Episode 17
16 - Pies, Rats, & Baby Spats
Blabbering: Babies!
Welcome to Episode 16 - Big baby blowouts (both barf and bottom), rat wars, and trying to balance career aspirations with a family.
ποΈ Episode Drop Alert: "Pies, Rats, & Baby Spats" π₯§ππΆ Episode 16 serves up a feast of culinary conquests, unexpected guests, and conflicts. Hereβs whatβs cooking:
1οΈβ£ Culinary Adventures: Tilly takes the kitchen by storm with her leek and sausage pie, showcasing the delicious dance of savoury sausages, tender leeks, and creamy mustard sauce. Dive into a day of gourmet experimentation and the quest for the perfect crispy Rice Krispie crunch. π΄π₯§
2οΈβ£ Uninvited Critters: The family faces a whiskered dilemma as a bold rat makes itself at home, gnawing its way through tranquility and into their murderous fantasies (and pantry). Laugh and cringe as Dan declares war on their tiny, unwanted tenant, exploring every humane (and not-so-humane) solution. ππ£
3οΈβ£ Baby Sleep Challenges: Explore the nocturnal world of baby sleep challenges, from unexpected wake-ups to the quest for the perfect sleep routine. Join us as we share our experiences and insights on navigating the delicate balance of ensuring rest for the whole family. It's an honest look at the trials, errors, and eventual triumphs in the quest for a good night's sleep. ππ΄πΆ
4οΈβ£ Work & Career Reflections: Dive deep into the personal reflections on returning to work, balancing career aspirations with family life, and the quest for professional fulfilment amidst the chaos of parenting. It's a candid look at the struggles and triumphs of juggling professional roles with the demands of parenthood. πΌπ¨βπ©βπ§
Prepare for an episode bursting at the seams with laughter, culinary triumphs, and the occasional rodent rampage. It's a vivid snapshot of family life, where food, pests, and baby milestones blend into a recipe for unforgettable moments.
π§ Grab your headphones for a hearty serving of humor, warmth, and a dash of chaos. Join us as we navigate the flavorful journey of family, food, and the unexpected surprises of everyday life.
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Transcript
Okay, so, what week are we on,
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:Tilly: We are week 17, four
months, four week, so yeah, 17.
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:I don't know anymore.
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:One,
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:Dan 1: So we've had a little baby girl
who um, was, She had a bit of a, she
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:didn't have a great last few hours.
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:She's eventually fallen asleep, which
shows you know, she's now all open
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:just as we hit the record button.
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:So we're trying to avoid eye
contact, so she falls back to sleep.
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:Um,
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:Tilly: that boat might have sailed.
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:Ship sailed?
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:Oh, it ship sailed.
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:Um, but maybe her little toys
are for entertainment now.
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:If not, I've got a press on.
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:Dan 1: She's yawning.
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:She might, she might go.
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:You never know.
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:So,
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:Tilly: We live in hope.
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:Our feet aren't looking
purple, so that's a bonus.
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:Dan 1: so
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:Tilly: I was going
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:Dan 1: Have any food to
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:Tilly: to say, our food is nothing.
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:Air.
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:Dan 1: Yeah,
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:Tilly: I've eaten today.
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:I had a yoghurt.
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:Dan 1: I mean I've eaten, I've
had like a yoghurt drink and
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:then some chocolate, uh, peanuts.
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:Tilly: had a cup of chocolate milk too.
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:Or I had two, I had two coffees.
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:Two collagen
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:Dan 1: Whoa!
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:Tilly: like an absolute wanker.
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:I wonder if the collagen naps
helps my stretch marks at all.
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:Who knows.
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:Um, yeah, I had two collagen cookies
before, before, pre workout, post workout
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:a little protein yoghurt, all about the
protein, ruined it with our Sunday lunch.
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:No time.
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:Well, I know my husband well, I've
gone leek and sausage pie, made the
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:filling yesterday, browned off some nice
peppery sausages, put down the leeks
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:in butter, made a creamy mustard sauce.
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:Let that thicken up and cool down
overnight, and I've also made a massive
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:pan of cheesy mashed potatoes, and we're
going to do a rice crispy crunchy topping,
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:Dan 1: I'm looking forward
to the Rice Krispie Crunch
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:Tilly: and then we'll
have some peas with it.
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:But if you're doing pie and
mashed peas, there's vegetables,
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:yeah, peas or cabbage maybe, but
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:Dan 1: I
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:Tilly: haven't got
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:Dan 1: sweetcorn's not bad.
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:But
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:Tilly: Not with that, I
don't know, it just feels
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:Dan 1: peas and sweetcorn
go well together.
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:Yeah, okay.
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:Tilly: you want it, I've
got tinned sweetcorn, you
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:Dan 1: Just on my own.
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:Yeah,
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:Tilly: I do like, I'll eat sweetcorn out
of the sweetcorn taste better than others.
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:Like, if you get the green giant, it
tastes different than the sweetcorn.
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:I do to it.
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:I'd eat that out pudding
from last weekend.
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:That chocolate pie.
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:Mmm, this is like my ice cream pie now.
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:Um, so we've got like,
buttery biscuit base.
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:Chocolate Rice Krispies, Salted Caramel,
Chocolate Mousse, Choccy Ganache.
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:Do you know
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:Dan 1: Fat Dinners and Fat Sundays
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:Tilly: might start doing a segment called
Fat Dinners or Fat Sundays or something.
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:And just do like, do a little post
of like, what we have every Sunday.
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:Because we don't be pretty
healthy throughout the week,
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:we don't be absolutely have a,
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:Dan 1: You're fairly
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:Tilly: I'm healthy, I'm healthy, I try and
make you healthy, you're fairly healthy.
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:Dan 1: addicted, But that's
just the way nutrition
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:Tilly: Sugar Addiction.
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:Which apparently isn't addictive.
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:People say sugar's addictive,
but like, the nutritionists
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:are like, it's not addictive.
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:Dan 1: I just
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:Tilly: like syrup skis.
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:Dan 1: can't kick it?
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:Tilly: Um, I think it's like
anything, it's a habit, isn't it?
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:It's like, it's a crutch.
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:It's your dad tax.
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:Dan 1: my dad taxed for if I ever do
anything, any housework or anything.
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:Is
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:Tilly: try and kill off fucking rats.
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:Dan 1: it's just one.
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:Tilly: I
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:Dan 1: They end up being, but they, they
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:Tilly: mean, let's hope it's one.
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:It's done a lot of
damage if it's just one.
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:Dan 1: same time.
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:Yeah,
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:Tilly: It's like, Norwood's
over the back of our sink.
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:Ate the sink pipe.
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:Dan 1: that's what I'm worried
about, is that it's trying to find
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:It's gnawing through pipes for
it to try and get water to drink.
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:Tilly: And we wanted to do it humanely.
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:We tried the humane traps.
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:We tried the little plug in,
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:Dan 1: dying now.
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:Tilly: plug in like, E.
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:P.
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:things, which is meant to
just generally do work,
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:Dan 1: but Yeah, but I'm
waging war on this rat.
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:I'm very close to just sticky sheets.
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:Tilly: Not, I can't.
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:Dan 1: It's a fucking cunt.
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:Tilly: Sticky sheets are so
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:Dan 1: really hate this rat.
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:Tilly: I know, it is horrible.
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:Um, last night was grim, like, Dan
was out last night, so I was upstairs
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:with Bubba, and I woke up in the
middle of the night and I could hear
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:this, like, scratching, gnawing noise.
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:I was like, either someone's trying
to get into our house, I wasn't fully
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:awake, so I wasn't fully, like, Um, or
that fucking rat is So I called Dan up
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:because I wasn't sure if he was home
yet or someone was trying to get in.
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:Turns out he was, he was
upstairs in his spare room.
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:he went downstairs to find it.
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:So it sort of, I don't know, scare it off.
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:And then as soon as you're back upstairs
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:Dan 1: Yeah, I even, uh,
unleashed Fatty to try and
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:Tilly: I think you're right, from now
on, we don't, if we don't lock Fatty in
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:the living room, Fatty has to all roam
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:Dan 1: Yeah, well, then the other
problem is, like, we're trying
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:to poison the rat, obviously.
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:We want him to go and find the
poison and eat it, and if that is,
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:you know, roaming around, Yeah,
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:Tilly: and asks if Pops
can come round tomorrow.
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:Obviously he never, he
never looks at the message.
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:So in a minute I would message
Mum and ask Mum to ask Pops.
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:Um, so I want him to come help me while
I do tining and see if he can kill a rat.
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:Dan 1: I mean, I can just lift the
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:Tilly: used to try and
shoot rats in the old house.
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:Dan 1: Yeah, I don't think that's
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:Tilly: Didn't.
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:He just shot at the
garage a couple of times.
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:Well, I hope he gets abused.
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:I'm sure he absolutely
I'm sure he probably
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:Dan 1: can just use the air rifle.
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:Tilly: remember damage though.
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:We made quite a lot
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:Dan 1: air rifle.
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:But anyway, I don't think you
could do it in our house anyway.
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:Also, I could get the floorboard
up where I know the rat is.
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:Tilly: I would like it not to die,
but I think now it has to die.
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:Dan 1: don't like it because you can
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:Tilly: I would like it to have just been
caught in one of Taking it far away.
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:Dan 1: I don't know why, but rats, I
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:Tilly: People really
hate rats, don't they?
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:But they do a lot of damage.
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:I don't generally have an issue with rats.
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:But, this one's done a lot of
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:Dan 1: Well that's the thing, mice don't
actually do that much damage usually.
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:Tilly: Yeah, they just
tend to eat your food.
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:They don't tend to
actually destroy stuff like
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:Dan 1: rats will go through walls,
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:Tilly: rats do a
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:Dan 1: that's the problem.
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:Mice kind of are usually, it's
like a bit of wood here and there.
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:reptiles in it.
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:and also I, once again, had squirrels
so I'm effectively kept a rodent.
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:Tilly: Lots of rodents.
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:People have like rabbits and stuff.
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:Rabbits are rodents.
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:had a gerbil called Jack.
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:It's a fancy boy called Yeah,
I don't know why I said that.
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:The real name's a bit weird, isn't it?
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:Um, it was my boyfriend.
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:He's fancy.
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:Dan 1: boyfriend.
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:No, that's
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:Tilly: Um, and Jack
used to eat everything.
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:He ate his plastic
running quite soon after.
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:No, it's not that
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:Dan 1: surprising to me.
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:I
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:Tilly: a gerbil
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:or have something like that
because I mean, okay, they're
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:probably gonna have a dog.
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:Dan 1: we could do with was.
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:I thought we needed to he killed the
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:Tilly: is becoming quite the
prolific killer now, isn't he, Greg?
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:Yeah, he's killed a lot of birds and mice.
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:I know.
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:I'm sure he could take one
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:Dan 1: could if the rat was about.
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:The
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:Tilly: he wouldn't catch it.
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:He's not fast enough.
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:Dan 1: and the other thing
is he'll destroy a lot of
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:stuff trying to get to it.
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:Tilly: Yeah.
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:Cats are more dexterous and dainty.
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:Mm
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:Dan 1: And, patient hunters.
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:Tilly: hmm.
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:Dan 1: Fatty is just a chaser.
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:Tilly: Should we just get a cat?
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:Next episode, we've got a cat.
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:Dan 1: This is exactly
like the nursery rhyme.
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:The woman who ate a fly.
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:Alright, go on, you sing the whole nursery
rhyme then, from the top of your head.
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:Come on.
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:Tilly: it's quite long.
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:Although the woman I listened to the other
day had a really weird cadence to it.
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:I don't think
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:Dan 1: that I remember.
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:That's what I was singing.
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:Tilly: was, but okay.
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:But that one was really weird, it really
put an emphasis on the fact she'll die.
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:Perhaps she'll die!
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:Dan 1: The woman who ate
a fly, perhaps she'll die.
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:like, all
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:Tilly: that's where I'm stuck.
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:Um, anyway that's probably enough
of us talking about our rat issue.
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:What's happened this week?
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:Dan 1: at work.
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:Tilly: I did.
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:Yeah, I felt more guilty this week.
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:Not guilty, actually.
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:No, not as in guilt.
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:I didn't feel guilty.
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:I just missed her more this week.
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:I don't but I did.
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:Um, yeah.
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:I think it's because you're hot.
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:Also full.
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:Maybe that's what's missing, I don't know.
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:I'm a long legged, kind of,
filled up my tits quitter.
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:I don't know how it works.
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:Dan 1: Did you?
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:Tilly: No.
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:Well, she doesn't seem to
like my expressed milk.
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:Obviously, that's something
we've learned this week.
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:to start selling my milk to bodybuilders.
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:So, any bodybuilders listening
to this, get in touch.
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:I've got loads of milk for you.
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:loads of frozen milk full of
growth hormone and you can still
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:be called a nasty bodybuilder.
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:Um, yeah, so we need to find somewhere.
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:I still haven't found anywhere.
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:I need this, where is this black market
where there's not any proper like
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:roided up bodybuilders at gym I go
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:Dan 1: Yeah.
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:Tilly: There's one guy who's got
like, it is like, he looks like
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:a meme of somebody's leg day.
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:smallest legs and the largest,
it's also a good has a very long
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:body and short legs in a way.
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:really not helped.
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:That's what it's like.
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:Is incredibly wide now, like,
freely built chest, shoulders,
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:back, like, big, very tapered waist.
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:buckle legs, and they're really
short legs, so it just looks bizarre.
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:Like, it I think he should topple over.
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:I the
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:Dan 1: Yeah, he's the
biggest guy in the gym.
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:Tilly: biggest guy, but he's
definitely one of the biggest
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:Dan 1: With his triangular,
that hero shape.
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:Tilly: We've also got a lot of, like,
young lads who are just starting
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:out and doing really wonderful
stuff, possibly, you know, like,
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:Dan 1: Give them the breast milk.
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:Tilly: start becoming,
and I could just, like,
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:oh, I put the laugh in.
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:I could help people bulk up.
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:I my talents are, bulking people up.
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:Dan 1: Your first full day
at work, you were saying.
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:much longer are you planning
on doing when you go back?
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:Because how long was it, the again
another almost half day really do at the
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:premises, but you might need to, you DV.
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:Tilly: boobs are leaking.
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:Alright, Bubba.
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:Anything exciting with your
week this week, darling?
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:Dan 1: Um, no, not that I, not
that I can think of, of things.
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:No, I didn't feel guilty at all.
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:No, I was just questioning.
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:I was asking if I was
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:Tilly: I didn't feel
guilty, I just missed her.
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:I
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:Dan 1: sometimes.
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:I'm
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:Tilly: I should be here.
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:I just missed him, obviously, when
I was out, sort of, but, the last
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:bit, I did not and stuff then.
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:Not enjoy being at work, I did.
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:But I sort of was longing
to be back with her.
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:Um, so that's going to be interesting
when I start doing more work.
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:But I guess I'm still going
to be working from home.
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:easier.
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:So imagine when I'm back from
work, and we're once you've had
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:your share of breaks, when you
get back from work, you might feel
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:Dan 1: Yeah.
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:Tilly: Yes, we've talked more
again about how to try and balance
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:our work life going forward.
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:Dan 1: Yeah.
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:Tilly: condense or not to
condense is the question.
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:Dan 1: Yeah.
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:And I'm finding it frustrating because
the industry that I want to work
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:in isn't exactly the progressive in
terms of projects and stuff like that.
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:It's not exactly known, Family first.
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:Tilly: It's important to try
and figure out, try our work,
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:because I think it's the best way
somebody that's in our family.
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:of us, you know, went about the
years that we were in contact with,
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:except maybe over the next five,
six years, we as much as we want to.
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:But, we, you know, certify a
really strong foundation around
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:the we can get want to see.
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:We've built that strong foundation,
they've built that, they've got
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:very secure attachments, for them.
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:Um, do need to work more, we've
got that of, um, security.
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:And you know what,
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:Dan 1: Yeah.
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:and it's very much kind of
fighting that urge, because
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:Tilly: that's still young.
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:Dan 1: I mean, it's not that young
in my industry, for the level of,
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:Tilly: in general, you've still got a
lot left in if you're not built, yeah,
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:you're constantly your peers, so what,
they might be lacking in other areas.
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:Dan 1: I get that.
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:Like, it's this whole thing of,
comparisons to people of joy, and then
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:this element of Everyone's, you know,
when you think about all the variables in
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:people's lives, everyone's very different
when you then combine them, everyone's
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:actually unique when you kind of think
about, you know, all these sorts of
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:things, and you combine all those factors
of the things that are important to you,
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:there are, there's no one on this earth
that is Two, two of the same people.
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:Even twins, you know, while I may
share a lot of physical elements,
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:there's a lot of other elements
that are incredibly different.
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:And, so, you can't just look and
go, oh, you know, they started
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:at the same time as I did.
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:But I am just saying that it would be
a long way behind versus, you know,
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:had I just sort of grinded it out
for over the last sort of three years
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:and continued to over the next three
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:Tilly: And also remind me that
we need to move into areas
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:where we can progress still,
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:Dan 1: No, I think that it
just goes back to this element.
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:I think, realistically, you're quite
far ahead in your career for your age.
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:Whereas I feel the opposite.
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:I feel behind in my career for my age.
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:And so the idea of slowing it
down, uh, has been quite a lot.
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:And while I grew with it
principally, distracts me.
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:Tilly: No, I don't said I'm
far ahead of my career in my
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:age, and yeah, in some aspects
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:Dan 1: usually the youngest person
in the room by about 10 years.
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:Um,
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:Tilly: Um, but that's also
because in my industry, I'm
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:struggling to get young people.
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:That's quite a stagnant industry.
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:Dan 1: person in
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:Tilly: So I think that's a as well.
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:It's just that I'm an amazing
person, so I just progress
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:Dan 1: of my skills and my
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:Tilly: I have.
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:I think that's partially to do with my
skill, my ambition, and partly to do
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:with the fact that I'm an amazing person.
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:My issue
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:Dan 1: but I also think that for you,
you being young, part of benefit and
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:skill, because your industry, you know,
chefing and cooking, is a very habitual
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:thing that people tend to kind of be
like, I was taught this way 20 years ago,
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:that's still the way I'm going to do it.
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:And it's like, well, now we need to start
thinking about responsible sourcing of
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:food, now we need to start thinking about
carbon emissions, now we need to start
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:thinking about dietary requirements.
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:And all these people who have
been taught 20 years ago just
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:kind of go, I don't want to.
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:And so I think for you
that's been a great benefit.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah, so I think for me the issue
is, is less so about the idea of
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:slowing down my career and more so
the issue of, Already feeling behind.
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:Do you want Low's Funnies, or do you
have anything else to talk about?
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:You go first while I'm
finding my normal phone.
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:Tilly: Was it Monday night?
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:Dan 1: Um, yeah I think so.
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:Tilly: I think so.
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:Um, and basically, this was
when we discovered that my
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:breast milk doesn't keep.
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:So some women's breast milk
doesn't keep because it's still
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:so we, I defrosted a bag of
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:Dan 1: Well we think, so far we think
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:Tilly: given her my frozen
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:breast milk and
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:Dan 1: So I'm therefore validating
the fact that it wasn't that I hadn't
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:burped her as my low for last week
where she just kept being sick.
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:Tilly: been intimidated.
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:Dan 1: Yup.
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:Um,
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:Tilly: so yeah, and so on both
times she's been really sick after.
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:So this was my load this week.
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:So it was like a double load because
one, in the moment, you know, we'd fed
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:her, put her to sleep, and suddenly she
was like, spluttering and being sick.
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:And I'm like, oh god.
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:You know, sat her up, gave
the back, you know, screened.
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:Well, just to keep her up, off.
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:She
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:then sick down my back, so I
then had to take my top off.
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:So I was then topless, because
we were both we got cleaned up,
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:sat on the back got her back to
sleep, and then like, what, five
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:minutes later, I was in her bed,
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:Dan 1: Yeah and she gets
really sick off it, doesn't
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:Tilly: and this was like,
through the nose, out the mouth,
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:Dan 1: such force that's
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:Tilly: such force, it went
down through her nappy.
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:Dan 1: Yeah.
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:Tilly: Um, so then, the rest of the night,
because I was scared to lie her back down
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:again, I just let her, uh, lie down her
on me, so she was just laying flat down.
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:Um, and so that was a very tiresome night.
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:And then I felt You know, worried, and
then when I realised that my breast
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:milk, it was about guilty and bad.
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:Even though I know there's nothing
I can do about it, feel bad.
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:I might regret it,
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:Dan 1: I wonder if there is any,
any sort of stabilizer that you
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:Tilly: it in a bit.
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:Um,
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:Dan 1: but
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:Tilly: yeah.
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:yeah, so then I felt guilty
as well, so I felt worried for
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:her, sad that she'd be sick.
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:It's obviously not really
nice for her to be sick.
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:No, I
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:Dan 1: I think she She's feeling
Right, think about all the times
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:Tilly: great place after the blood scoop.
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:Of course she's scotched, Um,
yeah, and then I was tired.
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:So that was definitely smug.
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:I'd already found out
my low for this week.
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:I was like, chick.
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:Um, so yes.
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:What's your low I'm going to say that now.
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:Um, she slips out of the chair.
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:Dan 1: Milo this week.
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:So what was it that you said to
me this morning about the bouncer?
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:Tilly: down there like,
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:Dan 1: When we were talking about the
difference between the seat thing and the
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:You were saying, the great thing about
the bouncer is that if you're just doing
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:something quick, you don't actually have
to strap her So I had her on the floor,
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:and it was Thursday morning, you had gone
to the gym, or you'd left for work, and
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:I was there trying to empty the bath.
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:And then I just suddenly
heard a thud, and a WAAAHH!
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:And I spin around, and she's, she's
done her like, kicking with her legs,
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:and just kicked herself out, and
then just flopped onto the floor.
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:Fortunately, it was on the floor,
so it's not very far to fall.
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:But she was then incredibly
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:Tilly: See, every, is that even?
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:Dan 1: Like you, you've done it
as well though, like you said.
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:Tilly: No I've not, I said she's
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:Dan 1: No, but you said you
don't always fasten her in.
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:so that's what I did.
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:Tilly: only time I don't bathe
her in is when she's sat in
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:Dan 1: She was literally behind me,
I was just emptying the bathtub.
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:I was emptying the bath
to try and give her a bath
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:Tilly: having a go, it can happen to us
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:Dan 1: and so I felt incredibly guilty
and she was there crying and crying
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:but she's very quick to say once
she realizes that she's, you know,
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:everything's all right which is great.
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:Like I was like, oh fuck this is going
to be like 45 minutes and then within
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:like a few minutes she's like, oh.
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:Not even that, within a minute she's like,
oh, okay, everything's alright again.
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:Yeah, when I just heard the thud,
then spun round to see her face
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:down on the floor, I was like, oh
my gosh, she's smiling at me now!
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:smiling at me now!
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:Tilly: Okay.
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:Yeah.
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:Dan 1: Yeah.
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:And I was just like, oh fuck,
I'm just trying to run you above.
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:Because she was already a bit touchy.
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:Cause she, so basically I put her in the
balance of screaming, and I was like, I
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:need two hands this You're gonna have to
just cry for a few minutes while I get all
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:the shit out of the bath after it rains.
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:And fill your bath, and then we can
put you in and we can chill you out and
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:calm you down while I'm a nice bath.
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:And then, THUD!
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:And I was like, oh, fuck!
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:But now you're alright!
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:alright, aren't you?
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:Yeah, smiley girl!
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:Yeah, you
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:Tilly: It's fucking irritating.
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:It was a good sniff.
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:I
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:Dan 1: I mean, I've, I've
started to come round a bit more.
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:If somebody's sending me something that
is an empathetic voice note, it's nicer.
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:Like, if somebody's sending me
something that's, yeah, Baker, if
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:somebody's sending me something about
something emotional, it's nice because
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:you can actually hear tone, you can
feel the emotions in someone's voice.
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:If someone's just sending me something
in general, like, I don't know,
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:they're just out on a walk and they
decide that they're just going to
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:record their voice instead of just
sending me a message, that annoys me.
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:Whereas if it's like, you know,
you told somebody something about
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:you're having a rough day because
of this or because of that, then
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:it actually takes time to actually.
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:speak it to you.
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:You can tell that they're actually
emotionally engaged, whereas you can
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:kind of fob people off the message.
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:Tilly: anyway, so I think you've already
heard of me giving her a tip on how
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:to properly which is very cute, and
so we've got some people who like,
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:Dan 1: Yeah,
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:Tilly: because they
haven't done it before.
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:They all little raspy bone on their
neck, you know, um, so that's good.
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:I yeah, that's my hair.
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:What's yours?
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:Dan 1: um, Mai Hai.
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:Oh, sick.
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:Well, that's exciting.
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:Fortunately, she was, uh, just
sick over the child benefit form
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:that I still need to submit.
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:that's a good reminder.
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:Thank you.
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:Yeah, good reminder.
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:Just sick straight over
the child benefit form.
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:So, uh, Mai Hai.
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:That's the one that I'm short of.
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:But I think, I'm pretty happy to
find out that, um, one of my friends
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:from school is moving nearby and
Baby daughter in a few months time.
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:So that's quite fun.
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:moves in.
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:Maybe we'll actually go to their
house this time, unlike friends
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:that move around the corner.
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:And we did go and see them, even
though they're just around the corner.
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:Life's busy.
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:Isn't it, baby girl?
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:Life's busy.
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:Yeah, I think sometimes in this
podcast, our tone and pitch and
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:cadence will just randomly change
because need to be engaged and smile.
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:So we might be talking about
something that's really negative,
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:and we'll be smiling away
because she's smiling at us, hey?
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:Smiling away.
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:So that just, again, adds
to the listener experience.
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:Tilly: absolutely,
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:Dan 1: Along with the adjustable volume
because mummy keeps moving away from the
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:Tilly: I'm feeding or, um,
okay I'm a now I'm a fidgety,
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:Dan 1: fidgeting.
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:Tilly: trying, might pass.
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:I, when I notice, I correct now.
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:What's the noises?
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:Um, okay, what funny?
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:Oh, my funny first.
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:Dan 1: You're funny, Buzz.
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:Tilly: So, my funny this week
is Oh, I can't think of one.
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:Can I think of one?
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:I'll week or last week.
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:Dan 1: blonde woman.
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:Uh, well,
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:Tilly: was just post recording last week.
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:Who knows?
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:I really enjoyed when we were all sat on
the sofa just speaking fancy in the face.
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:In because I don't know where he is.
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:Um, all that's left to say is
we're watching some probably
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:trashy action, knowing us.
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:And she was just sat on me
and she was there just doing
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:a little booting in his face.
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:And he could not give a lesson of shit.
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:She was having a great time,
booting him in the face.
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:And thank god he's so passive.
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:Oh, another high this week.
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:some lucky moments.
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:I think their bond is growing now.
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:This morning and the other day,
he'll come close And she reaches for
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:Dan 1: Oh.
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:That's nice it, baby girl?
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:Tilly: baby kind of
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:Dan 1: Um, my funny, I think it is again,
just after recording, we um, I think,
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:did you go to the gym after recording?
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:So it's just me and her there, and
I was trying to do some editing or
564
:something, or you might have been
doing some food prep sort of thing.
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:And.
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:cozy.
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:I had her sat in like a nook in
the sofa, all set up and cozy.
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:She was asleep for about 15 20
minutes, and then just did her thing.
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:Hey, yeah, you!
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:Yeah, you, baby girl!
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:She did her thing where she
just Wakes up screaming, and
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:then just fell back to sleep.
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:Like, I'm talking 80 90 out
of scream sort of a normal
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:Tilly: she gets really irate, like,
the way she's like, how dare I wake up.
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:Dan 1: But then just goes
straight back to sleep.
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:Did this a few times, didn't you?
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:Yeah, he did.
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:A bit longer each time, and then
you suddenly just let out a load
579
:of farts, a load of farts, and then
you fell back to sleep, didn't you?
580
:You were just really gassy in
your sleep, and then farted loads.
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:Go back to
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:Tilly: She's got eyes
this morning, actually.
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:We're lying next to each other.
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:She's taken to really
starfishing in bed as well.
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:She's just spreading out completely.
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:Dan 1: our bed.
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:Yeah Yeah, because we're so
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:Tilly: Um, she's getting better.
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:Like I said, she's settling now.
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:That's what I'm
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:Dan 1: sleep training wise this
something that's quite a long topic
592
:So I won't go into all of it But
there are three main methods if you
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:want to kind of keep the bond quite
strong in terms of you can either do
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:like this Weird kind of camping out y.
595
:You can do like, you can do like this
Thurber kind of thing whereby you, you let
596
:them cry for very small periods of time,
then keep coming back to see them and try
597
:and diminishing the amount, increasing the
amount of time and making sure, listening
598
:to the cry and being attentive to whether
it's a proper cry or, or it's one of
599
:the ones where she just goes, Wah, Wah.
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:Sometimes you do that, don't you?
601
:Sometimes you like to bake fry.
602
:Um, and then, the, another one is called
like, I can't remember all three, but
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:another one is called like camping out.
604
:Which is effectively what you do is,
you put the baby in their bed, yeah,
605
:you put you in your bed, and then you
sleep somewhere that's next to them.
606
:And then you slowly move further
and further away, until the point
607
:they are, until you're both in
different rooms effectively.
608
:And so, We're, our transition has started
even further away than that, isn't it?
609
:She was at the point where she would
just fall asleep while feeding on your
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:boob, and then you'd take her off.
611
:So now you're trying to have her fall
asleep off your boob, and then once
612
:she's, once you're good at that, baby
girl, yeah, you're pretty smiley right
613
:now, once you're good at that, we're
gonna try and get you starting to fall
614
:asleep in your next knee, which is
currently attached to our bed, so you'll
615
:still be in physical contact with us.
616
:And then we'll detach the next
to me and put the little blind
617
:thing up so you can see us but
you might not be able to feel us.
618
:And we'll slowly start moving
the next to me out of the room.
619
:Tilly: another lovely high
from last night's sleeping.
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:It was really sweet.
621
:So because it was just me and
her and Ben last night, we
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:Dan 1: Yeah.
623
:Tilly: room.
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:So I put her down next to me.
625
:She was sleeping on her side.
626
:Um, and I was sort of
on my side facing her.
627
:And then my cheek.
628
:I know it wasn't deliberate.
629
:But
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:Dan 1: Yeah, so let's see.
631
:So, quick roundup then.
632
:My high is the fact that I'm going to
have another daddy friend in Reading.
633
:Your high is multiple.
634
:You've got the on cheek,
you've got the voice notes.
635
:My funny is farting yourself awake.
636
:Well, screaming and screaming and
then farting and then being alright.
637
:And your dribbling low.
638
:Have you still
639
:Then, what was your funny?
640
:Yeah?
641
:Was it, was it the fatty
laughs, or was that your, I
642
:don't know, one of your highs?
643
:Tilly: Um, you listen to
it, you guys know my house.
644
:Dan 1: And then, uh, my low was the
bathroom floor thud when you kicked
645
:yourself out of your little bouncer.
646
:And then your low was,
647
:Tilly: realised is that she can't have
my breast milk when it's been frozen.
648
:So I've now got like, a drawer
full of bags of breast milk.
649
:That's actually useless.
650
:Even if, I guess if the worst
comes to worst, and we can't sell
651
:it and she can't drink it, we'll
just keep it for bath times.
652
:Skiddle your papa.
653
:If she gets past it,
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:Dan 1: Or we can save money on dog food.
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:Tilly: Your papa.
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:Skatcha!
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:So
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:Dan 1: So, have you had
any scout chats this week?
659
:Yeah.
660
:Did you do any playouts
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:Tilly: a little bit of poop that
came out and I was like, it's not
662
:worth me changing a whole baby bro
for like a little slither of poop.
663
:So then that's probably not great
parenting, but that's real parenting,
664
:Dan 1: To the gym.
665
:And I was actually meant to be having
an interview with my friend who, um,
666
:is also due to become a dad soon.
667
:So I wanted to do a little
interview to add to the podcast.
668
:And just before you went to
the gym, you were like, Oh,
669
:I think she's just in a poo.
670
:It's a wet one, but I
don't think she's finished.
671
:I was like, okay, well,
I won't change her yet.
672
:They pick you up, we start going
up to, then my friend calls, and
673
:he's like, oh, you ready to go?
674
:And I was like, yeah, just one minute.
675
:Tried to obviously set it up, and it
transpires that you can't just record
676
:somebody over the phone because they're
worried about you, or privacy issues, or
677
:just randomly recording conversations.
678
:So, there I was struggling with all the
text while you were kicking off because
679
:you had loads of diarrhea in your nappy.
680
:And then eventually I kind of just
packed it in, changed your nappy,
681
:and I was like, okay, that's fine.
682
:It was full.
683
:It was sloppy and full.
684
:And then changed you.
685
:And then, 10 15 minutes later, AGAIN!
686
:But the problem was, because you had been
so feisty about the first one, I hadn't
687
:sealed the second nappy on properly.
688
:I thought I'd get away with that, because
she doesn't really do two poos in a row.
689
:Usually it's like, oh,
it's a piss, it's fine.
690
:And so you then kicked off again,
and you had poo all down your side.
691
:Shit, there's some poo
in the bouncer as well.
692
:Tilly: It's like boo water.
693
:Dan 1: Yeah, because you've
started diarrhoea ing now,
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:haven't you, with your teething.
695
:Tilly: Teething.
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:I found something on Instagram
about like, the teething stages.
697
:I think she's at stage
number one, possibly.
698
:That's like swollen gums.
699
:Dan 1: Okay.
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:Tilly: Stage number
two is when she becomes
701
:Dan 1: Aggie.
702
:You're gonna become Aggie for us, are you?
703
:Tilly: Once they've broken
through, she's alright.
704
:Yeah, she's Or she could
stay at this long time.
705
:I don't really know.
706
:My just wait and
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:Dan 1: we got Nylabones
from the dogs left over.
708
:I'll just give you some Nylabones.
709
:yeah.
710
:gonna like, gum shields.
711
:Put little gum shields in for the feeling.
712
:So yeah, you had a big poo explosion.
713
:And, so, another sloppy one.
714
:And I had to change baby crow.
715
:you were very tired by
the time mommy came back.
716
:Because you had done lots of
Shits and screams and you're
717
:just like I'm done with this.
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:I'm exhausted.
719
:Okay, so here's one about potty
training, which we've got coming up.
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:We'll do two on potty training.
721
:So, this is from Jenny Y on mum.
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:com.
723
:One of mine, who shall remain
nameless, had a really hard time
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:potty training, especially pooping.
725
:Ugh.
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:He was a hider, and there was a
rule in pre k where he went when
727
:kids had to be potty trained.
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:He would constantly hide behind the
train table in the playroom to poop.
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:And his teacher knew what he was up
to every time he went back there.
730
:I always felt terrible when I would
go to pick him up in the afternoon and
731
:saw a plastic bag out in the hallway.
732
:Whenever I saw that bag, I knew he had
pooped in his pants in the playroom.
733
:His teacher just adored him
though, so she put up with it.
734
:I was mortified.
735
:Imagine that, just a little.
736
:People struggle so hard to
teach their dogs not to do that.
737
:Kid Poo, he's so frustrating.
738
:Okay, worried about the wrong thing.
739
:This is Jane Kay.
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:Again, on mom.
741
:com, we potty trained V,
the old three day method.
742
:Lock yourselves in the house for
three days, sort of, with no pants,
743
:and then slowly make your way out
into the world with underpants
744
:on for short periods of time.
745
:Our first outing was an early dinner
at an Italian restaurant nearby.
746
:Yeah.
747
:Tilly: park, there's shit in a park
748
:Dan 1: Yeah.
749
:So, our first outing was an early
dinner at an Italian restaurant nearby.
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:We were so worried she might have
an accident and asked her every
751
:two seconds if she had to pee.
752
:Nope.
753
:Nope.
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:She did totally fine.
755
:No accident.
756
:Except But while eating a piece of
calamari, her gag reflex got the better of
757
:her, and she threw up all over the table.
758
:Sadly, she has done this
many times in her life.
759
:It was just funny because that
hadn't even occurred to us.
760
:We were so worried about the
potty accident possibility.
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:Oh, there you go.
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:Yeah, we've got, we'll go for one more.
763
:Jill K, mum of two, the party pooper.
764
:We were hosting an outdoor party when
my daughter suddenly yelled loud enough
765
:for everyone to hear, I have to go!
766
:I have to go!
767
:And proceeded to pull her
dress down over her head and
768
:pee in the middle of the lawn.
769
:Thankfully, the concept of
privacy eventually caught on.
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:Tilly: I rate that.
771
:In fact, if any of our friends
kids did that, I would rate it.
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:I wouldn't even be annoyed if
the kids pissed on my lawn.
773
:Dan 1: I'll do that, look, fair
enough, she announced it, I blame the
774
:parents for not having the potty ready.
775
:Tilly: be annoyed if they pooed
on the lawn, I'd be like, Ah,
776
:Dan 1: Yeah, I mean, our lawn gets put
on by the dog and we just pick it up.
777
:Tilly: sisters love waiting outside.
778
:I remember when I was staying with
them after lockdown for a bit, looking
779
:outside and Chloe just squatting in the
lawn, just watching me as she waits.
780
:Like I'm an adult,
781
:Dan 1: sure she's going to
be very glad that that's made
782
:Tilly: I don't think she'd mind.
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:Dan 1: And on that one we'll say ciao,
784
:Tilly: bye.
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:Bye,
786
:Dan 1: bye, adios,
787
:Tilly: Hi, my lovelies.
788
:Thank you for listening.
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