Sort out your life & your home with TV expert Dilly Carter
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Lorraine and Trish meet professional organiser and TV decluttering expert Dilly Carter, who shares her remarkable life story of being adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka to caring for her bi-polar mother and dealing with secondary infertility. Find out how growing up in a messy cluttered home led her to start a successful business, and why creating calm and order in our own homes is one of the best things we can do for our wellbeing. Plus: Listener’s dating disasters, Season 8 highlights and an unexpected fashion faux pas
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| 0:00.0 | How are you today? I'm very good, I'm still recovering from a strange fashion episode |
| 0:15.5 | I had yesterday which I've been saving to tell you about. I had an episode. When to pick |
| 0:21.3 | up my 83 year old dad for a day out taking him out for the day? Oh, lovely dad. Popped |
| 0:28.8 | in the back door as you do. He's wearing the same outfit as me. No. Yes. I turn up. Oh, no. |
| 0:37.5 | I know. In a pair of trouser jeans, like you know those nice trouser-y kind of jeans I have |
| 0:43.6 | dark jeans. Yeah. A Kashmir navy jumper, crew-net with a little sort of, you know, like little princess |
| 0:50.0 | Diana pie, what are they called pie crust? Pie crust collar. Thought it looked quite chic, |
| 0:55.6 | you know, for the day out. Anyway, it doesn't matter. He's wearing navy blue round neck |
| 1:00.4 | jump with a shirt underneath and dark blue trousers that could be jeans. So we went out |
| 1:05.1 | as a pair of twins. I thought you were going to say that when you were a child you had to |
| 1:10.6 | wear the same claim at your parents made you wear the same clothes as them, like some of |
| 1:14.0 | those funny. Oh, yes. Super really just families are funny. Not quite that bad, but maybe |
| 1:18.6 | that's the way it's going in the final years. Do you think it's happened because of the |
| 1:22.9 | garden centre chart giving you a discount for being over 50 without asking you how old you were? |
| 1:28.0 | It could be. It could be. It couldn't it. And I subtly, my fashion is morphing into OAP land or |
| 1:34.6 | there we go. Welcome to postcards from Midlife. I'm Lorraine Candy and I'm Trish Halpin. If you're |
| 1:50.3 | living in a hormonal hot house feeling a bit overwhelmed and in need of some positive uplifting |
| 1:55.4 | and comforting guidance on how to lead a more magnificent midlife than this is the show for you. |
| 2:01.0 | We chat to celebrities and experts on all things midlife from menopause and perimenopause to |
| 2:06.4 | parenting teens by a fashion beauty wellness, nutrition fitness careers, relationships, |
| 2:11.9 | caring for elderly relatives and your finances. Yes, we ask experts and famous guests all the |
| 2:17.5 | questions you need answered to have a happier, healthier and more harmonious second act. |
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