Fixing a municipal sewer pipe.

Trying to sell frozen food over the phone for a company called American Frozen Foods. It lasted about half an hour. I found myself telling people not to buy too much of it because it could go bad, and my supervisor said, “This job is probably not for you.”

Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.

I’ve never had a job.

When I was doing my gold swimming badge. I had to get undressed in a swimming pool and had forgotten my gym kit, so the teacher gave me a kit two sizes too small. In the water, I got my arms up over my head to get the shirt off and they locked. I sank to the bottom of the pool and sat there until a girl jumped in and dragged me back up again.

My older sister, Jeanne. We fought when we were kids, but she is so entirely capable.

When I heard John Noakes had died.

Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.

I have the invisibility of a middle-aged woman. I live in Brighton, and feel for the first time in my life that I belong. My kids are safe, my husband’s in a good place and we have a roof over our head: I can’t imagine needing more than that.

For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.