Gill is a mindset / life coach and and Jamie is known as the Worcestershire Cabinet Maker. They both love to chat to people and find out about their lives as well as chatting with each other about what has been going on, not only in their world but the world at large.
Listening to their podcast is like dropping in on someone else's conversation and you never know what you are going to learn. Some episodes they are chatting about life and other episodes they are joined by guests.
From stressed trees to saving money on electricity.
Gill had a branch snap on a tree, not completely but was overhanging the lane, so it needed to be removed before it fell onto someone. She tells Jamie the fun and games she and Clive had trying to remove it whilst cars waited. Jamie has also seen several trees with snapped branches. They chat about how many trees they have seen recently where . what appear to be healthy branches, have snapped off.
Gill tells Jamie that with a bit of research she learned that trees, when under stress - and there has been a lot this year - will simply discard any branches with flaws. She had spoken to their tree surgeon about it and he said the trees have been really suffering and he expects a lot more problems as the autumn winds and rain start.
Jamie and Gill discuss how trees do need managing evenin a woodland. Jamie talks about his cherry tree that he has cleared from ivy and tidied up and what he has done with all the wood he as removed. From making leaf mulch, Gill has a story about her attempts to make leaf mulch, to storing the wood as fire wood.
Jamie also wants to share how he has now saved £25 a month on his electric bill by not only altering his water bed (as we discussed in a previous episode) but also how he has install an 'near the sink' instant hot water heater. Not only is he saving on his electirc but also on the amount of water they use as they don't have to run the tap quite so much to get hot water.
Gill explains that investing in solar panels was one of the best things they did and how they turn off the heating in April, which includes the hot water boiler as the panels heat the water, and as yet (being October) still haven't had to turn it back on. They also export any excess electricity back to the grid which with the summer over the last few years has meant their bill has been credited with an amount rather than then having to pay anything.
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23 Sept 2026
From How things are priced in shops to making tea.
Gill explains that a few months ago they have moved away from using tea bags, because of the chemicals contained in the bags, back to using loose tea. Apart from the tea tasting so much better and them actaully needing to use less she was interested to see if there was a difference in price. On comparing the prices per 100g there was a marked differnce with loose tea being cheaper. Jamie had listened to a tea expert on a programme on the radio and explains the reasons she gave for loose tea being better quality.
Gill coninues to say how she started checking prices on other items eg in somecases the large tins v small tins of things and again found the smaller tins to actually work out cheaper! They both agree they prefer to shop in person and choose their own food for variosu reasons plus it gives them chance to interact with others.
Jamie wants to return to talking about tea and how he makes his cuppa in the workshop over the week. When Gill tells him how she prefers hers, Jamie is horrified! It leads them to question why do some adults put sugar in their children's tea so that they will like it rather than just waiting to see if they like it without sugar as they get older?
9 Sept 2026
From labelling people to triangular greenhouses!
Jamie is tired of people being given a range of 'labels' even when not officially diagnosed as an example how somebody wanting to be organised or liking things to be tidy is suddenly seen as being OCD. Jamie has various examples and he and Gill chat about both the positives and negatives of people being labelled and the role of 'Dr Google' in self diagnosis. They questions when did the use of labels become so common place?
In his woodworking Jamie has an eye for perfection and details and how he wants to make things that become 'heirlooms' rather than an item you just throw away. Woudl he be given a label of hypervigilant or OCD becuase of that eye for detail?
Jamie and Gill are both ideas people and laugh about the problems that causes when you get an idea you want to follow up on from Gill wanting to make a willow bike basket (which expands into becoming a dual purpose one to Jamie wanting to make a triangular greenhouse!
Gill has been thining about the impact of boundaries and how that along with calling people toxic has over the last few years have beome 'things'. She is concerned that rather than us becoming more connected its actually leading to people becoming more isolated.
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