Sarah Hargreaves

What’s the most underrated movie you’ve ever watched?

Maybe its not underrated but True Romance.

Christian Slater, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Arquette, Brad Pitt (cameo) and Gary Oldman.

What a cast, what a film.

If you could start a new business right now, what would it be?

Or a pottery business

Or anything creative.

I want to turn my hobby into a side hustle but then get frustrated by the pressure of monetising the thing I do to chill out.

I’m a walking book of contradictions.

I am also not cut out for the business world. KPIs, margins and accountants? No thanks.

What are your best healthy eating habits?

No alcohol

Do you believe in karma?

I’m not religious so I probably need to believe in something.

I hope it exists, but I am not sure that it does.

But I am in a fairly difficult mood at the moment so maybe that’s my frustration coming out. Frustrated that some people seem to have all the luck (good karma?) and some people (me) seem to work and work and try and try and it all goes to shit.

Maybe its because I don’t see the work behind the scenes, or maybe its because Im not appreciating what I have.

I’ll stop using this as a place to have a rant and shut up.

How do you write what people actually want to read?

This has come along at a perfect time in my current writing journey.

I am plagued with self doubt.

I think just writing anything and worrying about it later is my current strategy. Just get it out of me and on paper!!

What’s one thing you wish you had started doing earlier in life?

I want to write but I just don’t know how.

What’s the kindest thing someone has ever done for you?

Whilst he has lots of flaws, I mean lots, big ones too; The boyfriend has always allowed me to fully be myself and supported me on whatever hare-brained scheme I come up with.

Love him for that, but we can’t be too complimentary, so let’s remember the flaws.

If you could relive one day from your past, which day would it be and why?

Any good day with my mum, I miss her always.

What’s the last movie that made you cry?

100 years since the titanic.

My friends wanted to go on a night out, I wanted to watch the anniversary screening of the titanic at the cinema.

We compromised, sneak in bottles of lemonade laced with vodka at the cinema and that will be our pre drinks.

A combination of vodka and Jack and Rose and I was crying like a baby.

We had a fun night out after I cleaned up my make up though.

To be honest, I probably have cried at a film more recently than that, I just can’t remember. I assume it will have had a dog dying in it.

If you could erase one event from history, what would it be?

My PhD was in engineering but had a highly mathematical bent, namely nonlinear dynamics and chaos.

What is the butterfly effect? The mathematical term is chaos and the lorenz equations are simple equations representing chaos.

I wouldn’t erase anything for fear of the chaos that could ensue.