
Charlie "temporarily" allows Alan and his son Jake, a food-obsessed, lazy kid who shuttles between his parents, to move in with them after Alan's separation/divorce. Charlie is a freelance jingle composer and irresistible Cassanova who lives in a luxurious beach-house and rarely gets up before noon. Alan, a compulsively neat chiropractor and control-freak, is thrown out by his manipulative wife Judith who nevertheless gets him to pay for everything and do most jobs in the house. They have little in common except their dislike for their mundane, maternally cold and domineering mother, Evelyn. The Harper brothers Charlie and Alan are almost opposites but form a great team. That one was a gift and it felt like it was meant for me.Search Two and a Half Men (2003–2015) - episodes with scripts I could just get another one, but I don’t want to. We were a few kilometres away before I realised that I had forgotten the puffer.Īnd every time the weather is not cold, but mildly blowing a gale, I always shake my fist at the sky and think goddammit, if only I had that Kathmandu puffer! But alas, it is gone. The next day I was so eager to get out of the hotel-slash-dungeon that I packed everything as quickly as I possibly could and raced down to the car. And so in order to sleep on the pillow, I wrapped the Kathmandu puffer around it. There were definitely spiders inside of them. I was travelling once and we had to stay in this hotel room – I mean, I don’t think you could even call it a hotel room, it was probably closer to a dungeon. The item I most regret losingīelieve it or not, a Kathmandu puffer jacket. I need to know that there are rubber bands around at all times. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.Īnd when I open the kitchen drawer and there are no rubber bands, I get very anxious. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. Anything that I need to put into a nice, neat little group so that I can feel like my life is organised will be rubber banded. If there are some errant pieces of paper that are floating around, I will roll them up and put them in a rubber band. If there’s an open packet of stuff in the cupboard, I will stick a rubber band on it. I have got a big bag of rubber bands that I buy from the supermarket, and I rubber band everything.


And the whole time she was saying, “I’m fine. But she didn’t tell anyone, she didn’t mention it, until someone spotted her hobbling around, saw the blood and had to rush her to hospital. Why she was gardening with an axe, we’ll never know. One time she was gardening and she cut her foot with an axe. ‘You know how babies have safety blankets? That’s how I feel about this ring’ … Jan Fran on a family heirloom passed down from her late grandmother. I feel that it gives me the strength of my grandmother, who was an extraordinary woman. If I’ve ever taken it off and put it in the drawer but have to do something a bit anxiety-inducing – a job that’s been giving me a bit of grief, a task that I need to complete that is causing me trouble – I will go and put the ring on. You know how babies have safety blankets – something that makes them feel like things are OK when they clutch it? That’s how I feel about this ring: it’s my safety blanket. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning I got one of the rings, and had it cleaned and resized.

She very sadly passed away in 2020 and we had her jewellery passed down to myself and my sisters. It was one of her favourites and always on her finger. She used to always wear this big, gold ring. Here, she extols their virtues, as well as bravely outing herself as a (former) puffer jacket person. One item helps Fran organise all areas of her busy life: rubber bands. A regular guest on Network Ten’s The Project, Fran has also presented podcasts such as The Briefing and The Pineapple Project and has a memoir, titled Of Middle Eastern Appearance, set for release later this year.
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Question Everything is the latest gig in Fran’s decade-plus TV career, which began with SBS programs such as Insight and Dateline and included presenting The Feed with Marc Fennell for six years.
