This is a Global Player Original podcast.

Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker.

I am your host, Anna White House, founder of Motherpucker,

and I'm joined by my best mate, Polly Hazelwood. We have the excellent Syra Khan coming up.

She is going to be talking about her definition of success and purpose in a world, ironically,

built by the likes of Alan Sugar. So listen in. But now, Polly,

how are you doing, my friend? I'm coming away at the seams. It's been one motherfucker of a 24

hours. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, got that in there. Talk to me. Sam's away. I'm on my own

with kids. I get a lovely, delicious bit

of respite. So I get one night off where some carer comes in, looks after the kids, takes them

for the whole night. But in my situation, I've got about 11 people that come in and out and

various things. And I can't tell you, the jigsawing of this one night away has been just

completely and utterly. It's nearly killed me. What today? So this morning, I've got, you know,

somebody coming in to take the kids so that I can get to work. Last night I've been up until about

half-past-one working, but also with my son, son who's up five times basically wants to go clubbing

he sees me and he's literally like waving his hands in the air as if he's got closed sticks let's go

I'm like no no no no it's like to work like in the morning what do you do in that situation drug him

oh okay we're not record look we are not parenting experts so just want to put a disclaimer here

he does have a little bit of melatonin.

So pop him back to bed, finally gets back to bed at about 4 o'clock in the morning. Ramming on the door wakes me up at 7, and I'm like, what the hell's happening? I run outside, I literally open the door, going, what? What is it? And this guy's, poor guy's like, um, hi, I've just come to pick up the bath seat.

The what? The what? The bath seat. Right, okay. Thinking where the fuck is the bath seat, right? Ah, I know where it is. It's in the old car that hasn't been used for about a month. Go to that car. Try and open the door. Nah. The bath seats locked in the back of the Prius.

Then I get a call from respite carey who says, sorry, I can't come anymore. So at this point, I'm like, I've literally got five minutes. Did you lose it in that moment? Because sometimes, you know, the straw that breaks the mother's back, you lose it the person at least deserves it. Oh, I mean, I think me answering the door going, what? What is it?

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