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Have you had a chance to look around the Happy Place app yet? There are so many different practices you can try out, from meditation to breath work to sleep stories. Let us know which sessions you're enjoying so far...
My son just secretly leant over the garden wall and told our neighbours that it was HIS birthday ( it’s actually is sisters) and they’ve gone out and bought him a present! 😬
An author visited my sons school this week to read a new novel where once again the step mother featured as an evil character. Isn’t it about time we represented step parents in children’s fiction in a more positive way. I’ve been a step mum for 9 years now...
A relative notified me of another stupid story about how my marriage is in trouble because a lazy journalist decided to truncate, and conflate information to create a story out of nothing. I’ve never been more happily married. Jesse and I feel bloody lucky to have one another.
After ten years on celebrity juice I am leaving. I walk away with so many incredible memories and will miss everyone in front of and behind the cameras so much. So much love and luck to them all for future series x
We cannot keep sweeping the discussion of mental health under the carpet.
The carpet is bulging
We need to let the pain, the tears, the confusion and shock kick us in to action
We have to wake up and make change even though it feels too late.
We have to make change for those
Rex-‘mum can you make banana muffins?’
me-‘sure!’ *makes banana muffins at 6:35am
Rex-‘mum I dont like these’
me-‘why you asked for them!’
Rex- ‘they have bananas in them!’ 😐
Just saw Sir David Attenborough mooching around his front garden and I completely froze. Surely one of only a few proper living legends left on planet Earth. An actual legend! The true meaning of the word.
Rex-‘dad please can I play Nintendo!’ Jesse-‘no it’s a week day’
Rex-‘pleeeeease’
Jesse-‘Rex, no. What starts with a N and ends with an O.
Rex-‘Nintendo’ 🤣 wonderful parenting fail
It’s hard to know what to write at the moment. I’m physically going through the motions of home schooling, cleaning the house relentlessly to gain some control etc but mentally my head can’t keep up. It’s all too big and too weird. Sending you all love and...
Honey just made me text Santa to tell him to leave the stockings outside the front door for me to then retrieve as she doesn’t want a stranger in the house and also thinks he will steal the glass that the milk left for him is in.
My kids, who normally wake up at 6/6:30am every day, detected that I went out last night so woke up 30 minutes earlier instead. 5:30am arts and crafts it is 😐
Utter bullshit. My marriage is wonderful and also perfectly normal which involves the odd argument. The actual article I wrote in RED magazine does not include this ‘quote’
For my step children who are old enough to read magazines this is confusing.
I just text my mum saying I’m thinking of cutting my hair into a bob again. Her response “nooo don’t cut your hair off. Why don’t you get a perm instead?”
Errrrr because we are not in the 80’s!
Personally 2017 has been a mixed bag. A bit of good, a bit of bad, sad, confusing and everything inbetween. I endeavour to focus on the positives and see the lessons in the troubles. Love and strength to you all in 2018.
Whilst gorgeous Meghan spends the evening preparing to marry Prince Harry, I have been cleaning actual human poo out of my bath tub (thanks Honey!) I mean, we are basically living the same life.
Trying to buy a swimming costume for actual swimming yet seemingly the only kind available these days either rise up above the hips ala Bay Watch in the 90’s or have bits snipped out of them to reveal ribs. What happened to normal swimming costumes?
#officiallyold
Bloody hell, what an incredible documentary
@rioferdy5
and Kate. Such honesty and courage. As a step parent of nearly 9 years now it was so good to hear this subject talked about thoroughly. What a beautiful family you are. ❤️
It’s heartwarming to see other people’s young children having tantrum meltdowns in the middle of the high street on Mother’s day. It may be our day of celebration but shit keeps rolling
#motherhood
Thank you producers and camera people of the BBC and of course Sir David for creating this new series of Blue Planet. Each week i stop, appreciate every colour, scene and bucket of new information with glee. Perfect tv.
Late to the party again but last night I watched The Greatest Showman. I cried relentlessly throughout. So beautiful and moving. It really touched a nerve. Cinematic perfection.
I have just watched the last episode of Fleabag and cried and cried and cried. Still crying a bit. Heartache and loss portrayed with such clarity and understanding. I wept for so many reasons. The best TV show!
What ever time I put Honey to bed she wakes up at 5:30am. I think I have to stop believing there is a magic formula or time that’ll make her sleep and instead remember the last 500 odd mornings of proof that NOTHING WORKS
A funny thing happens when you have your own kids. You can look back on your own childhood and acutely see how much shit you put your own mum through. Sleepless nights whilst I was out on the tiles, anxious days as I went off to work at 15.
Terribly sad news. I was fortunate enough to watch Keith whip a crowd into a frenzy on several occasions with the prodigy. Each time I would be blown away by his energy and electrifying ability to create such a reaction from the crowd. A totally unique performer. Such a loss.
A huge day for Happy Place and a career defining moment for me. Thank you to Secretary Clinton and Chelsea for such a warm, interesting chat on the podcast, proving how important ‘Gutsy Women’ are. Hear it on Wednesday where ever you get your podcasts
#HappyPlace
My husband is incredibly understated in most areas of his life but every now and then will throw out a one liner like ‘oh yeah I played tennis with John McEnroe once’. Errrrr ok then! After 7 years I’m still learning new gems like this!
Rex seems very concerned I don’t have a middle name. He has asked me to call ‘grandad’ ( my dad) to discuss it and has also bestowed me the new title of Fearne Butterfly Wood (he has no idea I used to be a Cotton)
When watching The Planets on
@BBCTwo
last night with my kids, when looking at a shot of the solar system my daughter asked ‘is that where David Bowie lives now?’
I think she might be right!
Only just watched A Star is Born last night. I kept wondering why I wasn’t weeping as I had heard about everyone crying, then
@ladygaga
sang the final song and I cried for thirty minutes straight. A beautiful, raw film with an exceptional cast
During Rex’s school play, there was a perfect moment of silence. Honey, who was sat watching with us in the audience filled this gap with a very loud and gutsy fart.
Intense insomnia last night and a red headed wonder babe who woke at 5:20am this morning. Today is going to be long. Coffee and positive thinking is essential in not becoming a moany drama queen.
My mate Sinead just sent me a suitcase of clothes to try on for work next week and there was a huge black spider in one of the dresses. I did what all sensible grown adults should do and screamed, zipped it back up and threw the suitcase in a cupboard 😩🕷
I spend every day between 6am-10am telling my 2 little ones to keep it down so as not to wake up my step kids up & then between 7pm-10pm telling my step kids to keep it down so as not to wake up the littlests...