Life with Nat - EP63: Scraping the Barrel #10 - after the experimental pub ep

Episode Date: November 25, 2024

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I'm on the latest episodes where you're sitting in the pub I just want to say I do agree with Mark in regards to Christmas I'm not a bar humbug as such but i do think it's a little bit early at present i can justify buying presents now and i'm actually giving back presents only because i need to cut long story short anyway so um yes i agree mark it's too early i would say from the first december so yeah hope you have a good evening and hope to speak to you soon loving your pods by the way thank you bye thank you for that message gail very nice of you it's quite a lot of people that agree with you

regarding the christmas decorations i'd say it's a 50 50 split is that actually 50 50 i haven't counted but i've got a lot of pictures of christmas trees right well as i said i think that's a bit of a thing this year what do you think about the little fellas behind you i think you've just got them out of the cupboard because the christmas decorations are in here in that in that cupboard and i think you've moved them out so you can get stuff out the cupboard and you decided to put them on the side you're absolutely right there we go i like that because i pack it all away so i know they were the last things to go in

and they wouldn't be like that, would they? I wouldn't have left them like that in a pile. They look like they're waiting at a bus stop. Yeah. For the listener, I've got three gonks, a penguin and Father Christmas on the desk. Sounds like a joke. It does. It's a shame those jokes have gone away.

What jokes have gone away? Kind of an Englishman, Irishman and a Scotchman. You can't really do those anymore, can you? No, no, no, no. No? Can't be doing that. Why? Oh, you get... I don't know.

Sort of an era. I don't think there's anything of being awkward. Yes, there are of an era, yeah. All right. Moving on. Moving on. I would like to wish Kat a very happy birthday for yesterday. That is Elia's friend.

And she sent us a lovely message. Number one, she doesn't wash her feet, but she did after listening to the pod it's nice to make a difference to people's lives isn't it what so she's not considered washing her feet in the shower how old is she oh i couldn't tell you. Okay. At 30s. 30 years. Late 30s. 30 years. Mid 30s, she'll kill me. Okay. I don't know. Okay.

So 30 years, not washed her feet. No, she sat in the bath or a shower. Right. But not actively scrubbed them. Well, maybe she has. Listen, she's not here to defend herself. Did you know, and it is relevant to Christmas, this. Oh, yeah.

This is going to be another fact that we're going to find out in a week. I'm completely wrong. Go on. Because I'm doing it from memory. Okay. Did you know that offering someone to wash their feet was a bit like saying, do you want to come in for a cup of tea? Like when you had pilgrims doing pilgrimages, long distances.

If they'd go to a house, then they'd be offered to wash their feet. It's a great idea. I remember that. I was about year four, Miss Grover's class at Jordanswood School. Yeah, you've got a great memory, I have. And she was talking to us about that. Do you know what I would like now? For you to be able to knock at someone's door

and if your hair needed a wash, they could wash it for you. Wash and blow dry. You've completely lost me there. You said in the olden days people would wash people's feet. Right. I would like to walk on the road and knock at a door and someone say, your hair looks awful. Can I wash it and blow dry it for you?

Okay. I think the washing of the feet thing came. Because of the work they were doing. The walk they were doing. The arduous journey they were on. Yeah. I understand that. Yeah. But going back understand that. Yeah.

But going back to Kat, so that's prompted her to start washing her feet. Yeah. We're changing lives here. Amazing. That was her first point. Second point was, I don't put up any decks in my house. I don't like them gathering dust, and it's only me here. But my mum and dad always have theirs up by my birthday,

which is this Sunday. So that's how I know it was her birthday yesterday. Number three, you and Mark should run a pub. And how did she reach the conclusion of us running a pub? Not sure. I haven't had a chance to message her properly. I just sent her a couple of hearts so she knew that I'd had the message. Fair enough.

Because I appreciate it. Because Kat fell off the life with Nat wagon for a while. Easily done. Fell off the wagon, stopped listening for a bit, and now she's fully back. Oh, good. So that's good. And what did she think about, did she comment on the podcast from the pub? Well, she didn't.

She said you and Mark should run a pub and obviously has some points. So I don't think she would have commented if she hadn't liked it. Now, that's also been a bit of a conversation last Thursday's pod, which is why I wanted to do a nice quiet one with you, darling. Without people talking in the background yeah lots and lots of people genuinely I'd say it's a 80 20 and that's being serious loads of people loved it but there were a few who said well I've got a message here hang on a minute now I've got to say I have listened to that back yeah and if you haven't listened to it be interesting to to hear your thoughts on it but um the first 10 minutes

it was particularly loud because of where we were situated and we could you know we couldn't really ask people to be quiet obviously because we were we were just walking to the pub. However, for the listener that's pursued, pursued? What's the word I'm looking for? Persevered. Persevered, continued. 10 minutes, 15 minutes in. I haven't got a thesaurus.

It's a bit more subdued. Understood. You sort of forget about it then. It just sounds like a bit of hubbub. No, fair enough. But some people like a little bit of peacedued. Understood. And you sort of forget about it then. It just sounds like a bit of hubbub. No, fair enough. But some people like a little bit of peace and quiet. I understand that. It's not my sort of pod.

But also, we didn't realise it was going to be busy. It was Tuesday night. It was Tuesday night. We thought we'd be dead. We thought there'd be three people in there. I know. Nancy included. I know.

Badminton party. I know. You couldn't make it up. You couldn't have made it up. No. Even I think that's early for a Christmas party. Well, actually, you said it was fine. Only because you usually have your works one, actually,

at that sort of time. I'm trying to find the message which said that they don't like it, but can't find it through all the positive ones. So I think that says it all, really. I've just realised that I've done probably three slurps of a drink. So Laura's going to be annoyed. It's Nicky. Is it Nicky?

Yeah. Who's Laura, then? There's a Laura that comments on it. No, Nicky. Me and Nicky have been messaging this evening. Oh, right. Yeah. Let me have a look, actually.

I'm sure there's more than one person, then. There possibly is, yeah. I'm renowned for getting things wrong. Excuse me a sec. Nikki sent me a message. Oh, she sent me a message regarding the tote bag that I was talking about. Nat and Mark, just listening to you on the podcast where you're in the pub, the most recent one, on my days. Yes, please, can I, please, please, please, blag a tote bag. Epic, fabulous colours.

And I kind of think I deserve one, as i'm nikki the girl that can't bear mark drinking on the podcast um so for that i think you should send one to me really cheeky do you think and also um it's never too early to put christmas stuff up i have put some in the house already kids are loving it i've got a three-year-old and a six-year-old. And why not? It just makes everyone happy. Husband, however, I'm very grumpy. Hey-ho. Not his problem.

Have a good night. Bye. He's doing it on purpose, Nicky. Sorry, I can't do anything about it. Anyway, yeah, that's Nicky, not Laura. Husband sounds quite a well-measured and sensible gentleman. No, I just think men are really grumpy. No.

It's mostly, and the majority of people. You can't say that. Well, I can. No, you can't. I can do it from my list of people. No, no, no. And there's a lot of women on here who say, I've put mine up, but my husband's not. Any men message and say they've put their decorations up?

No. Has Roger put his decorations up yet? Not heard. Right, let us know. I don't think he will have done. I think he's very sensible. I don't think it's about being sensible.

I get bored of them by Christmas. We could take them down for Christmas Day for a change. Do it in the morning. Yeah, it'd be nice. I haven't got a lot to do.

That would be different, wouldn't it? It would. Get it all clean, ready for you. Yeah. Yeah. If you'd like to. I shall be eating smoked salmon and caviar cream blinis with a glass of champagne. Caviar?

Yeah, I want to get some this year. Oh, no, please don't. It's such a waste of money. It isn't for me. I don't do it often. I know your head's in your hands. No, it's so, it your head's in your hands. No. It's so... It's disgusting.

It's disgusting. I like the theatre of it. And it's such an over... I like the theatre. I like the sour cream, the onions, the capers. The theatre. The theatre? It's...

What have you seen lately? Because it must have been dire. No, I've just been... Oh, please. I like the ritual of it. It is just a lot of people wasting money for the sake of having... It's like a thing, isn't it? And on the subject of people wasting money,

and very relevant to this podcast, what did we see on the news last night? Oh, don't. The messages I've had. I've been inundated. People thought it was a joke. I said, no, it's on the news. You tell the story

because you're the one that found it. Thank you for that. I was watching the telly. Yeah. And a banana gaffer taped to a wall. Silver gaffer tape, if you don't mind. Duct tape, in in fact if you want to be accurate sorry five million pounds i mean and the best bit but the funniest bit is as the

guy said it had sold for a hundred thousand pounds previously yeah and that had been newsworthy yeah that was like five or six years ago so they've had to replace the banana because obviously the bananas decomposed behind a bit of duct tape. So it's not even the same piece of art. So they've literally replaced the banana. I've just put the story in my highlights on the front of my Instagram page. So just so you all know. And whose idea was that?

Your friend from work. What was her name? Hannah. Hannah. And whose idea was that? Your friend from work. What was her name? Hannah. Hannah. And Natalie. From ITV Racing. Right, so thank you, Hannah. Thank you, Natalie.

Brilliant idea. Because what they said is they'd get to an episode and I'd be chatting about something, but I'd put a picture on my story on Instagram, which disappears within 24 hours, and then they were annoyed they couldn't see it. And if I don't put it on my grid, as they say, as opposed to a reel, it disappears. And now I've done a little box, life with Nat, and I've got everything I talk about,

which is relevant to the pods, I'm going to keep in that folder. So you can always go in and see what we're talking about. So genuinely, didn't think of doing it. Thank you, Natalie. And Hannah. Hannah? Sarah. Hannah. I apologise, Hannah.

Oh, it's Hannah. No, I got it right. You said Laura to Nicky. It's like a goldfish. No, there's a Laura that complained about me slurping once. Guaranteed. Fair enough. You do realise those two ladies also are avid listeners. Oh, it's a Laura that complained about me slurping once. Guaranteed. Fair enough. You do realise those two ladies also are avid listeners?

Oh, it's amazing. Thank you. All they do is talk to me about it. Oh, it's good. It's a bit boring, to be honest. Winds me up. Look what I got out. Look.

Oh, some Christmas gin. There's no gin in the bottle. Oh, right. Elia bought me that five years ago yeah but it was personalized so merry christmas auntie nat so i love the bottle so i keep that every year as a decoration and then the thing next to it didn't joanie love that last year she put the switch in and she made it she made it what would you call that a light box to decorate it's like a card isn't it but it's it's sort of a box that she's put a little battery in a switch.

And the bulb still works. Happy days. Well, if you remember, the circuitry hadn't been completed by the time we got home. So that was a project, wasn't it? We did that together. That's why I like Christmas, for those things. To be honest, that item you've just been talking about, I mean, if a banana

would be on a bit of duct tape sales for five million, what's that worth? Twelve. Easily. Easy. I mean, look at the googly eyes. Talking of art, there's a lot of people

doing art making art Robbie Williams ah you mean well known people doing art excuse me

got you well known people it's almost kind of you used to do maybe a book or a podcast, but I feel like now people are making art.

What do you think? Am I being unfair? What are you going to start doing? I could do some art. Oh, yeah. What can you do, like handprints? Maybe. Noseprints.

You could do them, couldn't you, remotely? Oh, big nose. No, I just wondered. Well, yeah, you could do some art. I mean. What I want to do, I was talking to Zoe today, makeup, my friend Zoe. She runs an amazing, check out her Instagram page, East London Bride. She's brilliant

hair and makeup and all stuff to do a wedding she's so cool but we were chatting and I keep going back to it and I always go back

to it you alright there sorry your headphone not the microphone that was my headphone knocking the mic it's terrible

um she we were chatting I want to do a flower course floristry floristry There was my headphone knocking the mic. It's terrible. We were chatting. I want to do a flower course, floristry. Just add that to the list. No, I know, but I would love to do that. Well, you could do one evening.

You could do a bit of knitting, a bit of cross stitch. You could then do a bit of, I forgot what you just said. What were you doing? Flower arranging. Flower arranging, you doing? flower arranging flower arranging sorry not just arranging though I'd like to know about it now

Sharon Sharon did her floristry course didn't she she had that beautiful shop flower shop yeah I'm not saying I want a flower well I'd love a flower shop

however I don't think that's something that's going to happen overnight no I don't think so. You're pretty busy, to be fair, to run a pub, to run a flower shop.

No, but imagine having a pub and in the back you sold fresh flowers. Well, actually, I think you're onto something there. All the old husbands going home late to the wife. Perfect. Sweeten them up up wouldn't it perfect Brian a biscuit it's not bad that's quite a clever idea

I think you could make a lot out of a pub going back to Kat so we could run one do you know how hard work it is to run a pub no I wouldn't do the pub all over the country listening to this I wouldn't do the pub just go and do a pub no it's very how hard work it is to run a pub there'll be people all over the country

listening to this oh we'll just go and do a pub no it's very hard i know it is but what i'm saying is you take it over you employ the right people you get the right people in there we've got rachel up the road best pubs so rachel the best pubs are a living landlord where they care about it. Debatable. All of it. Honestly, all of the best clubs. No, I know that. Look at the Fox.

Yes. So that's because their heart's in it and they're there. Where it goes wrong, I mean, this is again topical. We're not far away. Very topical. I'm talking about the one. The pub that we went to with the worst service on earth. Don't talk about Nancy like that. We're not far away. Very topical. I'm talking about the one. The pub that we went to. Yeah.

With the worst service on earth. Don't talk about Nancy like that. Shut up. It's not that bad. The pub we were talking about on the podcast. Oh, that's a block of. And there's no one's hearts in it. No. It's not owned by a person.

No, of course not. It's a chain. No one cares. You can't just go, oh, plonk the right people in. No, but you have friends. It's a family affair.

It's a family affair. But you could have people you know, people you love. You'd, I think we could do that. And it could be a

documentary. A bit like Clarkson's Farm. Well, he's done the pub. Oh, yeah, he has as well. Bastard. He's like Clarkson's Farm. Well, he's done the pub. Oh, yeah, he has as well. Bastard. He's done.

Fucking hell. Village shop's a good idea. Mmm, boring. Not a lot of drama in it. I don't know about that. Oh, how many pints of milk have we sold this week? 52. Oh, we're down one pint of milk.

It's not quite the same, is it? I saw Dawn today. I went round to Dawn's. Lovely, isn't she? Oh, she're down one pint of milk. It's not quite the same, is it? I saw Dawn today. I went round to Dawn's. Lovely, isn't she? Oh, she's wonderful. She had a little chat of Joanie. Yes. She needs to come round more.

She hasn't been around her for three years. She's on such good form. I mean, she hasn't aged. No, I know. She gets younger. I promise you. She opened the door. She's chirpier than I think anyone else could be.

Honestly, it was incredible. Chatted to her for about ten minutes. I wonder if she's had her 90th birthday or not. Because I'm sure she was. Well, you wouldn't want to ask, would you? Well, not really. I mean, she honestly. She looks immaculate.

Absolutely. Her house is beautiful. Her front garden it's lovely really good we've got a new gardener haven't we we have Dawn's Gardener

Nick Dawn's Gardener yep oh I'll tell you what I must do whilst we're here before I forget massive massive shout out

to Quick Fit in Hartford I want to say thank you so much for looking after me there is nothing worse. Well, I'll tell you the story. I got up to take the children to school and jumped in the car. Alert comes up on the car. One of the tyres is nearly flat. So fortunately,

there's a little local garage nearby. So I popped in there and bless his heart, thank you to, he pumped it up to a level in which then I drove 20 minutes to drop Eliza off. 20 minutes back, it was okay. Popped into Elle's to have a cuddle with the baby. By the time I come out, started driving, it was getting flat again. So I thought, what am I going to do? I need to get this done. Don't know what to do. So I thought the nearest place is quick fit Hertford went there what a lovely guy no stress he said don't worry

sit down I'll have one of the lads look at it for you I see you're not busy are you not busy he said no we're absolutely fine at the moment he looked at it it was repairable which is always really nice because the tyre's a lot of money. Did the tyre, came out. I said, thank you. How much do I owe you? He said, no, it's fine. It's on us. I said, why? He said, no. Manager was sitting over there. Didn't talk to me, but nice guy. He said, no, sometimes I'll say to my manager, is this some, you know, we treat people in here. Every now and again, we treat people in here every now and again we treat people it's fine

it's on us and I said thank you so much I'll mention it on the pod brilliant brilliant service and I shall be going there

in the future well thank you for that story that was fascinating really enjoyable and I actually believe they do that for other people. I don't think they just did it for me.

What are you suggesting? Do you mean just did it for you? Because I'm on the telly and because they know me and all of that, they seem really helpful. I think that's a bit presumptuous. Well, that's what people will think listening. Well, that's what I think listening. They'll think that's not fair.

She's had her tyre done for nothing. Well. But I'm mentioning it out here. I'll give them more business. I'm going to do them a really good Google review. And they are really lovely people. Good. Well, it's nice to hear that.

You should go there now. You must. Yeah. Lovely. Rach from Pontypool said, My tree has been up since the 6th of november i love the feel of the coziness it brings and it will be up till the 6th of january too beautiful i've got the picture here it looks absolutely lovely rachel that does look nice what's the blue glow that's behind i know it's lovely it's like a blue hue she's got some blue lights on nice. What's the blue glow that's behind it? I know, it's lovely. It's like a blue hue.

It's got some blue lights on. Nice. Something's going on there. Lovely. Heron Foods came up a lot from the last pod. Right. I shall post this on Instagram. There are a lot of Heron Foods.

Yeah. Just nowhere near us No This is from Rachel from Sully Hall Thank you so much Why's that funny? Am I saying it wrong? No, it's fine Is it Sully Hall?

When I drive to Liverpool tomorrow I'll look out for heron foods And I'll see if I I mean, if I've only got an hour left I'll bring the Viennetta home Oh, will it last? That'd be good I don't think so, no

But funnily enough, today Joni was quite keen to buy a Viennetta Was she? Yeah, she was really keen of home oh will it last that'd be good i don't think so no but funnily enough today joni was quite keen to buy a viennetta was she yeah she was really keen bridey in ilkston ilkston why do i feel like i'm reading germany what's going on is it ilkston show me ilkeston oh dear i don't know this is it you're good that's 50 messages how to pronounce that Ilkeston or Ilkeston

Ilkeston it's Bridie it's Derbyshire anyway love the pod currently walking half an hour up the hill to work in the snow dodging the ice

and listening to you and Mark is a good distraction we have a heron foods they have a heron in crew so thank you very much for your picture i must i must ilkeston ilkeston ilkeston ilkeston lovely thank you anytime have you ever been there you've been to a lot of places i have as well that's what i mean yeah i'm so i mean i say i haven't been there but i haven't seen it on a signpost where is oh i have seen it on a signpost

yeah i see where you are oh yeah oh i've driven right by the m1 cheryl says or Cheryl hi I agree with Mark it's too early for Christmas decks everyone I know that puts a tree up this early

gets fed up and they want them down on Boxing Day yep that's from Cheryl Cheryl you can pronounce it Cheryl

Cheryl not according to her You can pronounce it Cheryl. Cheryl. Not according to her. Very, very good. Just listening to the latest Scraping the Barrel Ep. Great idea to record in the pub, by the way. Talking of pizza flavours, I had a love... Oh, stop this. I had a lovely bacon and banana pizza in Lisbon.

Would you give it a try? From Lucy in Madeira. Now, Lucy, have you mentioned bacon and bananas because of the podcast? Is it a joke? Because of Joni eating loads of bacon and we talk about banana holders or is that a real thing I reckon that's a real thing

it's the sort of thing I can imagine as well it's a bit like well maple syrup and banana yeah and I bought what was those pancakes

you have bacon and maple syrup yeah on a pancake not banana though no but it's similar isn't it sweet and sweet and salty banana on a pancake not banana though no but it's similar isn't it sweet and sweet and

salty banana on a pizza pineapple is chunky and quite hard it'd be all mushy wouldn't it it'd be horrid

not sure about that I mean I don't it's probably really nice. Yeah. But on a pizza? Although I suppose it could be one of those... What was that pizza? The Nutella pizza.

We were somewhere and there was a Nutella pizza. There was. But it worked because it was... It's Pizza Express. Is it? They do Nutella. They used to do little Nutella pizzas, but it was for dessert. If you search for bacon and banana pizza, there's a lot of recipes.

Really? Yeah, it's definitely a thing. I'm out. Thanks. No, thanks. Yeah. There's someone here saying about bacon, banana, sweet chilli sauce and cheese melting on top is great. Is it?

I can't think of anything worse than that. That's a lot. Hi Nat, it's Jo from abigavenny in south wales i was just listening to episode nine scraping the barrel just about the christmas trees so reluctantly i put my uh main tree up a bit like you in our front room but the rest of it is going to wait to the first week of december um i don't need to wait for my husband anymore I've got a large teenage son who does it for me. So do whatever makes you happy. That's what I've got to say. Love in the pod. Bye.

Now, we've had a little bit of pushback from the old, oh, if it's in the loft, got to wait for the husband. And they are right. They are so, so right. But I've got to ask, when you said that, I did think, why can't you go up in the loft? Right.

No, seriously, why? I'll tell you why. I am not good with heights or ladders. It's about eight feet. Doesn matter don't like it dyspraxia i'm dyspraxic right i'm not good with balance i'm not good with i'm not i'm really not good with ladders i couldn't even climb up the little train in the playground when i was little can't do any of that sort of stuff so that's the reason i couldn't balance and get out a large tree from up with no help is the point so the people that have said they do have to wait for husband or whoever is because you need help and they're grumpy about getting

it out so they don't help them and I don't like that element of control hence why I've got it in the cupboard because I do what I want to do when I want to do it hello Nat this is Kerry from where um love the pod and all that I'm just listening to your pod today in the in the pub with Mark and saying about waiting for your husbands to get up the loft to get the decorations down. Why don't you just go up in the loft girls? Like what? It's just a ladder. And I know it might be a bit stinky up there, but just fucking do it. Get out there, get the decks down. I don't understand. I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm a lesbian and I have to do everything. I've never

had to ask a man to go up in the loft to get my decorations down but come on girls get up the ladder kerry i agree with you no you don't you just said you just explained why that's not a possibility i don't do it because i have a reason but there are a lot of ladies who don't want to get in the loft no kerry's right kerry's completely right something that's interesting, Kerry being in where. Yeah. You've got a lot of local listeners that message. But there's a lot. Yeah.

That you read. And are you selecting them because they're local? No. So it just genuinely is a strange that, isn't it? Because there's no reason why. It might be where they've seen me knocking about and thought, well, I'll listen to her because I see her. I mean, you're lucky. They might have heard you say something.

Could have done the opposite. I don't say anything bad, do I, really? No, but you know, not there again. Well, that's true. What, when I'm in the shops, you mean? When you're chatting, nagging away at M&S, causing a queue. Yeah, that's true. Still not done, M&S, causing a queue. Yeah, that's true. Still not done, M&S.

What do you mean, not done, M&S? It's not done yet. They're redecorating it. It's really upsetting. Oh, yeah. It'll be done. Should be open soon. I should be opening it, but there you go.

What, cutting the ribbon? Yes. All right. Who is opening it? Oh, I don't know. No. Have you seen, though morgana the um hopefully at least at least it's near me i'll be i i'd be pleased with that can we do you know

something let's just sorry to distract you but this is something it's worth i don't think i've said this on the podcast what's that but a lot of people ask me about this when you come up in conversation and they do ask about Morgana. So I'm sure the listeners are interested. How do you feel about Morgana doing an impression of you? I'm honoured. I think if you have an impressionist come up on the television and you're on it, that is a complete gift and honour. And it means you've made it, sort of. I think it's brilliant.

And it's very funny. I spoke about this on Off The Telly. Did you? Last week, yeah. That's weird. I know. Because I've not listened to Off The Telly. Yeah.

Do you know, Something I found very strange And I did a little impression Of Morgana As she does me But your impression I've got to say is good Well I know it is It's exceptional

Actually Thanks It is good Just getting the Christmas decorations out Don't I I love that Do you remember that Christmas Where you did it for like

An hour And everyone was like In hysterics? You were just in character as Morgana doing you. I know what you mean about being honoured that someone's doing it. The strangest experience I have had, and I can tell you where I was when we watched it. We went to the lovely, by the way, I say lovely too often as well.

That's my fault. I say it more than you. No, I said it more than you the other day. Maybe I say lovely too often as well that's my fault I say it more than you no I said it more than you the other day maybe I've got it from you no I was like I don't know but we went to

Clavering Cricketers in Clavering we stayed there for my birthday so we could have a nice meal and drink that was before Jamie Oliver's mum left

it was and what a shame we were in that nice house next door to the pub yeah put the telly on so weird like prime time the telly on.

So weird. Like primetime television. Telly goes on. An hour special about you. And my dad. And your dad. Who was played by Perry. Perry someone.

I've forgotten his name. But yeah, you're right. And it was, that was strange. It was strange because he did live with us at the time. And your dad, Morgana, had your dad living with you, which was slightly strange. But maybe she knew that. I don't know. But watching an hour special.

Yeah. I think it might have been half hour. It wasn't. It was an hour. It was an hour special. I promise you, have been half hour. It wasn't. It was an hour. It was an hour special. I promise you, it was an hour. That was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Well, if they can commission that,

me and you can get a pub with a floristry in the back. I bet it would go on the telly. No, me and Morgana could. Yeah. But the point is... Do you find Morgana attractive when she's dressed as me? She doesn't really look that much like you

really okay but um no I but it's really odd that that was odd and it is probably along the same lines

as what you feel about it it's really strange no I think it's brilliant I remember being my favourite impression of all time was I've forgotten his name Harry Hill I think it's brilliant. My favourite impression of all time was...

I've forgotten his name. Harry Hill? No. Alistair McGowan. Thank you. Alistair McGowan as Doc Cotton. Yeah, that was good. Absolutely brilliant.

Well, he used to do the impression, it used to segue into being Albert Steptoe. And it was the same voice. Wasn't it Albert? Yeah, it wasn't Harold. I don't know his name. Of course it was Albert. Oh, Harold!

Albert Steptoe, Wilford Bramble. Oh, Harold. I'd love to... Where's that gone? Well... well that was a good series when this pod goes out on Monday yes I'm talking to Sir David Jason for off the telly

yeah well no come on that's exciting isn't it I've already spoken to him not that impressed no I'm very impressed no come on that's exciting isn't it well I've already spoken to him so yeah not that impressed no I'm very impressed maybe you could get him on this one

you could ask him couldn't you I could ask him you should do he'd be up for that surely hmm not sure really

okay I think he likes to do things in person okay come round can't he oh yeah come look at the railway oh yeah he'd love that

hi nat just listened to scraping the barrel nine and you're asking for listeners thoughts on you and mark podding from the pub so just to say i loved it i think it's great that you can experiment a bit with the pod and what it can be no rules to say you have to sit at home behind a mic so why not take him to the pub i've never messaged him before but i get the feeling that some people may not like the background noise and have a bit of a whinge about it could be wrong but i just felt i really needed to defend it and let you know that i enjoyed it keep it up you brighten my day whilst i'm working from home so thank you take care suzy nice isn't it it is is i mean to be honest we sort of pushed it didn't we doing that because we knew well we didn't know

it was going to be noisy but it was and we just went on with it yeah but the magic of this is I can you can do what you want you can have a lovely walk with Sophie

or Auntie Lynnie I know I'm trying to get Sophie to do it yeah she goes all red and laughs at me no she'll be fine

yeah I know but she's getting her to do it no just clip her mic on she'll forget it's there. I'll have to feed her some wine, I think. Yeah, but you can't, you go for a walk in the morning.

That's true. I suppose you still could feed her wine. I just feel like I could coax her around to sit in here. But no, a walk's probably better.

Go for a walk. But me and Aunt Eleni can do a walk. Yeah. It's nice having a bit. But it's nice to experiment. And I do understand the thing about

the background noise. I've got to say. It was a bit loud. Yeah, but it's nice to experiment. And I do understand the thing about the background noise. I've got to say... It was a bit loud. Yeah, but I'm glad I went with Emma because I think there's some settings that we can adjust and we can fix that. All right, that's really boring. No, it's hard.

There'll be people interested. Possibly. At least we care. Yes. I care, you care, everyone cares. Yeah. Tonight, Roro ellie are coming around and we are doing tonight well this is going out on monday so i'm trying to be relevant

i know but we all everyone knows that we're not doing it on monday but you just said i know but i said happy birthday to cat for yesterday and you just said by the time this goes out on monday oh yeah i'm to be talking to... All right. Well, on Monday, me, Ro, Ro and Al's getting together. We haven't had a good old catch up for ages. We could play a game, couldn't we? What day was this recorded?

Can you guess? We could do a clue on what day it is that we're recording this. We could. Could be a regular Easter egg thing. Can you guess the day? Easter egg? Easter egg. What do you mean? It's a thing can you guess the day easter egg easter egg what do you mean it's a

thing where you hide something so like in a computer game you'd hide an easter egg or for example in inside number nine um there's always a hair a little model hair that's hidden in an episode and part of the game for the loyal viewer is you spot the hair. What, like Game of Thrones when there was a Starbucks cup? Yeah, it's like an Easter. It's something that's put in deliberately for you to discover. Oh, okay. But if you listen to the podcast of Inside Number Nine,

they reveal at the end of the podcast where the hair was. Hmm. I really want to work with them again. Just throwing it out there for anyone who knows Rhys or Steve. I wonder what they're doing now. What a series. I wonder what they're working on. I don't know.

But there'll be something. There'll be something good. That was a good series. We've still got something to watch. I know we have. I know we have. Amy has a Heron Foods in her local town of Newcastle under Lyme in Staffordshire. Never bought a Viennetta in there, though.

From Amy. Someone sent me a picture of Viennetta's £1.50 on the club card in Tesco at the moment. If I don't get posted a free Viennetta soon... Well, I don't need to. You permanently talk about Viennetta. We've got many new subjects as well. We've covered some good ones. I know, but Viennetta is a thread.

I can't help it now, because people are very kind and they send me how much they are. It is, but... I don't really want a free one. Well, not when they're £1.50. £1.50? 99p in Heron Foods? Perfect. Fine, isn't it

however if anybody finds a supplier of Maxi Bonds oh my goodness myself and Elia I know but we're in November now

no one cares about ice cream doesn't matter because we have a freezer I'm not interested doesn't matter because we can stack them away for the summer so if anybody sees a maxi bond nestle maxi bond ice cream please let me know please the guy's obsessed with it i don't the number needs to read the number please oh double seven double eight twenty nineteen nineteen we need to

get that printed on the wall where i thought we haven't said it enough in this episode I've only said it once I shall only say this once 07788 2019 19 Correct 07788 2019 19 Hi Nat, loving the pub pod I'm on Mark's side Yes, it is too early for Christmas decks to be up

We always aim for the first weekend of December Which is perfect this year Because it coincides with the start of Advent and the Elves coming. We'll do the outdoor inflatables on Saturday the 30th, which have become infamous with all the local school kids. Even the high school kids have been known to take selfies. And then the tree and indoor decks on the 1st. We get a real tree, so we can't get it too early anyway. I'm a celeb. Yes to Nat in the jungle. Without a doubt, you'd be crowned queen.

And funnily enough, me and my friend were saying what Mark was talking about. Why make your fears known? Just lie and play the system. Viewers. I'm confused how they managed to smuggle tea bags in. How does that happen? Surely they've got quite stringent... I don't know. Do you know what I mean?'ve got quite stringent I don't know.

Do you know what I mean? How's that happened? I don't know. Tea bagging is an offence. I don't think you could say that. Why? Bringing tea bags in. Tea bagging? Are you winding me up? No. Bringing tea bags in Tea bagging?

Are you winding me up? Are you winding me up now? I don't know what you mean You can't say that Why not? Are you being serious? Completely serious For the listener I'm just going to show natalie read it out darling i don't think so why tea bagging is a slang term for the sexual act involving placing the scrotum please don't

read into the mouth of sexual partner for sexual pleasure or onto the face or head of another person sometimes there's a comedic device when is it comedy to put ball bags on your face i think it's quite funny can you right okay and you didn't know that you've just you're trying you're not trying to make me laugh maybe okay carry on my mum listens to this i know should there be a spoiler before that now i'm worried about the children that listen i'm gonna move off the subject but yeah i don't know how they get stuff in surely they check their bags yes that's what i'm talking about and they had seasoning as well salt and pepper and stuff when one of them said we had salt and pepper and i thought they were going to jump out and sing Let's talk about sex baby

Let's talk about How can you get two singers in the bag Get it in your bag It's gone off at a slight tangent Play a voice note Hang on a minute Before I play this in Georgina from Kent, Georgina's been sending me some fantastic

etymology, the meaning of phrases, the meaning of words and where they come from, where they derive from. Now I've got an etymology book downstairs. My dad was really into this and he loved to know where things came from. And Georgina's just started sending them to me. So this is the first episode. I want to say thank you, Georgina. And this is maybe going to stay as a regular thing. Hi Natorgina here from kent i thought you might like to know the etymology of a few words so i'm going to start with one threshold threshold in the olden days people used to uh not have carpets but they'd put fresh um so some plant materials down on their floor to act as carpets to keep their rooms warm but they used to migrate out of the door obviously coming in and out so they put a block of wood there to keep the thresh in place therefore we have the word thresh hold more than happy to

supply more if you're very very bored anyway have a great day so that was the first one then i got this hi nat georgina here again from kent day two of etymology of words and phrases none of these i can guarantee are correct but i've heard them a few times so today's one is quite apt um raining cats and dogs so again back in the days gone by when houses didn't have heating um dogs and cats would normally sleep up on the roofs of buildings because they were the warmest part we all know heat rises um so yeah so they would be uh using the roofs of houses and when it rained really, often they would be knocked off or they would slide off the roofs of houses.

Hence the term reigning cats and dogs when they fell off. There you go. Very interesting, I'm sure. Anyway, have a great day. Bye. Georgina, I can't thank you enough. This could be a regular feature.

It's going to be. It's good. But you've already started on this, haven't you? Because you did tententahooks. Correct. That's why Georgina messaged me. Tea bagging.

We've done that tonight, yeah. Yeah. So this is a new thing. Yeah. Origin. Origins. Origins, thank you. The tea bagging thing

is more of a definition. I apologise as well for that being mentioned in this. I think it's quite I don't know. I think it's OK. I'm quite prudish

about things like that. OK. Anyway, Georgina you're in. You've done well. Keep sending them in. I hope you enjoyed a quiet night in

with Mark and I. One of our favourite Inside Number 9 episodes. I hope you enjoyed a quiet night in with Mark and I. One of our favourite Inside Number 9 episodes. Just thinking that. Thank you for enjoying Scraping the Barrel Number 10. I will speak to you

on Thursday. Nat's nieces are on. Get ready for it. Goodnight darling. Goodnight. Love ya. Bye. Hi, this is Chris McCausland.

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