Heads & Dovetails
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.
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- Sep 23, 2026
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From How things are priced in shops to making tea. (opens the original)
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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 bein
From labelling people to triangular greenhouses! (opens the original)
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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
From 'The End of the Line' to regional accents and dialects. (opens the original)
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Gill and Jamie are joined in this episode by an octogenarian author, John Uttley who has written his 4th and what he says, being realistic about his age and a recent health concern, is his final book. Originally from a working class family in Lancashire John went on to study at Oxford and had a career in what was orignally the CEGB (Central Electricity Generating Board) and when privatised he worked for the National Grid. On leaving that role a a portfolio career followed. It was at this point t
From insect bites to dealing with past traumas. (opens the original)
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Jamie is being badly bitten by something up his garden unlike previous years and asks Gill if she gets bitten more now than a few years ago as he has a theory. Gill says she only has to walk outside and she gets bitten even through jeans, hence she never wears shorts or dresses! She reacts badly to bites with them itching constantly and they become swollen and red for days - she still has the scars from last years bites. Jamie thinks its because we eat 'cleaner and healthier' now that we have be
From ice creams to earning money by collaborating. (opens the original)
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Following on from the last episode Jamie and Gill chat a bit more about EV's and the problems they've come across in last couple of weeks. Jamie had an incicent with a student and when Gill was in Lyme Regis with Clive she saw an 'exchange' between 2 car owners - one in the charging space and one waiting to charge. It did raise more questions about owning an EV car. Gill's husband had suggested they treat themselves to an ice cream. When they saw the rpices they realised how long ago they must h
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