Working in a furniture factory in Warrington when I was 17. It was a summer job, and I had to cover the studs in the back of Chesterfield sofas with leather.
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Gulliver’s Travels at Adelaide Fringe.
For two weeks I worked behind the players’ bar at Bolton Wanderers football club – footballers don’t tip.
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An old camper van that has cost me more in repairs than my house, my wedding and all the holidays I’ve ever been on.
Childbirth. And the wheel of our camper van coming clean off on the M1.
Worrying that I’ve upset people.
To all those whose fleeting interaction with me has fallen short of what they’d hoped; the unwitting recipients of my occasional grumpiness.
Every time I got drunk and out of order. Especially in my teens and 20s.
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