Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.