Louise Thompson

God, if you loathed your sibling...

No, I agree with what you're saying.

I think you mentioned something about memories there, which struck a chord with me.

I think even if you've got, as you said, like some bad memories and then some good ones, like a memory is a memory and it does still form who you are and kind of shapes your childhood.

And it's hard to give an answer without any context, right?

about why you loathed that sibling because for all we know like they could have killed their pet or that's intense or no but like anything could have happened so sometimes it is hard to claw back you know a relationship when something really bad has happened I always apologize to you first I always apologize to you first always lay out the olive branch are you I don't know whether you're joking I'm being deadly serious well you actually think that you always apologize do you yeah

Well, hand on heart, you're being serious.

We've done some like... Okay, so here's the easier thing.

Before you have the tricky conversation, the DMC, deep, meaningful conversation, you've got... Sometimes it's easier to write a letter or go back and forth with some very well-constructed text messages.

We've done that before where there have been like...

I'm so comfortable with the chef she's disappearing I would say take some time off would be my primary bit of advice to like enjoy it at the beginning which I think is hard because for men you only really get two weeks annual leave or like paternity leave but if you were able to like carve out a bit more time

it wouldn't be wasted.

I know you work currently like on the weekends and you do hits radio on Saturday morning, but I think like those moments are so precious.

So you wouldn't want to just like breeze through them because they're in a young ones.

And that's so cliche.

It goes really quickly.

And, and even though like one of the good things about me, the only good thing about me being so sick at the beginning, after Leo was born was the fact that I had to like completely slow down to the point of being stationary.

So I couldn't work.

and i was at home a lot so i was there for all of those memories even though lots of them were really bad i also then was there for any like good sort of glimmer of hope memories that um were in that chunk of time as well and what else oh get used to shit because i i feel like i would struggle with oh with the shit yeah that's something that i i get like what do you do with cat shit

Do you wipe Leo's bum now when he goes for a poo?