South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.

I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.