Life with Nat - EP56: Surprise phone calls and catching up with Emma

Episode Date: October 31, 2024

Nat and Em chat Halloween and fireworks night in February. Nat decides to call up her listeners and she has a surprise from Little listener Alfie. Enjoy and thank you for listening! X Please subscribe, follow, and leave a review. xxx You can find us in all places here; https://podfollow.com/lifewithnat/view INSTA: @natcass1 We're also on Facebook now too: https://www.facebook.com/lifewithnatpod 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. I feel like I've been talking about Halloween for about two years, but it's actually Halloween today. So happy Halloween. And it's nearly over for everyone who hates it. Happy Halloween, Emma. Happy Halloween.

Are you a Halloween fan? Not really. No, I'm on the scale of Natalie toalie to mark no it was just never a thing like my mum didn't really didn't like it so we yeah as kids we never got involved in it my mum hated the idea of knocking on people's doors and asking for stuff so we never did it i think it's just got bigger and bigger hasn't it over time yeah I really so this morning I got out a few boxes and I've got everyone coming over later I've got all the kids Roro and the kids and Annalisa and Amelia and Dom and we're gonna have a little wander around the village because I do think it

makes a difference of where you are and where you live. Yeah. It's quite contained where I am, and everybody does have a wander around with the kids, so it's quite a nice evening. You know, you see everybody and you have a chat, go out about half five, six, and it's quite, you know, very kid-friendly. And there's some great houses, they really make an effort. So it is a bit of a highlight. But if I didn't live here, I don't think I'd bother.

No, because you're looking out for the people with decorations up yeah and if it's not going to be enough decorated houses then what's the point and if yeah like where i am now there's probably more if i if i had a look around now i've moved but yeah where i was on the sort of a main road, it's all flats and stuff. And so no one's, you don't want, you don't want to be like climbing up stairs. No. Weird front doors out in the middle of shops and stuff. I don't think your balcony was weird. Weird, weird, weird flat. You're putting it down now.

Oh no, it was great. But if it's, if you're a stranger to it. Yeah. Where you are now, could you have a pumpkin outside your door or are there still stairs and stuff i'm not too sure the setup are you sort of there's a communal hallway bit so and then it's a front door the front door is like next to the stairs up to other doorways oh it doesn't work there's a welcome mat that i inherited from the the person who lived here before so work there's a welcome mat that i inherited from the person who lived here before so i could put it next to that i suppose but no not really one thing i will say is i do have a halloween doormat it says hello pumpkin on it yeah and i have done as i say few

decorations got a load of tape you know kind of beware keep out yeah um but what i do what i usually do i tend to i'm fortunate enough to you know i've got kind of big plastic boxes and two of those go in the garage so i'm lucky storage wise to have that room but what i do is probably tomorrow over the weekend pop into the supermarkets and all of the stuff is a pound so i'll just get another load of stuff for next year and i'll just chuck it in the box yeah so i've got some garlands i forgot about that i got last year but i do recommend highly such a good idea to go after the event and get all the knockdown stuff the pumpkins as well pumpkin soup yeah i mean they end up really discounting but then a lot of them

are not really like good for eating they're sort of just just carving ones aren't they they advertise them as carving pumpkins rather than eating that was more what we did as a family my dad would do like this rice dish that you could bake in the pumpkin oh you can also roast the pumpkin seeds that's right did that yeah yeah and then you yeah did this fully bake it in the pumpkin and then you can just slice it and have pumpkin and the right oh it was so good that sounds so good a bit like a stuffed pepper but in a larger yeah but big yeah big big stuffed pumpkin yeah oh that sounds good well anyway popped on a little message on instagram to say that we were on. Everyone is saying hello, Em, to you.

Hello, hello. Little message has just popped up as I'm talking. Fresh off the press. Hi, Nat. Can we get Emma's thoughts on fireworks and pets? Christmas too early and when it should start being advertised. And her most cherished Christmas memory goes for you too. Victoria, one of your loyal Nattersatters that's my suggestion for a name yeah how does how does the you know how does

your cat they're generally all right it'll be interesting this year because it because where the flat was it was just noisy all the time yeah there was oh last year not around fireworks night a new restaurant had opened like opposite the flat and decided to set off fireworks on the pavement on the main road outside all the flats and oh i lost my mind i would panic because it was like fireworks going off at my bedroom window you just go that is the most random thing it was i fireworks going off at my bedroom window. That is the most random thing. I got called sanctimonious for complaining about it on the local Facebook for not wanting fireworks through my window. Yes, you're so miserable, Emma.

I mean, how could you do that? Just one of these sanctimonious, stuck-up people who don't want fireworks. Next to a busy road with cars going past. Why would you not want a Catherine Wheel hung on your front door? No, I know! It sparkles through the letterbox. I was really close to a school as well that had a really huge, proper, massive, massive fireworks display. The beginning of the year, did I think it was like

it ended up being the 11th of February this year it just all started off and I was like what's going on what are they celebrating it turned out they just because it was raining on the day they were supposed to do the fireworks hang on sorry 5th of November

that's the 11th of Feb yeah it was so random. Yeah, they must have already bought the fireworks, but then they're keeping them in a school, a primary school for that long? It was so weird. That is really random. Maybe they were going to dry out.

You know, sometimes they go off. Maybe they thought we've got to use them or something. It's just really confusing. And I just went, oh, maybe it's for something else. Like something else they're celebrating but um one of the neighbors was a pupil at that school and just said oh no it was just because they rained off uh actual fireworks night bloody hell so four months later they did yeah full ended up having a dj out and all that every time it was like a big big deal and the fireworks would

go on for like half an hour it was mad it was but incredible but yeah but the cats were always okay with it because they just got used to weird noises at all time but yeah it would be really interesting to see what it's like around here there's lots of gardens and like you know yeah people houses gardens and stuff yeah people end up doing their own stuff as usual i'm sure but um yeah i haven't actually looked into the local area if there's going to be a big one around here i bet there is yeah you should we've got one um at the local school which is always really beautiful really really lovely evening um and very very close to home so we just nip over there and see them and it's quite good to come back here. And they do it in November rather than February? March, usually.

No, yeah, it's November. Why not? Let's just go mad. Do it in May. What are your thoughts then on Christmas and kind of advertising early? I feel we get today over, we do firework night and then Christmas is upon us because in eight weeks time it's over it's not that far away now yeah they've already got the mince pies out on sale and it is quite

nice the build-up of it i do quite enjoy every time people go oh it's earlier and earlier each year and it's not it's always about the same no it's always the same yeah i agree well we'll complain but then we'll cheekily buy the mince pies and the sort of discounted christmas chocolate and then then we're part of the problem every time um i've been going shopping i've got a little uh corner cupboard and so far in there i've got a couple of light up chocolate tins with some bits and pieces in. I've bought some cornichons, the small gherkin, pickled onions.

I've got some crackers for cheese. So each time I go out, I'll get a few items and they go in that cupboard. And I'm very, very good because people say, oh, don't they get eaten? But they really, you know, we don't touch them.

And I just, again, I feel like that helps with rather than a huge list and it's overwhelmingly expensive just to do a little bit at a time. So you're the reason that the supermarkets are stocking it because you're the one buying it. Correct. You're one of the people buying. So, yeah, lovely.

Let's get on board. I feel, yeah. It's all right. Yeah. It's nice to find the joyful bits of life. Yeah, it's just nicer seasons and all the bits and pieces. But, you know, let's get the next week or so out the way and then i am gonna be talking about christmas a lot but i'm just kind of trying to drag it out

for the people that don't like to do it early so desperate desperate to get fireworks out the way so i can go full fully festive lovely yeah so what have you been doing because i haven't seen you for ages no it's it's been busy yeah we were just saying before recording like we haven't done one of these kind of episodes since the move i know i know so yeah i moved moved house that was all i mean because we've been talking about that for ages and ages i was supposed to move in august and then it got delayed and and then it was suddenly on a friday afternoon they said oh yeah we're going to try and complete on monday i was like well okay do you think that's possible and and

then yeah i got a call about four o'clock on the monday saying do you want to come and collect the keys i'm like okay well no i can't right now but tomorrow so then luckily yeah all the stuff i delayed and penciled in for that week then did go ahead but it was full on you always get through it though don't you you do just always whatever gets thrown your way you do think how am I ever going to do it but in three days three days time no sleep and a mad panic you're in there and everything's okay we do we do get on with it got moved out of the old place moving is slower process but there's a lot of measuring staff and figuring out yeah what what what i'm going to do with the whole space yeah well that'll come it's nice you don't want to

rush that anyway it's nice to live in it to get used to where you use you know where things go it's it's it's a good way of doing it there's a lot of potential it's the exciting bit of seeing the the potential and seeing it all sort of fit and work what's going to be possible it's exciting em i've got some massive news oh yeah i've bought some lights for the lounge oh the ongoing drama of the lights ordered them last night Maria has helped me with a couple of pictures which was a while ago and uh Mark and I were talking and he was right he said look you're you're waiting to find the perfect light it's not going to happen just get some let's get them up and it will be fine I bit the bullet I sat down I've gone for do you know what I'm not

going to tell you what I've gone for I'm going to wait till they arrive I'm going to get Mark to get them up and I'm going to send you a picture one of them is rather wild okay and then I've got a more conservative one for the front of the lounge that is kind of green I am worried about it not matching my green sofa but again I'm just going to get it up and see what happens it's dark green lovely so let's see what happens what so the whole metal work or the sort of the shade the shade is dark green and it's uh antique brass which goes with my radiators oh well then i mean at worst the the shade is an easy swap out usually for those sort of things yeah like i mean i think it'll work it'll be lovely it'll be lovely well i just thought come on let's get some bits sorted out let's just finish finish

it off so i'm looking forward to getting those they should be here within the next few days so uh yeah i'm very excited about that very excited I've had a really busy time of it, actually, but in a really nice way. It's been... Kind of work has slowed down a little bit. Jobs are being finished, projects are being ticked off, which feels really lovely, that sense of kind of completion. I've still got all my voiceover to do for the doc,

but all the filming's done, so that's really good. Have you finally ice bathed and it was horrendous oh i did hear a little bit of this didn't i yeah oh it was a being lowered in and not sort of getting in yourself which was horrendous but i do look forward to you seeing my face yeah i look forward to it as well i'm really sorry but it's do you know what's funny everyone keeps saying you were doing shoots or what have you and i look really lovely and tiff's done all my makeup or whatever and hair and it's really nice and they keep saying oh we'll get some press shots and i keep saying you know the shot that is going to be used is of me being lowered into an ice bath looking like death warmed up what's the point of any other pictures oh are we gonna

meme you are we gonna oh yeah next new meme yeah nice little gif of you just sort of the panic just doing this now yeah getting lowered into an ice bath that's what she does now so that's all been really good and that's sort of finishing up obviously we had mark's birthday which was lovely but i'll tell you what we did on sunday we went out with um jen and james which is mark's sister and husband and we had a sunday day out free, which is a real rarity. We don't do that, especially if we're working a lot during the week. You just feel that guilt about going out Sunday when the kids are at home. But fortunately, I'm around this week and it's half term.

So I thought, no, sod it. We can go out on Sunday, enjoy ourselves. And then I'm at home most of the week. So it's fine. We went to Flight Club. You ever been there? Oh, no've no I've not been in but it always looks really good that so that's the darts one isn't it yeah competitive darts bar darts bar really fun play loads of different games so it's not just boring darts you know it's kind of you have to hit the numbers a certain way anyway there's all these different games it was a really good laugh really really really would recommend it because obviously

you've got your crazy golfs and all of that but yeah i've never been and it was really good fun i mean i'm useless but it was good fun i warmed up towards kind of the end got a few in but uh james jen's husband was very very good mark one a bit i think i come third out of everyone so at least i wasn't last are they giving you proper sharp darts as well oh yeah yeah wow there we go oh yeah no it's proper and after a few vodka and oranges you never know what's gonna happen yeah but it's good. And then we went for a lovely roast dinner at the Audley Public House in Mayfair, which is a beautiful pub. It's, you know, you're in Mayfair,

so of course it's a little bit expensive, but the roast is amazing. And a big shout out to Liam, the manager there, who always sorts me out. So really nice to see him too. So we had a really really lovely roast dinner did they include mash no yeah good well i've had a lot of messages about the mash loads of people have it loads on saturday i had little joanie was in a production of annie

oh how did she do? She did really well. She played a little orphan. It was quite a small part, but they had quite a lot to do, quite a lot of the numbers, quite a lot of dances. But the production itself, the full thing, may I just say,

was spectacular. I was so impressed with the children. Miss Hannigan was amazing. Mr. Warbucks. They were really, really good. It was really enjoyable. You know, sometimes you go to these productions and you're just looking at your own kid.

You're waiting for your kid to come on. You're really proud of them and you just want it to be over. Let's be honest. However, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Really, really good. So there's another little uh production an audition for the next kind of show which she really wants to do it's just the rehearsals and everything you know sorting out the getting there getting back picking up dropping off I'm really not very good

at kind of being around and doing everything for the children is that really bad no it's a lot it is a lot to you know on top of it everything that's already going on but she really enjoyed it yeah really enjoy i mean can i just say i'm saying that throughout this process i haven't taken her to one rehearsal so i don't know what i'm talking about because laura's done it or uh my dear friend abby because her little daughter a Ariana, was in it as well. And they've been sharing it. But I have. I've been busy every Monday night when the rehearsals have been. But it's fine if she wants to do it and she really enjoyed it. And it's something different to school, different people. I think I might let her audition.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And she might get a bigger part. You never know. And get the stage bug. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I'll tell you what, though. Harlow Playhouse Theatre, when I was in there, Em, I was having a bit of a scan round, and I thought, this is a nice venue.

Yeah. 400 seater. Nice, nice, close to home, homecoming gig. Or do you have to have a few other places and then do the homecoming one? Or do we just warm up, get started? Well, I'm not Taylor Swift, am I? About the homecoming and all that.

Doesn't really matter, does it? No. No, not really. Anyway, it was a good venue. I was going to have a little chat with Michael about it because it is 10 minutes up the road. Basically, it's 10 minutes up the road. It's perfect. That sells it.

That does help for you, particularly with the diary squeeze. It does. So because it's half term and as we are sat here now, thank you so much, everybody. I've got loads of messages. I'm just going to have a little scan through. Hi, Nat. This is Laura from Essex, Courier.

Like to say, I'm really, really enjoying your podcast. I only found it a few weeks ago and have literally finished all your episodes i'm all up to date i'm loving nat's nieces and uh scraping the barrel yeah it's a really really down to earth podcast that just keeps me going whilst i'm delivering all these parcels. So I want to say thank you. Yeah, see you soon. Bye. Oh, thank you, Laura. That's so nice.

Let's give her a ring. I want to know how many parcels she delivers at Christmas time. Let's see if she answers. Our very own Santa. Hi, Laura. Hi. I just got your message and thought I'd give you a quick tinkle. Oh, thank you.

It's so nice to talk to someone because normally I'm just listening through my earbuds, listening to all the podcasts that I listen to. And I don't actually get to talk to anyone. Well, there you go. I wanted to ring and say thank you for discovering the pod. How on earth? Well, I suppose if you're driving all day, that's how you've got through them all yes i've got through yours and then whilst i was listening to yours you was telling me about uh the parenting podcast yes you can't wait for his now i was gonna say you couldn't have got through all of that surely no no no no i'm literally halfway

through but i've listened to like the most recent episode and now I'm backdating to the lockdown episode. And they're brilliant, aren't they? That is an amazing pod. Oh, they're just so funny. They're just so funny and it's so relatable because I think like, oh yeah, my son did that when he was that age and bits and pieces. It was just, yeah, it's just really lovely to listen to someone and it be down to earth and it's so relatable in so many ways. Oh, that's so lovely. So, Laura, you're a driver, delivery driver.

Yeah, I'm a courier. So I wanted to ring you to ask you because I cannot imagine how busy you get sort of between now and Christmas. Well, at the moment, I'm currently doing the volume that I was doing last December. You're joking, really? So how many is that a day? So I'm averaging at the moment anything between 220 and 280 parcels a day. 280 a day? Yes. What is your radius? You know, how many miles do you cover in that time or is it

quite small it's quite small i do roughly about 25 miles a day right so yeah but i i know literally on my estate i live on my estate so everyone knows me and it's like you know like the local postman you know your local postman yeah i'm that but in courier form that is brilliant though I have to say that we've got a local courier and what is brilliant because I've actually I had I've got his number I haven't seen him actually I don't know if he does it anymore but his name was Adam and if a parcel went missing I how I mean talk about bust people must bust your balls because I used to actually text him and say, where are you? Like, you're late.

Where's the parcel? And you must get that. I get that all the time. But it doesn't bother me because, like I say, I live on the estate. So I've lived on the estate all my life, 38 years. So people have watched me grow up. And now they're like, I've been the courier for 10 years. And I started couriering when my son was three months old.

So I literally had him in the car with me. And I was earning some pennies whilst he was asleep. So they've actually watched not only me grow up, but now my son. Oh, that is so cute. We said that you're like the real life Mrs. Claus of the area, delivering everyone's parcels. Quite literally, yeah. And when I go to doors and that, and it's my son's friend or whatever, they go, it's Jacob's mummy at the door. What you been ordering now, mum?

I'm like, oh dear. Oh, bless. I don't actually have a name. I'm just like the parcel lady or jacob's mum i think that's the same for most of us actually i'm sort of joni's mom or eliza's mom and all my friends all my friends who are now dear friends i've still got them in the phone as whatever sophie charlotte's mommy me too yeah yeah yeah and and but then i'm like you as well sometimes I talk to someone and you must get this all the time you know people and then they go hello and you're out and about in the

shopping center or whatever and you're like I don't know who the hell you are I get I get that quite a lot yes I do I really do yeah my husband goes who's that and I'm going I don't know I must deliver to them it's um it's so funny it's very it is and you have to be really sort of polite to people don't you I mean it's very different you do in my world I get that because obviously because I'm on the telly people recognize me so I can sort of get away with it for you it must be more difficult actually because they probably feel you might go to their house twice a week and you're not remembering faces twice a week no most of my customers go daily really isn't it amazing what we this is what i mean about buying stuff online everyone is mad that is crazy i work i work for a company um you mentioned a few weeks ago and ellia was waiting for a parcel

okay yeah do you remember yeah yeah that company i work for that company so yeah it is i do a lot of a lot of uh companies it's not just one specific company that we deal with we deal with lots of companies so would you say tell me something yeah would you say what you can't don't you can't you ain't got to say who it is or anything but how many parcels a week is kind of the maximum which is a regular person that you go to all the time really are you talking daily basis daily daily basis some most of my daily basis customers can have anything between two and five parcels a day that's an addiction it really is and there's a company that we've just started to deal with which is team you have you heard of team oh yes oh yeah and and that is

an addiction that you don't even want to go once you start it's like popping open a pop a box of pringles once you've popped you can't stop it just is a load of rubbish though isn't it that's the problem it is but i think a lot of people go oh that's 28p that's good i'll order that and bits and pieces so then by the time you've racked it up and you're like oh that's 28p and bits and pieces so then by the time you've racked it up and you're like oh that's 28p and bits and pieces you're looking at 58 pounds on a load of crap of course of course and do you think your orders from kind of 250 to 280 is that going to probably double by december not necessarily double i would say i'm gonna hit around the 400 mark wow

well you're incredible what you do but obviously when i get into my my peak and i hit my largest number i'm going to message you please do i would love you to do that i need you to message me the highest number of parcels delivered send me a voice note but can you just like up the ante with the podcast because i'm running out now listen there's lots in talks who knows i might do another one next year i might do three a week i'm i've actually caught up with uh your with Joanna as well. Oh, good. I found out your one last night and then I'd come over the other one and now I've got all my recommendations of my nightly watches.

Fantastic. Well, there you go. I'm sorting you out. She's a dream, isn't she? She's a dream and she's hilarious. So, yeah, we have fun doing that one. She's so much like her character in Gavin and Stacey yes yes she can be very much so very very much so well listen Laura I'm gonna go because um

yeah I might phone someone else or we've got to have a natter about a few things but thank you so so much for um popping on you're welcome and thank you so much for keeping me going it's always lovely to hear everyone on the podcast your brother tony is absolutely fantastic i can listen to him all day long he's brilliant i know i need to get him over again soon there'll be one soon i promise oh yeah great all right thank you for ringing that's all right thank you happy delivery see you later thank you bye see you bye 400 parcels a day she's going to get up to yeah it really is like

the Grinch you know that scene in the Grinch Jim Carrey version where everyone's gone mad and there's this present galore it's intense

especially the sort of Timu Shien those kind of ones where it's just, it's built on trying to encourage people to get lots and lots of little cheap rubbish. Where's it all being made? It scares the life out of me. I know.

I can't even think about it. I don't want to know why it's that cheap. I don't. Yeah. No one's getting paid enough anywhere along that cycle. No, absolutely not. We've had a message from Polly. I don't know what it is, but let's have a listen.

Hi Natalie, my name's Alfie. I'm seven years old. We're driving to Essex. I'm listening to your podcast at the same time. And I shouldn't really be listening to this, but anyway, bye. I really enjoy listening to your podcast at the same time. Let's see what Polly has to say about us. Hello?

Hello? Hello? Hello? Is that Polly? Yeah, he's Polly. I'm currently driving to Essex. You're hands-free. I am hands-free, so you're fine. Is Alfie there, please?

Yes, I'm here. I'll pass you over. Come on. I'm here. Hello, Alfie. Hello. Hello, sweetheart. Did you say you're seven years old? Yes. Oh, you're such a grown-up boy and you should not be listening to me we can't be listening to a recent podcast amazing i just wanted to because

because i got a lovely message from you and we're actually recording the pod now i wanted to just ring you and say thank you for listening and it's all right alfie i let joni listen to things she shouldn't listen to either oh thank you so much for calling natalie that is all right i hope you have a really lovely day and alfie be good for mummy yeah in half term don't drive her too mad yes yes he's gone on try natalie well that'll be a first i hate it when they do that. I know. I know. It really is a first.

Usually it's a chat box, so yeah. Oh, brilliant. Well, listen, carry on listening and have a good day. Safe driving. Yeah, thank you so much. Bye, Polly. Lots of love. Bye, Alfie.

Bye. Bye. Bye. Oh. You know what? At seven, everything that's risque is going to go over alfie's head anyway that's how i see it don't you yeah i mean it's fine yeah and there's rarely sweat we've talked about this before about the occasional swears and now you'll you'll spot in the listing. If there's a big swear, it'll have a little warning on it.

But yeah, I mean, they're hearing worse about, aren't they? I think so. Did I tell you about Joanie? I think I said it on the other pod actually, but you know Joanie watches Friday night dinner and she loves Friday night dinner. It isn't a programme for an eight-year-old child don't get me wrong but there's quite a lot of chat in one of them with Johnny and whatever

and they're all chatting away about prostitutes and um the other day I said Eliza you've got a lot of makeup on you kind of just need to and Joanie went you just look like a prostitute and I said maybe we should cut down the Friday night dinner what viewing just a tad and I sort of said to her you can't really say that but she's listened to them have a laugh about it on there and you know so it can get complicated but I would rather them watch really nice comedies and learn from them and let me I don't know what I'm saying really they shouldn't really watch it but they do is what i'm saying at least there's some culture and comedy around it because they will be hearing worse just walking through the town centers you know just people shouting all sorts

of each other you know yeah yeah there's a lot of swearing about but yeah at least if it's a bit of culture and it's connected to something not to call us culture i mean we well i suppose we are culture if you're listening to the podcast with a child right now culture you're learning learning about buying lights after two years and fireworks in february but there you go yeah important stuff guys what's this tell Emma about the Aussie crunch while you've got her from Brooke I must have missed one um do you know something I will say I'm sorry if I haven't responded to you or haven't

played one in I've got quite a big backlog it's a bit of a job a bit of a job getting through them so it's good when you remind me and do this actually let me see what this is for emma good morning this is brooke just listening to you talking about weird food combinations and emma is talking about something she used to have at school with cornflakes crushed up what she is thinking of might be something called aussie crunch i never had it at school i never heard of it in london but when i moved up north that seemed to be a thing up here aussie crunch and people go absolutely mad for it there's a recipe online i've used before called dolly bakes it's a website aussie crunch see if it's the right one does that look right m

it looks different no it isn't the same thing but it looks a little bit like one of those sort of tiffin fridge cake kind of ones and it looks lovely i'm definitely have a look into that yeah coconut cornflakes chocolate bites that's that's what that one is. It looks a little bit sort of millionaire shortbread meets cornflake crunchy thing. But I think someone did have the exact thing. Yes, because it's pastry jam. Then cornflakes as the topping in the tart is what I was thinking of. But that Aussie crunch looks really good as well Do you know we haven't tried our

food things that we said we were going to we need to do that Em Mine was dark chocolate biscuit sandwiches digestive but dark with a piece of cheddar in the middle Mine was something toast spread was it jam and marmite or something like that

Possibly One of those mixes we will do that we will do that yeah the one i was talking about so if i i've just googled cornflake tart and that yeah the one showing up on good food is is what i was thinking of but yeah just lovely sarah's a messaged hi now i want to talk about half-term stress i'm a single mum at home with my very overexcited son and i'm losing the will to live it's killer oh dear let's give a ring hello is that sarah it is sarah it's natalie here from life with nat i just thought i'd give you. I just thought I'd give you a quick ring because I feel you. I thought it was just me.

It's not just you. It's all of us. And half term is a killer. Yeah. Oh, God. It's a nightmare. How old's your son? He is nine.

Ah, fair enough. So, yeah. oh god it's a nightmare how old's your son uh he is nine ah so yeah and um he's uh into everything wanting to be on every device in the house um oh god it's just endless i can't get away it's um it's it's very it's really really difficult to entertain them all week long isn't it but the thing is what we need to remember is when we were younger, we didn't do something every single day. So you just need to take a breath and let them be at home and not worry about it. Yeah. Yeah.

No, I get that. You know, you kind of just want to entertain them though, don't you as well? Do you know what I mean? I know, but then you've got jobs to do and you've got things to do and then you always feel guilty. So I just wanted to give you a ring doesn't matter house is a shit show here do you know what i've said don't matter halloween you know cobwebs are on purpose it's no problem so yeah that's true just say that and do it next week do it next week when they go back to school

but i just wanted to say thank you for listening and thank you for your message and um just keep going thank you that's really kind of you yeah that's really kind and i love the pod it's really i literally drive to work and listen to it i love it oh thanks sir thanks so much well listen have a good afternoon and don't go mad yeah we'll do thanks all right see you later bye bye bye bye bye i think she sounded very calm actually for a lady who said she was losing the will to live yeah because i tell you now when i'm losing my shit i don't sound like that chilled patterned ammonium it's like um yeah the swan you're kind of graceful on the graceful graceful voice panicked panicked everywhere else yeah what i've been doing is um waking up having a bit of a lay-in because you know what i don't care i've been very busy the kids are old

now eliza has a lay-in but if i get out of bed say half eight ish which i know is quite late for some people yeah yeah yeah i'm usually up really early i've been doing loads of jobs right i've been up at half past five six six o'clock every day. Give me a break. But when I get up, Joanie's already been up then for a couple of hours and the state of the rooms, I'm not saying it's ridiculous,

but she's just got out loads of stuff. So before I even think about cleaning or doing things for the day, I have 45 minutes of getting it back to how it was from the night before which is quite annoying and i've got a pile of ironing downstairs uh lots of clean washing done but after this m i have got to go and tackle putting all these clothes away which i really can't be bothered to do oh yeah it just stacks i've got yeah i had stuff on an error for over way over how long it needs to be and i don't have as much of an excuse i don't have kids i'm responsible for and it just

it's just work isn't it it's always there's always so much to do there's a lot to do eliza's um doing her homework but the homework thing thing, I was the same. And I keep saying, just get it done, get it out the way. But I can see her sat there and, you know, that kind of, once you get started, it's all right, but she's finding it quite difficult. I said, I'm going to go and do the pod. It'd be lovely if you'd get on with some.

Has she got on with any? She'll be down there on the phone chatting to her mate yeah i would have done the same yeah there's a lot i've learned about sort of procrastination um when i got adhd diagnosis about like how some people can really struggle with task initiation and getting started on things and a lot of procrastination and just getting anything done is waiting on it to fit within a real real speed run out of time real like you've got to be yeah you've got to be up against time it's got to be something you really enjoy or you know or something other people rely on you for

there's lots of little bits like that that just make i was always i am still always a it's got to have a deadline otherwise it's not getting done right okay it's got enough i've got and i've it'll end up being where if you've got too much time to get it done, you live to your means and you will, I will, my brain will just scoot off in a billion directions and it will take as long to do something if I've got five hours. Yeah. As if I could get it done in eight hours or if I've got two hours, it will get done in two hours.

It's weird. Yeah. I understand. Are you saying eliza's got adhd i want the the things that are relevant to uh everyone on the neurodiversity like across every neuro pathway so it doesn't need to be diagnosed in a way like that but yeah plenty of people i think there are a hell of a lot of people actually that find it hard to get started with something yeah without a doubt yeah look i mean i don't really know anyone who doesn't find it hard to get started with something really no but i can wander past things yeah it's just i think there's just too much to do all the time yeah there's just too much yeah there's the excitement the fear of missing out on literally everything else going

on in the world you've got access to everything in your yeah on the internet ever ever ever ever you could be instead of doing homework you could be watching a film or you know watching a film snapchatting someone talking to someone looking at some makeup watching a catwalk youtube video do you know there's so much like you say to do so i do think it's hard for them um but once we finish this which is very soon i'm going to just go down and take the phone away and say if you don't do your homework you can't go out on thursday evening yeah that's the spookiest way to spend Halloween. Without a phone. A spooky spider's web and washing up.

Oh, spooky. Spooky. Well, listen, I can't believe how quickly that's gone. It's been so lovely to see you. Have a little catch up. Me too. And thank you, everybody, for all your messages. I'll get back to you all.

There's loads more, but we'll save them and we'll put them in our little folder for next time thank you, I hope everybody has a really lovely Halloween evening if you're listening today have a great weekend and I'll be back on Monday doing some sort of shazazz, who knows take care, see you later bye Em, thank you

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