Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to

to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work.

I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16

years, so I spin a few plates myself.

Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, but can also be hard to find time for yourself

and your own ambitions. I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything.

Welcome to spinning plates.

Hey, podcats, how's tricks? Talking of cats, I'm staring at my cat Kiniki while I talk to you.

He's, um, he can't understand what I'm saying, but he does look pretty terrible these days.

He's such a lovely cat. He's very sweet. And we've had him and his sister Rizzo since they were kittens so Kinniki is 17 now and he's just suddenly got really old and dodgery

and he just has to start some thyroid medication and some painkillers for his hips and oh little Kinniknoks he's just lying there having a little snoozel but yeah i do feel a bit

concerned about him anyway i'll keep you posted if you're interested in in the health of my cat

um had a really funny thing yesterday actually where the vet called and said that another of our cat's

titus was at the vet.

And I was out. So I phoned Richard and I said, you need to go and pick up our cat. He's been found in the road. Apparently he wasn't moving. And I said, that's a bit strange. But he seemed okay. The vet said, we had to go and pick him up. So I hung up, Richard said you go and get him

And then when I got home, the vet called me and said,

We've still got your cat, Titus.

And I rang Richard, Richard said he'd go and get him. And then when I got home, the vet called me and said, we've still got your cat, Titus. And I rang Richard and I said, why didn't you pick up Titus? And he said, oh, after I hung up from you, I saw Titus in the garden. I was like, you sure it's Titus? How can you be in two places at once? And he says, pretty sure, it's our cat he's sat in the garden and eating cat food

anyway when i got there it was kiniki microchips had got muddled up which made a lot more sense

because canicky is the sort of cat that probably now sit in the road and not move

anyway that was a very long story about my kids because i said pod cats and that's what made me think

of it you may or may not want to know about all that,

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