Morning, young Trish. Now, I bring your news from the Midlife Frontline. I like to do this now and again for you on a subject close to our hearts. And it was a little subject that made me grateful to have you and that little fluffy psychic, Margs.

Oh, Margo, that's your nickname for her.

Got you in my life because there's been a little survey about friendship and therapy.

And apparently one in five therapists this year in the UK said they'd seen an increasing

clients struggling with

friendship as the main reason to come into the therapist office. So we were talking about this

the other day on one of our WhatsApp voice chats, weren't we? It was quite surprising, but you did

get a little distracted, didn't you? Because you accused me of going to the loo. I was chatting to you. And then the next day, you called me really urgently about a little worky thing. And I was actually half naked because I was about to get into the shower. So I think I sort of discombobulated you, didn't I with that?

It's a wee one. I just thought, I could hear this dribbling water in the background, and I just thought, oh my God, she's so familiar with me now that she's actually picked up the phone on the loo to chat to me. And I'm just, I just think that's a step too far. I mean, I have helped you in and out of your winter vest. Oh, yes. Yeah.

We did once have a bath. We did. But in a separate baths outside. Yeah, that was quite

fun, wasn't it? One of our mad things we were doing. And just, I just think that that

friendship, though, is such an important topic, isn't it? You weren't weeing when I was talking to you.

Of course I wasn't weeing.

I was actually filling up Margot and Bridie the Labradoros water bowl at the time.

So you were hearing the running water.

But I'd had a bit of a, Margot had a bit of a friends incident that morning.

I'll just very quickly tell you

the story because I haven't, she got friends. Well, exactly. She doesn't go anywhere. She's very

unsocial. I had a very strange experience with a little, it was a baby squirrel, came running up

to my window in my kitchen outside. You know, we've got those kind of florticity windowy door

things and it was trying to get in. It was just sort of splayed itself across the window. It was tapping with its little pause. It was like a cartoon. And of course I didn't have my phone. The phone was up to it. I was like, oh, this would have been such a good little video. Anyway, it then started running along the doors. And Margot started paying attention, running up and down, looking at this little squirrel. all. And squirrel and anyway I'll just went upstairs with what I'll leave them to it she's made a new little friend came back down outside the fact the squirrel was sitting on a little sort of this half fence thing we've got halfway down the garden and Margo was stretched up just tapping the squirrel with its poor, with its poor, her poor.

Can you believe that?

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