Midlifing

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee talk about making things with love. Recorded using Simon's 52 year old mouth and listened to with his 53 year old ears. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): Pet Shop Boys 'West End Girls': https://youtu.be/p3j2NYZ8FKs Superman logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_logo Michael Sandel...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon decide to run for parliament and spend the episode sorting out their political manifesto. Vote here. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): Source of the Thames: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Head dogs are barking: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dogs%20are%20barking wicked problem: ht...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon have a hypothetical and very real conversation about being with loved ones. Recorded 1 August 2021. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): Latin in UK schools (a few of them): https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jul/31/latin-introduced-40-state-secondaries-england Dawn Butler thrown out of chamber for...

Send us Fan Mail Prompted by some listener feedback in which Lee and Simon are accused of nearly jumping the shark, they decide to come clean about their ambitions and reach out to you, yes you, their listeners. Also, who are we kidding, these show notes are not written by someone else. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): jumping the s...

Send us Fan Mail Lee expresses some concerns about the UK's "Freedom Day" and has an excellent strategy to prevent people dropping by. They touch on the 1976 film Logan's Run which leads to a conversation about assisted dying. We also find out if Simon's nephew Finn is polite or just not a glutton. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and...

Send us Fan Mail Our fearlessly absurd friends find themselves in the land of musicals until Simon reveals that he did his long overdue Suspiria watching homework. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): Sweet Caroline (don't watch it, you'll never get it out of your head): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty1dwBCR6D0 Michael Jack...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of 2 of Overdue begins with three sneezes and then extends last week's conversation into difficult ideas to do with sexuality and otherness. Please note that Lee and Simon briefly discuss suicidal ideation . Here's a list of international suicide hotlines: http://www.suicide.org/hotlines/international-suicide-hotlines.html Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@m...

Send us Fan Mail Part 1 of 2 of Overdue has Lee and Simon talking about protests, diverse crowds, trust in institutions and feeling out of place. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): white power symbol and ok gesture: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/764728163/the-ok-hand-gesture-is-now-listed-as-a-symbol-of-hate boiled egg hack: https://...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon become agony aunts (or uncomfortable uncles) for one episode. Perhaps this is the start of a dramatic rise into the top 1% of all podcasts? Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): Sourdough starter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourdough#Starter Bobby Baker: http://bobbybaker.com/ Shattered Anatomies: https:...

Send us Fan Mail Simon holds a sports quiz for Lee (without beer). What could possibly go wrong? Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net. Related links (and necessary corrections): Kinsey scale (0-6): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale Cristiano Ronaldo and water: https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2021/jun/16/drink-water-ronaldos-coca-cola-snub-costs-company-billions...

Send us Fan Mail Just to be clear, Midlifing is not a side hustle. Lee and Simon talk about hobbies. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): pain de mie: https://www.tasteatlas.com/pain-de-mie pullman tin: https://www.bitchinfrommelanieskitchen.com/2021/04/how-to-bake-a-pullman-loaf-in-a-pullman-bread-pan.html Chorleywood bread process (19...

Send us Fan Mail Simon is dealing with a cold and Lee is empathetic. Special guests (not literally): Kermit the Frog, Animal, Mr Miyagi, someone throwing glasses in a cocktail bar in Lisbon, Ian Ellis, Doctor Emmett "Doc" Brown, and Thom Yorke. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): Muppets Christmas Carol Marley and Marley: htt...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee talk about being beginners, selling bones, and the Dao of butchering a cow. They also finally use the word behove. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): Simon's apron: https://www.skellis.net/midlifing/apron FAST (stroke symptoms): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAST_(stroke) Mnemonic: https://en.wikipe...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon talk about flags and t-shirts as absurd shorthands for far more nuanced ideas. Oh, and they talk about the word dude, Barbra Streisand's cloned dogs and a beautiful beautiful hug. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): dude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude mate: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee discuss irrelevance ... and pigs and other mammals. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): A humongous loaf of bread: https://skellis.net/midlifing/humongous Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit": https://youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg Nirvana playing "School" at Reading in 1991 (awesome dancing): htt...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon start with Jef's deep sniffs. They then move into a brief career as film reviewers before digging into a conversation about perfectionism, being a fraud and the Pomodoro technique. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): The Truman Show (bumping into the edge of the world): https://youtu.be/Gn5kuDdeGzs B...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee discuss itchy feet, talking side by side and starting a cult. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): The Year Earth Changed: https://youtu.be/XswV_yqPq28 Itching, shingles and cerebrospinal fluid (not for the faint-hearted): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/30/the-itch New Zealand OE: https://en.wi...

Send us Fan Mail Simon and Lee discuss their shop-owning fantasies and how real they really are. But the conversation jags into death and dying and those four emails you need to get done before your bucket gets kicked. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net (and/or send in your "How much do you hate Lee?" numbers). Related links (and necessary corrections): Tracking down T...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon meander into a conversation about freedom, vaccinations, not pushing elderly people out of the queue and new memories on your telephone. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): Blood clots and vaccines: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/pill-blood-clots-vaccine-covid-astrazeneca-b1818613.html Freedom march...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon talk about a different set of neighbours: the ones that sing songs out of tune throughout the night. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): wimple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimple jaundice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaundice egg whites for curly hair: https://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/ingre...

Send us Fan Mail While doing the dishes Simon sees something he'd rather not and Lee and he end up in a conversation about men, masturbation and misogyny. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): Wet rot wood treatment: https://handymantips.org/identify-and-treat-wet-rot/ Ship of Theseus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus h...

Send us Fan Mail Last week's episode was only the preamble to a conversation about pleasure. Simon and Lee talk about making things, hedonism, cooking scones and ... incinerating children in a volcano. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): Don't Dream It, Be It (Rocky Horror Picture Show): https://youtu.be/8wLArncKxag Do what c...

Send us Fan Mail A lovely opening gambit about the difference between competence and skill turns Lee and Simon's pre-show natter into the show itself. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Just three related links: Christian Marclay's The Clock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film) Surgeon Simon Bramhall signing his initials on livers: https://www.theguar...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon start talking about being at school and end up at burgeoning sexuality and Bob the Drag Queen. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull and disruption to travel (for 6 days, NOT 10 days -- come on Simon, sort it out), April 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull...

Send us Fan Mail Lee and Simon take too long getting to the three questions, which in themselves are the start of a chat about community. Also, Lee edited out all Simon's mentions of Bruce Springsteen. Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net . Related links (and necessary corrections): We don't know whether we got it right about things that are random vs things that are arb...