![]() ![]() Christmas is a very dark time when you’ve got a child and you can’t give them anything.” Blog salvation “I was in bad debt with bank charges and rent arrears. The tailspin got so bad she ended up lying on the bathroom floor, vomiting up an overdose of paracetamol and sleeping pills. She applied for benefits but was told they would take three months to come through. After repeatedly trying, and failing, to make the situation work, Monroe reluctantly quit and started looking for something else. When she returned from maternity leave to her job in a fire brigade call centre she applied for some flexibility in her working hours. Monroe turned down the movie deal, but if they ever do make it, the director would probably yell “Action!” just before Monroe gave birth to her son in 2011. She’s also had an offer to make a film of her life, although her story is not as simple as one woman’s struggle with a coq au vin. ![]() Or Julie Powell, whose blogged attempt to cook her way through a Julia Child cookbook became a Hollywood movie. ![]()
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