“I hugged a very girthy tree!” Get off screens, write letters, and paint
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
How are we feeling gang? What are you happy about, and what’s making you not so happy? Fearne’s back with more chatter about what’s putting her and the Happy Place team in a good mood this week, and what can absolutely get in the bin.
This is a lovely little space for all of us to explore what’s been on our minds. Want to join the chat? Send us a voicenote, DM, or comment on Instagram @happyplaceofficial!
In this chat, Fearne covers:
-Feeling stupid when you’re with really clever people
-Why we should properly get into tree hugging
-Painting by numbers to get away from screens
-Not RSVPing being rude... but also don’t say yes if you’re not going to go
-Bringing back letter writing
-One of Team Happy Place reckoning Harry Hill is fit*
*watch the Stewart Lee episode of Harry Hill’s podcast on Spotify to see the moment in question
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| 0:00.0 | I urge you today if you're near a tree to go and hug it. |
| 0:05.0 | I think everyone's got an arty bone in them somewhere. |
| 0:07.0 | We search for the biggest tree we could find. |
| 0:09.0 | It was a girthy old guy. |
| 0:11.0 | This is going to be a curveball you didn't see. |
| 0:13.0 | Coming. Harry Hill swimming. |
| 0:15.0 | We should have an art club. Happy Place Art Club. |
| 0:17.0 | Hannah is livid that people don't RSVP to plans. I get it. That usually lasts about half an hour |
| 0:23.6 | before my true self emerges and that true self is someone that doesn't like to leave the house. |
| 0:28.6 | Harry Hill is apparently ripped. Hello everyone and welcome to Happy Place. I hope that you are good today. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm in a relatively cheerful mood. Maybe you can tell because I'm wearing all red like a little cherry tomato. |
| 0:44.4 | But I hope that we find you well and happy today. And if not, don't worry, you will come out |
| 0:50.3 | the other side of it. We're going to talk about things today that make us happy |
| 0:54.8 | and not so happy as we have been doing. And there's some good ones. I want to kick straight off |
| 1:01.1 | slightly self-indulgently with my own because we'll get to other members of Team Happy Place in a bit. |
| 1:07.0 | But last night, I pushed through a sort of a bit of social anxiety, which I was feeling. |
| 1:12.8 | I go through definitely periods of wanting to hibernate at this time of year. |
| 1:17.7 | And yesterday I was feeling really fatigued and knackered and I couldn't deal with seeing other humans. |
| 1:23.4 | But I was, and I sound like an absolute twat even deliberating whether I was going to go to this or not, |
| 1:29.4 | because of course I did. But I got invited to a documentary premiere at Windsor Castle. |
| 1:35.6 | And it's this amazing documentary that the king has created all about the environment. |
| 1:41.0 | And I think you can watch it on Prime pretty soon. And it's an amazing documentary. |
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