EP266: Scraping the Barrel #52 – is Natalie a lunatic?

Natalie Cassidy 0:02:33 Hello and welcome to Scraping the Barrel. Hope everyone's having a cracking week. How are you?

Marc 0:02:57 Yeah, all right, thanks. Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:02:58 Bit tired?

Marc 0:02:59 No, I'm all right actually.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:00 That's good.

Marc 0:03:01 Feel quite good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:01 Interesting though, isn't it?

Marc 0:03:04 What's interesting?

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:05 Well, you, you probably had about 6 hours sleep last night.

Marc 0:03:08 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:09 And you're just all right?

Marc 0:03:10 Yeah, but I had a good night's sleep the night before.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:15 The old Heath Robinson got quite a lot of traction. From our last podcast.

Marc 0:03:20 Yeah, loads of people said that they, they knew what I was talking about. And loads of people didn't. Well, I got quite a few people that said they did know what I was talking about, so it's a generational thing, clearly.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:29 Loads of people didn't.

Marc 0:03:31 All right, okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:31 Morning, just listening to today's pod. I have definitely heard of Heath Robinson but didn't know where it had come from. Ironbridge is another living museum in Shropshire, so a bit closer than going to Beamish. Thank you, Sandra Golding. There you go.

Marc 0:03:46 So Sandra knew what I was talking about.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:47 Sandra did. James Muddle. Hi Mark, my parents used to say something was Heath Robinson, especially some of the crazy modifications my granddad did to his house.

Marc 0:03:56 Right. So, so your case you just made was that no one's heard of it before, and you've just read out 2 messages that specifically state they know what I'm talking about.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:08 Kelly, just listened to Monday's podcast. I've heard the term Heath Robinson and use it on a regular basis. Anything slightly crap is always slightly Heath Robinson.

Marc 0:04:17 You wouldn't make a very good barrister, would you? No. No. Go on, read one out. Read one out that doesn't know of it. I am—

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:27 I can't find one. There were a few.

Marc 0:04:29 Okay. I mean, just based on the pure evidence that's been read out, I would argue that most people did know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:34 On another note, because I've just flicked through, I did just want to talk about the funny messages that you get sometimes, or that I get.

Marc 0:04:44 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:45 I got a message. I'm not gonna read out the name, but I got a message from this geezer.

Marc 0:04:50 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:51 This is an absolute shot in the dark, Natalie, but would you be able to be my date to my parents' 25th wedding anniversary in Corsica next summer? Does he actually think that I'm gonna say, yeah, that, that's a good idea?

Marc 0:05:06 I dunno.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:06 Then I've got another one. This is an absolute shot in the dark, Natalie, but can I take you on a date sometime?

Marc 0:05:12 Is that the same person?

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:13 Yeah.

Marc 0:05:14 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:15 Jane Svensson, Heath Robinson is definitely a phrase I know. Sarah, Sarah Skeels. Mark, Heath Robinson, absolutely no idea. I've never heard of it.

Marc 0:05:28 In the minority, Sarah, as you can tell. How do you feel now?

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:31 There you go, Sarah. It's me and you, babe.

Marc 0:05:33 Yeah, I bet she feels great about that now. I was gonna ask you, yeah, how are the tickets selling for the live shows?

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:42 Have a little look on the old seating plan. Not quite sure.

Marc 0:05:46 You don't know? Covent Garden on the 8th of November.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:49 Yes.

Marc 0:05:51 How's that going?

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:52 Have a little look.

Marc 0:05:53 Oh my goodness me.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:54 Come in as if you're booking tickets and see what the seats are saying.

Marc 0:05:57 The thing is, is when this goes out, I don't know, it's a very Heath Robinson way of looking at—

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:01 oh, here we go—

Marc 0:06:02 whether tickets are sold out or not.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:04 Well, you're the one who brought it up.

Marc 0:06:05 Doesn't look like you've sold any. I've had a few, do you know what?

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:08 I've had a few people.

Marc 0:06:09 Oh, blimey.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:10 What?

Marc 0:06:11 Do you wanna be looking at that? Well, if you're listening to this, you can definitely get a ticket for Covent Garden. Please come along. Bishop Stortford.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:23 Lots of people have booked tickets. I've had a few Instagram messages where they screenshot their ticket booking saying they can't wait to come. Be very lovely. Okay, it'll be good.

Marc 0:06:35 Yeah, basically, if you want to go to— on the 18th of October, the Bishop Stortford show, there's tickets available. The 8th of November, London, Covent Garden. Wonder what time that show is. Do you know?

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:46 I think they're all the afternoon. They're all about 2 PM.

Marc 0:06:49 And the 15th of November is Tring. Definitely tickets available as well for that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:56 I've got a headache where I've had that cup of coffee.

Marc 0:06:59 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:00 Does anyone else get that?

Marc 0:07:01 They're only £17.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:02 I know, they're cheap.

Marc 0:07:03 That's Tring, by the way. I'm not looking at the others. 2 PM.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:07 Yeah, 2 o'clock.

Marc 0:07:08 I mean, I'd actually— hey, no, it's all right. I just realised I just don't get paid for those live shows.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:18 What do you mean?

Marc 0:07:20 I'm just looking at the tickets and they're £17. I thought, well, do you know what, someone could maybe donate their Their ticket fee to me.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:27 What, and not come? Just give you £17? They're not gonna pay £35, are they?

Marc 0:07:33 No, I'll tell you what, £15 cash, I'll meet you by the stage door, get you in. That's brilliant. Start undercutting your tickets. I could do that, get my costs covered, couldn't I? I could be like selling them out the black market out the back.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:49 You're talking as if I'm horrible to everyone and don't pay anyone. I just about come out with even Stevens on these shows.

Marc 0:07:56 They cost, actually, to be honest with you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:58 Well, it's more about getting people together, isn't it? It's nice. It's nice to do a few a year at least.

Marc 0:08:03 But it would be helpful to sell some more tickets. Yeah, it would.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:05 Yeah, please.

Marc 0:08:06 Yeah. So 18th of October, Bishop Stortford. 8th of November, Covent Garden. 15th of November, Tring.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:13 Lovely. Going back to what I was saying, because everyone's bored stiff now.

Marc 0:08:18 Listening. Yeah, but they're probably turning it off.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:19 Like an advert.

Marc 0:08:20 It's not an advert.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:20 It's boring though, innit?

Marc 0:08:22 But it's meant to be a community, meant to be supportive. Yes, that's true. Be coming along, come and make some fans of the podcast.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:26 You know sometimes when you have a cup of coffee?

Marc 0:08:29 Yes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:29 And it's either a good cup of coffee or a bad cup of coffee.

Marc 0:08:33 I do.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:34 That's what's happened to me. I'm sweating and it's not, it's not agreed with me.

Marc 0:08:39 At the Proms, I did a camera in the auditorium right in front of the stage, and, uh, it was an evening performance, and I had a coffee. I don't know, don't ask me why, but I had a coffee.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:50 What time?

Marc 0:08:51 Uh, probably 5 o'clock, 5 PM. And they, uh, it's a very good television catering company, and they always have an urn of coffee.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:00 Yep.

Marc 0:09:01 And an urn of hot water. But the coffee has probably been stewing like all day.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:06 Yeah.

Marc 0:09:07 In the urn. And I guess they top it up, and it was basically this stuff Was pretty strong.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:13 Yeah. Like rocket fuel.

Marc 0:09:14 During the show, I honestly thought I was having, like, heart palpitations.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:21 Did you feel like you were gonna shit yourself?

Marc 0:09:23 No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:24 Oh.

Marc 0:09:24 No, Natalie. Sorry. Heart.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:27 Sorry.

Marc 0:09:27 Palpitations. No, I know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:28 But usually with it comes the urge to sometimes go to the loo, I find, with a coffee.

Marc 0:09:32 No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:33 Fair enough.

Marc 0:09:34 That wasn't a problem. But I, but my heart was feeling a bit, ooh. And I was a bit worried. I think it was very hot as well, but—

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:42 It's a culmination of those things, isn't it?

Marc 0:09:44 Never doing that again.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:45 And it's, you know, high pressure, isn't it, as well?

Marc 0:09:51 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:53 Well, it is compared to some things. It's live, you know.

Marc 0:09:56 It wasn't live. It wasn't high pressure, really.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:00 Oh, right, okay.

Marc 0:10:00 No, I was concentrating and not breathing very well, probably holding my breath almost.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:05 Yes.

Marc 0:10:06 Doing like some quite—

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:07 intricate shots. That's what I mean.

Marc 0:10:09 Yeah, maybe. Yeah, true. Maybe. Yeah, not breathing properly. Coffee. Yeah, a lot of heat. Not great.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:15 No.

Marc 0:10:16 That was all right last night.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:18 Yeah, last night, The Proms. I've not watched it.

Marc 0:10:21 I did try. That was like a million months away by the time—

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:24 Well, it doesn't matter, but I did try and watch it, by the way, with Joni.

Marc 0:10:29 All right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:29 I said, come on. I said, let's support Daddy. Should we see what he's doing and see what's on?

Marc 0:10:34 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:35 And there was an opera singer. Quite a camp guy, very good. Watched his VT. And then she said, this is really boring, I'd like to watch Four in a Bed. She's so camp, it's like living with Alan Carr.

Marc 0:10:47 Watch only?

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:48 Yeah, I mean, Four in a Bed, do you know what Four in a Bed is?

Marc 0:10:51 No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:52 It's hilarious. It's an afternoon, like an ITV or Channel 4 show, which is, remember Come Dine with Me?

Marc 0:11:04 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:04 It's like a Come Dine With Me for bed and breakfasts.

Marc 0:11:07 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:08 So you have 4 different people who own bed and breakfasts.

Marc 0:11:11 Okay, yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:12 And then all of them go and stay there and they mark it. Oh yeah. And then they sit around the table and say what they think. I mean, it is the most just twee camp show you've ever seen. And that's what we were watching last night.

Marc 0:11:24 I'd watch that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:24 I mean, I love it. It's brilliant. It's very relaxing. But I just, I said, this is a shame that we've decided to watch Four in a Bed. We could watch it anytime. We could just support Daddy, watch a bit of The Proms, but she wasn't having any of it. So, well, it is recorded. You and I can watch it.

Marc 0:11:39 Maybe she'll like Ujo Wang playing the piano.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:41 I told her that.

Marc 0:11:43 Yeah, she'll like the, the second half was great.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:45 There you go.

Marc 0:11:46 So if you haven't seen it, go on BBC iPlayer.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:47 How was the Dolly Parton?

Marc 0:11:48 Yeah, great. Bit. Yeah, all good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:51 Oh, good. Yeah. Excellent. Well, I'll tell you what I, should I tell you what I was doing last night when you were doing that?

Marc 0:11:56 You're watching Four in the Bed?

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:57 No, after that. You've just explained that to everybody. No, after that, I could hear distant rumblings.

Marc 0:12:04 Standard, that time of night. I heard distant rumblings when I got into bed last night, I can assure you that. It wasn't coming from outside the house.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:14 I could hear sort of explosions happening, and I thought Oh, this is a bit weird. And there was like, pow, pow, pow, but from very far away. And I thought, I'm gonna forget, I'm being silly.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:34 It could be anything, leave it. Hmm. Got Joni to bed. This happened quite a few times. And then Eliza came out of her room, which is rare.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:43 And she came out and she said, Mummy, I'm really scared. Can you hear those noises? And I said, yes, I can. So then for the next hour, me and Eliza had our head out of the window, and for a moment I thought to myself, oh my God, we're at war. Genuinely, that's what it sounded like.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:02 It sounded like there was a, a war starting.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:08 I even messaged LBC on the WhatsApp. And I put, can anyone tell me? I am in Hertfordshire.

Marc 0:13:17 Sorry, and, and what, you, what were you gonna get a text back from?

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:21 I don't know why I did that. I panicked.

Marc 0:13:22 A bit weird, that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:23 I panicked.

Marc 0:13:24 Were you drunk by any chance?

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:25 No, absolutely not.

Marc 0:13:27 There was a bottle of wine in the recycling.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:30 No, that was from the 2 nights before.

Marc 0:13:35 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:35 Where we were watching Clarkson's Farm.

Marc 0:13:37 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:37 And there was about that much left, so I had a little glass of white wine with our curry.

Marc 0:13:41 Fair enough.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:42 But anyway, yeah, I messaged some friends who live locally. I said to Abby and Rachel, we've got a group. I said, can you hear these noises? Rachel came back with the same sort of funny joke as you. Is it Joni snoring? Is it your stomach? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I said, I mean this. I said, there are some distant rumblings. Abby then stood in the garden. She said, actually, I can— I know what you're saying. This is a bit weird. Turns out Hatfield House had a firework extravaganza competition on last night. It ruined my evening for 90 minutes.

Marc 0:14:19 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:22 It— I genuinely thought London was being bombed.

Marc 0:14:26 You don't think that might have been on the news?

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:28 Well, I did check it out. I thought maybe it's happened and no one knows.

Marc 0:14:31 Okay. Didn't text me, did you, when I was in central London?

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:35 I did.

Marc 0:14:36 No, you didn't.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:36 Yes, I did.

Marc 0:14:37 Yeah, you texted me afterwards saying you had a bit of a funny evening, but you found out what it was. You didn't tell me at the time. You didn't care at the time when I was in. It's not, it's not. I could have been being bombed.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:45 No. What I did do was put on BBC iPlayer Live on my phone.

Marc 0:14:49 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:50 To check that the promos were still on. Because I thought if something's happened, that'll be off.

Marc 0:14:54 Be a holding card.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:55 Something will happen. It'll be that little woman, little girl. with a blackboard. So anyway, I thought, no, it's all okay. But it was just a very funny thing when your mind goes to things, and I thought—

Marc 0:15:07 I'm really concerned that you— your first thing you thought of was a war had started as opposed to some fireworks were going off.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:16 It didn't sound like fireworks because it was so far away, and it was very, very regular.

Marc 0:15:20 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:21 But anyway, there you go. It all made sense in the end. Wow.

Marc 0:15:26 Yeah, well, that's good to hear. Reassuring. Come the 8th of November—

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:31 Yep.

Marc 0:15:32 Just to warn you, it won't be World War III starting again. It will be fireworks for Diwali. Just to warn you. We also do this thing over here called Guy Fawkes Night.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:41 That's the 5th of November.

Marc 0:15:42 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:43 I know that, babe, because they'll be close by. You're not getting it. Please, if— please just let me know if you remember this evening. and you live nearby, if you're in Harlow, if Lisa's there, if, if Dawnie, who lives in Much Hadham, heard them, let me know, please. 07788 201919. You can— They won't remember.

Marc 0:16:05 This was weeks ago.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:06 No, it doesn't matter, does it? Honestly.

Marc 0:16:09 Well, what a great story.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:11 I think people will enjoy it. I know my audience. Know my listeners.

Marc 0:16:19 Yeah, clearly, yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:20 I have had, I reckon, about 12 people message me.

Marc 0:16:26 And say they know what Heath Robinson means?

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:28 No. It's a small ride-on steam engine.

Marc 0:16:32 Oh, at a wedding?

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:33 At a wedding.

Marc 0:16:34 That's gone viral, that, hasn't it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:35 And everyone, oh, this is what you could do, this is what you could do. I can assure you, thank you, thank you for thinking of us. I can assure you we will not be doing that.

Marc 0:16:45 Yeah, I'm keeping my options open. The steam engine idea, though, is a good idea.

Speaker J 0:19:08 Hello, hello. I'm really behind on the podcast. I've not been very well, so I'm very behind. I'm just listening to episode 246. It's an episode with Mark, and you're— he's, he's taking the mick basically because of you and loving the moon, and he's saying, oh, he'll never, he'll never be interested in that. And he said, oh, maybe you're just a lunatic. You do know where that word comes from, right? Because I was waiting for you to point it out and say, that's the right word.

Speaker H 0:19:46 That's where the word comes from, from people going funny when it was a full moon. And I was just waiting for you to say it because he called you a lunatic, and I think he was just being sarky, but actually it's exactly the right word.

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:02 There you go.

Marc 0:20:03 I love how it's assumed I didn't know what I was talking about. I could try and style it out now, but I didn't have— I actually didn't have a clue.

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:09 You didn't have a clue.

Marc 0:20:10 It comes from the late Latin word lunaticus.

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:13 Yep. Moonstruck, that means.

Marc 0:20:16 Or of the moon.

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:16 There you go.

Marc 0:20:18 How mad is that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:22 Honestly.

Marc 0:20:26 Roman writers thought the moon increased moisture in the brain. Much like it pulled the ocean's tides.

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:34 Yep.

Marc 0:20:35 People once believed that changes in the moon's phases or the glow of the full moon caused intermittent madness, seizures, or erratic behaviours.

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:46 Correct.

Marc 0:20:47 I think you've got quite a thin skull.

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:51 Sorry?

Marc 0:20:51 I think you've got quite a thin skull, so you're very, very affected by the moon. I think just an observation.

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:58 Well, it could be. My bones are not great.

Marc 0:21:02 That's true, actually.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:04 My bone density isn't amazing. Yeah, so that's very, very, very weird. Very interesting. Yeah.

Marc 0:21:10 I like that. It's a good voice note, that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:11 Very good. Got a little bit of Maxibon porn for you. That's the new phrase now.

Marc 0:21:17 Strange.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:18 Oh, from Rachel. A bit of Maxibon porn from Mark. Just got back from a week in Cala d'Or in Mallorca. Listen from the very first episode but never message. You keep me entertained as I work from a cabin in my garden in West Berkshire as a dog groomer. Love, Rachel. Lovely job in the garden. Get up, be surrounded by dogs all day, just loving things.

Marc 0:21:46 Never needing to like leave your house to go to work.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:49 Oh, lovely, innit?

Marc 0:21:51 Just, you know, wander up the stairs.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:52 Well, she goes in the garden.

Marc 0:21:55 Okay, well, you could be in the house, couldn't you? She could have a place in the house. She could have converted a bedroom in her house so she could do something to earn money. A job.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:04 Yeah. Rachel is a dog groomer. Has she got to jump on a train to Manchester in about an hour? Has she got other jobs to do as well? Because this job—

Marc 0:22:18 I don't know. Ask, ask Rachel. You might, maybe she has, maybe she's a volunteer doing something. Maybe she's, who knows what she does?

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:25 Well, this is lovely.

Marc 0:22:26 But one of her jobs happens to be within her property.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:28 Yes. I would believe that's her full-time job.

Marc 0:22:30 I would argue that this possibly is your full-time job, but, you know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:34 I would disagree with you.

Marc 0:22:35 Voluntary job.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:36 My, my voluntary. Yeah. My hobby.

Marc 0:22:38 Yes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:39 Yeah. I've gotta get a train to Manchester in a bit. Quite looking forward to it. I like a train journey.

Marc 0:22:46 Brilliant. Well, you can sit on your phone the whole time, can't you, now? Read up on stuff. I quite like getting on the train.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:51 I am going to read and start the new book club book. I'm not sure if I've told you, and actually for the listeners, I did put something on Instagram, but I will let you know now. I've had a lot of messages from different people who haven't joined Patreon, who can't, who don't want to, which is absolutely fine, and they were rather upset that book club was on Patreon. So I'm bringing it back to the main feed for everybody.

Marc 0:23:18 That way we might get more than one person sort of convinced.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:21 Exactly.

Marc 0:23:22 Exactly.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:23 Yeah. It was a— it's a bit niche to start with. Putting it on Patreon makes it really niche.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:27 But yeah, people are really pleased. There are a few people who've already got back to me on Instagram and said, we've bought the book, really pleased it's back. So there we go. And the book is Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton. It's also a Netflix series.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:43 And the reason I've done that is some people might struggle to read the book. And if you've seen the series, you can also message me to let me know what you thought of the series. Or if you read the book, please send me a review. Send us a voice note, 07788 20 1919. And we've got 6 to 8 weeks to read this.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:01 So there's no rush and no panic. But come and get involved or download the audiobook. Let me know.

Marc 0:24:06 Hi Nat and Mark, it's Lucy from Horsham here, your toilet roll convert and Tony's card buying consultant. Just a couple of updates from me after listening to your latest pod. The bags in the shops— I have recently purchased from M&S a bag. It's supposed to be a handbag.

Speaker K 0:24:25 It's like, like the old jelly shoes we used to have.

Marc 0:24:27 I don't know if you've seen them, Nat.

Speaker K 0:24:28 So it's like a jelly shoe type bag with holes in it, and I've actually used that in the supermarket, putting my stuff in that bag and then taking it out to pay for it, which I've never ever done before. So I guess it depends on what kind of bag you've got, because it's see-through and you can see that I'm not stealing anything. And paninis, I learned over the last few years that panini is a plural, so one on its own is a panino. There you go, learn something new every day.

Speaker L 0:24:56 Cheers, take care, bye.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:57 Thank you, Lucy. And you know what is very, very funny about the whole panini thing? It is so true. When you have an I at the end of an Italian word, it makes it plural. But we never say, I'll have a ham and cheese panino. We don't, do we? Can I get a tuna melt panino? We don't say that. We say panini all the time, like a load of morons.

Marc 0:25:20 You write it everywhere. It's written everywhere. That's an interesting one, isn't it? But it is panino. So everyone's got it wrong.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:24 Panino.

Marc 0:25:25 Don't start doing Italian, please.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:30 Please. Okay.

Marc 0:25:32 You could do a version of this, couldn't you? Va bene. You could do an Italian— you and Linnie could do it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:39 No, I couldn't. Linnie could do it.

Marc 0:25:41 Well, what else? Because she can speak Italian.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:44 Yeah, Linnie could phone Tony in Italy or something and they could do one in Italian.

Marc 0:25:47 That's special.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:48 I could just go, va bene, sì sì.

Marc 0:25:50 What specials have you put on Patreon lately, by the way? I was gonna ask you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:53 Oh, there's some nice bits and pieces up. We've had lovely Samantha, one of the listeners. That's been a really nice episode. There's lots of live ones on there. What else is on there?

Marc 0:26:03 Oh, live shows are on there?

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:04 Yeah, a few.

Marc 0:26:05 Interesting.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:06 And coming up to Christmas, we're gonna put the full Clapham Christmas show on.

Marc 0:26:10 Brilliant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:11 Which is gonna be great.

Marc 0:26:12 Don't worry about coming. Yeah, don't come along to the Covent Garden one on the—

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:15 No, that's a different show, isn't it? It's for people who didn't come last year. I suppose so, yeah. So that'll be good.

Marc 0:26:21 Talking of Covent Garden, by the way, Yes. It's well located, that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:26 Oh, it's excellent.

Marc 0:26:27 I'm taking Joanie there today.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:28 I know you are. You're gonna go up to the Twist Museum, aren't you?

Marc 0:26:30 Yes. That's— well, that's not in Covent Garden, but we'll go. It's not far. I thought we'd go to Covent Garden first and have a little mooch about.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:35 Lovely.

Marc 0:26:36 I was thinking I could take her to the Royal Opera House canteen, staff canteen. I've got my staff pass.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:41 Brilliant.

Marc 0:26:42 Subsidised, a bit of food. It's lovely. They do a great full English.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:45 You're gonna have a full English at 4 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon? No, I'm not really.

Marc 0:26:49 But you, you're also at the Royal Ballet and Opera, you can go out on where the staff canteen is, it overlooks Covent Garden. Yeah, it's lovely. Absolutely brilliant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:57 You have sent me a photo before.

Marc 0:26:58 Yeah, it's amazing up there, you see everything from up there.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:00 And you've got the bridge, haven't you?

Marc 0:27:01 Yeah, the bridge.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:03 So there's a little bridge thing? Between the ballet school and the—

Marc 0:27:08 the Royal Ballet School and the Opera House, yeah, there's a little bridge you can walk through, it's clever, isn't it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:14 Very good, yeah, like it.

Marc 0:27:15 It's a lovely place.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:16 I'd say Covent Garden is one of my favourite places in London. I always feel very safe when Eliza goes to Covent Garden.

Marc 0:27:22 Do you think of My Fair Lady? I always think of My Fair Lady when I'm there.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:25 Never seen it.

Marc 0:27:27 Oh, come off it. I haven't. Shit. You must have seen it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:31 I have never seen it.

Marc 0:27:32 Oh my goodness me.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:35 I know. I know.

Marc 0:27:38 Oh, it's such a good musical.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:40 No, I know, I know, I know.

Marc 0:27:42 Well, I've seen bits of it. You'll know what I'm talking about when you see The Covent— I always think of— I mean, I know it's—

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:47 They're in the market, are they?

Marc 0:27:48 Yeah, isn't it? They're actually at Pinewood Film Studios, but it— and it looks like a set, but it's based on Covent Garden.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:54 I see.

Marc 0:27:55 That kind of columns and— yeah. Oh, we have to watch that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:00 I would like to, yeah. There's quite a few things I'd like to watch.

Marc 0:28:03 Is it Roberts and Hammerstein? Robert and Hammerstein?

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:06 No, it's Hammerstein and—

Marc 0:28:09 Something and Hammerstein. It's not—

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:10 yes, it's not Roberts.

Marc 0:28:12 No, it's not Roberts.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:12 I always feel like I should know loads about musicals because of what I do.

Marc 0:28:16 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:16 But I don't really.

Marc 0:28:17 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:18 I just know what I know, if that makes sense. I'm like that with everything, really. Creature of habit. If I like something, then I'll watch it 150 times, i.e., Oliver or Bugsy Malone.

Marc 0:28:29 Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:30 That's it. Very good.

Marc 0:28:32 Lyricists. They did the music.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:35 Yeah, they did a lot. They didn't write the play. No.

Marc 0:28:38 There you go.

Speaker M 0:28:39 Uh, morning, Nat. I'm just catching up still, I think. I'm not sure if I'm on track yet, but you're talking about Beamish in this episode. I've been to Beamish. I went years ago with my husband before we had the children because he kept going on about this place where he went as a kid, so we had to go back there, and it is really good. We had a really nice day out. There's other places like it too. There's the Black Country Museum, which is apparently really good, obviously Birmingham Way, and then I Oh, I forget the name of it now. Ironbridge.

Marc 0:29:12 I think they've just been taken over by the National Trust, but that was also doing a lot of things like that as well.

Speaker M 0:29:18 And obviously Ironbridge is also near a similar area to Black Country Museum, so we are going to go and do those 2 at some point with our 2 boys as well.

Speaker E 0:29:27 But just thought I'd let you know, but Beamish is good, and we will take our boys there as well when we head north on that side because we want to do Northumberland soon.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:36 Thank you ever so much.

Marc 0:29:37 Northumberland's a beautiful place.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:39 Yeah, I don't really know Northumberland.

Marc 0:29:41 I drive through that when I drive up to Kelso. Really, really amazing place.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:45 Yeah, lovely.

Marc 0:29:46 I told you the story about when I stayed in Northumberland in a place called Wooler.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:50 Possibly on the way to the racing.

Marc 0:29:53 Yeah, it was really funny. And I've actually stayed there a couple of times now, about 3 times I've stayed there. It's just on the border and it leaves you half an hour just driving to the Scottish border and into Kelso. And the first time I went there, I remember I talked to my dad actually on the way up there. It's quite funny. The first time I went up and I stayed in this little Airbnb— no, it wasn't an Airbnb, it was a guest house. And it was, you know, when you're sort of travelling, especially when you're travelling around the UK and you can— people just can tell you walk through the door with a bag.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:22 Yeah, they just know you're not local, don't they?

Marc 0:30:24 Well, the clue's probably the fact I'm walking into a hotel, but, you know, and I guess being a receptionist at a hotel, you might assume that you've got visitors coming in and out with luggage. I hadn't really thought about that. It's pretty obvious really, isn't it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:37 Yeah.

Marc 0:30:39 But it was interesting because the immediate reaction was that I was there because of what had been discovered in their back garden.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:48 I remember.

Marc 0:30:49 And it was— they'd found like a mediaeval queen or some sort of— some— yeah, I forget the detail now, but it was somebody that had been buried with lots of riches and had discovered this grave, and the news had been up there, and it was like a big deal. It was like the biggest thing that happened in Wooler for a very, very long time, and they thought that I was there for that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:13 I see.

Marc 0:31:14 And they're making sort of, you know, what you're here for, you know, when I'm checking in. Yeah, ITV. Oh, for the— you're here for the Queen, and it's in the museum now. I think it went off to the university to be be looked into. I've looked it up since. But the funniest thing was, is when I went to bed that night, I went to go and do the curtains and I— there was like a spotlight on this grave.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:37 No, not there.

Marc 0:31:39 Promise you, it was in their garden of the place I stayed. That's hilarious. Yeah, promise you. You drive past it on, I forget the road number, but on the way up you drive through Wooler and you go past this little guest house. That's funny. But I just always remember that, the most random thing. And they were so excited and proud about it, quite fair, you know, understandably.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:58 Absolutely.

Marc 0:31:58 Yeah, it'd been found, you know, this skeleton was found with loads of gold and yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:04 Very good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:33 I really should listen to the pod more rather than like stop it, send you a voice note, then listen, because then Mark's like, I know about this place, Beamish, of course I do. And I'm just thinking like, my husband was brought up in a family that loves steam trains, and my husband likes steam trains, so do my kids now.

Speaker M 0:34:55 So I'm thinking this must be why Mark knows about it too, because clearly it's something to do with that kind of thing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:01 Um, with their families, I mean, it's different, but there must have been something.

Speaker M 0:35:05 Maybe he went up that way for some kind of steam train thing, because that's why my husband went that way.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:11 Is that true? Did you go that way?

Marc 0:35:15 Uh, to do with steam engines? No, I just know about it because it's into— it's something I'm interested in. What do you mean?

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:22 What do you mean, the Beamish Museum? No.

Marc 0:35:24 Yeah, it's got like steam vehicles. It's got a steam vehicle. Yeah, I just know about it for obvious reasons. It's my, you know, it's my subject, isn't it?

Speaker M 0:35:32 I'm howling. He's brought up Fred Dibnah now. Oh my gosh, this is like living with James. The North Pennines, there's a beautiful road that goes from one side, so like I'm thinking Durham-ish area.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:46 There's a lovely road goes from one side of the country to the other through the Pennines, um, to Penrith. Basically, you come out at— in the Lake District, at the top of the Lake District. So you've got— you'll kind of go from like, I think it's like Durham, Middlesbrough area, and you can go all the way through, across through the Pennines to Penrith, something like that. Um, it's really nice, and that's where it was. And also then you can go to this waterfall called—

Speaker M 0:36:15 is it High— High Falls?

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:17 I'm cutting you off. Please don't think me— was it Lucy? Sorry, you've sent so many messages I've forgotten your name. You will understand that.

Marc 0:36:28 That's really bad. No, but I can't— Find her name.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:30 Let me just finish this bit. I can't, I can't listen to all of your recommendations because it'll end up being sort of a quarter of the pod.

Marc 0:36:43 I think, to be honest—

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:43 It'll be you, Lewis.

Marc 0:36:44 She could do a Patreon episode by the sounds of it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:46 I'm sure it's Lucy. I'm going with it.

Speaker M 0:36:48 Uh, morning, Nat. I'm just catching up still, I think. I'm not sure if I'm on track yet, but you're talking about—

Marc 0:36:55 Leave your name.

Speaker M 0:36:56 There as well when we head north.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:59 Don't know, don't know the name. So sorry.

Marc 0:37:01 Sound advice. I reminded myself then of Trigger in Only Fools and Horses when he said, and he was like, you know, It's that, it's that one phrase that's passed down from generation after generation of road sweeper. Look after your broom. And Rodney goes, and your broom will look after it. He's like, no, no, Dave, just look after your broom.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:26 Oh dear. This is my favourite message on our group at the moment.

Marc 0:37:35 Our group?

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:36 The scraping the barrel one. Oh yeah. This is from Lisa, right? You were talking about your veg on a recent pod.

Marc 0:37:47 Pardon?

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:47 Not your veg, our veg in the garden.

Marc 0:37:53 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:54 The husband said we had a huge courgette in the garden. I honestly wasn't expecting—

Marc 0:38:00 I'll carry on filming.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:01 No, you wait till you see the photo.

Marc 0:38:03 No, I've seen the photo.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:04 I honestly wasn't expecting this. And apparently my face was a picture when brought it in. Excuse the dressing gown, a must in the evening now we're in the bear months. I have made 10 large portions of ratatouille and I've still only used half of it. It's a fantastic picture. I've sent it to Emma. Emma will be flashing up the picture now. I mean, we thought our courgette was big.

Marc 0:38:30 Well, you said that's not a courgette though. Well, no, it's a marrow. It's now a marrow, but I wish we'd let one of ours get that size so I could get some seeds because it means next year when we do courgettes next year, I've gotta buy some seeds now. Yeah, I've got carrot seeds, I've got tomato seeds, chilli seeds, and I've just realised we didn't get back to Tom Allen about his question about courgettes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:54 I did.

Marc 0:38:54 Oh, what did you say to him?

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:55 Oh no, I did a nice video and I just said, I don't know, darling. Sorry.

Marc 0:38:59 What was the question he asked?

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:00 Just why his courgettes haven't worked so much this year.

Marc 0:39:03 I think he just needs to prune the leaves off because whenever I've cut the leaves back and I, and I push it, I, I think, oh, there's not a lot of leaves left on this plant. All the courgettes pop up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:11 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Marc 0:39:12 So I think that's the way.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:12 Again, it's a bit like the tomatoes, isn't it? Trimming off the leaves to, so the energy goes to the fruit.

Marc 0:39:17 Yes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:18 A little bit. Yes. But yeah, I love that, Lisa. It was fantastic. She also said she did feel a bit turned on. She said, I don't know why. She shut up. It was a bit phallic. Show me. She didn't say turn on. I'm paraphrasing.

Marc 0:39:33 Sorry. Hang on. You can't say that about someone who's just had their photo put on a podcast. You can't misquote people. Excuse me.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:43 She sent me that. I said, that is— I've messaged her about that— is absolutely fantastic. She said, I got quite giddy about it, probably because it's rather phallic. That's what she said. Apparently my cat shit is an amazing fertiliser. I said, who knew? There you go.

Marc 0:39:59 Yeah. Cat. I don't think you're meant to do that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:05 I don't think she's done it, doing it on purpose. She's just saying her cat might get in there, whatever.

Marc 0:40:10 But, um, what's funny, isn't it? But what's funny is you grow this stuff. For example, every 3 or 4 days we get a bowl of tomatoes that's like that big. Now, okay, we can freeze some or whatever, but we are, we have a lot.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:30 Quite a large mixing bowl of tomatoes, I'd say, for anyone listening.

Marc 0:40:33 A lot. We get a lot of tomatoes. It's great. And then we'll go, oh, we'll do a pasta tonight and chuck a load of tomatoes in.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:39 Yeah. I've just given Elsabelle some.

Marc 0:40:41 Brilliant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:41 And also I've given her quite a lot of carrots for her roast dinner today.

Marc 0:40:45 Perfect.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:45 Brilliant.

Marc 0:40:46 But what's funny when you do your growing your own at home, a bit like that lady saying about the massive, like, big courgette.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:53 Yeah.

Marc 0:40:54 And she's done all this ratatouille and made all this stuff. Yeah, yeah. To just sort of go down this weird route of like, I'm just gonna eat that now for a week.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:01 Yeah, yeah, you do.

Marc 0:41:02 I mean, we've got so many chillies now.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:05 I dunno what we're gonna do.

Marc 0:41:06 I will give some away. You're gonna have to. Well, I mean, they will, that will keep us going.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:13 That's a couple of years worth now.

Marc 0:41:14 It's ridiculous. When, when one of those Prairie Fire chillies is, is like rocket fuel.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:21 May I just say, talking of curries, you'll like this. I did a curry last night. Mm-hmm. But a cheats curry. I bought a very nice sauce, quite an expensive sauce. Why did you not buy the paste? I just, on, it was, I, I was doing my hair, doing my roots yesterday.

Marc 0:41:35 But it's not much more work. You just fry the paste.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:37 Darling, genuinely. Paste and the meat. No. Honestly. So anyway, I bought this sauce, a really, really good one, however.

Marc 0:41:44 What a waste of time.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:46 Did my little mini chicken fillets, organic fillets that I like to do. Put it all in, did a naan bread, bought poppadoms that were already done. So not like the way you fry them. Oh, I can't be doing this.

Marc 0:41:58 You might as well, I mean, you might have just gone to a restaurant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:59 Well, no, I tried to do it cheap because I'm trying to be healthy. I didn't want to get a takeaway. So I just wanted to do it from home. Anyway, we sat down and the girls were like, this is, it's not like Daddy's curry, is it? And then they looked at the poppadoms and were like, they're not like Daddy's poppadoms. I said, I'm sorry, Daddy does the curry the best.

Marc 0:42:18 Yeah, but it's not— Tony Singh. Oh, I can't cook.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:21 Tony Singh would kill me because I can do a really good curry, but I need time. Yeah, you can.

Marc 0:42:26 That's another thing that's a bit irritating. I will stop. You were amazing. The stuff you knocked up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:30 I know. Like brilliant stuff.

Marc 0:42:32 And since—

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:33 I will be doing it again. Please do. I will. January.

Marc 0:42:36 And I've gotta say, for anyone listening on the curry front, if you've not done it before, there are loads of people that make these curry pastes. It's no different to buying a sauce, but it's cheaper and you know what you're doing with it. So if you do a coconut milk-based one, you can get your own coconut milk. You can choose whether you want a low-fat coconut milk. You can do whatever you like and you just get a paste. You just fry the paste with the meat. It's so easy.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:02 I'm not being rude. Just so you know.

Marc 0:43:04 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:04 When I say I'm gonna do a curry.

Marc 0:43:06 Yeah. You're gonna make the paste.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:08 I am. Yeah.

Marc 0:43:09 Yeah. You really know what you're doing. Yes. But that's why I can't believe you've bought a jar of—

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:13 I didn't have time yesterday, darling. I'm going away today. I'm away for 48 hours. Homework needs to be done. I've sorted out all the washing, all the school stuff done. The house is in order. Spellings needed to be done. Me and Eliza were going through things for her week.

Marc 0:43:29 All right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:29 I had to sort out all my bits and pieces. Lots going on. Too much information. Well, don't stress me out.

Marc 0:43:36 I'm not stressing you out.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:37 You are.

Marc 0:43:38 I'm not stressing you out. Are you joking?

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:42 Anyway, when this goes out, we need to talk a little bit now. 5 minutes before we go.

Marc 0:43:48 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:49 I'd like to say happy birthday to our darling daughter Eliza.

Marc 0:43:56 It's not her birthday yet though.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:57 When this goes out?

Marc 0:43:59 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:59 It's her birthday.

Marc 0:44:00 Oh, what day does this go out? What date?

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:03 The 24th.

Marc 0:44:05 You sure it goes out actually on— it's actually her birthday today?

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:08 Yes.

Marc 0:44:08 Really?

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:09 Yeah.

Marc 0:44:10 Oh.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:10 And she does listen. I think she skips ours. She listens. She likes Nat's. She loves Nat's nieces.

Marc 0:44:16 Okay. Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:16 But anyway, I, I feel like for future reference in years to come, if she's like— Oh, you're documenting it. You know?

Marc 0:44:23 Oh, that's nice.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:24 I can't believe she's 16. And also, I wanted to thank you, not getting a bit deep now, but you have been the most wonderful dad to Eliza.

Marc 0:44:35 Oh.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:35 And I really mean that. I could get quite emotional about it.

Marc 0:44:38 Oh, that's really nice.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:39 And I mean it.

Marc 0:44:40 Oh no, you are a very good mum.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:42 Thank you very much.

Marc 0:44:43 Oh, it's quite exciting. It's her birthday today. Quite looking forward to that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:46 I know. You're doing quite a lot for it, aren't you? Sorting a few things out. Not really. Well, no, you are. You're sorting a few things out. Sorting her little party out. Yeah. Obsessed. Obsessed. He's obsessed with the carpool. It was her idea.

Marc 0:44:58 Well, actually, we dreamt that up when we were on holiday. We were talking about what to do and said about getting a marquee and talking about stuff. Then we were like, well, yeah, we've got a carport.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:07 So you're doing it all out?

Marc 0:45:10 Gonna— yeah, I mean, hopefully, hopefully by the time this has gone out, I've done that. I've cleaned it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:15 Hopefully.

Marc 0:45:16 I hope so. Otherwise something's gone wrong.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:19 How do you feel about her being 16?

Marc 0:45:23 I can't believe she's— I mean, that's gone very, very quickly, hasn't it? But yeah, I mean, obviously it's not like the last time I saw her she was 3. I've sort of seen the progression. It's not, it's not that much of a surprise.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:35 No, I just, I think 16, I don't know, I just feel she's so—

Marc 0:45:40 Why is that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:41 So a bit of a milestone because just because she's again, it's her GCSE year, she's got her National Insurance number. She can get a little job now. She got a card.

Marc 0:45:51 Do you still get the card?

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:52 No.

Marc 0:45:52 A little red and blue card? No. I wonder where mine is.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:55 Don't know where mine is either.

Marc 0:45:56 I think it must be— I know my number.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:59 It's one of the only things I do know.

Marc 0:46:00 She was— you almost went to say it then as well, didn't you? Yeah, I did, yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:04 But no, it's just lovely and very proud of her. I feel like she's quite a good girl, if I'm honest.

Marc 0:46:10 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:11 It's good.

Marc 0:46:12 That's all right. You haven't got long to wait. And the other one, 6 years' time, the other one will be 16.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:16 Don't, don't, because that one's starting now. That one's really coming into her own with the sassiness, and I can't believe got to go through it all again. But there you go.

Marc 0:46:24 Good job we didn't have another one when you suggested it. That's what I'm gonna say.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:27 Still time.

Marc 0:46:28 Absolutely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:29 I'm extremely fertile. Just saying.

Marc 0:46:34 How do you know that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:36 Well, I just didn't know. I think I'm gonna be like my mum. Got a couple of years left in me yet.

Marc 0:46:41 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:43 Mum had me at 44. I'm 44 next May. So there's still time.

Marc 0:46:48 Right. Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:51 It would kill me. Don't worry.

Marc 0:46:55 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:55 There's no way. No. Don't need to.

Marc 0:47:00 No. Liza will soon have like 20 kids. Be fine.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:03 Don't say that. She bloody won't.

Marc 0:47:06 You can actually morph into the Catherine Tate name. No, no, no.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:12 It will be like Motherland. I'll be like, sorry, darling, I'm out for lunch.

Marc 0:47:15 Oh, are you gonna do that, are you?

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:17 Possibly. No, I won't, will I? But no, but we've got at least, at least 10 to 15 years before that happens. Thank you very much. What are you doing that for?

Marc 0:47:29 Never say— I hope not.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:31 Why?

Marc 0:47:32 I'm quite looking forward to having grandchildren.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:34 I know, but bloody hell, she's gotta live her life first. Goodness me.

Marc 0:47:38 I suppose I'm— well, I mean, I'm very lucky because she did say the other day when she was talking about— I think I've already mentioned this on here as well.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:45 Go on.

Marc 0:47:46 She said, oh, you know, you're like the young dad of her mates. You know, apparently I am. Funny, innit? Yeah, hilarious. Because all the other dads have sort of thought it through a bit more, so all their wives are like 10 years younger. Hence me being so young.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:05 There you go.

Marc 0:48:09 Yeah, there we go. Those frayed bentos are still on the side over there.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:16 I know they're in a tin.

Marc 0:48:17 Could I have one of those tonight?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:18 Yes.

Marc 0:48:19 So it is just a pie, is it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:21 Yeah.

Marc 0:48:21 Do you know what, I might do that. What's the nutritional value of them? What are you laughing at?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:26 We're meant to be— me and the girls are meant to be doing a taste test, but I can buy another one. That's not happening yet.

Marc 0:48:31 Didn't Tim get them? I thought Tim bought them for you. No, I think he bought one. I think you'll find he did.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:37 Maybe did he do all of them?

Marc 0:48:38 Yes, he did. So you could do a taster. I mean, this is— listen to this.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:42 Interestingly, can I just say?

Marc 0:48:44 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:44 And there is no rhyme or reason behind this. I know that they can sit there for 10 years, don't get me wrong, but because they've been in this room through that baking hot summer, they've just sat there.

Marc 0:48:59 They'd survive a nuclear war.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:00 I know, but I'm gonna buy some more. I feel weird about eating those because I've been in here.

Marc 0:49:04 What's the best before date on those?

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:05 Hang on.

Marc 0:49:07 Can actually cut to, cut to camera 3 here, Emma. Exciting. It's not lit though. Let's have a look.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:22 2028. No, I'm not getting them on camera. I'm not getting paid.

Marc 0:49:28 No, chuck them over. I want to have a look at them. Minced beef and onion. I mean, I've never—

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:37 I'm surprised.

Marc 0:49:38 2028.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:39 Yeah.

Marc 0:49:43 I mean, do you know what? You could bury them, couldn't you? Someone in the future, like Time Team, could—

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:51 Listen to this though.

Marc 0:49:52 Go on.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:53 Once they are open and clean, Yeah. Apparently they are fantastic for Yorkshire puddings. Are meant to be amazing.

Marc 0:50:02 Yeah, they are. Yeah. That would be good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:04 Really good size.

Marc 0:50:05 That is very clever. I know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:08 A few people have told me that. Thank you, listeners, again.

Marc 0:50:11 Now, nutritional info. They've put per half pie, as if you're gonna cut that in half.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:18 Well, it's quite big.

Marc 0:50:19 Per half pie.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:21 Go on.

Marc 0:50:22 340 calories.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:23 Yep.

Marc 0:50:24 680 calories in a pie. That's, that's a—

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:28 A pie is usually more than that.

Marc 0:50:30 Is it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:31 Yes, because it's the pastry, darling.

Marc 0:50:33 I suppose so. Yeah. Remove lid using a robust can opener. We recommend both. All right, all right. So we've got—

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:40 What are you gonna have tonight then?

Marc 0:50:42 Chicken and mushroom.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:43 Can you, well, can you do a little bit of steak and gravy if you do one? Could you please put it on Patreon?

Marc 0:50:49 Sure. I mean, but if you're not on Patreon and you're listening to this, after that advert, why would you not sign up?

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:59 I'm just saying.

Marc 0:51:01 There you go. Right, let's be honest, that's, that's kind of what we've got to look forward to.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:06 No, but if you do eat one—

Marc 0:51:10 Oh yeah, I'll stick it on Patreon.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:14 Yeah.

Marc 0:51:14 The thing about— do you know the best thing about Patreon is getting to listen to it with no adverts?

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:18 It is, yeah, it is good. I agree.

Marc 0:51:20 You don't— I haven't heard you mention that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:22 No, you're right. Worth remembering.

Marc 0:51:25 You can watch it, listen to it with no adverts, and there's a bonus episode each week.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:30 And sometimes I pen a little letter, just so you know, on a Monday morning.

Marc 0:51:36 Sometimes if you're really lucky, I'll post a photo of me sat behind a camera.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:41 Hmm, it's been quite a few little pickies on. Me and Linda were getting our hair done exactly the same time yesterday. That weird? We'd not spoken. I put a picture on Patreon saying, getting me roots done, happy Saturday afternoon everyone, what you up to? Linda, exactly the same photo, I'm getting my roots done. We're in sync.

Marc 0:51:58 Did you hear that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:59 What was it?

Marc 0:52:01 There's a ding.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:01 What sort of ding?

Marc 0:52:03 Just a notification. It's All of your Patreon people have just unsubscribed.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:08 Shut up. People like the real life stuff. Come and join the family. www.patreon.com/lifewithnat. There you go. Thank you so much. Thank you, darling. I'm going to go and enjoy a 3-hour Train journey, reading the book club book. I might have a little gin and tonic on the train. First class. Feels rude not to when it's first class. You think you've got to get your money's worth.

Marc 0:52:42 How much did that cost?

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:43 I haven't paid for it. I'm doing a job, aren't I, tomorrow up there? So I've got a nice couple of days ahead. Sorry, I can't tell you what it is. Really boring, but it's something that most of you will know. It's been on the telly for ages. Little quiz show. But yeah, Should be quite good. I hope you have a good couple of days.

Marc 0:52:59 Can't wait. Lovely. Peace and quiet.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:02 Enjoy London. Enjoy the Twist Museum.

Marc 0:53:05 Going to, yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:06 You could pop a little picture up on Patreon of the Twist Museum later.

Marc 0:53:09 Oh, I already have done. It's weird, isn't it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:11 What do you mean?

Marc 0:53:12 Well, because that was 2 weeks ago.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:14 Oh God, don't start all that. That's mad. That's mad.

Marc 0:53:19 So we're talking about— that's like going back in time. Oh, I'm going forward in time.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:23 Anyway, there we go. It could be complicated when you listen back of what day it is, who's birthday is, where we've done last night, the Proms, 24th of September. But you know what, we're trying to, we're trying to bank them up for you. We're trying to get them done so you don't listen to the best bits.

Marc 0:53:40 I'll tell you something, we need more voice notes, by the way.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:44 We love a voice note, guys, or a message.

Marc 0:53:47 I love voice notes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:48 About anything.

Marc 0:53:49 Message in.

Natalie Cassidy 0:53:49 Anything you want to talk about, a little rant, a bit of advice you need. 07788 20 19 19. Follow, subscribe, tell your mates to do the same. Even if they don't listen, they can follow it, and it just helps me. Anyway, there we go. Thank you so much. Enjoy the weekend.

Marc 0:54:07 Thank you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:54:07 And I will speak to you all very, very soon. Thank you. Cheers.

Marc 0:54:11 Bye.