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

Hello hello.

How are you doing?

I'm sipping tea just as I'm leaning into recording this episode.

It is very early and dark here. I planned for a different episode to be coming out today and it is going to be coming out so yay something's already recorded up ahead in fact for the next couple of weeks

but a combination of factors

meant that I decided that I wanted to have something different

come out. Part of it is that actually I just needed to spend a bit more time on those episodes and I also I fell down the

stairs yesterday before you're thinking oh my gosh no I didn't fall from the top but it was one of those

ones where you slip down the last few steps I was wearing these really big woolly socks

because it's been really cold this last few days and so I've been wearing them in these

boots I use to walk Chester in the park which tends to be extremely muddy first

thing in the morning and I was carrying a big IKEA bag full of laundry

downstairs and the last three steps I slipped and you know that thing you know where

you realize you're slipping and you just automatically you know throw your limbs out to steady yourself and so I felt my arm you know my left

did this really really big sort of wrench and so normally as I am

starting to record the show I will admit that I kind of do a little bit of a shuffle

you know my seed my little chair dance and I could barely even do that today so I am

actually going to go and get it checked out in a few hours but I think the

combination of that so just not sort of really being in the space to sort of

do all the stuff I need to do for the previous episode and also just feeling a little bit

pooped but also actually I was at a conference last week called 2020 Sorted and I was there as a speaker and I'm pretty

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