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

Hello hello hello. How are you doing?

It's great to be back for my big summer break. Did you notice anything different?

Yeah, the theme tune has changed. I loved the original theme, but it was seven years old and I've been thinking about giving it a refresh for ages and I finally bit the bullet over the summer and I'm loving the hip-hop and R&B vibe which just gives me another excuse to have a bit of a dance.

Aside from all of that, what else has been going on? Well, I turned 45 in July Jesus I can't believe I'm halfway

through my 40s and we so myself and my daughters went to Amsterdam for a week to hang out with my brother which was

brilliant and we also got to go to Amsterdam Pride for the first time we came

back and my mother-in-law had arrived from Sierra Leone and she was here for six weeks and actually

I had a really good time with her. A lot has changed and not that we didn't have a good time before but it was great to see how

chill my inner people pleaser was during this time. We also went to Jamaica for

about 11 days at the end of the summer for our friends 50 of birthday

celebrations it was epic on the way back we missed a Connect and flight in. We were actually sat in the lounge when it happened.

There was an error with the, I don't know, with the computer or something because it basically just wasn't displaying our gate for our particular flight.

So we ended up spending basically a day in America. We had to stay overnight in Miami.

Kids were delighted. They got to go to Target.

And that was, I actually think that might have been the highlights of their trip.

The summer was epic, although I would admit that I am a little bit pooped. I think it's just, yeah, it was a lot to do and then we got back and it was straight into back to school.

And unfortunately, there's been a couple of bereavement, like I've been to two funerals over the past week

Never mind of course there's been a lot going on here in England in terms of for instance like the old Queen passed away

So just I don't know something in water, something in the energy of things.

And of course, there were so many other things going on in the world at the moment.

So yeah, things have felt a bit heavy.

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