I swim more or less every day.

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

I am proud of my cake-making image but life is not that perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.