Ep 329. The one with the holiday anxiety
Older and Wider Podcast
Older and Wider Podcast
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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On this week's podcast Judith shares her anxieties about going on holiday and she reveals something she overheard in Waitrose! Jenny has been busy with her art supplies as well as Arlo's new dance class and a day out in Ealing.
There's a big dollop of culture plus some brilliants emails from the OWLS.
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| 0:00.0 | That's her, that's the introduction to our podcast and it has been now for a number of years. |
| 0:08.6 | We'd like to say hello and good day to our regular listeners. |
| 0:13.9 | But if there are any newbies, where the fuck have you lot been, eh? |
| 0:17.5 | Well, I think we do. Have a few newbie listeners. |
| 0:20.6 | People that have recently found us. Fresh ears. Fresh ears. Nice, nice. Okay, well, we'll drip some poisoning. We'll have some bitching. We'll have some gossip. We'll have some culture corner. We'll have some of your emails. We are recorded. Excuse me. Is that a burp or a hiccalf? Well, I'd say it was a little sort of, it was a twinge of acid reflux. Okay. I've just had my breakfast and I did gulp it down. What do you have? What do you have? I had what I have every day, Judith. It's one of my meals that you sort of raise an eyebrow at. It's a piece of granary toast. Hold on. Has he got cream cheese in it? Has it got mayonnaise? |
| 0:58.4 | Granary toast with cream cheese on, a smear of marmite, hard-boiled egg, a little bit of salad dressing, a lot of salt and pepper and a little bit of mayonnaise. That's what I have most more meals. |
| 1:09.1 | It's a very peculiar breakfast if I may say |
| 1:12.2 | so but each to his own marvellous each to their own and you you're on your um no carbs free |
| 1:19.4 | yes I am I am I mean so what did you have for your breakfast well that's it's interesting isn't it |
| 1:24.5 | up to a point it's interesting um I had a banana yes I know there know there are carbs in it, but you know, I've got to have something to keep you going. |
| 1:32.3 | Exactly. Greek yogurt, apparently it's got protein in it and some kiwis and some blueberries. It's all right. Okay, yeah. There's nothing really of substance in there, is there? |
| 1:45.1 | No, no. |
| 1:45.9 | I'm missing bread. |
| 1:48.1 | But I'm all right. |
| 1:49.2 | I'm okay, but I'm missing bread. |
| 1:51.2 | I only have one slice of bread a day, but I would miss it. |
| 1:56.0 | I don't know what I'd put. |
| 1:57.1 | I suppose I could have a crisp bread. |
| 1:58.8 | I don't know. |
| 1:59.5 | I find that that your, your breakfast |
| 2:01.8 | sounds a little bit lacking. That's all I'm going to say to you. But I mean, it sounds great, |
| 2:09.3 | but you need a great handful of nutty musley on the top. Well, the bridge will be open. I'll |
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