I am now home. My hair looks weird.
Why does my hair look weird? Does anyone really care?
Do I care?
I am home for the first time in six weeks.
We did two weeks in Southampton,
then I came home for a day for my friend Jonny Vicker's wedding,
he got married to the gorgeous Lucy Hughes;
wonderful day,
such an amazing day
Then I was in Cardiff for two weeks, flew straight from Cardiff to Dublin for two weeks.
And then flew straight from Dublin to Manchester for two weeks.
So I've been away for six weeks and so I am so pleased to be home
and in my flat.
But I came home to a massive pile of parcels
and it's probably the most parcels I have ever had delivered to this flat.
And I've not ordered anything, I've not bought anything, not that I
can remember. And, by the looks of it, the majority
are books.
So, I thought I would
open them.
'Cos that's interesting, right? I'm gonna open this one first 'cos it's from,
I'm gonna cover-up the, uh,
my address. It's from Lush.
And on the back it says ; 'Read me, then wash with me'. (coughs)
I'm a bit ill by the way.
Look at this. It's all like
floloppy. Your invitation to the Creative Showcase
2017. I've totally missed it! (laughs)
It was, yeah, it was like 6 days ago. (laughs)
Aw, I'm really good at this! Sorry.
Well, if you wondered why I wasn't there, anyone who's watching
this who works at Lush, I was in Manchester.
But, hey, apparently I can wash with this. So, you know,
it's not completely gone to waste. I know what this one is
'cos I can see it through the envelope and I'm so excited about
it, I need to tear into it now!
*sings* Duh, da, da, duh!
So, this is Megan.
On Instagram she is 'bodyposipanda',
if you came to my Piccadilly London Waterstones event,
you will know that I'm obsessed
with her, I think she's incredible. Megan Jane Crabbe
she,
she's a wonder woman. This woman is just...
the most...
this woman is just...
Clearly, I cannot
summarise my thoughts and my love for
this woman into a coherent
sentence, so I'm just gonna read you the blurb *clears throat*.
'Body Positive Power'.
If you are tired of being at war with your body, then this book
is the life-changing answer you've been looking for.
Megan's body issues began when she was 5 years old
and when she was 14, she found herself spiralling into anorexia.
After recovery, she spent years dieting, binging,
losing and gaining weight, until she found body
positivity and finally escaped the cult of 'thin'.
Now, she's determined to let as many people as possible know the truth:
that we are all good enough as we are.
Read it! Buy it! Now!
Now! I'm gonna put a link in the description to
this book and please follow her.
Follow her on Instagram; 'bodyposipanda'.
Focus, focus. 'bodyposipanda'. I'm taking this on tour
because
people, you know, say to me 'oh, you're really body positive'
and I am, for the most part. But then I have
those times when I like
I look at myself in the mirror and I don't like what I see.
As we all do. And every time I'm having one of those moments I
go to Megan's Instagram and
instantly I love myself again.
Instantly.
Please follow her.
I'm begging you.
Please follow her.
Umm...ooh!
Very exciting! Very exciting!
I mean, that's ridiculously cute. Gummy pizza!
I almost opened that then and there. Did you see that moment on my
face when I was like 'do I want a gummy pizza right now?' (laughs)
'Dear Carrie Hope Fletcher, I am delighted to invite you to become among
the first to read this beautiful novel from
Isabel Broom'. Now, Isabel Broom chaired
my Waterstones London event for On the Other Side.
And she's a
writing powerhouse and this is her new novel
'The Place We Met'. I'm guessing it has something to do with
Italy. 'The light glittering on the water,
the delicious food and dazzling fireworks. Italy's Lake Como
(questions: Como?) on New Year's Eve could be the perfect place to
fall in love. Or it the perfect place for it all to fall apart.
(dramatically) bom bom bom
Ah, there's a little postcard from Issy: 'Beautiful Carrie, I hope
this card finds you well and not too crazily busy, you never seem to stop lovely.
I thought you might like a copy of my fourth novel to keep you company
on your many jaunts. It's set
in Lake Como in Italy and features sexy Italians,
cute dogs and heaps of drama.
Ooh! So this is an uncorrected proof. So this is out
on (questions: when's it out?)
Okay, I can't find out when it's out but I'm going to link to it below.
Linking below right now. I think this is another book.
'How to be Happy' by Eva Woods.
This is exciting. 'Dear Carrie, I wanted to send you this proof of
'How to be Happy' because it is a book that I really hope you will like. It's about
Annie who's been sad for so long that she's forgotten how to be
any other way. She's trudging miserably through
every day, sheer determination keeping her going. Until she meets
Polly. Polly is everything that Annie is not.
She's colourful, joyful, happy and Polly is also facing the
greatest challenge of her life; how to
die well. Polly has 100 days to help Annie find
happiness and is convinced it's impossible but so is saying
saying no to Polly. And, on an unforgettable
journey, Annie begins to realise that maybe, just maybe
there's still colour to be found in the world. But then it becomes clear that
Polly's about to need her new friend more than ever and Annie
will have to decide once and for all whether letting others in
is a risk worth taking.
Oh, this sounds right up my street! Why is no-one telling me
when these books are out so I can tell you guys?!
Again, I will link to below. How exciting! 'How to be Happy'
by Eva Woods.
So, I've got a big box and a big bag and I think
I know what both of them
are.
I'm gonna open the box first because the box is intriguing
me more. No, I don't know what this is. That's the Google
logo.
I mean...
That's outrageous! Why have I been- Right, why am I in a position
to have been sent this?! I've got the home
hands free smart speaker by Google.
How am I in a position to have been sent this?! That's
the real question.
I'm just some kid from
Harrow. Well this is a new toy for me to play with this weekend.
I'm gonna put that back in there for now and I'm gonna play with that later but this
I'm intrigued.
Thank you very much Google for that.
Crazy that I'm on your list of people to send stuff to.
Thank you though. Thank you.
Very much appreciated. OK now, this one.
I very tentatively re-opened my PO Box.
And this is the contents of said PO Box that
has been sent to me
from the last few weeks.
There's a lot of letters in here. I've re-opened my
PO Box but with the caveat
that I can no longer guarantee
that I will reply to every one, simply because
I've not been home in 6 weeks and they're all
being sent to my home, so there's no way I would be able to
keep on top of it. But I'm gonna try to- I will read
them all, I will read every single letter
and I will still try to reply to as many as I can but
I can't guarantee a reply this time. But
the demand was pretty high for me to re-open this PO Box.
So I've re-opened it. I'm gonna open this one just on camera
'cos it's here and it's intriguing. The USA, it's from California.
That's pretty cool. Hang on a minute. This
has cost $22 to send
to London. Don't be spending that money on me guys.
That's insane money!
Thank you!
Candice.
Thank you but that's insane money and I can't
open it (laughs).
Ha, it's filled with Jolly Ranchers which
makes me very happy.
Absolutely filled with Jolly Ranchers!
Oh, a notebook!
Look, that's super cute. Ah, I'm gonna read that in a minute, that's very, very sweet.
Thank you to everyone who's written to me. Um, some of these are from
far. From far, far, far away. Germany.
That's crazy. The first one I've picked out.
Thank you to everyone who has sent me books and letters and
Google the speakers. Crazy!
And now I'm gonna go through these. It's really nice to be home. Thanks for watching.
It's really good to be home, I'm just enjoying being home right now
and filming in front of my sofa in my flat,
with my tripod which I've not had for ages.
It's a good feeling.
Don't take home for granted guys. Home is good.
Home. Home is home.
I've said the word home far too many times now. Bye.
Okay Google.
Play Disney.
Here's a Spotify station featuring Walt Disney.
*Disney music now starts to play*
Okay Google, now turn it up.