Hello and welcome to Life with Nat. Happy New Year everybody. I'm joined by my brother Tony. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, Nat. How you joined by my brother, Tony. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year, Nat.

How you doing?

Yeah, not so bad. Funny old day, really, isn't it? New Year's Day. Yeah, a bit of a nothing day, isn't it? A little bit. Yeah. And always, because his dad's birthday as well. Just always a little bit. Yeah, well, that was the only thing that was good about it was... Yeah.

But other than that, it's sort of just waiting to go back to work, though, really, I'll find. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's obviously got a double meaning for us with Dad not being around anymore. Of course, of course. But I've never really been a fan of New Year's Eve. No, me never, ever, ever, ever.

Never, never been excited about it or Christmas Eve, I can understand it. You know, Christmas,

brilliant, New Year, can't start. It goes back for me when I was a kid. Because I said,

I've mentioned to you to you before when we did the lot, you know, one of live shows and I said that

we always used to seem to have death and destruction in our house around Christmas. It probably wasn't. It might have been October, November. And so when I was growing up, it almost seemed like every new year, it was we were mourning a great uncle or an uncle or an aunt or this one or that one or a granddad.

It probably wasn't like that, but that's how it felt. It felt like it. Mum was never a New Year person. No. Never a go-or-outer or never had parties and all that sort of stuff. And I think that just sticks with you, really. Yeah, I just haven't. Never got into the swing of it, really. Well, when, so then you used to go out, didn't you know, when you was 16, 17, 18, never had a good new year ever. No, agreed. Overpriced with a load of people you don't really want to be with. You're trying to get home. You can't get home. Strangers hugging you. Oh, don't. Terrible. Terrible. No. I think it's contrived. I think a lot of it is... I think New Year in Scotland might be quite nice because I think I just feel they'd probably do it a bit better than we do. I might be wrong. Yes. I just don't think you can beat watching Jules. Hootenny. No. Jules on the telly.

Exactly.

Glass of champagne.

That's what we do.

Yeah.

Watch the bells.

Watch the fireworks. Go bed. You've got a window on my world there. That is it. You've just described my New Year's Eve, basically. But for people who do love it, I hope you're listening with a bit of a hangover, having had a fantastic New Year's Eve.

Listen, some people absolutely love it.

I understand that, but it's just not for me.

It's not that I don't look forward to a new year.

I think it's lovely to start fresh.

I quite enjoy that feeling of sort of new starts, new diary, crisp pages, what's going to happen?

I quite like that.

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