That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful - Show n Tell with Sharleen Spiteri

Episode Date: June 23, 2023

Singer, Songwriter and all-round legend Sharleen Spiteri shares with Gaby an object that brings her joy. In this bonus episode, she discussed the importance of friends and long lasting friendships. You can see Sharleen's Object Of Joy on Gaby's instagram! @gabyroslin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So on reasons to be joyful, we have a little extra, a little snippet, a nugget, a delicious morsel. Charlize Bateri, we would like you to show and tell something that brings you joy, please. Well, it's not my body, so. Do you know, I suppose somebody might suddenly rip off their clothes. Do you know, somebody might be like, if I had the body for it, I would. Right, I am going to show this to you. It's a little heart. You can see it's all made, and it's made with $2 bill.

one of my best friends made this for me my friend called Kate Lee who has been my friend forever she's now living in America she literally left to live in America the day my daughter the day after my daughter was born so she came and she was actually the first person

to hold her and she visited me and she flew out the next day and she apparently a two dollar bill is a really lucky thing to have and she folded this herself She did that. I'm allowed to touch it? Yeah, you can.

She made it her as a throat at you. I know, precious. But she folded the whole thing. Yeah, it's origami. Yeah, it's origami. She folded the whole thing herself. And I love it because it's a little heart. And I just love that her hands made it.

And she's a makeup artist, my friend. And she's literally like, she's so amazing at doing really delicate, beautiful things. And, you know, she's just, she was literally here. She was literally here in London. two weeks ago and she's like she's my mate forever you know she's a good Yorkshire last and she's really funny and when there's three of us get together me nick and um kate and honest to god when we're together it's absolute chaos i went to my friend nick's photographic exhibition last night she's she's a fashion designer but she did a bit photographic thing and it was about um old people

and there was a photograph of three women walking down the street in new york i couldn't stop laugh and I went, that's us. That's literally going to be the three of us. Literally, they were about 80 years old. And you could just see that the... You know that thing? Like, I remember seeing my mum with my aunt. So my dad's sister, my aunt Joyce,

my mum and her met at junior school when they were like four or five years old. And that's how my dad, that's how my mom knew my dad. And they were friends from that day and remained friends. And I remember when my daughter was probably about, four or five years old. We were all at my mum and dad's house in Glasgow

and my cousins were there, my sister was there, all the kids were there, so all the grandchild, everybody was there and I remember all, I don't know, the guys had going to do something and all the women were sitting, it was a proper old school, we were all sitting in the living because everybody didn't get out and we had cleared up and done everything

and my mum was sitting on the floor, my mum always loved sitting on the floor and she was sitting in my aunt and her, we were all sitting around talking and my aunt and her started like chit-chat and her. and it was the first time I'd ever noticed and I went oh my god and I don't know whether it was because I had a child as well now

but literally I went it's like everything had stopped out and they were literally like those probably as if they were 10 year olds talking to each other and I thought it's funny how when you know someone at a certain age it's almost like that's how you will always speak to them forever because I know that I do speak to people differently that I know that I've met recently

than my mate's my mate Gillian or something we've known each other since we were four. 14 and we were literally like, I remember our friend in London thought we were, we didn't like each other at first. And I was like, well, we're best mates. And she was like, my friends from Glasgow's way on. She's, oh my God, I thought he's were bickering. I thought he's were insulting each other. And I was like, oh no, like, when you slag each other in Glasgow, that's like, it's like a term of endearment. That's like, like, as we like each other, we're just like noising each other up. And so friends bring you joy. Yeah. Friends are the most important things in my life because,

you know, my friend, ragy, it's like, I'll like call up. I'll be like, what happened to do, you know, everything it's like, they're the most important things when anything's bad, when anything's good, all those moments that we share together, cooking together, you know, we all literally got together the other night and all our kids

are now in the 20s and literally all the kids were home and we were, they were all kind of sitting out in the terrace and we were all in the kitchen and we were listening to them all laughing and everything and we kind of just always had that moment with each other going, God, things have changed.

now we're the oldies and they're the new generation coming up and it's a great feeling to have that history and that friendship with people so yeah my friends are really important Charlie thank you thank you for listening

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