Blabbering: Babies!

Welcome to Episode 26 - A Tale of Teething & Tired Parents

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1️⃣ Shared Parental Shifts: Dan and Tilly juggle their roles as new parents with humour and honesty, discussing the highs and lows of shared parental leave. 🍼👶

2️⃣ Weaning Whimsy: Explore the adventure of introducing solid foods, from spring onions to dried mangoes, and how teething adds another layer of excitement to mealtime. 🥭🧅

3️⃣ Sleep Strategies: The couple tackles the transition of their baby girl to sleeping in her own room, sharing their struggles and successes in establishing a new night time routine. 🛏️😴

4️⃣ Pet Predicaments: Amidst parenting, hear how Tilly and Dan manage their emotions and responsibilities when their family pets face health challenges. 🐕💔

5️⃣ Rat Ruckus: Laugh along as they recount their unconventional and somewhat humorous battle with a rat problem in their home. 🐀🤣

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Hello lovelies, and welcome to this week's episode where we're

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going to be talking about all things

weaning and what babies scoff in,

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and she is a good scoffer, as well as

how we plan to tackle big transition

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from our bedroom to her own bedroom.

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Stay tuned.

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Dan 1: Good morning everyone.

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Tilly: Good morning.

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Good morning's.

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The morning.

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Dan 1: Yeah, so I think Tilly's

gonna be bringing the energy.

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This is about as much energy as you're

getting from me and it'll slowly

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fade off throughout the episode.

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Tilly: They're both pretty this week, so

we'll get, we'll get into wine a bit, but

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I had my night off last night, so Iven

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Dan 1: Yeah.

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Tilly: just,

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Dan 1: By night off she means

as in she got to sleep in the

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spare room and I had baby.

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Tilly: Bring in for feed during the.

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Dan 1: Yeah.

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How's your camera now?

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Oh, this is the problem

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Tilly: I always end it.

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Dan 1: You can't really remember

where things start and end.

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Tilly: Ha ha ha ha ha ha Yeah, I'm

not very good at staying still.

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But yeah, how's your week been?

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Let's jump into it.

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I

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Dan 1: How's my week been?

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I it's been alright.

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You tell me, how have I been?

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Tilly: think you felt better.

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You've definitely felt less down

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Dan 1: Yeah, so,

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Tilly: and less overwhelmed this week.

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Dan 1: are just to do with trying

to create routine with the baby,

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which is actually impossible to do.

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And so I just gave up and let the baby

control what, what time she fucking

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wanted to sleep, and I just decided

that I was going to make sure that

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I had whatever I wanted to do near

enough that if she fell asleep, I

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Crack on with those things rather than

trying to structure them at times.

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So yeah, surrender is the key.

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Surrender.

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Tilly: Yeah.

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I do also think, like, I know you

obviously can get a baby into a routine,

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you can do it but it's a lot of work and

you have to like, like sacrifice not doing

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other things while getting them into a

routine, same with most things with the

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baby, but also, I think it's okay if

they're not in a routine now because once

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she's in going to nursery she's going

to have to be in a routine, she'll be

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in a forced routine once it starts, so.

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It's a couple of months of not

being routine, right, the rest of

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her life is going to be routine.

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I think whatever's easiest at this stage.

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Dan 1: Morning, I nearly succumbed.

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I nearly broke the emergency

glass, and she woke up at half

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five and I was tired as fuck.

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I was so close

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Tilly: Going downstairs

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Dan 1: to going downstairs and

just whacking Dancing Fruit on.

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I was there like, she doesn't

Here's the normal dance we do.

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And then I found our little,

our little swirly light thing.

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And that just gave me half an hour

to just, you know, when you do that,

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it's kind of, when you wake up in

deep sleep, and if you kind of like,

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roll around with your eyes closed a

bit, eventually, you'll You kind of,

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uh, are awake, as it were, at six.

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Tilly: time.

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Dan 1: And so she, that gave me half an

hour and then she started just kicking me.

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Just kicking me loads.

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And I was like, okay, fine, fair enough.

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I can get up now.

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Just so fucking tired, love.

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When it comes around at like

five, I'm like, No, I can, I can

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go till nine, if you'll let me.

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But also, it's not like I'm, it's not

like I've got, When I used to wake up

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at five, I had a plan to go do things.

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Now I just wake up and it's like, I'm

just gonna be, do you know what I mean?

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Just got to be awake.

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I'm not gonna do anything.

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I'm just now awake.

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And so there's no, there's no sense of

urgency, there's no sense of purpose.

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You're just awake and you're tired.

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So you're like, why am I awake and tired?

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Yeah, yeah,

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Tilly: You know, quick shop.

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Alright, okay, let's open the curtains.

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Let's go for a walk.

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I think once you've done that you're like

cool my day's begun and it's fine, I think

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Dan 1: but I, I, I think I've not, I'm

not as A weight as a make out, even when

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I used to get up at 5 and go do things,

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Tilly: No, you're

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Dan 1: would still take me a while.

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Like I'd get to the gym and I'd spend

20 minutes taking a shit, just because,

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so I'd get to the gym for 5, but I'd

be on the loo for 20 minutes being

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like, ugh, am I ready to go do this?

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Alright, let's go do this.

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And then I'll go do my workout.

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But, irrespective of, I'm happy

to get up early, but it usually

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takes me about half an hour to

adjust to the fact that I'm mobile.

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You're trying to be in the video.

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You're not meant to be

in the video, baby girl.

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Oh, you're a cheeky

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Tilly: I want to be a star, daddy.

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Dan 1: munchkin.

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Let's get you a little

Mexican wrestling mask,

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Tilly: Auntie Erin's gonna

get you a bottle of coffee.

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A

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Dan 1: so yeah, I think this

week's been pretty good.

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I mean let's see, let me think.

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Monday, yeah, I think

Monday was very good.

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Tuesday was pretty good.

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Wednesday, did anything happen on

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Tilly: of coffee.

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Dan 1: you were in work.

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Again, day was fine.

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I think I, I mean, I am, I am happy

to see you when you come back,

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because I'm like, yeah, she can now

just sit on the boob and I can go

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into another room and do something.

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And then, yeah, Thursday, Mum was

round, Friday, yeah, I think it

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was all, Friday was a bit harder,

because I was trying to do.

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I did have things that I needed to do,

and so it was harder to just succumb

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to her, surrender to her routine.

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Because it was like, well I need to cook,

because I was, I was having a, I was going

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over to a friend's and we were cooking,

all just cooking different dishes.

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And so I was there trying to

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Tilly: That's the

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Dan 1: certain things, and

she was just like, nah, I need

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you to pay attention to me.

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And I was like, no mate,

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Tilly: I'm doing

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Dan 1: You're meant to be asleep, are

we going to have to pause this, go

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for a dog walk and then come back?

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So yeah, how's your week been?

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Tilly: I think it's been better.

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It's still, again, as we say every week.

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We're not in a routine that one.

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But I think we finally thought of a good

plan that's actually going to work for us.

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Time wise, like, getting up at 6

rather than trying to get up at 5 6.

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And I just go, just palm her

off straight away, aren't you?

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Dan 1: Yeah,

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Tilly: And then I'm back by half

seven and we just go straight for the

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walk so I can start work by eight.

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Well sometimes I might be back

earlier than half seven but,

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you know, I definitely will

be able to start it by eight.

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Dan 1: yeah

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Tilly: Then, it means at the end of

the day, rather than me then being

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like, cool, I'm going to the gym

now, I can just take her from you.

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Because by that point, you tend to be

looking like you're pretty much done.

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And then you can have an hour or

whatever you need to do some bits.

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Like, podcast or whatever, before

starting, like, before starting art,

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sort of like, doing dinner and things.

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Dan 1: Yes, I'd like to say I think

probably all our friends ask us

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What's it like, you know, how's your

life changed since having a kid?

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Most of the time, I'm like, it

doesn't, there's very little

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that I'm actually bothered by,

but I think routine is a fucker.

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We've gone from, we've gone from being

able to completely dictate our time, to

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just being like, Okay, I want to do these

things, but give up, let go, surrender,

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fuck it, it's not happening, move on.

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Tilly: this house is all on wage.

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Because it's not how it used to be.

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Dan 1: Productivity in this household

has fallen way down Because it's like it

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used to be that you would do something

and I would do something so you could be

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cooking and I could Be you know doing a

dog pick doing I don't know the dishwasher

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or whatever Yeah, but now it's like one of

us has the large to be looking after her

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Maybe trying to do something on the side,

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Tilly: fall, which is

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Dan 1: So much slower.

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Tilly: think

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Dan 1: and then,

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Tilly: has yet to have

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Dan 1: So yeah, household productivity

has fallen through the floor.

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So that's, that's I

think my biggest lesson.

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For anybody who has yet to have a

baby and keeps asking me, what is

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the thing that you miss the most?

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Time management.

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That's what I miss.

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Tilly: Or just outsource what you

can't, like, get a cleaner get a cook,

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basically if you're rich you're fine.

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Get a nanny,

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Dan 1: a nanny.

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Outsource that too.

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Tilly: it Victorian style, just kiss

them goodnight, and get on with the day.

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Dan 1: Give them a kiss good morning.

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Wish them a lovely day.

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Give them a kiss good night.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Tilly: But I think, I think, like you,

I've sort of hit a level now where

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I'm sort of like, This is it now.

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I'm done with sort of fighting it.

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So I'm trying to figure out what

I can do to work along with it.

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So like, trying to like, so again,

figuring out the routine that

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actually just disrupts her flow

basically as little as possible.

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So actually that she's really

chill and happy first thing in the

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morning, so that's quite a good

time for me to leave her with you.

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Because she's all like happy

and like la la la la la.

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And then in the evening when she is

like, tetchy, being like, Okay, well

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we know that's not a good time for

me to try and leave and do something.

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Because I can't because she's upset and

you're very much done with it, and you're

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trying to do things, and you're sort of

done with trying to not do things around

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her, so she'll just let her cry out.

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Well, no, it's not me.

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They were just against it.

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You'll just, you're done.

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Dan 1: Yeah,

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Tilly: Um, It's Ok, well let's

not try and fight that, let's be

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like ok how can we work with this?

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Dan 1: Yeah.

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Tilly: So it is accepting.

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All right.

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Yeah, But this weeks been alright.

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Yeah But then we've had a sort of

shit time when it comes to pets

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in our life this weekend, we?

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Yeah, videos.

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Let's find out, eh?

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Dan 1: so, three, so your, your best

friend Erin, her cat's gone missing.

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Tilly: know, little Greg.

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Hopefully by now Greg's been found.

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Dan 1: Dog,

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Tilly: Yeah, Sidley, has, well

we don't know what's wrong,

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he's not been eating for a week.

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He's been vomiting loads, and the thing

is his liver was pancreas, and it possibly

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could be cancer because they found a mass.

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And so he's currently on anti nausea

medication and some strong antibiotics

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to see if that does anything, and

if it doesn't then we'll just see.

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Tackle comes next, but

Sid is like mum's bubba,

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Dan 1: yeah

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Tilly: they're very very attached.

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So, I really hope it's the next one.

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And then, your family dog.

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Yeah, your mum's Koby.

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He's 14

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Dan 1: Koby, my dog.

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Dog that we got, how old was I, I

don't know, I think I was like 12?

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I must have been more, I must

have been, I think I was 16, I

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Tilly: 16.

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Dan 1: think I was younger than 16.

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Tilly: How old is Koby?

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You're 30.

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Dan 1: tortoises that

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Tilly: you,

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Dan 1: how old they are.

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He's just like that.

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I don't think I

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Tilly: what were you doing?

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Were you at school?

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Or were you at 6th form?

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Dan 1: was in sixth form yet.

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Tilly: Fuck me, he's really fucking old.

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Dan 1: Yeah.

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Tilly: So he's like 15 years old.

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I don't know, I was

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Dan 1: was, I was doing my GCSEs,

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Tilly: GCSE.

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Okay, so he's probably like

14, still 14, he's fucking old.

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Did you play Labrador?

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No,

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Dan 1: I was doing my GCSEs, because

I remember I was on study days

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for my GCSEs when we first got

him as a puppy and so I would be

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Tilly: he'd need like

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Dan 1: sat studying in the

living room to be downstairs

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to, to try and help train him.

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Yeah, I wasn't very good at studying,

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Tilly: try

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Dan 1: And

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Tilly: so

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Dan 1: he,

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Tilly: it, and

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Dan 1: get bored as puppies do because

they need, They need frequency, they

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need like five minutes very regularly of

attention, like play and stuff like that.

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They get tired very quickly, but they get

amped up and restore energy very quickly.

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And so that's not very conducive to

trying to learn and study, because every

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20 minutes you're meant to be sort of

playing with them for five minutes.

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And so he just used to, I'll be

there reading my books, he used to

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just run through, and And just look

dead at me, and piss on the carpet,

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Tilly: and run away.

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Dan 1: I'm like, fuck sake, okay mate.

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so yeah, he's pretty old.

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He might

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Tilly: So he's had very good innings.

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Dan 1: but he's yeah, he's had

some sort of a stroke like thing.

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so he's currently at an

emergency vet, they've been there

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overnight, they've stabilized him.

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But I don't, I don't know

how much, that's what's next.

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But uh, unfortunately so.

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Tilly: No, I think his end is nigh.

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Dan 1: Unfortunately so.

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Tilly: So we were just looking

at Fatty yesterday and we're

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like, don't you fucking dare.

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You better be fine.

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Because I'm not dealing with a fourth pet.

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He's very solid.

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Dan 1: The more worry

is that he'd get stolen.

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I

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Tilly: Yeah.

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Dan 1: it's the rest of him.

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Or he'd just run off after a squirrel.

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Tilly: Yeah, I mean, when he's

locked at home, I'm not worried about

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Dan 1: Exactly, he's got,

he's got a high chase drive.

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So it's likely he'd lose him

to a pheasant or some shit.

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Tilly: Yeah.

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But we've had lots of fun

weaning this week, haven't we?

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Yeah.

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So Bubs is starting to eat a bit

more now, a bit more regularly.

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So we're sort of just

trying little tidbits.

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We're still trying to do an evening

meal together and then sort of,

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she might have like, try a little

snacks with her during the day.

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So she absolutely loves chewing on a

spring onion, which is a pretty strong

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bold flavor, but it's meant to be

quite good for their teething pain.

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She bloody loved a bit of

dried mango, didn't she?

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Dan 1: Yeah, so dried fruits

are brilliant for winning.

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Babies love them.

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But, parents, beware.

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Tilly: just kind of sucks and

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Dan 1: Dried mango especially.

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So, she holds it in her hand,

and she just kind of sucks and

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sucks on it, and gnaws on it.

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So she sucks and gnaws.

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So obviously the gnawing will

be very nice for her teeth.

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And as she gnaws, she'll release lots of

flavor, but she drools at the same time.

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So she starts just rehydrating

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Tilly: start to

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Dan 1: the mango,

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Tilly: with her finger,

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Dan 1: and then it becomes really slimy.

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And so she'll then suck, and she'll suck

it out of her hand, into her throat.

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So you've then just got to be ready

to just plunge in with your finger,

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just try and pull this mango out.

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Yeah.

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Tilly: she's feeding herself just because

for us we think it's more interesting, a

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bit more, you know, different textures.

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I wouldn't want to eat puree all the time

so I see probably baby wouldn't either.

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But we know obviously a lot of parents

get worried when they do this with a

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young baby because there is more risk,

there is a high risk of choking obviously.

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Dan 1: Yeah.

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Tilly: But I think as long as you're

there and watching her it's fine.

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But basically because she

loves dried fruits which I then

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went out with her on Friday.

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I bought like a selection of dried fruits.

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So she's now got big dried pears

which went down really well.

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She loves the dried pears.

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The whole half of the pear dried.

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Fully dried bananas but

not like the crispy ones.

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They're like chewy but they're

whole ones which is quite

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good for her to hold I think.

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They look disgusting.

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They look absolutely minging.

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They look like a dog treat sort of thing.

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So we've not tried them out yet.

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And she's got the apple, like, little

chewy apple rings and that sort of stuff.

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So it's all, it's all

fun and games, isn't it?

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She had a bit of omelette today.

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Maybe we'll try some

Porridge later, but who knows

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Dan 1: can move on to Bwesson, can't she?

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Other

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Tilly: buy some super

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Dan 1: Monshed,

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Tilly: a mass of meat in this house.

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We don't eat masses of meat

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Dan 1: don't think

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Tilly: car meat, pocket meat Obviously

any meat we want to compare with, we want

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to make sure it's like a good quality

and we realize that's you know That's

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a very privileged thing to say like

we're lucky enough to be able to buy a

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good piece of meat every now and again

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Dan 1: can,

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Tilly: Yeah, exactly

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Dan 1: Like if we ate meat for every

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Tilly: We'd have to buy shitty meat Yeah,

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Dan 1: you buy a lot

less, you can buy a lot

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Tilly: yeah, so we found a good

butcher that we're going to go to

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and just get us some like, organic

grass fed, all that sort of stuff.

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Dan 1: Spuffler baby girl?

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Tilly: I was thinking, if it wasn't so

high in salt, something like jerky or

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biltong would be quite nice to chew on.

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Dan 1: Well, we can make it ourselves as a

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Tilly: But it needs salt, doesn't it?

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That's part of the curing process.

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Dan 1: No, I don't

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Tilly: No?

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Dan 1: so.

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No, because the first time I made

it, I didn't, I didn't use any soil.

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I didn't make it very well, I

literally just dried silverside

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Tilly: Maybe we'd look into it then,

because I think that could be quite a

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nice texture again for her to chew on.

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Dan 1: to the liver kings, see

what the fuck he's gonna say.

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Tilly: There's also the

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Dan 1: Do you want some,

do you want some liver?

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Tilly: Dried liver?

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Mmm.

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Fatty would be like, give it to

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Dan 1: Give

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Tilly: me the dried liver!

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Dan 1: liver!

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prostate.

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Tilly: the one thing they do

need from six months is iron.

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Everything else they're still getting

from the breast milk, but the one

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Dan 1: Liver.

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Liver.

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You're going to be a liver baby.

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Tilly: baby.

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Dan 1: baby!

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Tilly: We'll get you, like, dragon

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Dan 1: Liver baby!

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Yeah, you're going to be a liver baby!

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Tilly: you dragon tires.

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We'll get you super tanned.

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Dan 1: Draw on a six pack.

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Tilly: Yeah.

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so yeah, more fun and games.

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Dan 1: Get you on the roids.

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You're

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Tilly: I mean, she's got roids.

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Dan 1: Oh yeah, Brassmelt.

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Double

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Tilly: Growth hormone.

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Pumping it into her

already, don't you worry.

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Oh, I've got a breast which is

like, holding itself up boobies.

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What else this week?

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Has anything happened?

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Oh yeah, she's been sleeping in her

own room, that's quite a big one.

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So, yeah, we've finally got her

like, cot ready and she's at a

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place now we think, oh she's ready

to start moving into her own room.

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So we're now putting her down in her cot

in her room each night, and she's about

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seven ish and she tends to stay there

pretty well, till about nine, half nine.

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Then she needs another feed and

an appetiter, then she tends to

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go down until around two most

nights, but then two onwards.

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Just not having it.

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From two till like we get up at six.

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She doesn't really want to be off here.

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She's much more clingy for

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Dan 1: we don't, we won't spend

as much time settling her.

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Like obviously, up until

nine, we're awake anyway.

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And so we're willing to

sort of, spend half an hour

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getting her into a deep sleep.

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Whereas like, you alright over there?

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Or is it like two in the morning?

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You're not there like, oh, I'll

just stay up for half an hour

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Tilly: Also, I'd ever I don't have much

time Like, concept of time at that point.

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So I don't like looking at

my phone because I don't

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want to have all the screen

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Dan 1: Yeah.

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Tilly: of just going, I

fed her, she's asleep.

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I feel like she's been

asleep for quite a while.

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But she might not have

actually been asleep that long.

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I might have just felt

like a long time, too many.

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Dan 1: Because I've found, like, when

I, some nights, when I take her, if

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I do just wake up, and just go on my

phone for like half an hour, 45 minutes,

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and let her sleep in my arms, It used

to be able to transition into the next

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Tilly: Hmm.

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Dan 1: me.

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Obviously I absolutely fuck my sleep

because then my body is completely

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awake too and I've got to re go through

that kind of, you know, removing the

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blue light from my system process and

stuff like that and it means that you

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have an absolutely shit second half of

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Tilly: Which basically what we

need to do is be better people and

455

like, read a book, wear red light.

456

At that time.

457

Dan 1: to stay awake reading.

458

Tilly: It's actually

459

Dan 1: especially red, like

460

Tilly: to do it on

461

Dan 1: your eyes open

462

Tilly: own than to do

463

Dan 1: You need to just get

up and do some press ups,

464

Tilly: own.

465

You have to just get like, do

some squats and then hold her.

466

Hold her.

467

But just something doesn't quite sit

right with us yet about doing it.

468

I think we're getting to that stage

where we're sort of Yeah, I think we need

469

Dan 1: I think we need to

470

Tilly: that we do it in

471

Dan 1: work out when, because You've

got to accept that, you know, there's

472

going to be a weekend, or a longer, like

a long weekend of pretty shit sleep.

473

And just make sure that we do

it in the way that's least,

474

you know, impinging as it were.

475

Because, like, obviously there's

varying degrees of ignoring.

476

Like, some people just

don't go in the room.

477

Let the baby completely cry and just

like watch them on the monitor and other

478

people will go into the room, look at

the baby, walk straight out, make sure

479

the baby's seen them, then they walk out.

480

Other people will go in, will talk to

the baby, other people will go in, touch

481

the baby, but like, the main rules, don't

pick up the baby, but obviously there

482

are all these other like, steps, that

reassure, but slow your baby's progress.

483

Tilly: Also, I think like,

you know, difference in your

484

baby's cries by this stage.

485

So like the other night when she

woke up, she was making noises

486

and stuff, but she wasn't, she

clearly wasn't in a distress cry.

487

Dan 1: yeah.

488

Tilly: She said, well, and then

sort of, we decided we'd go pick

489

her up anyway after a while.

490

And then I then sort of realized off that

was a mistake done that shoulda left.

491

Dan 1: But that's the other thing,

we probably need to speak to our

492

neighbours, and just be like,

493

Tilly: Yeah, I definitely

think we should do that.

494

We should,

495

Dan 1: we should, yeah, we should

try and speak to them this weekend

496

or next week, and just sort of say

that next weekend, there's going

497

Tilly: You're going to

hear a lot of crying.

498

I apologize.

499

Dan 1: a war on sleep.

500

Tilly: I'd like to know, does that

sort of have another house mobile?

501

Just maybe go to your other house,

502

Dan 1: Yeah, just go to your London

503

Tilly: or put some earplugs in.

504

Dan 1: Yeah.

505

Tilly: And the

506

Dan 1: And the other thing that we've

realised is, we have incredible privilege

507

in that we have a spare bedroom, so.

508

We can divide and conquer, and,

because we've got, you know, she's

509

got two parents, she's lucky enough in

510

Tilly: I will definitely need earplugs

though, because when she's crying

511

downstairs, I can't speak to her.

512

Dan 1: I know, but what I

mean is, one of us can do

513

Tilly: We can tag team each night, yeah.

514

One of us that knows, you know,

515

Dan 1: know, we can work

out how we want to do it.

516

So, because it might, because it might

be that we decide either night on, night

517

off, or we might do, like, The first

part one of us takes because we know

518

she sleeps and then the second part

the other one takes and we switch the

519

next night because it's the second part

that's the issue, it's not the first

520

Tilly: Yeah, yeah.

521

No,

522

Dan 1: 2 and then you were 2 till 8.

523

Tilly: I'd stay, I'd do the

first half of the night.

524

Dan 1: yeah.

525

And I'd get up at 2, 3 in the

526

Tilly: You were struggling to stay

awake late enough, so I'd stay awake.

527

Yeah, I think maybe this week I discuss

with work, is there a point coming up in

528

the next few weeks where I can take like

a Monday, like a Friday and a Monday off?

529

Dan 1: Yeah

530

Tilly: because, Although I could

work, I'm probably not going to be

531

particularly productive on those

532

Dan 1: with your mum taking her on

Thursday night, it's probably best that

533

Tilly: of Sid.

534

So we're going to play this.

535

It's unlikely, I think, that it'll

happen this week because of Sid.

536

Maybe we just need to do

some napping during this as

537

Dan 1: night, obviously, she's going

to be all After the first night, she's

538

going to be really fucking tired.

539

And so, if we can go into it, if we

can farm off the first night I'll just

540

be fucking rejuvenated because she's

not been there so we slept like a log.

541

She comes into it tired, we come

into it fucking fighting fresh.

542

We're winning the battle.

543

But the worry is the wall of attrition.

544

She sleeps during the day, we don't.

545

So she needs to be on the back foot.

546

We're so bad at it, love.

547

And again, it's really hard for us

because she doesn't have any routine.

548

You and I, to go to sleep, we need to do

things, we need to like, set the place

549

up so we can go to sleep, like we need

to go close curtains, we need to, you

550

Tilly: We can sort of make

her sleep at certain times.

551

Like we know when she's getting tired.

552

We said we get okay, she's getting tired.

553

Let's go upstairs, shut the

curtains, we'll get into bed.

554

We could do that

555

Dan 1: Yeah.

556

Tilly: because is normally so we're like,

okay, well let's just get some stuff done.

557

And then like being on the so forth

her or something, I said we could just

558

accept that we're not gonna get, we're

gonna get shit all done for four days.

559

Like, pre made meals.

560

Get it all.

561

Let's set ourselves

562

Dan 1: war on sleep.

563

Tilly: Yeah!

564

Dan 1: As that American

guy likes to call it.

565

Team no sleep!

566

Tilly: on my hand?

567

But that's what we're sort

of gearing up for, isn't it?

568

Come on!

569

But to be fair to her, like, staying

in the room, with one feet in the

570

middle, but from seven till two,

by herself, is still a massive

571

step from what she has been doing.

572

So she's doing really well.

573

Dan 1: Yeah, she's doing great.

574

Tilly: we had a fun bathroom yesterday,

you heard a boy's gone out on Friday.

575

Boi, boi.

576

And

577

Dan 1: doing a party.

578

It's 30.

579

Tilly: really wasn't a girls

night, she went to bed at half

580

six, so it was just me by myself.

581

But, you know, I had a nice takeaway.

582

And she'll

583

Dan 1: without Zolo.

584

Tilly: Yeah.

585

And then she woke up super early, like

five o'clock she was up on a Saturday.

586

So we was like, I was like, cool,

let's get up and clean the bathroom.

587

So we cleaned the bathroom and had

a, and had a bubble bath together.

588

Dan 1: And she drank a lot of that water.

589

Tilly: And not a lot, not a lot.

590

She did it a couple times and I was

like, okay, let's just lift you out a

591

Dan 1: very deep, it was like up

592

Tilly: I forgot how much it

would go up when I got in.

593

So I put her in it and then got

in the bathroom and, oh yeah, I

594

displaced quite a lot of water.

595

But she wasn't in that

seat most of the time.

596

Most of the time she was on me and we

were just playing with the toys together.

597

It was just like when I

was getting her in and out.

598

Dan 1: go in Because the problem was,

599

Tilly: Yeah.

600

So we've also got, I don't know if

you can tell, a hole in the bathroom.

601

We need

602

Dan 1: you'd fill a whole bath when you

actually only needed like A third of it to

603

be, well less, like a quarter of it to be

604

Tilly: So it's

605

Dan 1: And so we've got a cement bucket

now, that's like a 72 litre cement

606

bucket, that we can fill the water in it.

607

And that's better for our hot water,

because we don't actually have enough

608

hot water to fill like a whole bath.

609

I don't really have it on that long.

610

Yeah, you've got to kind of put

the hot water on for like half

611

an hour before you can have

612

Tilly: hot water on.

613

but we had fun still.

614

so yeah.

615

I was pretty tired yesterday,

you were pretty tired after

616

your lads night on the dinner.

617

Dan 1: Yeah,

618

Tilly: And then we had fun

travelling around, seeing

619

Dan 1: families with their ailing pets.

620

Tilly: Yeah, so we helped Aaron

post up, you know, posters.

621

For wee Greg, and then

we went to see your mum.

622

And today we're seeing your auntie.

623

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very much for listening.

624

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625

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626

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627

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629

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630

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633

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636

Cheers.

637

Enjoy the rest of the episode

638

Tilly: She said some weird poos.

639

Let's just chat about her scats.

640

I think that's enough.

641

Dan 1: okay.

642

We'll have to try and, we'll

have to work hard to try

643

Tilly: I mean, we can talk

about how gross they were.

644

That's fucking

entertaining, quite frankly.

645

Skiddly

646

Dan 1: a good scat chat.

647

Tilly: up, bah, scat Do you

648

Dan 1: being on shared parental leave, i.

649

e.

650

me being the primary caregiver,

not the sole, as I keep saying,

651

Tilly: the day most

652

Dan 1: with my

653

Tilly: I

654

Dan 1: I feed her, Um, Um, I, I

655

Tilly: Sorry, if you don't see my arm

moving up and down, it's because I'm

656

waving a blanket to try and entertain, so.

657

I'm,

658

Dan 1: I'm, I'm really bad at trying to

multitask, I need to just be focusing

659

on one thing at a time, because I

like to give things my undivided

660

attention, while my wife just waves

a blanket and tries to listen to me.

661

Tilly: I can do these things.

662

I'm a woman.

663

And,

664

Dan 1: so I had the, the little

things that I do still do is I've,

665

I've got a like call for a sort of

startup thing that I'm involved in

666

and that just happens once a week.

667

And so I was on this call on a

668

Tilly: video.

669

We

670

Dan 1: we were talking about something,

and it was something that actually, that

671

kind of required my input, and I just

had, and then I just heard this Pfft,

672

Tilly: couldn't believe it.

673

And just watched the face flick.

674

Which

675

Dan 1: and she just kind of

676

Tilly: isn't it?

677

And then I was

678

Dan 1: then I was like, oh

fuck, she hadn't pooed for,

679

Tilly: or?

680

Dan 1: yeah, I think it had been a

while, I think we were approaching

681

the day and a half point.

682

Tilly: game.

683

Uh, so I just

684

Dan 1: And so I just had to quickly

kind of go on mute, spin my laptop

685

somewhat, so they could see my body.

686

But they obviously couldn't

see what I was doing.

687

And so, she managed to have a full

blown poo splosion where it came

688

out the front and out the back.

689

Tilly: I opened

690

Dan 1: then when I opened it up,

691

Tilly: a piece

692

Dan 1: it looked like fucking sagaloo.

693

It was because, with her weaning,

she's eating all these sorts of

694

weird things, like, with skins

695

Tilly: she can't digest

696

Dan 1: pear, she'll eat And she can't

digest the skins, because she can't chew.

697

So she doesn't chew these

698

Tilly: of skin down.

699

Dan 1: Yeah, and so it looks like

sort of that boiled spinach kind

700

of stuff, so it looks like she'd

done a big shitty sagaloon in

701

Tilly: she had quite a few of them.

702

She did one the other day.

703

It was when you were doing your creme

brulee, and you gave it to her and

704

you didn't realise she'd done a poo.

705

So I was giving her a few and

I was like, You're stinky.

706

Dan 1: yeah

707

Tilly: And the night was like, Oh, okay.

708

And it was all, after she'd

given us a mashed blueberries

709

the day before or something.

710

So it was just full of all It was

just her really roughagey, nappy, Like

711

sort of like lots of like What was it?

712

Like dark green piss, like liquid

that's soaked into her nappy.

713

And then just loads of like roughage,

like fallen leaves in her nappy.

714

And it's all bitty and stuck to her arse.

715

Dan 1: know.

716

Tilly: well.

717

Yeah, and,

718

Dan 1: Yeah, it looks like, it

also looks a bit like, did you ever

719

play on AstroTurf as a teenager?

720

Tilly: Yeah, come on, darling.

721

At school, the big thing

722

Dan 1: schools, it was a big thing

obviously when we were teenagers, they

723

were creating AstroTurf everywhere.

724

Tilly: No, we had real grass.

725

Dan 1: Weird real grass,

726

Tilly: And I didn't play any

ball sports, so why else would

727

it be on the browser anyway?

728

This

729

Dan 1: we managed to pitch the

council, all this sort of stuff.

730

And so we then ended up partnering with

Wiccan Wanderers to be their sort of

731

Tilly: is boring, just carry on.

732

Dan 1: Anyway, but, it has

those little rubbery bits.

733

And it also had sand in, so it was like

fake grass, with like rubbery bits,

734

so it would move like soil under its

735

Tilly: the sand

736

Dan 1: so that the rubber would move.

737

And that used to, like, get in

your socks, and if you're wearing

738

shorts, you'd find it in your boxes.

739

Not just, not just the sand, but also the

rubber pellets, like tiny rubber pellets.

740

That's like it is wiping her nap.

741

You'll just wipe, and there'll be,

like, little clumps of, like, little

742

brown and black balls, whereas

it used to just be pure liquid.

743

Now it's like, it's like,

it's like grit in her shit.

744

Tilly: Also what I found happening

now, she isn't technically, but we feed

745

her, she gets like a messy mouth and

sometimes I just put a straw on the

746

boob because what she wants afterwards,

and I just get that on my boob.

747

Dan 1: Which is get

748

Tilly: Just smeared food on my boob.

749

Yeah.

750

But then sometimes like she had

the dried pair and obviously

751

that's quite sticky on her face.

752

Dan 1: Stick it today

753

Tilly: then also like then fluff sticks.

754

She came on, she was just

like, like fluffy beard.

755

Dan 1: Just know what was it called?

756

Tilly: Yeah, a little goatee.

757

Dan 1: they'll go

758

Tilly: was like a little pear

juice and top fluff goatee.

759

With a little bit of dog hair

in it as well for good measure.

760

Dan 1: to

761

Tilly: Oh yeah.

762

Dan 1: what we haven't talked

about Okay, I've dropped my

763

low a bit late in the game.

764

Dead

765

Tilly: Ugh, you've heard

about our rat problem.

766

You know, we thought finally

we'd got on top of it.

767

Then the other day I was like, our

house is smelling fucking funky.

768

And I was like, and you were like, you

didn't notice it for a little while.

769

I

770

Dan 1: that there was some sort of

771

Tilly: like, is it the food bin?

772

Dan 1: just willing to move on.

773

I was like,

774

Tilly: then it got, Um, but it got worse.

775

And then I was opening up our like,

Tupperware cupboard, we've all got.

776

Dan 1: me while you tell the story?

777

Matadors!

778

Tilly: and so I found a couple of

those, like, bull What are they called?

779

What are the bull people called?

780

That's what they are.

781

But, obviously, wrong colour.

782

Dan 1: I was like, ah,

783

Tilly: it up and I was like, that

cupboard is honky, and there's

784

no food in that cupboard, so it

shouldn't be a cupboard that smells.

785

Dan 1: be

786

Tilly: And then other, like, I call them

our downstairs cupboards, so there's

787

the cupboards that are on the bottom.

788

Also smell, and I was like, there's

nothing in here that would go off.

789

I was like, fuck it,

it's a fucking dead rat.

790

Dan 1: I

791

Tilly: Ugh.

792

Gross.

793

But tell them you're a genius

way of getting rid of it,

794

which makes me go, bleh!

795

So I need to speak to

more viewers, actually.

796

I was looking at ways to get rid of it.

797

So, basically, I then tried to

dig out, but this was my issue.

798

So when I first consulted with

the, the, the male role model that

799

Dan 1: With the male role

models within our family circle.

800

The advice I got was either to

cement holes, or to put poison down.

801

I meant to cement the holes, I

never got around to it, because

802

Tilly: And

803

Dan 1: Yep.

804

And or put, and then poison them.

805

So I was meant to

806

Tilly: do both.

807

Dan 1: do both.

808

Now, my main rebuttal to

the poison was, But won't

809

Tilly: both in

810

Dan 1: in our house

811

Tilly: And

812

Dan 1: the person just sort of

said Oh, no, don't worry about it.

813

It'll run off and die somewhere else.

814

I was like, no, but they live under

our house We found the holes that are

815

buried under our house and we just

kind of didn't really come up with

816

anything better Well, I tried to buy

rat traps, but they're incredibly

817

sensitive and just keep going off

818

Tilly: Those that got chewed

through one of our rat traps.

819

Dan 1: But it was a mouse

trap so it wasn't big enough.

820

So they're just kind of chewed

through to reach the bait

821

Tilly: bait.

822

And,

823

Dan 1: So, I keep putting this

poison down, and they love

824

it, they eat so fucking much

825

Tilly: So fucking much love.

826

But eventually Yeah, there

827

Dan 1: There was a lot of them.

828

We knew that they were eventually going

to die somewhere, and unfortunately,

829

Tilly: I

830

Dan 1: thought that underneath

our, I don't know what the floor

831

is in our kitchen extension,

832

Tilly: so

833

Dan 1: So, they've managed to, uh,

Burrow underneath, I don't think it's

834

for, I don't know what it is, and

then you've died under the kitchen

835

floor And so we can't reach it

836

Tilly: to extract them, and other

837

Dan 1: So most people are like, oh just

try and extract it, and then other people

838

are like, oh just turn the heating up

And have a really smelly house for a bit

839

Tilly: What's going on holiday?

840

I

841

Dan 1: whole holiday,

and we're not even there.

842

This is atrocious!

843

And then I came up with a more ingenious

solution, which is Pour maggots down

844

Tilly: really not, I'm really just not.

845

The one thing that makes me

just, my skin go UGHH is maggots,

846

anything sort of maggoty grubby,

it just makes me feel like UGHH, So

847

Dan 1: go to a bait shop,

848

Tilly: where all the maggots are

849

Dan 1: pour the maggots down the

hole because I can't reach there.

850

But maggots are really good at smelling

out like rotting flesh and then all

851

just nest in there and turn to fly.

852

Then people are like, oh well then

you're gonna have a fly problem.

853

No, I can seal the cupboards and I

can put loads of fly traps in there

854

or I can just try and cover the hole.

855

And so what happens.

856

The maggots will eat all the dead rat,

they'll turn into flies, they'll fly

857

up into the cowboy, and then they'll

stick to those and like, fuck it,

858

I'll put a zapper in there, and I can

just keep, bzz bzz bzz, and then all

859

Tilly: I

860

Dan 1: die,

861

Tilly: 5 5, and

862

Dan 1: and then that solves the problem.

863

Tilly: I don't know, I'm very curious.

864

I don't

865

Dan 1: I'm very dubious to this, I hope

they're an actual breed, I don't want

866

to bring in GM maggots into my house.

867

Who knows what that'll

868

Tilly: GM maggots.

869

I don't know how to do GM maggots.

870

I don't know how to do GM maggots.

871

I'm sure you

872

Dan 1: Sure, you'd prefer

flies to maggots, though.

873

My solution, they end

up turning into flies.

874

His solution, you will always potentially

have maggots underneath your house.

875

Yeah,

876

Tilly: I don't like

either solution, darling.

877

Dan 1: they're genetically

modified, so they might

878

Tilly: How do you know?

879

You don't know that you're receiving

880

Dan 1: year old maggots.

881

They just live there.

882

They crawl under your kitchen.

883

Tilly: Like cockroaches.

884

Dan 1: It'll be a bit like that woman.

885

The woman who ate a fly.

886

Tilly: Oh god, or they end up

growing to the size of a dog.

887

We have like massive

maggots under our house.

888

A

889

Dan 1: woman who ate a fly, and

then she ate a bird to eat the

890

Tilly: proud of.

891

Just how it goes.

892

How

893

Dan 1: How does it go?

894

Go on, then.

895

Go on,

896

Tilly: then.

897

Go

898

Dan 1: Go on, then.

899

Tilly: There wasn't a

woman who swallowed a fly.

900

I don't know why she swallowed a fly.

901

Perhaps she'll die.

902

Dan 1: Perhaps she'll die.

903

Tilly: And

904

Dan 1: basically to kill the

905

Tilly: She swallowed the

spider to eat the fly.

906

Brickle and tickle and

tickle and slide her.

907

I don't know why she swallowed the fly.

908

Perhaps she'll die.

909

And then it carries on and on

until she eats like a fucking cow.

910

Cow with a lonely

911

Dan 1: Because cows are

known for being predators.

912

Okay,

913

Tilly: and then he came across

this like Family of vampires, but

914

they didn't eat people anymore.

915

They used to like live off cow blood

So they didn't eat people but then the

916

cows became vampire cows and you see

these like cows floating through the air

917

of like Vampire teeth and glowing red

eyes I think it was called little, yeah,

918

Dan 1: a dream you had.

919

Tilly: no, it's not it's a film Back

me up people comment what it's called.

920

He was an American guy who came to

England There's a little American kid

921

who got moved to England, I think.

922

And they came across, like,

this old vampire family.

923

And they were like, they

were good guys, but they were

924

vampires, they didn't eat people.

925

Dan 1: Vampires are always in the Midwest.

926

Everyone knows this.

927

The US has a real

vampire from the Midwest.

928

Trump supporters and vampires.

929

That's all who live there.

930

Tilly: think they went to Cornwall.

931

I don't know, but I

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Dan 1: be fair, yeah, Cornwall.

933

I love Cornwall, I'm from Cornwall,

but it's pretty fucking remote.

934

That's probably why there's no

trains or anything there, because the

935

vampires have been lobbying for it.

936

You wanna get here within five hours?

937

No.

938

Tilly: I feel like it's a lot

939

Dan 1: That's true.

940

Tilly: sunlight.

941

Dan 1: they're probably on

the Isle of Skye or something.

942

They're up in,

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Tilly: it's dark for half a year.

944

Dan 1: they probably live in Shetland.

945

Tilly: cups.

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But can you imagine

947

Dan 1: Fluffy cows are hard as a bite.

948

Tilly: a vampire highland coup?

949

Okay.

950

No,

951

Dan 1: what else did I want to talk about?

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I think that was it.

953

Okay.

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Did we have anything?

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There was something that was

on my mind, but never mind.

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Yeah, so, I think that might

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Tilly: Alright.

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So, stay tuned for more

ramblings next week.

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Adios

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Hi, my lovelies.

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