I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello hello hello.

Guess what? You are listening to 41 year old NAD, yes? The day after the last episode came out, I turned 41. You may recall if you were listening this time

last year that I went to Paris for my 40th birthday with my husband M. I

wanted something a bit more low-key. He surprised me with that trip and it was brilliant.

And this year obviously we didn't go away, but he did surprise me again actually because I thought I was going to dinner with him and our best

pal our eldest daughter's godfather and another one of our friends and when I arrived at the restaurant I did a double

take because I saw my friend and her boyfriend who I thought were away for the

weekend and so I was like, oh my gosh,

that this is an amazing surprise.

And so I was a bit kind of blown away

and we sat there and I looked out at the window.

I see another friend of mine

and her sister walk in by.

Honestly I felt so confused and yeah he'd arranged for a few of my friends to basically

come out and join us for dinner and it was lovely. I realized that I hadn't

done the whole like celebrating with friends on my birthday for a few years.

I kind of been in a bit of a not wanting to do anything major for my birthday for the last few years. not something that kind of reminds me a bit of well not old nap but things I used to do like just I don't know being a bit more

I had no chilled out and partying with with friends on my birthday we had a great laugh a lot of belly laughs a lot of dirty, a lot of belly laughs, a lot of dirty laughs, a lot of silly stories, and we then went on to a bar, a couple of doors down.

Anybody who's a Londoner from around Quroydon and it turns out that there are a fair amount of

listeners and readers from Croydon because I make references to Box Park, you know,

this place that's made of, it's a place that's got all these sort of

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