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Of the weekend, we moved our 19-year-old daughter out of campus at university where she's been living away for the first time this year.

Back home.

Little bit reluctant.

Did feel like bounty hunters bringing her back in apprehended.

And Saturday lunchtime, we all had a family lunch together okay and we're all getting on there the sun's out it's great the family's back i'm feeling happy and then ruby my 19 year old goes there's something i need to tell you a mom and i've been worried about this for a couple of weeks and my wife immediately goes

pregnant and I went maybe maybe it's okay to think that she goes do you think that went yeah but

I'm not blotting it out let's not go to that let's not escalate the situation but inside

I'm actually just tensing up going bracing for impact but I but I can see she's smiling, so it can't be drastic news, and then her younger sister goes, I know what it is, and she's worried you're going to kick her out, went, kick you out. I said, you know, whatever's happened, you're not being kicked out, what has happened? And then she rolls up a sleeve. There's a new tattoo.

Of course. I'm like, oh, right? It's a tattoo. Okay. I said that my wife just goes, oh, thank God. I thought

she's still pregnant. So it's when they were very, very young, right? They had, they were very,

very close. They still are now. But it changed everything when, you know, one's moved out now, and it's changed their relationship, but they, they miss each other massively. But anyway, when they were really, really young, they used to love watching this movie. It's an animated movie. There's a whole studio called Studio Ghibli, which make these beautiful movies like How's Moving Cars? So if you've got kids, get them to watch it. They're magical movies. They're like spellbinding.

I used to have like trippy experiences sitting there, watch them going, don't fully understand why this is so moving. Anyway, there was one called Ponyo, and Ponyo is this goldfish who's a princess. As soon as I saw the tattoo as like, Ponyo, I haven't seen Ponyo, well, since you're about eight. You're 19 and a half and Ponyo's been tattooed permanently on your elbow. So yep, she got a Ponyo tattoo to sort of, she wanted, it was her message to her sister that you're still with me. I love that. So, And obviously when she says that, you know, I'm like, I'm getting tearful. I'm going, my God, that's so lovely. My wife is like, looking to me like, we said no more tattoos until she was 25. It's Ponyo and it's okay to have an inked on, Chris. Pregnant Ponyo, is it? Is it a message? How many weeks or months has she had it for without telling mum and dad? Four weeks. And I was tracking back because I remember I saw her right and it's a very hot day and I kept saying, take the jumper off. She was going, oh, it's just terrified. You kept saying take the jump on. It's so hot. what is it a student thing that you have a big old heavy jumper on?

It's a pon. What is it? A student thing that you have a big old heavy jumper on. It's a ponio thing. It was ponio under there waiting to see you.

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