Hello, this is the Secret Mum Club. I'm Safina.

And I'm Emma.

And this podcast is a safe space for Mums everywhere.

A safe space to share our secrets.

Because we all have secrets, don't we?

We do. And as we know, sharing is caring.

You don't even have to tell us who you are.

Keep that to yourself, you can be anonymous.

And those secrets can be serious or silly.

All secrets are welcome in the secret mum club. If you can't tell, we're on a slight time delay. But by the time this is edited, there will be no time delay. Yeah, if you can't tell, I'm not in the studio today. So we're on a slight. We're dealing with that this was like when we had the babies and we were doing it from home.

And you just have to like wait a millisecond after everything you say just to make sure I've caught up.

We are having slight difficulties with the world, aren't we?

Yeah, the world is melting, basically.

As we're recording this, it's the hottest May ever. And my trains were fucked, so I couldn't come in. My driveway is melted. My brand new tarmac on my driveway is melted. Is that not the driveway you did a couple of weeks ago? Yeah. Yeah, that's melted. Oh, you're joking. I don't even know what to do about it. Are they going to repair it?

Is this how we get great, good, great British potholes?

I don't know. This country is not equipped for these temperatures. It was 35 degrees yesterday. It's too much. 35. We shouldn't complain, should we? We shouldn't complain because we're always like, oh, the weather's shit, but this is what British people do.

And then when it's hot, we say, I don't, the weather's shit, but this is what British people do.

And then when it's hot, we say, I don't want to be that person, but it really is a bit too much. Might be a bit old. It's a little bit much. How have you been? I'm okay, just literally trying to cope in this heat, because obviously it coincides as well with half term for us. It's half-term for you as well.

Yeah, what a glorious week, though, to have half-term on.

Yeah, but I'm like, what am I going to do with these kids? Because actually, I think you think, oh, it's so much easier. It's a parent when the weather's nice outside. Yeah, I think when the weather's nice to a point, like if it was like 23, 24 and sunny, great. Now I'm I've got to keep these kids inside because it's too much. What have you been doing? Well, it's hard, though, for the half term because not only is it blistering sunshine, everywhere is fucking rammed. But I had to go to Tesco just to get some aircon the other day. I was like, we're going to have to go to Tesco. Every man and their dog were there. Everyone was there. It was absolute carnage. But I'm really lucky with the new garden. Obviously, 10 years in the bungalow, and if anyone's been here for a long time, we'll know that it was a south facing garden. So it was blistering hot. But where we are now is all trees and all shaded. So everyone has been, everyone's been coming in. My brother's been over,

my sister,

all the children.

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