by Liz Deacle | Podcasts
We need your help. Or at least one of us does.
As you may remember, Liz’s book is currently with the editor. The nice one with the blonde hair.
Last week the editor sent back the first two chapters. Full of edits. These edits were accompanied by an email that said, “these edits are suggestions. This is your book. You get to say what stays or goes”.
I told you she was nice.
The trouble is, there’s a problem. A big problem. Something that Liz never anticipated when she so cockily employed a professional editor…
Liz is a recovering people pleaser. Actually, that’s a lie. She hasn’t recovered yet. She’s still in the acceptance phase.
So our question to you, lovely listener, is this:
Does what I read out in this episode offend you? Is it too graphic? Or does this slightly sick-but-still-funny attempt at humour tickle you?
We would love to know. Email Liz at [email protected] or Brian at [email protected]
Thank you, and enjoy!!
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by Liz Deacle | Parenting Teenagers, Podcasts
Tessa is our daughter. She is 18. In two days’ time, she will leave me, Brian and her older brother (and the home where she grew up) to start a new life in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. Alone. Brian and I will officially be empty nesters.
Regular listeners to our podcast will know the effect this huge transition has had on us. Especially me. These past few months have been tough.
I always imagined that when the time came for my kids to leave home, I would be this super cool, open, liberal, go-with-the-flow parent. One who relished the opportunity of having the house to herself so she could indulge in some grown-up, mature stuff with her husband.
But no. The opposite is true (Sorry, Bri). I’m clinging to those apron strings so tightly that the poor girl can’t go to the bathroom without me trailing behind her…
In this week’s behind-the-scenes episode, you will be treated to something very rare. A one-to-one in-depth talk between me and my daughter. In it, she shares every thought going through her lovely head as she makes this big transition into adulthood. Enjoy.
PS: Enjoyed the show? Email me at [email protected] and let me know! I will pass any messages on to Tessa
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by Liz Deacle | Podcasts
Bummer: Noun. 1. An unpleasant situation. 2. A Traveler. 3. A motherless calf. 4. A fouler.
We make lots of bloopers on this podcast. Say embarrassing things that make the other person’s jaw drop. Sometimes we edit these blunders out, but most of the time, we leave them in. I’d like to tell you that this is because we are transparent and real. Authentic and vulnerable. But the truth is, we’re lazy. Editing takes ages. Hours, sometimes. There’s no WAY Bri can spend that much time fine-tuning our conversations and turning them into something intelligent. Not when the hedges need trimming.
Take this week’s episode, for example. Here is part of the conversation that Liz and Brian have about a certain man-eater that took a fancy to Brian in Paris:
Liz: “She fancied you…No sooner were we on the road than she sent you that Whatsapp message.”
Bri: “She was just being nice”
Liz: “Yeah…but she didn’t know that you would be reading her message from the front of the car, did she? You with your smelly bum…”
I know. How cruel. A (just for the record) totally untrue. Lies. All of it. Honest.
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by Liz Deacle | Podcasts
We desperately wanted to bring you an upbeat, humorous podcast to kick the year off, but sometimes life just doesn’t turn out that way.
So you are getting the alternative. The real stuff. A conversation between a husband and wife trying to navigate life.
You are also getting PART 3 from the first chapter in Liz’s upcoming book (which I still can’t think of a title for?!).
Thank you for being here. Thank you for creating a space where we feel safe enough (and brave enough) to share the things that others might hide.
Thank you.
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by Liz Deacle | Funny, Podcasts
Every year is the same. October rolls around, and, without fail, the same futile conversation takes place.
“Let’s make a pact!” Me and Bri say cheerfully as we slurp on our pumpkin soup, “This Christmas, we will…
1: Not go overboard on presents. After all, the holiday season is about being together, not scanning the presents like scavvy vultures to see who’s spent the most. Hurray!
2: Keep the meal nice and simple. No foo-fah for us.
3: Turn off all devices. We will play board games and talk after dinner. Be like the Waltons.
4: Go easy on the alcohol. (Not sure why). Just because it’s more organic and healthy. Yippee!
5: Smile and be happy. Always.
And every single year, the same thing happens.
We…
1: Spend shit loads of money, then get mad when each child doesn’t fall at our feet with gratitude and say, “Wow! Thank you! I know how hard you work. I can’t tell you how grateful I am for this box of Ferrero Rocher.”
2: Spend all day slaving over the stove making a stupidly fancy creme caramel recipe that is far too hard and involves separating eggs. Which, when served at dinner, is assumed to be shop bought.
3: Take out the phone a billion times a day and say. “Oh wait! let me video it! I’ll need to remember this when you leave home, and I’m sad and dead”.
4: Sulk because the kids don’t say how wonderful and scrumptious your creme caramel is.
5: Get pissed.
6: Get in a mood. Cry. Be miserable. Moan. Feel guilty for mentioning death at Christmastime. Cry a bit more.
This is the last podcast episode of 2022, so we thought we’d go out with a band. No holding back with this one…!
Today you will discover the reality of the holiday season in the Deacle family household, Brian’s French run-in with the runs and why Liz will never feel the same about a certain perfume ever again…
Sending you many and much of everything lovely and bright.
Liz and Bri x
Oh, dear…I know that your heart was in the right place Bri, but this perfume reminds me of…
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by Liz Deacle | Podcasts
For years, Brian and I have disagreed over what Christmas morning should look like. What traditions we should pass down to our young children. Presents wrapped or unwrapped? Gifts given or hidden? Tree artificial or real? Mummy sloshed or sober?
Decisions, decisions…
In this week’s Christmas special, we let three ghosts out of the bag…Take a skeleton out of the closet and treat you to a third reading of Liz’s book. This is a snippet from Chapter one, where Liz introduces you to her kids and tells you why she threw everything in the air to backpack the world on a shoestring with the family.
Whatever you are doing this holiday season, know that we send you peace, love and happiness and wish nothing but the best for you in 2023.
Enjoy!
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