I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it's much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it's blended with oil.

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

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.