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It's Friday and It's Boxing Day · Friday I'm in Bed

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Welcome to Friday. I'm in bed.
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Podcast for midlife women living their best life but in bed by
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10. We're here to chat and sometimes
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I'm. Kate, a 53 year old
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postmenopausal mum of two whose happy place is at the front of a
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Hey, I'm good, thank you. Getting ready for Christmas.
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Although this podcast episode is going to be going out after
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Christmas. Boxing Day is it, I believe.
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Boxing Day is Friday. Yes, the Boxing Day that no one
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knows is why it's called Boxing Day.
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I don't think. Why do you think that?
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Yeah. Have have you ever heard any of
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the theories as to why it's called Boxing Day?
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There were, so there was, I think one of the theories is
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that the, the the queen used to give out Christmas boxes.
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So that's why it was Boxing Day. Yeah.
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So there's there's and the church as well apparently used
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to give out boxes. So that's why it's called like
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Christmas boxes, you know, with money to, to the poor people of
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the parish after Christmas. So that's, that's one of the
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theories about why it's called Boxing Day.
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But also, as far as I can tell, there's no actual evidence for
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that, and no one seems to know why it's called Boxing Day.
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When I was a kid, I for some reason always thought it was
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like punchy boxing, you know? There is football on Boxing Day
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and there is horse racing because we used to go to the
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horse races. I used to live in southwest
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London near Twickenham, but there was like, I can't even
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remember the names Kempton Park and there was lots of different
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race race courses and we used to go to the races on Boxing Day.
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So maybe there was months boxing too, who knows.
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Say boxing without doing the little punchy hands.
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Yeah. So as I said, this is going out
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after Christmas. So my question to you before we
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get into today's podcast is how festive are you feeling and how
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much more have you got to do before the big day?
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I don't know if I want to talk about this because it's very
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soon. It's very soon and I'm finding
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it kind of traumatic. I'm very disorganized this year.
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What we've moving into the new office and stuff like that.
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I am, I am very, very, very disorganized.
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But it's OK because Christmas is going to be chill.
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We're actually stealing your idea this year.
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We're going to have a lovely dinner on Christmas Eve and then
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on Christmas Day we're going to do picky bits.
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Got to love some picky bits, right?
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And then we normally go to the pub at lunchtime because the
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pubs are open for a couple of hours.
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So there's a nice pub around the corner for us if we go around
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there, have a mulled wine, and then we'll come home and fall
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asleep in front of the TV. Basically, we have a fire
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because we've got an open fireplace in our house.
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So yeah, be lovely and super cozy.
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How about you? How do you normally spend
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Christmas? Well, as I said, we celebrate on
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Christmas Eve. We have our dinner on Christmas
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Eve so that the stress of cooking is removed and
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particularly with kids, it just becomes more chilled.
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So we have Christmas Eve dinner and it's really sweet.
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So when my kids were little, my mom read Twas the night before
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Christmas to them and off they toddled to bed and obviously put
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their stockings out. You know, all that cute stuff
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when they're little and my children are almost 18 and 15
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and they will still insist that Grandma reads the story.
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I mean, my son might have a point in his hand, but since he
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is. Nearly 18 and.
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You know, it's different, but it's really cute because
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actually we've talked a lot actually over the last couple of
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weeks about tradition and about how quite often to us it's
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embedded, embedded, embroiled with kind of in teen 50s,
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slightly sexist thing or old fashioned or something.
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What's really nice is making your own traditions and that's
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kind of one of ours. And I think it's really cute
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that my kids still do that. And they then go upstairs and
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let's face it, they don't go to bed.
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They just sit on their phones or text their mates or whatever.
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But they still, like, eject the building.
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Yeah. And go.
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Upstairs and we still put out their stockings and like you
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know, I am wonderful that's. Nice.
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Yeah. I mean, I got if I'm at home, I
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get a stocking. I mean we see we me and my
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husband because obviously we don't have children.
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So Christmas for us is us and the pugs.
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And we used to buy each other stockings, but we ended up
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putting kind of loads of like just useless tat in it.
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So a few years ago, we made our own tradition.
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And our tradition is that we do Christmas Eve boxes for each
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other and we have categories. We do something to eat,
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something to drink, something to wear, something to do and
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something else for that time. You see, like, oh bat, I need
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that. So that's what we get each other
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little that we get each other little gifts.
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I have not finished the shopping for that yet, but I do.
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I have a. Really good book.
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For there's something to do, which I think killing Joy so
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which is fine because he's not in here now and this won't be
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going out till after Boxing Day, so he won't know.
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I am wrote a read last year about aimed at, you know,
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parents of boys, teenage boys and what do you put in a
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stocking because the girls are so easy and any parent of teens
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will actually get this. But I got literally annihilated
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online for being a par parent or for being sexist.
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And it's like, well, you can go around Home Bargains or
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something and pick up body spray and nail varnish and nail files
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and all the, you know, all the stuff.
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Fill up a stocking really easy. But with boys, once you've
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bought Lynx Africa, what else do you put in?
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And maybe some skin care, but actually he doesn't really use
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it. And it's kind of, yeah, you end
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up filling in and said about you don't want to, you don't want to
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gift tat, which stockings often often are, but you also don't
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want to put in expensive things because that's a present.
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So I said to my my daughter, what should I put in our son, my
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son's stocking? And she turned around and said
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condoms and vodka. You run that I would please go.
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Condoms and look, you know. What else you got?
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For Christmas, well, I have got, he's got lots of drum stuff,
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he's a drummer, but this is interesting.
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I have got him a naughties digital camera because there's
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been a weird thing this year that all the kids, and by kids I
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mean Gen. Z, but actually young
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millennials are beginning to to, I'm hearing, have discovered
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their parents digital cameras. And you would ask yourself, what
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is the point? Like what is the point of having
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a digital camera when you have a phone that takes the most
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amazing photos? Well, it turns out what they
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want is they're going to parties with a digital camera, taking
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pictures, putting their phones away, taking photographs, and
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one person, whoever had the camera, goes home, downloads
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them all and sends them to the group.
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They also like them because the the quality is lo fi compared to
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an iPhone and they like that kind of retro that you feel old
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retro 2005 look. But I absolutely love the
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concept that young people are going, we're at a party, let's
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put our phones away and let's use a cool digital camera.
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And I spoke to a friend of mine that's a wedding photographer
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and he said it's happening at weddings.
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So people are literally taking pictures of the day.
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On. My 2K digital camera.
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So I've dug my one out. I had a really good one.
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I've dug it out. I've got it, a new charger, a
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new battery and well new stroke old and a new memory card and he
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has got a wizzy silver cool looking one.
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I do. I love that.
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I know that you, we've spoken a couple of times about this kind
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of like move away from this like permanent online.
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So yeah, it's cool. I mean, there's been quite a
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move back towards vinyl recently.
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I know there's an awful lot of vinyl shops and stuff kind of
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pop pop up. And I saw it was probably a
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thread the other day with someone saying all those little
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artifacts that you hear and stuff that everyone's really
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pleased that they've got rid of when they move on.
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A format will be the thing that you miss about it.
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So you know the cracks and pops from it and I think.
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We've probably both got. Songs that we always sing with,
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like the hiss from our from our tape that we recorded of our
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friend in it, right? Oh, it's just amazing.
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And there's things like the iPods, iPods and iPod Nanos, if
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you've got one, that now's the time to sell it because they are
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going because they're going up in value.
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But again, it's back to what we were talking about last week
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about Australia banning social media because obviously the fear
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of what kids are seeing, which we, you know, we, we agree is a,
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you know, is a good thing to a certain point.
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But you know, that is good. But obviously one of the worries
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with social media and kids is they're spending so much time on
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it, which they are fact. But there's this real movement,
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particularly with older teen, older teens and younger is
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younger kids in their 20s, people in their 20s rejecting
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partially, not wholly partially. And they're they're saying, you
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know, we're seeing a rise in iPods, as I said, and vinyl,
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digital cameras, but also things like writing, like like writing
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letters, journaling, making scrapbooks.
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This is kind of let's move away from making a Pinterest board.
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Let's make a scrapbook like we did, which is really exciting.
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The thing is I have started myself to think more about those
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kind of offline things that we used to do rather than being
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permanently online. And it can be, I mean, obviously
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we know that, you know, you look at the screen time on your phone
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and you go. But yeah, I mean, it's like,
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it's like I do, I try and do, I do embroidery in front of the TV
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and I'm like, am I just old? But apparently, no, I am.
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I am super, super cool now. But journaling, journaling is
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amazing. Actually.
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That's for years. Anything I did like that I would
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do on my phone. But I've also started journaling
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longhand, so I think even in decrepit old ladies like me,
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there must be a move towards that, going back to that.
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But I think, I think it's a feeling of we expect us to
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because a, as we get older, this is an expectation.
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This is not my view. You know, we might get into
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sewing or knitting or whatever, and which is such a stereotype,
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but also we have a hankering towards our past.
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You know, we do get more nostalgic as we get older.
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But to see 20 year olds going, actually, I want vinyl.
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I don't want to listen to Spotify.
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I want vinyl and I want to buy the vinyl.
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And they're exchanging vinyls and they're like, it's just, I
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find it really. This is going to make me sound
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ancient. Really heartwarming.
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You know, it's like. What do you, what do you think
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is behind it? Because I have like some of the,
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some of the things that I do is that kind of idea of when you
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put everything, when you do everything with your phone, it's
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like, or online, it's like it belongs to someone else.
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It's like not yours. And it's like, you know, there's
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privacy concerns about anything you do when, when all your tech
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devices are connected to the Internet.
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So that's the thing that I think about sometimes, you know, if
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you've got a long form journal somewhat, you know, your mum's
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got to sneak into your room to read it rather than just like.
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Well, this is going to. This is an attack your live
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Journal account. And I mean, that's dated me,
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right? But.
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Well, this is going to depress you because I believe that they
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think it's retro and cool and like cute like like 2005.
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Like they think that's like retro.
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As I said, vintage old, you know, so it's a bit like in the
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90s when we wore stuff from the 70s, you know, like that kind of
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we wore flares or we, we got into Fleetwood Mac or we, you
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know, whatever. I think it's that like 2005 and
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seen as kind of retro and old fashioned.
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Cool. I thought I, yeah, I thought I
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was so cool listening to the Sex Pistols when I was like 14 in
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the, in the kind of yeah, early mid 90s, Yeah, I thought I was
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so cool. I know.
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So basically don't sell or don't like throw out your tech.
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And I read something on, I think it was the sun around naughties
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tech or naughties stuff that's worth something.
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And I can't remember the figure, but it was hundreds, hundreds of
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pounds. People were outbidding each
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other for the Generation One iPhone, which of course you'd
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have just recycled or been like something years.
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Ago if you found it, Like, yeah, I don't feel like if you hang on
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to your stuff, this is cheap Christmas shopping if you've got
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teenagers as well, right? Yeah, well, with the I'm not.
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Suggesting that I'm not suggesting that.
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You that your. Gift is cheap.
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That was not the intent of. That well, no, because I did
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notice that festivals in the summer, people using them and I
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was like, I think we've got 3 or 4 in the cupboard and we went
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through them and then I looked them up on eBay and I could get
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like 90 to £100 each. So I was going to sell them all.
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And then Herbie was like, I really want one of these.
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And I was a bit like you can have the rubbish 1 is what I was
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thinking. And then I was like, oh, you
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know what, I'm going to save the really good one and I'll sell
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the rest because then he's got a cool one.
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Yeah, I feel like that. So yeah, it's a bit scary though
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that these these youngsters think 2005 is like old and cool
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yesterday. Right.
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I mean the 1990s was only like 15 years ago.
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And I have read trend reports from like Pinterest and stuff
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and they're all saying, you know, analogue is is back.
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But I also read 2000 and 10s are coming back from a fashion
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perspective. And it's like that literally was
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yesterday. Five years ago it was or six
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years ago it was 2019 in the 20 tens, but apparently any
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fashion. So we're going to have to think
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about that as well. I remember I went, I did a tour
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for. Wearing all my clothes from
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then. Well, I did a tour at Vintage.
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Where was it? I can't remember.
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I did this talk in London about like what's next for vintage?
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And it was, you know, everybody there was wearing like 50s,
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sixties, 70s, all reproduction. And I sat and said Y2K, the year
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2000 is going to be next because young, young people have been
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wearing 90s for a good five years, even more Y2K.
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And the whole room laughed at me, but not in a no way, no way
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can it? It was like, don't be
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ridiculous, Kate. Like literally, you know,
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nothing. It was like that.
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And then that night I went home and on the train, I opened
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Grazia and it said Juicy Couture for lure joggers were back in.
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And I was like. Why 2K was 25 years ago?
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Yeah, I think trend cycles get a lot quicker like with the with
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the kind of what's the word in, I want to say instant in state,
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no instantness. What's the word?
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I don't know that word One thing that means like how quickly we
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see stuff on the Internet. I think that means that trend
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cycles kind of speed themselves up.
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You know it's by time it whereas it used to be so catwalk led and
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so things only changed like every.
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Kind of. Six months to a year kind of
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thing you now and you know people would wait for that post
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Fashion Week edition of. Vogue.
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We're now into in the digital age, we're now getting into
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faster trend cycles because it's out and it's now and it's, you
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know, every month you're seeing someone else going, oh, I'm so
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bored of that now I'm going to wear something else.
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So I mean, like 10 years ago feels like a lifetime.
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It does. Particularly with how the last
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10 years has been. The good news for someone like
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me is I'm a hoarder. I'm an absolute hoarder.
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So I have all my clothes from in the 90s, not all my clothes, a
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lot of clothes from the 90s. And notice that I am wearing all
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the kids are wearing now or whatever, as is my husband.
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So both kids are more than happy in their little Y2K tops or
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their cool like 90s shirts. But I also have the best stuff
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in 2000 and 10s under the bed. So I'm wondering like what is
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that? And I think it's all like, I
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think it was a bit of a wide skirts, like, you know, loose
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skirt, like a circle skirt, but they were above the knees, like
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because we've been MIDI for quite a while or maxi, haven't
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we? And we all used to wear things
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like above the knee or skater length.
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And I'm like, oh, is that really going to cut back?
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But the charity shops are full of it.
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So maybe if you get your like. Seem to remember little
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cardigans. But you and I, this is probably
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when we first kind of knew of each other and met, you know,
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met and stuff. We were very in the vintage
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scene in Yeah ten, 2015. But I know if I was wearing
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modern clothes it would be like a 50s style skirt, although it
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would be shorter because. Yes.
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So there was, there was a particular Phase, I remember in
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the early 10s where it was quite easy to get vintage style stuff,
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yes, in the High Street stores. And that was really good where a
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lot of those like strapless, big skirt, 50s dresses, kind of look
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and novelty prints and things like that.
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So yeah, I've probably still got AI, got rid of a lot of stuff
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when when I when I was diagnosed with cancer, when I got sick and
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when I gained a load of weight on steroids and had a bit of a
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hissy fit and got rid. Of loads of.
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Stuff from my wardrobe. And to be fair, I should have
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known this stuff was coming back when I started getting rid of or
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like like stiletto calf length boots with pointy toes when I
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was like, well, I'm never wearing them again, am I?
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I should have known at that point that it was definitely,
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definitely, definitely coming back.
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I know and I think, but even the Y2K stuff, and I can say this
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because this is going out on Boxing Day, my daughter has got
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low rise. Miss 60 jeans for her Christmas
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present and the shortest micro miniskirt you've ever seen in
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your freaking life. That's low rise as well.
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I just know grandma on Christmas Day is going to look at me as if
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to say, what is that? But it's Miss 60, you know, like
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it's just so. And she's got this this
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Hollister micro zip up hoodie with a fur lining.
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Oh my God, you know, like, thank, thank goodness for
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vintage, although it's, it's not cheap.
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I mean, it's vintage cheap. It's like it's not expensive,
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but it's not. Yeah, yeah.
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Two years ago you'd have picked up a low rise pair of jeans like
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for nothing, whereas now £4050. The way because that's how you
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that's how you know that they're coming back in, isn't it?
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I mean, like, have they got that?
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Yeah. I mean, they learned nothing
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from us with the the low rise. You just go, no, your belly just
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hangs over the top. Even when you've got a flat
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stomach and you're and you're in your teens and the big bell
20:02
bottoms where you're like you're going to get rising down.
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She's got their flat and obviously they're now.
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And so her belly button ring is is obviously always visible.
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Always visible. That's what, yeah.
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How I remember when, Yeah. Yeah.
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And but we haven't progressed to the thong out the top yet.
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So I'm hoping we don't, but, but I volunteer at festivals for a
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they've just actually closed, but safe gigs for women.
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So just to, to try and keep women And in fact, everybody's
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safe at concerts and festivals and stuff.
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And I was shocked, not this summer, last summer, how many
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girls were walking around. Obviously I don't, you know,
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wear what you want, but from a fashion perspective with the
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full thong out the top of the back.
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And I thought that's come back into.
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What do we what do they call it? Whale tail.
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And also tramp stamp. The tramp stamp.
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The tramp stamp across the lower back.
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I quite like those. It's back what I think I used to
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call it because of the way it came out of your pants.
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It was a whale tail. I've never heard that, but
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trance taps are back, tribal arm bands are back.
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And so if you've got 1 apart from everybody that has one that
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had one that isn't, it's all now bled into each other and doesn't
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look tribal anymore. And eyebrow piercing.
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So my son's got his eyebrow Pierce.
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You know, it's all just and obviously people always had
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their eyebrow Pierce, but it's that kind of late night is early
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naughties. You know, The thing is, if we if
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we, so if I go back and relive all the things that I never got
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to do at the time, like the tribal armband, I want it so
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badly. Am I cool now?
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Yeah, will I be cool or will I be a deluded old lady?
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You'll be cool. Good.
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OK, there is no such thing as a deluded old lady because you
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remember you can do what you like.
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You're an adult. Well, I was, I was well aware
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that I could do what I like, you know, it was more like, what's
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the everyone else's perception going to be when I do what the
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hell I like anyway? And I'm not entirely bothered
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whether they think I'm a deluded old lady, to be honest.
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Well, it won't have bled like everybody else I know is tribal
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and they. Pretend I could pretend I got it
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in the actual naughties and that it's just in really good
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condition and that I have always been super cool cool even though
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I wasn't cool enough to actually get one.
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You've got any tattoos? I do, I have three tattoos on I
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got in the 90s when I was too young to be getting tattoos.
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I have, I have, I have a lizard, a little lizard on my hip, but I
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got when I was like 17 or something Look.
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Like a lizard now? Or is it just a sort of splat?
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It looks like a lizard that got slightly run over.
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Yeah, it's blurred a bit, but I can remember showing it to my
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mum. She picked me up from the pub
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obviously and I showed it to her and she went get in the car.
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But I also. Have two that I have two that
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I've got as an adult as well. I have a lightning bolt on my
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wrist, which was a little symbol of power, that kind of Cancer
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influencer. It was someone I followed called
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Nicknack Glue who started it. And lots of people have these
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little lightning bolts in the Cancer community.
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And then I have a moon on my chest.
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I had a central line put in and I have a scar on my chest from
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where they took it out which is how they like gave me my chemo
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and I didn't and it I was quite self-conscious of the scar so
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instead of trying to hide it I actually got a moon around it
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with flowers. So I was trying to make
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something beautiful out of. I love.
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And also the moon to me is like regrowth and but they're all
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quite hidden. So I do get those random men
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that say, Oh, you're ladylike, not that those people covered in
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tattoos. And I'm like, that's not my
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opinion, by the way, just to be very clear there.
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It's the random men that don't really know who they're talking
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to. Don't have any, do you know?
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And people are generally quite surprised because I'm a bit of
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an alternative rock chick. No, neither is my husband and he
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hates them, which in a way. Has.
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Formed a bit of my opinion towards me having one and that's
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not to say I haven't had one because he doesn't like them,
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but because he doesn't like them.
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It's made me go do I like them? You know, like do I really want
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one? But my issue is is I am pain
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averse, which is ridiculous because I have two children.
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So, you know, is that is ridiculous, but also I'm not
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very good at commitment. What do I want Like it has to be
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perfect as well. I can't stand it like if the
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thought of it not being perfect, which although that doesn't
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matter anymore because they trace them on anyway, don't
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they? Do you know what I mean?
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It's not like they're. Free and they.
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Yeah. And you sign it off and I just
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can't decide. And I just.
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And there's things I want, but where do I want them?
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And I've earned an odd for so, so long.
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But my son, who is desperate, desperate.
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His 18th is just going to be swan in the tattoo parlour.
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You call them that anymore, Don't you do tattooists?
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Yeah. He.
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He has a vision of lots. Although I keep saying, yeah,
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but what will they look like in the future?
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And I think, oh now I sound really like old and boring going
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oh but what about the future? Yeah, I think, yeah, that's
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never bothered me. I'm a bit like, don't care.
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You could always get something else to cover them up if you
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don't like him. Again in three years.
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Like it's a bit like, you know, my nan not wanting me to cut my
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hair off. I mean, I know hair grows back,
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but like, you just kind of go, well, I want to do it now so I'm
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going. No, he.
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Have been control issues. He's going to have song lyrics
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written on his chest, I believe. But I thought made I made a bit
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of a joke. I don't know if it was a joke.
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Maybe it was a wish, like a wish.
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I said that we would have a tattoo together, him and I,
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because we sort of wanted the same thing and we could go
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together. He seems to have really held me
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to this flippant comment I made once at a gig.
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So watch, this space is 18 in March.
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I might be getting my first tattoo.
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That's lovely. Oh right, Note makes note about
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March podcast. The end of March and I'm
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thinking of having it on the back of my neck.
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That's nice. You can see it.
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You can't see it. Yeah, and also you won't be able
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to see it, so therefore you can pretend it was never there.
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If you don't like it, it doesn't matter.
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Take my hair down forever. Oh, the neck forever creeping
26:45
there you. Won't be able to see it, you'll
26:47
forget it's there. How often do you look at the
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back of your neck? Never.
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Exactly. So yeah, anyway, analogue is
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back, I 2K is back, some arm bands are back.
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And happy Christmas. Happy Christmas.
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Yeah, we've been, we've been quite rambly today, but I think
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that that's appropriate for this time of year rambling.
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We should have a little bit of I've got some toffee popcorn
27:11
flavoured Bailey's somewhere, or Christmas milk as I call it.
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Do you know I miss Bailey's? I have to say, and I say, so
27:20
anyone that doesn't know me, I will be celebrating my year on
27:24
New Year's Day sober. But every Christmas I go
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Bailey's. That'd be nice.
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Just one glass of Bailey's and then people say there's a non
27:33
alcoholic Bailey's and I think, well I'd rather have a chocolate
27:35
brownie with squirty cream on I think than a non alcoholic
27:39
Bailey's. Do you know what it is?
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I haven't tried it yet but I've got a can of it at home to see
27:43
what it's like but. The non alcoholic one let me
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know, but I kind of if I'm having non alcoholic Bailey's, I
27:50
might as well just, yeah, have something, a pudding trifle.
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I don't know. But yeah, Bailey's, Bailey's.
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Point. Right then we must go.
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We must go. For their presents to wrap and
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potentially buy. No, I'm done.
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Oh. Yeah, well, you would be, I do.
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Have to. I am.
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I am the queen of chaos. Last minute shopping.
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Yeah, we're lucky it's still not yet.
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Christmas Eve has not been a rare time for me to do Christmas
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shopping. I'm doing.
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I feel like I'm doing quite well so far.
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Well, I will see you in 2026. Then I will see you in 2026 and
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we were back talking about all the news and stuff that's
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happened over the festive period and dissecting it and.
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Maybe ranting. Probably ranting, yeah.
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See you next year. Hi everyone, See you next year.
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