Hello and welcome to Life with Nat. How are you all? I hope you're having a lovely, lovely time, whatever you're doing.

Maybe you're at work and you've just got me on in the background, having a potter, but I hope it makes your day go quicker.

I today wanted to have a little chat about where we live because I have a listener called Sean, and he's from Oz, and he's been messaging me since the beginning and I promised him that when he moved to Leon C I would meet him and his partner Chris and have a little

bit of lunch and he could take me up the pier so to speak and we did it we actually went and met

Chris and Sean Mark and I took the kids, we had a

lovely lunch, we had a lovely wonder, and I thought to introduce our little meal, which we

recorded, a little chat about why we live where we live. So I suppose I live where I live

through circumstances, right, which is the same for everybody.

But I'm from Islington originally, and I absolutely loved it there.

Then I moved with my mum and dad up to Hertfordshire.

The reason being is my brother lived in Hartfordshire.

So for me, I suppose, every sort of move I've done is always been to do with family, really,

and in the vicinity of family.

Wherever I've been, I've had a close family member nearby.

And that would be the same for my mum and dad, and also my dad, once my mum had passed away.

So I think family is so strong for us.

We don't move far away from each other. I feel so grateful. As you know, you've heard my nieces on the pod, my brother, my sister-in-law. We are all within 40 minutes maximum of each other.

Elia lives five seconds up the road, Maria's 10 minutes up the road.

It's very, very close, and I know that distance doesn't mean everything,

but I do think it does make you closer in a way just because you can see each other much more than you would if you did live halfway up the country.

So I asked everybody to tell me where they lived and why.

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