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Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostigue. I love eating as much as anything

else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish.

It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul, not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, hoover.

Hello, first up, thanks for listening. I love you for it. Please tell people about this podcast everywhere and rate review and subscribe. And if

you've got any spare dough, as in money, I'm on this wicked site called Patreon, where for various

monthly amounts from as tiny as two bucks, I swap you exclusive hoovering related rewards.

Go to patreon.com forward slash the hoovering pod. Thank you, sorry, thank you.

Let's our podcast please.

This week's guest is my dear, dear friend, Hattie Ashtown.

She wrote a sitcom called Give Out Girls,

you might have seen on Sky a wee while ago,

with your friend and mine Carriad Lloyd in it.

Anyway, she has me around hers in Bexley.

I sort the mains, and she sorts the pud.

She's got half a stone of baby in her tum, who, when this goes out, is probably being born

as you listen. That's exciting. We share everything from lovely pea memories to more harrowing

ones of being teenagers who got into the wrong crowds, by which I mean slimming clubs.

We're up front, as per, about some of the quite extremely disordered eating we did then,

and how worried we are about doing the best on that front as parents now.

I learn what Evap is, and listen out for my super cool, shit-hot, money-saving tip about lentils.

I'm so cool. Sometimes i worry i may be too cool

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