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Today, friendship across the parenting divide.

Today in Focus is supported by Octopus Electric Vehicles.

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Head to octopus eV.com to give your team a benefit they'll actually care about. Quick warning before we start, this episode discusses infertility.

So if that's something a little bit too close to home, it might not be the one for you right now.

Let's go back to the summer of 2006.

I can't remember the name of the pub, but it was somewhere really near our old offices and Farringdon.

And you turned up and you looked really cool. You had this cool, like, skater skirt on and

this big, big blonde hair. And we just had the most fun time. We just got on, like, a house on fire

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