Husband & Wife Sentenced to Life

Hello on what is our last full day in the UK. We're both feeling very emotional as several chapters are about to close. Today we talked about... • Feelings! • Leo's bike & an awkward drop-off. • The market and the dungarees. • Bristol's lack of good Italian restaurants. • Bristol getting horrible again. • The brilliant M-Shed & Bristol's history. • Crepes & people watching. • Walking t...

Hello you! A very overcast morning in the cottage garden today. Today we talked about... • Finishing Bob Mortimer's fantastic audiobook. • Feeling fed up about snarky teens. • Honey & Mamma Mia in Dubai. • Everywhere for kids being closed. • Slightly cheaper Bristol parking. • A badly-designed bridge for vertigo. • The shops in Bristol Arcade. • Arabic fail. • Extinction Rebellion. • Christmas...

Hello you! Well, a massive day yesterday. A day that most parents are building up to from the day their babies are born. A day of high emotion, mixed feelings, stress, heartache, pain, sadness, grief... The lot. A slightly longer pod today because there was a lot to talk about. We start with Lorra in tears, as the weight of er first morning with her boy hit home. We also talked about... • The comf...

Hello you! It's D-Day, the D standing for 'Drop-Off'. It's a biggie. It's something we've been building to, stressing about, fearing and dreading. Towards the end of this podcast, Lorra gets very emotional. IF you're going or have gone through the university drop-off, you'll get it. However, we also caught up about yesterday and this lot... • A Fred West update. • Heading for a big day out but fee...

Hello. First of all, apologies for the lack of podcast yesterday. We explain all on the podcast. It all got a bit heavy. So, today we talked about... • The failed podcast. • Lorra's inability to work out directions. • Taking Betsy Pearl in our morning walk. • A visit from Lorra's parents. • Simon's bridge nerd-out. • Clifton Suspension Bridge and fear of falling. • A grim Burger King. • Watching "...

Hello you! Hope you're well. We've been out for another chilly, crisp, morning walk. It's rush-hour in the country, so we've seen a couple of cars. Back in the cottage garden, we talked about... • Teso Plant Chef sossies. • Cold showers. • Deriving to Bristol & marathon-dodging. • Leaving Leo for his first day in his new hometown. • The Galleries & Cabot Circus. • Ladies in the men's toile...

A bit of a surprising, eye opening day for us yesterday. We talked about... • Three motorways & traffic. • Our son's uni residence & parents dropping-off. • Textbook Bristol introduction. • Corn Street & St Nicholas Markets. • Too many people. • The "students these days" discussion. • Bristol oversell & subsequent disappointment. • Leo's first legal drink and getting carded. •...

Good Morning! And it is a good morning, as we got to try out a new walk from our Gloucestershire cottage today. And we talked about... • The country morning ambience. • Leaving Calshot & Hampshire. • Longleat Safari Park. • Getting attacked by monkeys & deer. • Bath traffic woes. • A massive steaming pile of manure. • Lorra's emotions and the bins. • Our new cottage. • Berkeley and nasty l...

Emotional morning. After a couple of weeks, flights, swabs, tests, results, isolation and everything else, this morning was our last time around 'The Calshot Lap'. It was a crisp but sunny 10ºc (Simon even wore a long-sleeved top - Shock horror!) Today we talked about... • Betsy Pearl's "appendicitis". • One last Mother-in-Law BS story. • Packing. • A gorgeous trip up and down the River Stour. • A...

What a beautiful walk this morning, to accompany our recording. Blue skies, a thick fog hanging on the mouth of the river and the Solent, the Isle of Wight Ferry's foghorn blaring away... Loved every second of it. And today we talked about... • Our final full day in Hampshire and packing. • Walking with alpacas. • Awful GPS & wild horses. • Acres Down Farm & cream teas. • A walk with a vie...

Hello! Hope you're fit & well. We're just back from our morning walk and recording session, which we missed terribly yesterday, due to the inclement weather. That said, the 100% rain forecast for the day didn't happen and we managed to fit quite a bit in. Today we talk about: • Longdown Activity Farm. • Lorra's pygmy goat fantasy. • Robin's Nest Antiques Emporium sans haggling. • North/South H...

Hello you! We recorded today's pod sat in the car at Calshot Beach in the rain, which is expected to last all day. And we talked about: • Our view. • The weather (obviously). • The new hire car and it's futuristic holes. • Heading into Southampton City Centre. • Our review of the Costa vegan bacon butty. • Lorra's Primark wormhole. • Simon's views on the ugliness of England's city centres. • Marks...

On this morning's chilly (12ºc) Calshot loop, we talked about: • The possibility of the UAE changing the weekend. • Getting to do a Simon 'thing'... The car boot sale. • Missing out on almost-definitely-stolen-but-cheap bikes. • More hire car/sex metaphors. • Teaching Betsy Pearl the art of haggling. • Betsy Pearl being an abductor's dream come true. • Leo's pretentious student purchases. • Simon'...

Another rapidly-recorded and 100% unedited pod this morning, from a quick walk down to the beach and back. It was 9ºc this morning, it's been around 17ºc every other morning. Today we talked about: • The weather, obviously. • The Windsor parking odyssey. • Windsor Castle. • St George's Chapel and too much history. • The 9/11 memorial and getting on the telly. • The State Rooms & Prince Phillip...

A quick, unedited chat this morning, as we're heading out to Windsor Castle shortly and Foreplay-Hire-Car departure time is soon. Today we talked about... • Lorra's Dad correcting our water mistakes. • Where we were for 9/11. • Day 8 Covid tests. • First stop at Asda (with a brooding teenager). • Leo ( Daftus Brushus ) having his first ever UK day out alone. • How much money Lorra gave him to fina...

We sound unusual today because we recorded our usual morning 3km walk around Calshot, the Solent & Southampton Water but Simon, like a pillock, deleted the recording. So, we popped into the conservatory at Dennis & Gaye's and recorded a quick, unedited recap. We talked about... • The botched recording. • Hythe, the little pier train and the ferry. • Hire car foreplay. • A boring pre-univer...

Today we move on to The Hampshire Diaries segment of our trip. Yesterday was 'freedom day' and we managed to get out and about. Today we talked about... • Strimmer wars. • Simon & Queen Victoria comparisons. • The poo-truck cometh. • Lorra's meticulous beach packing. • Beachgoers & wild swimmers. • Our kids in the English Channel. • Who from our family were beach fidgeters. • Childhood caf...

We got the negative TTR results last night, so we went for a sunrise walk through Calshot, down to Calshot Spit, along the beach and the huts, back along the Solent Estuary, alongside Fawley Power Station and back, through the wild bushes, trees and nature, to home. We've left as much as the recording in as possible, so you can hopefully feel the ambiance around us. Don't forget to check-out the p...

Back in the garden, a glass of water for Simon, a rhubarb G&T for Lorra and we're away on another isolation podcast (although we had been out... Legally... More on that tomorrow). Today we talk about... • The daily unbelievable weather report. • Life admin, incl. an emotional SIM card & a bank fail. • Becoming a porn-controlling dad. • Simon's second Amazon delivery... The "Spite Buy"...

Day 3 of government-imposed lockdown was a beauty. On today's Isolation Diaries, we talk: • "Studio" issues due to sea mist. • A brief synopsis of "The Fog". • Outstanding British weather (which we didn't pack for). • Another day of no arguments. • The trees around us. • Conkers & Sycamore helicopters. • Explaining the conker scoring system. • Loo roll shortages. • More Scrabble. • Lorra back...

Episode 27 and Day 2 of our Isolation Diaries, as we await the mystical Day 5 nose-poke and freedom. In the meantime, from a garden beside the Solent estuary, we talked about... • The remarkable English weather. • Being morning ninjas. • Anglo Saxon homework & England's premiere bull****ter. • Lorra's booking spree. • Simon's "spite-buy" vinyl spree. • Another manky "cactus" bath. • Isolation...

Hello you! We're back for Day 1 of our Isolation Diaries, bunkered down in Calshot. Today we talked about... • Day number confusion. • Garden gnome face tan. • Dubai body clock. • Unavoidable morning family noise. • Father-in-Law coffee machine envy. • The perfect British Summer day. • The miracle of keeping a 9yr old off an iPad. • Double doggy doo-doo dilemma. • **ARGUMENT ALERT** (regarding SIM...

After at least 7 attempts, botched recordings, faulty microphones, forgetting to press record and lots of other faffing-about, we FINALLY managed to record episode 025 of #HAWSTL (Husband & Wife Sentenced to Life) and you may notice it sounds a little different, because we've gone international and we're recording 'on the road' with our Rode Wireless Go II mics. Today we talked about... • Our...

Another slice of married life for ep.24 of #HAWSTL (Husband & Wife Sentenced to Life), talking about... • Excitement about 'The Crown'. • Naughty Dominic West's range. • Holidays to suit your star sign. • Pulling apart Nostradamus. • The wet toilet roll mystery. • A 'Wife's Whinge' regarding mobiles at the dinner table. • A 'Husband's Hump' about nature. • A 'Would You Rather?' about how to di...

Hello! A brand new episode of #HAWSTL (Husband & Wife Sentenced to Life) and we cut straight to the chase with an argument straight after the jingle about who should start the podcast! We also delve into... • A very interesting space fact. • Lorra's hypothetical space disaster. • Anniversary gift politics. • Guilt about leaving the kids for the night. • Hotel shenanigans. • Lorra and THAT dres...