The truth about ageing with Caroline Hirons
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Lorraine and Trish meet beauty power house Caroline Hirons for a frank and funny chat about bringing up four children, building a super successful career in her 40s, being a midlife grandma and her honest facts about skin as we age.
Plus: coping strategies for lockdown stress and how to revive your love life by an
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| 0:00.0 | Can I talk to you about toilet rolls, please? |
| 0:02.4 | Um, if you must. |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, so I live in a house with four children, three of whom are teenagers, |
| 0:08.6 | one of whom's away at the moment, but you know, it's still the same effect. |
| 0:12.4 | I think something happens to them when they go into the toilet, |
| 0:15.4 | because their hands don't work when the lural runs out, |
| 0:18.6 | so they don't seem able to replace it. |
| 0:21.3 | And then if they do actually manage to put a new one on, |
| 0:24.8 | they just toss the cardboard in into the floor, |
| 0:27.5 | so it's near the bin, just in the bin. |
| 0:30.1 | Yes, we have that all the time. |
| 0:31.8 | And the other thing they do is they, |
| 0:33.6 | they come and steal the lural out of my bathroom. |
| 0:38.0 | And then you're on the toilet, reach it and you're like, |
| 0:40.6 | oh, God's sake, and you knew it was there this morning. |
| 0:43.1 | And God forbid, you would be the only person in the house with a teenager, |
| 0:46.7 | because they won't come in the bathroom for you to give you another toilet roll. |
| 0:49.9 | Well, they could be horrified and shocked. |
| 0:52.2 | You'd die there, like Bridget Jones, wouldn't you? |
| 0:54.3 | You'd die on the loo, waiting for someone to be lonely. |
| 0:57.0 | Death or the toilet? |
| 0:58.8 | Sincuriating. |
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