It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere

This week, we are talking about solo travel. Jo is exceptionally brave, Gill investigates Teletext Holidays, we reminisce about the heady days of life with Tour Manager Ben, Jo touches a Parisian crotch and Gill relives a traumatic day in Barnard Castle...

This week, we attempt to talk productivity and why women are always expected to be busy, and occupied.  Except, we decide to talk about literally anything else instead, including the time Gill nearly joined the Scientologists by mistake, thereby thwarting the patriarchy and their outdated notions for us...

This week we dip our distinctly unfashionable toes into the murky world of fashion, to discuss the latest trend of 'Literary Chic.'  Jo's trousers provide a wardrobe malfunction, and she invents a new word, which leads to Gill having her best day after rummaging in some long forgotten places!  What is Jo's word?  What does Gill's rummaging reveal?  You'll have to listen and find out!  

This week we're talking about Life Admin- what it involves, why it's boring, why we hate it, and why we love the nice man at Halfords who fixes your headlight bulbs.  Jo is grown up and serious and talks about wills, Gill lowers the tone as usual.

This week, we veer dangerously close to becoming serious, as we discuss the Femosphere, and whether it can really be classed as feminism, if it is a new thing, and if it is ever acceptable to use a mini sausage from a tin of sausage and beans as a cocktail garnish...?

This week, Jo and Gill are discussing remakes of classics.  Jo is in favour, Gill is against.  Then the chat veers into a side quest about spiral ham, a potential pork based fashion line a la Lady Gaga, and an idea for a very dark remake of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, despite neither Gill nor Jo being entirely sure what exactly a faun is...

This week Jo gets Gill's hopes up with the question 'Should children be banned?' and promptly dashes said hopes when it turns out Jo didn't mean generally banned, just that some establishments should be adult only.  Also, Gill shares hairdressing tips and her rather Victorian attitudes to parenting, and Jo reveals some rather niche bucket list items...

This week we are supposed to be talking about Easter, but our attempt to google strange Easter traditions from around the world takes a slightly dark turn, which would probably go down well in Norway, where apparently Easter is all about crime novels, Gill experiments with an ALCOHOL FREE beverage, and Jo feels the urge to reassure us all that she has never murdered a mink, but apparently believes...

We're back!  After a very long hiatus, we have finally got our act together and returned to podcasting, with our signature brand of day drinking, rambling, and puerile and inappropriate humour.  Once described as 'listening in to a chat with your two best friends', we hope you have as much fun listening to this as we did making it!  

This week, with the clock ticking ever more rapidly, and that festive countdown very much on, we talk about those organised people who, having been ready for Christmas since approximately mid August, like to remind the rest of us about that by asking in faux concerned tones 'And are you all ready for Christmas?', when they know full well the answer is going to be a resounding NO!  Jo takes a rathe...

This week we are talking about Christmas films, and I  think it's safe to say we have some Views on these (how unlike us).  We discuss an unusual take on  Love Actually , and Gill watches  The Holiday  for the very first time, and develops an unhealthy obsession with Jude Law's cow, while Jo points out several more practical flaws with his life than his random cow.  Jo has some issues with these f...

OK, so we started recording this episode with the very best intentions to talk charmingly about our delightful family Christmas traditions, the importance of traditions, and of creating your own new ones.  But somehow, we almost immediately went wildly off topic and starting talking about the times we really did not bring our A game as parents (or maybe we did, depending on how you're looking at i...

Here it is, folks!  The episode you've been waiting for all year- yes, it's Gill and Jo's 100% infallible*, expert** Gift Guide, in partnership with Laylo Wine, to buying presents for all the difficult people in your life, from the husband who insists he 'doesn't want anything' but really does, to the weird colleague who always stands just a little bit too close to you, to the ever tricky to buy f...

This week, we come up with LITERALLY the best idea ever, in the form of a club night for menopausal women, including places to sit down, good snacks, and a dress code including slippers, elasticated waists and NO BRAS.  Unfortunately, our topic for this week was not 'coming up with an idea for an awesome club night', instead the theme was supposed to be 'Black Friday', to coincide with the upcomin...

This week we received an email from a PR company suggesting a guest for the podcast that got us thinking about the many and varied jobs we've ever had in our lives.  This got us thinking how very lucky we are that we are able to sit and chat and drink lovely Laylo wine and call it work, but we have had many jobs in the past that were a great deal less fun, including Gill's stint in PotatoLand and...

This week...well, where do we start with the recap?  Jo has a distressing Teams call, which may or may not have featured maurading bosoms, Gill is providing a little stability in this chaotic world by taking umbrage at the Patriarchy and then...Jo tells Gill of a practice she has recently become aware of, and it all goes downhill from there!  As Jo said in her email to Producer James, we can only...

This week, we're having a general catch up on what's been going on in our lives, including sharing some very exciting news about our new partnership with Laylo wine,.  We also chat about Gill's visit to a university open day leading her to be surprised that universities are full of children for some inexplicable reason, Gill's new book Why Mummy Drinks At Christmas, why Jo would be an excellent li...

This week, although we're a little early, we're talking Hallowe'en!  Jo loves it, Gill hates it, for she is a Hallowe'en Grinch, as has been mentioned before.  We also chat a bit about our irrational fears, including Gill's insistence that her fear of the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow is NOT irrational, and Jo's fear of ... holes...you'll have to listen to find out more about that one!

This week we are talking all things menopause and perimenopause, comparing notes on our HRT, and some of our favourite 'menopausal moments'- except we struggle to remember what they are, because menopause!  We also talk about Gill's GP's continuing obsession with offering to prescribe her lube, Jo's vet falls in love with her, and we express some doubt about the 'Manopause'.  But most of all, we j...

This week we are talking hobbies, in a futile attempt to get ourselves a proper Hobby, as we feel that you are not a proper grown up until you have A Hobby.  We talk about what qualifies a hobby as a hobby, and Gill is very firm in her views of what is and is not A Good Hobby. Jo shares a non-hobby related wardrobe malfunction which leads us to ponder if starting a very niche Only Fans could count...

Regular listeners will be already be aware that Gill is firmly convinced that the EVIL that is Pumpkin Spiced Latte is nothing more than a conspiracy by Big Cinnamon, so this week we thought we'd talk about a few more of our favourite conspiracies.  Are birds real?  Who shot JFK?  Does Paul McCartney even exist?  We have all the answers!  Well, we have answers.  They may not be the right answers. ...

This week, we're chatting about the little things that tip you over the edge- the things you feel you should be able to deal with as a competent adult, but actually make you want to cry, and shout you need a proper grown up for this!  Inspired in part by Gill's car actually breaking down and Gill almost breaking down as a result, and Jo's encounter with a particularly vicious record player, flat p...

This week, we are not, alas, discussing scurrilous scandal, but rather the alarming statistics about the large number of people who only wash their towels four times a year!  We attempt a highly scientific poll on how often you, our listeners, and Gill and Jo clean things, with occasionally surprising results.  Jo shares Chicken Flannel with the nation, and there is a cameo from the International...

It's not actually an 'Autumn Edit', unless you count our autumnal cocktails and Jo's blackberry and apple pies, but we are attempting to talk all things autumn, now September is upon us and Jo has betrayed Gill with pumpkin spice lattes, even though regular listeners will know Gill thinks such things are nothing more than a conspiracy by Big Cinnamon.  Gill ruins any chance of Starbucks sponsoring...

This week we've been doing a spot of genealogy and so we're talking families, history and skeletons in the closet.  Gill has discovered her ancestors are not who she thought they were at all, and reveals a fairly sordid tale of infidelity and illegitimacy, involving considerable judgement for her newly found great grandfather, and on Jo's side, it's her great grandmother who brings the scandal to...