Life with Nat - EP58: Nats nieces #8 - A trip down memory lane…

Episode Date: November 7, 2024

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Get groceries delivered across the GTA from Real Canadian Superstore with PC Express. Shop online for super prices and super savings. Try it today and get up to $75 in PC Optimum Points. Visit Superstore.ca to get started. cheers guys cheers ah else is finally we're back with the vino little one just a little one Why are you laughing? Because baby James. Baby James. How's this going to go tonight? We're at Elliot's. We're at Elliot's house. Because she's with child.

What do we think? Yeah, we'll see. We'll wing it. I might have to hop out, but it's all good. Why don't you just have him there? Yeah, I'm confused. Why aren't you just feeding him through the pod? It's fine, because he doesn't need it right now.

Okay. We're interfering i was saying earlier that i genuinely i know it's weird but i feel like ellia and jack now look like a mum and dad oh ellia doesn't know about jack i mean i feel like they just now look like a mum and dad how does that happen it's weird you just age instantly that garlic was a lot of garlic, wasn't it? It's really strong. No, it's really strong garlic. You put two cloves in. No, but I cut one in half because it looked a bit manky. Oh, yeah.

Even Jack said, oh, my God, that's so strong. Delicious. But it's old, though, isn't it, the garlic? Because it gets stronger. Is it? Oh, you said you cut a bit of mould off the thing. No, I don't know what it was. It just didn't look the best.

No, but I'm just saying, if you've had it in the fridge for a while. I always cut, like, would you cut mould off things? Like a bit, like a bit of mold off the thing no i don't know what it was it just didn't look the best no but i'm just saying if you've had it in the fridge for a while i always cut my like would you cut mold of things that bit like a lump of cheese like if there's a bit of mold on the edge yes absolutely i'm not gonna eat it no but would you throw the whole thing no oh no i cut it off yeah you know like you get a dodgy potato with a bit of green in it oh always you just chop it what about a slice of bread would you like pick bit? If there's one little bit of mold. I'm not always known to do that. Yeah, yeah, it's all right.

Especially when the kids on time have not got shit. Are they all right? Um, yeah. Yeah. Are they? I'm not,

uh, let me just check. No, I can't remember. My God, what did we do the weekend? I could blur. Today is Tuesday.

I know, I asked that question a few times today. no, they're good. They went back to school back to school lovely good they went with their little lovely lovely there you go you're the first one and you're cursing us for it it was this is i think it's the pod effect um yeah they went in very well yeah with their little autumn reefs aww that they made for their little autumn project nice

that was cute isn't it lovely though when your kids like school we've said this before sorry but I know but I'm just saying

it's a big thing but it's great but I'm bored hold on no I'm joking and then how the tables have turned so my child slept

last night but no but also doing the every time you pick him up what did you have for lunch I'm obsessed with it yeah I never asked

Joanie what she had for lunch do you not no see Ruby actually tells me whereas Alfie has got no interest

that's a boy golfing though yeah but she's good she goes I had this and I passed out jelly and biscuit whereas Alfie's all like chicken potato can I have lunch no you don't have lunch Yeah, but she's good. She goes, I had this and I passed out jelly and biscuit. Whereas Alfie's all like, Jacob, say, can I have packed lunch?

No, you don't have packed lunch. Oh, bless you. No, I can't get into that. No, packed lunch is the worst thing. Not happening. I've done it so many times. But you're not going to cut it into dinosaur shapes and stuff. I'm not. Absolutely not.

Some grapes for the eyes. You know, they're grapes. That's right. You've got to cut them in like quarters no I know because they choke people who make

faces at their kids meals I mean who's got the time do you know what I would like to do I've been cut to me in three years time yeah exactly

the dinosaur thing with the mash I knew you were gonna say the gravy like the volcano well you do all the mash and then you put the turkey dinosaurs and say the gravy like the volcano but you do all the mash and then you put the turkey dinosaurs

and then the gravy that's quite cool but he's not going to eat it and there's so much mashed potato it makes for nil so

don't worry about it I just don't know he's got the time no people do but no I've never made any kind of

animal I've I don't think I don't know no I'm thinking about you know like a little I've done the sort of with a pastry round it

for a mummy for Halloween yes I mean you've just said about people doing that so no but that's different I don't even think I've done it with fruit no what do you mean No, but that's different. It was kind of, you know, for anything. I don't even think I've done it with fruit. No.

What do you mean? You don't, even with fruit. What? Fruit. Fruit. No, like to put in two blueberries as eyes, a banana as a mouth. No. No.

No. No. No. No. Well, let's see in a couple of years' time. How's a baby doing? Well, I time how's a baby doing well I know how a baby's doing because I

want to talk about why is it when sorry I've got an itchy armpit I've got a chimpanzee why is it when you haven't got your own kid it feels like

life is so precious she's jumped out the car i've dropped her at the nail shop today no sorry you've ruined my thing i was just gonna say today was a really big day for me i'll go for it because i had my nails done after like two months what's what's sorry what's big well i've never not had acrylics on since I can remember. You always have a little break. Not for this long. Oh, you just had a baby. I might have like a week break. Well, yeah, but I was obviously planning to get them done.

How do you feel? Yeah, I love it. I'm so happy. Do you feel better? Yes, I do. You feel better. More human. And thank you to Auntie Nat Nat for having the baby.

Just had a walk. I had a little walk. Sophie came. Oh, cute. Met Sophie. Had a coffee nice caught up with Sophie

and baby James slept just gets in he just slept he just sleeps when he's out yeah he loves it it was like our trip to B&M

that was good well what happened oh no let's not even go there why it was so bad what do you mean I don't mean to cut short

not because of baby James because of little Ruby maybe Ruby well what happened I think she mentioned that there was a bit of a shock but you didn't go into it What do you mean? I don't mean to cut short. Not because of baby James, because of little Ruby. Maybe Ruby. What happened? I think she mentioned that there was a bit of a shock, but you didn't go into it. The worst tantrum. Oh, no.

Not again. Worse than the one where she was running off? Bad. Oh, no, she ran off. She would have stayed in there, I reckon. She would have still been there now. You know, normally. Two tantrums and a Barbie.

Oh, don't. And I bought the thing and the other thing. Oh, yeah. Oh. Maybe she can have the little toy when she's a kid. By the way, I've bought Alfie's black, you know, sweet holder back. One of those was at my house. I've got two.

I've got two. Well, who's that? I don't know. Oh, well, it's not staying here. No, because I put it in the bin. Is it Amelia's then? I don't know. And I've got her baby. The baby's sat in the well, it's not staying here. No, because I put it in the bin. Is it Amelia's then? I don't know. And I've got her baby.

The baby's sat in the bucket. Who's? Amelia's. Ruby's. Ruby's. What baby? Oh, God. No, what baby?

One of... One of many. No, I'm not... That bucket... That stuff isn't staying here. Okay. Well, it ain't coming to my house. Just put it in the bin then.

No, you can't do that. I'm so rude. I'll take it. Thank you. No, I'm not taking it. Yeah, you are taking it. You take it. What for? Where am I going to put it? Well bin then no you can't do that I'm so rude I'll take it thank you no I'm not taking it yeah you are taking it you take it what for

where am I going to put it well the Halloween's there no it's all away now no well it's not staying here I'll leave it is it like a cauldron yes I'll bet yours isn't away yet

I've got two I've got two yeah but where are they on the side there you go so you can just slip that one in you never know

you might need it we need to we need to crack on with this game because this could take a little while we've got to have a debrief because we've not been together for ages so yeah b and m horrific she had the biggest meltdown ever wow over not even the fact that she wasn't allowed a toy because auntie birdie was going to buy her a little toy which was very that's me generous oh yeah don way. Oh yeah. Do they know that?

No I don't think they do. I don't think they do. But it was the fact that she didn't know what toy she wanted. And everything she said I finally got her to want it and I was like yes she wants this one. Yeah I like that Aunty Birdie. But I'll have that for my birthday. I was thinking

she's joking me. Because I think she was so overwhelmed with all the stuff that she was scared to choose something because then she'd see something else yeah it was great well let me tell you this morning joni i'm telling you now i don't know what how to describe her she woke up very very early and she said it's i need two pounds the poppy store was out yeah i said no problem this went on from six o'clock in the morning until 22 9 what money is she taking here's a 50p should i take the 20ps i'll take a pound i said just take what you want just do what you want but take the money you want what you want to buy get to school and i have to say yeah in my day there was paper poppies yeah in a box now you

can get key rings 10p key rings yeah there's bracelets yeah there's slap bands rubbers yeah there's there was such a choice which is really lovely really good especially for the kids who might not you know understand like what a poppy so they can get a slap band yeah it's very good all very good but what i'm saying is you don't 12 minutes we were stood there even the teacher the table wasn't even out it's like your daughter's problem she said i don't want to rub her do i want so she opted for a purple slap band and she got a little bracelet i've got to remember to do that to give the kids the money but it is it's like pirate day on friday poppy day why is it pirate i have no idea i don't know ruby's got dressed up like a pirate then it's a socks day

next week our field socks oh yeah that's easy got loads looking about here if you need stuff yeah no i've got 412 singles. Okay, well, what I will do now is go and buy two pairs of socks. Funny ones, so they're funky. Oh, yeah, they have got to be a bit funky, yeah. So, yeah. Why don't you just get a couple of white pairs and decorate them and get the kids to decorate them?

No, absolutely not. What is your opinion on when your child is having a tantrum in public, people, random people getting involved. Well, hang on. No, don't hang me on it. It's very, very stressful because you want to deal with the situation and you're mortified already. But people are only trying to help.

Are they? No, but this was a woman who had basically been in there the same amount of time and had seen the whole thing and heard fair enough so by the very end after about 45 minutes yeah she oh maybe even longer horrendous so by she was then trying to just have a little chat with her it was weird yeah maybe i don't maybe I don't know because I weren't there, but I didn't see it as a bad thing. What's her name? It's a different person.

I know, but she's having a meltdown. I know, but she was trying to... What's the word? She said to me, you go and get the car, stay here. I thought, oh, yeah, I'm going to leave my kid. I know, she's trying, but I think, yeah. No, I get the sentiment. However, I do think think it's very stressful

I would never get I would never get involved in someone's situation no she was a bit of an old like an olderish not old but she was an older lady what do you reckon

maybe like late maybe mid 50s older lady we're calling that now yeah well she wasn't middle aged a middle aged woman

actually I'm middle-aged sorry yeah no older she's 20 potentially 30 years older than me i'd say an older lady okay yeah that's what i said what do you mean do the maths maths or math more do the math that is shocking wow unbelievable jeff honestly um i suppose so well who knows who knows who's middle-aged that's what i'm saying you know live till you're 110 if this lady was 60 yeah then 55 she said you said that lady's middle-aged she's 55 she ain't middle-aged well things going in the right direction these days people are living a lot of centurions around

okay well she was a mature lady we've had probably adult children and grandchildren so she's seen it all and she wanted to help you well no yeah it wasn't helpful i mean it was better than the people going can i get through and it's like what unless you want to run the child over with your pram because i want to you know just walk around because i was gonna then i wanted to in the shop but i was just trying to play the i'm going bye and i went to she's down that aisle. Oh, fucking no, she's down that aisle. She can fucking stay there. It was awful. It is interesting. And I'm just there with my pram, like, he's just asleep.

I would say the worst is, I think more than someone trying to help, which is aggravating, but it's a very kind thing to do. I think the worst is if someone huffs here it goes again with the older couple there was a couple there were a couple who I thought if I get one more look

it's only that I was with my child that I played it cool but I was ready to go I could tell she was looking as if to say sort your kid out she had a point to be fair but then I spoke to Ruby after and she really

listened to me didn't she it was brilliant bless her and then the next day I had a chat with her and she said I'm sorry for upsetting you I said but why you can't do that why do that because I just really wanted the Barbies.

Well, she didn't want the Barbies. Well, that's good because I bought it for her for Christmas. And then I went to Tesco's with her the other day. Sorry, what's that clip in your hair? Yeah, why have you got two? Just this clip. And one that side. What, you went out like that?

Yeah. Sorry? You went to work with those clips in? Yeah. Taking that photo for pod. Sorry, that's what you use to work with those clips in taking that photo for pod sorry that's that's what you use to put rollers in your hair it's fine it's all right at home oh wow fashion and stuff is it just just put my hair up oh interesting um if i were to do that and she'd say that she'd have something to say it's not that. It's just a silver clip, guys. I mean, yeah, but it's what you'd clip.

They're roller clips. Of your fringe to stop it bending. Yeah. Okay. That's fine. All the best. Hold on. What was we just saying?

Go on. I was just going to say something. How was your meal at Fallow? Oh, really, really lovely. Because I feel like that's a bit of a thing now, because you go out more than me and Elia. Right. So you last told us about the Mexican fusion.

Oh, yeah. Which sounded like the worst thing I've ever heard of. It's not. What did they do at Fallow? I had oysters. Oh, we're not going to get a whole commentary of your food. No, I'm interested. I'm interested. I'm interested.

The most amazing ribs I've ever... Oh, the meat just fell off the bone. Delicious. Lovely. What sort of sauce was on those? I can't really remember. Like a tomato. It was banging.

I had the most incredible mushroom parfait right up your street. Is it? Delicious. That sounds up my strata. mushroom parfait right up your street delicious just sensational Brussels sprouts delicious some sort of cabbage thing scallops

oh my god that was one of my favourite things I love a Brussels sprout and we're in the season of it being you did it the other day with the roast

I was very happy about that they just did things like hashbrown. It was a bit quirky. Delicious. Yeah. Cocktails, wine.

Nice. Really lovely. Yeah, really nice. Lovely. And just a nice place. Staff are amazing. Good vibes. Where is it?

They're obviously very loud. Where is it? Wow. Is it the city? Hold on. Wow. Oh, my goodness. Oh, Piccadilly Circus.

Oh, right. Okay. Nice. Then we went to Soho. Yeah, nice. Good. Very nice. It didn't feel very well, though.

No. No. The problem with us at the moment we're powering through aren't we we're heroes we are we are heroes I had it with a newborn baby

guys just saying what this illness I'm not sure I'm definitely sure did you are you joking

were you aching a lot and cold shivering shaking I was so ill and I had that awful cough, yeah. I know you had a cough. Yeah, the cough was the worst. A terrible, terrible cold.

Jack had it. The worst I remember, I think Alfie came home from nurse. Do you remember? Was she there? No, right about, yeah. And then everyone got it. We all got it, but I just had Ruby. And I just remember laying in bed with her.

And she was just in the next to me breast. And I just thought, oh, my God, how am I going to do this? Literally, I thought we just laid in bed all day. And luckily, she just breastfed. She turned to the side. It was so bad. Yeah, and then Dom got it. And then Jack got it.

I remember that. It was like bang, day by day. That was terrible, wasn't it? That's knocking about as well. Is it? I can't by day that's terrible isn't it that's knocking about as well is it I can't have all that all that

sickness I have been so lucky that's gonna happen now so I don't know why I'm saying it I was gonna say touch wood mine

haven't although our video oh no I told Nat today that happened before this saga oh bless his

heart and he waited he was so good that's how the toy saga started because he chandered but he was so good that's how the toy saga started because he chandered but he didn't chander in the new car

so I was buzzing so I said I'm going to get you a little treat because you did so well and then chaos he was so sweet he was like

he's coming he's coming and I was like Marie just stop the car how did he have that in bless his little heart stunk but it must have been

car sick yeah because he was on my phone. So yeah, so we've had that. We had, yeah, went out. We had Halloween, didn't we? Yeah, that was excellent. They loved it, didn't they, the kids? Chaotic though, isn't it?

I'm extremely busy throughout the next few months. You mean it's strictly? Yeah, it's good. I've had a chat about that already. Oh, wow. What, you done podded out me?

Sorry? It is her podcast. It's my pod. We marketed one about strictly because we read on it. Can you just check with Maria before you do

any podcasts please no I've done it just now oh no that's rude no we just don't have to go for that

alright fine let's do this then shall we right okay we've got my week's been great I've been to London who

no I'm joking I haven't done anything nowhere you've been upstairs downstairs upstairs downstairs what day is it Tuesday oh fuck me Who? No, I'm joking. I haven't done anything. Nowhere. You've been upstairs, downstairs. Upstairs, downstairs. What day is it?

Tuesday. Oh, fuck me. Give me a second. Yeah, no, I haven't done anything. He's a month on Thursday, isn't he? Yeah, four weeks yesterday, a month. How does that work? I know.

No, do not. What do you mean? Well, what is it? What do you mean? It's not the same days in the month. What do you mean? Yeah, but he was four weeks old on Monday? It's not the same days in the month. What do you mean? Yeah, but he was four weeks old on Monday. Yeah, four weeks. He'll be a month old.

Yeah, okay. It's a date. Yeah, because you've got to remember 7-14-21-28. No, of course. It's four weeks. No, I appreciate that. I do appreciate that. But it is.

The amount of people I've seen put one month old today. And it's not. No. It's like I'm four weeks weeks i know what you mean jokes i think i messaged you though didn't i saying one month today oh wow it's embarrassing yeah but four people have said that's four weeks yeah but we've been doing weeks one week two weeks if i'm saying it's a month no i know I know. It's a month on Thursday. Yeah, fair enough. All right, come on in. What's the date?

Thursday? Wow. Wow. I don't know where I am. Don't keep giving it. Anyway, I got sent a lovely gift. You did. And I can't believe it's taken us.

I forgot it's fireworks night tonight. Happy bonfire night, guys. Remember, remember the 5th of November. I loved fireworks on Saturday. We have. I loved fireworks night Saturday we have I loved fireworks night as a child did you we did but it really reminds me of my

dad we used to do it get really emotional actually driving home when I saw the fireworks what a load of bullshit no honestly where did you do fireworks in the back plant pot

sparklers but I remember it him coming home from the shop with the fireworks. And do you know what? We used to do them. There's a lot of home videos. Yeah, but we all used to cry throughout the whole thing. And all I just remember, always Dad doing a Catherine wheel when it never worked. No, we used to set the fence alight, the shade, it'd fall onto it every time. And why did we keep doing them

no but they'd be video home videos Don was crying Don would cry scared he was a little minch wasn't he

he was he cried all the time and we'd always have hot robina aww yeah what are you doing I'm not posing but I am

no I don't want my face in it yeah good erm erm I mean I can't say much you look better than much yeah you look great looking great that's a great it's good no she looks good at the moment um yeah and we just all used to

shit our pants basically i don't remember me blowing up in the face yeah well but that's the problem i really really don't want you to pick your face now you've got nails on. I'm not. I'm biting them instead. I'm being serious. Right, anyway. Right, come on in. Hi, Elliot. We got this lovely gift sent to us, and I just found who it was, and now I've lost it, which is a real shame,

which is all about, just bear with me, it's called colour. chronicles on instagram um and they're books to capture your your all the moments leading you know for the baby so it's all wrapped up oh you've not opened it yet well come on i mean i've got these and i've never can you just do it because i've got this in my hands open it so also they sent a little game. Can I just say thank you to Jessie and Ruth? That's so kind of them, isn't it? Oh, that's a pass the parcel, isn't it?

Yes. Oh, right. So open the first one. Oh, it's going to work well. Oh, Ruby would like that paper. Oh. Princess. Oh.

I made her watch Beauty and the Beast the other day. Can I just read a little bit of this? Yeah, quick, go. It says Frozen, which really upsets me. Yeah, I'm shocked at that. We'll take it to the theatre. Oh, great. You can. I don't like it. I this? Yeah, quick, go. She's obsessed with Frozen, which really upsets me. Yeah, I'm shocked at that. We'll take her to the theatre. Oh, great, you can. I don't like it. I'll take her.

I love it. I love Frozen. And then, can I tell, I haven't told you. What? The other night, when was it? Sunday night. When I tell you, she stood in the kitchen for a good 45 minutes singing Annie. No.

I promise you. And all she's, Mummy, I want tomorrow, tomorrow. She just, I had it on repeat. She just did it in the kitchen and sang it. It was the cutest thing. She goes, I love you tomorrow.

She's going to be able to stage that one. God, help us. Hi, Elia. All right. Oh, here we go. Wait. Firstly, and most importantly,

congratulations. Secondly, I know I've taken a huge liberty here, but I've turned your gifted present into a little game. So her name's Jessie, and she was made redundant while she was on mat leave. Wow. Shocking. After taking care of my son Rory, who's now two,

due to personal finances, it was time to get me a job. Ruth, the founder of color chronicles advertised a 10-hour week and now they're doing this and she's got the job so absolutely amazing well done you the job that you were at before don't know how lucky they were so good that you're on the pod now and we can't wait to have a little look and play this game so pass the parcel um because they've put some questions for us so giving us a little game for the pod so first question is what is the naughtiest thing you did as a child where do we start oh i know oh oh are you two doing a pod on your own because you're both currently staring in each other's eyes

talking about the things that you've done I mean if you could see this oh yeah and I'm just literally sat here in the corner no one put baby in the corner naughtiest thing

I put you in the washing machine didn't I no you didn't you were Dom. Dom, maybe. It's only because mum and dad did it to me. Oh, good. Excellent. No, to take a photo, they thought it was

funny and I must have remembered that and tried to put Dom in there. We broke a few things. I remember pulling the coat, holding the coat stand down and then I think you were a baby and I put you underneath it and blamed you. I got the blame for everything. Naughtiest thing. We weren't that naughty.

We were little, like naughty little things, but we weren't, I wouldn't say... I'd say the naughtiest thing I did was wee in the bin. Oh, gross. The little bin next to the loo. Oh, we did break the bed. Yeah. Because we'd be singing and dancing but as a child like when you talk about little children

trying to feel naughty yeah I don't feel we weren't very naughty no we used to be like hyperactive and we'd we'd play that blow game yeah up the stairs we'd put all the pillows i do remember um my mum and dad buying me a kitchen for a christmas or birthday and then we had a massive garage at the time it

was when we had the old like it wasn't mum and dad hadn't done the house up so the garage was big and it was out there and i i was out there playing we used to always just play in the garage did you shit in the sink no um i found a pot of paint and i painted the whole thing like a green no you didn't yeah and the bike that was at nonno's house i painted a bike oh and what about I painted the whole kitchen green and it was that plastic kitchen so it was finished and what about when we got

the rabbit hut oh and we put put the hedgehog in it we did rescue well we thought we were rescuing it but

we brought it back and I remember it was pissing down our range do you remember and we ran through the alley all carrying this rabbit hut

with the hedgehog in it. We were naughty then. Yeah, but you say that's naughty, it's sort of discovery. It's not really. What's naughty? I don't really know what naughty is. Well, I mean, a lot of those things sound quite naughty to me. I'm just going to unwrap the next one.

Made you have a cigarette when you were nine. Oh, yeah, that's naughty. Yeah, that is very naughty. Now you should go to the baker's we'd run downstairs and smoke out the under the extractor fan yeah and then you would i remember standing in the mirror and this is what natalie did yeah i was about nine years old so natalie's the nine yeah she's the naughty one but joanie's nine next year so There we go. So Natalie would say... This is so bad. My nanny, she'd go,

Mum, I've just got to go to the library to take some books back. Library? Natalie's never been to a library. That's rude. I did go to the library. Not now. Now you do, not then. Snowing in the park, under the tree.

In the graveyard. Yeah, with a cigarette. Yeah. And I remember finding... It must have been before that i remember finding all cigarette packets in your wardrobe you said it's for a school project but what's weird is why did nanny let us go out at that age well no you would have been you were secondary school i know but i was still only 12 and you were nine i mean we're going back a lot

of years yeah it was different we were going She thought we were going to the library. And then one night you made me, you were like, let me show you how to smoke properly in bed. In bed. And I felt so sick. I mean, yeah. You know, with your head. Do you remember I fell out of the bed?

Yeah, you fell out of the bed. On my head, I was spinning. But she was nine. Yeah, that's shocking. I'm really sorry about that. I mean that. It's an apology. I think you should apologise to mum. And I apologise. Yeah, of course shocking. I'm really sorry about that. I mean that. It's an apology. I think you should apologise to mum.

And I apologise. Yeah, of course I apologise to Aunt Elinia as well. But you don't realise at the time what you're doing, do you? No, because you were young and... Well, just anything you're doing at that age you think's cool. Yeah. Terrible, innit? I mean, you were 12.

That's bad enough. We're saying it like she was 17. That's crazy. Yeah crazy yeah right the next question what was the first single you ever bought on a cassette or cd oh great question i i remember my cd so i remember a cassette that i had yeah and it must have been someone's but i was obsessed and it was belinda carlisle mum there was your mum yeah in the sand suckling sand yeah that wouldn't have been cassette that was would have been cd sorry sorry beverly craven beverly craven cd that was oh no promise me yeah that was a cd was that where she's on the moon like sit on the moon sorry no

the the cassette was blue diddy da da dam so that wig field yeah that would have been mine and i was obsessed with it yeah and i said i must have played it like all day every day yeah and then i couldn't find it so the naughtiest thing that my brother's ever done is get the whole thing unwind it and i found it in the bin all i'm all with the thing out the tape out and i was absolutely i was absolutely devastated it was one of those so devastated tape i can't remember i was obsessed with kylie minogue well i had jason's red tape ruth said she was obsessed with kylie yeah, really? Yeah, I had Kylie and Jason's cassette tapes. Kylie, Jason, Aha and Madonna. Oh, how fun. I had Madonna's, yeah, Madonna I remember

and I remember a Jive Bunny double cassette, which I absolutely adored. I can't really remember. Come on, everybody. Come on, everybody. So I think the first CD that I can really remember and now I should look back at timings and maybe it was a christmas or a birthday present it was birthday because i got a matching bag and it was hearsay's

album and then the bag i had was like denim and it had all their faces in little circles and i just remember you know when the lyrics used to be in it and um i used to simple oh and i used and bridge over troubled water oh we used to always and i used to just sit with the lyrics and i used to do i was obsessed with it i used to do that with but this was that was cd i remember i used to be in the dining room and i used to sing all day long i remember and. And it would be Belinda Carlyle, Beverly Craven, Dina Carroll. Perfect Year. Perfect Year. Deacon Blue.

Yep. Elton John. Brilliant. All day long. But cassette, all the now, remember we used to have all the nows? I was going to say that my most treasured memory of a CD was Now 27 it was blue with gold writing and Now 27

you used to love going to Woolworths and buying and I had Now Price on Upper Street and I used to go up to Our Price but Now 27 and I remember getting my CD player for Christmas and I remember Tony my brother your uncle buying me I had Michael Jackson's Dangerous.

Yeah, oh, that's the tape. Oh, was it? That would have been the tape. And Maria used to make us stand on the bed doing, Heal the world. She used to be on there like singing and me and Don would be round the bed waving our arms like we were at a concert.

What about when Maria, there was a song that came out and it was um paradise by vanessa it was like a casey yeah and i maria came home and told me that she'd made a new song and wrote this song and was singing it and i was like that is so good and about a month later, I heard it. And I was like, I mean, I had no clue. I remember, what would it have been? I remember going to a shop, Trump's, Trump, Trump in Huddleston, or somewhere, and I remember buying Janet Jackson, Together Again, and Grace Van Der Asche. Oh, great. Oh, yeah, you did love that song

but would that have been CD or would that have been cassette I feel like they would have been they can't have been the first two singles I bought

possibly Michael Jackson definitely on cassette cassette really yeah it would have been it would have been dangerous

what about I had Peter Andre and Katie Price's album I've only heard you've got the worst. I'll tell you what. No, how bad is that? I don't know.

I don't know, but I loved it. I bet it was good at the time, wasn't it? No. I mean, I was like... It was never good. No, it's poor, isn't it? Yeah, really bad. And Nelly Furtado.

I really love that one. Yeah, she's cool, Nelly Furtado. Yeah, she was good. I'm trying to think. Her name's just good, isn't it? Nelly for turtle not if you said that that

fuck me I remember I used to sit in my bedroom on a Friday night and like you were just saying about the words and I used to play Whitney Houston's

must have been her greatest hits and I would sit and write down every lyric when I tell you yeah no but to learn them yeah

but you said I had reams of paper reams of just writing down the lyrics that's what I remember writing it down on a Sunday afternoon my Sunday afternoon was with my recorder with a blank tape and everyone knows it

late 80s top 40 and you'd pause you'd pause to get all the songs. Oh my God, do you remember that? And that was my Sunday. I just remember doing that. Or just even listening to that. Yeah, it was massive to know who was number one.

Number one. And Top of the Pops was so big then. That was so good, wasn't it? I used to, I was probably about 10, I used to listen to Celine Dion's album and, like, make myself cry. Drama queen. No, but I'd, like, look in the mirror and then I'd be, and then I would really cry and then I'd just be sobbing.

I'd be, why have I done this? What do you mean? Weird, right? I feel like I want to look back at my ages now. I wonder if I've kept any of my CDs. I've got a few CDs. Obviously all the Spice Girls ones, but that was later.

I'm moving on to the next one. Oh, okay. I was just going to say that I found my definitely, maybe Benson and Hedges packages with all of my singles in. I've still got those. I remember you. I haven't got all of them and they're a little bit broken,

but I tell you what, they'll be worth some money. I reckon though, why? Well, all different wrapping paper as well a little bit broken, but I tell you what, they'd be worth some money. I reckon, though. Why? Well, all different wrapping paper as well here. Really good. Really a lot of thought here. Right.

What was... Oh, this is probably quite an easy one for us. What was a typical birthday celebration as a child? What was that, you say? Well, just because I feel like they were standard... What was your standard birthday? At the house yeah

your banner up your bowl of like cheese balls yeah cheese balls cheese I got cheese balls I remember

having one at home and um and it would just be all the adults getting hammered I'm sure of it no all our home videos

are like all us and then by we do and then by the night yeah it's true but no I remember having them at home you're right but then I remember like mum and dad doing like a All our home videos are like all us. That's what we do. And then by the night. Yeah, it's true. But no, I remember having them at home. You're right.

But then I remember like mum and dad doing like a netball competition. Yeah, but you liked netball, didn't you? Did I? You love netball. I don't know, it's just funny, isn't it? And then they do like dance competitions. I remember you having one with two of your friends, another girl and a boy. Oh, yeah.

And then you had this massive green cake with three footballs with your names under it. That was year six. I can picture that cake now. Yeah, that was year six. So how old were you? I'd have been 10. Well, I was barely even alive, so that's weird. 11?

It's funny, though, because you might have seen pictures. Photos and videos. We used to be obsessed with watching home videos, so you feel weird you know it's funny though because you might photos and videos we used to watch we used to be obsessed with watching her videos so you feel like you remember stuff i remember my my most memorable birthday party was probably year five or six and i remember no because you didn't live near me in may did you so that's right in may no oh you know what i mean just in may you didn't live near you didn't come to me in those june so that's right in May no oh you know what I mean just in May you didn't live near you didn't come to me in those June July August you did come to mine yeah yeah weird but mine was mummy did this um posh dinner party and I had sort of six or seven friends around I remember

having prawn cocktail oh really and the chicken and she did like a little dinner party and a sleepover. But I remember feeling the nuts. I can't imagine you having a party. I don't. I actually don't remember any. I don't remember many parties. Do you not, Emma? Oh, I remember having...

McDonald's party was the best. Yeah. Yeah. I remember a few of those. And I did have... I'm thinking really little. But no, I had... I did used to love a sleepover party.

Yeah. Although mine didn't go down well. You were seven. And a magician. Is that when the woman put her hand through the door? I had a magician once. That was cool. That was really good.

Magician in the... I remember that magician in the hallway. And there was an actual rabbit out of the hat. Oh, yeah. Was that an actual real rabbit? It was. Lucky you didn't have the hutch with the hedgehog in it. Lovely bit of business. But it was typically like a kid's party the cat man oh it was really typical like just you know

like family family a lot of that home one yes oh and i done a few at home ones and after Ruby's one this year I said never again no nah but again it's different but now we are extra

well that's the point then it was a few sandwiches some celery sticks and some cheese balls obsessed with cheese balls I did have a school disco one a school disco I really fancy a cheese ball now

after you're talking about them they were banging the cheese balls at Christmas. Sorry? Remember those Chris, the cheese ball ones? Are you joking? What? I'm so confused. Why?

Because all we've done is talk about cheese balls. I'm agreeing. The cheese balls ones. It's like a bit of a new thought. Sorry, no. I had no idea. Yeah, go on. Shoot.

What? Is that it? Next question. Oh, no. I had no idea. Yeah. Go on. Shoot. What? Oh, is that it? Next question. Oh, no, I haven't done it yet, but Ruth said having a wimpy birthday was quite a thing when I was younger. Do you know what we did once? Not younger.

Oh, no, it was. It was primary school. It was our friend's birthday. This is so, so embarrassing. We dressed up as the Spice Girls, went to Pizza Hut, so embarrassing. We dressed up as the Spice Girls, went to Pizza Hut and sang. What do you mean you sang? We got up and sang Spice Girls at Pizza Hut.

That's quite nice though, isn't it? That was fucking weird. If I was in Pizza Hut and someone did that, I would have... No, we would be like, what are those losers up to? My 12th birthday i got a limo i dressed up as victoria beckham yeah i had a von dutch hat on where was she going i had like some gucci like mum's like pink gucci sunglasses maria's dng ones i had a red carpet out of the house and everyone had to come as a celeb

and we got in the limo we drove to london we got out at the london i had a photo got back in the limo and come home but we felt so cool just being in a limo with like i don't know some sparkling apple juice or something oh my god isn't it funny what about my 18th what about it was you there in the chinese restaurant yeah what when you got a stripper? In the Chinese restaurant in Hoddesdon on like a Thursday night, maybe a Wednesday night. No. It was, I've never.

I hated it. We are having dinner and then a policeman walks in. Hey, it's the police. No, it's because. They said that you hit a bollard. It was the best thing I had. Yeah, I know. And they walked in and was like, excuse me, Maria. She's not there.

Have you recently hit your car? Oh, shit, my pants. And then he just started taking his clothes off. How did the restaurant allow that? That is really weird. Do you know the best bit about it? What about when he made me sit on the chair? And didn't he smash his head on the floor?

No, he's gone. He said, lean back. Lean back. I said, I'll lean back. So he went and fell back on me. And smashed his head. Oh, she's gone. She's gone she's gone it's a great present oh no i was gonna say there's no better feeling than that

and that laughter that that is. I needed that after today. I'm going to cry. What was your favourite toy when you were a child? Oh, that's really difficult. Really difficult. I loved my toys. Do you know what I'm going to have to go for? It's not one in particular. It's a range of it.

I know what it is. Oh, that's a real shame. No, I thought you'm going to have to go for? It's not one in particular. It's a range of it. I know what it is. Oh, that's a real shame. No, I thought you were going to say O'Penny. I loved O'Penny. Oh, no, I loved O'Penny. Where's my O'Penny? It was in your loft. It's probably been car booted.

I bet that is in the loft. It is in the loft. Do you know how much Ruby would love that? Oh, my God, Ruby's going to love that. Please come here. No, O'Penny. We're obsessed, aren't we? And what did Maria...ia used to always get the

mansion okay and then i'd get the caravan i i used to have the treehouse dom used to get the treehouse but i didn't mind living above the shop no does anyone know oh penny because honestly i feel like that is oh penny dot flow flow the flower girl with her ginger hair fantastic was she ginger yeah oh no the mum the mum had the hair no Flo was the old girl with the sorry

the mum had ginger hair and then she'd always have the little boy Tommy Penny was fantastic I loved it I did like the caravan though yeah it was good

the caravan the treehouse the shop I bet we've got that if you've got that in the loft you should get it out because that's fantastic but yeah I thought that's what you were going to. I bet we've got that in the loft. If you've got that in the loft, you should get it out, because that's fantastic. But yeah, I thought that's what you were going to say.

I had that. And do you remember the theatre thing we ever did? I loved that. How do you remember that? I remember being in the lounge on the middle floor at Nanny's, and it was magnetic. It was magnetic, and it had different drops, and it was a theatre.

And you had Snake on your PC in there yeah I mean if you go onto the PC that's a whole episode Barbecue and the Bobcat no but seriously that theatre thing yeah

what did we do we just used to make up shows with it it is a bit weird and they used to spin on magnets we were obsessed with that it was fantastic

and the post office and the bank all of that we loved the post office was great yeah I bought that we love post office was great yeah joni absolutely loves her post office one thing i remember getting for christmas which was the best christmas present ever was a furby oh you know what i really really wanted it yeah i couldn't believe like i think there's actually a photo of me and do you remember I dropped it and I was so

I like sobbed I thought it was broken but it was fine I loved my Furby do you remember it being in the cupboard and we'd be going

to sleep and he was just here oh do you remember I had that wuff love it was like hungry for mummy

that was really annoying I remember always wanted wanting the washing machine that would actually wash

clothes what like wanting the washing machine that would actually wash clothes what like a real washing machine sorry there's a toy one was it yeah they actually wash them yes sort of i think you put water in it i had one year and i remember i remember it the best christmas i had the Barbie townhouse yeah I was just but I remember being it was nearly it was taller than me

it was so big it had like five stories you was a Barbie girl we did we were Barbies I was going to say if I had to pick one thing Barbie for me

the pick like the camper van yeah fantastic we used to make Don play and be Ken oh no he used to be action man

oh yeah yeah Barbie's fantastic really good yeah we were into Barbies and also do you know

what we loved Lego yeah but not like making oh yeah like we would just

have loads of random Lego then we would build yeah absolutely again Maria would get the big green square

of course she would to make her house and I would get that little green rectangle and then we used to have the white circles and that'd be your toilet yeah but we was into like

Polly Pocket Polly Pocket's still going strong yeah no they are Joanie would quite like some Polly Pocket can I ask you either of you remember and i feel like maybe you or someone even bought maybe it was tony yeah bought it for me was a book that was about like washing and it had a dishwasher yeah and a washing machine and then you had the clothes it wasn't even a

magnet they had like they were sort of flaps of paper on the back. Oh, hang on a moment. You could just bring back a memory. Do you remember that, though? The fuzzy felts. Oh, yeah, you loved them. Oh, the fuzzy felts. We used to have... Do you remember the Count Dracula? Was it Count Dracula? What's the Dracula? The little duck.

And all the little ducks. And we used to peel it. Oh, yeah. You peel them and put them on again. We love those. What was that though? Count Dracula? I don't know if it was a... The Dracula duck.

Count Duckula. Count Duckula. How do you remember that book by the way? I remember the book. So you'd put the stuff in the washing machine then you'd empty the dishwasher. And then you'd hang it all up, hang it on the line. Because then the next page so you'd put the stuff in the washing machine then you'd empty the dishwasher and then you'd pay it all up pay it on the line

oh god it's because then the next page you'd spin it and then all the clean stuff would come out but it was a book

it had like mud on it oh it was such a good book I was obsessed with it isn't it amazing but we used to

just play yeah we used to be obsessed with playdoh always we used to play yeah and we used to

get I say to mum I cannot believe she used to let us get all the pots and pans out yeah absolutely all the food out the yeah and we used to get I say to mum I cannot believe she used to let us get all the pots and pans out yeah absolutely all the food out the cupboard

and we'd play shops or we'd play like school dinners do you remember like me Michaela and Dom used to be obsessed with playing

Paolo's Cafeteria we actually had and we'd write a menu we'd get and we'd cook and Dom used to do it and we'd pretend we were doing it

having like a whole restaurant yeah but it's so good that sort of play we were very it having like a whole restaurant yeah but it's so good that sort of play we were very imaginative people and a manager of Paolo's Cafeteria no an imaginative play is the best way forward

it's so good for your brain when you're little but Ruby and Alfie are very imaginative they play for hours they play like mums and dads now I hear Ruby go, hello, honey. I'm like, who's she talking to? She goes, okay, baby, honey.

I don't even say honey. I'm like, what is she saying, honey? And then I hear him go, mum, mum. I'm like, what's up? They're like, no, we're not talking to you. We're playing a game. Oh. All right, I think this might be the last one.

No, maybe not. No, I'm joking. It's just I'm feeling a bit rough. No also i need to um put my my son to bed i need to um can you remember a memorable trip you took as a child there's only one memorable trip that we used to do because we never went on holiday and that was a day out a a Sunday ride to Whitstable to have fish and chips and then come home again. But it was the best day ever. What, every Sunday?

Not every Sunday, but that was the trip. That was our trip out. That was our trip. Or we'd have a ride, be like, let's go for a ride. That's funny. And we'd get in the car. Then you weren't really a...

No. Well, you'd just get in the car. We'd get in the car and we'd go on a ride. We'd have a little ride around and come home again. Did, you just get in the car. We get in the car and we go on a ride. We'd have a little ride around and come home again. Did Annie ever go abroad? Never. Well, she never left the country? No.

That's crazy. Never been on an aeroplane? No. That's mental, isn't it? And Grandad only went on an aeroplane because I dragged him. Oh, is that when you went to Spain? Went to Spain, went to Rome. Oh.

But, yeah. Most memorable... What, when we was younger? I mean, I'd have... It's got to be... Surely, for you, it's got to be Florida, no? No. Well, no, we had some funny holidays in America.

We had some great trips with the... Spain. With the Waits. The Waits. All of the... You know, we did Tenerife. We did Mallorca. We even went to the centre parks and Buckley.

Yeah. Buckley. Oh, yeah. Didn't we, like, leave after the first day or something? No, no, probably. But, yeah, we even went to centre parks and Buckley oh yeah didn't we like leave after the first day or something we always went on holiday with them and we had some brilliant like really good trips

one of my most memorable however was going away with mum and dad and Dom I was about 14 I didn't go Maria didn't go she was too you know too cool for school going out then and um i we turned up we went to minorka yeah and i turned we turned up to the hotel and it was bearing in mind i'm 14 and dom's maybe just 16 yeah and it was the flintstones hotel like we were four and five how did dominic feel about that

i think it was something to do maybe with work i don't know but yeah i mean it was a nice hotel but it was it was flintstone so it was all children scuba dabba doo wow um but anyway it was funny and i was in like as mum and that call it the groovy gang but i was i needed some pals and we had loads of fun um but yeah and i you know again just really i mean it wasn't like the best holiday but it was very for that reason in that it was yeah memorable but no we we did all our trips with the way i mean like some of the accommodation would get there and i just remember they'd be like kicking off about why have you booked this do you remember that one that we had to like go outside to go upstairs well that was nice like no it was nice i used to just get burned did we all sleep in a room yeah we all i'm sure we all got sunburned and couldn't sleep on our backs yes correct and i did the same in florida like 50

10 years later when i was 60 it was ridiculous always burn always oh my goodness my most memorable trip the first time i'd ever been on an airplane was with jack rider and I went to Barbados with his mum and Paul first time I ever went abroad and I went to Barbados 16 Barbados and I remember it was the best holiday beautiful resort we went to this place but I'd not I was I didn't know about sun cream. I'd never been abroad. I just didn't know. My nose, the whole of my nose, had a... An easy target. You can talk. And it was blistered.

But when I say blistered, it was like a huge... It was so bad. It was terrible. But I do remember the sun cream. But I still do now. Oh, yeah, I'm quite'm quite better but i could well i'm not bothered 50 all over all the time yeah no absolutely but i'd still burn or get patches but yeah this one holiday to tenerife i'm sure it was like mum tina michaela me maria all just in a room in a bed it was like a huge I don't know I envisaged just like

this huge bed but it was big wasn't it but it probably wasn't one they were probably all up together I can't remember

but they were brilliant is that the one where Dom nearly drowned one of many that was when he ordered the banana split all the time in that restaurant

no we had some yeah we had some good times right last one oh well she says let's have a look Yeah, we had some good holidays. Good times. Right, last one. Oh, well, she says. Let's have a look. What was your favourite cartoon or TV show as a child?

That is so hard. So hard. Although I saw something the other day which I'd completely forgotten about. Go on. Wizardora. Oh, yeah. No, I don't. No. Oh.

Not a great one for me good wizard aura no the shoe people we liked i like the shoe people i was obsessed with rugrats loved it yeah good one hey arnold i like well obviously i'm older than you guys um you liked blossom i liked bertha blossom was teenage years um Bertha. I liked the Thunderbirds because of Tony. I'm going to go and see the baby. Let's just see what's going on here.

Are they going to see your present? They are. The baby book of you and the book of you. I'll put a picture on Insta. Thank you so much. And do you know what? Thank you so, so much for making this pod a little bit special they're really nice

we've not done one like this it's lovely to have a little chat down the relay they're really lovely but Nat carry on your story that's alright darling about the childhood

but yeah mine mine is definitely Rugrats Rugrats yeah you're Angelica do you like Teletubbies and stuff

yeah I loved I used to love Blue's Clues I was oh you loved it but I was like 15 or's Clues. Oh, you loved it. But I was like 15 or something. But what about the play with a woman that you loved? What was that?

The dog in the spotty plane. And she used to go to the factory. Oh, you loved it. What was it called? Come Outside. Come Outside, baby. But you never watched that. No.

She's obsessed. You even got to watch it at school sometimes. No. I used to like them. Play that. No. She's obsessed. You even got to watch it at school sometimes. No. She used to go to that. I used to like them play days. Brilliant. Rosie and Jim. And the bus stop as well. Yeah.

You never knew what was going to be. Do you know what I loved? Bernard's Watch. What's that? Oh, yeah, you loved Bernard's Watch. He used to stop the watch. No. Oh, no, that reminds me.

I used to love Penny Crayon. Yeah. You won't know that. Do you? Before I go, Zap. Yeah, I used to love Penny Crayon. Yep. You won't know that, do you? Before I go, Zap. Yeah, sick. After school, Zap. No.

Where you'd have the girl at the end, the hands. No. No, unbelievable. My favourite show growing up, actually, when I think about it, there were two. One of them was Why Don't You, which you would have been too young for. Why Don't You, which you would have been too young for. Why Don't You? It was brilliant. And the other one was a quiz show, which I never remember the name of.

I think it was called Nightmare. And they used to go into a bowl of giant cereal and fish the letters out. It's not called Nightmare, but I loved that. What was that? It was a quiz show with the lights. So they used to step on the lights but there was a part of the quiz where they used to

yeah so you jump in the cereal bowl and get the letters not nightmare was it? let us know 07788 2019 19 it was fantastic

Fun House oh Pat Sharp brilliant Get Your Own Back yep Always Wealthy Be Gunged it was so good

I'd love to have got gunged and then all Saturday night stuff Noel Edmonds house party that's older younger I used to like I forgot on don't know

play days what were the other ones that we used to like loads of stuff what was that serial one and what was the one finders keepers oh that was fantastic what was that serial one and what was the one finders keepers oh that was fantastic what was his name

Neil Neil Buchanan no he was Art Attack didn't he do finders keepers as well I think he was on a little ITV contract

he was having it right off do you not remember that he was earning dollars no I don't remember that

how can you not remember that because I'm old no you're not oh well thank you so much That was so lovely Trip down memory lane I needed that laugh Well thank you

I'm going to go and eat my pot noodle now Because Elliot didn't make me dinner I've got butternut squash and chilli soup Can I get home It's just meant to be good for you No it is but I don't like smooth soups oh I do do you

I do like a smooth soup I don't know I like a chunk a chunky soup chunky chunker that pea and ham one was good yeah that is nice because that's sort of

on the smooth side but not quite chunky yeah it's good oh so you're going to go and eat that going to go and have that and then I'm going to go to bed

yeah good love you love you alright see you very soon Saturday I'm going to go and have that and then I'm going to go to bed. Love you. Love you. All right. See you. Very soon.

Saturday. Saturday for Bonfire Night. Perhaps we'll do a little recording. Yeah. Nice. Shall we? Yeah. I might stay over.

Oh, lovely. I hope so. Strictly. Yeah, let's do that. All right. I hope you all feel better. Jamie's got the Argentine tango. Yeah, class. Cracker.

He's doing it to the Arctic Monkeys. Oh, love that. Bye. You're allowed to say that. Yeah, class. Cracker. He's doing it to the Arctic Monkeys. Oh, love that. Bye. You were allowed to say that? Yeah. Bye. Thank you for listening, and I'll speak to you guys on Monday. Hi, this is Chris McCausland.

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