When Toby came out of school and casually announced he'd been in a fight, I was expecting a very different conversation.

Toby was convinced Forest School was finally going to let him put his newly earned "knife licence" to use. How wrong he was.

For nearly two hours, we had no idea where our daughter was. What started as a routine school trip pickup turned into teachers searching the school, parents searching the streets, and me driving around town hoping to spot a suitcase with a unicorn on it.

A shower repair that should have taken ten minutes somehow turned into multiple trips to B&Q, an afternoon of frustration.

A man on the tram tried arguing that he didn’t need a ticket because technically the journey was for his dog, not for him. Somewhere between that, my daughter turning 12, and a deeply disappointing laser maze, it turned into a very strange weekend.

After taking a short break from the podcast, I somehow ended up accidentally learning app development. What started as a simple character-counting shortcut turned into building D&D tools, learning Swift, and finally finding a way to learn coding that actually clicks for me.

A man gets angry at the wrong person and commits to the bit… all the way into a taxi.

What should have been a routine gas safety check turned into a bizarre encounter involving unpaid bill accusations, a “fake” boiler flame, and a faulty testing machine.

From a beloved Mini to a disastrous Volkswagen Golf, this is the story of my best and worst cars, packed with breakdowns, chaos, and driving mishaps.

I’m pretty excited today, because I’ve bought myself a brand new piece of kit.

The only way I can really describe it is this:

it’s called a RØDECaster Duo.

If you’re into podcasting or music, you probably already know what that is. If you’re not, don’t worry, I’m about to explain it in far more detail than you asked for.

Several weeks ago now. Possibly months. Time has become more of a vibe than a measurement.

I had to take my daughter to the hospital for a hearing test. She’s had hearing issues for most of her life, although these days they’re actually much better. Technically, she doesn’t really have hearing problems anymore, but she still has to go in for check-ups from time to time.

So off we went.

This past weekend, my boy Tobias turned 10.

And honestly?

It was great.

We threw him a proper party. Invited his entire class, all of his cousins, all of his friends… and almost everyone turned up. By the end of it, we’d had around 36 kids come and go.

It was complete chaos.

But also, weirdly, very well handled.

For those who don’t know me, I previously had a podcast called That’s a Free Bee. You can go back and listen to it if you want. I wouldn’t strongly recommend it if you’re brand new here. Not because it’s bad, but because there’s probably going to be a fair bit of repetition. And nobody needs that much Diggy all at once.

From passport problems to the conspiracies behind gravy, jeans, and the letter C — Episode 95 of That’s a Free Bee is a low-stakes deep dive into humanity’s most ridiculous theories.

Welcome back to That’s a Free Bee — the podcast that, no matter what the FCC says, is somehow still on the air. This week, I’ve got everything from reptile rehab to sinkholes, government red tape, and the world’s most awkward supermarket encounter.

Every so often an episode of That’s a Free Bee accidentally turns into a survival podcast. Episode 93 is one of those.

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