Hello and welcome to the Standard Issue podcast. Yeah, that's right, another one. This bonus

episode, you lucky people, is brought to you by Cart Noir. I'm Mickey Noonan and why

yes I am, something on a delicious cup of coffee courtesy of our sponsors. Cheers. I'm Hannah Dunlavy

and I am loving the coffee smell. I reckon coffee is probably top three, top three smell.

It's a great smell, isn't it? It's up there. And I'm Jen Afford and since I've been awake by 7am

almost every day for the last 13 months, this caffeine hit frankly couldn't come soon enough.

So today we are chatting about living life, carp lunch. You know, grasping those little moments

of complete freedom, like the French do. As ever, we'll be joined by some ace guests, some

standard issue favourites in fact. I'll be speaking to Lucy Reynolds about coffee and why it's her

brain saver. Hannah Dunlavy, how are you embracing being more French? Well, you can't see this on

Zoom, but I'm actually naked from the waist down, which will be... One joke! Which will be exciting

for Hazel Davis, who I'll be catching up with because she, like me, is absolutely dreadful at

taking a break from work. And so I'm forcing a break on both of us. Good work.

Well, Hannah, that's one way of living life to the full, but I'll be having a fully clove

knatter with author and mental health advocate, Lucy Nichol, about self-care and why it's nice to get

out and about after the year we've had. What does living life to the full actually mean, though?

I think this is probably where I start weighing on about bikes again, isn't it?

Oh, yeah, go on then, James. Give us some bike chite. You do very rarely mention it.

Okay, well, as you know, I don't like to talk about the time I rode across America,

I'm beyond saying my bicycle, but I guess that would be my example of living my life

can't branch in that I sack off a reasonably well-paid but ultimately unfulfilling job and

use the money to fund a trip of a lifetime and a career change and lucky for you, eh?

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