Anna Whitehouse on exhaustion, childcare costs and Flex Appeal

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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As we limp into the end of the summer holidays, Anna opens up about the exhaustion of papering over the childcare cracks and how flexible working can help. Polly goes into Paxman interviewing mode to dig deep on Flex Appeal, a campaign close to her best mate’s heart. And how the Flexible Working Bill will impact you.

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:10.0	Welcome to this episode of Dirty Mother Pucker.
0:18.4	I'm Anna White House, your host, and it's her over there.
0:21.7	Back to her, Polly Hazelwood in the house. Thanks very much.
0:25.5	Owning it. I can barely speak. Have you noticed how deep my voice is?
0:31.7	Do you know what? I'm enjoying it. I think it's another layer of sexiness.
0:37.3	Is it? Yeah. I'm not going to lie. If you look in the mirror or I look in the mirror, it ain't sexy, it ain't pretty.
0:42.9	No. To be fair, it has got worse around the day. When you first turned up, I was like, oh, sex kitten. Yes, please.
0:48.0	Well, I look worse.
0:49.5	Well, I wasn't going to say that. I was going to say the voice.
0:53.0	No, the voice. The voice.
0:54.9	We did just have a moment in the other studio where you asked me how your hair looked.
0:59.4	And there was a pause.
1:03.1	There was a definite pause.
1:05.4	It just feels like I've got tonsillitis.
1:08.0	And it feels like the sort of thing you get when you're snogging boys age 13, not something
1:13.3	an exhausted 42-year-old mother of two should be getting.
1:17.2	What, glandular fever?
1:18.6	I have not got glandular fever.
1:20.7	Have you got glandular fever? I hate that word. It's so like, it's like moist.
1:24.8	Oh, glan. Glan. Flange.
1:28.7	So this episode is going to be slightly different to usual because, to be honest, I think
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