this episode was recorded at the end of february before the actual apocalypse happened and one of the reasons we sat on it for so long was because, like everyone else in the world, we've been FREAKING THE FREAK OUT!!! and we never use capital letters so that just shows how weird the world is right now. and what's the podcast even about anyway? and what's the point? these and millions of other important questions are not answered at all in this week's episode of sotw with ann and tim. wash your hands. don't touch your face.

just hear those sleigh-bells jingaling, ring ting tingaling too! come on it's lovely weather for a podcast together with you! christmas greetings from the last sotw of 2019 and in fact the last one of this mad, strange decade, whose name we still can't fathom. was it the teens? the tens? who cares because in a few days we'll be out of those and into the twenties and who knows what else? in this episode ann berates her own pathetic lightweightedness when it comes to festive consumption, while tim recounts the downside of meat dehydration, plus his weekly career update and maybe, just maybe, he's found his calling...fingers crossed. merry christmas one and all.

if anyone is feeling out of sorts, alone or lonely this christmas and wants to chat, head over to twitter, add the hashtag #joinin and someone will be there to help you get through the day. come find ann at @Annhirst. peace and love❤️

join ann and tim in the lead up to christmas with discussions on pressing issues such as tim's tinsel textural terror, dehydrator and doorperson news, festive films and, of course, the weekly career update. Also ann's aromatic anxiety and tim makes a potentially life-changing decision.

ann discovers she's really karen but doesn't give a shit and there are updates on tim's career and dishwasher-gate, from way back when in episode 2 or 3 or something. tim's got a bugbear with impractical pub toilet cubicles and ann's dodging the mother-of-the-year awards for the sixteenth year running. plus some live (recorded) improv in which ann gives tim a present. oh, and welcome to all our new listeners, from all over the world!

warning: this is a koala-heavy episode. weirdly, animal lover tim doesn't like them, ann does, so you can only imagine the mild-mannered non-debate that ensues. what about you, listener? do you have any thoughts on koalas? cute or devil spawn? let us know, we're genuinely interested! 😃🐨there's also a career update from tim (obvs), a literal highlight for ann and some improv that features, yeah, you got it, bloody koalas. sheesh. how much more exciting can these episodes get? (that's a rhetorical question, we already know the answer 😐)

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this week tim shares a couple of phoney bugbears and ann declares she's definitely not posh, despite living close to Waitrose. there's a career update from tim, a sponsorship update from ann and a tear-jerker of an improv scene involving two unusual household items on a mountain trek.

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This week, tim gives us a career update and describes what it's like to eat meat rope and ann might be rubbish at celeb spotting but recounts a wünderbar encounter with the glorious Eddie Izzard. Also, is it pronounced GIF or GIF? 🤔And stay till the end if you want to hear us perform some real (imagined) live (recorded) improv.💡🥮

Ok, so we have a format, the audio is sorted and the best we can say about this episode is: we're getting there 🤨

This week, an update on Tim's career path, social awkwardness, the dangers of too much vitamin C and what's the word for the thing where you can't stop bad thoughts taking over your brain?

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If you've ever wondered what a podcast sounds like if two people really want to make a podcast but haven't quite worked out the finite details, then this is the episode for you! Join Ann and Tim as they combine low quality production values with exceptionally low-brow discussions on luke-warm topics from wealth chickens, thru terrifying children's TV characters to the global hum. So much to listen to, enjoy and forget.

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Unlike the name suggests, speak of the week is nothing whatsoever to do with news or current affairs :D

It's Ann Hirst (the Terrified Writer) and her improv bud Tim Merryweather chatting about stuff that's happened to them in the past 7 days. That sounded better in our heads. Tune in, you might be surprised! We were (surprised face emoji).