Beat the Christmas frazzle with Fi Glover & Jane Garvey
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In a Postcards x Fortunately podcast mash up, Lorraine and Trish meet their podcasting doppelgangers for a Christmas special in which they work out why it’s always down to midlife women to make the big day happen and how to put less pressure on ourselves in the process.
Plus: When presents go wrong and a nostalgic reminder of the worst Christmas Number One ever
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| 0:00.0 | Rain, have a look at these. What have you got for me? What are they, Trish? I'm not sure I like that. |
| 0:06.4 | What is it? These are Shotgun cartridge festive lights. Oh my goodness. Yes, so they are red and green |
| 0:16.0 | empty Shotgun cartridges all strong as Christmas lights and guess who? Oh not Neil. |
| 0:23.8 | Where did he get those for God's sake? On the internet, he found them, he searched them up |
| 0:29.4 | and thought they're the most genius thing ever. And this is his contribution to our Christmas |
| 0:34.2 | decoration scheme. Do you think he searched them up thinking, I know what Trish would like? |
| 0:39.3 | You would like some Christmas lights for the tree that look like Shotgun cartridges. |
| 0:44.1 | But yeah, this is her long heritage. Exactly. |
| 0:46.1 | That killing things in the garden. Exactly. Can I say they aren't just looking like Shotgun? |
| 0:50.8 | They actually are. So they are empty-used Shotgun cartridges. I often wonder how you two found each |
| 0:57.2 | other Trish sometimes. It's a bit of a mystery. It is a mystery. Yes. Anyway, you two say they won't |
| 1:05.2 | be going anywhere near the Christmas tree or anywhere in the rest of the house. There's a very small room |
| 1:10.8 | that has the boiler in it and some of his toolkit and I think they might be going in there. |
| 1:14.8 | Well, I think we might find him wrapped up tied up with them in there, don't you? |
| 1:27.7 | Welcome to this special Christmas edition of Postcards from Midlife. We hope you like this |
| 1:43.6 | Slaybell Special Effects. We haven't spared any expense on producing this episode. I can assure you. |
| 1:49.2 | So we are less than a week away from the magical day Lorraine. Are you feeling in a festive mood? |
| 1:54.0 | Well, I am Trish. I am because I've been having my mince pies breakfast because you know, |
| 1:58.5 | I like a mince pie. I'll have my kefir yogurt, though. My festive celebrations, Trish, |
| 2:04.9 | and you're bored of this by now. I know. Is I managed to contract the COVID? Yes, you have. |
| 2:11.3 | My relatives refer to it, which I got from my teenage son. She must have got at school, I think. |
| 2:17.9 | Now he's fine, though, because he's in isolation in the basement. He's just playing FIFA |
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