Hi, I'm Charlotte Jacqueline of Betty.

And I'm Liv Purvis of what Olivia did.

And together we are the fringe of it.

The Fringe Bit.

I'm glad that we did that together.

I was a bit worried we weren't going to be able to do it at the same time.

Every week we do it in time and every week I'm just, I'm like, yes. But you've come to South London today. I have, and the weather's really nice. I got up a little bit early than normal so that I could get here first in the morning so we could get on and I dressed all wrong. I know, it's a little bit fresh outside but it's a gorgeous of journey. I think we're edging into summer now. Can we say that yet?

No, not yet. My birthday's on Sunday and I remember like growing up there was, you know, the birthday parties were always risky. It was like, are we outdoors? Are we indoors? Yeah. Sometimes you get heat wave or the times you get downpour. And people would say, oh, she's a spring baby. Yeah, yeah. So not yet. June. We have to wait until June. Okay, well, it feels like you. We've got the big old royal wedding this weekend. I am so excited about the royal wedding. I thought it wasn't being televised, but apparently it is. Oh, is it? I've checked the radio times. Not only on BBC, but ITV. Oh, oh, I should have just come to you. I know. That's the thing. By the time this goes up, the wedding will have happened as well. Well, I've not really surrounded myself with too much wedding chat, so I'm excited for it. I don't feel like I'm exhausted yet. I'm not exhausted, but I'm very excited. I well obviously just want to see what

what they're both wearing. I can't wait till next week when we have a full debrief on the whole

yes go. Let's save it until then. So this week is our unlucky for some 13th episodes. I hope

that's not tainted it. This week's podcast, just to warn you, and we do briefly

discuss abortion and also touch upon murder as well. So I just wanted to give you fair warning

in case anybody is affected by that and would rather skip it. So just skip the TV chat, I think,

or the catch-up. But hopefully, I feel it was something that I wanted to

discuss, so hopefully you think it's within context. Yeah, I think it is in context, and it's

important to discuss it also. Yeah, definitely. So, let's get on with this week's episode.

Welcome to the fringe of it. Episode number 13.

How you been, Liv? How's your week been? Oh, it's been lovely. I've been in Italy. Whereabouts? South Tural. Where is that in the boots? Oh, in the boot, it's definitely, but it's the knee high bit. Oh, right. Okay, interesting. I've not been to the knee high bit. Yeah, then... Is it over the knee or is it kind of, is it thigh high? Oh, it's above the knee for sure. Oh right, okay. But yeah, no, it's on the, uh, the Austrian, well, near to Austria. It's very, very north of Italy. Kind of when we started, it was more very Mediterranean and we kind of ended in like the border of Austria, which is very alpine. Italy definitely has regions, doesn't't it? Like I've been to Florence, Tuscany. Have I been here anywhere else? But, you know, they were so vastly different. Yeah, it's got lots of very charming pockets. Oh no, it's beautiful, very green, very full of pasta. Quite rainy, I thought. It was a little bit rainy. I thought, you know, being the generous person person I am I'd leave the weather in the UK and that's exactly what I did that's nice of you

you're welcome what pasta did you have the pasta in Italy oh my goodness I've eaten a lot of

pasta so I had um a tomato like barata very like the madoro you know safe bet oh you've mentioned the B word all I want is barata. Very like, El Dorado, you know, safe bet.

Oh, you've mentioned the B word.

All I want is barata.

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