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Postcards From Midlife

9 Game changing household gadgets you didn't know you needed

Postcards From Midlife

Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin

Health & Fitness, Unknown, 579985, Culture, Mental Health, Perimenopause, Women, Relationships, Midlife Women, Fitness, Midlife, Lifestyle, Health, Menopause, Nutrition, Parenting, Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Kids & Family

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

With 30 years of lifestyle journalism behind them and 6 children between them Lorraine & Trish identify the 9 household gadgets that have changed their domestic and family life. One of them costs under £2, another will give you the freshest breath ever and one is the best hair gadget ever invented. 

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0:00.0

Let me tell you one thing my mom doesn't know. It was my red sock that found its way into the washing machine and turned a white t-shirt vibrant pink.

0:08.0

Sorry, mom.

0:10.0

We've all got something we haven't told our parents or grandparents, as sometimes it's just easier that way.

0:15.6

But here's something you really do need to let them know.

0:18.6

Thousands of people over the age of 66 are missing out on pension credit, worth on average £3,900 a year.

0:26.0

Plus they could also be entitled to the Winter Fuel Payment or the equivalent in Scotland if they

0:31.5

apply by December 21st. Help a family member or

0:35.0

friend check their eligibility by searching pension credit on Gov. UK. Hello lovely listeners we're back for our midweek episode now Trish

0:55.9

you've been doing something a little bit glamorous this week you've stopped watching

1:00.4

escape to the country reruns at home on your sofa, eating your homemade soup.

1:05.2

You've been out and about, haven't you? Yes, I ventured out. I decided to accept an invitation to just say yes to something

1:12.1

and to go out in the evening. I mean we don't like going out on a choosing evening, but I did it and the reason I did it was because it was for a media preview screening of the substance, you know, the new film with

1:24.5

de me, I think she calls herself de me more and Theresa I wanted to go was because

1:31.0

we've been talking about this film haven't we because we've been very

1:33.8

intrigued by it because yeah it's about aging it's a horror it's a horror I mean I can't even

1:39.5

describe a sort of camp horror isn't it is quite it's unusual it's a camp

1:44.7

grisly but also hysterical

1:48.3

hysterical horror film you see Demi de me aging in it and it's this packed she makes she's this kind of fading Hollywood star

1:56.2

And this packed she makes with some weird medical thing to have a younger version of herself and they live alternate lives, you know, one week on one week off.

2:05.2

And they're just horrible and this whole thing around how we look at ourselves in mirrors and how,

2:11.5

what we say to ourselves internally I think is will really

2:14.8

resonate for a lot of us women but it is bonkers just send that laryn it's bonkers

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