EP256: Nat’s Nieces #58 – it’s PLANE wrong

Maria 0:02:30 Hello. Hiya. Hello. I feel like I haven't seen you in ages. It is ages. Yeah, it's only been a week.

Elliot 0:02:55 It's a long one.

Maria 0:02:56 No, but I feel like we've not been in here. 28th. Yeah. Dad's birthday. Dad's birthday. What's that, a couple of weeks? That's normal, innit? Time's flying, innit?

Elliot 0:03:07 Yeah, I know, it flies by.

Maria 0:03:08 I was saying to Natalie earlier, and I don't— sorry, it's because we've had 2 holidays, not to rub it in people, but I was saying—

Elliot 0:03:17 I don't know what day it is.

Maria 0:03:18 No, but the kids are like going back soon. I've gotta start thinking about school uniform.

Elliot 0:03:22 I've got to think about uniforms.

Maria 0:03:23 Oh, that's so stupid. I can't wait.

Elliot 0:03:25 Go back, you kids.

Maria 0:03:27 What do you mean?

Elliot 0:03:27 'Cause everywhere I go, it's just full of kids and I'm not used to it. It's really nice. And, or I went to M&S on Sunday, had to panic buy some bits and I was like, what is going on? I can't believe how busy it was.

Maria 0:03:43 Oh really?

Elliot 0:03:43 But I don't, 'cause I go in the week. Yeah. I'm not used to it. I don't do weekend shopping usually either.

Maria 0:03:48 It was awful.

Elliot 0:03:48 Welcome to the real world, girl. No, 'cause even that I would go, I would go of an evening. I would absolutely not do that on a Saturday or Sunday. Hideous. Oh really? I think Sunday's actually worse than a Saturday. Yeah, I think so. People still work a lot more on a Saturday. Or they're busy or they do stuff.

Maria 0:04:03 Sorry, I don't understand. To any normal Sunday though, why is it busy?

Elliot 0:04:07 What do you mean? No, no, I agree with you. It's busier during the week. Well, no, it's sale time. Oh, right. So I think, but what I'm saying is I haven't been to M&S on a Sunday since I can remember. Maybe I've nipped in, but I've not done what I did.

Maria 0:04:25 Yeah, fair.

Elliot 0:04:26 Okay. So that was wild. So yeah, you can hurry up and get your kids back to school, please.

Maria 0:04:30 No, yeah, I just, yeah. And even like, what, it's gonna be warm, so do you send them back in? I looked at photos from last year.

Elliot 0:04:37 Yeah, she went back in her summer uniform.

Maria 0:04:39 Well, Alfie was in trousers. No, Ruby was in her pinafore, short sleeve polo, and socks. No tights.

Elliot 0:04:45 Yeah, but we've got, we've got a few weeks yet. It could easily cool down by then.

Maria 0:04:49 Do you think? I just feel weird about sending her back in the summer outfit. I feel like I will still do the pinafore just with no tights. tight, it's just socks.

Elliot 0:04:56 Yeah, possibly.

Maria 0:04:57 Do you know what I mean?

Elliot 0:04:57 I don't think it's that deep. Yeah. See what it's like on the day and whack it in it.

Maria 0:05:01 Well, no, you've got to have it ready. What do you mean?

Elliot 0:05:03 Well, okay, the week before, have the options ready.

Maria 0:05:07 Yeah. Yeah, we tried on these school trainers, they don't fit.

Elliot 0:05:09 No, of course not.

Maria 0:05:10 No, what do you mean? They're not a year old. I only bought them a few months back because the other ones were destroyed.

Elliot 0:05:15 Yeah, but don't you do the— you— I'm, I'm a bad person, but Joanie's like, my feet. I'm like, no, no. You're going through to the end. I don't care if they rub. I'm not buying new shoes. Nice.

Maria 0:05:26 I don't even know if it was a rubbing thing. I think it was just, yeah, always, isn't it? Playing football, the soles are fucking hanging off.

Elliot 0:05:32 Yeah.

Maria 0:05:33 So they're not the end.

Elliot 0:05:34 Yeah, but I'm doing it. I'm like buying James some summer bits. Yeah. He's literally gonna wear them for a few weeks.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:42 I know, but they need what they need.

Elliot 0:05:43 I know, it's annoying.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:44 Yeah. I did all of Joni's wardrobe out. You've gotta see it. It's bare. It's lovely.

Maria 0:05:48 I need to do that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:49 It's all bare. She's got a few small things, she's got her summer bits, and then there's a couple of little bits that she's got for the winter, but nothing autumnal whatsoever.

Maria 0:05:58 It's even like, because it was shit, wasn't it? The weather was a bit shit towards start of summer.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:06 Can't remember.

Maria 0:06:06 Well, it wasn't great. It took a while to get into summer, and then when it's come, it's been amazing. But even things like, I remember buying new tights for Ruby, and then I thought she hadn't worn them, so I thought I'll keep them.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:15 They won't fit her.

Maria 0:06:16 They're not fitting, they're going.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:17 I

Maria 0:06:17 know, it's just, yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:19 Talking of shoes and clothes and things, I've got a pair of shoes for you.

Maria 0:06:23 Me?

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:24 Yeah. I thought you'd like these. They're a little brown, what'd you call these?

Maria 0:06:28 A little kitten heel. I do like those. Do you? Thank you.

Elliot 0:06:30 And I need yours, please. Your other ones. I need to borrow those for my trip.

Maria 0:06:34 The brown and the black.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:35 But these are, they just, I can't wear them basically.

Elliot 0:06:39 And I can't get my foot in them.

Maria 0:06:41 Well, what size are they?

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:42 They were 6, but they just— I can't.

Elliot 0:06:45 But they fit me, but I can't get my wide foot in, as Annalisa would say.

Maria 0:06:49 You have got wide feet.

Elliot 0:06:50 I haven't.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:52 But I thought they might suit you.

Maria 0:06:53 They're really cute.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:54 Like them?

Maria 0:06:54 But what's mad is if I was buying those—

Elliot 0:06:57 You wouldn't buy a 6. No. Yeah, well, so the reason they've come out is I said I could really do with a couple of kitten heels for holiday if you've got some. She whacked out these white pair, H&M, stunning. I was like, they were 6, they're never gonna fit me.

Maria 0:07:11 It's just unbelievable.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:13 She's gonna stretch them out though.

Elliot 0:07:15 I haven't got wide feet.

Maria 0:07:17 You do, you've got little short wide feet.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:19 You haven't got wide feet.

Maria 0:07:20 They are a bit big for me.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:22 Are they?

Maria 0:07:22 At the back, but I can deal with that.

Elliot 0:07:24 So I need your black and your brown ones, please.

Maria 0:07:28 Elliot, I have got a life. I might be going out.

Elliot 0:07:30 Oh, well, I'm sure you can do, you've got them now. Stunning. Thanks.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:35 Happy birthday.

Elliot 0:07:36 We need to do a lot more of that really. We need to do a lot more sharing.

Maria 0:07:40 Sharing is

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:42 caring. Definitely.

Maria 0:07:44 Yeah, but if Natalie sorts— if we sort our wardrobes out properly, then we'll be able to see what we've got and then we can share.

Elliot 0:07:49 Although I bought a lovely dress today, didn't fit.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:53 There is nothing in my wardrobe that you'd wanna share at the moment.

Elliot 0:07:56 Yeah, but she says that all the time.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:57 There isn't.

Maria 0:07:58 I mean, there isn't anything that I'd wanna wear to the hospital.

Elliot 0:08:00 No, it's awful. I reckon for me.

Maria 0:08:01 Or the little shirt and skirt from Marks and Spencer's, I could deal with that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:04 What one?

Maria 0:08:05 The matching striped one.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:07 Oh, you can have that. I'm not gonna wear it again.

Elliot 0:08:08 I've got this stunning set today from Foot Asylum.

Maria 0:08:12 Sorry?

Elliot 0:08:13 A brand called— what was it called?

Maria 0:08:15 I don't know. Stunning— stunning Foot Asylum.

Elliot 0:08:19 No, that's 2 words combined. Like just a casual short and like little top.

Maria 0:08:25 Yeah.

Elliot 0:08:25 Farina? Is that what it's called?

Maria 0:08:29 I don't know, babe. Farina?

Elliot 0:08:31 No.

Maria 0:08:32 What, jersey?

Elliot 0:08:33 Yeah, like casual, but just nice to—

Maria 0:08:35 What the fuck you doing in Foot Asylum?

Elliot 0:08:37 I was over at Brookfield.

Maria 0:08:38 Oh, buying trainers?

Elliot 0:08:39 Yeah, I was just looking for bits and bobs and I saw it and I thought, that's cute.

Maria 0:08:43 I need to see this. But

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:44 what I wanna do this year, and I know it's really boring.

Maria 0:08:47 Look at that on her thing. What's going on here?

Elliot 0:08:50 Oh, thank you to, what was her name?

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:52 She stole it basically. A lady gave me a box of things and Nelly said, I'm having that.

Elliot 0:08:58 I was in Opal and Iris and they had the parcel for Natalie. She said, would you take it? I said, yep, as long as I'm gonna get something from it.

Maria 0:09:05 What parcel? Where's my stuff? What's going on?

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:09 You were away.

Elliot 0:09:10 It wasn't for me, but James kept saying heart and cloud. Oh, that's cute. Aw.

Maria 0:09:16 It's cute.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:16 I'd love you to give her a follow actually. Although it was gifted, they're really sweet stuff. And also for teens and kids, Ruby and Millie Designs is the Instagram. So a little small business shout out there.

Maria 0:09:28 Oh, I like the name. Can I have one, girls?

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:30 Some wonderful little bits and pieces, little bracelets. She's done bag charms. She did a phone, what'd you call that?

Maria 0:09:37 Strap. Yeah. I could do one of those.

Elliot 0:09:38 But it's got Eliza on it, 'cause I would've nabbed that as well.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:41 And then I said to Eliza, this is for you. She did an Eliza, and Eliza said, oh, I won't wear that. And even Alex said, that's rude, Eliza. That's nice, that, for holiday.

Elliot 0:09:50 Well, it's just handy when you are on the beach as well, if you want your phone. But she did Natalie a beautiful pink and red little crocheted bag.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:58 Oh, really gorgeous.

Elliot 0:09:59 I really love it. You're taking that on holiday, aren't you? Yeah, I need to find if I've got a little outfit to wear with it.

Maria 0:10:04 Let's have a look at that. Lovely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:06 Very nice.

Maria 0:10:06 Very nice.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:08 So that was good. What's been going on?

Maria 0:10:10 We had another celebration, didn't we, for moi?

Elliot 0:10:14 We did.

Maria 0:10:14 That was really lovely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:15 Fabulous.

Maria 0:10:16 Thank you, Elia, so much for everything that you did that day.

Elliot 0:10:19 How awful. She did a whole speech.

Maria 0:10:22 I did not. That's not true.

Elliot 0:10:24 And didn't mention my name.

Maria 0:10:26 I didn't say her name.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:27 No, I'm not being rude.

Elliot 0:10:28 No, sorry.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:29 I'm sorry.

Maria 0:10:29 But it, I was—

Elliot 0:10:30 I've done a lot.

Maria 0:10:30 I was a bit drunk. No, but if I was prepared, I would've— I'm not being rude.

Elliot 0:10:34 She gave Eliza a mention.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:36 You know what you mean.

Elliot 0:10:37 Mel obviously got a mention. Me? Nah.

Maria 0:10:40 It's because I was looking at them.

Elliot 0:10:42 Oh, okay. I was literally, and I'm going, mate, I

Maria 0:10:47 did a bubble speech after

Elliot 0:10:49 for you. Sick of it. Never again.

Maria 0:10:51 No, thank you.

Elliot 0:10:52 You wait till your 50th, mate.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:53 Me and your mum have dissected the day.

Maria 0:10:55 Oh, have you spoken about it? Fair enough.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:57 Lovely. Thank you. So lovely.

Maria 0:10:58 Thank you for sorting the cake. Girls, I loved it. Yeah. Thank you, Emma, our cake lady. It was beautiful. I

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:04 just thought the whole day were very, very, very special. Yeah. Your balloons were lovely that day.

Maria 0:11:09 Really lovely. All, all my, all my favourite women minus a few, but yeah.

Elliot 0:11:14 Oh, I thought you meant a few of them weren't your favourite.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:17 Minus a few that were there.

Maria 0:11:18 No, that's, I've got some favourites that weren't there. Oh boy. But no, it was lovely. Thank you.

Elliot 0:11:21 Sorry, I'm just trying to find the brand.

Maria 0:11:23 Oh, for God's sake. She's still doing it. So yeah, that and then I holidayed.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:26 Then you went away.

Maria 0:11:27 This is Santorini.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:29 It looks stunning.

Maria 0:11:30 Honestly, I've never, I've never seen anything that breathtaking in my life.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:35 Incredible. It looks like, no, it looked like paint, a painting.

Maria 0:11:40 It makes me laugh 'cause obviously we still keep getting called—

Elliot 0:11:43 Forena. Oh,

Maria 0:11:45 I don't know what that is.

Elliot 0:11:46 Just cute. Just a cute little set. All

Maria 0:11:48 right, sweet. Well done. What are you, 16?

Elliot 0:11:50 Yeah, maybe. Maybe a little airport outfit.

Maria 0:11:54 You know, you said about the travelling, That post that went viral. Yes. Makes me laugh every time, 'cause every time I'd walk out on the balcony, I'd be like, this is amazing. And I'd just think of her saying,

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:06 look at it in a book.

Maria 0:12:09 Even the photos don't do it justice. It really was beautiful to be able to, you know, 3 and a bit, 4 hours away.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:17 Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Maria 0:12:17 Just the people, can't do enough. So lovely and genuine. Even like what I found interesting, the tipping out there.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:24 Yeah.

Maria 0:12:25 They hardly put service on anything.

Elliot 0:12:27 Yeah, it's just, yeah, it's different.

Maria 0:12:30 Obviously we were tipping and then they limit the tip to 15%. Yeah, very.

Elliot 0:12:35 Probably 'cause they know as well people are just gonna do that.

Maria 0:12:37 Yeah, maybe, I dunno. But yeah, just beautiful.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:40 I always find that Greeks, they can't do enough for you. Just, there's melon coming out, there's ouzos coming out, there's shots coming. Not every meal. Yeah. Can't do enough. Fall over themselves.

Maria 0:12:49 We had some fantastic meals. We went to one that Stavros, who works with Mum, recommended. So, and naively we were like, we don't need to book, we'll just go. We didn't need to book. I mean, how they, they squeezed us in, bless them, 'cause we were like desperate. It was really authentic. You could tell it was family run. Yeah. Again, free. They said, this drink is, we make this, this is on us. Free dessert. Like just, and the food was incredible. Yeah. Really lovely. I highly recommend it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:18 Brilliant.

Maria 0:13:19 And Els, you were in Italy?

Elliot 0:13:21 Yeah. My food was just as good. So from London, yeah. Probably maybe a little bit better. No, no, it was beautiful. Really nice week.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:29 How was my daughter?

Elliot 0:13:30 She was good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:31 Good.

Elliot 0:13:32 She was very good. Yeah, we had a really nice week. We went to the beach a couple of times.

Elliot 0:13:36 There's one beach that we always used to go to called Gaeta, and Ferruccio was adamant to take Eliza there 'cause he was like, she can't come to the south of Italy and not see the best beach. And then the next day we went to this beach club, which was an hour away as opposed to like an hour and a half. And Eliza was like, oh, I love it here. And he was like, for fuck's sake. But you know, I said to him, I said, you didn't need to do that.

Elliot 0:14:00 But anyway, it was lovely. We had beautiful fish. I mean, yeah, the food, the way they cook there is just—

Maria 0:14:06 Yeah, it's a joy, isn't it? Again, we said the produce, the produce.

Elliot 0:14:08 I said to Lydia, my cousin's, our cousin's wife, I said, could, can I just do James some potatoes and carrots, just boiled? Obviously had eaten a lot of pasta. So she just went outside, potato out the ground, carrot out the ground. I was like, oh, okay. Just as you do. Just unbelievable. I was like, I really fancy like the green beans with oil and garlic. Bang. The next day they're there from the garden in the bowl on the table.

Maria 0:14:33 No, and you taste it. You're there, you say one thing you fancy. And they're doing it. And that is it. Do you remember when we went and we wanted the, was it the buffalo mozzarella?

Elliot 0:14:40 Oh yeah. But that's every, yeah,

Maria 0:14:42 I know. But then, Our Dior comes back with like a thing.

Elliot 0:14:46 Well, we were on the way from the airport with Ferruccio and I said, so when are we getting the buffalo mozzarella? He said, it's already at home waiting for you. That was our lunch. And it, oh, it's just the best.

Maria 0:14:57 Yeah.

Elliot 0:14:57 So good. But yeah. And, and then I said, oh, and last year when we were here, saw you had the zucchini flowers. The next day, bang, deep fried zucchini flowers. I was excellent.

Maria 0:15:07 Oh, so they had them. They said they were outta season.

Elliot 0:15:08 That's what we ate. I sent you a picture. Absolutely wonderful.

Maria 0:15:12 Not in Greece, when we were in Tuscany, do you remember? What about any airport dramas?

Elliot 0:15:16 Oh my God.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:18 Do the pram. Please do the pram.

Maria 0:15:20 Oh, you're not again.

Elliot 0:15:22 Can someone that works for Ryanair or EasyJet just help me understand? We get on the plane, bearing in mind I'm flying solo with Eliza and James. So yes, Eliza is older, but still, she's a child.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:39 Yeah.

Elliot 0:15:41 We get on the plane. I said, Eliza, just get the pram.

Elliot 0:15:44 I said to the woman, I have to tag it, but when you get there, ask them. Mm-hmm. Fine. We— no one asked. So we get on the plane with the, with the pram that I have bought to fold up to be a cabin bag.

Elliot 0:15:56 Yeah. Bearing in mind I've bought this for that purpose, not just this holiday, but for holidays. We go up. Excuse me, sorry. Um, I know you've just carried it all the way up here, but it can't go on.

Elliot 0:16:07 I said, why not? Because that we've got 100+ bags coming on. That's right, yeah. It wasn't a full— he didn't say full flight. We've got 100+ whatever.

Elliot 0:16:15 I said, okay. I said, it's just that I'm flying on my own, and when we get off, I need that pram. I can't carry him. He'll be running off, which he does. It's a lot.

Elliot 0:16:23 You're trying to look after passports, get through security. No, sorry, it needs to come down. I said, right, is there no way we can just wait until Everyone's on, and then if you need to, I understand. No, no, it needs to go off. I said, right, so you're telling me guaranteed it will be waiting for me when I, when I land?

Elliot 0:16:42 Yep, it will be there.

Elliot 0:16:45 Plane's all closed up, bang. The whole cabin above my head was completely empty.

Maria 0:16:51 Oh yeah, I'd be fed up.

Elliot 0:16:53 And he saw me. I just looked at it, I looked at Eliza, and I said, I am fucking fuming. Yeah, he came over and he went, I'm really sorry. I said, and so you should be. And then what? When we landed, no pram. Pram, yeah. So to go through security trying to carry him, bags, backpacks, I was—

Maria 0:17:10 Well, no, that happened. I was outraged.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:11 Where was the pram then, on the thing?

Elliot 0:17:13 No, no, we weren't even on the belt. It was just dumped in the middle of the airport.

Maria 0:17:17 When we went to Lanzarote, I had the double buggy. Couldn't bring it, obviously you can't. Fucking get to the hotel, I said to Mum, we've forgotten the buggy.

Elliot 0:17:26 Yeah, I remember you said that. No, you didn't.

Maria 0:17:27 'Cause we weren't there when it come off. We've got, We've got, but also it's probably, it weren't coming round. It's just dumped. Yeah. And again, we overpacked, so we had hand luggage. The kids bought their wheelie, what they call trolleys. Yeah.

Elliot 0:17:40 Which are not, Ag, I got taken out by about 14 of those things. I was fucking about.

Maria 0:17:45 I can't remember what type. What type? Never buy myself one of those. They wanna be, I've got one. I just sat me down. They wanna be carried. So we've got 100 bags. We've just forgot. So I went, Mum, we've left the room. We've called the airport. They were like, if you don't pick it up in 5 days, it's gonna, it's gone. We said, no, we're holiday for a week. I mean, they did keep it for us, and I think we ended up finding it in Stansted.

Natalie Cassidy 0:18:07 Well, thank God though. That is mad.

Elliot 0:18:10 The point also is this pram was just in the middle of the airport. It was just—

Maria 0:18:16 Yeah, yeah.

Elliot 0:18:17 That's me and Eliza. I'm then chasing James, Eliza's trying to look for the cases, and then I like looked, I went, there's his pram. It's the weirdest thing.

Maria 0:18:25 I just think the whole— all of it.

Elliot 0:18:27 But also, can I just add I have paid for priority for me and Eliza. We are allowed hand luggage each, which we did not have.

Maria 0:18:37 Yeah.

Elliot 0:18:38 So all we had, Eliza had a bag and I had a rucksack.

Maria 0:18:40 That's terrible.

Elliot 0:18:41 So that I was saying to him, but this is my hand luggage and actually we're allowed one each. So that, that one,

Maria 0:18:48 however, El, on the way, on the way home, on the way home, they said that whole thing, the flight's full, do you wanna put your hand luggage on the belt? Now again, I didn't mind 'cause I had a case. Mm-hmm. But if you are flying just with hand luggage and then you've I don't wanna do that. The whole point of me not booking a case is

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:04 to get off and

Maria 0:19:04 go. Yeah, but I flew BA, and what we paid for the flights, I think it's a disgrace. I don't get it. We've got just about got a bottle of water.

Elliot 0:19:17 Really? What do you mean just about? What do you mean?

Maria 0:19:19 Well, I dunno, just not even enough, just nothing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:22 So you didn't—

Elliot 0:19:23 no, you get a bottle of water and a snack.

Maria 0:19:25 I know, but

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:26 did you not see the difference is what you're saying?

Maria 0:19:28 Not really. No, I would not. Yeah, for me, I don't. And no case.

Elliot 0:19:33 No, but you messed up there.

Maria 0:19:35 No, the flights were even more extortionate, El. And then—

Elliot 0:19:38 No, it isn't. And he's not— when you book at the time, you just go for the next, like, economy plus, and it's like an extra 20 quid.

Maria 0:19:44 It wasn't.

Elliot 0:19:45 Well, you don't know because you don't know at the time.

Maria 0:19:47 No, we do, we do. Oh. I can't believe it. Well. And then, and then you've got to get buses to the plane. It's not even connected. It's just— oh yeah, I was shocked for what we paid. I said I wouldn't do that again.

Elliot 0:19:59 What, you think that's a tunnel?

Maria 0:20:01 Nope. Rollin'!

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:54 No, fair. No, I get it.

Maria 0:22:55 I do get it. It's a lot of money. What are you paying? I don't really understand. I'm not— the couch chairs are not much comfier than Ryanair.

Elliot 0:23:02 No, there is more room. They are.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:03 No, they are.

Elliot 0:23:04 There is. When I think about— I said, well, I can't wait for James to have his own seat. Me and Eliza, the rucksack, he sat on me. I can't bend down to get something. I was thinking, oh yeah, it's not cute. It's not cute. Let alone him being 2 to have— I know that's not ideal because you're paying for it, but at least you've got a bit of space. It's ag.

Maria 0:23:23 No, I know, no, I know, it's a lot. Yeah, absolutely.

Elliot 0:23:26 But somebody please just speak to me about the pram situation because that really gets my goat.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:31 It is weird how they're so adamant about it when they're not there.

Elliot 0:23:34 And remember when we went to Tuscany, we had this issue. And they did allow it in there.

Maria 0:23:39 And Dubai.

Elliot 0:23:40 Yep. Every time.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:41 But you gotta have a fight about it.

Elliot 0:23:44 But also, if I hadn't, if I'd just paid to have a handbag, I kind of, I could kind of get it.

Maria 0:23:50 Yeah. But that's your cabin case.

Elliot 0:23:53 'Cause they weren't expecting it. But that is my cabin case. And I've got 2. I mean, I have 2 and I've got none.

Maria 0:23:58 Yeah.

Elliot 0:23:58 So I've paid for that.

Maria 0:24:00 But yeah, there's everyone coming on. They're even the same in Dubai. With their free bags and this and that.

Elliot 0:24:04 Yeah, about fucking 100. There was a bloke, I said to Eliza when we got to Stansted, I said, what is going on? This bloke, he had a massive bag, he had a pillow, like 2 cushions that he'd bought wrapped into it. I dunno how he was carrying it, but, and all of that has gone on the plane with him. No problem. Nah, blows my mind. Anyway, change of subject 'cause I'm gonna fucking lose it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:26 No, all I was gonna say is when you've got the little cage thing and they stop people.

Elliot 0:24:30 Oh, well that happened.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:31 They stopped Blade, didn't they?

Elliot 0:24:32 Literally, yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:33 And you've got the right size thing and you've gotta take things out, but it's the right size. You've, I don't get it. Yeah. And that thing is definitely smaller than the dimensions they say.

Elliot 0:24:43 I think so.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:44 'Cause they're squeezing it in.

Elliot 0:24:45 Yeah. But also, again, just to add to that, I said to him, a woman has just put her case up there and it is, it's bigger than me. She had this case. I thought, how? But I think some people try their luck a bit.

Maria 0:24:57 Well, yeah.

Elliot 0:24:58 The case was not hand luggage. It was huge.

Maria 0:25:00 We got charged for heavy lifting.

Elliot 0:25:02 No. Heavy bag on the way. Did you?

Maria 0:25:04 On the way out.

Elliot 0:25:05 Yeah. That is a, that is a

Maria 0:25:07 Gutted. I was devastated.

Elliot 0:25:08 And you get 23 kg with BA.

Maria 0:25:11 I know, I don't get it. I was fuming. Didn't make that mistake on the way back. But, and again, I, I, oh, you can imagine I was having one when I got to Heathrow, and I'm having one because there's no people. No, I know. So you're having to do all this on your own, do the bag check, this, that, because it's automatic. You've just got no one to speak to, you just pay it.

Elliot 0:25:32 And then do the little trick where you put your foot under it.

Maria 0:25:35 No, I know. Yeah. And then it wasn't working. And then, oh, there was a queue and we're waiting for someone. I went to the lady, I said, is there anyone there to help you? Well, there's a man walking around. I said, well, there isn't because I can't see him. They just start— yeah, it is. I do find that mad, all the jobs just going and just making people— not being funny.

Elliot 0:25:54 I know, but let me tell you, in Naples Airport they've now got them. Do you remember how bad Naples Airport is?

Maria 0:26:00 Yes.

Elliot 0:26:00 Remember we nearly missed our flight at that time? They've now got like 8 of the ones you do it yourself, thank God. 'Cause when we got there, the queue, I said to Eliza, we're gonna miss our flight. Really? It was massive. But because they had another 8, they have like 2 check-in desks, you know what I mean?

Maria 0:26:16 But I do feel sorry for some of the elderly.

Elliot 0:26:18 However, no, but that's, I think in Italy they still had 2 people on the thing and they had like 3 people wandering help. They were very, I have to say, They were very, very stressful.

Maria 0:26:27 No, it is stressful. It's another stress.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:29 I agree.

Maria 0:26:30 That is another stress for people that are not very tech savvy. That is a nightmare.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:35 I wanna talk to someone. I want someone to do it.

Maria 0:26:37 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:38 No, no, I'm lying. I'm very, very lazy. Yeah. I haven't got any time and I want someone to do it for me.

Maria 0:26:43 Yeah, I get that. But I do get that. And all patrols are on the plane.

Elliot 0:26:46 But also you're paying 50 quid there and back to put your case on the plane.

Maria 0:26:50 And the rest.

Elliot 0:26:50 And someone can't even put it on. And the rest. £50 for one case on Ryanair. £50 there, £50 back.

Maria 0:26:56 Um,

Elliot 0:26:57 and someone can't even assist you with whacking a tag on it. Really good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:01 I couldn't believe it when we had to put our own tags on.

Maria 0:27:05 Do you know another thing I find mad? What? People that check in at the airport.

Elliot 0:27:11 Well, you can't now with Ryanair.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:14 Not allowed. You get a fine now.

Elliot 0:27:15 That's another piss take. You can't check in at the airport.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:21 That's mad, isn't it? Lucky I put that on.

Elliot 0:27:23 Well, no,

Maria 0:27:24 no, there was at Heathrow, you had the machines again, you can check in there. Yeah. Which again blows my mind a bit. I'm like, why are you not just doing that before?

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:30 Yeah, but some people die.

Maria 0:27:32 It's old school. Yeah. No, that will. Yeah, clearly.

Elliot 0:27:34 Well, me and Eliza got from being dropped off through to sat, having sat down, not having breakfast, but all walked through, 20 minutes. Checked in bags, security, bearing in mind they also have to check James's milk. And water was free. Was it fizzy though? No.

Maria 0:27:50 Oh.

Elliot 0:27:51 Why are you looking?

Maria 0:27:52 Oh, sorry. Into it. Have we really got 20 minutes to go?

Elliot 0:27:54 No. 20 minutes. Sorry. With 20 in 20 minutes.

Maria 0:27:57 Yeah. We're on the same.

Elliot 0:27:57 Yeah. Yes, we did have fast tracks. Yeah. Sorry. Unbelievable.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:00 As we're talking about things.

Elliot 0:28:01 Ah, I know what you're gonna say.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:03 When you drop someone off now, 'cause I dropped the arseholes off.

Maria 0:28:07 Yeah. How much you paying? A grand?

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:09 Don't know. It's £10 to drop someone off.

Maria 0:28:12 Yeah.

Elliot 0:28:12 It's always been that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:13 No. And then what's so—

Elliot 0:28:14 It was 7. No. Did you pay it, by the way?

Maria 0:28:16 And what's good is when you forget to pay it. That's good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:19 But how much money are they making?

Maria 0:28:21 It's the pits.

Elliot 0:28:22 And actually, when Jack come to pick us up, he wanted to go in the short stay to park and come and help us, 'cause obviously, again, luggage and whatever. He couldn't. It was—

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:32 Luggage. Luggage.

Elliot 0:28:33 You could only go, you could only go to the drop-off. He couldn't go in 'cause it was fully booked.

Maria 0:28:39 Well, we stayed the night before, didn't we? And dopey balls thought that he had booked parking in the airport.

Elliot 0:28:49 Oh, he'd booked the tip for the hotel. Yeah. Ah, so you had to get on a bus.

Maria 0:28:54 I might as well have just parked at the hotel and got a cab. So yeah, we had to then get parked, get a bus to Heathrow.

Elliot 0:29:01 Oh yes, the gate.

Maria 0:29:02 Then get another bus to the— no, I think the gate was there, to be fair, but then get a bus to the plane.

Elliot 0:29:07 Nice. We've done that before.

Maria 0:29:09 But it's on the way home, you know, when you're like, you know, you've got to get on that bus.

Elliot 0:29:12 We had that once.

Maria 0:29:13 And go find your car.

Elliot 0:29:14 But did you not get on the little Heathrow, the little train thing? Lovely. It's like a little pod. The pod?

Maria 0:29:20 I don't know. No pods.

Elliot 0:29:22 We, we got on the pod.

Maria 0:29:24 Good for you.

Elliot 0:29:24 I'm on the pod. We're on the pod. Anyway, we're having a right fucking moan up, aren't we?

Maria 0:29:29 Otherwise, other than that, we love going on holiday.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:32 Like, you're weepy, can't wait to do it again in 24 hours. No, I can't wait. It'd be excellent. Nervous though. EasyJet, how are they going?

Elliot 0:29:41 Yeah, all the best. What are we saying?

Maria 0:29:43 What?

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:44 I've flown with EasyJet for a while.

Maria 0:29:46 They're good, I think. Yeah. Um, isn't there like loads of stuff happening in Sicily, loads of flights cancelled or something.

Elliot 0:29:52 Really? Why? For what?

Maria 0:29:53 I dunno, like fire or something.

Elliot 0:29:55 Fire?

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:56 Really?

Elliot 0:29:56 No, what about the New Forest?

Maria 0:29:58 What's happening?

Elliot 0:29:59 It's been a big fire.

Maria 0:30:00 Oh no.

Elliot 0:30:01 That's awful.

Maria 0:30:02 Poor Alice.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:02 Poor Alice.

Elliot 0:30:04 I think it's, um, sorting itself out now.

Maria 0:30:07 That's quite funny. Hold on. Flight arrival suspended at Italian airport after Mount Etna eruption.

Elliot 0:30:13 Oh wow. Etna's doing a thing.

Maria 0:30:15 My friend's dad's flight got cancelled this morning.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:18 Wow.

Elliot 0:30:19 Shock, shocker.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:19 Well, I hope everyone's okay.

Maria 0:30:20 Yeah. Anyway, let's move on. What have you been up to, Natalie?

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:24 Not a lot really.

Maria 0:30:25 Ally, I've binged Ally Cats.

Elliot 0:30:26 Oh, I've done one, I think.

Maria 0:30:30 One?

Elliot 0:30:30 Or maybe two. I've been really tired.

Maria 0:30:32 Oh, but no, they're only short.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:34 Yeah, that's all I keep saying now.

Elliot 0:30:37 Who plays the other cat, main one?

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:41 Again?

Elliot 0:30:43 What?

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:43 Tony Way.

Elliot 0:30:45 Why did you say— why did it again?

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:46 Because earlier,

Maria 0:30:47 when I was watching it, I was like, oh my God, that voice.

Elliot 0:30:50 But also, he sounds very much like Ricky Gervais.

Maria 0:30:53 He's the brother-in-law in Afterlife.

Elliot 0:30:55 Yeah.

Maria 0:30:57 Who he works for.

Elliot 0:30:58 The sloth?

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:59 No, that's—

Maria 0:30:59 no, that's Tom Weston.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:02 Yeah, who does— here we go.

Maria 0:31:03 Yeah, who you talking about?

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:04 She's talking about the one you— this is blowing my mind.

Elliot 0:31:07 Yeah, this one.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:08 Yes.

Maria 0:31:09 Oh, sorry.

Elliot 0:31:10 And he, he's playing the other one, Bosch. Yeah, I love him. Bollocks, get in there. I love him. Smash him up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:17 Bollocks.

Maria 0:31:18 I love it.

Elliot 0:31:19 I'm sorry, yes.

Maria 0:31:19 I think Ponce is my favourite.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:21 He's great, Tom Bursztyn.

Maria 0:31:22 So good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:23 You haven't watched Here We Go?

Maria 0:31:24 No, I need to watch it. Crazy bastard. He goes, well, it doesn't work like that, does it?

Elliot 0:31:29 I was watching the office.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:30 Why don't you go home and have some salmon?

Elliot 0:31:31 Oh, who is that? Oh, him.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:35 Tom. Who plays the brother-in-law in After Life.

Maria 0:31:37 Yeah, that's him.

Elliot 0:31:39 Oh yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:39 But he has written Here We Go, which is an acclaimed sitcom. On, on it.

Elliot 0:31:46 What's his name?

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:46 Sorry, on its 4th series.

Maria 0:31:49 What's his name?

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:50 BBC iPlayer.

Maria 0:31:51 Perfect.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:51 Tom Basden.

Maria 0:31:52 Start that later.

Elliot 0:31:53 Um, I was actually watching The Office. Tom Basden.

Maria 0:31:58 Oh, why would you do that?

Elliot 0:31:59 Oh, he's in the, um—

Maria 0:32:01 Why would you do that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:02 I'm really sad today.

Elliot 0:32:04 Oh, I know. Sorry. No, but I said that to Natalie earlier. I was watching The Office last night. How weird is that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:10 I'm gonna send I'm sure no one listens, if any of her friends and family do, just my deepest love.

Elliot 0:32:17 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:17 And your beautiful post. Lucy Davis, who played Dawn in The Office, has been— has got breast cancer, which is incurable. And she did a really heartwarming, brave post on Instagram.

Elliot 0:32:30 Oh, did she? I've not seen that. I'll show you later.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:32 Oh, I'll see that. An amazing, and yeah, just incredible.

Maria 0:32:36 Which incredible is it? She said she found a tiny, tiny lump, little ball. Didn't think anything of it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:42 Wasn't even gonna get it checked. So

Maria 0:32:44 remember, guys, and then she was stage 4.

Elliot 0:32:46 Oh, bless her.

Maria 0:32:47 Spread. Can't even believe it.

Elliot 0:32:47 And she's amazing. She's amazing. Like last night I just thought she's excellent.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:51 That's it. And I call Joanie Dorney.

Elliot 0:32:53 I know. We said she, yeah, Joanie looks like, my Joanie

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:55 looks like Dorney.

Maria 0:32:56 52.

Elliot 0:32:58 Oh God, that's awful.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:59 Yeah. Falls in love with you. Never know what's gonna happen.

Elliot 0:33:03 So sad.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:04 There we go. Live every day. Mm-hmm.

Elliot 0:33:06 And guys, I've been following a story on Instagram.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:10 There we go.

Elliot 0:33:11 By a girl called, uh, Jodie Riley. Liverpudlian.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:17 Yeah.

Elliot 0:33:18 I think she was, she was a bit of an influencer, but I think now she's got more followers because of this story. Look, I don't know the ins and outs, so don't quote me.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:27 It's like Katie Price all over again.

Elliot 0:33:29 But I heard She— her daughter was at nursery, right? Her daughter got picked up by a granddad who believed he was picking up his granddaughter, put in the car, brought back several minutes later realising that he'd got the wrong child.

Maria 0:33:45 How's he realised? How does he not know what child he's getting?

Elliot 0:33:50 And she's getting no support. The police don't wanna know. The nursery won't let her see the CCTV.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:56 Oh, sorry, hang on.

Maria 0:33:57 I'd be going nuts.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:58 The nursery have allowed A man. A man. A stranger.

Elliot 0:34:02 A stranger. Yeah. A stranger man. And he— and granddad, when she's seen part of the child—

Maria 0:34:06 How old was the child?

Elliot 0:34:07 3, 4.

Maria 0:34:09 I don't— Ruby wouldn't even go with that person.

Elliot 0:34:11 No, I don't. Maybe younger, maybe 2. I don't— I actually don't know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:14 I feel like nursery is quite young, isn't it? Before— obviously before 4.

Elliot 0:34:16 They were saying that she was asleep and they picked— he picked her up from sleep, so didn't see. But she's seen the CCTV of just that snippet and the The little girl is upset, wanting her comfort. He hands the blanket. So it's— but no one's helping her. She's been on Good Morning Britain. Apparently it was shut down 'cause apparently the nursery have been in touch with Good Morning Britain.

Maria 0:34:37 How the hell?

Elliot 0:34:38 This is wild.

Maria 0:34:39 What's the granddad saying?

Elliot 0:34:40 They won't give any information about who the other family are. And he— that family have not reached out to say—

Maria 0:34:47 Sorry, sorry. How does the granddad not know that that is not the granddaughter?

Elliot 0:34:52 Well, precisely what she's saying. Well. So she said if they'd just reached out and said, He's got Alzheimer's. That's what I was gonna say. Oh, yes. Or he's, I dunno, had a really bad infection. She'd say that's fine.

Maria 0:35:02 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just answers. I

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:03 would— No, no, no. But it's not about that.

Maria 0:35:05 The nursery. To get the person. The nursery. The nursery.

Elliot 0:35:08 They've let him in. He, he got in by someone behind him.

Maria 0:35:11 And what happened to the grandchild he was meant to be picking up?

Elliot 0:35:14 Well, I think he came back and got her.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:17 So he was picking up a child?

Elliot 0:35:18 Well, she doesn't know this. This is the point. She doesn't know. No one's given— Yeah.

Maria 0:35:23 No one's helping her. I would be going in. I would be going in.

Elliot 0:35:25 The police basically said like— Let's get her on the pod. Yeah, honestly. She said something, the nurse, the police said something like, well, the child wasn't harmed in this fight. She was like, no, you're not understanding. That could happen again. My child was in a car with some random person.

Maria 0:35:38 Yeah, no, I would be freaking out.

Elliot 0:35:39 And also, if it was you and let's say, I dunno, you're, or whatever, the granddad genuinely, you would just be going to that woman and saying, I'm the whole family. Yeah. I'm so sorry. Yeah. This is what's happened. Yeah. And you'd be so sorry.

Maria 0:35:54 Or if the granddad or the mum, as a mum, if that was my dad, I'd be going to the parents. I'd be saying, I'm, I'm—

Elliot 0:35:59 No contact, no communication, no nothing.

Maria 0:36:02 Yeah.

Elliot 0:36:02 And also the child, her daughter has only been there for 2 months, so she doesn't necessarily know loads of people.

Maria 0:36:09 No, I'd be going.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:09 You'll have to find her for me. We'll get her on. We'll have a chat with her next time. I'll be calling.

Elliot 0:36:14 Because honestly, I'm, I'm bam— but I, I think you need, yeah, follow her, Jodi Riley.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:18 And just Patreon special if ever there was one.

Elliot 0:36:20 Because it, I just, I'm, yeah. And I'm following her and I, I hope she gets the answers that she deserves because I

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:27 think as a mother you need the answers as to what happened. And actually I do think the daughter's

Elliot 0:36:31 because people, she did like a Q&A last night and people were asking, how is she? And she said, thankfully she's fine because she doesn't understand. But it's, I need to know. It traumatised her. She's like, well, what happened in those 10 minutes? You know, I need to understand.

Maria 0:36:45 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:48 Awful. Do you remember last ep we were talking about school reunions? Oh yes. This is from Debbie. She said, I have helped organise a 30-year primary school reunion last weekend. I'll have you know, I didn't even mention my pilot husband or 3 houses. It was really odd how a group who haven't seen each other in 30 years can have such a nice time together. Kids too, it was lovely. Weeing in the pool is grim, a seaweed on the other hand, I love it.

Maria 0:37:15 Hey!

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:15 What's the difference there, Debs?

Maria 0:37:18 Well, seaweed. It's sort of like, there's quite a lot of sea. And salty.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:25 Well, there's quite a lot of shit in our sea, so we don't need any piss in it as well.

Maria 0:37:29 See, I think I would rather do a primary school reunion than a secondary school reunion.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:34 Agreed, definitely.

Maria 0:37:36 I might organise it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:38 That's all she needs. You could do it for your 40th year, couldn't you? Because you'd all be 40. Oh yeah, maybe December, little Christmas.

Maria 0:37:47 No, everyone's turning 41 soon, September.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:49 There you go. Oh yeah, you're the young one, aren't you?

Maria 0:37:51 I am the young one.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:54 Uh, lovely Dawnie. said, what a lovely way to listen to you and the nieces sitting on my balcony in Portugal, here for 10 nights and it's absolutely beautiful. So thank you, Dawnie, having a listen.

Maria 0:38:04 Yeah, we got, we got a few messages on Nat's nieces and I posted a few away being like, I'm on holiday, I'm on holiday. Who did you see at the airport? Oh my God.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:12 Yeah. Oh yes.

Elliot 0:38:13 So I'm, I'm walking through, um, the passport control bit now that you've gotta do. Now, did that make any sense? This couple sat there. This is in Naples Airport. And then James is doing whatever, you know. And then this couple's like, so she turns around, she goes, you're Nat's nieces, aren't you? And I was like, what? This is so random in Naples. Yeah. Um, and then yeah, she said, oh, James, I heard, and obviously you're with Eliza, and really lovely couple. They'd been— it was Kel.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:42 Yeah.

Elliot 0:38:42 Um, who messages us on Instagram.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:44 So yeah, I've got a Kel in my WhatsApp, but that's Kel Vianetta.

Maria 0:38:49 Oh, I don't know. No, it's Kel who always says me and her follow the same thing. She broke a toenail. And you know, Maria knows her friend who works. No, I know her daughter-in-law, her son's girlfriend through work.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:03 It might be, I might have her on.

Elliot 0:39:05 Really, really lovely. And yeah, it was funny, we were having a good chat and then I said, well, hopefully you're at the back of the plane. She was like, no, I'm actually 2 seats behind you. 'Cause Eliza just said, I was like, oh, hilarious, poor you. And then James, they were very good on the plane. So, but yeah, it was brilliant. I mean, to meet, someone like that in Naples Airport was mad.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:23 Very good.

Elliot 0:39:24 Really, yeah, really nice people.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:39 We had a lovely message here from Michelle who said, just booked the brunch. Can't wait to extend the 40th birthday celebrations.

Elliot 0:42:49 Yes. Let's go.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:51 Guys, the brunch is selling out quick.

Maria 0:42:53 I know. And we haven't even posted about it.

Elliot 0:42:55 Well, it's just because we're so popular.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:57 No, but But we've got beautiful patrons.

Elliot 0:42:58 I thought you was gonna go, we got to be popular.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:02 Popular.

Elliot 0:43:03 What's that from? Wicked.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:05 Oh, is it? Well done, fine.

Elliot 0:43:06 She didn't have a clue. No. So she went popular.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:08 So I've not seen Wicked. No, I've not seen it.

Elliot 0:43:11 I'm not interested.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:11 Oh, fair enough.

Maria 0:43:12 But everyone says it's brilliant. Ruby just goes, Glinda, Elphaba, Glinda, Elphaba. That's all she does. I'm like, you haven't even really seen the film, so I dunno.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:20 What you're up to.

Elliot 0:43:21 What you doing?

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:21 Yeah, so if you want to get in, How do you get in there?

Maria 0:43:28 How do you get in? Go to hartfordhousehotel.com.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:32 Fingers crossed. Give it a Google, guys.

Elliot 0:43:36 Just type in Hartford House Hotel. Yeah, you'll be fine.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:39 Um, it's got a what's on, and then you can go to the link.

Elliot 0:43:43 What's the date?

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:44 3rd of October.

Elliot 0:43:46 Saturday the 3rd of October.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:47 Yeah.

Elliot 0:43:47 What time till 4? Fucking hell, that's early, guys. I'm joking.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:52 Cracking.

Elliot 0:43:53 12 till 4. We might—

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:55 Got a little DJ. We've got some little

Maria 0:43:58 shenanigans. We'll be chatting.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:00 Yeah, it'd be lovely. Lovely food.

Maria 0:44:02 Come with your questions. We can do a little bit serious, we can get a little bit naughty.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:07 Absolutely.

Elliot 0:44:08 So you need to press on Hertford House Hotel, you go to ticketed events.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:12 Fine.

Elliot 0:44:12 And then it will have what's on and you'll see the mug of Natalie Cassidy. Nat's Nieces Live. I love that it's called Nat's Nieces Live Podcast. Nice. It's not even you, it's Nat's Nieces.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:25 Yeah, but it is, it's Nat's Nieces Brunch. This is our episode. I know, it's just funny, it's just Nat's Nieces.

Maria 0:44:32 Her name's still in it somewhere.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:35 It's like Madonna, I don't need Cassidy, just Nat. I did my first one.

Maria 0:44:41 Next year it'll be Maria, Sister and Auntie. Brunch. Yeah. Very good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:47 Fabulous.

Maria 0:44:48 So yeah, have a little look at our awful photos.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:50 No, it will be a really nice time.

Maria 0:44:51 No, but there isn't, seriously, there are not many tickets left.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:54 No. Come down, come and have a weekend.

Maria 0:44:57 Enjoy yourselves. Yeah, book a night. I don't know.

Elliot 0:45:00 And it's, well, hence the name, Hartford House Hotel. But yeah, lovely little boutiquey hotel.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:05 Also, the town's really lovely. You could have a lovely little Sunday lunch and then head home. It is nice. It is nice. Yeah, I can't wait for it. Gonna have a cracking day.

Elliot 0:45:13 It's gonna be fun.

Maria 0:45:14 Yeah, and if it goes well, then there may be more.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:18 Hope so. Cracking little afternoon.

Elliot 0:45:20 Fucking, what's she gonna wear?

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:24 God. What's she gonna wear?

Elliot 0:45:26 Yeah, you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:27 Do you want my— I dunno, just gonna be— Obviously jeans. Jeans. Do you want me to wear jeans? What do you want me to wear?

Elliot 0:45:36 Do you know another non-negotiable?

Maria 0:45:38 Oh yeah, we said this.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:39 Hummus. Yeah, that's true. But when you're drunk, hummus.

Elliot 0:45:44 Your mum posted the picture of me.

Maria 0:45:47 The bra. With the bra on my eyes. Oh yeah, that was funny.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:49 How do you, how do you interpret this photo? That's your mum's new thing on Patreon. It's her, that's her thing now. How do you interpret this photo? I looked at the photo, I said, what the fuck is— I couldn't remember a thing.

Maria 0:45:59 It's like The Fly. Also, once we've done the brunch, feedback on like what sort of vibes people—

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:08 All right, it's in October.

Elliot 0:46:10 I'm ready.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:13 Jeez. Listening to the latest nats and yeas and lolling at the hosepipe watering can convo whilst walking past someone with a trolley full of compost. 6 big bags maybe. Well, they're using their hosepipe, aren't they? My grass is rank. Wish I'd watered mine. I will be next year because no doubt these idiots in charge will have another ban in place. Tap off when brushing teeth, tap on when washing up for efficiency. Fab episode. Glad you guys had a great time in Tuscany for Maria's birthday. That's one holiday I'd have given my right arm to be on. Emma.

Maria 0:46:44 Oh, um, talking of the hosepipe, my garden's fucked, mate. But I did think— Oh, is it fucked? Well, I'm getting it done.

Elliot 0:46:52 I can't have this. Out the front yesterday, I got my mat, my doormat, and I bashed it on the grass because it was a bit dirty. I was cleaning all my front door and that. Yeah. And I went like that.

Maria 0:47:04 Solid as a rock.

Elliot 0:47:05 No, solid. Solid. All the grass, all the grass on the— on the floor. Solid as a rock.

Maria 0:47:12 I mean, that piece is still there. What did you use to sing for, Dom? No, what did Dom use to sing?

Elliot 0:47:16 No. Solid as a rock. That's my cock. That's a really good one. That's our brother, by the way. Um, I'd be on soon. I, I bashed my mat onto my front grass and all of the grass jumped up. Yeah, that does.

Maria 0:47:37 Oh yeah, it's all fucked. It's all split apart.

Elliot 0:47:39 It's gone. Finished. I reckon I could just go like that. Yeah, it's just— I've never seen—

Maria 0:47:43 I'm getting mine all dug up and re-sowed.

Elliot 0:47:46 Oh, lovely. When you do that, when you wait for it to fall.

Maria 0:47:49 I was gonna do it, but a couple of weeks ago, thank fucking God I didn't. But I don't even feel like they're gonna be able to dig.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:56 No.

Maria 0:47:56 Are they digging up?

Elliot 0:47:57 Well, no, they'll have to water it when you've got some wet. So

Maria 0:48:00 you have to wait till it rains.

Elliot 0:48:01 I would do it in like October and get nice bit of rain on it. Very good. But it's absolutely devastating, to be honest.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:07 But then you'll have, then you'll have frost, which will fuck it.

Elliot 0:48:10 No, we had new, new grass laid. It was perfection.

Maria 0:48:13 When?

Elliot 0:48:13 In October.

Maria 0:48:15 Yeah. I was gonna do my dad's for the weekend. Just to try and make it look a bit—

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:20 No.

Elliot 0:48:20 I wouldn't bother.

Maria 0:48:21 But you can water them. No. With a can.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:23 Yeah, you can, but there's no point. You won't do it.

Maria 0:48:25 Oh, really?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:26 It's irrelevant.

Elliot 0:48:27 What is happening with the water? Because I'm hearing—

Maria 0:48:30 Well, I don't know. Oh, they asked Rod Stewart what's happening with his water.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:33 So Rod seems to be okay.

Elliot 0:48:35 Very green.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:36 Oh, Rod down the road.

Elliot 0:48:37 Yeah, but Rod's probably got an underground irrigation system. Correct. I agree. That isn't a wastage of water.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:43 Absolutely agree.

Elliot 0:48:45 You—

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:45 it's all underneath.

Maria 0:48:46 So what about things like the roundabouts?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:47 Sorry? You go round it and you turn off. 1, 2, 3, 4.

Elliot 0:48:58 Fuck, is she on about? I always think about them. What?

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:02 What do you mean?

Elliot 0:49:02 I always think about them. Fuck is she on about? The grass on the roundabout. Oh, they're all fucked. If you look at them now, they're all dead. So how do they become green again? What do you think, the whole world is just gonna live with straw now? We're in a drought. Right. No, but I'm saying,

Maria 0:49:25 like, ours is—

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:25 You water it.

Maria 0:49:26 If I just leave my garden now—

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:28 Maria, your grass was fucked before.

Maria 0:49:29 Okay, the roundabout might have been fucked.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:32 Yeah, but I don't know why you're worried about that. What about the parks? The verges? Yeah, so why is the roundabout a thing for you? I'm just— what? I'm confused.

Maria 0:49:40 Just when I drive past, like, round them. Yeah, I think no one's gonna relay those, are they?

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:46 I would imagine they do, because, you know, they probably seed it.

Maria 0:49:49 Oh, they do.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:50 If you look, if you look at a roundabout, it's usually sponsored by someone. Oh, okay. You've seen that? Yeah, the signs.

Elliot 0:49:56 So they'll be going, fucking right, matey down there, do us some new grass. The roundabouts are fine.

Maria 0:50:01 Okay, so what about the parks then? What happens there?

Elliot 0:50:04 Um, not a lot.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:05 I am sorry to tell you that But I'm not a counsellor. I don't know any of this information. I'm feeling under pressure, but I haven't really got all the answers.

Elliot 0:50:14 Yeah, but also, can I just say that a lot of these parks, they're just relying on rain. So they'll, when the rain cuts, they'll just grow back. It will just naturally. Yeah, it will.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:23 We'll probably have a really, really wet winter, I would imagine.

Elliot 0:50:27 It's now becoming a bit of a concern, the lack of water we've had. And the, and the amount of water Everyone is getting a bit pissed off because the amount of water that is being wasted on leaks.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:41 I know, it's true.

Elliot 0:50:43 Underground.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:43 Yep.

Elliot 0:50:45 Burst water mains. Yeah.

Maria 0:50:46 No, but what, that happens. What do you mean?

Elliot 0:50:47 No, but no, they're saying that they're not keeping on top of it and that's why we are where we are.

Maria 0:50:52 I had that a little few years ago. Did you? How bad that was. Do you remember? They wanted to dig up my garden. Yeah. Like, fuck, they managed to.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:58 Really?

Maria 0:50:59 Yeah. 'Cause I'm on like a shared thing. Mm-hmm. And like a load of houses.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:04 Yeah.

Maria 0:51:05 I don't really know what happened, but like, there's something—

Elliot 0:51:07 Yeah. If the leak is there, then they've gotta get it out. But yeah, it's a bit of a shock, aren't they?

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:11 Really need to talk about this quickly. You sent this this morning.

Elliot 0:51:15 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:16 What is it? And I really wanna talk about it. I can't see what it is. 'Cause I sent it to Mark and said, this is where we're at in the world. What is it?

Elliot 0:51:24 So it's WhatsApp are now creating, now you can create a username And if you message someone that doesn't— so if you message me, it's irrelevant because I've got your number. But if you message—

Maria 0:51:35 I could be like, mergie_hotgirl.

Elliot 0:51:38 Yeah, you could just have it. You could just have a username, mergie_hotgirl.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:40 She's definitely got that somewhere.

Elliot 0:51:43 But basically, you'd— if somebody— if you're messaging someone random, you don't need to share your number.

Maria 0:51:50 Oh.

Elliot 0:51:51 Which I think in some cases is quite good.

Maria 0:51:54 Why?

Elliot 0:51:55 Why? Listen, listen. If you're purchasing some, let's say that you're buying some, you, I don't know.

Maria 0:52:04 Well, oh wow.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:05 No, go on. No, 'cause what's good about the fact that I—

Elliot 0:52:08 No, I didn't agree with it actually, so I dunno why I'm saying that, but I'm, I'm, I thought of something earlier when I thought it could be good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:14 It's just another—

Maria 0:52:14 Just fucking block someone.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:15 It's another, it's another way.

Maria 0:52:17 To cheat, to be a paedophile.

Elliot 0:52:19 No, what are you talking about? Yes, it is. Why?

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:22 Because it is.

Elliot 0:52:23 Hang on, what do you mean? It's just a cheat.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:26 Because it's just another way.

Maria 0:52:28 No, because it's not. No one's gonna see you on— oh no, that's not true.

Elliot 0:52:31 No, that's— what are you talking about? It's got nothing to do with that.

Maria 0:52:34 What's it to do with it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:35 If I'm WhatsApping

Elliot 0:52:36 someone, yes, it's just gonna have their username. You won't have their number. You're not gonna be— if you, if you need to WhatsApp John down the road about your, um, he's fixing your car tyre. If you're— if he needs to fix your car tyre and he says send me a WhatsApp and you think, well, I don't really want It will just come up with your name. He then doesn't have your number. No,

Maria 0:52:56 it doesn't bother us.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:56 Everyone's got a number.

Maria 0:52:57 But that is quite good for you, you, uh, famous folk, isn't it?

Elliot 0:53:02 There's certain things, but the thing that I don't like, I think a lot of bullying could happen.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:08 Yeah.

Elliot 0:53:08 And that's where it's an issue.

Maria 0:53:10 At anything though, you could put your username as anything and start like trying to hot people up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:16 That's what I'm saying.

Maria 0:53:17 That's true.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:19 It's true.

Elliot 0:53:20 Yeah. There's stuff you don't have that person's number. Yeah. You've gotta get their number in the first place.

Maria 0:53:24 I know, but else— Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:25 But soon, soon you won't need numbers. You'll be able to search usernames and shit like that and just WhatsApp anyone.

Elliot 0:53:31 But the point is, I just think hiding behind a username and someone could be messaging me, abusing me, and I, I, I don't know who it is. But I know it's someone that I don't have their number, but they could be doing it on someone else's phone. I think for teenagers now, awful. It's awful.

Maria 0:53:47 What's the, so what is the purpose of it? Sorry.

Elliot 0:53:49 What does it say?

Maria 0:53:50 Does it say on there?

Elliot 0:53:51 Probably, uh, yeah, privacy.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:53 Usernames are coming to keep your number private. Reserve your username to connect with new people. So what's that about new people? I think you're, you're going to be able to just search people's usernames. It's fucking madness, the whole thing. Your number will stay hidden from anyone who doesn't have it saved.

Elliot 0:54:11 The point is they're trying to put—

Maria 0:54:13 like, you're having an affair, you could just put it as like, oh, Katie Or do you put your username as Katie when your partner's scrolling through the phone and won't even notice?

Elliot 0:54:21 No, because anyone will see that username.

Natalie Cassidy 0:54:23 That's fine. But if the wife finds it, there's no number to it. No number to Katie. She can't phone him up.

Elliot 0:54:30 It is if it doesn't have your number saved.

Natalie Cassidy 0:54:32 Sorry? Yeah.

Maria 0:54:35 So

Elliot 0:54:35 yeah, if you don't have the number saved.

Maria 0:54:37 Yeah. I mean, yeah.

Elliot 0:54:38 Well, I think they probably have their number saved.

Maria 0:54:40 No, not necessarily.

Natalie Cassidy 0:54:41 No, because you do this, wouldn't you?

Maria 0:54:43 Yeah, but the point

Elliot 0:54:44 is, if you're, if you're, if your username is Katie, everyone's going to see your username as Katie. And I'd be saying, why is your username Katie?

Maria 0:54:51 We have different phones, El. People will set up loads of different accounts.

Elliot 0:54:54 Of course they will. But that's— yeah, but on WhatsApp you can only have one. You can't have multiple unless you literally get a whole nother phone and therefore have them. Yeah, but that's irrelevant then to have a— you might— you just have a phone that you hide.

Maria 0:55:06 I don't know the purpose of it. I don't know.

Elliot 0:55:09 For me, it was more around that, those teenage— it's trying to be more towards teenagers. It's trying to be a little bit Snapchat-y. It's trying to be more social media, and I don't like it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:17 No, not at all. Well, you can put stories on there, can't you? And profile things now on WhatsApp. People change their stuff. They do. People do. Yeah, yeah, people do. It's a crazy world out there.

Maria 0:55:28 I mean, one thing on holiday I noticed when we was at Nikki Beach— don't get me wrong, stunning, stunning women.

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:38 Yeah.

Maria 0:55:39 Yeah. But I just cannot believe the amount of women I saw.

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:42 Taking pictures.

Maria 0:55:44 Not, not even taking them taking pictures.

Elliot 0:55:46 Posing.

Maria 0:55:46 Their partners.

Elliot 0:55:47 Yeah.

Maria 0:55:48 I saw one guy literally just— she filmed, she filmed a bottle of champagne being poured for about an hour.

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:54 Yeah.

Maria 0:55:55 I've never seen anything like it. Then she stood there and danced and posed and he just filmed

Natalie Cassidy 0:56:01 her. So then she can edit it all together.

Maria 0:56:03 I was like, this is mad, this is madness. Don't get me wrong. He's doing it. You're stunning. But,

Elliot 0:56:09 but

Maria 0:56:09 yeah. Can you really love yourself that much? Also, just enjoy yourself.

Natalie Cassidy 0:56:12 Just enjoy it. But you say love yourself, it might be her job. So if she's an influencer, she's then gotta edit all that together with music. She needs material.

Maria 0:56:19 But even that, even that, I could never imagine thinking I love that.

Elliot 0:56:22 No, but she's getting paid for it, so.

Maria 0:56:25 I know, I was literally like, wow, this is mad. You're not, why are you not actually having a nice time?

Elliot 0:56:31 Yeah, but she might have been, yeah, that might be part of why she's there to do that. Yeah, but there's a lot of people that that do. I mean, we can't even have a photo.

Maria 0:56:38 No.

Elliot 0:56:39 On a night out, let alone—

Maria 0:56:41 I mean, I'm doing that, the odd selfie and a nice sunset or whatever, but I just found it mad. I just couldn't believe it was just for me. Like, I can't imagine my partner just stand— I'd feel so awkward them just filming me.

Elliot 0:56:54 No, I've seen it and they're like up, down.

Maria 0:56:56 Yes.

Elliot 0:56:57 What's going on? Jack would be like, see ya.

Maria 0:56:59 What a funny, funny old world.

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:02 We live in a funny world.

Elliot 0:57:03 But those sorts of places attract that. Yeah. That's, you know, they go for that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:07 But we should really do a few more bits and pieces online. We're terrible. Oh, we're gonna do it. Yeah, but again, and again, I think people really appreciate how we are because we don't do loads, and I don't, certainly don't do loads and loads. But at the same time, to make things grow in this industry, you've got to do more. So it's a wee bit hard.

Maria 0:57:25 We had a day here, we've not posted any of it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:27 No, no, it's not. When was that?

Elliot 0:57:30 When that girl—

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:31 No, some of it's quite— or again, it's, it's better for the birth mumps, a lot of it. I have to be honest, I've had a look through. So, um, no, we have got some bits and pieces to do, but again, it's not enjoyable, is it?

Maria 0:57:43 I don't— I, again, I was thinking about it and I just— it doesn't come natural to me. I would, I would struggle. I'd find it a chore. I mean, good luck to these people that do it.

Elliot 0:57:54 It must be exhausting. Yeah,

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:56 and it is.

Maria 0:57:56 But I think as well, at our age, it's different. If we were younger, we'd probably be more immersed in it. It'd come more naturally. Now, to go and put yourself into that, that's fucking hard. Even now, I see someone swings on social media, popular people doing stuff. How the fuck can you be bothered? And obviously they're making a living.

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:15 No, I saw— but I always— I see, I saw Olivia Atwood did something today and it was so— it was quite long, but it was a whole day. what she was doing all day. I thought, oh my God, you've had to do all day. I know it's not all day. No, she's got someone doing it. But I'm saying you've got someone with you all the time to do that.

Elliot 0:58:33 Yeah, of course. Yeah, absolutely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:34 Or I've seen other people, celebrities, and they've got a team with them all the time.

Maria 0:58:38 Yeah, yeah. But that I get, that I could do. That would be easy.

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:41 I dunno if I could do it.

Maria 0:58:42 I'd rather that than do it myself. Yeah, that's true. Like we did, we went to our mate Hoopla. We, I took a load of, I don't mind taking stuff, not of me 24/7.

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:48 Yeah, but it wasn't all the time. We did about 5 videos.

Maria 0:58:52 No, I know, but then someone clipped it up for us. I'm not sitting there doing all that.

Elliot 0:58:55 I'm so sorry. Mum's using my, um, Amazon. Go on. And I said, she said, have you got a code? I said, yes, but is it you? You know, now you've gotta be careful. Oh yeah. So she said, yes, Els. I said, how do I know? She said, your middle name is Evelyn and you have hair extensions and I'm staying at yours tomorrow night. Is that enough?

Maria 0:59:16 Very good. She is funny.

Elliot 0:59:19 You gotta do it. You gotta check these guys, 'cause people can hack you.

Maria 0:59:22 Why doesn't she get her own Amazon?

Elliot 0:59:23 Exactly. You tell me. She uses it more than me.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:26 Brilliant. I love that. Bless her.

Elliot 0:59:29 Honestly. I heard that Andy Burnham is doing something about subscriptions.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:32 What do you mean?

Maria 0:59:33 What's that mean?

Elliot 0:59:34 I dunno. Be nice if he like cut 'em all in half, 'cause I'd do my absolute beans on subscriptions.

Maria 0:59:39 What was I on the other day? I'm like an Adidas And I saw I get like perks because I get points, and I'm sure one of them was like a free Spotify for X amount of money. I'm like, I need to look into this. Yeah, but there's probably things that I don't realise.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:55 I think I've got free Spotify through Barclays or Amex or something.

Maria 0:59:59 Yeah, it's mad. It's ridiculous.

Elliot 1:00:01 Amex, darling.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:03 No, I'm just saying it's £12.99 a month that we don't need to be spending.

Elliot 1:00:06 Yeah, I used to do it through my phone. So did I. I really don't do it.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:11 140 quid a year is a lot of money.

Maria 1:00:13 Yeah, that should be— You should be looking into this shit.

Elliot 1:00:14 No, I'm good with mine. I know I get something through EE and I can't think what it is.

Maria 1:00:20 I get loads of stuff.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:21 Gotta do it. It's important. Anyway, on that note, we've not eaten yet. Starving, I am.

Maria 1:00:27 What is the time? 9 o'clock. Bejesus.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:29 Oh, bejesus. I've been listening to Irish traditional music lately and I really love it in the car.

Maria 1:00:36 Can I just say something? I wouldn't mind doing that. We've not had one evening here this dark. I'm here.

Elliot 1:00:45 I'm staying.

Maria 1:00:46 No, it's too late.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:47 No, we've been sitting in the garden.

Maria 1:00:48 It's too late. We've not had a garden. I'm available. Even not the kids.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:52 I'm available Saturday, next Saturday.

Maria 1:00:54 She's not here. Last week.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:56 Fuck. Last week of August. We've gotta do it. We have to.

Elliot 1:00:58 I'm not here. Oh yeah.

Maria 1:01:00 I'm here.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:01 All right. You have a nice time. We'll do one, you do one. Fair do's.

Maria 1:01:05 When are you gonna do it?

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:06 Tonight.

Maria 1:01:07 Oh.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:08 We're not in the garden under the sunset. Oh, with a bit of music on.

Elliot 1:01:11 There's no sun, it's dark.

Maria 1:01:13 Oh.

Elliot 1:01:14 This is what I mean, it's madness. We haven't sat out there till like 10, 11 o'clock.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:18 No, it's finished.

Elliot 1:01:19 We haven't done a lot of things. We haven't had a day out. We ain't done anything.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:22 I know, and we've been to Tuscany on holiday together.

Elliot 1:01:24 No, I know, it's like the same. Me and Dom had a lovely day at Harlow Town Park yesterday.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:29 How lovely.

Elliot 1:01:30 It's my invite. I need to have— I'm working.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:31 I need to have Amelia over. She's busting them. Dom actually texted me and said, can Amelia stay? And I need to do that for her. Oh, you should.

Elliot 1:01:37 Okay. When are you all going? You were gonna do it on Sunday, but you said, I can't do that 'cause I can't have Amelia and then I'll feel bad on Ruby. I said, just have Amelia and then have Ruby.

Maria 1:01:44 And then before we know it, it'll be winter and then there'll be no fucking Christmas shenanigans. Not here. We'll have to do stuff at your house.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:52 Awful. What awful, awful. Situation. What's the situation, Spooky?

Maria 1:01:59 Can we do darts this year?

Natalie Cassidy 1:02:01 Not sure.

Elliot 1:02:02 Oh, God. No, I think we should go. No, we should definitely go.

Natalie Cassidy 1:02:05 I can't be talking about darts, right? I love you all. 07788 201919. Love ya. Thank you.

Elliot 1:02:12 Nice to see you.

Natalie Cassidy 1:02:13 Nice to see you. To see you nice.

Elliot 1:02:14 Right, can we go and have a little drinky and a bit of food?

Natalie Cassidy 1:02:18 Oh, I've gotta go home.

Elliot 1:02:19 Oh, shame on you. And, um, see you when we see you.

Natalie Cassidy 1:02:23 Hopefully.

Elliot 1:02:24 See you over the roundabout. No, I was just gonna say that. I can't wait to have a look at the old roundabout.

Natalie Cassidy 1:02:32 Let us know, um, how the roundabouts are looking near you. Yes. And if you're worried about them at

Elliot 1:02:37 all. Take some pictures, send them in. Bye-bye.