Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.