“I wish I was chic-er!” Fearne on personal style and learning new skills

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1:45It's really important that we go out and live life and go and look at things and feel in awe of things. I'm not from like some posh art family. Sometimes I wish I was chica. If I've ever even tried that, I feel like I'm doing fancy dress, like I've dressed as an adult. There was no tolerance for any dicking about at that party.

2:03Fearne Cotton: I'm about to say potentially something so gross. Do it! Okay. It was so, so bad. I miss my flight home. Hi guys. Welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. I hope you are well. And if you're not, maybe this will cheer you up or maybe this will give you something to rant about. Because in these episodes, we talk about what's making us really happy and what's not making us happy. It's all welcome. Happy Place as a brand, as a podcast, as a festival, all the projects we're working on has, for me, certainly never been a place where we're full of sort of toxic happiness and we just have to plaster a smile and be happy all the time.

2:46Fearne Cotton: We want to be a space where you can talk about it all, stuff that is pissing you right off, stuff that's making you feel a bit sad and a bit down, as well as then turning focus to look at things that are making us feel really rather jolly. Because life is all of it, isn't it? It's the good bits, it's the bad bits, it's the grey mundane bits in between. it can never be one thing. None of us, I don't think, unless you're maybe Eckhart Tolle or a monk living in a cave somewhere, just feel happy all the time. Life's too complicated. So this is a place where we look at it all. So let's start with things that are making us feel jolly and happy and great.

3:26Before I get to Team Happy Place, I'll kick off with me.

3:29Fearne Cotton: What's making me happy? this week I went to the Tate and I went to the Turner Constable exhibition and time and time again I forget how happy art makes me and what I am keen to do here is explain that I'm not from like some posh art family. I'm common as muck. My dad was a sign writer so I certainly understood that paint was really fun and I've always painted but I've had to, my stomach rumbling, I have had to or I haven't had to, I wanted to educate myself about art and I think art is one of those funny things where it's still seen as niche, elitist, exclusive, you have to know about art, you have to know every artist, you have to know art history.

4:19I think that's a load of old codswallop. I think if it makes you feel good, amazing. Whether it's just doodling around with a sketchbook, having a whole day of painting if you have the time, but also making use of the UK's amazing art galleries.

4:36Fearne Cotton: I'm very lucky that I live in London and we've got so many that you can just stroll into or you can book ahead and go and see something like this was a bookable exhibition. but my god it was incredible I have always thought that I preferred Turner to Constable I knew a lot less about Constable that's why I like to go and see his paintings in real life and some of these paintings are well-known paintings they're things I've seen in books so to see them on this large scale it's like seeing a Madonna or like a famous person in real life like oh my god that's actually it it's like 150 years old or I can't do maths whatever it is and it's there and they had Turner and Constable's like sketch pads and actual paintbrushes and art boxes with little powdered paints.

5:20And it was so amazing. The whole thing, I feel totally inspired, which is also a reminder, because if you're like me and you cannot sit still, or you might even be a bit of a workaholic, which I certainly am, I could push myself to go from creative project to creative project. So right, finish that book straight onto the next one. I've done that podcast, what's the next one? But actually for all of us, whether we identify as creative or not, it's really important that we go out and live life and go and look at things and feel in awe of things and feel excited by things. So that made me so happy this week.

5:59And I am going to maybe, I'm saying this out loud, so I've got to commit to it now, paint a landscape this week. I usually prefer portraits. That's my comfort zone. I think it might be quite interesting to push myself into that relatively unknown territory. So watch this space. I might have a painting to show.

6:20Fearne Cotton: I have to. I've fucking said it. I've got to do a painting now of a landscape. So I bloody well will and I'll show you it. Right. What's making Team Happy Place feel happy? Marcia is loving doing the crosswords in the paper on the commute. Lana is learning British Sign Language because she was in a taxi recently and the taxi driver was deaf and she felt terrible that she didn't know any basic anything. I mean, I do. I feel ignorant not knowing any. So I'm inspired by that and that I think will make me feel very happy. So we could all do with learning that, quite frankly. Sarah has got a WhatsApp group called Waffle Wednesday, where every Wednesday, no matter what you're doing, you send a one minute video of yourself with an update of what you've been doing.

7:06Fearne Cotton: Now, what I love about that is it's a great check in with your mates and there's a one minute rule. We have all got that friend that sends an eight minute voice note. Do I put it on double speed? Yes, I fucking do. Am I dipping in and out of listening to it? Yes, I am. Do I potentially then forget about it and not reply for weeks. Yes. No one wants an eight minute voice note. A one minute video? That is genius. I'm here for that. Oh, Basil falling in love with old albums and Anushka says, trying on all your clothes to streamline your wardrobe but also gently reaffirming to yourself what your style is.

7:44Fearne Cotton: That's such a good one. I don't know what, I still don't know what my style is. It is a jumble sale of emotions. I don't know what my style is. I've got a clue. sometimes I wish I was chica I wish that I wore like beige clothes black slacks a trench coat if I've ever even tried that I feel like I'm doing fancy dress like I've dressed as an adult which often I don't identify as sadly I can't do it I would love it to be scandy chic it's not it's fucking jumble sale not even chic it's just a mess Amelia says blossom it's nothing better blossom and magnolia why can't it stay around longer why is it such a fleeting moment of pink pink's my favorite color I'm fucking loving it magnolia here blossom here next week it's all gonna be on the bloody floor it's a nightmare I'm being negative already before we've even got to dislikes let's move to dislikes now my dislike is the same as Lauren's how honest am I with this story how graphic shall I get because I I'm quite as you know Amelia I'm an open book but many people listening to this I will never meet and I I'm about to say potentially something so gross I'm going to do it okay so Lauren and I both of our dislikes for the week is neurovirus okay so I went I went to South Africa recently and I started to feel rather unwell and it came out of the blue it was a shock started feeling a bit iffy so I thought I'll go for the absolute classic cure for all illness, a can of Coke.

9:32And I had the can of Coke and it did nothing for me.

9:35Fearne Cotton: It made me feel worse. If anything, it's put me off it for life, which is a terrible, terrible shame. Because when you eat or drunk something and then you're ill, you can't go near it again. Like once when I was really pissed when I was about 18, I was so drunk. I ate almost half a box of chocolate corn flakes and then I spewed them up and I've never touched them since. It's always the way. You can't eat the thing that was just before you were sick. Now, I've never been this ill in my life, ever, ever, ever. It was so extreme. And this is the bit I'm worried about saying, we might even bleep it out if I change my mind down the line.

10:08But at one point, at one point, it's so bad.

10:19Fearne Cotton: We're all human. This happens to the best of us. it was coming up both ends and at one point in the bathroom my friend Giles has already told me that I should never say this out loud again because I did it on a voice note to him and he just couldn't believe I said it. I puked into my own shit.

10:42Fearne Cotton: It was so bad. It was so It was so so bad. I missed my flight home. I missed my flight home. I had to get a flight the next day, still not feeling great, like stood in the security to get through to the gate to fly home, like slightly panicking that it could just start coming out of all orifices. Managed to get on the flight, slept a little bit, landed at 5am the next day to my son's 13th birthday sleepover with seven other 13 year old boys. You can imagine how I felt dealing with that. I was so strict with those boys, which I think they do react well to, but there was no tolerance for any dicking about at that party.

11:34Fearne Cotton: Probably wasn't that fun for X actually, but it had been quite dramatic. So on the list of dislikes, things that are making us unhappy this week is neurofirus. And I'm so sorry if you were anywhere near food during the listening for that segment. Should we look at some more palatable, unhappy moments of the week from other people on the team? Because I know, I do appreciate that that was quite intense, guys. Okay. Sarah says, when people stop in the middle of walking on the pavement, that is the most annoying thing first of all look around you there are other humans secondly why have you stopped keep walking you're going somewhere i'm so with sarah that fucks me off so massively archie says littering use the bin my worst is when people litter out of a car what are you doing keep it in your glove compartment until you get home put it in the bin mate i can't bear that i sometimes feel so enraged that i want to drive up and shout through someone's window it's a terrible idea I won't do it but it makes me so angry I'm with you Archie Basil people another one but rudeness people not saying thank you when you hold the door open for them just say thanks just it's always a lovely gesture when someone does that just say thank you equally when someone stops at a zebra crossing I always go I do a thumbs up cheers thanks when people just walk through I'm like hello I've stopped in my car for you always say thank you it's just a basic basic etiquette isn't it quite frankly um Hannah says when the milk runs out and you really want a cup of tea do you know what that is a great one to end on because I had a I want to say half an hour kind of full throttle debate with my best mate Kai and my brother Jamie who came for dinner on Friday last week and they are both just passionate tea drinkers my mum and dad are as is my brother.

13:27I did not get the gene. I think tea tastes like dirty water. I think it's fucking disgusting. And Kai, who's known me since I was 10, didn't know that about me. And he was like, he's like, I just, I can't get over this. You don't like tea? I just, I don't, I don't get it. I don't understand. He said he would die if he didn't have 10 cups of tea a day. I don't get it. I don't get the tea hype. I've never, I think I've tried one cup in my life and I thought it was so gross. I don't like the smell of it. I don't get it. Coffee. Now you're talking. I love everything. I love the smell of coffee. I love the taste of coffee.

14:05Obviously couldn't drink it last week. Crikey. That would have been a danger zone. Absolutely can't get enough of it. Tea, pointless. But me, my brother and Kai, I mean, they talked about the brand of tea. They like how they make it. My brother's got a certain technique and a science behind how he likes his tea, as has Kai. It's the most British debate one can have, quite frankly. But Hannah is obviously on team Kai and Jamie, loves a cup of tea, hates when the milk runs out. What are you loving? And you might not have liked that episode, quite frankly, after what I just said. What's making you happy?

14:44What's making you unhappy, let us know. Head to Instagram at happyplaceofficial and just, is that the thing to do, do you reckon? Yeah. DM us? Yeah, drop us a DM. Drop us a slide in, just slip on in to the DMs. Join the broadcast channel.

15:00Fearne Cotton: Join the broadcast channel. I don't know what that is. Join the broadcast channel. Amelia runs all the Happy Place social media. Join the broadcast channel. I should be more on it with stuff like this. That's obviously a new element-ish to what we're doing. Join the broadcast channel. Tell us what's making you happy and what's making you not very happy. Until next time, people, have a lovely week, whatever you're doing, whether you're happy, not happy, or somewhere in the middle. Love ya.

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