 to date. It hasn't been very riveting. We have been talking about how to set up the tech, but we will get there. We promise there's loads to come. And of course it is part of Highland Radio's 34th birthday celebrations. There's loads happening here today as if you've been listening all day. There's been a huge mix-up in the schedule and we're here now until half past two and it's all in need of three charities. So we're going to raise money for Jigsaw Donnie Gull, Breast Care Centre North West and the Irish Wheelchair Association. So you can log on to HighlandRadio.com. There's a link to the iDonate page there. You can donate as much as you want and we have a huge auction. We'll get an update on how that's going. There's some great lots up for auction. I wouldn't mind one of them myself. But if you're lucky enough and you can afford to donate and give us a call here and we'll get an update now shortly on what they're going for at the minute. But hello ladies, how are you? Good, good. We had a bit of a brief and I sent through some things and then people told me I haven't really looked at that but that's good because we're going to have a bit of fun aren't we? Trudy wants to talk about fashion. Is it just fashion Trudy? That was what we were told initially in the briefing. It's just a little talk about fashion and stuff and then McKella sends a lovely email and there's no mention of fashion anywhere in the email. Get it in quick Trudy. Well, I love one of your fashion stories. I don't know if you remember telling this. This is why your motto whenever you're buying clothes is you only buy them if. You don't have to iron them. That's fact. No, this is fact actually. No, I don't iron anything. And if it does so happen that you have to put something on and there are wrinkles sometimes there might be a collar. There's two options at that point. You put the item on and you get the hairdryer and the hairdryer will take out the wrinkles. Oh, you don't have to spray it? No, no, no. The hairdryer does but you have to have it on at that point. And then if you do have sometimes you know the shirts or sometimes in the blazers they might have the collar, the hair straighteners. Have you ever burned yourself? No, no, no. I'm a pro at this. This is years old. This is a years old technique. No, and in fairness like if you do see me wearing wrinkly clothes you can't point that out tonight. You're straighteners this morning. No, generally when I am out kind of buying stuff I tend to not buy anything that you would have to iron. I just don't think that far forward at all. You talked about burning yourself I remember whenever I was teaching and I would wear a suit or whatever and there was a crease in the middle of my skirt and I got the iron and I went to put the iron down and the skirt moved off and I went round with a triangle of the iron. Oh, no. For about three or four weeks, yeah. So I just remember that story when you were talking about ironing. Oh, no. Yeah, that's probably something I would end up doing in the morning trying to get ready for school. And there was a man on the staff too and he was a single man at the time living with other men and of course at that stage male teachers had to wear a short and tie and he hadn't time to iron the shirt so he just ironed the two pieces but he got really warm to take off the jacket. Oh, no. So we'll not mention any names just in case I might have to be tuned in. But I do sometimes in the morning like if I'm running out and if I'm on early I iron my clothes the night before but I might be pulling out a coat the other way your wardrobe's jammed and like they're not even in straight but I pick out the coat and I'm like it needs ironed but I'll be like maybe they'll think I just got crease driving down. So I just... In the car, it was in the car. Lady, she needs to just get a steamer. I did have one of them, yes. No, I bought a cheap one and it was grand but I used to lose the will pulling it in and out all the time. No. True. Have you got one she needs? Well, I'm just sitting here thinking who, who ironed anymore? Like who really maybe... Do you not iron either then? No. Do you have a steamer? If it's really, really bad and it's very lazy, it's the best. Yeah. Steamer all the way. I did. Do you have a steamer in the car? I don't have a day that James always... whenever it was when he had to cause a lot of creases he'd have a steamer in the car if you want to go out. I suppose he's travelling round, yeah. Do you know when you're on about ironing? Because I, do you know it's such a woman thing isn't it from years ago like we're at home doing our ironing but funny I'm just thinking who actually irons one of the Highland Radio's you know it was actually this time last year it was the birthday bash and I had to go down for rehearsal for the Highland Radio concert and it was with Daniel. Daniel was there last year. Daniel O'Donnell, just in case nobody knows I'm in first name basis. From all and everybody knows Daniel in first name basis. He's Daniel. But anyway, you know I was thinking the show wasn't to eat and I had to be there for 12 to practice and I was thinking oh Daniel's very prepared as I was practicing and Daniel was here with the ironing board. Oh, fair play. So he staged ironing his full band shirt. I thought he would just pick it up in the dressing room. He was ironing them all. So he ironed everybody's shirts for that. So Daniel... Yeah, my husband always slags me that I don't iron his clothes and I'm like, no way. I am not getting into that because my mum irons everything from my dad even going on holidays. He just has to turn up the airport. It's packed, it's ironed everything and I was like I'm not going down that line. No way. Maybe if somebody donates in our iron, we'll do a bit of ironing. Well, I think you're on your own. We want the sweetest. I have a friend. I hope Daniel's listening. I have a friend who's a daughter that takes the misery out of ironing because she pours herself a glass of wine and she does the ironing. Oh yes, that would be good. Then she'd be thinking everything would be ironed. As long as the telephone doesn't... There was sort of a joke years ago about how did the carry man burn his ear? He was ironing when the phone rang. Okay, anyway, enough of the ironing. We did want to talk about something a bit serious. That's a fashion sorted now then. That's a fashion out of the way, aren't it? Something else now. So we have all seen, we've all been chatting about it all week, this photo of Kate Milton on Mother's Day doing the rounds. First she was on Instagram and I was admitting earlier I was like, I didn't even notice that it wasn't photoshopped. Maybe it's just me, that there was me liking it and not realizing, oh no. But it's everywhere now. You see pubs like posting it, look who turned up and I love everybody quoting her phrase now like an amateur photographer I dabble in editing and it's just appeared everywhere but it's like, I love these conspiracy theories. Like I love conspiracy theories but I don't believe them but I just love everybody is convinced and they're like, I know why she's not being seen but it's just gone crazy. And you do worry then, is this all everybody jumping on it or is there actually something wrong but maybe I'm creating a conspiracy theory now, am I? It's just when there's a lack of information people speculate and that's the thing that if there was nothing wrong why just have her appear? She appeared after having given birth to her children the next day and so did Princess Diana and everybody's like, you do think is there something terribly wrong? She lost a lot of weight, has she gone through chemo? And it would be so good just to get a statement and I know she's entitled to her privilege as well because they did release a statement then and say that was it Easter? Hi, that's what we were on about earlier that they have released a statement that she won't be seen until Easter so it's not Easter yet. It is a statement of such. I think it's crazy, but I do quite enjoy these people coming on like TikTok and they're like, this is why and I think there was actually one it was like a reputable source and I was like watching it and I was like had to check who had posted this and I was like, is this for real? But then I do read this stuff but people are so invested and they just want to get to the bottom if what happened or what possibly happened. They might have to wait a couple of weeks until Easter. Easter's not too far away, yeah. On the flip side of that though why did such a badly edited picture get out? I know everyone's trying to clear the blemishes a bit but the way we shared its hand was half gone. There's so many funny things that I'm just thinking. But yeah, I didn't even notice that. I didn't notice anything. Has there been another photograph as well about her in the car? Yes, I'd seen that. There was another photo then came out and her and William the prince, I know we were slagging Daniel on his first name basis. Our friend William, our friend William, yeah. So there was a photo of the two of them in the back of the car but then somebody said no, this image is from an event she was at and like imposed her head from the event back on. So I don't know, it's just mad. And then there was the photo then of her and her mum so it's like, was that true or was that her sister and it's just madness. It is, it's hard to know. You have to ask then, was it really true that Paddington bearer met the queen already called to jail? I don't know, do you guys have my reservations about that one? For Paddington. For Paddington is right, yeah. But yeah, we'll just have to wait and see, won't we? Yeah, that's it. Hyne will tell, it's almost Easter. It's almost Easter, is that what you're most looking forward to? Three weeks, three weeks now. I got an Easter egg this morning. She did not. I was actually singing for a lovely lovely woman. We were singing for, well, there were some men there too, but me and the woman and I was thinking, you know, these women would show you how to live. They were an active elderly group up in Bobfay. And I took a moment to myself and thinking, it's 10 o'clock in the morning and I'm singing and people are line dancing and while eating birthday cake. And I was like, isn't this fabulous? Lovely. And so yeah, they gave me an Easter egg for singing for them so it was lovely, but it was a lovely start to the morning and they were celebrating birthdays there as well, and one of the ladies was Eddie Four and she was fabulous. Fabulous. So I was thinking of them as I was driving down there and coming to this woman. They were letting it all list this morning and the dance floor has to end. I'm going to give us a demonstration. But I think all that's great. I was thinking of our age group, you know, when we're in our 80s, like, you know, what would be, I just think it's wonderful that they meet up, socialise, make the best of the morning. So they'll be singing and dancing. I will be. He's just a wonderful thing. Singing away and dancing away. You'll be going in to the old people's homes dancing and you'll be older than everybody there. I'll be one of them ones who's like, I'm far too old to be going to that. No, you're never too old. Absolutely not. 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Perfect, perfect, perfect. Okay. Okay, obviously not. Anyhow, there's a new leader in that and that is Rush, sorry, No Barriers, opposite us at Highland Radio and they've gone a distance of six kilometers and they've gone a distance of 16.2 kilometers. Mind you, it's just got very serious because Ethan McGill has pulled out a few heavy hitters and there's Mark Hunter on the bike at the moment and then beside him is Colin Richardson who has sailed through all sorts of records on the 555, so they're definitely going to put it up to No Barriers so we'll see how they get on and they're on there at the moment. The Highland team, well we're trying to get to Glenn Cullen Kill or to Sleeve League to be honest and Keith is on the bike at the moment and he is, I'm told, distance-wise he's actually in Ballet Buffet so I'm doing well for a man that's come through the gap and still, yeah, yeah, still... Still going. Yeah, still. Anyhow, and fundraising, well we have some totals as to how we're getting on the fundraising and I just say that the winners, the most recent winners this is for everybody who donates on, I donate you're in with a chance of winning some prizes kindly donated by local businesses and there is Shara Crawford who gets a 50-year-old voucher for Evolve Men'swear in Nether County and Julie McFadden who gets a 100-year-old voucher to spend at Restick's Beds at Mountaintop so anybody who has donated or is intended to donate will be entered in for a chance to win one of those prizes I'm speaking of prizes, by the way, for the gyms and the clubs the trophy very kindly sponsored by Michael Murphy Sports so that's what they're aiming towards Keith is off the seat! He's off the seat! He's handing out a bottle of Evolve Men'swear He's giving it everything Greg is here, and Greg, you just need to tell us as to what the tallies are for the auction what the totals are at the moment Yeah, indeed, I can't wait to have that cycle and not my growery spray, he'll fly up that Before I talk about that just to talk about what's happening sort of at Nether County Shopping Centre as well because I've been down here for an hour or so and we have buckets here so if you're coming to Nether County Shopping Centre and walking past people have been so generous throwing coins and cash into those buckets as well and we actually have a card machine as well so not everyone carries cash now so if you want to tap a donation please come up to one of us here and we will sort you out we've had an amazing response so far today obviously we've got the iDonate page which is running on our website please if you've a five or a ten or a fifteen euro it's going to three amazing charities Cancer Care Northwest we have a jigsaw and the Irish Wheelchair Association every penny raised goes to them a big part of this fundraising too is our auction I want to give you a run through because some of you are tuned in that maybe weren't on in the morning and you have an opportunity to donate but at the same time win a great price I'll be brief here dinner freight with Gary O'Hanlon has already bid 4,000 euro but if you can beat that please give us a call in 07491 25,000 an overnight stay in Lochess Castles current bid 425 euro but that can be beaten so please dig deep a three night stay at the Wild Atlantic Cab we have a 450 euro donation on that seven nights in a luxury four-bed villa in Spain all you have to do is book your flights it's available August to September that's only at 900 euro and that's got really good access to the airport and local towns and hotspots and what have you we also have a two night stay at Harvey's Point that's sitting at 450 so we could get up to five could we 07491 25,000 20 ton decorative stone thanks to our friends at GMG Port Road this was a hot, hot item and the current bidding is 530 euro but it's 20 ton of decorative stone delivered to your house Harvey's Point Sunday lunch for four that's just at 250 I know someone out there might be able to bid on that bid please 07491 25,000 this is a cracking price worth a minimum of 500 euro it's a Highland radio trip to Hamilton in Dublin including two tickets two good tickets overnight stay and also your trip includes the the traveler and everything that's just at 200 quid that's an absolute steal get in on that a flight to Glasgow to return tickets that is 200 euro so someone out there can top that please and a voucher for two at Nevin McGuire's restaurant that's at 1600 euro someone can beat that and we also have a hamper as well so please get in touch with us 07491 25,000 make the dreams come true for the Irish Wheelchair Association for Jigsaw and Irish Cancer Care North West and someone's going to get a folly's in letter Kelly and Battle of the Fave voucher for 180 quid at the moment it's worth 250 quid coming at 200 it's worth a lot of saving 50 quid so there are still some fantastic bargains to be out here go on to our website highlandradio.com please bid bid bid and please also well you can bid best way to do that 07491 25,000 but you can go to iDonate on our website Keith Letcher what's the word that begins with F? John I'll give it to you here you want to chat to Keith, go on I'm talking to Keith this is what happens when three presenters they can't figure it out I know you'd swear we didn't work on radio I don't want to chew into your time but just Keith is just off the bike and I have to say you went to town for the last two or three minutes we sort of coached along and then we did a couple of intervals at the end so I think I got like 11 kilometers done in the 20 minutes I did six yeah indeed brilliant stuff and what a great cause isn't it and a great day to be a part of Keith yeah this is sort of like our big charity would this be like our red rose day this is it and I was thinking there Ivan and I 34 years today I did the first 17 years on the power and Ivan has done the last 17 and I'm on with them the same day that's the DJ mashup by the way that's coming up after the news at 5 we've got Keith Ivan canisters in there is he who else? Marty's coming and Joe Dex might be up as well so that's going to be a brilliant couple of hours of music and nostalgia and slagging I hope I would hope so yeah please highlandradio.com go to the I Donate page or if you want to bid on any of our items the team up at the radio station will tell you where they're at and what you need to bid to win 07491 25000 we're doing this all for jigsaw they do amazing work with young people who need help with their mental health cancer care north west of course we all know the amazing art that they do and the brilliant charity which is the Irish wheelchair association if you're in there Kenny please call in and say hello to us we'll hand it back to you Mikaela thanks so much for letting us in great thanks Greg and as Greg mentioned there hop on to highlandradio.com there is a link to our Charlie Day banner at the top of the page if I can get that out and you can log on there and click the I Donate then so there's lots happening ladies have you escaped the bike Jean you're going down I've already been I was there from 20 to 11 o'clock and I'll tell you I felt like John Wayne getting off his horse I realised I should get a bike or something just for the exercise but no it was great atmosphere it's great to get involved as I sit here and I'm not going on the bike Trudy's going as well aren't you I will pop down and I can jump on for a wee bit I'm going to suspect it to make sure there's no cheating people also need to have some cheerleaders oh I'll do that yeah there's a few buckets I'll hold a bucket there we go fair play to everybody down there Tommy Rosney as well just after his operation he was on after me the new need he's playing he was up here saying we could do it every day and I was thinking I'm not doing it for time no thank you we're going to take another quick break and we'll be back shortly with the best virgin media Ireland's best broadband with full fibre and speeds of two gig is now available in Donegal check your area on virginmedia.ie it's playtime virgin media sponsors of around the north west don't miss the BAFTA award winning comedian Michael McIntyre's brand new show magnificent at the SSZ Arena Belfast on Friday the 31st of May 2024 as always Highland Radio make it easy for you as we look after all your needs we will provide luxury transfers overnight stay at the Clinton Hotel Belfast on a B&B basis your ticket to the show shopping time in Belfast city centre for more information go to theoutlet at highlandradio.com or give us a call on 07491 25,000 Michael McIntyre in Belfast I've just had the eclipse cinemas experience wow they truly have taken a night at the movies to a whole new level amazing recliner chairs director's lounge VIP room pizza and hot food served to your seat have a glass of wine and enjoy the film on the big screen try it for yourself at eclipse cinemas Lyfford Sturban where the stars shine brighter by the way the pizzas are amazing you can book your seat anytime 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temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees isn't it great just seeing the sunshine today yes i love that when you wake up and you see the sun's grey smell the summer i love that when you step off an airplane you can actually smell you can smell like urinaldo so we were talking there about a survey by wix has found 1 in 10 have 550 year worth of culinary gadgets that are never switched on and we were talking then about how this leads to clothes that we buy that are never on i always do a readout and i'm like note this would match this and this would match this but i never wear them do you have anything trudy i'm looking at you are the wardrobe that has the different size clothes and there's like the skinny wardrobe and then the i'm going to fit into that wardrobe and then the wardrobe i think that's one of the things and it's very hard to i suppose for a lot of women that may be up and down and their weight it's very hard then to get rid of clothes if they don't fit you at that particular point i think that's the thing it's very difficult because you always want to fit into it at some point and we will yes we will we'll get on that bike we'll get on that bike i went to mad when i got into the skinny clothes and i was like we're never going back and threw out everything and two months down the line i was like nothing fits anymore but i always find it hard to like i love clothes but i always find it hard i always want to wear it to work and then once i wear it to work i'm like that's not my everyday clothes then and i don't so i have more of like a work wardrobe than i do going out and then i'm like i have nothing so i have to go buy something new again but sure it keeps us happy doesn't it i have loads of glitter really yeah so it's fine you don't just keep it to Christmas it's not just a Christmas well it's a stage thing but then it's like when i'm going what do i wear and i'm normal i'm really bad at dressing myself your thought is it's a stage thing why would you not work let her everyday they see me comment that would be lovely for singing and i'm like i'll take two it's a problem and you know i've even found it in not plug business but cherry blossom boutique like i've found it so much obviously it's pre love clothes and it can be like an emotional thing shopping it's such an emotional thing we all do it to make ourselves feel better that's it and i'm having a bad day in my head pennies buy and it makes you feel better and there's so many especially probably through covid you're right really so many people have either gained weight lost weight women middle age like everybody listening everybody's bodies changed at some point or another and yeah clothes but like you still should hold on to it because it all comes back like you know the way they say something in the 70s come but i find even like something from like the 90s is coming by like you know them baggy combat trousers like i remember going into what did you call the shop was a tamay thinking back now super chopper tamay and i loved it but it is it's all come back i wouldn't wear that now though i don't think well but combats are very like it's so true everything does come back baggy looks cool i have one for about maybe 15 years oh gosh because it was the time that it took sister act up to Dublin with the development and there was this denim skirt almost identical for 89 95 she said jeez i could one of those in my wardrobes so it'll be out now she'll have saved me i'm a hoarder would you wear something twice not in a night out though if i wore something on a night out yeah i don't know if i'd wear it on another night out or i would change it up yeah and it kind of depends like where you're going like say if you were say you're going out in letter Kenny i wouldn't wear it out again in letter Kenny would it be with the same people or in general in general also because i love buying clothes but then you wouldn't get rid of it either no that's my problem too yeah build up and things build up and eventually you're left with absolutely no space in your wardrobe but you know what feeling then decluttering then there is no and then it's like oh my god all the things now i can buy but then i regret it so much then when i do declutter like i had this lovely years ago my mom bought it to me this lovely denim tommy hill figure jacket i wouldn't wear it now but for years and years i kept it but it was like had a buckle here it sounds terrible and at the back it was like pleated denim but i was like no that is amazing i'm going to keep it i did eventually get rid of it but then i'm like maybe it will still come back it's too late now i could have came back i don't know well denim is very in this year it's very heavy so you could have been a trend makilla what's the oldest thing you have in your wardrobe caroline rang me about the things and it's the only thing i remember she said i heard about kate middleton and i was like oh i don't really listen to news what am i going to say nothing's about music oh i listened to highland radio of course but no i did laugh because she said you know how we all have something from when we're maybe 13 or 15 and i was like caroline you probably still fits me well aren't you lucky she did she's ever getting the medals the declutter and you take everything out to go through it and then you just sit down you're like what have i started yeah it takes about three days then god and usually whenever i give anything away to charity i'm sure they recycle it because i say i might wear that again you know and they say that you should have three bags in your decluttering one that you're definitely going to get rid of a maybe bag and i'm definitely going to keep but i never have the maybe bag it's just i'm going to keep that from coming again or i might wear it with something else i ever have it now of doing whenever i'm kind of decluttering around and i close it now goes into the costumes bag for shows and stuff which is another it's another separate bundle again and that's kind of the it should really be do i need to throw it away or not so it's the maybe bundle so now that's kind of costumes which do eventually be used for shows and stuff but you kind of do if you're throwing out stuff that you might not wear you're always kind of envisaging something down the line that you might use that for and then you regret some of those silliest things that you might not wear but suddenly you're doing something on a show on a stage and you need that silly things just tell me do you know what happens in my house to my mom well she was probably listening but like hi mom she'll do your readout and then like some things like she give me a box our bag of stuff was from like i mean probably about 20 years ago and she'd be like you know that's your wee bits there or i wasn't using this i'll give you this now some things are really handy like she give me like a travel iron and a blender and stuff like that now her hand take but like some of the bag is still sitting under the stairs and i was actually like what's that and he's like that's stuff there your mom might give you like i do you know i will look at it and i have it there and you know but we do have so much we know that we're never going to wear but they've too much value to get rid of don't they like and you're like it's a sin to get rid of that especially things with labels as well that's the thing sometimes just throw it all up to terry blossom we take it rid of it all now but do you know where is that again where is it i was actually thinking that we could give away a voucher today for the boutique at some stage we'll throw it in all joking aside it's a lovely fashion now going by in wholesale because it's very new to me but it's really difficult and there's not much out there and again like i love the concept of we're all sharing wardrobes in a sense in a little shop that it's like that's you know because i've obviously i've had dresses they're too good to give away i put them in but then i see a young girl away out in it and she's delighted and she couldn't get anything like that and so it is that sense of at least it's got a new home and it's very cozy you run out the door after then actually we might get in the other two or three you'd be like i need to bring these home again it is so hard we get so emotionally attached i know and i've done that to you where i have i really wanted this dress and nothing would do you couldn't get it anywhere i can't remember where i got it then but i mean i searched and searched so people like could have been looking for them kind of dresses and then or that brand or whatever it is and they found it then old brands are so good i'm sure we all have things for years like there's i don't know i just when you're talking about brands i remember whenever i was teaching i'm sure there's some past people out there were saying i hope they did not say anything too bad just last year team but for our car service i used to always get a coat because you know the deputy principal we should always do one of the readings and i remember getting a coat from back in the days with fs hooper man and it was a really good coat and i'm still wearing it now and i'm retired and i'm retired now in 2013 so like i'm sure it's about five or six years before that that i bought it and i said god i would love to get a coat with the hooper man and i checked online no hooper man and then all of a sudden Amy hooper man put up this post and said that her dad had been a closed designer and that somebody had been in a charity shop and found one of his coats at 60 euros or something like that and sent it to her and it was a random act of kindness and i said well that's who the designer was dead now and she was only a teenager whenever he was designing clothes and she never really thought much about it because she was into all the denim and now she's just so sorry that she said on her instagram post that she didn't take more interest but that was his coat and this lovely lady she said sent her the coat i still have it and i messaged her and said i have one too but i wouldn't part with it but it is really like things are sentimental too like we were on about hoarding like i am such a hoarder you know like bursty cards like from whenever i was like 16 i still keep them it's terrible but are all these things at all i'll need that someday yeah memory box i think everyone has yeah i saw a good one on on social media it was called an xbox but it was boxes from past relationships but i had everything in it my sister was telling me her friend this is a lovely idea talk about memory boxes so her boyfriend buys her flowers she keeps them so she dries them out then and if they get married she'll use them as part of the decorations somebody was really prepared nobody buys us flowers nobody buys us flowers just saying five lovely women up here in Thailand today the boys got coffee this morning 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Welcome back, and as mentioned earlier, it's all part of Highland Radio's 34th Birthday Celebrations here today. We've loads happening. I'm joined with Donnery Daugherty, Schnee Black, Trudy O'Donnell, and Jean Kern. And we're here until half-two. There's loads to come later on. There's a spin-a-thon. I've been struggling to say that tonight, to make sure I'm sitting properly. Spin-a-thon ongoing at Letter-Kennie Shopping Centre. There's loads of the crew down there. There's loads of gyms taken part as well. You can head over to HighlandRadio.com, click on the banner, and it'll take you to our I Donate page. And you can donate there. There's also an auction. All the details are on our Facebook page. There's loads. They're amazing. Lots up for auction. So, check out our Facebook page, and then give us a call here on 07491 25,000. We have a few messages. We were talking earlier about hoarding things just before the break. Someone texted and said, I find it so hard to part with my kids' clothes. Have bags of clothes in the attic. How do I be worthless? I don't know. I keep my dogs things, but that's it. I've no experience of children. I'm with you on that one, Mikaela and Furnace. Yeah, because, yeah. I suppose I have a lot of, not a lot of, but I have some of their favourite toys in the attic. Is this the children or the dogs, Jean? Oh, no. I don't have any dogs. The children, okay. They're in their thirties and thirties now, but I still have them. And I thought, you know, just be something nice, maybe, if they ever have children of their own. Yes, that's lovely. It was one thing that I did do whenever they were small, and it was a friend of mine that had done it for her children, was I got their first shoes bronzed. Oh, that's lovely. So, Ronan and Keynes, their first shoes are bronzed, and there's a little plaque saying born the second of the 11th, 90, and the eighth of the 12th, 95. Oh, that's so nice. So, and that's something that, an idea I got from someone else, it was a mile and double into them, and so they have them there now that they can show if they ever have kids. Oh, that's lovely. Yeah, a lot of people as well get their children's clothes, they'll pick out their favourites and get it done into like a blanket or into a teddy bear. Yeah, I've seen a teddy, yes. They have them, and it's, you know, it's a nice man. But then, I don't know if I'd want to cut everything up. That's the other side of it. I mean, there's people out there that are no doubt. I'm just a serious hoarder today, there's nothing I can do about it. Do you know what my, I don't have kids, I have lovely mean nieces and nephews, 13 of them actually, so I'm holding on very tightly to the cool aunt I sound like Tommy Bo, but 13. No, do you know what Charlotte Dawes is? This is the mummy of the kids. She actually gives all 13. No! She's good, she's not as good. The mummy of some of the kids. She gives the clothes to her friends and their kids be wearing them, so it's again like, you get to kind of, they're not fully away and somebody's getting you out of them, so it is, you know, not the special clothes, we're still all like McKayla, if you're a hoarder with that person listening, and it's a good idea to share them with your kids, because kids grow out of things so quickly. That's it, you know? Yeah, but now just the dog, me and Trudy, we're the dogs. Yeah, I do, and in fairness, like, I mean, if you've seen my dog, she does have a full wardrobe, go for clothes. Yeah, she does. Do you know what I ordered for my dog, right? Do you know where we're going to get abuse? We are going to get abuse. I don't care. I don't care. I got my dad, he was okay. It's okay. So it was a trench coat. A trench coat, right? I've got your dog, a trench coat. I didn't send him back then. Why? Yeah, because it was just slightly baked. I didn't suit, and I didn't... I did order a smaller size, but it just was not working. You make me feel a wee bit better because I have a dog. Okay, it's actually not my dog. My sister went to work one day. So the 13 nieces and the dog occasion is? Yeah, my sister, I get left with all the hands, but my sister went to work one day and was like, can you just keep the dog, take him home? And the dog is still there about eight years later. And like, this dog is named Lily. And, you know, this dog should have been dead years ago. God forgive me, but it's not, but it's like three... I don't know about that night. It's lived through being knocked over and having puppies. This dog was nine lives, exactly. That's what that is. So now I do treat her very well, we belly, and she's like 17 common. So you make me feel good that I've paid 30 euro for a jumper, a hunter jumper for this dog. That's really heavy. The trench coat tops it. Well, in fairness, I do... I suppose mostly in the River Island seal, for a lot of people out there that don't realize the dog section, Mikaela's face just lit up there. No, but I did say the seal, the seal, the seal. Yeah, the dog. And I suppose it's hard then buying for dogs because you can't really take them. You can't take them to try them on. If you take them to Harrods, Harrods have a full absolute humongous dog section. If you ever go into Harrods, it's great entertainment whenever he does land in. And they have their little dogs and their leads, and they all actually fall on trying on the dogs, but not so it's a case of trying on all the clothes on the dogs. We've opened a whole new can of words here, but not. So I think that might top the trench coat. Yeah, going to Harrods or going to River Island seal even. Yeah, not just online at the seal, not the dog clothes. And I think it's more because I know the size that fits. So whenever you buy something, that's it. You're not dealing with them having to do with Harrods. Yes, we do. Yes, exactly. Somebody actually just texted in there to say, maybe a relation if you're a Sinead. He's called Liz Woman. These are a crowd of hoarders and black. Oh, yeah, yeah. Is that a relation? And black, mommy black. Oh, okay, okay. And when I be cleaning up and you know how, especially now for Liz. Is Ann not a hoarder? Especially coming into Springtown now, I'm like, right, everything's getting dumped today. Don't speak to me, everything's getting dumped. Where are you going with that? I'm running out past the door. Because I live at home with my mom. And I'm trying to, you know, we don't need that. We don't need that declutter. It's great for the mind to be like, oh, I might need that someday. So your mom's the up. Absolutely. So that's about tongue and cheek there on. She's a giant. I know there's so many women listening going, yeah, I do that. Somebody else was in touch and said, my sisters hold everything. And every time something comes back into fashion, she always announces, oh, I have one of them. That's like what you're on about. And then in skirts. I think they're everywhere now, Jean. Yeah. Great. We also have a lovely message in here wishing us happy birthday. I'm just going to play it tonight. Hello, Seamus here for my motors, wishing everyone at Highland Radio a very happy birthday. And we're so proud to be partners of Highland Radio for the last 14 years. And just are doing a great job across the Northwest. Great. Thanks very much, Seamus. I'm just keeping a wee eye on our eye donate. And anybody who's just joined us like it would be great. It's very easily accessible. It's on Highland Radio there. And I've seen that iMotors also donated. And I see there's lots of generous. And there's also lots of two and three Euro. And you know what, if everybody listened today, just give two Euro that's up. Because how did the mouse eat the elephant? Every little bit helps, bit by bit. So, and that's what you could say. Okay. Additionally, it's very proud of that one. I know, I went to college for four years and I'm not going to lie to you. That's the only thing you could promise me. How did the mouse eat the elephant? The president of the L-O-A-T at the time said that. The very first day I never forgot it. Right. Okay. Words of wisdom for you there now. Okay, Sinead. Thank you for that. Somebody actually messaged in to say, I'd buy Sinead flowers. What about the rest of us? Do you know them as well? Or they could donate. Yeah, they could donate. We'd far rather that than flowers. I don't want to take the flowers away from Sinead now. I do need Sinead after that. Words of wisdom. People to donate. So there you go. Wasn't that nice of that? Donate the money. No doubt that was a fan of yours. Our list woman. Our and I. And then hashtag list woman and the donation. Hashtag flowers. Yeah, they know they weren't destined for us. But yeah, we have loads. As we mentioned there, you can donate to the price of a bunch of flowers for all five of us. Yeah. And you will be supporting Jigsaw, Donegal, Brest, Centre North West and the Irish Wheelchair Association. So rather than ringing up the floor, just hop on there to hynandradio.com and click I donate. Trudy, there's a special mention in here for you too as well. Can I just say congratulations to Trudy and all the staff and crew who performed and helped out at the Mulroy College variety show over the last two nights. It was absolutely amazing to watch. I loved every minute of it. That is from Rosie Kern in Dunstan. Oh, well done. Yeah, we did it in fairness. I mean, it is nice to get that we mentioned in. We had 102 of our students and there was I think at the end of the staff act, I think there's probably about 16 or 17 staff involved in that. So there's more than 120 of our whole school community in Mulroy College on the stage in a Greenham Theatre last night and the previous night as well on Wednesday night. And we performed Mamma Mia the Musical and we also had a variety of acts and it was absolutely unbelievable. And to see the kids, I mean the faces and the opportunity and the experience they get from that as well and making memories that they will never, ever, ever forget. Oh, yeah. I mean, if you can get a child on stage to do anything, that's an achievement. Even to stand up there. Do you see the passion in her? It's lovely to watch. And I said... I'm so proud of them though. It's just so proud. Yeah. It is. But I mean, it's been a lot of work. It just doesn't happen overnight. That's the thing. So this is my first Friday afternoon, not rehearsing since I actually don't know when. So... And you've just been first Friday afternoon. Here I am. Here I am. Yes, exactly. So once for that Rosemary. Yeah, that was lovely. The comments keep coming about the hoarding. Someone says, well, trip time memory lane as well. Talking about ironing in my day, we had green hill nappies for our babies. We used to iron them to have them soft for the baby. Oh, nice. I don't know what are they. I said probably the cloth. Yeah, the, yeah. Green hill. Yeah, there are the, yeah, the tauty nappies. Tauty, yeah. So are they the ones you would have physically washed? Wash jams. Thank God for the small nappies. Thank God we've moved on. That's 13 nieces. There's Miss Art to Protect, sitting beside you. There's Miss Art to Protect and the sustainability and everything. Yes, yes. You know what, Rosemary? After we were chatting, I was actually chatting with William's granny and we're on about sustainability and she just wasn't, you know, she was like, oh, you know, but, you start talking about things like you're reinventing the way. She's like, we had the glass milk bottles, we had the cloth nappies and all. And, you know, it's, it's so funny how it is trying to push back what was years ago. Yeah, bring it on. And it was changed a long way, that's it. But even like recycling now, you know, like years ago, like we wouldn't have been into it as much, but like my mom always slags me because at home, she says you would have thrown everything into the black bin whether it was recycling or not, seeing now in my own house. I wash everything out. I am a stickler for it. And it really annoys me then when somebody throws a coffee cup in, like a paper one and they don't wash it out and they don't take the lid off. And I'm like, that could be recycled. Have any of you managed to return any of the plastic bottles yet? I haven't done that yet. No, I haven't had the need to do that yet. But no, I just wondered. Curious. Anybody out there? Yeah, I'm just ready. And even the bottles of orange juice, and the shopping bill, there's 25 cents charged. So if you go through three or four bottles of orange juice a week, well, that's a euro. You know, that's the cost of the other bottle. Yeah, yeah. If you have, if I was chatting or just chatting at the house about it, if you have what you need to take back and put it into the shopping bag, when you're going in to do your shop, you have to walk past the machine on the way in. Yeah. You'll have your return, or your, it's kind of good. Yeah. What's the word for this? I'll turn it around. Yes. And you'll have it at the end. So it kind of works out that you'll get your deposit back and you won't necessarily be paying it if it's something that's in your weekly shop the next time around. Yeah, but I suppose you just need that preparation at home. You need to have the box or the plastic bottle bin or something like that. Most hoarders need to be organized. I'll not hold the plastic bottles over this. I've been trying to hoard the plastic bottles. I've made a designated counter for them and they mysteriously disappear. And I think it's my 16 year old nephew trying to, God love me, he's just trying to help out. But I'm like, just don't try to get away with the money himself, take them back. Yeah. Yeah. Don't worry. Never mind trying to help, come on. Did you not pick up on that? That's what happened somewhere in the cotton, because we were in Amsterdam for a few days last year and you saw homeless people going around taking out the tins. Yes. They would take them back to the place and get the money, which was, yeah. Maybe your nephew's going to get some extra pocket money. God knows what is that. We're going to take another short break and we'll be stripped back. Get with the best. Virgin Media, Ireland's best broadband with full fiber and speeds of two gig is now available in Donegal. Check your area on virginmedia.ie. It's playtime. Virgin Media, sponsors of Around the Northwest. 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She's an amazing woman and helped me so much along the way in school. Her fashion trends were always on point. Always remember your lovely coats at the Carol service too and that's from Ruth. Isn't that lovely? Oh, thank you. Thank you so much Ruth. And did I know who Ruth is and a lovely young lady so she is now. Yeah, that's lovely. I get all emotional now. You were so tender earlier as well. Let's hurt. Is it St. Patrick's Day your first time on air? It was 34 years ago. Yeah, 34 years ago I was one of those. That's something now. Yeah, yeah. So it's also your birthday, Jean. Yeah. Happy birthday, Jean. Happy birthday to our birthday, yes. I can't believe that. Oh, thank you so much. So as I said, you know, I think some of my friends call me tiny tears because if you say anything nice to me, I cry. Yeah. If you say anything... I'm the same, that's okay. Yeah, me too. You can insult me all you like and I won't but if anybody says anything nice to me, there I go. It's lovely though to see your passions coming out. Trudy was getting all wind up and I was just saying to Trudy when she landed in, oh my god, I had two nights of thinking, I said you don't realise, you know, what you're doing for them kids and it's something you carry throughout your life. Yeah. And I think too, you know, because we used to have the concerts in the Royal Empire whenever I was teaching there too and the people, they're not academic and they shine and they're given a chance to show what they're good at and it's a great, so, you know... I think one of the things, my favourite part of that then is yesterday and today even going into school and some of the teachers and people in the school are going, oh my god, that child doesn't actually speak in my class and they're up on the stage giving it absolute welly and they're on rail and they're in school today and they're nice and calm and they're quiet and they just shine on the stage which is just lovely, isn't it? It's amazing, isn't it? We have another shout out as well from Doreen Sheridan Kennedy on Facebook. She says, Of course, Karling is. That comes in from Doreen and Cyril and of course, Doreen is on regularly, so she's part of us as well, isn't she? She's actually in New York, so she must be in New York. Oh, well enjoyed. Hi, Doreen. I'm going to put your bin in, Doreen. Is that with a napish in you? Please tell everybody the revelation that you... I'm already destroyed. Go on, go on. Go on, go on. Share, share, share. Go on. If somebody donates 20 euro, I'll tell you the story. So, Shanay is... It's what you totally said. You made the mistake of saying it. I donate for the story. Okay. No, we'll tell it. So, Shanay, Shanay just discloses that she has her first nappy. Well, that's not how it came about. I like the real thing. Tell the proper story. How did we get to that? It is clean. Is it? Did you get clarity in there? We are going to be in sustainable because Don and Marie, I was just saying, like, thank you for bringing so much awareness about sustainable and I think that's what we just need now. It's got very crowded. See how I'm trying to get away from the nappy. Back to the nappy. But anyway, sustainability and the lady texts in about the nappies about... And I was like, oh yeah, I still have my first nappy. About Horton. So... Yeah. And is it like the nappy as we know it now or it's a class nappy? Michaela, I'm only wearing it. Well, that's why I'm asking. No, it's a disposable nappy. It's a tiny, tiny nappy. Oh, but Shanay said she was only two pounds when she was born. So it must be like two dolls, tiny baby doll nappy, just. You keep the weirdest of things, don't you? Yeah, you don't. Is that not your mommy's fault? That was not you. Is it? Give me a shout out to Ann because she was slugging us earlier about Horton. Yeah, I don't know. Exactly. Exactly. Anyway, we have another happy birthday message. It comes in from Emma. She said she's loving the show. Thank you very much. And another one. I think there should be a program of women chatting more often, Highland's List Woman. Wouldn't that be great? Yeah. Brilliant crack. Hi, ladies on the list. Yeah, that is her name. Hi, ladies on the list. That's us. Great show. Enjoying the banter in regard to hoarding. Please think of donating anything you don't do. So many needy families out there. A good clear-eyed doll's wonder for the mind. Absolutely. Yeah, it's a perfect time of year for two. What would be the one thing that you would get rid of right now, Donna-Marie? Oh. Liam. No, I don't know that. OK. Cleaving along for Liam. Oh, for Liam. Oh, I don't know. And you are. Actually, it probably is the pile of clothes because I still have the baby bag sitting in my room. And I remember something like, oh, maybe I'll like through. See if there's anything in there. But this is the time of year now. Yeah. Where it's springtime. But this is the year if it was me now getting rid of stuff, you're going to your winter coat section. Because they are, I mean, I think, as the years have gone on, the coats have kind of got bigger and bulkier and bulkier. And I'm looking at my coats and there's no room for them all. Gee not swap your wardrobe at night though. So like box up your summer stuff. Wardrobe. Yeah, but the... These are all white already. The coats. Yeah, but it's very hard because some of those big coats that you are wearing, it's very hard to even pack them away because they take up so much room. They're just like wearing a quilt, some of them, you know. So that's the thing. This is the time of year now when you are looking heading into the spring and Easter time, it's the coats section I would have to go for. Are you a cold person? I, yeah, I'm probably a bit of an everything person, but I do, like I'm a matching person everything has to match. And I mean that's one of the things is that the kids always say at school is like everything matches. So with that comes the problem then because I have coats of so many different colors and stuff. Yeah, you're like Joseph. Yeah, amazing, exactly, yeah. But um, no. But it's nice having your own way, like something like unique to you, like you love matching everything. I have to match, yeah. I do kind of like matching like the same tone as well. I got told I look like a guard today. Yeah. So yeah. Very pretty guard, Mikaela. Well, I don't know, I did think, I didn't think about it until then. I was told and I was like, I look exactly like a guard with a shirt tucked in. But it's nice and official. We're all, we're all sporting the hell of your t-shirts. Maybe I'll have a change of career. I don't know about that, though. Who's they change of clothes? Me running around the streets. I do have a change in the car, but um, I'll stick it out. For the bike, Mikaela. No. Call on all the, the athleisure. The what, sir? Athleisure, the athleisure. And then you have your, oh yeah, yeah. You're just ready to burst into action. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, mind you, me running around with a highland t-shirt every day. Jean, what would you get rid of? There's nothing really. I think I could get rid of, you know. Well, you're a clothes designer, it's like they're real transitional pieces anyway. Yeah, well, I, I, I, I suppose what I wear now is completely different from whenever I was in, in the Royal. Like, you know, you could dress, I suppose, you know, smartly then with, with skirts and jackets to match. And now I'm more into jeans and jumpers and things like that. But I still have, I am, I am a cold person because I, I really do believe that no matter what you have underneath, I use a coat on. And sometimes I, I, yeah, if I was doing housework or something like that, and I had to go down the tiny message, instead of changing, I just put on the coat and you could have whatever underneath that you could be covered in flour and nobody knows that I see the coat. So, no, I can't think of it when we're talking there. I say, what would I get rid of? And there's nothing that I think of now that I could actually get rid of. That's too sensible to me. It doesn't make too sense. But I'm a hoarder, I'm just pretending I'm a hoarder. I have, I, I. There's a bit of hoarding every day, isn't there? I actually have a waistcoat and I, myself and John, we're married 36 years is October. And when we were going out, he used to go to Dublin quite a bit on courses and Ty Rack in Dublin and he brought me back this silk waistcoat. And it's now in fashion. So I'll be wearing it someday. Oh, of course. And I, I, many of the time over the last year, I said, I'll give that away, I'll give it away. And I said, no, I'll keep it in order. And now the waistcoats are back in fashion again. And I've also heard that you have kept your going away, so that was a big thing, wasn't it? Oh, did I say that? Just a wee bird moment. I said that to Karen, yes. And actually, my going away so my friend, Pasklin, made it. And it's her anniversary today, so. Oh. Yeah. So I know I have that. It was sort of like a blue sort of water, so it's sort of with wee gold buttons. Lovely. She had a design shop in the town at that time. And I asked her to make it for me. So I have still got it, yeah. We need an eight-eye. I swear. I swear. Nice. It's super nice. I, I, I was certainly not think that it fits me now. But actually, I still have my wedding dress as well, which fitted me about two or three years ago. Do you remember? Um, Brage Carr had the wedding. The wedding, yeah. And she, she got me roped into, to go down to Fruin House in Remelton to, to, uh, so I, I thought, my husband looked at me and said, where are you going? You look like Miss Havisham. Come on down the stairs. And I said, well, it still fits me. And I thought, right, I know where to change. So I went down to Remelton with the wedding dress on me and a coat over me. And I thought, if I'm stopped by the guards now, what am I going to say? You're going to wipe Brage. It's such an Irish thing to say, if I was stopped by the guards now. If I was stopped by the guards now, I was like, how's our Miss Havisham there? I was like, I'm here. I am keeping track of everything. I've been having a wedding dress on me at, uh. During COVID too. I, I, what's that to during COVID? Just for context. No, no, no. She's lost. She's lost. No, it was, it was gone. It was after COVID but still. We're part of the Wild Atlantic women. That's right. It's just for context. It's lovely. And all of the ladies were making some bit of video that they wore their wedding dresses. Jean wasn't just the same. And the wedding dress for Mountain if you're stopped by the guards now. That's because there was a waiter in like, just a set of vegan driving down to Remelton with the dress. But their life loves them stories. So like their, their old memories, even though that is part of a memory, the wedding dress. Yeah. We're going to take another quick ad break and we'll be straight back. Get with the best. Virgin Media Ireland's best broadband with full fiber and speeds of two gig is now available in Donegal. Check your area on virginmedia.ie. It's playtime. Virgin Media, sponsors of around the Northwest. Save on carving and lambing essentials at Homeland. Carve Stomach Tube now 14.99. Save five Euro. New Trace Carve Jackets buy two for 50 Euro. Moocall Carving Sensor now 299 Euro. Save 30 Euro. And save 10% on the flexi-thane classic waterproof jacket and trousers. 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David James is on pay-to-play, which sounds great. You pay five euro request a song. Or let's do euro-to-not play a song. You're just throwing that in there, Shania. Also, we're nearly out of halfway mark, so thanks so much. We're nearly out. We're halfway through the day. It's only the iDonate, we have the auction as well, so you can check that out in our Facebook, there's loads, there's amazing donations there already, so we're gonna top it, it's brilliant. And then we have Ivan is on with Keith Fletcher, Marty Frayle, Kanis Wilson, Joe Dex, they're doing the DJ mashup. So yeah, there's loads coming up. Before we go, McKayla, well done. Thank you very much. Thanks very much, I don't know. You used to help me, obviously, a lot. You didn't know what for a letter and a sentence, but it was 10, 10 was enough, was it? She steered us into some hot holes. She made reckons she's roasted herself on the radio, so that's okay. Sorry, Trudy, what were you saying? She made reckons she's roasted herself on the radio here, so congratulations. It's not at all, it's all about it's fun. You go down there to the shopping centre and you sing a wee song, never mind the 50 donations for David James to play it, they should be giving you 100 to sing a song. Do you reckon? I reckon that's a really good idea. Everybody's been so generous today, it's very exciting, isn't it? Yeah, we're gonna try to hand over to Ashene now. Hello, Ashene. Nope, still no Ashene. Can Ashene hear me? Yeah, we're all up here. No. The joy of the live radio. Yeah, I think we just need to stay on and, you know, so... Yeah, maybe that was part of our ploy. Yeah, that was it. We've no country jamboree, we've an extended hiding place on the list. We're doing sit-in protests, we're not leaving. We will take a quick break and we'll try again. Broadcasting throughout the Northwest and across the world online. This is Highland Radio. Do you want the very best for your pet? 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