EP242: Nat’s Nieces minus Els Bels #55! IT’S BIN EMOTIONAL.

Roro 0:02:29 At least it's cool in here.

Natalie Cassidy 0:02:49 It's cooler than it was last week.

Roro 0:02:51 Oh, that's why we didn't do a pod, wasn't it? Next week's the same. It's all the best.

Natalie Cassidy 0:02:58 The good news is Tony's aircon man's coming Friday afternoon.

Roro 0:03:04 Oh, that is such a good—

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:05 He's having a look. Oh, he's having a look at—

Roro 0:03:08 Look at what? What's he need to look at?

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:09 I think he needs to look at walls, roofs, what he's doing, but he's on his way.

Roro 0:03:14 Thank gosh.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:15 So I'm going to beg him.

Roro 0:03:16 Thank gosh.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:17 Thank gosh. Oh, thank golly gosh.

Roro 0:03:20 That doesn't even make sense.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:22 Welcome to, um, Nat's niece. Else Bells, uh, is, is— James ain't well. James is a bit poorly, bless him. So it's me and Aruru tonight. Yeah, we've got shitloads to go through. How are you?

Roro 0:03:37 I'm—

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:39 Is that how you feel?

Roro 0:03:41 I feel—

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:42 So do I.

Roro 0:03:42 Well, I know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:43 I could cry. I'm not going— no, no, not just about the arm, just it's knocked me off centre what's happened. I don't, I don't feel good. I'm not surprised.

Roro 0:03:53 I mean, I lost my big toenail and that really polished you off. That really got me down. I didn't realise how much that affected me. And then I heard your news and I thought, it's not that bad.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:06 See, you didn't mention it, to be fair. That would've been cracking.

Roro 0:04:09 I put it in Patreon, didn't I?

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:10 Oh, did you? I haven't seen that.

Roro 0:04:12 Oh yeah, I did put a photo. I just said, I'm absolutely devo.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:16 However, how did that happen?

Roro 0:04:18 I would love to know. So I was out On the Saturday night.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:21 Yeah.

Roro 0:04:21 Oh, this is gonna sound really gross.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:23 No.

Roro 0:04:24 But, um, it was hurting.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:26 No more gross than the old passata that everyone likes.

Roro 0:04:29 Still, still doing it. I dunno, I noticed something on my toe, like a bit of, uh, crust.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:38 Hope everyone's enjoying their breakfast.

Roro 0:04:42 Sorry. But you know what I mean? So anyway, I sort of ignored it. You know when it smells a little bit?

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:49 Oh no, no, I'm sorry. Sorry, sorry. Better than the snot sucking. Sorry, guys.

Roro 0:04:55 Um, didn't think much of it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:56 Fungal infection?

Roro 0:04:57 No. Well, it's not. I think what's happened— and then a couple of days later, it was like lifting. Okay. And I do have, um, gel on it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:05 Lifting.

Roro 0:05:06 Lifting. And it did— it smelled a little bit.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:09 Yeah.

Roro 0:05:09 So I was like, fuck. So, and I could feel the whole thing was lifting up. Right. So I don't know if I've knocked it or something's happened. So I tried— I peeled the gel off.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:17 Yeah.

Roro 0:05:17 And it didn't. So I just cut it really far down with clippers. And I was like, fuck, this is really bad. But I've, I've saved it. I've been putting cream on it. It's not an infection. And I've managed to have some gel put on it so it looks half decent. So you've not lost your toenail? No. So it was actually, I, I took a photo and I ChatGPT'd it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:39 Pop that on the grid.

Roro 0:05:40 No, I'm not. But I ChatGPT'd it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:44 Yeah. Well done.

Roro 0:05:46 And it was— advice was that it's still on by the cuticle, so we think we're good. So I'm hoping it will just grow out.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:53 I'm sure it will.

Roro 0:05:53 Sorry, that is so much information.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:55 No, I think we all go through these things. I've only lost toenails when I've run a marathon. Well, that's what I was thinking. That, someone the other day on Instagram, it's so weird you've mentioned that now. It's very odd. Why? Because I had a reel come up with a man with a bowl bowl of water. Mm-hmm. And it was, he was putting mouthwash in there, vinegar in there, and he was like, this helps your toenails. How weird's that?

Roro 0:06:18 And you didn't even know?

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:19 No.

Roro 0:06:20 That's, it's weird. And does it help?

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:22 Yes. Oh, no.

Roro 0:06:24 I was very upset 'cause I thought it's not really the time of year for that to be happening. No. No. Do you know what I mean? You don't need that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:31 Not with your sandals on.

Roro 0:06:32 Exactly. The feet are bad enough as it is without that happening. But But I think we've salvaged it. I'll show you after.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:38 Okay.

Roro 0:06:39 That's good. So yeah, that was that. Then obviously your news was not ideal.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:45 Not ideal at all.

Roro 0:06:46 I actually didn't, I did not know what to say.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:51 No, no, I know.

Roro 0:06:51 There were no words.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:52 No, I know.

Roro 0:06:53 Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Like nothing to make it better, nothing to help the situation. It's fucking mad.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:59 Yeah. Although it does make me laugh that the pod that me and Mark did, On Monday, all the national newspapers have picked it up. I've seen it.

Roro 0:07:06 I saw it today.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:07 The horror story. Independent run it. It must be fucking no news on this week.

Roro 0:07:12 But what made me laugh was that one of the headlines was something like smashed to pieces. And I was like, that's so you. That is such a you thing to say.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:20 No, I did say smashed to pieces again.

Roro 0:07:22 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It made me laugh.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:23 But hey ho, listen, she's doing well. She's— the only thing I'd say about it now, And I don't, you know, I prefer not to really talk about my children's emotions, but I will. And I think people will understand and it's important.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:36 Today I was talking about going back to school. Mm. 'Cause obviously there's a few weeks left. And she genuinely was, she looked, she had fear in her eyes. She said, Mummy, I just don't wanna go back.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:46 And that's hard. Mm. Because she's scared. And I said, but there's not. And I always keep saying, you need to be more careful.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:52 You need to be a bit scared. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think this has polished her off.

Roro 0:07:55 Oh, bless her. Well, she's not gonna be doing PE and stuff, is she? No, of course not. Maybe. a bit more time, but let her maybe just see the end of the year out.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:03 I'm just going to see actually. And I know people might say that's wrong, that's right. But she does a lot. I've got loads of workbooks at home. If she wants to just get to a point where she's in the summer, we can get it stronger, we can get it better. And she doesn't wanna, not people knocking it, people—

Roro 0:08:18 No, I get it. I guess my only thing to you is then she's got another 6 weeks off school. I know. So how's she gonna feel going back to class? I agree with that. It's all very new. I agree. And also you miss your friends.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:29 It's very good to be at school. Maybe just give it the rest of this week.

Roro 0:08:31 And then get back next week.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:33 That's what I'm thinking. That is what I'm thinking.

Roro 0:08:35 See how she is. Yeah, it's still quite fresh. Mm-hmm. Bless her.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:39 But she's right. She's right.

Roro 0:08:40 Nightmare. But yeah, what else? I've been, I've had a couple of lovely weekends celebrating the old birthday.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:49 It's your birthday. It's your birthday.

Roro 0:08:51 So that's been really lovely. Really nice. Had some really, really lovely evenings and days out with friends.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:57 You went to Margate, is that right? Went to Margate. I've never been to Margate. You've been a few times. Yeah, 'cause my friend lives there.

Roro 0:09:01 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:04 Enjoyed it?

Roro 0:09:05 Really lovely place. It's cool. It's a cool place. They call it like Hackney on Sea now, don't they?

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:09 Tracy Emin lives there, doesn't she?

Roro 0:09:11 So Madonna was there, wasn't she? Was she? Yeah. Seeing Tracy.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:15 Wow.

Roro 0:09:15 That was all over socials a little while ago. Yeah. No, it's a cool place, but it's seaside, isn't it? But we went to see The Streets. Yeah. How was it? On the Friday. Really, really good. It was at Dreamland.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:27 I had a message from somebody. About that.

Roro 0:09:30 Oh, right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:30 And I don't know who it was. I'm not sure if I can find it now.

Roro 0:09:33 Saying what?

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:34 Let me just have a quick look, Em.

Roro 0:09:36 Mel and I, it was so hot.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:39 I dunno how you did. I was worried. I phoned you. I said, drink lots of water.

Roro 0:09:42 It was so hot.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:44 I saw you on the waltzers. Loved it.

Roro 0:09:46 Need to put these up. I actually must put them up. You do.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:48 You must.

Roro 0:09:49 So me and Mel get into Dreamland.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:51 Yeah.

Roro 0:09:51 And instead of going to the bar, we went to the waltzer and some other ride and had the time of our lives. We were the only people on there.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:58 Brilliant.

Roro 0:09:59 £5 each.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:01 What, per ride? I sent it as a joke. I know.

Roro 0:10:04 I murdered it. So that was fun. We were absolutely pissing ourselves. Crazy. On the waltzer to garage music. That was good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:10 Excellent.

Roro 0:10:11 Yeah. Then we got drunk and watched the streets and they were excellent. It was just like an older crowd, so it was quite nice. Yes. 'Cause obviously it's our generation and older, to be fair. So, yeah, it was just a good, good crowd of people. But yeah, everyone was there for a real good time, and he was excellent.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:27 Excellent.

Roro 0:10:27 And then the day after, I got quite drunk on seaside martinis.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:33 Oh, what does that— Sensational. What, what, what are we popping in there?

Roro 0:10:37 Don't know. Oh, but really nice.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:38 That's a shame.

Roro 0:10:39 But probably had 4 too many, 5 too many, um, and didn't make the England game.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:46 Oh, did you not?

Roro 0:10:48 No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:48 Oh, it was late.

Roro 0:10:51 10.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:51 We did National Picky Bits Day. Yes. Had your mum pop round. Yep. Els popped round.

Roro 0:10:55 Yep, I heard.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:56 So that was really nice. Had a few wines. And then Evie phoned me, said me and Toby's gonna come up. Oh. And I was a bit like, ooh. So everyone went and actually I had loads of water 'cause I thought, I'm not gonna make it. Cleaned the kitchen, washed all the floors. And then Evie and Toby arrived about 7. We had a little barbecue and I made it. I did. Oh, well done. Which is, you know what I'm like.

Roro 0:11:17 Yeah, no, I was, um, Sparkle. So it was good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:21 Can't find the message. It was from a lady who said, was your niece at the streets last night?

Roro 0:11:27 Oh, stop it. Yeah. And I said, yes, she was. Who are you? Let us know. Oh yeah, I'll try and find it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:33 It's just in the messages.

Roro 0:11:34 Um, talking of the World Cup, fucking shocker. I was so excited. Oh no, you don't even know. Japan went 1-0 up against Brazil.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:45 Yes. So that meant 1-all, right?

Roro 0:11:49 We were literally there in extra time, and in injury time Brazil scored.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:54 What a shame.

Roro 0:11:55 And I put a little cheeky bet on, oh, for them to win. That was never going to happen, but the odds were good. Um, so yeah, we're out and Germany out on penalties.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:04 Shocker. Well, Germany, because I haven't seen a lot of it, perfect, not gonna lie, I'm just watching England games. Was Germany a knockout stage? Yes, it was.

Roro 0:12:14 So it went to extra time.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:15 Fine.

Roro 0:12:16 It was 1-all again.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:17 Gets a bit, it gets exciting now though, doesn't it, with the knockouts?

Roro 0:12:20 So the problem with the Germany game was I was so tired, watched it in bed, fell asleep.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:25 Yep.

Roro 0:12:25 And then I woke up in a panic and it was penalties, but I was like in and out of sleep, so I sort of didn't know what was going on. It was awful. So that's the problem with these late games.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:36 Yeah, it's hard. It's very, very late.

Roro 0:12:38 And then tomorrow, this will be yesterday, Yeah. England's on at 5.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:43 5 AM?

Roro 0:12:44 No, PM.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:46 What's happening tomorrow? What's tomorrow? I'm working. What is tomorrow?

Roro 0:12:49 Wednesday.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:50 Oh, I'm here. I'm around.

Roro 0:12:51 Okay, good for you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:52 Yippee!

Roro 0:12:53 But a lot of people will be working. I'm sure they'll be let off a bit early, hopefully.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:57 Yeah.

Roro 0:12:57 But it's annoying. Can't it just be on at like 8? Why is it on at 8 again?

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:01 I've not seen an early game yet and they're doing that.

Roro 0:13:03 No idea. No idea. There's lots of questions around this World Cup, but we won't go into it again.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:09 Yeah, there are a few. No, genuinely though, for the hydration break, I was just saying I don't think they should stop, and I know it's for adverts, but again, it— for me, it bamboozles my brain.

Roro 0:13:22 I'm sorry, 20 minutes in, it just sort of cuts the game. And I think it happened last night. I think it was— was it? I don't know. But sometimes it just— I feel like it really breaks the game up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:33 Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Roro 0:13:35 Yeah, it's a bit—

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:36 3 breaks. You're getting 3 breaks.

Roro 0:13:38 The stadiums are amazing though, aren't they? Incredible.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:41 Yeah. We've got bundles and bundles of correspondence to go through. Lovely, lovely. So let's have a listen to what people thought of our last pod. Mm-hmm. Sounds like ages ago. It does feel like ages ago. Yeah.

Roro 0:13:52 Weird.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:52 It's not though.

Roro 0:13:53 Couple of weeks.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:54 So weird. Sunglasses theory.

Roro 0:13:56 Oh yes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:58 I don't— Elsie's, Elsie's theory of men not wearing them has not come across from our listeners.

Roro 0:14:05 So she's wrong.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:06 Well. Sunglasses theory, women wear them more because we were taught that squinting gives us wrinkles.

Roro 0:14:13 Yeah, that's what Emma said.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:14 Producer Em.

Speaker G 0:14:15 Listening to the Nat's Nieces podcast about sunglasses and men, my husband absolutely loves sunglasses. He's probably got about 10 pairs ranging from cheap and cheerful to mega expensive, so much so that if we ever see a sunglasses hut, or we're in the airport, I make an effort to steer him away from the sunglasses because no doubt he'll end up buying another pair. I can't understand why you need so many pairs when you can only wear one pair at a time, but there you go. Um, it's Rebecca from Nottingham. Love listening to you girls, you give me a giggle.

Roro 0:14:55 I'm with him, I'm obsessed with them.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:58 You love sunglasses, don't you?

Roro 0:14:59 I'm obsessed with them, it's terrible. I buy, yeah, I'm, yeah. And like, I will have an outfit and I will try 3, 4 pairs on to see which ones go. Oh, really? Yeah, it's mad. Yeah. Yeah. Love 'em.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:14 Do you think there is a point where you think, oh, I don't need another pair of sunglasses? No. That sounds— And do you know what? Birthday coming up.

Roro 0:15:22 Oh, do you know what? I've got a pair of like designer ones that Mum got me for my 30th.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:28 Yes.

Roro 0:15:29 I've still got them. I haven't worn them in a while, but I've just remembered that I've got them and they are so cute and unusual. They are timeless. 10 years later.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:41 That's really good.

Roro 0:15:42 I mean, that's decent.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:43 And you've not smashed them to pieces or?

Roro 0:15:45 No, no. I'm quite, I'm quite good with things like that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:48 Oh, that's really good.

Roro 0:15:48 Yeah, I've got a lovely little collection. I do. I love them.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:51 Oh, that's good. I have 4 pairs downstairs in a plastic box. They're all squashed together.

Roro 0:15:56 No, that makes me feel sick.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:57 And when I get up, I think, oh, I've got a bit of brown on. Well, I'll pick up the brown ones.

Roro 0:16:01 Oh, you always wear your linen ones. I love my linen ones.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:05 I'm obsessed with them. I know. They're so, only Other Stories, but they're comfortable. They're light. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like a light pair of glasses, I have to say.

Roro 0:16:14 And it's funny, like, I will have, I'll only wear certain ones on the school run.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:19 Why is that?

Roro 0:16:20 I don't know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:21 Just 'cause you feel like a cunt. I dunno. The flats?

Roro 0:16:29 The big ones to cover my face up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:31 Oh, that's funny, innit?

Roro 0:16:33 It is, yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:34 I do really like them, but when I've had designer ones, I just, I just don't think that there's any difference to me buying a lovely pair in Marksies or a lovely pair in Next. Do you know what I mean?

Roro 0:16:45 Absolutely. For me, I dunno. And that's style as well, isn't it? If you wanna—

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:48 Yeah.

Roro 0:16:49 But can I have some advice for everyone?

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:51 Go on.

Roro 0:16:51 If you are treating yourself to some designer sunglasses, hopefully no one will hear me, from the designer shops, do not buy them direct. You will spend double the price. Just Google it. I can't really, I'll put it on Patreon. I'll put on Patreon the shops online that you should shop at. That's where I get all my designer ones from.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:15 Okay.

Roro 0:17:16 Hence why I have so many. I mean, it's still expensive, don't get me wrong, but I've been to airports, I've been to the designer shops direct, taken a photo of the label, Googled it, and got them for half the price.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:27 Wow.

Roro 0:17:28 Mm-hmm.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:29 That's amazing.

Roro 0:17:30 Yeah, there you go. That's my tip.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:32 Fantastic.

Roro 0:17:33 You're welcome.

Speaker H 0:17:35 Okay, so who wears sunglasses in my family? So, oh, it's Kirsty, by the way. I wear sunglasses, particularly if I'm outside. I know the sun's gonna be in my eyes. I do like to wear sunglasses.

Speaker H 0:17:44 I also like to wear sunglasses on the school run in case I've not done my makeup. makeup because I feel like it just helps complete my face a little bit. My kids don't wear sunglasses all the time, but if they ask for them, then I will give them them. But they generally wear big-rimmed hats. My mum wears sunglasses.

Speaker H 0:17:58 My dad doesn't wear the sunglasses. My husband, he wears his sunglasses all the time, even in our wedding photos. Like, why did I allow that? I don't know. I think he just thought he looked cool.

Speaker H 0:18:09 What else did we do? My uncle wears his sunglasses a lot, actually. and a hat all the time, but he's pretty freckly, so maybe that's why, because he thinks he's gonna burn everywhere. I don't know. But yeah, that's the rundown of who wears sunglasses.

Natalie Cassidy 0:18:23 I love the old sunglasses family tree.

Roro 0:18:27 Last year, me and Mum did a car boot, didn't we?

Natalie Cassidy 0:18:29 Yeah.

Roro 0:18:30 Yeah, I don't know, she just got boxes and stuff out the garage that have been there for ages.

Natalie Cassidy 0:18:33 Yeah.

Roro 0:18:34 So I found this sunglasses case. I was like, Dolce& Gabbana, I think it, I think it was something like that. I opened it up and they were really cute little sleek sunglasses. I put them on, Mum's like, No, I like, I'm having them. She bloody took 'em back. They look really nice. I said, see, this is why that sort of stuff, you gotta look after it. All of that stuff.

Natalie Cassidy 0:18:54 They could have been gone for a pound.

Roro 0:18:55 That's what I mean. Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:18:56 Someone would've had a right bargain. Yeah.

Roro 0:18:58 She loved them. I said, you crack me up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:00 That's excellent.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:13 Hi, Nat. I hope you're okay. What a lovely Monday it is. It's Emma from Knebworth. Hope you're all right. Loving the Patreon. Already watched the Hertford show again, even though I was there. Um, this is a bin story, but not a stolen bin story. So, oh, it's Emma from Knebworth. I don't even know if I said that. Maybe I did. Um, I haven't had any bins stolen, but I had one of my bins in my last house.

Speaker N 0:22:40 Eventually the lid broke, and there's no way we did that because we're not that vicious with it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:46 So obviously it must have broken when it was being put onto the truck, blah blah blah, because when we put it out it wasn't broken, and when they emptied it, it was. So I phoned the council up, blah blah blah, and I have to pay £72 for a new bin. Oh. Even though we never broke it. Now obviously I've got no proof of that, but we're not that heavy-handed, so we know we didn't fucking break it.

Speaker N 0:23:08 The bin men broke it when it's going on their truck. So I had to pay for the pleasure of them breaking my fucking bin. I was fuming at the time. And whatever, I had to buy a new bin. Um, so that was that. So that's my bin story. It's not exactly exciting, but just thought I'd share that with you and your nieces. Love you all. Join the pods as usual.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:29 Bye. Cheers, Em.

Roro 0:23:31 She's great.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:32 She's great, Emma from Net Worth. We've got a little special episode coming up with Emma. I'm having a little nag with her soon.

Roro 0:23:38 Ooh.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:38 Yeah, a little nag. Because you see, when you do holidays, we've booked holidays, we're going away. Oh, that's right, yes. You're going away, you're going away, I'm going away. We need to do a few special eps. So I've got in touch with a couple of listeners and there's gonna be a couple of nice episodes there. But yeah, Emma is a very funny one. Looking forward to it. It says here, I know you have some more bin info, don't you?

Roro 0:24:02 I can't, I actually can't.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:03 But before we go on, great pod today with your nieces, although sucking the tomato puree, grim face. Anywho, in reply to bins, we just had delivered today a food bin. Well, 2 food bins, one slightly larger, one to keep outside. Not sure ware, as in spelt W-A-R-E, as I have a bin store that I already have filled with the general bin, the recycling bin, and the garden bin.

Roro 0:24:30 That's the brown, the little brown bin.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:32 This is a new thing up north, I think. Oh, shocker. I know when my daughter lived down south, they already had them, but what a pain. I have no idea where to put them. The slightly smaller one is supposed to be kept in the house. Yes. But my bins are in a pull-out drawer, and this ugly grey bin is too large to keep on a worktop, and I don't have a utility room.

Roro 0:24:54 Yes. Oh, it's grey. Ours are green.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:56 They're lovely, aren't they?

Roro 0:24:57 Stunning.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:58 So that's a pain anyway. Has anyone got any suggestions for what to do with them? As I think they're going to be quite stinky left out on the worktop. So what, what we doing?

Roro 0:25:09 Right, so I, I don't have a bin. I didn't have a bin. I was binless. Has been. That was good, wasn't it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:25 That was really good.

Roro 0:25:26 Sorry, I'm cracking up. I'm just— sorry everyone, I've just gone onto Instagram to look for a message and I've just seen Natalie in a shower cap, a towel, and a trumpet.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:36 Thank you.

Roro 0:25:36 What is one doing here?

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:38 Um, a little bit of Imperial leather.

Roro 0:25:41 That is— guys, I urge you to watch it. I will share it. Sorry, that has just completely thrown me. Um, no, sorry, just while we're on bin and before I forget, yeah, I have to give a shout out to The Instagram, Hayley's Labels. Oh, bless her heart. And I haven't given them to Elia yet. I need to do that. She sent me some numbers. No, she hasn't. She fucking— what is it, @hayleysnumbers? No, Hayley's Labels.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:07 @hayleyslabels on Instagram.

Roro 0:26:10 Thank you, Hayley. I'll give you a follow. I haven't even messaged you because my brain—

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:15 What are they? They bougie labels?

Roro 0:26:17 No, just numbers. Oh shit, sorry. Just numbers. Just very kindly sent me some numbers.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:21 That is so kind.

Roro 0:26:22 She said you could have your road name on it. I said, it's fine, just the numbers is perfect, thank you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:28 That's so kind. Isn't that lovely?

Roro 0:26:30 So anyway, yeah, I never had been a bin.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:32 No.

Roro 0:26:32 I used to use my bags for life.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:36 Sorry?

Roro 0:26:38 Not the—

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:39 No, sorry.

Roro 0:26:40 The Tesco bag. Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:42 Carrier bag. Carrier bag. Yes. Yeah.

Roro 0:26:44 I'd hang that on my—

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:45 Door when it was full up.

Roro 0:26:47 That's what I would do. Then the green bin arrives. Yeah. I was the same. What the fuck am I gonna do with this? I, I can't be without it. It's lovely. Sits on the windowsill.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:00 Mm-hmm.

Roro 0:27:00 I empty it daily.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:03 Often. Yeah.

Roro 0:27:04 Like twice a day. Mm-hmm. Depending what's in it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:06 Yeah.

Roro 0:27:06 If I throw something a bit naughty away, that's going straight out. I'm not keeping that in there. And I wash it about 100 times a day.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:14 So hang on. And Milton in, and put Zoflora in.

Roro 0:27:16 Sorry, 2 seconds.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:18 With the green bin.

Roro 0:27:18 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:19 Are you then emptying that into your brown bin outside? The miniature brown?

Roro 0:27:23 Yes, exactly.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:24 In the green?

Roro 0:27:24 Yes. In the bags.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:26 Yes.

Roro 0:27:27 Goes in the brown bin outside.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:28 Understood.

Roro 0:27:29 That's what I do. So I do have the green bin out and it ain't great, but then I'm like, well, I did have a Tesco bag hanging or Asda or all marked. Yes. Do you know what I mean?

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:38 So.

Roro 0:27:38 Yes. It's swings and roundabouts, I'd say. I agree.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:41 See my, My brown bin's outside and that's for all food.

Roro 0:27:46 Yeah. What do you mean? The green, if it has to be in bags.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:49 Yeah.

Roro 0:27:51 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:52 Sometimes I don't put it in bags. Oh wow. But they take it. Yeah.

Roro 0:27:55 What the fuck? They, oh, well, this brings me onto my next conversation.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:59 So with the green bin, for me, yeah, it's quite small. Yeah. But that should be compostable stuff.

Roro 0:28:04 Yeah. Your food, babe.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:06 No, compostable. So that should be anything that isn't meat, eggs. Sorry. Oh, I might be wrong here.

Roro 0:28:15 So where am I putting that stuff? What do you mean?

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:17 So that compostable stuff should remain in that green bin, no?

Roro 0:28:20 No, no, no, no, no.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:21 So that's a food caddy for your sides? Yes, yes.

Roro 0:28:23 'Cause you put your green paper bag, the recycle, whatever they are, recyclable—

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:28 Little bags.

Roro 0:28:29 Bags. Yeah. In the green bin. You put all your food in there. And then you tie it up and put it in the brown. Exactly.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:34 So I don't do that. I put everything within the brown bin. And anything that's compostable. Yeah.

Roro 0:28:38 Because you've got a compost thing. I've got a compost thing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:40 So I put that in the little green bin.

Roro 0:28:43 But you don't put them in bags in the brown bin?

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:44 Sometimes. That's mad. Oh, I mean, if it's, yes, it depends what it is.

Roro 0:28:50 So I put my bins out last week.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:53 Yep.

Roro 0:28:53 I walk out. Mm-hmm. Everyone, everyone's bin is just thrown. The fucking lids are hanging off. So I'm like, okay. Mine's all there. Lovely. Oh, I thought that's saying something right here. I've opened it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:09 They've not taken—

Roro 0:29:09 they've not taken the fucking bin.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:11 Why?

Roro 0:29:12 I don't know, Natalie. So I emailed the council. I said, it's 35 degrees. Please, what are you doing to me? Why? You're gonna have maggots. I've got maggots. So today I open it, it's fucking riddled with maggots.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:31 It's nothing worse, is it?

Roro 0:29:33 I, do you know what? There's one thing I cannot, I think we've spoken about this 'cause it happened to my big bin last year. It gives me the heebie-jeebies. Me too. I can't bear it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:42 Me too.

Roro 0:29:42 So I'm like bleach, hot water from the kettle, but they're not gonna take that, are they now? 'Cause it's got maggots in. It's not my problem. What am I gonna do?

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:54 But why haven't they taken it? There's gotta be a reason.

Roro 0:29:56 I don't, there's no reason. They're in the bags all lovely. Perfect. So if they don't take that bin, I am going to lob that bin and say, oh, someone's stolen my bin again. I'm gonna have to, 'cause I can't deal with that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:13 Well, we didn't talk about Emma. £72.

Roro 0:30:17 Well, what, what's the—

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:20 yeah, I mean, that's a lot of money for the bin. She's been had over there. Is that a scam or something?

Roro 0:30:23 No, but that's what we pay for the— isn't that the garden?

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:26 Maybe it's a garden bin.

Roro 0:30:28 Any bin, if you've broke— I mean, this is— sorry guys, it's so boring, but I just can't— No, we've all got— Get over it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:34 It's crazy stuff. Yeah, that's a real shame in that heat.

Roro 0:30:37 Maggots, lots of them. It's the worst. And then one of the green bags was split as well, so I'm like, now it's split, that's why I've got— I mean, it's— and I opened it and there was all these little flies.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:48 It's—

Roro 0:30:49 so that's— yeah, I don't need that in my life. So yeah, hopefully if they don't pick it up, I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:55 Not good. Not good at all.

Roro 0:30:56 It'll be lost. Another lost bin.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:58 We've all been there. Niecy was in Italy listening in Rome.

Roro 0:31:08 I thought you was calling me Niecy.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:10 I've told you, Niecy. I see what you mean. No, Niecy, loving listening in Rome to Nat's Nieces with Italian adverts.

Roro 0:31:19 Oh, isn't that lovely? That's cute.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:22 So cute.

Roro 0:31:22 Oh, we, I can, we can do that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:24 We can do that soon.

Roro 0:31:25 Excellent.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:26 So excited to go away. Are you?

Roro 0:31:27 Yeah, can't wait. Be fantastic.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:30 Just a shame my child's got a broken arm. Mad that we talk about 1,000 things, but everyone goes for the sunglasses.

Roro 0:31:41 That's you. That's me. I thought that really sounds like Natalie.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:47 That's hilarious. That was me just saying how crazy it is that you all talk about sunglasses.

Roro 0:31:52 We try and, we try and like guess what the most correspondence is gonna be about. It's usually what Ilya brings up, to be fair.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:59 Yeah, it is true. It is true. Just listened to recent pod with you and the nieces. Listened since day one, however I've never messaged. Crying at the Roberto roll of the tongue. Also, my hubby never leaves the house without sunglasses, whereas I only wear mine on holiday. I just have Botox to fill the frown lines. Not sure why I'm telling you this, a relevant bit of info. Tracy from Hitchin. We love it. We love your irrelevance. Don't you worry about that. Stealing thunder. That was a big one.

Roro 0:32:31 Yes, yes, yes, yes. Stealing thunder.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:34 Hey girls, on the subject of stealing thunder, my niece had a big family gathering on her 18th birthday. Her granddad decided to bring his new girlfriend to introduce to everyone. Half the family didn't even know she existed.

Roro 0:32:48 That's brilliant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:49 Her nan died less than 2 years ago and they were married for 50 years.

Roro 0:32:52 Oh, that's not brilliant. I'm so sorry.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:54 It was extremely awkward and hardly anyone on my sister-in-law's side acknowledged the poor lady. Oh no. Love you girls in the pod. Catherine.

Roro 0:33:03 Catherine, we need more.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:05 But how?

Roro 0:33:05 No, it's awful. However, it's not her fault.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:09 No, I know, but he's rocked up. He's gotta be, he's probably 70-odd.

Roro 0:33:14 No, I know. At least we need to know, like, Was the woman a complete stranger? Because then to ignore her is a bit harsh. It's not her fault. No, she was a stranger.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:23 He's just taking her along. No one knew her. His new girlfriend. He's an older man, isn't he?

Roro 0:33:29 Yeah, no, I know. It's mad. Yeah, no, I mean, good luck to the geezer. And he's just rocked up with her.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:37 Oh, bless him.

Roro 0:33:37 It's such a man thing to do.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:40 There's just no thought goes into it, is there?

Roro 0:33:42 They just, yeah, they don't think, do they? They're just probably thinking, oh, I'll just bring my mate along. But at the 18th as well. Yeah, that is jokes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:48 That is so funny.

Roro 0:33:49 Trying to think of anything like that outside. I dunno if we've really had anything like that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:55 Well, I have to say, I wasn't overly enamoured when, bless my dad's heart, he decided to bring his friend from the golf club down to London for the weekend. I didn't like that. But he was actually a young man, to be honest. I feel a bit bad now.

Roro 0:34:13 I thought you meant the Um, yeah, but yeah, was she—

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:17 when I look back though, that is complete love for my mum jealousy. Yeah, he was— yeah, he brought his friend down.

Roro 0:34:24 Was she young?

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:26 Younger than him.

Roro 0:34:26 Yeah. Was she—

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:29 I just, I, yeah.

Roro 0:34:30 No, I get it. No, no. So no wonder they had the hump. Yeah, no, absolutely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:36 Um, nothing went on there. No, but yeah, just companionship. I know, but I just didn't like it.

Roro 0:34:42 No. And so I get it. No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:43 Everyone's at a birthday party and he comes along with some bird.

Roro 0:34:46 That is hilarious. I'd love to know more. Are they still together?

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:50 Yeah. That'd be nice, Catherine. Are they still knocking about together? Because that's lovely. Because you do, you need company in old age, and that's really lovely. Yeah. You should never want someone to be on their own. It's not nice, and it's quite a selfish thing to want, actually.

Speaker O 0:35:03 Morning, morning, morning from this sculptio.

Speaker H 0:35:07 Fucking sculptio. It is currently 9:20 AM and I am dripping. God help me. Anyway, just listen to the pod regarding the sunglasses, and I think my husband—

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:21 and I'm going to call him out— Aaron, he is in the minority then because he's a tart.

Speaker H 0:35:26 He loves his glasses.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:28 Father's Day has just been and gone. I've just purchased his third pair of Ray-Bans because he keeps losing them because he wears them all the time.

Speaker H 0:35:36 So yeah, Aaron, you're a tart, mate.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:41 All right, you're a tart.

Speaker H 0:35:42 Enjoy the weather, girls. And hopefully to the public, PSA, public service announcement: if you are going out in the public today, everyone, put some bloody deodorant on, because already this morning I've smelt 3 people with Bobby Orange and it stinks.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:58 So get some deodorant. Ciao!

Speaker H 0:36:01 Oh, it's Holly from Kent, by the way.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:03 Ciao. Bobby Orange. I've never heard that before. Neither have I. It's good.

Roro 0:36:10 Really good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:11 Oh, brilliant.

Roro 0:36:12 Um, I've been using Sanex.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:13 Yes.

Roro 0:36:14 Game changer.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:15 Really?

Roro 0:36:16 So good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:16 Oh, that's good.

Roro 0:36:17 Really good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:19 I was thinking about getting Joni a little roll-on.

Roro 0:36:21 Yeah, I would. I know, sad, but it's for them. But even Alfie now in the shower. Oh yeah. I say to him, not, not that he smells at all, but I say to him, Wash your armpits, wash your dinkle, wash your ballsack. You gotta teach them.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:37 Yeah, of course.

Roro 0:36:38 And even just to let them understand, you know, I'm like, this is where you sweat the most, you've gotta wash properly. Do you know what I mean?

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:43 You could stand next to me and go, wash your feet, wash your feet, wash your bits. Oh dear, you gotta laugh.

Roro 0:36:56 You have gotta laugh.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:57 Oh, sorry. Lauren Hickey sent us a little message. Just thought of the pod when you were discussing see-through leggings and telling someone there's something wrong. Currently sat on a baking hot train on the way to see Take That. OG fan here like you all. There's a guy who went to the toilet.

Roro 0:37:19 Oh no.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:20 And got a wad of tissue paper to block his face because he's sweating so much.

Roro 0:37:25 Oh no, oh no.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:26 And now the tissue has got stuck and so broken down with the sweat, he's leaving bits of train toilet paper all across his forehead. I don't seem to be able to say anything to him, so I now know where I stand on that discussion.

Roro 0:37:44 Oh, don't.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:48 Poor guy.

Roro 0:37:49 That's awful. Well, that's funny actually, even like, um, We haven't mentioned, like, flies undone.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:56 Oh, Mark does it all the time.

Roro 0:37:57 Yeah, I do it all the time. I'm really bad at that. It happened to me the other day. Someone went, oh, your flies are undone. I do it all the time. And toilet paper stuck on your shoe.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:08 Yeah, that's a classic.

Roro 0:38:10 That is a classic. I sometimes— I've done it before. If that's happened to someone, I'm just trying behind them, not trying to step on it. Then they turn around, I'm like, hi.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:21 They're doing you for stalkerish behaviour. Yeah. But you're just trying to help. Oh dear.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:49 Girls, first-time voice note to the pod. Katie from Billericay. I listen to all of your pods, but you girls, Nat's Nieces, is my fave. I have to say, I Thank you. Usually as soon as it's dropped, I'm on it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:02 Um, thanks for all you do, and thanks for keeping us all so entertained and keeping it real. It's like listening to like 3 of my mates chatting. I laugh out loud sometimes. So, um, thanks for that. The, uh, recent one, I wanted to voice note.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:16 I've been trying to send this voice note all week, and I get too embarrassed, and I think, oh no, I'm not gonna send it. And I thought, no, I'm gonna do it. So yeah, when Ellie was talking about sunglasses and men wearing sunglasses, Um, I love a pair of sunglasses. I've got so many pairs of sunglasses. I like just like the cheapy ones, or, you know, I've got some expensive, but I love a pair of sunglasses.

Roro 0:42:36 But my other half never wears sunglasses, and yet he should because he's been told that he's got UV damage, so he should wear them.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:42 Oh.

Roro 0:42:42 He never wears them, and yet we were just on holiday and he bought 3 pairs of sunglasses, and in the end I was like, babe, yeah, get them, they can sit in the drawer with the rest of them. So yeah, it's definitely a girl thing. We love an accessory, don't we?

Speaker Q 0:42:57 We do.

Roro 0:42:57 Keep up the good work, girls. Love you lots.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:59 Oh, thank you. Well done for your first voice note. Don't ever think, oh, I don't wanna do that, because you listen, loads of people come on here and they talk, so you must do it. It's very important. So thank you very, very much. Maria?

Roro 0:43:13 Yes, Natalie?

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:14 The 3 bentos pies are still sitting there waiting for a taste test on Patreon.

Roro 0:43:18 Not now. They've been in this room, not 40-degree heat. No, thank you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:22 They'll be fine, they're in a tin, but I'm just saying that needs to happen. Can't wait. But we have an addition.

Roro 0:43:27 What do you mean?

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:28 This is from Stace. Well, look what I've seen today. When you try the pies, you need to try this. Solid no from me. There is a Frey Bentos Meals in Minutes chicken korma and a chicken tikka in a pouch. Lovely. So they're, they're ones to add to the collection.

Roro 0:43:50 What do you mean? Sorry, what's in that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:53 Curry. Chicken curry.

Roro 0:43:55 On its own, then you boil the rice?

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:57 No, there's rice in it as well. Chicken korma with rice, chicken tikka with rice.

Roro 0:44:02 How much should I get them for Ruby? She'd probably love them.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:05 Easy as well.

Roro 0:44:06 They do loads of stuff.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:08 Never known it.

Roro 0:44:09 If they want us to do a taste test, they can send us some stuff.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:11 Yeah, send us some stuff and pay us as well, to be honest. Don't stop I'm not fucking talking about you. It's unbelievable, this pod. I get nothing.

Roro 0:44:23 Oh gosh.

Speaker R 0:44:24 Hi there, how you doing? I'm just listening to Natalie's pod, hence the voice note, um, on sunglasses because I'm actually on my way to, um, Ray-Ban now, and I am very particular Gonna stop that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:43 Sorry. Ray-Ban.

Roro 0:44:44 Is that what you said?

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:45 But I used to say Ray-Ban.

Roro 0:44:47 Oh, Matty, you've had a shocker, mate.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:49 Ray-Bans.

Roro 0:44:50 Ray-Ban.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:51 It's Ray-Ban.

Roro 0:44:52 It is.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:53 I always used to say Ray-Bans. I'm with you, Matty. We'll continue.

Speaker B 0:44:58 I've looked online. There's 3 different pairs I want, but I need to try them on. I need to have a look how it looks on my face and all of that. But I'm probably gonna end up buying it online because it's 20% discount.

Speaker R 0:45:09 Exactly. Oh, now I need to tell you, I'm a miserable fucker today.

Speaker B 0:45:14 Ain't it hot?

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:15 I'm sweating my tits off.

Speaker R 0:45:18 Like, I hardly slept last night. I've got to take that tonight. My mate's excited. I can't think of anything worse because I am so tired. I've already had my hair cut, been up since 4 this morning. I've had my hair cut, coloured. I'm now down Oxford Street on my way to Ray-Ban, and I think I'm gonna kill myself because I'm that tired.

Roro 0:45:36 Anyway.

Speaker R 0:45:36 Um, yeah, sunglasses, 100%. Quick story, so I'm wearing Ray-Bans now and, um, no one looking at—

Speaker H 0:45:46 if you were to pass me in the street, no one would think anything.

Speaker B 0:45:49 Basically, I was at Birmingham Pride a few weeks ago, got a bit jolly, didn't I? I was on the dodgems, they went flying, and it basically come to pieces a bit. I put it back together a bit, it's a bit wonky, and, um, yeah, that's why I'm getting a new pair anyway.

Speaker R 0:46:02 Hope you're good. Hopefully I won't be a miserable bugger and take that later, but I can't think of anything worse of all the people shoved up me.

Speaker H 0:46:11 Anyway, have a nice weekend.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:12 Bye. Well, you might be thinking people will be shoved up you, Matty, but in your mood, I don't know if that's gonna happen tonight. Um, happy Pride, obviously. Happy Pride Month, everybody. I've been a bit shit. No, June, I've got loads of, loads of people I want to talk to, and this month has passed me by.

Roro 0:46:28 Oh my God, it is June is fucking gone.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:31 Been and gone.

Roro 0:46:32 Oh my God. Been and gone. How has that happened?

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:36 But it's Pride Month. Yes. I've not had a drag artist on. I've had no one on. That's really poor. It's bad. Really bad. I'm gonna have to make it up and do one in July.

Roro 0:46:43 I think you can do it anytime you feel like. I can do what I like.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:46 But Kate Butch wants to come on. Have you seen Kate? No. They do a— I'm gonna show you. It's hilarious. They do a— what? They've got my calendar. And they're like, what month, what Sonia have we got this month? Brilliant. It's really good.

Roro 0:46:59 I mean, we did have a, you know, we went to Mighty Hoopla.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:02 That was a, a good, it was a very, very, very gay day. Amazing, wasn't it?

Roro 0:47:08 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:08 But yeah, no, I will, I'll get, I'll get some more people on. It's outrageous. But Matty, hope you enjoyed Take That. Let me know.

Roro 0:47:14 Yeah. I mean, there's been, yeah, Harry Styles, Take That, and it has been so hot.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:19 Baking.

Roro 0:47:20 Baking. It's, I mean, the world, For me, it felt like it did come to a bit of a standstill last week, which was crazy.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:27 Yeah, how do you stand on the heat thing? 'Cause I know we all talk about it, but I think we need to gear up for it. It's not going away.

Roro 0:47:36 No, I think for me, the fact, having the flexibility to work from home, I was very thankful for.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:43 Yeah.

Roro 0:47:43 I'm not saying that I couldn't get in the office. The aircon office would've been a beauty. It's when I kept hearing all people stuck in London on the way home, 2 hours this, no trains that. Who's got time for that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:58 No.

Roro 0:47:58 And if you really can do your job from home, if it's the odd occasion, I think that's okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:03 Yeah. Yeah.

Roro 0:48:05 The school stuff.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:07 Yeah.

Roro 0:48:08 I was very proud of my school.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:12 Yep.

Roro 0:48:13 They were very much like, the kids are fine. We're doing water play, putting our feet in bowls of water. It's gonna be no—

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:22 Jolie would've been good with that.

Roro 0:48:24 Well, not running around, just cooling off.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:26 No, and then she would've got up and slipped over and broke her leg.

Roro 0:48:29 Well, no one, touch wood, at our school has done that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:31 Excellent.

Roro 0:48:32 I felt like there was a lot of encouragement for schools to close.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:36 Yeah, I think it's a very, very 50 split. Yeah. But if people are at work all day—

Roro 0:48:40 This is what I mean. It puts pressure on us. It does. I just don't think, It puts a lot of pressure on people. Lucky you if you're at home and you've got paddling pools or swimming pools and you don't work. But yeah, you know, calling that on puts a lot of pressure on working parents. And even if it is a choice, in the end our school said, look, a couple of days, if you wanna pick them up after lunch, you're more than welcome. A lot of people couldn't do that. And then you're seeing all these kids, your kids seeing all these kids go. Yeah, I dunno, I'm a bit hard. It's hard.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:09 I just think we need a little bit of funding.

Roro 0:49:12 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:12 We need to look at what we now have. We have hot summers now.

Roro 0:49:17 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:18 There's gonna be hot times. There's gonna be very, very cold times as well because of this heat.

Roro 0:49:21 Yeah. Yeah. The world's changing. Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:24 It's climate change and we're in it. So yes, we can do our best obviously to try and do everything we can to stop it getting any worse, but it's not going away.

Roro 0:49:34 No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:35 So, so we need to get, I need, again, I need to have aircon in here.

Roro 0:49:39 Yes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:39 We need to, the schools need to, I don't know what you need to do. It's hard 'cause some of those buildings, but do you know they say that the Victorian buildings, the old school— Cooler. Much cooler.

Roro 0:49:50 Cooler, yeah. Not surprised.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:51 Much, much cooler.

Roro 0:49:52 Yeah. No, look, I get it. I completely get it. But I think it's a knock-on effect. And don't get me wrong, there's gonna be certain circumstances where kids have got certain things where, you know, they can't, got to be more cautious. And if you can then take your kid out of school, that's your choice. That's absolutely fine. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Just, yeah, I don't know. But I guess for me, yeah, then there's parents, some people that, some people can't even do their job from home, so they're still having to go in and face that weather and do what they need to do.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:24 Of course. I mean, I was in hospital on the hottest day of the year.

Roro 0:50:27 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:28 With all the nurses. I know I bang on about it, but you just think people are here. Yes. Is it? They're in, they're present. They're working. It's absolutely baking. They're in uniforms, thick uniforms, they're cracking on with it.

Roro 0:50:37 When I had Alfie, it was sweltering.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:39 Do you remember how hot it was?

Roro 0:50:41 So hot. Mad. And they're all doing their job. They have to. That's it. Look, there's always gonna be circumstances, but like you say, I think we've got to, we are, it's happening, isn't it? Mm-hmm. But it's extreme, but we have got to start learning how we cope with it. But it's mad the amount of people that I've heard have got, yeah, air conditioning installed. Our houses are not made for it. Do you know what I mean? It's, we all need to slow down. It's a knock-on effect. It's a knock-on effect of the not sleeping, the being tired. Everything's mad, isn't it? Like the kids having later nights.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:12 I did no washing. I couldn't do a thing.

Roro 0:51:14 No. Ironing. I was like, no, absolutely not.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:16 No ironing.

Roro 0:51:16 My poor cleaner. Again, shout out to the cleaners. You're amazing. Incredible. My cleaner turned up. I said, I didn't, I actually expected you to text me and say, that is so cool.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:25 Absolutely not.

Roro 0:51:25 She was like, no, I've come early. I'll get it done. I thought, oh my God, thank you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:28 That is really good. Really good.

Roro 0:51:30 Because, yeah, I was struggling.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:33 Got a lovely message here. Um, I'm gonna keep this person anonymous, but I just loved it. So here we go. Hi Nat, hope you're well.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:41 Just felt the need to pop you a little message to say thank you. I'll be 17 weeks pregnant tomorrow, and I genuinely don't know how I would've got to this point without the pod. My anxiety has been awful, particularly bad in the first trimester. But you and your incredible family have been there to be the virtual hug I needed twice a week. Oh.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:01 I can't put into words the comfort you've brought me, whether it's been the laughs with Mark and the girls, the comforting chats with Linnie, or Tony's calming voice. The pod has meant the world to me, and I just wanted to remind you of the difference you are making to people's lives. Hope you are well, and I hope Joanie's recovering okay. Lots of love.

Roro 0:52:18 Oh, that's lovely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:20 But Every now and again, we get a little message like that, and I think you can rattle on, and you're cracking through, and you're just doing them and doing them, and then you see a little message like that, and you think, we, you know, people really love what we do. So thank you so much. Yes. And remember, 07788 20 19 19. Send us a little voice note, send us a message. Remember, you can join Patreon. There's loads of bonus stuff on there, and actually, We had a little message today that I think sums it up.

Speaker S 0:52:48 I joined your Patreon, whatever it's called. What a bargain! I've not worked— I clean, right? And I have not worked the whole of last week due to the weather, and I haven't had time to even check. I've just looked. Not only have I got 3 normal pods to listen to— oh my God, there's so much in the Patreon! Like, I'm excited. Oh my God, honestly, it's gonna help me at work so much. Absolutely love you guys.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:16 That was from Chloe. So thank you, Chloe. I'm pleased that you—

Roro 0:53:18 Excellent.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:19 Are excited about it. Really good. It's very good.

Roro 0:53:21 Yeah. I need to catch up. I feel like I've got no time to catch up with everything.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:25 Yeah. Well, you can't do it all. And it's lovely, lovely little community that is building there, which is super. Now I wanted to talk to you very quickly about the tennis player before we go. Yes. 'Cause I think it's a nice point and something we can leave Food for thought for next time. So Naomi Osaka is a tennis player, and she went on to the Wimbledon court wearing what I can only explain as a cream kind of bridal coat, if you like.

Roro 0:53:56 Kimono-esque.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:57 Kimono-esque. And when I saw it, it was Steph, one of our listeners, that sent it to me. She said, have you seen this? I said, I love it. But she's had quite a lot of backlash. She's had millions of views. Lots of people are saying, why is she going onto the court like that? Obviously she has her tennis gear underneath this beautiful fashionable item. She looks sick. But I think, how brilliant is that?

Roro 0:54:22 It's amazing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:54:24 I feel like she's giving Beyoncé, she's giving that star quality.

Roro 0:54:29 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:54:30 It's original.

Roro 0:54:31 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:54:31 But it's her personality. And she's showing it and she doesn't care.

Roro 0:54:35 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:54:35 But, yeah, I just wondered what you thought about it. Yeah. I love it.

Roro 0:54:37 I think she's incredible.

Natalie Cassidy 0:54:38 I looked her up. She's got a Komi, like we've got a Komi, and she's on Hypebeast. What does that mean?

Roro 0:54:45 Brilliant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:54:45 There's a Hypebeast for her.

Roro 0:54:47 Yeah. It's a fashion thing. Right. She's, yeah, obviously, yeah. She's very into her fashion, as you can tell.

Natalie Cassidy 0:54:52 Right.

Roro 0:54:53 It doesn't, is it affecting anyone's life? It's her personality. She's creative. She's a sports player. Good luck to her. It's like the Australian guy, Nick, Kyrgios. Yeah. I'm sure that he used to go and wear his Nike Jordans. I think it was something like that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:09 Okay.

Roro 0:55:10 So again, it's a bit, you know, I was like, oh, why has he gotta be different? But it's—

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:15 But I like it 'cause I feel like sport, it's about precision. It's, you know, they work very, very hard to get to that level. But also, if you're fashionable, it's not just about fashion. I feel like that is a bit of a statement Do you know what I mean? It's not just—

Roro 0:55:30 Yeah, it was like a boxer going on with his robe and— Yes. You know what I mean? It's just her entrance. I like it. Good luck to her.

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:37 Have an entrance. Yeah, why not? I thought, power to you, girl. It looks amazing, yeah. I thought it was incredible.

Roro 0:55:41 Excellent. Really good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:42 So I just thought that would be a really nice conversation starter for next time of, do you think you wear what you want to wear? I know you don't. I certainly don't. Do you think you are happy? You, you could go out and pick an outfit and just wear exactly what you wanted. Is that in your wardrobe? Is it? Do you feel like you do it? I feel you're very good and you wear things that are not— I wouldn't say daring, but they're your personality, which is why I feel you always look good.

Roro 0:56:17 Thank you. Not as much as when I was a bit younger. I felt like I didn't give a shit as much. I had a bit more of my own individual style. I actually think now I'm a bit more mainstream.

Natalie Cassidy 0:56:29 Do you?

Roro 0:56:30 Don't get me wrong, I'll still push the boundaries. I know you lot take the piss out of my lace socks and stuff like that. I will still do my little bits, but not like I used to. But I think when I was younger, I used to be very different, wear exactly what I wanted to wear. But again, I just think your personality changes. You change with age, you change with your shape, do you know what I mean? Yeah. It's everything.

Natalie Cassidy 0:56:51 But yeah, I just wondered.

Roro 0:56:52 But I think I would feel confident enough if I was going somewhere in particular and I wanted to be a bit more out there, I would do it. I wouldn't really give a shit. Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:01 Yeah. So sort of people's weddings, you know, stories of people wearing white at weddings, that's all. Yeah, but you can't really, can't do that. Or just, you know, yeah, you're going to Ascot or do you, you know, you see some people, they go all out, don't they? Incredible.

Roro 0:57:17 Yeah, but I think now with social media, I think a lot of people is a bit more careful. conform. Like, if you're going Ascot, you've got to look a certain way, do you know what I mean?

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:25 So again, you're doing it for that picture?

Roro 0:57:27 I think, well, not even that, but even just Ascot, there is a, there is a dress code. Yeah, you can't just wear— and there are themes. Like, now I feel like there's more themes and people, I don't know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:38 How about, we'll see that in the next— this week, when things end.

Roro 0:57:42 But even things like concerts and that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:44 Yes.

Roro 0:57:45 Do you know what I mean? Harry Styles, everyone's wearing, you know, Olivia Dean, everyone's wearing polka dots.

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:50 Polka dots, yeah. And again, Harry Styles are wearing ties, aren't they?

Roro 0:57:54 Ties, yeah. Shirts, glittery boots. And then obviously when it was Taylor Swift, it's like the whole cowboy style.

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:59 Oh no, cowboy was Beyoncé.

Roro 0:58:01 Well, because, yeah, but Taylor Swift is quite country. It's that sort of vibe as well. Yeah, so it is, uh, it's interesting.

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:08 We had a message from someone actually, and I'm not gonna find it because we're nearing the end, but it was interesting. She said she was going out, going to a festival, Lannist, I think it was, whatever. Would you wear a different gig t-shirt to someone else's concert?

Roro 0:58:23 Really depends, I think. I think if it's— oh, we're not talking about this now. Should we end on that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:29 Yeah, no, this is fine. Yeah, end on it. Yeah.

Roro 0:58:30 I think if it's like a real iconic old school, you can get away with it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:37 So a Nirvana?

Roro 0:58:39 I think that's quite a staple, isn't it? Lots of people wear that. And if it's like a type of music, Yeah. A genre. I don't know, I think you can get away with wearing certain things. But I don't really know where you would do it. What would you— what, like what though? I don't really understand.

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:56 I mean—

Roro 0:58:57 I would never wear an Alanis Morissette t-shirt, I don't think, and I really like her. But then I don't think I'd wear a different band t-shirt to a gig.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:06 I don't think I'd wear any t-shirt merch-wise, unless it was their gig. Yeah, that's how I feel. Yeah, unless it's a really cool soft sort of— I don't know, I've got it from— what was that lovely brand we used to like?

Roro 0:59:23 Wildfox.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:24 Wildfox. And it's got, I don't know, Madonna cover on it.

Roro 0:59:29 Or if you were going to like a mini little festival thing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:32 Yeah.

Roro 0:59:32 And it's like a few different acts, but you're wearing something random, but it's none of the acts. I think you can get away with it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:38 That's okay, that's all right. Yeah. But it's interesting.

Roro 0:59:40 Never really seen it, to be fair. It's like going to see Blur and wearing Oasis. You just couldn't do it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:47 Never.

Roro 0:59:48 Vice versa. Couldn't do it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:49 No, you wouldn't do it, would you? Well, I don't feel like you'd wear a Blur t-shirt to a Blur concert.

Roro 0:59:54 Well, some people do. Yeah. Some people do. But an interesting one.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:58 Have you got things you'd love to buy? Have you always wanted knee-high boots, never worn them? Can you wear heels? I can't. I'd love to be able to wear heels. They kill me. I just think they look really lovely and smart, but I can't do it. Is there an outfit you've always wanted to wear, be it like a great big colourful coat or—

Roro 1:00:16 Well, it's even like Mighty Hoopla.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:18 Yes.

Roro 1:00:19 What I wore, I'm never wearing that anywhere else. No, absolutely. Yeah. But it was okay there, and it weren't that big, it was nice. But even I've got my boots that I bought and I'm thinking, when am I ever gonna wear them again?

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:30 Yeah, but you will maybe in the winter with a pair of tights or something, maybe.

Roro 1:00:33 No.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:34 Oh no, 'cause they're beige.

Roro 1:00:35 No, they're brown. Oh, I wouldn't wear them with tights.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:39 Hate tights, don't you? Don't wear tights with them.

Roro 1:00:41 No, I don't mind tights with like little loafers or something.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:45 Oh dear. Oh, it's a funny old—

Roro 1:00:48 end up on fashion somehow.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:50 No, that's all right. Nothing wrong with that. Well, it's nearing your birthday now, darling.

Roro 1:00:54 I know.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:55 Very, very—

Roro 1:00:57 do you know what? Tomorrow.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:58 What?

Roro 1:00:58 It's the 1st of July. Yes, it is. Been in my house 10 years.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:01 Is it really? Bloody old time flies, doesn't it?

Roro 1:01:04 Doesn't it? Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:05 Oh my God.

Roro 1:01:06 So yeah, that's mad. And then, yeah, then yeah, I was 30, yeah, turning 30 when I moved out. Um, and then yeah, not long and then I'm the 4-0.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:17 It's good.

Roro 1:01:17 Weird. I mean, I know, I know we've been talking about it a long time, but it is funny how I felt earlier on in the year to now.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:25 That's good. Yeah, yeah.

Roro 1:01:26 No, not that I ever really cared, but it's— Well, keep that because we're gonna do a little special.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:30 We've got the book club, we're gonna review Kathy Burke's book.

Roro 1:01:34 Oh gosh, yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:34 And actually, that is coming out on your birthday on Patreon.

Roro 1:01:37 Oh, lovely.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:38 Well, that birthday week. Um, so I thought we could just have a little bit more of a deep dive into how you're feeling.

Roro 1:01:43 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:43 So, uh, there we go. It'll be lovely. Um, Els, we've missed you. Love ya. Um, thanks everybody for listening. Have a fantastic weekend. I shall see you on Monday, or hear you, or you'll listen to me. Fucking don't know what I'm talking about. I'm going. 07788 201919. RoRo, love you.

Roro 1:02:02 Love you. Speak to you later. Bye, darling.

Natalie Cassidy 1:02:05 Bye-bye.