Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.

The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.

I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice.

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

I think that in a family some are workers some are not. I certainly saw my mother work very hard and be in charge and never show any kind of fear about business deals. Her golden rule was you should never be embarrassed talking about money and asking for what you deserved. I take the same view.