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Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating.

I'm Jessica Fosterkew.

Here I'm joined by an interesting soul for snacks and sometimes full-blown banquets.

We share conversation and confessions, not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, hoovering.

Hello there, team. In this pretty excellently Christmasy episode, I am hoovering with my little baby's sister Hattie.

Well, she's actually my oldest sibling. She's 25 now. That's old. And she's technically a half-sibling,

I suppose, but no, who cares about any of that? What to say about Hattie? My sister Hattie.

She has got loads of passions and loves and interests. She's a massive reader. We got as a reader. She's as excited by eating as me. We are both big fans of

our mum. She's a graduate. She works in theatre. She's into musicals and pink things.

She has cerebral palsy. She's visually impaired. She uses a wheelchair. And during this episode, she mentions women called Nikki and Bernie, who for reference are her personal assistants, which is a posh modern name for carers, just so you understand what she's on about when she casually references them. So before we get into this, I hope you're enjoying your advent. That's

first. Second, thanks for listening to Hoovering. Could I ask you to make a bit of a Christmas

effort to go and have a look at patreon.com forward slash the hoovering pod? That would be my absolute

favourite gift from you. You'll see

loads of brilliant things I offer my patrons in exchange for as little as two pounds a month,

like early and ad-free episodes, as well as lots of exclusive content. For example, some very

illicit family stories are in the secret extras from this hoovering that you're about to hear,

and they're just for my patrons.

If you're already a patron, flippinck, thanks, you're the best and you are quite literally the

lifeblood of this podcast. What else to tell you? Would you come and see me do some work

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