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Postcards From Midlife

Nina Stibbe: what I learned when I ran away from home & took a year-long marriage break

Postcards From Midlife

Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin

Health & Fitness, Unknown, 579985, Culture, Mental Health, Perimenopause, Women, Relationships, Midlife Women, Fitness, Midlife, Lifestyle, Health, Menopause, Nutrition, Parenting, Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Kids & Family

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Trish & Lorraine find out what international best seller Nina Stibbe, author of the much-loved memoir Love, Nina, discovered about life, relationships - and herself - when she took a break from her long marriage in Cornwall to spend a year living alone in London. Expect hilarious tales from her new diary, Went to London, Took the Dog, with midlife antics aplenty from menopausal, pelvic-floor calamities to the art of loving flawed friends and creating a new social life in the city of your youth. Plus: What happened when Trish learnt the Wim Hoff method & took an ice bath for the first time; immune system boosting tricks for winter & it’s back to the 90s in the Nostalgia Noodle time machine…



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0:00.0

Trish, I have another transport related brain fog incident to bring to you today. Is this

0:15.2

a bike, a car, a train, an aeroplane? Yes, it was my helicopter. No, you know, I don't

0:22.8

really like cars and I will do anything to avoid getting into our cars, so I don't drive

0:26.8

much, but I had to take maple my 12 year old. I had to collect her, so I go out, I'm in the road

0:32.5

pressing the alarm thing, thinking, why the hell is this not opening? You mean the key for the car

0:37.6

alarm, the key for thing? Yes, so I'm just pressing this thing, nothing's happening, no alarm's

0:42.7

going off, nothing's opening and I try the door and then I try the tailgate door, because I think

0:47.2

oh, we've got problem with our tailgate and maybe it's that causing the thing, I try the front,

0:51.6

I walk around it, I thought for God's sake, I'd be really late now, I'll go back into the house

0:56.8

and I'll have to get a new door or something like that, so I walk across the road and I think

1:00.3

oh look, someone else has got one of these, there's one of our car like ours and I pause for the

1:04.7

moment and I see where this is going. Actually that's our car, I've been trying to get into someone

1:11.3

else's car, but worse Trish. Yes, our car is a significantly different color. Oh no, so the

1:17.8

brain fog, even though I'm cleaning my teeth and my left hand and doing all that stuff, did it not

1:23.1

have, because you've got your signature roof box that you have on the car permanently, I mean that's

1:29.2

quite, I did it, like it bought, and it's peeling and it's half purple, I'll sing it to a roof box.

1:35.3

I was going to say it's a little bit shabby, it's a bit shabby, well worn, yet you would think,

1:41.3

wouldn't you, but it's a really weird thing the brain does, it was just, it's a similar shape,

1:46.5

it's grey the one I was trying to get into and ours is a black, it's a properly different color,

1:51.2

not my car just went through an absolutely identical car, it was a different car I'd tried to get

1:56.8

in. What's going on Trish, am I getting worse? I don't know, but the neighborhood watch

2:02.3

weren't out to get you, though were though, so that's a good thing, didn't report you to the police,

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