Greg’s young-carers Christmas party was coming together
Radio 1 Breakfast had launched a major Christmas project for young carers in Oxfordshire.
Greg James wanted to transform a familiar community venue into an enormous party for around 100 young people who spent much of their ordinary lives looking after other people.
Scott and Chris were moved by the scale of the need.
They repeated the statistic that there could be around two young carers in an average classroom.
Listeners and businesses had begun supplying everything from toys and food to decorations, slush machines, face painting and Christmas trees.
Scott was also expected to revive his famous *Strictly Come Dancing* crab routine at the party.
He contacted former dance partner Joanne Clifton for help because he could barely remember the choreography.
Who was the nightmare Christmas plus-one?
The programme also asked listeners about liability plus-ones.
These were people taken to somebody else’s Christmas party who then made the inviting person regret the decision.
Stories involved drunken behaviour, inappropriate flirting and guests who treated a work party as though nobody had to return to the same office afterwards.
Scott knew the danger.
Being a plus-one meant entering a room full of people whose reputations mattered to somebody else.
The liability plus-one behaved as though none of that applied.
François brought the finished bottle
Then the perfume saga finally reached the moment Scott and Chris had been working towards for months.
François the Nose returned with Helen and the finished fragrance.
Scott still struggled to accept that “nose” was a genuine industry title.
François explained that he worked professionally creating perfumes and assessing scent.
The show had given him a difficult brief: make something which somehow captured years of Scott-and-Chris references without producing a novelty air freshener.
The final fragrance was light and fresh and designed to be worn by anybody.
Scott and Chris sprayed it and were genuinely impressed.
For all the jokes, it smelled like a real commercial perfume.
There was only one bottle.
The presenters now had to decide who should receive it.
Love You By Scott became the working name
The naming process had never reached the same level of professionalism as the formulation.
Ideas had included Eau De Tap End and several increasingly silly puns.
One phrase Scott often used with people was “love you, bye”.
That became Love You By Scott, allowing “bye” to become “by” as though it were the name of the designer.
Helen liked the double meaning.
Chris remained unconvinced that Scott should receive sole billing on a fragrance belonging to both of them.
Christmas brought back 24 Years at the Tap End
The podcast also began inserting vintage festive chapters of 24 Years at the Tap End.
Chris revisited a teenage Christmas in Watford involving an under-18 nightclub night, Mariah Carey, last-minute shopping and the familiar Tap End combination of nostalgia and details which sounded much worse when read back as an adult.
The archive element would become much bigger over Christmas week.
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