That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful - Show n Tell with Rev Kate Bottley

Episode Date: September 28, 2023

The Reverend Kate Bottley shows Gaby Roslin the object that brings her joy and separates "her people" from everyone else... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And here we are on the Friday where we bring a little nugget, a little extra. We have a show and tell where on reasons to be joyful, we ask you our celebrities and our guests, to bring in something that brings you joy. And I am so delighted to see what is in front of me that brings you joy. It's my flower crown. I'm actually going to take a picture. I've got headphones on as well. Yeah, that's good. I like it.

I love my flower crown. Fabulous. You got it? Keep smiling. I'm smiling. Yeah, lovely. There we go. And I love it for so many reasons.

Firstly, because this one particularly is made by a little kitchen table business. A friend of mine called an eater who makes them just for joy. Just for happiness and joy. When I wear it, it's a really good indicator of finding out who my humans are. Because as you wear it out in public, it confuses people. Does the flower crown? May I hold it? Yes, of course.

Thank you. You may. Yeah. Why does it confuse people? Because people, you're a middle-aged woman walking around with a flower crown on your head, and it's not Glastonbury. They kind of go, they smile. And so it makes people smile instantly but some people sort of stare

and I always think okay you're probably not my human if you don't understand the flower crown it's okay that it's not bringing you joy today so it's a spreader of joy but it's also a great indicator on how other people are kind of judging you but I'm also getting to the depleting

estrogen stage and two things happen to women at our kind of time of life is we either sort of descend into a beige mac with all the same haircoat and we sort of disappear a bit right Or you get those wonderful women, you know, like Iris Appfeld, you get those wonderful women who just embrace it, embrace the colour, embrace the wrinkles, embrace the whole lot. And you see them, don't you, sometimes in high streets where they're dressed in tally and pink

with a Marilyn Monroe handbag and lipstick that's a bit wonky. And that's the woman I want to grow into. So I am going to keep wearing my flower crayons. Please do. And grow into that, it would be a joy spreader. I think they're just wonderful thing. Are you sure you haven't read my book? Do you know what, Kate, you really, you are.

And like I said at the very beginning and the last episode, that everybody knows you and everybody adores you. I cannot imagine anybody not getting you or loving you. You spread joy, you spread love. You are truly, truly a magical spirit and you're an earth angel. So thank you for being on this planet. Thank you. Thank you.

Such a lovely thing to say. I'm also messed up and messy. Good, but that's healthy. Normal. And I do, I do, you know, I shout at my kids and, you know, but that's normal. And the point is we are gorgeous human beings who are so imperfect. And isn't that a great thing? It really is.

Thank you.