The Rising’s Growing Together Podcast - Hospital Visits, Bike Wipeouts & Self-Care Real Life & Laughs You’ll Relate To! @TheRising1111 Ep.5

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

In this episode of Growing Together, Billie and Charlotte open up about real-life parenting curveballs, from sudden hospital visits with their kids to wild childhood bike adventures full of scrapes, laughter, and lessons. You’ll also hear a peek into Billie’s self-care rituals as she prepares for an upcoming holiday plus a hilarious round of ‘Would You Rather’ that ends the episode on a high! Inside this episode: • Handling unexpected hospital trips with calm and honesty • Nostalgic childhood stories bike accidents, independence, and the good old’ days • Why self-care and beauty rituals matter (even when life is chaotic) • A fun Would You Rather game that’ll have you laughing along Grab a coffee (or a wine) and join us for an episode full of real talk, throwbacks, and genuine connection. New episodes every Friday! Hosted by Billie & Charlotte best friends, ambitious mums, and career women sharing the highs, lows, and in-betweens of everyday life. Connect with us: Instagram: @therising1111 www.linktr.ee/therising1111 #parentingpodcast #childhoodmemories #selfcareformums #hospitalvisits #bikeaccidentstatus #wouldyourathergame #growingtogetherpodcast #RealLifeStories #mumlifeunfiltered #podcastforwomen

Welcome back, guys. Hey, thanks for joining us. Another week on the pod. You enjoying it? Yeah, we're still here. Yeah, still here, still recording another episode. Yeah, it's nice. I know we're recording, but it's just nice to catch up, reminisce to say.

It is nice to bring off all old memories and stuff. Yeah. So what you've been up to this week? Well, me, I've been dealing with hospital appointments, bits like that, because Mason fell off his bike. he broke his arm, hand, this area. So that's all casted up and they've been really undecisive

of whether they're operating or not. So yeah, that's what we've been dealing with. He's fine, he's absolutely fine. It was a slip on a roundabout in wet weather and simple as that, however. Just like the way he fell. Yeah, however he has fractured and he has got a cost on.

So that's been difficult more for him. Yeah. Because he's not able to work, he's not able to go on his bike, you know that sort of thing yeah his routines messed up yeah yeah completely um but yeah he's very lucky considering well we had bikes so we know how some accidents wouldn't be as lightly off should we say yeah yeah yeah i mean we've got a lot of experience i mean we have different accidents on our mowheads when we were younger yeah talking about weather i just had a flashback

to. I was driving back from Torreika back home and you know we're here when like it rains sometimes the heavens just open and it froze it down. It pours. I remember it got so bad I stopped and had to call my dad and he drove down with the van and put my bike in the van because it was so wet. What is it? Well it just goes to that river isn't it? Well yeah because there's no drainage and when it like say sometimes we get normal rain but sometimes when it's just such a large amount of rain in a short amount of time. So I do I remember stopping and in calling because of the brain, because it is, it is dangerous. Yeah.

I've had a lot of like little stupid ones like going too low round the corner and slipping off, but being absolutely fine. I mean, we've been lucky. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we've had friends who have, yeah, scratches all over them, bandaged dirt. We've had, well, it was the famous burn on the leg. Exhaust burn, yeah. Was it on the jog, the joggers?

It must have been. Or was the not, it wasn't that exhaust. I think if they change the exhausts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So obviously everyone went through a phase of upgrading their exhaust on their moped. And a lot of people had the joggers because they were like the fashionable ones. And was it the Hathen or something that was trod. And that was too.

Yasuni, Yassini? Maybe. I don't know. I didn't have one. No, I didn't. I didn't, to be honest. But everyone was changing them. And yeah, because they changed it, it didn't have the guard on it anymore.

So the amount of people that had the big burn on their legs. it was incredible you turn everything you see you like about 90% of us I think luckily I never because mine was I think nobody had the same no you're gonna

Yamaha Nios something like that I think it was all I remember was your little playboy bunny sticks on the front yeah your mom did them for me didn't she like that was a big funny and then two little ones on my end

she made them like cut them stencilled it all out didn't it and then yeah it looked perfect yeah it's a peel them on our little license. It's just stuck the Playboy bunny as well. Like now you get older it's like

should we have had Playboy stuff but it was quite fashionable there. It was there. And a Bayboy Jack. Well, thinking about what it is. Yeah. Well, I didn't know what it was. I just thought it's cool.

Yeah. Obviously I'm allowed actually censored it else to stick on us. But there we go. I don't think I knew the whole Hugh Hefner. No, I wouldn't. That's what I mean. I wouldn't have had a good. I didn't know any of that side of it.

But I think I knew that it was like, you know, sexy women kind of thing. Yeah. But, uh, got a playboy sticker. I did feel pretty cool with that. I must admit, all black bike with pink stickers. But yeah, I never got that burn, but I did fall off bad once. I'll come to a roundabout, and it wasn't far from that tabby sand builder's merchant.

So obviously a lorry must have gone and dropped loads of grit, loads of like sandy, rocky grit all on the roundabout. So it was summertime because I had shorts and t-shirt on, and I come straight up to the roundabout. not you know it was all clear ready to go so i mean i wasn't going slow but i wasn't going too fast and then yeah i just hit the gravel and just completely skidded out had my helmet down luckily because i know it was cool to put your helmet up i had my helmet down um and uh sorry mom do you remember that little up here like i just went really red with guilt then or something

do you know what i mean yes i did sometime no she caught me as well she caught me yeah she pulled up next to me my mom and she was like you get home now I was like the whole way home I don't know what I'd like to say it's just something that we thought was cool you ever really thought about it it was stupid it was it was fucking stupid and that's how it was yeah it was ridiculous and I was even driving around then it was it's not like I was even trying to impress anything when it was in the habit but yeah you had it down I had it down and but yeah I skid it out and like naturally and I think Mason said this to me the other day naturally you try and like hold on to the bike rather than just like let go.

He tried to save the bike. Yeah. I didn't try to save it. I just naturally didn't let go with it. No, he was more worried about harming the bike. Yeah, I'm sure he was. Yeah. But for me, I just skidded and I was like going across the ground like this and I was

breaking and then because I eventually like the wheel did break and stopped me skidding and then flipped me over to the other side because like the bike just stopped and then went over. then I scraped all the other side. So from, I think, elbow to shoulder, this side, I had no skin. I took basically all chunks out of my knees. And typical, it happened when nobody was at home. My mum and everyone was in England. Oh, God.

So it's just typical, in it? Like, that was the worst bike accident. And I hadn't, obviously, if it had been winter, it would have been far because I would have had jeans or something on. But she wasn't usually wear anything protective. No, I don't think anyone does really hear for that. Everyone kind of dries around in summer in shorts and T-shirt. But yeah, I lost loads of skin.

I had chunks out of my knees. And I remember this lorry came up after. And they were like, oh, let me call you an ambulance. But I was so terrified of like needles and things back then. I'm all right. I'm over it now. But then I was like, no, no, I'm not going. Especially because my mom can meet you.

I'm fine. I was literally covered in blood. Like, obviously they, like people all stopped on the street. I think even the police came. came really quickly after and like diverted all this traffic. And they were like, oh, we'll call an avalanus. And I was like, absolutely not. No, I'm not coming to the hospital by myself with like no.

I was fine. I was going to go home. I was scared they were going to say, oh, you need a tennis shot or something. I'm like, no, no needle. So this lorry was like, I'll take you home. And obviously my bike was all mangled. So this lorry picked up my bike. I had like a crane thing on the back, put it on the back of the lorry and drove me

home. But me stupidly, because you know, on the way to, my mum's house you can obviously drive through montesinos up which is the like main roadway or there's that like slip road at the back side yeah the fields are that's the way that i go so i've directed in that way and a big lorry that's just a big lorry a tiny little back road and i thought you were the clever one but i was not thinking in that moment because in the lorry i was just like wedging its way through this little back street and i'm sitting thinking like oh my God, I'm so embarrassed.

I am so embarrassed. Just leave me head. Eventually, yeah, it dropped me home. I dropped my bike at the house and then I call my mom and that. And it's funny because I got, I went through the drawers and I must have been, what, 15 then? I hadn't even met Lima that point, so it was definitely before. So I was hunting through the drawers and found like the iodine, you know, that like yellowy, orangey stuff. So I covered myself in that.

I thought I was broke to mom, she was like, how do you know how to do that? And I was like, whenever dad bangs himself building, like he always puts that stuff on, so I just copy. Eventually, when she got back, a bit of my knee had got a bit infected. Like, it started to scabbit bit pussy green. She had to really, like, scrub it back. That was painful, I bet. But yeah, like, it was like every, it was front and back.

So, like, to sleep was, like, horrible for weeks until, like, I healed up a bit. Bad but lucky. Yeah, so lucky. Like you say, it was around the, like, there was no other car. It's not like I got hit by a car. A car didn't hit me after. So, like, it was as good as a bad fall could be. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I just skidded, so I didn't completely flip over or headbutt anything. So, yeah, that was the worst, luckily, and it was, I'll take that. Oh. But, yeah, I was a bit of feeling sorry for myself for a while. I had bike days. But, yeah. We used to drive around and, like, you know, like, the bike again. It was, there was loads of us.

How, thinking back of how loud we must have been or. With all the new exhausts on that, like. Yeah, like, yeah, I would have. Horrible racket. it. If that approached me now, I'd feel a bit of it. I'm intimidated. Yeah, exactly. It's like 10, 15 bikes. Yeah. We have a funny because back then, you could hear the bike and you knew who was coming. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do it now. Like, I think I'm going to know who it is. I know. I know. It's just a habit, but obviously, there's no way we've known. No, obviously.

But back then, you could hear the bike coming and based on, like, the noise of it. Yeah. You could tell. I do do. Do it amazing friends now. I do. Yeah, yeah, it is quite nice. There's only a few, but yeah, there is. It is nice. But we used to do, well, we used to have to have to have a weekly trick to McDonald's because there was one McDonald's, wouldn't have it, didn't have it near us back then, didn't have to organise it, this area. Yeah, no, nothing up this area, nothing my area. So, yeah, it was 15, 20 minute drive. Yeah, we didn't, like a planet, weren't we, like a Friday.

Yeah, we'd all go. Yeah, let's meet after school and we'll take a trip. We'll convoyed up. That was what it was, a convoy of, but I'm going to McDonald's. And then combo back. It's so not far, but back then it felt like... It was, it was a trip. Yeah.

It was like a trip. Road trip. Yeah, it was. It was. It was like a trip to like that was right. Brilliant. And what was the song we used to, when we used to go over a bump? Is it dizzy rascal?

Fix up, look sharp. I don't know who ever came up with that. But yeah, we used to fix up, look sharp and then like, obviously lift your bum off for a little bit when you went over the bump. It's up, no, I go back days. Someone's got to have some more stories for our back in the day. Someone up. Remember when we were in your bedroom

and we could hear shouting outside and we've looked out the bedroom window and someone was sat on my bike trying to kick the steering out? Yeah. And we ran down, didn't we? Yeah, was it Craig and J? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Or whoever, people that we knew were running from the park because they'd clocked it and we were in the bedroom. We didn't know. And that's who we heard shouting, I think. Yeah, that's what I mean. We heard shouting and then we saw someone

trying to break the steering lock off my body. It bent it a little bit, so I just had to get it bent back. Yeah, that was another one-o-one insured bikes. To be fair, mine lasted really well. Mine didn't. I had two. Tell us the story. I had two, brand new, beautiful Jogar.

They were beautiful. My first one. So I'm going to tell you the actual story. I don't actually know what I've told my parents. I think I've told them the truth. I've only spoken about it. So I'm sorry if I haven't that this is the truth. Thank you.

It was on a lunch break where I used to work at a tattoo shop. Obviously not me doing the tattoos. I was just on reception. Yes, that was like one of your first little jobs, isn't it? So we met, I met some people at KFC for lunch or something, I think. and at the time I'm sure I wasn't the only person that did it I felt like I was but I'm sure I wasn't

like I had a huge huge bunch of key rings oh gosh yes huge huge like anything I could find that was it was a big fluffy thing there was something that there was one little like character things them loom bands yeah all that you did you had huge so like three keys but the bunch was that yeah I think I know it's a one case to be purchased.

So I'm a lock. Could I next week but they had a lot but yeah. Gotcha. Remember that? You had a massive one. I had a few but you were

to keep it like step too far. So I've parted my bike gone inside to KFC realized I didn't have my helmet and I left it in like the footwell. Yeah. So I ran back out to grab my helmet went my key and had my KFC

it was lovely. Came out. We all just chilled outside waiting so we have to leave to kind of go back to work or what we worked to do. Sat there in front of our bikes. Yeah? In front of our...

I nearly did it again then. In front of our bike. So for a while. And then we were at KFC by and I was like, where's my bike? Just realised it'd gone. Completely gone. It was not there. I was like, oh my God.

Oh, shit. Then I was like, where's my keys? So I ran back into KFC thinking my keys are in there. me looking in my helmet because sometimes we put him in a helmet. Yeah, no, my keys weren't in it. In my helmet, on the table, nowhere to be seen. So the basic thing was that I'd left the keys, a huge bunch of keys in the bike,

gone in to eat my lunch and just left it for anyone to take. Well, there you go. No, we go. So that was my first one. And then my second one, although I had it a little, a while, I hadn't really rode it because I was pregnant. So I'd not long had Mason and yet a month after it was my birthday.

And I think I'd rode it out and my mum says obviously don't ride your bike back if you have a drink so obviously I didn't and got a taxi home and left my bike with Mitch And then, and then I think he, he, I don't actually really know what happened. But all I know was in the morning, he rang me and was like, oh, happy birthday, babe. Your bite's been robbed. And I'm just going to the hospital to have head scans. What? Sorry, what?

Rewind. Literally that. At first I was like, oh, you're joking. Yeah, of course. Yeah, you were believer, would you? Until he said, actually, he said the bites were, then he said about the hospital. Then I was like, okay, that's not. funny. And so yeah basically I think he was he dropped someone home one of our mates home on the

bike and then was coming back and I think he'd got knocked off the bike. Some people had got him and took him home and locked up the bike wherever he fell off. His dad and his sister went out that night I'm sure to get the bike and it had gone already just that was it gone go on just like that and that was it you didn't have a black bucket well that's the story I was told yeah I don't actually know I'm sure it's the way it went

but yeah so two bikes in well probably two years isn't it yeah two bikes in two years yeah yeah good old nun and granddad eh thanks yeah but the first one was

was completely my fault that was completely not looking after one property yeah And just living in an area where, you know, it's going to get robbed if you leave it there. Especially with the keeping. Exactly. So, yeah, that was my experience with a bike anyway. Oh, good old bug days.

I did enjoy the bike days. Yeah, it was. Apart from riding it in the freezing cold. Yeah. And we did mish. So mish. We will live the furthest out, didn't we? Well, we did, yeah, because everybody else was only like five minutes apart from each other.

But you were like 15, 20 minutes. He were in one direction. And I was 15, 20 minutes. the other direction and then it took us the same to get it was a bit of a triangle wasn't it to get to each other so but we just did it though didn't we it wasn't like a mind about it oh yeah we did at the time but yeah it wouldn't stop me going at all whereas now i'll be like brain in no thanks it's cold in a car it's past seven o'clock i've got my jams on you got a car with heat seat yeah no no no I'm fine back then nothing stopped us yeah if she wanted to go

which we did we were i mean it weren't no which didn't been found it yeah yeah i'd like to hear some other stories though someone's got a reminder of some stories come on you lot come on you lot send us in and we'll show come on what have you been doing this week anyway um so this week's been all about trying to get organized for the holiday yeah had like packing piles of clothes in my living room for about a week because obviously can't get nothing done with two children especially a toddler a toddler no a baby baby baby um yeah so trying to pack try and every time i get interrupted then coming back and having to repack because I can't remember what I've packed.

Lists every, yeah, I guess. Lists, lists upon lists. And then, yeah, just trying to dole myself up and pamper myself a little bit before going. So I hadn't had my nails done for ages. So just shillac to myself and got a little pedicure. Had my eyebrows, tinted and laminated, which I don't always get. I just laminated, like, stuck. Yeah, I think so.

That's probably not the nicest worth staying there. They look lovely. Yeah, I say don't have stuck them down. I normally tell I'm not one to go regularly. I normally get them tinted and wax, but yeah, so every now and then I just get them like, they fan them out and then they like put stuff on to make them stick in that position. They just look a bit more fuller, I think, sometimes. So we got that done and then I came to you.

You did. You did. Got my pearly whites. It was well, well overdue a clean. Mm-hmm. I'm not one to get regular cleans anyway. way I used to hate the dentist like petrified of the dentist then I got my teeth done I had my top four crowns done because my teeth I had one that stuck out I had one that was chipped

I just hated my smile so I think it was about 1819 when I got my crowns done and um actually the dentist said you were the first person I nearly turned around and said I'm not doing because you're in that you got yourself that wot up before even getting anything done oh really she injected me which she normally only does no she numbed me before she injected to me which she normally only does for children because I was in that much of a I just hate it I was just scared of needles was my biggest thing and I think the dentist the smell of the gloves and the needles just it was one of my phobias but anyway I powered through I got them done so yeah never really keep up with my cleans to be honest I think I've got one or two because

I had private health care and you get one free a year yeah yeah so it would mainly work helped to be organise it. But yeah, no, even though I've still got that, I wanted to come to you.

Yeah, wanted to come to you which was a very nice experience and they feel so much better. I'd say, they were well overdue. You know, when you can feel the ridges in your teeth

and it's like, now you can feel like, every, every gap. Yeah, and they felt so much cleaner and whiter. It's weird, isn't it,

how people keep up with certain things? Yeah, like nails and brows and hair yet wouldn't necessarily think to really keep up with the teeth isn't on my list to be honest i suppose it's my job so it's different it's different for you yeah i mean hair i've only got because this colour gives me roots but normally

i'd be lucky to go to hedgerence once a year hair i really don't keep on top with i normally either brown or i'm like blonde like that but not with from the root like more yeah yeah so i don't actually have to upkeep so hair i i go maybe once twice a year nails i'll go through phases of getting them done, but I just, it's not a treatment I enjoy. It's something that I just rush to get done because, like I say, they do look better when they're done. Yeah. So this is just Shalak rather than actually getting tips. So I might just try and keep that. Yeah. I try to keep my nails done. I think I used to them book it ahead. Like, you know, only two or three weeks, Shalat, that's it. I don't know why. I don't book it because you know

you need it done then. And then I get my eyelash is lifted. I think that's what it's called. Yeah. You were surprised at that the other day. No, I was like, what? Yeah, yeah, because I don't do anything. Because you don't do any treatment. Well, that's the point. You haven't got to do anything. Literally, it's it.

It never crossed my mind to get that done, but actually I might try. You know why? Because I don't, I just thought of having to do. Put your makeup on. But you don't wear makeup up. Shit, you got to take your makeup on. Yeah, so you don't wear makeup to work anyway. No.

You got masks and stuff on. So it makes sense to just do something. Well, that's the only thing they can see, isn't it? Yeah. Really, when I'm working, it's, you can see my eyes. So if my eyebrows are over due, I think, oh, my, God, all they're doing is looking at this girl needs her. Yeah, because you wax your eyebrows.

Yeah, I get my eyebrows waxed. Yeah. But that's it. I normally just pluck my eyebrows until the point where they need tint in, which I don't do that often. I normally just fill them in with eye shadow. Yeah, well, you... I still can't do it.

I wouldn't try to do it myself. But it makes such a difference. Yeah, you did, yeah, complete. So I think I saw that on, I think Stacey Solomon said it once. Yeah. And she just fills it in with brown eye shadow. So for years, I've always... I've always done that.

But every now and then, maybe once every couple of months, I'll get them done just to make it so that... Like you say, yeah, I'm going to do it? It just look more sharp, like, even sharper than if I was to fill them in, like, because I'd get them waxed if there's any hairs and then tinted and stuff. So I do that every now and then, but it's not regular. One thing in the last year, I was quite good at doing regularly before kind of being too pregnant was getting massages.

That was my treat to myself. So I've always enjoyed a massage, but again, it was something as and when, an anniversary, a birthday, something special. But then I was like, no, that is going to be my one thing that I'm going to do once a mother. That was like me with my facials. But yeah, it has lacked in the last. Facials I tried to do as well.

I got into a habit with the massages and then I thought, do you know what, skin is, you know, we're getting to that age now that we need to keep on top of our skin. So, yeah, I was trying to do. Yeah, I've never had the best skin either. So when I started with this routine and it helped, I thought I've got to keep it. I completely got to keep it up. We're just saying about nails then. Do you remember when we, well, I did.

I think we all did. The long square nails that, I mean, I know people still have them now. I just genuinely don't know how I would be able to do anything. No, I'll watch some of these celebrities and I'm like, you've got a baby and your nails are that lot. Yeah, how? How do you wipe its ass? Yeah, how do you wipe your ass? No, I've been able to have slightly longer nails.

like I'd say probably not long at all I'd say medium short um yeah I can when I get tips I can I can have them a bit long but I prefer to just have them short we used to have to be like a flush the toilet yeah with your knuckle and um opening my microwave as well I do it with my finger when my nails get too long when I'm doing infills and they're a bit long you know I have to my finger got stuck in there and I literally it got wedged in I panicked and yanked it out, I took a chunk out of my finger. I saw them little things look. But yeah, no, like I say, I'm not one to be yet like weekly blow drys, nails long, like, I wish

I was, but I'm just not now, that's what I mean, I was, I was, it was all about, wasn't I know, I know, I think that's, like this, I haven't got to do much to let's, just maintain, is that the right thing to say? Yeah, well, it's maintenance, isn't it? So it depends if it's like, if you do it that regularly, it's like high-maintenance upkeep or I think we're quite low-maintenance people anyway. Yeah, I'd say. I'd say that. But yeah, no, I think facials, I want to get done more regularly.

It is a good thing. It is good. And you can really, I mean, I didn't think it would make a huge amount of difference. But when I got one, I was like, wow, yeah, my skin looks nice and healthy and glowy and, like, the pores. Yeah, it'll be smaller. Definitely helps. And if you keep it up and you do it every day, every night.

I'm really not good at facial routine. Every day, never every night. Oh God, I'm not going to lie. So you do every morning? Every day. But not enough. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And I wear more makeup than you, so I should really have, especially an evening routine. Yeah. I've got better with, like, products. Like, from having a couple of facials, I've bought myself like. Just like brushing your tea before you go to sleep. Yeah, that's true. Just put that in there.

I try. Okay. I will now. I've had a clean. No, you won't. No, I don't. differently won't that was such a line. Do you know how many times of a day I hear that?

But no, I got a couple of, like, slightly better and, like, more expensive face creams and syrims and stuff from the people that was doing my facials. And I got that Elamis cleansing balm. Good. That stuff smells divine. It was just something I think Molly May put on and then obviously it was a hype thing that everyone was doing. And then I saw it in the airport.

It was only 39 quid or something for, like, quite a big tub of it. it and you don't use much but it's it I mean all the face for the face yeah I mean I I was taking my makeup off like with a wash or with like a baby wife or something first and then using it but I think it's actually to get makeup off you so you can use it whichever but I prefer to get the makeup off and then I enjoy rubbing it in because it's like it feels quite oily but it just really sucks into the skin it smells lovely and then I bought from primark like these little like a pack of like 10 of these little microfiber cloths so just get hot water on it and then you rub it off that way instead of like splash your face like it's

nice to wipe off but yeah I enjoy doing that which makes it easier to remember to do it because you know when you enjoy it yeah yeah yeah and then you get into a bed or fresh bedding and you've cleaned your face and oh yeah well clean pajamas that's a month that it's like a once a month luxury clean bedding clean pajamas freshly washed face yeah that is that is a that's a feeling that is definitely am I love but yeah so nice week yeah thinking it was all a bit rushed though like rushing out to a point it's trying to get it in fit around work and then you know like packing and stuff but no i'm glad i've got it done and then and this is it and that's it rough tomorrow so yeah excited yeah i'll be

happy once we're on the way you know with that horrible feeling just before a holiday where have this have a pack this have a pat down forgot something oh my god yeah i like it and as well because you have to put them bits you know the lot if you can't put in until you are literally ready so i said Jason, like tomorrow, toothbrush, your blanket and your teddy, because you've got to sleep with that tonight. So he's quite good at remembering things like that. They are a bit. But, yeah, all the last minute stuff you can't pack.

Yeah. Before we finish, because I know we're going to start finishing up soon, I just wanted to play a little game. Well, I enjoyed the game we did all the wage and ones. I would try to do more games because I think that's fun. Yes. So this is more of a, well, would you rather? Okay.

Yeah? Yeah. So I'll ask you this or that, yeah? And then you've got to say, hit me, obviously. So would you rather beach or city? Probably city, you know. I'd say beach. The only reason why is because city, I like to visit a city.

Yeah. I like to visit a beach and come away from the beach as well. It's just city to me screams so many people. Well, I don't like lots of people in crowds. I'm thinking like just walking the streets and seeing things that are interested. I'm not thinking of crowd. But I'm just thinking sand. Yeah, I know.

I know. Me and actually are beach people. I think Casey's been to the beach. Well, he's been to the beach because I think it's down and grande that's taking him. But, yeah, we're not beachy people. I love the beach if nobody's there. Love a beach when it's not busy.

Your beach. I would say beach. I have to say beach. If there was like country there, I'd say country. Okay. Country? Country. Country side.

Yeah. Country. I was like country. What could I go? Countryside. Yeah. Country side. like a farm girl right okay would you rather coffee or tea this isn't this is a good one i love them

both at different times of the day there's people who don't like coffee and tea you know in our group i know no hot drink few of you yeah not going to name names okay i love you love you it took me a while to get into coffee you were into coffee way before me i don't think i actually got into coffee till i was like 24 yeah you liked coffee a lot younger than that i don't know no one is only my great I don't have ever drunk coffee. So it must have just, because I'd literally have it how he has it. I'd find it very difficult to pick one over the other. But first thing in the morning, tea.

Like midday, early afternoon, coffee. And I really like iced coffee at the moment with vanilla latte. No, that's a lie. Caramel latte. So everybody loves the latte, Frappuccino, La Cidina. I don't know how to all of them. The American ones that with a squirt of this and a thing of that and a shake and it was. When they asked you.

Before I was like, what have you just daunted? Yeah, in America, when I watch these shows, I'm like, how do you even know that that's like an option to order? Like, all the different types of milk. Yeah, I just have coffee with milk. Actually, I didn't even have milk, so I don't even like machine constrict. I'm, yeah, I would say coffee in the morning. Yeah.

And tea in the evening. Evening. With a packet of biscuits. Oh, yeah. What biscuits? Oh, it's always on. Bourbons. Yeah.

So, bourbons. And sometimes the occasional little ginger biscuit. it can see I'm a custard cream I can get a custard cream I mean more back in the day my best thing my best remember them like family tints yeah like the smiley faces and then the sugar runs and the nice of stuff oh no good memory yeah oh yeah so that that would be me coffee in the so we're opposite yeah yeah I actually to be fair I do like my lemon hot lemon you have cold don't you I have it hot in the mornings um but at the moment I'm having it cold, yeah, like just water with a slice of warming.

I like it hot, so I have hot water with lemon and then a little bit of honey. Yeah, I was doing that in the morning. Quite a bit of honey. But then I kind of replaced it with tea again and I find it really hard to get back into the hot water lemon. But I'm trying to drink more in the day and Liam bought me one of them ginormous. They're not real Stanley Cups. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, one from Aldi. Thermal Cut.

Thermal cup. That's what they are. So, yeah, but because it's so big, I'm filling it with water. I've put a load of lemon slices in it and it's making it drill more in the day because I'm terrible. I could go all day hours and hours without drinking a thing. I am exactly the same. That's one thing I definitely.

That's why I feel just better if I drink that whole lemon rub and I'm coffee. I can definitely have probably two, maybe, maybe no, two coffees a day. Otherwise I'm just one latte week as you like. Cannot handle more than that. Otherwise I'm like, get hard. It's going to explode. Heart attack. And just start rushing and speaking really fast.

And then it's like, it's not good, it's not good look when you're in a professional environment. Trying to talk to clients. It's like, you grow, yeah. Nobody can understand me. Oh, this is a good one. Heels or trainers? Again, depends.

We like both, don't we? I'd pick, if you're going to say now, trainers. I'd like to pick instantly trainers, especially at this period of my life with children, 100% trainers. And I do, I'm more excited to buy trainers. I enjoy buying trainers and getting fresh trainers. And my collection is enormous.

because I keep mine prestige. Liam goes through the trainers. They're just there. I'm going to say, just iron them up over there. Liam goes through them like a couple of months and he's done and he needs a new pair. Like he cannot keep them fresh. Whereas I'm like, step away from my trainer. No, they're like a year and a half old.

Yeah, literally. I've got some that are from before Kaysen. So they are six, seven years old, but they are clean. Yeah. So, yeah, instantly trainers, I do like heels, but on occasion, as a woman. On occasion. It's usually to me, it's. like, well, I used to when we go out,

you're not wearing heels, we're going out. You know, like that thing. You do anything like, like, going up, wear hills. We are like a hill hose. Yeah. Summer you get away with the sand or wedge, yeah. Yeah, but, yeah.

But trainers. We are trainer girls through and through. Deatho. So, death, I love the trip. Right. What was the next one? Let's do two more. Go on.

My hook has been here. I'm not, but I just don't know. Sorry, okay. So, um, cheek flick or thriller? Oh. Depends on the mood, but I do like thrillers. I'm into thrillers at the moment. Wouldn't even go near anything.

Not scary. What, a thriller is scary? No, is it not? No, that's different. Scary movie, no. Thriller is like, there's like a mystery going on. They have to solve it and there's some sort of crime happening.

Yeah, that's scary. It's not a like murder coming to kill. Well, I suppose they are sometimes. See? Yeah. I'm watching a lot of, um, I really don't know how to pronounce her name at the moment. Harlan-Cobin. I don't even know if that's a man or a woman. Wouldn't know for it. But whoever done, Michelle Keegan's most recent, Missing New or whatever it was called. No, for me once or something. Yeah, that rings a bell. And then Missing New came out. So she or he, I don't know who.

I don't know who they are. It could be either. They do like a lot of series that are like, yeah, it's all about thinking and twist and like a mystery happening and stuff. So that's right. A CSI style. A little bit. Because CSI is always like someone's died. Yeah. And then you have to figure the crime out from a death scene. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is more like the missing new one.

She was dating someone. Then all of a sudden he broke up and disappeared. He just vanished off the face of the earth. And then I can't even remember what happened. But then on the missing new one as well, her husband died. And then she saw him on her baby monitor. And like, you know, like just weird. Yeah.

That's scary. Yeah. That to me scary. It gets your mind thing. Yeah, that's scary. Like, that's too scary. No. They're really not scary, but I, I'd say a chick flick, but in all honesty, I don't watch

anything. Ironically, I don't watch television. I don't watch television. I don't watch television. I don't watch films. I don't, I don't look on my... I literally don't watch anything, apart from my podcast. Like, I don't.

Like, I can go back with the ones from back in the day, like, all the things we'd watch. You may like the movies we grew up in. Yeah, but it was dead. definitely wasn't a thriller or a, it was definitely... And you're not up to date, so like you say, you know some of the old stuff. Yeah, we're not up to date. Whereas I watch a lot of movies and I'm a binger, so it's like, if I get into something, I've, I've completed the season, like, within two days.

Yeah, I, saying that, we did, Liam is, you started watching, um, the farm one, Jeremy's... Yeah, like Sterry Parks. I thought that, I like that one. That was good. I watched that. I mean, I did, I kept having to watch that one. I watched one with it, but then I found it all right, but then he carried

on with it. Right. And then watch the gold rush and things like that. I wasn't too into it. I wasn't that much. Yeah. It wasn't even that much. It wasn't even that one thing that watched, not even recently.

Because if we find something we both like, then obviously, like, that's quite hard. So, like, yeah, watch it together and do not watch it without each other. That's, like, rude. But yeah, that one, I didn't really care that you watched it. Right. Last one then. Cute PJs or comfy PJs? Comfy PJs.

You can fuck right off. I'm giving a shit, mate. like coming off anyway I'm watching Love Island and all these cute pajamas it's like you do not wear that on a day to day that is purely for the show yeah no comfy

oh look what we was wearing the other day they were comfy that is it that is real life PJs people comfy PJs yeah that would be my answer on that one that's crazy when that was quick comfy Jays done that's good I like then would you rather

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