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PODCAST

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere

Gill Sims Jo Middleton

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere is a hilarious podcast from authors, bloggers and great friends, Jo Middleton and Gill Sims. In it, Gill and Jo kick back with a cocktail, or a delicious glass of wine from our partners Laylo, https://drinklaylo.com/, and have a bit of fun discussing random topics including but not limited to, parenting, hormones, menopause, weird nineties sex tips, and relationships. Oh, and we also proffer advice we are in no way qualified to give in our regular problem page slot.

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All Episodes

33:15

GLADIATORS, READY!!!!!

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/12/20

This week, with the clock ticking ever more rapidly, and that festive countdown very much on, we talk about those organised people who, having been ready for Christmas since approximately mid August, like to remind the rest of us about that by asking in faux concerned tones 'And are you all ready for Christmas?', when they know full well the answer is going to be a resounding NO! Jo takes a rather more pragmatic to Christmas and declares one is 'ready' when one is eating cherry liqueur chocolates

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38:15

Netflix and Chill...?

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/12/13

This week we are talking about Christmas films, and I think it's safe to say we have some Views on these (how unlike us). We discuss an unusual take on Love Actually, and Gill watches The Holiday for the very first time, and develops an unhealthy obsession with Jude Law's cow, while Jo points out several more practical flaws with his life than his random cow. Jo has some issues with these films from a feminist standpoint, and Gill feebly attempts to argue that mildly objectifying Cary Elwes is

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36:02

Bad Traditions

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/12/06

OK, so we started recording this episode with the very best intentions to talk charmingly about our delightful family Christmas traditions, the importance of traditions, and of creating your own new ones. But somehow, we almost immediately went wildly off topic and starting talking about the times we really did not bring our A game as parents (or maybe we did, depending on how you're looking at it). So if you're feeling a bit Grinchy, a bit Meh, a bit over that elf and his b*starding shelf, and

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40:15

The Gift Guide Episode!

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/11/29

Here it is, folks! The episode you've been waiting for all year- yes, it's Gill and Jo's 100% infallible*, expert** Gift Guide, in partnership with Laylo Wine, to buying presents for all the difficult people in your life, from the husband who insists he 'doesn't want anything' but really does, to the weird colleague who always stands just a little bit too close to you, to the ever tricky to buy for elderly relatives. We cover helpful topics like why Toffifee is an excellent passive agressive gift,

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36:16

The 5-9pm Club Night!

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/11/22

This week, we come up with LITERALLY the best idea ever, in the form of a club night for menopausal women, including places to sit down, good snacks, and a dress code including slippers, elasticated waists and NO BRAS. Unfortunately, our topic for this week was not 'coming up with an idea for an awesome club night', instead the theme was supposed to be 'Black Friday', to coincide with the upcoming sales madness. We talk about some of our favourite small businesses, and whether you can ever have

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38:39

Gainful Employment.

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/11/17

This week we received an email from a PR company suggesting a guest for the podcast that got us thinking about the many and varied jobs we've ever had in our lives. This got us thinking how very lucky we are that we are able to sit and chat and drink lovely Laylo wine and call it work, but we have had many jobs in the past that were a great deal less fun, including Gill's stint in PotatoLand and Jo's recent very niche copywriting job. We have some great 'worst jobs ever' from some of you too, and

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31:19

The One Where We Traumatised Our Producer...

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/11/09

This week...well, where do we start with the recap? Jo has a distressing Teams call, which may or may not have featured maurading bosoms, Gill is providing a little stability in this chaotic world by taking umbrage at the Patriarchy and then...Jo tells Gill of a practice she has recently become aware of, and it all goes downhill from there! As Jo said in her email to Producer James, we can only apologise...

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33:58

Life Lately and Laylo!

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/11/01

This week, we're having a general catch up on what's been going on in our lives, including sharing some very exciting news about our new partnership with Laylo wine,. We also chat about Gill's visit to a university open day leading her to be surprised that universities are full of children for some inexplicable reason, Gill's new book Why Mummy Drinks At Christmas, why Jo would be an excellent librarian and Jo's youthful love of what she describes as 'admin based roleplay', and our latest drunken

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36:35

The Spooktacular One!

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/10/25

This week, although we're a little early, we're talking Hallowe'en! Jo loves it, Gill hates it, for she is a Hallowe'en Grinch, as has been mentioned before. We also chat a bit about our irrational fears, including Gill's insistence that her fear of the Kingston Bridge in Glasgow is NOT irrational, and Jo's fear of ... holes...you'll have to listen to find out more about that one!

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34:23

World Menopause Day

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/10/17

This week we are talking all things menopause and perimenopause, comparing notes on our HRT, and some of our favourite 'menopausal moments'- except we struggle to remember what they are, because menopause! We also talk about Gill's GP's continuing obsession with offering to prescribe her lube, Jo's vet falls in love with her, and we express some doubt about the 'Manopause'. But most of all, we just wanted to reassure anyone else experiencing the joys of menopause or perimenopause, that you're not

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34:18

A Good Hobby

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/10/10

This week we are talking hobbies, in a futile attempt to get ourselves a proper Hobby, as we feel that you are not a proper grown up until you have A Hobby. We talk about what qualifies a hobby as a hobby, and Gill is very firm in her views of what is and is not A Good Hobby. Jo shares a non-hobby related wardrobe malfunction which leads us to ponder if starting a very niche Only Fans could count as a hobby, whether sports are a hobby (NO!), and Gill attempts to explain about her favourite 90s

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35:21

Conspiracy!

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/10/04

Regular listeners will be already be aware that Gill is firmly convinced that the EVIL that is Pumpkin Spiced Latte is nothing more than a conspiracy by Big Cinnamon, so this week we thought we'd talk about a few more of our favourite conspiracies. Are birds real? Who shot JFK? Does Paul McCartney even exist? We have all the answers! Well, we have answers. They may not be the right answers. But we definitely have them!

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40:20

Breakdown!

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/09/27

This week, we're chatting about the little things that tip you over the edge- the things you feel you should be able to deal with as a competent adult, but actually make you want to cry, and shout you need a proper grown up for this! Inspired in part by Gill's car actually breaking down and Gill almost breaking down as a result, and Jo's encounter with a particularly vicious record player, flat pack furniture, lawn mowers, spiders and hoovers also feature among the things that cause all of you to

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38:31

Filth!

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/09/20

This week, we are not, alas, discussing scurrilous scandal, but rather the alarming statistics about the large number of people who only wash their towels four times a year! We attempt a highly scientific poll on how often you, our listeners, and Gill and Jo clean things, with occasionally surprising results. Jo shares Chicken Flannel with the nation, and there is a cameo from the International Man of Mystery that is Gill's husband, aka, the Gadget Twat himself...

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33:42

The Autumn Edit

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/09/13

It's not actually an 'Autumn Edit', unless you count our autumnal cocktails and Jo's blackberry and apple pies, but we are attempting to talk all things autumn, now September is upon us and Jo has betrayed Gill with pumpkin spice lattes, even though regular listeners will know Gill thinks such things are nothing more than a conspiracy by Big Cinnamon. Gill ruins any chance of Starbucks sponsoring the podcast and reveals why her neighbours hate her 'bohemian ways', and Jo shares some very exciting

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41:37

Doubtful Antecedents

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/09/06

This week we've been doing a spot of genealogy and so we're talking families, history and skeletons in the closet. Gill has discovered her ancestors are not who she thought they were at all, and reveals a fairly sordid tale of infidelity and illegitimacy, involving considerable judgement for her newly found great grandfather, and on Jo's side, it's her great grandmother who brings the scandal to the table. Gill also attempts to talk movingly about the unregulated adoption process in the 1920s, but

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38:31

Back to School!

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/08/31

Hurrah and Huzzah! Another summer is survived, and the schools have returned! We attempt to have a grown up and adult conversation about this, but deviate onto potatoes, pink beds and pastie suppers. Jo shares a tale of the mysterious Oxfam shop Sock Man, Gill explains why she loved her children's nursery teacher more than her children, and we do actually touch slightly on the topic as we turn to the horrors of things found lurking in lunchboxes that have been abandoned for the whole summer, and

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36:32

Matchmakers and Mops

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/08/23

This week it is all about the ROMANCE, because you may not have been aware, but August is National Romance Awareness Month, which is definitely a real thing and not something Gill found when she was randomly googling things looking for inspiration for a topic! So we thought, why not get a little romantic (not like that!) and have a chat about the most and least romantic things that have occurred in our lives. Jo's second hand crispy swimming costume is obviously hard to top, but Gill has tales of

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36:48

Bad Feminists and Floor Pies

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/08/16

This week we are talking about the dreaded topic of Acting Your Age, or rather our apparent inability to actually do that. Jo shares a truly terrible tale about her recent wheely bin experiences, and Gill, whilst almost too stunned and appalled by the wheely bin scenario to speak, reveals her inappropriate reaction after her recent encounter with a new doctor. We also discuss whether our lack of grown up behaviour is really not on account of our immense immaturity, but is in fact due to a lack of

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34:26

This Time Next Year, Rodney...

It"s Five O"Clock Somewhere ·

2023/08/09

This week, we decided instead of choosing a topic to talk about, we'd simply freestyle like the irrepressible wild spirits we are, and definitely not because we couldn't think of think of a topic. After an...unusual start, where Jo imitates the noise she thinks dolphins make, and Gill discusses the etiquette of matching your table mats to your frock, we hit on the idea of discussing fail safe get rich quick schemes (don't worry, 'stylist' and 'animal impressionist' were not on the list). So if you

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