EP265: Nat’s Nieces #60 – the most annoying people EVER

Natalie Cassidy 0:02:54 What? Is it? More rhythm. Yeah, more rhythm.

Maria 0:02:58 Oh, is it? Energy. I thought it was more passion.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:01 More energy. More footwork. More energy. I thought it was passion. Oh, well, I don't fucking know.

Maria 0:03:07 I think I'm making it up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:08 How are we all? Very well.

Maria 0:03:10 Happy Monday!

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:10 Happy Monday, everybody!

Ellie 0:03:13 Rise and shine!

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:15 Hope you had a lovely weekend. You alright, my love?

Maria 0:03:18 No, I'm tired.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:19 Ah.

Maria 0:03:20 Feel wiped. No, I'm all right. I'm just— yeah, it's been a— it's been a lot.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:25 What has?

Maria 0:03:26 Life.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:27 Oh, life has been lifing.

Maria 0:03:30 Life has been— kids have been kidding, fucking annoying. Um, no, I don't know. I think just maybe first full week back at school. I know this is gonna now be the second week, but—

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:44 That's all right, don't worry.

Maria 0:03:45 First full week back at school. And I get it, they're having, you know, it's now rules and just change and complete change, exhaustion. So yeah, it's been a crazy weekend of emotions.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:57 I mean, I always have to say, you want it that way round. They're meant to come home. I know, we say this all the time, don't we?

Maria 0:04:03 But yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:03 Be assholes because they're good at school. Joni was terrible last week.

Maria 0:04:07 Was she?

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:07 Terrible. Really bad. Really bad. Bad, isn't it? That's just what it does. Just where they're all day, they're not used to it again. Yeah, of course. So back into that routine.

Maria 0:04:17 And then even poor Alfie, like yesterday, He had like a sport, he went to school in his PE kit, you know, and they have one of them days that he was at another school doing like sports development, I think, something like that. Then he had swimming, then he had computer club after school, and then he had football. Oh, no wonder the kid's exhausted.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:35 He's done more than I have.

Maria 0:04:36 Oh, look, he walked in and he, you know, he just didn't know what to do with himself.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:42 Bless him.

Maria 0:04:42 But he was good this morning because he just got into bed, and this morning I got him up, he had a shower, washed his hair.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:47 Oh. It's all right.

Maria 0:04:48 But yeah, so it's a lot for them.

Ellie 0:04:50 Yeah.

Maria 0:04:50 And a lot for me.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:51 I'll tell you what. Yeah. That's a lot to do in a day. I couldn't do it. I wouldn't be able to do it. Genuinely. I know. Forget the children. It's too much for me. My brain don't cope.

Maria 0:05:03 Yeah. It's, how much is too much? How much is not enough for them to do?

Ellie 0:05:09 Yeah. It's hard to get a balance out of. They're young. They've gotta get on with it. They'll get on with it. And it's lovely for them.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:14 They've got the energy. What's lovely is you're allowing them to do lots of different little things and then they'll find things they love. really enjoy, and you're letting them have a taster, which is really, they're very lucky to be able to do that, you know.

Maria 0:05:25 Whilst I remember that, I have to tell you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:27 Yeah.

Maria 0:05:28 So the weekend before was a lot nicer 'cause I went away with the girls to round off our 40ths. We went to Gusbourne Vineyard. We have to go. You would love it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:41 It looked beautiful.

Maria 0:05:43 It's incredible. So they specialise in sparkling wine.

Ellie 0:05:47 Oh, nice.

Maria 0:05:47 But they do everything there. Grow the grapes, press the grapes, bottle it. It's all done there. The whole, the whole thing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:55 A vineyard?

Maria 0:05:56 Yeah, but some don't. Some just grow. Some don't necessarily do the whole process there. I see what you're saying. Some grow and send off, you know, some squeeze, press, squeeze, press and send off. Squeeze. Squeeze.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:09 Trying to think if the one we like in Cornwall does it all on site.

Ellie 0:06:12 Yeah, the one me and Jack went to did it all on site. Did it, so good.

Maria 0:06:15 And we had a free course. It was just beautiful. I mean, the woman was so knowledgeable.

Ellie 0:06:19 Yeah, it's nice.

Maria 0:06:20 Learned loads, drunk some amazing wine.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:23 Were they talking about, did you talk about the year they've just had and they're gonna have a super year next? Like, you know, the grapes have grown.

Maria 0:06:29 Yeah. Well, yeah, but again, it was all, it all just depends. Doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna be, just means like they might, they were saying they might actually make some red wine this year. It's just very, yeah, very interesting.

Ellie 0:06:39 It is interesting.

Maria 0:06:40 Yeah. You would, we should definitely do it. Yeah. I mean, we could do a little recording.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:43 Yeah. Lovely.

Maria 0:06:44 But what made me laugh is we got a cab, there, and we were chatting to the cab driver. He was very chatty and talking about where we're from. We said, where are you from? He said, oh, you won't know it. I said, well, try us. He said, Swanley. I said, I know someone from Swanley.

Ellie 0:06:56 Like one person. Do you know Claire?

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:01 She goes around the park.

Maria 0:07:02 He said, who is it? I said, well, her name's Claire.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:05 With an I.

Maria 0:07:07 No, is that— is it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:10 Yeah.

Maria 0:07:12 Ah, are you sure?

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:13 No.

Ellie 0:07:13 With an E?

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:14 No, I've said it at the end.

Maria 0:07:15 I think it's C-L-A-R-E. That's what I think. Anyway, anyway, so I was like, Claire. He was like, Claire who? But Claire from Swanley. But I had no reception. I was trying to find my messages to find out if she told me anywhere. Uh, oh, I can't anyway. But I had no reception. I couldn't get all my messages. I was trying to— I was gonna message her.

Ellie 0:07:39 You still think that he would know her? There's quite a lot of people in Swanley. Yeah, I know. Why do we do that?

Maria 0:07:44 I don't know.

Ellie 0:07:45 But that is what—

Maria 0:07:46 But he was like, he was like, I'm curious now, how do you do it? It is with an I. Oh, is it? Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:50 I-T-L.

Ellie 0:07:50 But I mean, this is not the same, but obviously we've just been away and having— so I've got a friend whose husband is from Mauritius.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:58 Yes.

Ellie 0:07:59 So everyone, I was like, yeah, so my, my best friend, her husband actually is from Mauritius. And I was like giving the surname, but I was told that his surname is quite a well-known surname. And they were like, oh yeah, we know the family. Not the family, but that family name. That family name. So I'd be like, yes, but why do we do that?

Maria 0:08:18 That's exciting, isn't it? Yeah. But then he was like, but how'd you know her then? How'd you know someone from Swanley? And I was like, I said, it's really boring, mate. And he said, no. And I said, when I do a pod. And he was like, he was so confused. Brilliant. He was like, this is the weirdest thing. So yeah, that really made me laugh. Very good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:33 We shall see her soon at the old brunchy.

Maria 0:08:35 Lovely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:37 Very, very good. You're looking very well, aren't you, mate?

Ellie 0:08:40 Well, I'm not really. My face isn't looking great today. I apologise.

Maria 0:08:43 Get the arms out.

Ellie 0:08:44 The arms and the legs are looking rather brown.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:46 Do you have a lovely tan? So good.

Ellie 0:08:47 I will have to give a little recommendation. Go on. So I bought Fox Tan. It's a tan enhancer. Oh, me too. My goodness. Unreal.

Maria 0:08:56 Did you copy me?

Ellie 0:08:58 No. Oh, I just saw it online. Kate recommended it to me quite a long time ago, and I went with a different one, but it was brilliant. Oh yeah. Smells lovely.

Maria 0:09:05 And shimmer, like the shimmer.

Ellie 0:09:06 Yeah, really nice.

Maria 0:09:07 I got it for Santorini. However, I'm a bit worried I must say my only complaint was my lotion, because it's quite a— it's not a thick lotion, very watery. The fucking nozzle broke, so then I had to pour it, but it was so watery, it was like milk. No, mine didn't break.

Ellie 0:09:24 Mine was all right.

Maria 0:09:25 Yeah, mine did.

Ellie 0:09:26 Um, yeah, no, we had a really lovely holiday. Mauritius is a beautiful place.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:32 Yeah, it really is.

Ellie 0:09:33 Like, the people, Just amazing. We did some lovely things. Felt like a proper holiday. Yeah. Like a very special, we did some nice excursions. We fed monkeys. James just was, yeah, in his element. It was lovely.

Maria 0:09:47 So nice.

Ellie 0:09:47 And nice to spend that time together. Yeah. That's the point of us. It's a very long time. 'Cause you don't—

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:51 It's a long time to be away.

Maria 0:09:53 Yeah.

Ellie 0:09:53 Yeah, it was. It felt like a long time. It felt like a long time. It's so long.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:56 I felt like you'd gone travelling or something. Yeah. It was the weirdest thing.

Ellie 0:09:59 It's weird, isn't it? And it felt like we were, it felt like home. Felt like we were there forever.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:04 Yeah. Funny, innit? And then you just come off.

Maria 0:10:07 It is really nice when you can settle somewhere and really get into it.

Ellie 0:10:09 And then you know where you're going, you know where everything is. Yeah, I love that feeling. I was sad to say goodbye to like the pool staff.

Maria 0:10:15 Yeah.

Ellie 0:10:15 One of the pool staff bought James some cars. I was just like, just so beautiful.

Maria 0:10:20 And 'cause you're there for a long time, you don't mind going out and doing the excursions. Exactly. You've got time to do that.

Ellie 0:10:25 Jack paid golf a bit and we had some treatment. Like it was, you didn't, yeah, you didn't feel, and we had some lie-ins, we had early nights. Yeah.

Maria 0:10:31 Don't feel like you gotta just fit it all in. No.

Ellie 0:10:32 And you've gotta be up at the crack of dawn to be out to—

Maria 0:10:34 And the days weren't very long, were they? In the sense that it gets dark quite early.

Ellie 0:10:38 No, it's, yeah, it gets dark about, it was about 6 o'clock. Yeah. But to be honest, with James, we were back to the room by 4. Oh, we were spinning away. We'd have a little snack.

Maria 0:10:44 Yeah.

Ellie 0:10:45 It was, and then we would go for dinner early. Lovely. He was in on good luck. Yeah, it was lovely. And then we'd be back at the room for 9, put him to bed, and then we'd still have an hour and then be in bed ourselves. Yeah, lovely. So we had good sleep.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:57 Really nice. Yeah, it was really wholesome.

Maria 0:10:59 Oh, lovely.

Ellie 0:11:00 Had some knobheads along the way.

Maria 0:11:02 Did you?

Ellie 0:11:02 Come on. Sorry, I feel like I always have dramas.

Maria 0:11:06 Well, we haven't heard— have you heard? I haven't heard these.

Ellie 0:11:08 Honestly. Right, well, first one isn't a drama. I just— I, I think I was voice noting you at the time and they came and sat down, and that's why I then told you. There was a couple there, and it just blows my mind. Like, you haven't got— I'm not asking to be your friend, but when you see someone every day for, you know, we're now probably a week And you don't even look up.

Maria 0:11:31 Don't say good morning.

Ellie 0:11:31 Just like, or acknowledge James. Most people would say— Were they on their own?

Maria 0:11:36 Just a couple?

Ellie 0:11:36 Yeah, just a couple. Um, 2 guys, like, very pristine, well dressed, really, like, looked like nice people. So you'd expect that you've sat next to us on a sun lounger all day, bit of interaction, you just might even go, oh, he's cute, like, just something. Everyone commented on James. Everyone would say morning to him. Staff just And they just did not look up. Didn't even look up.

Maria 0:11:59 Sounds like me, to be fair, in Santorini.

Ellie 0:12:01 Yeah, but also that's different when you're on—

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:03 Did you have any interaction with anybody else?

Maria 0:12:05 Uh, tried not to, but yeah, I did.

Ellie 0:12:11 But the point is, is when you're staying on a resort like this, you sort of see the same, you know. Yeah, I did.

Maria 0:12:16 I saw a couple and their kid every morning.

Ellie 0:12:18 What, and you didn't just go, oh, hi?

Maria 0:12:19 No, I did. Of course I did. They'd start talking to me, didn't they? I attract 'em.

Ellie 0:12:23 But the point, like, I understand if you don't, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going out. I just find it mad that you could sit and see someone every day and you don't even sort of just nod, even just once. It's weird to me. And then you've got other couples every morning. Yeah, like, I just— or you see someone in the morning that you saw at dinner the night before. Did you try and speak to them? No, no, no, not at all. No, I weren't— I've had no interest. I just find it odd.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:48 I find it odd though in any circumstance. Even if I'm on a tube, I find it weird that you're opposite someone And you don't smile.

Maria 0:12:56 No, absolutely not.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:57 I just, yeah, it's interaction with human beings.

Ellie 0:13:00 The thing, the thing for me, and in, I, I kind of understand in certain circumstances, but I think in this case when you are basically seeing this person multiple times throughout the day. Yeah.

Maria 0:13:10 And you're on holiday. I mean, you're, you're chilling. You're chill. Yeah.

Ellie 0:13:13 You're not really, I don't know, it just, they, he like would, they would be in the pool at the same time as Jack and Jane. It was just weird. Yeah. Weird. And when there's a child, you kind of think, even if you just like, you'd say—

Maria 0:13:26 No, I mean, I, I know I say things and I try and be like a miserable cow. But you do. But when we were in Santorini, number one, got to the hotel and I was like, why the fuck are there children here?

Ellie 0:13:35 Perfect.

Maria 0:13:36 Because I booked this because it's adults only for the hotel to then say, oh yeah, we've just made it kid, kid-friendly this year. Oh yeah. Perfect. Great. Oh. But there wasn't many kids there. It's not the sort of place you would, couple of, little children.

Ellie 0:13:51 And what, you see them like run past and you're like, aww?

Maria 0:13:53 No, no. So there was a couple with a little, little baby and they got in the pool and I said, do you want me to take some photos of you? Yeah. So I did do that.

Ellie 0:14:02 Yeah, even for us, there was a couple on this island that we went over to like as part of the resort and they were taking loads of photos of each other.

Ellie 0:14:10 So, and I like, Jack was playing, I just went, do you want me to take some of you? And she was like, oh my God, would you? We've just got engaged. And I thought, I'm so happy that I can. I got some lovely pictures of them.

Ellie 0:14:19 Her ring was amazing. amazing. They were so cute from New York. They were excellent. Anyway, then we get to the airport.

Ellie 0:14:26 They're there on our flight now. Nothing finished. I think they were fuming. James running around. So I was like, go on, James, run over there near them.

Ellie 0:14:33 These guys that were on our flight.

Maria 0:14:34 Oh, the guys. Sorry, I thought you were talking about the New York couple. No, no, no, sorry. Oh, they're on your flight?

Ellie 0:14:39 Yeah, yeah. The next couple were— this blows my mind. So sort of middle-aged on the flight.

Maria 0:14:47 Hold on, where are we here? We're, we're, we're sorry, we're leaving. Coming home?

Ellie 0:14:50 No, we're, we're going from London to Mauritius. So this, whatever, they're doing their thing. We're on the plane, we all fall asleep. Lovely. This, there's a couple with 2 children, one's quite a small baby who was crying quite a lot. For me, I didn't hear. I think no one, you know, it is what it is. You're on a plane, these things can happen. I got woken up by this woman going, Will you shut up?

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:16 To the baby.

Maria 0:15:17 And I said, what a random to the baby. Oh, to Jack. No, she didn't.

Ellie 0:15:20 I said, oh no, is that the mum? Yeah. I thought she's having a really hot, you know, like you lose your— yeah. He went, no, it was her. I said, no. I was raging.

Maria 0:15:28 No, she didn't.

Ellie 0:15:29 Anyway, I fell back to sleep. What did they do? They were at the end of, they sort of weren't even that close. I thought, you are a disgrace. Get to the hotel, they're in our hotel. So I thought, okay, another one who you see every day, doesn't even look, no nothing, no, just—

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:45 But you smiled at that one, didn't you, as well?

Ellie 0:15:47 Well, then we get on the plane coming home, they're there, they're sat behind us. So I smiled, nice big smile, and she just point blank just didn't do a thing.

Ellie 0:15:59 So I thought, anyway, there was a bit of a seat situation. Me and Jack thought, we'll be kind, we'll give the family of 4 our bit and we'll swap. It makes no difference for us. They were very grateful. The air hostess said, they will love that, that's really kind of you.

Ellie 0:16:12 We were shuffling around, she was fuming. I thought, I'm gonna fucking knock this woman out, mate. I'm gonna— but I thought, they're not gonna let me fly, so I need to be calm. So then I see the air hostess, who was beautiful, Suzanne, um, on a BA flight. She was really lovely.

Ellie 0:16:29 She was chatting to— she said, they're just having a jiggle and they'll be sorted. She went, no, they won't. I was on the flight out here with them. The kids didn't sleep. The hot latte went in.

Maria 0:16:37 Was it that same family?

Ellie 0:16:38 No, it wasn't. So she's just making up she's seen kids and she's just—

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:42 They're probably thinking, we've come away, yeah, buying what we're flying, get a private jet, don't stay on a fucking island on your own.

Maria 0:16:50 I know, but I'm just saying they're probably thinking, we're not going in summer holidays. Yeah, but you're going to a place like that that is a very family—

Ellie 0:16:59 Yeah, I know, I know.

Maria 0:17:01 I'm not justifying, I'm just saying. Thinking what they are thinking. No, I don't, I'm sorry. Yeah, but I don't care. We've flown out of school holiday times to avoid children and we've ended up with a load of children next to us. People, no, but also people have children under the age of 5 and also get a private jet then.

Ellie 0:17:15 You cannot, women more so, I would probably say, 'cause I do think as a mother you take the brunt of the anxiety that you have getting onto a plane. Absolutely.

Ellie 0:17:24 Yeah, yeah. You don't need someone like that. No, no, no, no. Anyway, then I said to this after, I said, I'm just gonna tell you, if she says one more thing, I will have to say something to her. I said, and I told her what had happened on the way out.

Ellie 0:17:34 I said, she's been on our plane, our hotel for 2 weeks, not even looked up. So she's awful. She went to me, darling, don't you worry, sit down, I'll get you a drink. I was like, perfect. And basically the, the dad, the husband just spent the whole time staring at me.

Ellie 0:17:49 So I was just sort of saying, are you okay? Do you fancy me? Because you keep looking at me whilst James is like asleep, bless him. But just those people, you just don't need it. It's funny, innit?

Ellie 0:17:59 I just find And then after, I'm holding James trying to get out, and they're like getting past me, getting a lift. They don't, you know, they're just, they're just those sorts of people. And then I had a guy next to me that I said, I'm really sorry, he did sleep all the way out here, so I'm hoping he wouldn't— oh, don't worry about me, he said, I've got, uh, what is it, noise-canceling headphones.

Maria 0:18:18 No, but where was we?

Ellie 0:18:20 I'm like, put some headphones in then.

Maria 0:18:22 It was the same as when we come— was it when we come home from Italy and Eliza was sitting next to— oh yeah, woman. And she was just like this. And I'm like—

Natalie Cassidy 0:18:31 I nearly went in there.

Maria 0:18:33 It's summer holidays. But even then— Yeah, there's a lot of children, but bring some fucking headphones with you then.

Ellie 0:18:39 Yeah. Oh no, just don't— It's like a half-hour flight.

Maria 0:18:41 Just don't fly then. Yeah. In the summer holidays.

Ellie 0:18:43 Unfortunately, you can't, you—

Natalie Cassidy 0:18:46 It's life, isn't it?

Maria 0:18:47 Me and Mum were talking about this and we were like, I think Mum might have said if they had quiet areas on the plane or you could book certain seats where there's no children. Yeah, of course. Interesting, innit? That would work. Can I just go back?

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:00 to putting headphones in. I was on a train yesterday, very fortunate, first-class train, and I had a bloke behind me. I have never heard someone eat so loud in my life. Oh, no. It was, it was like he was chewing on Like a toffee apple? I just can't explain the noise it was. And I could hear all this slight—

Maria 0:19:32 oh, it was awful.

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:34 So I had to put— I put my headphones in and just put it really, really loud. But it— the eating thing, I have got a little bit of that where it—

Ellie 0:19:42 Yeah, but also when it's a stranger.

Maria 0:19:44 Yeah.

Ellie 0:19:44 And they're eating, you think, oh. And right behind you.

Maria 0:19:48 Oh yeah, no, it's fine.

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:48 Right behind me.

Maria 0:19:49 Yeah, no, it's the same as someone having a conversation loudly. That's just aggravating, innit?

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:54 Yeah.

Maria 0:19:54 But again, just, yeah, headphones and Just gotta get on with it, haven't you?

Ellie 0:19:58 Yeah. But it was quite quiet where we were cuz it was quite a spread out resort, but also time of year it was quite quiet when I'd put James to sleep and then you'd have like a, like 5 people walk past him. Mm-hmm. And they're being so loud and I think, oh my God, there's one baby here asleep. Just go the other way or shut up for a minute.

Maria 0:20:15 We was on the phone and you said something and you were like, oh, I think they may have heard me. A boy was kicking, was it? Was it?

Ellie 0:20:24 Oh yeah. Cuz they, there were 3 boys and they were all right near James's pram. Again, you can't help it. No. I know that I would be conscious of that. Obviously you can't help it, but if James was directly next to a pram kicking something and making a really loud noise, I'd be like, oh guys, just like come and do it over here. Yeah. You're, you're in a pool, you can't help other kids doing things, but I'd just be a bit more mindful.

Maria 0:20:47 Yeah.

Ellie 0:20:48 Yeah, funny. So no, a few sagas, but— Playing our game.

Maria 0:20:51 Oh, the playing thing, yeah, it gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Ellie 0:20:54 But James was, yeah, I mean, he was great, so thankfully he was, He was quiet the whole time, but then after he had a little cry and I was going, yeah, cry a bit more, go on, louder. Stupid bitch. Yeah, I was not happy about that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:08 Anywho, there you go.

Ellie 0:21:10 We had a lovely time.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:11 Also, for people not seeing the video, it'll help you to know that I'm wearing an Oasis t-shirt for this next bit of conversation.

Maria 0:21:18 Did you see the Google searches, Rose?

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:21 Stupid idiots. You know what?

Ellie 0:21:23 What?

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:24 The Google searches because of the question. Ah. People had to search it up. I think—

Ellie 0:21:30 Well, they should have like take— because I don't get that. Well, hopefully if you've Googled it and you don't get it. Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:38 AI surely can do that.

Maria 0:21:41 It's a fucking load of bollocks anyway. Such a con. Hey, it's a con. Have you seen how much the tickets are? It's a joke.

Ellie 0:21:49 How much are they?

Maria 0:21:50 I'm over it actually. But if you get one, thank you. Yeah, I was gonna say, noted. When it's like over £200 for a ticket.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:58 I know, it's a lot. But ridiculous.

Maria 0:21:59 But what, they've just done a massive tour, they've made loads of money, they can do it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:04 But the demand is there.

Maria 0:22:05 Yeah, but the whole thing is like, for the people that didn't get to go the first time, or what, you think they're the ones that are going to get the fucking ticket the second time?

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:12 Yeah, that's true. But come on, let's have some joviality. I'm very excited by it.

Maria 0:22:17 Okay, great. I've put myself down for Nebworth, Paris.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:22 What else? I've done exactly the same. No.

Ellie 0:22:25 Nebworth, Manchester, Paris. I think I did Barcelona, 'cause I was just thinking of the months.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:28 I did—

Ellie 0:22:29 Maybe Amsterdam. I was gonna do Vegas. I did, um— Just do, damn it. What a shame, guys.

Maria 0:22:35 We should've all done different cities.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:37 I did Amsterdam. Absolutely. Nebworth. Nebworth first. Yeah, Nebworth first.

Ellie 0:22:44 Maybe I did do Manchester second.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:45 Manchester, 'cause I thought it would be great to watch 'em in Manchester, 'cause they're doing it at the Man City Stadium, aren't they? Are they? Yes, you had.

Ellie 0:22:51 Betty had. Yeah.

Maria 0:22:52 Yeah.

Ellie 0:22:52 Yeah. That would be good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:53 It would be good. Manchester.

Maria 0:22:55 So what happens? How many tickets can we get? How does this work?

Ellie 0:22:57 There's probably only 4. I reckon it's 4 each. But it could even be 2, but I reckon max 4.

Maria 0:23:03 All right. I might need your credit card details or something.

Ellie 0:23:05 That's what I said. I said, well, if I get through, I'm fucked.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:09 No, you'll have to just do it all. We have to sort it out. When is it?

Maria 0:23:13 Sorry, remind me. I have to put an alarm on the old phone. I don't know yet.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:16 Oh, well, when we get there. Soon.

Maria 0:23:17 The tickets come out soon.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:18 Yeah. Yeah. But we'll get an email.

Maria 0:23:19 Okay, great. Was that the Spice Girls thing I signed up for the other day? Oh, that was so funny. Fuck, did they take it a piece?

Ellie 0:23:24 What was it?

Maria 0:23:25 Some CDs, some vinyls of the singles.

Ellie 0:23:28 I mean, that is wild.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:29 There were thousands of people like, not again. Everyone was like really happy. That is wild, actually.

Maria 0:23:34 I really want them to do a concert.

Ellie 0:23:35 Maybe they're just building up. Building up.

Maria 0:23:38 Let's hope so.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:39 I think so. That would be brilliant. There's a lot going on.

Maria 0:23:41 Yeah. Well, we went, didn't we? I was pregnant with Alfie. Yep. So that was—

Ellie 0:23:45 It pissed down with rain all day long.

Maria 0:23:47 Oh, it did, didn't it? We had to buy things again.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:50 No, not really.

Maria 0:23:53 Maria was pregnant.

Ellie 0:23:54 Everyone was smashing her up.

Maria 0:23:56 We had nothing to do with it.

Ellie 0:23:58 That's it. Not, I dunno.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:00 Hey ho. That was at Wembley.

Maria 0:24:01 That was good fun. But yeah, it did rain. Oh yeah. What was that? 7, 7 years, 8 years ago. 7 years, 8 years ago.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:08 7 and a half.

Maria 0:24:09 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:10 Oh no, it's nice, isn't it?

Maria 0:24:12 It's, she's wearing a t-shirt. You crack.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:14 It's just nice to get back in the mood.

Ellie 0:24:17 Yeah, no, it'd be lovely to get tickets. It would be good. And Knebworth would be brilliant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:20 Yeah, it would be. And also it's up the road. Yeah, which is lovely. Easy.

Ellie 0:24:24 Um, although apparently trying to get out of Knebworth after one of those events is horrendous. I've heard.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:30 It's relevant.

Ellie 0:24:32 Oh no, it's not relevant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:35 You just sat crying for 2 hours. Brilliant.

Maria 0:24:39 Oh, but Knebworth is just standing, isn't it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:42 Yeah, fine by me.

Ellie 0:24:44 Yeah, well, unless they put any, but no, it will be standing.

Maria 0:24:47 Have I been? Have I been?

Ellie 0:24:48 I didn't go to the Nebworth.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:50 I haven't done anything for Nebworth.

Maria 0:24:52 Did I go?

Ellie 0:24:53 What do you mean, did you go?

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:54 Back in the day, possibly.

Maria 0:24:57 I probably feel like I have been.

Ellie 0:24:58 I mean, possibly, but I don't remember.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:00 Can't even remember.

Maria 0:25:01 Can't even remember. Okay, fine. So we've got that to look forward to or be disappointed by.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:06 Lovely. But we all need to try and get them. Everyone wants to go.

Maria 0:25:10 Who's everyone?

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:11 Well, me, Mark, her, Jack. You want to come? I can't wait. It's not one— it's not one person with 4. We need to get as many as we can.

Maria 0:25:20 But if we only get— if one of us only gets 4, I'm coming. So you have to get rid of Mark or Jack.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:26 Brilliant. Perfect.

Maria 0:25:29 You know what I mean? I haven't been.

Ellie 0:25:31 That sounds like your problem.

Maria 0:25:33 So what if you get 4 tickets?

Ellie 0:25:35 Yeah.

Maria 0:25:36 You, Jack, me, And then it's up to her, innit? Her or Mark.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:40 I'll be going, so it's irrelevant. Okay, no Mark. Doesn't matter.

Maria 0:25:43 And same with you. No Jack.

Ellie 0:25:46 No, Jack will be going.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:47 Yeah, Mark really enjoyed it. It's like a thing now.

Maria 0:25:51 Okay, well, I'm coming 'cause I haven't been.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:53 We just all need to get the tickets. I love it.

Maria 0:25:55 We might not all get tickets. What do you mean?

Ellie 0:25:58 We'll have to just deal with that at the time.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:59 I like it.

Maria 0:26:00 If I get tickets, me, Jack, Mark.

Ellie 0:26:04 Wow. Charming.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:05 And her friend from work.

Maria 0:26:06 Yeah. That's all right.

Ellie 0:26:08 We'll get nice VIP ones. We'll go on our own.

Maria 0:26:11 I'm looking out for VIP.

Ellie 0:26:12 I don't even know if they're, they're doing that. I've just made it up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:15 I think they probably are. Yeah, they probably will.

Ellie 0:28:35 I know you've probably been speaking about it, but I did my first roast of the season on Sunday.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:43 Lovely.

Ellie 0:28:43 It was lovely.

Maria 0:28:44 I did sausage and mash.

Ellie 0:28:46 I did that Saturday. Bang on. With onion gravy.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:48 I would love to do sausage and mash. No one wants it here.

Maria 0:28:51 Oh, so good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:52 Joni don't like mash. Eliza doesn't like sausages.

Ellie 0:28:55 I'm just here for just the roast, the Sunday music on, pottering around.

Maria 0:29:01 Yeah, I've got no desire. I love it.

Ellie 0:29:03 And it was excellent. Banging cauliflower cheese.

Maria 0:29:06 But you're good at roast. You two are good. I'm not good at a roast. I've got no interest.

Ellie 0:29:09 Really? I just enjoy, I enjoy doing it more so than necessarily eating it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:13 I don't like eating it.

Ellie 0:29:14 No, I think it's great actually. By the time you spend all day on it, you're not into it, are you? I think 'cause we'd been away, you know, you fancy something like homely. And then I did a chilli yesterday. Banging, that was.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:24 Nice.

Ellie 0:29:24 But I really, like one meal that we could all eat. It's actually a game changer.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:29 Well, it's nice if you're all together at home and babies do that.

Ellie 0:29:32 Well, we did eat it all at the same time. But what I'm saying is, I took a bit out for Jack. Oh, I see. I'm not doing his dinner, then another dinner. You know, like in the summer we're doing a barbecue. So it was lovely just to—

Maria 0:29:43 I did the same yesterday, spaghetti bolognese. That's what I mean. This sort of time. Yeah, yeah.

Ellie 0:29:47 And do sort of more one pots. I'm really here for it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:51 I've still got loads of tomatoes.

Maria 0:29:52 I'll have some more. I've made some more sauce.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:55 Excellent.

Maria 0:29:55 And do you know what I did yesterday in my spaghetti bolognese? I did use a, like a can of the cartons. And cut them in. But then put another load of that in. 'Cause they're so sweet.

Ellie 0:30:03 Yeah. You could even just chuck the tomatoes in, sweeten it up.

Maria 0:30:07 I've just made all that. I've just done it all and made it and frozen it. Lovely. So I've got all the sauce. But I know what you're saying, but it's very warm.

Ellie 0:30:14 It is very warm.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:15 Still very, very muggy is what I would say.

Ellie 0:30:17 I mean, you'd still be smashing out the barbecues. You could, yeah. But I'm over it. I'm not interested in eating like that. We are having our salmon and stir fry. I feel like I always have that when I do salmon and stir fry for dinner.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:28 It's on Tuesday, yeah.

Ellie 0:30:30 I love it though. I really enjoy it now.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:32 I've got no idea what to have tonight. Haven't thought about myself. 'Cause we do this Tuesdays, I get all discombobulated. Yeah. And Mark's home a little bit later tonight. He's going to collect something for me for Christmas.

Ellie 0:30:45 Nice and organised, I like it. Just to let everybody know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:49 No, it's eBay. Been looking for it for ages. I said, don't tell me anymore, I don't know what you're talking about. And he said, I have to go and get it tonight. So I said, oh, okey-dokey then.

Ellie 0:30:59 Stunning.

Maria 0:31:00 Well, I couldn't find—

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:03 It's probably a left-handed drill or something, by the way. Do you know what I mean? Sorry, continue.

Maria 0:31:08 Something for Christmas. Is he gonna give it to you now?

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:11 No, it's for Christmas.

Maria 0:31:13 Oh, what a present.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:14 Yes.

Ellie 0:31:14 Oh, what did you think?

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:17 Like to use it, to use the perfect prepare or something. I dunno.

Ellie 0:31:22 Left-handed, left-handed knives. Is there such things?

Maria 0:31:25 On eBay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:26 No, it's eBay. He said he's been looking for ages and ages and ages. I'm intrigued.

Maria 0:31:30 Me too. Very organised. I like it. Yeah. So I think I thought the other day, oh fuck, I need to get my autumn wreath out. Yep. Do you think I can find it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:38 Oh, shut up.

Maria 0:31:40 Where have I put that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:42 In the shed. You do this a lot. In the shed in a bag.

Maria 0:31:45 I don't think I would've put it in the shed. I've looked under, cleared under the stairs out. It's not there.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:50 Loft.

Maria 0:31:50 I can't find it in the loft.

Ellie 0:31:51 You do this quite a lot.

Maria 0:31:52 Blaine's bought me a new one from Asda. It's better as well anyway.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:56 Is it?

Ellie 0:31:56 Autumn wreath. It's nice, it's a lot bigger.

Maria 0:31:58 Yeah, I love it. I'm gonna put it up. But I'm gonna find it because there's— I wouldn't have thrown it away.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:04 No way.

Maria 0:32:05 So where has that gone?

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:07 You have put it into a bag.

Maria 0:32:09 No, I wouldn't. Box, I would've put it in.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:12 Really?

Maria 0:32:12 In my head I was like, I know the box it's in, I know what it looks like.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:15 That's strange. You sure you haven't lost it?

Maria 0:32:18 How come it sort of went up there and I couldn't find it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:20 Yeah, but have you got rid of it by accident?

Maria 0:32:22 Really?

Ellie 0:32:24 You might have gone, ah, it's a bit tatty now, and just thrown it.

Maria 0:32:26 I already had got it last year.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:28 No, I don't think she would do that. Really annoying.

Ellie 0:32:30 Shed?

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:30 Try the shed.

Maria 0:32:31 Nah, it's not in the shed. I wouldn't put it in the shed. I've looked all up on top of the kitchen units.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:35 Oh, that's so annoying.

Maria 0:32:36 Cannot find it. But anyway, bless him, he went and bought me one.

Ellie 0:32:39 So, excellent. I mean, we bought James 2 hats for holiday.

Maria 0:32:42 I know.

Ellie 0:32:43 Had to send them back because they didn't fit. So I bought another 2 hats.

Maria 0:32:47 We know.

Ellie 0:32:47 Got on holiday, no hats. So then Mum went round because she was with me. No, we weren't here. No, I know you were. So then, yeah. Where were they else? In the packaging. Yeah. In like next parcel. But I didn't put 'em in there, so Mum or Jack definitely did that.

Maria 0:33:03 So you left him, he didn't have his hats.

Ellie 0:33:05 So then we had to buy him a hat out there.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:07 That's a nightmare really, isn't it?

Maria 0:33:09 Just honestly, these hats, I was so over 'em.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:12 For fuck's sake. Absolutely nightmare, to be honest.

Maria 0:33:15 I need to sort my wardrobe out now. It's stressful, innit?

Ellie 0:33:18 I desperately need to sort mine out.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:20 You seen my bin bags on the stairs?

Maria 0:33:21 Yeah, I did see those.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:22 Had a right old go.

Maria 0:33:24 What are you gonna do with all that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:25 Mark will take it to the charity tip place.

Maria 0:33:29 Charity tip place?

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:31 Yeah, well, it all goes to—

Maria 0:33:32 That's 3 different things.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:33 You know what I mean? It goes wherever it goes.

Ellie 0:33:35 Charity, like the banks.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:36 Yeah.

Ellie 0:33:37 Clothes bank. Good luck.

Maria 0:33:38 Good luck with that. Where does he go?

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:40 He goes to the bit, he goes to a massive tip and then you do the—

Maria 0:33:43 Fine.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:43 There's the clothes, there's the shoes. The ones at Brookfield?

Maria 0:33:45 The ones you see? No, no, no. You can't. Not really. They're full to the brim. Ridiculous.

Ellie 0:33:49 I've just got all my summer wardrobe all banging. Shipshape. And now it's winter.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:55 I know. Well, autumn.

Ellie 0:33:56 So that's cute. Gonna have to start again. Different though with winter, it's like jumpers and stuff. It's easy, innit? Yeah. Just, yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:04 God. But again, it's not quite there yet. No. Oh no. I put a jumper on the other day. I've been in shorts and t-shirts the last 2 days.

Ellie 0:34:11 Genuinely, I dunno how you've even got that on. I'm hot. Last night I woke up, my chest, I was sweating, wet. Hot, innit? And Jack last night was like, why am I— why is it so hot in here?

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:25 Bloody, it was about 17 degrees or something.

Ellie 0:34:27 It was so hot, but I, I've never— I was dripping with sweat. Yeah, it's crazy hot.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:32 I did say, are you sure you've not touched something on your phone or something and you've put the heating on?

Ellie 0:34:35 No, no, no. It's gonna be like this as well for a while. Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:39 Yeah, well, Eliza's birthday next week. We were thinking rain, this, that.

Ellie 0:34:42 Beautiful sunshine, 21. Wow, lovely. That's crazy. That's— it's— 21, gorgeous.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:48 Lovely.

Ellie 0:34:49 I just wish there was a bit more sun. Like if it's gonna be warm, it's a bit, it's a bit dull.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:54 Perfect walking weather. Now I'm into me walking.

Ellie 0:34:57 Oh, she's walking.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:58 Oh, it's great.

Ellie 0:34:59 Well done.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:00 I've walked, I've, I'm trying to walk every day and now I know what your mum, I'm obsessed.

Ellie 0:35:05 How long have you walked for?

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:06 And I think I'm panicking thinking I can't walk today.

Ellie 0:35:08 Yeah, it's horrible that feeling, isn't it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:10 It's so, it's making me feel so much better.

Ellie 0:35:11 When, what, how long, how far? An hour. What'd you do, listen to a pod? Nothing. Sorry?

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:18 Don't listen to a thing.

Ellie 0:35:19 Oh my God, that is so boring.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:21 I listen to one. I've started an audiobook. Brilliant, actually. John Lennon and Paul McCartney, all about their life. It's called John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs. It's excellent. But yeah, I did it for one walk and then realised actually I really like the walk with nothing. Peace.

Ellie 0:35:38 Clears your head.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:38 Clears my head and I get to think.

Ellie 0:35:40 Yeah, see, I'd be thinking too much.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:42 No, it's good and I'm thinking about things. Fucking know you would be. She'd fucking turn around, I know, I know. Horrid.

Ellie 0:35:50 In this mood, you would? I just feel very heavy-headed.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:54 Oh, and it's time of the month and all that. It's a lot.

Ellie 0:35:56 It's killing me. Humidity don't help. It's very close. It's all very close.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:02 It does wipe you out as you get older after all the periods.

Ellie 0:36:05 Well, I was reading up about it. I don't think it's peri. I think— No, it's not, 'cause I haven't got other symptoms. It's that other thing.

Maria 0:36:14 What do they call it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:15 Menstruating.

Ellie 0:36:16 Yeah. No, but it's, hold on a minute. What's it called? Fucking hell. I just Google everything these days just to help me get through life. Is that PMDD?

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:27 Oh God.

Ellie 0:36:28 Premenstrual dysphoric disorder. Do you know what?

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:32 I think you, that's quite serious.

Ellie 0:36:33 Oh no. Is that too much? No, no.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:36 I think it could be true, but I'm just saying that's quite a serious thing you're saying there.

Ellie 0:36:40 I really was.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:41 'Cause it's quite a, Emotional.

Ellie 0:36:43 Yeah, no, it says even though you are not experiencing classic perimenopausal signs yet, entering your 40s alters how your brain handles the normal hormone drops right before you bleed. Your body is still ovulating predictably, but your nervous system has become highly sensitive to the sudden plunge of oestrogen and progesterone in the 2 weeks leading up to your period. The sensitivity directly causes the overwhelming anxiety and sudden rage you are feeling. So what's the date today, guys?

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:11 Today is—

Ellie 0:37:12 I'll pop it in my calendar.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:13 It's the middle of the month, basically.

Ellie 0:37:14 15th. Perfect. Let's take note. Sort of 2 weeks. So from the 1st of the month to the 14th.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:21 No, I'd go 5th.

Maria 0:37:22 Oh, I dunno.

Ellie 0:37:23 Well, we'll see. We'll assess it. What do you mean?

Maria 0:37:25 You went around.

Ellie 0:37:26 I know, but I've been all right until the weekend was a bit—

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:32 Very quiet.

Ellie 0:37:33 No, I know. Didn't hear from the bitch. What do you mean?

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:37 Just go quiet. What, the weekend? Yeah, you go quiet.

Maria 0:37:39 I've been very busy. No, I know, but I'm just— Well, no, you just said it yourself. Yeah, but I'm tired. I can't deal with the phone and the screen. That's what we're saying.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:47 But it's good. It's good that you switch off from it.

Maria 0:37:50 I had a busy weekend as well. Alfie had his first football match.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:54 How'd it go?

Maria 0:37:55 He was so cute. They won 6-1.

Ellie 0:37:58 Did they?

Maria 0:37:59 And he got, what do they call it? You say at his training and he got player of the session or whatever.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:06 Aw.

Maria 0:38:06 And if they get 3 of them, then the guy gives them a £10 voucher. How cute is that? That's really good. Really cute. So yeah, no, he loved it. That's really good. Yeah, it was really good. It was lovely. He, he was, he cracks me up. He's, he was playing defence quite a lot and he fucking goes in with a sliding tackle. Does he? It's almost creasing up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:25 Aw.

Maria 0:38:26 But he really enjoyed it. I said, that's the main thing, 'cause I think he was a little bit nervous to start with.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:30 Yeah.

Maria 0:38:30 But no, he enjoyed it. So that was sweet.

Ellie 0:38:32 Bless him.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:33 Bless his little heart.

Maria 0:38:34 I'd like to come. I'm gonna be the first mum on the side.

Ellie 0:38:36 Can I come?

Maria 0:38:37 Yeah. Yeah, I wanna go when there's—

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:39 Please? A local one.

Maria 0:38:40 A local one, we'll do it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:41 Excellent stuff.

Maria 0:38:42 Yeah, funny.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:43 Listen.

Speaker K 0:38:45 Hello, Nat and the nieces. It's just came up in Northumberland. Um, just currently getting towards the end of episode 227. I think it's been one of my favourite episodes. I absolutely loved the chat about the animals and what their personalities would be like. Oh, good.

Ellie 0:39:02 And I definitely think a stag beetle is like a gym bro. Kind of obvious, but I think it would just be hilarious. Oh yeah, I'm, I'm gonna pick up the biggest ball of shit I possibly can.

Speaker L 0:39:15 Can any of you babies beat me?

Speaker K 0:39:17 Well, that was embarrassing. Anyway, also really enjoyed Elia's, um, game. That sounds so good. I clean people's houses, and if I had a daily checklist in houses and just everything in day-to-day life, like you say about like emptying the dishwasher and getting a parking space and stuff like that.

Ellie 0:39:38 I think it would just be a great way to keep us entertained during my days, apart from you guys. Anyway, all the best.

Maria 0:39:45 Oh, that's like a blast.

Ellie 0:39:48 Oh, the gang thing, we should, we really should do that.

Maria 0:39:51 So what was it, if you do certain things you get points?

Ellie 0:39:53 Yeah, like if you beat, if it's turning like red, like the traffic light, but you get through it, or if you get to where you need to be on time.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:02 I think, I think also with AI, you could just whack it all in. It would just do it all for you.

Maria 0:40:09 Who's done the most loads of washing that day? Yeah. Who's ironing the most?

Ellie 0:40:13 Bonus points.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:14 Your mum.

Maria 0:40:15 Okay. We'd never win that one.

Ellie 0:40:17 I would've on Sunday. Fucking 7. What? Loads of washing.

Maria 0:40:21 Oh, who ironed it?

Ellie 0:40:23 No, it hasn't been ironed yet.

Maria 0:40:24 What am I gonna do?

Ellie 0:40:25 No, there weren't that much. It's all summer stuff. It's all going away in the cupboard. What am I ironing it for? Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:29 Yeah. That's exactly what I did.

Ellie 0:40:30 To then get it out and it's all creased anyway. Yeah. 'Cause it's all that material.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:33 Yeah.

Ellie 0:40:34 It's all that creasy. Nah, straight in.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:37 Put it in the boxes, at least it's fresh.

Ellie 0:40:38 See, I don't do that. That was sort of something I wanted to do.

Maria 0:40:42 What?

Ellie 0:40:42 Like put all the summer stuff in boxes. I have some drawers that I don't really use. Yeah.

Maria 0:40:47 Or even just the fabric. Yeah.

Ellie 0:40:49 Yes. That's what I need to do.

Maria 0:40:51 Yeah, 'cause even I bought some of the packing ones for the suitcase and I've actually put some of the kids' summer clothes in those in the wardrobe. Yeah. It is nice and neat. That'll be lovely. In those spaces.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:59 They'll be good next year. when they've grown and they don't fit them?

Maria 0:41:03 Well, those few bits should, no?

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:04 I say that about Joni. I've done it. There's a few bits that might.

Ellie 0:41:08 Yeah. Some bits that might have been a bit oversized or shorts you can get away with.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:12 Yeah.

Maria 0:41:13 Even that now, all their clothes. Oh my goodness.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:16 It's a lot, isn't it? Just don't think about it tonight is what I'd say.

Maria 0:41:19 Thanks.

Ellie 0:44:20 Hi Nat, just listening to one of your pods and listening to you with your nieces talking about schools and giving laptops and that to children. You are right, most secondary schools now, they do give them devices. I know all the secondary schools in the area where I live, the kids all have iPads to do a lot of their work on in class and to be able to do homework and stuff. I think a lot of that has come from the knock-on effects from COVID when children were all having to be at home, not being allowed to be at school, and some kids had devices, some kids didn't.

Ellie 0:44:53 But yeah, most kids now have got devices from secondary schools. I don't know if I 100% agree with it, but I don't 100% disagree either. One of them, isn't it? Anyway, keep up the good work. Pod's still great.

Ellie 0:45:06 Fab as ever. I'm just catching up on a few things because I went on holiday and I was busy enjoying myself, so I didn't really get time to, to listen a lot to you. And I spent a bit of time reading, so I don't get to do that. But yeah, keep up the good work. See ya.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:19 That lovely accent, the Brummie accent. The voices— no, I can't do it. I like it. It's very nice and soft. Some can be a bit—

Maria 0:45:31 yeah.

Ellie 0:45:32 Oh really? Yeah, it depends sort of where.

Maria 0:45:36 Yeah, Peaky Blinders. Yeah, like that.

Ellie 0:45:38 But hers was nice. It was, it felt nice.

Maria 0:45:40 We've had lots of mixed messages though on that, 'cause loads of people have messaged and said absolutely not.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:46 Yeah, so maybe it's just some airlines.

Maria 0:45:47 No, but I think it depends on—

Ellie 0:45:50 no, it— and I was in the nail shop and there was a girl next to me talking about some money that they were given to from someone, like a charitable donation, right? And she— they were talking about she was on the phone to her colleague talking about how they were gonna spend it. So again, it depends on, they might say, well, we really need to do up the playground. Yeah. Or they might say, we wanna invest and buy devices.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:11 No, but I also had a message saying they, some schools say, oh, you need to have this and you have to pay for it.

Maria 0:46:17 Really? I dunno where that one is. I'm not, yeah, I mean, I think private schools, yeah. But state schools, I think you'll find a lot do not have the funds for that.

Ellie 0:46:25 No, well, they might have just been mixed, won't it? Look at that. They've shifted a lot in the end.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:29 And maybe it's down to councils and not the same money. Interesting.

Maria 0:46:33 Oh, talking of, um, old Cillian— Cillian Murphy.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:38 Yeah.

Maria 0:46:38 What did you want to talk about?

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:39 I wanted to talk about— because he is beautiful. Well, just a cracking geezer, isn't he?

Ellie 0:46:46 Yeah, yeah, he is.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:47 And his, his outlook on life is fantastic.

Ellie 0:46:51 In fact, have you watched Peaky Blinders?

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:53 Bits of it, a couple of, couple of series. I'd like to go back and watch it.

Ellie 0:46:57 You should.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:58 I know. I actually got really, I thought we spoke about this. Yeah. It got a bit—

Maria 0:47:02 Oh, I love it.

Ellie 0:47:03 A bit much for you. A bit violent.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:03 Oh, I love it.

Ellie 0:47:04 And it was, we rewatched it again in COVID. It's so good.

Maria 0:47:07 Although I've finished Rivals and I am bereft.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:10 Please don't tell me, 'cause you've now overtaken me.

Maria 0:47:13 I've finished it. There's only 6 episodes in the second series.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:16 There's new episodes coming out mid-November apparently.

Maria 0:47:19 Oh, it's like I'm addicted.

Ellie 0:47:22 I'm not sure it's for me.

Maria 0:47:23 Oh, Elia, you gotta watch it. It's so good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:26 It's brilliant.

Ellie 0:47:26 Really? I've got a lot. I'm trying to catch up on EastEnders. No, no. You must do that. And I need to watch The Gentlemen.

Maria 0:47:33 Oh, fuck that.

Ellie 0:47:34 Oh, nice. Amazing.

Maria 0:47:35 See, I didn't finish the first series. Oh, it's amazing. Really?

Ellie 0:47:39 Yeah. And this is meant to be unbelievable.

Maria 0:47:40 Okay, if I do that, then you have to do that. Yeah. Have you, have you started the second series? Sorry, just quickly. The second episode of the second series.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:49 Yeah.

Maria 0:47:50 I can't wait for you to talk to me about it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:52 Oh, I know what you're gonna say.

Maria 0:47:53 Fucking genius.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:54 What? Pam St. Clements.

Maria 0:47:56 Oh my God, I forgot about that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:58 Oh, it's not that.

Maria 0:47:59 What the fuck is that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:00 Well, Dom, who writes it?

Ellie 0:48:01 No, no, no, guys.

Maria 0:48:02 No, go on.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:03 What do you mean? What do you know?

Maria 0:48:04 Is it AI? No, she's dead.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:07 No, she isn't.

Maria 0:48:08 That's Pat.

Ellie 0:48:10 Is that her name?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:11 Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat.

Maria 0:48:13 Are you winding me up?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:14 Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat.

Ellie 0:48:16 Are you winding me up?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:17 No, Pam's still alive and well. Thank you.

Ellie 0:48:21 What, you thought she was dead too?

Maria 0:48:23 I was like, what the fuck is going on here? I thought she had passed.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:27 Can't do it again. Chico, now Pam.

Maria 0:48:32 That's out of order. That's really struck— no, that's actually freaked me out because I watched it and I was like, what is going on? And then actually, I was blaming— he was like, is that Pat? And I was like, I had to rewind it. I said, that's fucking Pat. I said, that must be it. But that must be AI. That must be AI generated. What she— oh, she looks amazing. Looks so real.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:56 Stupid idea.

Maria 0:48:57 I can't get over that. But excuse me, what's she doing? Where is she?

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:01 What do you mean, where is she? She's alive. I haven't seen her in ages.

Ellie 0:49:04 Oh, just enjoying her life.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:06 Enjoying her life and doing her thing.

Maria 0:49:08 She left EastEnders.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:09 And she's enjoying her life. And Dom's obviously said, would you like to come and do a day with us?

Maria 0:49:14 I can't, I can't get over it. Dope. How old is she?

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:18 Don't know.

Maria 0:49:19 I can't get that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:21 In her 80s.

Maria 0:49:21 That's unbelievable. And she does that good, innit?

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:25 Oh my God.

Maria 0:49:25 But anyway, so that, but no, the second series, second episode in second series. Genius, whoever come up with that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:33 I thought of another programme for you earlier, which I know that you will now watch 'cause you believe my recommendations.

Maria 0:49:40 Yeah, but I mean, it's mad. The girl that don't watch TV.

Ellie 0:49:43 Oh, I downloaded like 2 series of Here We Go. I didn't watch one. Oh. I didn't really get time. That's fine.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:47 You do need to. No, quality over quantity. I only watch certain things, as you know. Now I can't remember. And it was only— no, it was only today that I was thinking about it. Oh my gosh.

Maria 0:50:01 I can't, I can't, I can't go over that anymore.

Ellie 0:50:04 Really?

Maria 0:50:04 No, Elliot.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:05 So Cillian Murphy says, I have ROMO, relief of missing out.

Maria 0:50:13 Nice.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:13 That is.

Maria 0:50:14 But I don't really get it. Missing out on what?

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:17 The relief of not going out. Oh, sorry, just quickly while I think about it.

Maria 0:50:21 of it, talking of weird people turning up in random programmes.

Ellie 0:50:26 Oh, Tony— I like Tony— what's his name? Tony Way.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:29 Tony Way.

Ellie 0:50:30 I sent it to Nat. I said, who's in EastEnders?

Maria 0:50:32 Thank you. And again, I thought, am I going mad here? I went to Jack, that's Beatty, isn't it, from Afterlife? But you know when you're like, it can't be him. No. And then you come in the pub and I was like, I'm sure it's him. What's he doing? Can you ask him?

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:44 Little cameo. Lovely job, brilliant.

Ellie 0:50:47 Anyway, I was just gonna say that.

Maria 0:50:48 Promo.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:50 Romo. I just like it.

Ellie 0:50:51 Yeah, I agree.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:52 Because I have Romo. It's, it's, it's sort of—

Maria 0:50:57 but what, I don't really know.

Ellie 0:50:58 It's sort of, you know, sometimes you don't wanna do something and you actually do just say, do you know what, I can't come. And then at the time when that's happening, you're sat at home thinking, I'm so glad I said no to that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:08 That's what it is.

Ellie 0:51:10 I can definitely get on board with that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:14 It's good. It is good. Romo. I like it a lot.

Ellie 0:51:18 Maria's not buying it.

Maria 0:51:20 No, I don't.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:20 Yeah, I don't really get it because it's like, it's the relief of not ever doing something that you don't want to do.

Maria 0:51:31 And also, I think that comes with age.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:34 No, I don't think so.

Maria 0:51:36 I do.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:37 Maybe.

Maria 0:51:38 I do. But I think, yeah, but I'm like, What do you mean?

Ellie 0:51:42 Why is that?

Maria 0:51:43 If you got invited to something, and then if you want to go, you'd go.

Ellie 0:51:48 Well, no, but the point is you might—

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:51 No, no, it is different. He doesn't want to go anywhere, right? He says, I don't want to go anywhere, right? I love being at home. My life is very simple. I read a lot of books, I watch a lot of films, I listen to a lot of music, I walk the dog. and I cook with my family.

Ellie 0:52:10 Lovely. Yeah, cracking.

Maria 0:52:12 Yeah, but he doesn't go to a lot of, he's not into all the feint. He doesn't go to a lot of— No, but that's what he's saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Ellie 0:52:17 But I think also the relief of missing out thing could be a, you are doing something on a Friday, so actually you don't wanna go out again on a Saturday, but it's a big event. But you might turn around and say, do you know what? I can't make it. And in that time being, I'm rel— I feel relieved that I did make that decision. 'Cause you could have gone, oh, I should go. I should go, but actually you don't really wanna. You're doing it just to please everyone else, not for yourself.

Maria 0:52:40 Yeah, yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:42 No, it's good. Anyway, Romo, I like it a lot. Fantastic.

Maria 0:52:48 I don't really get FOMO anymore. Only if, like, I'd get it if, like, say a concert that you didn't go to. I'm like, oh, could have got, should have gone, should have got tickets for that.

Ellie 0:52:57 Yeah.

Maria 0:52:58 You get things like that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:59 Things like that, yeah. I'm talking about—

Ellie 0:53:01 Yeah, like Bruno Mars. I was like gutted we didn't go. Yeah, you should have done it. But there's not really, yeah, if anything, I never think, oh.

Maria 0:53:07 No, because if I wanted to go, I'd go.

Ellie 0:53:09 Yeah, but that's FOMO, not ROMO.

Maria 0:53:12 It's not.

Ellie 0:53:13 It is, that's fear of missing out.

Maria 0:53:14 No, I'm saying if I wanted to go, I would go. Yeah. So it's not really, it's more like if you didn't get invited, say you didn't get invited to something, but then you saw everyone else was out, but you didn't get invited.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:26 Yeah, oh, lovely. Really? Just don't ever invite me anywhere. Super.

Ellie 0:53:30 Oh, fine.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:31 I never ever think, no, I don't ever think, oh, I'd quite like to go to that. I love going, if I get invited somewhere that I wanna go with people that I love, that's great.

Ellie 0:53:41 Yeah, that's different.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:41 But I wouldn't ever go, I don't know. I don't know. Can't think of something. There's, you guys are all gonna go out. I never think, oh, I didn't get invited. Do you know what I mean? I think lovely, you're all going somewhere, that's lovely.

Ellie 0:53:56 Yeah, but you're, you're not, you're, you're a bit weird. No, but it doesn't, it's, yeah, you don't, well, I dunno, I dunno how to put it. You like being at home.

Maria 0:54:10 What made me laugh was, um, Elliot messaging me this morning at fucking half past 6.

Natalie Cassidy 0:54:15 Go on.

Maria 0:54:16 What are you doing for Christmas with the kids?

Ellie 0:54:18 No, it wasn't this morning, that was yesterday. Oh, was it?

Maria 0:54:22 It was early though, wasn't it?

Ellie 0:54:23 No, this morning I text you about What was it?

Maria 0:54:26 She was just making me like, are you staying at Mum's Christmas Eve? No, I was like, oh bless, she's trying to figure it out. I'm like, I've booked it ages ago. Well, what was you doing? 'Cause you was thinking about what to— No, just wanna know what I'm doing.

Ellie 0:54:36 No, I asked you about, what, Father Christmas. That's what I asked you about this morning. Oh, that is right. 'Cause I was looking at stuff to do and I don't wanna book something and then go, oh, you haven't actually planned.

Maria 0:54:47 No, but she was a bit like, oh, I looked at this, but it's already nearly booked up. I said, yeah. Audley End. September.

Ellie 0:54:51 They've got like 6 PM. I can't do that. But do you know what? With James, it's really not that deep. No, no. somewhere local, have a nice lunch. It's easy.

Maria 0:55:01 But yeah, but yeah, it's just, Matt, you gotta—

Ellie 0:55:02 it's August.

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:04 You gotta get it in August.

Maria 0:55:06 I booked my thing in March.

Ellie 0:55:08 Yeah, well, that one's different, but some of these other ones, not, not really.

Maria 0:55:11 Yeah, but you'd be surprised.

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:13 The old panto's doing well as well. I couldn't believe it. Again, people just get organised for that time of year.

Ellie 0:55:17 But you need to be because people have work things on, family things, and then yeah, they're trying to fit everything in that they do. She's lovely. And I want it to stay that way.

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:28 I'm on stage.

Maria 0:55:28 I know. Oh God, yeah. That'd be me. It's lovely, but it's just, again, it's that thing of like everyone then wants to fit everything into that time period.

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:37 I have to say, the closer I am coming to it, I'm really looking forward to going, I'm not around, I'm at work.

Maria 0:55:45 Why? What do you do anyway?

Natalie Cassidy 0:55:48 Oh, you still do stuff. I still do stuff at Christmas. There is stuff that you get invited to. There is, or drinks with people, or— You know, there is. He's hosting a couple of things. Yeah, and actually I'm not gonna do anything.

Ellie 0:56:01 Oh, great.

Natalie Cassidy 0:56:02 Well, Christmas Day would be lovely.

Ellie 0:56:03 New Year's Day, I'm on with Jack C.

Natalie Cassidy 0:56:05 Jones here. Mark's at work. New Year's Day, so that'd be nice. Perhaps we could do something then. But yeah, yeah, nice.

Ellie 0:56:14 Cracking.

Natalie Cassidy 0:56:15 You, you put a little message in here, Angel, didn't you? From Jane. I was actually a Spice Girl.

Maria 0:56:21 I know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:56:22 My surname was Spice. Oh, brilliant. At the height of Spice Girl mania, my dad had people phoning him up and asking if he had any little Spice Girls for some promotional thing. They found his name in the phone book.

Maria 0:56:34 That is brilliant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:56:34 By that time, I was grown up and left home.

Maria 0:56:37 I said I would not have changed mine. I replied to Jane, there's no way I would have been changing my name when I got married. It's true. That's great.

Natalie Cassidy 0:56:44 Mrs. Spice.

Maria 0:56:45 Oh, because we had some comments actually on the thing that made me laugh because I said, what would my spelling Spice Girl name be? Yes, not Moody Spice. Victoria already stole that one. So, oh, she did though, didn't she? Someone put Willard Spice. Maybe that was for you. Not for me.

Ellie 0:57:04 Probably.

Maria 0:57:05 Unless they're calling you a dog.

Ellie 0:57:07 Wow.

Maria 0:57:09 Emma said, I want to be the first Nat's nieces, let alone the 6th Spice Girl.

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:14 Well, from our singing video that me, you, and your mum did, and people loved our little mashup whilst you were away. It was really nice. So definitely nice to mix it up a little bit. Definitely. Every now and again, it's excellent.

Maria 0:57:23 We'll do a Mother's Day one, all of us.

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:25 We had a couple of people say you should definitely be on The X Factor. No, we're okay. I think we're all right. It's very kind of you, but I don't think— Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Some of us went there a couple of times, actually. Went down there. That was Sharon Osbourne, if I remember. It was quite good. 1st of October. Traitors on the telly.

Ellie 0:57:49 Not long.

Natalie Cassidy 0:57:50 No. And Eliza's at a theatre trip and I've got to pick her up at 11:15 PM. Works perfectly, doesn't it? Because I'll be watching the Traitors, you know, and things just work out well. When does it start? The 1st of October.

Ellie 0:58:01 Not the celebrity one?

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:03 Yes.

Ellie 0:58:04 Oh, it's the non-celebrity one after that, isn't it? In January, isn't it? I think, yeah. Romesh, Rob Beckett.

Maria 0:58:09 Yeah, no, it'll be good. It'll be funny, won't it? I feel like Where are they gonna go with it with the traitors? Well, I met someone— they went big dog, didn't they, last time?

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:18 Yeah, big dog. And I have to say that I was with 2 people that were in it yesterday.

Maria 0:58:24 Oh.

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:24 And, uh, obviously they were very— didn't say anything, but said that they had an excellent time and that it's a very, very difficult game. And yeah, I can't wait to watch.

Maria 0:58:35 Yeah. Did you see, um, the NTAs? What they did for Alan Carr.

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:41 Of course.

Maria 0:58:41 How funny was that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:43 Absolutely brilliant.

Maria 0:58:44 Oh, Ellie, you must watch it. They did, um— oh no, you can on Instagram. Yeah, it was, um, he got the— what was it? Special—

Natalie Cassidy 0:58:53 yeah, sort of like the achievement award for it.

Maria 0:58:56 Um, and Amanda Holden, did she sing?

Ellie 0:59:00 Oh, I have seen it. And then, um, Paloma.

Maria 0:59:03 Paloma. It was brilliant. It was really clever, really funny.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:11 Interestingly, when I get what Alan said, because he said, I'm so stupid, until I saw Paloma, I didn't realise it was for me.

Ellie 0:59:18 Oh, I didn't.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:19 Amanda Holden. I thought it was Simon Cowell at first.

Ellie 0:59:22 Oh, really?

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:24 And then when Paloma popped out, I won't say. Yeah, it's very, very funny. Have a little look, it is funny, and he was brilliant. He's so lovely and warm and it was really emotional.

Maria 0:59:33 And I can't wait for Strictly.

Ellie 0:59:35 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:36 Yes.

Maria 0:59:36 Did you see Lacey, her little shoot in— she looked beautiful, didn't she? Yeah, absolutely beautiful. When does that start? That's so exciting.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:43 Very soon. Is this Saturday?

Ellie 0:59:44 Is it not Big Brother?

Maria 0:59:46 No, right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:47 That was the night I was in Manchester, the live launch, and I watched a few people go in.

Maria 0:59:53 Angry Ginger's in it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:59:54 No.

Ellie 0:59:58 No, she's fucked.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:00 I, I quite like the look of it.

Ellie 1:00:03 No, because it's not a celebrity.

Maria 1:00:06 He fucking is in it. No, he's not.

Ellie 1:00:08 No, he's not.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:09 I think they did something in the house before it started or something with a few people.

Maria 1:00:14 I mean, how am I meant to know this stuff?

Ellie 1:00:16 But yeah, I just, I like it when it's civilians, as they say.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:19 When I saw a few of them going in, I thought, I've seen a I really, really—

Maria 1:00:24 I saw it on social media. I'm actually—

Ellie 1:00:27 A lot to watch.

Maria 1:00:28 The Gemma Collins docu thing coming out.

Ellie 1:00:31 Out? Is it out? It was on my Sky today.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:34 Oh good, lovely. I'm not gonna watch that. It's not gonna happen.

Ellie 1:00:39 No, I just— I'm really— There's a lot of MasterChef I need to watch.

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:42 I need to just get through EastEnders.

Ellie 1:00:44 I need to get up to date 'cause I hear it's been all kicking off.

Maria 1:00:46 Oh, it's been sad. Has it?

Ellie 1:00:49 Yeah. I have to say the wedding with Tamika.

Maria 1:00:52 I know.

Ellie 1:00:53 What's her name in it?

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:55 Kim.

Maria 1:00:55 I always forget her name in it.

Ellie 1:00:57 I know. Kim and—

Natalie Cassidy 1:00:59 Howie.

Ellie 1:01:00 Howie. Well done.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:01 Thank you. Well done.

Ellie 1:01:03 In the hospital with Denise. Oh, I saw it.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:07 I saw it 'cause Eliza's back on it. She's caught up for Christmas, really.

Ellie 1:01:11 I'm so sad.

Maria 1:01:12 Yeah, you got it.

Ellie 1:01:13 I am catching up.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:15 I'm nearly there. Yeah, it's good.

Maria 1:01:16 What are the older Christmas specials? We're gonna get another Amanda Land one? Do we think?

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:21 Probably, I'd say so.

Ellie 1:01:24 Yeah. Yeah, definitely.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:25 We'll start hearing about those soon, definitely. We've got a Here We Go Christmas special.

Maria 1:01:29 Oh, perfect. Yeah. I'm sure someone said to me, can't be a— could it be 100 days till Christmas? Yes. Something like that.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:37 Quite easily, yeah.

Ellie 1:01:38 Well, what month are we in? September, October, November, December. Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:41 Yeah.

Ellie 1:01:42 Wouldn't be far off it. Maybe not 100.

Natalie Cassidy 1:01:43 Yeah, I start panicking about 9 and a half weeks. Not that I'm counting. We've got quite a lot of pods to do, just to let you know. We, we as a collective have got to double up. So I don't know how we're gonna do this, but we do need to actually sit down and take some time.

Ellie 1:01:59 All the best luck with that.

Natalie Cassidy 1:02:00 We do need to go, it's 58 minutes. But one thing I've got— no, 2 things. Oh, good.

Maria 1:02:05 Oh, sorry.

Natalie Cassidy 1:02:06 Wow. No, she's just all right. It's like Tourette's, it's just all coming out tonight. Um, 2 things. Yes, following on from Thursday's pod, Very quickly.

Ellie 1:02:15 What's that?

Natalie Cassidy 1:02:16 What is the most useless? Because I asked a couple of listeners, right, on Thursday, and I thought I must ask you guys. I'm sorry, I don't listen.

Ellie 1:02:23 I'm following on. I'm turning to Ellie.

Natalie Cassidy 1:02:24 What is the most useless thing you've bought as a kitchen appliance that's in the cupboard and you never use?

Maria 1:02:31 Pestle and mortar. I was gonna say that. Little cute one I got from Sustream Green. Pestle and mortar.

Ellie 1:02:40 I've got a cake mixer thing, I've got a food processor thing and a blender. Don't, don't use any of them.

Natalie Cassidy 1:02:48 Fair enough. Just asking. It's one that's thrown out there and people might say, I've got loads of shit.

Ellie 1:02:54 What I would also say is I bought the Ninja Foodi, which is like a 7-in-1. All I do is air fry. I don't steam, I don't pressure cook.

Maria 1:03:03 Oh yeah, I changed, I gave mine to the boys and got mum to buy me another thing.

Ellie 1:03:06 I don't, I don't slow cook. I don't like things in the slow cooker. I love the idea of it. Watery. It goes watery. But then because it does, you could then put it on more like a bake so it thickens up. But anyway, I'm not doing it. It's just air fryer. That's a waste of time. Fair enough.

Maria 1:03:21 I haven't really got much stuff.

Ellie 1:03:24 Have you not got one of those, like, like, you know, like one of those cheese slicers?

Natalie Cassidy 1:03:28 What's that? That was my, what, a mandolin? Is it a mandolin? No, a mandolin is a big one, isn't it?

Ellie 1:03:35 Yeah, like a cheese, it's like a triangle and you do that.

Natalie Cassidy 1:03:39 But it's very sharp, isn't it?

Maria 1:03:40 Oh no, I've got like a plastic thing with me.

Natalie Cassidy 1:03:43 It's not a mandolin. That is an instrument. That is a string, like a mandolin, isn't it?

Maria 1:03:50 That's like a— That's it, like a little— Like a ding ding. Like a banjo.

Natalie Cassidy 1:03:53 I can picture a little jazz guitar.

Ellie 1:03:54 No, it is a mandolin slicer.

Natalie Cassidy 1:03:56 Is it?

Maria 1:03:57 What's some— what we think.

Ellie 1:03:58 But it isn't what we're saying.

Natalie Cassidy 1:03:59 But that's what I've got. You can see it. It's very, very sharp and it's got a box.

Maria 1:04:03 And you'll slash your finger off.

Natalie Cassidy 1:04:04 The hand'll be off.

Ellie 1:04:05 Oh, I think it's just called a cheese slicer, like that.

Maria 1:04:10 Oh, I haven't. Yeah, you always get one in.

Ellie 1:04:12 Mum and Dad, I feel like, oh, it reminds me of Mum and Dad, but I just use a knife to cut the cheese. Yeah, fair enough.

Natalie Cassidy 1:04:18 I just wanted to ask you both. Thank you.

Maria 1:04:20 Okay, you're welcome.

Natalie Cassidy 1:04:22 Another thing. Good story. Thank you. Another thing I wanna say on here, 'cause I haven't done yet, book club is coming back to the main feed. I've had a few messages again, people like, oh, I haven't joined Patreon. I get it. It's very niche anyway. So I'm gonna do a little bonus there. Throw it out within the week. The next book is Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton. You've both got a copy.

Maria 1:04:45 Excellent.

Natalie Cassidy 1:04:46 Please. It's meant to be really, really good. And what I said was, it's also a Netflix series. So if people haven't read but they've watched, let me know what you thought of the series. And I thought it just might be nice for people, if you wanna watch the series or read the book, it's just a special little month.

Ellie 1:05:01 What sort of vibe? It's all about friends.

Natalie Cassidy 1:05:04 It's all quite Quite chick flicky, I think, but it's meant to be really, really good. Why are the—

Ellie 1:05:08 why is the writing crossed out? Mum actually said, oh, is it meant to be like that? I said, well, yeah, Natalie hasn't done it on 4 books. It's, um, why is it scribbled out? What's the—

Natalie Cassidy 1:05:18 Because it says everything I know about parties, dates, friends, jobs, life, love, but it's all about her life.

Maria 1:05:23 It sounds like she doesn't know much about the others. She knows about love.

Natalie Cassidy 1:05:27 It's really lovely. It's her autobiography.

Maria 1:05:29 Oh.

Natalie Cassidy 1:05:30 Oh, it's real.

Ellie 1:05:31 You didn't say that.

Natalie Cassidy 1:05:32 I believe, yeah.

Ellie 1:05:33 It's not an autobiography.

Natalie Cassidy 1:05:34 Yeah, no, it is. Autobiography of the Year 2018. So it's quite old, but it's all about her and her life, and it's meant to be really, really good.

Ellie 1:05:41 Who is, who is said person?

Natalie Cassidy 1:05:42 Dolly Alderton.

Maria 1:05:43 I mean, it's all well and good, but you've introduced me to bubble bollocks.

Natalie Cassidy 1:05:47 Oh, bubble word jam.

Maria 1:05:49 So when's there time to do all this stuff?

Natalie Cassidy 1:05:51 No, I've calmed it down with the bubble word jam. I was obsessed with it. I've calmed down a little bit. Thank you, everybody, because you have all said that you've been playing?

Ellie 1:05:59 I'm obsessed. What level are you on?

Maria 1:06:01 No, not like you, Ellie. Oh, you've been on holiday.

Natalie Cassidy 1:06:03 Yeah, it does make a difference, the old Holly Bob.

Maria 1:06:05 That's what Ellie is like. I'm on expert level. I'm like, mine says that.

Ellie 1:06:08 No, I'm saying my next level is an expert level. It all says that.

Maria 1:06:12 What does that mean? No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. Level 1 to 8.

Ellie 1:06:15 What are you talking about?

Natalie Cassidy 1:06:16 She's cut.

Ellie 1:06:17 What are you talking about?

Maria 1:06:19 Mine will go expert level. No, you have level.

Ellie 1:06:21 Yeah, and then green is just a normal level.

Maria 1:06:23 Yeah, level normal.

Ellie 1:06:24 That's what I'm saying.

Maria 1:06:25 Oh, but what, they just change it up?

Ellie 1:06:27 Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Well, 'cause it wants you to trip up. 'Cause at the moment I'm on a win streak and I've got— Can I ask the question?

Maria 1:06:33 Is it cheating if you Google the words?

Ellie 1:06:34 I Google the words.

Maria 1:06:35 See, I never did until I heard a sudden someone.

Natalie Cassidy 1:06:38 I did. I did. Like, you have to.

Ellie 1:06:40 If you don't know what the word means, how can you do it? That's ridiculous. Sometimes I guess.

Natalie Cassidy 1:06:45 Do you play the calendar?

Ellie 1:06:46 Yes.

Natalie Cassidy 1:06:48 No. What's that?

Maria 1:06:50 You get daily tasks.

Ellie 1:06:51 Whoa. Oh, I'm on level 207.

Maria 1:06:55 I've, I've un— leaderboard. I've un— the leaderboard.

Natalie Cassidy 1:06:57 Well, as usual, as usual, I'm not playing the game properly then, am I? Is there loads of stuff to do?

Ellie 1:07:02 Um, I don't think I'm playing the calendar.

Maria 1:07:03 Oh, well, I'm playing level 148.

Ellie 1:07:08 This is the treasure cove where you have to— you win.

Maria 1:07:11 I don't know what it is. Ah, anyway, so look at the calendar.

Ellie 1:07:13 I've not got a calendar.

Maria 1:07:14 Yes, you have, down here.

Ellie 1:07:15 Where? Oh yeah, fucking— I would be absolutely loaded.

Natalie Cassidy 1:07:20 I can't believe this. How much money you got? You lot of shit.

Ellie 1:07:23 spent a bit the other day. 2, 2,500.

Maria 1:07:26 Yeah, same.

Ellie 1:07:27 Sorry, how much have you got?

Natalie Cassidy 1:07:28 850.

Ellie 1:07:30 Well, you obviously spend it a lot.

Maria 1:07:31 Oh, to get the new lights, because you use it loads.

Natalie Cassidy 1:07:33 I haven't spent it loads.

Maria 1:07:34 Well, 850 coins.

Ellie 1:07:36 Yeah, well, you must use it to get— use the booster at the bottom.

Maria 1:07:39 Oh, it's in barrels.

Natalie Cassidy 1:07:40 I don't feel like I do, really.

Ellie 1:07:42 Well, no, you, you would. I'm on level 207, just in case you didn't hear me the first time. Still can't catch up with Kat though.

Natalie Cassidy 1:07:49 Where is she?

Ellie 1:07:51 That's wild. I think she was at 230-something. That is wild.

Natalie Cassidy 1:07:56 Oh, well, listen, I'm just pleased to hear that the levels continue 'cause I love it, but I'm not playing it all the time. I can't do that. It's, I just can't. Although brilliant to do rather than scrolling, rather be playing a game.

Ellie 1:08:07 Yeah, that's what I always say.

Maria 1:08:08 I don't really do, I don't really do all the scrolling.

Ellie 1:08:10 All I do is play games. It's gotta be good for your brain.

Natalie Cassidy 1:08:12 It has, definitely.

Maria 1:08:13 I know, not all the time.

Ellie 1:08:15 No, but especially that way when it's words and also you're finding out new words.

Natalie Cassidy 1:08:19 Yes. I can't really remember 'em.

Ellie 1:08:19 No, see, I try and remember I do try and you see them fucking, that's the only thing you see them all the time. Tell me one.

Natalie Cassidy 1:08:25 Tell me a group.

Ellie 1:08:26 Ancient ruins. Clothes.

Natalie Cassidy 1:08:34 Cutlery.

Ellie 1:08:35 The one that always comes up is like Sphinx, Pharaoh, you know, all the Egypt.

Natalie Cassidy 1:08:40 So Egypt items.

Maria 1:08:41 Yeah. Well, you didn't know what Sphinx was.

Ellie 1:08:43 No, I do. I'm just saying ones that come up a lot, but I have some very, there's some mad ones. How about when it's like—

Maria 1:08:48 Well, there's a noise. Sometimes it annoys me when I don't even know what the word is, but there's another weird word.

Natalie Cassidy 1:08:53 And then you just pop it together. But stuff like T-34, it's sort of, yeah, mad submarines or, you know, mad ones. Yeah. Oh, it's great. It's good.

Ellie 1:09:02 But I do love it when I, when I cotton on. But then some things annoy me and it's like tricks you, things that are round, but it's like an egg, a bottle, like just round.

Natalie Cassidy 1:09:12 Yeah. And the toys, toys really annoys me. There's always puzzle and blocks in there. Yeah. I'm like, change it up a bit.

Ellie 1:09:19 Yo-yo. There's quite a lot of toys.

Maria 1:09:21 Stripes, like zebras.

Ellie 1:09:23 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 1:09:23 Oh yeah, yeah.

Ellie 1:09:24 Anyway.

Natalie Cassidy 1:09:24 No, it's good.

Maria 1:09:25 Anyway.

Natalie Cassidy 1:09:26 Right. Hey ho. Thank you both. Peace out, people. Nice to see you. Nice to see you, to see you. Nice, nice, nice.

Ellie 1:09:32 Oh, you don't need to, um, highlight it anymore.

Natalie Cassidy 1:09:35 Okay. 07788 20 19 19. Send us your messages. Missed you, elves. And, uh, we're back for the bur months.

Maria 1:09:43 The bitches are back.

Ellie 1:09:44 In the bur months.

Maria 1:09:46 It's October soon. We got the brunch.

Ellie 1:09:48 We need to sort that out.

Natalie Cassidy 1:09:50 Bye.

Maria 1:09:50 Ciao.

Ellie 1:09:51 Bye-bye.