Ella Risbridger

little marvel also the fact that she never forgets any of her friends from the street she never forgets any of her friends she has a huge circle of people who love her from all walks of life phoebe is the embodiment of the spirit of christmas she is so generous and she is so thoughtful and she is full of traditions you know her traditions are her own but they're very specific i'm thinking particularly of i can't remember what he does when she's like oh that's lyle when they're talking about a homeless guy who threatens people she's like he always does that isn't that nice

still doing it he's still working he's still alive how great phoebe doesn't need christmas because phoebe is christmas with all the bittersweetness that implies you know it's really hard for her that

You know, that Christmas where she's trying to find her dad because her grandma's... She's stuck in the car.

She's stuck in the car because she doesn't know where to go.

She doesn't know whether she wants to go in and she gets... And the boys are just sitting there being like, that was better.

You got as far as the post box.

I love that scene.

Side note, for the first year of my life, I never used to understand why people left their Christmas shopping for the last week before Christmas.

And this year I'm like, oh, it's nearly Christmas and I've got to do some Christmas shopping.

And that's adulthood, I guess, is realising that people just genuinely run out of time.

Anyway, I love that episode because, again, I think it's just so brave of Phoebe to go.

It's so brave of her to try.

And the grandma is so funny and bad.

What there is also is such love in that lie as well.

Because Phoebe is a person who lived on the street, but actually turns out to have a great deal of family.

She has her birth mother and she has, I can't,

Yes.

And then Phoebe's on the street and then she finds her grandma again?

I actually do understand that because if you go through something traumatic with someone, I think it either makes you the closest you can be or it makes you be like, and I'll never talk to you again because every time I look at you, it reminds me of agonizing pain.

And I think it's much easier for, like Phoebe's,