Olivia Attwood: Why Autumn HAS to be Different

Olivia's House with Olivia Attwood

Olivia Attwood discusses the transition from summer to autumn, sharing her personal philosophies on embracing the darker months. The episode

Key takeaways

• Olivia advocates for 'unpersonalizing' life events to avoid feeling personally attacked by others' actions.
• Fashion essentials for autumn include Levi's 501s, a classic Mac raincoat, and leather knee boots.

Main topics

• Autumn lifestyle transitions
• Seasonal fashion trends

Notable quotes

I want to leave being sad in the summer... I want to have a happy winter.

Conclusion

A relatable and humorous guide for embracing the seasonal shift with c

Transcript preview

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Autumn is the perfect time to make home cooking feel easier with Hexclad. For a limited time, our listeners get 10 % off through our exclusive link. Just head to hexclad.co.uk forward slash Olivia's House. That's H-E-X-C-L-A-D dot co dot UK forward slash Olivia's House. Offer excludes bundles and other items already on sale. Support our show and let them know we sent you. I'm exceptionally short-tempered at the moment and I'm trying to blame it on the moons and everything else but I think it's just the fact that I'm an arsehole. We're Speaker 1 (1:22) hitting autumn, it gets dark at 6pm. Love it. You're pale, you're tired. Love it. I'm never pale, Lucy. Shut your Speaker 2 (1:28) dirty mouth. I'm never f***ing pale. Be outside this Speaker 1 (1:32) winter. Your boyfriend is not going to come and find you at your doorstep and knock on the door. You have to be out in the world. Speaker 2 (1:37) I am a type A. I'm the first daughter. I don't know peace. I would take myself to a dinner with a appendicitis hanging out the side of my stomach. I don't know how to let people down. Don't be worried about being single at Speaker 1 (1:50) Christmas. You don't have to buy some smelly, Speaker 2 (1:52) flaccid man a Christmas present. You can spend all the money on yourself. Some of those relationships your pals are in will suck. Those men will have smelly arse cracks, they'll be tight with money, they'll have a mother-in-law that is a bat from hell. Sometimes alone's good. What's been the best decision of your year so far? Giving Pete a chance. Speaker 2 (2:22) Hi, dolls. Welcome back to Olivia's house. I'm afraid to tell you summer is officially over. I mean, I'm not mad at it because I am. This is like witching season for me. I love an October, November, December situation. I think there's so much fun to be had. Just you're going to be cold. OK, so a little bit less apple spritz, a little bit more mulled wine. Get comfy and let's get into it. Okay, so obviously it's my house, my rules, and I have to play by them too. I'm going to leave some stuff at the door, but I'm actually running a bit of an inspirational blank. So can you give me some ideas, Lucy? 11 p.m. dinner reservations. Leave at the door for summer. Just because we're going dark at like 5 p.m. is different when it's going dark at 10. And like if you're in Ibiza, you would have a 10, 11 o'clock sit down. But for winter, I'm going to need to bring it forward. Speaker 1 (3:16) Saying, fuck it, I'm on holiday. Yeah, Speaker 2 (3:18) valid all year round because it's like, fuck it, it's Halloween. Fuck it, it's fireworks night. Fuck it, it's Christmas. Valid. Bikini admin. Do you mean bikini tax? Bikini tax. Bikini tax. When you work out to, you know, feel good in your bikini. No, you've got to pay the tax in the winter because otherwise the debt tax is going to come for you when you're crying in your swimsuit in May. You have to build your summer body in the winter. paying £25 for a cocktail just because you were abroad? Do you know what? I guess I'm coming from a point of privilege here because this is not an option for everyone. I'm very self-aware of that. But I don't mind getting ripped off for a beverage, you know. Like, you know, threaten me with a £500 bottle of rosé every time. There's something kind of humbling about it. You know it's worth like a tenner. But we all engage in this fuckery, you know, if you're brain dead like myself. Ibiza. For me, and I know people might disagree, like early September, it's a no for me. And I've been to Ibiza many different times over the year. I need it to be warmer. Like end of September to me is risky, risky business for the weather. So yeah, I leave Ibiza in the summer. And finally, summer romances. Summer romances stay in the summer, but I don't mind a kind of like a Christmas romance. That's like the favourite, you know, rom-com era ever. And what are you personally living in summer? What am I living in summer? Speaker 2 (4:52) Oh, don't get violins out. But I want to leave being sad in the summer. Like Lana Del Rey, summertime sadness. I want to have a happy winter because I had a happy summer, but there was a lot of crying. I want to go back to being Cameron Diaz, dead inside, can't cry on the holiday. That's my Christmas wish for myself. I want to be able to like, it's unhealthy. My therapist told me it's why I got psoriasis. But I want to tell you this time next year that I haven't cried since. I'm doing well. We're on like Speaker 1 (5:17) week three now. So we're nine months into 2026, which is terrifying. A lot has happened in that time. If I showed January Liv a picture of your life now, what would shock her the most? Like what wouldn't shock her? Speaker 2 (5:35) Like that I fucking survived. That maybe like, oh, there's just been so much change. I think she'd be proud of me. Speaker 2 (5:51) Like, yeah, that is... In early Jan, there was all this uncertainty in my life and it's like it all, everything's happened so quickly. I didn't think I'd be living on my own, like just me and the dogs, a new boyfriend that I've known forever, he's been kicking about fucking 10 years. It's just so much, it's so weird. Yeah, she'd be like, I think she'd be like, no, do you know what, I'm good, it's too much. Speaker 1 (6:22) Is there anything that you thought would happen by now that hasn't yet? In life or this year? This year. No, I think too Speaker 2 (6:32) much has happened. I