Episode 30: Tina Crawford
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
It’s the final episode in this series of Spinning Plates! Wow what a lovely group of guests and my 30th is no exception. Meet Tina Crawford, who is an artist who I got to know through her
embroidery. She used the Kitchen Disco as a subject for part of a huge piece she started working on as lockdown began. Its an incredible piece and talks about how we are all connected - hasn’t so much about this last year been about the importance of connection? The work is about to start life in its new home at the Science Museum. Tina has a 13-year-old son and she claims to have the best
husband in the world. We talked about having a child through IVF,
being a disabled parent and how people lie about being happy in
postnatal classes. Turns out we met once when I was a teenager and Tina found me aloof, but hopefully my superb tea making skills have changed her mind now. 😊
We also had the additional excitement of my cat Titus that kept jumping on the
table where we were talking! He’s a bit annoying that way, but I love him none the less. 🐈
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to |
| 0:09.6 | to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, |
| 0:20.2 | so I spin a few plates myself. |
| 0:22.4 | Being a mother can be the most amazing thing, |
| 0:24.9 | but can also be hard to find time for yourself |
| 0:26.9 | and your own ambitions. |
| 0:28.4 | I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:35.9 | Hi, I'm gonna start with an apology because Richard asked me, when you record your intro, make sure you're somewhere where it's not windy and it's quiet. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm pretty sure it's quite windy and I'm also out by a road, so I think I've failed on both instructions, |
| 0:56.8 | which leads me in turn to an apology to you, |
| 0:59.5 | because maybe this sounds really horrible in your ears. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm sorry about that, but oh my goodness, I'm having one of those days, |
| 1:06.3 | but I'm just running around like an absolute lunatic all day. |
| 1:10.6 | I don't know what it is about... I've got birthdays this weekend, right? |
| 1:15.3 | They're not surprises. |
| 1:16.7 | A birthday comes around on the same day every year. |
| 1:19.6 | And yet I find myself always never really any more prepared each year. |
| 1:26.4 | I always get the basics sorted, but I leave a lot of things the last |
| 1:31.3 | minute and it's exhausting. I don't recommend it so I'm walking home back to my house. I've already |
| 1:38.3 | been out today to get extra helium. It's only 17th birthday today when I did the helium the canister had only had a tiny |
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