Hello, welcome to the John Gorn podcast and thanks very much indeed for downloading it and thanks indeed for making it so successful.

Slightly different style of podcast today. It's not about out-and-out politics. It's about family life.

Oh, don't mention family life, Gawnti. It'll be the end of your career. But something happened to me.

It's happened a couple of times recently. When I've been in my favourite cafe, having me morning

cappuccino, which as the Italians tell me, must always be before 10 o'clock. So I'm drinking me

coffee there with my friend. And these kids came in with their mum. It might have been

Saturday. I can't remember when it was exactly. And there was a little boy and a little girl.

Maybe the girl was about five and the little boy about seven or eight. They sat down with

their mum and they were just impeccably behaved. Just behaved like my kids when they were young.

You know, when you go in a cafe, you don't run around recreating World War III.

And their mum got them whatever they desired or what they wanted. And then out of a bag,

on fact, before she went to order the food, out of a bag she pulled out two books. One was a colouring book, which she gave to the girl, and one was like, you know, those sticker books. Reminded me of my daughter, Rosie, coming back from Cornwall once. She had a sticker book in the back of the car, and then she thought she'd swallowed a sticker. Panic stations. We ended up in a place called Tiverton, is it? In the hospital,

all kinds of visions of having to have a stomach pumped. And the doctors, new parents,

doctors just looked as if we were stupid. Anyway, cross is over, but I digress. Let me get back

to my point. So she gives the sticker book and the coloring book, and the kids sit there doing whatever they're doing and she brings over their food. I also notice she didn't ask them what they wanted. Either she knew or she made the decision. Oh, good. That's quaint, isn't it? That's a bit old fashioned. That's a bit 1970s. Mummy actually making their decisions. Don't you hate that when

you're in a cafe or in a motorway service station? And it's normally middle class parents.

Oh, Jemima, what would you like? And then Jemima says, get me, where does that come from? Get me.

I hate that expression. But then you look around and the kids about three. You don't give

kids choices at that age. You tell them what to me. No wonder we've got kids with eating disorders

and they're fatty as hell. Yeah, I don't lie broccoli. When I was doing simple as fat, we used to have

people grown adults saying, I don't like vegetables. I don't like broccoli. When did you last try it?

Oh, what else at school? How old are you now? 50. How fat are you? How overweight are you? What do you mean

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