Loving, odd, playful. Jeepers, I’ve described myself like a damaged rescue puppy.
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Caring, patient, considerate, innumerate.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2024 source ↗
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Fairly decent bloke.
Actress, mother, grandmother.
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View profile →Audiobooks have allowed me to catch up on the books I always claimed to have read anyway. On long journeys I’ll often be listening to Kafka, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn. It’s a fantastic way to pass time and often means I’ll turn up at the gig really depressed. So it’s a win-win.
When I was a kid I had a Saturday job in the stockroom of a supermarket. I remember everything in there being a little bit grubby and slightly sticky. We’d do things like play rugby with a swiss roll. I think of it every time I go shopping.
An unhackable, simple-to-remember password that works for everything.
Probably a train ticket anywhere in the UK.
I can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
When something is half price in a supermarket, always find out why.
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