garden<\/a> party with a used breast pad stuck to my bum.<\/p>\nBut this final year of my forties is punctuated with mistakes, and I’ve finally learned that the best way to survive them is to be more Celia – to own the moment and squeeze (stop it) a laugh out of it.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also something so deeply life-affirming about a woman who makes no apologies for her body doing what bodies do. We\u2019re so conditioned to make ourselves smaller and more palatable. Don’t be too much. (That definitely includes not farting in public.)<\/p>\n
So when a woman – particularly a 70-something doyenne of British culture – does exactly that on national telly, in front of a room full of famous people, and shows not a jot of embarrassment – we cheer her on wholeheartedly. Go on, Celia<\/em>, we all inwardly cried, feeling just that little bit freer. A tiny bit less bothered by the nonsense we\u2019ve been taught to accommodate, tolerate or apologise for. Why shouldn\u2019t<\/em> we fart when we\u2019re nervous? Or cry at work for that matter? Or find schnitzel utterly hilarious?<\/p>\nFor me, Celia Imrie\u2019s TV fart was even more special because I shared the moment with my daughter. She couldn\u2019t believe someone the same age as her grandmothers had done that on the telly. It delighted her. And that delighted me, because as she literally rolled on the floor laughing, I could see all the old rules and constraints slipping away from her.<\/p>\n
‘It’s so good to laugh’ is one of my most oft-repeated phrases in my forties, and last night we laughed until we cried. But the tears weren\u2019t about worry, or stress or the troubling state of the world. They were about farts, and that is a moment neither I nor my daughter will forget in a hurry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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