Welcome to the fringe of it. Episode number two. Come on in, take your shoes off. We're going to get you a cup of tea. I'm Charlotte Jacqueline. Across the table from me is Liv Purvis. And this is our podcast. How are you this week, Liv?

I'm good, thank you. I'm excited to be recording our second episode. Me too. I can't believe we're doing it. I know. I know. I follow every episode, we're going, we've spoken about this for a long time. People go, okay, that's part of the intro now, isn't it? Yeah, it's like we know. We know you've been away for a while.

I just want to talk about what happened to me on the way here. Okay, that's part of the intro now, isn't it? Yeah, it's like we know, we know you've been away for a while.

I just want to talk about what happened to me on the way here. Oh my goodness. On the bus.

What happened?

So I was on the bus, mind in my own business,

and I was so engrossed in writing my notes for the show,

which obviously I'd already done.

I was just, you know, making them extra good.

And I got to your bus stop,

and I realized I hadn't got off the, you know, hadn't pressed the button, hadn't done anything. So I kind of flailed and the lady next to me found it quite funny. And she was like, ha. And I was like, I know, silly me. And we were having like banter. And it was all all very lovely and I was like oh interaction with a stranger

how nice anyway then I was waiting to to alight the bus is a light when you get off um

I was waiting to get off the bus it sounds right but I couldn't who knows I was waiting to get off

the bus and there was a lady in front of me. Anyway, she dropped a bouquet of flowers on the

four from Marks and Spencers nonetheless. And I said, oh, here you go, you've dropped your flowers.

And I thought she was going to turn around and be like, oh, thanks very much. Do you know what she said to me?

What? It's your fault. In seriousness? Yeah. Full on, like, not, no, like, not an inch of sarcasm about it. You're joking. I know, can you believe that? I thought you were going to say she was going to give them to you and say, you have them. I was, you know, because me and the other lady had had such a rapport about me kind of almost missing my stop. And then I thought, oh, you know, I'm going to help this lady and give her a bouquet of flowers because, you know, she was struggling with her flower bag. She turned her at your, your fault. What did you say? Nothing. I just kind of looked at her, but she, she wasn't looking at me and then I just walked off. Was she, like, your fault. I was going to ask how old she was but then I was like actually... None of it's relevant. I was going to say, I was like, man has no age. I know. I've had run-ins with strangers before. But it's kind of been warranted. Do you know what I mean? But that... That's really rude. You nearly lost your flowers. They won't have been cheap from Marks and Spencers. Nearly lost them to the automatic doors. I bet you wanted to snatch them and then like give them like a cartoon hits all the petals came on. Yeah, like Charlotte's Sex and the City where she like hits big with the bouquet. And I would have been done for assault. So I thought it best not. What does she say to big when she does that there's people

screaming at the podcast the day you were born and the finger and the finger and the kind of like

really aggressive finger point you should do the Charlotte such I feel like that's a really good

impression but no one can see what I'm doing so good should I take. Should I take, I feel like I need to take a quick photo to accompany. Please. Are you ready? Yeah. That's brilliant. So if you, we'll share that image somewhere, maybe on the fringe of it, Instagram so you can see the visuals to accompany. Please. How has your week been? Oh,. Quite good. I had a bit of a wobbly week where I just felt very highly strong last week, if I'm being honest. And I can't not be honest. But last weekend, I had a very wholesome weekend. What did you do? Well, on Friday, so my friend Lucy, it was her birthday over the weekend.

On Friday we went out to a place in South London called Paper Stories.

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