I have been asked to lend people money - I now only ever give whatever amount is comfortable without thinking it will come back, otherwise when you see that person wearing a new coat or going on holiday you think but yes, where is my money?

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

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

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

In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their car while she went to buy liquor, she returned to find her daughter with tears running down her cheeks. The guilt and horror Ms. Robinson felt at this sight jolted her into sobriety.

Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.