Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.