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“There's something about being skint that makes you a better person.”
“I'm a terrible procrastinator but once I'm focused on my writing, the house could be on fire and I wouldn't notice.”
“Jon is the consistent parent. No means no. Whereas Elsie can play me like a fiddle.”
“I was getting annoyed with comedy-drama. I felt like sitcom needed to get back to making people laugh every three lines.”
“I was brought up by a single mother. She was learning to be a playwright so I had an incredible childhood. She formed a company of women and did plays in pubs.”
“If there's something tender going on like that, I can't make up a joke and put it on Twitter.”
“The stress of me being the first person to put Hull on the TV, I honestly thought at one point I was going to just walk away and not bother.”
“Roast dinners are my favourite.”
“My granny died of cancer she was in her early fifties and in her first year of retirement. It's the cruellest thing and so unfair.”
“I like gravy and sausages.”
“During lockdown my mum, at the age of 65, was diagnosed with high-functioning female Aspergers, ADHD and alexithymia.”
“When I first watched 'Little Mom,' I was really struck by the universal things it said about motherhood. You could tell these were real stories that had happened to the writers. There was an authenticity.”
“Humour is many things, but mostly it's a coping mechanism.”
“I rented a small box room in a house in Brockley. It was so small you couldn't fit a single bed in it - my dad made me one which wobbled. It was a Georgian townhouse and it was stunning. It did need repairs but they had a grand piano and had hand-painted murals on the walls.”
“Hullraisers' and 'Little Mon' both have a joyful, playful tone and you believe that these women really are friends.”
“When I was a teenager we'd hang out anywhere there was live music.”
“We've got some of the broadest vowels in the country in Hull. They think it's because we've done so much trade with the Dutch. I've been to Holland, and people there can understand me better than in Cheltenham.”
“I have baked, I have involved myself in the baking process, but no one has wanted to eat said baked goods.”
“Hull has always been known as a tough town and deservedly so. It was built on fishing, and that's a tough industry. It meant you'd have a fleet of trawlers that would go out and young men who would never return.”
“I always thought I'd want to look out on the sea but we rented a place in Cornwall with panoramic views of the sea and I found it really depressing. I think it's because I'm from a seafaring family and a lot of them died at sea. I'd prefer to look out on trees.”