Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Octavia Bright and I'm here fighting the good fight against the January blues by basically just agonising over whether to buy a leopard print coat today. That's been

before I woke up with to lift my spirits because I just, these relentlessly grey days,

I feel like all I want is glamour. I think I'm reacting against the last two years and I'm ready.

I want like the glitz and the glamour and the glitter. I want to wear high heels. I want to be glamorous and gorgeous all the time. I mean, I'm, I say the sitting in my pajamas. And also I'm saying it's gray and actually this morning, it's finally blazing sunshine. So maybe this yearning for the coat will pass, but I think I might just buy it. I don't know. Anyway, hi, Carrie. No, I want, hi. I want this glamour for you and I don't care what the skies look like. I think go for the coat, you know. Okay. I'm going to buy out to the session. In sun, it works in shade, it works in rain, snow. That's true. I mean, I don't know in the rain because this is slightly like faux fur, so it's be a bit of a drowned wrap. With an umbrella. In fact, I probably have to buy a very glamorous umbrella to go with a glamorous coat. Yeah, very important that you do that. And I will move everywhere very slowly because I've forgotten how to walk in heels, but I have a pair of really lovely high heels that I can wear. Okay. I see this in my future. Okay, so heels, I'm not following you there. I gave up on heels a number of years ago and I've looked back. I can do wedges. I'll get some glitzy wedges. Get some glitzy wedges, some Terry de Havillands. You'll be banging. Anyway, my darling, how are you? How are you? I'm fine. Yeah, it is gray. Remember when we said we

needed to stop talking about the weather. I know, but we just can't, no, it's too pervasive. It's too

much. But yeah, I'm fighting the good fight as you are. And my remedy right now is just seeing as many friends as possible, which has been really nice that we can do that again.

So I went for a really long walk with a friend, and I went to a dinner party the other night,

and we somehow ended up singing through almost all of Joseph and the amazing Technicolor Dreamco.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

You go to very different dinner parties for me.

So there were some people at the dinner party who did not know Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat who I don't think were enjoying themselves, but the ones of us who did.

That is the most pirate story I've ever heard.

It's so embarrassing.

And the people who didn't know Joseph were like, this is a terrible musical.

And I was like, I know, it's awful.

It's terrible.

Oh, my God, that sounds very joyful.

It was so joyful.

I felt joyful for the first time.

Like truly joyful.

I hadn't felt that way in a while through song.

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