At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

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

The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.

Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

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