Life with Nat - EP7: It’s better to be over the hill than under it.

Episode Date: May 12, 2024

It’s Nats birthday! She chats about being grateful to be on earth, how she’s wet herself in a cab and catches up on all the lovely listeners voice notes. Enjoy! Please subscribe, follow, and leave a review. xxx You can find us in all places here; https://podfollow.com/lifewithnat/view INSTA: @natcass1 A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [e-mail] SHOW INFO: Life with Nat - it’s me! Natalie Cassidy and I’ll be chatting away to family, friends and most importantly YOU. I want to pick people's brains on the subjects that I care about- whether that’s where all the odd socks go, weight and food or kids on phones. Each week I will be letting you into my life as i chat about my week, share my thoughts on the mundane happenings as well as the serious. I have grown up in the public eye and have never changed because of it. Life with Nat is the podcast for proper people. Come join the community. ♥️ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ah, hello Em, how are you? Alright thanks, how are you? I'm very, very well. Thank you for bringing over my present. You're welcome, I sourced it fully myself. Spent hundreds, millions of pounds on it. You are a liar. I am a liar. Because this is our present from Alex and Mike.

Yeah. I'm going to open it. Oh, I love it. There's lots of paper, shredded paper. Very eco-friendly, no plastic. The first thing I've got to show you. It's the old Lindor balls. Has it got melted?

It's a little bit squashed And looks a little bit like it's shit itself So I'm not sure if we're going to partake in those Whipped soap That looks nice Oh, it's in a lovely tin Do you remember the wine gums or sort of mint Your grandad used to have in his car?

Car sweets It's that sort of tin, isn't used to have in his car? Car sweets. Car sweets. It's that sort of tin, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, it's lovely. What else have we got? This is going everywhere though, boys.

You know that I'm very, very, I like to be tidy. The paper's not good. Right. I could put that in the rabbits though. Yeah. Actually, they'd like that. Magnesium butter. Ooh.

Has that got a little sticker of one of their faces on it? There is a little sticker of one of their faces on it. Look at that. Gel to milk cleanser. Oh, I saw that on their Instagram. That looks nice. It looks really good. And that was a winner. That was a winner in the vegan beauty range.

That'll be lovely. You'll get kudos for being able to take your makeup off for that. It's so kind of them, isn't it? It's so nice. Oh, yeah. What we haven't said is you've got a box. I've got a whole box myself. I don't even have to fight for any of this.

And you haven't got to open it and make a mess, because you know what's in it. Oh, well, thank you so much, boys. I so appreciate that. My first birthday present that I've opened, so thank you so much. Amazing. Right. So I thought we'd do a little bonus today, Em. Thinking about last year and turning 40, I want to tell this story because it is absolutely brilliant what Mark did for me. So a couple of months before

my 40th birthday, Mark and I had a weekend kalani in ireland and we went over we stayed at an amazing hotel and we just got drunk for the weekend no kids went to all the fiddly diddly pubs just had the most amazing time and there was this singer rachel in one of the bars who we got chatting to and her voice just her and a guitar was was absolutely, I mean, she blew me away. And I kept saying, you're amazing. Do you ever come to London? And she said, no, not really. So anyway, banged on about it. I love Irish music.

I am a Cassidy. So, you know, my great grandfather was Irish. It's in the blood. It's in the blood. And I think we're from Donegal. I believe we're from Donegal. So anyway, it's in the blood. Anyway, I came home from the weekend.

It was really good. And then I planned a little do, a little get together over at my local pub. So we shut the pub and I've got loads of friends from all avenues of life. And they were heading over there on the Saturday night. I've walked into my local pub. And Rachel is sat with her guitar. Mark had flown her over to do music for the night in the pub. Well done, Mark.

So, yeah, I was thinking about that this morning, reminiscing about what an amazing night we all had. It was a really lovely time. Really lovely. Do you like birthdays? Yeah, I was always the kid. I'm right at the end of August. So it was always a weird one where a lot of the

kids were already away and stuff my joanie is um august the 16th yeah right in the middle of the holidays yeah i bloody love it because there's no stress about parties because i mean she's had parties we've done some lovely parties in the village hall and what have you but now she appreciates it it's the summer. She kind of, I think at that age you're a bit fickle. You forget about your friends after a few weeks. Apart from the best ones that you see in the holidays, you're not really worried.

So we, last year we actually went to Hastings and we had a couple of days away with family and we just had a lovely time, played lots of crazy golf down there. Have you been down there? Not to Hastings lovely time played lots of crazy golf down there have you been down there not to hastings you've not played crazy golf i've not played crazy golf in hastings no can i talk to you about it yeah please do we are a family of crazy golfers we really enjoy it it's something that i feel is very good for the age gap because eliza still enjoys it we really like it joni likes it's a win. But Hastings, it's the world championship course.

Oh, wow. So there are three courses of crazy golf, and they are immaculate. They're kept beautiful. To anyone this summer who fancies a day out, go to Hastings and play all three rounds throughout the day. Then go down to the pier, go to the arcade, do all of that, have some fish and chips. It's a great day out. Going back to birthdays, last year was a really big one.

And this year, I'm really not worried. Mark kept saying, we're not really doing anything. We're actually going out tonight. We're going to go out. We've got the nanny. We've got Laura till midnight. So we don't even know where we're going yet. It's not going to be extravagant, but we're going to just go out

and actually speak to each other and sit and eat some food because we've both been really really busy yeah yeah so uh that'll be nice later and then tomorrow might pop over the pub there's a few school mums over there my friend abby rachel and that i think laura's going to the pub of her dad as well so i might see them there kids play in the park because the weather's nice isn't it and um sunday could be bafters or it might be nafters might be in the garden with an apparel learning my lines so listen i'm a very very happy for the weekend ahead and something i think is very important for the listener to know is i am a very grateful person and i'm not joking you I don't do it every day

but at least a couple of times a month I will wake up in bed and think fuck me I'm still here I wake up and I think how does it work our bodies are amazing yeah

to keep us going every day we are very very very lucky to be here yeah massively when you think of all the statistics of just just what could go wrong in your body everything easily um and i just feel very grateful 41 on monday halfway to 82 please god happy days lovely yeah there you go you know so i've got some fantastic messages to play oh yes please there's um as usual i've been inundated with all of your voice notes and messages if i sat and went for them all it would be a four hour episode of just voice notes and messages that's how brilliant you've been honestly i've been chatting to people on here getting back to people but I've picked out some

of the best ones to do with birthdays and also a few just linking back really from over the other episodes I think is nice it's nice to link stuff up and let you know that people are you know coming up with certain things about different topics that we've spoken about so this one is from our lovely Bex here we go morning love um i'm a bit behind but i've just listened to yesterday's pod another amazing episode but i just wanted to say that um the other day my friend tagged me in something on our local community notice board and your face was on there because i didn't realize that lights and bits is where you got your neon sign from.

And they're right near me. What a small world. What a small world is that? And they're using your face to advertise themselves back to us. Well, do you know what? Good luck to them. They're such a lovely couple. And they've just started out and their price for the sign was so reasonable.

And we've kept in touch and they live near Bex. I think people might like a little neon sign with life with nat just a small one as a little ornament yeah so i was thinking about talking to her about that on the merch on the merch on the merch front colette sent me a lovely message afternoon nat just had to message as i have listened to all your podcasts and think they are amazing but i have just been to do my big shop and have fancied a Viennetta since listening to that ep. Ooh.

Two bloody pound. Two pound? You promised me that it would be a pound. I did buy it. Of course I did. But I think you are now an influencer as well as a podcaster. Love from Colette in Derbeidos, which is just like Barbados in the Midlands.

So, Derbeidos? Derbeidos. Is that a like Barbados, in the Midlands. So, Derbeidos? Derbeidos. Is that a portmanteau of a real place? Because it's like Basildon calls itself Bas Vegas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I don't think there is a Derbeidos. No, is it going to be Der...

Put it in the Google Maps. Derum? Der, der, der... Well, it's Midlands, so... I don't know graphics. No, neither do I. Geography? No, rubbish.

But anyway, I did have quite a... I've heard a lot of people say that Vionetta's not a pound anymore that was actually Mark's fault but as Mark said to me I think the conversation about the Vionetta was 18 months ago and we've had a bit of a shit time let's be honest things have gone up so I'm sorry if you've all got excited and gone out

and hoping to grab a Viennetta for a pound because I think they are a little bit more now. But there's still, you know, there's still a chunk of ice cream. I'm just listening to your first draft of your podcast for Monday. I'm very lucky as I get to do that before other listeners.

One of the many perks, of course, of being with you. And in reference to colette's message about the viennetta we we definitely had that conversation four maybe five years ago uh so they're definitely more than a pound now um so i just feel sorry for the listeners who are who are going out trying to find them for a pound. And I feel slightly responsible, but in my defence, it was a long time ago. And she said she was from Darbydos. I suspect that's Darby.

Bye. Everyone love the Sanos Island chat. Yeah. Maru Sons, Mark Spanchero, and Aldi. Have a listen to this voice now, right? Hi, Nat. I thought I'd just let you know I'm on my way to the island of Seinos.

Looking forward to getting there, to be honest, because I'm living life on the edge today because I've officially got no petrol. The little thing in my bobby what do you call that thing you know when you dash where it tells you how many miles you've got to go until you're empty well it doesn't say zero anymore I've just got four dashes oh so um wish me luck um because never have I wanted to get to the island of senos more than today i'm wishing you a lot of luck honestly um i do that dear oh sometimes i'm in the red and i think why did i not get the petrol on the way home from work and

then i wake up get in the car and think i've got to fill up now that's one of the biggest reasons not only for the green aspect but i would love an electric car because you just plug it in at home you haven't got to worry about it do you top up or do you fill a full oh to the top right up to the top yeah but my dad always used to say to me you shouldn't let it get to the red because all the crap from the engine comes up yeah that's what my mum would do and the amount of times we had to be saved by the rac or aa or you know really yeah it a couple of times it it did you know what i did have you ever put petrol in a diesel car luckily not i have i've done that before i used to have a land rover discovery which i absolutely loved great big thing uh and i filled it up with petrol when i first got it

because i wasn't used to diesel i think it was about 500 quid or something to drain it all out it's an absolute nightmare I think it was about 500 quid or something to drain it all out. It's an absolute nightmare. Who's this? and get up to $75 in PC Optimum Points. Visit superstore.ca to get started. Who's this? Hi Nat, this is Laura from Exeter. Lovely part of the world. And I'm just calling to leave you a voice note to invite you to my wedding in October 2025.

Originally, I was calling just to invite you along and then I thought thought hang on a minute nat might be really interested in this and might have an opinion here we go llamas i found a company where i can have llamas at my wedding you can walk them around you can have photos with them you can just pat them. I would like to ride them, to be honest, but apparently that's frowned upon. But my partner, or my fiancé, I should say,

is against the whole idea totally. What's your views? We'd love to hear. Lots of love. Well, firstly, thank you for the invite. But it's not an eight-year-old's birthday party. Llamas at the wedding. I'm sorry, I'm with your fiancé.

I don't want to go... With all due respect, all right, I get all done up. I'm head to toe, I've got my hat on. I'm coming to your wedding and it's... I'm going to have fur all over me. I've got to pat animals. I haven't dressed for the zoo. I haven't dressed for the farm. Do you know what I mean? They're following you down the aisle eating all the petals all the confetti and the fatty and are they like goats i bet they're greedy bastards i bet they're chaos

yeah so you're right with that they're gonna be everywhere they'll be shitting everywhere yeah exactly no i'm sorry it's a lovely idea Thank you for the invite. We'll pen it down. I'll get back to you to see if I can make it. But in terms of llamas being there, I think you should give that one a miss. that you said for all of your followers the nataholics is probably more um how i'm feeling at the moment with this need to give you a voice message you know just randomly um but yeah i said it to myself hi my name's sean and i'm a nataholic and yeah i think that works so yeah happy to be one of your nataholics no problem take care have a, thank you, Sian. It's got a ring to it, hasn't it? Yeah. Really, really had loads of messages saying, I'm a Nathaholic.

Love it. I'm addicted to life with Nat and I'm a Nathaholic. So that's going down quite well. I still don't want to 100% say that's what we're going for, but it has gone down super well. Well, as Denise has said, just go with it. You get to pick now. You said, just go with it. You just, you get to pick now. You get to just roll with it.

And if it starts to become part of the parlance, like the common conversation, naturally, then you know it's the winner. But, you know, there's no pressure to figure that out. No. But thanks for all the Natterholics getting in touch. This is lovely. Morning was just listening to the pod and I bloody love it.

As a fellow is little girl who moved out to wgc wgc a wellingarden city maybe yeah yeah that'll be it yeah yeah who moved out to wellingarden city it's totally relatable i was listening to the funny names people give each other i'm sure she's referring to ro ro and Auntie Birdie. My sister never called my mum mum. She always called her by her first name, which is Chrissy, but she couldn't pronounce that, so called her pissy. And it stuck for 40 years. And they still call her mum pissy at times.

Also, my niece, all the aunts and uncles were uncles, and my name is Louise, again hard to pronounce. For years, my niece called me Uncle Wheeze. So between a pissy mum and Uncle Wheeze, we're a right pair. Let's have a listen to this. Hi Nat, this is Deb from Whitford in Essex. I'll keep this short and sweet, as I don't really like recording myself. I get a bit tongue-tied and stutter and go, um...

Don't sound it, Deb. That's the reason i don't like leaving messages and answer phones either anyway i just wanted to say keep up the good work love listening to your podcast but more importantly though it's my birthday monday as well so from this 61 year old nearly 62 i hope you have a wonderful day birthday 20 lots of love oh happy birthday birthday 20 you you were brilliant on there don't be nervous you were one of the best voice notes i've had short sweet to the point that's what we like happy birthday to debs today i've got another lady here penny who messaged me on

insta and she said well done on the podcast i love you insta too and it's my birthday monday the 13th lucky 13 so happy birthday to penny happy birthday penny what famous people um who's birthed who was born on this day i believe um what was the bloke from twilight called uh i was gonna say edward cullen um robert patterson i think i'll share a birthday with him. Oh, what are we, 13th of May? 13th of May, have a little look. Whilst you're looking for that, listen to this story from Jessie May. Hi, you know, I'm Jessie May, and I've got the most embarrassing birthday story you could ever possibly think of.

It wasn't my birthday, but it was one of my mate's friend's birthdays, which I got invited to, and I had to make my own way there as I was working later than everybody else. I was given the brought my stuff to work got ready after my shift and then I left got in an uber to the barbecue party with a street address I was given so she arrived at the party lots of music on very lively massive crowd balloons everywhere banners a lot I thought lovely this looks wicked so she's walked in as the door was open and the banners were all up saying happy birthday I walked through the house into the garden and I was looking around for all my mates but I couldn't see them so I texted them saying I'm here where are you didn't

get a response so I just thought well they must be on their way or talking to someone in the crowd I'm sure I'll find them eventually so she made herself welcome she she grabbed a drink off the drinks table she had a nice chat with a few people introducing herself she started to look around and she did not recognize anybody there so then she thought to herself must be family members that i don't know or whatever phone goes it was her mate asking her where she was right so i told her i was in the garden by the drinks table eating a sausage so my mate went where she said she was by the barbecue she was at the wrong house the complete wrong house

complete wrong party she explained it to everybody they all had a laugh she had a drink she had a sausage and then she went on to the right party absolutely brilliant story she said life lesson learn always ask for the door number not just the street name that birthday barbecue parties are more common than you think yeah yeah thank you for that i love that story absolutely brilliant jesse may you were right about sharing your birthday with robert pattinson you've also got uh stevie wonder oh brilliant and so we want to make her oh lovely lovely She's a great actress. Yeah, she does lots of theatre.

Loads of stuff. Funding and stuff. What was the... She did a sitcom, didn't she, years ago? My Family. Oh, My Family. I used to love that. Do you know what I was thinking of there, just so you know,

because I'm not a knobhead? I was actually thinking of Judi Dench when she did the sitcom As Time Goes By, didn't she? Yes, by yeah she yes yes yes yes sorry off on a tangent but that's who i was thinking of i went to judy dench's house last year did you yeah for a recording it was really fun just randomly really it was so exciting her documentary it was with um louis theroux wasn't it that was amazing her documentary i was in that house. Wow. Brilliant. Did you nick anything from there? You know like when people go to Buckingham Palace and they nick something?

I didn't, no. No, fair enough. You know, that's the best you can do is sort of toilet paper, isn't it? I've got a bottle of champagne from Buckingham Palace. Oh! It says Buckingham Palace in a box. Oh, it was gifted then rather than just rifling through their alcohol cupboard. It wasn't gifted to me. It was gifted then, rather than just rifling through their alcohol cupboard. It wasn't gifted

to me. It was gifted actually to my old nanny, Zoe, who I'm still in contact with. Her dad used to clean out and build swimming pools. And he used to service and clean Buckingham Palace pool. Why did I not? I would never have thought

that they would have a pool in there, but obviously, why wouldn't they have a pool? Of course they would. Have you seen it? Of course they would. Oh, wow. So, yeah, he services the pool, and he must have got a bottle of champagne,

but I got it for Christmas. Oh. It's nice, isn't it? Re-gifted. Re-gifted. Via the Queen. Just like you do. Hi, Nat.

Just thought I'd send a quick voice note just to say the name of your podcast should be Breath of Fresh Air because that's exactly what this is. Honestly, I think your podcast is incredible. So I listen to that many different ones from all different genres and yet, wow, you're just so real, keep normal it's just I love it absolutely love it I mean I only stumbled across you because of Parenting How with Rob Beckett and Josh Whittaker which I've listened to them from day dot they were talking about you saying that you got to number one

I thought haven't I heard of this literally I've sweated every single episode since. I can't wait till the next one comes out. So it's something to look forward to. And I've got to say, you probably are my favourite. So keep doing what you're doing and enjoy it. Go with it. You know, it's about time we had real podcasts from real people. So just want to say thank you, really. Bye.

What a lovely message. thank you so much like i said to you if we can just get that little bit of parenting hell audience over here and she said i'm their fate i'm the favorite yeah bump them off no no don't bump them no no it's part of the same universe room to share lovely lovely message thank you so much i like the term sweated every episode yeah this is what sweated every episode yeah see for me when i think of sweated uh i think of the book don't sweat the small stuff or um sweated my nuts off doing some sort of exercise yeah it makes it sound like more of a chore than we hope listening to this but maybe it's her way of sweated sweated it out maybe because she really enjoyed it it's better than being

maybe she was doing exercise when she was listening who knows but thank you I really love that voice note thank you very much happy 18th birthday Nat you little

cheeky have an amazing day I hope you get spoilt rotten it's better to be over the hill than buried under it this is funny hi Nat my birthday is actually the day before yours on the 12th of May and the most memorable one for me was my 21st so I was a student living in Nottingham I had been up in Glasgow at home seeing family and friends the weekend before my birthday travelled back to Nottingham and unbeknownst to me my dad had made arrangements

with my housemates that he was going to travel to Nottingham to surprise me on my actual birthday so lo and behold he turned up I burst into'm delighted to see him happy tears but we had already made plans to go to a pub that evening as you do we'd hired out the the top room of the bar so he was happy enough to come along have a drink with us and continue the celebrations what I didn't know was that my housemates had arranged for a stripper to turn up at the pub. And they had told my dad, but I'm blissfully unaware, a little bit merry. And then this guy comes in. The music from the film Monty comes on, the speakers, because this is the late 90s.

And he starts stripping off. And I am absolutely mortified because all I can think about is my dad is in this room and he's watching this guy gyrate up against me he then proceeds to strip right down to a little red thong oh no and then my housemates had paid him extra he whipped the thong off did the fool Monty he is spinning his thong around his head while thrusting away. I am sat in a chair, absolutely gobsmacked, screaming at him, put your pants back on, my dad's here, to which he obviously didn't. And lo and behold, yeah, there he was,

standing in his trainers, thong around his head, refusing to put it back on. And I thought I was going to die. It was so embarrassing but everybody had a good laugh at my expense my dad had went to the bar and ordered another drink and didn't obviously watch the performance but yeah absolutely mortifying and an unforgettable birthday oh bloody hell imagine that I was just picturing being 18 and my dad sitting in a room with a stripper getting out his wonga.

Just the trainers on as well. Oh, no. Fong round the head. Well, I've read as well. Well, yeah. It's a bit random, isn't it? Well, it's the sexy colour, isn't it, as it's supposed to be? Is it?

That is embarrassing, though. I mean, it's already too much pressure it that is embarrassing though I mean it's already too much pressure and everything I don't like I'm really I'm not

I don't like all of that alright I'll cancel your stripper then okay fine I don't I really don't like all that you know people go and see Magic Mike yeah

for the night a night out and they get really excited and I have absolutely zero interest in any of it. It's not. Naked butlers, all that. I really don't like it.

I find it quite uncomfortable. Yeah. It's just not for me. But good on the dad for unbeknownst sort of just wandering off. Wandering off, getting another drink, took it in his stride. So that was good. That was very good. Who have we got here?

Happy birthday. Ah. Oh. Short and sweet. Lovely. Let's do it again. Happy birthday. Yeah.

I liked it. Lovely. I don't know who it was, but at least I've taken the time out to do me a voice note. Hi, Nat. It's Chloe here. Now, my birthday story is from a few years ago, but it was so bad I can remember it to this day. Go on, Chloe. I was a bit younger, had a birthday party with my friends. My birthday's in August, so we spent most of the time outside.

We had this massive buffet, which I scoffed. It was banging, it was great. Oh, lovely. And because I ate so much food I thought I could do with a bit of a lie down so I went and laid down in this tent that we had up in the garden for me and my friends and as soon as I laid down I shot up because I actually laid on a wasp and was stung three times on the back um first time I was stung, it was great, and I ended up in A&E for the rest of the day. So that is a memorable birthday.

Oh, Chloe. I had a lovely day. But the people in A&E were great, but it didn't mean I spent the rest of my day there. But, yeah, that's my great birthday story. I hope you have a great birthday Nat oh bless you Chloe whilst that was playing that voice note

I'm starving and I thought oh when she mentioned the buffer I thought do you know what I've not had any breakfast yet so I thought I'd go for an indoor chocolate from Alex and Mike and they are so melted yeah it's all over me now

do you want some alcohol I've got an alcohol scrub thing as well yes please sorry that's me me being silly oh yeah great thank you um my little joanie actually talking of wasp stings she's been stung about three or four times and she's only seven she's they must absolutely love her blood it's horrible she's really good though yeah she gets stung she's like oh i've been stung it's not a big deal good though yeah she gets stung oh i've been stung it's not a big deal but yeah she always gets stung by wasps but it's not a nice way to

be in a and e all day on your birthday is it you don't need it hey nat the worst thing happened on my birthday it was my 30th birthday terrible stories i wanted some happy ones worked in a and e at that time and um we all went out on the lash had a few drinks a few few too many drinks yeah um got home fell asleep obviously had to vomit too fell asleep woke up next morning and realized i'd left my contacts in which were now not in the front of my eyes oh no so i had to go to a ande where i worked for them to find my contacts in my eyes i had to have my eyes numbed and i had to literally suction and peel them off my eyes when they eventually came around to the front goodness me it was horrific i've stopped wearing contact

lenses now have a great birthday please don't do what i did lots of love sarah well sarah i won't do what you do because i have very good vision very very good vision i've got a pair of specs for the car because i find i don't like driving in the dark as i get older i don't know what's happened to me i used to drive around the country i used to do a theatre tour and I used to get in my car and go anywhere. But lately, I have felt a little bit anxious about driving long distances. I need to get over it, actually. You know, with Mark, if we go out for the day, he drives. Yeah.

It's not a, I don't know why that is. He just will. You know, we'll get the kids in the car at half three in the morning and he'll drive down to Cornwall. Yeah. And he just does it with no genuinely he'll do a six-hour drive and be like oh it's all right yeah i'm like a baby you know the motion of the car yeah and the sound yeah i'm asleep within about 10 minutes yeah snoring my head off like darth vader when you're in the passenger seat only hopefully yeah but i do get

tired if driving a long distance yeah i do get tired i'm just something about that motion and i just love sleeping in the car but yeah i've so i've got a pair of glasses are about zero point really small really really small prescription but they're anti-glare and all that and they do help me in the dark with the lights and what have you but um no i shan't get into a state where my contact lenses get lost in my eyes, quite frankly. Yes, intense. I've had some shocking times, though. You know, I have got very drunk over the years.

Very, very drunk. Well, we heard. The buckaroo. I mean, that's probably quite tame. No, the buckaroo. Yeah, well, at least I was at home. Yeah. I have wet myself in a cab before now. Aren't you pissy? That's probably quite tame. No, the buckaroo, yeah, well, at least I was at home. Yeah.

I have wet myself in a cab before now. Aren't you pissy? Aren't you pissy? Well, I just couldn't hold it. It's terrible. But I'm not a sicky person, so I've never vomited. I don't like to even talk about sick, but I don't get sick. So I can drink and drink and drink.

Out the other way. No, I just go to bed and, yeah, piss it all out. But some people are sick, aren't they, and they feel better after it. I wake up and I'm still drunk. So, I don't really have any funny stories about birthdays or disappointing stories about birthdays and i think once you get after a certain age you kind of like just let them go don't you well i do anyway fair enough um today in fact is my birthday oh and i have been out with my daughter and my sister to a garden centre, as you do when you're an old fart,

to eat cake with other old farts and look at plants with other old farts and generally fart a lot whilst walking down the garden centre. I blame the coffee. My mother did wish me a happy 60th birthday, which was nice considering I'm not 60 till next year thanks mother I will hold on to my 50s just that little bit longer however I'll just take this opportunity to wish you a fabulous birthday oh what a lovely message she's funny but yeah I don't think you're an old fart for going to the garden centre. If you're an old fart, we're all old farts.

I love a garden centre. Mark's done all the hanging baskets. Do you see them? I didn't see the hanging baskets, but I did admire your tomatoes and chillies. They are looking big. They're good. They're good, aren't they? Really good.

Yeah, they're doing really, really well. Really well. But he's done all the baskets out the front. Lovely they are. Really, really good. He's a good boy. He's a good boy. Garden's looking lovely, actually.

I haven't had a call yet about Taskmaster. Haven't? Oh, yeah, well, when will they be recruiting for the New Year's treat ones? I don't want to be a New Year treat. You want to be a full series? I want to be a full series oh yeah but i'm not a comedian am i no but then they had richard osman yeah on and they'll occasionally kind of sway sway a little bit did i tell you my story about taskmaster no i've not told you

i don't think so no so there's a guy andy who's one of the executive producers the two andys the two yeah right the two andys one of them but one of them so i. The two Andys. The two, yeah. Right, the two Andys. One of them. But one of them. So I emailed, I got someone kindly, well, I'm basically stalking Taskmaster. Yeah, yeah. So I emailed Andy and he kindly got back to me and he said, oh, you know, we've done this series and that

and we'll see. So that was that. So I went to the TV Choice Awards a little while ago and I saw on the table planner, as you go in, it's a bit like a wedding, you know, you can see all the tables. I saw there was a taskmaster table. Yeah.

So I thought, right, okay. So anyway, awards happened. I presented an award with lovely Bobby Brazier. Lots of things happened. One of the ladies from The Chase fell off the stage. Oh. Yeah. I had to go to hospital.

Yeah, did a collarbone. Ohbone oh no i think it was a production person so i hope you're all right but it was quite funny at the time um anyway awards came down it was lovely tom allen who was presenting him lovely to me he was brilliant um i went i flew i remember the number of the um taskmaster table i ran ran right to the back of the awards ceremony room, right in the back. I ran all the way down there, got to the table. I said, excuse me, I'm so sorry, who's Andy? And she went, well, there's two Andys.

So I run around and I said, I sent someone an email and he said, oh, hello, that was me. And I said, this was my task for the night. I've stayed sober enough to remember your table number. I've run to the back of the room. I wanted to say hello in person. that is my task for the evening and he said you've done very very well and he said when you presented your award you were quite funny so we'll definitely have you on yeah but task master's up there em yeah it's this one i really would like to do

either that or present my own quiz there's's not enough female presenters. Quiz meisters. You think about it. I've been saying it for a while. Bradley Walsh. All the time. Love him, but he's on everything. Yeah. Bradley.

Then you've got Lee Mack. Yeah. 1% Club. Michael McIntyre. Romesh. Alexander Armstrong. Michael. Romesh. Very Armstrong. Michael, Romesh. Very, very male heavy.

Get me in. I can do a little quiz. I can chat to people. I'm manifesting. Put it out into the world. So far, so good. Yeah. So you never know.

You've got Victoria Coren Mitchell. She's probably the only one I can think of. Only connect. Yeah, too clever for me. When you watch it. Oh, I'll be very, very chuffed if I even get one. Really? You know the one with the words with the spaces out? Oh, I'm not too bad at that.

Not too bad at that. Never mind, that's the easiest one, isn't it? Yeah. Only Connect is great. Emma, as we've been recording this, I've got a lovely message here from Lucy. She saw me on this morning yesterday because that was fun that was lovely going on there oh ben shepherd and kat dealy

what a lovely pair of people they seem so nice genuine they're genuine yeah yeah and they've actually they listened they've obviously listened to some of our pod because they come up with staff and ben was talking about alex and mike and cap was talking about the viennetters for a pound or chain a pound um but it was a really lovely show to do you get all glammed up you know they get you all ready because you know me i walk about don't i no makeup on hair not done so you get all your hair done all your makeup done go and have a little chat and a cup of tea and then you're ready for the day i'll sign me up i'll do it honestly brilliant but this is what lucy said hey nat it's lucy from blackburn just listening to episode six i saw you on this morning i didn't know you had a podcast till i saw you on it because i don't have

any social media but i think you're a legend there's not enough uh northern accents on your podcast hence why i thought i'd send a voice fair enough feel a bit of a knob doing it to be honest no there you go i've listened to all of the episodes so far driving around i do i spend a lot of time in the car not just casually just because i have to get you know from a to b for work and shit so yeah love it love you girls really funny feel like you're sat in the car with me uh so thanks a lot oh that's lovely lucy thank you and you see these going on shows like this morning or whatever some people don't have social media some people are not on instagram and

following what i'm doing all the time do you know what i mean some people have actually got lives i don't mean that. Welcome, Lucy. Thanks for joining. It's lovely. I'm pleased that you're on board and you're right. We haven't had loads of Northerners, so, well, it's not my fault. Not my fault the old Londoners are reaching out. So here's a call to all the Northerners out there.

Send me a voice note. I thank everybody for their birthday messages thank you i hope anyone who's got a birthday in may has a lovely lovely time taureans are the best gemini's sort of at the end of may but taureans are the best we are quite materialistic very very homely very family orientated but we do love a bit of money oh but we're very generous with it but we like you know what i mean you like nice thing we like nice things um but we're very grounded people and i'm not only a taurus i'm kind of a double taurus so i was obviously a taurean but when i was born the moon was in taaurus as well. So I'm so grounded.

It's a surprise my feet ain't stuck to the floor. Oh, it's been really lovely just having a little kind of correspondence catch up, talking about people's birthdays and stuff. I hope you've enjoyed it. Big one out on Thursday, all about mobile phones and teens and how kids use their phones. I spoke to an amazing lady called Daisy. You'll hear all about it. I think you'll really enjoy it.

So that's coming Thursday. In the meanwhile, if you haven't listened to the back catalogue, it's not too big yet. So why don't you get back and listen? Remember to get in touch with me on 07788 201919 and tell me your stories,

voice notes and opinions about what we've been chatting about on here. Thank you for all your support. And yeah, can't wait to speak to you soon. Have a lovely time. See ya. Happy birthday.

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