Life with Nat - EP57: Sunday morning chaos.

Episode Date: November 4, 2024

Nat, Marc and the kids have a chat about half term, holding dogs on the tube and being cool. 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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Um, probably about four times. Did you? Yeah. Was it fun to watch Strictly and know that Mummy and Daddy were there? Not really Why's that? They were just distracting me Oh

Oh, why was it distracting you? Because I didn't really, like, actually watch the things I was trying to find during It was really distracting Oh, but was it exciting though when you saw Mummy? Yeah. Good. I've had some nice messages. Lots of people enjoyed seeing us both on Strictly last night.

Lovely Donna from Monmouth in South Wales said, Your skin on Strictly, what do you use? You look absolutely stunning. Seriously, what do you use? Makeup and skincare. Loving the jeans and a nice top look. Gorgeous, darling. Craig Revel Horwood sort of voice. Jesus, I'm a 49-year-old woman with a serious crush on Jamie after that George Michael number. Surely that's illegal. He was amazing. That's a lovely message, Donna. I used Elf Foundation. I think that's a tenor from Boots. It was Eliza's. And I put a bit of that on, a bit of concealer and mascara

and a little bit of Gucci bronzer. I really don't do a lot to my face and I'm a bit rubbish at it, but thank you very much. I think I was a bit lot to my face and I'm a bit rubbish at it, but thank you very much. I think I was a bit hot, which is why I look glowy. I was baking in that cardigan. Oh, everyone was asking me about the cardigan. It's from River Island and it's very nice, but yes, it's got shoulder pads and it is a little bit warm, but yeah, that's my fashion and makeup tips for the morning. There was a few bits of it actually, sort of lurking around in the kitchen when I made our coffees. That's the only thing with those sort of sequined dangly tops that you lose, you shed it. Yes.

Throughout the evening. Yes, it adapts and changes. Yeah. Like a piece of art. But it was a really good evening. Jamie was brilliant. Brilliant evening. Jamie was brilliant. Brilliant evening. Absolutely brilliant.

I think he should have his hair like that all the time. It did suit him, didn't it? It was quite a strong look. Did you like Jamie's hair last night? It looked a bit like a cowboy. Oh, fair enough, yeah. I can see where you're coming from It was the boots wasn't it?

Yeah The dancing boots The dance was quite good actually Did you think so? Yeah If you You know we were expecting maybe a message from you last night To pass on to Jamie after the dance

Did you have a message for Jamie or not? Well Yeah You did a very good job and I forgot what your dance was. Oh, so it made an impact? No, but yesterday I knew the dance and I said I could do the dance

but now I forgot the dance. Was it a tango? No, it was a samba. Oh yeah, I can do the samba. You've already explained though though, that you were distracted because you were looking out for Mummy, so that's fair enough. No, but that was in most of the dances, not in Jamie's dance, because I didn't see you in Jamie's dance.

No. That's fine. Fair enough. Anyway, it was a wonderful evening. Lovely to see everybody. And very, very good, yeah. I enjoyed myself. Fun seeing lots of colleagues, you know, people we know work-wise, wasn't it?

Yeah, very nice. Really nice. Loads of people we said hello to, which was fun. Just to say, Laura wanted me to say, to shout out to Laura, hello. So hello, Laura, if you're listening. Because she wanted to. That's what a shout out.

That's nice, isn't it? Did you have a nice evening with Laura last night? Yeah. Good. Very good. Talking of Laura's, Laura, our listener, who complains about the slurping, well, this morning, Laura, we're drinking coffee, which is very unusual. Yes.

But because it's being recorded early on Sunday morning, it's coffee you're going to get distracted by. I don't think it matters what's in the vessel. No. Be it gin, coffee, wine. I think it's the slurping element that she's bothered about. Yes. I wonder how she's going to feel about... The fidgeting.

...Joni fidgeting with her pad and paper. Oh, that's a good idea. She's put the pad on her lap. That's good. Perfect. That is very, very good. If you need to speak, Joni, you just need to sit forward, though, don't you? That's a good idea. She's put the pad on her lap. That's good. Perfect. That is very, very good. If you need to speak, Joan, you listen to sit forward, though, don't you?

It is like Dictionary Corner over there with... No, it's very good. ...her studiously writing. So I popped a message out just to say that I was going to do a little bit with the girls this morning, as well as you, of course. But I had this lovely voice note. Hey, this is Stuart. Loving the pod. Listen every every week listen to them all um I'm a dad of a same-sex family so we've got two boys uh and we've survived we have survived half term um but they've just been to a kid's party and they're absolutely

feral and we're going to the theatre tonight to watch their dad daddy in a show and i'm not sure it's going to go well i think they might be quite disruptive so we shall see how far we get through it and they're also seeing their daddy being eaten by a plant because it's a little shop of horrors so my aim for today is to survive and my aim for next term is also to survive um but be happy have fun and just enjoy life because we've got two very special boys just like all of your kids i know so yeah small goals everybody just get through it enjoy life take care keep doing the pod bye oh thank you so much stewart i did thank you didn't i yesterday and said well done for getting through it i hope the show went well. Had to play that in because very, very interestingly,

Mark kindly booked theatre tickets on Friday out of the blue. We were going to go to Chessington, but the weather wasn't great. Eliza had had a sleepover and we thought it's not the right time to go to Chessington. So you booked some tickets for us, didn't you? Yeah. What did you book? Some theatre tickets. Yeah, what are we going to see? What are we going to see, Joanie?

Do you remember what it was called? I think it was called The Goes Wrong Show, yeah. The Play That Goes Wrong. The Play That Goes Wrong. Now, it was very good, but it started at half past seven didn't it sweetheart yeah you were a little bit tired kind of yeah very tired i actually fell asleep in it you did but you were very good though because in an interval you did our trick that we did at the mill didn't you where you went for a little walk and you did a little walk didn't you we went and walked to the front of the theater because you want to look up at the dress, didn't you? Where you went for a little walk. And you did a little walk, didn't you?

We went and walked to the front of the theatre because you wanted to look up at the dress circle and you wanted to see what was going on. No, it's because we had to find Winston. Find Winston? Oh, yes. We had to find Winston, the dog. You did have to find Winston.

What did you think of that play? Crazy. Why was it crazy? Well, I don't know really. But it was because it went wrong actually. Oh. It just went wrong. Right.

Oh, Eliza's here. Hello, darling. Hello, everyone. Hello. Hello. You all right? Yeah, I'm tired. I'm very impressed that you got up to do this for me.

Well, you did say to me, well, you came in at half past eight and you said, why don't you get ready? You can do your makeup in the car. Yeah. Be here in the podcast room at nine o'clock and what's the time nine o'clock thank you as a commute to doing something yeah how did you feel about that how many how many steps do you think it was from your bedroom to work so in here well she's not being paid is she she gets paid with my love, kindness. Well. And treats.

Well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. It was probably about seven steps. But in total, from the bed to the bathroom to the desk. Oh, wow.

From the desk to the bathroom, back in the bed. Yeah. Yeah. Quite a while. We were just talking about the theatre, the play that goes wrong. Oh, I loved it. It was so good I really enjoyed it

good it was really funny really funny I thought Joni was going to enjoy it a lot more than she actually did well she was we were just saying she was a bit tired

she was very tired it was a bit late a matinee would have been good I actually really enjoyed it a lot you know really a lot oh well that is good

because it's extortionately expensive to go to the theatre yeah it was a bit it's a good job daddy paid good because it's extortionately expensive to go to the theatre. Yeah it was a bit. It's a good job daddy paid for it. It's a good job. It was but

it was fun wasn't it? And Yeah no I enjoyed it. It's nice for us all as a four to go out for an evening.

Because we were going to go to Chessington weren't we? What I love now I know I say it a lot but I love the fact that we are all now at an age well we can just jump on the train yeah and just go into london i mean how many times have me and you been into london this half yeah but it's very it's about a good six times no it's that's really not true

yes it is it's not six times in a a half term? In a half... I have two weeks off, remember? A hundred percent around four or five times. Definitely. I've been once with Laura. Yeah. Then with you again. Jodie's off to the toilet. Yeah.

And then we went yesterday. No. No. No, the day before. Yeah, we've been in a few times. We've been quilled quite a few times. But we have had a nice half term. Really nice half term.

What have you enjoyed the most? Probably just relaxing and not doing anything. But then when we go out, it's nice. Right. Because at the start, I had like three or four days where I was doing absolutely nothing. And I just sat in bed. Let me stop you there. Just recap.

First four days, what were you doing? Laying in bed. Laying in bed. Oh, no. I'm pretty certain that at the beginning, you were very busy doing homework. No. Really? No, I didn't do any homework at the start.

When did you do the homework then? On Tuesday. Right. No, not just Tuesday. You did it the week before as well. You did a few bits as well. Yeah, I did. Well, I did my geography on Monday at two o'clock in the morning because I couldn't sleep.

And then I did my geography on Monday at two o'clock in the morning because I couldn't sleep. And then I did my Spanish and history. We just have to get on top of doing the homework. But we've spoken about that. Yeah. And it is always hard. I remember being your age. Especially when you get like 10 pieces and then you get a piece of Spanish homework that took me literally like an hour and a half. It didn't take you literally an hour and a half.

It just took you an hour and a half. No. Okay. It took me an hour and a half. It didn't take you literally an hour and a half. It just took you an hour and a half. No. Okay. It took me an hour and a half. What? You don't need to say literally. Okay. Eliza, sorry.

Mummy's just reminded me on the literally front. Yeah. On our journey into London, you taught me some new words. Oh, yeah. Could we recap on what those words were yeah it's a good idea beef beef i'm surprised you've not heard that you've got beef no no you've got beef you've got beef with someone yeah there you go you don't say oh yeah you've got beef oh all right okay but yeah i mean that was interesting what was the other one

tony can tell you that one. What was the other word? Do you know they're actually being put... It's called brain rot. It's actually being put in the English dictionary. Yeah, we heard it on the radio. We heard it. They are actually going into the dictionary.

Yeah. But the one that will be used the most will be sigma. Oh, sigma. And what does sigma mean? Scutty rears. I'd forgotten about sigma. What'd you say? Scutty Rears. I'd forgotten about Sigma. What'd you say? Scutty Rears.

Honestly. Put that down. You can't have all that stuff in here. Please, darling. She's making the podcast room her own here. She's got some Haribo. The bears come in. I don't have any Haribo.

Got your phone. Can't have that all mucking about. I wanted to just have a quick chat because I'm going to put a picture on Instagram for the podcast of me holding a very small chihuahua. Oh yes. Sorry. I want to see your mouth.

I'm glad you laughed at that. Joanie? I was in the train. Do you remember the train? Yeah. It was the tube actually. Why didn't you just literally just... Can you stop saying literally, please? Why? Yeah, stop saying things like sigma.

No, don't. Please don't say that. Please don't say that. Is that really cringey? It is. When your parents say those words. Explain that. I barely ever say them unless it's funny.

Joanie, look. Someone sent me the photo. Cute. The picture is of mummy on a tube holding a chihuahua with a pink furry coat on so we were on the tube and it was very difficult because it was quite a squished tube everyone was kind of squished in and then mummy's barely being able to stand up because it was moving so much and the ladies poked her on the back and said excuse me are you natalie cassidy yes yes i am um a few years ago you uh did a birthday video for one of my friends can i take a picture of you with the dog for my friend now at this point i don't mind holding the dog lovely little thing but when

you're on the tube and you can barely stand up. It was the fact that I wanted to hold on. And then she was giving me a chihuahua. So I had the dog, but I was very worried about falling over with the dog. And then she said, well, no, it doesn't matter. Can I just take the picture? So anyway, that was a bit of of a strange one wasn't it yeah interesting joni what do you think when mummy um gets asked to hold people's dogs and and people shout at me

through lifts and things have we told them the story of the lift no but you should do can i yeah it's a sorry a man they were in the lift we didn't get to go in the lift because it was all squashed up. And he shouted, oh, that's Sonia. And like everyone looked and then the lift just closed. I had this message for both of you girls, okay, from Yvonne. So say hello to Yvonne. Hello, Yvonne. Hello, Yvonne.

Hi, Nat. Just wondered what you'd advise to keep teens of roughly 14 occupied over half term that doesn't involve phones and screens. Ooh. How do you feel about that? You've been on your phone a lot this half time I have But I think it's because

I don't Parents think There's no reason for it Well there is If you are not doing anything Check your screen time Yours is 100% going to be higher than mine I use my phone

I'm an adult It's irrelevant I use my phone to message my friends And I actually think All you think I do all day is sit on Snapchat, which I actually don't. I'm on Pinterest. I'm on Safari.

I'm on Google. I'm on all sorts of platforms. Wonderful. Brilliant. And what are you? Can I tell you what I think? My screen time is the highest on Pinterest. Is it?

Because I look at the fashion. I look at the Vogue on there. Fair enough. So I actually have got an interest. That's fair enough. I understand. Yes, Joni? I've got a good thing that they can do.

We've not even answered Yvonne's question. Yeah, that's what I'm answering. I think she could play loads of board games like I do and she can do some drawing and play with her toys. Brilliant. I would say if you can, see friends. I thought it was a four-year-old girl, not a 14-year-old girl.

Have you got anything for a 14-year-old girl? Ooh, um, I do, actually. She could go outside and do some birdwatching. That's a good idea. Eliza? Birdwatching. Yeah. Fancy a bit of birdwatching?

No. We could do... No. I love birdwatching. Daddy might fancy a bit of birdwatching? No We could do No I love birdwatching Daddy might fancy a bit of birdwatching Me Something like a 50 year old man would do No offense to any birdwatchers out there Well You never know

There's got to be some I bet there's someone your age Who likes it What about a model railway? That would be a nice thing That's even more kia Well we've got one And he's not 50 miles, he's 36.

Am I a geek, Joni? Um, maybe. Oh, brilliant. So Eliza, is there an activity as a 14-year-old? You're wonderful now. Joni, darling, did you have a nice half term? Yes. What was your favourite bit of half term?

I loved The theatre And What was it? Let me think of something really I loved Halloween Trick or treating Did you enjoy that?

Oh yeah quite And your Zumba Oh yeah Zumba The thing I love best So what I did But I think I actually loved both times. But I think on Thursday, real Halloween was actually one of the best because we got to go outside, inside and play dodgeball.

Brilliant. And we played loads of games and arts and crafts. Brilliant. And loads of things I made. Oh, that's really, really good. And they were lovely things you brought home. They were really nice, darling. Thank you for popping onto the pod.

You are a little bit fidgety and you need to play all the time. So off you go, sweetheart, and we'll just finish off. Goodbye. Seeing as you're here and I ask people for questions, let's answer another one. Okay. Hi, Nat. as you're here and I ask people for questions, let's answer another one. Okay. Hi Nat, as a parent of a 15 year old child and as a deputy head teacher in a specialist school for children with autism, I can totally relate to living life through school terms. Because what I said,

Eliza, is when you're a parent, you really, your whole year is dominated by school terms. 100%. I've experienced working in both mainstream schools and specialist primary schools, but journeying my way through high school has been an experience with a teenager. So my question to both girls, thinking with my teacher head on and parent head on, is how could your school life be made better by teachers

and how can parents help you more to navigate through the challenges that high school may bring that's really good it's a good question isn't it yeah well all teachers at school are different yeah of course teachers at one school very different teachers at another well done einstein but if you're talking about secondary school in general i think it would benefit all children to have a platform where the teachers the parents and me or the child yeah will be able to see the class at one platform classwork homework tasks I see sports games because everything is on different apps yeah well for me socks there's, there's Teams, there's Firefly,

there's hundreds of different ones. So if everything was in one and you could say to me, have you got biology homework? And I said, oh, I've only got to do a little bit of it because I did most of it in the lesson. Normally you'd say, are you sure? And I'd be like, yeah. Yeah, it'd be nice for me to have a look.

Whereas it'd be nice for you to go on there, see the work I've done in the lesson and see, okay, well, she's only got to do another five, ten minutes. You know what I had when I was at school? What? Pen and paper? I had a planner. And it was like a diary. Yeah.

For each week, with all the different subjects. And you just had all of the homework written in there, really easy. We have that at school. I know what homework I get, but I'm saying mummy doesn't. No, but just opening the book as a parent my parents they will just open the book and not anything's done on the book now it's all done on my laptop i know but surely the book would be easier well well you say yeah that's the way it is everything is done on i have two lessons that are done in a book. It's mad. Maths and... History.

History. You like working with a book, don't you? I prefer it. Because there's no worry. I had to do my English test on a laptop. Yeah. And the fear of me writing three pages worth and then pressing the cross and it not saving. Yeah, yeah.

After saving it, because sometimes it just doesn't save it. I'm all for bringing back pen and paper. I'm so scared. Pen and paper, please. Marvellous. I like my handwriting. My handwriting's gone all dodgy in the past few years where I've not. But I obviously do write. But because I do most of the written work in maths, it's all numbers.

Yeah, of course, yeah. But then history is good because then, you know. You're writing. Yeah, I love history. That's good. It's a numbers. Yeah, of course, yeah. But then history is good because then, you know. You're writing. Yeah. I love history. That's good. It's very good. Rachel said,

Hi Nat, just wanted to say I'm still absolutely loving the podcast, being with you from day one. Lots of people say it, but it really is like listening to a friend. I think I know more about some of your family members than I do my own. Keep up the fantastic work and hopefully we'll all come together to see the podcast on stage. Rachel. P.S.

Is it bad that I know your number off by heart but not my husband's? Isn't it fun? Do you know mummy's number off by heart? Yeah, I've known it since I was really young. It's very good. Daddy's? The first like three numbers.

Two numbers. Because they're the same as everyone else. Podcast number? No. Oh. No. No. Two numbers. Because they're the same as everyone. Podcast number? No. Oh. No. Fair enough. I do know the British Transport Police one.

That's good. I could say it word for word. You can probably do that. If you see something that doesn't look right, speak to staff or text the British Transport Police to 61010. I think it's 16. 16. 61010. I think it's 16. 16.

61016. That's it. See it. Say it. Sort it. No, it's sorted. Figured this out the other day. It's not sorted.

It's sorted. My one contribution. Ruined it. What is the podcast number, by the way? 07788 20 1919. i didn't i did know that 07788 2019 19 it's a good one and anyone who hasn't listened to this before yeah obviously the point of that is you can send a voice note you can say the whatsapp can't they yeah you phone some people on the podcast the other day yeah i just phone just phoned people up. Excellent. It's good, isn't it?

Phoning someone up. I like that. Yeah, it's good. It's like phoning radio, but as a podcast. Yeah, it's kind of like that. There aren't a lot of podcasts, Eliza, where you can message them. Message to the host. Oh, no, I know.

Because it's normally another person. It is. But you actually message mummy. Don't we know it? Or Elliot sometimes. And why do we know their message and mummy actually reads them because she's always on her phone i am working yeah i know but you are always on your phone always full circle and do you know she's actually gone into a mode now where i watch you when you go into your phone you swipe up go into your phone and you click

on instagram straight away and you won't even you'll say to me, oh, let me check my emails. And I'll go straight on. Straight on. No, I agree. It's like your brain has been programmed to go onto Instagram every time you go on your phone. I agree. You go straight onto it. And then you'll start scrolling.

And I'm like, why are you scrolling? And you go, no, I'm not. I'm working. And I'm like, well, you just told me you're checking your emails. I have to say that I do. I really, really do use my Instagram for work. I also get a lot of DMs on there. And I do.

I'm looking at comments. Not when you're scrolling through swipe photos on the first page. As a person literally in the middle of this, there's an old phrase, Eliza, which is people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Coming from the biggest greenhouse in here. Sorry? No.

No, that doesn't quite work. The gardener. It could be the gardener in the greenhouse. Sorry. There's a joke there somewhere. It's a good game of Cluedo now. But you use the situation and location as opposed to the... Understood.

However, don't start because daddy of an evening at night, there's an issue. And it's late at night and the first thing in the morning. The rest of the day is okay. Sorry, how long did you go out for last night? Oh, hang on a minute. Here we go. Daddy's a hero because he left his phone at home.

Seven hours, was it? Longer than that. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. He didn't purposely leave the phone at home. Seven hours, was it? Longer than that. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. He didn't purposely leave the phone at home. Nine hours you were out. Yeah. The phone was left at home. And if he'd have taken the phone out, I doubt it would have come out more than two times.

And mine didn't either, darling. But you weren't really allowed your phone out anyway. But, no point. Daddy leaves his phone at home when we go out quite a lot. Okay. When we went out for dinner on his birthday, he left his phone at home.

Yeah, I did. When we go out for dinner, he always leaves his phone at home. I wish he'd leave it downstairs when we go to bed, because he can sit there for an hour Well, that's what I do. when I want to go to bed. Ew.

Yeah, but we've had that conversation. I bought an alarm clock now. Are you saying, ew? Yeah. What was wrong we've had that conversation. I bought an alarm clock now. Why are you saying ew? Yeah. What was wrong with that? Go on. Why's she laughing at?

I don't know. Anyway, carry on. No, no, no, go on. I'm intrigued now. Yes. You've perked my interest. Stop leaning back on the chair. I feel like I'm a teacher.

Stop it. You know, see, on the phone. I feel like I'm a teacher. Stop it. You know... See? On the phone. I know. On the phone. I'm on the phone to do the next thing for the podcast. I'm just going to point out.

You know your mum does this thing, which people send voice notes and messages to? Yeah. Well, the phone facilitates that. It would be a bit difficult without the phone. I do understand that. It is a work tool. Okay. Yes, I phone facilitates that. It would be a bit difficult without the phone. I do understand that. It is a work tool. Okay, yes, I understand.

Fair enough. Right, November bucket list. I've spoken about these before. Right. They come up at the beginning of each month. What, things you want to do in that month? Things you should do in the month i love it okay okay let's go through and see how many of these things we realistically think we're going to do okay phone down please father oh i see sorry he is looking at voice notes. Support a shop on Small Business Saturday.

Yes, I will. I'll go down to the little shop probably. I don't really like shopping on a Saturday, but if I'm out that day, I always go into small shops. If I have a sleepover or something, then we'll go down to the little shop on a Saturday. Right. Watch fall-themed TV tv episodes yeah firstly it's autumn

so this is American whoever sent me this what does autumn themed tv programs mean just something that gives off autumn vibes like I will sit down and watch Gilmore Girls and I think oh this is a really nice autumnal thing to watch. Understood, yeah. Because everyone's in the cup, whereas Gossip Girl, yes, sometimes they're all in the hats and scarves,

but it's quite bright and sunny outside because it's in New York and so I watched that in the summer. Harry Potter, I sit down and watch now. And also,

I think it's filmed in series, you can't really watch in the summer because well this is just me personally i can never watch harry potter in the summer because the light from the windows shines on the tv because harry potter's basically pitch black oh i see so i have to it has to be dark when i watch it i do get the seasonal watching if i had any time to watch it yeah but yes I do understand. I see. Okay.

When can we start watching Christmas films, please? November 25th. That's very specific. Well, that's when we said we were going to put the tree up. I think she's worked. And also, it's a good date, because you've obviously thought that through. 25th. I've worked it out.

I think we are. 25th is exactly a month before Christmas Day. I think we were at Kew Gardens with Julia. No, that's the 24th. Is it? Yes, it's the 24th. Because I remember you told me on your birthday, and Tim, I was telling you we're going to be at Kew Gardens.

Love it. So was that an impression of mummydom? Wow. so was that an impression of mummydom wow unbelievable um as you're here i mean it's not really a scrape in the barrel but it sort of is we got anything to pop on yeah i was upset very upset because uh roger sent a voice note explaining that he wasn't in southampton. But I'm confused at that, because there was definitely a reference to Southampton at some point in one of Roger's voice notes. So sorry, Roger, about that.

Good morning, Natalie. Sorry for the early morning message. I'm out for my walk. I was listening to your pod. It's Roger here. But you can tell Mark he actually got it wrong i'm from chesington not southampton great episode so far i will carry on listening now hope mark had a great day and you're all ready for halloween and mark is right i don't have any

of that other stuff i'm a christmas person. I'm a Christmas person too. Roger lives in Chessington. We could have seen him. We could have seen him. And at this point now, mummy's kicking herself because mummy loves to link everything together. And what an ideal voice note

before talking about we were going to go to Chessington and then the theatre, but it's been and gone. But she's kicking herself, look. Oh. I am a little bit. Editorially.

Yeah. Not the best, but we are am a little bit. Editorially. Yeah. Not the best, but we are in a rush. It's all right. At least, listen, this is going out tomorrow. Roger, she's fuming. It's going out tomorrow. It's very stressful leaving it this late. And that's happened this week.

No one's far apart from my own. For once. But it has... What does that mean? Whenever you do something wrong, everyone else is always blamed. What's in your hair? Sorry.

Oh, it's a roller. It's a roller. I've got a photo shoot to go to, which you're coming with me. Yeah. Aren't you? Yes. You're off to the railway?

I am, yeah. I've got Joni. She was quite cute. She had a little uniform is it with lights or open day no it's to be honest with you I've just got to do some work

is it running day no do a little bit of work a few things planned Joni's not really bored I know so we're going to oh but we've got

too long Joni free day hooray that's nice when are you two home about half four oh what shall we do for dinner tonight only free day. Hooray! It's nice. When are you two home? About half four. Oh.

What should we do for dinner tonight? I don't know. I was going to ask you the same thing. I know. Oh no. What? We can't do that.

No. Why? It's Sunday. You have to book. What can we do? I don't know. I can't cook. I'm not in the mood.

What about takeaway? No. No, I can't do takeaway I'm not in the mood. What about takeaway? No. No, I can't do takeaway on a Sunday. Guess what your mum and dad had for dinner last night? And guess what time? Shoot. You went out for dinner, didn't you? Nope.

You're going to think we're quite cool, though. And we're a bit young and trendy. Did you have dinner at like one in the morning? Good on the time front. It was close. It was about half midnight. Half twelve. Okay.

Where did we go? Did you go to like a fish and chip shop or something? No. Don't say you went to McDonald's. Yep. Now, have a guess the look just just for reference the looks of their faces how cool they think that they went to mcdonald's we went to the drive-thru it was like we had a night out it's like half midnight yeah really good and even better we like sat in the car park right i'm gonna guess mommy's order now i love doing this go right you got a chicken sandwich

ding you're not one of them you're not gonna guess because it was a mistake but go on a double cheeseburger nope a cheeseburger well you're With bacon. We asked for a cheeseburger. But you got... Cheese bites. Disgusting. Yeah. What did I... What do you think I had?

Big Mac. Uh-uh. Close. Did he get... A quarter panda. A quarter panda. A double quarter panda. Terrible

Do you want cheese with that? Do you want fries with that? It's actually fries Oh Catherine Tate show Just That was good I enjoyed that

I like the fact that you like to watch that Sketch What? Catherine Tate show? It's very old It's so funny Good I just love Catherine Tate

I think she's hilarious She is Who's your favorite character that katherine tate does uh the nan i also really like the one the teenagers in the school talking of comedy legends guess who was sat next to us last night if you were watching the television, you would have seen me. I was. I actually have like multiple pictures of you on my phone.

Who was there? Oh. I can make this easier for you, darling. Hang on. I'm going to... Because I'm interested to see... If I'll know. Whether you'll know.

Here we go. Well, you've got to know who it is. A friend of mine on a camera kindly took a photo. Here you go. Have a look there. And I'm zooming in on the photo. I mean, you all look like... Looking at a very famous face of the 90s.

I can't see it. Early 1000s. And now. And now. Have you ever watched... Comic Relief? Yeah. Or is it Children in Need?

It's Comic Relief. I thought I was right the first time. Am I looking at the lady or the man? The man. It's Selene Henry Eliza no I've no idea who that is you're joking you really don't know

who that is I feel like I've heard of him oh my goodness wow unbelievable and Sir Lenny Henry leant over shook my hand

and said hello Nat Nat and I was thrilled see I thought he was saying hello to Matthew

who sat next to Natalie and he leant over and said hello Matt Natalie intercepted it and he sort of styled it out but I could have been wrong that's not true

that isn't true all of you were saying hello Matt they kept taking the mickey out of mummy in the audience as well Eliza During the VTs

Really Yes What were they doing Just little jokes The comedian Stuart Knows Natalie Warm up guy

Yeah Yeah Old Stu So he kept Sort of referencing Mummy being sat in the audience Yeah I mean The amount of times They showed you on the camera is incredible.

Oh, ex-contestant, wasn't it? Did you like my jacket? It looked really nice. Thank you, because I made quite a lot of messages. It looked really nice. I'm pleased I picked that up from River Island. Lovely. Really nice.

On the subject of clothes. Yeah. Eliza, do you think, you know, I'm'm trying to it's very difficult for me and mum no it's difficult for us to understand how we're seen by yourself and people of your age well but do we look old no are we quite i don't know very young you look very young oh thank you daddy more so oh oh well he is younger factually so hello darling

the monster's back you okay hello it's very dramatic what's going on here she's got her hand on her chest and she's breathing

very heavily Joanie that is not mummy she's fallen on the floor she's done a dramatic fall it was quite good actually that wasn't bad dramatic gasp

scared the life out of me then right have a lovely Sunday all you're going to come with me you're off to the railway Joni have a good time at the railway I'm okay

oh she's okay it's brilliant alright thank you for listening to our family Sunday pod Time on the railway. I'm okay. Oh, she's okay. It's brilliant. All right. Thank you for listening to our Family Sunday pod. Chaotic Family Sunday pod. Speak to you Thursday. See you later.

Bye. Bye. Bye. 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

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