Sunday Cuppa: Surviving a Kid's Birthday Party - British Culture

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  Hello and welcome to the English Like a Native podcast,

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  the listening resource for intermediate to advanced level English learners.

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  Today, it's a Sunday, I have a cuppa in hand, which means it's the Sunday cuppa.

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  Now, what am I going to talk to you about today?

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  Well,

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  I'm going to describe an experience to you that seems to be a regular occurrence for me these days.

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  As a mum, of young children, I'm regularly invited to accompany my child to a birthday party.

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  And I really do think, to a certain extent, it's a new level of torture.

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  It's two hours of overwhelming noise and activity.

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  It's carnage in most cases.

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  So let me tell you about birthday parties in the UK, specifically... children's birthday parties.

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  Now, the invite normally comes at least two months in advance and that seems to be the norm,

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  which is a bit of a shock to my system as somebody who does most things at the last minute,

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  especially life admin tasks.

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  I leave them until there's no more time to think about it.

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  It has to be done because it's happening tomorrow.

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  But birthday invitations seem to come at least a few months in advance and that's

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  because I guess you pay for a venue or a company to put on a party and you have a certain headcount.

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  You are allowed to have 20 children or 30 children.

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  If there are any more than that, then they have to be paid for.

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