There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

I love when people become obsessed with Downton.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

I am a hopeless romantic.

I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on some of my sleeves which I've done for years because I always wear my heart on my sleeve so if you see a little embroidered heart on my clothes, that's why!

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.