No no no it's fully Got rashes on the feet. No, my whole body is ruined by the sun. But I bought some allergy cream in Greece. I'm taking antihistamine.

Yeah. And I'm just going to cover my body now from head to toe in clothing. But it's really not good. I'd like to thank everybody, though, who saw my picture on Instagram of my foot with a rash on it. I've had so many people tell me what sun cream to buy. And most of you, again, it's a bit like the waterproof thing. It's all the same one.

So I've gone on and I've bought it. Eucerin, I believe it's called. Sensitive sun allergy stuff. I've bought two. That's all I wear for now. Please, God, I don't get this allergy again. But it's Not being overly painful

But It's just not pleasant to look at But it's alright I've enjoyed myself Hopefully that'll That'll die down And the tan Will stay

Oh it don't matter I'm not really bothered About a tan It's nice to have Don't get me wrong Listen to this from Becky Hi Nat about a ten. It's nice to have, don't get me wrong. Listen to this from Becky. Hi Nat,

just catching up on the latest ep about your holiday. When I was younger I broke my arm the week before my holiday. I spent my entire holiday in the pool with my arm propped up

on an inflatable crocodile. Still had a great time and was spoiled by the locals because of the plaster cast. This is exactly what Joanie did also fell getting off a vintage carousel two weeks before christmas last year and broke my arm and elbow in 17 places now the airport security scanner will be fun with 29 implants not great but had an amazing surgeon at Addenbrookes and doing well. Love hearing your girls on the pod too. Joni's so cute and Eliza's teenage stories bring back

lots of memories. Love the podcast. Thank you, Becky from Cambridgeshire. What a nightmare. Gosh. Oh, I do hope it's all right. I hope it's not sore anymore and what have you. But yeah, it's a nightmare. It's a nightmare. I've got a very, very, very interesting voice note, actually, that I'm going to play you. Hi, Nat. Just thought I'd send you a little voice note. I'm just listening to the holiday episode where little Joanie Besser has broken her arm. Really hope she's okay.

But something similar happened to myself. Six years ago, I got married and we had our honeymoon booked for the Saturday after we got married. And unfortunately, on my wedding night, I may have had a few alcoholic beverages and I somehow, for some some reason decided to do a high kick in my wedding dress and it went wrong and I dislocated my knee so I spent the last few hours of my wedding in an ambulance in A&E having x-rays done just to make sure I hadn't done more damage than just the dislocation which fyi FYI, more painful than childbirth. Worst thing I've ever experienced. So, Q, the week after our wedding was me pretty much sofa-bound in a thigh-two-foot cast.

Had to hire a wheelchair in Disney Florida because I couldn't walk very far. I can laugh about it now, just. Oh, my goodness imagine that that's topped it getting married getting tipsy and spending your wedding night in an ambulance not ideal not ideal at all but thank you for your message I've just seen the photo Christ yeah I shall put the photo on Instagram She looks happy She looks very happy, I'll tell you what she is, pissed

Yeah, so spaced out Absolutely hammered So you know I was saying about the tomatoes that I ate that were really good and Mark had his cakes in the morning that were good. Something happened on holiday which wasn't very good. And that was, Joni is so fussy now about food. Oh.

I don't understand what's happened. She was so good about trying things. Don't get me wrong. Give her a bowl of green beans, she'll eat them up. So I'm not saying she loves her fruit. She loves her veg. That's fine. But just in terms of going, I don't know, try this little bit of falafel

or have a flatbread but dip it in the tzatziki. She won't do anything. And her go-to in the morning was the crispy bacon sort of tray. And she would pile up bacon. I said, I'm so embarrassed. I said, you can't have all that. Please put some back. And she'd have a whole pile of bacon with a plain small croissant next to it.

I mean. That was her breakfast. Oh, dear. Not quite nutritionally balanced. But there were poached eggs, there were scrambled eggs, there were boiled eggs. I think have a little boiled egg. Yeah.

You know, just have a few different things. She would not do it. Drove me nuts. And it makes you look bad. Like, let me know your thoughts on that, people, when you're out for dinner. If you're out in places, restaurants or whatever, or on holiday, don't you feel when your kids are continuously ordering beige food, it makes you look bad?

And I look around and I'm like, you're fucking joking. Chicken and chips again. But it's not my fault. But it reflects badly on the mother and the father or, you know, parents. Yes, but it shouldn't though because because it's so nuanced and so up to the kid you know you can't force feed a kid something fancy just because no but when it's beige beige beige beige and bacon that's the title sorted beige beige and bacon beige beige and bacon that's all it is i would

love to know in the summer also could you please tell me listeners what you feed your children eliza got into caesar salads on holiday because you could order a little cheeky one at the pool so i love caesar salad anyway mark and i eat it all the time. That's great. I love it. It's my favourite salad. But Joni, yeah, I feel like my meals are boring. Everything's got a bit stale. I don't know what to cook. I've got 400 cookbooks in there. I don't know what to do them. So I'd love some advice on not too fussy family meals or kids meals, because I don't really eat with the kids all the time anyway because of work. Kids meals that are interesting and nutritious, but not too over the top. Oh, I've got a recipe for you.

Oh, have you? So bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, and a little croissant on the side. Lovely meal. She'd love that. Thank you. It's really, really hard. She doesn't like salmon anymore

so salmon fillet something like that you can do white cod so you do a bit of white cod or bars of fillet lovely frozen cheaper than cod but it's nice white fish bars of fillet a little bit of sweet corn a few potato wedges or whatever and just bored you know they will eat those things but i'm bored i even i'm bored cooking it what can i do that's a little bit different i don't know i'd love to know 07788 20 1919 some summer meal ideas for my children, please. Talking of food, I've got a really interesting voice note here. Hi Nat, it is Stacey from Buckingham.

First of all, I've got to say, it's just taken me 10 minutes to figure out how to send a voice note. Come on, Stacey. And this is my first one. I actually had to Google it. I am only on episode six of your podcast. It is keeping me company on my new one-hour commute to work. But you've just been talking about Wagamamas.

And I have got to say, my parents absolutely love Wagamamas. So me and my other half finally got a break away from our two-year-old and we thought we'll give it a try. Lovely. Wow. The disappointment. I could not believe, A a the price of it 60 pounds for two people to eat outrageous second of all there was no flavor i was talking to the lady about what i wanted to order asked for some advice

she said oh let me get you some some sauces and you can try a flavor she then had the audacity to charge me one pound per pot of sauce on the bill how can you offer something and then charge for it i just know never ever again anyway just wanted to get my point over and learn how to send a voice note um hopefully i'll hear myself on the podcast in a few weeks time i think um episode 27 is out now so I'm quite far behind. But I'm sure with my one new hour commute every day, I will catch up and I'll soon be on track with everyone else. I absolutely love the podcast. Love your Instagram.

Watched you on TV since I was a child myself. And yeah, great to see you. Thanks for listening. Bye. Oh, thank you. That was such a lovely voice note. Thank you so much. Sorry. They've asked if you want to taste stuff

And they've charged you a pound to do so What in the absolute wagamamas is that? What in the absolute? What's going on? Yeah that's sneaky That is out of order What? Pardon?

What is? Where have you come from? The door. The lady who sent me a voice note saying she'd been to Wagamama's. Yeah. Oh, God. Yeah. Frank Spencer's turned up.

She'd been to Wagamama's. Right. And they said, oh, would you like to try the flavours? Because she didn't know what they were. They've brought over some bits for her to try. And then on the bill, they've charged her a pound for trying them. For each one, didn't you say? For each one.

A pound for each one. Oh. I thought you meant a pound for all of them. A pound for each one of them. A pound for all of them is wrong. Ridiculous. What would you like? I was wondering when you'd done.

I've been on my own all day. I beg your pardon? I've been on my own all evening. You've been on your phone. I've been on the phone to people. Not been on my phone. I've been on the phone. On the phone.

Isn't it amazing, Emma, how I've managed to unpack three bags? No. Sorry. Three bags and wash them. Are you joining in here for a minute? No, you're not. No, I am. Oh, here we go.

I think you should because I think everyone loves me being on the pod. Go on. What do you want? Got in last night. All's good. And gone to sleep. woken up this morning. Mum went to me. Right, I think you should do your case now.

But not as soon as you've woken up. Give it a minute. Didn't I? Went downstairs. I said, open your eyes. Elliot was downstairs. Elliot. I said that.

I know, it sounds like Elliot. I said Elliot. I know, but everyone knows Elliot okay Elliot Elliot by the way we spoke about Elliot helping me with all my messages

and stuff the other day and I said that he was 22 so he's come round today to help me and I was chatting away and I said

oh you've you've appeared on the pod, by the way. I was chatting about your age and I said, oh, no, you're 22. And he looked at me and was like, what are you talking about? I'm 19. So can I just apologise to Elliot, who helps me and is a dear friend of mine, for not knowing how old he was. He's so mature, I just thought he was older. Completely out of order.

Aged him up by a good three years. I know, but it's because he's mature. It's different when you're 19 being called 22. I'm not aging him up when you're 45 and you're being called 50. Yeah, no, obviously. So I carried on. What have you carried on, though, babe? Because your room looks like a bomber's hit it.

I did little bits throughout the day. It's absolutely immaculate now. What was it, couple of kirby grips What do you mean Elastic band I've just come in here and it looks like Annika's challenge been round And guess how long it took me Five minutes

All I had to do All the clothes on the floor were washing And there were make up bags That I literally just had to lift it How much washing in there now then? Because I thought I had all the washing. Just by the thing. Not a lot.

It's like two bikinis and the airport outfit from yesterday. All right, fine. It's fine. Okay. And then there was a pot of aloe vera and all my bed sheets on the floor. The bed sheets make it look ridiculous. Because it was so hot I didn't sleep with bed sheets on last night. No, I understand. So that's why they were on the floor. The bed sheets make it look ridiculous. Because it was so hot, I didn't sleep with bed sheets on last night. No, I understand. So that's why they were on the floor. I know, but just pick them up and put them back on the bed. All day long. I've not been in my

room all day. You have. No, I haven't. You have. Okay. Bye-bye. How long are you going to be? About three hours. You going to bed? You're going to be three hours? No, I'm joking, sweetheart. I won't be long. What are we going to bed? You're going to be three hours? No, I'm joking, sweetheart. I won't be long. What are we going to watch? Are we going to watch something? I mean, I'm binge-watching EastEnders. Proper binging.

Oh, how's it going in there? Is it good? I've only watched 20 minutes, but yeah. It's actually quite good. All right, I'll come and join you and watch a bit of EastEnders. Am I there? Er No Sonia knocking about

I've only seen Rhys Oh yeah They got a phone call About Debbie I think there's going to be A lot going on I'm looking forward

To watching that actually Every single You know on BBC iPlayer When it comes up And you can see the picture Yeah It's like a little picture From the middle

Yeah Every single one of them It's really good I think it's mainly Cat, Tommy and Alfie going on at the minute. All right. I think next week is Rhys. But he was just crying in the square.

All right, cool. Yeah. Lovely. I'll join you in a minute. Excellent. I love you. Love you. See you in a minute.

See you in a bit. Bye, Emma. Bye. Yeah, you are all over the newest episodes. Am I? It's kicking off. It's, yeah. Isn't it massive?

You were selling the house. You're un-selling the house. Oh, that's all happening. Yeah. All of that's happened. She's a busy bee, old Sonia. Nat was selling herself in old Greco. Sonia's running about on Albert Square.

She can't believe it. Don't know what she's doing. The island of Seinos you're kicking back at and she's going, oh yeah, no, I popped in. I went and saw Debbie. I did, I did. I was there. I was there. Very good. Sonia impression. I held a pillow

over her face. No, I didn't. What, has that been on the telly? I mean, yeah, you had the doof-doof over that bit. Yeah, that's happened now. Bloody hell, loads has happened. Have you started watching EastEnders because of me? I've started at Christmas, yeah. Are you enjoying it, though?

Yeah, I do. Yeah, no, I really, it's a nice little thing to, because I've, yeah. Also, you work so hard. You know, it's easy, isn't it? It's an easy watch. It's a nice lunch break or, you know, like get away from the computer for a bit. Yeah.

Watch another screen. Screen break with something else, but it is. Yeah, I know, but you're not thinking. It's not too harsh. Do you know what I mean? It's not upsetting. I mean, it can be upsetting, don't get me wrong, but it's not too hard hitting. But it just tells stories.

I bloody love EastEnders. we used to watch it as kids and then my dad was like no it's too depressing so we're banning it from the house yeah yeah yeah and um we went and visited my family for we had a barbecue on father's day turns out everyone has all been individually watching it again for the last few years. Everyone was like, oh yeah, yeah, we watch it now. That's going on. I'm like, yeah, yeah, we watch it now. Oh, that's brilliant. It's so funny. Oh, it's lovely though.

I'd just like to say that I've had a few messages asking if I was going to talk about the Southport tragedy that happened. And actually, yeah, I will. And all I want to say is my heart goes out to everybody that's been affected and involved and I think on the whole everybody can't believe it I think it's terribly terribly sad and heartbreaking and words fail me really but I thought it was really really important to mention it and say my heart goes out and there really isn't anything else to say because I've got nothing to say about it apart from the world is a very strange place sometimes and I think that we have to just remember how lucky we all are and to live every day as if it's our last

and just be as grateful as we can to have each other and yeah that's it really so I hope you have a really nice rest of the week and sometimes you know things happen and it's not all fun and games and it's not all laughter and it's not all up in the air and oh let's have a giggle and uh last week was one of those so i thought it was very important to mention but have a great rest of the week everybody and uh i will speak to you on th. 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 nonsense, so why not tune in? Available everywhere you get your podcasts.