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Natalie Cassidy's 'Life with Nat'

EP188: Book Club #5 - All Together for Christmas by Sarah Morgan & A Heart for Christmas: Advent Romance by Sophie Jomain

Natalie Cassidy's 'Life with Nat'

Natalie Cassidy

Friends, Parenting, Society & Culture, Kids, Kids & Family, Eastenders, Family, Personal Journals, Advice, Sonia

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

November and December's books, All Together for Christmas by Sarah Morgan & A Heart for Christmas: Advent Romance by Sophie Jomain - what did you think?

Enjoy!! xx


Book Club: January's Book - ⁠⁠Wintering by Katherine May⁠⁠


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Book Club: January's Book - ⁠Wintering by Katherine May⁠

Nat’s solo chats - any rants always welcome! 

Scraping the Barrel - SCAN AND SHOP VIRGIN NO LONGER! Bonce vs list! - Are you a list maker? Always collecting for Nostalgia Fest!

What’s brewing with the Nieces - AGEING & non-negotiables

Things we’re nagging with Linny about - More lateness stories and some cleaning questions, please!

The Tony talks chatter - Keep your DIY questions coming, also open to some saucy two paragraph stories for Tony to read out at the Southend show - think cheeky postcards (both in tone and length)! Can we make Tony an influencer and get him any freebies? 


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0:00.0

Hello everybody, happy Sunday morning. I hope everybody is enjoying a really needed weekend, I would say, that sort of first weekend

0:24.6

after getting back into the swing of real life. I did an exam on Friday and not sure how it went,

0:33.5

really nerve-wracking, revised all of last week. I feel really, really tired. But, you know,

0:39.5

we carry on and I feel proud that I've achieved something. Do you know what? Even if I don't pass

0:44.3

that exam, I've worked hard and I don't know how students do it. I really, really mean that. It's given me a

0:53.5

whole, I put it on Instagram actually a little

0:55.7

post last week, but it really has given me a lot more empathy for students who have to sit down

1:03.3

and do, you know, eight, nine, ten, eleven subjects and have all of that in their head. I'm

1:08.7

certainly going to give Eliza a little break and make sure

1:11.2

she rests and not keep on at her to revise. I could have revised a little bit more for sure,

1:18.1

especially before Christmas and November, October. But I was busy, but you do need to find a bit

1:24.2

more time. So I sort of have crammed all my revision in and she has been sort of giving me a little smirk. Oh, cramming it all in, mum, are you? I'll just look at her. I'm like, I know. I'm a bit like you. So there we go. However, I do work well under pressure. I've heard that creative people like to procrastinate and then sort of go for it.

1:45.9

I don't know whether that's a load of bollocks or not, but maybe I am a bit like that.

1:50.6

When I've got a deadline, I achieve.

1:52.8

And if that deadline is quite a long way away, I seem to sort of get on with other things,

1:59.0

not really think about it, even though it's in the back of my mind.

2:02.3

But anyway, we are all different, so what can we do?

2:05.5

So this pod is just a little book club pod.

2:09.2

I am sorry, it's a little bit late.

2:11.3

Things have just been busy, as you know.

2:13.5

But let's get into the books.

2:15.5

I've had lots of lovely reviews, so I thought we would start

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