How are you becoming a grandparent when you’re still getting your own life together?

Layla’s 49, working full-time and about to welcome her first grandchild. She’s excited, but getting her head around being someone’s granny is another matter.

Layla and Ellie talk about how quickly life moves, the grandparents they grew up with and the kind Layla imagines becoming. From enjoying your freedom to loving a baby you haven’t met yet, there’s plenty to take in. And that’s before agreeing on what to be called.

Becoming a grandparent, already an expert, or got a grandparent story we need to hear? Email us. And if you’ve got a name for Layla that isn’t Granny, she’s taking suggestions.

Ever feel completely overwhelmed by things that really shouldn't be that overwhelming?

This week, we're overthinking the first-world problems taking up a ridiculous amount of brain space, including why going on holiday somehow creates more admin than staying at home.

As usual, that's where we start. Where the conversation ends up is another matter entirely.

Are we overwhelmed, overthinking... or is this genuinely just how our brains work?

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Supermarkets have finally pushed us over the edge.

This week we're overthinking the weekly food shop: self-checkouts, receipt-scanning exit gates, increasingly expensive carrier bags and the very serious question of why buying food now feels like an obstacle course where you're also somehow under suspicion.

And, because we rarely manage to stick to the actual subject, we also end up discussing:

• An eight-year-old giving us some brutally honest feedback

• Ellie's encounter with a particularly well-guarded 60p carrier bag

• A minor IKEA theft involving an eight-year-old

• Our slightly pointless 9am trip to Clarkson's pub

• Growing up in an "ingredient household"

• The childhood snack situation that still feels mildly traumatic

• And the innocent phrase that got Layla into rather a lot of trouble at work

So yes, ostensibly this is an episode about supermarkets.

It doesn't entirely stay that way.

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