Hello and a massive welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. This is the show that knows life

experience is what builds character. Today, I'm chatting to Jimmy Carr. There's teachable and

unteachable lessons. There's things you can tell your kids. Like if you have the Birds and the Bees

conversation, yeah, you can tell them what an erection is and tell them

all the things they can do that are fun. Great, lovely. There's unteachable stuff. You getting that degree won't make you feel more. If you weren't enough without it, you won't be enough with it. But no one can tell you buying a Rolex and a Ferrari won't make you happy. You have to buy a Rolex and Ferrari and go, yeah,

it didn't make me. It's like, it's not the destination. It's the journey. It's not even the journey. It's actually who you become on the journey. So you find me at my kitchen table, if that's why it sounds like I'm not in a studio. It's because I'm at home with the cats and the tortoise. kids are at school and I'm just getting admin done.

I love it.

I love getting. it's because I'm at home with the cats and the tortoise. Kids are at school and I'm just getting

admin done. I love it. I love having a list and just ticking stuff off. I mean, I am,

I'm slightly knackered today, as I'm sure you are too, but we crack on, don't we? We just bloody

get on with it. I did have a bit of respite last night,

just a really lovely overdue dinner with one of my best mates who moved to America about 15

years ago and she came back over with her kids and our kids hadn't met. So it was so special to

have all four kids together and to watch my kids with eyes wide listening to their little American accents.

Because obviously my daughter, Honey, watches a lot of American YouTube.

So to have real life American kids at the dinner table with something else.

But it just reminded me, not that I need reminding but I guess

you can't do in certain times where life is stressful or life is full on and relentless that friends

are everything honestly I left that restaurant with a pep in my step I almost skipped home and I just said to my kids, thank you so much

for coming to dinner because, you know, they'd never met these kids before. They're a little bit

nervous. I was like, you've got one very happy mum now. I honestly was just bouncing, like

buzzing with joy. It really filled me up. So if you're feeling stressed out, pissed off,

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